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It's nighttime.

In the Azur Lane.

At the dock.

Prinz Eugen, Zuikaku, Shoukaku are walking at the dock, watching the stars in the sky.

Eugen: Beautiful night.

Zuikaku: Yeah is it.

Shoukaku: Look at the stars reminds me when I was a kid who wanted to touch the sky and now I know that I can't touch it.

Then they look at the Colossus's ships. She saw Yashima is sitting on his turret cleaning his rifle and sharping his sword.

Shoukaku: Hey, isn't that Yashima?

Zuikaku: Why is he doing here? It's getting late.

Eugen: Let's just take a look.

Then they begin sneaking at Yashima but when they get onto his ship and get closer, Prinz Eugen noticed something.

Eugen: Hey. Did you hear something?

Zuikaku: What thing?

Shoukaku: Maybe just a wind blows your mind, Prinz.

Then the noise came again.

Eugen: That! Did you hear it?

Zuikaku: What the--

Shoukaku: I heard something.

Three girls turn their heads around as they see his two main back turrets begin moving from stationed to pointing to the hill nearby.

Zuikaku: Why his turrets are moving?

Eugen: Is someone on the hill?

Shoukaku: I don't see anyone in there?

Zuikaku: Then why he moving his guns?

As they still talking about that, two back guns fired, causing an explosion at the end of the gun barrels making a very loud noise and a little shaking on his ship. They began to fall.

Eugen: Mein Gott!

Zuikaku: Ahhh, My ears!

Shoukaku: Those guns causing earrape !!

Yashima noticed their voice and coming to them. They are lying on the ground, trying to ease the pain. He then standing next to them, watching them painfully. He then get them up.

Eugen: Thanks, Yashima.

Zuikaku: What are you firing?

Shoukaku: Yeah, what are you firing at?

Yashima is making some hand-languages.

Eugen: What are you doing?

He still continues his language until they understand.

Shoukaku: This...this...that *bingo* Hey, I think he trying to say something.

Zuikaku: What do you mean?

Shoukaku: What he doing is talking to us using his hand-language.

Eugen: I see. But why are you firing at the hill?

Notes: Every Yashima's conversation is using his hand-language.

Yashima: I'm just testing the guns. Don't worry, I didn't load the shell in.

Zuikaku: But why are you here? It's getting late.

Yashima: I'm just preparing for tomorrow.

Zuikaku: Tomorrow, for what?

Yashima: Midway Island.

Eugen: Wait! What happened in Midway?

Yashima: We believe that your factions will be going to rescue you. They would have to go through Midway because they knew Midway has many obstacles but that will end tomorrow.

Shoukaku: Wait. But you don't have to do this.

Yashima: I know but if they rescued you, what would you think they will do next?

Zuikaku: Interrogation.

Yashima: That's right. And what would they do after they knew you told us about Project Orochi?

Shoukaku: I will be accused of betrayal.

Eugen: We will be executed.

Zuikaku: But we can let you guys to do this?

Yashima: I know, but we are in a war right now. Akagi and Kaga have secretly betrayed you. That battle will be a punishment for them. We have a common enemy: is the Siren. But we didn't expect that one of our allies has cooperated with them.

Eugen: You're right. Zuikaku, there's no way for them.

Zuikaku: But I--

Montana: Still worried your friends in there?

Shoukaku: Montana!

Montana: Hi.

Eugen: Why are you here? Wait! Did you--

Montana: Heard the conversation all along? Yes.

Zuikaku: There will be another way for this.

Montana: *sigh* Zuikaku. Do you know why Akagi and Kaga found the Black Mental Cube?

Zuikaku: What do you trying to say?

Montana: Because there is another ability from it.

Shoukaku: There's more?

Montana: Yes, the Black Mental Cube can retrofit us, but it also can revive somebody.

Eugen: You mean to recover?

Montana: No, I mean to make somebody dead alive.

Zuikaku: What?!

Shoukaku: Kind of like making a zombie?

Montana: No. Not a zombie apocalypse, I am saying that this cube can make somebody already dead alive and continue to live a normal life.

Eugen: That?!

Zuikaku: But who are they trying to revive?

Montana: It is possible that Sirens is planning to awaken somebody or something that no one can defeat it.

Yashima: But we don't know how to do that, we only know how to extract the power in it.

Montana: That's right, Yashima.

Eugen: But how much the power in it?

Montana: It's unlimited.

???: So that's why is precious.

Montana: *turn around* Enterprise, Elizabeth, Wales, Hood, everyone?!

Elizabeth: We heard your lesson. So tell me, how do you know about this cube?

Montana: That I cannot tell you.

Enterprise: Tell us, why?

Montana: I can't tell! That's top secret.

Enterprise then grabbed his collar, pull him up. Suddenly Thunderer and H-44 came.

Thunderer: What's happened here?

H-44: Enterprise! Put him down right now!

Enterprise: I have to know. Now tell me why?!

Thunderer: Put him down or we will kill you immediately!

Enterprise: Tell Me!!! Why do you know about this thing? Are you a Siren? Tell me!

H-44, Yashima, Thunderer raise their guns, aiming at Enterprise. Others pointing their weapons at them.

Warspite: Stop it, guys!!

Hood: We don't like to do this but your action makes us have no choice.

Wales: Stop it!

Thunderer: No! Until Enterprise put him down first!

Enterprise: I'm not put him down, I need the truth!

H-44: Don't do this. Don't tell her, Montana!

Montana: It seems I have no other choices.

Enterprise: Are you going to tell me?

Montana: Until you let me down first.

Enterprise put him down quickly. Montana begin to sweep his clothes.

Thunderer: Montana! You know what happened when you let them knew our secret!

Montana: I know but the Admiral is not here so don't worry about it.

H-44: But M-

Montana: I don't want a massacre here, H-44. And besides, I think this is the time to talk about that. Lower your guns.

Two of them lower their guns and the others do exact the same thing.

Enterprise: Tell me, where are you from?

Montana: Like I said, we are from another world.

Enterprise: Stop joking around and tell me the truth!

Montana: I'm telling the truth but you have to stop cutting my words.

Montana then thinking where to say first.

Montana: How do I say....Before we were built, there is a strange signal in our world, they sent an exploring team to find out what is that thing and they found one of this cube.

Elizabeth: That doesn't make any senses. Why you been built as a battleship, not an exploring ship.

Thunderer: Let him tell our story.

Montana: Continue the story. After the discover, they found this cube has a potential, a big one. Unfortunately, they were attacked by unknown enemy trying to steal the cube. No one was alive back then, we have managed to kill and destroyed the enemy but then we found out that they were outer space.

Wales: That's terrible.

Montana: I know. Then they make a secret organization that no one know, the purpose of the organization is Find, Secure and Protect. They began to making us, the protectors and explorers of the Black Mental Cube while the civilians think we from the Navy. We had one piority: Find and defend the Black Mental Cube at all costs.

Hood: Wait. You're saying that you are protecting this cube. You guys are the protectors!

Montana: That's correct. At first, we had 20 members in here. But...

Elizabeth: But what, tell me. What happened to them?

H-44: They were killed, Elizabeth.

This makes everyone shocked, except the Colossus.

Elizabeth: What?! Why?!

H-44 grabbed her collar, pull her close. Everyone except the Colossus is raise their guns to him.

H-44: You want to know why so badly, Elizabeth? Then let me tell you a story about 2 years ago before we here.

H-44 began his story while everyone's guns is pointing to him.

H-44: This is the story. Two years ago, there was an massive attack on us, their mission is to get the cubes. The organiztion sent as many fleets as possible to protect the cubes. Including us. That day, exactly 1 hour 46 minutes afternoon, we had encounter them and start to attack. Guns sound on that day is like thunders and lightnings. The sky was dark because it was filled with dark smokes from fires and many shells in the sky are just look like meteors crashing down to earth. It was hell on that day. We managed to destroyed them but what the costs? 574, that the number of our mens deaths.

Everyone were shocked after they heard the number of death.

Illustrious: 574! H..how?!

H-44: I remember during the battle, we saw many people floating, drowning and sinking on the bloody red sea, dead, their body were ripped of into many pieces, even some of them were cut in half. They were screaming and crying for help but we didn't help them. We abandoned them for the cubes. I wanted to help them but I couldn't disobey our missions. After the battle, I couldn't believed what I just saw. A swamp filled with dead bodies and blooded sea. That scene gave us nightmares. I asked myself that day why I didn't help them? Why I left them to dead?

Everybody were in shocked and terrified after thinking that moment which was told by H-44, even Zuikaku, Shoukaku, Prinz Eugen.

Some tears from Montana's eye cried. While Yashima is sitting in scared and Thunderer lower his head, trying not to cry.

Enterprise: I...I...I am s..sorry to hear that, Montana. I didn't m...mean to be like t..this.

Montana: That's okay. You already know the truth about us.

Enterprise hugged him tightly.

Montana: Thank you. I need that.

Elizabeth: H-44, I'm so sorry for everything, I don't know.

H-44 then slowly release her, kneeling down and started to cry. Elizabeth hugged him, trying to be consoled him.

Elizabeth: There, there. Everything is okay now, big boy.

H-44 then hugs her back. He trying to holds his tears as he could.

Elizabeth: Keep crying, no need to shame. It's just the past, you cannot go back. You just accepted it because there is nothing you can do about them.

She then kisses him on his headbut she realized what she just did.

Elizabeth: Ehh..Uh...It's not what you thinking!

H-44 looking at her face.

Elizabeth: What are you--

Elizabeth was cut off by H-44 who is kissing her right now, making her blush heavily.

Elizabeth: Mmhp~~

Hood: Wow, your Majesty. I didn't know that.

Warspite: Now you officially have a lover, your Majesty.

While Elizabeth is consoled him, Prinz Eugen know what they have been through so she sit next to Yashima, hold his hand to ease the pain from the past.

Eugen: No need to worry. Let me help you.

Eugen do her best to let Yashima forgot the past.

Meanwhile Thunderer trying to hold his emotion, Saratoga saw and get closer to him.

Saratoga: It must be hard for you, right? Let Saratoga cure your sadness.

She then hugging him, he hugs her back.

Moments later.

At Montana's dorm.

Montana is in his room then someone knocking his door.

???: *knock knock*

Montana: Who is there?

He opened the door. It was Enterprise.

Enterprise: Hey. I'm just say I'm sorry for forced you to talk those story.

Montana: Don't worry, you already said that before. I'm okay with that.

Enterprise: How can you be this optimistic?

Montana: Don't know. Maybe that what I am.

Enterprise then hugged him again.

Montana: Enterprise!? You're already did this.

Enterprise: I just want you to forgive me.

Montana: Okay, I forgive you.

Enterprise: No.

Montana: Then what do you want?

Enterprise: *blush* Hug me.

Montana: A..alright then.

Montana hugs her back.

Montana: So are we just...?

Enterprise: *whispering* It's feels so warm, his body just like pillows.

Montana: What about my body?

Enterprise just realized that he heard a little, she began to act just like nothing happened.

Enterprise: Nothing!

Montana: Are you sure?

Enterprise: Yes, I'm sure you were hearing nothing.

Montana: Then see you tomorrow. We have an operation to do.

Enterprise: Right, right. Umm. Goodnight, Montana.

Montana: Goodnight, Enterprise.

He then closed his door.

Hornet and Yorktown is spying on them.

Enterprise: *noticed* Hornet, Yorktown ?! What are you doing here?!

Hornet: Nothing, we just watching your love story.

Enterprise: What?!

Yorktown: You love him, right?

Enterprise: *blush* What are you talking about ?!

Hornet: Don't lie to us, Enterprise. We saw everything.

Yorktown: That's right. You need to confess him right now.

Enterprise: It's too soon for that, I will con-- Wait! What am I even saying ?!

Yorktown: It's now or never, Enterprise.

Enterprise: No no no. I will talk with him later. I'm not ready.

Yorktown: That is your decision, not us.

Enterprise: Fine.

Hornet: Then let's go to sleep. It's getting late.

Enterprise: Okay, okay. I'm coming.

To be continue.