To leave no stone unturned [Mission]

[Ranzu]

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Rebel Scum - repeatable
Rank: C
IIC Length: 4 days
Difficulty: Medium Risk
Objective: Good: Apprehend the rebel forces | Evil: Murder
Description:
Reports have reached the tower of a small group of rebels gathering supplies. These individuals have been identified as members of the attempted overthrow of Iwagakure and extreme measures will be... overlooked when dealing with these people. In the previous attempted rebellion many shinobi were killed by the misguided civilians but another push will not be tolerated.
Reward: 38,000 Ryo | +4 Good or Evil Karma points
GM Required: No

The sun was blazing at it's highest point in the sky, glaring down on the southern edge of Iwagakure with all of it's strength. The people of the village were moving from one patch of shade to the next as they walked along as to stay out of the oppressive sun as much as possible. Some would even duck into public buildings to try and escape the rising heat as much as possible. No one was really paying close attention to anything other than the nearest patch of shade which allowed a dangerous shadow to slink through the streets with relative ease.

That shadow was Zeki of course, the sadojin using genjutsu to practically meld with whatever darkness the nearby buildings offered. This allowed him to move almost entirely unseen through the streets while spying upon everyone else in the streets. And so after exploring roughly half of the back alleys and dead end streets he finally spotted something out of the ordinary; a pair of roughly dressed men keeping guard outside of what looked like an abandoned warehouse. What set these two apart from every other low life bouncer or enforcer he had already seen was just how nervous and jumpy the two were acting. Either they were new to the job or they knew what they were doing was highly dangerous, and Zeki was betting it was the latter.

Slinking through the shadows as a shadow made stealth a breeze, as Zeki literally slipped behind the guards to enter the warehouse to investigate more. Inside he found a few more roughly dressed guards milling around and two more important people standing in front of quite a number of crates.

"Where is your contact? We should have left with the supplies already, staying in one area for too long is suicide." The gruffer of the two said after a couple of minutes.

"Relax. They should be here soon enough, probably after the sun has eased up a bit. Besides, the contact assured me that the idiots in the tower are not making any moves like usual." The sleazier of the two replied.

Of course this was enough information for Zeki to be sure that he had found his rebels, or at least a cell of them...

[Ranzu]

Getting out of the warehouse was just as easy as getting in thanks to his jutsu, the rebels never even having a inkling of what was in the shadows right beside them. Stepping back in the burning sunlight, albiet covered in shadows, Zeki examined the roofs of the nearest stone buildings before finding one he liked. Slinking through the shadows to his choice of location, he quickly arrives on the side of the building opposite of the warehouse so to be out of sight of the guards.

Emerging from the shadows as his jutsu ends the Sadojin jumps up on the roof to land in a crouch before slowly moving towards the lip of the roof. On the way there he changed the color of his body to match the color and texture of the roof he was on while spreading out his mass to flatten himself more against the roof. He would arrive at the edge fairly well camouflaged and proceed to spy on the warehouse below him. He was in wait for the "others" to arrive and was no way trying to get a quick snack in before completing his mission. His spread out mass and darker coloring was purely to trick the rebels and not so he could collect and absorb more sunlight.

After about a hour and half of lazily watching the warehouse another group of roughly dressed individuals came up to the guards to exchange a few words. A minute of talking later and the entire group, guards and newcomers, entered the building. Zeki stood up while resuming his normal form before looking over the warehouse once again, figuring out all of the potential exits. The rats had entered a trap of their own making and Zeki was about to spring it on them.

[Ranzu]

The warehouse had three exits that Zeki managed to spot: the front door, the back door, and a trap door on the roof. The Sadojin sent some of the sand on his body to the nearby stony ground to grind up a few meters of sand to use. Once that was finished he formed some handseals and the sand rose up into the air swiftly before swirling together, forming four crude sand golems roughly in the shape of Zeki. However within mere seconds the sand golems go from crudely hewn to beautifully sculpted as they become perfect replicas of Zeki.

"Right, I want one of you to cover each entrance, and another to patrol the parameter in case they have a hidden exit or such. Don't take them alive, we have permission to kill them all. Now go, I start the first round of attacks in a minute." Zeki commands the sand clones before him. They give a brief nod of acknowledgement before setting off to complete their objectives.

The Sadojin then turns his attention back to the warehouse, examining to figure out how best to assault the place. After looking over the building and figuring out the way he wanted to go about this, he started to perform some handseals. Suddenly the ground rumbled...

[Ranzu]

The warehouse was in the middle of the shaking ground, no doubt alerting the rebels within that something was wrong, but it was far too late for them to do anything about it. Huge spikes of earth erupted from the ground to pierce inside of the warehouse. And by the shouts and screams from within it was clear that spikes were also erupting within the compound too. For well over a minute spikes continually shot up from the very earth the rebels stood upon.

And as suddenly as it started the ground stopped shaking. Zeki had released his handseals to look over the carnage he had wrought, jumping down from the roof to get a closer look. The first few spikes erupted from the outside to pierce within, aiming mostly for windows and the like. Though the windows were thin he was taking no chances in a rebel being able to somehow squeeze through them. The next few spikes entered directly through the walls where he knew doors and hallways were at, to help keep the rebels disorganized and limit their mobility.

Zeki approached the front door to enter the warehouse but stopped when he noticed movement on the roof of the building next to him. He noticed a sand clone of his throw out his arm, launching some sand senbon on the other side of the warehouse. It must mean some rebels survived then, but then again that was sorta the plan from the start. He needed to get some information out of them first.

[Ranzu]

Zeki entered the warehouse proper and was greeted with dozens of earthen spikes sprouting everywhere, and a few corpses that did not dodge them. A trail of blood leading further in the warehouse did alert Zeki that someone did dodge most of the spikes, and that they were alive...for a bit longer at least. Moving forward the Sadojin simply used his own sand to grind the intervening stone spikes into more sand to clear the way while giving himself more resources to fight the rebels if need be. But by how it was going they did not seem to carry much of a threat.

Going through the warehouse was like going through a slaughterhouse really. On the way to the center area Zeki found a dozen more corpses throughout the rooms he passed, all of them horrendously impaled by the spikes. It seemed that this worked out much better then he had planned, though visiting this place beforehand did give him an advantage in determining where the spikes would have been the most effective. However as he approached the central area of the warehouse he heard someone crying and so started to proceed more cautiously forward.

[Ranzu]

The scene before him was quite sad if he was honest. Gruffier from before seem to have his leg impaled upon a spike and was the blood trail from earlier. He had Sleazier's body in his lap and was crying over him, the body clearly been impaled through the chest if the hole that replaced it was any indication. And they were surrounded with the majority of the other rebels' bodies.

"He was my brother...and you killed him!" Gruffier suddenly shouts out as he draws forth a knife from his belt and starts to lunge forward. However his bad leg makes him fall short quite literally, hitting the ground with wet thump. "Arggghhh!" he screams out in pain or rage, it was not clear, before chunking his knife at Zeki.

"You know, I thought about capturing one of you to interrogate. But clearly I killed the smart one with all the plans. A pity." Zeki explains to the man on the ground with clear disdain in his voice, his Shield of Sand catching the knife long before it could ever hope to actually harm Zeki. Suddenly the sand he had been collecting from before would shoot out to cover Gruffier from head to toe. Screams could be vaguely heard from the sand cocoon before it suddenly imploded on itself, crushing the man within instantly.

Zeki continued on his walk to exit out the back door of the warehouse, stepping over the body of the rebel that had attempted to run. Seem he managed to acquire a face full of sand senbon for his efforts. "Right, the warehouse is empty of rebels it seems. Now the three of you grind this warehouse down to sand before collecting the bodies to deliever to the tower. See if they cannot find some lead." He commands the clones before leaving the scene.

[Exit]