"Confirmed, over," Tekeshi lay in the dirt with a telescope.
He was currently observing a group of Fairy Tale soldiers. The first blow was coming, and it had been decided they were not going to fight on Fairy Tale's terms. They couldn't afford to with the force imbalance. So they were going to fight how his father best knew how to. Quick, dirty, and brutal. Which meant that the four witches of war he was leading right now, were about to really ruin that group's day.
"Rockslide reporting ready. Sync 2, ready for count," he switched channels to the main command channel, and waited.
He wasn't going to lie and say he wasn't nervous. True, he had been assigned to hit far flung scout units, and at the same time penetrate lines and report movements after the initial attack. That really didn't change the fact that there was over a hundred men at that outpost, and five of them.
"Sync 3, attack commence, 5. 4. 3. 2. Ranger, Ranger, Ranger," with that code word repeated three times, it began.
Tekeshi switched the radio again, "Ranger, Ranger, Ranger."
He watched as the women stood and approached the outpost. He knew that they were capable of terrifying things, so he didn't know what to expect. He was just glad he was going to be out of earshot of the sounds. He didn't want to be hearing the screams in his dreams.
The women simply walked up, and the unit there took notice. They were visibly confused, and tried to ward them off. When the women refused to leave they were surrounded. He couldn't make out facial expressions at this range, but he could see one of the unwitting soldiers swagger around and lift up the skirt of one, and simply turn to dust.
It was a much tamer start than he expected. Tomoe of all people was down there. In fact, it was her skirt that got lifted. He expected everything to just turn into a mist of blood. Which it did, after the four demons showed up.
Body parts flew as he saw the hulking form of, what was his name, Gaaris, Agrea's partner, swing his arms. Yltoun simply grabbed enemies, and he was going to blot that out of his memory. He didn't know the other two, but it wasn't any more pleasant to watch. The women themselves simply attacked with their, he really didn't know if their weapons were physical, or magical in nature, they just seemed to appear when they needed them. He couldn't lie, it looked convenient, and he might have to take up drinking after this.
When the last of the Fairy Tale men were, pulp, he hiked down to survey the scene and search for any intel that he could find. If it wasn't completely soaked in gore anyways.
"Ah, young Tekeshi, do you know how good it feels to get to let loose like this? I don't know that I have been this wet between the legs in centuries," Agrea seemed to have lost much of her dignity with the slaughter.
"Agrea, I don't think he really wanted to know that. While he is a young man, he has a much higher degree of propriety that you seem to, and I don't think that you can match Utsuki, in any manner," Tomoe approached, cleaning blood from her sword, "We left none alive, as ordered. I believe we located the commander's tent, and there is a, you called it a, computer, I believe."
Tekeshi ignored Agrea as he turned to Tomoe, "Lead on."
Agrea did take a second before he moved to whisper in his ear, "If you want, I can teach you ways to please her, that would make any woman ascend to the gods."
"I like you much better when you have the stick up your ass," he realized that was a mistake too late.
"Hey, you have an open invitation to put your stick up my ass anytime," Agrea did not waste the moment.
Tomoe shook her head, "I apologize on her behalf. While she has been allowed to leave, she hasn't since I have been there. This is likely the first conflict she has seen in almost a thousand years. She is probably so horny, the entire valley is going to hear about it tonight."
"Just, please, lead on," Tekeshi was already suffering.
Tomoe lead on as the demons began gathering up the corpses, and parts of corpses. Tekeshi knew why, and did his best not to think about it. At least there wouldn't be any evidence of what killed them.
When they reached the tent Tekeshi entered. The commander had thankfully been in such a hurry to see what was going on that he had left several files open. Oddly enough, this included a list of passwords and what files they went to. His mother had joked that most yokai were horrible with operational security. Apparently, she wasn't joking.
"Let's see. Huh, they were doing, an anthropological survey of the villages located in the valley? That is weird, why would they be doing that when they were about to be caught up in a battle? Werewolf, no recoverable remains, or significant archaeological artifacts, appeared to be abandoned sometime around first century B.C.. Orc, overwhelming number of remains, all died with extreme violence, recommend no further surveys, mental conditions forming at high probability. Elvish village, kobold, I don't even know what that is. Located a human and vampire village, could not enter, extreme feeling of danger despite no observable signs of life. Maintain patrols near, and request help from any vampire that can get over themselves long enough to listen. Yeah, that sounds like a vampire," he took a second to process everything, "That means they can't even go inside Vampiris, and somehow they were smart enough to figure out how they might be able to. Mom will want to know, but this isn't particularly useful, just interesting. They didn't keep any kind of roster, no orders, and this just appears to be an offline terminal. I guess when second and third teams arrive I will send it back. He put the password for the passwords on the lid, and it is drowssap. This is pain."
After his amazement at the simple incompetence that he had just encountered, he rifled through things. He didn't find much of interest. Apparently the person in command had been a woman, and she really liked lacy underwear. It was actually rather nice, he even thought about taking pictures and asking the Maid Squad if they could copy it for Utsuki.
Stepping back out he looked at the small amount of firearms and ammunition that had been gathered, right next to the gigantic pile of swords, axes, and clubs that were also gathered. This confirmed what his, grandfather, expected. They had to pull the largest amount of guns back to redistribute to their better trained shock troops.
"Sir," one of the two witches he didn't know came up to him.
"Report."
The woman nodded, "We haven't found any other, uh, intelligence. We haven't found anything else that tells us anything. This whole army thing is hard, can we just speak like real people?"
"Ok, I never said you had to imitate the SS. I just need to know what is going on. We are going to stay here until the other teams arrive, then we are going to restructure forces, and move on," he shrugged.
After about two hours the other teams finally arrived. The two sets of twins had each been given commands, with A yuki-onna in command, with a human as their second in command. It worked way better than it probably should have. Regardless, thirty more people could only help getting further behind enemy lines.
Harumi wasn't happy that she wasn't in command, but there was a reason, which he revealed as she came up to him, "Harumi, have a laptop, a really, really accessible laptop. Need you to get it back to HQ, and bring back any other orders. So, I better be seeing your panties in the next thirty seconds as you are heading out."
Her face lit up, "Yes Sir, they are pink," and with that she took off, and Tekeshi actually noticed, they were gray.
"So, you wanted to see your cousin's panties," Utsuki asked as she came to stand next to him.
"No, but even though she is over the whole destined one thing with me, she is still Harumi. I know how to play her like a fiddle," he said as he bent down to kiss his girlfriend.
"I guess that is true. Didn't she say they were pink, those didn't look pink," Utsuki giggled when he pulled back.
"Why were you looking? I guess I need to go into command mode now," he sighed as he stood up straight.
"I like it when you are commanding," she was just rubbing it in.
"Everyone, huddle it up. We need to reorient, and figure out what our next moves are. Yusa... right, Dehlia, report," he suddenly remembered he needed full sentences, which he might understand.
"We shot assholes, thay git eaten," well, he had hoped anyways.
"Well, I guess that works. Asusa," he turned to the vocal snow fairy.
"Not much different. We found some weird looking items they were apparently bringing here, but the stuff didn't look like it was really interesting to us," Asusa gave her report, at the same time she was checking the magazine on her rifle.
The two yuki-onna girls looked like they were out of an action movie. They had the full thing. Plate carriers, web gear, and dusty colored camouflage fatigues. He knew that his Great Aunt Tsurara had always liked the whole spy and military thing, but he had really underestimated how much she had spread it in their village.
"That laptop I sent back had a bunch of files that had data on some anthropology studies they were doing on the villages around here. So that tracks," he commented on the report.
"How come ur thae fowk studying auld houses, 'n' bones, whin they're aboot tae huv a go tae skelp oor asses with swords," Lorelei asked in confusion.
"Definitely a good question. I have no clue. Right now, I want Lorelei and Dehlia to take command here, and clean things up to use this as a base. I want five of you witches to stay with them, I will take volunteers, I won't force you. I know them, way too well. Yusa, Asusa, you and everyone else are with me. When Harumi returns we move out. I want everyone to do another sweep for anything that could be of use. Dismissed," he watched as everyone separated.
He walked over to the commander's tent after giving Tomoe an order to come get him when Harumi returned. He felt a little tired, the first real weight of command finally hit him. Utsuki leaned against him, which he appreciated, the contact helping him relax a little. When he sat on the bed he watched her start just looking through the trunks he had already gone through.
"Huh, I like these panties, but I think this woman was bigger than me. I don't like bras all that much, but I think I would wear some like this if they fit. Whoah, I feel bad for her back though, her boobs were huge," Tekeshi could only laugh at the ridiculous scene.
"I thought about getting some pictures for the maids to copy them for you. I think I am going to do that," he laid back, "I needed that. You are the brightest thing in my life, you know that, uh, 'Suki," he looked over to notice that she had stripped her chest plate off, and had pulled her suit down to her waist.
She looked over innocently, not that concerned that she was flashing him anymore, "I wanted to see how much bigger they were."
Tekeshi couldn't help but smile ear to ear, "I love you so much, did you know that?"
"Oh really, and if I pulled my clothes back up," she asked teasingly.
"I would love you if you never took your clothes off again," he said.
She pulled her suit back up, and took off the rest of the plates. Once she was unarmored she laid down next to him. He hadn't asked her to, but it helped him. He wasn't able to sleep, but he relaxed. He didn't want to say anything to let her know that he had been eavesdropping on her and Deesseedra, but he kinda wanted the demon there with them.
He felt Utsuki doze off at some point. He was glad she was getting some rest, she was going to need it with everything they were about to do. He didn't know how far they were going to be penetrating the lines, but once they were there, they were going to disrupt logistics, and make a general nuisance of themselves. If they could blow something up, it was going boom. If a sentry needed to take a leak, there was going to be more than one body fluid leaking out of them.
After a while he noticed Tomoe duck her head in and gave her a nod. He roused Utsuki, and when she was alert, he helped her get her armor back on. When they left the tent, he noticed that Harumi seemed, anxious.
"What came back," he asked the succubus.
"We got tasked with checking something out, and running away if it noticed us," she replied, which worried Tekeshi a lot.
"Oh, boy, what is the mission?"
Harumi played with the hem of her skirt before answering, "We are not far from that vampire village, and they want us to see about a squad that went there accompanying a different seeming individual."
Tekeshi nodded and then walked away, seeming a little uneasy.
Utsuki turned to Harumi and finally asked her a question she had been wondering since they had headed into the field that morning, "Um, Harumi, I don't know much about succubi, but why are you wearing a skirt to fight a battle?"
"Because Dyke, if they are staring at my underwear, they probably aren't actively trying to kill me," was the deadpan answer.