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.

(Capital city of Cadon.)

Rex marched towards the capital building before taking up a position around the staircase, he hummed and cracked his neck.

"You're sure that we're be done in 3 days?" He asked, he heard nothing at the moment.

"This reminds me of how you used to make sure I was able to get away with thieving." Zero stated, Rex hummed and cracked his neck before he walked backwards and leaned against the wall while human soldiers marched past him.

"That was a lot different from now, Oni, and you know it. You didn't have to distract armed guards and keep with the tricks over and over." He stated before he inclined his head slightly before he sat on a ledge.

"Perhaps, but you act like I was the only one who enjoyed those tricks." Zero smiled, Rex hummed and then tapped the wall before he heard a communication ding over his helmet.

"We've gotten security ready; we don't see anything else." He heard from one of his men, he brought a hand to his helmet.

"Make sure we're secure all over the building. I don't want to deal with the rest of the rebels in the area. We still haven't cleared out the last known location they were in." Rex said. He crossed his arms before rubbing at dirt on his helmet.

"We've not gotten any intel from the rest of the army. I don't want more ambushes like the last time." He ordered. Zero walked closer to him and he hummed once more.

"You know you don't always have to be so… Forget it, ive beaten that into the ground. Rex, do you ever time to relax and shed that make time for yourself." Zero asked, Rex looked to the side before he turned to look into the eyes of the girl.

He sighed and then put his weapon back onto his spine mounted stealth for the weapon. He slowly tapped the side of his helmet with annoyance.

"I'd do it if we didn't have a mission to do… I didn't have a mission to do. I have to keep my mind on the ball, we already had an ambush go on. I'm not going to let them get the drop on us a second time," Rex stated. Zero rolled her eyes with annoyance but said nothing at the prospect that he was dealing with rebels.

He heard another message before he tapped his helmet.

"What do you mean their done? I just got us set up down here, that couldn't have been all the talk was." He said, he got a reply a second later while Zero smiled.

"Yes, they are, they're going to stay here and said we could reconvene tomorrow. They wanted to go to a certain location where we'd give information to the human soldiers on the next meeting." He heard from another wolf and he sighed and turned to his men.

"I'm going to sleep until tomorrow when we get back… Ugh, we were here for all of 30 minutes and I'm dealing with a lot more crap then just this. I don't get paid enough for this; I don't want to deal with this." He stated, he cracked his knuckles before he started to march towards the hotel. He had nothing to say at the moment. He watched Zero follow him like a puppy.

He rolled his eyes and smiled, it wasn't that he couldn't hang out with Zero, it was that he was too tired and too annoyed, too focused on his mission to go and deal with playing with her.

He sighed and slowly began to bring his arm up to his face, he typed in a command and hummed when he saw the code to bring his Klaxosaur to him was received. He would just have to wait until tomorrow to get back to work.

He needed to do some recon and figure out who was behind all of this. He wanted to know who was the one who caused the ambush. Rex unslung his rifle and made sure it was set to full auto before he continued to wade towards home.

He said nothing, he needed answers.

"I'm going to go with you." Zero stated, he blinked and turned to look at her, he said nothing but nodded.

Talking Zero down was close to impossible, he didn't care at the moment, he wanted to know who was behind the ambush and if that meant dragging her along?

He'd do it, he had too much to protect to deal with objects like arguments and such standing in the way.

"Fine, just make sure not to blow the cover we have. I want to end this today and get it over with, ok?" He asked, he got no argument and that was the end of it.

He cracked his legs and broke into a sprint. Zero was right behind him the second he was sprinting.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! I apologize for this chapter being short, this story is going to be 80 or so chapters. Next chapter will show more romance and Zero and Rex hunting for more rebels. Until 3 or 4 weeks later on Sunday or so, Lighting Wolf out!