[First Mission!]

-----Mike's POV 2 Days later, Axel's office-----

'...I don't like this office.' I looked at everyone else, Mr.Robot seemed fine and was having a pleasant, not, conversation with his father. Jenny looked fine and was leaning against the wall looking a bit bored. Stan was mimicking her posture on the opposite side of the door, 'Is there something going on between them, I am sure one of them likes the other and the other one knows about it, because they are way too awkward around each other...Jack on the other hand is appropriately scared of the room...Still don't like his smug face but I'll tolerate you for the team...'

"...All the weapons are already prepared, You need to enter the facility and disable these traps first and get the weapons to our captured personnel, now there are two priority targets. One Jane Whitmore and Luke Cooper stuck with the captured crewmates. They are one of the heirs of the 4 big families so try to get them out as safely as possible..."

'...Right, wasn't expecting that, so big old Jane is getting into trouble and dragging Luke with her like always...Bitch seemed too interested in me...die for all I care but luke seemed like a good guy, an asshole yes, prideful absolutely, but still a great guy passionate about the swordsmanship, I kinda liked wielding a sword but I guess daggers are more comfortable for speed build...'

"...These are the masks. Now it is crucial that you do this carefully Alex, this is the initial and the most important part of the plan, use this mask to copy any soldier's face that is similar to you in build and you need to infiltrate from the southwest to unlock this abandoned..."

'Yup..too boring let Alex handle all that stuff, I'll just play along. Hmmm, I wonder if Alex told Axel about the system...either he didn't tell him or Axel just isn't power-hungry and chooses to turn his face away from a path to absolute strength.'

*Pfft*

I controlled my laughter at that as Alex glared at me…

'Oops, yeah no way he told him, the boss of a 1st class mercenary group will always be power-hungry, plus although everything seems fine on the surface, I know that every father-son relationship is bittersweet, from the perspective of a son, you will always admire your father for who he is, no matter what happens he is a cornerstone in your life that would never move, be it good or bad. Even though my dad never really liked me because of my ability, I would never wish him harm, I would like to one day prove him wrong, and make him realize his mistake for how he treated me. I may have become a cold-blooded killer, but one always has that one weakness, family...'

"Will you stop daydreaming..." Alex stood in front of me with an angry look on his face.

"Yeah, where to?"

He just turned around and left, 'Well I at least I am starting to get through his hard exterior.' We followed Alex towards the weapons warehouse. Or at least I think that was where I was expected we were going because this building is way too huge to keep track of everything.

'Plus I heard their conversation so I guessed...After Alex inputs a very very secret password,[006864], we enter the warehouse and move towards the back. There was a security detail outside a door and we all had to log in our details to pass through the check.

We arrived at another warehouse but after using inspect on the crates around us, I realized the difference between this room and the room before this. Most of the items in this warehouse were Silver ranked, whereas the last one had crates full of Bronze weapons.

"Alright, Mike You're up..."

"...to do what?"

"Store everything!"

"..."

I walked up to a crate and tried to lift it up. A few embarrassing moments later, I opened the inventory space to the side of the crate and tilted it to let the weapons flow into my inventory. I look up to see Alex giving me a deadpan stare. I smiled cheekily and moved towards the next crate. It took me 20 mins to empty every crate in the room. As I was moving towards everyone, to move on to the next part of the plan Alex says, "The crates too..."

"You should have mentioned that before..."I grumbled as I went around the room and collected everything.

'Okay, yeah this looks hella empty...' After cleaning the place for everything usable we made our way outside the warehouse.

Alex stops us from exiting the warehouse and starts to walk towards a different section of the warehouse. Seeing him walk towards the right side of the warehouse Jack exclaimed, "We are getting an upgrade? Sweet..."

I raised an eyebrow at Alex who replied, "Yes, due to the severity of the mission, you are free to upgrade your current weapons and armor."

Another security check later we were in a warehouse that had several weapons of various categories on a shelf…

'Inspect'

[Gold Tier weapon: Z-18 Sniper]

[Damage = 10,000*(Critical damage modifier)]

'...' I pick up the weapon and after sharing a glance with Alex store it in my Inventory. I browse and pick up another pistol while completely ignoring the armors available.

"Wow this sword is sooo cool, can I keep it after the mission?" 'I guess Jack liked the sword'

Jenny and Stan were admiring various swords while Jack went on sugar-high trying out various armors.

"You don't want armor!"

"I got one from the system..."

"How?"

"Wait for the quest"

"What quest"

"Your first combat quest"

"...okay"

'It took 2 hours, 2 long and boring hours for Jack to be satisfied with his armor before he agreed to leave the warehouse. We logged our weapons with the security as we went out of the warehouse and out of the building.

"So are we taking public transport or our ship?" Jack asked Alex excitedly as we were approaching the space station on the Space Ring.

"We have a ship?" I turn to Alex.

"Of course, being a mercenary is a high paying job, with excellent mortality rate!" I would have believed him if not for his emotionless face and dead tone of voice.

Ignoring him I continue to look around the sandy planet and people in different styles of clothing exploring the shops littered around the street.

'Wait...is that shop selling genetic solutions?'

"Alex, how much time do we have?" I asked.

"None" 'what else was I expecting?'

"Come on! Just for a quick browse!" I actually looked him in the eye there daring him to deny it.

"You can browse there later, we need to hurry this one, the demands of the kidnappers are increasing..." 'wait what..?'

"...kidnapper?"

"...Did you not listen to a thing in the office?" 'was I supposed to'

"Not really" I cringe a little bit at his glare after which he just turned towards the private space of the station.

'No response? Well, later I guess...'

I looked back at the shop selling genetic solutions and said goodbye to it.

'Eternal youth! I guess I'll have to wait for it...'

'Stupid Alex...'