Alright Folks, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Let's never mention 2016 again shall we? That was a terrible year.
Anyway instead of focusing on Ruby or anyone of that nature, this is gonna be a rather special chapter, you'll see why.
Enjoy.
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[NEO Galbadian headquarters]
[No P.O.V.]
[OST-FF8: Succession of Witches]
The Sorceress leaned back in her seat staring through the visor of her helmet, which had several cables connected to it, and stared at the large screen on the all in front of her, which was zooming in on the Emerald Forest without visible input.
The image focused on a facility hidden in the forest label '2' then the screen shifted over to an encampment on the far edge of the forest, plenty of distance from the Beacon initiation section of the forest.
"This could prove irritating." The Sorceress said, "Rojo!"
"Yes Sorcress?" A woman asked walking into the light of the screen.
She wore the NG's Grey uniform, however her's was partially unzipped at the chest, enough to let her chest breath, her body shape was almost hourglass shaped. Her eye's were deep red, the same color as her shoulder length hair that was swept over her left shoulder. On each of her legs was a sheath that held a katal blade.
A katal blade wasn't one of the most thought of weapons out there, being swords that have a grip parallel to the base of the blade so that a punch would turn into a stab when the blade is held.
"Facility Two is close to being compromised by a White Fang encampment." The Sorceress said reaching onto a table next her her, which head a teacup, "Take Powder and Slate and empty it, then burn it."
"Is that all?" Rojo asked, sounding a little disappointed it was such a simple task.
"Yes." The Sorceress said, "Actually, while you're there can you pick up Facility Two's monthly report? I'd like to know how well they are doing in the recreation of the Granaldo's, Raldo's, Grat's, and the T-Rexaurs. I'd also like to know if they are undermanned at the current time, you know how the T-Rexauurs get sometimes."
"Too well." Rojo said holding her currently cover arm, "At least I didn't lose anything important."
The Sorceress put her teacup back on the table after taking a sip from it, "Glad to know you don't consider your pride important." The Sorceress said, "Get Slate and Powder and return here once you've gotten them.
[End OST]
It took only a few minutes for Slate and Powder to return with Rojo.
Slate had short silver hair with dark blue eye's, his uniform was the same grey like the other two next to him, except the armor on his was placed over a long coat and he wore no waist armor. Resting on his shoulder was a sword, more specifically a Gunblade, the blade was fairly simple, save for the small triangular gap where it was connected to the grip said grip was that of a black Desert Eagle magnum that had the blade attached at the barrel of the gun.
Powder held her rifle up checking the iron sight of the gun, except now it was in a two barrels set up vertically and looked much more like an assault rifle.
Rojo pulled out her katal and checked the over the guns on them, at each side of the grip was a sub-machine gun, and with two on each blade she had found herself with four guns essentially.
The Sorceress held her hand to a wall, which started to ripple as if it were water, "Once you step through here you will find yourself on the outside wall of Facility Two, facing the direction of the White Fang outpost, just walk forward long enough and you'll run into them."
"Finally, I'm tired of sitting around here just training to get my mind off my boredom." Slate said holding his gunblade forward and tilted to an angle, as if he were going to shoot his opponent rather that stab of slash them with it, "That fact that I get to kill some animals is even better."
Powder sighed and unloaded the magazine from her gun before it shifted into a triple barreled shotgun again, the three barrels making a triangle, "Slate I don't want to hear you dissing Faunus all day again." Powder said, "Hey boss, mind if I stick around Facility Two for a while to do some hunting?"
The Sorceress sighed, "Yes Powder, but you'll have to call in a Bullhead again." She said, "Further more you have permission to hunt any of Facility Two's monsters that are running amok in the closed off section."
Powder fist pumped with excitement.
"Let's go everyone." Rojo said, "I want this job done soon, my son's birthday is tomorrow and I don't want to miss it."
The Sorceresses head turned to Rojo, "It's you little boy's birthday tomorrow?" The Sorceress asked, "If that's the case I sure I could get someone else to take on this mission for you."
Rojo shook her head, "No thank you ma'am, I don't expect special treatment because of my son." Rojo said, "Besides this mission shouldn't take too long."
The Sorceress nodded, "Very well then, I'll be sure to stop by for the party." The Sorceress said.
With that the three soldiers nodded and walked through the rippling wall as if it were water.
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The three soldiers stepped out of the rippling exterior wall of Facility 2 and looked around, Powder aimed her shotgun around ready to shoot on a twitch of anything.
"Clear." Powder said lowering her shotgun.
"Damn, wanted to gut something." Slate grumbled setting his gunblade back on his shoulder.
"You'll get your chance Slate." Rojo said standing straight, "Let's move."
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The Trio ran quicker than most trained Huntsmen as they approached the target destination.
"Heh, glad the boss enrolled us at Beacon all those years ago." Powder said, "Make's the Job's so much easier."
"I'll say." Slate said, "Not to mention those STRQ fellows were nice sparring opponents."
"I just can't believe the boss enrolled with us in a disguise." Rojo said, "It's like she didn't trust us to not fuck something up." The last remark was pointed to Slate.
"Hey I held back on the racism like you and the Sorceress demanded." Slate said, "Besides there were eight of us enrolled into Beacon, she wanted to keep tabs on all of us."
"Whatever. We're almost to the White Fang encampment." Powder said.
Rojo pulled her katal from their sheathes and crouched lower as she started moving faster, "Slate with me, Powder sniper support." Rojo ordered.
"Don't mind if I do." Slate said picking up speed as well.
"Back into my tree for me." Powder said running up a tilted tree and the vaulted off it into a sniping position with her shotgun unloading and shifting into a sniper rifle in the process.
[FF8 OST: Man with the Machine Gun]
The White Fang noticed Rojo and Slate burst out of the bushes.
"Huma-AAAHH!" A ram faunus started before Rojo's katal cut through him in an 'X' shape.
"It's the NEO Galbadians!" Another Faunus, this one some kind of lizard, shouted, only for a hold to blow into the side of his head.
"Sniper!" Another shouted, this one having his feature hidden under his uniform.
"Shut the hell up mongrel." Slate shouted swinging his sword, pulling the trigger on the desert eagle gun handle, firing the bullet into the blade, causing a small explosion that made the blade vibrate, thus tear through the WF soldier with ease.
"You bastard!" another faunus shouted running toward Slate, only for his axe to be blocked by Slate's gunblade effortlessly.
"Hey!" Slate shouted angered, "Don't talk about my momma that way. She did good taking the place of both parents. Damn deadbeat jackass father." Slate fired his gunblade while twisting the sword to break the axe then kicked the Faunus back and into Rojo's katal.
"Why do you always take that insult seriously?" Rojo asked jumping onto a WF shoulders and snapping his neck with her legs before rolling off the falling corpse and cutting one leg each from a pair of WF.
"I really am a bastard child, I'm a bit sensitive about that." Slate said turning to behead another WF, then quickly reloading the gunblade's gun.
"Just duck." Rojo said pointing a katal at Slate, who ducked just as she fired the two guns on the blade, tearing through another Fang.
[OST End]
"I think that was the last one." Slate said.
The sound of a shotgun going off sounded right as he said that, followed by a WF flying between the two and tumbling into a tent.
"Missed one Slate." Powder said.
"Whatever." Slate said turning around and leaving the camp, which was now devoid of life save for the three NG soldiers.
"Powder, seeing as you plan on staying you'll be the one to burn down this camp and collect the report from Facility Two." Rojo said.
Powder clicked her tongue in agreement before pulling out a glass bottle of Red Dust and began pouring around the camp.
[OST- Succession of Witches]
"The Operation was a success Ma'am." Rojo reported in the room she was given the mission , "Powder is burning down the camp and collecting the report before she starts hunting."
The Sorceress stood up from her seat and turning to Rojo, "Very good." The Sorceress said, "Tell me, Beacon is starting it's next year in two day's correct?"
"Yes Ma'am." Rojo said.
"Then it seems I'll be heading to Beacon after your sons party." The Sorceress said removing her helmet.
Her hair had bangs the perfectly moved around her head to conceal everything on the sides of her head, and to accentuate her eyes.
Her Silver Eyes.
"I'm sure Professor Goodwitch would love to see an old friend, even if that friend was nothing more than one of my disguises." The Sorceress said walking past Rojo, who was staring at the screen which was focused on the recent Facility 7 Report.
"Sorceress." Rojo said.
"Yes Rojo?" The Sorceress asked.
"What is in Facility 7 that has so much of your focus?" Rojo asked.
The Sorceress smiled, "It's re-creating incredibly hostile monsters, and I'd rather not have Facility 7 turn into another Ragnarok." She answered.
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Well folks, that's the chapter.
Now we know what is going on in Facilities 2 and 7, The Sorceress had once sent 8 soldiers to trains as Huntsmen, she trained at Beacon herself.
And our Sorceress has Silver eyes, she's beginning to prove to be a large mystery isn't she?
Well, let me know what you think.
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