Vanir Argent
Once again i found myself standing in the warehouse district of a city, in the middle of a massive storm, the only differences being that i was standing in a sewage pipe, and Mithril was with me.
We had left the island of Patch a few days after i woke up,Lirril and Talia remained behind in order to recover with Rennic and Torque, though they both said they would join us in Haven when they could. "Vanir, it's time." Mithril said to me as her eyes returned to their normal color, they had been a cloudy white while she used her semblance to see the locations of our targets.
"How many Knights are there?" I asked her as i moved up to the grate above us and began to cut it with the Hades, Niren had given it an upgrade so that i could control how much energy is released.
"At least twenty on the first floor, my vision started to fade near the roof." Mithril said while shaking her head back and forth, if she overused her semblance it gave her massive headaches.
"Niren, we have at least twenty contacts on the first floor, but no clue how many there are on the roof." I said while pressing down the radio in my ear. After a few moments of crackling Niren finally responded. "Copy, Nexus is currently scanning the area, we need some more time to deal with perimeter sentries." I finished cutting the edges of the grate and slowly pulled it down into the pipe before responding. "Copy, moving up into the warehouse now." I climbed up into the warehouse and held my right arm down for Mithril.
"Thanks." Mithril whispered after we both stood up and unsheathed our weapons. "No problem, you're fine with killing these guys?" I asked as i sniffed the air, the room we entered was dark and Mithril still needed time before she used her semblance again, the smell of sewage was still too strong for me to rely on my nose to track a target, so i started to focus my hearing to find the closest source of noise.
"Three Knights just down the hall, playing cards." I said after a moment of listening. "Right, how do you wanna do this?" Mithril asked me as she moved towards the door.
"Rush them." I said, the mission was extermination, stealth wasn't required. I opened the door and began to sprint down the hall, the three Knights at the other end were caught off guard and fumbled for their weapons, before they could even aim i had already cut down the nearest one and Mithril was moving to deal with the others, her twinblade was a flash of steel as she quickly slit their throats.
"Nice." I said as i swung my blade to get the blood off it. "Good place for date." Mithril said as we continued down the hall, as we stood at the corner of the hall we were in listening for any more Knights i heard several muffled shots from outside, Niren had begun to pick off targets. "We need to speed this up." Mithril said as her eyes once again turned cloudy.
I stood guard for another fives minutes as she looked around before she said "The rest of them are just beyond that door there, looks like we managed to spook them." I nodded before moving down the hall, the Knights were either scared shitless, or were planning a desperate last stand, either way they were about to die.
"Hold on." I whispered as we both reached the door leading into the warehouse floor, this was reminding me of the night Niren and I had been arrested by the Vale police. I put my ear next to the door in order to listen to any conversation that was going on. "It's the Maleficar isn't it?" A voice asked with fear. "It has to be, and now that the traitor is working with them we're screwed." Another voice said in anger
The Knights didn't take kindly to Mordred betraying them, when he announced his plan to overthrow Uther and return the Knights to a more noble path, they sent forces after him, only to be crushed in a series of small skirmishes on the fringes of civilization, a week after that what remained of the Maleficar began to make strikes at drydocks belonging to the Knights, these events managed to put them at a major disadvantage.
"Back up from the door." I said to Mithril while slowly building up a charge inside of Hades, the door was made of metal and was most likely thick enough to stop high caliber bullets, nothing to that massive amounts of heat couldn't fix though.
"Wait do you hear that?" One of the knights asked after a loud humming began to emanate from Hades. I raised the robotic arm and prepared to fire, the entire palm slowly expanded from the glowing red orb of energy that had built up in the center. "This is going to be interesting." I said to myself as i let the energy build up a little bit more, if the first blast could clear away a few Knight's it would be worth letting them realize we were right outside the door.
"Fire it already." Mithril said when the air was filled with static electricity, i had to agree that now would be a good time to fire the energy. "Firing." I said before letting the massive amount of energy surge out of my palm and towards the door, apparently i charged it for too long since the hole was larger than the door was a moment ago and the beam tore through the wall on the other side of the room.
"Damn." I said as i received multiple shocks from the discharge, leftover energy was moving through the grafting and into my torso, giving me a nasty shock every few seconds. "Can you still fight? Looks like you missed some guys." Mithril said with a little bit of worry in her voice.
"Let him in Niren." I said between ragged breaths. After a moment the sounds of screams echoed from outside and Nexus dropped down just outside the hole in the far wall, Kyofu at the ready with a red blade sizzling in the rain. "You know the police are going to be after us now right?" He asked me from across the room, the last five Knights looking back and forth with confusion.
Niren Argent
I finished surveying the area around our target, it was an old warehouse in the dock district of Havens capital city, and just like two years ago a large storm had moved in to provide us cover to carry out our objective. Unlike two years ago however Vanir and I had backup, backup being Nexus and Mithril as well as at least a dozen of Mordred's forces waiting to move in and salvage equipment from the warehouse.
"Niren, we have at least twenty contacts on the first floor, but no clue how many there are on the roof." Vanirs voice crackled over the radio in my ear, i pressed the earpiece down and said "Copy, Nexus is currently scanning the area, we need some more time to deal with perimeter sentries." I could only see so far with my thermal scope and Nexus would be able to adapt his eyes to see better.
"You can start clearing a way for me, i've marked the path i'm taking so just clear out targets from there." He said before grabbing his weapon and moving to the stairwell. "Copy." I said before i started to fire my weapon at several Knights who were too close to the building for my liking.
The storm did wonders for masking the sound of my bullets and the flash from my muzzle, eventually i fell into a trance like state as i pulled the trigger several times then reloaded, only to repeat the process.
"Niren, i'm heading up to the warehouse roof now." Nexuses voice crackled into my ear, drawing me out of my trance as i picked off my last target and slowly sat up before answering "Go for it,i can keep an eye out for any Bullheads or reinforcements." I said while cracking my neck, laying down for at least twenty minutes and firing a rifle caused it to stiffen up a fact that the other Maleficar enjoyed teasing me about.
As i settled back onto my stomach to continue scanning the dockyards i soon found myself counting the time between each roll of thunder, no reinforcements had arrived and the only thing of interest that had happened was the beam of red energy that tore through the warehouse and several other buildings beyond it, Vanir had finally tested out the overclock on the Hades.
"So was that blast just you being curious or did the fuckers actually have something that was a threat?" I asked Vanir when i saw him walk out into the rain and tap something on his scroll.
"If you count a door and at least ten Knights a threat, then yes." Vanir replied sourly as the sound of engines began to fill the air. "Just remember to come pick me up." I said as i began to pick up the spent magazines my sniping had left on the ground. "Yeah yeah." Vanir said with a resigned tone in his voice, i continued to watch the people i had come to call my family until the Bullhead Mordred lent us touched down in the middle of the street.
I stood up when i saw the VITOL moving towards my position and lept across the short gap between it and the building, accepting Vanir's metal grip when i slipped slightly. "Getting too old to jump across a gap anymore?" He asked me with a grin on his face. "Not as much as you are you bleeding homicidal maniac." I said after lightly hitting his shoulder. Mithril and Nexus both laughed at our discussion.
"The Maleficar will have some food for us right?" Mithril asked after her stomach growled loudly. "They should, after all the tavern belongs to them." I said after yawning, not only would we get a warm meal, but a hot shower as well. "Not to mention warm beds." Vanir said after yawning as well, the last few weeks had been hell for us after the battle at Beacon the knights were obviously reluctant to give any ground.
"How much longer do we have to fight these assholes?" Nexus asked while leaning back in the seat he was in. "Until we can draw out Uther, after that it all depends on if we can kill him." I said while popping my neck, it was still stiff. "Let's just get some rest for now, Iota did promise us time to rest after we handled this." Vanir said, mustering up whatever cheer he could, not even a day in Haven and Iota already had us fighting again.
"We should be coming up at the dock now." Mithril said tiredly as the Bullhead slowed down. "Thank Dust." Vanir said with a groan and a yawn as the Bullhead came to a stop and the bay door opened, the four of us quickly disembarked the ship and it quickly took off, returning to Mordred's ship. "Now for some food and the terror of being jumped by Iota." I said as we all jogged to get out of the rain which was starting to die down slightly.
Before we could cross the street to the tavern that Iota was using as a base the sound of sirens and Bullheads filled the air, apparently the police noticed our skirmish. "Iota is going to be pissed." I said as my shoulders drooped in shame for not controlling my brothers destructive tendencies. "She can get over it." Vanir said while walking out into the rain. I could only follow him in the hope that she would.
Finally decided to get around to fixing a mistake i made with how the storytelling is done, this little arc will be set aside as one separate story so I can return to the original style i used.
