"This is getting to be a problem" Adam said as he sat on the back porch just watching the world going by "But I can't talk about it to Blake, heck I doubt she ever would understand" he mused sitting back as he grabbed the ice tea, and took a gulp of it before staring at the engagement ring around his neck. It was a heavy grief that he carried with him. It was his fault she was dead, the love of his light was killed because he called her up to the front where the Sniper had a better shot than she had in the back, But the past couldn't be altered no much he wished it.
"Felling blue kid?" a voice asked, one that Adam hadn't heard in a while
"Hey Sarge, what are you?" Adam started to ask
"Sun asked me to talk to you, is everything okay?" Tukson asked
"Not really, my PTSD is getting to me more and more" Adam sighed
"Tell what made it happen, the PTSD" Tukson asked
"Satin, her and a rookie was killed in front of me when I could have easily saved them" Adam growled.
"No you couldn't Adam I read the report, Bane said that the Sniper shot that killed both Satin and the rookie came from your six" Tukson said
"It was on my six" Adam said
"That's why it took longer for him to get a target on Satin, she was further away and in cover, it took a second sniper to take her down; Bane then took them both down knowing that you were not in the right mind" Tukson explained
"You mean that, I saved her even if it was just for a small amount of time?" Adam asked
"Yeah" Tukson whispered before pulling the crying bull Faunus into an embrace.
"Hey, it's okay, even though she's not here anymore she's still with you in your heart and memories" Tukson said
"Thanks Sarge" Adam sniffled
Velvet stood before a grave at the local cemetery. It was her sister's grave, she was buried here instead of a military cemetery as per the wishes of her sister.
"Hey sis" she said laying down a bunch of white roses "I miss you" a tear sneaked down her eyes.,
"So do I" Adam said arriving behind Velvet
"Adam, what are you doing here?' Velvet asked
"I needed to tell you something" Adam said touching the grave carefully
"And what's that?" Velvet asked
"I'm the reason your sister's dead. You see I was out on patrol and she was in my group; I should have had her hang back at base anyway it was supposed to be a routine patrol, however Rook took a sniper round to the heart; up front where they could easily pick off." Adam said inhaling "I called her up to the front to try and heal him, only for her to suffer the same fate as Rook. I thought for the longest time if I hadn't called her up the front she would still be here. Unfortunately this lead to me having PTSD" Adam said shuddering before he looked at Velvet who had tears in her eyes. "I always thought I had killed her by calling her up, but I recently learnt something different today; the snipers were behind us and by calling Satin up the front I prolonged her life even just a bit." Adam cried "I would understand if you continue to blame me"
"Adam, I don't blame you; I never blamed you!" Velvet shouted "I knew she died doing what she wanted to do, when she went off to the military I was left alone and took in by Tukson. He told me my sister died while trying to revive a fallen soldier. I wasn't happy and I nearly blamed you but Tukson said not to, because you would be blaming yourself. So please Adam" Velvet took his hand and looked him in the eye "Don't blame yourself for something you couldn't control" Velvet then hugged the upset bull Faunus
"Thank you, thank you very much. I can't believe that a kind soul like Satin's still exists" Adam said
"I know, I know" Velvet soothed Adam. "It's going to okay"
A couple of hours later Adam felt like a massive weight had just been pushed off his shoulders. He felt free from the darkness plaguing him since he returned from war. deciding to polish he's car he went out in his Gurkah to get some supplies when he spies Mercury's car.
"So what's that dropkick Mercury doing?" he asked before spying Mercury bullying a young girl before driving off. "Okay you SOB; here I come" Adam said revving his car going after the grey Mercury Cougar who did not know what was going to hit him.
"This shouldn't be too hard I drove more cumbersome things in the desert, so a lightly armoured protective vehicle down the streets in an urban environment is child's play" he chuckled increasing his speed to ram into Mercury
"What the?" Mercury asked checking his rear-view mirror to see Adam's Gurkah "What is Hornhead doing behind me?" he asked as he was bumped again from behind
"Eat my grill" Adam shouted flipping the bird before Mercury's car took off "Get back here" Adam said.
Mercury used the traffic to avoid the ex-soldier, who was just charging after him, luckily there was very little traffic on the street. Adam was not letting this piece of scum away; after all word was after his dishonourable discharge for academic fraud while he was in the Military academy he became a mercenary street racer working for some creep called Torchwick. Adam knew that name very well; Roman Torchwick was rumoured to be a major player in the criminal world. One Adam had no intention of joining. He used to street race on base with Kong, Satin and Bane in the Hummers bringing cheer to the native children. Of course they usually got latrine duty for a week whenever they did it. So now here he was chasing down a mercenary.
Mercury leapt into the air as he drove down a hill, followed by Adam's Gurkah down the same hill skidding the rear bumper as he landed after getting some hair
"I should have taken the Eclipse" Adam said as he swerved to get the car back under control, once he did he lost Mercury
"Crap!" he shouted slamming the steering wheel before relaxing, this was what not he needed. He basically let a mercenary get away; one they were warned about.
"Bane's not going to like this" Adam murmured as he got a call from Blake.
"Blake?" Adam asked
"Try again" Adam growled
"Who are you?" Adam asked
"My handle is Neo" she said
"What have you done with my sister?" Adam asked
"Come and get her!" Neo taunted "We're at the docks"
"Don't worry I will" Adam said before calling an old number.
"Hey, I need help, Blake's been kidnapped by a girl called Neo, I've been told where go to get her, but I need backup" Adam said.
That night at the dock Adam stood there leaning against his Eclipse as a Hummer H1 rolled up and several soldiers got out. Kong was among them. He and the others walked up to Adam and handed Adam his old shotgun
"Hey Matador, looks like you've got yourself in a tough spot huh?" Kong asked greeting him in a friendly manner.
"Hey you old monkey" Adam said loading his gun before they rushed off. Kong and Adam took point and stood next to the door counting as three soldiers stood next to Adam and Kong.
"On three?" Kong asked loading his FN P90 with tracer rounds.
"Seems like we're going in a little heavy aren't we?" Adam asked
"Who cares, just get Blake" Kong said as another two cars drove up, Sun and Velvet rushed to either side of Adam and Kong
"Bananas, Velvet are you doing here?" Adam asked
"We're here for Blake" Sun said cocking his Sawn-off shotgun as he entered "HEY NEO KNOCK, KNOCK!" Sun called out as several goons aimed their guns at the Monkey Faunus as the men from the White Fang moved in
"Smooth move, Bananas" Kong said aiming at Neo "So where's the girl?"
"Oh you mean the cat, she's gone" Neo smiled.
"Okay new question, How did you escape Jail?"
"Simple, its called bail" Neo said twirling her umbrella.
"Damn police" Adam said as a stray bullet went near him. "OPEN FIRE" Adam roared as he pulled the trigger and shot a wire causing pipes to crash down, "Bananas, you and Velvet find Blake! I don't care how just do it!" Adam shouted
"Oh bite me bullhorn" Sun snapped
"What did you call me?"
"Nevermind Sun let's go" Velvet said was they raced outside
"Stop those two from reaching Mercury" Neo shouted
"Wait did she just say Quicksilver!" Kong said
"Yeah, seems the scoundrel is working with this idiot" Adam said
"Go, we've got this" Kong said as Adam departed.
Mercury was just waiting while hearing the knocks on the boot
"Damn Faunus bitch, she's wrecking my rid-" Mercury said before he was dragged out of the car while the boot opened
"HOW DARE YOU SHOVE ME IN THE BOOT, Now I'm going to shove my boot up your exhaust pipe!" Blake growled as she stomped over to Mercury who was being shaken by Sun, who stopped shaking him only to punch him. Over and over again in the face.
"Sun, let him go" Blake said "So I can walk up and down his ass." he snarled as she started to run up to him and performed a flying jump kick while wearing her skirt
"Sun stop looking" Velvet said covering his eyes as Blake started to fight in her skirt
"BLAKE!" Adam shouted before stopping "Where are your shorts!?"
"My shorts?" Blake asked as her skirt floated down. "Please tell me no one saw that!" she panicked as the White Fang came over to bag and tag Mercury
"Just only a LOT!" Sun laughed before Adam kneed Sun in the balls.
"Eyes off my sister PERV!" Adam snarled.
"Never mind that, Neo still got away" Blake said blushing.
"That was a close one, anyway I have to think of another way to get rid of them, and the Blacktop Crow" Neo said
"And what will that be?" Roman asked smoking a cigar
"I've got a good idea, it involves the Monkey's garage" Neo said
"Really?" Roman asked "Tell me more"
A/N: Okay so that was the returning warrior arc, sorry if it got a little heavy there but none the less its finished so join me next time when I post the next parter arc: Bankruptcy!
Until next time I'll catch you on the flipside