Modriot still asleep in the corner of the room, is awaken by something akin of an earthquake. It appears to be bombardments. At this realization Blake approaches Modriot. Modriot opens her eyes and sees Blake's legs. She looks up at Blake with her left eye closed. Blake says "we have to go. Atlas has launched air strikes against us. More importantly you have a plan in place. So get up, you dullard"
Modriot closes her other eye and says "getting impatient?" She gets up. Blake says "we have a APC ready for you. Just so you know this is a big risk... If we get stopped... It's your ass" Modriot asks with a confused inflection "even if you two perish, I won't. I'll still do what I intend, as I always have"
Blake begins to breath heavily. She stumbles toward Modriot and collapses on her shoulder. Modriot isn't phased. Modriot stands firm letting Blake lean her weight against her. Blake says very tired, as if releasing a burden "I'm sorry... I only want to realize what we've been fighting for... I don't care what else happens among the way... I died the instant I betrayed my team... I'm just waiting for my corpse to catch up... I have so many people riding on my promise...never forgive me..."
Modriot with a staunch look says "you've given up already... How pathetic" modriot side-steps and allows Blake to collapse and hit the ground. Blake coughs once and tilts her head to look at Modriot and asks "here to collect my corpse, you reaper? Or is scavenger more apt?"
Modriot leans over Blake and grabs her hair with her right arm and props her head head and requests "you're not defeated or dead. Why succumb to agony? Get up at once" Modriot noticing Blake's bloodied forehead from her fall; she says "you didn't earn that... Get up!"
Blake slowly gets up... She ignores her wound. Modriot turns around and begins to exit the room stating "I'm going to my vehicle. I'll see you there..."
Modriot enters the main corridor, and heads for the main room where the fleet is. Adam is near a Bullhead and waves her over. Modriot approaches Adam, and Adam says "we'll by APC... I have business here still... You'll be assigned a driver. You'll infiltrate on the precipice of Vale"
Modriot says "got it... Leave it to me, child" Adam pulls out his scroll and inputs some commands. A drop down lift lowers a four-wheeled armored personnel carrier about 7 yards away. Modriot heads to the APC. A White Fang member is by the driver door and says "Hello... I'm instructed to take you wherever you like..."
Modriot glares at him and says "beast. Take me to Vale. Southern outskirts. As close as possible is preferable. When I exit, return here. Understood?"
The White Fang driver salutes and says "yes ma'am" and opens the driver door and gets in. He starts the engine. Modriot opens the rear hatch and gets in and sits down. She hears the lift start and feels it going up. The lift suddenly stops. And the transport accelerates. They're in motion.
Modriot asks the driver "you're a bit more civil than the usual cut of brutes. What's your story... And usually people are more concerned with who I am.." The White Fang driver says "just a recruit. Joined about a year ago. I'm a transport driver and scout. And that's not my duty, Ma'am"
Modriot shakes her head and says "drop the formality bullshit... Just... I don't know... Humor this old soul." Modriot grunts and asks "say.. I always were under the impression you were all a bunch of cut throats..."
The driver replies with "we are. But we're the only ones opposing the military and schools. We're a necessary evil. I believe we are just"
Modriot playfully scoffs and notes "if you believe so, then see it through. But you common folks that were recruited or conscripted have no place in a organization that once embodied just ideals... You're a shell of your former selves. And even you are just noise" Modriot stands up in the APC. She grabs onto the handles above, and grips her face with her left hand. She begins to breath heavily and slightly haunch over. Blood runs down the corners of her mouth. The driver notices her change in metabolic state and asks "are you good?" She responds with "I'm good you animal... Just keep driving..."
Modriot wipes her mouth and begins to shiver. She closes her eyes and her fist and whispers "damnit..."
The APC begins to slow down. It comes to a halt. The driver says "we're here. Get ready" as he hits the door release. Modriot lightly stumbles to the cockpit and grabs his mask and dawns it, much to his protest she says "knock it off.. Get another one.. Besides I'd rather no one acknowledge me here. Now go" as she exits the APC.
The APC does a B-line back. All Modriot sees is the outskirts of a fallen city ablaze. She hears gun fire in the distance. Hears yelling as well. The air is silent aside from that. There is a perpetual gust of wind. It's pitch dark aside from the embers of the city about 100 yards ahead.
Modriot sighs and draws her pistol and racks the slide, ejecting her chambered round and cycling a new one. She jogs on the main road she was dropped off at toward the city.
She takes a stray round in her right calf, and collapses. She immediately switched hands with her pistol, and uses her right hand to dig the round out of her leg while keeping her sidearm aimed down range while on the ground. She gets up and limps to the nearest alley way about 10 yards to her right. She goes back to the wall and peaks out. She utters "damnit... There's no rhyme or reason for that" she leans back in, and immediately bolts out and heads up the main street. She notices a destroyed automobile and takes cover behind it.
Out come a pair of Atlesian soldiers from across the street at a slow jogging pace. Modriot peaks her head above slightly above where the window would be, and immediately darts her head back down. Modriot shimmys along the car as the soldiers make their pass. Modriot leaves the car, stands up and stays low the ground and attempts to sneak up behind them. She approaches the one on the left and tries to hook her left arm around him, but is halted by bracing his left arm against his neck and kicking reward.
Modriot is sent back a couple feet. The Atlesian solder draws his knife in this moment and strikes with an upper cut. Modriot drops her pistol and lunges downwards at his blade and catches it. She immediately grabs his throat with her left hand and twists his blade wielding hand behind his back and holds the soldier close to herself as if hugging him. She says to the remaining soldier "Where is SDC. Be careful on how you answer" the captive troop is struggling and grunting.
The other troop, aiming his pulse rifle, slowly circles then and says "even if I knew I wouldn't tell you. Besides I thought you were captive in Vale"
Modriot smirks and says "oh you pesants were taught to identify me? I'm done playing nice" Modriot sighs and throws her captive troop at the other. She immediately retrieves and pistol and returns it to her side, and draws her Kodachi and jabs the blade into each of their throat before they can get up. She sheaths her Kodachi and crouches over them and searches their corpses.
She discovers a scroll on either of them. She stands up and runs up the road to find a ruined shop and heads inside. She vaults over the counter and hides behind it, and pulls out the scrolls. First one she examines only mention the mission of search and destroy. She deletes the information and discards it. The remaining scroll mentions a temporary SDC outpost marked by white standards near Tukson's Book Trade.
Modriot bites her thumb and casually notes "I'll be damn... Let's see what's there... That's not too far from here" she pulls up a GPS image of the her location to discern to destination. She says "got it" and stands up and runs out of the shop onto the dark street. She looks around and heads down the cross street directly head, and sees a old makeshift barricades at the next intersection made of destroyed automobiles. She heads there and hides behind them, and at that moment she hears a voice tell "there. Open fire!"
Modriot takes cover behind the vehicles and draws her pistol with her right hand and creates a ball of dark energy with her left hand. She vaults over the barricade, and as such the soldiers immediately aim their rifles and open fire on her. She strafes and throws the ball of energy at them, and it snakes out into jet-black tendrils and wraps around them causing them to drop their rifles and be slightly suspended.
She approaches them bearing a evil grin, and points her pistol at them, and she is about to pull the trigger, but she notices there is 4 of them.
She lowers her stance and says "I'll give you each one chance to walk away. Tell me where the SDC base is" each of them is focused on escaping and is grunting.
Modriot aims her pistol at the far left one's head and pulls the trigger. He dies, and the spell binding him dissolves causing his corpse to drop. She discharges a round into the middle-lefts head. He dies and the spell dissolves.
She holsters her pistol and asks the middle-right the same question. "Where is the SDC?" He grabs the tendril around his neck and says "never... You'll have to kill me"
Modriot says "very well" she impales him with her right arm. She utters "I'm sorry you choose the wrong side." She removes her arm.
She faces the far left soldier and he immediately proclaims "I'll leave! Let me be! Don't kill me!" The binding spell dissolves and the soldier lands on his rear. He, scurrying back in terror attempts to stand and run is met with Modriot creating a rod of light on her right hand. He manages to flee, but she stops him with a throw of the energy weapon and it impales him, killing him instantly.
Modriot looks around and sees a building ahead with blue standards bearing the Schnee crest. It appears to not be defended. She sprints towards it...