Alexa Pompeius

Monday, 0900 hours.

In a small room located in the meeting room of the Flameguard AFB. We were having a meeting because of unexpected circumstances. Do you want to know why? Apparently, the dragon that we shot down yesterday has fully healed up beside her hands which was replaced by a black bionic arm now.

She wanted to join our forces, but Garth and I didn't agree. Maria and Cecile agreed because her age and her experience could be an invaluable asset for the Flameguard AFB. General Meyer and Blackwell became the mediator between us,

"Well, Why do you want to join us?" General Meyer asked her with an intimidating tone while Garth and I held the PRL-147 railgun and aiming it straight to her head.

"Because making you an ally is better than making you my enemy, dumb mortals," She said arrogantly.

"Look you old girl, we managed to cut your arm off and you called us dumb?" I said as I charged the railgun by pressing the trigger continuously.

"Well, she can prove her royalty," Maria commented.

"How?" Garth complained.

"Let her participate on the operation Servum Liberantum," Cecile added.

"How the hell we can make sure that she won't make everything go FUBAR?" I asked her menacingly.

"Well...." Maria wanted to answer, but she can't. I knew she wanted to keep her, but I don't see a point of keeping a semi-god dragon in our base, moreover, that dragon had already tried to kill us.

"I will participate in your operation you mortal," She said without any arrogance.

"Ok," I put down my railgun while discharging the weapon back to its battery. At least I approved her enthusiast, but I heavily doubt her honesty.

Garth hadn't put down his railgun yet for safety measurement. I sat at the chair in the meeting room and the others followed to do the same and Garth sat in front of Ommonth while aiming his railgun at her.

"So... Ommonth. Do you have any human names or your name is just Ommonth?" I asked her while putting my hand on top of the table.

"Well, the last time I turned into a human was two centuries ago, it was when the Great Holy war happened. My name was Alexa Pompeius during that period and I was famous as the dragon who helped the heroes at that time," She explained to me.

"Hero companion? General, please call Captain Hasslebrown here," I told Blackwell to call her.

"Sure," he said as he grabbed a cell phone from his hand. He went outside and called Captain Hasslebrown.

"In the meantime, How did you stumble upon the hero? I am interested, we are interested. So are you going to tell us or not?" Cecile asked her while sipping a mug of coffee. I knew that she was interested in that from her way of talking and her body gesture.

"Why don't we wait until Christine arrive here?" She made a bargain with us. I nodded as approval to her bargain.

General Blackwell entered the room with Captain Hasslebrown beside him. She was wearing a standard CADPAT uniform with a cap with a captain insignia on top of it and on the collar of his shirt. On the right side of her uniform, there was a nametag that reads "HASSLEBROWN". She slung the AUG on her back and a P226 on her thigh. She also wore a full-body bulletproof vest and a FAST helmet with goggles and headphones. She put her helmet on the table and her rifle too.

Suddenly, both of them reacted when they saw each other's faces. They hugged and did a friendly handshake. They were surprised when they saw each of them was still alive.

"Christine, where have you been?" Alexa asked her while hugging her too.

"I've been in the Vialis village these last 10 years. I work as a blacksmith there, how about you?" Christine asked her.

"I just flying around patrolling around the region until one of these guys shot him down. You have a wrinkle now don't you?" She teased her.

"Haha, old dragon. Do you still keep that M2 and the MG5?" Christine asked her.

"Not only that, but I've also kept some of the weapons that the hero summoned," she said.

Maria, Garth, Cecile and I walked to them. We interrupted them since we heard the word "Weapons that the hero summoned". We need to know since we didn't want the tech to fall into our opposition hand or it would be messy.

"Sorry if I interrupt the reunion between both of you, but did you say that you still have some of the modern weapons that the hero has? Is that true? If it is, what kind of thing does he have?" I interrupted them all and asked them the question.

"Yes, he has an MBT and APC, he made them all," Christine answered.

"Where did you keep it?" I asked Alexa.

"In my cave, it is 100 km from here," She answered.

"Wow, that's far. But we have to pick it up. General, is there any armored platoon on stand by?" I asked General Meyer for information.

"There is the 12th armored platoon on stand by its equipped with Abrams and BTR-90," Meyer said to me.

"Tell them to come with me, we need to secure that vehicle," I said as I left the room with the group plus Christine and Alexa. Captain Hasslebrown picked up her helmet and her rifle again and wore it.

"Roger that General," she said to me.

We walked out of the meeting rooms and head for the armory. I intended to give Alexa a combat uniform since walking to a battlefield with a white dress and no footwear isn't practical at all. Although, I won't give her any insignia yet because I doubt her honesty.

At the armory a male who was operating the armory greeted us. Captain Hasslebrown asked him for a measuring tape to measure Alexa's size. Male isn't supposed to measure the female body I think.

She measured every inch of Alexa's body including her shoe size and her head size. She gave the armory master the details. The armory master went grabbing clothes for her. After some time, he gave her CADPAT combat boots and the uniform.

"Have you taken a shower yet?" Captain Hasslebrown asked her.

"Not yet, but don't worry. I fix it [Cleanse]," a spell appeared in her whole body and cleansed her.

"No, you must take a bath, a real bath," Christine said.

"There is a shower in the back you know," Maria said as she pointed her finger to a room near the front door.

"Ok," Alexa said as she grabbed the clothes from the armory master and headed for the shower. I could see the excitement from her face because I knew that she was eager to hold that MG5 again.

We head to a bench near a soda machine in the back. We sat there and discussed the past between Captain Hasslebrown and Alexa. It turned out that they were meeting each other accidentally.

I tapped my card to the soda machine and grabbed a diet coke from it, "So you met her in a cave in this region?" I asked her.

"Yeah, back when I still with the hero I met her in the cave when we were protecting ourselves from the magic bombardment. It was the day before the hero introduced us to an MBT. The cave itself was weird since it has all kinds of fancy furniture in it. When we head deeper into the cave we met her inside one of the biggest rooms there. Without any question asked she attacked us with her magic in her dragon form. The hero's first comment was that thing was like a guided missile," She took a breath while I drank the coke.

"Yeah, the sensor also detects her magic as guided projectile too," I commented on her statement.

"The hero barely beat her with a recoilless rifle, we were wounded back then," She said to me.

"I see," I said as I threw the can to a trash can.

Alexa finished taking a shower then showed up in a combat uniform. She wore it nicely and according to the regulation. She wore a cap on her head and that's it, she wasn't fully equipped like Christine.

"Wow, looking like the old days huh?" Alexa commented on her uniform.

"Yeah, let's get you armed and dangerous ok?" I brought her an MG5, MP7, SAW rig, and a ballistic vest like the one that Christine has. I also brought her a FAST helmet.