A.N: Long Chapter. Get comfortable and enjoy.
Chapter 4: New Players on the Field…
Time: 04:00, Day: Saturday, Location: URG All Under Heaven, 500 km above the emerald forest
Vajo slowly gained consciousness and slowly sat himself up. As he did so he instantly felt a pounding headache, he was seeing some glitches and hearing a disembodied voice in his head.
"There will be a great deal of hardship on the road ahead"
After the glitch passed a surgeon walked in with her data pad, "Ah your awake I see, you were asleep for the whole day after the operation, how do you feel?" the surgeon asked, Vajo got off the operating table and stood up to his full height "Amazing" Vajo said sarcastically,
"Your sarcasm will be noted, now to see if there are any glitches"—the surgeon walked over to the table, picked up Vajo's helmet and handed it to him—"Put this on"
Vajo put his helmet on and the doctor pulled out her data pad and said "Angel perform a system scan" with that Angel showed herself sitting on the freelancer's shoulder armour with some holographic screens in front of her.
"All systems nominal…hold on…it seems that there is a problem with the helmet's targeting software…rebooting system, standby"
Vajo's HUD went dark and now he couldn't see inside his helmet, after a few seconds his HUD lit up again
Rebooting targeting software…standby
"Alright Lieutenant, you are going to have to target various objects to calibrate the system" Angel said
"Now please look at the surgical equipment on the left" Vajo followed Angel's instructions, the freelancer's HUD highlighted the objects and showed its specifications.
"Excellent, now please look at the X-rays on the wall on the right please" Vajo proceeded and his HUD highlighted the X-rays and brought them into full view. The X-rays were images showing the location of Data Crystal Chip implanted at the base of his skull.
"Ok, now please look down at the floor and up at the ceiling" Vajo did as instructed, and the floor and ceilings were highlighted as a whole.
"Now please look at the centre of the room Lieutenant"
Vajo looked towards the centre of the room and saw that Angel was now standing there, the HUD then automatically highlighted her and identified her as 'Friendly'
"Targeting software calibrated, now its time for the physical"
The surgeon gestured to a machine that had a ring surround it, "Please stand in the centre and stay still" the Lieutenant did as he was told and the ring that surrounded the machine slowly moved up and down while emitting a blue light, when it was done the surgeon showed Vajo her data pad which revealed a fully detailed body scan of Vajo's body.
"Scans indicate your gene mods are working just fine, no tears in the muscles or cracks in your bones. Your nanites are operating all full efficiency, so this means we can skip the physical considering you're in peak condition, you're dismissed"
"Ma'am" Vajo said as he nodded, he then grabbed all his gear that was in a locker and left the room, he noticed the time on his HUD, it was 04:10.
"I'm gonna go to the quartermaster to modify my current loadout, that EXO's armour had some tough armour"
"Yes Lieutenant, I believe that is a wise decision" Vajo then walked into the direction of the main armoury, they passed several crew members but they didn't mind them. When they entered the armoury he saw a firing range on the right, on the left there was armour stations, in the centre of the room was workbenches to modify weapons, armour or pieces of equipment and lastly he saw only one person in a room in the far back corner, the room was secured by thick metal bars on the windows and a heavily armoured door which was the only entrance or exit.
Vajo walked up to the Quartermaster, knocked on the window and said "Hey Gunns, you are NOT gonna believe the amount of shit I'm gonna need, thanks of my last encounter"
"And what did that last encounter entail son?" Master Gunns said as he placed a Gauss Rifle on a weapons rack.
"P.T.C."
"Shit…so the rumours were true, they're making themselves known with their new CO"—He walked up to the glass and rested his hands on the counter—"You know I heard they subjugated a number of villages in Vacuo"
"Damn…dust mines?"
"Yeah you know it, the kingdoms life blood"
"The kingdom of Vacuo should make a contract with us, they don't stand a chance against their tech"
"I ain't no strategist or anything but we don't have the numbers, most of our soldiers are in Menagerie keeping the Grimm at bay and from what I've been hearing…it doesn't sound good"
"How so Gunns?"
"Its practically a war zone son, heard they raised the Grimm threat level to 7 and the White Fang ain't helping with their raids on our supply convoys to the frontlines"
Vajo slammed the counter, "Fucking terrorists, we're trying to keep them from being wiped off the map and what do they do?"
"Calm down son, here let's change the subject, what do you need?"
"Black market weapons, Code Black"
"Hah! Of course, only the top-line gear for you"—Master Gunns went under the counter, grabbed a data pad and handed it to Vajo—"Here, we've received numerous top-line gear, courtesy of Blackjack"
"Ah yes, the same one who armed PTC" Vajo said as he grabbed the data pad,
"Blackjack arms everyone…if you can pay for the high-end gear that he provides that is"
"Whats to keep him from arming the White Fang? The last thing I need is a terrorist launching a VC9 rocket up my ass"
"He probably won't, he's only been arming PMC's as far as I've heard"
"For now…"
Vajo scrolled through various types of Prototype Weaponry, Armours and equipment. He tapped on several weapons he deemed were necessary: A LS13 Shotgun with 10 Gauge Shells, a StA-14 Rifle with 9.5x40mm High-Powered Armour Piercing Rounds, a Prototype Porcupine Shoulder-Fired Missile Launcher with Homing Shredder Missiles and 2 Hardlight Blades for his gauntlets.
Vajo processed the payment of 35,700 Lien and gave the data pad back to Master Gunns to which he took and briefly glancing at Vajo, "You know this gear ain't cheap, just what did PTC throw at you?"
"EXO's and mercs"
"The EXO's armour is too tough for your Assault Rifle?"
"Yeah, at least from the front"
"Why didn't you used your grenades?"
"Made them for tanks or large mechs not EXO suits"
"Hmm alright, trade in your weapons excluding your sidearm and I'll hand you your new gear"
"No problem" Vajo unholstered his main weapons and handed them all to Master Gunns, Gunns then placed them in a container and walked over to one of Blackjacks armouries, placed the data pad on a port and processed Vajo's order. A small chime was emitted and the box opened up, revealing all the gear that Vajo requested, Master Gunns handed it to him one by one and when he handed the Porcupine Missile Launcher and Vajo's hardlight blades, he gestured to the armour station, "Just have that equipped on your armour over there"
"Thanks Gunns"
"Eh no problem"
Vajo left his weapons on one of the workbenches in the centre of the room and stepped into a armour station, while inside he made selections to modify his armour to install the missile launcher on his right shoulder and two hardlight blade on his gauntlets. Vajo stepped out and engaged his hardlight blades for testing, he then heard Master Gunns voice on the armoury's intercom, "Those hardlight blades can do some serious damage up close, I've seen a Faunus once use hardlight tech on some old AK 130's and damn do they slice shit up good, and her's was in it's testing stage"
Vajo disengaged his hardlight blades, grabbed his battle rifle and shotgun from the workbench and walked over to the firing range. The range projected some holographic targets in the form of a bandit, he activated his missile launcher and his HUD highlighted hostile targets with a red reticle, "That launcher is a favourite of mine, the Porcupine Shoulder-Fired Missile Launcher fires homing missiles hands-free but in your case it'll fire shredder missiles, just deploy it, lock on to a target and fire, those missiles can shred armour so I wouldn't use it on unarmored targets unless you plan to clean up the mess" Master Gunns said over the armoury's intercom
"Angel, you have the firing range, generate some PTC EXO's"
"Yes Lieutenant" Angel projected herself beside the firing ranges controls next to Vajo, the bandits disappeared and in their place two PTC EXO's appeared beside each other, Vajo locked on to a single target and fired, the missile hit the EXO head on, shredding most of the EXO's frontal armour which left it vulnerable, he then fired a couple rounds into the EXO's torso which killed the pilot as the rounds penetrated what was left of the EXO's frontal armour.
"Ah that StA-14 Battle Rifle you have there is useful at medium to long ranges but if they get close, just use your LS13 Shotgun to blast them to pieces or use your hardlight blades to slice them up" Master Gunns said,
"Hmm…Angel get rid of the other EXO and generate a target at close range" Vajo ordered as he switch his battle rifle for his shotgun,
"Yes Lieutenant"
The targets disappeared again and generated a single target at point-blank range, Vajo fired at the hologram which showed that the target was filled with pellets, "Nice"—he holstered his shotgun and looked at Angel who was beside the controls for the firing range—"Thats enough for today, lets do something else before the initiation"
"Yes sir" Angel said as she disappeared,
"I'll see ya around Gunns, try not to get killed by some Atlas wankers who think they know how to fight alright" Vajo said as waved while walking towards the exit,
"Hah! them Atlas fucks will be dead the second they engage the All Under Heaven"
As Vajo exited the armoury he noticed the time was at 05:55, and with the initiation at 07:00 sharp he knew he had some time to kill, "Let's retire to our bunks, so you continue were you left off"
"Of course" Vajo then made his way towards the bunks,
Some time later…
It was 06:30, Vajo and Angel were exiting the bunk to go to the hanger for the initiation.
"So the white fang used to be a peaceful organisation, but the previous leader stepped down and the new one took his place, she changed their tactics"
"Pretty much yeah"
"Why don't they just go to Sanctuary?, it's practically a refuge at this point, Faunus and Humans co-exist over there and with a large force of URG personal stationed there and that's not including the Dawn Under Heaven, it's practically a fortress…everyone can feel safe there"
"That may be true but the SDC makes it hard to just stand on the sidelines and do nothing, so that's one of the reasons why faunus still join the white fang"
"Would you do the same if you were in their position?"
"What? join a terrorist organisation?, no never, there are different ways to accomplish their goals but the path their on is clearly the wrong one"
"But they're just proving the humans right aren't they?"
"Yes they are…but desperate times calls for desperate measures"
"Both races are equally confusing"
"Yeah I know, its a real pain to deal with sometimes"
Vajo and Angel were now approaching the hanger, Vajo entered the hanger and quickly made his way to Juno's dropship, he was looking for her until she stepped outside the dropship, Juno saluted with two fingers, "Sup bitch you ready?"
"Well good morning to you to Juno"
"You ready?"
"Yeah"
Juno jabbed her thumb towards her dropship, "Jump in and I'll take us over the target area"
"Got it"
Vajo jumped in and saw Jake at his station, "Hey what's with Juno today?"
"I…uh…um…I don't know"
"Seriously? what did you do this time?"
"Um yesterday…at the mess hall…I may have-"
Vajo raised his hand "Alright just stop right there, I think I have a pretty good idea on what you've said to her"
"She…uh…won't kill me right?"
"I don't know, maybe?" The Vajo then felt the dropship take off and took a seat,
"Listen, if I don't see you afterwards I can only assume that you're dead and your remains will NEVER be found"
"Oh gee thanks"
"You'll learn"
Angel hacked into the Beacons systems and displayed Vajo's helmet cam.
Beacon Academy…
Since it was the weekend students were gathered at the auditorium to observe a students initiation into the school, some of them were disappointed that they were forced to watch a student's initiation while others were curious of could be coming to Beacon even after the official initiation at the start of the year.
"Remind me why we're here at the auditorium this early in the morning?" Yang said to the rest of her team, Team JNPR and Team CVFY
"Vajo's initiation is today and its mandatory for all student to attend, weren't you listening to Professor Ozpin yesterday?" Weiss answered
"No, my mind went blank after he mentioned that merc Ice Queen"
"Quiet you"
"Shhh its Professor Ozpin" Ruby ordered
Professor Ozpin was standing at the microphone looking at the time, seeing that it was nearly time for the initiation to begin.
"Ahem, students as you may or may not know, we are here to observe a new student that will go through initiation today, now I know that it is your weekend and you all have your own schedules but this is why I've scheduled the initiation to take place at this time, since this should only take an hour or so" Professor Ozpin smiled while casually taking another sip of his coffee and stepping back, then Professor Goodwitch stepped up to the microphone.
"Students, the initiation will begin shortly now please take your seats an—" before she could finish the screens in the auditorium were instantly switched on. The students saw a that they were watching through a view of a solider, the students were pulled into screens as they saw an interior of an dropship.
"Hmm, is Onyx just getting dropped off?" Yatsuhashi said with his hand on his chin
"Hey man, can you describe whats happening for me?" Fox said gesturing to his eyes
"Oh sure, Onyx appears to be in the same dropship we were in before but there's no lighting on the inside"
"Tsk, is he going to get dropped off? I expected him to go through the landing strategy part like we did" Coco said
"Yeah…this doesn't seem fair"
"Guys let's simmer down, I don't think Professor Ozpin would allow this, so Onyx might be up to something else"
"Yep, check it out, it looks like the Ice Queen was right" Yang said,
"Of course I am…wait HEY!"
Meanwhile with Vajo…
"Link established Sir, Beacons cyber defences are very…primitive, at least by my standards"
"Can't say I'm surprised, Vale isn't as technologically advanced as the URG…wait they didn't hear that did they?"
"No, I muted the camera but I will turn the mic back on in a bit"
The freelancer gave a sigh of relief and tapped on his helmet camera "Alright good, last thing the Director needs is a complaint from the Headmaster"
[Play Falling from the sky (feat. Lamar Hall & Casey Lee Williams)]
"As you say sir"
Jake got up from his seat and moved towards the rear of the cabin, "Alright, we're over the drop point, I hope you got your landing strategy all figured out!"
"I'll improvise" Vajo said as he got up from his seat,
Jake gave a thumbs up, "Oh by the way, your callsign has been changed to Vanguard, Tier 1 authorisation confirm?"
"Confirmed, the objective?"
"You're looking for an abandoned temple, towards the northern end of the forest, at the temple there will be several relics. You must pick one and return to the top of the cliff, copy?"
"Copy" the interior of the dropship lights lit up red, he then held his arms outwards, "Red Light standby…" The ramp then lowered revealing the bright morning sky,
Jake stepped to the side as the interior lights turned green, he then gave Vajo the signal to jump, "Green Light, go, go, go!"
"Thanks for the ride!" Vajo said as he ran past Jake and out the dropship, he got a good birds eye view of the area before shifting his body to look back at the dropship which was flying back to the All Under Heaven.
"I hope you know what you're doing sir"
Vajo didn't answer Angel instead he turned his body again so that he was facing the ground. As he approached the ground at a rapid pace he saw a unusual clearing with what it seemed like stones or old ruins of some kind and before he knew it a Nevermore emerged from the clouds and got in his view of the clearing, but lucky him the Nevermore was on a course that crossed his flight path making for a perfect intercept opportunity, "I know what your thinking and it's crazy…"
"Wouldn't be fun otherwise, guide me in on that Nevermore"
"Um just one teensy question…what if you miss?"
"…I won't" Vajo's HUD displayed a flight path homing in on the Nevermore, he then pulled his arms closer to his body to increase the speed of his decent, "400 metres to target, contact imminent!"
"Copy" Vajo held his arms out and slowing his decent and increasing the control, "100 metres!"
"I've got it!" Vajo landed on the Nevermore's body and gripped the overgrown birds black feathers. The Nevermore didn't like that as it screeched, panicked and flailed about midair trying to shake off the freelancer, "SORRY MATE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY LANDING!" Vajo climbed closer to the Nevermore's neck and engaged his hardlight blades, he then cut the Nevermore's neck open with an X slash and slowly felt the bird's thrashing come to a halt and slowly fall out of the sky.
[End Track]
Vajo jumped off the Nevermore's corpse and performed a superhero landing, he pulled out his Battle Rifle and sprinted in the direction where he saw the unusual clearing on his way down. As he sprinted through the forest, his tracker picked up a large number a red dots heading towards him, "35 hostile signals 80 meters"Vajo cocked his rifle and took cover behind a tree,
Vajo pointed his rifle towards the head of the pack that was heading straight for him, but they unexpectedly halted their advance 50 meters out, "Somethings up…" Angel said, the red dots on the tracker split off in two directions, "It appears they're are attempting to take us down with an encirclement"
"So it would seem…" The pack then began to charge at the freelancer from all sides, "Shit, Angel guide my homing missiles to hit large parts of the pack, we have to thin them out before they get to us"
"Yes sir, activating Porcupine Missile Launcher" The shoulder mounted weapon came out of its case, "You may fire when ready"
"Launching!" Immediately 6 missiles were launched straight into the air which all went in seperate directions to target large parts of the pack, the missiles then impacted the ground killing a majority of the charging horde, "16 plus K.I.A, the shrapnel from the missiles will kill off 7 which leaves us with about 12 hostiles"
"Copy" Vajo pointed his rifle at the nearest target and before he knew it a Alpha Beowulf quickly emerged from the cover of the bushes rushing the freelancer, Vajo fired his Battle Rifle at the Alpha, a few rounds hit the Alpha's limbs while one round hit its torso. The Alpha hid behind some trees which blocked Vajo's line of fire, the Alpha gave a deafening roar which also prompted the other Grimm to charge in faster than they did before causing Vajo to switch targets to the closest threat. A couple of four Beowulves charged in while trying to keep the trees in-between them and the bullets that Vajo was firing, "Uggh, smart little shits, aren't they?"
"The Alpha is coordinating their assault, I would recommend targeting it first but we don't have a clear shot"
"Oh fuck this, I'm going in!" Vajo reloaded his rifle and switched it with his LS13 shotgun, he then ran to the position of the Alpha, the Alpha noticed this and gave another deafening roar, the other Grimm went after Vajo without concern of cover, exposing themselves to fire, while Vajo was running a beowulf jumped out of cover and attempted to rip off Vajo's head with it's mouth, Vajo quickly reacted and performed a combat roll, he then turned around and blasted a decently sized hole inside the beowulf's chest. The rest of the pack caught up with him and attacked out of order, a beowulf went for a high attack but Vajo ducked under it, smacked another beowulf with the gun, blasted its head off, he turned and blasted the other beowulf that he dodged which left 9 more.
Vajo saw a group of 3 heading towards him, he walked forwards and fired 3 shells at the beowulves and killed them, a beowulf surprised from behind, he pointed his gun at the Grimm and pulled the trigger but it didn't fire, Vajo immediately dropped his shotgun right before the beowulf pinned him to the ground, the freelancer held the beowulf's mouth away from his head and saw on his tracker that the remaining 5 Grimm were moving in, "AGH! GET THE FUCK OFF ME!" Vajo roared as he snapped the beowulf's neck and threw it off him, Vajo quickly recovered, performed a combat roll while simultaneously pick up his shotgun and reloaded it, he then saw the remaining 5 Grimm approaching him and saw that the Alpha was leading them, "Oh there you are!"
As the Grimm drew close the Alpha looked gave a quick roar, the subordinates then split off and went in different directions while the Alpha charged in headfirst, "COME ON, I'LL TAKE ALL OF YOU ON!" Vajo switch to his battle rifle and targeted two Grimm on his left, taking one out while disabling the other, he noticed that the Alpha was dangerously close so he switched his rifle for his shotgun, the Alpha went for a charging slash with its claws but Vajo jumped and flipped over the Alpha, when Vajo landed a beowulf jumped out and performed a downwards slash but Vajo intercepted the attack with his shotgun, a beowulf then attacked the occupied freelancer by getting a clean bite on his left leg which broke through his shield, "ARGH!" Vajo pushed off the first beowulf, engaged the hardlight on his right gauntlet and stabbed the beowulf that was on his leg in the head, the other beowulf tried to pin Vajo to the ground but he stabbed the beowulf in the torso midair and tossed it to the side.
Vajo looked to his right and saw the Alpha on his two back feet waiting for a move, he disengaged his hardlight blade and placed his shotgun on his back, Vajo cracked his knuckles and walked up to the Alpha, "Come on, let's see what your made off" the freelancer taunted before raising his fists, The Alpha roared down at him and went for a right scratch, Vajo blocked it and threw it over his shoulder, he then moved up to its elbow joint, raised it up and brought it down right on his knee which broke its joint on contact, the Alpha roared in pain before attempting to slash at Vajo with its left set of claws but Vajo blocked it with his right arm, engaged the hardlight blade on his left and sliced off its arm, Vajo watched the Alpha hopelessly roll around in pain before sticking his hardlight blade right through its chest, as he did this Vajo stared into the Alpha's red eyes and watched as the red glow slowly faded away signifying its death, Vajo disengaged his hardlight blades and took a look around, he watched the beowulves body slowly evaporate but in the distance he could hear the distinct sound of whimpering, he walked towards the direction and watched saw a injured beowulf, Vajo could feel its eyes on him as it made a series of low feeble sounds of pain.
"The bullet hit the spinal cord sir…its paralysed" Angel said as she appeared next to the dying Grimm, she tried to 'comfort' it by trying to stroke it with her holographic hands but all attempts to do so failed,
Vajo shook his head before pulling out his MR6, "Sorry mate…you'll only cause more suffering while you live…" he pointed his sidearm at its head, he then slowly squeezed the trigger and glanced at Angel who got up and turned away, Vajo then pulled the trigger which you could hear the sound echo throughout the forest, he swapped his sidearm for his battle rifle and kept moving towards the ruins Vajo felt uneasy so he turned around briefly and saw Angel watching the lifeless corpse as it disappeared before she did so as well, then they both continued their way.
Silence filled the air as Vajo kept walking, they both knew each others thoughts but not one said a word until they reached the ruins, "Reach the abandoned temple and retrieve a relic, think that's it over there?"
"Most likely, this are the only ruins I saw during our decent"
Vajo sighed "Alright lets grab one and leave"
He walked up to one of the pedestals that the relics rested upon, "Chess pieces?" Angel said,
"It would appear so…"—he picked a White Rook piece and inspected it—"I'm not picking up and energy readings. The headmaster might have been exaggerating about these relics" Vajo placed the White Rook back on its pedestal before his tracker pinged an unknown signal, he quickly pointed his weapon at the trees.
"Who's there!" he shouted, no response was given, "Come out, I'm not telling you again!" no one came
"Anything out there?"
"Tracker is picking up something, I recommend investigating"
"This day just keeps getting better and better" Vajo grabbed a piece at random and looked at what he grabbed while keeping his rifle aimed at the forest, Vajo picked a White Knight piece and placed it in one of his back pockets, "Investigating…"
Vajo cautiously made his way towards the unknown signal, as he got closer he didn't see a thing only a tree, "Hmm, there's nothing here, Angel when you have time run a maintenance check on my equipment"
"Yes sir" Vajo lowered his battle rifle and began walking away until he heard a small shuffle coming from the tree, "What the…" he walked back and raised his rifle. With his right hand on the grip he used his left hand to try and touch the tree, but a rabbit hopped around the tree drawing the attention of Vajo and causing him to point his rifle at it, he then slowly lowered it after calming down, "Heh, its just a rabbit…alright" he then made his way towards the cliff unbeknownst to a petite girl with an umbrella appearing from the tree after he left.
*Line Break*
Time: 04:35, Day: Saturday, Location: An Abandoned warehouse in Beacons Industrial Area
(Before the initiation)
Roman was waiting at the table with a scroll in front of him and Neo beside him, he was tapping his finger on the table impatiently, but when his scroll rang he picked it up immediately.
"Yeah?…yes…I see…PTC's involved?…wait so they retreated?…no that won't be necessar-…fine send me the file, I'll take a look at it…no that's all I need, pleasure doing business with you"
Roman hung up and a small chime was emitted from his scroll, he opened it and saw a report and a file labeled 'The Helix Project', he opened it and saw a bunch of files in alphabetical order,
It started from Subject: Alpha to Subject: Omega, he opened the first file and it peaked his interest, "What th-"
"What are you looking at Roman?" Roman quickly hid his scroll and looked at his boss, "Oh, uh nothing Cinder"
Cinder slowly walked up to him and tilted her head slightly, "Really? Then you wouldn't mind if I ask what's in your hand...now would you?"
"Tsk…no" Roman said as he looked away,
"Good, now hand it over" Cinder said, she held out her hand and Roman gave her his scroll, she happily took it and began reading 'The Helix Project'
After reading for a minute or two she looked at Roman who was leaning on a table with Neo beside him, "Where did you get this?" Cinder said as she held up the scroll,
"Well…there was a problem with your forces in the Forest of Forever Fall"
"Oh? and what might that be?"
"The animals were wiped out by the URG, so I-"
"And you didn't think to inform me of the situation?" Cinder interrupted Roman and gave him a fiery death glare,
"I was going to after I dealt with the problem"
"What makes you think YOU could take on a PMC group"
"I didn't know them at the time"
"Hmph…go on…"
"Right, so I had someone do some digging, apparently a rival PMC group attacked them and was defeated. When they found out it was the URG they did some digging and they sent me that and a full report"
"Hmm…" Cinder stood silent for a while making Roman and Neo look at each other, "What was original plan?"
"Well…I was going to send Neo to kill him"
"I have a better plan, Roman transfer the data and the report to my scroll while Neo will passively observe him"—she looked at Neo—"Under no circumstances are you to engage, if you do it will likely result in your death"
"And what will you do?" Roman asked
"I'm going to report to my superiors, were gonna have to…make some modifications to the plan" Cinder said as she gave Roman's scroll back and walked away from the group,
Neo looked at Roman with curiosity and with a hint of worry, Roman shook his head and sighed, "I'll send you a location, do you best not to get spotted and you'll be fine"—he placed a hand on her shoulder—"Stay safe" Neo smiled and left the warehouse.
End Chapter 4
A.N: I honestly have a bunch of ideas queued up but we'll have to wait until we get further into the story until they can make their debut, but anyway I hope you enjoyed, leave a review if you want and stay safe.