After Frost had flipped out and begun cursing, he turned the camera off and the room was filled only with the sound of shocked silence.
"Woo hoo!"
Everyone turned around to look at Shoe whose face went red. "Oops, did I say that out loud?"
"Vendetta killed herself," Sanguine said quietly, pulling everyone back to the matter at hand.
"Just so that they wouldn't get information," Scratch added.
"Are you sure she killed herself?" Ray-Roy asked; his voice tight.
"I wouldn't put it past her," Dusk said. He hadn't changed at all. "She always was saying that she would kill herself before giving information."
There was another moment of silence to absorb this information. Finally Skulduggery spoke. "We aren't going to let Vendetta's sacrifice get in the way," he said. "She killed herself so that this mission wouldn't be jeopardized and we are going to honor this act by finding Ode and stopping this war. First thing we are going to do is review the footage, see if it can give us any hints to where Frost is. Then we're going to storm the place, get back Ode and take care of Frost."
Everyone agreed to that and dispersed, going to do their jobs. Valkyrie looked at Skulduggery. "So," she said. "What will we do?"
"Let's go help Ray-Roy and Sanguine with reviewing the footage. There has to be something on there to help us."
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While everyone else was going about trying to locate Ode and Frost, Dusk had other plans. He knew that there was a deeper reason Vendetta had gone off on her own. Of course, she was always one to go solo if there was a choice, but on jobs she was a pure professional. So he got a cab and went back to his house and went up to Vendetta's room. He had never exactly gone inside of it before, Vendetta had always been very suspicious about everything and that included reasons people went in her room.
Dusk nudged open the door and looked in. It was a neat room, really. Apart from the fact that nearly every available surface was covered in a manner of weaponry. Her bed, which she only actually stayed in every so often was made and the floor was clean. He stepped inside and went to her desk first
The top only contained different types of weapons so he didn't spend much time on that and moved onto the drawers. Files and old documents and, surprise surprise, more weapons. He was just about to give up on the desk when he got to the very bottom of one of the drawers.
A manila folder, seemingly opened recently, sat there. Of course, this wouldn't normally be odd, considering she had folders much like it in there as well, but something seemed different about it. Dusk pulled it out and put it on the bed. He opened it and, after reading the contents, realized this was purely top-secret personal mission Vendetta was on. The folder was filled with information on different men and woman, Adam Wreck and Simon Frost among them.
Dusk put the folder down and moved on. He got to the closet and opened it. Clothes were what greeted him upon first opening the door but when he brushed some of the fabric away, he saw something that caught his eye. Dusk pulled back the hanging garments to get a better look and once he could get a clear look he stared.
It was giant web of pictures, all connected by string or tape, leading up to the very top. Adam Wreck was in the top three spots. Two were still empty but Dusk could guess who belonged there. He went back to the file and picked it up then checked the information, glancing at the web then back at the file. All of the people up on the wall Vendetta had information on in the file.
Dusk looked it all over one more time, trying to process everything. Simon Frost had done something to her, a very long time ago it looked like, and it had taken her this long to figure out where he was. But this was the one thing Vendetta had failed, Dusk realized.
She had ended her life in trying to get the guy but instead of taking his life she had taken hers. Was this the way she had always envisioned this to end? Or did someone finally out think her. Dusk closed the closet doors and put the file back where he had found it. He didn't know any of that for certain, but there was one thing he knew. He was going to be the one kill Simon Frost and finish what Vendetta had started.
*Cowers under desk* Yeah I'm getting a lot of hate...
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