Alicorn stands on the docks staring out to a pair of rge cargo ships anchored not far away from the base. They are filled with cargo containers.

  Team Destroyers ships sail past the cargo ships on their daily patrol.

  "Who's ready!" Clevend shouts from behind her.

  Alicorn gnces back to see Clevend, New Jersey, Stanly and Dace. The escort team.

  "Dace is ready to unch any torpedoes at any Siren that dares to come close!" Dace shouts.

  Across from them is Texas, Minnesota, Northampton, Langley. The Quick Response Force, which included Alicorn.

  "Dace, don't go torpedo crazy again." Langley taps Dace's head with her riding crop.

  "Ugh, yes ma'am." Dace deftes.

  Northampton pokes Texas in the side. "You sure you're up for this mission, Old Lady?"

  Alicorn looks way as she covers her mouth, trying not to ugh. A rge tick mark grows on Texas' head as she gres at Hampton.

  "Old dy?! Who are you calling Old Lady?!" Texas sms the stock of her double barrel shotgun on the ground, before pounding her chest. "I can kick your butt any day. I have more Siren kills then everyone here combined!"

  Minnesota pops up behind the old Battleship. "Careful, you might hurt your hip!"

  "HUAH?!" Texas yells in anger.

  New Jersey lets out a light chuckle. "Let's not rile each other up before we head out."

  "Yes, please." Stanly speaks up in a calm manner.

  Everyone goes quiet as the a Yorktown, in her wheel chair, rolls up to them. Enterprise and Hornet walk a few steps behind her.

  "Now girls-" Yorktown starts to stand up, with Hornet and Enterprise helping her, she then turns to the Escort team. "Your mission is to escort those ships to Vdivostock, and meet up with Commander Kamad and Light Cruiser Chapayev. Understood!"

  "Yes ma'am!" The Escort team salutes.

  Yorktown turns to the QRF team as Alicorn joins them.

  "You five will be following a bit behind them, inside Alicorn's sub under the water. You will keep radio contact with them at all times. And if anything happens, those cargo ships are your bigger priority. Understood!"

  The QRF team salutes. "Yes ma'am!"

  "You all must understand, you will receive no reinforcement if something goes wrong, so do not get spotted." Yorktown then throws her hand out towards the sea. "Now Sail My Sisters!"

  The Escort team summon their ships and sail out towards the cargo ships. They begin to sail off into the distance as Alicorn summons her sub.

  As everyone gets onto the massive bck submarine, Alicorn looks back to her mother. Yorktown sits back down in her electric wheelchair and smiles at her, Alicorn smiles back. She then jumps up onto her sub and starts to sail off before submerging under the water.

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  Baxterbro

  Hours pass by as Alicorn and her crew are gathered in the Command center of her ship. They said miles behind the escorts.

  Langley is on the radio while Minnesota monitors their sonar. Texas is chilling out in a chair, reading a book. Hampton is looking around at all the high tech in the sub, while Alicorn just looks over some files as she walks around.

  "Alicorn." Langley calls out, making the sub stop and turn to her. "The team stopped, they've come across a rge old minefield, Dace is gonna look around for a way around."

  Alicorn's sub comes to a stop as the girl nods. "Keep me updated."

  Langley nods and goes back to talking on the radio. Alicorn goes to a desk and sets the folder down, before sighing and rubbing her head.

  'I wish Avis was here.' Alicorn says in thought as she mindlessly looks to the side.

  "Hello? Clevend?" Langley calls out in confusion. "Clevend can you here me?"

  Alicorn snaps out of her day dream and walks over to the light aircraft carrier. "What's wrong?"

  "I-I was just talking to Clevend, then comes suddenly went all static."

  "Maybe just some interference." Alicorn mutters. "But this is too convenient..."

  Minnesota sms her hands on her desk and stands up. "Something's rapidly approaching!"

  Alicorn runs over and sees a blip rapidly approaching towards her sub. Her eyes widen as she turns around and shouts.

  "BRACE FOR IMPACT!"

  Everyone takes cover as a second ter Alicorn's lurches to the left as rge explosion goes off. The sub nearly rolls over as everyone gets thrown about; arms start ringing out. Alicorn lets out a pained cry.

  "Warning, Warning." An Female Automated voice calls out over the radio as the sub groans and shakes. "Major Hole detected in left balst tank. Emergency surfacing engaged."

  Baxterbro

  On the surface, Alicorn's sub shoots out of the water and sms on top of it. There's a rge hole on the left side of her sub, as fires start and smoke pours into the sky. The sun, high in the sky, shines down onto them.

  Everyone runs onto the flight desk as Alicorn lets out a few pained coughs.

  "What the hell was that?!" Texas shouts as she aims her shotgun around.

  Hampton's eyes widen in fear and shock as she points to their left. "...That."

  Everyone gnces over to see a massive yellow portal a good distance away. Dozens of siren ships pour out as everyone gets their rigging ready, Alicorn holds onto her left side as she turns her sub towards the portal, her rail guns and main battery appears.

  But then all five girl's eyes widen as a massive ships comes out of the portal.

  A bck ship with red accents, a little bigger than Yamato comes out of the portal. Massive 18.5 inch guns, with molten metal pour out of them, points towards the group.

  But then Alicorn's heart drops as she sees a rge rail cannon behind the massive cannons, one like hers, only a bit smaller to fit the ship.

  The rest of the ship comes out of the portal, three 18.5 inch cannons, a rge rail cannon. Dozens of AA guns and secondary cannons litter the ship.

  A menacing ughter echoes as the massive ships stops as the other mass produced Sirens form in front of it.

  "The hell?" Hampton mutters.

  "What is that?" Langley shouts as she readies pnes on her riggings.

  "It's the size of Yamato!" Minnesota yells.

  "...No..." Alicorn mutters. "It's her."

  "Who?" Texas gnces at Alicorn.

  "She's the one controlling the sirens this time." Alicorn mutters, as everyone tenses up and starts to sweat.

  On the Bow of the massive ship Equus appears, with Purifier next to her. Purifier as a few small cuts on her arms and legs, which are bleeding slightly.

  "Dear sister!" Equus calls out. "I've come to have a little fun!"

  "What does she mean?" Texas asks, and Alicorn shakes her head.

  "I don't know, but we need to do something. If we end her today, the war will be over before we know it."

  Hampton smirks and stretches her arms. "Sounds like a piece of cake."

  "Alicorn, I want to see if you can stop me, before I destroy your little Escort mission." Equus calls out in a smug tone.

  "How can she?" Langley questions. "We're miles away, there's no way she can hit all them from here."

  "She's got a rail cannon, that's more then enough to hit her target." Alicorn points out. "But one shot won't do it, they're too far spread out, she would need..." Alicorn's eyes start to shake as she tenses up.

  "She would need what?"

  "A heavy explosive akin to a small nuclear bomb."

  "Shit!" Texas takes off towards the Siren fleet. "We need to stop her!"

  Alicorn can sees Equus' smug smile from here as everyone takes off towards the fleet. Alicorn summons her riggings and fires off several jets into the sky as she readies her cross bow.

  Langley unches several fighter pnes and a couple bombers. And they group with the jets, but fck from Equus' ship is making it hard for them to ever get close.

  Equus throws a hand to the side as several portal open up in front of her, summoning more mass produced Siren ships.

  Alicorn grits her teeth as her three shark heads roar in anger. They all fire their cannons and rail weapons towards Equus, but Siren ships get in the way and take the blow for her.

  Everyone starts firing their riggings, taking out Siren after Siren, they just immediately get repced by another. Alicorn shoots past everyone and changes her crossbow into a sword and starts cutting through the ships.

  Equus aims her massive cannons towards the small fleet and open fires. Everyone dives out of the way as the shells miss their mark, sending up massive amounts of water into the air.

  "You know Sister, my rail cannon is just like yours."

  Alicorn bops and weaves through Lazer fire, and slices through a massive shell heading towards her. The shell blows up as the halves fall apart, nearly throwing Alicorn onto the ocean surface.

  But the sub girl keeps moving, with minor burns.

  "It was made for long distance engagements, and precision shots"

  Alicorn jumps over a siren ship as her rigging fires down onto it, blowing up the ship. She nds back on the water and skates her way towards Equus.

  "And it was also made for Nuclear armament. Just like you, I have a weapon humanity is too scared to use themselves. So I took it, cause I'm not scared."

  Alicorn grunts as a ser hits her in her damaged side, but doesn't deter her. 'I need to be faster!'

  Alicorn tries to go into her second mode, but.

  "Mode: Locked" A female automated voice echoes in her head.

  'What?!' Alicorn yells in her head.

  Alicorn grows worried and confused, until a familiar voice is heard within her head.

  "I'm sorry Alicorn, but I can't let you reveal that too early." Meta Alicorn's voice echoes.

  'META?! How are you even doing this?! Let me use it!'

  Alicorn cuts another ship in half as her sharks fire their cannons all around her.

  "What's wrong sister? You're fighting so hard just to stop the inevitable? Awww, how cute." Equus speaks in a baby tone with the st bit.

  Meta speaks again. "She's doing this to make you reveal anything that could potentially be a threat to her pns, she wants you to use the mode. It may not look like it, but she can easily stop you now, even with that mode."

  'I don't care, it could give me the edge to stop her from firing her Rail Cannon, I need it!' Alicorn is growing desperate as Equus' rail cannon starts to charge up.

  "No. I won't let you."

  'Why not?!'

  Meta sighs. "She did the exact same thing in my timeline, I revealed my cards too early... and paid a heavy price for it."

  'But-'

  "Listen Alicorn, your friends are gonna die either way! If you use that mode now, you waste any chance at stopping her ter!"

  Alicorn grits her teeth. 'FUCK!'

  Alicorn keeps fighting as hard as she can, but it feels like never ending Sirens, no matter how many she kills. And the closer she gets to Equus, the heavier the fire she receives.

  And as the minutes tick by, the more wounds she receives, but she finally gets close enough to make her attack.

  Alicorn jumps onto a sinking Siren ship and jumps into the air, readying her cross bow towards the base of Equus' rail cannon, which is just above the Siren girl's head.

  Equus' eyes widen in shock, seeing Alicorn making such a bold move against her. But in the end she does smirk.

  "Too te Alicorn!"

  Equus' shouts as she grabs Purifier by the back of the neck, and lifting her up. Purifier gasps for air as Equus squeezes her throat and puts her in the way of Alicorn's shot.

  Alicorn eyes widen as she gasps, her finger leaving the trigger. Fearing to hit her Onee-Chan. But this make Equus' eyes light up as she aims her massive cannon towards her.

  "jackpot."

  Massive boom rings out as the Siren fires her cannons, Alicorn having no time to react, gets a shell directly to the stomach. The shell explodes throwing her down towards the ocean.

  Alicorn spits out rge amounts of yellow blood and sms against the ocean surface. Blood pours out of a rge wound on her stomach as she gasps for air as she floats on her back.

  "I-Imouto." purifier chokes out as tears steam down her face, before she gets thrown to the ground by Equus.

  Alicorn starts to stand up, as the battlefield grows quiet. A static hum fills the air.

  "You know, sister!" Equus' throws her arms out. "The harder you fight, the more I'll enjoy killing everyone you love! So let this be a lesson... just give up. This timeline is doomed, so just y down and die like the dog you are!"

  "NO!" Alicorn shouts as she spits up blood as she holds a hand out to Equus.

  Equus' rail cannon fires, pushing the ship back a little. But Alicorn watches in fear as the shell flies off into the distance. Then a second ter a blinding light fshes, making Alicorn cover her eyes for a few seconds, before lowering her arms.

  Alicorn starts to shake in panic as a mushroom cloud rises in the sky in the distance, before she gets thrown back and into the side of a sinking Siren ship from the shockwave.

  Equus' ughter echoes out as Alicorn falls to her feet.

  "NOOOO!" Alicorn screams her lungs out.

  Texas, Hampton, Minnesota and Langley all watch in shock and fear. They're covered in wounds, with Texas and Langley being the only one in decent condition.

  "...I'm sorry, Alicorn." Meta whispers.

  Alicorn falls to her knees as yellow blood spills into the ocean below her. Equus' ughs before shouting down at her sister.

  "I have timelines worth of experience against you, Sister!" Equus' grows a crazy look. "No matter how you fight, I know how to stop you." A massive portal opens up in front of her ship. "I'll be back, but just you know. The next time we meet... will be the st!"

  Equus and the other Sirens start to disappear in the portal. Purifier pushes her self up and sadly looks out to her Imouto, before clenching her sister and looking away.

  Alicorn, giving no reaction to them, stares out to the nuclear cloud in the distance. The sounds around her grow dull and quiet as eyes shaking eyes can only focus on the death in the distance.

  She can feel someone shaking and calling out to her, but she doesn't have the strength to answer. Everything around her becomes a blur as she feels someone picking her up and shouting.

  Alicon's world becomes nothing but dull colors and muffled sounds. She doesn't know how long she's out of it, but she comes back to whens someone shines a fshlight in her eyes.

  Alicorn blinks a few times as looks at the personal pointing a fshlight in her eyes.

  "...Vestal?" Alicorn questly calls out.

  Vestal sighs in relief. "Good, you're still with us." She gives a sad smile.

  Alicorn tiredly looks around in confusion, noticing she's back home in the infirmary.

  "What? How am I?"

  "Texas told me you've been unresponsive since the incident." Vestal bites her lip. "I've been trying to get your attention for the past hour... I uh... I'm sorry."

  Alicorn looks down at herself, noticing she's covered in bandages and wrapping. Mainly around her torso. She then looks down at her hands, red blood fshes onto them as they start to shake.

  "I... I..." Tears start to pour down Alicorn's eyes.

  Vestal brings Alicorn's head into her chest and hugs her. No words are said as Alicorn bawls her eyes out, Vestal shedding a few with her.

  Enterprise watches with a sad expression from the doorway.

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  11-28-2024

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