Yang nodded to the badge hanging around her neck, making sure the beat cop at the door saw it before ducking underneath the police tape with two coffees in her hands. She spotted her partner, crouched down in front of a corpse.
"What do we have?" Yang mused, handing a coffee to the dark-haired woman.
Agent Belladonna looked up at her partner, shaking her head slightly as she took the presented cup. "Nothing good… Twenty-three dead…All but one killed with single gunshot wounds to the head... Drug runners, normally we'd look at rival gangs but..."
Yang looked around at the warehouse full of corpses. "The money and drugs are still here," she observed.
Her partner gave a nod, "bingo… this wasn't a gang hit… it's worse..."
Yang was a bit confused by this, "worse?" She did not like the sound of that.
Blake pulled her phone from her trench coat, turning it sideways and bringing up a video, "this..."
Yang looked over Blake's shoulder and watched the security footage. It showed the drug runners loading drugs into S.D.C. crates, suddenly one of the guards drops like a sack of bricks, the others barely have time to react before they meet a similar fate. Single headshots, one after the other, muzzle flashes from just off camera. The leader takes a round through the thigh, dropping to his knee. For a minute he struggles to right himself, appearing to scream at someone off-screen. After a minute of this, a figure walks into view.
The person is clad head to toe in black clothing, a bullet-proof vest with a white skull painted on the front and a black mask also adorned with a white skull. The figure stands over the man for a minute, he appears to plead with them, they then shoot him between the eyes. Yang felt goosebumps as the masked killer turned their gaze up to the camera, raising their pistol and aiming it at the lens, the video goes gray.
"The Atlas Assassin… god damn..." Yang can't hide the awe in her voice. To watch one person kill so many so effortlessly was almost breathtaking.
Blake put her phone away and nodded to the commissioner, across the room talking with several clearly distressed people. "Media is clamoring, they wanna release the video."
"Pfft, better let them clamor, no way the public wouldn't panic seeing that… This is the fourth Atlas Assassin hit this month…"
Blake stood up fully and nodded in agreement, "you're right… the most intimidating thing is… they took out all these guys by themselves without even being seen, then they put on a show for the camera…"
"They wanted to be seen," Yang finished.
Blake shook her head, "why though? I mean commit crimes like this for six months without even a witness, then you do a little song and dance on camera? What type of person does that?"
Yang took a long sip of her coffee, wincing at the bitter buildup. "A psychopath..."
Weiss crept up the stairs, silent, her back to the wall and her eyes peeled for threats. She crossed the hall once she reached the top. She had gotten good at sneaking. She reached for the knob and gave it the slightest of turns, the door gave slightly and she began to ease it open. Slowly. Slowly. She was almost upon her prey, blowing her cover now would end badly. She entered the steamy bathroom, creeping across the linoleum to the shower. Her target had their back turned and hadn't noticed the intrusion. She took a deep breath, as she always did before moving for the kill. She got her hand on the edge of the shower curtain…
"Gotcha!" She roared as she tore open the curtain. Her poor target turned around in a flash, screaming and covering her unmentionables.
"Weiss!" Ruby yelped in displeasure, her morning shower so rudely interrupted.
Weiss couldn't help but laugh at the woman, "you should have seen your face!"
Ruby puffed out her cheeks and pouted, letting her hands drop from her defensive stance, she resumed cleaning herself with the curtain open, no need to hide her body from someone who had seen it so many times.
"Oh, come on baby, I couldn't resist." Weiss teased as she began to undress.
Ruby rolled her eyes and huffed, "you scared me half to death," she complained.
Weiss stepped into the shower once she was nude and gave her a deep kiss.
Ruby protested at first but couldn't help it, she could never stay mad at Weiss… and her lips were just so damn kissable. Ruby moaned ever so slightly as her hands began to roam over her wife's skin. Weiss returned the exploration of course. The two of them standing in the hot stream of water for a while, soft pops and smacks filling the large bathroom.
After a few minutes of indulgence on both of their parts, Ruby broke the kiss with a satisfying pop. "I missed you last night."
Weiss smiled, gazing up at the taller woman's silver pools, "I know, I'm sorry, just needed to handle some things..." Weiss cupped Ruby's cheek, trying to ignore the torrent of memories of last nights business pouring through her brain. "besides… I'm here now… why don't you…" Weiss pushed her rose petal gently into the back shower wall, Ruby let out a faint whimper, "let me make it up to you now?" Weiss chuckled and bit her lip, reaching behind herself to close the curtain.
Ruby giggled and stole a quick pop-kiss from Weiss' lips, "I guess I could be persisted to forgive you."
Weiss giggled as she lifted Ruby's leg, soliciting a sharp gasp from the younger girl, "I think the word you were looking for is persuaded."
Ruby blushed a bit and looked to the side, "yeah…"
Weiss couldn't help but laugh a little, Ruby hadn't changed since high school, she was still overwhelmingly adorkable.
"Now then… let's make up for lost time, shall we?"