In a camp forgotten years ago, a young Aeolus stands watch over the Faunus under his care. The camp was still being built, forcing the more adaptable Faunus to sleep outside. A man with black and red hair walked up behind Aeolus and tapped his shoulder. Aeolus turned around and nodded at the man, and pointed towards an empty location in the camp.
"Seems like yesterday that we were kids," The Person next to him said.
"We're still kids Kyla." Aeolus said, "We just have a better understanding of how to act."
"But I mean, why are you heading this operation?" Kyla asked.
"Because," Aeolus said, "I have an ability to choose the best locations for buildings and structures, and you just like to mess around."
"Do not!" Kyla protested.
"Two years ago," Aeolus reminded her, "You ended up messing around with the wildlife and missed the signal, almost getting me killed. Had it not been for the Fall Knight."
"Oh yeah, that guy." Kyla said, "That guy gives me the creeps."
"Well, he's one of four responsible for keeping things at bay here on Remnant." Aeolus explained.
"Was that when you couldn't catch that one guy that attacked you?" Kyla asked.
"Actually, something blew up in his face and we couldn't find the body." Aeolus corrected her.
"Oh..." Kyla said.
"From what Ryan told me, I gained a set of powers equal in power to his when I was traveling around with him on a joint mission." He said, "So did Blizzard and Aardwolf."
"The traditional dude?" Kyla asked.
"Yes, we got them because we helped out an old dude." Aeolus said, "He said that he hadn't had any visitors since 4 sisters showed up. He was grateful that we helped him and he gave up the power to protect the world when all other hope is lost. He also had specific ways the powers are passed down through the generations. Winter knight is through the family line, Spring Knight is whomever utilizes the natural surrounding for flanking and stealth, Summer Knight chooses who ever it wants, and Fall Knight is more or less based on semblance."
"That's a lot to remember." Kyla said, "Hey, isn't that Jenkins running towards us?"
"Aeolus!" Jenkins yelled, "Incoming attack!"
"What?!" Aeolus said, "The humans said they would leave us alone!"
Aeolus jumps to the ground and runs towards the entrance of the camp to see mercenaries headed towards them. Aeolus sighed and pulled out his katana. The mercenaries reached the camp and Aeolus stopped them before they had a chance to enter.
"Halt." Aeolus said, "Why are you here."
The leader of the mercenaries stepped forward wielding a crossbow and spoke, "We came 'ere for you."
Aeolus went into a fighting stance and his katana started glowing. Ignoring the glow, Aeolus slowly started to walk around the mercenaries. When one of them tried to attack, Aeolus blocked it, and continued to circle. When the leader tried to hit Aeolus with with a crossbow arrow, Aeolus turned invisible before he could target him.
"Where did he go?" The leader exclaimed, "Bloody 'ell, find out where he is!"
Aeolus came out of Invisibility for a couple seconds to scratch one of the mercenaries and went back into it. The mercenary that was scratched looked at the scratch after exclaiming in pain. The scratch had started spreading some sort of poison through his body, and had started by rendering the arm with the scratch on it useless.
"What the hell?" The leader said, as his men were poisoned one by one, "What are you?"
"Some idiot might say that I'm a god of stealth," Aeolus said, coming out of invisibility, "But really, I'm just someone who wants to be normal. But since I can do what I just did, I can't be normal."
The leader of the mercenaries charged towards Aeolus, and Aeolus cut the mercenary's left eye, forcing him to retreat.
"I'll get you someday." He said, turning around, "We'll meet again another day, and when that happens I will be much stronger than you."
After the Mercenary ran off, Ryan appeared in the distance, with his sword in hand. Aeolus noticed that something was wrong about the way that Ryan was holdingnhis sword.
"Is something wrong?" Aeolus asked Ryan as soon as he got within earshot.
Ryan kept getting closer and closer without answering Aeolus, when Kyla pulled Aeolus back.
"Don't get near him!" She said, "He doesn't appear to be who he was before!"
Aeolus ran back inside the camp, and Ryan followed by running also.
"Men!" Aeolus said, "Protect the camp!"
The Faunus working on the camp stopped what they were doing and picked their weapons up to defend.
"Aeolus, we have to get you out of here." Kyla said, "I've rounded up some of the most trusted men to help get you out of here, with me umong them."
Aeolus watched the defending Faunus as they were cut down by Ryan's blade, who made his way into the camp.
"Aeolus." Ryan said, "You have something that I want, something that I need."
Aeolus turned around and ran off into the distance with Kyla after ordering the remaining Faunus to block Ryan.
"I'll find you, Aeolus!" Ryan shouted as he layed waste to the remaining Faunus, "And when I find you. Ohh when I find you, you're dead!"
"What happened then?" Ruby asked.
"We found a secluded place after finding out what happened to Ryan," Aeolus continued, "I was cursed by a witch on sorts, and I got live up until now watching my family and friends die in front of me, one by one."
"Harsh," A voice rung out, "But then again, I've heard this before. In fact, I was part of it."
Aeolus turned around to see the mercenary that he fought back then, standing behind him with an eye patch over the eye that was infected.
"You." Aeolus said.
"Hey," The mercenary said, "I'm not looking for a fight, I want redemption. In order to do that, I need to work with you."
"How are you going to get this redemption?" Aeolus asked.
"Same guy you're going after," The Mercenary said, "Ryan took my eye, the one that you cut, and now I want it back. I've been having to deal with an empty hold where my eye used to be for years."
"Okay," Aeolus said, "You can work with us, but don't expect me to let you handle anything important for a long time."
"Hey I get it man," The mercenary said, "My name is Bioshock. It was given to me by the person who trained me, and as I don't know my real name, it's been my name for ever since I can remember."
"Hey," Kai said walking up, "Ryan was taken by some dude called Dr. Merlot. Guy sounds like a huge Douche."
"Eh, he'll get away," Yang said, "The guy isn't even as great as he says."
"I heard him say that he was the greatest there ever was." Kai explained.
"I'll admit Aeolus," Blake said, "I was completely wrong about you. But with the way you described this Mad King person, your decision to run was quite acceptable."
Kai's scroll started ringing suddenly. He answered the caller on speaker and Ryan started to talk.
"I've found it!" Ryan saounded excited.
"What did you find?" Kai asked.
"Accuratius!" Ryan sounded excited, "I found it in the ruins to a town Ravaged by Grimm."
"Which town?" Aeolus asked.
"Wolfpine!" Ryan said, "I'm gonna take it out."
"No!" Aeolus said, "That thing was made from the soul of the God of Darkness! Going after that is suicide!"
Ryan had already hung up by the time Aeolus finished his sentence.
Ironwood stood in a small room with four other people, one of which had a breathing regulator on, and another had a steel jaw. Ironwood paced the room for a bit more before one of the four other people spoke up.
"Why did you call us here?" The one with the regulator asked, "Even though we're retired from any type of service."
"I called you here," Ironwood started, "Because you four made up the best damn operations team Atlas has ever seen. Even though you hardly worked together, when you did, the mission was carried out with the upmost success. Smoke, you were assigned as leader to the team because of your high leadership skills. Steel, you were assigned to the team because of your ability to finish even the most difficult missions. Moss, you were assigned because of your recon skills amongst the best agents. Nitrogen, you were assigned to the team because of you high knowledge with technology and knack for improvising."
"These are widely known facts, yes." Nitrogen stated.
"But those that do knows those facts are either dead or working for Atlas." Ironwood said.
"Well," Moss muttered, "He has us there."
"But you never told us why you called us here, General." Steel put the conversation back on topic.
"A threat that none of know about has come back," Ironwood began, "Your mission is to get a number on how powerful this guy's forces are. We need to be entirely sure, so be precise."
"Yes General," Smoke said, then signaled his team to follow him.