Intro: This is a story that goes into the yuri pairing in the Strike Witches series, but...

You know the drill now.

Disclaimer: I do not own Strike Witches and all this is purely fan made

Extremely rare comment answering:

Dear rdv, I do have other pairings in mind, but it usually takes a while to get the story idea and reference materials. I can't guarantee who or what's next, but I intend to try exploring beyond the 501st.

It is a peaceful day for the 504th Joint Fighter Wing. Especially for today since there's no chance for the Neurois to show up for today nor plans for mock battles... Everyone is simply on standby by doing their own things. But the commander, Major Federica Doglio, decided to issue a day off for everyone in the unit.

There is one thing however, that bothers Federica. She's been wondering about something... Almost everyone in her unit are paired up to someone; with the exception of herself, Lieutenant Fernandia Malvezzi, and Captain Junko Takei... She herself is the type of woman simply desires a lesbian harem, so she doesn't specifically consider in pairing up with anyone particular. But Fernandia on the other hand, even though she's a part of the best friends trio along with Ensign Luciana Mazzei and Master Sergeant Martina Crespi... Yet it seems like the two themselves are paired up to each other while Fernandia seems more like the leader of the trio... And Junko may be a friendly and great leader to her unit, Junko doesn't seem like she have any particular friend she talks to within the unit...

With today being a day off, everyone decided to leave the base, even Federica herself. The only problem is that most of them are going out in pairs; except for Federica, Junko, and of course the Red Pants trio... Until Federica decided to say something, "Hey, Fer. How about you and Takei hang out together for the day?"

Fernandia and Junko replied simultaneously, "What!? Why?"

Federica said, "I'd like to use today's day off and create duos within our unit because I might set up a two versus two mock battle to strengthen our unit some time soon. It's not like I'm setting this as a permanent thing but I'd like you two to give this a try, ok?"

Fernandia asked, "What about you, commander?"

Federica answered, "I'll be by myself today. I won't be flying much so I'm not too worried about it. Besides I have some businesses I have to deal with by myself."

Although Fernandia and Junko are rather confused by their commander, but then again this isn't the first time she had crazy ideas. So the two agreed to it. Martina and Luciana wondered why did the commander decided to do this, but they just went with it since Fernandia did.

Once the paperwork to leave were finished, every group and Federica went on their own ways within Romagna and Venezia. Fernandia and Junko decided on going to Bari, a town on the southeastern coast of Romagna. When they arrived, they first found somewhere to get lunch.

At a restaurant near a beach of Bari, they shared a pizza, a seafood pasta, and zeppola for dessert.

They started with the pizza as the appetizer, even though they both were used to the Romagna food in their base, but they really enjoyed the pizza made here.

Then as they wait for their seafood spaghetti, Junko said as she tried to break the ice, "The commander sure have some wacky ideas sometimes..."

Fernandia responded, "Y...yeah... Pairing us up like this..."

Junko quickly said as she waves her hands, "I mean it's not like I have anything against you..." Her waving then turned into fidgeting as she continues blushingly, "Y-You're kind, cool and all... It's just that I really don't understand commander Doglio sometimes... Like why duos?..."

Fernandia said while trying calm her down, "I know what you mean consided that I knew her since our Red Pants Unit days, but having a leader like her is always fun though... Speaking of which, what is commander Doglio doing today since she's not paired up with someone?"

Junko answered as she recall a little about what Federica told her, "I think she said she had some people she'd like to visit... It's related to our unit's support, so it's more of a serious business instead of a day off."

Fernandia said with a slight chuckle, "Well, it's good that she's still pretty serious when she need to."

Junko also chuckles a little and nodded in agreement. Then she changed the subject, "So, Bari looks like a very nice place."

Fernandia said, "The city just recovered from the damages Neurois done, but it is starting to shape up nicely."

Junko said, "That's good."

Then the waiter showed up with the spaghetti and two small plates. The waiter then took away the empty plates that they used for the pizza and left.

Fernandia grabbed the small plates and gave one to Junko, but Junko suggested, "...Maybe we could try to eat the spaghetti together instead of moving small bits to individual small plates, ...?"

Fernandia responded, "Umm... Sure..."

The two grabbed a fork and started eating. Junko tried the shrimp and mussel while Fernandia started with a bit of the pasta, then they switched around. By the time they were almost done, there was one shrimp and one mussel left with a little pasta left.

Fernandia offered, "You can have them."

Junko said, "Thanks."

She used her fork and ate the mussel, then she picked up the shrimp and remaining pasta with the fork and said, "Hey, Fer..."

Fernandia responded, "Wha-" Before she could finish the word, her mouth was full of pasta and shrimp.

As Fernandia chew and swallow the shrimp and pasta, Junko said with a little chuckle, "I kind of figured that sharing this is a much more fun way to end this meal."

Fernandia blushingly responded to what just happened, "W-Well, t-that was unexpected... But thank you..."

The waiter came back with the zeppola, but they decided to take it with them to go. After they paid for their meal, they went straight to the beach.

At the beach, they took off their officer jackets and walked around the beach as they enjoy the zeppola. Fernandia said as she gave one to Junko, "Takei, say 'ah'."

Junko opened her mouth and ate the zeppola off Fernandia's hand, she said with joy, "Mmmn! These are really sweet!"

Fernandia ate one herself and said, "Glad that you like it." Then she grabbed another one for Junko, Junko ate it off her hand again as well. But this time Fernandia kissed Junko's cheek as she lick off the cream on her face. Junko blushed heavily and said in embarrassment, "T-Thanks!"

"Hey! Captain Takei! Commander Fer!" Someone shouted from afar, Fernandia and Junko looked for who it was and saw two familiar faces waving in the water by the seashore.

Fernandia recognized the faces and yelled back as she and Junko meet up with them, "Martina! Luciana! What are you two doing here?"

Luciana said, "We were planning on shopping in Monopoli, but the place Tina wanted to go happened to be closed and the other places just didn't have the right stuff to us. So we decided to look for a similar place in Bari but ended up getting sidetracked by this beach..."

Martina said, "I didn't know they would close today of all days. But we can do our shopping after we have fun here, right?"

Luciana replied, "Just don't end up forgetting it..."

Then Martina said to Fernandia and Junko with teasing intent, "I saw that you two are really enjoying each other's company."

Fernandia and Junko blushed a bit as Fernandia defended, "I-I-I was just cleaning the cream off her face, b-b-but I didn't bring my handkerchief with me!"

Martina ignored Fernandia's defense and said as she looked at the box of zeppola in Fernandia's hands, "Wow! Those look really good."

Junko offered Martina and Luciana while calming Fernandia, "Would you two like some?"

The two simultaneously replied, "Sure." Then, they each took a zeppola.

After taking a bite of it, their faces expresses great joy and said simultaneously, "So good~"

Fernandia, whom moved on from her embarrassingly defensive outburst, responded, "I know, right?"

Junko suggested, "Let's enjoy these snacks together, shall we?"

The four enjoyed the zeppolas together, then had fun at the beach by playing in the water and sand volleyball. After they were done at the beach, Martina and Luciana left for their shopping while Fernandia and Junko checked out a few historical places in Bari.

The last place they stopped by before returning to the base was the Port of Bari.

As they got to a viewpoint where they were the only people there, Junko gasped in fascination as she looked at the entire port, "So this is the Port of Bari... It kind of reminds me of Yokosuka Naval Base."

Being the tour guide of the trip, Fernandia explained, "The port does have lots of foreign warships, but the port is also a pretty big trading port for merchants and fishermen in the Mediterranean region."

Junko said, "I remembered that this port suffered from some severe attacks from the Neurois last year or so right?"

Fernandia said, "Yeah, it took a while for the port to recover from the attacks and everything. But I'm glad it's doing well today, although I wished that they could of saved all those lost lives..."

Junko patted her and said, "The only thing we can do now is to protect Romagna from the future attacks, we are witches after all."

Fernandia looked at Junko and said, "You're right, it is our duty as witches to prevent something like that to happen again."

Then Fernandia gave Junko a kiss on the lips and said, "You know, this date was pretty fun."

Junko blushed and answered blissfully, "True that. I also really enjoyed knowing more about Romagna through you."

Fernandia said as she reached out her hand, "Shall we call it a day?"

Junko took her hand and nodded.

The two took a cab and headed back to their base.

Back in the base, there were practically no one around since everyone else were elsewhere. But the moment the walked into the base...

"So, how was the date?" Said Federica, whom snuck up behind them.

Fernandia and Junko were surprised by the commander. Fernandia quickly replied blushingly, "It w-w-was fun!"

Junko also replied blushingly, "W-W-We got to know each other!"

Federica said as she put her arms around Fernandia and Junko, "Well, good for you two. My day was tiresome because of the negotiations I had to go through..."

Junko asked, "You need help on anything then?"

Federica said, "No, everything is fine. Besides, it's your day off. So you two can just hang around the base and do whatever, while I wait for everyone else to return from their trips."

Federica let go of them and walked away with a small grin as she thought, 'Glad to see that my plan worked.'

Now Fernandia and Junko are left alone again, Junko suggested, "So... Do you want to go take a bath?"

Fernandia replied, "You can go ahead, I'm going to take a little nap before Martina and Luciana get back... And thanks for the day, Takei..."

Junko kissed her on the lips and said, "Thank you for the tour, Fer."

Then they both went on their separate ways.

Reference:

Federica - Major (British: Squadron Leader) Federica N. Doglio - commander of the 504th JFW and Red Pants Unit member

Fernandia - Lieutenant (British: Flying Officer) Fernandia Malvezzi - member of the 504th and Red Pants Unit member

Junko - Captain (British: Flight Lieutenant) Junko Takei - combat commander of 504th.

Luciana - Ensign (British: Pilot Officer) Luciana Mazzei - member of the 504th and Red Pants Unit member

Martina - Master Sergeant (British: Flight Sergeant) Martina("Tina") Crespi - member of the 504th and Red Pants Unit member

Source:

504th Joint Fighter Wing: A joint fighter wing stationed in Romagna(Italy)

Zeppola: Some sort of doughnut like dessert originate from Italy.

Port of Bari: The port of Bari was attacked by the Nazis during 1943... So assuming everything else in the Strike Witches universe is the same in real life except otherwise stated things from the creator.

Author Comment: I have a feeling that there would be quite a few people ticked off about this pairing since not many English fans thought about this, especially the MioxJunko people...

To those that are ticked off by this pairing: This is FanFiction, you know the risk.