Ch 333: Aerial confrontation.

"You really had to knock our commander unconscious?" Harriet asks

"It's not my fault he was standing in front of the door!" Pina shouts.

"What were you thinking!" Tuka shouts

"*sigh* Luna?" Harriet asks

"You can do it to you know?" Luna says as Itami suddenly sits straight up.

"Awe, I was gonna give him a lap pillow." Rory says

"I could knock him out again." Harriet says

"Why do all women hit me in the head?" Itami asks

"Why don't you dodge? You always stop yourself from doing so." Harriet says

Suddenly the radio in Itami's vest starts going off.

"Ah, I'm good in here. Could we maybe not mention doors being my weakness." Itami says with a chuckle.

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"This should be the area." A voice says over the radio quiet compared to the roar of the engines.

"So, why is the squadron leader in a different looking plane." The American asks

"Well, we don't wanna say it's favorites being played but it is. Nia is the most skilled of us though so she deserves it anyway." The pilot says on the local radio not broadcasting out to the others.

"Favoritism?" The American asks

"Well, she is best friends with the adopted daughter of Sapphire Kyra Stark. When the war was one a lot of us called for them to be the royal family Kyra turned it down. I don't believe we've introduced each other yet even though we've been flying for a while. I am Julia, a rabbit fanus if you couldn't tell." Julia says introducing herself.

"Right I'm Stephen. I'm a ranger who was called from reserves to help here." Stephen says

"Right anyway that plane Nia is flying is based off and F2G it has roughly triple the power these coursairs do in fact I heard she is required a G suit while flying it while for us it's optional. It need the power though since it was fitted with 30mms." Julia says

Suddenly the radio comes to life with the shout of "Above! Above!"

"Be ready for a ride." Julia says as the coursairs break formation in time to dodge a giant red blur going past them.

"Is that a dragon?"

"It's bigger than a Rathian."

"Observer you got it on your 6!"

Julia suddenly does an S turn diving down.

The slow but loud firing of 30mms can be heard as parts of the sky turns red from the blood mist.

"More objects in the distance."

"Good eyes scout! Target down! Form up we are returning to base." Nia says over the radio.

"You got a good photo of the area? we know why our drones are getting destroyed." Julia says as the coursairs take formation and return to base.

Mach cones begin to form as they go full power to retreat Nia covering from above rather than being point.

Stephen looks back to see a massive red dragon bleeding heavily injured on the ground. Still alive and very angry.

"According to some reports from MHW that dragon we just saw is the size of a Safijivva." Nia says after a bit

"With more dragons coming and the inability to tell if 20mm will injure it I believe retreating is the safest option we can come back with better armament in the future if need be." Nia explains her reasoning.

"It was a good call that thing had better maneuvering than us. From what was likely Mach 1 to dead stop then speeding up again to get on our tail. I don't want to encounter more of those without missiles." Julia says

Stephen who isn't a pilot just realized the implications of what that meant. Modern jet fighters would be hard pressed to compete against that.

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"Wait none of you knew she was the imperial princess?" Luna asks

"It was fairy obvious." Harriet says while the old knight guarding the princess is fairly worried about Luna and Harriet.

"Well, let's get going then." Rory says

"What?" Itami asks

"It's obvious she's going to explain the situation give us a tour, maybe we could meet the count." Harriet says

"Right follow me then." Pina says some what surprises

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"This is the fortress city, Italica, it stands strategically at the intersection of the tessaria and Appia high ways," Pina is saying before a pop interrupts here.

"Where did you get gum from?" Itami asks Harriet.

"Anyway... it's a major commercial hub a long with being important for defense. For generations it's been *popping noise*... ruled by the counts of Formar." Pina says wanting to Yell at Harriet but after seeing Rory struggle to lift her scythe she's holding her tongue. Walking down the nice hallways of the counts mansion the marble floors well polished.

"When the last count died he left his youngest daughter in control with the older two fighting over control to help her." Pina saus says

"That's why I dislike nobility." Harriet says as she watches Pina trip over her own feet at the comment.

"Aren't you from an most ancient noble family?" Luna asks

"Yeah but momma Kyra adopted me then I got to see how corrupt the other nobles were." Harriet says remembering the other earth that's currently fighting zombies and has lost several parts of the world due to nukes.