Chapter 11: One Shot
AN: Some of my notes for you to go through for your entertainment and so you're not dumbstruck when some of these come up.
APR: Aura Penetrating Rifle, A silver sniper with an extremely long barrel and rectangle scope. The rifle has a bipod that bolts itself into whatever it's set up on. It has a revolving cylinder where special cut size dust crystals are inserted and in front of this a flap to place a single bullet. When preparing to fire the cylinder will spin for a few seconds before a green circle will replace a red one inside the scope meaning it is ready to fire. After firing the user must eject the dust crystals and replace them with new ones to fire again, this is a slow process not making the gun ideal for fighting but for assassinations. The gun isn't very loud do to the lack of gun powder use.
Sonic flash grenade: As the name says, it's a sound producing grenade. The grenade is meant to be used against faunus, depending on the faunus it can cause minor headaches to excoriating pain rendering them useless in combat.
Headhunters machete: Every HH's signature weapon, A straight machete with a black coat, simple in design and function but no less lethal.
Laughing skull mask: Another signature piece of HH equipment, A black pull up mask that covers the bottom of the face that depicts a laughing skull that symbolizes the HH's total disregard for any life and their lack of fear, More for disrupting enemy moral than anything else.
Gecko: A fast moving vehicle utilized by the Vale armed forces. Lightly armored but its versatility and rugged beauty is second to none. The vehicle is made up of metal plates has a front seat and a back seat with a gunner hatch in the middle of the back seat. There are latches and footholds on the out sides for holding on.
Enforcer: The Main battle tank of the Vale armed forces, is quite large and not good for urban combat at all because of its size. It has a crew of Six.
StealthHawk: known widely by most Vale Special Forces by its unique ability to not show up on any type of radar and virtually make no sound at all. Isn't very large, only holding twelve passengers, Has no weapons.
VOF: Vale Offensive Forces, made up of the Army, Marines, Headhunters, Air Wings, Navy.
VDF: Vale Defensive Forces, Army, Vale Guard, Manhunters.
Black Fist: A all human group who hates faunus.
Headhunters: A small division of elite troops who specialize in infiltration and assassination but are handy in any situation. Headhunters operate in five man teams but are known to sometimes to operate as lone wolves. They get their name from how they prove they completed an assassination mission, cutting their victims head off. They also use this as a scare tactic on their enemies. Headhunters are a volunteer force but most can't pass the rigorous nine month training regime designed to turn them into the best killers Remnant has to offer, they take no prisoners. Identified by their laughing skull patch.
I might post some more on the next chapter depending whether you guys liked this or not.
[Location,Name] is first person
[Location, Group or exact location] is third person
[Vale, Delta team]
"Seeing as you still have the Lien I'm guessing he wasn't willing to make the trade" Inquired Five as he moved up to walk side by side with Lt.
"He doesn't want Lien, that's the reason they're with us." He pointed back to the Kale and Shauno. "A rouge huntsman by the name of Keran Jank owes our 'friend' some money."
"So we are playing hitman for some mob boss? I don't think command will approve." Five grabbed him by the shoulder to turn him around.
One knocked off his hand and continued walking "Relax, this guy has been supplying arms to the White Fang. Command will probably give us a medal for killing him." He joked
They walked into a large white building crowded with people and shuttles taking off over head. An officer asked to see their identification cards before allowing them to board a ship. There would be no transport leaving to Patch Island for an hour.
A wonderful sight they made in there last minute get up and sporting one very VERY intoxicated woman. One decided this was the best time to bring Four over to his side as his personal brown nose, got up and went to the food court to get something to put in her stomach that wasn't alcohol.
He stood waiting patiently as the woman behind the counter 'girl talked' with one of her 'bffs' about how 'bitchin' her new lip piercing was. Her 'bff' let her know that she thought it was 'Soooo kewlz'. One just stood there watching the two chat with a creepy smile on his face.
Three having finished his juice box, twiddled his thumbs around having been pretty much owned. Biggs draped his arm over Three whispering words of encouragement in his partner in crimes ear.
"I mean look at her, does it really look like she won this?" Biggs said as he pointed at the wobbly sniper who was using a pillar for support. Three only mumbled a response back. Being fed up with his friends bitching Biggs left Fletcher to mope by himself. He had to piss anyway…
"Yeah daddy loves you too sweetie but I got to go, I promise I'll be home for your birthday." Five had parted from the rest of his team to make a call on one of the pay phones.
"You always promise." She pouted before hanging up.
Five slowly hung up the phone before leaning his head against the wall "I really didn't need that from you baby girl." He sighed
One still stood at the counter waiting for the girls to quit chatting, they even looked at him a few times but dubbed their conversation more important. He rang the bell for what seemed like the tenth time. The girls looked annoyed by his presence saying something along the lines of old people being inpatient.
Protests were heard as One forced his way behind the counter to go find the places manger.
"What are you smirking at?" Asked kale looking at his partner.
"You can't see it?" His eyes were trained on the members of Delta Team.
Kale squinted before grinning like an idiot "I didn't know you were into that sort of thing." He said while gesturing to a skinny man with the words 'PET' on the front of his shirt.
"Up yours cockbite I being serious, here look" he pointed to One "Kruger" to Biggs "Lachlan, don't look at me like that we both know the guy had a screw loose when it came to faunus." to Four "Simon." to Five "A older version of Sanderson." to Three "Then theres that guy, I don't really know who to compare him too." He told his partner in a gay voice while poking him in the ribs.
"We are way more sexy then he could ever dream of being" Deadpanned Kale.
"This why I love you." The two fist bumped. A robotic femmine voice announced that a ship to Patch would be leaving in fifteen minute. The flight was nothing spectacular, the blonde sitting in front of Kale of Shauno probably wouldn't agree but who cares?
"Nice little place you guys got here." Kale said taking a look around the suite before his eyes locked onto something "IS THIS WHAT I THINK IT IS?" he asked picking up the APR
Four quickly stumbled her way to the front of the group and attempted to tackle him but Kale sidestepped her without even looking up from the gun causing her to crash on the floor. He placed his foot on her back as he inspected the gun.
"Damn, haven't seen one of these since when we worked for the Schnee Dust Company. This Erwin guy must be a real thorn in the VOF's side."
"As fun as it would be to play with that Kale we've got work to do." Shauno Told his partner "We've only got a thirty-nine hour window to take this guy down before he disappears again. Do you guys have a map?"
[Patch, Unknown]
"It's time to let go! It's time to never look back! Just keep walking my own path!" Grimm Reckoning's new song 'It's Over' played through the car.
Three vehicles drove on a dirt road surrounded by trees and wildlife on all sides, the lead car and back car were both armed with HMGs while the truck in the middle had a large trailer connected to it and was unarmed.
The music was abruptly turned off, one of the faunus in the truck turned to his cohort who didn't even look at him. "Am I the only one here that can appreciate a good song?"
The driver just growled at him before once again ignoring him completely, without the music the whole ride was pretty much boring. The occasional bump on the road was the only thing to look forward too. The passenger blew on the glass of his window to fog it up and drawl a smiley face to give himself something to do.
The trailer was loaded with living essentials from the city like food, water, toilet paper and so on but was still an important load. The only reason for the armed escort though was because this area was infested with grimm. He shuddered at the thought of running into a pack of beowolves even with the five man escort.
The lead car signaled the other two to hang back while it scouted ahead, he slumped against the back of his seat for a few minutes before deciding he needed to stretch his legs and get away from the asshole occupying the seat next to him.
The driver didn't protest as he grabbed his gun and left toward the tree line to presumably take a piss, He looked into the rear view window to see that the other car was parked right behind him putting it in his blind spot. His hand traveled down the side of his seat to rest on the cold metal handle of his handgun, it always gave him a sense of security.
He turned the radio back on in an attempt at not being such an dick, their base was still a ways out and he could do without the awkward silence. You really couldn't call it a base as it was only really meant for the storage of weapons but after the loss of their home base in Atlas weapon and equipment shortages were at an all-time high, so even small places like this had high security.
The passenger door opened and the other faunus climbed back in avoiding the drivers eyes. Deciding to get it over with the driver ran a hand over his face before turning back to the road "The increased work hours have been very stressing but still wasn't any excuse for me to act that way, sorry.
"Dully noted."
Before the driver could turn to face the owner of the unfamiliar voice his brains coated the glass window on his side. The White Fang dressed figure got back out of the truck to walk behind the trailer and rejoin her team who had just finished taking care of the guards in the patrol car.
Kale dropped the faunus he had just strangled on the ground and turned to Four "The drivers uniform?" she simply shook her head. Counting the one she was wearing that gave them three uniforms, hopefully the others had done good not to get blood on the uniforms of the guards in the lead car. "It's a little baggy but it'll work." He said after looking the Headhunter up and down.
Shauno stepped from behind the vehicle almost fully dressed in his disguise, only missing the mask. Four grabbed the left arm of the guard closest to her while Kale grabbed the right so they could drag him into the tree line and hide his body. They did this to the remaining bodies while Shauno wiped all of the visible blood of the vehicles.
Headlights could be seen coming down the road just as they carried the last body away, carelessly slowing him in the bushes. It pulled in front of the truck and the occupants got out revealing two people dressed like the White Fang and One along with Two wearing their Headhunter uniforms. Kale let out a breath of relief, that gives five suits to work with. One made his way to the front of the group and laid out a map on the ground with a messily drawn base on it.
"We are here." One pointed to a spot on a map "In three hours our target will be right here to make the exchange" he indicated the middle of the base.
"It'll probably be another two hours before we arrive, that is unless we lower out weight load and throw Mr. Piggy here." Joked Shauno as he punched Two in the arm.
"Fat ass" coughed Kale "Just like we went over though, the people without uniforms will hide in the back of the trailer and only come out if needed. Shauno, Blondie and old man will wait by the vehicles and cover our escape while me and lezbo will carry boxes filled with 'food' to this location." He tapped his finger on a three story building "That will give us the perfect spot to make the shot and leave before the Fang swarms the place, Questions?" No one answered "Good, let's do this fast and clean."
They boarded the vehicles and drove off kicking up dirt as they went, leaving the White Fang member to rot in the woods.
"I gotta admit I'm really surprised!" exclaimed Kale gaining Four's attention "I thought we were going to have to babysit you guys."
"Ditto" She growled out still sour about the manhandling he gave HER APR.
They made good time, the base came into view after about an hour and a half of driving. Security was anything but lax that could be seen in the eight men guarding the gate. Everyone was nervous as the gatekeeper made his way to the side of One's car.
To everyone's satisfaction he waved them through even gave Four and Kale a little wave probably thinking one of them was somebody he knew. They drove through the small base taking note of the troop placement as they went.
Pulling into an open drive in lot on the farthest corner of the base, they unloaded. The area wasn't empty but it wasn't full either making it the best spot. A White Fang sergeant spotted them and jogged over to them.
"What the fuck are you doing here?! Do you know how long we've been waiting?" he shouted in their faces
The three that were to stay intercepted him before he got to the trailer and tried to calm him down. Four opened up one of the trailer doors and grabbed a large box that had once been full of coffee but now contained the dismembered APR and passed it along with another down to Kale.
She could see One's leg sticking out from behind one of the boxes before she jumped down and picked up a box letting Kale lead the way to the building. A few faunus set outside the building socializing, they didn't even spare the intruders a single look as they passed them going into the building.
The inside looked like a hospital with its all white interior, the building looked like it served as a large barracks. They walked up stairs passing a couple making out on one of the landings. The two had no shame as they went back to eating each other's face.
Another faunus woman screeched as they walked past her almost making Kale drop his box, she closed the distance on the couple throwing out hateful words. Ignoring the lover's feud they went up the last flight up stairs to be faced with unforeseen problem.
"So ugh….what's your lucking numbers?" Kale sweat dropped as he pointed to the pass code panel to the side of the door that read 'officers lounge'.
Four put her box on the ground and pulled out her machete before saying "WE GOT BEER!" in a stupid happy girly voice.
Tumbles could be heard in the room in what sounded like a fight to get to the door. The lock disengaged and the door opened "Shhhhhh are stupid?! Hurry up and get in here!" he noticed soon after that his own blood was pouring out of the straight line on his neck. Four kicked him in the chest knocking him in the room so none of the blood would get into the hall. The other man was busy trying to load his gun when the machete cut through the air and imbed itself into his head.
Four closed the door locking it before stabbing the panel with her combat knife while Kale moved one of the tables a few feet away from the window. He pulled the machete out of the faunus skull and threw it back to its mother, vowing not to call her a lesbian ever again. She opened one of the boxes to begin assembling the APR and Kale brought out his folded machine gun.
Once assembled she lay the gun down on the table activating the bolts in the bipod. She pulled out the four slot cylinder and loaded it with dust crystals and then opened up the flap and placed the twelve inch bullet inside.
Kale checked his watch "Five minutes, do you see anything."
"No"
He smirked "Want some tips from a pro?"
It was her turn to smirk as she tried not to laugh but failed
"I have eleven years of experience" he said in a dead serous voice, he was a really funny guy until you challenged his skill as a sniper "I can shoot the dick off a fly at four hundred yards."
"Fly's don't have….penises " Kale looked at her like she was an idiot but before he could say anything "Target acquired"
He pulled out his range finder to look, A young man with orange hair stood my two trucks filled with firearms presumably. He was talking to a high ranking White Fang soldier, it looked like he wasn't getting the deal he wanted as the two were arguing.
The hunter started to get physical with the soldier by getting in his face and pushing him, does this idiot know that the White Fang humans? The faunes appeared to be fed up with his bullshit and left towards the headquarters building to go get someone in charge to make the deal.
The hunter stood outside with his arms crossed, making faces at passing faunus, if there was a good time to shoot it was now. Four centered the crosshairs on the center of his head, because of the range of the shot she wouldn't have to worry about bullet drop. She slowly curled her finger around the finger…
"Stop!" hissed Kale
She loosened her finger around the trigger to glare at Kale but she found scared even her a little, The jokester had been replaced by a man white as a ghost, she looked back through the scope to get a look at what had him so tore up.
A faunus dressed in all black slowly made his way to the rough hunter, his back came into view revealing what looked like a rose on his back. She centered the weapon back on their target to take the shot anyway. Just as she was about to end his miserable life the faunus did it for her.
Faster than she could track with her eyes the man unsheathed his sword and cut the rough down, his aura not powerful enough to stop even one hit from the blade. She was frozen at this realization and was only vaguely aware of Kale pulling on her arm.
Out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of a black blur making its way towards them from one of the roof tops.
"Lets go!" Yelled Kale bringing her from her state, too late.
The Blur burst through the window they had just been looking through and attacked, the blur was a cat faunus with incredible speed and unparalleled beauty, oh yeah she was also trying to kill them. Kale let off a burst from his gun but it merely glazed off her aura uselessly. Before he could get another burst off the girl cut his weapon in half and kicked him sending him flying over the table with the APR.
She brought her weapons overhead blocking Fours attack from behind with her machete, she spun behind Four and locked her in a choke hold opting to subdue her rather than kill her. She was a bit surprised when the other slung her over her shoulder into the ground. She rolled into it and came right back at her, she slapped Four's machete on the ground and was getting ready to disembowel the soldier when a certain big mouth reminded everyone why he was a baddass.
"Hey Bitch!" both girls turned to look at Kale who was holding the APR while standing "Who's your daddy?"
He fired sending the faunus girl flying through the window from the impact and him through the door. Four retrieved her machete before going to check on her fallen comrade just to find that this operation had just become FUBAR. Twelve White Fang stood outside with their weapons trained on the fakes.
"Would you guys like to be my friends" Gritted Kale from the pain