This iteration of the TF2 guys is based on my multi-dimensional crossover series about the Team Fortress 2 guys meeting the world of RWBY in "Mercs In Remnant." Now in this little short here, the gang will run into a whole new dimension with an emphasis on naval combat.

A calm plain of blue water stretched as far as the eye can see in every direction. No sight of land anywhere, only the blazing Sun and a few cloud formations scattered about in what is an otherwise clear sky. Every now and then, a flock of sea birds will be spotted flying around while dolphins and whales would just as rarely peek out of the water. All was calm out in the open sea.

That was until a huge mass of fog randomly appeared out of fog was very thick, but a large shadow of something became visible within, and then the fog disappeared. What did not disappear though was the something it left behind.

That something, was a large cargo ship. The ship was very clearly a civilian vessel in design as there were no obvious gun emplacements or anything to defend it from attack. There were several cargo containers colored in either red or blue stacked on top of each other in rows as expected for a cargo ship of its type, and two cargo cranes were on each end of the deck. The bridge was at the very back of the ship as usual for a cargo ship, and the only thing on the exterior of the ship that can identify who it belonged to was a large logo of a company called "Mann Co."

But there was one thing about this ship that set it apart from any other civilian ship that had been through these calm waters. There's only nine men on board, while the rest of the crew were robotic versions of said nine men with variations of each. Nine men charged with the fairly simple task of protecting the ship from any attack, and the not quite as simple task of keeping the ship afloat since their employer wanted to cut costs on crew while having the best men on the job. These nine men were the mercenary team known as Team Fortress, or RED Team as they go by these days because of them retaining their red clothing. The job was simple, take the ship to the Japanese division of Mann Co. (チーム フォートレス 2 地図, this is official Valve canon by the way) without it sinking and they'll be paid in hats, some money, and maybe some weapons.

The robots were there to function as the ship's proper crew and were commanded by the nine Human mercenaries on the ship. These machines were remnants of the robot army that the mercs had fought not very long ago, simply re-purposed to be allies and cheap workers for Mann Co. in the wake of Gray Mann's war with Saxton Hale, especially since they no longer run on money. However, these robots are still programmed for battle and are ready for a fight whenever the occasion calls for it. They ranged from anything to regular robotic versions of the mercs to the giant versions meant for tanking damage and high firepower.

"Man, what was up with that freakin' fog?" Scout said, looking out of the bridge to see that the fog had vanished as soon as it appeared. The open sea looked no different from when they entered the fog, but it was just so strange how the fog came out of nowhere and surrounded the ship only to disappear.

"Ain't got a clue, son." Engineer whistled. "Just be glad that it's gone. Dang fog was messing up all the systems on this thing."

The Texan was the default captain of the ship since he's the only one who knew how to work the ship's controls and he's in complete control of the robots. The only other merc up in the bridge with these two was Spy while the rest were scattered about the ship, just fooling and lounging around until they reached their destination. Heavy and Medic were down in the ship's lounge. Sniper was up on the mast of the ship above the bridge, scanning the surrounding seas for signs of pirates or anything like that. Soldier, Pyro, and Demoman were out on the bow of the ship gambling or something.

They began their voyage in San Francisco, and had been out at sea for about five days now without any incidents on a voyage that typically takes two weeks to get from San Francisco to Japan. It was all honestly quite boring. The mercenaries were used to more active jobs that required them to fight something instead of possibly fight something. If Saxton Hale's offer to take the job wasn't so enticing, then they wouldn't have bothered with even getting stuck on this ship. The boys wished something, just anything to happen to make this experience less boring. Like getting attacked by pirates or sea monsters. That sounded far better than smooth sailing, at least to them...

Going out to sea was a rare occasion for the members of Team Fortress. The vast majority of their battles took place on land with a few exceptions here and there. The only times they've fought out at sea was back when Ms. Pauling had them intercept a fleet of Gray Mann's robots heading to a Mann Co. oil rig by themselves, and the other time was when they were on a legally forced vacation on a cruise ship that got attacked by pirates. Solving the whole robot fleet was very difficult as the ships were literally waterborne robots that carried other robots on them, but the boys pulled through in the end. Let's just say it involved a lot of boarding actions. That other incident with the pirates was way easier to handle. All the boys did was kill all the pirates and sink then their shit.

Sniper definitely wished he could shoot at something right now. He was tempted to shoot at some seagulls flocking around him had his inner professionalism convinced him not to, and he was increasingly getting more and more bored up here. At least in the Outback there was always some wicked nasty creature trying to cause severe bodily harm to him. He sighed and looked out to the horizon again. The Australian didn't expect to see anything, but there was a single black dot flying high in the sky. It's shape was nothing like a bird, and a bird didn't make a low droning noise when it flew. Feeling the need to investigate further, Sniper raised his rifle up so that he could look at the object through the scope.

"What do we have here...?" He muttered to himself.

The object was roughly triangular in shape, had what appeared to be teeth lining the front, had a rough texture and black and white coloration, what sort of looked like blue glowing eye spots on top, and most importantly, visible weapons. At the very bottom of this aircraft was what appeared to be a single large caliber machine gun, and there was what appeared to be bombs flanking it under the 'wings' of it. Despite the very unusual design of this aircraft, Sniper can't help but feel like the fact that it carried weapons was a big red flag already. There was definitely no military aircraft that looked like that and there'd be no reason for a navy to go after them. He also really didn't like how it was flying straight towards them.

"Engineer, this is Sniper." He began talking through his earpiece. "We've got some kind of plane with weapons flying at us. If it comes any closer, I'm gonna- CRIKEY!" Out of nowhere, the unknown craft's machine gun opened up on the bridge. It flew right by the mast as it strafed, nearly knocking Sniper out just by the disturbance in the air caused from how fast it was going.

The guns did little damage other than shatter the windows as the ship was far more durable than it looked. The sudden unprovoked attack had certainly caught the mercenaries off guard, but this meant one thing.

THERE WAS FINALLY SOME ACTION GOING ON!

"Ugh, bloody bastard!" Sniper yelled at the aircraft as it was circling back for another run.

At once, he stood to his feet and aimed his Sniper Rifle at the hostile craft. There were no obvious places on it for where a pilot could be seated at, so he decided to do the next best thing. Lining up his shot, a round was fired directly at the aircraft right when it had finished circling around for another run with its weapons being visible again. Sniper's carefully placed round soared through the air until it landed a direct hit onto the bomb on the left side of the craft. The ensuing explosions instantly destroyed it in a fiery cloud of smoke and debris, ending the threat it posed to the ship.

"Humph, piker..." Sniper spat, getting a grin from how good his skill at marksmanship was.

His grin soon turned into a frown when he saw even more black dots over the horizon. Worse yet, he saw large shapes actually on the water travelling towards them. Zooming through his scope again, he was shocked to see what appeared to be large whale sized creatures with demonic appearances coming from over the horizon. The creatures did not look natural in anyway and had the same style of appearance to them as the aircraft he just shot down. Black carapaces with irregular textures, and glowing blue eyes. What was even more astonishing though was what some of the other shapes in this fleet of creatures was. He actually had to blink his eyes and look through his scope twice because he couldn't believe it, but there appeared to be female humanoids literally sailing across the water alongside these creatures as if they were ice-skating on water. It was clear right away that they were not Human though, for they all had pale white skin and had the same material that made up the whale-looking creatures on parts of their bodies.

The mercenaries didn't know it, but they had the misfortune (or fortune if you're them) to encounter an Abyssal fleet. They had been on their way to make a major attack on the fleet girls when one of their scouts had detected the sudden presence of a civilian cargo ship in their way, until it was destroyed just now that is. The Abyssals are completely hostile to Humanity, so when this fleet saw a lone civilian ship daring to venture far out of the protected shipping lanes for whatever reason, they attacked with extreme prejudice.

The fleet was rather large with four Wo-Class Standard Carriers, four Ru-Class Battleships, two Ta-Class Battleships, two Nu-Class Light Carriers, five Chi-Class Torpedo Cruisers, and ten other destroyers and light cruisers acting as escort.

Waves of planes spawned from the carriers, all headed directly for the lone cargo ship while the main ships were closing in.

All of the mercenaries faced the starboard side of the ship as that was where the hostiles were coming from, and they couldn't quite believe what they were getting attacked by. They didn't know what Abyssals were. As far as they were concerned, they were getting attacked by supernatural sea monsters with guns and planes... and girls.

"All hands on deck, boys! We got a fight on our hands!" Engineer yelled through the ship's comm system, albeit sounding a little more excited than terrified that they were under attack.

"We're under attack!?" Soldier the ultimate American gasped. "YAY! TIME TO KILL SOME COMMUNIST GARBAGE, MEN!"

The mercenaries readied themselves for battle, but there was one issue. None of the main enemy combatants were close enough for them to engage yet, and now they were getting swarmed by multiple hostile aircraft. Engineer and Spy stayed up in the bridge while the others except for Sniper ran to the deck to ward off the aircraft alongside the robots. Sniper remained up at the mast of the ship, taking out the aircraft one at a time as fast as he could with his rifle even as he was getting strafed left and right. The situation wasn't much better on deck as the other six mercenaries there found it difficult to fight off the airborne attackers due to their sheer numbers and how fast they were moving. Luckily, the aircraft were rather fragile due to apparently being alive and were weak to just about anything the mercs and robots had provided that they could hit them.

The aircraft weren't able to do serious damage to the ship with their guns, but that's exactly why they started using their bombs. Dive bombers flew high in the sky and then swooped down in steep angles to drop their payload onto the ship. Heavy worked furiously to knock all the incoming bombs out using the rapid fire of his Minigun while simultaneously shooting down planes left and right. Each bomb and aircraft the mercenaries shot down blew up into fiery blossoms of smoke and debris, but every now and then a bomb would get through and strike the ship. Again, the ship proved to be surprisingly resilient as whatever bombs that didn't hit the cargo containers and landed on the ship only did minor damage, even if some unfortunate robots were in the way.

Engineer and Spy monitored the ship's status and controlled the robots from the bridge. The bridge itself was the target of a lot of the plane's attacks, but thankfully there were Robo-Heavies up top alongside Robo-Snipers to ward off the bombs and planes. A stray plane managed to slip past the defenses and get a strafing run in on the bridge before being destroyed by minigun fire. The only effect its attack run had was send the two mercs within ducking for cover while a few unlucky robots were struck with bullets.

"Them planes are as pesky as goddamned mosquitoes!" Engie barked as he watched the battle unfold before him. He never would've expected an attack this big to happen on their lonely old cargo ship, yet it did. That only meant one thing though, and Engie was more than happy to exploit it. "Spy, I'm gonna have to teach these sons-of-bitches a thing or two about manners..."

"You read my mind..." The Frenchman grinned. "I'm sure our guests will appreciate our welcoming gifts." Spy chuckled softly at what was to come next.

Meanwhile, the Abyssal fleet had gotten significantly closer, well within range to fire their guns at the civilian ship. Only that it confused them to see that there was more to this ship than what meets the eye. The fleet had expected the ship to have already been easily sunken by air attack so that they can continue towards their destination without exerting too much energy and resources, but then the cargo ship suddenly proved that it was far from defenseless. To the shock of the more humanoid ships, the cargo ship's firepower had instantly quadrupled when several hidden turrets popped out and began utterly destroying their air forces.

"YEEEEEEEEHAAAAW! Now that there's some mighty fine work our guns are doin'!" Engie whooped in joy at the glorious sight in front of him.

It was a good thing all the work he put into installing hidden Level 3 Sentries across the ship paid off! He strategically placed these Sentries specifically in case they needed more firepower if they were attacked, and it proved to be a real good decision indeed. The automated turrets effortlessly tracked and shot down any plane that dared to fly close to the ship, and there was so much fire in the air that it reached a point where it was literally impossible for the dive bombers to hit the ship. When it was clear to the enemy that the attack was futile, they pulled all the surviving planes back.

"Yeah! That's right! You better fly away! Or else I'll come flyin' after ya!" Scout taunted the retreating planes. All hands, merc and robot alike began rejoicing as they successfully warded off an attack with only minor damage to the ship and several shipping containers destroyed! Despite the fires started on deck, they still celebrated on top of the cargo and taunted their attackers.

"Is that all you've got lassies!?" Demoman yelled at the approaching fleet, namely directing his attention at the humanoid ones no matter how unlikely it was that they could hear him. "Ha! You can't sink this wee boat even if you tried!"

"Better run while you still can, cowards!" Heavy joined in on the insults, and so did the others.

"Mphm hmphm!" Pyro muffled as it shook its fist at them.

"Humph, zat vasn't so bad." Medic shrugged.

He might have totally jinxed it though, as not even a second after several explosions were heard off to starboard, and then whistling noises before the deck of the ship suddenly erupted into fiery explosions. Robots, mercenaries, and pieces of cargo were thrown about as the enemy ships started bombarding the ship. The ship, despite its defenders, was not designed in any way for combat or battle. It was a large vessel that moved relatively slowly, an easy target for the Abyssals to aim for. It was so easy, that they practically did not miss at all.

Direct hit after direct hit was scored onto the mercenaries' ship, and the damage only racked up as the ship kept getting bombarded. The Sentries were the only thing the ship had at intercepting the quick shells of the attacking ships as their incredibly fast automated tracking programming makes them perfect for point-defense.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it!" Engie cursed as he viewed the damage reports coming in from robots across the ship. "We got fires on- EVERYWHERE! Put 'em out boys!" Engie screamed through the comms. "We ain't taking in any water yet, but goddamn are we getting bombed to Hell and back..." The Texan looked out towards where the fleet of hostile creatures was with a pair of binoculars, and he gritted his teeth at how a couple of the girls were launching more of these planes out of the weird jellyfish-looking thing on their heads. It sort of confused him out the planes start off as small as toys before turning into full sized monstrosities upon taking off from the girls like they were some kind of living aircraft carrier.

"Dell, stay here and defend this ship." He heard Spy say behind him. Looking back at the Frenchman, he was surprised to see him putting on a suit of diving gear on top of his normal suit. "Whatever you do, just make sure that this ship doesn't sink. I'd hate to have to swim home and not get paid..." The Frenchman said before exiting out the bridge.

Engineer nodded in agreement and returned his attention to the deck of the ship where shell after shell was still landing. The Sentries did an excellent job stopping multiple shells from coming through, but there were too many and they were too fast moving to shoot all of them down. Robotic crew members worked fiercely to put out the even fiercer fires spreading across the ship, but the good news was that the other mercenaries were already beginning to counter-attack.

"HOW DARE YOU SHOOT AT THIS FINE AMERICAN MADE BOAT!?" Soldier screamed at the top of his lungs at the enemy fleet. "YOU CALL THIS A BATTLE!? I'VE CRAPPED BIGGER BATTLES THAN THIS!" His lust for battle building up, he got out the Direct Hit and took aim at one of the more monstrous looking ships and fired a single rocket at it. The rocket struck true for it landed itself directly into the mouth of the creature just as it was about to fire the cannon located inside the mouth. The creature blew up instantly from the hit and was turned into a burning wreck, smoke and fire coming out of its husk as it sank below the waves. "HA! Score one for America! Come on boys, give them Hell!" Soldier cheered as he fired rocket after rocket at the enemies.

All the mercenaries and any robots on the starboard side began firing directly at the enemy ships. The added firepower of the robots meant that thousands of bullets and rockets and whatever else they had were being thrown at the them in a massive hail of fire. Several of the lesser Abyssal ships were struck and sunk in moments after the counter-attack, the firepower being too damn much for them. The fleet hadn't expected the cargo ship to be packing so much firepower behind it, and now they were scrambling for a looser formation as bullets and rockets kept flying their way. The five aircraft carriers they had stayed back and away from the focus of the cargo ship's fire. A lot of fighters and dive bombers had been lost in the earlier attack wave, and the Abyssals did not want to send any more planes out since they needed them for the upcoming battle against the fleet girls.

They began circling the ship now in an effort to surround it and spread the defenders' firepower out, and they continued to fire everything at it. There hasn't been a battle against an actual ship since the formation of the fleet girls by Humanity, and the Abyssals still couldn't believe how a single civilian ship was putting such a heavy resistance. There was no doubt in their minds though that they will win this battle, but the biggest concern they had was that they were using too damn many resources up against just one civilian ship. They needed to end this soon or else they might not have enough forces and material to fight in their upcoming raid.

Which is precisely why they began firing torpedoes at the mercs' ship.

"Ah Hell..." Engie gasped when the ship detected multiple torpedoes coming right at them from all sides. "We got torpedoes incoming, boys!" He yelled through the comms before giving orders to the Sentries to intercept the torpedoes.

The Sentries were able to stop several of the torpedoes with the insane fire rate of their dual miniguns, though a couple were able to get through. In quick succession, four separate explosions rocked the ship. The explosions were powerful enough to throw the defenders on board off their feet, stunning them for a moment. The Texan screamed out as he rolled across the floor of the bridge. After he picked himself up, he was greeted by several robotic voices screaming to him about the damage done to the ship.

"HULL BREACH IN THE BOW."

"MINOR BREACH IN STARBOARD HOLD."

"DIRECT HIT ON PORT SIDE. MINOR DAMAGE."

"RUDDERS AND PROPELLERS DISABLED. FIRE IN ENGINE ROOM."

Engineer slammed his fist on the console once he heard the ship's propulsion system was out. They were now a sitting duck out here, even if they already kind of were since the ship was quite slow and large. They were just a BIGGER sitting duck now. The robotic crew down in the lower decks worked hard to repair the breaches to the ship if there constant chatter was anything to go by, and all the other defenders were still working hard on trading blows with the enemy. Engie still couldn't quite believed that they were getting attacked by supernatural monstergirls who can skate on water while controlling fleets of monstrous ships, but than again, he's seen some pretty strange things in his time. They all did.

Sniper felt very much the same as he remained on top of the mast of the ship. He observed two who looked like they were well dressed women with arms ending in two shield like gunports that fired relentlessly at the ship. One of them was ragged and damaged while the other looked fine. The grin on their faces through his scope made him chuckle.

"Feelin' lucky, sheila?" He said to himself as he aimed for the head of the damaged one with the Machina. Sniper waited for the weapon to be on full charge before shooting forth a bright lance of red laser-fire straight at her. She already took quite a bit of damage from rockets earlier, so the fully charged shot from the Machina was able to pierce straight through her head with a neat button-sized molten hole indicating where it had hit her. "I certainly do..." He chuckled as he watched her fall into the water before promptly exploding.

The other Ru-Class Battleship was caught totally off guard when a red laser suddenly took out her fellow ship in one hit, and her angry eyes followed the source of the laser to see it had come from the mast of the cargo ship.

"Humph, bring it on!" Sniper yelled as a challenge, seeing her face all her guns at his position.

The Australian marksman wasn't about to give her any time to fire a damn shot at him though, for he immediately let out another lance of laser fire. It wasn't a charged shot, but that hardly mattered for the laser struck the inside of one of the guns on her right arm, causing a chain explosion that resulted in her losing that arm and all the weapons with it. Even from here he could hear her scream in agony, but he intended on doing the nice thing and putting her out of her misery with a charged shot to the head like he did to her friend earlier. Only that he didn't get the chance, for she suddenly stopped screaming and fell forward.

"What the...?" Sniper blinked. At first he thought she had passed out from the severe damage done to her, but another look through his scope revealed another humanoid in the water behind her. "Well I'll be damned... Spy, you bloody bastard..." He chuckled at seeing that even at sea his sneaky French teammate couldn't resist backstabbing opponents.

Spy had jumped out into the water equipped with diving gear and an underwater personal propulsion unit so that he used to quickly travel under the waves undetected. And undetected he truly was as none of the Abbysals were aware of his presence. The Frenchman silently sailed under to one of the girls, specifically a torpedo cruiser since this particular one was keen on using her torpedoes very aggressively, even more so than the other ships. She never knew he was there, even after she felt something pierce her back and the world faded to black for her. A backstab was a ridiculously powerful while also instant and efficient method of attack, and Spy was happy to see that these hostiles were not immune either.

Deciding to try his luck, he aimed The Ambassador at a nearby light cruiser that hand't seen him yet and fired at what he assumed was a head with a strange maw helmet or shot hit true and it blew a hole right into the side of the helmet, exposing a feminine face bleeding purple ooze. He dipped beneath the waves before she was able to turn around and see him. A confident grin was had as he was intending to cause some serious chaos amongst them. He was like a living submarine who kind of used himself as a torpedo, only he doesn't explode.

Back on the deck of the ship, the mercs and allied robot crew continued to fight fiercely against the hostiles. The immense power of Heavy's Minigun was enough to shred any Abyssal that dared to venture too close to the ship, and Demoman discovered that sticky bombs can float. With that in mind, he made full use of the Scottish Resistance to lay down difficult to see traps in the water as the stickies were kind of hard to notice among the chaos of battle. The only mercenaries, and by extension the robotic versions of themselves crewing the ship, who were capable of effectively trading blow to the attackers were Heavy, Sniper, Soldier, Engineer, and Demoman. Pyro and Scout were not ideal for this kind of combat and were better up close, which was understandably impossible since that meant they had to jump into the water and swim after them. Though Pyro did serve a defensive role in deflecting enemy shots from hitting the ship wherever he was. Medic served his usual purpose and kept everyone in fighting shape, especially with the hellstorm being released on the ship.

The cargo ship had definitely seen better days. Holes of sizes ranging from basketballs to cars were all over the ship with several bends and dents on the hull from shots that deflected off. Fires still burned everywhere on the ship, but the robotic crew managed to contain enough of them before they became a major issue. The biggest concern though was how the ship was beginning to lean a little on its bow from the breach the torpedo strike there earlier had caused, and the crew focused on trying to seal the hole and pump the water out. This was an issue since the majority of the robots were NOT waterproof. If enough water came into contact with them then they will short out and be destroyed.

The losses to the robot crew were negligible since there was still massive reserves of them in the lower decks awaiting activation, but it was still mildly unnerving with the loss rate on the robots from the Abyssal attack.

However, the mercenaries made sure the enemy did not get away with this without taking damage themselves. So far the Abyssals had lost five destroyers, two light cruisers, two torpedo cruisers, two Ru-Class Battleships, and several planes to the deceivingly harmless civilian ship. These losses were unacceptable for an Abyssal fleet to take, especially against a cargo ship with nothing but men and robots shooting at them with bullets and rockets! The very idea of just a civilian ship being able to cause so much damage and still be standing was infuriating to them. The odds were that the Abyssals were still going to win, but it was just that it would matter little since there wasn't going to be enough of their forces left to make the attack on the enemy base. They had been preparing for this major offensive for months, and they'll be damned if a single civilian ship disrupted their plans. This ship was not going to get away with this, it was was going to sink below the waves like all who face the Abyssals do.

With this in mind, the Abyssals called for reinforcements from a battle group that was intended to form the other prong of their attack on the enemy base, but now they were going to come together to sink this ship once and for all. Once they made sure the ship was sunk, they'll just have to adjust for losses when they make their attack. For now the Abyssals decided to pull back and wait for reinforcements, leaving some of the lesser destroyers and cruisers behind as cannon fodder to draw the fire of the civilian vessel while the more valuable ships escaped. These lesser vessel were quickly and easily dealt with.

"They're pulling back, fellas!" The excited voice of Engineer rang from speakers all over the ship. At once the crew and mercenaries cheered in victory at seeing the enemy actually retreat this time.

"Ha! Little baby girls are running!" Heavy yelled over the noise of cheering robots and his own mercenary teammates.

"Zat vas fun!" Medic chimed in. Despite how intense that battle got, the mercs indeed had fun with it. Their only regret was that this wasn't on land, because if it was they would be gleefully fighting these demonic ladies on their own terms.

"Bunch of weak wee posies ye all are!" Demo yelled. Jumping on top of an intact cargo container, he lifted up the lower piece of his flak suit to reveal the smiley face taped to his crotch. "KA-BOOM!" He taunted, gaining laughs from his friends.

All laughter ceased though as the mercs were soon aware that something was not right. The enemy fleet had regrouped far out of range of most of the mercenaries' weapons and were now waiting. Sniper and the Robo-Snipers were capable of taking them out from this far, but they stood down and decided to rest up. No doubt that those girls will be back, so the crew immediately set to work repairing what they could on the ship and restocking on ammo.

The breaches in the hull were able to be sealed, and they managed to pump the water out from the bottom decks. Several cargo containers were destroyed in the battle, though the majority of them managed to make it through with minor damage. If anything, the containers actually served as rudimentary armor for the deck. The fires had been put out through the efforts of the robotic crew with Robo-Engineers working to patch up the holes that they could, especially since Engineer had to activate a reserve of robotic crew to replace the lost ones. Most importantly though, the fires in the engine room had been put out and repairs were currently under way. Once they can get the ship's propulsion system up and running, then they can continue on their merry way to port.

"Heh, damn bunch of sissies are lucky that we can't chase after them..." Engie grinned.

Though he was pleased that the battle ended with them winning, he knew it wasn't over yet. He had no problem with that since he was actually happy that something exciting happened, even if the ship got rather close to sinking there. Now the only actual problem now was could the ship take another attack like that? Their biggest advantage in this battle was the element of surprise as the Abyssals did not expect this seemingly harmless ship to be packing so many guns and rockets behind it, but next time they'll be more cautious and aggressive. The only real advantages the mercs had against them was the insane firepower of their crew and their ability to intercept a lot of their attacks, but not much else. With that in mind, the mercs decided that it'll be a good idea to check the ship's manifesto to see if there's anything useful they can get from inside the many cargo containers on the ship.

And they were not disappointed.

The cranes, which managed to survive the attack, got to work on helping the crew throw the dead weight of robot corpses and destroyed cargo overboard. While they were at it, they pulled up containers to the deck for the boys to use whatever goodies are contained inside.

Just in the nick of time too, for it seemed like their friends were coming back. Good, since the guys weren't finished with them yet either.

Off in the far distance flying at cloud level, a single plane flew alone. The plane was a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and it was scouting the seas for any signs of an Abyssal presence in this region. It's chibi pilot had been flying around for around forty-five minutes after taking off from a carrier, and she was shocked to see pillars of dark smoke rising up into the skies. Immediately, she reported back to her home carrier.

"Huh?" A girl went as she received a radio transmission from the pilot.

"What is it, Akagi?" Another, more younger, girl asked.

"My scout has spotted suspicious activity..." She paused as she listened to what else was being reported, and her eyes widened in shock from what the scout was telling her. "A large concentration of Abyssal ships, a whole fleet. And... and they're engaging a civilian vessel!" She yelled, her eyes narrowing at the image of a cargo ship getting relentlessly attacked by Abyssal forces of all kinds. Curiously though, the civilian ship appeared to be fighting back against the Abyssal onslaught.

The announcement of a civilian ship out here in contested waters shocked all the other fleet girls in the carrier group.

"W-what!? B-but what is it doing so far away from the safe shipping lanes!?" The same younger girl asked. "H-how did it get deep into enemy territory like that?"

"I don't know, Fubuki, but we must help them." Akagi, lead carrier of the group, declared with seriousness and determination in her tone.

Here's a Team Fortress 2 X KanColle crossover my guys. I was just watching KanColle one day and I thought "what if the Team Fortress guys fought Abyssals?" and here's the idea here. It was a little difficult deciding how the guys were exactly going to even meet the Abyssals head to head, but I settled on having them be out on a mission for Mann Co. with Saxton Hale cutting costs on labor by forcing them to be the main crew of this cargo ship headed for the Japanese division of Mann Co. Then a freak haze of fog appeared, and now they're here.

For those of you familiar of the other things I've done and are wondering where this fits in the expanded MiR multiverse, this is just the guys being asked by Mann Co. to perform a job since they still work for that company too alongside being professors at Beacon. So they took time out of work to protect a ship. I'm not completely sure if this will become canon to that series as I'm currently in the process of rewriting it, but we'll just have to see if it does.

This story itself will not be a full on series. Just a short adventure of the mercenaries encountering a hostile fleet of demonic ships before returning back home. Likely the next chapter will be the end.