[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/zG1CMLw.png[/img][h3][i]1st Fuyuki (Royal Navy) Battle Squadron
Off the Coast[/i][/h3]
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At first, when the circle of magic appeared in the sky and her flotilla's shells were swallowed up in the abyss, Fisher was puzzled. When her Master began to invoke her oddly-named attack, however, the Servant's heart stopped. Breaking into a run from her spot on the bow, she began to charge for Dreadnought's citadel, shouting at the top of her lungs, "[b]NO, MASTER!! WAIT!![/b]"

The crash of Carly's 'magical cannon' threw her off; the Strategist was forced to throw her arms across her face, stopping her eyes from being blinded as a massive blast of energy tore from just in front of her fleet and streaked towards the coastline. Eventually, the cacophony of light and heat died down, allowing Fisher to lower her arms. 

She really wish she hadn't, as her eyes fell on a smog and fire-covered section of coastline. Realising that the entire harbor had been gutted, Fisher's characteristic anger flared. In a trice, she was at her Master's side, hauling Carly off the deck by the shoulders and shaking her violently.

"[i][b]You BITCH-BORN WHORE!![/b][/i]" the Fleet Admiral railed, her face blueing to near-violet. "Just what business did you have to override [b][i]MY[/i][/b] orders to the fleet?! And not only that, while I opted for a carefully planned bombardment of the outer harbour area, you went overkill and very well may have destroyed both our reinforcements and the ONLY foothold we have on this benighted land!! Give me one good reason why I shouldn't-"

"Admiral, ma'am!" A shout came from the main deck. The Ensign calling up to his commander was waving his peaked cap wildly and gesturing to the smoke-filled seaside. "[i]Look[/i]!"

Trembling with barely kept in-check anger, Fisher set Carly down and stalked towards the edge of the bridge snatching up her binoculars. Panning across towards where the remains of the harbor were still burning, she caught the pinprick, winking glare of-

... [i]A signal lamp?![/i]

Two hulls suddenly burst out from the smog and Strategist heaved a sigh of relief; it seemed that the last two destroyers (as well as several dozen smog-covered and clearly banged-up, yet alive Marines) had all made it out. What she did not expect, however, was the [i]third[/i] shape that loomed in the blackness beyond, punctuated by a menacing series of blasts from its horn and the signal it now flashed to [i]'Dreadnought'[/i]:

[center][b]HMS DREADNOUGHT, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH REPORTING FOR DUTY.[/b]


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Fisher lowered her binoculars and looked back at Carly. "I owe you my most heartfelt apologies, Master," she added apologetically. "I won't doubt you again, but please run anything you need to do by me [i]BEFORE[/i] you carry it out." She grinned wryly, beckoning to her. "Come now. We have a war to win and a world to save!"

A sentiment, then that it seemed the newest arrival - judging from the (late) telegram shoved into her hands by an out-of-breath rating, followed by Servant Tesla showing up out of the ether - shared. The Fleet Admiral appraised the situation that the Servant of Electricity explained, as well as the radio images that Tesla threw in as visual aids, before nodding sagely.

"Very well. Follow me to the chart-room in the citadel's lower deck; I want to hear and see [i]everything[/i] you've just summarised in as much detail as possible." She nodded to Carly. "Mistress, it's best that you follow as well."

[i]'It's safe to say, then,'[/i] she thought bitterly to herself as she cycled the bridge's hatch-wheel and responded to a Lieutenant's salute. [i]'That both the Grail and salvation for my homeland are now well and truly out of reach. Then again, if we all die here today and end up doing nothing to stop whatever evil's been unleashed here ... I suspect it would no longer matter anymore ...'[/i]

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(a temp'd Odysseus post to be added here)