Everything is Fair in Love and War

Chapter 2 - Landfall

1857 April 22 2015 [Local calendar]
Stealth pelican
Entering Japanese airspace

Standing up and walking into the cockpit I see the shoreline of the island nation approaching quickly. Looking up at the co-pilot I ask, "We do have optical camouflage right?"
The man turned to me and nodded. "Yes sir." He said in the iconic voice of clone troopers everywhere. "Reactive camo, not very useful against sophisticated sensor suites, but against 21st century radar and visual feeds we might as well be invisible."
"Lovely, put down in a location near the airport that would allow me to seem to be leaving the place. The roof might be our best option." I reply with a smirk.
"Yes sir." He answered with another nod.
Moving back into the rear compartment I look at Kasumi, she had dozed off after the first 15 minutes of zero-g and not even re-entry had woken her. Tapping her shoulder she simply tilts her head up to look at me. "Nap time is over sleepyhead."
She nods and sits up, pulling up her Omni-tool to try to find a good overhead image of the drop zone.
As I open the rear hatch a mesh drops down over the bay entrance so as to continue to maintain the camouflage. Looking out I'm surprised by blue text appearing in my line of sight.

Initialization complete
Boot-up complete
Calibration complete
Loading H.U.D.
New message from [REDACTED]
FROM: [REDACTED]
TO: OUR ENTERTAINMENT
HELLO CHILD, AFTER SOME CONTEMPLATION WE HAVE DECIDED ON YOUR TASK IN THIS WORLD, AS THERE IS NO TRUE EVIL YOUR TASK IS AS FOLLOWS:
COLLECT WAIFUS!
TIER 6: 0/1
TIER 5: 0/2
TIER 4: 0/3
TIER 3: 0/4
TIER 2: 0/5
TIER 1: 0/6
REWARDS: +25% CAPTURE CREDITS PER 1
+50% TOTAL CAPTURE CREDITS ON TIER COMPLETION
+25% CAPTURE CREDITS FOR PERSONAL CAPTURES (CAPTURES YOU INITIATE YOURSELF)
WORLD JUMP ON LIST COMPLETION
ALL PERCENTAGES ROUND TO THE NEAREST WHOLE AND ARE ADDED TOGETHER BEFORE CREDIT CALCULATION
PLEASE ENJOY YOUR TIME IN THIS WORLD

I blink a few times as the tasks minimize and shift to the right side of my vision to only show the individual objectives and in the bottom left of my view I saw a radar like interface that pinged slowly.
'Well then, that happened.' I think to myself.

Ten minutes later

As we were on final approach to the airport I had to call off a rooftop landing as it appeared that there was a member of the Monster Ops: Neutralization squad were on over watch. "Well, I guess we're not sneaking in so we might as well make an entrance. Boys, as soon as we're clear, establish a geosynchronous orbit and wait for my signal." After receiving a nod from the men in the cockpit I turn back to Kasumi with a smirk. "Hey Kasumi, have you ever ridden a dragon before?"
Receiving a smirk of her own back she replies. "Really Fred, if you wanted me to ride you, all you had to do was ask." Was her seductive reply.
Walking onto the rear ramp I grab both mine and Kasumis duffle bags and loop them both over one shoulder before placing her hands on my shoulders before giving her a three finger countdown. After putting down my final finger I kept off the ramp and reached within myself to a pool of energy that felt like a storm ready to be unleashed, and pulled. As I fell there was a sensation of stretching and growing as my 2 meter tall frame grew to 3 meters, as the bulk grew outward, and finally with a tearing jerk away from my back as my wings sprouted and narrowly missed Kasumi who I noticed had engaged her tech cloak to hide herself. Looking over myself I could make out the sweeping golden plates that adorned my chest, arms, and legs. In between the plate-like scales there were smaller quarter sized scales in a deep blue almost purple color with a bright neon blue edging. Giving a chuff of amusement I focused on the ground and found an empty area near a door that would allow me to enter the main terminal. As I flew past one of the massive windows I got a look at my form looking from an outside perspective. 'I look like a fucking Protoss right now, if a Protoss was 3 meters tall and looked like a dragon.' I marveled at my own reflection for the second time that day.
As my feet were about to touch the ground I allowed my grip on my power to slacken just a bit, I shrunk down to my normal size and my scales retracted under my skin, but I didn't release it completely. I landed with the bags over one shoulder as my scales pulled back to just be a smattering of my blue scales along my forearms and neck as well as my wings protruding from my back. I felt Kasumi jump down next to me and take a step behind and to the left.
Noticing movement on what would have been my motion tracker it looks very odd, there are plenty of gray dots moving all around, but there were a group of four heading towards me at a good clip that were colors ranging from dark yellow to light orange, and behind me and to the left was a single green dot. 'Is that my bounty tracker?' I think as I open the door for myself and my invisible companion.
As I crossed the threshold my vision was obscured once again by a dialogue box.