AltCarrier Shinano Awakens (possible future)
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A Steel-Hull Super-Carrier was returning home from her duties, her crew eager to unwind on earthly ground.
Especially the Flight Deck Crew, who at the last minute were tasked with cleaning up after an accident that had the deck covered in loose ordinance and spilled with highly flammable and explosive liquids.
And among them was a tall woman of mixed American/Japanese descent, who was inspecting the cleaned up part of the deck for any missed surprises when she heard a cry.
She looked at the source of commotion, a fellow crewmember who in panic pointed above at the bridge, and she along with many others on the deck looked up. But soon it became apparent that he was pointing at something more troubling.
A jumper.
As people around the deck started to notice and panic, time nearly stopped for her as she with sudden too-perfect clarity looked at the suicidal man.
Whose skin was bleached with white paint, and explosives strapped to every part of his body.
An Abyssal Cultist.
"BOMBER!!!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, and everybody started running for cover, from the projected point of impact at the edge of the deck.
Which, unfortunately for the crew, was the part of the deck where the loose and all-too delicate ordinance were not yet cleaned up.
She felt a sudden pain in her heart, and for reasons unknown even to herself at the time, she ran.
Towards where the bomber will go splat.
She ran with all the might her long legs would give, the fastest she ever did in her life, her heart pumping at absurd levels.
And along the way, her vision occasionally flickered, the suicide bomber no longer looking bleached, then bleached again, her surroundings suddenly looking outdated for at least half a century, distinctively un-American and in flames, and then modern and undamaged again.
And just as the bomber was about to hit the deck, she tackled him out of the air, both of them flying beyond the deck and towards the water.
Her heart stopped.
And then the bombs exploded, too far away too cause any serious damage beyond cosmetic to the ship.
She, her body surprisingly, if relatively, intact, splashed into the water, and she blacked out.
A day later, she would wake up in the repair baths as an awakened Natural Born, and to confusion to herself and everyone else, would identify herself as the Yamato-Class Carrier Shinano.
And to her's even greater confusion, she cried tears of relief, as if a great burden was lifted.
That fate could be changed.
----
In which the reincarnation cycle doesn't care about little details such as the soul being from the alternate universe or that timelines don't exactly align.
For context: Alternate Shinano was inspired by an unreleased Hearts of Iron 4 mod where Germany and Japan won WWII, and she is mentioned in the USA Diary getting bombed in San Francisco, causing Nixon, already deep in the Watergate scandal, a bit of trouble.
Harry Leferts said:
"Oh! Speaking of sisters... remember how you mentioned that dream? Of the other Shinano?"
Slowly, Shinano nodded, "I remember. Why?"
A little amused, Regina shook her head, "Well, wouldn't she have counted as a sister? And what if you could have made her stay?"
Looking up at the blue, April sky, the shipgirl considered that before nodding, "I would not have minded having her stay. And I would have welcomed her."
jmcdavid said:
Alternate Shinano: I do not deserve such happiness. Not after what I have done in my timeline.
Harry Leferts said:
Shinano: *Stern expression on her face* Yes, you do!
Post-Seventh Year, San Francisco, under the Golden Gate Bridge, USS Super-Carrier (Insert Name Here)"Oh! Speaking of sisters... remember how you mentioned that dream? Of the other Shinano?"
Slowly, Shinano nodded, "I remember. Why?"
A little amused, Regina shook her head, "Well, wouldn't she have counted as a sister? And what if you could have made her stay?"
Looking up at the blue, April sky, the shipgirl considered that before nodding, "I would not have minded having her stay. And I would have welcomed her."
jmcdavid said:
Alternate Shinano: I do not deserve such happiness. Not after what I have done in my timeline.
Harry Leferts said:
Shinano: *Stern expression on her face* Yes, you do!
A Steel-Hull Super-Carrier was returning home from her duties, her crew eager to unwind on earthly ground.
Especially the Flight Deck Crew, who at the last minute were tasked with cleaning up after an accident that had the deck covered in loose ordinance and spilled with highly flammable and explosive liquids.
And among them was a tall woman of mixed American/Japanese descent, who was inspecting the cleaned up part of the deck for any missed surprises when she heard a cry.
She looked at the source of commotion, a fellow crewmember who in panic pointed above at the bridge, and she along with many others on the deck looked up. But soon it became apparent that he was pointing at something more troubling.
A jumper.
As people around the deck started to notice and panic, time nearly stopped for her as she with sudden too-perfect clarity looked at the suicidal man.
Whose skin was bleached with white paint, and explosives strapped to every part of his body.
An Abyssal Cultist.
"BOMBER!!!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, and everybody started running for cover, from the projected point of impact at the edge of the deck.
Which, unfortunately for the crew, was the part of the deck where the loose and all-too delicate ordinance were not yet cleaned up.
She felt a sudden pain in her heart, and for reasons unknown even to herself at the time, she ran.
Towards where the bomber will go splat.
She ran with all the might her long legs would give, the fastest she ever did in her life, her heart pumping at absurd levels.
And along the way, her vision occasionally flickered, the suicide bomber no longer looking bleached, then bleached again, her surroundings suddenly looking outdated for at least half a century, distinctively un-American and in flames, and then modern and undamaged again.
And just as the bomber was about to hit the deck, she tackled him out of the air, both of them flying beyond the deck and towards the water.
Her heart stopped.
And then the bombs exploded, too far away too cause any serious damage beyond cosmetic to the ship.
She, her body surprisingly, if relatively, intact, splashed into the water, and she blacked out.
A day later, she would wake up in the repair baths as an awakened Natural Born, and to confusion to herself and everyone else, would identify herself as the Yamato-Class Carrier Shinano.
And to her's even greater confusion, she cried tears of relief, as if a great burden was lifted.
That fate could be changed.
----
In which the reincarnation cycle doesn't care about little details such as the soul being from the alternate universe or that timelines don't exactly align.
For context: Alternate Shinano was inspired by an unreleased Hearts of Iron 4 mod where Germany and Japan won WWII, and she is mentioned in the USA Diary getting bombed in San Francisco, causing Nixon, already deep in the Watergate scandal, a bit of trouble.