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Chapter 5 - Tripping accidents and Sinking pride of the Axis

"War is coming with its glory and horror." :(???) 

"You were made in time of war; will you answer the call." :(???) 

"We made you for a single purpose, but you were finished in times of peace. You have no war experience, while your siblings and half-sisters do." :(???) 

"HEY, STOP RIGHT THERE!" :(???) 

Helen, frighten, turned around to only see no one behind her, she scanned around to see nothing in the wooden hut that can speak to her. Puzzled, who had shouted at her just moments ago when she sighted and fell onto a ground by her feet tripping over a loose wire. 

"IS A BLOODY GHOST TALKING TO ME!" :(Helen shouted as she got herself up, only for her to trip over the same wire again, where she fell face forward into the wooden floor) 

"Helen, do you not see that wire in front of you? This is the second time you fell over the same wire?" :(Noah's voice stated through the earpiece) 

"Thanks, you Mr Obvious, I want to know who the ghost was telling me to stop?" :(Helen said in a serious tone as she got herself up, she looked down on her feet to see the wire she was tripping over) 

"To my predications it would be artificial intelligence as I didn't detect anyone unusual activities recently. Plus, if anyone was here, they would certainly starve by now since this dry-dock is abandoned to the document you founded. It's better to be safe to locate this AI who is talking to you and disable them, as they could report our location to whatever their creator is. I am not guaranteed that we would find the AI, as we don't have the equipment to locate them or detect their signals. Your ship has equipment to detect radio signals from radar or even equipment." :(Noah's voice stated in a descriptive and clear tone through the earpiece) 

"Great more mysteries, Noah, give me a single answer instead of making more mysterious routes that I have no hopes of solving." :(Helen stated while looking at the door when she about to reach the door she tripped over other wire as she slammed right into the floor with thunderous crash) 

"You tripped over something again? You have no self-awareness, I could hear every time you managed to trip over stuff in that wooden hut, at least bring me back the equipment which I could analyse it for our use. If that AI is watching this, they would think you are the clumsiest criminal known to existence. The AI might be in that wooden hut with the equipment as mentioned earlier." :(Noah's voice stated in a descriptive and irritated tone through the earpiece) 

"DON'T CALM ME CLUMSY, I AIN'T THAT CLUMSY." :(Helen shouted just before she tripped over a wire and fell onto her back, this time instead of her face hitting the floor) 

"Great, just great that AI is probably laughing at your clumsy and childish behaviour, just focus on what we came here for which was repair the ship and collect information about this world we stumbled onto. Right now, we are making ourselves clowns as you keep tripping over something. I wouldn't be surprised that you manage to break anything in that wooden hut, due you're tripping over wires or anything else." :(Noah's voice stated in a descriptive and irritated tone through the earpiece, but he sounded like he was losing patience) 

"Have it your way, Noah, but I will remember this humiliation." :(Helen said in an irritated tone as she got herself up and walked back to where she started, which was the area of the equipment without tripping) 

Helen investigated the equipment with a careful and intense glare as she analysed everything to figure out what out every of the equipment caused whatever AI that spoke from. After careful consideration, she attempted to carry every single bit of equipment and rushed them over to her ship's flight deck. Which was quite easy as she discovered she has unnatural strength and the equipment were like picking up a piece of bread. She managed not trip over while transferring the equipment into her ship's bridge for Noah to investigate the equipment properly. Helen plugged Noah's containment chip from the console into every equipment until Noah had collected every data and put back to the console which houses him. 

"Quite interesting, this world seems to have radio technology awfully similar to what I worked on and your ship's own equipment. After careful consideration testing every frequency and decoding I got a rough idea what equipment this belongs to nation which is the Democratic Federation to my guess it's a Federation made up of Democracies. And that AI was talking to you previously was housed in this equipment you brought back to the bridge. But I had to disable the Ai before it had time to make a report back to the Democratic Federation, which I doubt they would do anything. We could read parts of the radio traffic of Democratic Federation if we played our cards right. However, I must warn directly talking to them would result in them tracking our position by a vessel equipped with radio frequency finders around the area we are in. But we don't have any code books of the Democratic Federation, which means every radio traffic we received or intercepted being meaningless and cryptic unless we decode them accordingly. Our objective is to find a code book and try to decipher the radio traffic lucky for us, we founded a code book within the AI which I am currently analysing and sorting it out. But we might read the traffic for some time, but I must warn that it would not take a lot to change the codes, which makes this code book inside the AI worthless. Unless a dumb person reused the codes book for something. Lucky for us, we are able to track any radio frequency being sent or worked on near us by our own equipment." :(Noah Voice stated with descriptive, suggestive and clarity tone through a hologram projected through a console) 

"That quite resuming and descriptive, but how long would it take for the codes to change?" :(Helen asked a serious question as she not quite sure what to do with this information) 

"I give it at least a few weeks at beast, as codes tend to change very frequently to prevent anyone from decoding them with the equipment. It might take a month at least for us to make use of this equipment, for now we got an island to retreat to if everything went downhill very fast. As well, a piece of ground to store things we can't carry on your ship." :(Noah Voice stated with descriptive and calm tone knowing farewell the possibilities but was not quite sure through a hologram) 

"Alright, that lot of information to dig in, but I leave it you with it since you are the expert here, how do we repair the ship since you are suggesting through the month, weeks, and days about it." :(Helen said and signed as she was somewhat exhausted in her mind when absorbing the information Noah was providing) 

"Well, is hard to say, in normal circumstances there would be labour from the dockyard to repair your ship, but we haven't got them in this dry-dock. I am certainly you would not been a good job at it either after hearing you trip over countless times in the wooden hut you found. But as soon your ship arrived at the dry-dock, a blue screen manifests into my view which reads 'do you like repairs to be completed'. I kept this information away from you as it would startle you even more. For now, I kept it idle and awaiting your command on such a manner." :(Noah's Voice stated with same descriptive and clam tone while revealing some information through a hologram) 

"Of course, repair my ship, don't you dare to hide information from me as it could be an emergency that I must see firsthand. Everything is becoming a mystery now that we can't understand. I am guessing this dry dock is an automatic one run with by an AI or the lack of one since we take it back here." :(Helen said with sign of irritation but also sign of confusion as she sat down on a chair and looked out the window) 

"GENERAL QUARTERS, GENERAL QUARTERS, GENERAL QUARTERS!!" :(Voice said out of the intercom, while alarms started blazing to life around Helen's ship) 

"NOAH, WHAT IS HAPPENING?" :(Helen shouted as she was caught off guard by the sudden alarm blazing to life) 

"We got unknown contacts approaching our position they will arrive in 8 hours, their speed, and course is directly on us and no sign of slowing down. I have confirmed them either hostile or unknown, requesting full authority and control of all batteries. Our scouts have approached their position, which included 30 ships of wooden vintage with their sides cladded with armour of unknown type, their decks are not littered with any Anti-Air type guns or missiles. The all squadrons would be automatically alerted and prepared for launch of a possible confrontation. There are 20 contacts airborne which either can be birds, wyverns or dragons, blimps or wooden biplane. This is no investigation fleet, this entire hostile fleet preparing for combat, their objective remains unknown but can't be discarded. What is your command, Helen, as everything rests on your decision alone." :(Noah's Voice stated with warning, uncertainty and shocked like Helena through a hologram while it analysed several reports and task managing) 

"Noah, you have full authority to use everything at my disposal, I don't think any of them are friendly, make sure don't target any retreating vessel or airborne targets, you understand that." :(Helen said knowing farewell her isolation on this island is now over but worried about the consequences, but her hands are tied) 

"Understood. Processing... Main Batteries online and ready to fire if required... Anti-Air Batteries online and ready to fire... Fighter Squadrons standby…. Composite squadrons standby.... Attack squadrons standby.... Request sent for the water to be flooded into the dry dock and repairs suspended..... Request received and answered... Location of launch point has been identified and proceeding to go at flank speed when out of dry-dock." :(Noah's Voice stated through the hologram as it proceeded to manifest tiny screens and do a lot of shuffling and closing) 

Helen could feel her ship raise as the dry dock interior was flooded with sea water and the gates behind her ship opened, then her ship moved out at slow speed once cleared out the dry dock, the ship turned and suddenly went to flank speed in 10 minutes. Helen was thrown back into a wall, but she recovered very quickly. She looked out the window and saw the elevators moved up and down while carrying aircrafts to the flight deck as the assembled near two lines going forward, they were fuelled and armed with rockets, bullets, bombs and torpedoes. But Helen didn't know what they were, she watched as two aircrafts were ejected forward what to be assumed catapults on the bow of her ship while others simply flow of her ship. She walked out a door and looked up to the sky and saw the planes circling in group before departing when all of them are airborne and at right height. Helen was horrified as the airborne closed in there was around 50 of them which consists of Wyverns, blimps and wooden biplanes were closing in rapidly then the sky was filled with exploding bursts of shrapnel and fire. One Wyvern was struck by shrapnel of two exploding clouds and its wings filled with holes and started to lose altitude rapidly. 

"COMMANDER IS GOING DOWN! PROCCED TO THE TARGET AS PLAN, WE CAN'T ALLOW THAT DEMOCRATIC VESSEL ESCAPE." :(???) 

"THIS IS MADNESS WE ARE FLYING THROUGH HELL WITH ALL THESE EXPLODING BURSTS OF DEATH!" :(???) 

"ARE YOU COWARD YOU GO WITH ME IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, WE WILL GET PROMOTION AFTER SINKING A LARGE DEMOCRATIC VESSEL LIKE THAT TARGET OVER THERE!" :(???) 

"What are those stick like aircrafts rapidly approaching our position I could hear their engines from here." :(???) 

"How does that aircraft even fly it has no sails, propellers or even support beams?" :(???) 

*A group of F2H-2 Banshees screamed across the sky as their legends say, the first banshee aimed and fired its cannon rounds as it shot down a biplane which crashed into the sea. The rest of banshees followed shooting down or damaging any nearby biplanes, blimps, Wyverns and dragons, the formation of 50 contacts scattered and were picked off by the banshees, only 10 remained only 5 got close enough to their target.* 

"RUN! RUN! THEY ARE SCREAMERS OF DEATH!" :(???) 

"WE CAN'T OUTRUN THEM!" :(???) 

"Oh, my look at that vessel it's bigger than the Democratic Federation battleships even their aircraft carriers don't compare to it. Let's sink it to abyss." :(???) 

"We lost majority of our campions due to those stick-like fighters, we will achieve our promotion and become legendary figures for the Axis Dictatorship Collective." :(???) 

"FOR THE AXIS AND THE DICTATORS!" :(???) 

*The 10 remaining were subjected to light cannon fire from twin mount and heavy cannon fire either in twin or heavy mounts, 3 Wyverns were immediately killed as burst of exploding shrapnel destroyed their wings and destroyed their body form, the remaining survivors retreated with heavy losses. Meanwhile on the fleet of Axis Dictatorship Collective it was just as chaotic as swarms of AD Sky Raiders and F4U Corsairs were detected and started their attack phases while bursts of magical and energy flied everywhere. On the flagship Battleship Scarlet Wrath they watched as ships got hit by rockets, bombs and torpedoes which many ships were not designed for that type of damage, which they either were capsized or exploded immediately.* 

"WHO EVER THIS CAPTAIN IS WHO SENT THEIR PATHETIC CARRIER SQUADRONS AT US WILL PAY FOR THIS HUMILIATION!" :(???) 

"ENEMY DIVE BOMBERS ABOVE!" :(???) 

"What is even that plane it feels like a made of metal and absorbing every bullet or cannon round put onto that thing." :(???) 

The Battleship Scarlet Wrath fired every round it had at attacking flight of 6 Sky Raiders with 3 above the sea surface while other 3 diving on the battleship. The Admiral watched as round after round was pumped into the Sky Raiders, but they failed to come down, the Admiral watched as bombs struck the Scarlet Wrath which exploded with immense force almost like the ship was lifted out the water and thrown back down. Then came the torpedoes which slammed beneath the battleship's armoured hull and exploded with same force. It didn't take long for the battleship to start capsizing as it's portside was flooding completely with sea water. The flagship and the pride of Axis Dictatorship Collective was sinking due to an unknown enemy; it's campaign of terror and destroyer of 150 Democratic Federation Ships has put to the end. 

"Admiral our flagship is no more." :(???) 

"It seems so who ever commanding that ship in dry dock got luck on their side, but it will not happen again, I will hunt that ship down with my bare hands and see it's destruction by my hands." :(The Admiral said as he was lowered onto luxurious life raft as it paddled away towards other ship that wasn't damaged)

To be continued....

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