A Mixed Bag of Meta-fiction

"Technically Robbin's sister who you brought back as a Kanmusu also could have children but that is by the by," Trinitite coughed before changing the subject. "What brings you here?"

"Well, it wasn't to discuss Octavia's love life!" I mutter to myself.

God! If it isn't one thing it is another with this freaking mirror world!

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Sigh! Yes, I keep out of my daughters' personal lives like that. I have no qualms about some of my daughters not being interested in having relationships that are more "traditional" and "mainstream". We are all adults here. Octavia's in relation with another shipgirl back home and they make a cute couple!

It is not the like the relationship I have with Chitose, but then again . . . it's NONE OF YOUR D*MN BUSINESS!!

Hrmph, getting tired of being asked that by any ol' yahoo I meet. Like everyone's forgotten about such things as "privacy", thinking that they're entitled to know anything and everything about everyone...

ANYway! I should hope you know how children come about?

No?

Well, when two people love each other very much they . . .

Go ask your parents, I'm not here for biology lessons.

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So! But of course . . .such relationships do not produce children. Trust me! It's true!! Honest. Not even with the spooky shipgirl nature we Abyssals and Kanmusu are capable of that! Even IF one of the partners in question just happens to have become a breed of Kanmusu of Trinitite's Earth; one that is genetically compatible with human men.

So since I never butted into Octavia's life and never even thought. . .

"Well!" I laugh what I hope doesn't sound TOO forced to cover my embarrassment. "Ya learn something new every day! But that said I came here at your admiral's request!"

"And while I am not exactly beholden to answer an admiral's every beck and call on EIther side of the rift?" I add, pulling out the hardcopy of the summon request which had gotten me easy access through the Rift as well as a rocket ride here. "But given our past interactions and relationships between our Fleets? Well!"

Yeah, this baby got me places like you'd not believe! Better than a "get out of jail free" card, considering how many regulations I broke just to get myself and my friends here so quickly!! The summons was urgent, so haste was needed and I wasn't gonna let any paper-pushers get in my way!

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Let us just hope that it doesn't come back to bite me in the ass as what almost happened with my interrupted plan with Sar. . . . With MY word's Saratoga. I mean it would have been a HELL of a thing to after having my family back in Japan "obtaining" Elizabeth's mother and smuggling her back to the USA by way of my old hull which I had salvaged earlier too. . . .get around port fees and tariff fees (to have an extra stream of income) for that damn booby-trapped curse the Abyss left on Elizabeth's mother!

Turning her back against her will into the Jellyfish Princess (who'd have that "kill all humans" thing going on), was NOT what I wanted at all! I wanted a family reunion! Not "Monsters Attacks", Seattle edition!!

Oh! I am sure that there had been a VERY good chance that the researchers who'd been tasked to do LOTS of research on me (an Abyssal Princess) and my family (various Common/"Fodder") Abyssals. Those nerds were VERY good at their job and should have . . .

Well, maybe they would have discovered that "curse" before I'd have gotten Elizabeth's mother back to Seattle. I'd like to think that, really.

Really, I . . . don't like almost playing the part of a patsy and unleashing Hell upon Seattle.

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What's with that look that Saratoga is giving me? I mean the summons from her is legit. It has her actual signature and everything to make it so . . .what gives? I even pull out the thing and show it to her before she can say anything.

Saratoga

"I didn't give any summons like this," I say, looking at what appears to be what otherwise to be VERY legitimate paperwork. It even has a . . .passable version of my signature, but it is NOT mine. That and I NEVER made this thing. But whatever and whoever made this seems to have done a FINE and OUTSTANDING job if it got Georgia and her companions HERE all the way to Mars. "How did you get this and who faked it?"

Why in the Hell had not anyone contacted her to confirm things during Georgia's journey here? It isn't like such a trip from Earth to Mars was just like a quick jaunt to the corner grocery store! Nothing like what you'd see like some schlocky sci-fi movie after all!

Somebody has gotten into the system and used MY authority without as much as a "by your leave" and I got tired of this kind of nonsense.

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And perhaps with my acceptance of Trinitite and my other daughters changed me in ways that might have been. . .disagreeable to some in authority? Well, whatever the case? I was going to be damned if I was going to just blindly follow orders like a good little puppet. I may not like my time as Jellyfish, but there were things to be learned from it. Ways to make connections. Network (even IF Jellyfish was mostly an isolationist). Power and authority gained through rank mean much better ways to protect my Fleet, you know.

And benefits to be able to better transition to other things when the Abyssal War finally wound down. After all, while we shipgirls are still praised to this day for having won the war it does not mean that we should or could rest on our laurels for the rest of our lives and live off of the government in "make do" work and such.

We shipgirls CAN live on regular foods and such, albeit much more than a regular human. However . . .shipgirls? We . . .don't feel right to just live "normal" lives. So! Joined Space Force and built up the outer space infrastructure. Colonies and such. Served humanity and satisfied our needs for more, shall we say. On OUR terms.

And somebody is trying to upset the apple cart with this stunt? They better HOPE this is merely just some kind of prank...

And that is of course when the other shoe drops and perhaps the person behind this false summons make their presence known and . . .

!

I can feel the blood drain from my face as I see a figure that stands heads and shoulders above everyone else in the green fields I and the others suddenly find ourselves standing.

It's Earth in appearance, but there are lots of odd things and people about here. Why would a bunch of sci-fi conventioners for old-school Star Trek feel like putting themselves in stocks like something from the Middle Ages was beyond her, but THAT hardly what alarmed me. Nor were the dozens of men dressed like they were from the times of the Pilgrims (ala Plymouth Rock). Even that one dark-skinned male figure over there that looked amazingly like the Devil--as a lot of Bible Thumpers would have him--in stocks as well hardly raised my concern.

Not even the fact that there was somebody who looked alarmingly like the Abyssal Crane Princess (rigging and all) over to the side (albeit with a much . . .healthier bust that wouldn't look out of place on Mushashi). That and lack of horns on her forehead. OH! And let us not mention that she seems to be cooing over a box of what looks like infant WO-Class shipgirls!

Nor was the unconscious form of what appeared to be somebody looking amazingly like Zuikaku (albeit back in her Rigging from the early part of the Abyssal War), really alarming her. Or rather it did, but not enough to take eyes off of the real concern before them all!

No! None of that is as odd and unexpected (and alarming) as much as the large giant of a man with golden armor!

I've seen enough of Trinitite's game to know who this is, despite it being impossible. I even got roped into playing it more than a few times (and secretly enjoying it, playing the Imperium's Adepta Sororitas set). Made sense of the time, me sometimes being known as Sister Sara even to this day. Why NOT play the faction of militant nuns?!

1. "Th-the Emperor Protects?" I find myself sputtering, causing the man in question to look my way-flaming sword in hand-- after having been looking around in surprise at finding himself HERE instead of his Palace back on Terra.

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