Chapter 145: Safecrackers.
The underground storage yard was massive, it was like two underground football stadiums tacked on end to end along with their car parks.
Sasha and his team stood marvelling at the sheer size of the place which was now lit up thanks to them restoring power to one of the generators but the sight that was presented to them still filled Sasha with amazement, he hadn't expected this place to be so big.
"Wow look at the size of this place," Ivan said dropping down from atop one of the container stacks that were stood at the entrance to the yard, waiting to be shipped to parts unknown all this time.
"If even half of these are full we will have enough to equip not small army but big army!" Sasha said gleefully as he walked up to the container that Ivan had just lept down from and grabbed hold of the locking mechanism around the door handles.
The large old padlock while still sturdy was no match for the overpowered servos and hydraulics of Sasha's power armour, the metal shrieking in protest as he first crushed the locking pins before wrenching the bars apart in order to pop the lock open.
As he discarded the now very busted lock and began to crank the handle to open the door both the Cossacks and the Valkyries gathered around him to see the spoils of their efforts.
As the door swung open it revealed two pristine rows of suits, one side had T51s and the other had the older but still viable T45s.
"Jackpot," Natalia said nodding in approval and making her headlight beam bounce up and down inside the crate and making the shadows create the illusion of a whole standing army contained within its metal walls.
"Should we not contact the Minutemen and let them know what we have found?" Celine asked and Sasha nodded.
"We will in time worry not my large feathered friend, but first we must secure this place and make sure that none of our rotting friends has made it in here, we must be diligent," Sasha said and he saw Celine's face fall and he instantly twigged what was bothering her.
He stepped up to his large second in command and placed a metal hand on her shoulder squeezing tightly to give her reassurance which caused her to once again look at him in surprise, it seemed that the big Condor woman was not used to having people brave enough to simply touch her out of the blue like this, but she would soon learn what it meant to have Russian friends at her back now.
"Worry not my feathered comrade, you will see the vast open skies again soon and you will soar through them as free as well as a bird," he said with a chuckle at his slight faux par by calling her a bird.
Celine raised a rather large eyebrow in surprise that he had so easily deduced what was bothering her and he saw her feathers ruffle in response, he was really going to have to go some to learn the meanings of those ruffles.
"I hope so, I do not like the feeling of being so cooped up, I do not understand how you humans do it, to not have access to the vast invisible ocean is unthinkable to my kind but to not even be able to see it is...unsettling to say the least," she
said.
Sasha nodded in understanding, he kind of empathised with her plight here but in an oddly reversed kind of way.
He like all true Cossacks had been raised underground far from the brightness of the sun or the dangers of the surface, but this had its own set of problems and curses.
Such as most of them having overly sensitive eyes that while brilliant in the darkness of the tunnels were a pain in the ass under the beating rays of the sun.
But this aside when he was forced to spend too long away from the comforting security of the tunnels and the underground Sasha felt an odd sense of unsettlement.
So seeing his new feathered comrade sensing something similar being detached from her vast open skies which she would use those magnificent wings of hers to soar through he could somewhat sympathise with her plight, where this was home to him and his brethren, to her and hers it might as well have been an alien planet.
He figured that being distracted by duty would help her to keep her mind focused, so he gave her command of their part of the team and sent them off to begin the sweep while he headed for the command centre to search for the inventory or shipping manifest which would hopefully help speed up the task of finding out how many suits they had.
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Celine swung her smaller automatic rife through her fire arc as she checked the shadowy corners between the container stacks, before leaping high into the air to land atop one of them and gain a bird's eye view of the surrounding area, suddenly she felt a prickling at the rear of her mind.
She kept wondering to herself how this odd Russian human seemed to read her so well and so easily.
None of her kind had ever even bothered to try to do so before, though most likely out of both fear and respect, but this odd human whom she had just met seemed to be able to peer right through her with those sapphire blue eyes of his like she was no more than a pane of glass.
She clacked her beak in annoyance as she tried to wrack her brains for any ideas as to how he was able to do so, he was not of her kind and yet he seemed to somehow understand their plight as if it was his own, which made no sense to her whatsoever.
Upon seeing no threats she leapt back down and signalled to her team to move up and they all fell in behind her, at least Sasha's word was good in that his soldiers followed her commands without question, it was as if he himself gave them, it spoke very well of them indeed which pleased her.
As she moved through the pools of inky shadows Celine kept replaying the last few days back in her head trying to piece together how it was that this human seemed to be able to figure her out so easily.
Was she giving him unspoken tells?
She remembered one of her subordinates telling her once that she was a nightmare to play shells against as she was near impossible to read and incidentally, this was how she was usually able to win these matches as her opponent was unable to gauge if she was indeed hiding her corn beneath the shell they were going to attack.
But somehow a human of all things was able to see right through her and not just any human but it had to be the human that she could not even deny to herself was infuriatingly attractive.
Celine clacked her beak to herself quietly at this little annoying self-revelation as she turned a corner into yet another of the many, many alleyways between the stacked-up containers.
As much as she was desperately trying to deny it to herself it was getting harder and harder by the hour.
This human appealed to her on quite a few different levels and it annoyed her as well as confused her.
Now she knew that there was already one of her kind that had taken one of them as her mate and she was already running with the Free Peoples of the Wastes in the form of Feather Guard Jewel.
When the news of this had hit the barracks it had circulated among the Feather Guard like wildfire, honestly, when it came to idle chatter they were worse than a whole army of sewing circle hens.
But at the time Celine remembered that she had felt a mixture of being reviled and disgusted.
To her this female was not only a species traitor but in her opinion a disgrace to the Featherguard.
This was imparted due to the way that she had claimed him as her mate.
Now it was no secret that if one had an indentured servant they were indeed free to do with them as they pleased but that had never sat right with Celine for a whole host of reasons.
The biggest of which was that it was just plain wrong.
She saw the practice as absolutely distasteful and disgusting. To her, if you could not claim a male through the strength of one's character and feminine wiles then you did not deserve to have them preening on your wing.
Taking anyone by force and against their own will regardless of their station in the pecking order was vile and was the practice of raggy feathers who could not attract a mate through normal and clean means.
Infact she had been rather impressed and pleased by the actions of the Free Peoples when they had sent an ambassador to their city to not only petition for the human soldier's release but to also have Jewel held accountable for her actions towards him.
Though from the whispering chirps she'd heard in the barracks, the pair were still together though now on an equal footing, though apparently, this was due to the intervention of a rather curious being that next to nobody had any information on.
According to the little songbirds, this little being had some incredible power that allowed them to delve into a person's mind and walk through it like they were going for a morning stroll through the floating gardens.
Apparently, they had gone into both of their minds and not only repaired the damage that Jewel's actions had caused to the human but had also made her feel the consequences of them first-hand.
A punishment that in Celine's humble opinion fit the actions rather nicely, to force the victimizer to live the pain and humiliation of the victim as if it was their own and make them suffer it would be a truly powerful deterrent.
Though at the time she had also found herself wondering what in the name of hell she had seen in such a male that she would even consider betraying her own species for one of them let alone actually doing it, especially in such a way.
But now as she stalked among the crates of this once mighty remnant of human ingenuity and military might she could not force images of her commander from her mind.
Before she had met him she had found humans barely worthy of recognition, they could not fly, they were bound to the earth like mole rats, scurrying about their pointless and destructive lives bringing misery wherever they chose to tread.
But now having spent some actual time with them she saw that they were so much more than that.
Yes, there were indeed humans who lived up to the stereotype that the war with her people had fanned the flames.
But then there were good humans as well, humans who understood the ways of honour and valiance, humans who would put others before themselves regardless of either kinship or species and would fight to defend them, humans like Sasha.
Indeed he had in the short time she had known him shown her that their two species were not all that dissimilar at all, they both had their wants and their fears, and the making of those who rose above the masses was simply how they handled both.
Suddenly a flurry of movement in the shadows ahead caught her attention and she snapped her rifle towards it and balled her fist up over her shoulder.
"What do you see?' Natalia asked from behind her as she stepped out to her flank to get her weapon trained in the same direction.
"Unknown, I saw movement in the shadows ahead, everyone switch to night vision and be careful of the light flaring," Celine said causing all of those following her to switch on their night vision systems while she flicked her own set of human goggles down over her eyes.
The world instantly changed to a flickering image of bright green that was blindingly bright if one's vision wandered too close to any source of light.
Celine panned her rifle slowly over the gap between the crates watching the shadows very carefully as she did.
That's when she saw it again and she wasn't the only one.
"What the hell is that?" Natalia asked from her right glancing at her and Celine glanced back equally confused by what they were seeing at the far end of the crate stacks.
At the distance, they were seeing it the shape was hard to make out thanks to the night vision having a limited range but there was definitely something rather large moving between the crates.
Celine pressed her PTT on her shoulder.
"Eagle eye one one to Sitting Duck one one come in over?" she said softly while trying not to smile to herself as she imagined Sasha grinding his teeth at her jokey call sign referring to him being stuck on the ground while she soared through the skies high above his head.
"Go ahead Eagle eye one one," Sasha's voice came back with a distinct hint of both resignation and irritation that made her smile broaden a little, somehow it was rather fun to get under his tough yet soft-looking skin.
"Have possible hostile contact of unknown origin ahead over," she said softly.
"Ghouls? Over," Sasha asked.
"Negative, whatever this is it is a hell of a lot bigger than a Ghoul, can't get a positive ID on it as it's down the far end of the stacks hiding in the shadows ahead of us, over," she said.
"Wait one, Sitting Duck one one to Eagle eye two one you listening in over?" Sasha asked addressing Ava.
"Go ahead Sitting Duck one one over," Ava's voice said.
"You have best eyes of all of us in dark, can you get up high and see if you can get eyes on this target of which Eagle Eye one one speaks, over," Sasha said and Celine nodded her approval as this was something she would have done herself in his place.
Using the strengths of your team to your advantage was the mark of a good leader and he was really proving himself to be just that in her not-so-humble opinion, which given that her standards were considered some of the highest in the Valkyrie military was no easy feat.
"Roger that Sitting Duck one one, Eagle eye one one hold one while I reposition, over," Ava said and Celine imagined the large horned owl taking to the air above the stacks and finding a high perch to look down on them from above.
Ava was one of the best night snipers in the entire unit and she had been hand-picked by Celine to be in her personal unit due to her well-earned, no-nonsense reputation as well as her skill with a rifle.
She was also an expert on silent flying which was usually a skill reserved for those of the Barn Owl genus, so for a Horned owl such as her to be so quiet on the wing that she quite often caught her fluffy white brethren by complete surprise in training was quite the accomplishment and feather in the cap of their unit.
"Eagle eye two one to Eagle eye one one and Sitting Duck one one I have eyes on your target, it is one hundred and thirty meters ahead of you, it's moving between the stacks and I can't quite get eyes on it as its hiding between the crates, but whatever it is it's big, definitely not a Ghoul, over," Ava said.
"Roger that, Eagle eye one one to Sitting Duck one one, what are your orders over?" Celine asked.
"Sitting Duck one one two both teams converge slowly from different angles, catch it in a pincer, I am on the balcony of the office above you, if it tried to escape using the stacks I will fire down upon it, be careful with crossfire, over," Sasha said.
Roger that Sitting Duck one one we are moving," Celine said and she motioned for her team to advance slowly and silently.
The team behind her instantly split into a staggered line and began to advance in her wake keeping their eyes forwards while maintaining their firing arcs.
Over the comms, Ava counted down their distance to the target for both teams as she kept her incredibly sharp eyes on them and their target.
As she got closer she began to hear a rather odd rustling noise that almost sounded...sticky.
That's when she stood on something that was also sticky and as she glanced down she noticed that the floor was covered with something white that was playing merry hell with her night vision by reflecting the light from the infrared emitters on her head.
"What the hell?' she hissed silently.
"Egale eye one one freeze! I think it's detected you," Ava's voice called with a distinct breathless note of concern.
That's when the creature moved and oh boy did it move.
Like a bullet out of a gun barrel a massive black shadow with what looked like way more legs than it should have shot right up and over the stack moving way faster than something of its size should be able to move, it was so fast that not even Celine's eyes managed to get a fix on it.
"Watch it! It's running!!" Natalia yelled and both teams rushed forward into the gap only to see what looked like a pair of furry legs vanishing over the top of the crate stack leaving behind it what looked like a white trail of some kind.
"What the fuck was that!!?" Ivan exclaimed looking up at the glistening white trail that ran right vertically up the side of the crate stack.
"Eagle eye two one to Eagle eye one one the creature is moving along the top of the stacks towards the command centre, I still cannot get a fix on it to tell you what it is thanks to the bloody glare from the lights, over," Ava exclaimed.
"Eagle eye two one fire a shot and see if you can steer it, we will set up an ambush over!" Celine said with a fiery determination in her voice, this creature had made a fool out of her and she would not let this slight slide.
"Roger that firing now over," Ava said and from high above them there was a boom from her high-powered rifle which caused one of the heavy crates to ring like a struck gong.
There was a shrieking noise and the sound of what sounded like running coming from the top of the crate stacks ahead of them indicating that Ava's shot had worked perfectly.
"This way quickly! We will cut this creature off!" Celine yelled and rushed forward with her team in hot pursuit now having abandoned all attempts at stealth just like their prey which they could hear running along the top of the stacks as Ava steered it by shooting ahead of it.
The team managed to reach a large opening with multiple branching alleyways branching off from it.
"Spread out, take an alleyway each, we will surround this creature and cut off its escape!" Celine said and the group quickly split up and tucked themselves into the branching alleyways to lay in wait.
From above her head, there was a loud dull boom as Ava fired a shot close to them which caused the creature to change direction above them. The sound of it running towards them was quite dramatic as it was either echoing like crazy or it really did have multiple legs as it sounded like multiple people all running at once.
From the crate to her right there was a loud ding noise as a bullet struck it and there was a screech from directly above her before something massive and black dropped down directly in front of her with a heavy-sounding thud.
Even before she had a chance to even realise what she was looking at Celine stepped out of the shadows and started yelling.
"Freeze!! Do not move or we will fire on you!!" Celine yelled despite her every instinct telling her to shoot first and talk second there was still a chance that this was some kind of sentient creature. Given the fact that it had tried to run rather than fight them outright at least gave her pause on shooting it if she didn't have to.
That was when a series of large flood lamps snapped on above their heads and swivelled to aim into the space between them which lit the creature up and for a second Celine was blinded by the light, but as she quickly tore her goggles up she instantly felt her beak drop open by what she saw.
Stood before them on eight very large and fluffy black legs was an Archnakai.
"Please don't shoot me!! I haven't done anything wrong!! Please don't hurt meeee!!" the large arachnid human hybrid yelled trying to cower in fear and pulling its whole body inwards and using its eight massive legs in an attempt to shield its body, the voice was very distinctly feminine.
Suddenly there was a boom as another shape dropped down between the stacks and Celine instantly snapped her weapon to it only to see Sasha walking towards them.
"Do not shoot, is one of Malakai's species!" he called loudly as he strode into the clearing towards the cowering Archnakai.
Celine lowered her weapon and motioned for them all to do the same as both humans and Valkyries alike emerged into the light pool formed by the spotlights above them. Slowly they approached the large fluffy creature at the centre of it.
"Fear not large one we are not your enemy, we will not hurt you if you do not hurt us, we know what you are and we do not fear you, you are an Archnakai," Sasha said keeping his weapon on his back to appear non-threatening but a glance at Celine told her to keep hers in hand just in case.
Slowly the massive fluffy legs of the large arachnid hybrid began to open outwards and began to emerge to reveal a black-skinned human female top half that indeed did remind Celine of the male of this species that ran with the Free Peoples of the Wastes that they referred to as Malakai, except that he was white and not black in skin.
Though there was also a very distinct difference in her eyes and also her size, she was far far larger than Malakai by a factor of two and her leg span was also much larger than his, she had the same eight eyes but they were much smaller than Malakai's and the pattern of them was different, that's when she finally glanced around at the strangers surrounding her.
She was wearing what looked to be a makeshift patchwork of leather armour covering her human half but it was still blatantly a female, it was only then that Celine realised where she had seen something like her before, she looked like a Tarantula of some variety.
The only reason she knew about these creatures was that quite a few of her kin kept these odd creatures as pets and they were also used as natural pest control in the farms where they would eat things like locusts that would damage the crops.
But obviously, this creature was far far larger than her ground-dwelling cousins, plus she was also half human as was obvious by her top half as she turned her head around to look at all of them around her.
"Y-Y-You've heard of my kind before?" the female Archnakai said in a shaking and scared voice which despite her massive size advantage over those surrounding her easily gave away her fear.
"Indeed large one, another of your kind runs with our extended group, he calls himself Malakai and is probably the best tailor I have ever met in my life, so if you are no threat to us then we will be no threat to you, as we would rather happily extend the same hand of friendship that we share with him to you," Sasha said slowly approaching the massive female as she rotated herself on her large legs to face him.
Celine noted that Sasha was keeping his hands out to the sides and keeping them open so that she could see that he was holding no weapons in them and was offering no threat to her, though the same could not be said for the others as while he was offering her a hand of friendship they wanted her to know that any kind of stupid moves she made would not go unanswered.
"F-F-Friendship? With humans?" the large Archnakai said with very obvious surprise in her voice, as if the concept was completely alien to her which was something that Celine could easily understand herself.
She decided that this might be a good time to chime in and to assist her commander and new human allies here as being a non-human herself her words may carry more weight with the large and obviously fearful non-human archnid.
"He speaks the truth," she said stepping forward so that the large Archnakai could see her much more clearly and when she turned to look at her all eight of her eyes widened in surprise.
It was obvious that she had not noticed that half the group was made up of non-humans though that was forgivable as she had been far more concerned with trying to escape them.
"Y-You are a Valkyrie!" the large Archnakai said taking a few shuffling steps towards her so that she could see her better.
"You know of my kind?" Celine asked in surprise and the large female Archnakai nodded eagerly making a mane of fluffy curly fur on top of her head bob in time with her movements.
"Oh yes, I've seen them in the hills north of here, they were scouting some abandoned factories, I thought about approaching them to say hello but then they went to war with the humans and I got scared because I thought they might shoot me by mistake, humans always shoot at me," the woman said sounding rather sad at that last part.
"That is something I can sympathise with, my kind had the very same problem until recently, but now we have both an understanding and even a series of alliances with some of them, it did take us a bit to realise that there are indeed good humans out there and while yes granted it can feel like they are few and far between, they do exist as has been proven right here right now," Celine said and the large hybrid looked curious.
"What do you mean?' she asked while shuffling on her eight large fluffy feet.
"Well think about it, we chased you because we believe you to be a threat to us, it was one of my kind that drove you into this ambush, but it was a human and a non-human that stayed our hands, first me and then our commander there," Celine said and the large hybrid turned to look at Sasha again who had now removed his helmet to show that he was indeed human.
The large hybrid looked unsure but she still slowly scuttled up to Sasha who simply stood there looking up at her.
"What is your name large one?" he asked as she drew close to him.
"E-Ebony Broadleg, I-I'm of the Brazilian black genus of the Archnakai," she said and Sasha nodded as he held out his hand to her causing her to first shrink back almost looking like she was going to curl in on herself behind her large legs again, but then she reached out slowly to touch Sasha's hand.
He took her hand and shook it which at first obviously alarmed the large female but when she realised he was not hurting her or threatening her she visibly relaxed.
"It is good to meet you Ebony Broadleg, I am Sasha and this is my second in command Celine, I am of the Cossacks a group of fighters from the Brotherhood of Steel and Celine is of the mighty Silent Eagles an elite Valkyrie sniper unit, but now we fight together under same banner, a banner forged by the Free Peoples of the Wastes and stitched together by one of your own," Sasha said with a smile that made Celine clack her beak and ruffled her feather in agreement.
"I didn't know that there were other Archnakai out this far away from home," Ebony said looking thoughtful and Sasha shrugged.
"As far as we know he is only one, well other than you obviously, we do not know much about him other than he is member of Free Peoples and is excellent tailor," Sasha said and Ebony nodded.
"All of my kind have a natural talent for weaving and sewing it comes with the territory," Ebony said with a smile that revealed that she had a pair of hooked black fangs hidden inside of her mouth that looked like they could deliver a rather nasty bite if need be.
The large Archnakai pointed down to her own clothes that while at first looked a little raggy but upon closer inspection had been very carefully constructed to hide a multitude of pockets and were lined with thick-looking warm fur that had been taken from an unknown animal.
Celine also noted that there was a layer of what looked like possible chainmail as well as what looked like a rather thick cloth hidden directly underneath the leather.
It seemed that Sasha also noticed these concealed modifications to her garment.
"This is very impressive work, but why hide all of these things?" he asked pointing to both the armour and the pockets.
"In case people try to rob me, it happened before, human raiders which honestly surprised me as they were the first to not try to shoot me upon seeing me, but just when I thought I actually had a chance at making some friends they pulled guns on me and tried to take everything I had, if it wasn't for my hairs they'd have left me with nothing," Ebony said sounding both angry and sad.
"Desperation makes people do stupid things, unfortunately, this has become a way of life for those too stupid or too lazy to build and make things for themselves, is why we have more raiders now than ever, is something we aim to change," Sasha said and the rest of the Cossacks nodded in agreement with their leader.
"You said your hairs saved you, how is that possible?" Celine asked curiously and Ebony gave her a fang-filled grin which actually made her feathers ruffle a little which she tried to suppress.
"Well they weren't expecting me to be able to kick off a cloud of urticating hairs from my abdomen, these things might look sleek and fluffy but when I kick them off they turn into a cloud of real nasty little fluffy javalins that really don't play nice with human skin or any skin for that matter, they especially don't play nice with eyes and wind pipes either, I left them in a cloud of itchy, chocking nasty and ran for it, it was that day that I swore I'd never get fooled by my want for a friend again and I decided to live underground just like my ancestors, so I took to the train tunnels, been down here ever since," Ebony said.
"Sounds lonely," Celine said looking up at the large female who glanced down at her as she shifted slightly uncomfortably on her eight feet.
"You get used to it, better than being shot at or robbed," Ebony said with a dark note to her voice.
"Well that life ends now if you wish it to, we can take you to a place where they would value you and your skills, where you can meet good humans just like us and make friends to call your own, who will value you and protect you," Sasha said causing Ebony to snap her attention back to him again and while Celine could see a want to trust him written in her eight black eyes, there was a scepticism to them as well which was fully understandable given what she had been through.
"You know I've heard of your Brotherhood of Steel as well and the things I have heard are not good," Ebony said folding her arms over her surprisingly ample chest as she stared down at Sasha who simply nodded in response.
"Let me guess, you hear that we kill non-humans on whim like cattle at slaughter yes?" he said and she nodded.
"Something like that yeah," she said and again he nodded.
"Yes this is stain on Brotherhood I will not lie to you, many years and indeed generations of us have lived with this but is a new day in history of Brotherhood and indeed of mankind thanks to new friends we make who open our eyes to new possibilities that we ourselves not think of before," he said and Ebony cocked her head and behind her Celine saw her large twin spinnerets twitch much in the same way as a Valkyrie might twitch their tail feathers.
"Like what?' she asked.
"Like how world is better when all those who live in it are not at each other's throats day in day out," Ivan said and Sasha nodded.
"Even broken clock is right twice a day, yes it is as Ivan here says, while we are of Brotherhood we are not like the majority of them, we are Cossacks and we pride ourselves on being different, they needed us because we can do what they cannot, so they put up with us well this and they know fighting against us is not good for health, so they make us part of Brotherhood of Steel and give us new purprose, but that does not mean we subscribe to all of crazy ideals and rules they have, we did not go out of our way to remove non-humans from face of earth for meerly existing, now if they attack us is different matter, we defend with fire and fury of thousand suns, but if they let us be then we always did same, but now is a new day, now we meet powerful and strange new friends who show us and Brotherhood at large that there is a different way, way where we can all have what we want and have better and stronger world, these friends are the Free Peoples of the Wastes," Sasha said.
"I heard whispers of them when I've gone up to the surface at night to scavenge for things I need when I used to sneak into human settlements I've recently heard people talking about them, but who are they?" Ebony said.
"They are a group that believes the only way to fix the world is through a unity between humans and non-humans, they believe that we all have a right to exist and that only together can we actually rebuild the world stronger and better than it once was, they stopped the war between my people and the Brotherhood by helping us to understand one another's point of view, now we are allies and it's all thanks to them, plus they have added even more humans and non-humans alike to this mix, like now, we are both here under the flag of the Minutemen, looking for this armour right here to be exact, in order to cement an alliance which benefits the entire region, human and non-human alike," Celine said.
"Sounds too good to be true," Ebony said but her voice sounded like it had a hard kernel of hope within it.
"That's what I thought too until I met them and saw with own eyes what they had achieved, come with us, meet them and make up own mind, if you not like what they offer then you can go back to your tunnels, no harm no foul, but if you like what they offer, who knows maybe you can find your true place with them and have a future out there in the sun, rather than down here in the dark alone," Sasha said and this really seemed to strike a chord with Ebony and after a while, she nodded.
"Please don't make me regret this, all I want is to live free and in peace," she said and Sasha nodded.
"Worry not big girl, if we had wanted you harmed, you already would be," he said and with that, he signalled for all of them to put their weapons down which they did but they still had a job to do here, maybe their new friend could be a help with that?