A woman with short blonde hair, dressed like an office lady with a dark green jacket woke up on the bridge of a ship that looked quite futuristic, the woman woke up with a heavy breathing. She sat down on a chair that looked quite comfortable and looked around.

"Huh... Strange... I feel like I was at the harbor earlier... Wait, why am I talking? Why is my voice so feminine?!" The blonde woman looked panicked and tried to stand up. The key word was trying.

The woman immediately fell down and hit her head on one of the tables where the high-ranking officer used to do planning, she groaned in pain before finally using the table that hurt her head to support her body to stand up.

"Okay... Somehow I became a human and none of my crew is here, where is Captain Jamie or Executive Officer Horatio Cortez?!" Said the blonde woman frantically.

"This all makes no sense, is this a follow-up attack from the Directorate? I know that Old Man Mike is right, we should just bomb Beijing back to the stone age." Said the blonde-haired woman irritably.

That's right, this blonde-haired woman was the incarnation of the USS Zumwalt who somehow became a female human.

Zumwalt then tried to find a way out of the ship's bridge or you could say her original 'body'. She managed to get out and saw a very wide view of the sea and the weather was very clear, the air smelled quite humid which is very typical of the Pacific sea, maybe the south?

She saw that the ship was in a combat ready state, she tried to check the magazine of the VLS and AGS, surprisingly she didn't need to look directly because she could somehow access the CCTV cameras inside the VLS and AGS.

"It seems I have full control of my ship, let's give it a try." Zumwalt thought about moving forward and sure enough, she suddenly felt the ship shaking slightly before it finally started moving.

The soft sound of the engine made the blonde woman smile quite widely, she never got tired of hearing the sound of the engine especially after being upgraded by Doctor Vernalise Li, a lecturer from the University of Wisconsin who was recruited by the government through the FBI.

"Hmm access to the Satellite is not possible, meaning that some of my weaponry will have to be recalibrated so that it can be used through my radar only, but reducing the attack range... Maybe I should rely on the AGS, especially since it's pretty much in stock... But the problem is where do I replenish the ammunition." Zumwalt muttered to no one in particular.

Then suddenly she felt a small tap inside her head and she heard a "Ping" sound over and over again, she knew what it meant, something was entering her radar.

"Well let's see who our friend here is... Entering stealth mode." Zumwalt muttered.

Zumwalt's ship increased speed to 15 knots and felt something on the back of her ship.

"Oh? I still have some MQ-8 Fire Scouts, let's fly them now with APKWS." Without her having to do so, Zumwalt could see through the CCTV camera at the back, her hangar door opening on its own and an MQ-8 Fire Scout drone preparing to take off.

"I'd love to question the logic of it all, but I'm a human ship myself, so...." Zumwalt watched as the drone flew close to several nearby objects, but keeping it's range.

According to her radar, the approaching objects were ships because the speed of the objects was relatively slow, so she felt safe enough without an escort. Thinking about escort, she sadly remembered the USS Port Royal that sank along with the USS America a few months ago when they launched Operation to liberate Hawaii from the Directorate.

"If only I hadn't been created with defects, if only I could have been better, perhaps you would have survived until the end of the war... And our government somehow agreed to the status quo ante bellum, how naive to think everything could go back to the way it was before the war." Zumwalt grumbled.

She then noticed that the objects were about 70KM from her current position and her radar informed her that a dozen or so smaller objects were flying from one of the larger objects, possibly the aircraft carrier which immediately Zumwalt made as her primary target...

A few tense minutes passed and she widened her eyes as the small objects that had taken off launched missiles at her ship. She immediately performed evasive maneuvers and readied her Metal Storm.

The Metal Storm, the replacement for the CIWS Phalanx, was the best short-range weapon after the AN/SEQ-3 LaWS laser defense system. Just imagine, this weapon when tested can spit out a lot of bullets very quickly, even according to theories from DARPA or other defense agencies, Metal Storm can spit out 1 million bullets per minute, Metal Storm replaced the Minigun's throne as a weapon with the craziest RPM.

The LaWS on the right immediately locked onto one of the missiles and destroyed it, then another and another, until only two missiles were left approaching. The two missiles exploded in mid-air after being hit by Metal Storm's glorious firing.

"Launch multiple ESSMs at the locked target, clear the airspace. Also launch five Tomahawks at the enemy aircraft carrier, make sure its runway is unusable." Zumwalt muttered.

From her VLS, seven ESSM missiles launched and chased the plane that shot Zumwalt with missiles, it didn't take long until Zumwalt finally witnessed five enemy planes shot down, two missiles malfunctioned and failed to hit the target, but it was okay, with that she could at least send a pretty hard warning at the attacking enemy. She also saw through her Drone that the aircraft was blackish in color with some red lines.

None of the Directorate's aircraft were similar to this image she saw, but Zumwalt decided to think critically later and focus on destroying the enemy.

As she launched the ESSM missiles, she also launched five Tomahawk anti-ship missiles towards the enemy ships. Once again using the Drone, Zumwalt was able to clearly see the enemy fleet which looked quite unique.

"Their Aircraft carrier has two runways on the left and right? Oh well, another good target for me." Zumwalt said while grinning quite widely.

She then used the Fire Scout as a guide for her anti-ship missiles, before the Drone was finally shot down by the enemy CAP. But it didn't matter, the target was marked and the Tomahawk missiles began to enter the attack formation.

One of the missiles struck first and was immediately tried to be shot down by escort ships such as destroyers and enemy cruisers. Of course the missile was destroyed, but it did its job and left the other four missiles to finish the job.

The first Tomahawk successfully struck the starboard side of the ship, causing a large hole in the enemy fleet. Three other missiles also hit the enemy aircraft carrier, but one entered one of the elevators on the enemy ship's deck, causing an internal explosion that destroyed the starboard runway and rendered it inoperable.

"Stop the ship, entering bombardment mode." Zumwalt said.

The 155mm caliber Railgun cannon emerged from one of the domes on the bow of the ship, the ship instantly stopped, but remained stable as Zumwalt only used enough power for her ship to not move much. Zumwalt then felt her body weaken slightly before the first shot came out of the Railgun's muzzle, then the second, third and up to ten shots within a minute. Zumwalt felt her strength returning gradually.

"Continue firing." Zumwalt saw shot after shot of the Railgun thumping very loudly, she did not know visually whether she hit the enemy or not, but at this moment she only used her instincts and also her advanced radar technology to shoot the enemy.

"It looks like 80 percent of my shots hit the enemy, meaning about 24 bullets hit the enemy ship... Shall I investigate directly or just use the drone?" Zumwalt thought hard before finally settling on one thing.

"Old man Mike will scold me if I become a loser, set a course towards the enemy fleet, time for a little adventure." Zumwalt declared with a bit of enthusiasm.

Zumwalt's ship immediately returned to full power and sailed at 30 knots towards the enemy fleet that he had bombarded with Railgun projectiles.

Without realizing it, she was being observed by a pale, white-haired woman with burning gold eyes.

TBC.

This is USS Zumwalt appearance :

Yes, the AWACS personnel fron Brave Bang Bravern is freaking hot and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

This fanfic is heavily influenced by Ghost Fleet : The Next World War.

I'm sorry if you guys and girls kinda lost in the beginning, but i promise I will explained it in further chapter.

Enjoy this one!