The early rays of the morning struck Snow's face as she woke up in the plane, face towards one of the windows. She put herself straight and stretched, yawning as she woke up. Although, she would have liked to sleep more. Last night was not so easy to sleep through, after all. Maria did come to her and basically threatened to kill her the first chance she got! Maybe she was ordered to it? Gen. Rose was the one who wanted Umbra dead the most. Having them on her plane, thousands of feet above the ground, was the perfect chance to also lose the bodies. Natasha was with them, but that was not offering much in the way of protection seeing as Rose and Maria outnumbered them- Wait, that was wrong.
Umbra could fight them both, maybe even win. What was she thinking? Putting her 'servant' against a higher-ranking officer is a clear way to get executed later. Speaking of the wolf, where was he? He is not here as he should've been, nor anyone else. But the questions received an answer as a certain yell came from the neighboring room.
"DIE!" And bullets flew into the walls. Snow rushed to see what was going on and saw Maria trying to shoot Umbra, the wolf using what Snow assumed to be a metal plate as a shield.
"God damn it, you, I just talked!" Umbra shouted back as his makeshift shield took another round.
"No, you dared to be alive!" She shot him again, the bullet once again blocked. The clicked her tongue in annoyance, then she saw Snow and grinned. Maria was going to leap at her and kill her, ending Umbra's life along with hers. Only if it was not for the metal plate crushing into her skull that said otherwise.
"What is going on here?!" Sasha came inside the room, seeing Umbra growling in his human form and Maria rubbing the side of her head with a gun in hand and a plate next to her feet. "DeRosa! Explain yourself!" Good thing for Umbra and Snow that Natasha was no stupid woman. She saw the bullet marks on the plate and figured out what happened.
"He has to DIE! We cannot allow him, The Terror of the Night, to live, Ma'am!" Her words were backed by a strong conviction. Was this really her desire? If so, then why not go for Snow when she was still asleep? It was a good chance while Umbra was at the cafeteria digging for food.
"All I did was talk to her for a bit, saying a classic hello, then what does she do? She shoots me in the damn back!" Umbra shouted.
"Enough! Rose is in the front of the ship reviewing the attack plan, so you are lucky, Maria. Had it been her, you might've got scolded and demoted." Maria left in irritation, Now why was she so drilled up for? Natasha sighed, the behavior of the girl getting to her. "Prepare for jumping off the plane, we arrive in 10 minutes." She left.
Wait a minute, jumping?
True enough, that is what she meant.
"Are we really going to jump from this high up?!" Snow gasped as she looked below them. They were in the main storage room, the door to the back opened for them to jump out. Gen. Rose, Maria, Snow, Natasha, and Umbra were all lined up there.
"No worries, we have parachutes. " Rose said as she looked over the edge. "I can see the reactor from here. If what our dog-"
"Hey!"
"-said is correct, then Black Widow is underneath it. Held up in the main chamber within a series of tunnels underground."
"The plan is to use the stored Uranium, detonate it, and retreat. A simple task." Sasha said.
"We have to be quick, though, for we will get swarmed before we know it. " Umbra said as he put his parachute on. "The brood mother is good at making young...Too good."
"Sounds like a whore who cannot keep her legs close" Maria remarked, to which Umbra laughed like a maniac. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, just the thought of any sane Lycani trying to get between 6 pairs of legs. Not that we would be attracted to any females since we are like Ants in social organization." Umbra said, then he walked to the edge.
"This is not the time, Umbra..." Snow sighed looking at him. "Besides, how are we even going to get down there?"
"There should be a service elevator there if what Umbra says about the place is right. The first chamber should be man-made while the rest are burrowed by the Lycani." Sasha said, getting her weapons loaded.
"I see..." Umbra threw something at Snow's feet. "What?"
"A gift from the geeks in the lab. It was quite easy for me to intimidate them before leaving to get you this." He chucked. Snow reached the box below her and opened it, pulling out a rather weird looking gun from it. The clip resembled that of a rifle, but thicker, as did the trigger, even having a scope on it. But the nuzzle, which is where the bullets fly out of, was looking strangely bulky.
Lastly, it had the back component of a rifle as well. To now it only looked like a rifle without its barrel. "What is this supposed to be?"
"Flip the switch, It is above the safety."
"What- Woah!" Before her, the weapon shifted itself a bit. The barrel grew and the scope extended, a green line running along the barrel. Snow stared in awe at it.
"I managed to make them compress a sniper rifle into a small handgun and even change between modes. Leonna said something about this before leaving, so I decided to give the geeks a visit and there you go" Umbra explained, Snow flipping the switch again and watching the weapon shrink. It also came with its own holster which was good. Something like this needed everything custom-made, she assumed.
"Also..." Umbra added. "It uses both 9MM rounds and sniper ones. The clip there is made to hold both, hence why the thickness."
"Quite the weapon..." Rose remarked looking at it. "But I assume the weight is the same as a normal rifle, if not heavier."
"Actually, it feels pretty light."
"What?!" Rose said at Snow's words, then took the gun in her hands to see. Light as a boulder that thing.
Umbra chuckled. "Snow is no longer normal, you know. The weight of the gun doesn't affect her as much as it should others."
Rose murmured something under her breath, but it was unimportant. What mattered now was going down. So she gave Snow her new weapon back and everyone put on some parachutes. Yeah, they were jumping out of the plane since they couldn't risk getting swarmed by Lycani when they land, which was very likely seeing that they were in the heart of Lycani territory in Europe.
So, with the fear of death in the heart, they all jumped. They could hear the flying Lycani being shot death behind them at the guns of the ship, but they also heard something else during their fall.
Umbra was enjoying himself with the new weapon, having it unfolded and using it to slice any flying enemy who came into his face. Safe to say you could change his name into The Terror from the Sky after this.
But now that Snow looked around, she realized that the others were looking pretty grim as they approached the ground. She could see it-the reactor. It was right there, and on top of it were the most horrid Lycani she's ever laid her eyes on. Spider-type sergeants. Big, black, disgusting, crawling spawns of satan. Snow shivered when she sees them, but Umbra did not. On the contrary, he threw his parachute away and dashed downwards like a maniac.
"Umbra!" Snow called out to him, but to no avail. He crushed punching the side of the reactor and causing it to collapse right on top of him and the spiders. Snow and the others launched their parachutes and landed safely, then Snow ran to the rubble just in time to see Umbra rise and shake the rubble off.
"Damn! That feels so much better!" He shouted out, his weapon retreated. Then he saw Snow looking at him, an angry pout on her face. "What?"
"Never. Do. That. Again!" She shouted. "You idiot! Did you forget that your cells cannot heal like before?! You can die!"
"Oh? Worried about me, My Queen? I'm flattered." The shit-eating grin on his face deserved a prize. But Snow was not going to entertain him further and simply turned to the others.
"Well, that solves the issue of fighting any Lycani." Sasha pointed out as she looked at the damage.
"But creates new ones," Rose said as she landed. "For example, the noise will attract other Lycani, and that will only mean more trouble for us in the long run."
"Nah...They are all underground."
"What?"
"He's right." Maria pointed out as she brought out a scanner. "There is no Lycani activity on the surface, but underground it is overflowing."
"Bingo!" Umbra shouted, pointing at her. "The entire Chernobyl is a wasteland in the rest, so we have to get underground! Once down there we just need to find the nuclear shit and blow it up to kill Black Widow."
"And how do we do that, please?"
"There-"
"There should be an entrance close to the reactor we can use. We only need to make the hike." Rose said before Umbra could, earning a stink eye from the wolf. "We should be able to enter quickly with little resistance."
"How long till the entrance, Ma'am?" Maria asked.
"About a few hours on foot. It is not that far from our position seeing as we landed near the reactor."
"Wait." Snow interjected. "Why so long if we are next to the reactor?"
"Because this is the wrong one." Sasha pointed out. "The one we are looking for is a way sorrier state."
"Oh"
"Hence why we have a hike ahead of us," Umbra said, then sighed. "We might not get attacked, but I have a really bad feeling about all of this."
Deep underground, the brood mother was weaving her web. Waiting for the group to arrive. She could swarm them with her many children, but she wanted the pleasure of eating Umbra herself. The traitor...The Queen would reward her handsomely if she slew him herself. "Come, come, come to me, little wolf~. Come to my web, get entangled in it, and become mine..."
The spiders were crawling all over the tunnels around the brood mother. A sinister chuckle from the rare female Lycnai which was no Queen. "Come to me...Young prince."