Chapter 14: What You’re Made Of

Deep within the ocean is the Alicorn sub, cruising through the deep dark waters. Within the sub's control center is Alicorn and her human crew.

Alicorn is standing in the middle of the control center, with her eyes closed.

"Ma'am!" A guy at a radio calls out and Alicorn opens her glowing siren yellow eyes and look to him.

"Speak." Alicorn says.

"We've picked up a distress call." 

"Play it."

The radio man nods and presses a few buttons.

<<This is the Eagle Union aircraft carrier Enterprise!>> Alicorn narrows her eyes at the radio as Enterprise's voice plays through it. <<We've come under attack by sirens and are heavily out numbered.>> A few explosions go off in the background. <<Hamman! Essex! To your left!>> A few more explosions go off. <<Coordinates are attached to this message, if anyone's out there, send help! Hornet, help Yorktown->> The message gets cut off.

The radio operator presses a few buttons on his console. "The massage just cut out, but we got the coordinates.  It's 10 kilometers from our Northwest."

Alicorn smiles. "Looks like I won't have to get my hands dirty." She chuckles. "The sirens will take out a thorn in my side while also taking out the three legendary aircraft carrier sisters. Salvation is in hand!" She starts to laugh.

"Ma'am! The sub's turning towards the coordinates!"" The driver calls out.

Alicorn stops laughing and blinks a few times. "Huh? What are you saying?"

"The sub is heading towards the distress call."

Alicorn huffs and closes her eyes for a few seconds, before opening them with an angry look. "Stupid Submarine! listen to me, I am your master!" She walks to a nearby wall and punches it, leaving a dent. "LISTEN TO ME! We're on a tight schedule, I need those nuclear shells for my plan!"

Alicorn grabs her head and groans, then she pants a few times.

"Fine, we'll go and save them, but then we must make haste for Anchorhead Bay!"

"Yes, Ma'am!" The crew yell together.

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In the dark blue of the water an explosion goes off above it, and Yorktown falls into the water and starts to slowly sink. The water around her slowly turns red from the wounds around her body. Blue petals raise up towards the surface from the flower on her lapel.  Parts of her rigging break off and float towards the surface as she sinks down.

Yorktown raises a hand towards the surface as her eyes slowly start to blur and go dark, but she sees a hand reach down to her.

'I don't have the strength to move.' Yorktown says in thought. 'Was I a good sister? Was I a good mother?' Her vision goes dark. 'I just wanted to see my baby's face one... more... time.'

Yorktown opens her eyes and finds that she's in a white void. "Where am I?"

Suddenly she hears the laughter of a child and her eyes widen and she quickly looks around. Only to find a window that leads out to a beach. Yorktown walks over to the window and looks through it, to see a younger Alicorn running along the beach with laughing.

"Alicorn." Yorktown mutters.

"Come on, Mama!" Alicorn shouts as she runs along the beach.

"Come, sweety." A Yorktown walks into view of the window and walks after Alicorn.

Then the view changes to show Yorktown, Alicorn and Erik sitting in the cafeteria. 

"I'm gonna become the most powerful ship here ever was!" Alicorn states. "Then I can protect Mama and Daddy!"

"You'll protect everyone." Yorktown in the window says.

"Yes, you'll put an end to this siren war." Erik states.

Then the view changes to show Yorktown and Alicorn outside, staring up to the stars. Alicorn is hugging her mother tightly as her eyes slowly droop.

Yorktown starts to move. "No, don't go." Alicorn calls out as she hugs her mother tighter. 

Yorktown smiles. "I'll never go anywhere, no mater what, I'll always be your mother."

The view of the window goes black.

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Tears drip down Yorktown's checks. "Sorry, Alicorn."

"What are you sorry for?" Yorktown's eyes widen and she quickly turns around to see Alicorn standing a few meters behind her, with an innocent smile. "There's nothing to be sorry for, Mama."

"But I couldn't cave you." Yorktown says. "You're now roaming the ocean under the influence of the sirens."

Alicorn giggles. "Oh, that's not your fault though. It's the sirens, and now they're threatening to take everything you love away, even me. I'm still inside somewhere in that body, you just gotta wake it up. Like how you need to... wake up."

Yorktown eyes snap open within the dark ocean and she reaches up towards the hand and grabs it.

The hand pulls Yorktown out of the water and she coughs as her lungs try to take in the fresh air.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." A familiar voice calls out. 

Yorktown looks towards the source and sees a pair of glowing siren yellow eyes glaring at her. A single tear falls from one of Alicorn's eyes. Alicorn is holding Yorktown up.

"Sister!" Hornet calls out.

Yorktown looks to the side and notices that she's on Alicorn's sub and they're in front of Enterprise, Hammam, Essex and Hornet. They all are tired and hurt, with parts of their riggings falling apart. Yorktown looks to her left and notices a fleet of sirens aiming their guns towards the sub, but not firing. 

"T-That's the sub you're hunting, Enterprise?!" Hamman yells.

"She looks scary." Essex mutters.

Suddenly Yorktown's thrown off the sub and down into Hornet's arms.

"i'll give you two choices." Alicorn calls down to the ship-girls and her weapons from on the ship. "You can fight me and have the chance to stop me, and let Yorktown die. Or you can turn tail and flee and save Yorktown, while I deal with these Sirens."

Alicorn's railguns charge up. "What's you're choice?"

"Enterprise?" Hornet calls out.

Enterprise glares up at Alicorn. "Retreat. We need to retreat!"

"Right." Hornet nods.

"Yes, please! let's go!" Hamman yells.

The ship girls turn tail and start to sail away form Alicorn.

Alicorn smiles as she turns towards the siren fleet and aims her hand at it. Her guns turn towards the siren fleet. "Let's have some fun!"

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Enterprise is standing outside of a room and Vestal walks out of it.

"How is she?" Enterprise immediately asks.

"The good news is, she'll live." Vestal says.

"And the bad?"

"She'll never be able to sail again, her rigging and ship are to damage even for repair. Now, I must attend to the other patients. You may enter her room." Vestal walks off.

Enterprise sighs as she walks into Yorktown's room. 

Yorktown is looking out an open window, and a light breeze blows through her white hair. "She's still in there."

"Sister?" 

Yorktown looks at Enterprise. "I know my baby girl is till inside that body somewhere, promise me Enterprise, that you'll bring her back to me."

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