Codename: Ghost - An Arknights OC Fanfiction.

Who He Once Was

>Location: Lungmen Downtown
>Date: [REDACTED]
>Time: 0830

The city of Lungmen was bustling with life as cars zoomed around the freeways and their citizens were regularly going through their own daily lives under the night sky of the city downtown

That was the view you'd get from a room inside the Lungmen Guard Department, or L.G.D for short, main building, In the room were the two signature figures of the L.G.D, Inspector Ch'en, and Hoshiguma. Sitting across of them were four people dressed in casual clothing. But if you looked closer, they weren't any regular people, as hidden underneath their normal guise were blades and guns.

"So, I take it you are the Phantom Task Force?" Ch'en says to the four men who sat across her and Hoshiguma,

"Yeah." One of them answers. The person's face donned a mask with the mural of a skull and his head had a halo above it, as he stood up and held out his hand to Ch'en, introducing himself briefly, "I'm Ghost."

"...Ghost....you're the rumored the Angel of Destruction, or so I've heard." Ch'en asks him as she reaches out and shakes his hand,

"I suppose some call me that....but I'd prefer not to be called that."

"Alright, Ghost, then. And the others are..?"

"From my right, Echo, Smoke, and One" Ghost introduces his squad mates one by one, pointing to each of them as he respectively said their names,

"I see. I'm Inspector Ch'en, and this is Officer Hoshiguma" She then introduced herself to them briefly but enough to get the basics out of the way, before immediately getting straight to the matter at hand,

"I've received and read the documents sent to me by your commanding officer. To put it simply, you are here on a covert mission to assassinate a black market arms dealer who's been a primary character supplying weapons to [UNDISCLOSED], your supposed enemies and is now hiding somewhere in Lungmen?"
Ch'en then gave a brief explanation of her understanding of the situation they had based on the many scattered papers and documents on the coffee table that separated the two sides.

"That's right, and for that, we request your assistance in tracking down this individual, seeing as this might also affect Lungmen's safety, too." Ghost confirms her and gets straight to the point of wanting to ask for cooperation from the L.G.D, using the possibility that the situation could compromise the nation's security as an excuse to persuade her to do so,

"It's quite concerning and we can't rule that possibility out, but we can't mobilize our forces for something discreet like this, as it might raise unrest among the civilians, and we can't really help by lending you some of our experts, for we fear the possibility of Lungmen being unintentionally dragged into this crisis of yours."
From the seems of things, the negotiation wasn't exactly going so well for them, but then Ch'en suggested something else,

"But although we might not be able to help you directly, we can help refer you to a logistics company that can help you with tracking him down. Their name is 'Penguin Logistics'."

"Alright, I understand, that'll do.... So, where can we meet this Penguin Logistics - you guys, don't laugh! We need to act professional!"" Ghost cuts his own sentence to stop his teammates who were giggling at the fact that there was a company named after a penguin, but even he was starting to grin a little,

"B-but, Ghost, a penguin...are you serious? we're working with penguins! What're they gonna do? Waddle until they catch em?" One of his squad mate, Smoke, the supposedly joker of the squad, jokes with him, causing the other two who sat with him to chuckle a little,

"That's just a name, you idiot!"

".....I'll arrange for everything. Just follow this map here and you'll arrive at the meeting point. They'll send someone to greet you. There's a logo here if you need to refer to it when looking for them," Ch'en then hands over a piece of paper to Ghost, whose face was already stuck between trying to keep calm and collected, and just laughing together with his mates , while she herself just made a 'really?' face at him.