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Both HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta had summon their boat bodies which both of which are being repaired in the long abandon dry dock of the ferry. The fairies as they're called that run the rigging are now all full size and are busy repairing the ships. The two young looking ship girls are in the medical bay of Queen Mary being cared for by the maids of the Royal Navy.
The rest of the fleet are tearing apart the train yard area and other Merchant strongholds. What's left of the gang are fleeing as they couldn't withstand the onslaught of the fury of the shipgirls. The other gangs are laying low so they won't be caught up in the purge happening.
"At least we know what can damage the shipgirls now," Piggot said talking with Dragon and the other heroes on the com channel.
"Anything that can damage a full size warship will damage them," Dragon said as she brings up a screen showing the two destroyers. "Both destroyers were heavily damaged by Squealer's energy weapon, but when used on the light cruisers, Konigsberg, Karlsruhe, and Koln didn't have the same damage thanks to them being more armored then the destroyers."
"So the only thing that can damage the shipgirls is something that would damage a full size battleship of their type?" Miss Militia asked.
"Of their era they were built. The some of the warships of that era are made to be able to withstand damage that would sink modern warships," Velocity explains.
"Well that's just great," Assault said.
"What should we do with the Royal Navy tearing apart the train yard?" Velocity asked.
"There's nothing we can do to stop them, there's just too many of them," Battery points out.
"Victory is leading them and the Royal Navy follows her lead. There is no chance of getting her to back down, not after what happen to her girls," Armsmaster said.
"The sailwoman treats all the young shipgirls as her kids There are pictures of her grabbing a younger shipgirl by her ear and pulling her along," Assault adds.
"The Admiral is using her powers again," Dragon spoke up as her devices she had setup for this very thing, started beeping.
"She's probably trying to summon a repair ship," Velocity said.
"Last time she summon the Royal Navy," Piggot said.
"Yeah but she's only of royal blood of two nations," Armsmaster said.
"The storms are appearing all over the US," Dragon said.
"But we never had a king or emperor," Battery said.
"Actually there is one," Miss Militia spoke up.
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At the docks -
Taylor stared at the two shipgirls she had summon, both of which are flying the Union Jack and are adults. The first is dress as a mechanic but with the right flap of her brown overalls unstrap and showing her ample right breast covered by a white shirt. She has short blonde hair and wearing a welder's mask on top of her head. She's armed with anti air guns but has a small crane on her back, and has a large tool belt on her, with a welding torch and a large gas tank on the rig on her back.
The second woman is dress in a light brown jumpsuit with the zipper zipped down showing off her large breasts that's covered in a white tank top. She has anti air guns too and a crane and a tool belt like the first woman. But she also is carrying a large luggage chest on her back.
"Ok who did I summon?" Taylor ask Charybdis who next to her on the docks.
They're also with Charybdis's sisters, Sirius, Hermione, and Dido who are all busty maids who wear sexy outfits. Their other two sisters Black Prince and Bellona are rampaging around the city hunting down what's left of the Merchant gang. They're also with Roon who can create a force field around herself, which is why she's always behind Taylor so if there is any danger she can hug her princess up against her big chest and shield her with her forcefield. Taylor found it very intimidating to be around so many women who are both beautiful and have busty bodies. Not to mention how they like showing their bodies off with skimpy outfits.
"They're HMS San Giorgio Italian and Vindictive both are repair ships, but Vindictive is also a depot ship for destroys to resupply their stocks," Charybdis answers.
"Just what I was trying to summon," Taylor said.
"You called princes?" San Giorgio Italian asked.
"Both Ardent and Acasta have been damage and I need you two to repair them," Taylor said.
"Where are they?" Vindictive asked.
"In that dry dock," Taylor said pointing to the dry dock where Ardent and Acasta's ships are housed in being repaired.
"At once princess," San Giorgio Italian said.
"Princess!" Z24 shouted as she flew over to the group. Z24 has a whole vampire look to her with long ears and bat wings on her back that allows her to fly around fast when she does that hovering thing all the shipgirls can do. She couldn't fly like the carriers but with her wings she's the fastest of the destroyers.
"Did someone gave the kids candy? Again?" Taylor said thinking of Little Bel, Little Cheshire, Little Illustrious, Little Renown, Little Prinz Eugen, Zeppy, and Little Spee being given a bag of candy by one of the dock workers from her dads workplace. The sugar high tykes ran around the docks causing all sorts of trouble till they finally crashed.
"You summon another fleet," Z24 said pointing to the bay where a fleet of 128 shipgirls are coming towards them.
"What? How?" Taylor asked wondering what Royal family she's related to this time. "Which fleet?"
"Americans," Victory said who came back to the docks when she felt her princess using her power to summon shipgirls again.
"But I'm sure we never had a Royal family," Taylor said.
"You can ask her," Victory said seeing a carrier flying over to them while carrying another shipgirl.
The carrier that flew in is USS Bataan and the shipgirl she carried over is very different from the others.
A tall woman with a slim but powerful built body of a woman in her 40's or 50's. She has short red hair with strains of grey showing underneath her captain's hat. Her uniform is that of a Legion of the United States before it was renamed into the United States Army in 1796. Like Victory on her back is a mast with the sails up and her rig is wooden with black powder cannons.
"USS Constitution of the Eagle Union fleet reporting for duty empress," the second oldest commissioned warship greeted Taylor.
"Empress but the US never had a Royal family," Taylor said as the other Eagle Union shipgirls climb onto the dock and gathered behind Constitution.
"Yes youngest, I don't recall any…," Victory was saying when an old memory came to her. "Wait you don't mean that failed business man who proclaimed himself Emperor?" (1)
"Yes our empress is from Joshua Abraham Norton bloodline. Making her our empress," Constitution answers causing everyone to stare at her for that troll logic.
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The PRT -
"What?" Piggot asked as she and everyone else at the HQ are listening in.
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The Docks -
"That doesn't count being a ruler," Victory said.
"Emperor Norton was the only Emperor of the United States, he may seem to be nothing more then a madman who got people to play along with him. But he's a true emperor who without any army or wealth manage to become the emperor of the United States. Which shows as he had to do everything himself. No one ever in his 21-year reign tried to impeach him from his title and when he died over 10,000 people had come to view the Emperor's body in advance of the 2 p.m. funeral. So he's the emperor of the United State because of the fact no one ever said otherwise or tried to impeach him or take his title from him. And on his tombstone he's proclaimed as the Emperor of the United States and is recognized as the only emperor this nation ever had," Constitution said. (2)
"That counts?" Taylor asked.
"Yes that does count," Constitution said.
"And I'm now have you all as my 3rd fleet?" Taylor asked.
"Yes," Constitution said.
"I already have to deal with two countries trying to get me to come to them and now I'm going to have to deal with this," Taylor said putting her hand on her head thinking of what this is going to cause when the US navy learns of this.
"Don't worry we're more independent, we will listen to you but we can listen to others if you give us the orders to," Constitution said.
"Really?" Taylor asked.
"Yeah you're in good hands with those girls from the other fleets. Besides, there's a city full of villains and nazis that need to be stamp out," Constitution said and walks off toward the city with most of her girls following her lead.
"Well that girl is the same as always," Victory said watching the Eagle girls heading into the city.
"I wouldn't be able to order them to stop could I?" Taylor asked.
"Nope, that young girl is too pigheaded to stop when there's something to be done. Too much pride in that one," Victory said.
"Really?" Taylor asked.
"Yes, two of her sister ships President and Chesapeake were captured and served in the Royal Navy, told me all about their sister. I take great pride in the fact I'm the oldest commission warship around. But that girl has the honor of being the last of the original six frigates of the United States Navy still in commission. She's the last of the original warships that was built when the United States became a country. I'm far from being the first warship or even among the first group to serve when the nation of England was formed. Like me her weapons and equipment are outdated, but that won't stop her. She will do the right thing no matter what, that's who she is," Victory said.
"Getting rid of the empire while the iron is hot," Taylor said seeing how there is no stopping it now.
"Might as well get rid of the other gang as well," Victory said turning to talk to Dildo and Roon to give out the order to the rest of the fleet to target all the gangs.
"At least I don't have to worry about the villains after this," Taylor said as few villains will be willing to take on a force of nearly 300 parahumans. She will have to count how many shipgirls she has now.
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Author's Notes -
1 - Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818 – January 8, 1880), known as Emperor Norton, was a resident of San Francisco, California who, in 1859, proclaimed himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States". In 1863, after Napoleon III invaded Mexico, he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico".
2 - In The Princess and The Frog, the plan to become human again by having Naveen kiss Charlotte during Mardi Gras. Though she isn't royal by birth or marriage, being the daughter of the king of the Mardi Gras parade is apparently enough to make her count as a princess.
Which is the logic I'm using for why Taylor being a descendant of Norton can summon Eagle Union shipgirls. For history remembers Norton as the only emperor of the United States and that's good enough for me.
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