Recon Zero
One month after the fall of Mistral the world of Remnant started to grow weary. War was on the horizon, but neither side had officially declared anything yet. Lady Vox knew that she needed to learn about what was called the "Dark Lands." It was the dragon shaped Continent, but no one knew the name of the place. The name was lost to history.
"Lord Sym, Lady Vox, we have a list of thirty of our best scouts." Cobe said. Cobe was a captain of the white fang, and a dog faunas. He was a good friend to Blake, and did his best to send letters, or other ways of communications.The three are in the former headmasters room, which has been turned into an office/ bedroom. The Bedroom is in the second part of the room, which overlooks the city.
Lady Vox, a human sith from thousands of years ago, looked at the list and thinks over it. She and all of the sith in Mistral were frozen when the old republic, and sith Empire fought over the planet, leaving the moon of Remnant as it is today. She handed the list to her husband, Dark Lord Sym.
Sym was a Human male. He has a scar over his face from a Jedi from thousands of years ago. He looks over it and circles twelve names.
"I suggest these twelve. They all have proven themselves worthy to go on this important mission. I went with them to find our place of attack when the war starts." He grabs a glass of Wine and takes a sip of it.
"I will also suggest sending one more. They'll be the leader of this mission. Captain Greene will lead this mission." Vox said.
Cobe bowed and left the room. He started to walk down to the room where the thirty of recruits were. He entered into the room, which was once a proud classroom, now it's a lounge. When Cobe entered into the room everyone stood up.
"Alright guys, only thirteen of you are going on this mission. First things first, Captain Greene, you will lead this mission."
Captain Greene stepped forward; Greene was a human male, who wore a heavy set of armor. He had a heavy blaster on his back, which could shoot almost five hundred shots. He was physically large, and he wore a large helmet, stained red. Skirmishes have broken out between the two side on remnant, and Greene gained his title in one of these.
"I must thank Lady Vox then. This is a great honor." He said.
"There isn't time for that, but I'll relay the message. Next up, we have the medics. There are going to be two of you for this mission this time. Since there are only two medics in the room you already know you got the job. So please step forward Via and Nav."
Via and Nav are medics that joined in the army shortly after the battle of Mistral. Via is a faunas female, and she's on the shorter side. She is a rabbit faunas, with one white ear, and one brown one. Her white ear has a black spot on it. She has a scar on her ear, where she was attacked when she was younger.
Nav was a human male, about twenty two. He lived in the same town as Sno, one of the first sith apprentices from Remnant. He was one of the only ones in Higanbana who cared for Sno. He lost a friend in one of the early skirmishes, which motivated him even more to become a medic, and he's gone a numerous mercy missions. He wore the light clothes, so that he could move around better.
"Alright, now we have the pilot, and that's going to be Cap." Cobe said.
Cap was an experienced pilot, but since the new flight simulators arrived for the new models of ships, she's been the best in the army, except for a very select few. She has flown behind the enemy lines a number of times, and knows her ships inside and out. She is thirty years old, and unmarried. She has jet black hair, and wears gloves to hide her hand. Years ago she was in an accident with a grimm, and she lost her hand in it, which was replaced with a metallic one. Since, she could overcharge it, and make it's strikes from it hard enough to kill grimm. She also carries a pistol with her at all times.
"It's good to see that they chose the right woman for the job." She said
"Yes it is. Now let's get to the sniper. We only have one spot open for this one, and it was a difficult choice, but lady Vox and Lord Sym decided to pick Levi."
Levi looked up at Cobe. He was one of the only ones from the battle of Mistral that were in the room. He was thirty two, and very unmotivated in Cobe's eyes. His hair was unkempt, and looked like he hasn't used a brush or comb in years, which might be accurate, but he was a deadly foe.
"Captain, Are there going to be any targets?" He said, sounding tired. Cobe didn't get to know Levi much in the white fang, but he did learn not to mess with him. Levi was hawk Faunas, getting the trait of his eyes. He could see farther than any normal human.
"Of course Levi. Via, meet me after this so I can give you information. Next were going to be going to scouts. This one is the big one, so here we go. Five of you are going to be scouts on this mission." Cobe looked at the list and started to read out the names. "The Five scouts are Misty, Baza, Frost, Bross, and Lavi."
The five stood up.
Misty was a human female, the youngest troop in the group, only being nineteen. She was once a huntress in training, until the battle of Beacon. She was in Vale to celebrate the Vytal festival, but the Empire attacked. In the attack, her teammates were all killed, and she was injured. She returned to her home in Mistral, and left the school. She was on the road from town to town with her family, until they were attacked by Goons. She was once again the only survivor, but she saw Vox kill them shortly after.
Baza is a faunas female, she is a deer faunas. No one in the group knows much about her, since she doesn't talk much. What they know is that she's at least forty, but she's as fast as she was when she was a noticeable thing about her is that she has a giant X on her back, and she isn't afraid to show it. Her stomach was showing, and it showed the end of the scar along her back. She uses hunting rifles instead of any other kind of weapon.
Frost was the only one who was from Atlas. He defected five days after the battle of Mistral. He is a human male, and he was trained as a hunter. His weapon is a headman's Ax. He is a mute. He tends to hide back in the crowd, and strike quickly. Others guess that he's thirty, but he's never said.
Bross is a human male. He is thirty four, and has experience with fighting. He doesn't show his weapon until it's about to enter into his enemy. He lost an eye to a grimm, so he has one robotic one. He has a goatee. He was Born in Vaccuo, but moved to Mistral when he was little.
Lavi was a human female, with twin pistols as her weapons, and is a great shot. Her body was tattooed all over, and her left arm had tally marks on it for kills she's gotten. There were seventy eight in total. She smiled, and the piercing along her face showed. Her skin was unnaturally pale, but when she got in battle, it was as if she was see through. She was twenty nine, and has been to a majority to the skirmishes so far.
"Hey Captain, do I get to kill some people?" She asked.
She would have freaked out Cobe a month ago, but now, he doesn't care.
"The point of this mission is to scout out a place. That means that you kill only if you have to." Cobe looked at the list again.
"We're going to send the Marine on this mission. Bole Mag." Cobe looked up and saw the marine.
Bole Mag was wearing the white fang mask, and heavy armor, but he wasn't faunas. He joined in right before the battle of Mistral, and was there. He fought right along aside Cobe in the fight, and he was one of the one hundred troops from the battle that became Marines. The second wave of Marines were currently being trained, but that didn't affect Bole. Bole used a great sword, and could kill up to three regular troops in a single stroke, but he also used a blaster rifle.
"I guess I'm going to have to keep these guys alive." Everyone glared at him. "Joking, Joking." He said with his hands up.
"If everyone's done, we still have three spots open. We are going to have an Engineer, and that will be Lisa."
Lisa is a female faunas, a zebra faunas, with the stripes along her face, and her arms. She was trained to fix anything, and in her spare time, she is normally found fixing and creating electronic things. She's twenty one, and a heavy drinker, but no one would know it from looking at her.
"Sounds good." Was all she said.
"Then we're going to our last two positions. These will be shocktroopers. Grey and Dew are the last two to go on this mission."
Grey was a human male, and a minor weapons expert. He has been fighting the grimm for as long as he could remember, and loves the feel of battle. He is also a heavy drinker, and his brother even owns a brewery. He has one robotic leg, one that he got when he first lost a fight to a grimm. He has a sub machine gun that fires sixty bullets in thirty seconds. He wears medium armor.
Dew was a human Female, she a number of scars along her body, one of them being on her lower lip. She got them from all the fights she's been in with. Grimm weren't the problem; she usually got in the way of a mugging or something. She's never lost though. She's never lost a fight yet.
"Alright everyone that I called, we need to get you to the Medical wing immediately." Cobe said. They all looked at each other, but they all followed anyway. When they got to the medical wing they were all placed into separate rooms.
"I think we're all updated on our immunizations doctor. Why are we here?" The doctors heard this, or something like it from most of them, and the answer was the same.
"There is one more that you need."
Nurses entered each room and administered the "Shots". What was happening was an injection of microbots that would enter into the bloodstream, and would monitor the vitals of everyone.
They were out of the medical bay in minutes, and were going to get any equipment that they would need. Cobe directed them to the docking bay, and got them on the ship. It was one of the first in a new class of ships, based off of the ones that Lady Vox brought with her. The ship was a stealth class fighter that could travel a number of lightyears, but not enough to get out of the main galaxy. These could get you anywhere on Remnant in at most half an hour. There were two engines in the back, and two wings on the side. The shield generator was on the belly of the ship, and it even had turbo lasers. There were four on the front of the ship, four on the top, and an extra two on the wings.
"Wow…" Grey said.
"Yeah, that's my beauty." Cap said.
"Let's get going now." Greene said. Everyone entered into the ship, and quickly took their seats.
The ship lifted up and flew out of the hall. Cobe stood watching the ship leave the port.
"I should report this to Lady Vox." He turned and walked out of the bay room.
Cap flew her ship for the first few minutes, but turned on Autopilot. She entered into the main room of this ship. It had a circular design, and it led to a number of different rooms that she could see. Everyone was seating around a comm system looking at the area where they would be landing very soon. It was the closest tip of the dark lands to Mistral. As they flew they talked about the mission
"I'm going to have Lavi, Frost, and Baza go with me. We'll set up our first station. It will be six hundred yards inland." He pointed to a map of it.
"I shouldn't say inland. Six hundred yards away from the ship. Grimm are still reported to be at large in this place. We have no idea how many there are."
"So we're going in almost blind?" Grey said.
"Yes, but we also have a staging island that we will land on before we go to the main land. We will be covered their, and we'll set up a small comm station. It will relay info we gather to Mistral. After we get what we came for, we'll leave." Greene said.
Via looked at the map for a second, when Misty expanded it on the screen.
"It appears that the island isn't named. Looks like we're going to have to name it." She says
"Reacon one!" Lavi says
"Like the ship?" Misty says back to her with a questioning look on her face
'Yeah, but with an A after the E. That way it gets some Flare in it" she said smiling.
"Sure, whatever you want as long as we get there." Greene gets their attention again. "Speaking of which, how much longer Cap?"
Cap shrugged her shoulder, and gave a rough estimate "Half an hour."
"Thanks for the update." Greene says.
Half an hour later, give or take a few minutes, they found the island they were looking for. It was a speck of land no larger than one hundred meters wide. Far in the range of fire from the ship. They hover over the land, and find that it is covered with small grimm.
"Who wants to go to the gunner seat below?" Greene asks.
"Already on it Cap." Dew said it. "Sorry, I mean captain."
"Don't touch anything you're not supposed to." Cap says as she sets off a volley of plasma shots. She vaporized a few grimm, then she was joined in, and the remaining grimm fled from the island.
"Landing now Greene." Cap says.
When they land, they could see two grimm, and Levi made quick work of them.
Baza, Grey, Dew, and Bole Mag lifted off the ship a Comm Relay. They set it up, and contacted Mistral.
"Come in Mistral, come in." Cap said
"Mistral reads you Recon Zero." A voice comes over the Comms.
"Reporting in, we have landed half a klick from the DarkLands. We have landed on a small island and are setting up a small B.O.P" Cap says
"Copy Recon, Good Work. Have you found any Grimm?"
"A few, but we took care of them. They fled from the island." She continued.
"Send coordinates back to HQ." A new voice said. She sent the Coordinates. In a minute the voice came back. "The Island is unnamed. Have you named it?"
"Yeah, it's Reacon one, that's Recon with an A after the E." She said.
"We'll take a note of that." The voice said after minute.
"Recon Zero out." She said, waiting for the sign to leave the conversation, and ended the Comm.
"Great…" She looked to the Darklands. "Tomorrow, we go to the pit of Remnant."
Lisa walks into the cockpit and looks at something. Cap turns around to see her looking at some of the controls.
"What are you doing?" Cap said
"I'm learning about everything on this ship. I'm not planning on leaving my post anytime soon." She said
"Well as long as you don't start taking the ship apart." Cap said turning around
"Oh, so I better fix the kitchen."
Cap turned around quicker than Lisa could have guessed.
"You did what to MY Ship?"
"I was joking, seriously." Lisa holds up her hands.
"Don't mess with anything. This is my pride and joy."
"I know, and it's mine also. I built part of it." She pointed to the Comm station in the middle of the main room.
"…I see. You're Lisa right?"
"Yeah."
"Come here, I want to give you something." She reaches into her jacket and pulls out two small bottles of Rum.
"Do you really want to be flying Drunk?" Lisa said. She did grab the bottle, and opened it. She took a quick sip of it and put it in her jacket.
"Lisa, I'm not going to be flying. We could jump over to the other side and be in the DarkLands." She takes a sip "To a new friendship, over this ship."
"To the successfulness of this mission." After they take a sip, Cap says something
"we got a lot of this stuff hidden in the kitchen." She said with a smile on her face
"We're going to get in so much trouble." She said "Better drink it while we're still free." She continued with a smile on her face.
The two got up and started to move to the kitchen, getting a number shot glasses, and lots of Alcohol.
Author's notes:
So we're done with the first chapter of this one. I know that it might be a bit confusing, and this story is going to be Very short, with next chapter probably being the last one.
I'd like to thank everyone who's been reading this story, and it's other counterparts.
What story is up next, "The dragon and her Mentor" It's going to heavily focus on yang.
So ends the second chapter of the Cold War Saga
May the Force be with you
-DragonZlayerx12