First off, yes I know it's been FOREVER! A MONTH!
Secondly, Asilla, I'm sorry, I'll get you to edit the next chapter, I just felt like I really needed to get this one out there... because it's been so long and I feel like I just needed to let people know I was alive. Besides next chapter is cooler! *puts on her heart shaped shades* SO much cooler!
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So on with the story? OK ONWARD!
EDIT: 01/02/2023 Just fixing up some things.
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The day was finally upon them, and they've most certainly had their share of ups and downs. Especially the incident yesterday. Sariel knew then, that this was going to be a lot harder then she initially thought. Shit was gonna go down, but she was afraid to admit she didn't know how far down. People could die tonight. They all could die tonight, with the exception of Slade of course. Oh yes, she knew about his little secret.
Regardless the pressure was on.
No mistakes could be made.
They had to be perfect.
She had communicated with Gus earlier that day, and he was antsy for a little payback. They were ready. They were prepared as much as they were ever going to be. It was literally now or never.
Sariel double checked everything on her person. She was going in a nice pencil skirt suit. Navy on navy, with black blouse and black heels. This night was gonna kill her feet she was sure. She had a basic holster over her shoulders and under her blazer, they would be checking her for weapons, and this would be the first thing they would feel. She knew this, but she went with it anyways, she wanted to send a clear message. She wasn't screwing around. Knowing they would probably strip her of her weapons she also had one stashed, strapped around her right thigh. They may find both, but if she gave them the holster without a fight and a little charm they may leave her alone. Some of the so called thugs were not the sharpest tools in the shed.
Gathering the remainder of her things, and swung fancy black leather purse on her shoulder that carried the fake legacy, Sariel headed towards Robins room. He was her companion for the evening after all.
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Robin was doing the same as Sariel. He patted himself down to make sure he had everything. Including the gun Slade had insisted he take along with him. If felt weird to have such a thing on him, but with Slade's lessons on the weapon in question, he didn't feel so offended by its existence anymore, he was a little more confident with the gun. The weapon didn't scare him as much as it used to. He had to admit it took awhile before he could start shooting the gun, but once he started... it wasn't so bad.
Of course he had only shot targets before. Mere things like bottles and cans. Which he had to admit it was a lot more difficult then it had initially looked. People, human beings? He had yet to fathom shooting, although he knew Slade didn't show him how to shoot a gun just to shoot cans. He knew one day he would have to shoot a person, a human. Take a life. And while that still bothered him... it didn't at the same time. The fire had taught him that some deserved it. In truth, it was like he still wasn't ready to let go of the Titan at times. But he was willing to accept the circumstances of this new path he was taking.
To be honest he wasn't really sure. He dwelt on it a lot, but never really confirmed anything with himself. If he really had to be honest with himself he already knew his mind had gone to darker places than ever before, but he was also moving past that.
It was the knock at the door that made him jolt up in surprise. Taking a deep breath he recomposed himself realizing it must be Sariel.
"Robin, you ready to go?" it was evident it was her, although her voice was a bit muffled since she was standing in the hallway. The former boy wonder took a deep breath and walked to the door and opened it, revealing Sariel on the other side. It was odd, he kind of stood there for a moment, looking at her. He had never seen her in any kind of "normal" attire before, nevermind formal.
"You gonna let me in or gawk at me all day?"
Robin shook his head and smiled. "Sorry." He held a hand towards his room, gesturing her to come in. "Just never seen you so formal before." He softly chuckled. "Just different I suppose."
She laughed."This is hardly dressed up, more like 'professional'. You know it's not the first time I would of gotten all glamorous, I do like to wear the big dresses and whatnot from time to time. But sometimes it's just so hard to find a special occasion for them."
"What? You've never crashed any fancy balls or something?"
She smiled at her friend. "Ok maybe a few. But I should say the same to you, most of the time I've personally known you, your always in that military attire I gave you. Then there is the infamous boy wonder get up" Sariel giggled at her last remark.
Robin smirked. He was wearing black slacks, with a light pink lavender button up shirt. His sleeves were rolled up and he had no intention of wearing his black blazer, he'd probably just bring it to swing over his shoulder to give that added effect.
"It's not like I've never worn a suit before. I've done the whole tux ensemble. And my costume wasn't that bad."
"Whatever you say." She sighed and seemed quiet for a moment.
One pair of blue eyes look into another. "We ready to go?"
She only nodded in response.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing." She smiled as she walked out the door.
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Asif was already in the area, Slade would drive them to the location and set up shop a couple blocks down. As for Gus? Well, he was inside with the rest of the gang he had infiltrated. Being a sniper meant perfection in ones task, not only to shoot the target with ease, but also to gather a grasp of what was going on in the scene below and communicate with the rest of the team. He did have a better look of what exactly was going on then they did.
He already saw Gus down below. He was with the rest of them, a lot of them had already drank a fair bit, but Gus stayed sober. The kid never liked alcohol in the first place. How he was even allowed in there at such a young age was beyond him. Then again Sariel was only 19, and she got in anywhere she wanted. She always did. Gus did seem to have the same effect as she did. Only he was a fair bit younger.
Either way he didn't seem too happy to be there. But he bet he was probably happy just to be getting out of there tonight. Gus was never one for violence. The kid had done some serious stuff in his past, but he ever talked about it. It just wasn't him. Sure, Gus would try and destroy you by hacking your bank account, make you broke. But physical violence was just not his thing. And he only did it, if it was asked of him by Sariel or the higher ups.
Sighing, Asif kept an eye out for Aurora herself, but he didn't see anything as of yet. The back of his mind the thought flickered that she wouldn't be showing up.
"Hey up there!" It was Sariel coming through his commlink. "See anything yet?"
Asif pressed a hand to his ear, keeping his eyes on the area below. "Not yet."
"Damn... she better show."
"Where are you?"
"We're on our way."
"Sar, if she doesn't-"
Silence.
"If she doesn't... what?"
A car had pulled up in front of the bar. The front door opened to have a man step out and open the back door. The first person to step out was Geist. And that was when Asif knew for sure. "She's here."
Geist offered his clawed hand to the person in the car. A smaller, paler, dainty hand was placed into his and she herself stepped out.
"Yep, she's here alright."
"You got a visual?"
"Geist stepped out first and helped his boss out of the damn car."
"Roger. Alright, we'll be there in a few."
"Alright. I'll keep a lookout."
"Asif."
"Yea?"
"Be safe ok."
"Yea yea."
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"You have quite the set up here Sariel." They had parked a few blocks away from the pub itself. The van was her grandmothers of course, but she had been enhancing it over the past week or so to help prepare for this night. She added a couple new computers, installed them with some extra software and tracking systems and... well just overall really good spy equipment. Gus was far better at this sort of thing then she was. So she thought to herself she must of done something good when Deathstroke himself told her he was impressed with her set up.
"It was mostly stuff Grams had around the apartment. I don't think she uses it very often but still gets things delivered there."
Slade placed his hands behind his back as he continued to examine what he was given to work with.
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Sariel and Robin were taking a good look at the surrounding area when Asif reached out to her.
"Sar? You guys here yet?"
"Yea we're a couple blocks away, Robin and I are gonna be coming in soon."
"Ok, you should be warned tho. Some of these guys here... Drunk or not, they may be a problem if we're still doing what you plan to do."
"Plan is still on, regardless how big the brutes are."
"Alright, you know it really should be me telling you guys to be safe. These guys look like they really could mess someone up."
Sariel chuckled a bit. "It's probably because they have in the past."
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There were all now wearing communicators, and Slade was connecting it all on his end. Sariel even had some drones set up to help keep an eye on things when they were heading in. Although he found it much more useful to hack into the security cameras actually inside the pub itself. He wasn't lying when he told her she had quite the set up here. It seemed she thought of everything. She tried to store whatever she possibly could in here for whatever circumstances came their way.
It seemed she picked up some traits from her grandmother. He briefly wondered if Jillian knew how much like her, her granddaughter really was.
Slade pushed the thoughts away as he started to filter through the camera angles in the pub. Sariel had told him that Aurora was in the location, but he couldn't see her. Not a soul that matched the woman's description.
Unless the room she was in didn't have any cameras. Sariel did mention something of a upstairs where they would most likely trade up the fake Legacy. But the only thing on the cameras that he could find was the main floor.
Smart and risky.
It seemed whatever this Legacy was, was worth any risk. But ultimately annoying. The room Robin and Sariel would be directed to, to complete this deal, he would not be able to overlook. He'd be in the dark until they vacated the room.
"Robin."
"Slade?" The commlink was a bit staticy at first but cleared up within no time with some quick fine tuning.
"I hacked into the security cameras within and around the pub, however I do not see any woman fitting the description, the only thing coming through the feed is the main floor. Which means the upstairs room, where she probably is, is without any security cameras."
"Shitty." That was Sariel.
"The only thing we'll have once you enter that room is the commlink." Slade didn't sound to pleased about this discovery.
"I'll let you know one way or another before we enter that room."
"How?" Slade was intrigued.
"I'll think of something."
"Do that."
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