(Here we are, the final Arc. At least until the show gets a season 2, which I hope it does.)

  Trio of Monster Sisters Arc Starts Now!

  Early morning many ship-girls are gathered at the docks. Commander Osami and Commander Sicilia bow to each other, before Osami walks up a ramp and onto Yamato's ship. Off to the side Yorktown, Enterprise and Alicorn and talking to Hornet and Unicorn.

  Alicorn stands at 4 foot 5 inches. She has long blonde hair that's held back by a tiara on the top of her head. Her siren yellow eyes hold happiness in them. There's a small scar over her left eye brow and a rge scar over her right eye. Her right arm is pure white from the elbow down.

  Alicorn wears a fancy yellow dress with a military coat over the top, adorned with many medals and a yellow rose.

  "Sister, we'll be fine." Hornet smiles to Enterprise. "We'll be back by tomorrow morning, we're meeting up with the Sakura escort ships halfway. Then we're coming back."

  "Yeah, there's many of us, no Siren will dare to attack a fleet as rge as this." Unicorn says with determination.

  Enterprise still has a look of worry. "I know, but the reports I've gotten tely have me worried. Drones, ships going missing, we've haven't heard from Northern Parliament in a week."

  Yorktown, who's sitting in a wheel chair, puts a hand on Enterprise's arm. "Sister, they'll be fine, have some trust."

  "Yeah, don't forget we have some of the strongest ships in this fleet." Hornet flexes an arm.

  Enterprise takes a deep breath. "Okay, but still, please be safe."

  Alicorn nods along with Enterprise. "Yes, please be safe."

  Unicorn steps forward and hugs her sister. "We will, I'm the sister of the strongest ship in Azur Lane. No one will dare to mess with us!"

  Alicorn grows a rge smile and wraps her arms around Unicorn. "I won't be the strongest forever, because I know you'll surpass me one day."

  "Oh, I don't know. You're really strong, Alicorn."

  "But you can be even stronger." Alicorn puts her hands on Unicorn's shoulders. "I know one day you'll surpass me, Enterprise and even Yorktown. Because I have great faith that you will."

  Unicorn grows a bright smile. "Thank you."

  "G-Girls!" Sicilia calls out. "It's time to go!"

  Hornet quickly gives her sisters and Niece a quick hug. "See you all tomorrow morning!" She runs off to the water.

  Unicorn bows to the three. "Wish us luck." She follows after Hornet.

  Off to the side, Team Destroyers, Javelin, Laffey and Z23 say their goodbyes to Ayanami, who's leaving with the fleet.

  Alicorn smiles as she watches Unicorn and Hornet sail off with the rge Sakura fleet. She watches a Musashi suddenly drags Osami into the ship as Yamato waves to Commander Sicilia.

  Though a feeling of unease grows through Alicorn, and she clenches her hands into fists. Yorktown quickly takes notice.

  "Sweety?" Yorktown calls out to her daughter. "Are you alright?"

  Alicorn shakes her head, pushing the bad feelings down. "Yeah, just a feeling... Nothing important."

  Yorktown grabs Alicorn's hand and holds it gently. "If you say so."

  Enterprise walks up beside Alicorn and grabs her other hand. The three then watch the fleet sail into the distance as the morning sun shines onto them.

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  Alicorn walks through the Azur Lane base and she comes across someone she hasn't seen in a few months. "Major Freya!"

  Major Freya is a very tall female marine with bright red hair and bright green eyes. A rge burn scar is on the left side of her face, that goes over her eye. Her left eye is slightly cloudy white.

  Freya lost her right arm in a battle with Sirens a while ago, but she seems to have gotten a prosthetic of sorts.

  "Ahh, Alicorn." Freya smiles as she walks to the small ship girl. "How are you?"

  "I'm fine, it's a nice lovely day. I see you've gotten a new arm."

  Freya holds up her right arm, which is made of metal and painted red. She twists her hand around and flexes her fingers. "Yup, my superiors got a science team together to start developing prosthetics for soldiers who've lost their limbs. I'm a test subject of sorts."

  "How is the arm?"

  Freya slightly shrugs. "Not too bad, but sometimes malfunctions. But where are you heading now?"

  "Oh, just to the cliffs... I like the view up there."

  "Heh, this pce sure is beautiful." Freya smiles as she looks up to the dark blue sky. "I wish we could talk more, but I got to check in with Commander Sicilia, so you have a good day, ma'am." She smirks.

  Alicorn slightly frowns. "Please don't call me ma'am. My mind may be about 23, but my body is 15. You make me feel old."

  Freya ughs as she walks away, leaving the huffing Alicorn behind.

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  Baxterbro

  The sun shines in the middle of the sky as Alicorn walks alongside a cliff. Then she reaches a grave stone, she stands in front of it and looks down at it in silence.

  Erik Steinman

  A Beloved Father and Friend

  August 12, 1908 - September 26, 1938

  A sad frown starts to form on Alicorn's face. "Hey... Dad. Sorry, I haven't talked to you in a while, I've been a little busy. Saving the world and stuff... making a lot of friends, and-" A blush form on her face, but she clears her throat and the red goes away.

  "I feel like I've come so far from being a Siren, but still... something bothers me, and I've run diagnostics on myself, but I can't find what it is." Alicorn kneels down to the grave and puts a hand on it. "I wish you were here, you'd know what's wrong with me... Why I still feel... wrong."

  Alicorn looks up to the slightly cloudy sky. "I feel like you could help figure out what's going on in this strange world. Drone appeared again, does this mean there's another one of them? There have even been rumors of another Separatist army uprising. The Sirens are pnning something, and I'm scared?"

  Alicorn sighs as she sits on the grass and puts her back against the grave. "I just think I'm scared because I have family and friends to look over now. And I'm scared they could get hurt because of me. Maybe... Maybe I should just sail out there and find a portal out there that leads to their world... A unch a nuclear shell into there, taking out as many as I can..."

  Alicorn's eyes suddenly start to glow. "Salvation..." An ethereal hand is pced onto her shoulder, and Alicorn snaps out of it. The hand disappears after a second.

  "Maybe I'm just overacting about everything, I just can't help but stress about all this." Alicorn brings her knees to her chest and hugs them. "I feel as if the world was on my shoulders." She sighs and closes her eyes, then opens them and looks at her pure white left hand.

  "Dad, did you think I would ever do the things I've done? I've done so many bad things, but I've also done so many good things. How would you look at me now, would I be a vilin in your eyes or the hero?"

  Alicorn's stomach growls. "Heh..." She stands up and pats the grave. "See you ter, dad."

  Alicorn walks off.

  Many miles away with the Sakura Empire and their Eagle Union escorts. The massive fleet sails through the ocean, cannons aimed in all directions. Most everyone seems tense, Hornet eyes scan the horizon, Yamato sits atop a cannon while she smokes her Kiseru. Hatakaze's cannons swivel around as she scans the area.

  Ayanami keeps a sharp gaze to the skies. Azuma shifts on her feet in slight nervousness. Texas lets out a rge yawn as she stands on top of one of her cannons. Kaga and Akagi have their pnes flying around above them.

  Nagato stands on the edge of her ship while she keeps a hand on a rail. Mutsu runs behind Nagato, ughing while chasing a seagull.

  The many other ships keep their eyes to the sky or the water line.

  Yet Unicorn is sitting on the front of her ship, while pying with her unicorn plushie. Hornet sails next to her.

  A rge fog starts to roll in, Hornet gnces towards the fog a sense of dread fills her. A storm starts to brew above the ships and rains starts to fall.

  "This is unnatural." Yamato holds a hand out to the rain.

  Suddenly a thunderous sound rings out, and Hornet's eyes widen as she turns to Unicorn. "UNICORN!"

  "Huh?" Unicorn looks to the fog as something flies out of it, and straight towards her.

  BOOOOOM

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  Moonlight shines into Alicorn's room as she ys in bed, Edinburgh and Sheffield y in bed behind her. Their soft snores are barely heard over the sounds of the ocean.

  Alicorn's yellow eyes stare out an open window, through the curtains as they blow in the breeze. To the moonlight that glistens on the water. Alicorn slowly sits up, bnkets covering her naked form.

  Alicorn brings a hand to her chest and clenches it, the feeling of dread fills her wisdom cube and mechanical heart. She stares out to the ocean as the feelings keep growing deeper and deeper.

  Until she's pulled down onto the bed by Edinburgh, who hugs Alicorn like a teddy bear. Alicorn gnces at her maid, then back out to the ocean, where the feelings slowly subside.

  "Maybe it's nothing." Alicorn whispers as she closes her eyes and the darkness takes her.

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  Bring arms ring out and Alicorn shoots up in bed. She frantically looks around as her heart races. She finds her bed empty as she swiftly climbs out if it, covering herself with bnkets.

  Alicorn swiftly gets dressed and sms her door open and sees several soldiers and Ship girls run past her. Arms bre keep bring out. She shoots out of her room and follows the girls and the soldiers.

  Alicorn makes it outside and several pnes fly overhead. Alicorn frantically looks around.

  'Are we under attack?!' Alicorn questions, as a few ship girls run past her.

  Alicorn keeps following the crowd as the bring of arms continues. Yet, her heart skips a beat as she sees many rge smoke pilrs at the docks. She reaches the top of a hill and starts to slowly panic as she sees nearly a dozen ships on fire and nearly sinking at the docks, ships that were apart of Osami's convey.

  Alicorn picks up her pace as fear starts to flood her systems. AA tanks and trucks start to patrol around as soldiers start to shout out orders.

  Alicorn reaches the docks and everything around her freezes as her eyes widen and pupils shrink.

  Baxterbro

  Many ship girls from the convoy are id out on the docks, blood covering them. Vestal and many medics run about tending to the injured. Sheffield and Edinburgh run around carrying medical supplies.

  "Where Hatakaze?!" Matasukaze asks a heavily injured Natago, who sits next to her heavily injured sister.

  Nagato just shakes her head and Matasukaze falls to the ground in shock as tears start to flood down her face.

  "Let me back out there!" Musashi screams as she tries to cw out of Texas' grip. She tries to get back into the water. "My sister and Commander are still out there!"

  Blood falls from Musashi's missing right fox ear and a rge hole on her thigh. Texas holds her shattered shotgun in one hand as she has her other arm wrapped around Musashi. Blood falls from a gaping wound on Texas' side.

  "You can't!" Texas shouts as she grunts in pain.. "We have orders!"

  "PLEASE!" Musashi starts to cry as she cws towards the ocean. "I need to save them. Please." She starts to bawl her eyes out.

  "Where's Ayanami?!" Javelin asks Azuma.

  "I... I don't know..." Azuma states as she covers her mutited left arm. "It attacked us so fast, and hard."

  Laffey and Z23 gnce at each other in worry. Team Destroyers grow scared as tears form in their eyes.

  Sicilia walks among the injured ships, fear and shock in her eyes.

  Then Alicorn spots something that makes her heart stop and blood run cold.

  Hornet kneels on the ground, blood covering her as she heaves, and in her arms is a heavily injured Unicorn. Blood falls from Unicorn's mouth as she ys limp in Hornet's arms.

  "Unicorn..." Hornet breathes out as she grips her tightly. "Stay with me... Come on girl, you can do it."

  Enterprise runs over to Hornet and slides down onto her knees. Medics run over and start to tend to the injured Hornet and Unicorn.

  Alicorn's right eye starts to twitch as her eyes start to glow. Shadows then cover her face as she tightly curls her hands, to the point redish-yellow blood drips to the ground. Her cube beats her in chest, as it slowly goes from a mostly blue cube with hints of bck, to where bckness slowly starts to consume the cube. Yet the the shard on her cube still glows bright blue.

  Alicorn starts to walk forward, she puts a foot down and the concrete below slightly cracks. Thousands of cubes fly through the air and attach to Alicorn's back. The riggings red eyes glow dark as they let out a deep and guttural growl.

  People slowly move back as Alicorn makes her way through the docks. She makes her way onto the ocean and Sicilia notices her.

  "A-Alicorn!" Sicilia calls out. "Wha-what are you doing?!"

  Alicorn comes to a stop and calmly speaks in a dark tone. "Going hunting..." Her voice switches between robotic and normal.

  "H-Hu-hunting? What? No, get back here. A-All ships are to stay put, -u-until further notice!"

  Enterprise looks over as she puts pressure on a rge wound that's on Unicorn's stomach. Sheffield and Edinburgh stop and look over.

  "Sorry Commander... But I'm doing this." Alicorn hands slightly twitch.

  "A-Alicorn, get back here. T-That's an order!" Sicilia orders. "Do wh-" She freezes up.

  Alicorn gnces back, her face shows no emotion but a frown, yet her eyes are burning with rage as they glow. "Try and stop me, Commander. But I don't think you have a ship fast enough to keep up."

  Alicorn rigging glows and changes into wisdom cubes, before they cover Alicorn. After a few seconds the glow dies down and she's in her upgraded mode.

  Bck armor covers Alicorn's legs and feet, as a pair of jet engines start up on the back of her feet. Bck armored skirt appears on her waist. Bck wings with orange tips, simir to her X-02 Strike Wyvern, appear on her back, they also have missiles on them.

  A rge runway moves off her back and points off the right side of her waist. Bck armor covers her chest and slightly goes up her neck. Bck antenna looking armor covers her ears, they points slightly behind her.

  Bck shoulder pauldron appear on both her shoulders, with small railguns form on the top of them. A bck mask folds over her eyes. A rge white rail cannon appears in front of Alicorn, with a trigger forming in the back where a sword handle is.

  Alicorn grabs the rail cannon and grabs the sword handle, then slowly pulls out a orange katana, that crackles with lighting. She takes the katana out and swings it to the side, where it keeps crackling with lighting. She attacked the rail cannon sheath to her left hip.

  "I'm going to find who ever did this... Et discerpens eos." Alicorn twirls the katana around and puts it back into its scabbard.

  Alicorn then turns around and bends her knees, before the engines on her feet start up and she takes off into the distance.

  Yorktown wheels herself to the edge of the dock. Worry and anger in her eyes. "Please be safe Alicorn... But if you do find who did this... Make sure they suffer."

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  01-11-2023

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