April 7th 2011.
Newport News Virginia,
A small girl wearing a down sized naval officer uniform from the 1800s was passing time throwing a small steel ball up in the air and catching it.
Newport News was a small peninsula right above Norfolk. The town was relatively quiet not much exciting stuff happened especially with the Naval base just south of it.
Monitor was walking around the town bored out of her mind.
"Maybe I could go visit Wisconsin? Though Wisky scares me." Monitor mutters taking a short cut through an alley way.
The iron clad looked ahead to see the alley was a dead end.
"Ah, wrong turn." Monitor mutters spinning around.
The exit was blocked by two men. One was rather large and portly while the other one was tall and lanky. Both men had hoodies up to conceal their faces.
"Hello?" Monitor says
"howdy." The tall one says
Only to be smacked by the other one.
"We're robbing her, don't howdy her."
Monitor looks at the two shocked. "are you robbing me?" The girl asks for clarification.
"YES!" The portly one shouts
"Hey, Steve she seems nice. Maybe we shouldn't."
"Lenny you did not just say my name out loud!" Steve shouts
"You said my name out loud!" Lenny shouts back
"Oh yeah when?"
"Just now." Lenny punctuates
Monitor starts giggling.
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"Say Steve you hear that music?" Lenny asks
The two now broken out of their stupor look at the girl they were going to rob.
"Y'all've got the the worst luck." Monitor says
The two turn to see the oddest thing that loosely resembled a gun pointed at them.
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The girl was also wearing plate armor over her uniform.
"Is that laminated armor?" Lenny asks
"Yes, yes it is. And this is two 11 inch bore cannons." Monitor says motioning to the turret on the hull at her side
Steve nods.
"Yes… I think surrendering is the best thing to do here."
Lenny looks at Steve in shock.
"Nigerundayo!!!" Steve shouts running out of the ally.
"So, your one of those ship girls we've heard about on the news?" Lenny asks
Monitor nods not understanding why the guy isn't running.
"Neat." Lenny says
"Are you also not going to run?" Monitor asks
"Nah, walking is fine." Lenny says nonchalantly.
"What? I mean, your under arrest!" Monitor shouts
"Ma'am…" Lenny says
"I don't have any proof do I? And there's no witnesses. You've also not hurt me or actually threatened me yet. You just let it slip you planned to rob me." Monitor says
Lenny nods again.
"it's conspiracy however I don't really think the police would press that with that whole car jacking thing and the police chase across the state." Lenny says
"Yeah what happened with that anyways? I don't have much modern tech no how so I need to rely on the news and it's not as information dense as the papers used to be." Monitor says
"Some one stole a car in Rhode Island. And some thinker managed to say the thief would show back up around Norfolk." Lenny answers
"Right, I'm goin to let ya off with a verbal warn'in then." Monitor tells Lenny.
"I appreciate it ma'am." Lenny says
"Go home already. I just wanna get back to the museum." Monitor says