Chapter. 53

Connar awake on the floor of his cell. His body was weak, he could barely push himself up. When Connar got back on his feet his cell walls were scotched and his accessory was badly damaged.

Connar used his thorn to fix his machine. "Hey, I want out now."

"Severe damage to cell, sentence-"

"I don't give a rats ass, let me out now!"

The accessory opened the door and Connar stumbled out of his cell, grabbing the railing for support.

"There you are. Good." Cannar turned to the voice to find Natalie with Alice and Leon. "I have an operation of you. You'll be going up against the Houraians. We're going to try and steal a march on them, for a change."

Connar leaned harder on the rail as it was the only thing keeping him up.

"Our aim is to clear a path for an important item to be taken back here, are you listening?!"

Connar sank to his knees, is vision was blurring. "Help me..." He whispered.

Leon and Alice rushed to the thief's side. The accessory preformed a scan on Connar's body. "Alice, his will'o levels a dangerously low!"

"Right!" Alice used her thorn on Connar, giving him some of her own will'o. When her thorn was out she used a will'o pack to refill it. "Any better?" Connar reach up at the rail and pulled himself back on his feet. "What happened to you?"

"I, this thing inside me... It won't stop..."

"Miss Woo maybe he-"

"No. As much as it pains me to say it, he has become one of our top sinners. He's going and that's it." Natalie stood right in front of Connar. "Get prepped and sigh up for the operation, that's a order." The officer left, with Alice right behind her.

Leon placed Connar's weapons in front of him and fallowed after the other two.

"Who does the wretch think she-" Connar fell back on his knees, his body was still weak. "What the hell is happening? I need to get outside, I need air." Connar picked up his weapons and looked at his accessory as he put them away. "Hey tin can, help me up." The accessory did as took and helped Connar walk to the lift to go to the warren.

When they got down the stairs the robot spoke up. "Message from Mattias, requesting you met him at the fueling station."

"Great. No I'm not going."

"Another message, this time from Elfriede."

Connar was more focused when he hear Elfriede's name. He pushed himself off of the accessory and stood and shacking legs. "What did she say?"

"She requests a meeting in the fueling station."

"Fine, let's go see what they want." Connar took a step and fell down. "A little help?" His accessory pulled Connar back up.

...

"There you are!" Said Elfriede as Connar walked into the fueling station, getting the attention of mattias and Uwe.

Mattias nods to the thief. "Finally! What kept you? It ain't cool to keep your buds hangin, you know!"

"Sorry..." Connar took a seat next to Mattias on the sofa.

"Did he just say sorry?" Mattias was stunned that Connar actually apologized.

"You're on to talk!" Countered Elfriede.

"Stow it, you two. Let's get started." Uwe commanded. "Natalie has assigned us an operation."

"I know, she came to me in person to tell me herself just a few minutes ago."

Uwe nods. "Yeah. She was impressed with how you handled yourself in that last op. She thinks you show a lot of promise."

"Well I did go into an operation with no weapons. Speaking of which, Elfy I need my wrist blades back."

"Oh right." Elfriede tossed the blades to Connar, who caught them and reattached them to his arms. "I gave those a try, they're really useful. But a little hard to use."

"I'll make you a pair if you'd like Elfy."

"Hey!" Mattias drew Connar's attention. "How did you get those things?"

"They were my mothers, she got them from her father. She said they were for when a boy won't take no for an answer."

"Did she teach you how to use them?" Asked Uwe.

"No. I found them when I went into hiding, had to teach myself."

"How did that go?"

Connar looked at his hands and smiled. "Let's just say I cut my fingers a lot in the first year." Connar finished putting the wrist blades back and extended them. "There we go, anyway." The thief retracted the blades. "what the operation going to be? She said something about getting something back here."

"In the next operation, we'll be acting as her outriders."

"So what does that mean?" Asked Mattias.

Elfriede rubbed the right side of her head. "Basically we're to intercept any hostiles that try to stop her and her team."

"Anyone know what this thing were delivering is?" Asked Connar.

Uwe shook his head. "You guess is as good as mine. She wasn't exactly in a talkative mood."

"Maybe Alice can tell us, she seems to have a way with that lap dog."

"This sounds like some pretty shady shaz..." Mattias glanced to Connar, expecting the thief to hit him. Though Connar seemed more interested in the up coming operation.

"This is Natalie's op. She'll have her reasons, and they'll be good one. But brace yourselves, we could be in for a rough ride."

Connar crossed his arms. "Well, anything to do with Natalie will be a rough ride." Mattias snicked and Connar slapped him in the back of the head. "Grow up."

"Times up." Uwe stands up, followed by everyone else. "The operations gonna begin soon, everyone go get ready."

The sinners stepped outside, Connar tapped Elfriede on the shoulder. "Can we talk?"

"After we get this next operation, I promise."

"You said that last time."

Uwe stopped and stood between the two. "Whatever this thing we're trying to get back to our con is will hopefully turn the tide of this war we're in. you two can talk all you want then, okay?"

Connar signed with frustration. "Fine."

...

Down in the transport bay Natale, Alice, and Leon were all checking their weapons. "Make sure you both have enough ammo."

"Understood. Alice, how's you will'o?"

Alice slid a clip into her assault rifle. "I'll be okay as long as I don't use it too much."

"Then don't use your will'o unless I say so, understand?"

"Yes Natey, but are you sure we should use Connar for this?" Asked Alice. "You just saw him and what state he's in."

"Listen to me Alice." Natalie loaded her sniper rifle. "You need to stop concerning yourself with people like Connar, I've seen people like him. They repel against the system and either die or go down to code one, never being more then a strain on our panopticon."

"But, okay, What's our mission?"

Natalie turned to Leon. "Anyone listening?"

"There's always someone listening, I'll block them for our privacy."

"Thank you Leon. What we're getting is something called the casket, we don't know much more past that but it can product unfathomable amounts of will'o."

"And we can change the flow of our war with it?"

"Yes, that's why we must get it. And we need to use every resource need to get it, even the 'unstable' ones."

The lift doors open, Connar, Uwe, Elfriede, and Mattias came out and walked towards the their transport. Natalie snapped her fingers. "We should get going as well Alice."

"Okay."

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