Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Measure of Soul. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own DITF, Code:000, Cloverworks, Trigger and a few others do.

Rex settled into Carnelian's cockpit as the Moho class Klaxosaur continued to climb up the tunnel.

Val and her Comet Class continued to fly behind him with the diplomats sitting in a small Conrad Class which seemed like a toy compared to the bigger Klaxosaurs.

"We're be on the surface within a few minutes…. I can't believe the others are late…" Rex muttered as Carnelian's claws crushed a rock under its weight.

"They aren't late, their supposed to meet us on the surface after we get settled in…. I got them out of the way so we don't have to put up with the mission nearly failing because they do something stupid… Seriously, how did they become wolves with how they treat every mission?" Val asked, Rex chuckled as he slowly began to see sunlight.

"Nearly to the entrance of the tunnel, stand back." Rex stated as he began to charge the 'corona canon' as people called it.

He charged it for 10 seconds and then fired it, vaporizing rock and stone as light shone into the tunnel.

"Ok, let's go, we're nearly at the surface… Val, get some recon done, I'm going to escort the diplomats to the surface…" Rex ordered as he continued to move Carnelian towards the hole and the surface.

Val and her Comet class soared out and onto the surface with Carnelian slowly following.

"Wow… Damn…. I didn't expect to see anything like this…" Val said as Carnelian slowly climbed out of the tunnel and then stopped with the diplomats behind them.

Rex climbed out of the cockpit and then blinked as he felt something under his boots. He looked down at the green, plant life.

"What is this?" He asked before noting a giant ball of light in the sky and held out his hand in front of his face.

"Light? And some form of plant life?" Rex asked as he tried to remember if the Klaxo Sapiens had ever gone to the surface.

He came up nearly empty, Klaxo Sapiens had never interacted with Humans before… And the few times they had gone to the surface had become nearly lost to time.

"The surface is… beautiful… And confusing, it's so different…" Val said before the Conrad Class walked up to the Wolf Captain.

"Captain, as much as all of us would love to explore, we have a mission to carry out… We should look for Humans and start to speak with their leader…" He heard from one of the diplomats before Val soared overhead.

"I think we might have them find us first… Tunneling our way to the surface is sure to make people curious and considering the fact that Klaxosaurs haven't been seen by humans besides a few myths?" Val said as Rex climbed into Carnelian's paw which raised him back to the cockpit.

"Let's get moving, we need to find the Humans and we can sight see later, the diplomats are right… I wish we didn't have a war with the rebels so we could enjoy this…" Rex stated before he turned and continued to move onward.

He continued to look at the plants and continued on his way, wondering what would come next now that they were on the surface.

"You think we're going to be able to talk to the humans? Their probably scared of us… Walking war machines… You know?" She asked while Rex sighed and looked around.

"Everyone is scared of something, Val… I know what I'm scared of, I'm not going to lie and say this isn't the perfect idea for us… But without Magma energy, the rebels will win the war and trying to launch a counterattack without Klaxosaurs? It wouldn't be worth the pain and suffering we'd be going through to try and defeat the rebels… This is safer… I'm honored to be walking the surface for peace… I just hope SHE isn't one of the people here, she'd kill me…." Rex muttered before they saw a vehicle fly overhead.

"Human? That looked Human." Val said before she followed it, Rex sighed and slowly coaxed Carnelian to follow the flying vehicle.

"Damn it, Val…" He whispered and continued to follow his second in command, they could be led into a trap, or an attack.

Or spirts forbid they scare the humans before they could talk to them, they'd ruin their mission.

"I don't know which is worse, getting into trouble… Or not knowing anything about the surface… And her still being mad at me…" He muttered as he climbed the hill and was greeted by the site of a structure, it looked like a city with dozens of Humans if he counted the specks.

He saw Vel fly over as people looked at him.

That was before he noticed one of the people looking at him… Was HER. He would never forget the pink hair.

"Oh Crap." Rex muttered.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out that the war with the Klaxo Sapiens that happened in the anime isn't going to happen… Not the same way. Also, I know how the anime ends and this will end differently. Next chapter will be on Wednesday and will show Rex meeting Zero Two and then helping the diplomats. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!