A very special thank you to COOL1nate for getting me out of my slump. For getting the creative spark back in me. Without further ado, CLIM: Volume 2 - Chapter 8

"Tch, while our 'heroes' are out playing prom night, I get stuck with babysitting and recon." On top of a roof of a medium sized building in front of the party was a man not in uniform from the school, nor any garbs from this world. He took a knee and reached into his pocket to grab a pack of cigs. "Might as well enjoy myself too while I'm at it. Can't let them have all the fun."He took out a lighter and set his cigarette ablaze, taking in the sweet pleasures of tobacco and exhaling the sweet spicy aroma of menthol.

"Not sure about the school's smoking policy, but we'll just pretend it's one of those dust things and hopefully they'll let it slide." He pressed two fingers against his ears and a radio call began to ring inside his head.

Bleep! Bleep!

Bleep! Bleep!

"This is Fox, go ahead."

"This is Snake, can you hear me?"

"Loud and Clear Snake, how's the view down there."

"Like a Scene from one of those awful teen movies. Might be too much for me to handle. Maybe I should abort the mission."

"Negative, I'm pretty sure Master Hand wouldn't let us come back empty handed."

Snake grumbled. "And if I go AWOL?"

"Well consider yourself a member of the League of Villains and kiss that sweet chance of getting into the next Smash goodbye."

The man lurking in the shadows smirked. "Speaking of which, mind filling me in on who left the Smash Academy?"

"Every nasty no good trouble maker you see on the roster of Smash, we don't know what they're planning, but with that many bad guys running around in a world they don't belong too, it's nowhere close to good."

"And with that kind of party, this world really has its hands full. Ganondorf, Bowser, Jr., King Dedede, Wolf, and Wario. Real nasties we're trying to apprehend."

"And that's not even including the cameos from assist trophies."

Snake notices something in the distance that prompts him to bring out his binoculars. All his important senses were tingling, and his sight and hearing sharpened. He sees a girl jumping from roof to roof in the bright moonlight. "I think we got a bad guy on our hands."

"What do we got? Is it anyone from the Academy?"

Snake threw his cigarette towards the ground and proceeded to tail the woman. "Dunno, might just be a petty thug, but capturing her might give us some good intel just in case."

"No petty thug just waltz into a prestigious school full of Huntsman and Huntresses."

"Bingo", Snake jumped off the roof he was on. He braced for impact and rolled forward to take the fall and sprinted after her.

She came to a halt and hid behind a stone wall. Snake quickly leaped into a nearby bush to get a better look at the person. Snake took notice of her Catwoman like getup and tried to take in as much detail as he could despite her mask being in the way. There was a guard in front of the building she was trying to get into, who was oblivious to the swift movement she made to the other side. She quickly came out of hiding and came up from behind to stealth chop the pool soul. Out cold, she drags him to a nearby bush and proceeds to infiltrate inside Beacon tower.

"I think I'm in love", Snake said aloud.

"Easy there cowboy, you don't even know what she looks like behind the mask." Fox interrupted.

Snake left the bushes and basked himself with the cover of night. "True, but you gotta be in pretty good shape to move that fast, turn the lights off a grown man and hide the body so elegantly."

"How does that override the fact you don't know what her face looks like?"

"I'm appreciating her other assets."

"Ass...-Wait!? Where are you exactly?"

Snake was under the shadows right behind our feline dressed friend while she casually made her way towards three Guard's protecting the elevator.

"Excuse me, no one is allowed in this area." Said the Guard in front.

She pressed on, shrugging off any warnings he just made.

"STOP!"

She rushes in as the guard is taking shots at the aggressor. Her speed made it as if the bullets phased through her, striking the guard's face in the progress. Another guard charges in to help his fellow comrade, but she was one step ahead and made quick work of him by using the gun held by the soldier she struck, sending guard number 2 flying back. She then finishes the first guard by flipping over him and using her momentum and his weight to hurl him straight towards a guard rail. The two remaining guards charged straight ahead with their batons ready in hand. The lady dodged both effortlessly like it was some sort of dance routine and quickly drawn out two black blades out of thin air with some fire elemental dust. She twirled her blades with much grace, cutting down the third guard with ease. The last remaining guard made a valiant effort, but she was much too skilled to fall for any blind attacks and blocked every single strike. He made an attempt to make one last kick, but was countered and she quickly finished him off with a sweeping kick and two fist that made a crushing impact to his rib cage. That last description definitely knocked him out cold.

"I hear a lot of noise out there snake. What's your status?"

Snake crouched down behind a flower pot and hunched over as much as he could. "I'm fine but the guards here are taking a serious beating. If she were in Smash, she'd basically be a high teir Dark Pit with a better moveset."

"I'll be sure to relay the message to let him know you said that."

Snake smirked, "Go for it, maybe Master Hand will actually make him a pallet swap and give the character slot to someone who deserves it."

"Ouch."

Snake peeked over and saw the Woman walk confidently into the elevator with two guards in. Shocked and appalled was a serious understatement to how they felt.

Snake tapped his chest four times in the shape of a cross and made his way for the elevator to wait his turn.

The elevator reached the top floor, and the bell began to rang. The Woman walked out with a scroll in her hand leaving behind two guards passed out on the ground.

"This is Handy," she said. The guard's scroll had everything she needed to bypass any security measures to do as she pleased. The top floor had a green hue that shined ever so slightly. The room was surrounded by giant monitors, similar to an office space without the cubicles. In the middle, was the central computer waiting to be hacked into. While tapping away on the keys she heard a little static creep up in her ear canal.

"A party guest is leaving."

"Which one?" She closed her eyes in annoyance.

"Ironwood."

"I guess the General had enough fun for one night." A 2nd voice said on the walkie. "Should we intervene?"

"No, we're done here." The Woman made plans to leave ASAP until she heard the elevator bell rang once more.

Nothing appeared out of the ordinary until she glanced down to see a brown cardboard box.

Bleep! Bleep!

Bleep! Bleep!

"So slippy helped hack into the security cameras of Beacon, and the first thing I see is the dumbest idea I've ever witnessed."

"Hmmmm..looks like we got ourselves a party crasher." The women said with a smug. She took her time making her way to the box. Building the suspense for herself when she finally kills the fool using a 5-year old's hide'n seek tactic.

"Do I need to go over this again? The cardboard box is a very important tool for infiltration missions. It's ideal for fooling the enemy.

Fox watches the live footage in horror as she eases in ever so close. "Snake! This is insane!"

"Fox, I'm not exaggerating when I say the success of the mission hinges on how I use this cardboard box."

The woman forms a bow with three arrows pulled back, ready to skewer through even the most hardy of flesh.

"But in the end, a cardboard box…"

She unleashes all three at once, making the signature 'shing!' She smiles and kicks the box over, only for her smile to soon disappear.

"A cardboard box is only made of paper."

Snake leaves the comfort of the shadows to put her in a choke hold! She elbows him multiple times as hard as she could, but the man would not budge. She runs up the elevator wall to escape his grasp and get the jump from behind. His reflexes were too fast, and he quicked turned around to kick the woman right in the gut! The agonizing blow made her stagger in place. This gave Snake a chance to finish this off. He quickly came in for three jabs: Two hooks and a roundhouse kick, to his surprise all blocked.

She still had fight in her, and they made quick exchanges of CQC resulting in loud fist to fist impact! She quick-stepped back to charge fiery crystallized shards to shoot at him. Snake, taking no chances to dodge point blank grabbed her wrist with the shards shooting everywhere else in the room. Sounds of windows shattering, electronics exploding filled the room and beyond.

Snake grabbed the fake Catwoman by the shirt and slammed her to the ground as hard as he could. Resulting in the surrounding debri being pushed back by the sheer amount of force he produced.

"If I'm not mistaken, this was supposed to be prom night, not a masquerade. So why don't we take off that mask?"

Before he could take the mask off, they were interrupted by the sound of the elevator bell going off. With Ruby running out and Cloud coming up via emergency stairs.

"Seriously, give me back my keys you brat!" Said the disgruntled blonde.

"No!" Those weapons are mine! All mine!" Ruby yelled while clumsily running on heels.

Fox looked in utter disbelief.

"You two picked the wrong time to ruin a perfect night out!" Said the annoyed Snake.

The Woman saw a chance of action and kicked Snake with a backwards summersault and landed back on her feet.

She leaped high into the air and readied more arrows to hunt down their prey.

Cloud eyes widened with Ruby stopped dead on her tracks.

"HIT THE DECK!" Snake yelled as twirled and did various flips to avoid even a single scratch. The other two hid straight behind desk.

The elevator bell rang once more, this time Ironwood showing up to crash the party.

"This is growing tiresome". The woman thought. She made for a quick retreat towards a shattered window.

"On no you don't!" Snake yelled as he fired rounds of 9mm bullets with his USP 45!

And just like that, she disappeared into the moonlight. Soaking in the darkness that is carrying her off to safety to sleep under the stars once more and fight for another day.

"My men are out cold, Beacon tower is breached, and I heard loud explosions coming from a mile away." Ironwood said in the most displeased tone. "What is going on here!?"

Snake pulled out a pack of cigs from his pouch and pulled one out to set it ablaze. He took a long hard drag before finally slowly releasing it. "Wouldn't you like to know?"