Chapter 3

"Put out the fire immediately!"

"Enemy aircraft everywhere!"

"Siren attack?!"

"No, it's a Japanese fighter!"

Cleveland skimmed the harbor of Pearl Harbor with her rigging out, she focused on shooting down as many enemy fighters as possible, but they seemed endless.

Not only Cleveland, the majority of the Union Eagle Shipgirls and some from the Royal Navy had successfully taken out their rigging and created enough air defense walls to make it difficult for the Japanese planes to reach their targets.

"Cleveland! Can I ask you a favor?" Asked Nevada, a beautiful white-haired woman with a mature body. She was the Battleship of the Nevada class and the leader of her class.

"What is it, Nevada?!" Asked Cleveland while shooting at one of the enemy fighters which was a Dive Bomber.

"You're the one who's good with cars, please hurry to Schofield Barracks and tell General Maxwell to mobilize the Army!" Nevada said.

"Why does the Army have to be mobilized?!" Cleveland asked confused.

"Cleveland, it's obvious, the Japanese declaring war at us, it's obvious they're going to try to take over Hawaii because it's one of our only territory in the Pacific besides the Philippines!" Nevada retorted while dodging a shot from one of the Zeros.

Cleveland was immediately slapped with the reality, she rushed to the harbor and jumped straight up, at the same time her rigging disappeared and returned to the form of a light cruiser. Cleveland assigned her ship to shoot down as many enemies as possible while she was gone.

Cleveland then ran among the panicked Sailors and Marines, she tried to find an unused Jeep but to no avail. Cleveland didn't give up and kept looking until she finally came across a Jeep with several Marines inside.

"Hey! Can I get a ride?!" Cleveland asked them.

"Miss Cleveland! Where are you going?" The voice startled Cleveland, it was Second Lieutenant Walker, the Marine pilot who asked her out.

"W-Walker?!" Cleveland's face flushed slightly before finally turning serious.

"Walker! Can you take me to Schofield Barracks? It's an emergency." Cleveland said.

"Understood, Cleve! Hurry up!" Cleveland went up and sat next to one of the Marines holding two Thompson machine guns, the Marine immediately gave Cleveland one.

"Miss Cleveland, please use this, we don't want our eardrums to be damaged by the sound of your weapon." Said the young Marine.

Cleveland laughed at that and accepted the Thompson from the young Marine. "Thank you!"

"Hold on!" Walker, the driver, drove straight to Schofield Barracks, passing several ambulances and Marine armored vehicles that were trying to evacuate the casualties.

"Zero ahead!" Shouted one of the Marines.

They all immediately ducked as a machine gun barrage from a Japanese fighter plane made a flyby. Cleveland straightened up as soon as the Zero passed by and opened fire with her Thompson, no significant damage but at least the average bullet fired hit the target.

A few minutes of the tense ride passed and Cleveland suddenly felt quite a pain in her stomach. The Marine who had given her the Thompson looked worried. "Miss Cleveland are you alright?"

"Did you take a hit, Cleve?" Walker looked back with concern.

"S-Something hit my hull, looks like a torpedo." Said a pale Cleveland.

"We've got to hurry, get out of the fucking way!" shouted Walker to one of the ambulances that was driving recklessly.

Finally, after a tense ride, Cleveland and a group of Marines got out of the Jeep. They rushed into Schofield Barracks which was guarded by several Soldiers.

"Hold it right there, identification required." Said one of the guards.

"Oi shucks! Can't you see those squinty-eyed Japs bombarding us?! You better let us talk to General Maxwell or else! " Walker said in annoyance, probably because he was a little panicked because Cleveland was in constant pain in her abdomen.

Before the soldier could speak, General Maxwell came out to the gate in a hurry.

"You shipgirl! Is it true that the Japanese are preparing to land on Oahu?!" Maxwell asked.

"That's right, General, that's why I was assigned to find you by Nevada, the temporary leader of the Shipgirls while the others are still out." Cleveland reported.

"Where is Kimmel?" Asked General Maxwell.

"He is busy coordinating the Shipgirls and contacting Washington to report this attack." Cleveland replied.

"In that case, is the enemy landing site known?" Asked General Maxwell.

"Most likely from the north, General." Cleveland said.

"Then I will mobilize the Army immediately, Ship Girl, you come with me." Ordered General Maxwell.

"O-Okay, sir!" Said a nervous Cleveland, this was the first time she would be commanded by an officer from the Army.

Lieutenant Walker came up to Cleveland and tapped her on the shoulder. "Cleve, I have to go find a plane that can be flown, you be careful okay?"

"Fool, I should have said that." Cleveland said with embarrassment.

Walker smiled before finally continuing to leave with the other Marines to an airstrip that had not yet been attacked by the enemy. Cleveland then joined General Maxwell to mobilize the 25th Infantry Division.

30 Kilometers from Hawaii, Zumwalt flew one of her Fire Scouts, she could carry three of these Drones and one anti-submarine Helicopter. Zumwalt flew the drones as close as she could but kept her distance.

The sight she saw was truly nightmarish, dozens of burning ships with other buildings also on fire. This was Pearl Harbor, but not from her era, but 1941.

"Bastard... The attack on Pearl Harbor happened again, unforgivable." Zumwalt recalled angrily the time Pearl Harbor was attacked by Directorate forces.

She wasn't there in person as she was retired by the Navy, but hearing the stories of Captain Jamie and Officer Horatio as well as the video footage of the event, made her blood boil. Zumwalt then continued to sail her ship to get closer to Pearl Harbor.

As she approached, several Dive Bomber and Torpedo Bomber aircraft spotted her and immediately entered attack positions. Without much thought, Zumwalt immediately shot down all approaching aircraft with her Metal Storm bursts.

"The left side of the ship is running low on ammunition, but that's okay, I still have some manually fired machine guns." Zumwalt muttered while holding her right side of head.

Zumwalt sensed through her radar that there was a fleet that looked like if Zumwalt was willing to bet, they were the Kido Butai, the Imperial Japanese Aircraft Carrier fleet.

She again launched Tomahawk anti-ship missiles into the air, each Carrier she identified getting three Tomahawks. Not stopping there, Zumwalt opened her AGS cannon on the bow dome of her ship.

The 155mm Railgun cannon immediately roared loudly, launching more than 60 Kinetic projectiles and each Aircraft Carrier got 10.

A few minutes passed and Zumwalt had no idea what was happening, there was no confirmation as usual when using satellites or ATHENA, again what a pain. Zumwalt then ordered her Drone to approach the area where she was targeting the Kido Butai.

When the drones arrived, Zumwalt smiled with satisfaction at the sight of the six burnt out and tilted enemy Carriers, she had succeeded in making the enemy ships unable to fight again, so their planes should have nowhere to go back home.

"Hnm? Behind their aircraft carrier is a landing ship? So that's it, it seems I'm in some kind of Alternate World, because as I recall Japan had no intention of occupying Hawaii at all, this attack was just to cut off the United States Navy's strength in the Pacific... Heh, more targets for me." The AGS cannon continued to roar and the time for the kinetic projectile to hit the target was about 5-8 seconds.

Zumwalt saw one by one the Landing Ships explode after being hit by the kinetic projectiles that her AGS Cannon fired. She saw several smaller Destroyers trying to save the Crew or Soldiers in the water, but Zumwalt did not let them.

Zumwalt now rained down on the Destroyers which of course the kinetic projectiles easily destroyed them, if the Aircraft Carriers and Landing Ships could be destroyed, let alone the relatively small Destroyers that did not have great armor.

Onboard IJN Akagi bridge.

Akagi grimaced in pain as Admiral Nagumo tightly tied a bandage around her abdomen, the wound she received from the surprise attack from the Americans was truly horrific. There was no warning or visual sighting of what attacked them.

Akagi asked while enduring the pain. "W-What attacked us just now, Admiral?"

"A monster... Yamamoto was really too optimistic going into this attack to not think about the strength of the United States... We just walked into the jaws of Death itself." Nagumo said regretfully.

"My lord, forgive Akagi if Akagi was unable to carry out the task properly." Akagi said with tears in her eyes, the pain she had endured and the shame was really eating away at her soul.

"Don't be, Akagi, we never had a chance against the Americans, they were too strong, though I find it hard to admit, but that's a fact we have to live with from now on." Nagumo said with a wry smile on his old face.

"Are we going to surrender to the enemy we just declared war on? I haven't even had a chance to use the power Siren gave me." Akagi said frowning in pain.

"No, just let that power be our secret blade, and Akagi... I don't want you to bear the burden of using that power alone, you can depend on this old man." Nagumo said as he took off his officer's hat and placed it on Akagi's head.

"Thank you, my lord." Akagi said closing her eyes and fainting.

Nagumon who saw that then stood up and took the communication device. "This is Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, I order the surviving ships to evacuate all crew and shipgirls who were attacked by the enemy, we are retreating."

After that Nagumo put the communication device on the table and sat on the Captain's chair, looking at Akagi who collapsed on one of the chairs on the bridge.

All the planes flown by the Six Aircraft Carrier Ship Girls began to retreat and disappeared into blue debris that slowly disappeared, none of the planes had human crew. The Eagle Union and Royal Navy Shipgirls who saw this immediately divided their tasks.

There was one team assigned to stand guard at Pearl Harbor, fearing a follow-up attack from the enemy and another team sent to pursue the enemy, if possible also rendezvousing with the nearby Enterprise.

All of this was noticed by Drone Zumwalt who had returned from observing the Japanese Fleet that he had ravaged, she was currently in quite a dilemma... Should she go there and make contact with them or just hide?

If she did the second option, she wouldn't know WHAT exactly she was, especially since her drone saw some women skating on the water with some warship parts on their bodies, just like a Japanese Anime from her home world.

"Maybe Ships that become humans are normal in this world... I should try, fortune favors the brave." Zumwalt then increased the ship's speed again and sailed towards Pearl Harbor.

At Pearl Harbo, Oahu, Hawaii.

Prince of Wales, the Flag Ship of the Royal Navy in the Pacific was currently busy checking what damage there was on her ship, some machine gun and cannon fire from enemy fighters, so it wasn't too bad. But what made her quite upset was that the Japanese fighter planes had hit her radar and made it necessary to repair it, again.

"I will not forgive you, Japanese people!" A frustrated Wales shouted.

As Wales was about to go back to trying to 'fix' her radar, suddenly another Royal Navy Shipgirl arrived, she was Repulse.

"Mrs. Wales! An unidentified ship is heading towards Oahu with a white flag!" Reported the Battlecruiser with brown hair.

"Unknown ship? What's going on?" Asked Wales in confused tone.

Wales and Repulse then looked from the direction of the harbor entrance, a fairly large ship appeared, probably 180 meters and of the Heavy Cruiser type, but Wales could not see any weaponry from the ship.

"Huh strange, why is that ship using the hull design of a Tumblehome?" Wales asked in confusion.

TBC.

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