Shayne and Lina left Ellice with Selena and went back to the hotel to find Eddi and Hanna panicking.
"Guys what's going on?"
"Shayne thank god you're back, Dundra's gone missing"
"I know, I got this sent to me" he said handing Eddi his Scroll, she looked it over and her face hardened.
"Eddi, calm down, we have a few hours to prepare"
*sigh*"I guess you're right, so, what's your plan"
Shayne explained that he, Hanna and Lina would go to get Dundra while Eddi kept watch from afar with her sniper rifle, Eddi liked this plan as if she was there she wouldn't be able to contain herself. They set about making sure that all their gear was clean and up to scratch and then they waited.
Shayne stared out of the window for several hours; he watched the sun set and the moon rise. At 10:15 he got another message detailing exactly where the meeting would take place. Eddi packed up the rifle and climbed out the window as Shayne pointed out where they would be and where it would be best for her to take up position.
At 11:30 Shayne and the others left the room and headed for the docks.
Eddi sat on the roof top piecing together her rifle, the wind whistled through the grates of the ventilation system. Eddi cocked her head as she heard the sound of feet on gravel she turned in an instant, pulling a Skorpion micro SMG from her thigh, and aiming it straight at the stranger's face.
"Whoa, calm down Ed, it's only me" it was dark and Eddi couldn't quite see who it was. She calmed as an emerald green fireball ignited in front of her, illuminating both of them. The man stood in front of her wearing a green t-shirt and dark-green cargo pants with a crossbow strapped to his back. His brown hair hair shifted in the breeze and he looked happy as he held the fireball in his palm. The midnight cold seemed to have no effect on him.
"Ralen, what are you doing here?"
"We, are here just taking some time out, where are the other guys in your team?"
"Were running an op, Dundra's in trouble, where's the rest of your team?"
"Here" Silver said walking up behind Ralen, Lance and Jiang joined them moments later. Silver was a white tiger Faunus whose white hair went down to her shoulders. She wore Ralen's trench coat and it covered the majority of her body. Only her tight leather jeans poked out the bottom.
Jiang was a beautiful Chinese girl who wore an amber Cheongsam and had an amber coloured coat over her torso. Lance trailed her, wearing a white and indigo coloured suit. His indigo sniper rifle glinted in the green light.
"You know, I always get confused between you and Lance from FLLN" Eddi remarked.
"How? He's a gigantic man who hardly ever talks and I'm me. Only thing we share is our names."
"So what's going on Eddi?" Jiang asked.
"Dundra has been taken hostage and Shayne, Hanna and Lina are going to get him while I run over watch" Eddi's radio buzzed into life.
'Eddi are you all set there?'
"Yes Shayne I'm all good, AGIS is here too"
'Put Jiang on' Eddi handed her the earpiece
"Shayne anything we can do to help?"
'Get Lance to stay up there with Ed, and make your way down to us, I'll fill you in when you get here' Jiang handed back the earpiece to Eddi.
"Lance, you're here with Ed, the rest of us are going to go down there and help the others out"
"You sure you don't need my skills in there? There will most likely be a few enemies."
"Shayne is running this op and we're just going to listen to his plan. You and Eddi sniping will definitely give us an advantage"
"Yeah, don't worry man. I'm sure someone will be stupid enough to get in your sights" Ralen said to his friend.
Lance shouldered his rifle and took up position next to Eddi as she told the others where they were waiting, it was 11:45, there wasn't much time to get there.
Shayne waited a few minutes until AGIS arrived.
"Silver, good to see you as usual" she smiled at Hanna
"Shayne what do you need us to do?" Jiang asked abruptly
"Straight to business then, I want you and Silver out here to cover our escape, Ralen can you get into the rafters and just watch for any treachery?"
"Of course I can."
"Good, if something goes wrong I want you to get Dundra out of there"
Shayne was jumped on from behind, instinctively he threw his attacker down the alley, she landed in a crouch and stood up smiling, her pink hair blowing in the wind.
"Goddamn it Nelwyn, why must you do that"
"Because it's fun"
"Well since you're here you might as well help too"
"Why, what are you doing?"
"We're saving Dundra" Lina said flexing her gauntlet.
Nelwyn became deadly serious and she decided to go in with them, Shayne didn't argue because it was pointless arguing with her. Shayne's Scroll beeped midnight and he turned to watch a large door open on a warehouse.
'Sniper team ready, you ready Shayne?'
"Let's get this over with"
Ralen set off at a run towards the building scaling it with ease and getting in through a window. Silver and Jiang waited in the shadows opposite to the warehouse.
Shayne, Nelwyn, Lina and Hanna walked into the ware house, it was dark, but Shayne and Lina could clearly see Dundra tied to a chair. Hanna and Nelwyn made sure that the door wouldn't close behind them by moving a crate under it. When they re-joined Shayne and Lina a single light turned on illuminating Dundra, his armour shone in the night. At least thirty men stepped out of the shadows.
"Hello again Shayne" Shayne gritted his teeth
"I killed you weeks ago, how are you still alive Adam!"
"Yes that wound should have killed me but it didn't so here I am"
"What do want with us?" Hanna asked
"Not you, just him" Adam said gesturing at Shayne.
The various men drew their weapons, Shayne and his friends readied theirs. Ralen made ready to get Dundra out.
All hell broke loose as a skylight came crashing down, and a hooded figure landed taking out two of the White Fang. Shayne recognised him instantly, but didn't have time to react as members of the White Fang came at them, Shayne carved a path towards Dundra, cutting down anyone in his path, his katanas flashed, and blood sprayed everywhere.
Jiang and Silver heard the skylight crash to the floor and the sound of metal on metal as a fight raged on inside. Eddi and Lance couldn't see what was going on, Eddi cursed and stood up. Lance kept his eye trained on the building.
Ralen sprinted across the rafters getting ever closer to Dundra, once he was directly above him, the skylight came crashing down around him. He watched the hooded figure kill two men before drawing a small hand axe, not dis-similar to Shayne's, and began to decimate the men below. Using the confusion he dropped to the floor, freed Dundra and helped him out of a side door, stopping only to get Dundra's weapons.
Jiang and Silver couldn't wait any longer; they ran at the door as Ralen helped Dundra away from the warehouse back to where they had been. By the time that the girls made it in, all the men were dead and it was just Shayne, Adam and the hooded figure stood in the center of the room.
Silver and Jiang stood by Hanna and Lina as the three men squared off. Standing completely still as the wind wound its way through the stacks of crates. A single shot pierced the air; it sailed past Shayne's head and lodged in Adam's chest. In the split second it hit, Shayne whipped around and threw his knife at the hooded figure and severed Adam's head from his shoulders. The hooded figure dodged and leapt at Shayne, Nelwyn intercepted him with a running kick and sent him sprawling across the floor.
Lance reloaded his rifle.
Selena got a knock on the door, even though it was midnight she thought it was Shayne she answered the door.
A single shot sounded in the night.
Shayne strode over to the hooded figure, and pinned him to the floor with his sword.
"Kameron, I'm giving you this one last chance, leave me alone or ill be forced to end you" a single drop of blood hung on the tip of the blade in Shayne's hand.
"Shayne, you killed my family I will never forgive you for that"
"Then don't, just get outta my life"
"Kam, why must you pursue this, it's been years" all heads turned to Nelwyn
"Because he is responsible for it"
"I tried telling you I didn't kill them before and you wouldn't listen, so I'm done" Shayne whipped his sword away sending the single drop of blood flying across the room.
Shayne strode away, he retrieved his knife and left, Hanna, Lina, Silver and Jiang at his heels.
"Nel, I'm going to kill him"
"No Kam, you're not, he's my friend and no matter how long we've been friends I won't let you do that" Nelwyn flourished her Glaive.
"I never could beat you"
"Now leave him be, let's talk"
Shayne walked over to where Dundra and Ralen were, he and the others arrived as Lance and Eddi dropped down off a roof-top.
"Dundra are you okay?"
"Shayne, we need to get back to your mums place, now"
"Why what's going on?"
"No time to explain, we need to hurry" Dundra shouldered his gear and ran off.
The others had to sprint to keep up with him, it took a few minute but they eventually got there. Shayne saw that the door was open and the police tape the crossed the door brought him to tears.
"We're too late, I'm so sorry Shayne" Dundra said breaking the tape. The group went inside with Dundra helping Shayne in, the police had only covered the bodies. Shayne didn't want to look but he had to be sure. He knelt down and pulled the cloth down. It was his mother; a single bullet had torn through her brain, killing her instantly. He didn't want to look at the other bodies as they were a lot smaller so he knew who they were.
Shayne stood up tears running down his face.
"I want you all to leave; I'll be along in a moment…."
His friends did as he asked.
He stood in the center of the room, he screamed as Grimm flew off of him in waves, destroying all evidence that his mother even existed, save for a small necklace. Shayne picked up the Crystal that floated on the shelf, the Grimm poured from him into it, it glowed black and he pocketed it.
"Blaine, come…" the dark wolf appeared at his side and followed him into the night.
As Shayne was leaving, he noticed something on the wall opposite the door. Shayne recognised the symbol; the bald guy from the rooftop had it tattooed onto his face. Shayne felt the rage build inside him and he punched the symbol and the bricks crumbled to dust on impact. Shayne caught up with the others and they headed back to the hotel.
AGIS had returned to where they were staying and SHDE assembled in one of the rooms with Ellice, who had left Shayne's moms store at around 11 so she had evaded the same fate as his mother.
Shayne stared out the window.
"Dundra, who did this…."
"Some guy called Cross"
"Did he have this symbol on his face" Shayne tossed a scrap of paper to him
"I don't know, I never saw his face"
Shayne punched the wall.
"Dammit! Who is this guy"
"None of my contacts know anything about him" Eddi said putting her Scroll down
"Neither do mine" Hanna added
"Fuck, when I next see this guy I'm gonna kill the son of a bitch"
"Shayne calm down"
"No Lina I can't calm down" Shayne threw his knife at the door; Dundra caught it and strode over to Shayne and hit him.
"Calm down or I'm going to have to put you on your ass" Shayne nursed his jaw and stood up slowly.
*sigh* "Thanks I needed that"
There was a knock at the door, Hanna answered it promptly. It was AGIS.
"Oh hey guys, what are you doing here?"
"We thought we'd come and check on Shayne" Silver looked at her fellow Faunus
"I'm fine guys, really I am"
"You don't look it" Jiang said taking note of his bloody lip and his red eyes.
"Shayne c'mon lets go have a drink" Lance said gesturing to him.
"With pleasure" Shayne walked past them and headed for the elevator.
Back in Vale a man with a shaven head and a tattooed face walked into a warehouse.
"So it's done then"
"Yes it's done; you will have what you want soon enough"
"Good, she will be pleased"
A case was placed on the table
"And the loose ends?"
"All neatly tied up for you, he dealt with that himself"
"Good, your bonus is waiting for you at your safe house"
"Goodbye Roman"
"Goodbye Cross, pleasure doing business with you"
He took the case and walked away, dispatching the assassins without blinking.
The door slammed shut behind him.
'Now that I'm not under contract, it's time for you to die, Shayne Oceanstrider'
Big S/O to GuyFromPandora for letting me use his team, AGIS, if you want to see more of them go check out his story, Remnants shield, he could use the support of all you lovely people who keep reading, don't know what I'd do without you. other than that i dont have much really to say. Oh, if you feel like there is something that you think could be changed dont hesitate to leave a review, as some reader input would be appreciated.
As always, thanks so much for reading.
-TheWolfbane987