West watched as Aro paced back and forth on the pelican's cotpit, muttering under his breath for a moment. He looked up then shook his head, cursing, he paced again. Letting out a frustrated growl, West looked at Missouri "Whats up with him? Does he have ants in his brain or something?" Missouri raised an eyebrow to the comment, "Ant in his brains? What? Did you just make that up Rook? And I don't know, I think he's trying to figure our situation out. I'd suggest leaving him be." The green freelancer responded, "Yes I did, and alright…" West said glancing over at Aro. Who was still pacing back and forth, he growled shaking his head fiddling with his combat knife. Then snapped his fingers so suddenly it made West jump, "Yes!" Aro said smiling. West raised an eyebrow, "Uh….Aro? Care to explain?" She asked. "I got it!" Aro went on, turning to them looking rather pleased of himself. "This isn't as I initially thought, I thought perhaps a much larger ship had attacked us. But I was wrong, first- if it was a full cruiser then we'd be dead, second- If they wanted us alive where is the cruiser? And why wouldn't beta pick it up? I believe we were attacked by something much smaller, maybe a modified Pelican or Dropship…And, I concluded that we must have been attacked by our rebel friends. They probably thought we'd have our prisoner aboard this ship, and wanted to kill him so there'd be no witnesses, plus they'd eliminate three freelancers as well. But-By luck or skill we survived, and we're being dragged by their ship above. As we all can see, hence the gravity we must be inside their shields. And here's are advantage, they haven't come inside yet, they probably think we're all dead, AND we don't have the prisoner, he was sent on a different pelican." No one said anything for a minute.
"How in the world did you figure all that out in the last….What?! Eight minutes?!" West asked, Aro was smiling from ear to ear. "The human mind is capable of a lot more than people give credit, when used right that is." Was Aro's response. West shook her head, "Wow, is all I can say Aro. Okay so whats the plan? We don't have Jet packs so we can't really get to their ship even though its above us…" West asked. Missouri nodded in agreement to her question, "She has a point, however the fact they are right above us gives us an advantage." He said. Aro nodded "I thought of that already." He said "West remember our first mission together?" West nodded "Yeah why?" Aro smirked widely, West thought about it a moment. "Remember how we had landed?" West realized what he was saying. "Oh no, no no! We're NOT doing THAT again!" She said stepping back. Aro couldn't help but smile, "I thought it was rather fun!" he said. "Fun?! Fun?! It was Terrifying!" West said.
Missouri looked between them confused, "What? What mission?" He asked. Aro lifted his hands slightly "Okay okay Rook calm down, I thought you might say that and I came up with another plan." He said chuckling. "And Brother on our first mission we used the jets on my boots to fly down and land on a rooftop, West had to hold onto me. She didn't like it as much as I did I think. " he said. Turning more serious he went on, "Anyways I'll show you." Aro walked into the back of the pelican picking up his bow and Pistols as he did. He crouched down to one of the boxes laid under the seats and opened one taking out the hilt of an Energy sword. "This will do the job just fine I think, cut a hole into our roof and their floor." He said looking up at West and Missouri. "Sounds good to me brother!" Missouri said, West nodded. "Alright, load up and lets move out." Aro said. As they all took up their scattered weapons and reloaded ammo. West had her SMG in hand, and Missouri his Assault Rifle, "Brother mind helping me out with some of that muscle of yours?" Aro asked, Missouri nodded walking over and looking down at Aro with his Silver visor. "Of course, how can I help?" He asked "I need a lift." Aro responded, "Up to the roof." He explained pointing upwards, when Missouri continued to stare at him. "Ah, okay. Just don't kick me in the face please?" Missouri said, as Aro turned around and Missouri quickly hosted him up. West shifted her weight from foot to foot as she watched, clicking the safety on her SMG off and on.
Aro activated the sword and started cutting into the roof, after West clicked the safety for the eighth time Aro said "If you don't mind that's rather distracting, and I AM holding a boiling hot piece of light shaped plasma right above my head". West stopped, "Thank you." Aro said continuing to cut into the roof. He got on the last part and put a hand on the circle he had cut out. "Okay, get ready in case this thing is too heavy for me to hold up." He said, Missouri tensed and nodded getting ready. Aro cut the last bit, and felt the weight of the ton of steel press down on his hands. He let out a fast breath, "They don't make the armor on this thing out of wood that's for sure." He said in a strained voice, Missouri stepped back and Aro let it clank to the ground. "Okay, time to say hello to our friends!" Aro said.
A few minutes later inside the Rebel ship.
A guard walked down the back of the ship, crates were stacked on either sides and a few things scattered here and there. The lights flickered slightly as he walked, his boot creating a soft echo every time they hit the metal flooring. He sighed, bored and tired, "Why do they even need us?" He muttered, "I'm bored out of my F*** mind here!" He walked past some of the crates, the lights flicker out for half a second, and he suddenly felt a hand on his mouth and neck, he dropped his rifle out of surprise as his air flow got cut off and blackness over took him.
"Tell me why I can't kill him again Aro?" West grumbled over the COM's, as she dragged the guard's out-cold body behind a crate. "I prefer not to kill unless we have to." Aro said. "Oh what you're a hero now?"
West said "He would have shot you if he saw you." Aro glanced at her from the shadows of the wall, "And if he had saw us I would him killed him, silently." He responded. West grunted "Why take the chance? Whats one more dead guy? I've killed plenty of people it's what I do, it's all I know. The sooner you realize that, the better. I'd kill anyone, if I had the reason. " West growled, "Yes I know you tried to kill me remember? And Ro-" he was cut off "Shut it!" Missouri snapped "Now's not the time, West chill out and deal with it. We can use him to get information later, stop being such as pain in the ass and relax." He said over the COM's looking at West. "You're not my father don't act like it." West growled, "No." Missouri said "I'm not, but I am older then you, and your endangering our operation and decreasing the success of our mission, and if something goes wrong it'll be your fault. We've already been delayed enough, let's get moving. And deal with this matter later. " He said, neutrally, not angrily but more of a matter-of-fact tone.
West sighed, and seemed to give up. "Fine." She said. Missouri nodded "Let's take out the other guards next. Aro you take left I take right, West you go for the driver. Sync?" He said. "Sync." Aro said "Sync." West repeated. "…..Now!" Missouri jumped up at the guard on the right, who looked shocked to see him, his moment of shock gave Missouri the second he needed to kick his legs out from under him. And bring his elbow down on the man's head, as that same moment Aro seemed to almost materialize form thin air and knock the other guard off balance, giving a quick punch to his throat and knocking him out instantly. West jogged up into the Cotpit put a hand over the drivers mouth, she snapped his neck quickly. She turned around to see Missouri standing behind her. "Rook." He said looking down at her, "What did I just get through telling you before?" he asked. "To stop being a pain in the ass?" West echoed. "We could have interrogated him." Missouri said, getting to the point. "He's a pilot he wouldn't know anything." West said. "Pilots would know locations and addresses, types of shipments, from who and to where." Missouri said, "And I gave you a order not too, not just because it's a waste of human life, but because they could have useful information." He said. West starred up into his silver visor, "Your. Not. My. Sargent." She said slowly, "If you don't like the way I do things, then it's not my problem. Deal with it." She growled. Aro looked at Missouri who nodded slightly at him, he stepped back and started tying up the guards. Missouri turned back to West, "West Virginia, don't forget there's a chain of command here, and just because you're a Spartan doesn't make you any better than anyone else. Especially not someone who's older and more experienced then you, and has looked over the situation and made a decision based on that. I gave you an order, I shouldn't even have to tell you why you should trust my command, and trust that I have a logical reason for giving you that order." Missouri said. "And now, because of what you've done, we've lost valuable information that could have been used."
West hissed clenching her hands, "I never said I was better than anyone, I'm just trying to prove a point. I'm not like you. I was raised to kill, nothing more, nothing less. " She said. "And fine, your right. I made a mistake, and I disobeyed your orders. Okay? Leave me alone now." She said. "We're all trained too Rook, Spartans are soldiers, trained to complete missions, not killers without a cause, you've obviously forgotten your training, and using it to satisfy your own twisted ego Agent." Missouri said. "Twisted Ego?! I'm a MONSTER! Don't you get that?! All I know how to do is fight, is kill people. The Spartan programed turned me into a Monster, anything I had to do in order to survive, and I only trusted my team. Until they all died!" West growled, Missouri looked at her "You need to put the past behind you, I don't care West. Your acting like a child, I myself lost over 30,000 men. And I don't use that number lightly, and yet I still go and comfort my terrified daughter from her own past and nightmares, putting my own behind me. Your becoming a mother, you need to learn to forget your past and think about the future. Think about someone besides Yourself. Your not in the Spartan Program anymore, you're not suffering, but other people still are. So get up and help someone not as fortunate as you." Missouri said, he walked past her without another word and into the cotpit, taking the drivers body out he sat in the chair. "Now let's go home, it's been a long day." He said.
"Hoome sweet home oh how I missed you my dear! Oh how I can't wait to see you once more~!" Aro suddenly said from the back of the plan in a sing-song type tone. "Oh how I can't think of more words right now! And I think I'll shut up before I embarrass myself anymore…." He walked over to them, "Home sweet home! I can't wait to see you my dear! Once more in your…Your…Er…Dang it." West gave Aro a strange look, he was acting very strange indeed. "Um….Aro…Are you okay?" She asked. " Well, yeah I think so." Aro responded, "Actually I'm not sure, I feel very strange." He concluded. "I think perhaps the side effects of getting impelled into a two ton steel wall might be coming on… I think I'll go take a nap while we head back if you don't mind." With that he walked off to the back of the ship to sleep. "…Missouri?"
"What?"
"Your brother is the weirdest man I have ever met."
"Yeah, but that's why he's so likable. And actually he's very logical, but a lot of people in the world seem to class logical as weird."
"He's still crazy."
"Yes. Yes he is."
"Your pretty weird too actually."
"Thank you."
Another old RvB story, again its a bit messy cause its old but still hope you enjoyed it c:.
