Well here's some more to the story. I think I got all the errors out of it, but...


Saito is working in Colbert workshop setting up a small work area for his stuff. Two drones float lazily around his head as he works on a third. He wipes sweat from his face and stops. One drone brings him a cup of water that was lying on a nearby table. He walks over to his camera which was sitting near some project Colbert was working.

"I guess I should tape this day's log with the drone almost finished." Saito say getting out his recorder and connecting it to the camera. "I wish I could do that wirelessly, but that costs power I do not have." he mumbled to himself. He activated the recorder

"Hello day ten and I still live… that never gets old. Ok this will be my ninth log. So I am video taping this one so I have records of my drones incase stuff happens…" a drone looks like it just shivered in the background, Saito looks back at it and shrugs, "Ok… so Louise says she has the day off today for some religious holiday called, I think it was Day of Void, what is with this place and it's naming protocols? What with naming a girls Zero and a day Void. Honestly who writes this? If you think about it they 'voided' a day." Saito giggles at his joke, " Yeah… that's a bad joke I know… Ok I digressed a bit too much there, so she wanted to go to town and buy a few things so I got up a bit early to prep. Sadly she'll be here soon and I don't have my attack drone ready.. But I upgraded the defence drone with a better battery that I salvaged from the pod. So if any poor bandits that I heard about, try to attack us, their arrows with laughably bounce off the shields." The door opens with Louise entering. "Well I'll end the log here. I hope I can get some clothes to cover up the ones I am wearing."

Saito ends the recording.

"Saito how do you wake up so early everyday?" Louise yawns. "It's barely dawn…"

"It's about midday where I'm from so rocket lag is hitting me hard." Saito grabs his bag. "So we hitting the road?"

"Yeah, I had the horses saddled up, just a before I came to get you." Louise replies. "Are you bring those?" She asked pointing nervously at the drones.

"Yep this one is Def and this is Scot." Saito point to them respectively as they both to what looked like a bow.

"They creep me out… they don't need magic." Louise whispered sacred. The drones beeped out sadly.

"Hey you're making them sad Louise, be nice to them."

"Saito, if you were anyone else right now I would be beating you right now for this…" Louise said trying to regain her noblish tone of voice.

"Yeah luckily we took care of that." Saito grinned. "Ok let's go to the big city." They exited the workshops and strolled to the stables, Siesta came up to Louise and handed her the reins to a horse and then to Saito. Louise elegantly mounted her horse, while Saito attempted to jump on and then slide of the back.

"Saito what are you doing?"

"Damn American films…" he mutters. "Harder to do this than I though."

"Saito when was the last time you rode a horse?" Siesta asked.

"Er… never…" The two girls looked at each other then at Saito in awe and shock.

"But horses are the fastest mode of transportation on the continent!?" Louise said shocked.

"I drove a car once and the Earth Faire… I've watched John Wayne movies, but never have I ridden a horse." Saito answered.

Louise sighed, "Maid Siesta please help Saito onto my horse." She asked.

"Uh, Yes ma'am." After a few tries Saito was able to get on Louise's horse and grasped his arms around her waist.

"Eh! Watch where you are touching." Louise growls.

"If I throw up during this trip I'll aim it at you." Saito responds as he holds on for what to him seems like dear life. Louise rolls her eyes and cracks her reins. After about three hours of riding, and about two hours of Saito climbing back on after falling or sliding off they make it to Tristan Capital City, Tristania. As they arrive at the gates Saito falls off again, to the ire of Louise and the amusement of the guards. To make matter worst Louise just continues on into the city to find a stable for the horse.

"Hey, boy first time having a ride with a girl?" one guard commented. Saito gets up to dust himself off but finds he has a hard time moving his legs.

"Apparently it was a rough mount." a second one chipped in.

"Don't you two have to watch the entrance to a city while I get to go in it." Saito tossed back.

The guards stopped laughing and straightened up, "Have a good visit to our city." the first guard said annoyed.

"Thought so." Saito strutted through the gates of the city. He was greeted immediately by the sight of a renaissance city, it was surprisingly clean and the city smelt of bread from the bakeries that dotted the city. Horses with carts hauled goods around and people stood on the street sides hawking their good.

"There you are Saito, I thought the guards were hassling you." Louise said walking up to Saito. "Where did you creepy flying things go?"

"Oh the drones, their flying above us to avoid disturbing the peace." Saito motioned upwards.

"That may have been a prudent idea. So I need to gather some items for a potion I was working on, here is some money to spend. Meet me at that gate a bit after the temple bells toll four times." Louise said handing Saito a bag of coins.

"Ok." Saito said taking the bag and was surprised at it's weight. He peered inside to see that they were little gold coins lining the bag.

"It's just a bit so don't spend too much in one place. See you after a while." Louise disappeared into the crowd.

Saito scratched his head, "What do I do now? I know, what would you do in a video game, go to the bar of course." He said while starting to wander around the city in search of a bar.

He stopped a random person, "Excuse me where can I find some place to get a drink?"

"You see that building over there, they have booze and broads there, probably on of the better places to go." the man said politely.

"Thanks," Saito began to make his way to the bar. Entering into a quiet bar space with very little foot traffic. A girl a bit older than Saito was manning the bar. Saito came up to the bar and sat there

"Welcome, traveler what would you like to have, we've got Ale, Beer, Whiskey?" the girl asked.

"Uh do you have anything non-alcoholic?" Saito asked.

"Well I have a drink I concocted if you want to try it for a Deniers." the girls suggested.

"Sure, wait have you tried it before?" Saito asked.

"Of course, I would never hurt a customer for kicks." the girl deadpanned.

Saito opens his bag of coins, "Uh what coin is what?"

"You must have come from far way if you don't know that…" the girl said surprised.

"Farther than you'd think, miss?" Saito said.

"Ah, name's Jessica. So these big ones are Ecus, these medium ones are Souses, and the smallest ones are Denierses." Jessica explained. Saito gave her a Deniers and she brought up a glass filled with a clear brown liquid.

"Huh." Saito said looking at the glass. He took a sip of it then put the glass back down. He had a happy grin on his face.

"So you like it?" Jessica asks.

"It kind of reminds me of home. What do you call it?" Saito says then takes another sip.

"Sweet water."

"We call it Sarsaparilla back home… Thank you for the drink." Saito finished his drink then tossed her and Ecu. "As a tip."

"Tha-Thank you." Jessica said surprised.

"Do you know where I can find a clothing store I need some new clothes."

"But what you wearing must be expensive already?" Jessica commented.

"Oh it's durable, I just stick out a bit to much. I've been called a noble like five times on my way here." Saito sighed.

"You're not a noble? I thought you were just a special case noble traveler."

"Hell no I have to deal with them on a daily basis, I don't want to be know as one." Saito replied.

"I think I have some old clothes my dad used to wear back in his adventure days, I'll sell them to you for 5 Ecu."

"I'll look at them first before I pay." Saito looks at her with a sarcastic smile.

"Jeanne watch the bar for me," Jessica yells, another girl enters and starts cleaning the bar off. "Come on, er."

"Saito."

"Follow me I'll show you where it is." Behind the bar was a house part of the building where Jessica and her father lived. In the living room of the house side Jessica pulled a leather duster out duster out. "Try it on."

Saito picked up the duster and put it on. "Nice, very roomy with lots of pockets. Though I may look a bit roguish though."

"A rogue among nobles, that would make a nice book…" Jessica trailed off.

"Well, here 6 Ecus. I best be off." Saito waved as he left Jessica in her house and exited into an alley. The bells chimed two times. "I should find my way back to gate." He took out his holographic map of the city he had his drone make a while back.

"Well let's try to navigate this."

000

The bells chimed four times. Louise had just gotten back to gate and was looking around for Saito. She had a long package in her hands

"Where could he have gotten to. Did he get mugged. I hope he didn't kill them and is trying to explain to the guard not to arrest him. Well he'll probably be here soon." Louise said a man with a wide brimmed hat and a dark brown duster started to walk towards her. She started to back away nervously.

A guard intercepted the man, "Sir I can't have you bothering a noble."

"I have business with her." The man said.

"Madam do you know this man?" The guard asked. Louise shook her head.

"Yes you do Miss Vallière, we are well acquainted." The man took off his hat to reveal it was Saito.

"Are you still certain, Louise?"

"Oh Founder… guard I know this man…" Louise sighed in annoyance.

"Very well have a good day." the guard when back to his post.

"What are you doing wearing something like that?" Louise said nearing pissed off.

"I bought it, you said I could go buy stuff for myself, so I bought this duster and won the hat."

"How much of my money did you spend?" Louise's eye twitched.

"Negative 68 Ecus I think. I kept twenty for myself."

"You won that much?"

"Sure, it was the idiot's idea to use metal tie anyways, so what do you got there?" Saito eyed the package.

"I got it for you, not as a gift, but it might be useful to you." Louise said nervously.

"Ok let's head back to the Academy, you can show me when we get there." Saito said as the two started to the stables.

"So are you ready for the ride back?" Louise asked.

"Yes I am."

"Really you had a rough time on the way."

"Mr. Saito we have your horse and cart ready for you." The owner of the stable came up and told him.

"Thank you." Saito grinned. They came up to the horse and carriage duo.

"Saito how much money did you win?"

"I was stuck in the back alleys for awhile."

"How did you convince them to hitch up my horse to the cart?" Louise asked getting in the cart.

"I asked Colbert for some form of Identification linking me to the school and he gave me this." Saito tossed the school's pentagram medaillen to Louise as he got in the cart as well. Louise looked at the medaillen and Saito got the cart going.

"You are a rogue." Louise commented.

"Na, I've just got a distant perspective on things."

000

They were getting close to the school as it got dark.

"Would you like some lights to light up the road?" Saito asked Louise.

"Sure." One of the drones came down from the sky and casted a beam of light before them. From the dark a few cart blocked the path. People armed with bows stood before them as if the carts were a palisade.

"Louise, just follow my lead." A man that seemed in charged waved for them to stop. He came up to Saito side as he stopped.

"You see I don't want any trouble so give me you money or my boyz are going to have to deal with ya." The man said.

"Ok, but first you want to see a trick?" Saito brandished his pistol.

"What a piece of metal?"

"Just wait." Saito pulled the trigger into the air as a load blast echoed through the plains, a small part of a bird dropped on the man's head scaring him.

"Uh never mind… Just… just go." The man waved them through and the carts parted.

As the neared the school a contingent of guards was leaving, probably to investigate the sound. They got back into the school's stables where Siesta was waiting reading a book.

"I see you got a carriage for the ride home how romantic." Siesta giggled.

"Nothing romantic happen!" Louise quickly stated.

Saito turn to Siesta, "Blatant lies all of it!" he joked. Louise's blush covered a good bit of her face.

"I'll get on of the sable hands to deal with you cart."

"Could you put it over by Colbert's Workshop?" Saito asked.

"Sure, can do."

000

"Sir please let us use sector 18." Jun pleaded with a gruff military man.

"You expect me to believe that some boy disappeared without a trace into a random wormhole."

"I was there I saw it." Kenji yelled.

"This coming from the boy, who has nearly killed his friends one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two times and a station chief with more anger problems than that tiger in the zoo. Why should I believe anything you two say."

"This is Captain Hiraga son we are talking about." Jun pleaded.

"I don't care if he's the emperor himself, you will not have access to sector 18!"

"I'll give you the schematics to the Excalibur System." Kenji plead.

"Kenji!" Jun said shocked.

"Dr. Yamada's EX system, the one he took to his grave, your father's greatest work?"

"Yes, I know where it is can we use sector 18 in exchange for it?" Kenji said with a harden look in his eyes.

"We can work out a deal…"


So another part done. For those who like fighting, it is coming. For those who like adventure, it is coming. For those who are intrigued by the secondary story line, it has thicken. For those who want to leave a comment of any kind now is you chance.