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'Good. He hasn't assumed the worest.'
"I'll catch up as soon as possible." Dropping the pack into the shadow of the tree, Yue hopped into the branchs of the tree. There he was safe.
"Don't worry about me. This won't take but five minutes. Go to the city. I'll meet up with you there. I promise."
Sitting cross legged, he was facing the tree. His forehead resting against the rough bark.
Shadar felt his body begin to shut down, and begin to enter a state of healing.
The last feeling he had was the warm, moist, wind drag the leaves of the tree against his cold skin. The balance of the forest seemed to still be intact. It would seem the dragons hadn't done anything to the forest.
As his eyes closed, his powers began to take control. Taking in deep, slow breaths, shadar could feel the presence of water everywhere around him. Water that he would fall under his control.
He could feel the very essence of every creature plusing, living.
'I can fix this. Please, Tell me what I am to do?' He asked the water. Somehow, he was expecting an answer.

Riku emerges from his hotel room, rubbing his forehead. "Damn, I really need to lay off the sweet stuff," he says to no one in particular, as he climbs into the passenger side of Mike's Fiat.

"What took you so long," Mike says as he begins to drive. "You were supposed to be out here an hour ago.

"Let's just say I had one Moonwalk too many," Riku mutters as he pulls out a water bottle and drinks from it. "Anyways, so what's the job?"

"Hostage rescue," Mike says. "You're goi-"

"Wait, did you say hostage rescue?" Riku sits up straight as he says this. "I'm a SNIPER, Mike. If you want hostages rescued, go call Delta Force."

"That's the problem," Mike tells him. "Delta Force is busy elsewhere, and can't send in a squad. That's why they've called upon you guys for this job. These are ambassadors we're talking about, Riku. If they're executed, we could have a major crisis on our hands."

"I'm a merc, Mike. War means only one thing to me: more money. It's good for business. Besides, ambassadors get killed all the time. They can replace them."

"Look, Riku, I've already signed you up for this mission. According to the job, you have 24 hours before they're gonna execute them. This is a FIVE MILLION DOLLAR job."

"Five million, huh? Fine, I'll do it. Just drive me over to Mikhail's first. Gotta pick up some gear if I'm gonna do this."

Riku sat in the prep room, assembling the tactical HK416 rifle. Across the street, gunfire could be heard in the embassy. Riku listened to the gunfire as he loaded the AG36 launcher onto the bottom of the barrel.

Kalashnikovs, two RPDs and a Dragunov, he thought to himself, just as a strange whistling noise emitted across the street, followed by several shouts and an explosion that shook the room. And an RPG. Terrorists have no class whatsoever.

Finishing the assembly, he loaded a magazine into the receiver, and a 40mm grenade into the launcher. "Alright, I'm set," Riku said to the commander in the room. "Now let me get this straight: hostages are in the offices on the third floor. All three floors are taken, and there's about fifty enemies in there. Is that about right?"

"Yes," the commander told him. "You need to get to the third floor in thirty minutes, before they execute them. Remember: no terrorist leaves alive."

"They never do," Riku said, walking over to a large box labeled, "Saab Bofors, AT4 Confined Space, High Explosive Dual Purpose". He opened it and pulled out an AT4 rocket launcher.

"Riku, what the hell are you doing?" the commander yelled at him. "If you fire that thing at the building, you could-"

"You said all the entrances were covered," Riku said with a smirk, "so I'll just have to make one myself." He walked out into the street, aimed the launcher at the wall, and fired.

KABOOM!!

The wall was blown open by the force of the rocket hitting the wall. Riku threw aside the empty tube and lifted the HK416 to his shoulder. He saw several shapes move inside the gap, before a hail of gunfire erupted from the opening. Riku pulled the trigger on the grenade launcher, and a 40mm HE grenade flew in. The explosion sent the shapes inside flying, and Riku quickly ran into the gap. The two explosions had taken out about twenty terrorists. He went into the main hall, where another ten waited. He raised the rifle and fired a series of quick bursts, dropping the men in the hall. He then ran up the stairs to the second floor, where several more waited for him. He fired at them, before moving into a room. He reloaded, then moved on, taking out everyone on the second floor. He climbed the stairs to the third floor, and a man with an RPG appeared. Riku fire a single round straight into the warhead, and the man was engulf in the explosion. Finally, Riku entered the offices. He dropped all of the terrorists, save for one, who grabbed a hostage and put a pistol to his head.

"Drop you weapon, infidel, or I'll kill this man!" the terrorist yelled at him. Riku responded by calmly aiming his rifle at the terrorist's head. "Y-You fool! You'd really risk killi-"

He never got to finish his sentence, as Riku shot him right between the eyes. He fell back, and the hostage cringed in fear. "Relax. I was a sniper in the Special Forces. I could pick a flea off a dog's back at a hundred years with a pistol. I never miss. Now let's get out of here." They hostages all got up and began to file towards the door. Riku raised his hand to the earpiece. "This is Riku, I've got the hostages secured. They're on their way out now. I'll be expecting my payment when I get down there."

As Riku headed down, he looked at his watch. He had started his assault at 12:15. I was now 12: 28. Less than 15 minutes, he thought to himself. Suddenly, his earpiece began to crackle.

"Riku there's a bomb! Get out of there! It's set to go off on thirty sec-"

Riku never heard the end of the message. A massive explosion ripped through the building. The force threw Riku out the window and into the building across from him. The impact knocked him senseless. When he looked, all he saw was a blur, with several shapes running around. He saw a large cloud rising from a pillar of flames. Someone ran up to him and shouted something. He couldn't hear him, though: the blast had ruptured his eardrums. He looked down, and the last thing he saw before passing out was a large piece of metal sticking out of his chest.

Ace walks off and raises his hand high, and gives Yue a thumbs up. This must have been the first time one of his squad mates has taken his advice, which pleased him. Ace then took off, running fast, faster than he has before. In seconds he is already out of sight and closing in on the city.

"Tashalar..." He said getting really close and he can barely make out the city walls through the thick forest. "...Help is here." He said, rushing to the walls, surrounding the city. The walls are tall. About three stories high and the masonry work is spectacular. There is a gate as tall as the fence made of wood reinforced by metal. Two guard posts are on either side. The wall is really just to keep the forest outside. Ace stops at the walls...

Meanwhile back at Mishaps HQ garage the android was cleaning up. He put away the MPLP, making the platform turn back into a set if trailers to a big rig. "Hmm, it seems theres another item on my to do list. Its high priority." That appeared right after Anima left. "Recycle Anima's buggy. Easy enough." The android said as he got into the buggy, hot wiring it. The android drove off to the warehouse/factory th

ats in the city.

"Hey!" Sokato shouted out. "Is anybody home?" A few seconds passed and a short blue guy with pointy ears, carrying a cross bow peeks over his post in the guard tower. "Who might thy be?" The guard said. "I'm Ace." He said taking out the letter. "I got your letter, do you still need help?" "Aye, we do, I will open the gate for you." The guard turned around "Open the gate!" The gates slowly opened revealing the city. There were two gaurds waiting inside.


((Sorry, went on a vacation with the family... Sorry I forgot to tell you.))

ooc:: O.< No no I am a loser you can all hate me D: I missed my deadline again TT~TT Not like I didn't try, i really did, but to make up for it I've been doing a whole helluva lot of thinking :'D And guess what? The brains of the operation -coughKaicough- Just came home for spring break so Missions shall be up tommorow at lunch, I am making a new thread purely for profiles (Half way done with it) that will be up tommorow evening, and hopefully I can finish new ranking and s**t tommorow (Some of you guys should expect a promotion on the way ;D) also i talked it thorugh with the others via MSN and they agree that I should employ the help of you guys who are offering it, So anyone who would like to be in charge of Profile acceptance, advertisment, and thread monitoring, please just contact me via PM and we can work things out ^^ Anyway Im off to my last shift of double work, Ill post rp replys when I get back~

The guards stared at Ace. "Due to my post, I can't show emotions, but I can tell you that I am shocked." The guard on the left stated, with a monotone voice. The guard on the right explained, "We don't get visitors often, especially not at this gate."

"Interesting... I would like to speak to your leader, as soon as possible. Also, be expecting more people. I got separated from the rest of my party on the way." Ace walked through the gates, a third guard was behind the one of the doors, operating a crank that opened and closed the massive gates, he was not elven, but human. He closed the gate. The doors creaked slowly and it looked like it would hurt if you would happened to get pinned under it, but that could be said for any massive moving object.

"I will escort you." Said a fourth guard, which was human. It seemed that people where taking interest in the new person. A small crowd was gathering. People can be heard whispering to each other about Ace. Mostly about how strange he looks, the clothes, the hair, and the way he talked. The buildings where made out of stone, with wooden beams. They had thatch roofs, which looked like they would set ablaze easily. The entire city looked like it was kept in a good condition. The guard and Sokato made their way to a manor near the center of the city. It was smaller than a castle. (So I guess it does not qualify as a castle, but rather a manor. I am not sure.)

Meanwhile, back in our realm, the android was driving the buggy through the hills and towards the city. "Next item after this on the list... Get to work on assembly of new mech unit. Interesting."