Chapter 9: more bounty hunting
I was tinkering with the power usage on my bow in my dorm room when I got a call from a restricted number. I looked around the room and made sure no one was there, and picked it up. A voice I recognized as juniors, my new bounty contractor came on, and began to speak.
"Sir, the bounty brokers guild has formally invited you to a celebration of all bounty hunters at the club tonight, and you will be a guest of honor, do you expect?".
I thought for a moment, and stroked me chin, before answering back.
"I am no guest of honor, but I will attend. Business attire as per usual?".
"Yes sir. See you there. Sending Coordinates. The landing pad will be behind the club. Out".
I put away the scroll and tossed my tools from my rocket boots aside, patched them up, and threw them on. I began to copmplie a back pack of all my stuff I would need, and brought out my mask.
"Guess I should have this...." I thought, picking up the only armor price I didn't regularly wear with my normal battle gear.
It was a simple face piece from my old anti fang suit, with a sting metal back, so it can be worn. It had a filtration system, so I wouldn't suffocate, and if I was under water, I had enough air to last me 3 minutes. It curved in a "V" shape, and I threw it on, along with my sun glasses, which I put in their special case just for bounty hunting, which made them look like steam punk googles, and could take loads more reading, and allow me to see farther, and identify certain people. These people were mostly targets, for when I hunt white fang officials. I pulled out a armor paint mod spike, and attached it to my armor. I then put my belt and my gear on, and everything turned completely black, with a picture of a fractured fang appearing in the front.
"Let's see where he needs me...." I said to myself, the voice modifier on, and summoning my ship with my scroll.
As my ship was meeting me outside beacon, I heard someone walking to the door, and throwing their room key in, so I quickly hopped out the open window, and onto the roof.
"We need to have more practice sessions Weiss".
"I do have to admit that was pretty fun".
"But would you be up for it? Like, Tuesday perhaps.....".
"Sure, how about make it a weekly thing. Like every Tuesday perhaps....." said Weiss, clearly having a small sense of fear in her voice.
"I would like that. It's a date. I mean it's not, and that it's a thing for us to do. Unless you want it to be a date, but if you don't that it's cool. So I'm going to stop talking now.....".
She laughed at him while he nervously laughed, and I rolled my eyes with a smile, thinking "there ya go lady killer".
I began my slow but silent walk to the top of the roof, and then I balanced myself on the top flat piece.
"Now let's see.......".
The sun was setting, so people would be coming back from the city, and I used my glasses to scan for incoming vehicles. My ship landed at a unpopulated place, and the cloaking was on. I quickly started to rush towards it, remembering the mission I was on when I got it...
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[1 year earlier, when he got the ship, while at mystral]
"Well this is, bigger then expected...." I thought, looking at not a one man ship, but a small freighter.
(Think this a skeleton, but it can be whatever you want)
Who the hell would need this?".
I narrowed my eyes and stepped aboard, pulling up the imagine for what the gem I was hinting looked like. It was a perfectly cut diamond shape, with a red outline, but a crack, which a purplish glow. The reading said that I was nearby, and no one was on the ship yet.
"Shouldn't be that hard to find".
I hopped on the ship and walked thought the hallway of it, and thought it looked pretty good for just finding it. I walked all through the halls and into the cockpit, taking notice of the instruments, and flipping some switches looking around again. That's when the gun fire started, and 2 white fang members running away from it all, being shot at, and holding a very large peculiar looking gem in there hands.
"No way. That can't be it".
I quickly jumped up and kicked off the wall, and extended my arms and legs so I would be on the top of the roof ready to pounce. As I got ready, they quickly rushed into the cockpit and fired up the engines, quickly blasting away.
"That was close. We can't let this fall into the wrong hands. If it does, everything goes to shit" said a white fang member, clearing talking about if the government got there hands on it.
I dropped down from the ceiling silently,
And crept behind them. I took out a ice pill bomb, and put it in the palm of my right hand, and got behind the co pilot. I leaned in right next to him and slowly whispered his last thoughts.
"Time to be de fanged".
I slammed my ice pill against his chest, and he froze into a block of solid ice. I pulled out Havoc and aimed it at the pilots head.
"Now, if I were you, I would fly, very, very carefully".
"The anti fang.....".
His eyes grew wide with fear and shock, and his whole body trembled from fear.
"Ya...ya.....you. Wer-. we-. were the greatest threat to the wh-. Wh- white fang".
"Why yes, thanks for noticing. Now I can assure you, I have no intention of killing you, or your partner here, as long as you do exactly. Exactly as I say. Do you understand?".
"Y-. Yes. Sir".
"Good, now none of this sir bullshit. Just drive my new ship".
"Yo-. You can't take this".
"Sure I can, here watch".
I smacked him upside the head with the gun, and he fell unconscious, with the ship starting to fall. I quickly threw him out of the pilots chair, and tilted the ship back upwards, hearing his body being thrown and dragged around. I twisted it around and heard it crash against the wall, with a cartoonish crashing in the background.
"Gods........" I mumbled, grabbing the crystal, and righting my grip slightly.
I put the crystal in my pocket, carful to not break it, and phoned in Sandra.
"Sandra I got your gem, where do I drop it off?".
"Already? What did you already have it or something?".
"No, actually these 2 white fang members had it, I caught them trying to escape from the police in this really nice ship. Think I'll take it for myself".
"Nice, now come on, I want you to meet my employer, he is very interested in it, says he needs it for his boss".
"So I'm meeting a lacky?".
"No exactly, but I want to meet a friend of mine none the less. And bring those white fang members to, he says he will pay for them".
"How does he know?".
"Because he is on the line" said a semi deep voice, sounding like a professional crime lord.
"My boss needs it for a cosmetic reason, that seem simple enough, anti fang? I realize your out of your comfort zone in having to keep something alive, but still".
"Yes" I said gritting my teeth, already slightly ticked off by this guy.
I heard a click on the other line, and Sandra was back on.
"He's got a loud personality, but he could help with future contracts. You know, there are some pretty big bounty on some government officials, all suspected of fraud....".
"No, I told you when we first started working together, no government, no civilians. White fang, and supper criminals only".
"Fine, but a girls got to try right? Anyway here are the coordinates of where you are supposed to meet the guy".
My scroll dinged, and instead of the coordinates it was a text, none other then from Annabel, asking me where I was.
"(Y/n), where the hell are you? Mrs Sydney can't believe you are at the E mart forever!".
"Shit....".
"What?".
"Nothing, signing out".
I ended the call and got the coordinates, putting them in the auto pilot.
"Should have brought my wrist rockets" I thought, remembering I left them back at the orphanage in my secret closet.
"I wonder the kind of stuff I could do in this ship. The kind of women I co-".
My thoughts were interrupted by a sudden loss of seating. The guy I thought I knocked out earlier pulled me from the chair, and threw me to the ground, causing the ship to shoot upwards. We fell through the cockpit and onto the walls of the ship. When I stood back up I saw that it wasn't the guy, but a tactical fight bot armed with Atlas tech machine guns.
"Crap".
I flipped back as it started it array of bullets, but I had barely enough to fall through a hallway to my escape. Ducking in a hallway and using my guns in knife form to slow my decent, I dodged its spray, and prepared for battle. I pulled my daggers out of the wall and went under, running down the hallway, hoping I would be able to find whoever was controlling the robot.
"Were are you, ya daft cun-".
The robot was around the corner, and went to punch me in the face, but I quickly slid under it and kept running.
"Kill the antifang!" I heard the white fang guy bark, hiding somewhere close.
I kicked off the wall back and forth, trying to scale the hallway, until the ship suddenly started to turn, and I fell to the ground.
"I swear I'm going to kill this guy when I find him....".
I quickly got up and ran back to the cockpit, and saw him holding the gem, with a mallet in his hands.
"Move another step, and this breaks".
"Dude come on. Where did you even get the balls to stand up to me" I fired back, pulling my gun up for a quick fire.
The robot was behind me again, and started to shoot, but since my armor was on my back, it took the brunt of the bullets, only a few hitting my arms and legs, even though my armor absorbed it, I still took some damage. The other guy, he wasn't so lucky. He was filled with bullets, and dropped to the floor, the gem about to hit the ground.
"Shit!".
I jumped for it, and caught it in my lap, but the robot was in hot pursuit, and jumped with a broken off price of metal raised. I found the remote on the guys body and raised it high, clicking all the buttons hoping one of them would work. The machines makeshift blade was centimeters, nay MILIMETERS from my face. It took the blade away and got into its normal standing position. I stood up, and dusted myself off, seeing that the ship was placed on a different auto pilot from before. I punched in the coordinates I needed, and the ship speed of in that direction. I got out of the captains chair and sat against the wall, leaning down and letting myself slide.
"Well.....least I got a ship".
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Figured you guys wanted some more anti fang stuff before he goes to that party, and don't forget about that gem, it's going to have a part later. Anyway, thanks for reading! Comment and vote! You guys are the best!
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