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It is 1941. Joaquim Dela Cruz is a Filipino pilot on an obsolete plane, a down-and-out fighter squadron, and is up against the might and the insurmountable force of Imperial Japan. When Joaquim is shot down and crashes in the jungles of Batangas, he transforms into something unexpected: a five-inch dwende. There is a hidden history in the Philippines, stories historians can't record, and it's called Folklores. And it's one Joaquim suddenly finds himself thrust into. He has no idea how and why someone played this trick on him. Joaquim finds out he isn't living in a bedtime fairy tale, this is as real as it gets—too real, in fact, that whoever caused this silly little metamorphosis, on whatever new mission he needs to do, can change the tides of war.

Nick is the son of one of the heroes of the Lalan, one of the people who participated in a war of universes against pirates who subdued different worlds and then destroyed them. The Ungeziefer only went with beings from their land and half-breeds, since in a matter of two months someone of their race was already an adult thanks to the machines they had. Nick goes to the intergalactic academy because his father orders him to, since the war made him intensely paranoid, as not all the Ungeziefer had been eliminated. However, at the academy he begins to stand out and to generate envy among his peers for his knowledge. In the first week, he is promoted to second level cadet, most of the students of that institute do not like him and some try to make his life impossible. When he goes to his first mission in the company of the pilots who are going to graduate, his father dies strangely and that triggers a feeling of hatred and revenge towards the directors of the academy, as one of his classmates discovers the disturbing truth that hides this academy. This causes her to flout the rules of this place and earns the hatred of many people.