At Night
The bright illuminating calm warm sea that gently hits the sands of the beach. The tranquil night was disturbed by the sound of music and echoing cheers as everyone at the beach had a party like crazy, it was a night party as the bonfire they set up lit up the twinkling night sky.
Team America was the noisiest at their victory against Team Royal Navy, the Royal Navy Shipgirls were at their seat as they sipped their drink quietly, as there were no celebratory at their side. Although sulky about the defeat they didn't let down the night as few of them partied along with the Eagle Union Shipgirls.
Queen Elizabeth on the other hand wailed about the loss of her priced trophy, the outcome of her team's defeat was that of heartbreaking and couldn't be forgotten in history.
"Why...." She wined. "Why it had to come to this defeat, why...."
Nagato beside her, gives an unsatisfactory look that the Queen right beside her that is exerting t her negative energy at her surroundings.
"You cried a lot in a game... it's just a game, you didn't even taste the defeat of the war." She said as she hints something more devastating than losing to the Americans at the game, rather than war.
Queen Elizabeth responded with a glare. "It's easy for you to say, as we the Royal Navy held to that trophy for the longest time." Her expression goes back to that depressed one. "Now... we lose it to the Americans!" she yelled.
Losing to a game against the Americans ain't that of a big deal compared to the decolonization that the British Empire had to suffer throughout the 60's and 70's. But still, a loss is a loss to her eyes.
Both Nagato and Mikasa look at each other and back to her, their eyes conveying a word of 'We suffer a defeat beyond your understanding.'
"Lizbeth." Nagato spoke. "ain't that big of a deal, next year you will have it back." She said to lighten up the mood of the Queen.
"Really?" Queen Elizabeth said while making her puppy eyes at Nagato.
Nagato and Mikasa both look at each other once again as to convince themselves about the Queen's chance to get the trophy back in the Royal Navy's care.
"Yea-yeah... I'm sure of it." She said with uncertainty in her voice.
Too bad for the Queen, once the Americans got hold of something they were not that keen of 'Elsa that thing'. The Americans were the last thing you should worry about the loss of your prestige on Beach Volleyball.
You lose your crown against a Bunny-Girl who uses assisted A.I. at the game of chess that you perpetrated to get the info about their top-secret weapon. Even a little Frigate can dunk on you at this point.
With the renewed vigor she stood at her seat and raised a hand with the booming declaration. "Next Year!" everyone looks at her as her voice gets everyone's attention.
"The Royal Navy Team will get the trophy back where it belongs, at the Royal Navy's care. I swear, I swear we will get it back!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The Royal Navy Shipgirls got their spirits back as they put that on the priority list to retrieve the trophy that once they held. The Queen's declaration was eye-opening to their determination and pride.
"Next Year!"
They all chant and cheer as that was their comeback and rematch with the American Team at the Beach Volleyball tournament.
Soon the Newspapers and journalists got hold of the news that a rematch between the Royal Navy Team and the American Team is going to be withheld next year, and it will be an all-out battle between the two teams.
PM Churchill almost got choked from his brandy after reading the news of the Queen's defeat at the game of Beach Volleyball, he squinted at the Bolden words 'Queen Elizabeth orders a rematch next year against the Americans.'
~At the Bonfire~
Essex-12 along with Lucas and Arizona along with the Eagle Union Shipgirls partied like how you would expect with American Service Members of the military with bottles of alcohol in their hands unsupervised, while partying harder than any College and High School Graduates.
Their party is not completed as the stereo blasted with LMFAO Shots song, yes and even Party Rock song blasted at the stereo, the beach is like in every American movie as the Bonfire is surrounded by babes in bikinis and drinks.
At the table adjacent to the Bonfire. Lafayette and friends are sitting at their table. Lafayette is covered with bandages from the torso, hands, legs and head as a result of him pushing himself too hard with the Beach Volleyball. He defended their side by doing anything to block the ball from letting the other team to gain as score.
Unicorn the team's healer, is currently treating him along with Laffey-249 There's nothing he can do about it as he was not inclined to her offer of assistance, without medical bills of course.
"How many times do you have to get hurt before you stop, Big Brother?" Unicorn asked him as she applied some medication.
Lafayette looked down as he didn't have any right answer to that. "I don't know.... Maybe at the end of the war.... I don't know the answer to that. I'm fighting so injuries and wounds will still be there for me all the time." He said as look up while giving her a smile.
Unicorn returns a smile at him, Laffey-459 beside him gives him a flick in the forehead. "Don't get ahead of yourself, you always get into trouble all the time." She said nonchalantly.
"Talk about yourself." Lafayette mutters.
"Sir Lafayette... language." Saint Louis reminded him as mediator.
"I heard you." She said giving him a shiver.
Unicorn, Javelin, Ayanami and the others didn't get in between the two as they knew it would be a big problem if others got involved in their 'little' quarrel. They just sit there watching the two covers, but Lafayette is in the losing side of the argument.
Javelin have the face of 'here goes the two' as her eyes roll to her side. Unicorn had a face of concerned nurse that she had to patch that one, again.
Yuudachi, Shigure and Yukikaze wiggle their tail as they watch along with Ayanami watching the two having an argument.
This kind of argument between the two is not that new, as they watch this kind of interaction between them like their TV Show Drama.
"Alright, alright! I get it. No pinching on the ear, I get it." He said as he admitted defeat to her relentless pinching.
Lafayette was bruised and injured like any punching back as he deflected all Laffey-200 strikes at the Beach Volleyball without holding back her own strength against him. Now another problem arises as Laffey-459 pinches him at the ear, and worse at the nose as he made her mad.
Speaking of our Drunk Psychotic Bunny, she was currently on the sand lying down as a bunch of Manjuus makes a barricade to stop any dumbass provoking this sleeping demon from hibernating. She is totally drunk, who would have thought our psychotic drunk bunny is sleeping in the sand surrounded by security to not let any dumbass of harming themselves.
The whole thing was like a crime scene, as heavily armed Manjuus sprawled around her stopping any dumbass from getting any closer.
At the other table with white canvas in front like a cinema or anything related would play is where Cmdr. Thomas and Enterprise-6 are both seated.
Cmdr. Thomas looks like an old man as his knees are killing him from quivering, he is the only human participating in Beach Volleyball dominated by Kansens. And now his knees are not functioning like it was before because of the exhaustion.
"You alright, Commander?" Enterprise-6 asks as she notices him being restless for no reason.
Cmdr. Thomas noticed her attention was on him, he waved off a hand as his knees shivers. "It was nothing... I'm just tired, that is all." He said awkwardly.
"Are you sure?" She asked again, as she was not convinced.
Before Cmdr. Thomas could open his mouth as he was too shy to speak to her even further. Someone spoke from behind them.
"Don't be like that Commander, I can see your knees shaking from here."
They both turn and see Enterprise-80 along with her Secretary Bunker Hill-76 holding a laptop and projector-like device.
Cmdr. Thomas avoided her gaze as he knew what was to come if he made eye contact with her, another barrage of teasing. For the past hour, he was teased by her nonstop. She finds it amusing, how he was embarrassed and flustered.
Enterprise-6 stared at the projector-like device and spoke. "Is that why you wanted us here, is there something you wanted to show us or something." She said enthusiastically
Enterprise-80 smirks at her. "Have you heard Operation Praying Mantis?"
Enterprise-6 bewildered by her question, responds. "Operation Praying Mantis... what's that."
"That's what we are going to watch." She said as she placed the projector at the table, as Bunker Hill-76 set-up the connection.
Before they could start the video. Queen Elizabeth and the others budged in as they were anticipating any form of media from the future.
"What are we going to watch today." She asked as she sat down beside the two as Warspite carried her seat from their table to here.
"Remember The Fat Electrician?" Enterprise-80 said as the Queen got excited, as she gets fonned watching his style of storytelling.
Everyone got into their seat as they knew this going to be fun, as The Fat Electrician would give them another wisdom and history from Earth.
At the press of the play button, the projector projected an image at the white blank canvas in front.
[Ah yes, the time the US Navy got upset and destroyed half of Iran's entire naval fleet in a single 8-hour day work]
*Quack*
[Alright – quick important background info: 1980 Iraq decided to invade Iran, why? don't really care, not prominent with the story.]
"Well, that's a good summary." Queen Elizabeth commented.
[However, At the end of the war Iran decided to pull out a page in art of war by Tsun Zu, were going to cut the enemy supply lines, deprive the enemy with nice things. It's going to work-out, Iraq has a weak navy and every time they send out an Oil Tanker through the Persian Gulf, were gonna blow up so they can't have liquid dinosaur, they can't make any money, they go broke hooray. So they do exactly that.]
"That seems not a bad idea in war, cutting enemy supply lines were crucial for enemy mobilization and attack." Mikasa commented.
Nagato, Queen Elizabeth and the other watching and even Cmdr. Thomas agrees.
The Americans only smirked as they knew where this is going.
[Then Kuwait come out in the left filed and they're like "Hey we've been financially backing Iraq through this entire war of past seven years, we need to make sure they win so we can get our money back. So were gonna go ahead and let them use our oil tankers to export oil."]
"Kuwait? That name sounds familiar." Queen Elizabeth held her chin as she tries to remember the name as that name was mentioned once.
"Kuwait is part of Persia when it was controlled by British Empire at the time, I think you have that on your Empire too, Your Majesty." Enterprsie-80 said.
Queen Elizabeth nods. "I remember now, that small state where we got our oil."
[So Iraq is like "Well that's an easy problem to solve, I'll just blow-up the all the Kuwait Oil Tankers as well. Which is exactly what they do.]
"That's not a good idea." Nagato said as she now knew what's gonna happen next.
"They just attack another nation's ship. That seems bad right?" Unicorn look-up to Illustrious.
"Yes, attacking another nations ship was bad." Illustrious said, as she patted her in the head.
[But here's a catch, Kuwait at this point in time is like one major exporter of oil that wasn't part of OPEC, meaning that they were selling oil on the global market significantly cheaper than anyone else. Driving the entire oil market.]
"I have a bad premonition about this." Both Queen Elizabeth and Nagato exclaimed as they now have the picture of this political mess.
"Oh dear." Illustrious said as she lightly coverd her mouth.
[Now that their Oil Tanker are getting blown up as well, that means that Kuwait can no longer sell on the cheap-cheap. Meaning that Iran committed the cardinal sin of the late 20th century. Raising gas prices.]
Essex-12 laughs getting everyone's attention. "We will go to war instead of paying high gas prices. Hahahaha."
[Now the entire Western World looks over at the Persian Gulf like the fuck *Eye of Nato (Eye of Sauron) look at the Persian Gulf*]
Everyone jolted in surprise at the Eye of Sauron reference.
"Wha-What was that!?" Queen Elizabeth exclaimed in surprise as the screeching sound get her skin.
[The ghost of Tsun Zu is sitting there shaking its head like that's the one exception, I would have messed with any supply line except for that one. Because we already what happened next.]
*Montage of US Navy Ships at RIMPAC was shown with a backdrop of Eagle screech, at the Aegis Radar something was written: "IN GOD WE TRUST, EVERYONE ELSE WE TRACKED". *
"Yup. Their fucked." Hornet muttered as the entire US Navy fleet was shown.
"Tsun Zu really is shaking his head." Mikasa said, as she knew too well about Tsun Zu.
[Yeah, America proceeds to assemble the largest Naval Convoy Operation ever since WW2, and send them to the Persian Gulf to protect Kuwaiti Oil Tanker. It is at this moment that Iran should have been like 'That was unfortunate, time for Plan B' because it was obvious is not to work out.]
"That's quite a large fleet for such an operation." Nagato commented.
"Yes indeed, that's quite a large fleet for such a convoy operation." Queen Elizabeth said.
"What was their Plan B?" Unicorn asked innocently.
"You'll know." Essex-12 said as she gave her a wink.
[However they decided they are not going to double down. What they're gonna do is they're going to take a bunch of magnetic mines and they're just gonna spread them all over the Persian Gulf and international waters, and that's not going to have any consequences.... At all.]
Everyone face palmed just like in the video clip.
"Are they that idiot! Placing a magnetic-mines all over the Persian Gulf, and International Waters! Are they that dumb!" Queen Elizabeth yelled out as that was the dumbest idea the leader could do in a hopeless situation that they were in the first place.
[Fast forward to April 14th 1988, the USS Samuel B Roberts a Guided Missile Frigate, which is basically brand new at this point. This is like its first big operation is out there escorting a Kuwaiti Oil Tanker and it runs into a Minefield, hits a mine, blows-up its keel of the Ship.]
Everyone is a gasp, as a small Frigate got blown by an underwater mine. The Destroyers were terrified as they compared their small frame of that Missile Frigate.
(WW2 Destroyer is comparable to a Modern Frigate in weight, length and convoy mission.)
Cruiser Belfast had a little flashback from her mining at the keel.
[The Keel is the bottom part right here. It like supports and stabilizes the structure of the entire Ship, and it's get blown completely in half. At this point the only thing holding this boat together is the actual deck, one second later everything is on fire, the next second there's a 15-foot-wide hole in the bottom of your ship.]
"That's quite a big hole for a small ship." Hornet commented.
"This is not gonna end well for Iran." Cmdr. Thomas said as he now can see the Naval Leaders are in chaos after the mining of the Frigate.
Nagato, Queen Elizabeth, Mikasa and Warspite nod in agreeing with the Commander.
[Everything is on fire and water is rushing in the USS Samuel B Robert's took on half of its weight in water in the first minute. This is catastrophic amount of damage that would sink 99 of the ship.]
"Poor Samuel, is she going to be alright?" Unicorn asked as she sympathized with the Frigate's fate.
Lafayette spoke to reassure the concerned Unicorn. "Modern Frigate was designed to be survivable in a direct attack, including mines. Modern Frigate's survival rate was LVL2 compared to Destroyer, Cruiser and Carriers that are in a LVL3 survivability."
[But fate would have it, the crew of the USS Samuel B Roberts had already winning competition for having the best damage control crew in the Navy. So the crew gets to work, they're putting out fire. They're plugging holes, they're literally cinching the hole together with steel cable trying to stabilized it. Because the only thing that holding it is a deck at this point.]
"Wow, the crew really did get their ship from not sinking. I'm impressed." Vestal said.
Enterprise-80 spoke. "If you heard about the story of WW2 Ships that lost their bow on a torpedo attack and returned to port for repairs, that will get you hooked up."
"Losing a bow, and still not sunk...?" Vestal thought about it, as she never saw one in Azur Lane losing a bow and still managed to return to port.
[Over the course of 5 hours the entire crew fight their ass off and somehow manages to get the situation under control, and limped the Ship all the way back to Dubai where they can get it to port. And the most incredible part of all. not a single American was killed, only 10 men were injured during the fire and initial explosion.]
"Excuse me, What?! no one died from that underwater explosion! Are you shitting me!" Queen Elizabeth burs out.
"That's Quite a miracle for Samuel B Roberts Crew, they all survive without even death on their side." Nagato exclaimed as she was surprised.
"That's kinda reminded me of someone here." Hornet said as turned her attention to her Sister.
"What??" Entrprise-6 was confused.
"You always returned battered and damaged, and yet refused to succumb to any damages." Hornet said.
"If you look it that way... yeah." Cmdr. Thomas said, as he joins Hornet.
Enterprise-6 only pouts as the Commander joins her Sister's teasing habit.
[So the Crew survived, the boat basically completely destroyed. Then America sends in an underwater crew figuring out what happened, they find the remnants of the mine, they check the other mine. Yep, they were Iranian.]
"Hmmm. What would the President's response to this incident and political mess?" Queen Elizabeth inquired.
"Ohh, you'll see Your Majesty. It will be fun, to say the least." Essex-12 said a with mischievous smile.
[At this point now somebody has to inform the President, because this is a big deal, and the president at the time. Let me checks my notes, uh. It fucking Ronald Reagan.]
Ronald Raegan Clip: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.
"That didn't sound good." Queen Elizabeth utters.
Alongside her Warspite, Nagato and Mikasa had the same feeling as her, the word 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help' got to their spine like a gun barrel pointed at the back of their heads.
[So they go ahead and they brief Ronald Raegan on everything that happened, he's super happy that everybody survived and he's like "okay well here's what we gonna do. Were gonna issue a 'PROPORTIONAL' response."]
"Proportional?" everyone asked as to why the response is proportional.
[and what the US Navy heard was.... MR. BIG: Ice em!]
"Kill em."
Laffey-200 suddenly spoke from behind as they were all startled. Her cold tone of voice got them jolted at their chair like a Grim Reaper speaking to them.
"I thought you were drunk?" Lafayette asked.
"I'm not drunk, I'm only resting." She said and then shoved another bottle of alcohol at her mouth.
Everyone was stunned as she was carefree with her bikini while being drunk.
[I thought all right so, here's the plan. Iran currently has three Oil Rigs in the Persian Gulf that are not being used for drilling oil, but as military base for their Naval Operation. So the US Navy is going to go ahead and take out all three of those.]
"That's seem simple." Cmdr. Thomas uttered at the simplicity.
[Now I don't know any of the Oil Rig to Frigate exchange ratio is. But were gonna go ahead and air on the set of caution and say it's not "PROPORTIONAL" enough.
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"That doesn't look like proportional to me!" Queen Elizabeth exclaimed as the burning Oil Rig could be seen on the screen.
"That's not proportional, that seems to be an excessive force to me." Nagato commented.
"Well," Enterprise-80 held her chin. "If the other branches of the Military got involved, it would not be a proportional response. Remember Your Majesty this only the Navy and the other branches are not getting involved. So.... We maybe can call it proportional as we only used the proportion of the armed forces."
"Hmm. Make sense."
[Yes, so Iran also really has like two Modern Naval Vessels that's the Iranian Frigate Sahand and Iranian Frigate Sabalan.]
Unicorn hugs her Pushy as she and the rest of the Toddlers know what's coming for the two poof Frigates that were shown on the screen.
[We're going to go ahead and take out one of those, maybe both. We'll see how PROPORTINAL they want to get and then by the time they get all done that should be nice eight-hour work day, it'll be a time t clock out and go get some ice cream.]
"Hah, those Frigate's will become a work day." Hornet said as she chuckled.
"Actually, those Frigate were in the list of US Navy Leadership, as they were the one conducting strikes at the Oil Tankers." Enterprise-80 clarifies.
"So... the Frigates fates were sealed then." Queen Elizabeth inquired.
"Yes."
[So in order to get all this done by quitting time, they're going head and stablish three different surface attack group. Each group is going to have two Destroyers and one bonus ship, that bonus ship is either going to be an amphibious landing ship or a frigate. Either way, they're all going to be identified as Bravo, Charlie and Delta.]
"That seems to be a large group to handle Oil Rigs to me." Warspite commented that the numbers were too big to handle an Oil Rig.
Enterprise-80 responds. "They were operating close to enemy waters. So bringing more for extra defense was necessary."
"Make sense, even the Siren were incapable of operating in the region with small numbers as Aircraft overwhelmed them."
[Bravo group is tasked with taking out the two oil rigs. Charlie group is tasked for taking-out the one remaining oil rig, and Delta group mission is to go hunting down those two frigate and take them out.]
"Bravo, Charlie and Delta." Queen Elizabeth mumbles to herself as she senses something wrong with the apathetic order of the group. "Say, Enterprise?" She inquired.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Enterprise-80 replies to her inquiry.
"Where's the Alpha Group, I noticed it was the only group that is missing?"
"You'll see." She said as she looked at the screen. Everyone followed her gaze at the screen.
[And for insurance purposes, we're also going to have USS Enterprise parked right outside the Persian Gulf to provide air-support. You know, in case we need it.]
Everyone's eyes widen in surprise as a Strike Force is parked at the shores if Operation Praying Mantis gets out of 'Proportion'
"Oh dear." Illustrious covered her mouth once again in surprise as she didn't expect that name along the other beside her.
"What... the..." Enterprise-6 muttered in surprise.
"Do-don't tell me... that's the Alpha Group!" Queen Elizabeth yelled out.
"What you were looking at is the American diplomacy that weighs 94,000 tons. USS Enterprise CVN-65 is there to provide support if the operation got out of hand, and was authorized to use force to protect those American Vessels." Enterprise-80 said with a smirk.
[So April 18th 1988, four days after the mining of the USS Samuel B Roberts. Operation Praying Mantis goes into full swing, and Bravo Group showed-up at their oil rig first and inform them that they will be blowing it up in 5 minutes. And they should leave, so bunch of people hops in Tugboats and take-off.]
"Thank God, they made the people evacuate first." Illustrious said with a relief. Relief that there's no bloodshed, yet.
[Bravo Group seeing that they're making an honest effort to actually evacuate agrees to give tem 15 more minutes. So fast forward to 20 minutes later, they send out another radio message times-up. They then open fir the 5-inch guns right over the top of the Oil Rig with the round set to air-burst, hopefully scaring any of the stragglers. And at this point one Iranian Military member decided that he is going to audition to be the main character of the story, because he hops on a 3mm AA Gun and opens fire on Bravo Group.]
"What the fuck is that idiot doing! He should be evacuating like the others!" Queen Elizabeth shouted at the that Iranian MC wannabe.
"Language, Your Majesty, Language." Cruiser Belfast reminds her.
"He must be got some 'balls' to fight back against ships." Hornet said as she nudged the Commander at his side.
[And without skipping a beat, one of the 5-inch guns on one of the Destroyers just goes nyeeeeek puff, direct hit, smokes this dude. Barely touches the rest of the oil rig. This guy is not the main character of the story, but the silver lining he at least made it into the credits as Baloney Mist Cloud No. 1.]
"Lucky he made it in credits." Arizona in a stern voice.
"Rest in pieces Baloney Mist Cloud, dead but not forgotten." Essex-12 said.
"What do you expect, you're fighting a ship there with bigger guns than you have." Lafayette said.
Lucas chimed-in. "Speaking of guns." He turns his attention at Lafayette. "Did you grow some inches?"
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Everyone's attention at Lafayette, Lafayette covers his crouch both hands. "Hell no!"
[Obviously I'm paraphrasing here, but at this point Bravo Group radioed over to the oil rig one last time something along the lines of "Hey does anybody else need to find out what it feels to chew 5-gums, or you fuckers ready to quit."]
[The Oil Rig finally radioed back and its "Yeah, yeah please cease fire we're gonna leave."]
"Finally those bastards left." Queen Elizabeth exclaimed.
[So the Iranian Military members and leaves, Bravo Group decided to open-up a little bit with the 5-inch guns before sending over a couple of Huey's full of Marines. The Marines hop out and place some demo-charges, hops back into the Helicopter and take-off. The entire Oil Rig blows up and things are getting "PROPORTIONAL"]
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"That wasn't proportional, to say the least." Illustrious murmurs.
[And while that was happening. Charlie Group mad into the other Oil Rig, as well as much as the same thing played out. The only difference were the Charlie Group didn't have Marines to place the demo-charge, as they have Navy Seals.]
"Uh oh!" and "Oh no!" can be heard from everyone watching as they hear a Navy SEAL is mentioned and turn their attention on Arizona who has a small curve of grin on his face.
[And when the Iranian opens-up with 23mm AA Guns, they decided to keep firing 5-inch at the Oil platform until it burst into flames and burn the entire thing to the ground. At which point the Commander of the Destroyer kind of looks at the Navy Seals and is like "Sorry, I guess you guys get to sit on this one out."]
[Jako: Oh mission got canceled. Good.]
Everyone breath in sigh of relief that the Navy SEAL didn't do anything stupid, as they know one in experience.
"guess I have to sit this one out." Arizona said.
[And while that thing is going down. Bravo Group is already making their way over to the third Oil Rig. At which point they picked up something on radar and its differently another enemy ship heading right towards them.]
Everyone is on edge as they anticipate the Iranian Frigates will fight-off the Bravo Group. They were eager to know who was going to be on top of the battle.
[And this point you have to remember. This is the 1980s none of the American Sailors have seen Naval Warfare on this scale. The pucker factor is on, they're getting Harpoon Missiles ready and they are about to get ready on the biggest naval fight since WW2.]
Everyone leaned closer in anticipation and some bit their nail in anticipation, but Laffey-459 seems biting the wrong nails as Lafayette's hands were held by her.
[At which point, whoever's in charge of Bravo Group decided to take deep breath and they're like "Okay let's just send up a Helicopter real quick, just to verify it's actually an enemy ship"]
"T-that seems a good idea." Queen Elizabeth said as the suspense of the situation got under her skin.
"That is a good idea, they need to verify the enemy first before engaging." Nagato said.
[So the helicopter goes up radios back to the Bravo Group, it's definitely a Warship, but it's a Soviet Destroyer.]
"What???!!!"
Everyone was confused and relieved that it was not the Iranian Frigates.
[At which point everybody's like what is happening right now. so they radioed over to this Russian Destroyer and they're like. "What are your intentions?" and the Russian Commander radioed back in broken English. I swear to god; this is a real quote.]
*I'm just here.... For history*
"So the Northern Parliament's counterpart were just there taking a picture for history." Queen Elizabeth said with suspicion.
Enterprise-80 spoke. "The Russians were there to gather intel about the ongoing Naval Battle between Iran and America. They were there to collect data for any countermeasures to our Weaponry." She said as everyone was a gasped at what they heard.
"So that's why our Carriers often encounters with one of their Shipgirls tailing our Fleet from behind for data collection. Those sly bastards." Warspite cursed, as she encounters them not once or twice but often in the Northern Sea.
Queen Elizabeth looks at Illustrious. "Sent a message to the Royal Navy HQ and inform the Prime Minister about our findings." She orders, as Illustrious heads to the Royal Navy Dorm to inform the Government and the Navy.
[I know I bash on the Soviet Union and Communism every single chance I get but this time around I gotta give it to them, these guys know how to party, just straight up rolling in the middle of the largest naval operation since WW2 to eat popcorn and watch. It's incredible.]
"Yes, incredible. They can't even beat a nation without a navy." Arizona said.
"You seem to be hating the Northern Parliament Counterpart?" Sheffield inquired as she noticed his familiar murderous aura.
"Yes." He said with heavy voice. "The Russians always brag about their 'Hypersonic' and how 'Advance' their weaponry.... How stupid. Their subs can dive deep, but their acoustic is loud like a creaking metal, they brag about them bypassing the Submarine defense that the US Navy placed at the seafloor between Canada, Greenland and Scotland. I've been following them ever since they left the port."
"Then why not tell them that you can hear them." Queen Elizabeth said.
"Your Majesty, there's a reason why they called the US Navy Submarine Force 'The Silent Service' we keep our mouth shut. Remember the word, Your Majesty. Loss lips, sink ships." He said with a grin.
The Maids gulps along with the Queen.
[At this point Iran finally figures out that there's something going-on, but they don't really know what. so they just begin attacking any ship they can find. And the first ship they found was a civilian cargo ship called the Willy Tide, that they begin to attack with Bog Hammer style speed boat.]
"Speed boat? I thought they have a bigger Ships than that." Nagato said as she was surprised of using speed boats on Ships.
"Well...." The Americans cringe at that.
Enterprise-80 spoke. "Well Your Majesty, the Iranians used speed boats to annoy US Ships and Sailors. There was even an accident between my Ship and the Iranian speed boats, one of my RIM-116 Rolling Air Frame at the speed boat that got close and the A.I. onboard eliminated it. So yeah, the Iranians with their speed boats were annoying that every Naval Leaders told their Sailors to not open-up with the speed boats."
[So the Willy Tide radioed for help. The USS Enterprise responds by sending up a bunch of A-6 Intruders as well as F-14 Tomcats. The A-6 Intruders shows-up, starts dropping cluster bombs. They ended-up hitting one of the speed boats and scattering the rest. The Civilian Cargo Ship is saved Hooray.]
The Girls cheered along as the Cargo Ship was saved.
[Cutting back to Charlie Group, now there's an Iranian fast attack Ship coming right at them, so they radioed over like. "Yeah, we're kind of going around blowing-up all your stuff, but also we've got a very specific list, you're not on it. So how about you go away, and we will forget we saw you." The Iranians fast attack ship message back. "Sounds good, we'll do that" and then they just keep driving right towards them. And then the Iranian fast attack ship gets within 15 miles of Charlie Group, which is point blank range for a Naval Battle.]
"That is quite really close for a naval battle." Warspite said, as her experience of naval arterially screamed.
[Charlie Group radioed again. "Dude What the Fuck are you doing?" Which they respond. "I'm following orders." And then they proceeds to lock their radar on Charlie Group, which Charlie Group can see. At which point Charlie Group immediately launched 5 Missile directly at the Iranian Vessel. the Iranian vessel fire 5 Harpoon Missile back at Charlie Group, both groups now have missile in the air screaming towards one another.]
"So this how modern Naval Battle between Modern Warship." Queen Elizabeth and Nagato murmured as this was the first time they heard two modern ships engaged in battle.
[The Americans launches countermeasures, shooting up chaff rocket they launched to catch the Harpoon Missile. Detonating it in midair. The Iranian Vessel on the other hand did not have any counter measures capable of stopping the newest technology behind the American Missile, and it would end-up getting sunk pretty much immediately then']
"That sounded like one-sided battle." Mikasa commented as the lack of missile counter measure felt unfair.
[before anybody can really even fully digest what just happened. Radar picks-up 3 Iranian F-4 screaming towards Charlie Group then turn fire a bunch of Surface-to-Air Missile at the F-4. The F-4 sees the coming they're like. "Oh shit!"]
"Oh shit, it is." Essex-12 chuckles.
[they pop a U-Turn and try to out runs the missile, F-4s while they are extremely fast, can't outrun Missiles. So one of the missiles ends-up blowing a wing-off one of the F-4s. Now the American has taken out an entire Naval Vessel and F-4 that they did not plan on taking out, and its throwing out our PROPORTION.]
"That's quite a Proportion." Laffey-459 said nonchalantly.
[And because of that the American leadership orders Bravo Group to stand down, were not gonna go take out that Oil Rig.]
Everyone sighs in relief that the blowing things-up is over, but their relief is washed away as The Fat Electrician continues.
[And right soon as that order given, Delta Group chimed-in is like "Hey, we found the frigate we were looking for"]
"That Frigate's luck runs out." Laffey-459 said.
"Yes." Laffey-200 agreed.
Everyone looks at the two with bewilderment, they have now a suspicion that Laffey-459 is becoming more Laffey-200.
"I have a bad feeling about this, desu." Ayanami said.
[So now nobody knows what to do, because on one had things are already getting out of control, but in the other hand we really want to take down that frigate.]
[So American leadership decides well we might not even have make a hard decision, maybe hats not the Frigate and the radar is wrong. Why don't you go ahead and send a couple of A-6 Intruders over and do a fly by, so they can verify that it's the actually this modern frigate. And if it is, we will make a decision from there.]
Everyone anticipated for the A-6 Pilots decision would take. Would they engage the Frigate or not?
"Just drop the bomb on them already!" Queen Elizabeth burst out as she got bored of the Iranian Frigates not getting blown.
[Or so the thought, because the A-6 Pilots are about to decide that they are in fact the main character of the story.]
"Are they gonna do something stupid?" Vestal inquired as she had someone in her head with a Main Character mentality.
"Yes. They would do anything stupid." Enterpris-80 responded.
[You see, the USS Enterprise and its Aircraft aren't really supposed to be doing a whole lot. They're only allowed to engage the enemy under one or two conditions. One, the President of the United States signs off on, which is actually what happened with the speedboats earlier. Or two, they get fired upon first.]
"So... she got the authority to use any means of force if one her planes got shoot-down and if someone would open fire at her?" Enterprise-6 inquired.
"Yes. The President authorized her. those warbirds at her deck were armed in ready to take-off as every Carrier was ordered on high alert as the threat of Cold War going hot looms over." Enterprise-80 said.
"If the Cold War goes hot?"
"We go boom."
[so they got told to fly by this boat to verify it is fact the new modem frigate, but they didn't get to told how to fly by the boat.]
"Shit!" Everyone said in unison as they knew the Frigate would open fire as the crew would consider it as an aggression.
[so they dropped down 50 feet above the water and just gun it and they buzzed the entire ship so the ship open fire with its aa guns. But these planes are so low in the water the aa gun can't actually aim down low enough. So all the AA fire goes right over the top of them.]
"50 feet, that's SBD's Torpedo drop! That's too low." The Carriers exclaimed.
"Could this Pilot any crazier than this?" Enterprise-6 inquired.
"Yes." Enterprise-80 said.
[They continue to stay low enough till they get out of the aa gun range and them they pull up at which pint the ship launches surface to air missile at them, they drop chaff as a counter measure take care of those no big deal.]
"Not a big deal! That's a missile following you!" Queen Elizabeth overreacted once again.
"Huh, I wouldn't worry about the 80's Missile compared to the 2050s Technology." Essex-12 said with smugness on her face.
[They then go a U-Turn sends radio message "I'm going to sink you now." legally do, because remember the ship opens fire at them first.]
*You fell victim to one of the classic blunders*
"They really do fall into one of the classic blunders." Everyone exclaimed in unison.
"That sounds like Azur Lane and Crimson Axis phony war." Warspite said.
"Yeah, everyone on both sides was waiting for the other one to open fire at one another." Queen Elizabeth said.
[So the A-6 fires an Anti-Ship Harpoon Missile and the second they pull the trigger on that the fire Control team on the USS Enterprise is like "what the fuck are you doing, we're not supposed to kill things, yet"]
"What do you mean kill things yet?" Enterprise-6 was confused by that statement.
"It means the shit didn't hit the fan... yet." Enterprsie-80 said to clarify.
[and the A-6s were like. "look they fired at us first, rules are rules]
"Yup, rules are rules." Lucas said.
"You Americans always may or may not instigate a fight, but the world always sees you like that." JS Maya said.
"Well, it's better to get involved before it gets worst.... Or made it even worst." Essex-12 said with a hint of sarcasm.
Everyone looks at the Americans confirming if it's true.
Enterprise-80 spoke. "We sometimes get involved militarily with causes, but the lefties were too stupid to understand what it means to stop violence with force, they always thought they could talk it with words." She said, as everyone understand why America gets involved in every conflict.
[And the USS Enterprise is like. "Holy Shit, okay I guess let them have it.]
"That sounds really like you." Enterprise-6 said to her.
"To be fair, all American Leadership does that as long it's not a huge mess of paperwork." Enterprise-80 responded.
[the Harpoon Missile finally makes an impact, it's a bullseye. The A-6 is doing a U-Turn go drop another 500lbs laser guided bomb right through the deck of this Frigate. Fly pass another thousand-pound bomb on it, then radio back to the USS Enterprise and like "yeah its definitely gonna sink were gonna head back."]
"I didn't expect that Frigate would take 1 missile and 1 500lbs bomb to sink." Queen Elizabeth mused at the Frigate's durability.
[So the A-6 heads back to the USS Enterprise and like five minutes later, Delta Group shows up with their warship and begin firing on the already sinking frigate. They hit the magazine. The frigate explodes rapidly sinks into the ocean floor.]
"Stop! It's already dead!" Yukikaze suddenly yelled-out at the fate of the burning Frigate.
"Dear God, they really wanted to take that Frigate out of service for real." Nagato muttered as the Frigate got pounded by Delta Group with their guns.
[at this point Naval Leaders is like "okay, Jesus Christ. Everybody stop killing things we need to figure out what all happened we got to keep this "PRPORTINAL" remember.]
.
"You keep saying that shit when everything is out of PROPORTION!!!!!!!!!!!!" Queen Elizabeth yelled-out.
The Toddlers/Destroyers were terrified at the frigate's burning wreck as the whole superstructure was engulfed in flames.
[ So they start radioing out what everybody did if anybody's hurt, what's going on. the whole story and then as the A-6 are making their Way back to the USS Enterprise, guess what they happen to fly pass...]
"No please no, don't tell me." She uttered.
The Toddlers/Destroyers were terrified in anticipation.
[the other modern Frigate.]
"Jesus Christ!"
"The fate of those two Frigates were sealed." Nagato commented as she knew the Naval Leaders of America would not let this one slip out of their sight without getting eliminated.
[So now the entire US Navy is looking at this Frigate like SpongeBob looking at this jug of water.]
~SpongeBob scene~
[But also realistically speaking the A-6s were pretty much out ammunition at this point, the only thing they have left were two thousand pound bombs and those were just aren't going to be enough by themselves without Harpoon Missile to take down this ship anyways they just gonna fly by to verify that the modern Frigates. So the A-6 Intruder goes ahead they do their flyby. It is in fact the new modern frigate that they thought it was and it does in fact open fire on the A-6.]
"So the A-6 Pilot would not engage the Frigate as they were out of guided bombs, right." Unicorn inquired.
But the Americans only gave her a grim look as they knew what happened to the Frigate's fate with or without guided bombs.
Unicorn eyes widen as she knows the grim expression plastered on their faces.
"There are opportunities in the military world that shouldn't be left-out so easily, young one." Enterprise-80 said as it was the grim reality.
[A-6 is making out completely unscathed at which point they pop a U-Turn and one of the Pilots is like "hmmm"]
*I used to bullseye womp rats in my t-16 back at home*
"Womp rats?" Warspite inquired as the name was so alien to her.
"That's a Star Wars movie reference." Lucas said to the confused Corgi.
[So the A-6 pulls up gaining altitude, and ten dives do aims its nose right at the Frigate like 35-degree angle. They're doing the good old-fashion dive bombing run like it was fucking WW2.]
"What! Dive-Bombing on a jet? That seems very stupid of an idea to me." Enterprise-6 exclaimed.
Enterprise-80 raised her index finger and open her mouth to tell her it's possible, but stop as she doesn't want to add at the absurdity of the story that the Fat Electrician is telling.
"I just keep this one for myself." She uttered.
[the AA Guns starts firing and bullets whizzing past the plane, but they were committed now. they're closing in closing in. the bombardier behind the pilot lets the pilot know. "hey I'm locked on" at which point the bomb goes right through this fucking smoke stack of this boat. Blows up completely, destroying the entire engine room. That frigate is now dead in the water.]
Everyone was mouth-gapped as the A-6 Intruder, a Jet Plane of the modern era (according to them) managed to get a direct hit on a moving target while dive-bombing as the AA Guns whizz passed over them.
"Impossible." Enterprise-6 could not believe to what she just heard.
"What you heard was possible." Enterprise-80 said with a smirk, as she's the only Carrier that scored a kill with warheads on foreheads (But that would surpass by the newcomer)
[The A-6's goes ahead and radio in that they completely disabled this Frigate at which point the American Leaders calls a complete cease-fire they're gonna go ahead and let the Frigate survive get towed off potentially be repaired. With the Us Navy completely disabled or destroyed half of Iran's functioning Navy.]
"So it didn't sink with 1 bomb huh?" Queen Elizabeth said in surprise.
"So it survives, do you think it can go back into service?" Unicorn asked.
"Well, nobody knows. Nobody talked about what happened to the Iranian frigate after that." Lafayette said as he shrugs.
[the US Navy decided to call it a good day, ends Operation Praying Mantis. We all get to live a happily ever after]
"Well, that's quite a good story—" Before Queen Elizabeth could finish her word, Fat Electrician continues.
[Except later that night Iran decided that they wanted to fight a little bit more, and they launched a bunch of Anti-Ship Silkworm Missile at American Vessels, luckily no American Vessels were actually hit.]
"Silkworm Missile?" everyone asked about the missile.
"It was NATO's name report about the missile itself. That was a very dangerous Ant-Ship Missile back in the day." Bunker Hll-76 spoked.
[However, this is now a huge political problem, because America has been mad at the fact that Iran even had a Silkworm Missile for years at this point. and the American Government has made it very clear to Iran that if they ever use them, they would be going to war with America, period. That sets the stone]
"So a war broke-out with the two then?" Warspite and the rest inquired.
[So the Reagan administration didn't' wanting to kick –off WW3 in the 1980s reaches out to the Iranian Government and it was like. "Here's what's going to happened you're gonna go ahead and admit that that was an accident. I'm going to sweep this under the rug, and never gonna talk about this again. Because if this makes a headline news and the American people finds-out. I'm going to get real PROPORTINAL around here."]
"That's quite a bold word for a President." Enterprise-6 said as Hornet and Cmdr. Thomas agreed with her statement.
Their current President cannot say that kind of word without any provocation in the other side.
"Well, those were the times when our Leaders got some balls to send the military in the 80s and 90s. The 2000s and 2020s were like the worst decade for the Americans as the Leaders were lacking pairs, and the country stagnated along with the Military." Enterprise-80 said, as the 2020s politics was a nightmare for her to be remembered.
[So the Iranian was like "Okay fine, whatever it was an accident lets sweep the whole thing under the rug, But I'm still gonna take America to International Court to prove that it was a Warcrime to take down my Oil Rigs. So that I can get reparations and makes America pay for it."]
"That seems stupid yet an effective plan." Nagato commented on the statement.
"Making the guy beat you pay, good luck doing that in our time." Essex-12 said, as every nation in 2030 and 2040 just gives a middle finger on reparations.
[So they go to the International Court, they lay the out the case, the International Court is looking at America like "Okay well first of all you're the fraction People. I don't know how you think that this is proportional. But it definitely wasn't. second of all according to the Amity Act you absolutely should not have attacked their Oil Rig. This probably a warcrime."]
[At which point the representative of America was like. "Well actually, if you read the Amity Treaty between Iran and the United States it only talks about ships and boat. It didn't talk say shit about Oil Rigs. Meaning I wasn't obligated to not attack those Oil Rigs."]
"That was a clever one, the American representative really found a loophole in that Amity Treaty." Queen Elizabeth applauded at the representative.
"I kinda wish our Azur Lane representative have skill of finding loopholes." Hornet said in dismay.
The Azur Lane representatives really didn't do much back in that time to prevent the broke-off of Iron Blood, Sardigna Empire, Sakura Empire and many other smaller nations from Azur Lane.
"Yeah, we wish we had." Cmdr. Thomas and Enterprise-6 said in unison.
[At which point the Court was like *Flip some papers* "Huh. Shit His right, son of a bitch. *Grabs a Gabel* Okay well I guess, America is innocent."]
[I've said it once and I'll say it again. It's never a warcrime the first time]
The Americans followed along. "It's never a warcrime the first time."
[Now for the best part of the entire story. America now proceeds to go over to Dubai, pick-up what's left of USS Samuel B Roberts tow it all back into Maine. Then take the ship off the water get I the dry dock, cut the section of the ship including the engine compartment build another module to fit in its place. this thing weight like 300 tons. They jack it up, weld it right where it's at. Get everything re-hooked up, reconnected. This boat is back on the ocean one year later on APRIL 1ST, 1989 it then goes to get recommissioned and serve until 2015.]
The Toddlers/Destroyer were happy about Samuel B Roberts getting repaired and return to service within a year.
"That's quite one hell of a story for her." Warspite said like an old person reminiscing.
[I mean playing Battleship against America- gotta sick like "HAHA... I sunk your battleship." And America like "First you didn't, second of all fuck your entire Navy" As it picks up the board and throws it at the wall.]
"So basically cheating, huh?" Queen Elizabeth mused.
[So in conclusion, if you do ever find yourself being a leader of foreign nation one day the best advice I can possibly give is "Do whatever you can to not raise the gas price and Whatever you do, do not fuck with America's boats, we do not like that shit."]
"Ha ha ha, nobody fucks with America's boats because they know the consequences." Essex-12 said while laughing out loud.
Mikasa and Nagato give each other a glance, like a Morse code between them. They know they made the same mistake as the Sakuran Shipgirls tried to steal one of the Aircraft and the Operatives to plant some explosives under the hulls of American Ships. And because of that their Empire got bombed.
"So the message was clear... no one touches America's Ships, or suffer the consequences." Queen Elizabeth said as she understood what it meant.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Enterprise-80 responded. "And it will stay it that way."