Unbeknownst to the Saderans, the Aikuun were everywhere.
Not far from the command tent, Komono had barely escaped detection from a certain bald invader. In the Aipenka's grasp, her gloved hands were dragging a rabbit-earred human into similarly ornate tent, where the unconscious bodies of 14 centurions, two tribunus, and 22 legionaries laid on the ground, otherwise completely unharmed. The half-human in her hands was 15cm taller than her, including a mesomorph frame to boot.
"Nrgh...how are your breasts so big?" The Aitouan paratrooper grunted internally, otherwise visibly unfazed as she laid the rabbit girl on her back, her breasts bouncing slightly. "And here I am considered one of the top 100 bustiest women on the entire island. I'm not a jealous woman, but...ugh, I just can't get over it. By the Kame, forgive me, what a skank."
"Worry naught, nobody can hear you." A digital voice deadpanned, audible only to Komono. "But please refrain from bad language."
"I know, I know." The Aitouan sighed, her bodysuit fluidly morphing colours to match the complete darkness of the undisturbed tent.
"I know it's the first time we met these people, but it's a miracle that these half-humans have an otherwise identical cardiomuscular and central nervous system."
"Then I guess I was right. Those were ears. Very tall and fluffy ones. To think, if we were a second late, she would've became aware of our presence."
"A very astute observation." Her personal AI said. "It seems this 'Talia' lacks the bone and lobe structure synonymous with human anatomy. But I don't believe we can conclude that these outlanders are suspiciously capable of genetic modification."
"Of course not. Her ears are too naturalistic, an evolutionary trait, actually." Komono murmured, crouching near the exit, where she peered through the slit. "Paime, give me eyes and ears. Who's left?"
"You got three infrared signatures beyond that tent." The AI reported, uploading camera footage from an unpowered flying wing drone overhead. "Two of them are definitely human, but we got the big one again."
"Greyhound?"
"You guessed it."
"Ana, ana ... she is just as troubling as big ears behind me."
"You're not secreting any pheromones or oils, not on my watch."
"That doesn't change the fact that it has a keen sense of smell. Koto and Niko have said they been having trouble trying to do anything, not without being sniffed out by that thing. I say we do something about it."
"The greyhound is too fast to intercept, and you have no reinforcements."
"I know, but I love a little dramatic." The brown haired Aitouan said, hearing footsteps nearby, which, upon her vision automatically brightening, belonged to an unsuspecting legionary. Upon him walking leftward across, Komono whooshed behind him and clamped her hand behind his neck, her fingertips outstretched and pinching upon his vital nerves. Instantly losing consciousness, a relieved moan almost left his throat if not for the Aitouan covering his mouth with her left hand.
Upon going limp, thereby dropping his gladius and scutum on the ground, Komono left him there, lying prone across the way near the command tent. With her bodysuit's smart camouflage adapting to the grassy landscape, she was almost hidden from view if not for her long brown hair; however, darkness was her friend, and she laid there, watching who might discover the body. Moments later, lo and behold, her patience paid off.
"Paime..." Komono whispered internally, her right matching wrist cuff transforming into a wrist blaster, the otherwise folded spider drone inside seamlessly blended into the design. "Time to make ourselves known. Are you ready?"
"Blessed by ten Kame."
Eying the furry bipedal greyhound, the Aitouan waited until it swiftly turned around, intending on walking alongside the command tent again if not for Komono raising her right arm and four nanoscopic arrows zipped towards its neck. The walking animal didn't feel a thing, but Komono didn't need to watch as the animal disappeared from view and, four minutes later, upon hearing some stressed bantering from the two humans, there was a deep thud. Internally, Komono chuckled. "What comes up must also come down."
"This is probably not the best time to recite any sciences. If I might remind you, that greyhound had witnesses." The AI deadpanned.
"Yeah, I can hear them from here. Track them, I'm going after the bald one."
"And the other one?"
"Tell Mikinoma to intercept, we can't let them go back the same way they came."
"I'm on already o..." The AI was about to say, but stopped abruptly and said. "Check out our guests, I'm detecting a tiny infrared signature flying around inside. Whatever it's doing, it's waking them out."
"Is it one of ours?" Komono asked, but since the AI was in her head, the AI didn't bother answering, not when its user realised.
Rushing towards the other tent, she saw the rabbit-earred woman beginning to regain consciousness, a blueish pixie tucking at her hair. Upon seeing the strange sight, Komono immediately lifted her right arm, the fairy promptly noticing the Aitouan, but before it could buzz away, a nanoscopic arrow punched it in the head, its tiny humanoid proportions unable to withstand a puncture. Upon neutralising the tiny winged girl, Komono instantly injected the rabbit-earred woman with two arrows, not in the head or neck, but her exposed abs, the sedative almost instantly taking effect.
"Paime?" Komono visibly uttered, towering over the unceremoniously unconscious pixie nearby.
"Heartbeat detected."
"Oh...it's not a machine? Hmm."
"Gender undetermined for now, but you need to go. The duo are splitting up."
"I got him!" Komono exclaimed, bursting through the tent and dashing a short distance past a few other tents before seeing a bald and shaven outlander jogging for his life.
Raising her arm, he slumped upon feeling an arrow puncture his neck.
"Stay down, outlander."