Karl opened his eyes and looked to the night stand next to him, his clock read 4 am, 'Oh boy' Karl thought as he quietly slipped out of bed. He as quietly as possible went over to his little armory and put on his armor making sure not to wake up Brandy. Karl was a little anxious after yesterday's attack that had really shook up the UNSC, he was going to be ready to defend it again if need be but he knew the German local government would most likely add to the defense after the attack which wounded several security guards. Karl was going to get behind this even if it meant doing something very, very unethical. It was his job to protect Soya and that is what he was going to do even though he was turning to less civilized methods, he didn't get his amount of fame from being gentle.
Karl opened the door and closed it quietly behind him and took off his glove putting his finger over it and the door locked, he slipped his glove back on and continued down the stairs into the main lobby where at least 15 marines and security alike were patrolling. He just nodded to some of them and then pressed a button on his tactical pad and vanished from thin air. It was early in the morning so not many people were going to be awake. Karl walked outside from a hole in the wall created during the attack. He noticed Dao talking to what looked like a very high ranking official of what would be the Sangheili, after he looked closer with a zooming function he noticed the silver armor and the missing mandibles, 'Holy shit it's the arbiter' Karl thought to himself as he looked observed a little more. Karl shook his head and activated another function on his armor which caused a grapple to come out and he shot up to a roof, the buildings were closely packed so he would have no trouble hopping roof to roof. Which he did swiftly and without error.
Karl made it to the building in which the weapon stash was and saw the investigators swarming the building, most of them being ONI, 'Ah fuck not these guys' Karl thought as he looked at the few ONI agents most of them armed guarding the door. Karl wasted no more time and silently went in through the window he smashed earlier, he observed the investigators and listened to what they were talking about, after he heard an address that was all he needed. After hearing the address he mental noted it to himself and left the building quickly.
Karl climbed up the fire escape back up to the roof of the building and uncloaked himself, he needed to let it charge back up as it was now on about 10%. Karl stealthily made his way to the address repeating it to himself constantly and making sure not to forget it and check every house that he thought might be it, soon he made it to a large open field and at the end of the field stood at what looked like an abandoned mining facility, 'Fuck's sake that couldn't be more obvious of a bad guy spot if it tried' Karl thought to himself as he jumped off the building landing with a tuck and roll.
Karl made his way to the facility through the field completely prone, he crawled for what he thought was about 20 minutes before he made it to a hill that overlooked the facility. Karl took a deep breath and used his zoom function to see what was there, what he saw was no guards, but he spotted two unarmed what looked like soldiers in ODST armor but was painted red along the shoulder pads and knee pads, obviously stolen, Karl left his weapons except his knife at his room for movement and stamina reasons. They were unarmed too but he saw what were most likely assault rifles on their backs. Karl looked on his HUD and saw his power level was at about 80% charged, 'Okay gotta move hard and fast, time to fuck shit up' Karl thought to himself.
Karl hit the cloak button and began going full sprint at the two fakes, he was running at what his HUD was saying was about 14 mp/h which was pretty fast considering he was not a spartan. Karl primed his fist as he ran and uncloaked about 10 meters away from them, the two men spotted him but had difficulties grabbing the weapons at their backs, Karl ran forward and smashed his fist into the one on his left's helmet smashing the glass on impact, it hurt like a bitch but it worked with his momentum and element of surprise. The one on his right reached for his pistol but before he could do so Karl unsheathed his knife and stabbed it into the man's wrist, with a yelp of pain righty dropped his magnum and lefty went in for a punch on Karl which Karl hastily blocked with his left arm, Karl seeing this as an opportunity grabbed lefty's arm with his right arm holding it stiff and used his left fist to hit under his elbow and with a snap the man's arm went limp and he started screaming in pain his arm now being broken at the elbow. Righty unsheathed his own knife and swung at Karl hitting nothing but armor, Karl trained his focus to righty now and they started to circle each other, Karl studying his every move, Karl seeing the man was going to go for a stab at the chest was ready for it when Righty attacked him. Karl slashed his knife at the man's arm cutting it and causing the man to wince and pull his arm back. The man went for another stab which Karl this time threw his hand out and grabbed Righty's wrist and pulled him forward, Right lost his balance and went straight into Karl's knife which had no problem digging deep into his throat. Karl let them man plop to the ground, Karl walked to the corpse and cleaned the knife on the man's combat pants.
Karl noticed Lefty trying to crawl away to a button near the door. Karl walked over and put a foot to the man's back holding him to the ground, "Where you think your going asshole?" Karl asked as he then took a knee on the man's back and put a knife to the man's throat. "Please, please don't kill me..." He started stuttering to Karl, obviously in a lot of pain. "Then what the fuck is this place?" Karl asked pulling the knife closer to his throat. "It's a base of operations, for the insurrection, which you are going to regret attacking." Lefty said panicking to try and save his life. Karl was in fool serious mode and would not let him go very easily, if at all. "Okay and why is that?" Karl said bending down to the man's now turned away face. "Because, they saw everything that just happened, they will be ready for you to come through that door, look." He said nudging his head up to a camera. Karl laughed and then slit the man's throat blood oozing out from the large gash now in his throat. Karl simply ast up and waved at the camera as happily as he could.
"Hey guys, so you going to let me go with that information or are you going to fight?" Karl asked into the camera before picking up the magnum in the dirt chambering a round and putting it into the camera. Karl picked up one of the assault rifles and all the magazines he could carry which were about 7 in total. He also noticed two lovely grenades on each corpse which he gladly took and put on his own belt.
Karl walked over to some old mining equipment and took cover behind it, he was going to wait all morning if he had to, but he wasn't dumb enough to bust through the large doors not knowing what was on the other side.
After a few minutes Karl heard a door opening, "Find that fuck!" He heard someone yell, Karl looked over the mining vehicle and saw about 10-20 militia armed with various UNSC weapons mainly assault rifles and Battle Rifles. "We will kill you fucker!" He heard another yell. He then cloaked, he was going to have a bit of fun. "Will you now? How cute." Karl yelled out at them, most of them turned in random directions and had no idea where it came from. Karl unhooked a grenade and chucked it over his cover, he peaked over to see it go off and saw several of the militia fly all over the place and limbs go flying, 'Modified grenades, jesus' Karl thought to himself as he saw the irregularly large explosion befall him.
Even more of them panicked and started to back up, soon they were all in a large half circle around the door, Karl lost his element of surprise, 'Oh well' He thought to himself as he took another grenade off his belt, still cloaked he walked over to the rear of the entrance and climbed on top of it, casually taking the pin off he primed it and dropped it behind all of them in the half circle, them not expecting it to come from above them all screamed as the grenade went off sending blood and limbs everywhere. Karl tried to take cover but blood splashed all over his armor, making him look like hell in two different ways.
After a couple seconds of wiping his face mask of the blood he dropped down from the large concrete structure and saw the door wide open and no one guarding it except the corpses of the 15 men surrounding him, all blown to pieces and most of them missing important body parts. Karl put the assault rifle to his shoulder as he walked into the facility, ready for anything. What he didn't expect was 4 more of the ODST doppelgangers to come up all armed with shotguns. Karl quickly took cover behind a pillar in the hallway but not before a shotgun burst hit him in his stomach, the wind was knocked out of him for sure but he only felt a slight 'punched in the gut' feeling. He knew his armor saved him.
"We will kill you!" He heard one of them yell, "Don't be too confident fuckboy." Karl said as he put his gun around the wall but not his body and unloaded into the hallway, he heard some shouts and curses, but no screams of pain, 'Maybe these guys are a real fight' Karl though to himself as he loaded another magazine into his AR. He heard footsteps and immediately reacted when a shotgun turned around the corner of the pillar, Karl ducked as he heard the shotgun go off and felt the pellets hit the top of his helmet, he then heard a shout of agony and turned to it to see one of them was on the ground with his body full of holes, 'He shot his friend holy shit' Karl tried not to laugh, he stood up and turned the corner as he heard the pump of the shotgun and smashed his fist into the man's visor making him stumble back, Karl took advantage and point blank shot him several times in the heart, the man fell back as the bullets entered his body and he slammed into the wall, bleeding from about 30 different places in his chest. Karl took cover again and this time took a grenade from his belt, just as he was preparing to throw it a hand hit him hard in the visor making him drop the grenade at his feet, Karl didn't think he acted instead. Karl saw the man who did that and took him hard by the shoulders, Karl pulled the man down hard using all his strength to pull the man ontop of the grenade. Which he did, somehow with a ton of luck and in split second actions. Karl jumped across the hall to the pillar on the other side and heard the explosion and not even a scream, only the explosion. He turned from the pillar again to see the man was not even there anymore, only blood and guts all over the walls.
Karl saw the last one loading his shotgun, Karl quickly aimed his AR at the man and began opening fire, seeing the man flinch and begin twitching as the bullets were entering his body. After the ammo counter hit zero and there were no more bullets Karl looked up to see that he was now laying against a his own cover now full of bleeding holes and not unmoving. Karl let out a long breath of air and knew his job was done here, he didn't want to go any further, he checked the time on his HUD and it was almost 6 am, he had to get back and fast. At least he gave the UNSC a great advantage to breach into the building.
Karl cloaked himself and walked out of the building taking a second to smash the control panel at the main door so it could not be repaired, at least not fast enough to stop the impending doom that these terrorists were about to face. Karl was not tired but he was just worn out, after being shot and hit several times he knew there would be bruising and his very bloody armor would make anyone suspicious, so he would have to cloak until he got to his room and changed and cleaned his armor. Luckily it would look like his armor was like this from his previous actions during the defense of the embassy and he wouldn't have a hard time explaining to everyone why he looked like he did.
After a long invisible hike he saw several police and UNSC warthogs pass by, mainly transport ones that had large amounts of room in the back for transporting plenty of soldiers. He knew they didn't see him so he continued on as usual towards the embassy.
After a good 30 minute walk he made it to the embassy which was pretty much the same as when he left earlier, he walked in and after he was in a safe location from any eyes or cameras he uncloaked himself and took his helmet off, making sure to wipe at least most of the blood off of it. Karl walked up to his room and took his glove off and saw how messed up his hand was, a couple of the fingers were way out of place, and he didn't notice this until just now, he winced at how crooked and bad they looked. He quickly unlocked the door and walked in closing it behind him he ran over to the fridge and took some ice out of the freezer which he put in a baggy next to him. Karl took some morphine from his aid kit and jabbed it into a exposed part of his arm, after that he quickly and less painfully popped each finger back into place. Usually with a sickening pop or snap, he had had worse injuries before but it was still sickening to the stomach. After he finished his quick surgery he took all his armor off and put it in his makeshift armory, he quickly changed into his sleeping clothes.
Just as he sat down on the couch and put the ice pack on he saw Brandy squirming in the bed, probably trying to find him. She quickly shot up and looked around and soon locked eyes with Karl, she quickly brought a smile to her face and stepped out of bed and walked over to him. She bent down and kissed him on the forehead, "Man you stink." She commented openly after taking a quick stretch. "Yeah sorry morning workout." Karl said as he pulled his arm up to tease her with his stench, "Ew, what about the hand?" She asked in general concern as she walked over and sat next to him taking his injured hand into her own soft hands, "Oh, that, from my breach and clear stunt yesterday morning, which I hastily smacked someone and well. Dislocated a couple fingers." Karl said getting up from the couch, "I need to shower, I'll be out in a few." Karl said as he stepped into their surprisingly large bathroom, which Karl has really only been in to use the restroom or shower, he didn't really care what it looked like.
Karl took all of his clothes off and stepped into the shower, he turned on the water which was ice cold at first, but felt good on his wounds, then when it got warm it felt even better to make his wounds feel better. After a quick shower he stepped out and looked in the mirror and saw himself without his armor and only took this time to observe himself. His fit body and slight stubble which he needed to shave, his handsome face and short military cut hair. He then saw the bruise on his upper stomach from the shotgun that had hit him in the gut. It was large an purple but it did not worry him, it would heal. With a sigh he put his towel around his waste and walked out. Getting quickly changed while Brandy just stared. "See something you like?" Karl asked as he put on his under garments. "Yes." Was all he heard from his girlfriend and they both let out a chuckle. Karl put on the rest of his clothes which was a basic combat uniform which is what a common marine would wear except his was black and had ODST on his left shoulder patch, and his rank on the right.
Karl then put on his matching UNSC hat and also a tactical vest, he then put a communicator in his ear and put a belt around his waste which he put his magnum and several magazines of ammunition. Karl put on his matching black boots and tied a knife sheathe around his calf which he put his combat knife into. Karl was ready for the day ahead, but he wasn't going to be in full battle gear which he was aware of, but was aware he was showing his face so he took off his hat and put a skull balaclava over his head and then put the hat back on. Now he was ready, he wasn't going to wear his armor again until it was clean, which he would do before he went to bed tonight.
He walked over to Brandy and gave her a tight hug and she raised his mask and they shared a kiss before he put it back over his face and he left the room. "Be good while I am gone, no parties okay?" Karl said as he held the door open to leave, "No promises." Brandy said with a sly smile, Karl chuckled as he closed the door and went on his way to a good day of guarding, which his mood was improved from the good deed he did today in helping out the UNSC anonymously, of course.