Faceless Shadow

Chapter 1

Grabbing a Bounty… well trying to.

I am an Assassin, Bounty Hunter and Thief. I disguise myself with a black hood and cloak with tight, black, light armoured under clothes with a multitude of weapons including pistols in case things get hectic, a retractable red laser sword with a slightly curved 'blade', some smoke bombs and what kind of assassin doesn't have a sniper, also I had a faceless mask. My left glove contained a gravity manipulator to pick up stuff from afar, created by yours truly.

My faceless mask contained scanners for me and for database recognition for others that was created by my father, he was a great man but was backstabbed, literally, by his closest friends, so I promised myself I would take revenge, so far, I got nothing on them, it was almost as if they didn't even exist, like me, gotta stay invisible.

I sat upon a rooftop, scanning people for a good cash-prize, my helmet's scanner searched for anyone that was of interest until I came across someone who had a bounty of 5k units "Hmmm, I'll catch you later" so I took out my sniper, put in a tracking ammo into the gun and took aim, my mask's HUD made a calculation and showed an estimate of where the bullet would hit, so I aimed at my bounty's thick boot so he wouldn't feel it impact, I pulled the trigger and then on my HUD's map a red dot appeared at his location, "Hehe, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will- oh, they want him alive, great, even more work for me" I muttered to myself.

I continued my rooftop scouting and I saw next to a fountain a small furry bipedal thing and a tree creature dwarfing the furry thing, I then scanned them and turned out it was an illegal test subject taking part in genetic and cybernetic enhancements, if these were 'enhancements' then I would hate to see him before he became a rodent, he probably was still a rodent before, although he had no bounty, "Well then, Rocket" I saw his name "looks like you're safe, for now, you too 'Groot'."

I then saw a man with a red coat, black hair and- "40 thousand units!" I muttered, "not a lot of those around" I aimed my sniper towards him and fired at his coat, it hooked on and another red dot appeared on my HUD, I then strapped my sniper to my back and ran to the next building and followed my walking money into a building, I waited near the entrance with my deactivated laser sword in my right hand and one of my dual pistols in my left, I then noticed a green woman, who my scanners detected as Gamora, daughter of Thanos eating a fruit walk to the entrance and also waited just outside.

We stared at each other for a moment before I looked back towards the door that my money walked through, I broke the silence by saying "So, what are you doing here, doing Thanos' dirty work again?" with my voice modulator active and set to a mechanical voice. She didn't say anything, "You gonna say something?" the silence answered my question "Ok then" then I heard the hiss of a door opening.

"Farewell, Mr. Quill" a voice came through the door and the person who I tracked was pushed through the door, holding a strange orb with markings and symbols on it "Hey, we had a deal bro!". He then saw us, although probably noticed Gamora more than I because of his brain activity.

"What happened?" Asked Gamora.

"Uh, this guy just backed out of a deal on me" my bounty replied.

"Yea, that happens to me sometimes too, I usually end up killing them in the end, but I let them change their answer, then I kill them" I explained, and that's true.

"That makes sense, if there's one thing I hate, it's a man without integrity, Peter Quill, people call me Star-Lord"

"Notheydon't" I coughed.

"Wow, way to shoot a man's dream down" pouted Peter or 'Star-Lord'.

"You have the bearing of a man of honor" Gamora complimented, probably as a distraction because I noticed her walk closer, eyeing the orb which he was idly throwing it up and catching it, although she can have it, all I care about is grabbing my bounty.

"Well, I wouldn't say that, people say it about me all the time"

"No they don't"

"Just, st- ompf" Gamora grabbed the orb and kicked him in the gut, then ran off, knocking two civilians down, before I could react he grabbed a ball from his pocket and threw it at her, it then turned into a pair of bolas and wrapped around her legs.

I then jumped onto Peter and turned him around, put his arms behind his back and was about to cuff him but I was then pulled back by an unknown force, but my suit's sensors were reading it as… plant matter, then I remembered a humanoid tree and a small mammal, also humanoid, something then blocked my view.

"Put 'im in the bag! Put 'im in the bag!" I was then being lifted "Not him! The other guy!" my HUD then said, [SHOCK DEFENSE SYSTEM INITIATED] and the big tree guy and the mammal started screaming in pain in their distraction, I grabbed my laser sword from my belt and sliced off Groot's vines that were trapping me and I threw Rocket off somewhere. While I was being distracted Peter went after Gamora to get his orb, or who knows, maybe he stole the orb from her and she's just trying to get it back, I don't know.

Peter tried to jump on top of her but was kicked in mid air, then Gamora rolled on top of him with her knife out "this wasn't the plan" that, was not good on my part so I raised my left hand and activated my gravity manipulator and made it fly from her hand, into mine, she looked at me with rage but continued with what she was doing, she grabbed the orb and jumped down from the bridge, onto the lower level, I then pursuited my target but he went along the bridge and when he was in position jumped down onto Gamora again, but also ended up being under her, again. "Fool, you should've learned."

"I don't learn, one of my issues," he then strapped something to her side and turned it on shooting her crashing into a nearby fountain, I then noticed Groot and Rocket walk towards him with a bag, the Groot shoved him in and tightened the neck so he couldn't escape "Oh no you don't,"

"Quit smilin' ya idiot, we're supposed ta be professionals" I then jumped down in front of them and activated my sword, turns out Gamora had the same idea and walked towards them with her own sword out, not a dagger. "You gotta be kiddin' me" Gamora shoved him out the way, I sliced at the Groot's arms while Gamora checked the dropped bag, she was surprised to see not Mr. Quill, but the end of a gun, which fired a stun shot which started sending high volts through her body, knocking her out. Peter quickly escaped from the bag and ran away, I followed after him, when I nearly caught up to him he then fell over, writhing in pain, I took the opportunity to put him in cuffs that I carry everywhere, just in case. But I then heard "drop your weapon!" coming from a speaker.

"Oh dear" I checked my battery for a little toy I had been working on but it takes a while to charge up, "I really needed to change that" then a few guys walked up to us.

"Grab him" said an older looking one, I took out my sword for the third time during this fight, I then get a notification on my HUD saying {BATTERY CHARGED} and I smiled underneath my mask. I then decided to change my voice modulator to be more insectoid with deep sounding clicks and crackles.

"I'm afraid, it's time for me to go" I then pushed a button on my left gauntlet, but nothing happened, I then pushed it again, nothing yet again "Come on, don't give up on me yet" it then showed {ERROR} "Bugger" I jumped toward one of the men and tried to slice at him but was stopped when I was shocked into unconsciousness.

Hey guys, it's me, I've got a new Fanfiction here for you guys, now you guys may be wondering, 'Where is hiding among lightning,' well, I can't seem to find the motivation or inspiration to do more, but I am slowly making progress and as for my SCP rewrite, I'm still moulding my SCP (not literally) but here's something, I've kept the names of the researchers from the original story so, yay.

Anyway, see ya later.