//------------------------------// // Ch-4 Hanging Out With The Night // Story: The Lost Fog // by Brony_cruiser //------------------------------// One Day After Awakening Time: 6:15 A.M. Location: Canterlot Castle A-150 Class Super Battleship Code: Namasaki Opening my eye's, I began the process of waking my body up. While I don't need to sleep, I do it to make myself feel at least a little bit normal. Standing up, I looked out the window to the slowly rising sun and began my daily duties. Doing a spin in place, I simply materialized my more casual clothes rather than my suit. Said casual clothing consisting of a white shirt with the markings on my ship, a pair of white shorts, a pair of light blue running shoes and a black jacket with the zipper halfway unzipped showing off my shirt. Once I looked presentable, I brought up a screen that showed the current situation with my ship body. I began to look over all the engine and weapon systems to make sure they were al ready in case it was suddenly attacked by opposing forces. Once that was done I made the screen disappear and sat back on the bed, intending on waiting for Celestia to fully raise the sun so I cloud join them for breakfast. However, after a few minutes I quickly grew bored and left my room, seeking something to do. I was walking down one of the many hallways, I took the time to study all of the nice décor of the castle. From the mahogany tables and benches to the vases and banners with the sun and moon paintings. I enjoyed it all, even though I highly doubted it, I wished the same could've been said for earth. Thinking about the war, I kept walking. Not for once even realizing that I had walked outside and into the royal gardens, or what I thought they were for they were still very nice. Once I got myself back into focus, I walked up to a tree and sat underneath it, staring out at the setting moon with the rising sun to my back. As I sat there, I kept on thinking about the war, again, and that last battle with I-401 and Kongou, remembering as how time seemed to slow down in Mogami's last moments. As I continued to think, still staring at the almost set moon and unaware of my surroundings again, I didn't notice both Celestia and Luna walk up from my right. While I was still lost in thought, they both sat down near me and studied my features. For even though I was skinny, I was far from being too skinny and had a decent muscular build for a being that lived most of my life at see. They sat there staring at me and studied my face, which was devoid of emotion, from my angular face to my silver hair and my soft golden eyes. My hair was currently swaying slightly in the gentle breeze and was blowing in and out of in front of my face. Still sitting there thinking, I was remembering how the war was suddenly turned against us with the introduction of the new weapon. As I sat there reminiscing, I unconsciously whispered out: "Where did we go wrong? All we wanted was to live in peace...." While I said this very quietly, both Celestia and Luna, with their better hearing, caught it and looked at each other with looks of sorrow before turning back to me. When I snapped back to reality, the sun was already out whereas the moon was gone, having already set to the other side of the world. Returning to awareness, I suddenly snapped my attention to the two princesses, causing them to jump slightly in alarm before calming once more, and looked at them with a sorrowful face while they stared at me with the same look. sighing before taking a deep breath, I decided to break the small silence that hung over us while flashing a small smile. "Good morning princesses. How are you doing this morning?" "We could ask the same about you Namasaki." Looking back out into the distance, I once again gave a heavy sigh before standing. "I don't know anymore. But as with I have always known, I need to keep going. No need to stop now. Now if it is time, we might want to head to breakfast." Nodding their heads in agreement, all three of us, except me for I already was, stood up and started to make our way to the dining hall. On the way there, I could feel Celestia and Luna looking at me while we walked. Not paying them any mind, I kept going and let the princesses push ahead. As I fell behind, I waited for the mares to sit in their seats before sitting next to them. While I was taller than them, I felt humbly surprised to know that the chair I sat in fit me and held strong. Looking straight ahead, I waited for the chefs to bring out the meal until a unicorn with a white coat and blonde mane walked in fuming about how his nice restful sleep was interrupted by a maid that woke him up for breakfast. Before he was about to sit down, he suddenly looked in my direction, then at Celestia before asking in a VERY posh voice: "Aunty, why is there a hairless ape sitting at the table and not in a cage at the zoo?" Narrowing my eye's at him, I was about to make a retort before Celestia put a hoof on my shoulder before turning back to the stallion. "Blueblood, this is Namasaki. Namasaki, this is Blueblood, my nephew. Now, Blueblood, Namasaki is not a 'hairless ape' he is a sentient being form distant lands and is to be treated with as much respect as a noble or royal, Understood?" "But aunty, why should I respect some..... thing that doesn't belong here? It is not a pony nor a noble here in Canterlot." Seriously what is with the names of these places? "It should leave and never return before I call the guards." Looking at her nephew in surprise, then anger, Celestia was about to scold him before I cut her off by holding up my hand. After she stopped, I lowered my hand and stood, glaring at the so called "prince" in the eye's. I sat there for what seemed like a few minutes before I brought my darker side out. My hair turned into a jet black, my eye's doing the same. The darker part of my being changed my face into more of a greyish shade before I spoke to Blueblood, my voice also being affected and sounding highly demonic. "You seem to think that you are in a higher position than me 'prince" practically spitting the word, I continued. "Well you are wrong. I have more power than you think, even more so than your aunties together. I have enough power to destroy those on this planet with the flick of my wrist. But I won't. You want to know why? Because your aunties have given me something that I have never had since I've been awoken. They have given me the chance to live my life. I have the first chance to live in peace and I'm not going to let a little runt like you ruin this for me. I am not going to attack you in any way, though words may count, but I expect you to change your ways, lest you want me put do it for you. Understand?" Growling out the last part, I watched as blueblood nodded furiously before I flicked my hand, sending a blast of air that sent him flying out the dining hall door. Which the door slammed shut after him When he was gone, I returned myself into my normal form, with the same clothes as before, and once again sat back down next to Celestia, who was staring at me, Luna as well, in shock. Looking at them, I simply asked them if we could continue to wait for breakfast before Celestia shouted out. "WHAT WAS THAT!?!?" Looking at her in with a raised eyebrow, I simply gave her a blank look and answered. "What was what?" "What you just did!" "Ah, that was something I rarely do. It is a transformation that drives fear into my enemies when they so much as look at me. It gives me an enhanced processing power so I move and think faster." "Did you have to do that? I was about to handle the situation!" "Don't worry about it. I know that he will change his ways." Sighing, the princess gave up trying to argue with me. When the food arrived, Blueblood was nowhere to be seen. Good. And everything returned to normal. As we ate, me eating a small amount of pancakes with some fruit, Celestia decided to start some small talk. "So, Namasaki, what are your plans for today?" "Depends." "On what?" "Depends on what I want to do. I will spend the day at my ship, doing a few more repairs, as I only fixed the more serious ones, and after that.... I don't really know. Probably just sit and enjoy the day." "That's all?" when i nodded, she added: "Then you won't mind if Lulu tags along won't you?" "Tia!" "Eh, I don't mind." At saying this, both looked at me in surprise, Luna more so than Celestia, before I was questioned. "Really? Because I will be really busy performing some royal duties to do much today." "Yeah, I don't mind," turning to address Luna. "Just stay out of the areas I advise you to stay out of okay?" "Okay." "Then you will have no problem. You will actually have some fun since I am situated on the ocean, you could swim if you wanted. I sure will, can't waste a nice day like this." That being said, I stood up from the table and began to walk away. When questioned, I simply told them that i would be at my ship and for her to meet me there. dematerializing my body once again, I transported myself to my ship body and began on the repairs that were not so serious. While I had fixed most of them on the way here, I only fixed the ones that would give me problems like holes and bends in the ships hull, as well as the number three turret. While I have extensively used my nanomaterial's to upgrade my ship, it still had the same amount of armor on the deck and hull, to save weight. Looking at my ship, I counted all four of the photon cannon turrets, along with the massive array of anti air and sea batteries. You see, while it is allowed to upgrade your ship body as a Fog it is mostly frowned upon, I don't know why, among the other ships. Those of us that did upgrade ourselves consisted of me, Mogami, Tone, and Agano. Of course while we were slight outsiders amongst our brethren, we were the most powerful fleet when we were all together. Of course this all changed when we lost ship after ship to the vibration warhead. When that started to happen, Yamato split our strike fleet up and put Tone with her fleet and Agano with Hiei. This left me and Mogami in what remained of our fleet. So because of this decision by Yamato, who was the leader of our race at the time and I don't know why, Tone was sunk when she was sent to patrol around the Philippines and Agano was sunk trying to escort Bismarck from the English channel. My train of thought was interrupted when there was a white flash to my right and Luna appeared. As she stood there, I turned to look at the conning tower of my ship and continued on the repairs. Looking back at Luna, I noticed she was standing next to me and watched in silent amazement. Smiling at Luna, I turned back to the front and finished up on my repairs. When I was done, I checked all of my secondary and made sure that all of them were in working order before shutting off the systems and checked the time: 10:54 A.M. sighing to myself, I had Luna follow me to the bridge. upon entering, I sat my chair I had personally designed by nanomaterial's. Once I sat on the chair, I created one for Luna to sit in and asked her what she wanted to do. "What I want to do?" "Sure, I have no plans and you are here for the day. if you want to do something than we will do it. So what do you want to do?" "I honestly don't know. do you have anything that we can do?" "Well..... I do have one thing we can do but a warning: it might be terrifying at first but it will be the most amazing experience so trust me okay?" that being said, Luna began to freak out at what she thought I was implying, and by slightly freak out I mean she sat there blushing like a fool with lude thoughts running through her mind. When I noticed her, it took me a few seconds to understand what she was thinking about. When I did figure it out however, I had to reprimand her. "Hey, that's not what I meant! Get your mind out of the gutter! What I meant was that we are going to go below the surface of the ocean and take a look at everything." When she heard that she shook her head and walked over to sit next to me. Looking out the window at the ocean, I ran through the process of starting my engines up. Hearing the familiar sound of my massive engines power up with a low growl before turning to a loud hum, I smiled and told Luna to sit down. "You don't want to stand when this thing gets underway. The last person, or Fog I should say who was on my decks, Tirpitz I believe, was literally thrown to the deck when my ship lurched forward as we went underway for a mission." "Ah, that is something I wish to talk about Namasaki, you have never talked about those of your kind while here." "I don't see a reason on why I should really, most all of them are already dead and I have no chance to contact those who are still floating." "That may be so but I want to know about those of your kind." -Sigh- "Fine, what do you want to know?" Turning to Luna she was about to say something when the ship suddenly lurched forward and turned to the right, heading for open ocean, and nearly threw her out of the chair she was in. Chuckling, I walked back to my chair before sitting down and motioned for Luna to continue. "Anyway, I want to know who was in your "Fleet" as you called it." "Well, there were hundreds of us, maybe thousands. Not all of us were designed to have a mental model though. Those who didn't had some sort of A.I. core in the bridge that controlled the ship as a mental model. The ones who had mental models were those who needed them to help protect our cores and make better use of our processing power." "Care to name a few that did?" "The more major ones included me, Yamato who had two mental models, her sister ship Musashi, Bismarck, a nice ship by the way, reminds me of Maya, Tirpitz, Kongou, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima, Yamashiro, Fuso, Montana, Iowa, and any other ship that was a heavy cruiser class or bigger." "Some of those names sound oddly female." "That's cause they are. You see, humans always called their ships with female terms and the others made themselves females because of it. I, on the other hand, was awoken as a male and am the only one in the Fog." Hearing this, Luna looked at me which shock etched upon her face. "You are the only male!?!?" "Yup." "How would you..... y-you know..... make more of your kind?" Looking at her, I was lost at what she implied before bursting out laughing. I sat there laughing for a few minutes before wiping the tears from my eye's and answering her question. "Wow, interesting question. To answer it we don't. We aren't born through biological means. We are created when a certain process happens that stirs up the seas followed by a beam shooting into the water, containing the core I believe, and the ship is built under water already air-tight. the ship is then risen to the surface and a two day process goes by while the ship creates a mental model or whatever we are. The process itself is what we call being "Awoken." Looking back ahead, I was told by my radar that we were coming up on water that was deep enough to fit me. Motioning to get Luna's attention, I warned to not freak out and that we were heading below the waves. When I turned to the water-tight doors, I waved my hand and put a klein field behind them to keep them closed. While doing that I brought up a screen and made sure all the other doors were covered in the same fashion before activating my submerging ability. While I was able to submerge, I had the same feelings as kongou did. I didn't like the fact that it left me open to attacks as I couldn't use my photon cannons but only my torpedo's and my super gravity cannon. Getting back on topic, I watched as the ship slowly dove with water shooting over the deck and almost immediately covering my guns with a wall of the fast moving liquid. Once the salt water was up to the window, I made the ship go into a deeper dive as to not let Luna have any time to freak out before she saw the wonders of the water. Once we got to optimum level, I made the ship transform and move the bridge through the hull till it was sticking out the bottom like it was upside down. Once completed, I uncovered the dark hue on the windows, I put them up there so they wouldn't crack on the way down as the hue was just a shield layer, and led Luna over to the window. As she looked out, the small grin she had turned into a look of utter amazement within moments. Outside the windows, was a massive corral reef that stretched far beyond the eye could see, well her eye's really, mine were able to see further. And everywhere to be seen were massive amounts of colorful looking fish that swam in schools or alone, sharks, that seemed to be having a normal day. That was until my ship came up and passed them which threw them for a loop as a large 950 meter long battleship, Yeah...... I upgraded a lot....., came barreling past them at the speed of a fast battleship, which was about 80 knots give or take. Taking in the scenery, Luna was standing on my left as I slowed the ship down to a meager crawling speed before shutting down the engines and sitting on the floor. Admiring all the colors of the fish I didn't notice Luna come back to reality and notice me sitting right next to her. As we sat there, me staring out the window and Luna staring at me, Luna had a small hue of pink on her cheeks before slightly leaning on me, to which I noticed but decided not to comment. We sat like that for a while, at least an hour or two, admiring the view before the ship suddenly lurched to the side and shook like an earthquake hit. While Luna was nearly thrown to the floor, again though she was leaning on me, I immediately stood up and turned on my sensors and cameras that lined the outside of my ship to see what had hit us. Unbeknownst to me, I didn't see the tentacle fly into the window before it was too late and sent me flying across the bridge. Slamming into the far wall, I yelled out in pain before landing on the ground and telling Luna to hurry and strap herself into her seat. Then doing my process of getting up by pushing my hands underneath me, spinning while doing it. When I was standing, I ran over to the window only to see a giant eye fly by. When it flew by, It was quickly then followed up by a giant undersea monster that swam to the front of my ship and floated there, staring at me. Looking at it in it's eye's, I quickly came to the realization that this may be a long drawn out battle. Upon realizing this, only one phrase came to mind. "Oh...... damn......."