Enter The Sandman

The sneaking succession

"What is it, General Galloway?  It sure has been a while since you actually called the family down for this..." Suiyomi asks respectively.

"I have called you all down to go on this mission of urgent matter.  I'm certain you all know the grim news about beta.  I'm here to send you all out on a mission to do intelligence gathering, seeing as how  your family has experience with stealth."

The somewhat aged man standing beside Suiyomi grunts.  "Is that all?  Old man... I do believe you're wasting my time here.  I could be conducting my experiments and earning a lot more money on that, than I would on such a petty little mission as this" he says in a deep voice.

"If you were to gather a sample of the red lightning effect's power source... I will let you keep some of it for your experimentation" the general mentions.

The aged man puts a grin on his face.  "Now that's more like it... offering me a bribe.  But bribe accepted... and judging by what you said, I'm assuming we are sneaking into some assassin camp?"

"Even greater... much greater.  You will be sneaking into the main assassin's headquarters.  The assassin's temple itself.  We've managed to find it's location."

"Interesting indeed!  Now this seems like a worthy challenge..."

The woman that is standing on the left side of Suiyomi says "And when does this mission start, exactly?"

"Right after we give you your gear... and we will do that right away."

Both the woman and the man nod and towards the general's desk.  He stands up and emits several supplies on the desk.

"Communication links... cloaking devices... and if ever needed, your very own silenced handguns" the general says.

"Hand guns?  This is a rare occurance... I have never seen hand guns be used in the academy before" the aged man says.

"Zerin Lekarte... Asada Lekarte.  I'm sure you both know that even your elemental powers won't come in handy once the assassins spot you.  You'll need some type of defense... and I'm afraid we'll have to break the academy code in order to protect you... at least for now." 

"I see... understood then" the aged man, now known as Zerin, says.

"Now then... shall we get our gear and be on our way?" Asada asks.

Zerin nods and they walk up to the gear and put them in their own data emitters.

"I have uploaded the map data into your holo-watches.  Be careful on your mission, Lekarte family."

The Lekarte exit out of the office, and quickly go to the docking station where their ship is ready for deployment.  Zerin emits the handguns and throws each one to Suiyomi and Asada.  He also throws a few clips of ammo their direction.

Zerin checks the barrel and examines the gun, and then smirks slightly.  "I see... so these are the new advanced handguns.  Laser powered.  They don't shoot bullets... but highly concentrated laser shots.  The silencers don't weaken them in any way what so ever, either."

"Good... now shall we get on with the mission?" Asada says.

"Let's."

They all get on the ship and begin to fly off with nothing but a single pilot, no back up.

Back in the General's office, he thinks carefully to himself.  "I didn't want to resort to using the Lekarte family... but Captain Lisa is nowhere to be found.  I don't like where this is going..."

After an hour, the pilot yells out "Okay, we're near the location!  I don't want to fly you too close, seeing as how the assassins have anti-air!  Plus if I got too close, they'll be on to you guys!  Gotta drop you off here!"