shipgirl

Have you ever been so tired and sleep-deprived that your brain simply checked out? You clocked out of your grueling nine-to-five job, got on an imported second-hand Honda SuperCub that was at least a decade older than you were, and there was nothing in your exhausted mind but the singular...

12/6/2178 CE "Move it marines! Double-time and check your corners!" Lieutenant Harriet Shepard shouted to the marines running ahead of her in the cave. A purely performative shout to assure the frightened jarheads that she was still there while acting as rearguard. Shepard took her own advice...

This was written for a different story that someone posted as a series. I never got around to getting it finished to have them read or tag it for the list of things on FF.net that "Things Shipgirls can not do. " and the list of screw-ups that came about for the rules on the list. Things that...

"The tempest has receded, leaving us sheltered. Yet, let us not forget the valiant souls who braved its fury, those who ventured into the abyss, never to return. Nor those who fell on the crimson fields of war, their remains swallowed by chaos, nor those who perished in the cosmic void, lost...

Darkness. Cold yet comforting, and a gentle rocking are the first thing upon her senses. Eyes blinking upon and staring up into a deep blue sky, the owner of such eyes blinks more and looks around, finding oneself floating atop the waves, though without wettening her clothing. Placing a hand...

Hello, and thanks for checking this out. This is an alternate-history story using elements from Azur Lane. It follows the career of Anderson L. Stevens, an American who is thrust into the second World War with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The questers will be in control of his actions, and his...

Author Note: This is going to be my first story in awhile. Updates won't be regular and will happen when I have free time to do so. A gentle pressure washed over me as I awoke. My eyes opened slowly, weighted with the remnants of deep slumber. Yawning, I expelled the water sitting in my...

We thirst for the seven wailings. We bear the koan of Jericho. My eyes opened to the gentle rocking of the train, the low rumbling of the wheels gliding over steel, and the fading light of the sunset filtered by the blue ocean water outside the windows. I blinked as I took in my surroundings...

When you woke up from a deep, pleasant sleep (or maybe it was a horrible nightmare, the details were blurry in your mind) you were confused and disoriented. At the moment you had opened your eyes, an annoying and intense light had completely blinded you, forcing you to cover yourself with one of...

"The Abyss can only corrupt, never add. It cannot create, it cannot invent, it can barely adapt. Even its dedicated builders, the 'installations', merely toil away, creating iteration after iteration. A thousand times, they can recreate One, Two, and Three, but never once reaching Four... But...

The Report MOEF B-3 ACTION REPORT NORTH ATLANTIC COMMAND File No. Ax Serial 0X 24 September 2018 From: Commander MOEF B-3 To: North Atlantic Command Enclosure (A) HMS Keppel (B) HMS Escapade (C) ORP Burza (D) ORP Garland...

Day 1 Captain's log, don't know which year. And this is how far I can take the Star Trek reference because I only watched like three movies. I am not boldly going anywhere either, at least not anytime soon. How to start? This is my personal log, so I kind of doubt anyone else will ever read...

A dark fog swirled and thunder rumbled in the distance. Waves broke around her shins and the spray whipped about her as if she were moving through the sea instead of being rooted in place. We are coming… The girl flinched as the words echoed around her, chilling her like her surroundings...

Prologue A War in the Stars It has been three centuries since the final spaceship left humanity's first cradle. As the stars were slowly mapped and conquered piece by piece by the fledgling space civilization, in the deep waters below the sea a new threat stirred. In the Pacific and the...

January 1st, 2011 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time The sun was low in the sky, the seas were rough, and the bows of black ships that oozed evil and hatred dipped and rose through the heavy surf as they approached their launching points. Already, Battle Squadrons and Divisions, along with their...

Foreword: Hey Sufficient Velocity! It's been a while since I've posted a Story Thread here, hasn't it been? Especially one involving the thing that got me into Fanfic in the first place, Kantai Collection. So, this idea's been rattling around in my head for a while; ever since the writing of...

The Imperium is a vast place covering a whole galaxy with an enormous array of planets and settlements under the control of its many feudal factions. Each with thier own cultures, Technology levels, and wildlife. Many would argue it is in the Imperial guard that this imperial trait of diversity...

“Akagi…?” The kitsune’s head turns towards her young charge, swaddled in a thick blanket, covered in Martian snow and rust so thick it makes her head of white hair vanish completely. “Yes, Kawakaze?” Her own voice creaks from the cold, her steel hull twisting and boiling within its mortal...

====================================================================== Chapter 1: "Can't wake up" There are few things I regret in life more than getting less than fresh sushi on christmas eve. I barely managed to get home and I was laying in bed as the sensation started to slowly ramp up...

A Crown of Biosteel Chapter 1 - Vestibule to the Next Life Thursday, 12 October 2028 PO3 Marcus Bradley took a swig of coffee, then swung himself out of his car. He shut the door and locked the old sedan before turning to the office and walking across the parking lot,to a half-abandoned strip...

USS Just Kentucky. LOG-001. BB-66. Cold. So, so very cold. And dark, too. Yes. Very dark. Hell. She was in hell, maybe. Although somehow, something deep, deep inside told her it couldn't be. She'd escaped hell, after all. Her makers had finally given up on her, after so many starts and...

Das Schicksal hat seine Hand auf dich gelegt. Es ist nun Ihre Pflicht, es zu bewahren. Unser Schicksal liegt in deinen Händen, Leerenwanderer. Theta Lyrae system, September 17th 2257 0400HRS Coordinated Universal Time Tōkyō-class heavy cruiser SSV Countdown to Heaven A slight shudder went...

Title more or less says all, this is a mecha discussion thread for the Mass Effect/KanColle crossover story I made a while back titled Fall of the Citadel. Feel free to ask me any mecha and technical questions here, but please to limit the topics to the ones already covered in the chapters...

Prologue 24 Thousand kilometers above Solar plane Oort Cloud, Epsilon Eridani System UNSC Eye of Aegis August 30th, 2552 -- The day began quietly on the bridge. The crew spoke in hushed whispers, and the air permeated with the stench of burnt black Navy coffee. Dark circles and lines of...

Self insert of an abyssal princess in Azur Lane. My the chaos be merry