A Rogue's mission
It had been a good fe-no, a lot of good years for Loki being in Remnant once more, the down side is having to reconnect with old contacts from his spy networks, somehow exactly how he got them the first time, Neo… oh Neo, when he saved her voice from being taken from her again, Loki sighed for once in genuine relief at being able to save her again, already when he asked her to be a spy contact, she answered exactly the same as his Neo… hopefully it works out like his did.
But moving away from that memory and back to business, Loki had asked his contacts to keep an eye out for a good few people of interest, one, cowardly bitch of a pathetic excuse of a mother, his words, Raven Branwen, Adam Taurus, Sienna Khan, and finally, Cinder Fall.
Sienna a second priority due to her being betrayed by Adam, but the one he wanted to beat senseless was the three he wanted to find the most.
Adam easily found due to Blake's father, Ghira Belladonna, stepping down for Sienna to take his place, Tyrian he could easily get sent after him, but doing so would mean telling Remnant "Hey, I'm here, send you lapdogs at me".
Shaking his head of such thoughts, Loki looked up from the desk he currently sat at to look to the now ringing Scroll, reaching for the device, Loki grabbed it quickly while looking to the screen that showed an uploading timer, the desk surrounded by unconscious Atlas guards.
Bringing his scroll to his ear, Loki spoke.
"Yellow"
"Loki, I got a sighting of that woman you told me to keep an eye out for, Cinder Fall is on the outskirts of a small town between Vale and a fishing village, She's been coming close to one of the White Fang's many outposts, if you move now You'd meet her halfway to the outposts" hearing Neo's voice through the scroll as the uplink finished, the screen showed a king chess piece, but with two faces, one of a normal face, the other a menacing skull somehow grinning.
"I'm finished here, Ice cream, send me the coordinates and I'll double your pay" Loki said as he began to leave the building.
"You don't need to pay me anything…" hearing Neo say those words softly, Loki smiled fondly.
"I'll be back before you know it, Neo, get some rest" Loki said with the girl humming in tired agreement before she hung up, leaving Loki looking out the window of Jacques Schnee's office.
Atlas hasn't changed at all from his one, looking for a latch for the window, Loki failed to hear the doors to the office open with a very sneaky Winter Schnee holding her rapier at the ready, looking over the room she spotted Loki at the window, quietly as he could tear the window off the wall.
"What the hell do they use to make these windows?" Loki muttered as the elder Schnee sister approached him, raising her weapon she frowned as he sighed, turning to her, he held a sign of 8/10?
"Uh, what?"
"For stealth, you get an eight for Stealth, and a full ten for your looks" Loki said, hoping to make Winter of all people, blush.
And seeing her look away with said blush, Loki leaped backwards, shattering the window in his escape with Winter turning back in surprise, leaning out to see Loki falling down the cliff she could faintly hear him yell "Call meeee!" before her scroll pinged, making Winter blink in surprise.
Looking to her scroll to see it was a message with a picture attachment, opening the file, her blush came back full blown at the sight of Loki, wearing nothing but his pants and mask, showing off his lean figure.
Staring at the image Winter looked away while saving it for later, before she stood at attention as the door opened, her scroll in her pocket safely while she saluted General Ironwood.
"Schnee, report"
Seeing the snow covered ground approaching fast, Loki kicked his feet forward to land, causing a seismic event that spread very far, startling a snow covered Ursa as Loki now stood with a serious aura, turning calmly to the Ursa he walked onward with the Ursa on the floor in pieces.
"Alright, failsafe in place, now for Cinder Fall" Loki said as a round vortex opened with him stepping through, walking into a lush forest now, Loki shook off any clinging specks of ash mixed with snow, closing his eyes while inhaling the air… he turned to the left at hearing many voices, along with the scent of animals.
Running to the source of the smell, Loki ran into a pack of his enlightened Beowolf that followed him through the bush's around the White fang camp, crouched low and staring at the camp, Loki spotted Blake leaving the camp with Adam, feeling a pang of guilt to what he has planned for the camp, he turned to a leaving Cinder Fall and her two loyal dogs, glaring with his eyes glowing, Loki looked between the camp or Cinder, letting out a groan, Loki signalled the Beowolf to attack the camp, followed by an order to do so after an hour, getting grunts of acceptance from the pack, Loki followed after the three in silence.
Keeping up with them despite being in the bush's, Loki listened to the trio speaking as they continued to their destination.
"There hasn't been any words about that new myth lately, you two know anything?" hearing Mercury Black speak, Loki had to keep down his growl of rage as a memory of the bastard firing a point blank shotgun shell into his head resurfaced, shaking his head of violent thoughts he heard Cinder speak.
"All I heard was false glory, a Huntsmen working with beowolf, such an act of control would have to be faked" Cinder said with Loki growling.
"Then what's with the Beowolf acting weird, just yesterday we saw a Beowolf with golden eyes instead of the usual red?" turning to Emerald with a frown of thought, Loki smirked with his eyes glowing, mentally reaching for a close Beowolf, he willed it to howl with the three turning to the sound in surprise.
"It does not matter for now, all we came here for is to recruit the White Fang, to do so, we will need a… trump card" Cinder said with a smirk, looking to a pocket watch for temporary use, she turned to Emerald with a nod.
"Our target will be here soon… make it seem real"
"Of course ma'am" Emerald said with a slight bow of hesitance, a hesitance which Loki caught as Cinder and Mercury moved to hiding positions, with Emerald inhaling slowly before her eyes opened, making Loki blink as he saw a ripple in the air, followed by he transparent form of a child version of Emerald took form, a bicycle also taking form.
Seeing this, Loki quietly sighed as he sat back, most likely knowing he'll have a long wait.
Letting out soft, quiet snores in his laid back sleep, Loki held a lounging Beowolf in his sleep, before his right ear perked up at hearing the approaching hooves.
Snapping his eyes open, wide awake now and ready for a fight, Loki looked around to see the fall Maiden, Amber, riding down the road, watching the woman perk up at seeing the illusion, as real.
Loki formed a shuriken like weapon, inspired by a game he played, he spun it on his middle finger to test it.
Watching for the right moment to strike, he winced as he watched the display of combat of the Fall Maiden, he waited till Amber was struck by Cinder that he willed his mask over his head.
Red orbs glowing brightly, he stood up with his weapon arm priming to throw as Cinder's gloved hand rose to Amber's face.
Seeing an insectoid grimm within her palm, Loki threw with practice accuracy.
Smiling in her victory of facing the Fall Maiden, Cinder Fall felt great glee as the woman at her mercy begged, eyes staring at her own in fear, she ignored the Grimm's cry of awakening in turn to another sound… a sound of twirling metal.
Seeing the Grimm shoot it's black webbing in slow motion, Cinder's eyes widened as a three bladed shuriken flew by, tangling the web and decapitating the Grimm in her glove, causing the said glove to destroy itself, making Cinder grab her hand she scowled and turned to whoever had stolen her victory.
Only to pale as Loki stood there, in silence, a menacing visage to the four as Loki let out a guttural snarl as his right arm shot up, catching the thrown weapon with ease before it broke down into ash that flowed into his sleeved arm, allowing Loki to flex his fingers, his red orbs glued to a frozen Cinder Fall as the beowolf with him approached his sides like guard dogs.
"Such a nice day for a walk, no?" resting a calming hand on an excitedly growling Beowolf, Loki looked to Cinder who paled as the older Beowolf slammed a hand onto the ground with a hungry roar, making Emerald flinch and raise her hands, allowing Amber to fall down weakly.
"Who are you?" Cinder demanded with as much confidence as she could currently muster, making Loki chuckle darkly, stepping forward, Cinder readied a bow aimed for Loki, who stopped as a memory of him burning to ashes on Beacon Tower came up, making Loki snarl.
"Go ahead, see how far you get, before I catch you… and make you beg for mercy" looking to Amber as she laid weakly with Mercury ready for a fight, he did however notice hesitation from Emerald, seeing this, Loki smirked.
"Well, now, seems like you don't have full loyalty from one of your lapdogs"
Frowning at his words, Cinder looked to an equally confused Mercury before they turned to a shaking Emerald who had her own illusions working against her, as she was staring at a larger, more menacing Loki.
Turning to Loki Cinder gasped as he was in front of her, a hand "gently" sending her flying back into a fence, making her continue onward into the ground, leaving Mercury who went for a kick.
Which Loki stopped with a right hook connecting full strength with Mercury's prosthetic, shocking the teen as his leg was obliterated by the punch, the follow up palm strike to his chest left him coughing up blood as he flew back, leaving Emerald at Loki's mercy.
Looking up at the man with tears forming in her eyes, Emerald closed her eyes in acceptance, while Loki, sighed inwardly, because for all he knew, she was an enemy in his Remnant, but the girl before him was not like the Emerald he knew.
Looking to Amber who watched him in stunned silence, he looked up in time for a blade the size of a fully-grown adult, to bounce off from his head, showing a stunned Qrow Branwen, and Summer Rose, also stunned into silence as Cinder snuck away… or so she thought.
Looking back she felt her heart stop as Loki's masked eyes poured KI down onto her, making her think who was more terrifying, her mistress Salem… or this… monster in human form.
Turning to run for her life, she scooped Mercury up on instinct, thinking of survival in numbers.
Seeing his target fleeing, Loki looked up to Qrow Branwen who stood a good distant away, Summer beside him with her cutlass' at the ready, making Loki stand in a more casual manner.
"Summer Rose, I see you've recovered well"
"Thank you for that by the way" getting a nod from Loki the teen looked down to Emerald who looked at the two Huntsmen in hidden joy, thinking she'd have a chance to survive her encounter with the Rogue Huntsmen.
Turning to Amber, she saw her staring up to Loki with admiration, the blush confusing Emerald who looked up to the monst- holy hell what happened to the scary monster?.
Staring up to an unmasked Loki, the illusionist had to fight down her own blush from how young and good looking the young man was.
"Uh, what's with the unmasking?" turning to Qrow with a wolfish grin, the beowolf at the tree line calmly walked to Loki's side, stunning Qrow as Loki began to subconsciously scratch one of their ears.
"To show good faith to Old man Ozpin, that and I want to help him against Salem" suddenly hearing a gurgled grumbling from his stomach, making Amber and Emerald reel back.
"And I haven't eaten food for the past four months"
"FOUR MONTHS!?"