Chapter 360: Silver Tinge Door Guards
She was wearing a loose set of cloth and metal around her body. It was similar to the shinobi armor she used to wear. At least in style, in reality it was far less advanced and was only what she had as armor. Nowadays she rarely saw the field, this was an exception because she could not trust all of her subordinates to drag these traitors to her.
Just as she had said she had grabbed and brought a handful of her most trusted subordinates. There were eleven of them in total, most of them spending days with their family rather than the business. That was how old and experienced they were. She could trust them with her life if need be.
But as they came around a corner she flinched as she noticed a pair of guards smoking outside of the entrance to the maintenance dock. She dashed across the hall pulling out a kunai as closed the distance. The closest guard barely had a chance to run his head before her kunai had slipped through his throat and ended in the other guard’s eye going through his eye socket and directly into his brain.
There was a burst of blood as she was partially covered in blood and then she crouched down and pulled her kunai out of the head of the second one. She had thrown it since most of her momentum had died when she had killed the first one.
"Ha!" Ting!
She looked further down the hall and saw another guard had come out of the bathroom and had dropped a device when he saw them. He was already reaching for his weapon so it was too late for her to throw something before a shot went off. It was also too late for her to close the distance. Was she unlucky or just that rusty?
Slick!
She flinched as there was a wet slicing noise followed by the guard going still. Then the body fell to the ground and the guard’s head rolled across the ground. She looked behind him to see Jace standing with a raised eyebrow as he placed the long knife he had used back on the sheath that was on his arm.
He was wearing boots, gloves, and arm guards that were all from his Spectre Armor. He was still repairing the visor on the helmet so he did not feel like wearing the full armor. But he wanted to wear pieces of it because it would not feel right to fight without his new armor.
He had arrived ahead of Mistress White and her merry band of criminals who were already on guard against him. He had almost made the same mistake she did but realized another guard had dipped into the bathroom. So he moved around so he could quietly take them out when Mistress White came around the corner and killed the other guards.
So he just let her kill the first two guards before killing the third guard she did not see himself. Now he was walking over to join her. Looking over the criminals she brought with him. They all looked jaded and old. Initially it looked like they might be rusty but he could tell each of them were not rusty enough for him to easily take them.
As far as Jace could tell a few of them were ex-mercenaries and former soldiers from various factions. But it was not really his business so he looked at the door. Then looked beyond it as he activated his electrical sight.
"There are a dozen entrances into this dock hangar. All of them are electronically controlled from the overseer center which has three entrances. One on either side leading to the walkways and one leading back into the station. There are four people inside the overseer area." Jace then focused on the rest of the hangar. "There is already a spaceship docked inside. They are moving the people into the ship and there are a number of people inside the ship, possibly celebrating."
"Fucking bastards are partying. It sounds like you have a plan?" Mistress White asked as she cleaned her kunai before concealing it again.
"Yeah," Jace nodded. "I am going to go to the overseer station and signal you when I have taken it over. Then you move into the dock through this door and I will seal the rest of the dock and the hangar door. Then you can let loose, just be careful of the kidnapped people." Jace explained as he was already looking through a network of ventilation to get to the overseer station.
"Okay, but we are going to need a way to contact you." She pointed out and Jace rolled his eyes as he walked under a ventilation shaft vent.
"Did you bring comm units?" Jace asked, pointing at his own ear which had a comm unit.
"Yeah, we operate more like a unit when we have them." She answered. Jace tapped his glove a few times and then they could hear static over their comm units before it disappeared.
"Now I am connected." He whispered over the comm units that were in their ears.
Jace then jumped up there was not even a noise as he went eight feet into the ear. One hand grabbed the ventilation grate. The other grabbed the roof and they could the metal slightly warp under his grip. Then he tore off the grate and tossed it so it landed on one of the dead bodies before he moved up into the ventilation system.
The grate bounced off the body before hitting the ground. Barely making as much noise. Now that the initial shock had worn off, Mistress White signaled to the others to take up positions around the door.
While Jace was quietly moving through the maze of a ventilation system until he arrived at the vent that was leading to the overseer room. It was the only room with master control of the entire dock. But in the room were four people. He was about to crash through the vent and take them down when a fifth person arrived.
What a surprise it was. Haunson had decided to come here himself. Maybe he could get some joy out of torturing the guy while waiting for the others to finish slaughtering the others.