Description: It so happens that Khun Min escaped Adon's little soiree, but Cammy did not leave the place completely empty handed. Evidence was found leading her to a warehouse in Rangoon, and this time the UN saw fit to hire backup.
It's a still, cool night in Rangoon - even by the docks, which is rather unusual for a city like this. NATO troops are mostly gone, replaced by UN peacekeepers, as the country was quite unstable even before R quite overtly took it over. Law and order have taken a beating here, and as nature abhors a vacuum, other forces have come into play in the shadows of the city.
The pregnant silence of the docks seems to have a portentous feeling, however, and soon enough the silence is shattered, literally, by the sound of breaking glass from one of the warehouses by the docks. There follows the sound of booted feet and running, shouts, even a couple of gunshots, before a side door bursts open. Two Burmese men come barrelling out at top speed, both slamming into the grubby wall on the opposite side of the alley, before seeking to make good their getaway. Both are in their mid thirties, and look like fairly grizzled seafront types.
Nothing like money to convince the capoeirista to do what's right. After having made contributions to the fall of Shadaloo in the US someone decided to try to get him on board working with them on this mission to hunt terrorists. They appealed to his decency as human being(didn't work), his patriotism(not much success there either), they then appealed to him with money.
He was told he would be looking out for people escaping and when that happened he would rendezvous with his contact from the United Kingdom. Gunshots break the silence with shouting and bursting door mixed in for effect.
"Looks like it's gonna get really real, right about now," Aranha muses to himself as one of the Burmese men heads towards his specific location while the other Burmese man scrambles in another direction hoping to make themselves harder to chase.
Aranha moves quietly with skill utilized from his time as a second story man, as he steps out from behind the trash dumpster with a waiting elbow delivered right to the bread basket. While a significant amount of damage would be from his own force, the majority of the pain comes from the man practically running stomach first right into Aranha's extended elbow.
At this point, Aranha's now looking for his contact.
COMBATSYS: Sornram Teppitak has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Aranha has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
COMBATSYS: Bodyguard has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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The commotion is a perfect distraction. Up on the rooftop, a soldier with a sniper rifle watches the goings on below. It's usually boring up top, despite the view. Great for scopin the ladies, though. This day, however, is different with the onset of combat.
Due to this distraction, one unseen figure is easily able to sneak up on him. Munin, investigating reports of small groups of Shadaloo or R troops after her recovery from Vegas beatdown in the alley, steps from her hiding place nearby. Slowly, he pulls up his weapon, sighting Aranha through the scope to draw a bead. It is this moment she quickly closes the distance, attempting to put a hand over his mouth, followed by slitting his throat quickly.
If she succeeds in killing him, she'll lower his body slowly and quitely to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Bodyguard with Fierce Strike.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
COMBATSYS: Bodyguard Toughs Out Aranha's Random Weapon!
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
It turns out the one of them is actually a bodyguard, and the other some sort of high up, and the bodyguard, despite the two of them fleeing the warehouse at top speed, actually is doing his job - going first, and looking for threats.
As it happened he was expecting trouble like this - typical of cop types, he thinks, having a couple of people watching around the back. He sneers, and tenses up, Aranha's elbow slamming into him, but only winding him for the briefest moment. Grabbing hold of said elbow, he tries to wrassle Aranha down to the ground, a hand reaching up to grab his head and drive it in the street.
Meanwhile Sornram, seeing Aranha out there, promptly changes course and runs back down the alley again, looking to escape. A pistol is drawn from his jeans on the way, and he sprays a few rounds wildly into the combat as he flees.
And from the warehouse the sounds of beatings and shouts and trampling feet continues.
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Bodyguard's Faceplanter.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
There's good news and bad news for the Dancing Spider. Bad news, Aranha's arm gets grabbed. The good news, Aranha's arm doesn't stay grabbed mainly because the capoeirista is a slippery individual. While the bodyguard is trying to wrestle the capoeirista down, Aranha twists, turns and wriggles until his arm is free.
When it finally is, the capoeirista takes a blue glowing hand and brings it across the bodyguard's face with a loud echoing sound that could only come from the type of slap that has started and ended wars. He quickly follows with a upward kick right to the chin.
As the dead snipers body is lowered, Munin picks up his weapon, watching the fight below. She smirks, and decides, why make it any more difficult than it already is. She's always wanted to try using one of these, after all!
Kneeling at the edge of the rooftop, she aims down through the scope. Once she hasone of the two runners in her sights, at random, she pulls the trigger, with a whisper of "Boom".
COMBATSYS: Munin dodges Sornram Teppitak's Covering Fire.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
She seems almost oblivious to the incoming fire. She's been on battlefields recently enough that she can almost see the shots coming, and tell instinctively if they come close, which they indeed don't.
COMBATSYS: Sornram Teppitak blocks Munin's Thrown Object.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
COMBATSYS: Bodyguard blocks Aranha's Dead Man's Hand.
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Aranha 0/-------/------=|======-\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
Sornram is around the corner from where Aranha and his bodyguard are still fighting, out of line of sight - looks like he might just get away! Then a shot rings out, and falls to the ground momentarily, winged. He fires off a few poorly aimed rounds at Munin, to keep her away, while getting to his feet. He knows his minions will only buy him scant seconds, and he needs to get further away!
His bodyguard meanwhile lifts up his arms to fend off Aranha's glowing hand - but the almighty crack and surge of chi energy blasts him away regardless. Who knows what it would have done if it connected with face instead! "Urgh..." he mutters, looking around him for his boss. His boss is gone, though, and Aranha is blocking his path. He just charges him down. "Uraaaaaaaaa!". Trying to knock Aranha out of the way and make a break for it!
COMBATSYS: Aranha interrupts Ramming Speed from Bodyguard with Roundhouse Kick.
- Power hit! -
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
It's almost comedic and cartoon-like how the capoeirista deals with the bodyguard's mad rush towards him. He calmly, almost lethargically sidesteps as the bodyguard charges him down. By the time the Burmese thug gets to where the capoeirista was located, the entirety of Aranha's body is replaced with just his foot. A foot heading at high speed, aided by not only the twist of his hip but also the bodyguard's own charge.
The end result is a loud impact of Timberland boot clad foot to face and sting of having his connect with what he believes to be an incredibly block headed individual. Slight pain for him but Aranha knows the bodyguard got the worst of it by far. "Now might be a good time to consider giving up. I'm just saying."
COMBATSYS: Munin dodges Sornram Teppitak's Covering Fire.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
A frown appears on Munins face as she misses. She pulls the weapon up for another shot just as her target opens fire. She ducks and weaves a few times, but the weapon isn't so fortunate. A round hits it dead on, knocking it from her hands to clatter into the alley below. Munins frown only deepens, and she takes off.
She quickly leaps across the alley, and from there to a lower building, doing her best to keep up with the guy. Once she's close enough, she pulls out the handles from which her blades *SNIKT* out from.
As she finally leaps to the ground, she throws one of them, aiming to impale the mans foot to the ground to halt his progress if possible, meanwhile continuing to close to melee range.
COMBATSYS: Sornram Teppitak blocks Munin's Thrown Weapon.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1 Bodyguard
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Munin 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
The bodyguard manages to do a 360' flip in the air before smashing into the asphalt of the road with sickening force. His yells and shouts echo around the quiet docks - quiet, now, as whatever has been going on inside the warehouse has apparently ended. He lies on the ground stunned for a good few seconds as Aranha talks - so stunned, however, that he has no idea what he's saying. He looks up at the capoeirista groggily, but seeing those boots nearby gives him an idea. He surges to his feet with a last rush of energy, trying to grab Aranha, lift him up into the air, and then bring him down onto his knee with a crunch.
Sornram Teppitak meanwhile sees the blade coming towards him, and manages to swat one out of the air with only a stung hand. Clearly he at least knows something about fighting. He changes course given Munin is there, aiming to run past Munin and brain her with his pistol butt as he goes.
And some time about now the door of the warehouse bursts open again, to reveal Cammy in full Delta Red regalia. She's clearly in a hurry - looking around the alleyway briefly and taking in Aranha beating the cr@p out of the bodyguard she noted earlier. Thats not who she is really looking for, and besides Aranha seems to have things well in hand - so she promptly hares off after the boss.
COMBATSYS: Cammy has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
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COMBATSYS: Cammy takes no action.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
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COMBATSYS: Bodyguard successfully hits Aranha with Backbreaker.
- Power hit! -
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Aranha 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
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Munin 0/-------/-------|
Aranha can hear the sounds of fighting dying down elsewhere. And then he watches as Cammy goes after the other guy who had been trying to escape. And that's when Aranha is starting to wonder if he got played for a patsy. He wouldn't have agreed to do a thing with Shadaloo. First, they brought too much heat on themselves with that whole world conquest attempt. Second, their attacks in Metro put his sister under too much risk and they seemed to indiscriminately kill everyone.
No he saw the credentials of the people who had hired him and they were legit. That made him wonder if Vega might've infiltrated the US government as well.
It ends up being a bad time to try to figure this out and he ends up not being able to stop himself from getting lifted into the air and then brought down upon the bodyguard's knee.
Aranha holds his back as he grits his teeth. "Ok. So much for the offer of mercy. Imma fuck you up, son."
He then steps forward before driving his foot into the ribs of the bodyguard.
COMBATSYS: Munin counters Snag and Beat from Sornram Teppitak with Shadow Strike.
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Aranha 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
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Violet eyes narrow and flash with light as he turns and comes towards Munin. Whether he thinks her just some little girl to be disregarded, or knows better, she isn't sure. In either case, his attack is telegraphed so badly, it's almost too easy.
Despite having only one weapon, she HAS been watching other fighters throughout the battles as of late, and picked up a few new tricks, one of which she decides to test now! With the single blade she has, she deflects his strike, and follows right after it with her open hand, aiming the palm right upwards at his chin. On strike, theres a burst of dark violet chi componding the impact!
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Bodyguard with Strong Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Bodyguard
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
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Munin 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Bodyguard takes no action.
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Aranha 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Sornram Teppitak
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Munin 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Bodyguard can no longer fight.
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Sornram Teppitak has already encountered enough little girls to know to take them seriously, doubly so when he gets rocked in the face by a chi powered one. Glancing over Munin's shoulder he can see the other one coming his way, and he snarls. "You're not taking me in!". The pistol is brought out again for another shot aimed at Munin, and then he's off, running away down the road headed towards the maze which is the Rangoon slums.
Elsewhere, perhaps his bodyguard should've heeded the warning - if he'd managed to listen to it. A kick slams into ribs, no doubt splintering at least one of them, and after a groan of agony, he passes out.
Cammy, for her part, chases down Sornram - boots first, as soon as she gets close enough.
Aranha gives the bodyguard one last look as he steps out of the alley towards where he sees Cammy and Munin attacking the other Burmese man. That part isn't what confuses him. What confuses him is what Sornram Teppitak says. Not taking him in? That's not something someone fighting against Shadaloo would say. That's something a criminal would say... if they had a flare for the overly dramatic.
Needless to say the capoeirista is trying to figure out whether or not he got played or some crazy stuff happened between his trip from Metro City to here.
COMBATSYS: Aranha takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Sornram Teppitak successfully hit Munin with Medium Shot.
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Ow! Munin moves to dodge the moment she sees the pistol brought out, but sadly, she's too busy being happy at managing a chi-burst with a palm strike that she is a bit too slow, and is winged by his shot. Seeing as how the prior test worked, she decides to try yet another!
Dark purple chi begins to form around her free hand, and with a swing of her arm, she sends an arc of black shadowy chi flying towards the retreating man! As it goes, she has a suprised, but still happy smile. She doesn't pay his words any mind. Anything he has to say of importance will be AFTER he's subdued.
COMBATSYS: Sornram Teppitak dodges Munin's Shadow Wave.
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COMBATSYS: Cammy successfully hits Sornram Teppitak with Spiral Arrow.
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Sornram is on a role here clearly as he manages to dodge out of the way of the shadowy chi, so it flies past him harmlessly into a wall. Less so being on the receiving end of Cammy's boots, as he staggers back, winded for a moment.
His back to the wall, literally, as he stumbles backwards into the side of a building, he sees the way things are going and as he's somewhat allergic to pain decides there's not much point taking things to the bitter end. So he puts his hands up. "Alright, alright, friends! There's no need for anger, no need for trouble. I know it's not me you want anyway.".
COMBATSYS: Cammy takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Sornram Teppitak takes no action.
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And Cammy for her part seems happy to accept a prisoner. "Thats good news, it's much harder to interrogate people when they are unconscious." she says amiably enough. Things are going well here, which puts her in a good mood. While she moves in and digs out a pair of handcuffs which she has hidden /somewhere/ on her outfit, twirling Sornram around to be cuffed, she eyes Munin with vague curiosity. She's noted Aranha too, but he's too far away for conversation.
"So you are the backup I was promised?" she asks. "Strange. I was expecting Captain Guile. But I suppose maybe the higher ups didn't want half of Rangoon to be bombed." she says with a small smile. She is becoming quite familiar with Guile's methods.
Aranha finally recovers from his shock just in time to see Cammy spin the other guy around and cuff him. And two and two continue not equal four in his mind when he sees Cammy in action. Deciding that he's not going to have his questions answered by standing around, he moves closer and that's when he sees the change in uniform.
"Those are different threads since the last time I saw you." He shifts his weight. His stance becomes one that's not overtly hostile but could easily be defensible if he needs it to be.
Munin eyes the man warily as he gives up. She checks her injury while the moment presents itself and Cammy stares him down. Not vital. Definately in her favor. She shakes her head at mention of 'backup' "No, was simply in the area and figured i'd lend a hand, in case they were Shadaloo". She nods to Aranha, not recognizing him, before looking back at the man, waiting to see what he has to say.
So THIS is the one, she thinks to herself, who was making all that racket. This promises to be interesting.
COMBATSYS: Munin takes no action.
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Cammy ahs, a bit more disapproving. "I'm not so sure I approve of vigilantism... what if you attacked me instead?" she wonders. "And you have no idea who I am even now.". Though mention of Guile might give a hint who she works for, at least in a broad sense.
Then she glances over at Aranha, a little surprised. "You met me before?". And she frowns, a little unhappy. Someone else she should know, but doesn't. "I suppose I was probably under cover." she decides. "Are you the backup, at least?". She's curious now if she got hung out to dry and only the local vigilantes were around to help her out.
"Twice." Aranha's stance shifts slightly. "Once you were telling me to stay out of Shadaloo's business." He holds up one finger as he counts off the incidents. "The other time you were part of a Chinese/Shadaloo attack force performing a strike on Texas. I only happened upon it because my flight to Metro got delayed because of it."
He then glances at the other person. Before answering that other question "And yes. Apparently I am your back up. Though I can't say I'm too enthused about that fact."
Poor Munin. She is now utterly confuzzled. She remembers Cammy now. She saw the blonde bombshell on the field just before the Nuke incident. Aranha stating her shadaloo affiliation would normally make her consider the woman hostile. However, she is aware of Guile, and his affiliations. She can only blink, head tilted, wondering who's on which side.
She gives them both a raised eyebrow expression, sword kept out at her side. She'll get the other one later. "So your both working for the states?". She can easily identify Cammys accent, but that means little in and of itself other than origin. Her attention on the guy that's been chased down is reletively nil at the moment.
Cammy nosewrinkles at Aranha, a frown creasing her forehead. Clearly she isn't very happy about his insinuations. "The only thing I have to do with Shadaloo is hanging them out to dry." she tells him. Though he is not the first person to suggest to her that she has been perhaps /very/ close to Shadaloo in the past. Her response, though, is just to rack her brains to try and remember, and when nothing comes, she gets irritated, when perhaps a softer response might get better results. "You got paid for your merc work didn't you? By the UN?" she points out to Aranha, fairly belligerently.
On the other hand, the Killer Bee was always supremely controlled.
Now distracted and apparently maybe annoyed, she looks over at Munin. "NATO originally but now that the UN has taken over I've been temporarily seconded to them.".
The nose wrinkle the frown. She doesn't behave like the Cammy from before. She's not as outwardly calm. It took more to get under her skin. He begins to try to read her body language some more. She doesn't seem to be lying according to his eyes. He's going over her measurements in his head, her build doesn't seem too different from his previous encounters. The wheels turning in her head? Now that's harder to read. Does it mean that's she's trying to think of a justification or that she doesn't remember?
He decides to answer her. "After the help I gave in both Texas and Metro City, they decided they wouldn't mind my assistance." He shrugs. "No accounting for taste in the help they ask for." Was that a dig at her or self deprecation? Possibly it was both.
Narrow eyes swap back and forth from Cammy, to Aranha, and back again, occasionally flitting to their captive audience. "If your not working for Shadaloo, then we're on the same side for the time being....". She turns around and goes to retrieve her other weapon, feeling safer that they won't attack her from behind. She doesn't mention seeing Cammy at the nuke site, but WILL be keeping an eye out for her goings on.
Returning, she eyes the pair "I'm Munin Arshe. Been helping with the 'Shadaloo problem' as it were. You are... ?" once again she looks between them "... and what about this guys involvement in all this?" Her attention flows from them back to their running target.
Munin... Arshe? Politeness forbids Cammy from commenting. Perhaps fortunately, she's too focused on Aranha to really care about Munin's funny name! "Mercenaries are not generally looked upon favourably." Cammy points out to Aranha. "They never have been. Either way. You did a good job." she says slightly grudgingly. "Maybe even better than Captain Guile would have. We've succeeded without even doing any massive property damage.".
As for Munin, she replies, "I'm Cammy White, and this man here is Sornram Teppitak, a man involved in an organisation involved in smuggling and embezzling UN funds. He's only an underling... my main target is Khun Min. I almost had him yesterday, but he slipped away. I'm hoping Teppitak will be able to give some clues as to his whereabouts.". A slight pause, and then she adds, "I'm not entirely sure I should be telling this to bystanders, though.".
"Eh. Massive property damage is not my thing unless it serves a purpose." But that was something that Shadaloo Cammy would've known about him. He begins to think of how strangely Ayame had behaved at one point and it confusing the ever loving crap outta him. For now he decides to stand down. After all, jeopardizing a mission is not good for his bank account.
"Eh. Whatever. They may not like mercenaries but they came to me. I could be hanging out back at Metro right now but I'm here so I guess we're gonna have to deal with it for now. So you got this guy which means I'll probably get a call when the next move is going to be made."
Munin snickers briefly "He nearly shot me, and i knocked him upside the head. He... " She points a thumb at Aranha "... took down the guy in the alley, or he wouldn't be standing here. Not sure we can be considered bystanders".
She shrugs "In any case, he's a thief workin for thieves. What group would that be, then?"
"You wouldn't get paid, doing that." Cammy points out to Aranha. "And you may well get a call. I'm not sure. I don't make those sorts of decisions, I'm purely a field agent.". She seems to have calmed down a little from her earlier agitation, at least; Cammy is very much the sort of person who is at her best when doing her job, and talking about it, rather than talking about whatever past she cannot remember, soon puts her back on an even emotional keel. In fact as she is thinking about her task she has a look of determination on her face that looks almost comical on her rather 'cute' features. That, at least, is an expression Aranha would recognise frmo before.
She is doing (more or less) what she was made for, after all. And it sure beats getting abuse left and right while on leave and at a loose end in Southtown.
Still, she reaches up to brush her braids back into neat position behind her back, and shrugs at Munin. "So far it seems to be just a local criminal group, though it may well have ties to something bigger." She sounds somewhat disinterested, no, her job is to find them, analysts and Colonel Wolfman will decide on the big picture stuff.
She turns, and hauls Sornram, who had collapsed to the ground leaning against the wall, to his feet. "I don't really have time to sit here and make idle chit chat though.".
And Aranha smirks when they mention that. In that instant they shed light on why Aranha was chosen. They plan on using a thief to catch a thief. It had nothing to do with his performance against Chinese Shadaloo forces though it probably raised his stock a bit. Either way, it's not his concern.
"In that case, I'll let you handle this and I'll be on my way." He gives the ex-Shadaloo doll a wave before making his way back to his hotel room
Aranhas opinion seems mirrored by Munin "Well, good luck with that. Not really my problem if it isn't Shadaloo". That it may have ties to them doesn't concern her. If that's the case, it'll come out soon enough. She gives a wave over her shoulder as she turns and walks away towards wherever it is she had been going.
Cammy White. She will have to remember that name, just in case. There's more to this picture, she just knows it. Which usually means trouble somewhere.
Log created on 15:18:41 03/14/2012 by Cammy, and last modified on 04:39:10 03/15/2012.