Two week ago...
During the attack of the Cyclops, the birthday massacre, Mist one of the assassins was smashed into a wall across the street while they where trying to subdue the beast. As he smashed through the wall into an office table he went unconscious. He lay there till the cops arrived at the scene. The blaring of their sirens and the screeching of tires woke him. He was dizzy and everything was blurry. He managed to stand up from the rubbles. He tried to walk but realized he had broken some ribs and a few bones. He looked outside from the hole he created when he smashed through the wall, he couldn't really make out what was happening but he saw the Cyclops heavy body lying lifeless near the pool and some cops approaching the blond haired boy with guns pointed at him.
'is that smoke from a smoke bomb? Where the fuck is Anqa and Edge, he wondered as he winced in pain as he tried to walk.
"I need to get out of here before I'm noticed", he muttered to himself. He started into the office looking for a door, he couldn't walk through the hole since the place is swarming with cops and he would be noticed and apprehended. That was the last thing he wanted. He needed to get away through a back door.
He had a concussion and the lights in the office were blindly bright to him. He walked towards the only door in the office sluggishly with one hand on his ribs and the other shielding his face from the light. He slowly went through the building till he found a back door that led outside. He could still hear the chatter and the sirens. The place was full of activities. He needed to get away and fast before he would be noticed.
As he walked away from the building slowly into the woods nearby, he spotted his two comrades, Anqa and Edge scoping out the scene from a distance squatting beside a tree.
'Seems they made it out unscathed', he thought gladly as he hurriedly dragged himself towards them.
As he approached them from behind, he was about to call out to them but overheard what they were saying and hid to listen in on their conversation...
"We need to report back to Ra's ASAP. I guess the mission is over", Edge said grimly as he pulled out his holoprojector disk to contact their leader but Anqa who had been quiet the whole time held his hand and stopped him.
"We can't contact Ra's, he'll pull us out of the field. You saw what happened back there, I still need answers. That boy, he has the answers or rather I need him to get the answers I need", Anqa said still staring over at the noisy scene. She watched as an officer handcuffed Aaron and led him into a police car.
"I didn't see nothing and you know that. You just told me that time bullshit and some horseman uncle telling you stuff which I'm still having a hard time believing. What we need to do now is to contact Ra's, that's protocol", Edge argued snatching his arm from her.
"You saw me heal, you saw a badass tattoo appear from nowhere right before your eyes. I know you are curious too but I'm not asking you to come with me. You can go ahead and make your fucking report but I'm not going back to Eth Alth'eban without an answer to my questions", Anqa replied feisty as she got up from where she was squatting.
"I know that once you've made up your mind there's no going back on your word. It's pretty much set in stone. Yes I'm curious where this all is leading to but that's not why I'm going to come with, I can't leave you here on your own. So what's the plan?", he asked in submission.
"You know what it means if you come with me right? You become a traitor to league and a potential target. There's no going back", Anqa warned turning to look at him.
"Well if it doesn't matter to you then neither should it matter to me. I wouldn't chicken out in front of a lady yunno", he replied teasingly. Anqa looked him over and nodded.
"We'll wait till things die down then we find a way to contact him. We have to meet the old centaur uncle again and to do that we've got to locate that seer ASAP", she said turning away from him and looking back towards the noisy scene," I'm sorry Ra's, but I've got to do this. I really have to find out who I am", she breathed to herself. They both just stood there and stared as the ambulance wheeled bodies away on black hospital strollers.
"They are really going to abandon a direct mission from Ra's for some personal reason. This is unlike Anqa. I need to report back to base immediately", Mist muttered to himself behind the tree where he hid. He pushed away from the tree and scampered away quietly.
He navigated through the woods as quickly as he could in pain till he saw their van out on the side of the streets where they left it to infiltrate the birthday party. He limped towards the van and got in through the back. He reached for their medic bag as he sat. He dragged it onto his laps and opened it. He swallowed some aspirin for the pain and treated his open wounds then bandaged it.
He got into the front seat and opened up the glove compartment. He took out the keys and started up the car. He needed to get off the streets. He drove to an abandoned warehouse nearby and stopped behind it. He groaned in pain as he got down from the car. Reaching back into the car he took a holoprojector disk from the glove compartment and limped into the warehouse from a backdoor.
He set the holoprojector disk down on a dusty table and clicked a green button on top of the disk. It buzzed for some minutes as he stood there staring at it. The disk clicked and a holographic image of Ra's standing with his hands behind his back came on.
"Speak", he ordered grimly...