Chapter V – The Thief and The Butcher
~One Day after the Heist of taking the Blueprints from the Sin family
In a remote location outside of Atlas, a hidden base runs with White Fang members, as they work; a woman is trying to head to the planning room of the base. As the White Fang look at her, they know that the individual is someone powerful the world of professional assassinating, but doesn't speak to her due to fear. She then finds the planning room as once she enters, she sees Roman Torchwick looking at the blueprints with a cigar in his hand.
He notices the woman as he turns his head up; "Well, Hello. Sori." Nanto Sori steps in as the door behind her closes, as she sees the warehouse being immense, and large enough for a small freighters worth of cargo. "I got some blueprints, and now YOU show up; it must be a big birthday now isn't it." Nanto comes over to the table, "With my line of work, that is frowned down upon." Nanto says. "Sarcasm, Mrs. I don't take things with a joke Sori." Roman says. "That being said, you were sent an invitation to this meeting, with.."someone, else." Roman saying to Nanto with a quick change from the sarcasm
Nanto shows him the card, "Written in red ink. Suprised that its that color over a black." Nanto says to Roman. As she finishes, a light comes from the second floor of the room, "It all depends on how the area looks, Mrs. Sori" a figure says. The figure comes out as its a woman. "Cinder, Nanto. Nanto, Cinder." Roman says to both of them. Nanto's face quickly becomes filled with dread as she knows who this individual is. Cinder Falls; one of the most feared individuals in the crime network, comes over to the table. "So it seems the Heist went well, except for one thing; Roman." Cinder says to him. "Oh, and what is that? Chipping the board of a lost wall?" Roman tells her. "We got it completed Cinder, whats the problem with a successful heist. Hell; its practically a first for us."
Cinder comes to him with surveilance pictures, of Nao and Elena, still alive at dawn with Elysian Military. "You forgot the fact of Ironwood being there and arranging this to happen. Something, that should of ended with their blood on the street in the snow." Cinder tells him, with a bit of anger. "Well, the good thing is that we can send little miss serious out for taking them out, right?" Roman tells Cinder as he looks at Nanto. Cinder responds with, "Not within our plan, it'll work." Roman stared back at her, "What the hell do you mean by that?" Roman said. Cinder responds with, "Nanto, mind leaving us for a minute?" Nanto leaves as fast as a bullet as they talk.
As she leaves, Cinder comes over to the table as she looks at the blueprints. "Well; you said you got a plan, right?" Roman said. "If you remember, we had a little test experiment a year back about-" Cinder was saying before roman interrupted her, "Wait. You want to use Project X-1S?" Cinder nodded yes, with saying; "That could be our best chance of finding them, since if you recall we planted a few bits for us to examine, like the location, and heartrate." Roman quickly changed his tune. "Hmm, I like where that'd go. But theres one problem, why wouldn't they check if the creature has certain elements that could be for a attack?" Roman says. Cinder quickly activates her scroll as it shows the location of Project X-1S. "We attack In two weeks." Cinder says. Roman says to her, "Thats a crazy idea, as I won't be leading the assault." Cinder quickly responds, "Then we get someone whos good with it." She goes out the door to get Nanto.
Cinder sees Nanto working on her ride, a street-race level Motorcycle. Nanto notices Cinder and immediately stops working. "Its fine, Mrs. Sori." Cinder says to her. Nanto responds with, "Just call me Nanto." Cinder acknowledges it and then says, "In two weeks, we have a job. Its to get someone in our hands, and more importantly, to do something very much for the Elysian Military in a bad way." Nanto says to her, "Who is it?" Nanto asks. Cinder responds with, "The son of a father you dealt with." Cinder tells her.
Nanto then responds with, "Hes still alive, interesting." Cinder is surprised, "Did you try to kill him before?" Nanto responds to her with, "It was a job to take all of them out. I just didn't account to the boys..special ability." Cinder is then curious and says, "You can get him to us and we can take care of the rest, Nanto." Nanto thinks for a second and then responds with, "You will have to pay me extra for him, if he seems that special." Cinder shows her a briefcase full of three million dollars in currency from Elysian milita as she accepts the offer. But before she gives Nanto the case, she says; "I will only give it to you when the missions done, got it?" Nanto nods in agreement as they head back into the planning room as the weeks go.
During this time, she worked with Roman and Cinder getting the plan to effect but did a job in-between it all. It was at the kingdom of Mistral, in the Palace of Fori where she was offered to kill the head of
security for Mistral; Elliot Van Dyke. As it was during a dance, Nanto realized she couldn't of done her typical way of assassinating a public official but more within the party herself. So she snuck into the party and had to take him out.
As she was leaving after the head of securitys death, she noticed a interesting entrance that lead to the underground base. She found during her trip a plan for a gadget that would benefit greatly within the heist and took it. Soon after, she was being hunted by the Mistral military for theft of government weapons. She made it out of Mistral minutes before the military could of done anything about it and headed back to Atlas to give the plans to Cinder for use.
To the hour before the plan goes to action, They discuss the plan and go through it as to make sure nothings wrong with it. Roman says, "You sure, this might seem complicated Nanto." Nanto reassures him, "Its to get the job done. From what it seems, the location is heavily fortified with dozens, if not a hundred or two hundred Elysian Armed men, hell-bent on keeping the cargo alive." Roman gets a few cups of Runerise as they prepare a toast for good luck. "To the makers guide us." Nanto says. They drink the Runerise as both Roman and Cinder head to the Control room where the plan will be evaluated as Nanto gets moving aswell.
Nanto has a few members of the White Fang get the members to their areas for the plan to start as the night goes on. As she got them to work together; she got a transmission from Roman, "The time-frame of this plan is narrow, so get moving." Nanto quickly rushes over to her motorcycle, the Phantom X-VII as she starts the ignition and starts driving. As shes driving, she sees the Bullheads coming out as the night goes on and sees the soldiers equiped with it. The main thought of Nanto is, "Please god let this work." as the tech they'd use is prototype tech not used in a large scale operation. All teams, including Nanto arrives at the designated spots where the Sonars won't notice them. Nanto gets her weapon out, a customizable sniper scythe, with blue and black coating for the weapon. She lines her shot as all the white fang members are ready.
Nanto waits for the right time, waiting for the wind to settle. As it settles, Nanto gives the signal to get ready. As she waits a few minutes more. She then yells in all comms, "NOW!" As quickly as she said it. The entire area has one large sound-explosion as hundreds of Sniper rifles fire making a sound heard from miles. The plan starts as Nanto and her group moves in during the long night.
As she was riding the Phantom, she played multiple journal logs to get her confident. And when the right time came, she jumped off the motorcycle and ignited the tool. The tool that she found was with propulsion boots, being able for the team to fly at incredible speeds, making the trek over to the primary location much more easier to get to. The only flaw was that the controls would of glitched out and that would slow the troops down. As soon as they got there though; the boots worked like a charm with amazing movement.
As Nanto arrived, she quickly found a individual taking out the members, Auro. And as Nanto stopped the boots; Auro quickly kicked her, causing the boots to break. Nanto quickly removed them as they were becoming a problem and got back up. "Hmm, seems that you look like the type of gal that would work in soup kitchens with those type of boots." Auro said. Nanto responded with, "You must be one to talk then."
Meanwhile; as the action is happening; Margro is down in the basement with Nao and Elena. The thoughts that are in her range from hating the fact of being unprotected as Ironwood and Winter are not at the base, and the fact that Elena is still under the hallucinations caused by the laceration. With Nao barely walking, she decides that she has to be protecting them. So she quickly gets on the comms to talk to Auro. "Auro, Auro! Where are you!?" Margro cryed out.
As she is trying to get a-hold of him, Auro is being beat the crap out of by Nanto. "Kinda-" He says before almost getting hit by Nantos Scythe. "BUSY!" He then quickly backflips and enables his weapon, gauntlet cannons. He fires straight at Nanto as she dodges it and evades multiple hits that could harm him. He then escapes into a smoke grenade and heads back to the house. "As of right now, I can't do anything Margro. Protect them both, we can't let any casualties happen within our team." Margo responds with, "What about the guards?" Auro is silent for a second and then responds with. "Do whatever it takes to keep them alive, even if its not by the permission of Elysian forces."
Auro removes his mic, as he gets ready "Well; time to get fired up." Auro says as he turns on a ability of Gauntlets. The ability that he activates is Flame-throwers, as he ignites a big flame on a few dozen White Fang members. "This, this will be the longest night for me." Auro says as the night time draws into the area. With Nao and Elena in the hands of Margro and Auro fending for his life, keeping the White Fang soldiers from entering the house.
~To be Continued in Chapter VI – Extraction