In the dead of night the silhouettes of four masked individuals prowled the grounds of the target area in the far side of Vale near the heavy business district and not a mile away from the nearest police station. Smoke Shadows, as they preferred to call themselves, a small posse of white fang operatives hailing from major urban areas in Remnant particularly those of the major cities, majority of them hailing from Haven. Their existence is largely unknown to the kingdoms but the underground seems to know them as they really are. White Fang operatives consisting of once petty thieves led by an charismatic monkey faunus with a blue scimitar. The Smoke Shadows have been heard to have broken in to several secure locations once before but reports of them have since then dwindled to speculations and rumors. Not much is known of them to the underground save for the occasional appearance of their second in command, a snake faunus thief with a track record of breaking and entering having been in and out of prison several times since childhood. Sandwinder.
The group split up as Sandwinder's pair stealthily made their way past a patrol of guards and opted to stay in a nearby bush as they scouted the area. The building seemed to have little in way of windows and the nearest one was roughly several hundred feet high. Getting to the building without getting spotted through the front door was practically suicide with the number of imported Atlesian Knights guarding the immediate doorway and several human guards making regularly patrols. The task was simple, get the records of white fang activity in Vale, wipe them from the main database, and get out without causing a ruckus. That and planting a small hacking device near the servers. It shouldn't have been too hard but just a look at the area was intimidating enough that Sandwinder was beginning to think of staking out for a few days to study patrol patterns.
"Insertion successful. Sandwinder reporting in. The building seems to be heavily guarded at all entrances with guards posted around the perimeter with regular patrols. They're carrying automatic weaponry. Please advise."
"Then don't go through the front door, dumbass."
"Ugh, of course not but how do you expect to get inside then?
"Look up"
Sandwinder squinted his eyes and saw a masked, monkey tailed individual strolling upwards as if it were the ground. Shortly after another individual from a nearby building seemed to 'fall' towards the face of the building, his feet heading down first before his fall was slowed as if being tugged back towards his origin then finally plopped back with his back on the wall.
The radio cackled and a smug grunt sounded through followed by a sharp grinding sound muffled by something else. "Now hurry up sand for brains, we got a job to do. Let me make a little distraction for ya."
Holding a rock, the monkey faunus tossed it downwards straight towards a car outside the premises. The rock smashed into the windshield triggering an alarm prompting several guards to check it out, convenient creating an opening for the Sandwinder and his partner.
Sighing, Sandwinder signalled his partner to follow close and disappeared into building, making his way through the door while avoiding detection from droning cameras and an oncoming patrol. "You make this look easy, Ali." Sandwinder voiced over the radio.
"Easy? This is going to be like taking candy from a baby. Head for the emergency stairs, there aren't any cameras there. I'm sending beasty down to ya, should make the 'fall' up a lot quicker."
"Roger."
Ali clicked off his radio and put away the rather crude device back into his pack. Luckily the building seemed to have filtered CCTS transmissions but not short range radio waves. A flaw that Ali discovered a few days back when he scoped the place out. Sandwinder hated the bulky things but he'd take it a slightly ugly device over decades in jail any day.
Taking one last look at the city before jumping in the hole he and his partner made, Ali grinned and recalled a certain old friend of his fleeing to this city. Tucking himself inside the hole in the glass, he used his tail to pull the glass back in place and disappeared into the building behind his partner.
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Kei woke up in the middle of class only to be scolded by the professor in charge before apologizing profusely for misbehaving. Making a mental note to steal his coffee later Kei gazed off at the board with beady eyes and recalled the tidbit of info she overheard last night at slum area.
The White Fang have obviously already infiltrated Vale judging by the news but they usually wouldn't be so reckless as to be outright terrorists without good information and materials. Of course this didn't mean that he would be involved in the recent on-goings but Kei had the nagging feeling that it might be the case judging by the description she overheard a night before. Monkey faunus, blue scimitar, former thief. All this pointed to Ali but she couldn't be too sure, or rather she hoped she was wrong.
After class the professor called on Kei and gave her an assignment of joining a few other problem students on a small community service mission around Vale. Luckily it wasn't plain cleaning the streets like before but to be paired with a few other, probably lower yeared, students was going to be hassle. Maybe she could use the opportunity to listen to get some info. She'd have to lay low though, her identity as a thief wasn't exactly known in Beacon save for her teammates and she wanted to keep it that way.
Deftly swiping the professor's coffee in one hand while walking away, Kei nodded as the old pompous man scratched his head looking for the drink while Kei handed it over to a confused girl entering the classroom.
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Kei yawned as she waited for the so-called problem students to arrive, there were about....2?maybe 3 others according to the professor, not a very helpful estimate, and they were all late. Or maybe she was early, they didn't exactly have an exact meeting time. Playing with her yo-yo Kei idly listened in on passer-by's by the road in front of the meeting place and managed to pilfer a wallet or two from some people and return them with perfect grace before they even found out. Yawning again she checked the time and saw it was around 4 in the afternoon, not too late but still too early to be ditching the make-up task given to her.
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