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Volume 1 Chapter 2: Hard Landings
On the top of a roof about forty-six hundred meters below, two armed sentries in regulation Atlas armor walked on patrol. "Damn, is it fucking cold or what?"
"Well it is snowing out and there is ice so yeah, pretty cold."
The first guard, let out an exhausted sigh "Patrolling in the ice and snow? Give me a fucking break! You know who doesn't have to patrol in the middle of the night, in the ice."
"No, but I'm sure you'll tell me…" his partner mumbled mockingly.
"Jenkins! I bet Jenkins is sleeping right now up in the security room with his big fucking melon head on his desk while we're out freezing our asses-!"
"Hold up." The second guard held up his hand to his ear. "Shush! Do you hear that?"
He looked around a little, the only sound he heard was the gentle whisper of the wind. "Uh… the wind."
"No that is the sound of no one caring what you have to say, so please would you just shut the fuck up Jones!"
"Hey, man I told you guys its pronounced Jo-en-es, Jo-"
A loud whoosh noise broke the tranquil sound of the night as a dark figure plowed both of his feet into the back of Jone's patrol partner. Jones gave a yelp as he trained his rifle on their mysterious assailant. "Freeze! Hands in the air!"
The blonde haired monkey faunus didn't comply as he just sat Indian style, on top of his unconscious patrol partner's body, supporting his head with his hand smirking at jones lazily. "Hey, man! Just so you know you're going to feel like a real asshole in three, two-"
Private Jones didn't remember anything after that.
"You were late."
Jaune Arc raised an eyebrow at his partner sitting on the incapacitated guard. "Excuse me?"
"We were supposed to have a synchronized reentry. Instead, you were five seconds behind! Are you slipping Mr. Perfectionist?" He taunted, pointing to his watch for emphasis.
"This coming from the same guy that couldn't ever meet up on time for team sparring for our whole first year together as partners?" Jaune shot back with a grin as he moved the body of the guard he had just knocked out.
Sun stood and raised his arms up in mock surrender. "Hey chill man, I'm just saying. It's only because I care."
Jaune delivered a playful jab into Sun's shoulder. "Shut up you hyperactive numskull. You were the one that told me and I quote, 'Always be fashionably late, and do it in style or it's not worth doing.'"
Sun's small grin turned into a huge smile. "Good to know I'm rubbing off on you!" he made to pat Jaune's back before giving an involuntary shudder. Jaune noticed his teammate's discomfort.
"Sun, what's wrong?" the monkey faunus waved off his concern.
"It's alright, just a little aura tension I'll be fine in a minute." He cracked another grin. "Not like you ever felt that though right?"
Jaune ran a hand through his shaggy blond hair. "Well, when you have five times the aura of the average person you tend to not have those sort of problems." He turned and looked toward the central tower to notice a little flashing blue light. It blipped twice and then disappeared. "Looks like Neptune's in position." The two partners turned to the southwest tower about a few hundred meters to their right. At the top of the tower, a white light similar to the blue one blinked twice and then went dark as well. Jaune breathed a sigh of relief "Alright looks like everyone made it. Now we just have to wait on Kole." Sun placed a comforting hand on Jaune's shoulder.
"Hey, everything will be fine Jaune. We're the best of the best. It's going to take more than a bunch of Atlas Jarheads to take us down. Anyway, probably will take Kole about three minutes to hack the security mainframe." Jaune raised his eyebrow at his partner and then shook his head.
"Nah he's got this, two minutes tops," Jaune replied confidently. "He had the highest marks for computer and weapons manipulation construction and is a prodigy with technology."
"Oh? Would you like to make good on that?"
Jaune groaned. "Sun every bet you make with me you lose."
Sun shrugged. "Hey, my luck's got to change sometime right? Who's counting anyway?"
"Three hundred and forty-three consecutive losses and counting." Jaune responded.
Sun looked at Jaune with a deadpanned expression. "Okay smartass bet you fifty lien it takes him three minutes."
Jaune chuckled "Sure I'll take that bet." As Sun moved to shake on it Jaune pulled his hand away. "But if he makes it in one and a half you owe me double. If not, I owe you double."
Sun got the biggest shit eating grin on his face and clasped Jaune's hand in agreement. "Oh, you're on!"
Kole Schnee worked his way slowly down the hall, his fur cloak swaying back and forth as he moved. His target? The security room at the end of the hall. As he crept toward the door he racked the slide on his pistol loading a round into the chamber. Finally making it to his destination he took out a network cable attached to his scroll on his hip and plugged it into the panel on the wall. Four separate boxes on the screen became visible as numbers and symbols filtered through them. After a few seconds, the letters SSOP and a snowflake insignia became visible before a beep indicated the door was unlocked. "Delta, is anyone inside the room?" Kole whispered seemingly to no one.
The scroll on his hip lit up and the background turned a forest green color. An automated voice responded to his question. "Yes Kole, there appears to be one individual inside the room. However his vital signs suggest that he is sleeping."
The screen changed to a pale blue color. "Falling asleep on the job? Seriously? These guys suck at guard duty am I right?"
Kole shook his head. "Epsilon, I need to talk to Delta can you put him back on please?"
"Alright fine if you don't want to talk to me that's cool I'll just go take a walk… or something."
The scroll background changed back to green as Delta retook control. "Kole I cannot link into the security and communications system from this panel here. We will have to enter the room itself and set up a hard line connection."
"Gotcha Delta already on it." He slid his finger across the door panel and it opened with a whooshing noise. Sure enough, the communications officer was dead asleep at his post.
Well, makes my job easier…
Kole crept up to the sleeping Atlesian soldier, taking great care to avoid making any noise. He tapped the man on the shoulder causing him to bolt upright "What? Uh, I'm up! I'm-" Kole delivered a swift chop to the back of the guy's head, knocking him out cold. He gave an annoyed sigh and pulled the officer out of his chair. Sitting down in front of the computer terminal Kole cracked his fingers and then began typing at an almost inhuman speed.
"Delta I'm in, get ready to jack into the system," he pulled the cord from earlier on his belt and connected it to the terminal. "Beginning total acquisition in five, four, three, two…"
"Alright, Jaune you got less than twenty seconds left. Still think Kole's got it?" Jaune didn't give a reply as he just stared down at his mission watch in silence. But then, the sound of static broke his silent concentration as his radio was patched into the communication system.
"Jaune, Neptune, Sun I'm in. All the security cameras are running on loops and the motion sensors are under my control. You guys are also invisible to all automated sentries and they will not be able to hear our comms."
Jaune smirked as Sun looked down at his watch. It had taken Kole only a minute and seventeen seconds. "No way…"
"Good job Kole, you're getting faster at this. I think that was a new record." Jaune said.
"Oh please, it could have taken longer if Schnee actually bothered to have a decent security system. It only had a three tier lockdown with a two thousand and fifty-six-bit encryption key. I mean, come on could they have made it any easier?" Kole replied haughtily.
Neptune's voice interrupted Kole's ramble over the radio "Hey, you're nerding out on us again Kole. How about a little less bragging and a little more help? I'm out here on this balcony freezing my balls off for Oum's sake, can you open the damn door?!"
"Well you should have worn warmer clothes like me Also, I don't know if I can Neptune, these mechanical controls are a bit tougher to operate than the security system…"
"I'm a call bullshit on that one you flea bitten varmint!"
"Hey! Shut up you impudent blue haired dolt!" Their exchange went back and forth until Jaune had finally had enough.
"Guys! Focus on the mission!" He pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration and collected his thoughts before speaking. "Neptune shut up for just one second! Kole can you please, please, open the door locks so that Neptune can get into the building?!" A moment of silence followed Jaune's outburst until finally.
"Yeah I can do that."
"Jeez, Jaune we were just having a little bit of fun…" Jaune let out a sigh of relief. Serenity regained. "dick…" Only for Neptune to screw it up.
Jaune switched off his radio and walked over to Sun, who was currently kneeling over a ventilation shaft attempting to remove the cover panel. "One of these days, those two are going to get us killed." Sun didn't respond as he continued to pull at the panel. Jaune arched an eyebrow at him. This went on for a few seconds until Jaune finally decided to say something "Having a little trouble there?" Sun threw his arms in the air in frustration.
"The Damn panel is stuck." Sun crossed his arms in frustration. "Maybe if we scale down the wall we can vault through a window while hanging upside down and then-" Jaune reached over his shoulder and unsheathed Crocea Mors. In a single fluid motion, he slid the blade between the hatch and the panel. Twisting the blade hard, he pried the panel off the hatch. The metal square clattered onto the roof before it came to rest between the two of them. Twirling his weapon in one hand, he re-sheathed it onto his back. "Or we could just do that…" Sun looked over the side of the vent and stared down into the black abyss of the air duct. Then Jaune's radio flared back to life.
"Jaune, Sun, I've picked up two heat signatures in the building you're entering. But besides that, the only security is the automated sentries."
"Alright, Kole, Thanks for the heads up. Oh and by the way...?"
"Yeah Jaune?" Kole replied
"Don't forget to watch Neptune's back alright? I know he's a bit of a dick but squad efficiency ratings are based heavily on survivability ratios and my performance would suffer if he died. So make sure he doesn't get himself killed alright?" Jaune said. He could hear a little bit of a chuckle on the line as Kole started cracking up.
"You know I heard that right Jaune?" Neptune growled.
Jaune merely shrugged. "Yeah that's cause I transmitted it." With that, the radio went silent again. Jaune looked to Sun as he climbed into the air duct.
"You ready to take the plunge partner?" Sun asked. His head and hands still visible to Jaune as he held on to the lip of the shaft.
"Sure, just try to stay quiet okay?" Jaune said. Sun merely rolled his eyes.
"Come on Jaune, there are only two guards. What's the worst that could happen?" Sun let go of the lip of hatch and disappeared into the black abyss of the ventilation shaft. Jaune gave an exasperated sigh and followed after him.
Blake's ears twitched causing her black bow to shift on her head. The cat faunus's attention on her copy of Ninjas of Love: Make Out Addition was forgotten as she looked over towards the door of the small Schnee Dust Company lounge her and Yang were occupying. The girl then looked over to her blonde partner currently beating the table with her knuckles as she listened to music on her scroll. Her partner looked to be enjoying her favorite song as she sung the words to herself and rocked back and forth on the legs of her chair.
"Come at me, And you'll see, I'm more than meets the eye. You think that, you'll break me, you're gonna find in time,"
Blake tried to tune out her partner's voice as she closed her eyes and focused on her hearing. As a cat faunus, her hearing is almost five times stronger than the average human's and this makes it possible for her to hear sounds from far away locations that a human would normally be unable to hear. Unfortunately, her partner was getting louder as the Beat of the song increased, drowning out her enhanced range.
"You're standing too close to a flame that's burning! Hotter than the sun in the middle of July!"
"Yang…" Blake called for her partner only to sigh as she realized Yang had her earphones on and could not hear her at all. This was made more obvious as her partner continued to get louder, rocking further back into her chair.
"Sending out your army, but you still can't win; Listen up, silly boy, 'cuz I'm gonna tell you why...!"
Blake reached across the table and took hold of the end cord of her partner's earphones in her hand.
"I BURN!"
Blake pulled hard on the cord causing the two buds to fly from her partner's ears, breaking Yang's isolation from the world. "Yang!"
Yang, not expecting the disruption, jumped slightly causing her to put all of her weight on the back of the chair at once sending her toppling over onto the floor. Her long golden mane sprawled everywhere as she held her lower back in pain from the impact. "Blake what the hell!" The blonde rolled to her knees and rose up from the floor rubbing her butt as she winced.
"Yang shush!" Blake ripped off her black bow and tilted her ears towards the lone ventilation shaft in the room. Yang watched Blake's ears inquisitively as they twitched back and forth before finally coming to a rest. "There are two men who just exited a ventilation shaft on the first floor." Blake walked over to the wall picked up Gambol Shroud that had been leaning on the wall and strapped the sheath and sword to her back before walking towards the door. Yang gave a grin and crossed her arms.
"Oh, Blakey are you sure it's not just a mouse?" Yang quipped. Blake turned her head and fixed her partner with a deadpanned expression. "Oh you know I'm just teasing…So." Yang started pounding her fist into her palm. "Looks like we'll get to have a little bit of fun on this mission after all."
Omake
Project Freelancer: File Code 42AT762
(MID) Medical Intelligence Division
Subject: HADs (High Altitude Deployments) and AE&AT (Aura Exhaustion and Aura Tension)
Although it has always been standard protocol for agents to be trained in high altitude deployments our medical attempts to diminish the effects of Aura tension or AT have proved to be fruitless. By the time agents have been deployed into the field they have perfected their landing strategy to enable the greatest conservation of their aura supplies. The difference in aura conservation between a fully trained operative and one in basic training is almost ninety-two percent. However the effects of AT are almost the same in both new recruits and fully commissioned operatives, the only difference being fully trained operatives are used to the intense pain that follows.
However some new insight on what exactly causes AT may come in the most unlikeliest of place. Agent Jaune Arc, age 18 a second year recruit, is currently the only known case to successfully execute a HAD jump, his first in fact, and show no effects of AT. The sergeant on duty supervising his training made him do two additional HADs after the first, under my direct supervision. His vitals were monitored through out the jumps and we found that he had only suffered from minor AE but still showed no signs of AT. Most initiate agent's can not even stay standing after a single jump, succumbing to both AE and AT.
After looking through agent Arc's medical records, we found that he not only has a large amount of aura, but his aura network itself has been expanded beyond that of a normal humans (although this seems to be contradictory to his records created upon his initiation a year earlier). This, along with his ability to negate the effects of AT, point to a similar conclusion among me and my colleagues. Perhaps it is not due to the loss of Aura itself but the massive releasing of concentrated amounts that leads to the muscle strain and fatigue of AT. This anomaly would also explain his ability to use such a complex and aura intensive semblance. We will continue to monitor agent Arc's progress pertaining to aura and aura manipulation.
Chief Medical Officer: 'DOC' Francis Dufresne
Director: Leonardo
AN: Hey everybody! Hope you all had a happy holidays!
IMPORTANT: Two things! I've decided to not make this a crossover. The AIs are from RVB but they are not the same characters (They will become an important plot point later). I've also decided to do some Omakes at the end of some chapters after Volume One is completed. These will focus on the guys and maybe other characters. Already have a few ideas on the books for JNKS team bonding and some first meetings/getting to know one another. Just as a little bit of fun when it comes to character development. But I need your guys help! Leave possible suggestions in reviews or by personnel messaging me.
Anyway... What do you guys think will happen next? As always leave your criticisms or what you liked in a review.
Still looking for a Beta to keep this story on track, and for any helpful criticisms.
