Helix Operatives: Creation

The Calm Before

It was still early when Silence, Spire, Mirazh, Valor, and Seeker arrived at the mansion along with a number of members of the Den. The mansion had the same façade and feeling as the guard's house, only this one was three stories tall and had a series of white pillars in the front holding up a balcony above the front porch with a garage next to it.

"Alright, here's the plan," said Silence as they reached the mansion. "According to what the guard told me the slaves and a lot of valuables are being held in the basement of the ten thousand square foot mansion. Our target, Dicklerson Charston, has a number of spare bedrooms all for his own use. Paranoid, yes. But he has a morning routine of a nice big breakfast and slave abuse every morning while watching the sun come up. We'll catch him in the sun room, drag him to the secured area, hold it down until the Den gets the slaves and items out via the tunnel to the aqua ducts through the sewers from the emergency escape route and we'll drive through the covered aqua ducts to a point out of the city and to Gingdale."

"Da, seems simple. You have fancy tool to help us?" Asked Mirazh as she loaded a fresh magazine into her SMG.

"Of course, I do," said Silence as he pulled out a series of large metal plates with circular wheels on them. "These are the PWC's. Put on a wall, turn wheel until fully extended, press button in center of the wheel, and we got a bullet resistant surface."

"Impressive," said Mirazh as she took a few.

"That's Silence for you, give him a problem and a couple of hours and he'll find a way to fix anything," said Valor as he started to mark areas on the map of his arm where he'll place the RDAPs.

"Da, good to know."

"Let's just go already," said Spire as she loaded her SMG. "If this guy has intel on them I need to know."

"We're going, we're going," said Silence as he holster Kingslayer. "Jeeze."

They hurried up to the mansion and up to the front door. "Alright, no turning back now," said Silence as he unlocked the front door. The group headed inside, closing, and locking the door behind them. The Den headed for the basement as the others headed to the sun room. In the room, Charston was eating a large breakfast as a series of Anthros wearing nothing but collars were forced to serve him and were held there by large chains. Charston was a Sinderlo with short black hair and brown eyes and a face that you'd love to punch. He was wearing only a white bath robe with a gold emborder on the right lapel of it.

Spire slowly walked into the room, extending the claws on her gloves. She slowly walked up to him, her footsteps echoing through the room. Charston looked up and saw her, a dark figure with a look of death in her eyes. "W-Who are you?" Asked Charston, backing away from her in his seat.

"The one you left behind," said Spire as she showed the butterfly necklace. "The other half was from my parents. The ones you bought and separated me from."

"B-But, then how'd you get...?"

"Yeah, we're still here," said Silence as he walked in waving to him. "Spire, let's escort him to his final resting place."

"Gladly," said Spire. She grabbed Charston by the lapels of his robe, sinking the claws into his chest and cutting him. She dragged him away as Silence freed the slaves in the room. They followed the Den to the basement as the other slaves were being freed.

The basement was cold, wet, and cramp with only a few piles of hay for bedding and chains all around the room to hold them there. On one side of the room was the stairs leading up to the rest of the house and next to it was a stairway leading to an emergency escape tunnel to the sewers and into the aqua ducts. On the other side of the room was a large metal vault where many valuables were held. The Den got to work with the keys and codes as they unlocked the slaves and opened the vault. Inside of the vault was bars of gold, priceless gems, fire arms and ammo for them, and bags full of Cardacimine.