/Booting up...
/Downloading files...
(Complete)
/Setting Up Ship parameters...
(Parameters Complete)
/Building mental Model: Shadow Runner...
(Complete)
Finished Booting up/
'Ug! What happened?'I thought groggily as I slowly began to wake up, although it felt more like I was slowly drifting to the surface of a barrel of molasses.
"BEEP...BEEP..."
'Huh? What was that?'
"BEEP...BEEP...BEEP..."
'Am I in the Hospital or something?-Wait, Why would I be in the hospital? Where Am I?
"BEEP...BEEP...BEEP..."
"Huh? He's waking up? Yes! It worked! HA!" I heard a female voice say as the sound of a computer keyboard reached me.
'Did I have a close call with death or something? And Who is there?'I thought as I suddenly felt a warm hand touch mine.
/(Ship Recognized...
...Name: Takao
Class: Heavy Cruiser
Displacement:13,460 tons
Armaments: 16 Torpedo tubes; 15 Photon cannons; 30 Missile tubes; Depth charges; Super-Gravitation cannon
Wave Armor: Yes-Strong
Ability to Dock with: Fully-Locked)/
'WTF was that?' I thought as my senses came around.
"BEEEEP...BEEP..."
"Yes! He's waking up! Ha!" I heard the girl say again as the clack of a keyboard reached my ears, springing my eyes open.
"Where am I?" I asked as I sat up from a bed that was clearly in some sort of Med-bay.
"First tell me if you remember your name." A girl in her late teens, with blue hair and eyes said, as she shut down a computer and monitor that were beeping.
"Yeah, I'm ..." -Blank -I can't remember it. Then my mind brings up SS-228, But not for this me... 'What the h*ll?'"I'm at a loss.."
"You're sitting in the med-bay on a abandoned Blue Steel base in the Philippines, I'm Takao by the way." She said as I turned and sat on the edge of the bed, "But first, tell me what you remember."
Suddenly it hit me, "I... died, didn't I?"
She shifted in her seat uncomfortably, and confirmed my nightmare, "Yes, you did... About three days ago I was cruising in the southern pacific when three Fog destroyers opened fire on me. As I defeated two of them, the third broke my Klein field. Then you came out of no-where and blocked the thainium torpedo that was meant to sink me, but by doing so, your ship became adrift and the Fog destroyer shot you one last time as I sunk her."
"Then What happened? I must have suffered serious wounds." I said as I listened grimly.
"You did." she continued, "Seeing as you saved me, I rescued you and steamed straight here to try to save you. But your wounds were worse than I thought and I had just enough time to copy your mind before you passed. Intent on saving you, as soon as I got here, I plugged your mind into a spare Fog Core after I deleted all of the original personality and logs from it. So there is only your mind and the old data in it."
"So...I'm Fog?" I asked, changing the subject.
"Not exactly. First, your a male and all Fogs are female. Second, you were not made by whatever The Fog were, you were made here, free of the admiral code." Takao explained, "You're somewhere in between."
I nodded as she stood up.
"Now, pull up your ship specs. for me."
"What do you mean, I don't even know what I look like?" I asked as I stood up off the bed.
"Dummy," Takao said with a giggle before putting her finger to her temple, "quit focusing so hard, it's all in here."
Relaxing, I closed my eyes and summoned 'my' specifications.
/[Specifications:
Class: Exile Island-Breaker Class Submarine
displacement: 12,560 tons surfaced; 14,000 tons submerged
Arment: 8 torpedo tubes in bow; 8 torpedo tubes in stern; 1 gravitation cannon; 12 Photon cannons on turrets on sides; 12 Photon cannons on turrets on belly; 12 Photon cannons on top deck; 128 missile tubes mounted on stern
Wave Armor: Yes
Max depth: 1,500 m- Safe; 300,000m- Emergency: 400,000m- Crushing Depth
Top speed: 60 knots submerged, 80 knots surfaced, 105 knots in flight;
Propulsion: 6 steam powered jet pods mounted on sides; 3 raisable, squarrigged/ adjustable sailing masts; 1 steamball boiler for emergency only; 1 water cooled Thainium reactor steam plant; 1 Exile steam engine: with 2 starter engines
Torpedo magazine: Empty
Rocket magazine: Empty
Weapons: locked]/
Along with a picture of the ship on a holographic display that was summoned up with light blue rings floating around me.
"Wow... Is, this... Me? Or Is this more... My ship body?" I asked, amazed at the screen.
"Both are correct, your torpedo tubes are the only thing you need to resupply for. But your cann-... Wow... Talk about fire power, this amount is way more than any normal submarine," Takao replied as she looked at the display.
"I look weird-, I mean, I don't look like any regular ship." I muttered as I continued to stare at the Holo-display.
"Yeah... Come to think of it, I don't know of any Fog that have sails, gravitation engines, and are submergible. Plus, have this much fire power." Takao thought as I shut down the display and she led me out of the med-bay.
"Oh!" she suddenly exclaimed, turning around, and tapping me on the shoulder.
/{Takao} Command: {SS-228} Join Fleet [Blue Steel]/
Pausing, I realized that this meant leaving whoever I was before and starting over with a clean slate. This also meant that I would have at least have some people who would be like me. My choice was already made.
/{SS-228}Accept Command/
/{Takao} Command:Grant root access to {Takao} for Unlock. Connect to [Concept Com System]/
/{SS-228} Root access granted. Connecting to Concept Com System...
Suddenly the world blackened around me as I blinked and I found myself sitting in a Chair, in a pavilion, with Takao across from me.
"Good to see your connection to the Com is good." She said as she slowly sipped some tea.
"Why, may I ask, did you need Root access?" I asked as I stared at her.
"To unlock your system functions, weapons, and do a final systems check." She replied casually as she put her leg over her knee and relaxed.
"So... Now what are we going to do?"
"Well, after we close the com," Takao said as we closed out and we continued to walk along to the dry-docks, "we're going to steam north and meet up with the rest of the group."
"Ok, I'll... Wow, So that's me." I said as I walked into the dry-dock area and saw next to the lone cruiser a large sub about the same length as it, with a three story sloped conning tower in front of a long flat deck, with a second two story superstructure tower with twin stacks in line on top, giving it the look of an old bulk freighter.
"Yep, Let's go meet the others."
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