[jingo] Honors of War
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Before going back to Nagato chan and her friends (Who should beware the BoBs), one more update on Lady Jingo...
Honors of War
It was a rather impressive force that showed up to escort the passengers and crew of the ferry Belano Five, Jingo thought. First to arrive were undoubtedly a number of submarine shipgirls, soon joined by flights of faery piloted A6Ms and Hellcats and even some Corsairs and Reppus. Following them were TBFs, B5Ns, TBUs, B6Ns, D3As, D4Ys, SBDs, and SB2Cs. A virtual carpet of airpower ready to descend on anyone stupid enough to tempt them. Then the cruisers: Minneapolis, Northampton, Atlanta, Juneau, Chicago, and Houston, among others. Joined by Atago and Takao, Mogami and Mikuma, and Nagara and possibly a score of Destroyers. Then came the Battlewagons: Nagato personally leading Yamato and Musashi and Kongo and Haruna, joining New Jersey and Iowa and West Virginia and California. Enterprise and Hornet and Akagi and Kaga were soon joined by Unryu and Katsuragi, Saratoga and Shinano, Princeton and Shoho. And the USS Bon Homme Richard finally arriving, only once the area had been thoroughly scoured and secured.
It was an impressive force and the message was clear to Jingo: If she or Ruiner or now their own 'captives' Somber or Diabolic so much as twitched in a way the shipgirls deemed hostile, There was more than enough firepower to end them all.
Hopefully, there was enough firepower to protect them if the insane monster who bore her came looking this way. Jingo stood calmly waiting as Nagato, California, and West Virginia closed. West Virginia eyed Ruiner with a cold smile, her guns radar locked.
"I assume I address Nagato, of the Big Seven?" Jingo inquired politely.
"You do indeed. You are Jingo?"
Jingo nodded. She was no longer Empress Jingo or Princess Jingo but merely Jingo, soon to be Prisoner Jingo. "I am. With me are Ruiner, Diabolic, and Somber. Do you accept our surrender?"
"Do you understand that your surrender will be unconditional?"
"I do." Jingo knew it could be no other way.
"Then we accept your surrender," Nagato replied calmly.
Jingo nodded, now just a little scared of the future. "Please? Can you tell me? My people... My Fleet... Did they all get out? Did they reach Australia?"
"Yes," Nagato confirmed. "Yes, they did."
"Then, perhaps it wasn't all for nothing after all. "
Nagato glanced at the people lining up on the ferry, waiting to be taken aboard the Bon Homme Richard. "No, not for nothing. Not at all."
She looked at Jingo with an appraising eye. Naval Intelligence had never really decided what to make of the East Indian War Princess. Perhaps Jingo, herself, had no answer to exactly who she was. But whatever she was, she had proven the metal of her character.
"The Honors of War Apply, Lady Jingo."
"Thank you, Lady Nagato." She looked at Nagato quizzically. "Tell me, please? It is said that you adopted THE Northern Princess?" Jingo remembered reading magazine articles brought in by some of the smuggler contacts she had used.
"Yes. We call her Hoppou-chan."
"I admit to being envious of you both. She has in her humility what I failed to achieve in my pride."
"And what was that?" Nagato asked.
"To be loved and admired!" Jingo mocked herself. "The myth of the enlightened despot! In my mother, I witnessed the cruelest, most depraved monster in history. She murdered at least three of her daughters. For what? When we thought she was dead, I thought I could be something different. But the greatest structure will collapse if built on a flawed foundation. Joke of the universe! She who would be Queen!"
"But you saved your people and your fleet... And you saved these people today." Nagato reminded her.
"How could I do otherwise? I watched mother take life as if it were nothing to her. It made me sick. When we found the body of Nemesis and I knew mother was still alive, all I could think of was mother laughing and killing all of them, humans and abyssals alike. But if one would wear a crown then one is responsible for every choice And to do nothing is a choice that we can make but to do nothing when one has the power to act... To allow evil free pass is to support evil. I can't live like that." She looked at Nagato and sighed. "I'll admit the future frightens me. I assume there will be a trial."
"Undoubtedly. Though I think any court might be inclined to leniency." Nagato left it unsaid that as the first Abyssal Princess to voluntarily surrender, there might be an inclination to show mercy to Jingo so as to convince other Abyssals to surrender as well. That was a political consideration and for others to discuss.
"Nagato-san.." Jingo said quietly. "We know the brightest angels born in Heaven can fall. Can a devil born in Hell ever rise above the Abyss?"
"If she chooses, I believe, yes," Nagato replied. "Now... I think it is time we got underway. The future will take care of itself but it won't wait for us while we sit out here."
In the meantime, just because she was an honorably surrendered prisoner of war, didn't mean Ruiner was going to change a whit! She looked at West Virginia with a smirk. "Easy there Dead-eye! I'm not gonna try anything. I'm nuts, not stupid!" She looked around at the fleet centering around Bon Homme Richard and on Jingo and herself. Ruiner grinned over at New Jersey and Musashi. She just had to say it as her boilers began to build up steam...
"Head 'em up and Move 'em out!"
Before going back to Nagato chan and her friends (Who should beware the BoBs), one more update on Lady Jingo...
Honors of War
It was a rather impressive force that showed up to escort the passengers and crew of the ferry Belano Five, Jingo thought. First to arrive were undoubtedly a number of submarine shipgirls, soon joined by flights of faery piloted A6Ms and Hellcats and even some Corsairs and Reppus. Following them were TBFs, B5Ns, TBUs, B6Ns, D3As, D4Ys, SBDs, and SB2Cs. A virtual carpet of airpower ready to descend on anyone stupid enough to tempt them. Then the cruisers: Minneapolis, Northampton, Atlanta, Juneau, Chicago, and Houston, among others. Joined by Atago and Takao, Mogami and Mikuma, and Nagara and possibly a score of Destroyers. Then came the Battlewagons: Nagato personally leading Yamato and Musashi and Kongo and Haruna, joining New Jersey and Iowa and West Virginia and California. Enterprise and Hornet and Akagi and Kaga were soon joined by Unryu and Katsuragi, Saratoga and Shinano, Princeton and Shoho. And the USS Bon Homme Richard finally arriving, only once the area had been thoroughly scoured and secured.
It was an impressive force and the message was clear to Jingo: If she or Ruiner or now their own 'captives' Somber or Diabolic so much as twitched in a way the shipgirls deemed hostile, There was more than enough firepower to end them all.
Hopefully, there was enough firepower to protect them if the insane monster who bore her came looking this way. Jingo stood calmly waiting as Nagato, California, and West Virginia closed. West Virginia eyed Ruiner with a cold smile, her guns radar locked.
"I assume I address Nagato, of the Big Seven?" Jingo inquired politely.
"You do indeed. You are Jingo?"
Jingo nodded. She was no longer Empress Jingo or Princess Jingo but merely Jingo, soon to be Prisoner Jingo. "I am. With me are Ruiner, Diabolic, and Somber. Do you accept our surrender?"
"Do you understand that your surrender will be unconditional?"
"I do." Jingo knew it could be no other way.
"Then we accept your surrender," Nagato replied calmly.
Jingo nodded, now just a little scared of the future. "Please? Can you tell me? My people... My Fleet... Did they all get out? Did they reach Australia?"
"Yes," Nagato confirmed. "Yes, they did."
"Then, perhaps it wasn't all for nothing after all. "
Nagato glanced at the people lining up on the ferry, waiting to be taken aboard the Bon Homme Richard. "No, not for nothing. Not at all."
She looked at Jingo with an appraising eye. Naval Intelligence had never really decided what to make of the East Indian War Princess. Perhaps Jingo, herself, had no answer to exactly who she was. But whatever she was, she had proven the metal of her character.
"The Honors of War Apply, Lady Jingo."
"Thank you, Lady Nagato." She looked at Nagato quizzically. "Tell me, please? It is said that you adopted THE Northern Princess?" Jingo remembered reading magazine articles brought in by some of the smuggler contacts she had used.
"Yes. We call her Hoppou-chan."
"I admit to being envious of you both. She has in her humility what I failed to achieve in my pride."
"And what was that?" Nagato asked.
"To be loved and admired!" Jingo mocked herself. "The myth of the enlightened despot! In my mother, I witnessed the cruelest, most depraved monster in history. She murdered at least three of her daughters. For what? When we thought she was dead, I thought I could be something different. But the greatest structure will collapse if built on a flawed foundation. Joke of the universe! She who would be Queen!"
"But you saved your people and your fleet... And you saved these people today." Nagato reminded her.
"How could I do otherwise? I watched mother take life as if it were nothing to her. It made me sick. When we found the body of Nemesis and I knew mother was still alive, all I could think of was mother laughing and killing all of them, humans and abyssals alike. But if one would wear a crown then one is responsible for every choice And to do nothing is a choice that we can make but to do nothing when one has the power to act... To allow evil free pass is to support evil. I can't live like that." She looked at Nagato and sighed. "I'll admit the future frightens me. I assume there will be a trial."
"Undoubtedly. Though I think any court might be inclined to leniency." Nagato left it unsaid that as the first Abyssal Princess to voluntarily surrender, there might be an inclination to show mercy to Jingo so as to convince other Abyssals to surrender as well. That was a political consideration and for others to discuss.
"Nagato-san.." Jingo said quietly. "We know the brightest angels born in Heaven can fall. Can a devil born in Hell ever rise above the Abyss?"
"If she chooses, I believe, yes," Nagato replied. "Now... I think it is time we got underway. The future will take care of itself but it won't wait for us while we sit out here."
In the meantime, just because she was an honorably surrendered prisoner of war, didn't mean Ruiner was going to change a whit! She looked at West Virginia with a smirk. "Easy there Dead-eye! I'm not gonna try anything. I'm nuts, not stupid!" She looked around at the fleet centering around Bon Homme Richard and on Jingo and herself. Ruiner grinned over at New Jersey and Musashi. She just had to say it as her boilers began to build up steam...
"Head 'em up and Move 'em out!"