City Of Mantle, Atlas
Jet happily sits upon her mothers lap in the living room of the Polendina home watching a cartoon. Penny happily held the girl close as she watched with her daughter. On the screen it depicted Huntsman: The Animated Series. A story about a vigilante protecting his city during the night. Pietro smiles watching the mother and daughter bonding time.
As the show continues Jet looks up to her mother. "Can I be a hero mom?" She asks.
Penny tilts her head. "I thought you told your grandfather you wanted to make cartoons." She states.
Jet pouts. "Well yeah, but I wanna be a hero too." The little girl says.
Pietro laughs from his spot by his personal workspace. "Well you certainly are ambitious I'll give you that."
"Ambitious?" Jet questions. She then frowns before placing her hands over her ears as her eyes flash with large strands of text. "A Stong desire to succeed, or to want to satisfy high standards." She thinks for a moment her eyes returning to their normal deep blue. "I agree." She says with satisfaction.
Penny narrows her eyes inspecting her daughter. "My dear daughter Jet. Did you scan the CCT for that words definition?" She asks.
Jet shudders from the tone. "Yes mother." Jet answers worriedly.
Penny then lifts her hands up as a wide smile comes across her lightly freckled face. "I'm so proud of you!" Penny shouts happily. Jet giggles. "Great work daughter Jet."
After a few moments the two return to watching the show as Pietro shakes his head smiling. After a moment Jet tilts her head with a frown before nodding with a smile. Soon text scrolled across her deep blue eyes as the terminal in Pietros workshop turns on. On the screen a new project file was created labeled 'J.A.G.U.A.R'.
Another Part Of The City Of Mantle, Atlas
A tall man wearing a new green trench coat with white wool on the inside. This man was Hazel. His coat was buttoned up and his brown slacks had a Grimm style mask clipped to it. He turns to the Faunus men and women behind him each wearing their uniforms as White Fang members.
"Now remember." He says. "The plan is simple. We cause enough damage as we need to draw the main military force our way. Non of you need to kill anyone." The White Fang members whisper amongst themselves for a moment and Hazel frowns. "Once we are done here we will all retreat using the escape plan you've gone over with your superiors. Do not under any circumstance wait for me should I fall behind. Understood?"
The group all begin nodding as whispers of agreement and excitement could be heard. Hazel nods grabbing the mask and placing it upon his face before pulling up a hood over his head. That's when he noticed snow beginning to fall.
Atlas Central Command Center, Tower M3
This was it. Roman thought. The mission he had been dreading. "No turning back now." He mutters absentmindedly. He was currently wearing a stolen Atlesian military's Officer uniform with the outfit's hat mostly hiding his bright orange hair inside. On his right was Neo in a similar uniform and Mercury on his left. With each of them in their disguises they walked calmly through the building. As they walked with more professionalism than Roman was truly comfortable with they saw medical staff and soldiers making their rounds. Some soldiers saw Roman noted the uniform and saluted before stepping aside. He found that part of this amusing.
So far things had gone exactly as was planned. Roman liked that. It washed away some of his worries and helped him grow more confidence in the job. That being said he still had a bad feeling about this. He lifted up his right hand gazing at the new watch he had noting the time carefully. So far they had avoided all of the Atlesian Knight patrols. Unlike the soldiers the robots wouldn't be fooled by the disguises. He frowns to himself as wonders how the soldiers didn't recognize his face. He almost felt insulted. Then again it was an insult keeping him out of prison or considering where they were currently death. He decides that he could live with the insult.
The hallways of the building did annoy Roman though. Long, narrow, and boring with security cameras everywhere. No doubt the second they start getting close to the Room they were looking for the alarm would sound which is why they weren't on the same floor. Rather they were on a floor above where they needed to be. Soon they came across room 1031 which had a keypad for restricted access. Imputing the absurdly long passcode of 1411325201812519 the keypad flashes green and the door unlocks. Opening the door Roman could see that the lights were off making the Room extremely dark. The only source of light was a blue glow stick.
Upon entering Roman can see Adam already in the room along with his Lieutenant whom carried a large white duffel with the Symbol of Atlas on it. They were wearing disguises as well though Adam's face was hidden by the shadows of the dark room. What unsettled him slightly was seeing Adam's hair faintly glowing a deep red.
"You ready?" Adam asks.
Roman rolls his eyes. "No I was hoping to sit down for a few hours and talk about our feelings." He says sarcastically. Neo silently giggles to the comment.
Roman was sure Adam was scowling at him, but he didn't care that much. His mind was running through many outcomes and possibilities of how the General would figure out what they were doing. He just hopes the Hazel guy and The White Fang had made a big enough distraction to keep Ironwood's attention off of them. Roman watches as Mercury walks over to the Lieutenant who pulls the duffel bag off of his shoulder.
The lieutenant opens the bag and Mercury pulls out a large metal device. Roman couldn't help but wonder what Adam had to do to sneak that into a facility as heavily guarded as this. The Lieutenant walks over to side and helps Mercury align the device to a mark on the floor. Once in place Mercury presses a large red button before the two step back. The device expands a bit before rotating with an uncomfortably loud sound of cutting metal.
Off in the distance the sound of an explosion goes off. Roman raises an eyebrow looking to Adam. He got nothing out of it though and turned his gaze back to the device. The thing shuts off suddenly and a green light turns on upon the top. Mercury and the Lieutenant then lift the device off the ground and to the side revealing a large circular hole big enough to jump down through. Roman looks to the others and they were all staring at him.
"What?" He questions with narrowing eyes. Neo rolls her eyes to the others and jumps in first. Roman seeing this looks back to the others with a shrug. He gives a sarcastic salute before jumping in next. When he landed in room he noted that it was large and fairly empty. It had a small cabinet area with a sink beside it and next to the sink was a bed. Roman frowns. On the bed was an old lady anywhere from her sixties to ninety's. She had short white hair and wrinkled pale skin. She was wearing an admittedly fancy looking hospital gown and a silver bracelet.
Roman heard Adam jump down behind him along with Mercury, and the Lieutenant. Roman glanced to Adam finally getting a look at the younger man's face and grimaced. One eye was fine showing the deep blue his other eye should've been. His left eye was bloodied with a grey iris and it was clear as to why. There was a large scar from a brand with the letters SDC visible. Roman finally understood why Adam was so adamant about fighting humanity. It actually made Roman feel more on edge as Adam had been playing nice with him for these past few weeks.
Roman looked over to see Neo at the old woman's bed side. Apparently the fossil had woken up and Neo was putting on a kind act. Each of them were wearing Atliesian uniforms and apparently the old woman assumed they were sent by the ever so esteemed General. Roman felt himself rolling his eyes just at the thought. Though it would help if she thought they were moving her as a safety precaution instead of the reality of their plan to kidnap the old lady.
Roman walks up giving a forced smile and a kind wave. "Hello ma'am we are here to move you to safety." He says smoothly. Soon Roman heard the sound of a scraping metal.
"Boss! Look out!" It was Mercury. Roman turned only to feel and see Adam's red blade stab into him cutting straight through his aura shattering it instantly with a flash of red light. 'That's why Adam's hair was glowing.' Roman realized. The blade tilted upward and sliced through the thief.
As Roman collapsed Neo's face filled with horror as tears started to stream down her face. The old woman sat up quickly and before Neo could go to avenge her friend, partner, and more recently her lover a powerful whirlwind of ice and snow circles around them. Neo saw as Adam reaches his hand into the storm only to real back as his hand was burned from the sheer cold of the whirlwind. Neo looked to the old woman and saw her floating in the air with light blue flames coming from her eyes. The woman looked to Neo with what seemed to be pity and Neo suddenly felt smaller.
"He was important to you." The woman says. Neo stares for a moment before nodding. The woman closes her eyes. "I understand." She opens her eyes again and gives Neo a kind smile. "I may have a hard time remembering, but I remember what loss feels like." Slowly the woman floats down and Neo catches her gently before turning her gaze back to Roman's unmoving corpse on the other side of the whirlwind. On the other side as well Mercury was fighting both Adam and The Lieutenant seemingly to distract them more than yo actually win. He was keeping up well but Neo knew that wouldn't last.
"What is your name?" The woman asks causing Neo's head to snap to the old woman. She seemed far more frail now. Was her power with this ice and snow draining her life? Neo didn't know.
Neo considered the question however before grimacing she pulled out her scroll and typed. She almost lifted it up for the old woman to read but grimaced again realizing the old woman may have a hard time reading it. So Neo did something she hadn't done since she went to Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls.
Using the auto reader the scroll read her words with a feminine robotic voice. "My name is Trivia, but I go by Neopolitan now." Neo wasn't sure why she gave this old woman her old name. The name she was born with.
"Your name is Trivia, but you prefer Neopolitan?" The old woman asks with an amused smile. Neo nods her pained expression never leaving. "Well Neopolitan. You can tell the General that I'm ready." Neo frowns at the words as the old woman grasps Neo's hand gently. "Use this power well Neopolitan." The woman says softly. Soon the woman closes her eyes and Neo feels an energy pass through the woman's hand and into hers.
The next moment Neo found herself waking up in a white void where the woman waited for her with a kind smile. "You made it." She says.
Neo was confused as she looked around. "Where are we." She thought. Then paused gasping. The old woman was smiling wider now. Neo tried again. "Hello?" Neo tested. With her eyes widening she looked to the old woman in shock.
"Surprised you can speak here?" The woman asks with a chuckle. "We're in your mind. You will sound as you believe yourself to sound." The woman explains. "And what a beautiful voice you have. It's a shame the world out there can't hear it." Neo frowns looking away. The woman approaches lifting Neo's hands into her own gently. "I'm sorry I did not mean anything by it."
Neo nodded with tear filled eyes. "Is it too late? Can I save him?" She asks in a near begging tone.
The woman gives Neo a soft frown as she pulls Neo into a hug. "Im afraid not." The woman says. Neo holds onto the woman tighter as she cries into her shoulder. It was odd. The woman felt more like a mother to her than her own mama, yet she had only known her for a few minutes. Then again her real mother always seemed to hate her because she couldn't speak. "Be careful Neopolitan, and remember that from now on I'll be here as a part of you." They broke from the hug and Neo nodded.
"Thank you." Neo says. And with one final kind smile from the old woman Neo woke back up within the Atlesian medical facility's room. The whirlwind had stopped and Adam held a furious look upon his face. Mercury rushes the Lieutenant before jumping over the Faunus man kicking him in the head before rolling over to Roman's body and lifting it over his shoulder.
Neo draws the blade hidden in her parasol named Hush which she hid with her semblance as they entered the building. She defends Mercury from a slash from Adam's weapon and Her eyes flash with pink flames. Adam growls and slashed again only for Neo and Mercury to shatter into pieces. Adam realized what Neo had done and shouts in anger.
On the floor above Neo and Mercury hurry down the halls dodging Atlesian Knights and passing soldiers with help from Neo's illusions. Moments later as they neared the exit Neo glanced back with a silent promise in her thoughts. A vow to kill Adam Taurus.