When he had arrived, hours after her, it was already night time.

Normally he wouldn't care since he was given a flashlight for God's sake, but the dense underbrush and groves surrounding him weren't his normal areas of expertise and the darkness didn't help that. He would stumble when he wasn't paying careful attention to his footing and he even fell once to the ground, and this made him glad that his superior sent him in alone.

Truth of the matter was he wasn't used to skulking around in a forest. He was usually sent to infiltrate laboratories or other similar buildings and structures that had little to no obstacles on the ground. He'd have to pay extra attention which was pretty fucking pathetic considering what he was.

His train of thought broke as a burst of static filled the air coming from the communications device hooked on his belt. He snatched it quickly and held it in front of him, making his way around a dirt path and into a seemingly abandoned farm house. Glancing around at the area- overturned tables, open cabinets, a gross slab of meat encrusted with puss and other things he didn't even want to think about on the floor- he kicked the leg of an overturned chair and sat upon it once it was propped up.

"You've just arrived, correct?"

The calm voice of a man was the only thing heard amongst the silence. The other simply looked down at the device in his hands and nodded at the appearance of said man who sat in a dark room, an eerie glow coming from the computers in front of him the only source of light. His eyes were covered in dark shades and from what could be seen he wore his blonde hair slicked back with his attire to be only a dark black suit.

"Yeah, no thanks to the shitty pilot you shipped me off with." He replied as soon as he noticed the others sudden sour expression, one beginning to form on his own, "So now I have to walk around in the dark trying to find her."

The man behind the screen simply adjusted his sunglasses in silence, calculating his words, "You're in a bit of luck. She's been stationary in one area for quite some time."

"Oh yeah?" This was great news to him. It seems that he didn't have to go searching high and low for her like he had originally thought, "I wonder why."

"I wouldn't know. She hasn't been picking up when I've tried contacting her... perhaps she's a little tied up?"

The man had an amused smirk on his face now which caused the other to frown in disgust. It was like a sick joke to him and the latter never understood the formers sick sense of humour, no matter how much he himself could relate to it. That was just how things were meant to be.

"I guess so." He replied sheepishly while he leaned back in his chair, propping his feet up on the side of the overturned table in front of him, "Send me her coordinates and I'll see if I can get to her before she decides to run off."

"Very well, I'll get to it. I'm counting on you."

"Yeah, yeah."

He waved him off before the small screen before him turned black. A soft beeping noise emitted and the screen immediately turned into a map of the rural area he was located in to reveal a small arrow- himself, of course- pointing towards a red blinking dot miles away from him.

With a sigh, he looked around himself again before glancing at a mirror on the wall beside him. He took in his appearance with a slight frown- red eyes, shielded by dark sunglasses, blood red layered hair that reached down to his shoulders with black roots and pale skin with a sickly green twinge in it, only noticeable in some forms of light- before getting up and pocketing the device in his hands before whispering to himself silently.

"What'd the hell did you get yourself into, Steve?"