"See anything?" A lookout said,
"Once again, Nein! It's quite dark! All I can see is empty water, and the destroyer in front of us!
I would've told you if I did see anything...
So stop bugging me, and do your own job!" Another, second lookout said
"Okay..." the first lookout said, rolling his eyes.
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"Hey! Something in the distance!"
"Look over there!" The second lookout said.
The first lookout didn't react,
"What are you doing dummkopf! Lights on the horizon!" The Second one said
"I'm doing my own job, I'll tell you if I see anything....." the first lookout said.
"Oh, ha-ha, now's the time that I finally listen....
...LOOK OVER THERE NOW ALREADY!" The second one said, turning the first one's head around,
The first lookout halfheartedly put the binoculars he had and looked at where the second one was pointing.
It looked like a bunch of lights, sitting on the water.
Is that?
"I'm pretty sure that's a ship..." the first lookout said.
And then....
The sun peeked over the horizon, shining extremely brightly.
The lookouts checked their binoculars once again,
A clock tower, and giant steel structures in the distance.
"Land! We made it!" The first one said.
"Inform the Admiral! Land is in sight!"
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Unknown location
"Scans complete" a mechanical voice said,
"The results?" A voice said
"Anomaly is approaching Hamburg port, at a rate of about twenty—"
"So they are trying to dock..." Observer said.
"Hmmm, they should be easy pickings if they try to escape~" Observer said, starting to giggle slightly
She took another glance at the screen.
"Ohhhh, look at all of those Iron Blood ships just sitting there so pretty!" She said, referring to the screen showcasing the ships currently docked in port.
"If they are trying to retreat to their protection they will find absolutely nothing!"
She flipped around in the rotating chair that she was in, facing the door on the other side of her dark room.
"What is the status of the old man we apprehended from the Iron Blood admiralty?" Observer said.
"Alive, our interrogators have had no effect on getting information out of him on the whereabouts of the anomaly." The computerized voice said.
"Hmm, oh. I guess if we did not know, then how in the creators name could he know anything?
*sigh
Oh, well, put the old admiral out of his misery, let's hope purifier doesn't fail a second time." Observer said with a chuckle.
"Incoming transmission from our Tester unit." The voice said.
"Tester, tester. What has she to say now? Put it through." Observer said.
The giant screen in front of Observer switched on, revealing Tester on the other side, still looking through all manner of documents and data logs, trying to find out any possible reason on how the giant crewed ship made it over to their oceans.
"What is it Tester?" Observer said with a slightly cross tone.
"Oh! Observer, glad you could respond-" Tester said
"Enough with the pleasantries, I have quotas to fill."
"....Y-You do know, how Purifier was eliminated." Tester said.
"Yes, by a smaller weapon from the crewed ship,
It did not strike me earlier at the strength of the armaments this strange, primitive, amalgamation currently possesses." Observer said.
"Well, by the looks of it, the scavenged camera units from Rook unit 13-14527B actually provide conclusive visual evidence that...
...it was actually Bismarck, the same specimen from the awakening project, that fired the shots.
We have the visual evidence, and bio scans to further provide evidence for this." Tester said.
Now Observer was interested.
"Why would a proud and honorable ship like her be doing on a crewed vessel?
I don't think it would take much effort to think that she would've certainly challenged Purifier personally during that moment?" Observer said.
"I certainly know, but ever since the anomaly showed itself, Bismarck had disappeared,
I took an educated guess an figured that she has something to do with the anomaly." Tester said.
"So, what of it?" Observer said.
"Well, we do know about the Eagle Union aircraft carrier Enterprise managing to secure contact with the anomaly known as Code-G, in an alternate dimension of sorts......
Perhaps this interaction, is something similar to a degree, so the anomaly is something like an alternate Bismarck, probably, likely from a universe where she was never manifested." Tester said.
"I see, so how do we deal with this?" Observer said.
"Well, from whatever world the anomaly hails from, it clearly is not anything near ours, considering the ship still is fully crewed." Tester said.
"So are you saying that we manifest the anomaly?" Observer said.
"You did make mention of a mole in the admiralty of the Iron Blood,
And since the anomaly is moving into an Iron Blood port, we can perhaps, use the Iron blood assets at the port, which do have the means to rapidly manifest a ship and do so efficiently." Tester said
"Okay, so we manifest it. Now what?" Observer said.
"Well, surely it would be suffering from a lack of mental preparedness, and we can exploit that,
If this ship is powerful enough to vanquish a whole fleet of Rooks with a single shot from its primary armament, then we may have a powerful asset, far more powerful than Bismarck could ever hope to be. And perhaps, we could provoke an awakening?" Tester said.
Observer smirked.
"Your opinions are noted, I'll see Purifier shortly, thank you for you time Tester...." Observer said.
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A/N things are getting more and more interesting! What do you think will happen?