Hanz woke on Germania in a tossing sea. The vessel road the waves like an old locomotive on badly maintained tracks. It seemed like he had entered a rough storm. Then a sound rang out through the horrid storm.
*Hoooooooonk....Hoooooonk* 'Was that....a horn. That's another vessel!' He thought as he started steering towards the sound and used his powers to sound his horn in response. 'They must be battling this horrid storm too.' he thought as he started seeing the sea waves slightly calm down as he could see a bright light. 'They must be in the eye of the storm!' he thought and blared his horn again.
*Hooooonk...Hoooooonk* went Germania's horn with a loud return of the other ship's horn. And suddenly the ship reached the light, and was welcomed with clear skies, and no clouds. It was good to be out of the storms, but after a moment, Hanz realized something. Where was the ship calling for help?
*HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK* came the horn, and Hanz turned his view to see next to him pulled out a vessel. Hanz fell over in shock at the vessel pulling alongside, The ship was barely smaller than his in length,but that wasn't what stunned him. One of the ships turrets was pointed his direction and he was at a loss for words.
's...six guns? In one turret?!' He thought as the ship pulled to a halt near his vessel.
"This is USS Alaska Captain Aubrey Tillman. We are here to answer your distress signal." A voice crackled over open radio frequency. This made Hanz freeze up. 'Americans? What are they doing in this world?1' he thought to himself before tentatively operating the radio.
"This is Admiral Hanz Von Ravenmark of Germania. I came searching for a distress signal, but no sign of it. I wish to talk under the flag of parley." Hanz replied, and the radio went silent save for the static of its activation.
"Permission granted, but if you try anything you'll regret it." Tillman responded. Hanz then proceeded to head to the ship's main deck to meet this captain Tillman. He looked to see a boat hook itself up to one of the dinghy cables, and Hanz used his powers to lift the boat to deck level. Who was in the boat shocked him.
"Greetings Admiral Von Ravenmark." she said. SHE ,as in a woman captain! Hanz had never heard of such a thing.
"Since when are women naval officers?" Hanz replied still confused.
"What do you mean, women have always been officers. When did men start being German officers?" Captain Aubrey Tillman spoke back.
"I think we aren't from the same place. In my world, men are the dominant gender, and we do the heavy work. " Hanz started. "I served in the Kreigsmarine until I was brought to a new world as the Champion of the Goddess Aquarius." Hanz continued.
"In my world its the exact opposite except I was brought to another world by the God Nerites to rid the oceans of bandits. I was working with this princedom, but I am suddenly here because of a storm." Tillman replied.
"That still doesn't explain why we're here." Hanz said, then a horn range out, and it was the same one as before. they saw a large ship steaming towards them, with large ship with three turrets sailing towards them complete with a pagoda mast and a large sun flag. without warning the ships guns opened fire on the duo of ships. Tillman used her power to get back to the Alaska and Hanz started maneuvering the Germania into a position to cross the T of this enemy ship.
Both ships shook from the impact of enemy fire. 'I don't get it what's going on here?" Hanz thought.
'Its a Rogue.' Came the voice of Aquarius.
'Rogue?' Hanz asked.
'A champion that has broken their oath. When an oath is broken their mind is damaged. If they survive, they become mindless attackers who kill indiscriminately.' came the reply. As the the three ships exchanged fire, a loud rumble was heard overhead. Hanz looked up to see aircraft flying towards them.
'Damn, a carrier is here too?!' Hanz thought as AA batteries flooded the sky to hit the aircraft. planes were weaving closer to the duo as others plummeted into the sea where their payloads exploded. the Alaska threw shell after shell into the enemy ship whilst it sailed into secondary battery range. The hailstorm of gunfire was lighting up the enemy vessel when a explosion shook the bridge. A bomb had struck next to the vessel and the geyser of water gave the ship a shove.
BANG!BOOM! came the sound of a shell landing through the deck of the enemy vessel from GERMANIA and the shot was lucky enough to hit something important as the ship spewed fire from where it had been struck. "LIGHT EM UP!" Aubrey shouted as the 24 guns unleashed full broadside into the ship. The gunfire was causing steam from the heat of the misses in the sea around the ships.
After half an hour of shellfire, the enemy Battleship began to slip beneath the waves, but the aircraft were still coming at the duo. Hanz launched an Arado seaplane to find the enemy carrier. 'let's see. It should be right...Ah!' Hanz gasped as he saw what the aircraft was heading toward. 'What What controls that thing' Hanz thought as he saw the carrier was no mere ship. It was almost double his own ship's size, and large aircraft were taking off and landing on its massive deck.
"Tillman adjust your guns up 10 degrees and aim to the West! My Spotter shows a massive carrier in that direction!" Hanz shouted over the radio as his 20 inch guns began to unload on the target. Numerous 16 inch and 20 inch shells rained down on the massive carrier, but what they saw made their hearts sink. The ship had taken only light damage as the areas hit broke off to reveal another layer underneath.
"Wait a minute...Hanz I know this ship design. That's HMS Habbakuk!"Tillman said over the radio. "That ship has 40 feet of armor! We can't break her with the amount of shells we have." Tillman continued. '40...feet' Hanz thought as he froze with fear at this leviathan launching planes. 'There's no way we can penetrate that'
"Tillman we've got to get out of here. WE need to turn back into the storm." Hanz replied
"How will that thing not follow us. How can we make sure we will get back to our homes?" TIllman replied.
"We've got no choice now quick!" the two ships then started turning to retreat as the carrier launched more planes. Bombs and torpedoes were filling the area around the vessels as the two turned int towards the storm. Germania even launched her torpedoes to intercept a few enemy torpedoes. As the two made ti in the enemy carrier was detected to be not following. "We made it!" Hanz said sighing with relief.
"Thank goodness. Well we best part ways." Tillman said over the radio. "See ya." she said giving a final honk of the horn before steering towards where she had entered the storm...
Hanz awoke in his bed looking around at his temporary room. 'Must have been a dream' He thought before rolling back to sleep. 'It was just a dream...right?'