𝗠𝗔̀𝗚𝗢𝗔 ✰ CYPHER (VALORANT)

𝚂𝙾𝙼𝙴𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴𝚂

"Puppeteer?"Viper's voice was loud and mean but at the same time she tried to sound welcoming. "Yea?" Y/N looked up from her table in her room at Viper who - did not knock - "we were thinking... you might be ready for your first mission with us".

Y/N's eyes widen as she gasped a little, "wait are you serious?!" Y/N almost felt like fainting as she heard those words. Viper rolled her eyes but Y/N could tell she smiled. "Yes, but Y/N do remember that sometimes we do not win, sometimes we lose, sometimes we lose a lot.. but we get back from it. You just have to prepare for the worst, got it?" her cold voice demanded as Y/N nodded.

"You used my real name?".

"Skye told me, and I was tired of constantly calling you Puppeteer, anyways," Y/N smiles softly, "well? What are you waiting for? We need to get assigned a mission by Brimstone, come on then," Viper ushers Y/N out of the room, leaving her notes behind as Viper's eyes darted towards it for just a millisecond.

...

'My dear Aamir, I don't know if I can hold on for much longer with this type of job and my abilities..'

...

She looks away but frowns. Y/N was doubting her abilities. This was not good for the mission nor was it good for her mental health.

"Alright, we got a few hints here about the radianite - and there's lots, its in Ascent - hopefully it won't be hard for 'Teer to manoeuvre around, I'll get Sage, Omen, Raze, Puppeteer, and Cypher on it - don't mess anything up and be a bad influence on Puppet- got it?"

"Yes Brimstone."

"OHH YEA! YES BRIMYY!".

"Yes".

"Of course, Brim!".

Y/N's eyes widen, "Viper's not coming?" Viper frowns, looking away, "got an injury that's gonna take a while to heal from a mission before," Sage intervened as Y/N nodded, "oh, alright," Y/N looked at Viper as she looks away in shame, Y/N smiles, "no need to look like that, Viper, I don't mind, just heal good, okay?".

"God, you're like a copy and paste of Sage.." Viper mutters as Y/N laughs.

"I hope thats a good thing," Viper smiles softly, "yea, yea it is..".

...

So there goes Y/N with the team, she had her earbuds on as they got transported to the site, her eyes closed as she calmly sat and listened to her music, sometimes she could get lost in it for too long, sometimes the music can control her like she can control people. "What is Puppet listening to now?", A heavily accented voice - Cypher's - was right beside her as she opened her eyes, looking over to him with an annoyed and frustrated expression. "Nothing, you can go away, Cypher".

Cypher blinks and frowns, he tries his best to tease her and make jokes with her but he knew he was stepping on thin ice if we was even speaking to her. "Why are you even with me anyways?"

"You know how they call me the eyes of Valorant?".

"Nope never heard of you being called that".

"Well, they told me I had to stay by you - like a body guard in replacement of Viper's spot," Y/N angrily sighs, "Well, I'm perfectly capable on my own and do not need you in my face, okay?" Cypher frown deepens as he looks away.

"Can't you trust me again..? I want to at least be friends," Y/N's eyebrows furrowed even more as she tried to keep her feelings to herself - love, joy, anger, pain and frustration just building up inside her - ready to explode.

"I'll... think about it, but right now, all I need is for you to get the hell away from me".

Liar.

Y/N knew it.

That is such a big lie.

All Y/N wanted was to have him close to her, was to have him hold her hand or anything like that. She just wanted to spend time with him. Honestly. She didn't know why she said those things, maybe it was because of her ego, or her pride, or the painful truth that Y/N knew she had to face.

Aamir was no longer hers, it was Cypher now, that took his place. And Cypher was Nora's.

But there was so many things Aamir never told Y/N.

...

They were getting off and Raze and Cypher were getting the bomb ready - they called it the spike - Y/N was watching as she looked down at her gun, it was a ghost, with her aiming it up and shooting a pot she smiles a little. "I remember the first time you held a gun here, you were so good with aiming and shooting it was almost scary, how did you know how to fire?" Sage's voice interrupted Y/N's thoughts, looking towards her, she smiles and looks down.

"Long ago, a lover of mine taught me how to shoot a gun, he was.." Y/N stopped as her mouth agape, a tiny frown turns into a smile, "a nevermind, that is all you have to know anyways - besides, I do not like dwelling on the past".

Sage frowns but nods, "I understand," Y/N reloads her gun and looks towards Cypher and Raze, were they ready yet? Y/N wanted to test her abilities. But then a very important question arrived in Y/N's head.

She was only told that there were gonna be guards - guarding the radianite, but Y/N didn't ask who they were.

"Sage? Who will we be fighting? The guards, I mean," She freezes. "They.. are us," Y/N's face contorts into confusion, "what?", "they are us, but not entirely us, they act like us, talk like us, but they are heartless. They are copies of us, Kingdom has made copies of all the radiants and turned them into guards to guard the radianite - but since you still have not been copied yet, you are valuable to us because you are an advantage that we have".

"Say.. have you said your real name to anyone outside of Valorant?" Sage asks after she explains another terrifying truth. "No.. not that I could think of..".

"Good, now do NOT, say your name outside of VALORANT ever, okay? Your name is the only thing keeping you - the original - with us and never having a copy," She shuffles around as she gets closer to Y/N with a serious look on her face - Y/N felt threatened. "We need you to do something for us - if you ever get lost or away from Cypher's sight, and you find Cypher or one of us, but you are unsure if that is the original, ask them, 'what is my name', they will know to whisper it to you, and if they don't, just run, got it?".

Y/N nodded as Sage smiles, "now whisper to me what your name is and I'll tell the rest what to do". Y/N gets close to Sage's ear and whispers her name, looking away as Sage walks to the others to tell them, she sighs a little. Sometimes.. she doesn't mind with the thought of having a copy, maybe it could relieve her of the stress she is feeling, by replacing herself - the original, with a copy, the absolute feeling of freedom when she finally..-

"Puppet".