There was something loud stirring the wind, and Hailey had her face pressed against something. Something nudged the thing she was leaning on. A few strings of hair got into her face, and her messy brown hair was resting on her shoulders. "Well, well, well. Look who decided to wake up." There was a voice. OH, YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! Hailey was really annoyed. I don't even get to brush my hair. AND I'm still on my period. Great. She thought, and looked at to two men standing in front of her. One of them was familiar, and he was holding a rifle in his hands. The other wasn't familiar, and he was the one speaking. "You've been quite elusive, but your skills make you worth the catch. You'll be perfect for the job." Hailey listened to what he was saying, and pulled a hair tie off of her wrist and began to fix her hair into a ponytail. "We've been having some issues with a group of thieves known as the toppat clan. We know their guilty, we just can't pin 'em to any crimes. You'll be going into their airship to bring 'em down." Hailey tightened her ponytail, and removed her hand from her hair. Oh my god... This is gonna be a pain in the ass. Hailey thought, trying not to sigh. "I don't need to remind you, we have you on several charges." He grab a notepad from on top of a nearby box, and began flipping through papers. "Attempted robbery... Breaking yourself outta prison... Huh, and even stealing the Tunisian Diamond." He'd list. Welp, yeah, duh. Hailey was sort of an issue for the government. "We've got quite alotta counts on you, do this job right, and we'll drop all charges against you."

A pardon? That sounds nice.

"Charlie here will be bringing you near the airship. The rest is up to you." Was Charlie the pilot? Whoever they were, Hailey was sure they'd be able to do it even without their help. Hailey did everything solo, and now she had to cope with other people? She wasn't sure how this would go.

Hailey looked at the bright red airship. "Find a way to bring 'em down, and you'll be a free woman."

"Hey, uh.." Hailey heard a masculine voice through the earpiece she had been given. It was probably her teammate. "how do you want me to bring you in?" And with that, everything would gray out. Dang it, deity!

"Okay, so you got, the earpiece, the cannon ball, a grapple gun, or a sticky hand." The deity told Hailey. "The sticky hand sounds dumb and uncomfortable." Hailey shrugged. "Since when do you talk?" The deity asked. "Since whenever I want to. I figured it was easier then using sign language." Hailey almost snapped. "Woah, okay then. So uh... what are ya gonna do?" The deity sounded calm. "I was given an earpiece, might aswell use it." Hailey shrugged.

Hailey landed on the airship, when she heard her teammate start talking to her. "Check, check. This is Charles." She wanted to tell him to shut up, but she urged herself not to. This could be important information. "Just wanted to let you know, theres a guy down there. A bad guy. So, yeah. Watch out for that." Charles warned. Hailey gave a slight nod, even though Charles probably didn't see it. What to do, what to do... Uh... knocking sounds likes a dumb idea. I could go for the acid? Hm... I have a feeling that I would regret it... The vacuum sounds incredibly stupid, but it sounds better than my last idea. Lets do it!

Hailey connected a remote vacuum to the hatch, and flicked it one with a press of a button. Two toppats were sucked into the vacuum, as Hailey turned it off. There was muffled yelling from the toppats, and Hailey smirked as she got into the hatch.

"Hey, good job there!" Charles praised. "Oh, uh.." Why did Charles seem so anxious? "you should probably look for something incriminating. Something that we can use to prove that their criminals, y'know? ... I mean, its the whole point of the operation." Hailey's teammates message cut out. Okay, so I could disguise myself, use glue, or this wierd device. Hailey thought. Hah. I'd like to see the glue work.

Hailey covered her hands in the sticky, thick, white liquid. I hope this pardon is worth it, because this is starting to get annoying. She climbed on the ceiling, leaving small marks of glue on the ceiling as she made her way across. The glue had been rubbed off her hands as she landed, and she leaped into a vent when she heard an elevator door hiss open. "Ugh! Doors jammed again!" A toppat called.

Hailey was tossed into a room, and she looked up. "Oh, hey, uh, you see that records sign? Where it says records? That'd probably be a good place to look, right?" After hearing her teammates voice, she looked over at the records sign. "Just, uh... lemme help you get across that gap." She was about to stand when she got the same splitting headache, she squeezed her eyes shut, for a moment and winced in pain. "Hey, you okay?" She heard Charles' voice again. "I heard you wince. Did you get hurt?" He seemed concerned. "Yeah, I'm okay... Just got a really bad headache for a second there." Hailey nodded as her headache faded. Charles hesitated a reply. "Alright, teammate. Just checking."

She grayed out again. Dammit, deity! Stop!

"How are ya liking your new boyfriend?~" The deity taunted. "He's not my boyfriend! I just met him!" Hailey shouted. "Hahaha, alright, alright. You don't have to shout. You can... Use a platform, use a gravity bubble, use a robo-helper, or you can use Charles' plan." The deity told Hailey. "Waitwaitwait, Charles is an option?" Hailey started to snicker. "Yeah. He's an option. You wanna try out your boyfriends plan?"

"HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" Hailey screeched, blushing. The deity quietly chuckled. "Okay fine. Just choose."

"I'm choosing Charles. I have a feeling it's not the right answer, but honestly what the hell." Hailey laughed.

"Ight, teammate. I trust your plan." Hailey told Charles as she stood. "Alriiight, here I come~" She heard through her earpiece, and heard Charles singing fanfare. Hailey looked around. What's he doing?

She looked over at the window, and saw Charles about to ram his helicopter into the window. "HOLY-"

FAIL

Hey look! Charles is here!

Hailey and the deity burst out in laughter. "That was the stupidest thing I've seen, but oh my god was it hilarious!" Hailey commented, wheezing. "Yup!" The deity agreed. "Can I see that again?" Hailey asked. "You should move on." The deity told her, calming down. "Yeah, I guess you're right." Hailey sighed. "I have a feeling the robo helper is gonna be the right one." Hailey said, selecting the robo helper.

"Alright, here it comes!" Charles called. A box slammed down behind her. Hailey jumped in startlement, and looked at the box turning into a robotic two-tailed fox. She kept her grip tight onto the handles, as she got across the gap. She ran into the records room. She heard quiet laughter from Charles coming from her earpiece. "Heh... I don't think this guy knows how to open the door. Just let me take care of this." Charles told Hailey. "Ight. Whatcha got?" Hailey responded with. "I've got a couple different devices here, uh, I could... oh lord, that's creepy, uh.. melt his bones, control his mind, use a gatling gun on my helicopter, or I could remote access the door." Charles told her. "Hm..." Hailey got lost in thought, and didn't notice everything went grayish again. "Uh... the gatling gun sounds fine. Shoot 'em down." Hailey told Charles. "Alright, 'get to bring out the big guns!" Charles chirped. She heard a loud buzzing of gun fire, and her vision snapped into blackness again as she collapsed, unable to feel anything. It was hard to hear, but she heard; "Ight, you should be good to go now." through her earpiece.

FAIL

Wow, he didn't even hit the door..

"Why did I get a teammate like Charles!? He's so stupid! You see why I like working alone now!?" Hailey snapped at herself. "Haha, I knew you'd get along really well or really terribly." The deity taunted. "Just let me retry, I'm not in the mood to deal with this..." Hailey pressed the blue retry button.

"Er... lemme see what your bone-melting device does." Hailey spoke through her earpiece. "Alrighty, then." Charles spoke, Hailey hearing a faint click of a button. Hailey saw that the person was down, and walked up to the dead puddle of a body, and picked up the card, and opened the door. Hailey then found herself in a library of some sort, with a toppat with a blue top hat in front of her. "Oh, good thing nobody knows about this." The toppat was looking through files of some sort. "Or we'd be in alotta trouble." Hailey thought about what to do, when she heard the deity shout; "Think fast! One, two, three!"

Hailey didn't see her options. "Uh.. two!" She called, and a stick with a fake spider hanging from the end appeared in her hands. Uhm, what? She thought. She walked up behind the toppat, and attempted to scare him with the spider. He glanced up. "Oh, hello mister spider." He said calmly. Oh my god... I'm so sick of this. I just wanna go home! Hailey thought. You know what...

She smacked the toppat on the head with her stick as hard as possible, angry. The toppat passed out and fell on the floor. She grabbed the evidence and began running towards the closest door, when she heard her earpiece turn on. "Alright, you got some evidence!" Charles began, then paused. "Oh, wait, wait, theres no way you're getting through there." Charles stopped Hailey from proceeding. "Lotsa guys and they got lotsa guns, thats all Ima say." Charles seemed nervous. Why the hell did he sound so anxious? "IIIIIt looks like you can get around if you go through that airduct." The message cut out. Hailey leaped into the airduct, and in front of her, there was an electical spiky patch of some sort in front of her. "Alright, I've hacked into their power grid, what do you want me to do?" She heard Charles' voice again.

Wait, he can hack? I thought he completely lacked intelligence. Hailey thought. "Just reroute the power, no big deal." She told her teammate. "Alright, I'll just reroute the power to a random room. That's fine." Charles told her. Hailey saw the electric sparks go out, and she ran across, poking her head out of the ventilation hatch on top of the airduct.

"Alright, Hailey. You're almost there." Charles told her. "I'm right outside, so, uh... open the bay doors and I'll get you on the chopper."

Hailey gently smacked a button with her fist and the doors started to open. "Hey! What are ya doing?" A toppat shouted at her. The other lifted a walkie talkie up to his mouth, and spoke; "Yeah, uh, we got a situation down here in the cargo bay." He looked behind him as the roar of Charles' helicopter got louder. What to do... Hailey thought as everything froze and went gray again. Before she could do or say anything, time unfroze and she heard Charles' voice again. "..Hey, there's a button on your earpiece. You should press it." He spoke. She pressed it, and something flew out and transformed into some sort of force gun. She smirked, and fired it at the two toppats at the edge of the cargo bay. They were launched out, and their screams quickly faded as they fell. Hailey grinned, and she heard the door open behind her. "What's going!?-" A woman started as Hailey turned around, tightly gripping the evidence, and launched herself into the helicopter.

"Hm... This could be a problem..."

"You did it! Good job!" Charles praised. His voice was a lot more youthful and cheery when he wasn't speaking through a headset. "I knew I could count on you." The person who had probably kidnapped her told Hailey. Hailey smiled. Finally! I can go home and brush my hair! She started to put her hair back into the usual bun she had it in.

She returned home, and flicked on her TV. It showed that most of the toppat clan had been arrested, thanks to Hailey.

RANK

Government Supported Private Investigator