"Whoa… the Earth looks so small." Kallen looked at the blue orb in the pitch black void.
It was the Earth, and she was looking at it from the surface of the Moon!
A dream that she never knew she had!
"Can you see your homeland from here?" Marcus asked her, there was a small smirk on his lips—something Kallen couldn't see thanks to their helmets.
"Are you joking? I can't even make out the continents from here!" The girl complained.
"Precisely, does it make your conflict small?" He joked a bit at her expense.
"..."
His words hurt a little, but they made sense when she was looking at things from THE MOON!
"This is only the beginning, Kallen." He got her back from her thoughts.
"I know. You told me already. The world and our conflicts look small when we look at things like that.
But isn't it why we should solve them?" The Crimson-haired girl reasoned.
"That is why we are piloting Knightmare Killers, not Knightmares."
He said while looking at the Earth.
"Knightmares are for Earthlings over there. We pilot something greater, something much more powerful, and we are the ones who will make this world over there cease with their pathetic fighting because there are far greater things for us to do."
He turned away from Earth and looked to the side. He looked towards the Milky Way.
The beauty of this never ceases to amaze him.
"Humanity was always the race of reckless explorers; this here, right now, is not different."
"You are right about that. Honestly, now that I am here, on THE MOON, I feel a bit tingly." The girl trembled, feeling shivers of excitement wash over her.
"Ha! You just experienced real excitement, one of my driving forces, when I made the first Robot, Fusion Reactor, or when Lugh turned on for the first time.
It made me grin like a little boy." Marcus went down memory lane, as he had flashbacks of the fusion reactor starting, the birth of a small star in his workshop, or when Lugh's purple eyes glowed for the first time.
All of those times, he felt shivers of happiness and excitement.
But those pale in comparison to the scale before his eyes.
Kallen laughed a bit when she heard that. The girl imagined him laughing and giggling like a little kid for making something extremely dangerous.
'It is dangerous… but the hell, I am on the moon.'
After gazing at it for a considerable amount of time, with the mind wandering to all sorts of things, the pair began to look around.
The girl was thinking of getting some stones as souvenirs.
Once she got what she wanted, the pair returned to the plane. It was time to get back to Earth.
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A burning plane entered the atmosphere high above the Pacific Ocean. After some resistance, the craft has successfully entered the Earth's atmosphere.
"Ah, this is nice." Kallen groaned with satisfaction when she felt Earth's gravity. It feels nice to be grounded like that!
"We haven't landed yet." Marcus chuckled, seeing her happy like that. It was a bit early.
"This is nothing. We just returned from space." She dismissively waved her hand. The crimson-haired girl had a boost in confidence, now that she was the first female on the moon!
The Inventor Prince shook his head as he looked at the holograms. His Legion should be picking up Andraste's location, but there is no communication with one of his KK-Units.
'Strange, where is Leila?'
After descending for a bit, he finally saw the chain of islands he claimed for himself.
It was a tropical, smeltering, wet climate, with beautiful azure water and golden beaches.
Marcus circled the main island and noticed a missing forest carved out. It looked like a runway, and half of the mountain had no trees.
This was proof that Leila was here, but now she is not.
"Hmm, I don't see your girlfriend anywhere." Kallen noticed that blonde was not here either.
"Yeah. From the looks of it, she went somewhere." He replied as his huge plane began to descend and land on the newly carved out surface.
"Isn't it…a bit dangerous? There is no proper runway here!" The crimson-haired girl's eyes slowly grew wider as she realised that they would be landing on makeshift ground!
"Not really. My blackbird is not made from cardboard like the usual planes."
As he said, the plane touched down and began to dig through the dirt.
Kallen closed her eyes as she held the belt tightly.
'Crap-crap-crap-crap-crap!!!' She self-chanted as she almost cried, but then the plane stopped…
Nothing broke, the front glass didn't break, nothing happened!
"...Oh! Thank God!" The girl took a mouthful of air and thanked the Creator above.
"I told you we are fine." Marcus rolled his eyes before checking all of the systems, support systems, landing gear and the thrusters.
Everything was green; he made sure he landed with the slowest speed possible. Crash landings were part of his calculations when he created his Blackbird.
"Yeah… but you are far too reckless!"
"Says the girl who went solo against the Britannian army." The Exiled Prince rolled his eyes as he got up from his seat and started to walk towards the cockpit doors.
"Hey! I had no choice back then!" Kallen puffed her cheeks as she followed after him.
~~~
Kallen covered her eyes from the sun. It was hot! The sun was right above them!
They were at the equator, where the planet gets the most of the sun.
That means it's hot as hell!
The girl then looked around, her eyes ended up on Marcus, who was lazing on the plane's wing, sunbathing.
"Are you crazy! You are going to get sunburn!" She jumped on the wing as the plane landed at an angle that allowed her to reach it.
The girl strolled to his side and looked at him.
"Hey!"
"I hear you. Let me heat up, then we can dive into the water. I want to see you in a bikini, sadly, I didn't prepare for that." He sounded disappointed, and it took a second for Kallen to process that, as his honest voice caused her to mishear what he meant!
"You perv! What are you thinking!?" Her cheeks heat up all of a sudden.
"Perv? Oh, please, it's biology. Do you think I would easily allow another male pilot to pilot my machines?" He scoffed.
"..." She didn't respond to his words; instead, she blushed even more.
"See? You are beautiful, very attractive, and eye pleasing, that is why you would look great in a Bikini." He simply explained to her, causing Kallen even more embarrassment.
"You're asking for a beat up!" She blushed hard, clenching her fist. Her whole hand was shaking.
"Can't take a compliment?" He teased her.
"You already have your European girl! Now you're going after me?"
"Going? You already are mine, Kallen. I just took you to the moon on your first date. Tell me who else could do that?" He asked with a raised eyebrow. The Exiled Prince was confused. Did she miss something? This crimson-haired girl was his already!
"...Ugh…" She stopped shaking her fist and took a deep breath.
"...Fine, we already had this talk. But don't expect me to accept this whole thing easily!"
Marcus shook his head while hearing that.
"Let me repeat myself, who else would take you to space for a date?"
"...I get it already!" With a blush, she looked away. Now she looks like the unreasonable one!
'As expected from a Britannian prince! He can flip the script in any situation.' Kallen got spooked by this guy's ability to spin it into anything he wants AND try to seduce her!
'Damn him!'
But then, he began to undress! He took off his t-shirt, revealing his naked torso.
Her eyes widened as this was unexpected! What the hell is he doing?!
At that moment, her brain caught up! She was alone, with him, on an uninhabited island!
Kallen's breathing sharpened! This was bad!
"W-What are you doing!?" She asked with a stuttering voice.
Marcus got closer to her, leaning forward. For a second, she thought he would kiss her, but then he whispered into her ear.
"I am about… take…—" 'take? I-I-Is he about to do something to me!?' "a swim."
With that said, he began to walk away, and Kallen's brain fried on the spot. He put her expectations, fears and all of that on the apex and then… it was a lie!
"Ugh!!!"
She snapped out before dashing at him; she wanted to show that she was not a wallflower!
But in the last moment, he sidestepped and stuck his leg out.
"Ehh!?"
The crimson-haired girl realised she had lost her balance and was about to drop headfirst into the plane's wing!
But at that moment, he caught her and then pinned her down.
Suddenly, his face was close as his purple eyes were digging into her blue ones.
"I caught you, Kallen. What are you going to do now?" He leaned closer and whispered to her.
The girl's lips trembled; now she really fucked up!
"...Umm… your teasing got to me?" His new girl replied, a bit nervous now. She hoped that she could make him stop with all these teases that made her heart race and all those strange feelings that started to bubble in her stomach.
The thing is, she has no idea how to release all that bubbled up feeling!
So, she flips to the only thing she truly is good at, which is… fighting!
"Is it? Well, a news flash, Kallen." He got even closer. By this point, the crimson-haired girl gave up… whatever he does… well, she won't resist.
"I have a black belt in Aikido and Judo." He dropped the news, making her roll her eyes.
Of course, it's another tease, but then he moved in and kissed her neck.
Her eyes grew big as she realised that he kissed and then bit her!
"Agh!?"
After a couple of moments, he pulled back and looked at her with a grin.
"And now~ I marked you as mine, Kallen~"
Her hand went to her neck as she realised that he had left a hickey on her neck!
'D-Damn this guy!' A heavy blush crept on her cheeks.
"...shall I mark you even more?" He pondered for a bit.
"As If!" Kallen grabbed him and pulled him in, then she slammed her lips on him as she began to kiss him hungrily.
There is no way she will back down so easily! After all those teases, she will go on the offensive.
Sadly, she was not dealing with an average guy; he spent months kissing and cuddling with Leila.
Before long, she was sitting on his lap and facing him.
"...Are you satisfied?" She placed her finger on his lips. "You finally made me do this?" The girl whispered to him.
"Hmm. Indeed." He squeezed her ass as his hands were on her bum. This squeeze caused her to blush to return with force.
"We won't be doing THAT in this place." Her right hand's fingers went on his nose as she squeezed it.
"Fine. However, I will mark you more." He grinned for a second before lunging forward and attacking her neck.
"Eep! Stop! Damn it! Better kiss me, you idiot!" Kallen complained as she had no way of pulling him away!
After playing with her for a while, Marcus let her go and then went down from the wing and into the plane. He pulled out his sword and went to cut some wood from the adjacent tropical forest.
It was time to fish and get some food, maybe some coconuts…
Start a fire? Yeah! Camping until Leila returns!
As Marcus was humming to himself and making several strange expressions, Kallen was rubbing her neck!
She decided that she would get him back at this!
'Maybe he is afraid of tickling?' The crimson-haired girl pondered on what she could do.