Project Prophet

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"We're waiting," Was all I got from Joker in response.

"Solid plan," I spoke with sarcasm dripping from my words.

We began to walk around the back to where an open door was but what we didn't know was that someone was watching us from the roof of the destroyed building.

"We deviants set up various checkpoints with symbols inside that direct us in the direction of a safe area, the symbol on the checkpoint symbolizes what skills you'd need to get inside, so teams of deviants usually have one person of each skill with them at a time." Joker explained.

I simply nodded along pretending to pay attention, instead, I was scanning the area for any danger or anything that could be of use, "A-huh, alright."

"Alright next place, right Joker?" Tailor questioned.

"I'm on it," Joker respond as he began to mess around with the program on his phone.

I occasionally glanced over at Tailor to check his state of being, but I stayed silent.

"I'm in, it says look ..... up?" Joker spoke slowly as he slowly looked up to the roof to see the masked being on the rooftop looking down at us, he shouted in surprise, "Hey!"

The being in question quickly moved out of our line of sight, I could see a long furry tail swish behind them as they moved.

"Hey! Its okay, we're here to help, there are no more safe houses in the city but we managed to find refuge," Joker spoke out to them.

"Who are you?!" They yelled from their hiding space.

"I don't remember my name, but I go by Joker."

"And I'm Runner."

"I'm Tailor, and as we might guess, you don't have a chip either, you don't remember your name either."

I stayed silent since I wasn't sure if I could trust them or not.

"Scarlet," Was all they said as the moved back into our line of sight.

"Nice moniker, now come with us to Nova 6," Joker spoke in a commanding tone.

"Why?" Scarlet spoke as they tilted their head to the side in a questioning manner.

"The agents are coming to explore the outer city limits to find more of us deviants, one of our own was actually a spy," Joker tried to explain.

"Then how can I trust you!" They yelled.

"The one who was a spy within the deviants was killed by our boss here," Joker spoke as he motioned to Tailor.

Scarlet cautiously came down from their rooftop hiding spot. The woman in front of us wore a white fox mask with red marking painted on it around the cheeks, eyes, and mouth. She had long fluffy white hair that went down to her knees. On her body she wore an old traditional red and white Japanese dress that fell down to the floor covering her entire body, her pale shoulders were exposed by the long sleeves that covered her arms and hands and started at the top of her small un-toned biceps. On top of her head was a pair of white and red tipped fox ears which were standing upright and at attention, her posture radiated pathos along with power and strength. From her lower back sprouted nine luxurious white fox tails with red adorning the tips of each tail. The mask's closed eyes stared at us almost as if they were searching for something, a reason to trust us or to look into our very being.

"You look good, considering the circumstances." Joker commented before continuing with, "Let's get going."

"Ok?" Scarlet spoke after a second of silence following us back to the SUV.