A/N- Well here we go, the beginning. Of mission. By the way I made the poll but I forgot to open it when I posted it, so if you guys couldn't vote when the last chapter came out, I fixed it, it's good now.
Seriously though, need those votes, otherwise those episodes will come out in a random order, then what's the point? Of polls.
And so! The Saints are on another shenanigan! Time to steal something!
On a TV screen, a giant crowd of asari in some museum were crowded around two more asari standing next to a podium, the top holding a giant four-foot tall and three-foot wide gem, in a perfect diamond shape. However this diamond was purple.
"As the owner of this museum, I hereby grant the exhibit of the galactica stone, a stone that was found on a meteor undergoing element zero mining! We have the leader of the mining crew to tell us a riveting story of how this diamond was found!"
The other asari cleared her throat. "Yes, well, we were on the meteor, doing standard mining directives, when we came upon this diamond in the core of the meteor, along with hundreds of others. Unfortunately the meteor was on a trajectory with another, larger meteor, so we had to evacuated, but we managed to extract his meteor. I would just like to say a prayer for those that died extracting this valuable gem and didn't have time to evacuate due to moving the diamond to the ship, and were lost when the two meteors collided and exploded, all eighteen of them" all the asari's in the room lowered their heads for a moment.
The first asari, the museum director, perked up. "Now onto the actual properties of the gem! Upon inspection it was revealed that the gem has a tensile strength greater than any known substance in the entire galaxy, due to the fact nothing could break it when under examination, and it's refractory property makes it ideal for lenses of different tools involving lights! While we don't have more than the one diamond at the moment, studies are being held for ways to mimic of the diamond. All we can say is this
Diamond is positively the best, and might I say glamorous, gem in the entire galaxy!"
The camera on the TV turned to a asari reporter. "Well you've heard it here folks! One story of a diamond that surely wasn't the best friend of the brave souls who died saving this beautiful gem. After break, we will discuss this galaxy's hot topic; Saints. How will they impact the neighborhood you live in?"
The TV turned off as the camera zoomed to the Saints crowded in the living area, Boss on the couch with the remote in his hand, his mouth open in awe. He then craned his necks over the couch.
"Saints, time for a heist!"
MASS MISCALCULATION
Episode 23- Man's second best friend
"Okay, Boss, I know you like expensive looking things. And I know you like purple things. But this is a bit over the top, that museum is on Thessia! Gonna look pretty suspicious if humans wearing purple are seen there, plus that museum might as well be Fort Knox, it's heavily defended!" Aaron argued as Boss poured over a schematic of the museum over a desperately wanted that diamond for some reason, and now the only thing he could think of was that diamond.
"Aaron, let me tell you a story" Boss left the table and wrapped his arm around Aaron's shoulder, spreading the other arm forward.
"It was the middle of high school," Boss began, "and if you remember I was in love"
"You were?" A surprised Aaron asked.
Boss frowned. "Yeah. I was. Nice to see you were keeping up with current events"
Before Aaron could protest Boss continued, "she was the cutest and most stereotypical looking thing ever. And she had triple Z breasts and the finest piece of ass in both these worlds, I swear she was like one of those anime girls you see in them shows you used to watch all the time, prettiest thing in the world"
Aaron whistled. "Damn" he said, whipping his head to the side.
"Anyway we were dating for a couple months when she asked me to marry her, and presented me with a ring made of amethyst"
"…Those are the purple ones, right?"
"Yeah, she had a poor family, anyway at the same time these men drove up and tried to take her away. I tried to stop them put while struggling with a guy a stray bullet hit her. When the guys drove off I was holding her in my arms and she whispered to me in her dying breath, 'stay purple for me…stay purple-' she died before even uttering my name, and I screamed to the sky and mourned in the rain. After that I figured out her family signed her up for forced prostitution since money was tight"
"Man…" Aaron sniffled a little. "I'm sorry man, I didn't know, you never said anything" Aaron patted Boss on the back, who silently thanked him. "So what happened?"
"Sold the ring for a gun and killed the girl's family and the men that tried to take her"
"Oh" Aaron stepped away from Boss. "So your stealing the diamond because…?"
"Aaron, I swear man, that thing looks exactly like a giant version of the gem in the ring! It's s sign!"
"Sign that you just want more bling?" Aaron crossed his arms.
"No! Yes. No…okay yeah, and the bling. I tried to steal the ring back, but it was already sold across country. And while I was strangling the pawn shop owner I looked through the ledger, and the gem was in a cargo ship that was raided by pirates. So it was gone. This will provide me with some closure…plus we ain't doing anything else, so productiveness!" little did Boss know that when he raided the terrorists hideout when trying to kill Cyrus, the turned terrorist had come into contact with the diamond through the circulation of crime, the man's plan being to sell it for more weapons. It was melted in chemicals when Boss tossed him in the vat, the gem being in his pocket.
Aaron put a hand to his chin. "Fine, we'll go on a heist, but we'll need a plan, men…"
"Got it covered" Boss assured, then pointed to the door, yelling, "to the portal so we can use the time machine! It's time we got us some new slash old members!"
Camp David
"I always thought NyteBlade was just a vampire show" Oleg said. The large ex-KGB, Josh Birk, Viola, and Angel were currently at Camp David, where the four were having a massive party. Oleg and Josh were currently watching NyteBlade in the bar while the other two were in the back room, sparring.
"Oh no my friend" josh corrected. "It is the essence of drama"
Oleg's phone rang and both started at it, Oleg picking it up. "You need to take that?" Josh asked.
"You know anyone with a 217 area code?"
"Is that St. Louis?"
"Probably a telemarketer" Oleg shrugged, putting the phone down.
"Oof! Ignore" Josh recommended.
They were about to drink their respective beers when a large, purple gateway opened in the middle of the bar, Boss in his suit and Aaron running through.
"You you grab Oleg and Josh, I'll get Angel and Viola!" Boss ordered as Aaron nodded, grabbing Josh as Boss ran by.
"Whoa hey, what's going-!" Aaron didn't let him finish as he was tossed through the portal. He turned to Oleg, who grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up. Aaron responded by activating his electric buffer, shocking Oleg and forcing him to drop Aaron, who grabbed him by the ankle and threw him through the portal.
In a backroom closet, Angel and Viola were circling each-other when a purple-suited figure came barreling into the room screaming and grabbed them by the collars, shouting, "No time we gotta go!"
Both tried to protest, but with the added strength of the suit it was futile as Boss dragged them away and threw them through the portal. He looked out the window and saw a giant white explosion coming towards him, a sign Earth was blowing up, and yelped as he dived through the portal, the gateway closing just as Camp David blew up.
Having restrained the four in separate chair, suited Boss walked up to them. "Okay, I'm getting tired of having to explain this shit over and over again, so I made a vid describing the situation, hold all questions 'till the end" he held up a remote and aimed it at a large TV monitor, however when he clicked a button nothing happened. He clicked the same button again but nothing happened. "Guy, TV's broke!" he yelled.
"Push the power button!" Aaron recommended from the back of the room, which Boss did.
"Okay, play! Goddamnit, now what?"
"S-switch the goddamn channel!"
"Is that the button with the arrows?"
"No it's the- the rectangular button!"
"Okay, switched it, we're good" the TV turned on as a video of Boss in a fancy purple robe sitting in a fancy wood room with a fireplace and in a fancy chair, holding Zinyak's goblet. "My friends and fellow Saints. I'm getting tired of saying the same thing over and over again, so here's a video of me explaining what's happened since I became president" following this was a lengthy explanation detailing the zin invading, Earth blowing up, Zinyak's downfall and Boss being crowned Emperor, and the Saints adventures in the universe they were in now. The video ended as Boss walked in front of the four.
"So basically we used the time machine to get you guys before Earth blew up"
"This is very unrealistic, you know" Oleg noted.
Boss shrugged. "Yeah if I told anyone this story I'd probably pop them once they'd call me insane, but it's reality, and the life we're living in. Get used to it homies"
Viola whistled. "So you choose now to get us? And we get out of these chairs?"
"Yeah sure, Zinny!" Boss called, the zin walking over and freeing the four Saints. "Anyway" Boss continued, "Oleg I need you for muscle as always, Viola I need you because there's a bunch of accounting and men leading I'm too lazy to do, Angel I need you for training Saints, Josh…I don't know why the fuck I need you, go see Matt or something, this universe don't have NyteBlade, go nuts with it and make us some money"
The four new Saints nodded and went off to do their respective tasks, except Oleg, who stood there. "…So you want me to do what right now?"
"Um…oh yeah, forgot, we're planning a heist. Go on the extranet, brush up on your alien knowledge, 'cause we're going to a planet full of blue and purple chicks"
"And knowing asari a lot might want to mate with you for the genes, big oaf that you are" Aaron said, arms crossed while a foot was leaning on the wall. "Watch out too, you don't even need to stick anything in them. They pretty much just do whatever it is they do"
"Duly noted…strange world we live in" Oleg muttered as he stomped off.
Glancing at Aaron, Boss asked, "so you got a plan how we're gonna hit the museum?"
"No! You're the Boss, your supposed to come up with the plans here!" Aaron argued.
"And that's why we got Viola. I'ma go get her, you…just keep standing there all stoic and shit, we're gonna go formulate a plan"
"Will do"
Viola sighed as she laid down the blueprints to the museum she downloaded off the internet. She hadn't had much time to adjust to the new universe she was recently stuck in, and her Boss wasn't exactly giving her the time either. She had to learn about new species, new technologies, new market values and readjusting her financing fraudulent ways…and yet not even five minutes on being briefed with the current situation Boss was asking her to plan a robbery.
"Look, I'll give you time to adjust later, right now we really need to break in here" Boss pleaded.
Pointing to the blueprints, Viola said, "if you hadn't helped avenge my sister, would be out right now. From what I know using these blueprints and the video surveillance from the news feeds on the museum," she pointed to multiple points on the blueprints, "there will likely be guards here, here, here, and here, not to mention here"
"That's a lot of here's" Boss noted.
"Yeah. It looks like the exhibit you want will be in the room here, only problem is the main door will be locked most likely, you got anyone who could break it?"
"Well Kasumi always steals stuff, bet she could crack it"
Materializing between the two, she said, "you know I can"
Boss jumped. "I told you to quit that! Creeps me the hell out when you do that"
Kasumi smiled. "Hey, I'm a thief, we don't like being seen. Anyway I've scoped this place out before, I could definitely get you in if you sneaked me in with you. Only problem is, I've seen the place, there's only one way in- the ventilation shaft"
"Cool, where's that?"
Kasumi pointed on the blueprints. "Above the main entrance"
Boss threw his arms up. "That's great. What's security like?"
"Regular amount of guards, can't tell you the patrol routes they change every month. Not to mention the cameras"
"Can't we just shoot the guards and cameras?" Boss asked.
Kasumi shook her head. "No, not going to work. The cameras not only send a live feed to the surveillance room but to a separate network which feeds the footage to a separate team in a entirely different building, and the guards have to check in through the same router to the same people. You knock a guard out and they don't report, place will be on lockdown and police will swarm"
Viola whistled. "They sure are protective of their museum"
"Hey, some of the stuff there is worth millions of credits, you bet they want to protect all of that stuff" Kasumi explained. "Bring me and can set any guard you knock down communication's device on a loop so it'll seem like they're still reporting in. There's still the cameras though"
"What if we send someone into the room, have them hack the cameras?" Boss suggested.
"Hm, it'd have to be a able hacker, either Kinzie or Ouro would be a better option, there'll likely be some resistance in there"
Boss scoffed, throwing a hand. "I think Kinzie can handle a few rent-a-cops, what about the room with the actual gem?"
Kasumi shrugged. "Since it's a new addition, I wouldn't know anything. Once I get the door open we'll have to improvise"
"And once we move the diamond we'll need someway of transporting it" Viola reminded.
"Viola, your job is to find me a getaway vehicle, get something that can carry a giant diamond, it's literally a giant rock we're carrying here, and look through the Saints ranks, get me a driver and a gunner in case things go south" Boss explained, "me, Aaron, Kasumi, and Kinzie will be dropped off via a dropship piloted by Zinkle, our pilot, where we will go in through the vent leading into the museum, Kinzie'll take care of the cameras while Kasumi, you deal with any guards we run into and the door. Me and Aaron will deal with the diamond. And let's have Oleg on the scene too in case we need the muscle, yo ZJ!"
"Yes?" Zinjai asked, coming in through the doorway.
"Find Oleg and get him some power armor. And make it a very big order too, but I want some special…adjustments to it too, I'll tell you more about it later"
"As you command" Zinjai bowed, walking out.
"Yo, what I'd say about bowing- ah, forget it, he never stops doing it. Anyway, once we get the diamond Oleg, Kinzie, and Kasumi will go back to the dropship while me and Aaron will go to the getaway car, where we'll meet up at the Fleur De Lis, which'll be in orbit. Assuming we don't raise a alarm, should go down smoothly"
"Only problem is the front gate, how are you going to get through that?" Viola questioned.
Boss chuckled. "I got a idea"
Thessia
"This is never going to work" Aaron whispered, to which Boss ribbed him. He, Boss (who was in his power suit), Kinzie and Kasumi (who were unarmored) were behind a dumpster in a ally looking at the main entrance to the museum, two asari in white and blue uniforms on guard at the entrance, the vent near the roof on the wall. Oleg and the getaway car were in a different location, standing by.
"Shut up, it's going to work" Boss assured.
"This is a dumbass plan and you know it" Aaron shot back as three figures stepped forwards from the shadows walking towards the guards. The forms of two beautiful purple asari's were revealed, a figure in purple zin power armor trimmed with gold and a gold fleur on his chest, a stylish and golden 'z' on the faceplate.
"Ladies, ladies, how interested would you be if I offered you the deal of a lifetime, a free sessions with these fine girls right next to me?" Zimos asked, gesturing to the girls.
The two guards glanced at each-other before smirking, taking Zimos's offer and walking towards the three, who gestured them to a back alley. Afterwards some blows were heard and the Saint asari's came out wearing the guards uniforms, standing at the gate, the real guards unconscious.
"Told you it'd work" Boss said as he, Kasumi, and Kinzie ran towards the side of the building.
"Pfft, you got lucky" Aaron said as he followed them.
Boss gave a thumbs up to Zimos, who nodded and sprinted towards the dropship, the asari nodding as Boss picked Kinzie up, Aaron picking Kasumi up. They both jumped to the ledge next to the vent, Aaron using his sword to cut the vent off.
"Okay, Kasumi you go first, then Aaron, than Kinzie, than me" Boss said, pointing to the vent. When Kinzie glared at him he defended himself saying "the order doesn't matter, just go!" they all groaned before obeying and fitting into the vent.
After a few minutes of crawling Kinzie asked, "Boss the surveillance room's right there, want me to go in?"
"Uhh…" Boss groaned out, as if in a trance"
"If your staring at my ass I'm going to hack into your omni-tool and make it shock you if you ever try to sleep"
Boss shook his head. "Yeah I'm here alls good! Yeah go in"
Kinzie huffed than kicked the vent, dropping down and immediately shooting the asari in the chair facing the cameras in the face. She turned around and two more tried to round in on her, but she punched one in the gut and used her as a human shield, the asari's partner accidentally shooting and killing the shield and met the fate of a purple laser to the face.
Holstering her zin pistol she got into the chair, pushing the body out and started hacking into the cameras.
Already having crawled into the middle of the museum, Kinzie radioed to Boss. "Okay, I set the cameras on a loop, you shouldn't be picked up by them"
"Shouldn't?" Boss warily asked.
"You dare doubt my skill?"
"Nope! Nah, just…just checkin'. A'ight, let's go" Kasumi and Aaron stifled their chuckles as Boss groaned in annoyance, kicking the vent away.
In the surveillance room Kinzie imagined the 'Pink Panther' theme playing in her head as she had an overhead camera view of the grill from the vent dropping down and hitting the floor. Aaron came out first, his limbs flailing in all directions as he face-planted on the floor. Aaron rolled over on his back, then his eyes widened as he held his arms up and shouted 'no no no' as Boss dropped right on him, both groaning. Then Kasumi fell on both of them, causing Kinzie to groan and face-palm. "Worst thieves ever…" she grumbled.
After getting up, Boss said, "alright, door's down on the other side of the building, let's go"
Sneaking through the museum, Aaron got on his toes as he snuck behind a guards. Unfortunately she turned around, and thinking fast, Aaron grabbed a vase from on of the exhibits and threw it in her face, smashing the vase and knocking her unconscious. Kasumi went to work on the guard while Boss read the plaque belonging to the vase.
"Huh. Says here the vase was a priceless quarian artifact. Probably worth millions on the black market" he informed.
"Well now it's about twelve credits worth" moving on, another guard from a level below them spotted the Saints, Aaron grabbing a large stone tablet and throwing it at her, knocking her out.
"Aaron, stop using priceless artifacts to knock people out, that was worth even more than the vase!" Boss yelled.
"Okay, sorry! Sheesh" working on the body, Kasumi gave a thumbs up as the three found a large door leading to the diamond.
"Hm, large black ominous electronic gate, huh? Give me a few seconds" Kasumi went to work immediately, opening her purple omni-tool and getting the door to open.
"Open sesame, guys I need to stay here to keep the door opened, get the diamond"
"Got it" Aaron nodded as he and Boss went in to the room, said room being rectangular in shape with the diamond being in a large display case at the end, a glass case over the diamond as it sat on the podium, one hundred feet away.
"Guys, I think I tripped some security measure opening this door. Be careful" Kasumi informed from the door.
"Well how hard can-" Boss's words were cut off as dozens of red lasers ignited from the walls, zig-zagging in every direction and blocking the path to the diamond. "Tripwire lasers, of course they'd spring for a cliché security measure like that. Alright Aaron, think we can do this?"
"Maneuver around tight spaces formed by the lasers going in a serpentine pattern as we make our way to the case and at the same time making a conscious effort not to touch one of the lasers? Probably" Aaron shrugged. "One way to find out"
The two made their way through the lasers, often getting into ridiculous postures to move around the lasers, and moving forwards was proving to be a very, very slow process.
But sadly, it came crashing down when Aaron slipped slightly and accidentally bumped into a laser, the lasers shutting down as an alarm blared throughout the museum.
"Dammit Aaron!" Boss yelled as he sprinted to the case.
"Sorry! But at least we don't have act like damn snakes trying to get to this thing anymore!" he apologized as he sprinted over to the case.
"Kinzie, Kasumi!" Boss radioed. "Aaron triggered the alarm, get out of here, we'll get the rock!"
"Got it!" Both said, Kasumi and Kinzie running off. Unfortunately as soon as Kasumi left the only door to the exhibit closed and was locked.
"Damn, we're trapped. Forgot about the door" Aaron smacked himself in the forehead.
"Don't worry, Oleg!" Boss radioed, "plans gone up, we need an exit now!"
"Hang on!" the Russian said as the radio turned off, Aaron and Boss grabbing the glass cover and attempting to lift it.
"Hrrrn, man this thing is heavy…!" Boss groaned out.
"Drain the cameras, get some extra strength!" Aaron suggested.
"If I do that the camera view will turn off, it'll look suspicious and the alarm will be raised!" Boss protested.
"Bitch the alarm is raised!"
"Thanks to?" Boss asked, draining the cameras and charging his suit.
"Shut up, it was a accident!" even with the added strength they couldn't lift the cover, so they both quit.
"Screw it, I'm cutting it off" Aaron whipped out his sword as Boss nodded.
"Just don't hurt the diamond. Or else" he warned.
"Yeah, yeah" Aaron chopped at the case, but the blade was only slowly eating it's way through. "Man, what's this glass made of!?"
"Hurry up man, guards'll be here soon!" Boss urged, voices being heard above the alarms on the other side of the door.
"Almost…got it…there!" he sighed as the case was cut, Aaron swiping it with his hand, causing it to clatter to the side.
Both grabbed the diamond and Boss started counting, "one, two…three!" they both lifted the diamond but cried out in surprise when they dropped it, the diamond making a dent in the ground.
"Damn, that's heavy…even with my super strength and your suit's super strength, we can't lift that thing" Aaron surmised.
Just as he said this, the end of the room exploded as a large hole was made, Oleg crashing through. Currently Oleg was wearing a giant version of the power armor, black in color with a red trim and red fleur on the chest, the faceplate blank. Oleg's armor was special in that it didn't have the throw, stomp, telekinesis or buffer powers, the powers being converted to give the armor more strength and speed than the other models, the exception being Boss's suit.
"Oleg, thank god! Dude, we can't lift this thing, we need you help" Aaron explained, the armored hulk nodding and stomping over to the diamond, all three just barely lifting this thing up.
"This is heavier than we anticipated!" Oleg noted as they shimmied out the hole in the wall as the door slowly opened guards trying to push their way through. In the distance police sirens could be heard.
"Yeah, I know!" Boss pointed down a ally. "Getaways over there! Shimmy! Shimmy for your lives!" with that the three very slowly carried the gem towards the getaway vehicle.
"This. Is boring" Frelak said as he tapped impatiently on the dashboard, his partner beside him. The krogan grumbled as he looked at said partner, a quarian in a black enviro suit with purple visor. The krogan in question being a rare breed with a black hide and purple eyes, the armor being the large, bulky armor krogan battle masters wore, also being black with purple lights.
The two had been part of the Saints gang for awhile now, doing odd jobs here and there for the gang, most of them on a daily basis, involving near-death encounters, a lot of killing, and a good payday. For his breed Frelak was one of the rare krogan who knew how the galaxy really worked, having a slightly higher intelligence than other krogan and strength, and was involved in more complicated mercenary work that involved brains, Frelak being convicted of many political assassinations. The more brains and technicals of the operations was his partner, the quarian Kilo'Dase nar Neema.
The two had met in a…complicated manner, both trying to kill the same politician, Frelak for the money and Kilo for personal reasons, but the two having similar views on the galaxy decided to team up, and became a mercenary team to be reckoned with. Unfortunately business eventually became slow for them, but then the Saints opened up for business, the gang especially advising them for assassination contracts. (Thanks again Bioshocker)
Right now Frelak wasn't happy as they hadn't killed one thing all day.
"Hey, lighten up" Kilo said. "You knew what the job involved, not my fault you signed up"
"Hey, they said there was a chance of something going wrong and heat raining down, and yet I have seen nothing"
"Exactly, chance. You have to stop assuming" as Kilo said this, there was a zapping sound and a scream outside of the aircar they were waiting in.
"Hmph" Frelak grunted, "looks like one of your tech mines got a asari. Why are the police sniffing around?"
"Maybe it has something to do with that?" Kilo suggested, pointing to the three Saints coming down the ally carrying the large gem, police in hot pursuit.
"Start the car, start the car!" Aaron screamed.
"Chance, huh? I swear with this gang there's always some violence" Frelak said, rolling down the window and aiming zin rifle out, giving Boss and the group covering fire.
"Meh, part of the reason we joined" Kilo agreed, holding a black widow with one hand and aiming it out the window, firing it off with one hand and giving the Saints covering fire.
The three finally made it to the car as a gunship hovered over the car, the diamond being put in the back. "Drop your weapons and get on the ground!" the asari in the gunship ordered.
"Oleg, get this heat off us and get back to the ship, we'll get the diamond out of here" Boss ordered as he and Aaron got in the car.
"On it" Oleg looked up at the gunship. "Come here, little woman!" with that he leapt up to the gunship, latching onto the front of the ship while trying to smash his way into the cockpit, the gunship flying away as the aircar lifted off, multiple police vehicles following them.
Aaron and Boss looked at the two Saints in the front of the car. "Wassup?' Boss asked, waving a peace sign.
"Hey" Kilo said, one-handing the sniper rifle.
Aaron whistled. "How are you doing that without breaking your arm?"
"Long story" Kilo glanced at the two. "So, you guys are…?"
"Boss, leader of the Saints" Boss greeted.
"Aaron, second in command" Aaron waved.
"Frelak, guy who's been assassinating high-ranking targets for you guys. That's my partner, Kilo" the krogan pointed a thumb at the quarian as he drove.
"Nice to meet you guys, I think I heard your names floating around somewhere"
"We can talk later, right now could you help with these cops?" Kilo asked, inserting a thermal clip back into the rifle.
"Yeah, you guys got something?"
"Under the seat" Frelak advised. Boss fumbled around and found a zin launcher.
"This'll do" Boss smashed the window on his side and sat outside the window, blasting purple beams of explosive plasma at the cop cars.
Aaron, likewise, formed a Kalash rifle with his O.M.G. and smashed his window, pointing the gun out and shooting at the cars.
They Saints were doing a good job of keeping the cops at bay until the car started to slow down. "Um, why we slowing?" Boss wondered, looking at Frelak.
Kilo opened a purple omni-tool. "Well there's our problem right there, the cars overweight and we're dropping. How much does that diamond weigh anyways?"
"A lot! Zinkle!" Boss radioed, holding the launcher with one hand.
"Wassup me bruddah?" Zinkle greeted from the other side of the comm line.
"Man, the car we're in is overweight, we need help getting back to the ship!"
"Oh, dat's a problem. I jus' nao droped off da otha gangta bruddas an' sistas, I'ma lockin' in on ya right na, hang tite"
"Yeah, fine, just hurry! We are literally falling towards the ground!" Boss cut the comm and continued firing the launcher. "Shouldn't be long now"
"We still falling!" Aaron shouted.
"I got a plan. Eghh…" Boss grunted, holding the gem using telekinesis out the window and behind the car. "Laser it homie!"
"This is a bad idea!"
"Just do it!"
"Fine!" Aaron formed his purple particle beam, a purple laser going into the diamond. The gem glowed purple before hundreds of small lasers peppered the cop cars behind them, blowing them up.
Boss sighed loudly as he put the diamond back in the car. "Man that was heavy. Anyway, Zinkle should be here soon"
True to his words, Zinkle rounded in on the car, the dropship's belly magnetically attaching to the car and lifting off onto space.
The Saints sighed as they sat back in their seats. "We pulled it off" Boss sighed.
"Woot" Aaron weakly pumped his arms in the air.
Boss then laughed madly as he slapped Aaron on the back. "Homes, we did it. We stole the most priceless gem in the galaxy. Who's bad?"
"We bad" Aaron and Boss fist bumped, making a fist-explosions gesture while hissing a explosion sound.
"You guys do this often?" Frelak asked, chuckling at their antics.
"Yeah, get used to it" Boss rubbed his helmeted chin. "Hey, you dudes seem pretty capable. Wanna be in the lieutenant inner-circle deal?"
"What's the perks?" Kilo asked.
"You can choose your jobs, you get to live in a sweet pad over at HQ, and the pays better. Only catch is if I want you on a job, your going on the job" Boss explained.
Frelak shrugged. "Sure. Only condition is that me and Kilo are partners. Where he goes, I go"
Boss nodded. "Sure, I can respect that" he leaned on the window. "So tell me about yourselves. Frelak, where you come from?"
"Tuchanka, like most other krogan"
"And like most krogan you became a mercenary?" Aaron guessed.
"In a manner of speaking. Don't suppose you noticed the hide and eyes?"
"They are distinctive features" in truth the eyes were the first thing Boss had noticed.
"Yeah, well" Frelak continued, "I'm a rare breed. Basically I'm smarter and stronger than the average krogan. When I went out to the big bad galaxy you know the first thing I found out?"
"Corrupt business moguls?" Boss guessed.
"Close. You know how the galaxy is basically ruled by politics of differing species?"
"Don't even get me started" Aaron spat, glancing to the ground.
"Yeah well, most of those politics are corrupt. Whether it be for power, money, extortion, reputation, hell even mind control one time when I ran into this one person, galaxy was ruled by corrupt politics. Guess you kind of inspired me, Aaron"
"Really?"
"Yeah, I saw you on the news all the time, defying the powers to be and having a good time doing it. So, I went into political assassination, planned my attacks accordingly, never got caught. I was knows as the stealthiest krogan to ever kill any number of politics" he glanced at Aaron. "So I gotta know, what's your story?"
"Short version? Grew up with this dude, got in a gang, went into a bunch of comas, planet got invaded by aliens, Earth got blown up, got put into this dimension while being turned into a virtual construct, rest you know"
Frelak raised his brow. "So your saying your from another dimension?"
"That so hard to believe?" Aaron asked.
"Not really. I've seen some crazy shit, you learn to go with the flow after awhile. Hey, I'm over five hundred years old, you get used to it" Aaron took this advise to heart. "So you wound up in another world all alone and the first thing you do is become the biggest pain in the galaxy's ass. Hah! I have to respect something like that"
Frelak glanced at Boss. "You?"
"Ripped the head off the emperor of the aliens that blew Earth up, became their Emperor, came to this dimension with surviving gang members, went on a mission with a bullshit commander to blow collectors up through Omega-4 relay, after that we remade the Saints empire in this dimension, then got the zin here"
"So that's where the advanced alien race came from" Frelak tilted his head. "Always wondered, what's at the other side of that relay?"
"We went to the middle of the galaxy. It was actually pretty boring, just a bunch of wrecked ships everywhere"
"Huh. You guys sure are interesting. I can see joining you guys was a great choice"
Aaron poked Kilo's shoulder. "So, how about you?"
Kilo shrugged. "Not much. Just a quarian, that's all"
Boss frowned. "We're all here spilling our guts out to each-other and this guys is holding it all in, interfering with the bonding. Kilo! Share"
"What's you full name at least?" Aaron requested. Knowing a quarians full name could give him something to work with, if his talks with Tali were to prove anything.
"Fine, here's my bio. Kilo'Dar nar Neema. Hobbies include killing people and wooing girls who think I'm mysterious"
"I wonder why they think that…" Boss said in a mocking tone, holding his chin and tilting his head.
Aaron added, "So you have 'nar' in your name? Never completed your pilgrimage did you?"
"Well, I got exiled during it, so yeah" Kilo nonchalantly answered.
Aaron did a double take. "Wow, that's rough. I knew a quarian girl who got exiled, by we managed to get her back in. Did you do something to try to prove your worth and get back in?"
Kilo sighed, hanging his head. "For what I did…surprised they didn't kill me then and there. I had to steal my own ship to leave the fleet. Believe me, hate me"
"Okay back up" Boss pushed his hands forwards. "So, during your pilgrimage, you got exiled? How'd you pull that off?"
"Went back and stole something. Something very…significant"
"It have to do how you can fire a super sniper rifle with one arm completely fine"
"Yup. Take me on a job or two and I might actually tell you what I took" Kilo teased, causing Boss and Aaron to groan.
"Alright, your mysterious, I get it" Boss muttered.
Frelak laughed. "Yeah, you think he's mysterious, you should see him with the females. It's surprising how a quarian can get so many mating requests and turn them all down. Even got a krogan one time"
Before Aaron or Boss would ask anything, Kilo held up a finger, smirking under his mask. "All will be revealed, guys. Just wait"
"Fine. Make us wait for some giant secret…hey we're here" just as Boss said, the dropship docked with the Fleur De Lis, the ship leaving for Saint territory.
Penthouse
The Fleur De Lis floated outside the penthouse, with one new addition- a large, purple diamond in the shape of a fleur on the underbelly of the cockpit. The zin had analyzed the diamond and it's properties and managed to manufacture the gem, but managed to change it's elemental properties so it was lighter. Now the ship had bling, and even better the refracting lenses on all laser zin weaponry was overhauled with the purple diamond, the laser even more powerful now and the lasers being more purple than when the color was changed.
Now Aaron and Boss were on the couch, watching the TV news coverage on the theft of the diamond.
"The asari museum curator could not be reached for comment, but this recording was taken in her office" a asari newscaster, who had a black eyes, said, playing and audio clip:
"I don't know who these Saints think they are, but their dead! They think they can make a mockery of asari culture!? I'll show them- wait, what are you doing in that cloeset!?"
The camera turned back to the newscaster turned to camera. "Currently an investigation regarding the legitimacy of the involvement of the Saints is being undertaken, however the evidence is irrefutable. In latest news-"
"Hah! Good luck, curator" Boss switched the TV off and looked at Aaron. "Told you stealing the diamond was a good idea. Now the ship's got bling, and zin guns got more powerful"
"Fine, you were right" Aaron grunted out.
"Ah, what's that? I didn't quite hear that" Boss cupped a hand around his ear.
"You were right!"
"Can you repeat that one more time?"
"Okay, now your just milking it"
"Who was right?"
"C'mon man, don't be a dick"
"Who!?"
"You, jeez! You were right and I was wrong to doubt you. Satisfied?"
"Yeah, thanks for the compliment homie"
"That smug grin of yours gets old real fast you know?"
A/N- Well I hoped you all like the double post! Little Christmas gift for you. Or New Years, whatever you want.
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Not much to say now except happy after Christmas and happy New Years! See y'all in the '15! Cya!
