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Midday, Mercenary Mansion.

"Have you seen STAR?"

"Did you see STAR today?"

"Can you please tell her that I'm looking for her?"

A young woman in a tight suit and a beanie wanders the housing units, looking for her fellow mercenary.

"SPOP, have you seen STAR? Im looking for her." She asked

"Sorry, Sable. Haven't seen her all morning."

This is terrible. What is something happened to her? Should she ask her team leader? Would she know? Sable would never bother her leader over something so trivial. Maybe she should.

She walked outside to a relatively tall woman sunbathing on the deck, she had aviators covering her eyes and one leg crossed over her robotic other. Sable mistakenly got in the way of her sun, prompting her to lower her shades to glare up at same menacingly

"Sable, what did I tell you about bothering me in my alone time?" The woman asked quizzically.

"B-but Arch, have you seen Nor-"

"No." Arch replied bluntly, cutting Sable off "Now scram"

Sable starts stepping back, "Y-Yes ma'am..." She turns around to walk back into the mansion. Before she can get inside, a large shirtless muscular mercenary blocks her path with his arm.

"Hey there, cute little thing. What are you doing out here? This isn't like you to be vulnerable by yourself ~" he said devilishly

This wasn't good. With the story rating on it's way to "mature audience only," Sable had to do something about this Black List mercenary fast. She turns around and starts walking back to Arch.

"M..Mrs Lucy.." She mutters under her breath

The Black List Commando stepped in front of her, "C'mon. Strip of the tight clothing," he aggressively lunges at her head, snagging her beanie "Here, I'll help!" He raised it higher than she can reach effectively bullying her.

"S-stop that! It was a gift!" Sable cried out

"Awww from who, your boyfri-"

-CLANK-

"By the way, jerk. She's not alone" said a familiar blunt voice

Arch handed back Sable her beanie after hugging her calm.

"All better, Champ?" Arch asked in a motherly voice. Sable nods as the door opens and a young woman runs across the deck to the other mercenaries.

"SABLE!" the young woman cries out as she hugs Sable and Arch

Arch's stone cold demeanor is temporarily replaced by the warm resolve her two squad mates shared.

She spoke up, "Well, I guess Nor found you."

STAR looked down at the mercenary on the floor, the Black List Commando with a bleeding forehead was moaning and groaning on the floor. She stared at Arch with a look saying "You broke the rules and you know it." She shot a glare back saying "I know."

"Well.. I guess I'll notify SIA.." STAR rolled up one of her gloves and pulled out a small wrist watch and talked into it

"Agents, I need you both on the western deck we have a wounded mercenary."

Within a few minutes, two agents and the Black List STAR all show up on the deck, the agent with the orange vest asked questions to the Commando whom was helped up and now being tended to by the Black List STAR; The blue suit agent walked over to Arch.

"Damn. Quite a kicking leg you have there, captain, this will be coming out of your paycheck however." The agent said.

"That's fine. I have alot of money, but not too many Sables." Arch replied.

"Unfortunately we also need to relocate you and the Commando to another part of the mansion, but you know the drill." Agent 4 lightly cuffs Arch and they both leave the scene, Sable and Nor waving at them.

By the end of the conflict, resolve had taken place; Nor was happy that Sable was safe, Arch felt justified in what she did, but Sable's fear for the Black List mercenaries had grown. Now there are two Black List mercenaries she feared.

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Hey mercs! Author here. This is one of many different perspectives of the Story with different characters. Story B-1 is not the same as Story A-1, but it takes place in the same time. Got a question? Leave it in a review and I'll try to answer it in the next Author's note.