Prologue-chapter 4

Kai

Everyone else was in position, now it was his turn. He was waiting on one of the walls of the outer courtyard, overlooking the entrance to the Villa It was a perfect vantage point.

All he had to do was intercept the extraction force that was coming to take the target, Marcos Ree, to a safe zone somewhere. It didn't take long before he spotted approaching vehicles coming over the horizon. From a distance they didn't look too special, just some jeeps, troop transports and two armoured cars. However as they got closer, he began to see the small details; each vehicle had some sort of symbol, a red wolves head with three red claw marks going through the middle.

Kai's eyes widened as he came to a realisation. That wasn't just any symbol. That was the White Fang's symbol.

The White Fang; the anti-human, Faunus only terrorist group, that wanted nothing more than to see mankind locked in cages, or worse, extinct. If that was the case, why were they here? Why were they helping a human? And a Templar at that!

Kai shook his head; those questions would have to wait. He watched as the vehicles came to a stop just outside the entrance. Once they had stopped completely, the White Fang operatives began to disembark. There were a large number of them, but nothing he couldn't handle. He began to formulate a plan when he overheard a conversation between the leader of the convoy and someone else on the other side of a radio.

"We're here; I'll send some men to link up with your forward scouting team. Once the way is cleared, get mister Ree over here and we'll get him to safety" said the convoy leader. There was a pause before a muffled response came from the other end. "Understood, we'll be waiting" he said as he closed the line.

Two of the White Fang operatives began to walk towards the entrance way. At that moment Kai made his move. He quickly tossed three small balls into the line of vehicles, all three landing in different points in the chain. A moment after he threw them, he jumped off the wall he was perched on and landed in-between the two men, stabbing them both with his hidden blades, bring them to the floor with him. His actions startled the other operatives and caused them to draw their rifles and swords. "Who the hell are you?" asked one of them. "Who cares, just shoot him!" shouted the leader. "Right, Everyone, ready, aim, FIRE!" shouted the White Fang sergeant, but all the rifle men just looked at each other in confusion at the sudden order. "I SAID FIRE DAMN IT!" shouted the sergeant again. This time they understood and quickly began to shoot at Kai. He smirked at their stupidity before diving behind a small wall for cover.

As bullets rained around him, he calmly began to count in his head.

Five, four, three, two, one!

Once he got to one, there were three large explosions from within the convoy, sending vehicles and people flying in all directions. This caused the rifle men in front of him to stop firing and either run for cover or turn and stare at the destruction. Those who stopped to look quickly regretted their choice when Kai emerged from his cover and began firing his pistol, killing them. The ones in cover didn't have a good time either, as he ran past them, shooting as he went killing them too. Once the gun men were down he started to run through the burning wreckage of the convoy, shooting with his pistol and slicing through the confused operatives with his sword. A few attempted to fight back and organise themselves, charging him with their swords. As the first swing came at him, he blocked with his sword before using it to push his opponents away then slicing across his body the back up his body diagonally. Two more came at him, one from the left, one from the right. He quickly blocked to his right before leaning back as the one to his left came in with a heavy swing. Unable to adjust himself, he accidently struck his friend instead of Kai, who then impaled him on his sword, before pulling out and spinning left, slicing the other fighter and finishing him off.

Kai continued to move through the wreckage to the back of the convoy were there were some vehicles that were intact. However, there were also a number of White Fang fighters still able to fight. Among the most notable of them was the leader who, upon seeing Kai, ran into an armoured car and locked the door. The leader wasn't the only one that caught his attention; there was a large man, much taller than the rest, who was sporting a huge machine gun. It looked like he tore the cannon off an attack helicopter and was now wielding it with no problem. To anyone else, it would have been an intimidating sight, but Kai wasn't anyone else, and he wasn't impressed.

The tall man let out a menacing laugh and began spinning up his minigun, pointing it at Kai. "Oh so you one of those guys huh" said Kai. Suddenly, he took aim with his right arm and fired a shot from his gauntlet pistol, the shot going just wide of the giants face. The tall bastard just laughed "You missed" he said in a strong accent, probably from Atlas. Kai just smirked in response to this "no I didn't". Confused, the giant turned around to see where the bullet hit. His eyes widened as he saw what it impacted. The fuel tank. The bullet had struck the tank of a troop transport behind him, and now it was leaking fuel. He turned back to Kai only to see him raise his arm and fire again, the bullet igniting the fuel and causing a big explosion that engulfed all the remaining White Fang fighters including the giant.

Done, thought Kai. Now I just need to... his thoughts were cut off by the sound off rotor blades getting close. Before he had time to ponder the sound, a helicopter zoomed past overhead before turning back around facing him. "Well that can't be a good thing" said Kai as he began to slowly step back. The helicopter began to fire its weapons at him, missiles slamming into the ground and detonating around him. The nose turret was spitting out hundreds of rounds per second and they were hitting everything. Well, almost everything. "Wow this guy is a bad aim" He said as he occasionally dodged the spray of bullets. Then he got an idea.

He quickly ran over to the, not so mini, minigun that the giant White Fang operative dropped when he died. He picked it up with little difficulty. "Either I just got stronger or this is super light. I'm gonna go with the latter" he said to himself as he began to spin up the gun while behind cover.

Not that he wasn't strong, but even he thought he picked it up easier than expected, but enough of that.

Once the weapon was ready he sprinted out of cover and out of the choppers line of fire. As it went to readjust, Kai began to fire the minigun at it, causing massive damage very quickly. Before the pilot even had time to react, he was effectively split in half by the stream of high powered bullets. The lack of a pilot, plus all the damage, sent the chopper spiralling out of control in flames. After a few moments of spinning, it hit the ground and exploded. So many explosions, so little time He thought. However, once again his thoughts were cut short by two more helicopters zooming past before turning back around and targeting him.

I really don't have time for this he thought, getting very annoyed with the situation.

He should end this soon, he knew that much. With that in mind he grabbed a rope dart from his weapons belt and drew a long, rustic looking rifle from a slot on his back. He then loaded the rope dart into the rifle and took aim at the chopper, and after a brief moment to line up the shot, fired.

The rifle launched the rope dart at the helicopter at high speed, and after a short time travelling through the air it hit its mark, going through the armour and hooking into it, causing the aircraft to wobble slightly. He then withdrew the end of the rope from the rifle and tied it to his belt before pressing a button and being sent flying towards the helicopter. He swung to the left slightly and detached the rope, his momentum causing him to keep flying up until he glided through the open door on its side and landed inside it. There were three men in the open canopy with him; one on both guns facing out the open side door and the other must have been the co-pilot. All three men stared at him, confused and surprised before regaining their senses. However the two on the guns didn't react in time and Kai pretty much, for a lack of a better term, Sparta kicked them out the chopper. The other tried to swing at him but Kai caught his arm mid swing and stabbed him in the neck with his hidden blade. He then made his way to the cockpit and threw the pilot out as well.

Taking control of the chopper, Kai turned it round to face the last remaining aircraft, spinning up his weapons as he did. The pilot of the other chopper had no idea what was going on, and by the time he figured it out it was already too late. He fired all the weapons at the other vehicle, hitting it all over with explosive shells and missiles, turning it into a falling piece of scrap metal in seconds.

With the other chopper down he sent his own vehicle into a nose dive, throwing a grappling hook onto the quickly approaching roof top, before jumping out and swinging across and managing to land in a crouch on the roof. As he got up from his crouched position and began to walk away, the chopper he was just in impacting the ground and exploding into a mass of hungry flames. All I need are some sun glasses and this would be cool as fuck he thought before cringing at the thought of wearing sun glasses at night.

Remembering his objective, he snapped out of his thoughts and went to link up with the others. All the pieces were falling into place and it was time to finish the job. Now it's just me, and Ree. Hey that rhymed! He thought, smiling to himself as he ran across the rooftop. He could see the others all perched above a little arch in the courtyard they were watching.

His presence was noticed by Izaak first, who in turn alerted his teammates on their leaders arrival. "What took you so long?" said Lewis with a grin. "Oh you know, this and that" Kai replied. "You wouldn't happen to know what caused all those explosions back there would you" said Izaak sarcastically. Kai just gave his a look that said 'who me? Of course not'. He only managed to hold the look for a few seconds before they both burst out into laughter. At that moment, Marcos Ree and his escorts stepped outside into the courtyard, causing the laughter to stop abruptly. The four hooded men look at each other in turn before nodding. This was it.