Scarlet Strike [OPEN TO VILLAINS]

Now this was an odd twist. Usually when someone hired Wisp to break into a place, the aim was to relieve one form of property or another from the premises. Considering that he was advertised as a sort of 'clandestine acquisitions expert', that only made sense. On this particular occasion however, the client wanted him to leave something behind instead. Well, that was half of the job at least. Normally Wisp wouldn't have bothered coming out to the middle of fucking nowhere, but the target this time, Hideki labs, was just interesting enough to justify the trip... Though the tidy sum the client was offering didn't hurt either. It was a simple enough set of tasks on the surface; they wanted him to hijack some kind of research project and plant a flash drive in one of the facility's servers. He was pretty confident that he could have done both objectives by himself, but when he brought up the mission with his usual colleagues, one of them unexpectedly volunteered to tag along. Even more unexpectedly, that person was Revenant.

This very fact promised to make the job far more interesting than originally predicted, but this wasn't quite what Wisp had been expecting. Shortly after he and Revenant had parted ways to handle their respective tasks, sending him to the server room and his murderous friend to the R&D center, he began to encounter armed personnel who were quite obviously not a part of the lab's security. Luckily they didn't seem to be the most perceptive lot, helmets didn't often do much to help on that front, and the thief managed to slip by a few groups unnoticed on his way to the objective. On top of that, their sweeps through the facility seemed to have cleared out all of the regular staff, who were being carted away somewhere where they wouldn't cause trouble, which actually meant there were less sets of eyes he had to avoid. Soon enough the door to the server room came into view, and after waiting for one more group of men to pass by, he made his way in.

Overall, it really was a minor complication, but one he could- wait a minute. The door slid open a split second before he could reach the control pad, and all of a sudden he found himself staring at the face of a rather bewildered trooper. Something about this seemed oh so very familiar.... At that precise moment, the lights went out and Wisp sprung forward with a burst of ash out his jets. By the time the red emergency lighting kicked in, he had pushed the guy back into the server room and had him pinned with a forearm at his neck against the far wall. "Who the hell invited so many guests to this party?" He asked the trooper, not expecting any sort of answer as the man gasped for breath. Smoke began to pour off the thief's body and he reduced the pressure on the stranger's windpipe just enough to let him inhale the fumes. "Shhhhhh..... Nap time."

After a few seconds of coughing and struggling, Wisp's prey went limp and he let the man slump back against the wall before turning back to face the banks of servers. So all he had to do now was plant the flash drive and meet back up with his colleague, right? Sounded simple enough, even with the legion of doom scrambling all over the place. As he approached one of the banks and flicked out the drive however, he suddenly heard a voice crackle over his headset. It was Revenant and... did he really just say those words?

Revenant didn't ask for help. Revenant was the reason why other people asked for help. Revenant added gasoline to plans and strategies and laughed as the building burned down around him, because why the fuck did he care? Either he was messing with the thief, or something had gone seriously wrong. As Wisp tapped at his comms, he really hoped it was the former. "Care to repeat that, Beautiful? I don't think I caught that right."