A/N: Well I'm back from my long "I'm-totally-not-dying-of-infections-and/or-allergies-while-being-swamped-by-tests"
Hope you enjoy this chapter...
Later that night
"I wish that he would keep some lights on at night." Said one guard to Ruby.
"Yeah doesn't that make it hard to defend if you can't see?" Ruby pointed out as the Guard and Ruby walked down the hallway.
"Yes it does seem quite counterproductive." Pyrrha stated as she looked around the hall and pointed her flashlight around. Both teams were assigned to Stapleton, a very experienced guard who had worked many of these jobs before.
"Don't worry, there are enough guards here to stop a small army." Stapleton said as he lit a cigarette and breathed out. The smoke curled between the students who coughed and leaned away from the smoke.
Across the street
Perched in the fourth story window of an abandoned apartment building was Ghost with his gun, Manes Mussitabit, resting on his lap. He checked his spare magazines multiple times, cleaned the suppressor, unloaded and loaded the gun, and looked through his different vision modes. He was waiting for the change of shifts. His watch beeped.
2300, it was show time.
He leapt from the widow and made his way towards the mansion, and it was one of the few buildings that actually deserved that name, however he had the plans and was ready to infiltrate. First step was getting over the wall, an easy feat. He used his armors augmented servos to reach the top of the wall. He gripped on and hoisted himself over. There he was met with no opposition. He scanned the surroundings with his thermal vision. Seeing no visible targets he made his way towards the front door. The lights were completely out, meaning the guards either had night vision or had flashlights, he hopped it was the latter.
As he entered through the window next to the main entrance hall he noticed that the building was in fact pitch black. From the door he heard voices, two voices to be exact. His first victims. He slowly pried the door open and was met with two guards walking away from him. He needn't waste any bullets on them as he could easily take them out with a knife. He slowly snuck up on them, but before he could strike one of them looked over his shoulder and spotted Ghost with his knife in a stabbing position and started to turn around.
Ghost thought quickly and bolted forwards, his mind set on eliminating the current threat. The first guard hadn't gotten a word out of his mouth as he received a knee to the stomach knocking the wind from his mouth. As he doubled over Ghost got him in a head lock and flipped over him using his momentum to bring his leg down onto the other guards head. He received a loud crack as the force from his weighted leg impacting the other guards head snapped his neck. He then turned back to the other guard and shot his arm around the man's neck, digging the knife deep into his throat. He then snapped the knife back, severing the man's spinal cord.
It was over in four seconds, and Ghost had 2 bodies to clean up. Then he got an idea, he picked them both up and dragged them to the room he had entered through. Bingo, it was a wine room. The smell of wine would over power that of blood. So Ghost took out a bottle, after seating the two in seats facing away from the door, and proceeded to pour it into two glasses and some on the uniform and wound to smother the bloods scent.
Ghost left the room admiring his handy work and crouched slightly as he made his way around the corner and down the corridor towards his objective.
Ghost made his way slowly through the hallway as he slowly neared his objective. As he approached the final hall he screwed the Suppressor onto Manes Mussitabit as he looked around the corner. Around the corner was a group of four guards, they were talking, only one was ready for any kind of fight, that was Ghosts first target.
Ghost brought the guns sight up as he squeezed the trigger. Then one guard raised his hand to wave as the bullet left the chamber.
Teams RWBY and JNPR had just rounded the corner and had the other four man patrol in their sights. Ruby raised her hand to wave to one of the guards as a small, almost silent, pop-hiss came from around another corner. Then the guard next to him fell like a sack of bricks. The other guard turned his head and opened his mouth as another pop-hiss came and he too dropped.
"Contact! It's him! It's G…" The guard spurted out as he too was dropped like the last two leaving one running towards Ruby and her group's position. The guard that the teams were with called on the radio for reinforcements. Within two minutes a dozen guards had come around the corner and were surrounding the two junior hunter teams.
"What's going on? Why so many guards?" Nora asked as the leader got the group into a line formation at the end of the hallway with team RWBY and JNPR in the back.
"Now we wait for it to come to us." The guard said raising his rifle sight to his eye.
Ghost's perspective
"Dammit, one got away." Ghost sighed as he returned to the dark corridor, not wanting to advance on the well-lit defensive position set up in the hallway. He then remembered the weapons that the security were using ranged from small caliber rifles to handguns.
'Those rounds can't go through my armor, except in the rear, even then they will still have trouble.' Ghost nodded as he took the silencer off of his PDR and looked around the corner. He was met with a targeting laser to the helmet as a bullet whizzed in and shattered against his helmet.
"Oh… yeah those are low caliber." He said with a hint of boredom as he tossed an EMP grenade around the corner. There was an electronic sizzle as all the lights went down. As if on cue, Ghost lept from cover and took out his hammer.
"What's going on? I can't see jack shit!" He heard one guard yell.
"Hold firm, switch on your lights." One guard spoke calmly to the rest of the group. The other guards in the group turned on their lights and were surprised to see a 6 foot 8 armored figure stalking towards the guards. The tension was palpable as the guards targeted the figure moving towards them slowly.
Team RWBY's Perspective
"What is that thing?!" Weiss questioned with worry prevalent in her voice. At this moment it was when the guards up front, the guards with riot shields and swords started moving to intercept the target.
"He can't take that many guards down… can he?" Nora questioned as they stood behind the guards.
The first guard of 6 made a move towards the unknown hostile as the hostile struck out. Lashing out with quite a large hammer the guard brought up his shield to block the strike as the hammer came down. The guard's eyes went wide with shock as his solid steel shield shattered, the hammer continuing its path downwards impacting the man's chest with a resounding crack sounding down the hallway.
Before the guards lifeless body had hit the ground the hostile swung his shield around and made contact with another guards sword, this time glancing off as the guard actually blocked his attack preventing any serious damage.
Ghost saw another guard coming at him from the other side with a sword as he brought his shield around into the guard's chest as the guard moved his shield to strike. The cracking of the guard's ribs signaled the other four to push the attack and make a move. As they did Ghost saw this and rolled out of the way sheathing his hammer and folding his shield before bringing out Manes Mussitabit and raising the weapon to his eye releasing the safety. The guards lifted their shields as Ghost unleashed a barrage of bullets into the guards.
The guards and teams RWBY and JNPR watched on with shock as the 4 remaining shielded guard's fell, their shields falling to the side with holes punched straight through them. The guards in the line tensed up as they took aim themselves at this hostile that greatly outweighed any opposition they could have ever predicted.
"We can fight him!" Ruby said unfolding Crescent Rose as she got into a fighting position. Her team followed her, albeit a little hesitantly.
"Negative, your job is to protect his target… you fall back to Mr. Jackson." Ruby hesitated before looking to her teammates and fellow leader then nodding to the Guard.
"Team 4 go back with Ms. Rose and the hunters to protect Jackson." As Ruby and her team followed the eight guards she could hear the fighting pick up as the intruder started his attack again.
The two teams of hunters made it to the room quickly as the sound of fighting died down as they moved further away. They opened the door to the room and made it inside to where a quite nervous Mr. Jackson was seated. As the guards closed the doors Ruby noticed it was just the two of their teams in there.
"Wait? Why are the guards outside?!" Pyrrha questioned as they heard shouting outside.
"Fire! Open fire!" One guard was heard yelling as gun shots mixed with the sickening crunches and squishing of meat against metal. Then as soon as the noise had started it stopped, Jaune and Ruby held their breath as there was a calm knock on the door. Jaune jumped slightly at the knock.
"Knock, Knock… Mr. Jackson, the Viper wants what you took and I'm here to take it." The voice from the other side of the door spoke as a faint beeping was heard on the other side.
"Shit…. Get down!" Just as Mr. Jackson said that the door splintered apart as smoke quickly filled the room.
A/N: sorry for the cliff hanger guys... I just needed to get something up and didn't want to spend another month finishing this so the next chapter will be up soon enough
