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After landing at the Heathrow airport in London UK, Taylor for the first time in her life entered another country, with her Fleet of shipgirls. Where a military escort awaited her, she rode in the royal car with Victory, Hood, Sheffield, and Glassglow. Who Victory picked as the ones who have the least issues of their choice of clothes, which would have reporters taking pictures and having shipgirls dressed in very revealing outfits would be a bad impression. Taylor did pick Peter Strasser of the Iron Blood, Bataan of the Eagle Union, Chkalov of the Northern Parliament, Lampo of the Sardegna Empire and Verdun of the Iris Dominion. The latter two rode in the royal car, with Verdun riding in the passenger side of the car.

The convoy took them to Beckham Palace, while the other shipgirls are taken to the nearest shipyard that had been prepared for them. With all the resources and skilled shipbuilders from the countries that made up the EU, to fully repair the shipgirls and bring the shipgirls who died back to life. For like ships that have been raised from where they sank, ships can be repaired and be brought back to service. And unlike the US government, there was no grandstanding or filibustering they just all agreed to do it, as they're not going to ruin their relationship with Sovereign.

The convoy pass by crowds that lined the streets in the hopes of seeing the American princess or one of her shipgirls, the police and the local heroes are all out in full force. Stopping at the front of the royal palace, the carriers who had been flying above the convoy landed around the royal car. Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth stood with the other members of the royal family, to greet their cousin. The first to step out of the car is Victory who lends her hand out helping Taylor out of the car, followed by the other shipgirls.

"Your Majesty," Victory greets the queen.

Queen Elizabeth smiles warmly at the legendary warship. "Victory! How have you been?"

"I'm good, Your Majesty." Victory replies, and steps out of the way so that Taylor and Queen Elizabeth view wasn't block by her. "I present, Taylor Hebert of the royal house of Norton."

"Norton?" Queen Elizabeth asked.

"I decided to go with my great grandfather's royal house that he created by himself," Taylor explains. "As the only member I can decide the royal rules and traditions of my house. I would otherwise have to follow so many customs and rules of all the houses that, I'm apart of." (1)

Queen Elizabeth nods. "That's quite wise of you, Taylor, and good luck with that."

Taylor turns to face Queen Elizabeth, and bows slightly. "Thank you Your Majesty."

"You're welcome," Queen Elizabeth said as she welcomes her great niece to the family.

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Weeks later -

The repairs and rebuilding of the shipgirls have been going well, as the hero tinkers of Europe have also leaned a hand in the work and calling up other parahumans with useful powers to help as well. They're not only rebuilding the dead shipgirls but also making them stronger and more powerful then they were before. Updating their old systems and weapons, with modern ones or replacing them all together. But it will still take time for the refits and repairing to complete, which will take some months. With some of them being taken to their home ports of the countries they originally came from.

Sovereign has been busy gaining much good will among the countries of the EU. Assigning shipgirls to the countries of the EU and working with the local caps and navy or military, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Each country has on average have at least 10 shipgirls who are station in the country not counting the ones being rebuild or repaired, with them tearing through the villains.

With her Fleet killing an endbringer and now taking care of villains, has brought Soverign much praise with the countries that her shipgirls are station in. The seas have once become a hub of travel thanks to the death of Leviathan, no longer stalking the seas. And now that people have seen one of the endbringers dying, has cause people to start having hope again.

Sovereign has also been traveling around the countries of Europe meeting up with members of the royal families that she's related to and making bonds with them. She's been traveling with Constitution and a ever changing bodyguard shipgirls. But the ones who stayed with her no matter what are, August von Parseval, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Gnevny, Gromkiy, Boiky, Verdun, Volta, Carabiniere, Belfast, Illustrious, Leonardo da Vinci, Axum, and Bataan, who always travel with her. They also brought along with them all the children shipgirls to keep an eye on them.

The reason why is that when they were staying in England, at the royal palace the kids got into the candy which is much sweeter than it is back in the states. The results is that Clevelad, Lena, Li'l Sandy, Little Enterprise, Little Bel, Little Cheshire, Little Illustrious, Little Renown, Little Prinz Eugen, Zeppy, and Little Spee went on a sugar rush rampage again. Which had them chasing the dogs of her great aunt all around the palace and making a mess. So the kids are traveling with Sovereign so they won't make a mess again and she can keep an eye on them.

And to make it up to her aunt, she gave her the command of the maid shipgirls. Who all have to wear the uniforms of the female staff of the castle instead of the sexy fetish maid outfits they usually wear. Which doesn't affect the other shipgirls who wear revealing outfits.

Which lead to rumors that Sovereign sleeps with her shipgirls. A tinker went so far to send in a camera drone to get a picture of her sleeping with her shipgirls, which the tinker did get a picture of her sleeping with her shipgirls at the hotel she was staying at in France. Which is just a picture of her sleeping with the shipgirl children sleeping on the bed with her, which they often do.

The child shipgirls are just kids emotional and appearance but they're just as powerful as their full sized adult counterparts. That adds to the protection around Sovereign thanks to most people just seeing that the chip shipgirls are just children, not expecting them to be much trouble or packing firepower that can kill an endbringer. It hasn't happen yet as the older shipgirls scare off any would be attackers, and what happen to the gangs of Brockton Bay made it clear what would happen to any villain or gang who tried.

The United States have been busy trying to get Sovereign to return back to the states. The bill that was filibustered was passed through as Sovereign had wanted without anything added or having anything else that the politicians who made it into a hot button topic caused it to be delayed in the first place. Not helped that during a live tv interview, Sovereign explained why she left and named all the politicians whose grandstanding to make power plays and pander to their power base, are the reasons why she left. Her fleet are the only ones to date who are able to kill a endbringer, but instead of giving her what she needs to kill the last two, the named politicians want to use her to get votes no matter what cost that, if her fleet isn't back to full strength when the next attack happens in the United States, she won't be able to do a repeat of Brockton Bay's victory when the people in charge care more to have votes and keep their power then keeping people alive. Not to mention some of the named politicians didn't see the shipgirls as anything but weapons, and easily replaceable.

Needless to say the named politicians are doing damage control as they did what they can do to make themselves look good, when they're the ones who caused the parahuman and her summons who are the only ones who managed to kill an endbringer to leave the country. Lots of people both in the news and on Parahumans Online are slamming the politicians about their boneheaded move.

There is also the Russians who are demanding that their shipgirls are to return to Russia but the Northern Parliament shipgirls refuse to follow the commands of a government that executed the royal family. Sovereign maybe just a cousin to the Russian royal family but with the throne empty, she's their princess of choice. Causing much concern with the countries of the EU seeing how the shipgirls if they didn't want to would just leave, so they made sure the shipgirls are well treated. As the same thing happen with the Eagle Union shipgirls when the United States tried to get them to come back using their pride as Americans, which Constitution responded by pointing out that many of her girls are still wounded or dead, because of a few politicians who cared more about staying in power then her girls well being. Just like how soldiers are always been treated by the American government. Warning the parahumans working for the government that their benefits would be taken away or made it be like Hell to get them. (2)

Also with the Fleet gone the villains and gangs saw the opportunity to fill in the power vacuum they left behind, which even the Elite the largest villain organization in the United States had made plans to keep out of the way of the Fleet. But that was before Lung reappeared and stake his claim to the entire city, now seen as even more powerful then he was before, thanks to him helping to kill Leviathan with him tearing the endbringer apart. He has one of Leviathan's eyes preserved and on display in his HQ as a trophy. Not many villains or gangs want to mess with him.

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Italy -

The Stibbert Museum is located on via Frederick Stibbert on the hill of Montughi in Florence, Italy. The museum contains over 36,000 artifacts, including a vast collection of armor from Eastern and Western civilizations. Where Sovereign is looking around as she's been visiting places while she's on her tour. Currently with her are Carabiniere, Pola, Zara, Vittorio Veneto, Marco Polo, Eugenio di Savoia, and Constitution who always sticks to her. With it being their country, the Sardegna Empire shipgirls are taking over the tour of their country. The others are busy keeping the child shipgirls out of trouble and the crowds from bothering Sovereign.

Sovereign is at the museum looking around as while she's on tour around Europe she wants to see all the sights that she can. She and her escort had already seen all the big sights of Rome and visited Vatican City. Sovereign now wants to visit lesser known places to visit. (3)

The Stibbert museum is a interesting place to visit, with all the artifacts that are on displayed. Sovereign is currently looking over the artifacts from Asia, looking over the royal seals from China, the collection is mostly made up of copies of the real thing. But they are very old which is why they're priceless artifacts. Most of the items here are too fragile to be opened so they can be inspected for age and damage. She takes note of the different types of armor from the various cultures of the world. From the armor of the Chinese, the samurai of Japan, and the armor of the Mongols.

The sound of breaking glass alerted everyone as something was toss through one of the windows. Quickly Pola, Zara, Vittorio Veneto, Marco Polo, and Eugenio di Savoia through themselves on top of the briefcase using their shields and bodies to muffle the explosion. Constitution quickly wraps herself on Sovereign, shielding her from the explosion as the briefcase bomb of a pack of C4's and tinker tech blew up. The blast flung the shipgirls around the room and sending Sovereign and Constitution into a display case smashing the protective glass on impact, with Constitution taking the full impact.

Bursting into the museum are the Three Blasphemies who are made up of three women with alabaster skin and white hair. They wear masks depicting ruby-lipped faces, a smile, a frown and a snarl , and flowing, white dresses. They been sent to kill Sovereign and are making sure that she's dead. They know that the shipgirls wouldn't be down for long and the blast would bring the other shipgirls to their location in seconds. They had time their attack when the rest of the shipgirls weren't close enough to come rushing to the rescue. What they didn't expect was a group of new shipgirls bursting into the room.

"Protect the Empress!" Yat Sen as she lead the Dragon Empery shipgirls.

The Chinese shipgirl destroyers An Shan, Chang Chun, Fu Shun, and Tai Yuan quickly surrounded their empress. The light cruisers and the lone carrier attack the Blasphemies, with Harbin using her giant umbrella to push the 3 supervillainess out of the window where they came from, with the help of the others. The Blasphemies landed on the group and look up as Harbin, Yat Sen, Ning Hai, Ping Hai, Chao Ho, Ying Swei, Hai Chi, Hai Tien, and Chen Hai leaping out of the broken window, followed by the other shipgirls who had recovered from their bomb.

The Blasphemies seeing how badly their plan had gone wrong run from the enraged shipgirls. As they were running they were slammed into by the small but very heavy bodies of Little Enterprise, Little Illustrious, and Zeppy who had been flying around the museum when the attack happen, when they saw the three Blasphemies running from the other shipgirls they attack. The three child carriers attack the Blasphemies by bitting and ripping chunks of flesh from the villainesses who were taken completely by surprise at the sheer level of strength the child shipgirls displayed.

The other ships girls from both inside and outside of the museum piled on top of the three villainesses like a pack of zombies. Teeth bite and chunks of flesh are bitten off, hands grab and tear off a piece of the villainesses as they fight back the best they could, but unlike the heroes they're use in dealing with, the shipgirls don't follow the unwritten rules and simply went for the kill. For they tried to kill their princess and have to die for it. They only stop tearing and ripping apart the 3 villainesses only when there was only scraps of them left.

The scene was caught by the cameras of the people in the crowd and the news crews. The Blasphemies were the European Slaughterhouse 9 and now are just the scraps of what the shipgirls didn't want to eat. The shipgirls turn to the museum where Constitution came walking out holding Sovereign in her arms with the destroyers with their rigs arms and ready to fire at anything.

"Get her to a hospital!" Constitution shouted to the carriers.

August von Parseval took Sovereign in her arms and flew off on her dragon rig with the other carriers flying as escort.

Constitution turned to the Chinese shipgirls. "I felt Sovereign using her power, but how was she able to summon you all?"

"Her empress was holding onto this when she called us," Tai Yuan said holding out the jade seal that Sovereign had unconsciously grabbed as she was using her power to call for help.

"A jade stamp?" Constitution asked looking at it.

"It's the Imperial Seal, the one who possessed this seal is granted the Mandate of Heaven, a sign of rulership over China," Yat Sen explains. (4)

"Wait isn't that just one of many fakes?" Marco Polo asked.

"No it's the real seal that had somehow ended up here," Yat Sen said.

Constitution looks at the seal and at the Chinese shipgirls. "So by her holding onto the seal and with no royal family on the throne in China. And she is royalty, it was good enough to allow her to claim the title Empress of China?"

"Yes, she has claimed the title and will be crowned the first empress of China once she enters the Forbidden City," Yat Sen said.

"Oh yeah that's right you all were scrap so none of you know what happen to China since you all were last around," Constitution said as the shipgirls who were scrap or sank had lots of things to catch up on since they were last around. And knowing that once Sovereign comes to, she's not going to like that she's now has a new royal title and a new fleet of shipgirls to deal with, again.

"What happened to China?" Yat Sen asks.

"This is going to take awhile," Constitution said knowing this is going to shock the Chinese shipgirls of what happen to their country.

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Gospel Of The Throttle

Taylor Hebert stands in front of a mirror and besides the mirror is her royal uniform on a mannequin of her size.

'Just give me the feeling push my motor everyday'

'gospel of the throttle, push my engine all the way'

Admiral Hipper poses in front of Berlin Palace.

'Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na'

'Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na'

Victory has one leg on a rock as she stands in front of Buckingham Palace.

'Driving'

'Twisting turning sideways'

'I can't take pressure no more'

'Got a love like a hurricane'

Constitution leans on the front of Eureka Lodgings a boarding house.

'I got my love'

'I got this love'

'I got my hurricane'

Kommuna leans on a guard rail in front of the Winter Palace.

'catch me if i'm speeding, push my motor everyday'

'hustle of the muscle, Push my engine all the way'

Vittorio Veneto is pushing her hair off her face as she stands in front of the Royal Palace of Caserta.

'Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na'

'Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na'

Mutin sits on a bench in front of the Palace of Versailles.

'Driving'

'Twisting turning sideways'

'I can't take pressure no more'

'Got a love like a hurricane'

Yat Sen posed in front of the Forbidden City.

'I got my love'

'I got this love'

'I got my hurricane'

Sovereign walks out of her room fully dressed in her royal attire and stands in a grand hall greeted by her fleet of shipgirls.

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1 - From what, I know of Royal Families, they have to follow rules and customs to keep appearances and not bring shame to the house name.

2 - Seeing how military veterans have what was promise to them taken away, the same would happen to parahumans.

3 - While seeing the big tourist hot spots is a must, if you can you should visit more less known places which can have their own charm to them.

4 - Imperial Seal of China, also known as either the Jade Seal or the Heirloom Seal of the Realm (Chuanguoxi/Tengokuji) and Imperial Jade Seal, is a carved seal made from the historically famous He Shi Bi jade. It was once believed that those who possessed this seal would be granted the Mandate of Heaven, a sign of rulership over the Middle Kingdom.

This particular seal was crafted in 221 BC when Shi Huangdi toppled the six Warring States and unified China under his rule. He had his chancellor, Li Si, inscribe it with the words: "Receive the mandate from heaven. Enjoy longevity and eternal prosperity." The seal was described to have been four inches at the base with an upper ring carved in the likeness of five interlaced dragons. It is also said to have a chipped corner repaired with gold due to Han Empress Wang throwing it on the ground in response to the demands of Wang Mang.

The usage of seals were primarily used to affix documents, literary works, and various paintings. There was a time when all seals were referred to as xi until the birth of the Qin Dynasty made the word exclusive to seals used by the emperor. Early seals were mostly created from jade, bronze, or other precious metals; later eras used materials such ivory and porcelain in the crafting process. The creation of seals was considered a form of art.

The Imperial Seal was passed on from one successor to another until it was deemed missing during the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. There are many theories as to how it disappeared, but none have been proven so far. The seal was never found and its location remains a mystery to this day. With many copies and fakes appearing throughout history.

And while, I did say that the Asian shipgirls wouldn't be showing up in the story because that Taylor is related to the royal family. Doesn't mean I can't bring them in by other means.

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