a ship of lightning

Chapter 36

waking up the next morning piorun hears sounds down in the kitchen getting up and heading downstairs she enters and sees anna and arch cooking food along with biscuit haveing a chat with them

anna: and well fritz got hit in the face with a dodge ball

bismarck: that got to hurt

arch: eh we wouldnt know we get hit and barely notice

we see anna glance over to the entrance to the kitchen

anna: morning mom

"Morning to you as well"

arch: so Mom, what do we plan to do today?

"well I was thinking of working on a project"

anna: which one?

"some new weapons"

arch: alright ill get the forge heated

anna: and ill get the materials from storage

we see Biscuit look between the three in confusion

biscuit: what?

"follow me"

we see Piorun walk to a door attached to the kitchen opening it to reveal stairs to the basement heading down them and turning on the lights we see machinery from a machine shop in the room with a forge in the corner biscuit looks around in awe

biscuit: how did you manage this

"a little bit of effort and the ability to lift one of these machines by myself"

we see Piorun walk over to a small workbench and start to draw out a schematic, we see biscuit approch and look at it seeing a odd shell design

biscuit: what is this it wouldn't fit in your guns

"that's because is fits this one"

she pulls out another sheet of paper with a cannon designed for a battleship shown on it

biscuit: where are you putting this?

"you'll see"

we see Piorun walk off through a door to an underground dry dock with biscuit quickly following

Biscuit: heh wha how?!

"this is harder to explain but anyways"

we see Piorun summon her ship its overall appearance appeared rundown, and severely battle-tested, even abandoned, the paint faded with the white ship number barely visible several of the aa guns are rusty with clear signs of damage across the hull, and the lights are flickering with several sections of the ship having a hole straight through, the citadel was the worst for wear the windows were smashed out with several holes through it the deck that was once a nice light brown was a charred black from fire damage, the rear gun was a mangled mess with the barrel being bent at the middle making it inoperable the smoke stack tilted several degrees to the side

biscuit: how did it even get this bad?

we see Piorun take a seat with a heavy landing

"*sigh* I really need to do an overhaul"

we see Biscuit take a close look at Piorun seeing deep bags under her eyes

biscuit: when was the last time you had a full night's rest?

we see piorun look over her eyes showing a weary tiredness

"im fine"

biscuit: thats not an answer