"This [Ghost] AR-Team has. over." Came a Male voice, the man was in his late 20's he was wearing a Kevlar vest imbedded with Titanium-a plating underneath a winter camo Jacket, he was wearing a pair of winter army boots, a pair of winter camo pants. He had auburn colored hair with ember eyes, a pale complexion which gave him a somewhat intimidating look, and on the back of his neck was a direct neural interface.

This Man is Jasper Riley he was an old friend of Lycoris, and Persica, back when they met each other when they were younger. During the middle of the 3rd World War various governments deployed autonomous units known as T-dolls, but before the T-Dolls were made the governments delved in the world of robotic enhancements, and Neuroscience such Direct Neural Interface.

In his hands he was carrying an experimental winter camo XR-2 bullpup auto-burst rifle that was developed during the 3rd world war for special operations, it was equipped with a suppressor, Dual mags, a amg uh-1 gen ii holographic sight and hybrid sight linked to it.

"Alright copy that Persica." Said Jasper as he turned around to look at the girl's of Team Anti-Rain.

"Alright girls listen up Persica called in and said that there was a Sangvis listening outpost nearby, and she told us to investigate it, and from there we would be led to find our next target of the mission." Said Jasper, and then he saw M4a1 his 2IC raised her hand.

"And what's the objective sir?" M4 asked Jasper.

"Once we reached the S.F listening post we will go to a safehouse where we need to secure a file under the designation Lyco, but unfortunately we don't know where the safe-house is." Said Jasper.

"Sir, is it possible that we are going to find the safehouse location in the listening post?" Asked STAR who raised her hand.

"Well you caught on really quick Star." Said Jasper.

"Alright what are we waiting fore then? Let's get going!" Said M16 as she walked pass Jasper.

"You think we get to tear open some S.F commander?" SOPII asked Jasper,

"Persica did say stealth was optional for this mission, but we are trying to do this quietly as possible so no gung ho SOP." Jasper told SOP as he wanted this to go quietly as possible and with little mess.

"Fine." Said Sop 2 sadly as she thought of something.

"Alright if we are done talking, let's get going." Said Jasper as he began to sprint towards the Listening post.

"Sir. Is there a peculiar reason why we can't find the safehouse on any map or satellite footage?" M16 asked Jasper, who used the established connection of his DNI and the girls ZENITH network to speak "telepathically". (Using the air-quotes because they are still using radio waves to speak, something the DNI Jasper has in the back of his cervical vertebrae)

"As I and STAR said earlier, what Persica told us to find cannot be found on normal maps, and as for satellite location of the place, as such would be much easier to find the base through S.F network something the abandoned S.F listening Post close by might have a record of the location we need. And as to why we can't find it on any satellite footage? Well the Safehouse might have something that might be protecting it from the satellite observation." Jasper said as he gave the reason why the safe house couldn't be found on any regular map or satellite, then after some 20 minutes of running Jasper took cover behind the wall of the building close to the listening post.

"Alright coast's clear, no SF in 100 meters, let's move quickly." Said Jasper as he ran towards the entrance of the facility.

"Oh oh oh, Leave this to me!" Said SOP2 as she waved her hand, expressing her wish to breakdown the door.

"Sure, go ahead SOP." Said Jasper as he gave permission for SOP2 to breach the door open.

Inside the listening post was dead empty, with not a single person and the only thing there were the Devices used by the listening post, like computers, Databanks, radar screen equipment, and others.

And as they finished standard procedures on checking for anyone inside the facility, The group lowered their guns.

"SOP, go and start hacking into the mainframe and get us the location, M16, M4 and STAR you three stand guard, I will go and check for stragglers." Jasper said, as he left them to T-Dolls to guard the entrance.

"Have you thought about the objective of this operation?" STAR asked out of the blue, which caught M16's curiosity.

"What are you trying to say?" M16 asked curious about STAR's sudden question.

".... Now that you mention it. Doesn't it sound strange? The original Mission Persica sent us along with Jasper was to retrieve "experimental data", in the end we wound up running all the way into S.F Territory to find a bunch of files left behind by a man long dead." STAR said as she looked around the listening post.

"As tactical dolls, all we need to do is to finish the given objective." Said M4 with a downcast look.

"Mm... Just asking." Said STAR as she shrugged her shoulders.

"Huh? What are you guys talking about?" Said SOP2 as she turned her head, then a beeping sound was heard and she waved at her teammates. "Hey guys come take a look, I've taken care of the database." Said SOP2 as she called at them.

"Must be really nice to be so carefree." STAR said to herself as she saw SOP2 carefree attitude.

"There's a Mainframe where Lyco used to store data when he was still alive." Said SOP as she reveal the Mainframe which Lyco used and the location of the facility was shown, suddenly the location of the safehouse appeared.

"Here, at the N.03 Safehouse." Said SOP2 as the location footage of the safehouse appeared.

"Good work, SOP2! You aren't only great at shooting but electronic warfare as well!" Said M4 as SOP2 her chest swelling with pride.

"Are you two don yet? Let's get going...." STAR asked wanting to get this mission over with.

"Should one of us inform Jasper we got what we came for?" M16 asked.

"No need for worries M16, let's get going. I've got a feeling that S.F aren't going to take kindly to someone hacking into their mainframe." Jasper said as he appeared from the corner of the room.

"Were there any survivors sir?" M4 asked.

"No, M4 just some dried up corpses. Anyways let's get this mission over with I am getting tired, waiting for long." Jasper said as he walked out of the room, and they continued their mission to and walked towards the location of the safehouse.

After a few minutes had passed M4 along with the rest of the AR-Team stopped, something that made Jasper wonder what was going on.

"Is there a problem M4?" Jasper asked M4 wondering if there something wrong.

"I received a Signal, sir." M4 told Jasper, who merely raised an eyebrow as he sat on one of the trees nearby.

"A signal? You think it's an S.F signal?" Jasper asked M4 who simply shook her head.

"Hey guys I think I know where our mystery signal came from." Said Sop 2 as she called to the squad leaders, as she pointed to the valley below them.

"A Griffin Echelon?" M16 asked as she saw a G&K T-Doll Echelon which seem to consists of a 2 T-Dolls along with their Dummy Units, some were carrying PPSH-41 and some were carrying VZ.61 Skorpion.

"They are way off course. What's a doll echelon doing out here anyways?" SOP2 asked wondering what that griffin echelon was doing all the way out here.

"Griffin was in charge of a sweeping mission some time back in this region. They must have been scattered in combat and were later abandoned." M16 answered for her. 

"So they were abandoned.... Would Jasper do the same thing if the time presented itself to him?" M4 thought with a downcast look and then she shifted her gaze at Jasper who was sitting besides a tree stump taking a quick rest and for the most part remained silent like the grave throughout all the conversation.

"So what do we do now? Should we recover them since it seems convenient?" SOP2 asked as she looked at M4.

"I....." M4 was thinking about an answer but was struggling to speak.

"Don't think so, right?" M16 answered for her sister. "Besides the don't look like capable to conduct clandestine operations. And the decision is up to Jasper and M4." M16 said as she looked at Jasper who was sitting on the tree stump.

"No, we ain't bringing them with us and as M16 said they aren't capable of Clandestine mission. That and as long as they are on offline mode S.F ain't going to hunt them down." Jasper said as he got up on his feet while SOP2 gave an understanding look, m4 was confirming his words, and M16 only made a smile. 

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Timeskip

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As Jasper along with AR-Team arrived at safehouse no 3.

"Alright STAR place the charges and get ready to breach." Jasper said as STAR gave a nod.

"Understood chief." STAR said as she placed the charges while Jasper along with the rest of AR-Team stood ready on guard if any unauthorized group came.

TBC

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