E.C.H.O
Abandoned outskirts mission in Grand Haven, Exodus "KI-RO sweep right, stay hidden, if you can keep high do that but if you need to take them out, silent only got it?""Yeah yeah, stay safe" the AI like british male voice spoke out. She rolled her eyes and the robot dog silently stood in the hall way looking left then right, before turning and bowings it's head. Echo walked towards the hallway, turning her arm upright and looking at a small screen. Looking over the map, she turned left, looking back to see the other side of the hallway, Kiro nowhere to be seen. Turning, she pulled out her two pistols, switching one to it's dagger mode, holding them low she sat at the end of the hallway listening to the convo of two enemy guards talking about moving out into EE. Walking closer to the end of the hallway where echo sat, she breathed out, seeing the guards gun closest to her first. Stabbing into the air, the guard closest was met knife to his throat. The other guard to surprise, didn't have enough time to react as Echo put her gun up to the girls forehead and shooting the silent gun.
Running forward, she jumped off the wall and jumped grabbing for the low hanging metal beam. Sitting for a moment, she heard the rest of the sweeping guard party catch up the two. The four guards running towards their fallen comrades, running past Echo, she jumped down onto the last guard, crushing her neck. Moving behind the guard in front of her as the front two guards shot her direction, she threw the body at them, running and bouncing between the two walls, before landing on the two guards, executing the first one. However the second and last guard pushed her forward using her own momentum, causing Echo to roll forward and turn in time to see the guard in Kiro's mouth dead.
"Cutting it a tad close aren't we?" the dog dropping the guard and walking over to Echo who was searching the guards bodies for keys.
"I knew you had my back""And if I didn't?""Not the point, you did what I wanted you to do, so no need to dwell on it, what could have gone wrong, didn-" she stopped listening for a second, hearing footsteps in the distance
"well that didn't take long, did you leave anyone alive?""When have I ever done that unless you asked, it's quite literally in my name if you didn't notice" Kiro moved towards the end of the hall way and sat, watching the hallway
"if you're gunna get what you need you better do it fast, seems like that insider you had is contacting us, want me to put him through?" she nodded and Kiro's tail raised up, a small humming coming from inside it.
Putting her ear piece in, she immediately turned it down as someone was screaming on the other end
"Echo come in! Hoi you fuck!""For christ sake you almost caused me to go death, what's going on?" she found a green key, whistling for Kiro to come, she turned and started walking towards the far end of the hallway.
"Well princess, you got more then just the mission on your hands at the moment, some low-end players with some big guns are heading your way, piss anyone off recently? Lt.JDM mean anything to you?""dammit, alright, lets get this moving" nodding down to Kiro, before busting out into a sprint through the hall ways, she pulled her gun out
"Okay leave the car, go back to the safehouse, no arguing i'll send you a message when i'm out. Be safe." before the person on the line could protest, she hung up. Turning through what seemed like a maze of hallways, they arrived at a door and she kicked it in, it filled with four guards. Shooting the two guards sitting at the computers, Kiro jumped on the guard closest to them. The remaining guard went to tackle Echo, who when met with contact, simply brought her knee upwards. Hitting the guard in the jaw and making him recoil in pain, she shot him in the chest and quickly ran towards the computers, sticking the key into the desk. A progress bar appeared on the screen.
"You have a plan for when they come?" Kiro paced back and forward, looking at the door and hallway.
"Sure, dont I always?" a sigh came from the dog
"was...was that emotion I felt? Who knew, you AI can be so sassy. We wont die, but it's not gunna be easy. Remember how we were suppose to bring people on this mission, yeah i just didn't tell them, didn't want to split the rewards, I didn't really need them. I felt kinda bad, but now I dont so i mean...yeah theres that" turning she heard their voices and footsteps getting louder. Pulling out a smoke from the small bag on her back, she activated it and threw it down the hall
"that'll buy us maybe a minute...""YOU'RE GUNNA FUCK US OVER LIKE THAT?! WHO DO YOU THINK I AM YOU BITCH!" a voice range from the end of the hallway, followed by the sound of something winding up. Echo narrowly jumped from the char, as a flurry of bullets flew through the doorway and into the room, destroying the computer screens. The Progress bar was being shown on the floor in front of her stuck at 98%, then suddenly three grenades were thrown into the room. Echo picked Kiro up and jumped over the table holding the computer, kicking it over and holding Kiro. Closing her eyes and waiting for the coming explosion, but instead was met with sudden loading screen. Standing now with Kiro next to her, she was confused.
"Did I-""No.""It is even possible to-""No.""Is this good?""Probably not."Echo sighed
"at least we didn't just get blown up right?" Kiro shook it's head. She looked at the loading screen in the middle of blackness, before "Genesis, Sanctuary Pyre." popped up. Blinking she was suddenly in Sanctuary Pyre looking around confused, a message popped up, marked under no sender. Upon reading it, she instantly was even more confused at the situation
"Should we just wait were we are?""Judging by what you just read and the expression on your face? Yes." KI-RO said laying down and crossing it's front paws, before laying it's head down on it's legs. Echo looked around, before kneeling and putting her bag down, rummaging through it and pulling her canvas dark grey overcoat on. Putting the hood up over her armor's dog ears and setting her armor into power saving mode, turning the colors off. She sat against KI-RO and put her hands in her pockets, lowering her head to her knees and resting for a moment.