"Cassandra, maintain radio silence until I destroy all of the SAMs, alright?"

"Roger."

I placed my hand onto the steel platform that led into the base. It was forty feet from the ground where Samus stood, so jumping the natural wall was out of the question for her. Quickly, I looked around for any Space Pirates, but there was nothing, save for an icicle that was dripping water just by the stairwell that led into the base.

Finding little to worry about, I jumped down to Samus, which startled her a bit.

"You could have at least said you were coming down."

"Don't worry, I wouldn't hit you."

"So how am I getting up? I can't jump that high."

"I'll give you a boost."

With my back towards the wall, I spread my legs to just beyond my shoulders, and then extended my hands forward. I held them together, which gave my hands the look of a small platform.

"Just jump onto my hands and I'll do the rest."

"You sure about this? What if I weigh too much?"

"Don't worry, I have lifted more then my fair share of weights, so I'm sure I can handle the weight of your armor. Now hurry up before some guards come."

"Alright…"

Samus then ran forward, and then jumped onto my hand with both feet. And just as I said, I did the rest. I lifted her into the air, making it quite easy for to grab the ledge and then land onto the steel platform.

"Samus, you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Alright I'm coming up."

With that, I walked away from the wall a bit, giving myself so room for a nice run. Once I found a good space, I ran forward, and just as I was about to hit the wall, I used my legs to run up the wall. A few steps up the wall, I began to feel my body start leaning backwards, and it became harder to run forwards. I forced my body forwards, but it became harder and harder to run.

I was almost there, but I couldn't make the next step. "Shit," I said, which seemed to grab Samus's attention. She stuck her hand over the ledge, while her arm cannon gave her the leverage and support she needed.

"Grab my hand!"

I was starting to get to far from her hand, and my legs just happened to be close enough to her. With little time to spare, I did an aerial back flip, which put my hand just close enough to hers. I got a hold of her with my right hand, and while I swung back, I placed my feet against the wall to stop myself from getting bruised. Samus then pulled me up, and once at the ledge, I placed my free hand on it, then did an acrobatic flip over Samus and onto the platform.

"You know, I find it awkward that you can land on your feet when you jump a hundred and fifty feet, but you can't jump a forty foot wall."

"Well it's easier to fall then to jump. And thanks for the lift."

A set of weird metallic clanks could be heard coming from the staircase, and I became a bit nervous.

"It's them," I said quietly to Samus. She nodded lightly, and then became to silently walk to the staircase, her left hand on her arm cannon. A ball of orange light began to build up into the cannon, and I knew what she was doing.

While she charged her canon, I drew a throwing knife out of my jacket. I went to one knee shortly after. Knife in hand, I waited for the Space Pirate. The footsteps grew louder as they came closer. Each step echoed in the staircase, resonating in my ears.

Soon, a set of feet came into sight, and I prepared for a kill. Waist down was soon visible, then its arms, equipped with a galvanic accelerator cannon and a forearm mounted scythe. A moment later, its head and its beady yellow eyes came into view. And not a moment after, Samus fired, sending the Space Pirate against the wall. Though heavily damaged and somewhat stunned, the pirate was not done. And just as it raised the cannon on its right arm, I threw my knife, and cracked its skull open. The dying Space Pirate collapsed onto the ground, and its blood began to leak onto the floor.

Samus turned and faced me, and I could see the curiosity in her eyes, even if a visor was in the way.

"A knife?"

"Back in the ancient days of earth, ninjas from Japan were very powerful assassins. They were known for using somewhat smaller blades then samurais, and they often used ninja stars and throwing knifes to deal with opponents and targets from a distance. I just happened to use this weapon as they once did, allowing myself to kill from a distance with great accuracy."

"Right… Couldn't a gun do the same thing?"

"True, but my guns are not silenced, and even silenced guns can be heard. These knives are a much quieter means of silencing an enemy."

I moved forward to the dead pirate, then bent down and pulled the knife from his skull.

"We must move quickly. The pirates will be on their way soon, and we must not be found by them just yet."

I cleaned off the knife by flicking it in the air a few times, then wiping it clean on my pants. I then stowed it back into my jacket, then pulled out one of two black pistols I had and attached a silencer to it.

"I'll take point. Samus, you cover my six."

"Sure."

Quietly, I began to move up the stairs, each step carefully placed so as not to make a sound. Samus quietly followed behind me, and together we moved up in almost pure silence. The trek up the staircase was short, as we soon came to an empty room with many large steel crates all about. I went forward, so that I stood behind a stack of these crates, giving myself good cover from enemy eyes. Samus followed, and then went to the other corner of the stack, so as to keep watch for the pirates that would come through the door on the far wall.

"Samus," I said quietly. She looked at me, and I shook my head gently. She nodded, and then placed her back against the crate. "Just wait for them to come. Once they go by, we move."

No sooner then he said that, the door opened, and the sound of two sets of feet came marching though the room. I looked toward Michael, seeing his gun held down by his waist. I shifted my weight as well, quietly allowing myself to aim toward any who would come behind the crates.

The footsteps came closer to us, and then slowly disappeared into the stairwell. Just as the second pirate went into the stairwell, Michael quickly raised his gun and fired to shots. Gold bullet casing flew into the air, and two thunks could be heard hitting the stairs.

"Come on," he said. "They're dead."

He had lowered his gun and began to move to the door. I followed behind him, and when we got to the door, I waited by the wall next to him. He opened the door by touching a small panel him, then peeked his head out.

"Hmm… Coasts clear. Let's head up to the wall first."

"You lead, Michael."

He nodded, and then started to jog out of the room, his gun at his waist. I followed, my hand ready to blast any who would see us. He left to the right first, and then went around the building until he was covered in darkness. I followed him into the shade, where we stopped to form a strategy.

"Samus, you know how to use this, right?"

Though covered in darkness, I could see the dim light coming from what Michael was holding in front of me. It was an explosive that many bounty hunters carried. Once primed, it would use a simple electronic timer to count a maximum of twenty minuets, and once the time was up, the plasma electronics would set off a small chain reaction inside the device, causing an explosion that was set from one of three pre-set sizes. Small referred to a blast zone of twenty feet, medium being a blast of fifty feet, and the last was a large blast of about a hundred feet. Though meant to be used as a grenade style weapon, this tool has a reputation for replacing C6 as the main explosive for demolitions.

"Yeah, I've used them before."

"Good. There are four SAMs, so that's two for each of us. Take two plasma grenades and plant when I give the signal. This way, when the bombs detonate at the same time, the pirate will be confused, giving us enough time to plant the second while they try to figure out what is going on. Then, we can have Cassandra give us some aerial support."

"Alright. What blast size should we use?"

"Medium isn't enough for the SAMs, so we will use the large setting. Just make sure that we set it for twenty seconds, this way we will have enough time to run to the next SAM."

"Alright then. Now how do we get up?"

"There are a few ladders about, but that will take too long. I'll give you a boost again, but you will have to jump off of the building, or else you won't reach the ledge."

"You're kidding, right? That's at least seventy feet of concrete right there. There is no way I will be able to reach that, even with your boost."

"Don't' worry, I can give you at least fifty feet of boost, and the rest should be cake for you."

"… Alright, but if I fall, you better catch me."

"No problem," he said, laughing a bit.

I took a few steps back, and once I felt I was ready, I ran towards him. I jumped onto his hands once more, making both feet touch. I then felt his hand lift me up, and with the force he had used, I was launched up into the air. I read my visor for a moment, as it counted my current altitude.

'Thirty feet, forty feet, fifty feet…'

The altimeter began to slow down as I reached the top of the building we were just in. Once at sixty five feet, I kicked off the wall, and found myself easily gliding onto the walkway on the large wall. I made an easy landing, and then quickly moved to the ledge to see Michael.

"Come on," I said, lowering my hand for him to grab once more. Michael ran to the wall like before, only now he started to jump from each wall, back and forth. He soon reached my height, and then as he came towards me, he grabbed my hand once more. I pulled, and he kicked at the wall, just as before.

Now on his feet, he dusted himself off, removing what snow he had left.

"I still hate this frozen tundra." He looked back at me, and then nodded. He pulled out two of the bombs, and then handed them to me. Afterwards, he started to run down the long wall, headed to his first target. I went in the opposite direction, finding a large metal object in front of me.

I came to the SAM soon enough, and the object surprised me for its size. It had quite the payload; about forty missiles were already loaded into it, and a long pipe leading down into the wall gave the SAM easy access to a large stock.

After gazing at the machine, I looked back at Michael, who was now crouching down just in front of his first SAM. I placed the mine down onto the piping, and the magnetic body automatically stuck. I then quickly set the bomb to go off in twenty seconds with a large blast. I looked over to Michael, who was now standing up and waving his arms in the air.

"NOW, SAMUS, NOW!"

"ALRIGHT!"

With that, we both touched that launch button our grenades, then started running to the next SAM. I could see that I had a long ways to go, as the wall was very long, or so it appeared. I was about sixty feet away when the bomb blew, sending me flying forward. I got my balance in mid air though, so simply landed on my feet and continued to run. The bomb may have enough power to vaporize many organisms in a hundred feet, but with the SAM in the way, I mainly just got the shockwave from the bomb.

Michael was already at his SAM when I looked at him, apparently priming it to go off. I was now halfway across the wall, and I could already hear the sirens going off. Several Space Pirates had already come out of the building, and my armor was easily visible in the current light. I was being fired upon, but soon the firing stopped for a moment.

Michael's bomb had just gone off, and I saw Michael leap from the wall down toward the grown. I could see the small flares of light coming from his pistol, but he soon vanished behind one of the many building here in the base.

I arrived at my SAM, and instantly kneeled down, placed the bomb, primed it, then jumped to the next building I could find. Once on the building, I went for a ledge away from the bomb, and just as I got my hand to stay, the bomb went off. I kept myself hanging for a moment, and then allowed myself to fall.

"NOW CASSANDRA, COME ON!" I was yelling at the top of my lungs as I fell. Though the fall was quick, I could see the blast from the pirates coming right at me.

"I'm coming now."

Now on my feet, I ran around the corner of the building, firing madly at the pirates. Once in shade, I went around another corner, giving myself plenty of cover.

"Samus, Michael, thanks for taking out the surface-to-air missiles. You'll be seeing me overhead soon, along with a few un-manned drones."

"Good, some UMDs. Hurry up already, the pirates will over run us soon, and I can't fight them hand to hand."

Another pirate came around the corner, and I quickly raised my gun at him. Unfortunately, he slapped my gun out of my hands, so it was time for me to deal with him in the way I hate.

"You bastard!"

The pirate swung his scythe at me, but I managed to dodge it just in time. With the pirates arm continuing in its horizontal path, I grabbed its arm, and then broke it at the joint. The pirate then began to stumble backwards, all the while raising his gun at me. It fired, but I rolled to my right. Snow in my face, I ran forward and then jumped into the air. My little surprise for him would be quite painful, as my boot was about to make a very nice greeting.

Once I had dealt with this one, I picked up my gun and took off the silencer. Once I had stowed the silencer away, I pulled out my second gun, reloaded the other, and then ran into the open. Guns blaring, I began to accurately place my shots into the many Pirates just standing around. I killed at least seven of them, while another forty stood shooting at me. I made my run, and then headed into the shadows once more.

A door opened in front of me just as I went behind the building. A Pirate came out, and my greeting was a boot in the gut, followed by two shots into his skull. Quickly I rushed into the building, where I found at least five more Pirates getting their weapons. I quickly unloaded the last of my clips into them, and as their bodies hit the floor, I reload my pistols.

I rushed through another door, and found myself next to three Pirates who looked right at me. I fired first, instead of allowing them the honor of putting holes in me. Just as I finished them off, I saw Samus begin to blast her way through the sea of Pirates now gathering in the open. Missiles all over, she began to wreak havoc upon the enemy.

Samus was just in the middle of the large mass of Pirates, and both of our guns were firing madly. Dozens of pirates fell to our immense fire power, but soon we began to be over run. Dozens of Pirates began to pour out from a single building. It must have been the barracks, other wise the pirates would not have come out so fast.

"Here I am," said a voice in my ear. I recognized it to be Cassandra, who was still talking. "Now clear out while I lay down the law."

"Cassandra, blow up the building where the pirates are coming from!"

"Will do."

And just as I asked, Cassandra launched two missiles into the building. A large explosion followed, and body parts and chunks of concrete came falling down. I had hidden inside the building I had gone in just a second ago, but I could easily see the mess Cassandra had made.

"Very impressive, Cassandra."