Chapter 2 - Thieves

Now. Bialyan-Russian Border.

Mylo smiled madly at his new creation made of his electric bike, the spitfire, and whatever else was lying around in this airport. He called it the… actually he hadn't come up with a name yet. He was not very good at those.

But either way, it is going to be one hell of an adventure to fly it.

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Now. 2 hours away at the crater.

"Ma'am, the storm is starting to clear up." Her second-in-command called over the radio.

"Then ready our men, we are heading due west where an old airfield is supposed to be. It is more than likely where whoever it was took cover for night during the storm." Psion responded as she looked at an old digital map of the area.

"Yes, ma'am!"

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Six Years Ago. Location: Classified.

Mylo moved into position behind the snow pile. He glanced over at Scarlett who took cover behind a different snow pile. Then he moved closer to the entrance just as a guard glanced away another of his unit slid into the spot he just left.

Mylo was now hiding behind a statue and saw Scarlett make the same movement he did. The two guards at the entrance were none the wiser. Mylo signaled to Scarlett, 'on three'. Then counted down. 'Two'. Scarlett pulled out a taser. 'One'. Mylo pulled out a taser of his own.

'Zero.'

Mylo quickly reached the guard and stuck the taser to his neck clicking the button there was a zap before the guard went limp. Mylo saw out of the corner of his eye the other guard turned towards him and reached up to pull out the sword on his back to only go limp as well when Scarlett sent a jolt of electricity into his neck.

They caught the respective guards and dragged them to behind the statues nearby. Then as they moved back to the doorway the rest of the unit approached the building led by their commander Archer Donovan, also known as Apollo.

"Taxes and Partridge, you take up positions around the entrance. Make sure you are hidden. Thanatos leads us inside, Phoenix backs him up. Markus and Woodsy you will follow me in." Apollo stated as he pulled out a shotgun.

Thanatos sighed as he pulled out his pistol from its holster and a knife out as well. He then approached the doorway and slowly pushed it open, looking inside he saw no one. Glancing behind him he saw the unit was ready so he moved inside. Slowly moving along the corridor with his unit following him inside.

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Now. Bialyan-Russian Border. Old World War II Airfield.

Mylo placed the young woman in the back seat of the modified Spitfire, yes there was a backseat after he modified it. He gutted most of the internals of the plane. After making sure she was firmly in the plane. He moved around and did a final check before he removed the wheel blocks on the plane and then climbed in as well.

"Phoenix this is Thanatos, are my accommodations ready? Because my flight is prepared." Mylo started up the engine and the prop roared to life. A second later he was slowly moving out of the hangar.

"Affirmative Thanatos, you are a go. And because the sand storm has stopped I can now see you. The satellite shows-oh shit!" There was a moment of silence as Mylo lined his modified Spitfire on the airstrip.

That is when he noticed what Scarlett saw, a convoy of armored vehicles heading in his direction. "Thanatos you have incoming, it looks like eight vehicles heading your way."

"Yup, I noticed." Mylo sped up the propeller and waited until it was spinning fast enough before he removed the brake. Then the plane jolted forward just as the vehicles reached the edge of the runway.

The plane started speeding down the runway and he could see one of the roofs open up on the frontmost vehicle to reveal a woman holding a rocket launcher on her arm. She pointed it to the Spitfire just as the wheels started to leave the ground.

The rocket launched into the air and the plane swerved causing the rocket to just barely miss. The plane started to get further up and then it leveled out as Mylo flew through the bright sunny morning and the rocket launcher lady started yelling at the other soldiers.

"Hahaha!" Mylo laughed and then frowned, "okay, I am off the ground Phoenix. Heading to my destination now, I will fly low to the ground to avoid radar. I will go radio silent until I am beyond the border." Mylo then noticed his passenger was still quietly resting.

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Six Years Ago. Location: Classified.

Mylo felt weirded out by this entire operation. Everything about this was classified. The mission came directly from Waller's research division. They asked for a single vial of that stuff. They even coordinated when they would go in.

Something felt off about the entire operation.

But Mylo felt even more weirded out when they arrived at the pool room. Following Apollo's directions they arrived there. The room had green torches around the edge of the room and the pool itself was a glowing green hue. The designs around the edges of the pool were ornate skeleton features while on the wall it depicted a story.

It showed a man walking forward then the man died, the man was dipped in the water and then the man rose again and continued walking forward. Mylo sucked in his breath.

"Thanatos, get a vial of the water. It is what we are here for." Apollo stated as he and the other's spread out.

Phoenix followed Thanatos to the water to watch his back. Then as Mylo went to sheath his knife he noticed them in the reflection of his knife. On the roof were body's garbed in black combat ninja gear like the guards they saw outside. He only froze for a moment before he continued to put away his knife and gun. Then he pulled an empty reinforced vial from his backpack.

But Phoenix noticed his hesitation and crouched next to him and whispered. "What's wrong?" She continued to watch towards the door with the other's because that is the only entrance into this room that they saw.

Mylo whispered back as he opened the vial, "we have company in the rafters. Don't alert them until I finish this." He then dipped the vial and his hand into the water and flinched. He could feel the water was viscous and less like water and more like blood.

As the vial filled he felt like his body was being filled with strength but he shook it off as just some illusion that this stuff gave off. Because that would mean this stuff was some kind of elixir and he really just hoped he didn't just stick his hand in a vat of elixir for some crappy operation.

Once the vial was filled he pulled his hand out and closed the top.

"Done, Apollo." Mylo stated as he solved the reinforced vial back into the spot he had it in his backpack.

"Good we are moving out. This time-" Apollo did not get to finish his sentence as a sword went through his chest. Apollo started spitting up blood while the other two started shooting down the hallway. Scarlett pointed her submachine gun towards the roof as Mylo pulled out his knife and pistol.

Mylo only saw a shine of metal before his gun was knocked out of his hand and a kunai embedded itself in Scarlett's gun.

"I think they prefer hand-to-hand combat." Mylo stated as he readied himself against the two ninjas that are facing him. One had a hand axe in each hand and the other had a katana ready.

"Agreed," Scarlett smiled as she pulled out her combat knife and her taser. "Too bad for them. That is our specialty."

Mylo shook his head thinking that she truly was a combat crazed maniac.

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Now. Kahndaq. U.S. Military Base.

Mylo landed his plane and was now finally good to rest. But before he did that he brought the unconscious young woman to the medical brig. But as he was walking the young woman woke up.

"Hello there sleeping beauty. You wouldn't happen to know your name or why you crashed in that desert would you?" Mylo asked as he continued walking towards the medical tent.

The woman looked confused for a moment, and then looked around. "Umm… where am I? Who are you?"

"We are in a U.S. military base in Kahndaq. I am Mylo and you are?"

The woman frowned and then puffed her cheeks like a chipmunk, she looked adorable. Then she seemed scared, "I- I don't know… I can't remember."

Mylo frowned, "well that is bad."

The woman tilted her head, "why?"

Mylo then gave a grin, "because it means I can't ask if you are single." The woman chuckled as Mylo walked into the medical brig. "But in all seriousness it means you have a concussion. But there are ways to figure that out. I can take care of finding your family. You should rest for now, I will now set you down so you can walk on your own."

But as he went to set her down she grabbed his arm, "no." Mylo looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Why?"

"Because… You said I should rest. So I will rest." Mylo somehow found her response incredibly cheeky and adorable.

"Okay, then I will set you down on a bed and do some quick research." Mylo stated as he walked towards one of the beds and laid her down. But as he went to stand up she grabbed her arm, it was like a vice grip. This young woman was deceptively strong. Mylo waved at a nurse, "hey can you come look over this woman."

The nurse nodded and walked over. "Hello ma'am. What seems to be the problem?" The nurse frowned as she looked down at the woman, "I feel like I have seen you somewhere before."

The young woman shrugged, "I don't know. My head hurts a bit."

The nurse slowly nodded her head and looked at Mylo as he grabbed a nearby laptop and started typing on it, "it appears she has amnesia."

The nurse quickly looked her over, "indeed it does. You just have a concussion ma'am. I will be right over there if you need anything."

The young woman nodded as Mylo looked over the information, there were no missions or anything like that that would result in her appearance in the Biaylan Desert. Then as he typed the nurse came back in a hurry and stole the computer he was using. He stared at her in annoyance until she turned it back and he saw a picture that definitely matched the young woman.

The nurse looked at him, "what should we do?"

Mylo looked between the young woman and the picture in front of him. Then he nodded as he touched his comlink, "Phoenix this is Thanatos can you hack into the Justice League Headquarters and leave my coordinates with the tag SG attached as a message."

Mylo heard the sound of chewing, "this has to do with the sleeping beauty? Sure, by the way Iron Lady just called. She wants you back on a flight to the U.S. we have an Omega Alert."

Mylo nodded, "okay I will grab a flight as soon as this is taken care of. Can you have the boys here dismantle the Spitfire and send it to The Vacation Home?"

"Affirmative." Scarlett answered. Then the comlink cut off.

Mylo sighed as he leaned back and remembered the past while he waited.

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Six Years Ago. Location: Classified.

Mylo blocked a strike from the katana with his knife then fluidly moved into his guard and headbutted him using his helmet, there was a loud crack as the ninja went down. The hand axe guy started swinging and spinning his axes in a fancy fashion. Mylo threw his knife and it went through the guy's eye socket. As the body started falling he grabbed his knife and stole one of the hand axes.

He then spared a look at Scarlett and saw another of the ninjas being thrown away from her. She was holding her own.

Mylo looked at his next opponent and saw another katana user. This was going to be a long fight.

It ended up being a very tough and long fight as several hours passed as they fought through ninja after ninja.

Then Mylo was the first to give out as he felt his knife snap and break under a strike from a handaxe. As the ninja was surprised, Mylo punched him in the face, knocking him out. Then Mylo started deflecting attacks using the bit of knife he had left until he had a slice across his arm, making him drop his sword then just as he was about to get his head cut off by another katana it stopped as someone yelled.

"Stop!" The ninjas made way as a man with a goatee and black hair, with horizontal white lines on the side of his hair, walked towards them. He was dressed in a set of armor that was colored gold and green. Which went well with his green eyes and the green tassels that hang off the swords that were at his hip. "These thieves deserve our respect for being able to best so many of us, so we won't kill them. Strip them of their gear and throw them in the dungeon. Perhaps they can be more than just thieves."

Scarlett looked at Mylo and his sorry sight as he was crouched down and injured. Then she sighed and tossed her knife and taser on the ground and held up her hands in surrender. Mylo then raised his arms in surrender as well, flinching in pain as he did so.