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Imagine if KC Enterprise meets AL Enterprise at any time. It depends on KC devs for KC Enterprise's entry consideration as we don't know yet when or if we will add her to the upcoming event. Anyway, let's look at my mini-manga work to find out who actually is KC Enterprise:

Here's my full artwork of KC Enterprise and KC Hornet:

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This is KC Enterprise, and I depicted her based on KC Hornet. However, some minor changes like her hairstyle and different aircraft carrier pattern based on the 1944 Camo pattern of the Pacific War, while her face and personality remain unknown as KC Enterprise doesn't want to reveal herself due to concern about Japanese and Abyssal retribution (even after the war). Regardless, to find out about KC Enterprise's personality and her combat skills. Here's my own opinion of KC Enterprise's personality and her combat skills.

USS Enterprise (CV6) (from Kantai Collection):

Nickname: The Grey Ghost, Big E, G.G.6, Lucky E, The Galloping Ghost.

Personality: Anxiety (since she never smiled for the 1st time), Loneliness (unless Hornet still has side by side with her), anguished (due to her P.T.S.D from the previous Pacific War, as well the biggest loss of Yorktown and Hornet during the war), Disappointment (due to the mistake and failure decisions of high-command admiral during the operation), wild rampage carnage (which she highly to kill all of the enemies to death, or someone harmed Yorktown and Hornet mostly), cold-blooded shipgirl, seriousness (during her business time), good (despite she was been perceived as dangerous)..

Like: Hornet (mostly), Yorktown (mostly), Ranger, Akagi (rival friendly), Kaga (mostly rival friendly), Souryu, Hiryuu, Shoukaku, Zuikaku (not much), Night Battle, Sneak Attack, Epic Battle, listen to Dark Heavy Metal and military orchestral music, watching the historical military propaganda and the mass killing horror movies, patriotic, United States of America, become the wealthiest person of the world, acquisition of world military industries, money (she used dollars to buy anyone she needs or bribe anyone who attacked her to mouth shut), stock market, gambling (not much), stabbing the enemy to death by 20 in (51 cm) for M1905 Bayonet sword, military equipment collection...

Dislike: Zuikaku (mostly), anyone who impersonates Enterprise shall be deserving to be death (AL Enterprise/main archrival), Abyssal, Corrupted Politicians, Taxes, government investigation against herself, the Comedy Show Betrayal, anyone who harmed Hornet or Yorktown, the war, media...

Combat Skills: Sortie the Air Squadron, Stealth, Sneak Attack, Brute strength, Evasion, Night Fighting Operation, Hand to hand combat with her bayonet sword (highly), Bayonet Charge, High Killing Spree, Anti-Submarine Operation.

20 in (51 cm) for M1905 Bayonet Sword. KC Enterprise's notorious blade to slaughtering the enemy.

The bayonet can attached to M1903 Springfield and M1 Garand. The primary weapon of US Aircraft Carrier shipgirls from the Kantai Collection

My potential VA/ Seiyuu: Ayaka Suwa (HMS Arethusa from Azur Lane, interesting she also voiced A2 from Nier automata, while Yui Ishikawa (USS Enterprise from Azur Lane) also voiced 2B from Nier automata).

Who would win between AL and KC Enterprise?

If both Enterprises encountered sudden occasions during the naval operations. Well, I don't know who.

It depends on your opinion leave your comment below and thank you

I can smell that mods will banish this

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Part of a few short stories, with the intentional purpose of exploring a group of "branches", or "test sites", that have developed a new branch of Azur Lane dedicated to fight landbased Siren forces.

Summary:

Buggy and Stormcat make their way around Azur Lane after being dismissed from the testing site, a less than gentle nudge for them to go and be part of whatever activity they want to undertake, that is not technically work-related. And Stormcat has a certain place she has set herself to go visit for her own unconventional reasons.

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It was an almost idyllic midday within the port, a blue sky, cool winds gently blowing, bringing the calming scent of the sea as well a refreshing sensation even with the midfall’s sun on one's back.

In the middle of such blissful weather, Buggy and Stormcat were walking at a calm pace through the port of Azur Lane. Both feeling like they had achieved a great deal of things, regardless of being technically on a forced vacation, imposed on them by the commander of Azur Lane. But alas, more than once they had a discussion or two about the subject, all Valkyries agreed that they felt somewhat restless if they were not moving or doing something.

Even now, during their small vacation, they found enjoyment in participating in whatever activity took place within Azur Lane. Fortunately for them, many of the Kansen also preferred to be active as well as creating some sort of event.

After lending a hand on the second day of tests performed with the Siren walker, brought by Doctor Bethencourt, they had been graciously kicked off the test site by some of the girls. Insisting that they shouldn’t spend their free time on the test grounds, since it was technically work-related, and encouraging them to find something else to do, preferably something that didn’t require a report at the end of the activity.

When it came to actually do something they wished to do for themselves, it was Stormcat that had something in mind that she wanted to do, or rather, something they could do only now that they were at the main base of Azur Lane.

“You really memorized the whole place already, uh?” Buggy asked, finally breaking the silence that had settled once they made their way out of the test site.

“Well, we had plenty of opportunities, on the first day they gave us a brief tour.” Stormcat replied “Plus, this morning Coby convinced me to accompany her on a morning jog alongside Tennessee and some other girls keen on taking advantage of every second of daylight.”

“ah… how was that like?” Buggy asked somewhat gingerly about it.

While they preferred to be on the move or doing something, there was always individual characteristics and peculiarities to the Valkyries. And in Buggy’s case while she was quite reliable and serious, she tried her best to take to heart the idea of this being a break of sorts. As such, she certainly did not spend her first morning in Azur Lane waking up her teammates at dawn break in order to go for a jog around the island. Plus, from the sounds being made early morning on their accommodations, as well as the current conversation, someone else took it into their hands that her team had some morning exercises.

“Eh, it is a nice enough place. It’s the people that make it shine, really. Some of these girls are quite cheerful and accommodating.” Stormcat shrugged her shoulders at that statement.

“The arrangement of the base is kinda hectic. We made our way to pick up some more people from each dorm to join the jog around the base. It’s a pretty common thing for them, apparently. That’s why I know where to go now.”

“And where is that? You kind of just started walking without saying where you intended to go.”

“Oh, I didn’t tell you?” Stormcat giggled at that.

“E-yup, sure haven’t”

“I see, my bad, sorry.”

"You still haven’t answered my question" Buggy insisted in a semi-playful tone.

"Fine, if you want to be so insistent about it." Stormcat replied while raising her hands in a defeated gesture.

And regardless of such a statement, Stormcat simply remained quiet for the next few minutes. Buggy could only sigh internally, as well as quite openly about it. Her companion was wont to have bouts of whimsical behavior, and she knew by vast amounts of unfortunate experience that once Stormcat got into such a mood, it was simply better to not pursue any further, especially if one didn't feel like engaging in some kind of tomfoolery.

And they were technically in vacation time, as such she simply allowed the lull of the conversation to turn into a pleasant sort of quiet moment where she didn't have to get straight answers out of her team.

It was after several minutes of walking through the well paved roads of Azur Lane that they reached one of the various Kansen dorms. Buggy was surprised by the sight of it, she more or less expected something militaristic in nature, but in reality it had the profile of a common modern building. It certainly didn't look the part of a modern corporate building, but it still held a certain degree of that ominous feel from such a place.

Thinking about it she realized that she didn't know enough architecture to be able to formulate an opinion about the minute details of modern architecture. To her it was a building, it had its walls and it had its windows. She didn't feel like the building was making any sort of statement about anything in particular. Probably about being a neat and tidy place, if anything.

Stormcat entered without any sign of apprehension and Buggy just followed her inside, onto what was obviously a reception of sorts, a couple of couches with a coffee table in between, calm music could be heard coming from somewhere within the reception, with magazines and newspapers on the coffee table and even a reception desk past that, giving the impression that they had entered a lobby rather than a dorm.

" Guten Morgen . What can I do for you?" A girl manning the desk said.

Buggy was somewhat startled by the voice as she didn't realize someone else was in that room with them. Now that she paid closer attention, the girl behind the desk looked both serious as well as somewhat reluctant to be at her current station. Or perhaps a bit too distant. So far Buggy had interacted with a whole bunch of extroverted Kansen, so this would be her first interaction with someone that was more on the quiet side.

The girl had short dark brown hair held on a few braids, 2 small ones framing her face, and most notably her tidy and somewhat complex uniform that drapped her in dark blues, red and golden accents, A beret on her head and most notably a puppet that seemed to be made out of metal on her right arm.

"Eh, we came to see whoever has the food." Stormcat stated.

Buggy´s mind came to a screeching halt upon hearing her companion's words. Many ideas and words came to mind as well as possible implications of what could be actually going on, all coalescing into one simple statement.

"For the love of- you just wanted to have Iron Blood food?!" She asked in disbelief.

"Er... I mean, it is a bit more complex than that..." Stormcat replied inching away from her superior.

"Oh! wait, you two are Valkyries visiting, aren't you?" The girl manning the desk asked.

"I see... it makes sense. I hear you sometimes make a pilgrimage to the Vaterland , but I suppose it makes sense to want to come and visit Mutter if you happen to be here. And you should be hungry." The girl said as she eyed the two of them.

Before hearing their responses, the girl checked a clipboard she had nearby, flipping the pages and nodding a few times to herself.

"Right now, both Mutter as well as Herr Bismarck are in a meeting with the commander, but they should probably arrive after lunch time" She quickly stated going over any possible counter argument that Buggy could even come up with.

"You are free to remain here at the reception if you wish to. But If you are feeling peckish, Miss Thüringen should be practicing in the kitchen and she could be able to prepare something for you."

"Yes, that would be ideal!" Stormcat replied before Buggy could even say something.

"Understood, please follow me. My name is Georg Thiele, I´ll guide you to our kitchen." The girl said, nodding at them in acknowledgement.

"Ah, nice to meet you. I am Stormcat, er... just Stormcat, I suppose." Stormcat said.

"Nice to meet you, I am Buggy of the Eagle Union´s Valkyries" Buggy managed to introduce herself, coming to a better known territory for her, quick and simple self introductions.

"Likewise" The girl stated, she nodded marginally in response and turned around, making her way into the dorm building without waiting for a response.

Buggy wanted to explain that while she was in fact hungry, her main reason to visit the Iron Blood dorms within Azur Lane was not something as unseemly as wanting to taste their local food. She had no real counter argument at that, and while she frantically went over which arguments she could probably bring regarding such a thing, she continued following Stormcat and the IronBlood destroyer.

Her opportunity to explain herself became slimmer when she realized that they had already entered the kitchen within the dorms. She became immediately fixated on how big and tidy the place was, everything seemed like it had been cleaned purposefully with the intent to host visitors, or probably an inspection. Which was pretty much on point with what she had experienced of the people from Iron Blood.

Then again, an inspection was probably taking place already, as she noticed there were three more people in the place. One of them was dressed like a maid of sorts. Truth be told, Buggy had not had much exposure to the whole maid culture until she came to Azur Lane, where the exposure to such a thing had been above and beyond what she had thought possible.

Some of the royal Maids had made her wish she could make some, less than professional requests from then, on a more private setting. So all in all she found some trouble trying to concentrate whenever there was a group of maids working. And this time wasn't an exception as the low cuts, present around everywhere on their attires, had distracted her enough that yet another conversation had already started before she could fully realize it.

"Guttern morgen, Miss Gneisenau, Miss Scharnhost, Miss Thüringen, these girls are Valkyries visiting us, they have come to visit Mutter, and they also want some food."

Without giving much else of an explanation, the Iron Blood girl simply nodded and made her way out of the kitchen while everyone else remained a little bit confused by the statements.

Once George had left the kitchen everyone looked at each other as if trying to make sense of what had happened, as if the others had more information about what was taking place.

And one of them decided then that was how things must actually be like.

"You are Valkyries then, correct?" A tall Iron Blood woman asked them.

Buggy was once again surprised by how different each Kansen seemed to be, as well as how bold they could be regarding their attires.

In front of her stood an Iron Blood Kansen with striking blue eyes framed by professional-looking red-rimmed-glasses, long straight lilac-colored hair, wearing a cap, part of her uniform of dark blue color with red accents, if it could be called an uniform, really. She wore rather small shorts, and thigh highs, a jacked that seemed like a pointless piece of wardrobe as it both exposed her midriff as well as her shoulders, and her sizeable chest was barely contained held by a white shirt that was once again fully exposed by the jacket.

"Buggy, you are staring too much again" Stormcat chided softly at her companion, bringing her out of her daze.

"Ma'am! I am sorry, I didn't mean to stare but if only respectfully!" Buggy quickly babbled as she stood at attention.

"It is all fine." the other girl sitting beside that particular Kansen answered. "While most would readily assume it is improper, we won't easily shy away from someone willing to appreciate fine Iron Blood engineering."

"You are completely fine-eh-Right!! You are completely right ma'am!." Buggy quickly replied, composing herself mid sentence as best as she could.

The second Kansen was apparently related to the first, with the same build, same hair color, and similar uniform just slightly different on some parts, covering more of her body and yet somehow displaying much more at the same time. but most notable on her was an eyepatch covering her left eye.

"I think we might be teasing her too much as it is," The third Iron Blood Kansen in the room said, one with calm blue eyes and long gray hair, being for some reason dressed like a maid.

"Yes. Please, let's just disregard my friend while she overcomes her sudden bout of shyness." Stormcat said with a grin to her face.

"Wait no! dont disregard me-!.. a-bah ba- I mean!" Buggy tried to complain about the implication of her getting shy around the Kansen, but she only managed to fumble her own words in a majestic fashion ending up covering her face for a couple of seconds trying to hide her blushing face while she put one finger up, indicating for everyone else to give her a few moments to compose herself.

"While that is comical enough, it would probably be for the best to make note it would be on her best interest that she doesn't meet Eugen, or she will risk most of her vocab being teased out of her" One of the two sisters said, the one with glasses, stating it in a matter-of-fact way, to which the other Iron Blood Kansen simply agreed by nodding in acknowledgement.

"Anyway, I am Scharnhorst, this is my sister Gneisenau and this is Thüringen." The Iron Blood girl with the eyepatch introduced each one as she signaled at them with her hand, with each one nodding minutely in response.

It was obvious she was done with their introductions as they looked intently at Stormcat and Buggy.

Stormcat had enough experience dealing with Iron Blood people to be able to pick on such a cue, she looked at Buggy who had recovered enough to seem at least ready to introduce herself properly if left to her own devices, and probably if left alone with people with less distracting attires.

"This is Buggy, and I am Stormcat, both of the Eagle Union Valkyries." She introduced both of them in a simple manner, signaling each one of them.

"Oh? At first I thought you were a Tiger, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all." Gneisenau said as she fixed her glasses and looked at Stormcat with a much more appreciative look.­ "So tell me, what brings you to the Iron Blood dorms? You don't seem to be Zealous enough about your origin to be looking for Miss Freiderich, nor Herr Bismarck."

"Well yeah, that would be interesting in itself, I suppose, with our origins and all that." Stormcat said as much while shrugging in a noncommittal fashion.

"I am here for the food." Stormcat stated, again.

"What do you even mean with that?!" Buggy exclaimed, once again bothered by such a statement coming from her friend.

"You have heard before how important it is for the Tigers back home to come and meet Miss Friederich and Miss Bismarck! This is kind of disrespectful!" Even though Buggy wanted to shout at her friend due to how wrong all this situation seemed to her, she managed to keep her voice low, and she even managed to somehow whisper the last part of her statement.

"I mean, we are proud of food, so we can probably just indulge your request, even if it's a little odd." Thüringen, the maidly dressed Iron Blood Kansen said as she eyed Stormcat.­

"Oh really?! Thank you! Now I'll really know if Emma and Emilia are pulling my tail about their food being actually great or if they are just pranking me with their bad rations."

She said as much, as she looked at her friend with a pleased look on her face, nonetheless she failed to notice that everyone else in the room had a look of confusion on their faces.

"Wait, what do you mean by their bad rations? Iron Blood rations? Is that why you are here?" Buggy all but hissed back at her friend.

"Eh? I mean, yeah, a couple of our companions back home are two Tigers, sent there as part of the Valkyrie exchange system and what not" Stormcat said matter-of-factly, as she more or less gave her answer as a simple explanation to everyone in the room.

"Wait, two Tigers have shared their rations with you? Iron Blood Valkyrie Tigers?!" Scharnhorst asked with a look of disbelief on her face.

"I mean, yeah? There are two Tiger Valkyries on base, I often get teamed with them because they seem to respond positively to me, I think?. Tough girls, just seem like their responses to most things are too intense at times." Stormcat said as she shrugged her shoulders.

"Like, at the end of missions they would make a point of making a campfire and heat up some of their rations. They would constantly brag about how the real dish, 'from the vatherland' would be so much better while giving us canned stuff that I could barely palate." She said as she pantomimed the gestures made by the Tiger Valkyries in question.

Stormcat continued explaining, completely blind to how the Kansen from the Iron Blood, as well as her own companion, were looking at her with astonishment evident on their faces.

"Er... I don't think I have ever been offered any of their rations" Buggy said while looking at Stormcat who seemed agitated over the whole canned food situation.

"Actually I don't think I have heard of anyone else being offered some of their stuff" Buggy commented softly as she pondered on the issue.

Everyone remained quiet as the statements seemed to confuse everyone in the room, even Stormcat who wasn't aware that no one else had tried the Iron Blood rations.

"You must be a hell of a fighter then!" Scharnhorst loudly stated as she crossed her arms, breaking the silence that had fallen onto the room, looking at Stormcat with a whole different look on her face, evidently reevaluating her opinion of the Valkyrie in front of her.

"Eh?!" Stormcat said intelligently, looking like a cat startled by the IronBlood girl raising her voice. Her two tufts of hair, which resembled cat ears, also flopped backwards in response to her surprise.

"They must really appreciate you." Her sister Gneisenau added, accommodating her glasses as she looked intently at Stormcat and Buggy, stopping if only to look at Thüringen and nodding at her, part of some interaction that went completely over the Valkyries heads.

"Ok then, I suppose this would be a great opportunity to put my skills to the test. But with things as they are, I am thinking we should also call for Nurnberg." Thüringen said in response to Gneisenau's meaningful look at her.

"That seems like the right thing to do. No offense meant to you, Thüringen. You are quite accomplished at this, but Nurnberg really has a way to bring the flavour of the fatherland onto any dish." Geneisenau said.

"None taken, I know what you mean. I don't intend to presume I can bring the best to the table, and I am quite happy knowing my skills are developing. I wish I was able to bring some of the 'old flavours' I remember to everyone, but until I reach a decent enough level, I am happy to continue practicing."

"Now if you will excuse me, ill go for her then." Thüringen said, making a minute curtsy while holding her attire, leaving without much fanfare.

"Now, come sit, I will serve you some good beer. Iron Blood cuisine is meant to be served warm and with a cold drink on hand." Scharnhorst said as she stood up and started looking at the cabinets within the kitchen.

"heh, they have said as much before." Stormcat said as she took a seat that had been offered by Gneisenau, with Buggy following suit next to her

"Hah! They must really like you." Scharnhorst said with a rather jovial tone to her as she continued going over the kitchen, now holding two tall glasses intended for their drinks. 

"You should probably remain at the dorm until Miss Friederich comes back, she will surely want to hear from your interactions with Emma and Emilia. Really, she is always delighted when she hears something from her 'Valkyrie daughters' "

The upcoming event most likely based on previous events this time of year will most likely have new skins for the PR7 ships, what skins would you like for the PR7 ships?

1: Her crystal depicts a red spider lily, a flower associated with Akagi

2: Her summons are beasts from Naraka, where we found Akagi META

3: Her skin is fan-art and she has no voice, meaning they most likely didn't prepare for her.

4: Akagi META was kinda prominent in the last event and shows up in this CtA. Taihou META has yet to be seen.