Chapter 10 nerds on a road trip

A/n: finally we're getting into the good part of the story! Let's have some fun! All comments are welcomed.

Corthal, Mathias, And Pina were making their way to their horses and units. Pina was reading through Mathias current notes that he took of what transpired at Alnus Hill, She was surprised at how he wrote it, And even more surprised at the images that he drew. But like Molt, Pina found the whole thing ridiculous.

"You idiot, I cannot believe that you even showed this to my father. This is more of a story for children than anything else!" Pina truthfully admitted. Mathias simply took his book back "Say what you want, Princess. But! We know what we saw, Didn't we, Corthal?" Mathias asked his friend. Corthal just placed his hand on his chin "Indeed..." Corthal muttered "We shall find this mage, Torture him, Obtain information on blue magical object, Claim it, Then kill him!" Corthal made clear "With this, The empire will become stronger than ever! And I'll have a powerful new sword in my collection!".

Pina just glanced at her brother, Was gaining a new trophy all that mattered to him at the moment? The empire was in danger of being on the brink of collapse because of losing 60% of their military might, And all he cared about was his so called rumor that might not be even true. But Pina knew that Corthal was like most pro-war senators. He, Like Zorzal, Always believed that the empire was unstoppable and could never be unopposed. She felt that way too, But she also had her inner doubts at times.

The three then made their way to the imperial halls as they went to a table that Pina's two members of her order of rose knights: Grey and Norma were sitting at.

"Grey! Norma! We have a job to do by my father" Pina told them as the two men broke from their conversation, "Ah, Princess" Grey happily greeted her "And prince, It's very good to see the both of you. You said that we have a job by his majesty?".

Pina nodded at them "I do" she explained "My father wants us to investigate the enemy at Alnus Hill".

"The enemies from the other world?" Norma asked her to make sure.

"Yes, Them! The very same enemies that our allied nations have been talking about". Grey then pondered about the other thing that the allied nations spoke about. "And princess...what about the so called-".

"Don't believe such things, Grey!" Pina interrupted him "Mathias has a report on that matter if you're interested in reading it". Grey then looked over at him, "Oh? You have information on the rumor?" Norma and Grey asked Mathias in unison. Mathias then handed Grey his book. "It's not a rumor!" Mathias defended himself "Corthal and I saw I saw it with our own eyes!".

The men then looked over at Corthal who only nodded at them, Giving them his way of agreeing with Mathias. Grey then looked over the report, Norma leaned over to read it as well. Grey read the report and was horrified by the amount of detail, But Norma was like the rest and didn't believe it.

"This is fake!" Norma told Mathias and Corthal.

"You know! I'm starting to lose my patience for every-time that I keep hearing that from people!" Mathias expressed angrily. Grey then handed Mathias back his book "Well, I am on the opposite end, I believe you Mathias" Grey proudly told him. This surprised everyone.

"Really? Oh thank you! At least someone believes me" Mathias expressed happily.

"You aren't the one to lie or make up things in your reports, My boy. That I know about you" Grey told him with a smile on his face.

"Grey! You can't honestly believe something like this!? Can you?" Pina expressed "No mage is capable of that kind of power! It's unheard of!".

"Princess, You know and I both know how dangerous a mage can be when an elf is with them right?" Grey asked her "They make for a terrible combination...".

"I-i know that, Grey! It's just that..." Pina glanced at the ground "I refuse to believe that one, One mage alone could kill over 10,000 units in one spell...that's all".

Norma then asked her a question.

"And as for this so called blue shaped light in the sky that produced this mage in black robes? As well as this powerful strange weapon?".

Pina then buffer as she crossed her arms "Now that is something that I absolutely cannot believe with all my heart!" Pina stated "That absolutely didn't happen, Mathias! And you and my brother can choose to believe it or not! Because I won't! Nor will the rest of the empire!".

"Fine with me, Princess" Mathias spoke "Corthal, Let us go and find this mage".

"Excellent" Corthal smiled with that feeling of bloodlust and overwhelming joy in his eyes, However before they could leave Pina reminded Mathias of something. "Wait!" Pina called out to him "Aren't you going to give Shandy your regards before you head off on your own investigation?". Mathias just looked at her before showing a sheepish smile on his face.

"Oh...I almost forgot, Thank you for reminding me, Princess" Mathias thanked her before he went to her home. Corthal then decided to leave as well "I'm getting my horse, Be safe on your mission, All of you" Corthal told them as he took his leave. Pina and him hugged before he set off, Leaving her with her comrades.

"Come, We shall get Hamilton for this investigation" Pina told them as they headed over to Hamilton's Home.

-meanwhile with the SDF-

The base of the SDF was fully complete, The base was huge and wide like a large star with a few large outer walls. It was thanks to the dragons and the nerds that they were able to finish in such quick succession. The team was having another meeting.

"Okay then, Shuffles. Back to our lesson on building a relationship" Fafnir told them while writing on the blackboard "Now then, I have some love potions if you want to go with that. However since I know that Kobayashi and Makoto are taken, I'll ask Sean. Sean, How would you give your love interest your sign of affection? Although I already know the answer to this" Fafnir asked him. Sean had his mask on the side of the table and his hood down whenever a meeting was held, Shino always sat next to him, And like last time, Was fuming at this conversation.

"Well..." Sean spoke to give his answer "I would give my love interest a paopu fruit shaped metal necklace first, It will at first look dim and faded, But as our relationship grows, It will then start to shine brighter in color, To the point that once our relationship is at full maximum. The necklace will then glow" Sean answered.

Fafnir nodded as he wrote this down on the whiteboard in full detail. As he was writing, Makoto and Lucoa leaned over to Sean. "That's not a bad idea, Sean" Makoto told him.

"I know! Oh it sounds so romantic! Maybe you and Elma should try something like that, Makoto" Lucoa suggested. Makoto then blushed as he looked over at Elma who was also blushing. "We...sort of did that" Elma admitted to the class. This made Fafnir stop writing.

"You have?" He asked "What's your way?".

That's when Elma made a golden chocobo feather appear in her hands. "With this, It's a custom made Chocobo feather glow earring" Elma told them.

"Indeed!" Makoto expressed with joy "This glowing earring will change colors like a mood ring! Golden glow is it's standard form. If it glows red, It means that it will become stage 1 in the relationship bar! Then green for stage 2, And then blue for stage 3. If it goes to the final color; black glow. Then the relationship between someone is maxed out. And they can be asked for their hand in marriage! Once a marriage happens, Then the black glow from the earring becomes permanently platinum. Symboling the married pair" Makoto explained in great detail.

"Wow, That's way better than mine, Nice work you two" Sean truthfully told them. "Thanks" Elma and Makoto both said in unison until Jessica opened the door to the room. "Hey guys! Sorry to interrupt class, But I have good news!" Jessica expressed. This now perked everyone's ears, Kanna came over to her.

"What is it Mom?" Kanna asked her as Jessica leaned down. "Well, I have just been given the order to investigate the people here" Jessica explained to her friends "We have to form a friendly relationship with the people, As well as understand any religions, Politics too".

Kanna then began to smile more "Are we going?".

"Yes! I'm getting a few people to come with us, Three vehicles, And some units too. You guys are part of my unit since I know all of you, Which means...".

Tohru then shouted at the top of her lungs.

"ROAD TRIP!".

Everyone then got from their seats and quickly ran out the door with Jessica in tow, Jessica just rolled with it as they headed outside.

-outside-

The group of nerds were present as well as Soichiro, Akira, Mari, Takeo, Wataru, And Hitoshi. Jessica had been given command of recon team three by Hazama. He wanted Jessica to have a small recon team because she would have her friends as a part of said team as extra support. She wouldn't need any back-up since she basically; As Hazama put it to her had "Walking talking nuclear weapons".

Recon three, Now dubbed by the group of nerds "Team high-wind" had as follows:

1 komatsu LAV with a rotational armored gun on the roof that could be removed.

1 Mitsubishi type 73 light truck.

1 military version Toyota high mobility vehicle with a cloth roof covering.

As for weapons, Jessica said to Hazama that she would give them any weapon that they wanted to use thanks to the dragons magic, Hazama agreed to this request.

"Third recon! Reporting in!" Soichiro called out.

"Wooo! Holy shit! What's up fuckers!" Jessica expressed with excitement as she was holding Kanna in her right arm, The others sighed, They were going to be in good hands with Jessica as their squad commander.

"Hey, Jessica! Oh! Guys! What's up!" Takeo said with joy to see his friends again. "Takeo!" Sean, Makoto, Elma, And Fafnir all spoke up as they made their way to him.

"Been awhile huh?" Takeo asked them.

"Indeed" Fafnir muttered "We've all been training, And now we're at a high enough level to face against any opponent that comes across our part members" he expressed in detail. Takeo smiled, "Thank goodness, Oh, Something was bothering me today when we got filled into third recon" Takeo told them as he crossed his arms.

"What's wrong?" Kobayashi asked them until Mari told her.

"Our weapons" Mari explained.

"We were told to hand over our weapons because we would be getting any gun that we required, Is that true, Lieutenant?" Akira asked. Jessica just smiled at them.

"Correct!" Jessica told them "Any gun you want! We got it! So, What would-".

"Something modern" They all said in unison, Even Shino asked for something as well. Jessica agreed as she then looked at Kanna. "Sweetie, You remember the weapons catalog that I showed you on my phone?" Jessica asked her, Kanna nodded.

"Yes, It was an app that had a bunch of information on all types of rifles and weapons called an igun pro app" Kanna explained "How does a L86 rifle, RPG-7 with stronger rockets, And model 460 XVR revolver, XM25 grenade launcher sound?" Kanna suggest.

The team just looked at Kanna in shock, She was seriously giving them the good stuff. Everyone looked at one another.

"Wow...that's-".

Kanna then interrupted them with a final bonus.

"I'll throw in unlimited ammunition" Kanna added.

"Deal!" They quickly answered.

Kanna then held out her hand as she made all of the weapons that she promised them appear in their possessions, Each person now had the weapons that she promised them, Minus the one RPG-7. The humans examined their new weapons.

"Wow, So detailed!" Wataru expressed.

Mari was looking over the revolver "Jessica, Shame on you" Mari jokingly said to her as she spun the revolver on her index finger "Letting your daughter get herself into learning things like this".

Jessica just cuddled Kanna lovingly, Kanna held her mother and gave her just the same amount of love. "Ohhh! She's my destructive bundle of joy! My sweet Kanna!" Jessica expressed lovingly. Kanna smiled as some love hearts appeared above her head.

"So are we ready now?" Kobayashi asked Jessica. Jessica looked at her as she gave the approval "Yup! Let's go team!". Everyone then got into their vehicles and quickly headed off to find a local village. Jessica's friends were in the second and third vehicle, While Kanna, Kobayashi, And Tohru were in the first vehicle. They drove down the highway as they passed by a monument, "Nice! A Stonehenge in this world that's similar to ours, We should get a picture of it once we finish" Kobayashi said to Jessica. "Noted Kobayashi" Jessica responded back.

"This is gonna be fun!" Tohru expressed as she held onto Kobayashi.

-coda village-

The group had been driving for about 1 hour, That's when Kobayashi spotted a village. "Village ahead" she said. "Good, Let's hope these language books come in handy" Jessica said until Lucoa thought of an idea. "Say, If you're having trouble getting information, I could make some ear piece for the team for you guys to help you understand the language barrier?" Lucoa suggested.

Soichiro kept the radio on so that way the other vehicles could hear any conversation going on, "Nah, We appreciate it, Lucoa" Soichiro told her "But that would prove a problem for any resistances that would want to live in our world".

"You think the humans here would want to live in the other world?" Elma asked over the radio.

"If the war with the empire ends and we work out a peace treaty then perhaps we can suggest the idea, I'm sure that some would like our world" Makoto added. Fafnir then placed his katana on his back. "Shuffles, Fall out!" He ordered as the vehicles reached the village. Everyone then got out of the armored cars, As they then looked at the entrance to the village.

Jessica and Fafnir then gave their orders to their respective teams:

"Okay!" Jessica spoke up loudly "Our job is to make peaceful relationships with the villagers! We need to understand their language and learn about the world".

"Ma'am!".

"Shuffles! The same applies to you as well, Since we chaos dragons came from this world. Some parts aren't necessary, We can understand the language well, As can our human memebers! Gain information to increase moral and reputation points!".

"Sir!".

As they were speaking, This got the attention of the villagers. The village elder came out of his home, As well as a few people. Some of the people were frightened by these strangers. "Mommy!" A Little girl looked up to her mother "Who are those strangely dressed people?". The little girls mother held her close to her side as she was just as afraid. "I don't know dear, But...they don't look like Imperials or from any other nations" the girls mother said.

The group of nerds heard them thanks to the dragons keen hearing, And the nerds keen hearing thanks to the dragons blood. They turned around to see a group of a few villagers had gathered outside. The villagers were both curious and frightened by these people as their village elder carefully walked over to them.

"Umm, H-hello..." he told them "Umm, If you'll pardon me for being rude for a bit, But...who are all of you?".

Fafnir then tapped on Jessica's shoulder getting her attention, She turned around to see what appeared to be the leader of this village. "Hello..." Jessica stammered out of her voice, Hoping that the language book she had quickly looked over helped "We...come from...magic gate on hill..." she spoke in their language. Thankfully the villagers and their elder understood her well.

"The gate from Alnus Hill?".

"Then these people are from another world!".

As the villagers were conversing with one another about them, The village elder spoke again.

"You seem to be having difficulty speaking it seems" he asked them.

"They're learning, But we were born from here" Tohru spoke up getting everyone's attention. "I'm Tohru, And these are Mr. Fafnir, Lucoa, Kanna, And Elma. We're chaos draconians" Tohru told them, The villagers began to act hesitant.

"A chaos draconian! Five of them!".

"They'll kill us all!".

"Oh by the gods, Why have you come here?!".

Fafnir then snapped his fingers at them "We're not going to hurt anyone" Fafnir told them calmly "We're not like any type of flying drake or any wild dragon. We just need information that needs to be given to our human friends here from the other world". Fafnir then pointed at the SDF, After Fafnir had told them that they were good chaos dragons, Everyone was at ease.

"Thank goodness" the village elder sighed "It's rare nowadays to see any dragons that aren't trying to hurt anyone or ones that leave their home, But it's extremely rare for Chaos dragons to be out and about. And with humans no less" he expressed "I thought that all chaos dragons harbored extreme hatred for all humans that weren't dragons" the elder said truthfully.

"We used to" Kanna spoke out "But after going to the other world we learned to like humans and coexist with them". The villagers were surprised, Chaos draconians coexisted with humans in another world. This was a rare thing to hear indeed. Lucoa then asked them for some information.

"We honestly don't mean to be of trouble" She expressed with gratitude "But, Could you give our other worldly friends any information about Falmart? Please" Lucoa asked the elder nicely. Some of the village males took a quick liking to Lucoa, Mostly due to her huge breasts, Some village females took note of this and were very jealous of her. The village elder compiled with some information to give them.

"Oh, Of course!" He happily agreed "-ahem- if your trying to find any other information about this area, Then should visit the forest that's down from this town, Take a right when you see a stream". Jessica spoke again in their language as best as she could.

"Where...does...forest...have?" She asked them.

"The forest has a village of elves that could help you with any extra information of this area, They're good people. Hmm...If only their Saint were here to see this discovery. Saint William be praised" the elder muttered that last part, But the nerds and dragons heard him. They would ask about who this saint William was latter, However Sean's ears had perked up at the word of Elves.

"Excuse me, Sir. But did you say that elves lived close from here?" He questioned as his friends instantly looked at him.

'Oh crap!' The nerds all thought.

"Yes I did, As I just said. There very good people, Perhaps they'll be better with providing more information than us" the elder spoke. Sean nodded at him as he then pulled up his hood to cover his face. "Thank you sir" Sean spoke kindly before looking at everyone "Get in the car! We're going to elf Disneyland!".

Everyone just had a large sigh and sweat drop as they all headed back to their vehicles. "We'll come back if we need anything else, Sir. Thank you very much" Kobayashi told them as they then left. The village elder nodded at them with a smile as they headed off to the forest.

-down the road-

Everyone was heading to the forest to get any extra information from the elves, Sean was in his car seat joyfully rocking back and forth with a huge smile plastered on his face. He was finally going to see some elves. The others looked at him, They did find it funny how he was acting.

"Sean, Why are you smiling so much?" Kanna asked him "Is it because you're going to find your relationship partner?". Sean blushed at Kanna's question.

"A bit yeah" he admitted "But this would be great to see how they function, Don't you think?". Fafnir was writing down notes for his guild "That, And you need to build relationship points as well as reputation points. Remember?" Fafnir reminded him. Sean rolled his eyes at him.

"I got it, I got it".

As they were going on, Lucoa and Shino were together, Shino was just staring at her breasts before looking up at Sean. Lucoa rubbed her head.

"Something wrong, Shino?" Lucoa asked her.

"It's not fair" Shino whispered "Why does he like elves? What do they have that a human girl doesn't?". Lucoa instantly answered "Thick...hips" she teased, Causing the young girl to blush. "W-we have that too! So-".

"They also have magic" Lucoa added.

"S-so?" Shino countered.

"Which means-".

"Okay, So They're better than a human girl..." Shino muttered. As that was going on, The others were also working out ideas, "Hey Fafnir?" Makoto asked him.

"Yes?" Fafnir responded.

"You think we can train these people into strong guild members?" He pondered. Fafnir just looked at Makoto until he went back to his notes "Perhaps...But only if they're willing to learn" he admitted. The other SDF members now were interested in this conversation. "Think I could join one day, Fafnir?" Takeo asked him.

"Perhaps once this is over you might be able to" Fafnir responded.

"You guys seem to take your role playing very seriously huh?" Hitoshi asked him.

"It's very serious work, Especially now since we're all at war with the empire" Kobayashi told Hitoshi as she looked at her hands as she then pulled out her guns to see them "I know that we'll have these people defending themselves in no time, Who knows, We might get famous if our reputation reaches maximum capacity". The others agreed "Correct, But for now let's start slow" Lucoa told them.

-sunset-

The drive was much longer than they thought, The three vehicles just kept going as the nerds, Minus Fafnir were asleep. Jessica was gently cradling Kanna as the child dragon cling to her mother as she slept peacefully. Jessica kindly hummed to her as she held her closely.

"Ahh...mmm, Mommy..." Kanna muttered in her sleep. Jessica smiled at Kanna as Akira and Mari looked over at her, They found the two absolutely adorable. "You really Love Kanna, Don't you, Jessica?" Akira asked her.

Jessica opened one of her eyes.

"Kanna is my little pride and joy" Jessica said happily "And Although she's not mine by birth, I love her all the same". The two soldiers were happy to hear than until Takeo called to them.

"Hey everyone! We got smoke!".

Everyone then woke up when Takeo made the announcement, The vehicles stopped on a hill as everyone then got out to see the mass amount of flames. The groups was in awe of this. "What the hell? A freak of nature?" Takeo pondered out loud.

Soichiro was looking through his binoculars until he found the source of the fire "More like big monster movie" he told them. The others looked at him as they all then looked through their binoculars, Only then to see a massive red dragon rise up as it was blowing fire from it's mouth.

"A dragon!" Makoto, Kobayashi, Sean, Jessica, And Shino expressed in surprise.

"A fire dragon...actually" Kanna told them as she rubbed her eyes.

"Not much of a threat against a chaos dragon" Tohru told them in a matter of fact way "They only have their size to show for it, But against a chaos dragon it would be absolutely suicide for them" she explained. "I see..." Kobayashi worded out "Come to think of it, The village elder did say that elves...oh shit!".

Everyone then remembered that, Sean quickly panicked as he then summoned his keyblades: Oblivion and Oathkeeper. "Bastered! I'LL KILL'EM!". Kobayashi then placed her hand on his shoulders, "Sean, Clam down" she told him "There May be survivors. Have faith, Don't freak out and rush in there to get killed".

Sean's hands were shaking in anger, But he calmed down, Kobayashi had a point. He made his weapons vanish as he looked back at the dragon to see it then fly off.

"You're right, Kobayashi..." Sean expressed in his bitter tone.

"Everyone, Move out! Nerds! Make it rain!" Jessica ordered.

"Ma'am!".

The Elma, Makoto, And Kobayashi, And Sean then all summoned a mass amount of water over the forest as it quickly took the fire down, They all headed down to the remains.

-burned forest-

The group were walking on the still hot land, They just made it rain, But it was taking it's time cooling down. Everyone saw some burned bodies, Figuring out already that they were elves. "Damn..." Jessica muttered as she turned to her team "Scatter! Find any survivors!".

"Ma'am!".

"The same goes to you guys!".

"Got it!"

The SDF all then ran around, While the shuffle alliance teleported around the forest, Jessica looked around as well, It was going to be a busy night.

-10 To 27 minuets latter-

The group were around the well of the forest village, They had some reports, But nothing of interest.

"Lieutenant, We've only found 32 building-like structures in this area" Akira told her "And 27 corpses...".

Jessica wasn't happy to hear that, Neither was Sean.

"Son of a bitch..." Jessica and Sean spat out, Jessica then sighed "Well...let's head back to the village and inform them about this in the morning" she told them as she then picked up the bucket that was next to the well "We should refill our water canteens just in ca-".

*clunk*

"Hm?!".

The others heard the clunk as well as Jessica and Tohru then Fafnir looked in the well. "What was that?" Tohru asked as Jessica shined her flashlight into the well.

"Not sure...but, Hey! We got a survivor!" Jessica announced to the team, This perked up Sean's ears. Sean ran over to the well to see. "We do!?" He asked her.

"Yeah! And by the looks of it, Female too!".

"I'VE GOT HER!" Sean declared as he instantly teleported into the well to get the female elf, His feet leaned in the low water as he gently picked up the young elf girl, Sean couldn't help but smile under his helmet. 'She's beautiful...' Sean thought as he then teleported out of the well.

A/n: done, Comment. I have to get ready for work.