Out loud talking: ""
In their heads: ''
Radios: <<>>

Himmels new ship stood in front of helens, downneck, crimson and barri practically towering over them. His ship didn't exactly stop the Shikishima's shells but his turtle back armor bounced it. Now it was just himmels ship staring down the Shikishima. The sky was stormy with the waves crashing against the two ships as thunder and lightning can be heard in the background.

The two ships had their guns aiming right at each other it seemed during the silence the shikashima was somehow able to repair some of its guns. Mainly the only guns that were damaged which was the 15.5 cm guns and about two of the 10 cm guns. Himmels had the obvious advantage of actually having a better  radar, secondary's and torpedoes. But the Shikishima clearly had the bigger guns compared to himmels guns.

It all comes up to the armor and where each ship will be hit at. The two massive ships are well within each other ranges that even the smallest of their guns can hit with no trouble. But at this point it was a stand off between himmels grosser kurfurst and the Shikishima. After about a few minutes a siren and whistling can be heard in the distance as the Shikishima was hit with a few shells and bombs from blagoj and skippy.

That started the duel as both ships started opening up with all of their guns blazing and himmels launching his torpedoes. The Shikishima's shells hit a different stop but mostly bounced off the turtle back armor of himmels ship. All of his torpedoes hit as well it was only three but any damage is good enough. While some of himmels bounced off the shikashima's turret face armor, some went and disabled the dual purpose guns. Himmels needed a new strategy to fight this ship fighting it at this range won't work for long but first he has to get the others out of here.

Himmels: <<Helens I need you to tell the others to get back to the main fleet I'll cover you guys!>> He shouted into the comms.

Helens: <<Hold on then what about you?>>

Himmels: <<Don't worry my armor can hold it hold off against its shells but right now I need you guys to go, you and barri are damaged, barri had his forward turret blown up and your engine was hit.>> He stated back at helens.

At this point himmels was right even though barri's forward turret may not be so bad barri is still what most would call a newbie. As what happened before with himmels being a newbie and taking serious damage can be very serious. Even though barri transformed his ship into rigging form lessening the damage a bit once he turns his rigging back into his ship the fire would come back unless he gets help. With Helens engine hit and pretty much blown up he is slow let them usual much more easier to hit as well.

As this was going on another wave of fighters and bombers came from skippy to make runs on the shikashima while another volley of shells came from blagoj. At this point the shikashima has barely any AA except it's 15.5cm which wouldn't even be considered close to an dual purpose gun. Blagoj was getting more accurate but not doing any meaningful damage since the shikashima bow was facing him.

At this point Helens had to agree with himmels plan of retreat turning to the rest and telling them himmels plan. With a rush downneck picks up helens and makes a break to get out of the battle with crimson helping barri in tow. The shikashima saw this and started to turn its guns towards them but of course himmels wasn't allowing it.

Going full speed he put himself in between the shikashima and his friends while also now focusing his secondary guns on this shikashima's main guns hoping to disable them. The shikashima did get a shot off but missed thanks to the massive amount of fire his secondary guns were putting out. Since his guns were reloaded he didn't use AP no he used HE this time and fires on the shikashima guns again as well as launching another set of torpedoes at aft.

Instead of bouncing off the turret it exploded and broke both barrels of one of the shikashima's forward turrets. At this point the shikashima started to move again heading full speed towards the main fleet. But the torpedoes hit the aft of the shikashima taking out one of its rudders causing it to turn. With this himmels had a bigger advantage now but it won't matter if those other guns gets a shot on him.

Sadly with one of its rudders down the shikashima was now turning towards himmels with how close the two were the ship would no doubt hit him if he doesn't turn. But if he does the shikashima would get another chance at shooting his friends so had two choices in his mind now turn or stay. Being the selfless person he is he chose to stay and get hit rather than letting that ship get a turn at shooting.

The shikashima got close too close for blagoj and skippy to do any damage unless they want to hit himmels as well. Luckily the shikashima wasn't turning so much to point it would be hitting his side but the very tip of his bow. This gave himmels an idea just like all of his ideas it was a very stupid one.

Himmels wait for the right moment and once the shikashima was close enough he made a hard turn starboard. This allowed him to push against the shikashima making it go the same direction he is going. Of course both ships did take some damage to their bows at least himmels was able to redirect the shikashima's direction.

But now they were even closer then before literally touching each other but there was one thing the shikashima wasn't aiming for him this time. It was turning its turret at this point himmels thought it was turning to his four friends but no it aimed past them and at the fleet. This wasn't good at this range even with the storm going around there's no doubt the shikashima would hit someone.

But with the shikashima aiming at the fleet that also meant it was aiming in front of it but the rear turret was still aiming for him. So like always he split his fire his rear turrets blaster the shikashima's back turret with HE breaking its barrels. But then he had to make a precious shot on two forward barrels but he didn't need to cause skippy made a bombing run on the forward turret disabling it.

This should of counted as a win since it has no way to fight back and it was flooding sadly the world isn't like that.

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⚠️⚠️WARNING ⚠️ ⚠️

The sirens have came to defend the seriously damaged ship fight off the air attack.

Previous enemies:
1 Super yamato battleship

Enemies now:
400 siren aircraft

Extra:
These enemies will be encountered as three group and will not attack in waves. The shikashima will not be in the fight as it is severally damaged.
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This was seen by everyone in the fleet skippy had already started launching all of his fighter in preparation for the attack. Downneck, crimson, Barri and Helens has made it back to the fleet and turned their riggings into ships. Just like it was predicted barri had fire on his bow luckily he was close by to skippy and blagoj who's ships helped put out the fire.

Himmels has started to move to the fleet as well but then the sound of planes can be heard and a dogfight occurred. Skippy's 85 fighters went up against about 100 siren Aircraft his fighter were a bit outnumbered but not outskilled.

Another hundred was coming from another direction heading straight for them at this point downneck ability came into effect. The 40 and 50 percent AA buff mostly helped skippy, helens, himmels and the four bensons since they had more experience with their AA. Barri also had a bunch of help from it because his ability activated giving him 50 percent AA firepower. The sky around the 100 siren aircraft was clouded with AA fire.

But the last 100 was heading straight for himmels while he was close enough for the others to help him their AA fire won't do much at that range. Skippy's aircraft was also busy with the other 100 so himmels was basically on his own for this one. At least he has the buff from downneck and the experience from facing aircraft.

Surprisingly the fight between skippy's fighter and the siren ones were going well and fast while skippy was losing some fighters mostly his He 162-A3's. The siren were learning and the ambush tactics of those aircraft weren't doing well. But still skippy aircraft seemed to have a lot more experience and firepower compared to the siren ones.

With the fleet the same thing was going on Barri, helens and skippy were doing great against siren aircraft before they could even get close enough to properly attack. Even when they did blagoj's many Bofors made quick work of them even without his experience. Downneck and crimson were doing ok their AA is not the best but with the buff especially with crimson they were doing well.

Himmels was a different story while the first hundred were getting taken down quickly by his AA guns. He was in a terrible situation the other hundred had came and was going to attack him from his flank. Now of course if his AA can do quick work on the hundred that striking his right he should be able to do it with the ones on his left.

Sadly that's not the case with both coming at him theres no doubt he will be taking some damage. But that didn't matter to him as he unleashes a barrage of fire from his AA guns. Creating a bunch of flak and fire around the aircrafts that we're coming from him. The first barrages took out many planes and as they get closer the fire only increases in volume.

The ones that were fighting skippy's aircraft were all taken down with skippy only losing some He 162-A3's. The ones that were fighting the fleet had all been easily decimated under the massive array fire. At that point himmels was also down with the ones fighting him but he took some damage two bombs and two torpedoes.

With the aircraft down himmels turned his attention back to the shikashima which was dead in the water listing to its bow. A blinking light was seen on the bridge it seems as though the shikashima was getting some type of call. Himmels could heat the voice from here it was Observer alpha.

Observer: <<Project Beast report back to base immediately mission failed since you didn't make, I repeat return to base immediately.>> She shouting from the mic to the ship.

With that Himmels positioned his in ship near the front and aimed his gun down to where he would be able to hit the ammo. He doesn't know if observer can hear him or not but he hoped so.

Himmels: "I don't know who else will join my fleet but I will you one thing and I hope you can hear me," He looked towards the bridge of ship, "You sirens and whatever you make will never earn the title of the king of the seas."

His guns were reloaded and aiming at the perfect spot to blow the ship into smithereens.

Himmels: "Because theres only one person who earns the title of the beast made of steel and it will never be you!" He shouted as he lot go the barrage of shells that went straight into the shikashima's deck.

Just like himmels wanted the ship exploded into flames and debris even causing a shockwave that rocked himmels ships side to side. He wasn't unscathed taking some hit to the side but nothing big or a small repair can't fix. Himmels turned to meet up with the fleet as skippy was making the storm disappear.

While he was making his way to the fleet a mass array of engines can be heard. When they looked they could see a large amount of aircraft mostly being American, some are Japanese while the rest are russian?

Sadly that wasn't it there is no rest for the wicked as a another mission popped up and a flash is seen something has appeared near the edge of where skippy's storm used to be. It was a person but we couldn't figure out who it was all they could see is a small figure in a white kimono. But what really caught the attention was the mission.

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Description:
After the destruction of their precious super weapons the sirens has now sent a massive fleet to either capture or kill the ones who destroyed it. Your only option is to retreat no matter how big your force is they will continue to attack you.

Objective:
Survive and retreat

Enemy:
Unknown amount of siren ships

Reward:
More supplies and resources
More ship building potential

Extra:
SURVIVE
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Shit has gotten a lot worse