Ken woke up with a sniper rifle pointed directly into his face. "Don't move." Says the man holding the sniper rifle.
"You work for us now, I'll be watching you at all times, if you dare to do anything funny, I'll open a hole in your skull."
Ken when faced by that threat was initially terrified, but then he remembered he has the hp bar, he won't die from one measly bullet, he could probably just take the sniper out.
"The sniper rifle Clubs soldiers wield deals 50 hp worth of damage per bullet." The telepathic earpiece informed Ken after reading his thoughts of retaliating.
Two shots and he's dead, it's not a risk worth taking, especially not for someone like Ken.
"Your main objective: Find the King of Diamonds, eliminate him and his subordinate." The earpiece continues explaining.
"I'm a traitor." Ken thought, his memories of Ghostdoctor's explanation of the stage remains after the earpiece modification.
"You are playing as the Ace of Diamonds."
Players takes the appearance of npcs in Campaign, therefore identifying eachother becomes harder. If Ken were to reveal his identity to the wrong person, he might just lose his life.
"Now get out there, do your thing, don't act suspicious." The Clubs soldier with the sniper rifle said. It's as Ghostdoctor says, that's all the information the traitor gets, they don't get to know they have teammates and who they are, they're not aware of the King of Clubs either.
Ken didn't have a choice, he walked out his building to head towards the lab, not the centre of Diamonds territory.
To help identifying eachother, Ghostdoctor has previously planned that everyone gather at the lab instead of going to retrieve food as usual.
Unfortunately, just a few steps later, Ken encountered someone, Six of Diamonds, holding a glowing red scythe of Reaper.
Despite Reaper being a woman, she took after the appearance of a tall man that is Six of Diamonds. His eyes glowed bright red, the visual effect of a Mage's power in effect.
Six looked perhaps even more intimidating than Reaper herself with the scythe, and Six was walking menacingly towards Ken.
"Show your weapon." He ordered strictly. Nametags doesn't display in Campaign, and the identities of every ranked officer for this stage isn't announced like in Stage 1-5. Hence, the best way to identify a player if by their unique main weapon.
If Ken were to pull out his daggers right now, Reaper will instantly recognise him and will not hesitate to go on the offense.
Facing this predicament, Ken has no other choice, but to turn and make a run from it, which also exposed himself.
He sprints as fast as he could away from Six while breathing heavily, but it wasn't enough to keep Six away. Six chased Ken down with inhuman speed that created afterimages of himself, parkouring on walls and rubbles occasionally.
"Argh!" Ken tripped and fell to the ground, he watches while sat on the floor Reaper's scythe coming down on him with immense strength.
"NO!" Ken cries while burying his head in his arms. Before the scythe lands, an orange shockwave came from another direction blasting Six away.
The shockwave didn't make impact with Six however, it phased through Six, broke the wall behind and Six's body starts fading and disappearing.
"You okay?"
"W-w-what was that?!" Ken asks terrified.
"That's her ability, creating illusions of herself. However, she shares vision with the illusion she creates, she knows we're here, we gotta get to the lab." Two, or Eleanor who had arrived at the scene answers while pulling Ken off the ground.
When they both stood back up, right in front of them is another Six,also the with red scythe and red eyes, staring right at them.
"Shit, she also shares hearing with her illusions." Eleanor rants then blasts the second illusions away with her Shockwave Rifle.
Reaper is easily the strongest player in this current game. Shockwave does have the highest power level, but the Mage class is overpowered, their power levels never do them justice.
Which is why Reaper is free to walk around revealing her identity to everyone, because she's never really in danger. Besides, it's only illusions she lets loose.
"She knows we'll be headed to the lab, we can't go there."
"Where do we go then?"
Facing that question, Eleanor hesitated, they don't have a lot of options. They don't know who's Ghostdoctor or who's Sean or who's Frostbite in this game. Point transactions are also disabled in Campaign.
"Let's just hide for now." Eleanor says then drags Ken by the wrist, running around the map trying to find a good hiding spot.
What they didn't realised was, they were tailed by yet another illusion of Six conjured by Reaper.
"No..." Eleanor halts her footsteps, "Sean and Ghostdoctor will die if we don't meet up with them..."
Now the decision of where they should be headed has became extraordinarily more difficult, but Eleanor in the end decides to head back.
Despite Ghostdoctor being just a strange creepy man that joined the alliance out of the blue, Eleanor appreciates his efforts of not folding even after torture, it was done to keep her safe from Living Cemetery. Yes, Ghostdoctor didn't do it out of the kindness in his heart, it's very much just so that he can have a strong player supporting him. But he still saved Eleanor's life, twice actually, Eleanor wishes to repay the favour.
Not to mention Sean, who insisted on not giving her up even through the harshest conditions being hunted by Living Cemetery, she doesn't wish to sit and watch them getting hurt because of her.
"Us four together should be enough to deal with Reaper, the problem is if Reaper calls in reinforcements from Necromancer and Miller. In that case, just leave it to me." Eleanor says while dragging Ken with her to the lab, sprinting on their way.
Five of Diamonds, or Ghostdoctor was the first to arrive in front of the lab. His plan was for them to meet up, reveal their identities to eachother then devise a plan from there.
If one of them were either King of Clubs of traitor, it won't be safe for them to reveal their identity, the slightest suspicious movement will cause the sniper watching them to open fire. Two shots and it's over, it's risky.
So their plan was to identify eachother through beverages. Players can purchase beverages from the earpiece during Campaign stages, it just costs an outrageous amount of points.
Ghostdoctor was drinking a can of lemonade, lemonade means normal ranked officer. Traitor will buy apple juice, attached to King of Diamonds will buy orange juice while attached to King of Clubs will just buy mineral water. That's how they play on understanding eachother's identity.
But he wasn't greeted with his teammates at the lab, he was instead greeted with a golden arrow running past his head, cutting a strand of hair on it's trajectory.
The golden arrow continued it's journey piercing through the glass windows of the lab behind Ghostdoctor, shattering it and causing every scientists including Ghostdoctor himself to duck down involuntarily.
"AHH!"
"HUH?!"
The scientists in the lab exclaimed in confusion. Ghostdoctor drops the can of lemonade and pulls out his weapon, a gun that shoots syringes.
He looked up to where the arrow was fired from, his eyes widened in shock upon realising who it was.
The winged man who fired the arrow flew down and charged towards Ghostdoctor, pushing him through the already shattered glass window, all the way across the lab until the door of the stairwell.
The wings propelled Seven, the owner of the wings so powerfully that they burst through the locked stairwell door straight into the stairwell. Seven pushes Ghostdoctor who's still flabbergaste against the wall inside the stairwell while the scientists flee the scene.
"The hell do you think you're doing?" Seven asks while grabbing Ghostdoctor by his collars aggressively.
Ghostdoctor looks at Seven's wings and bow, then stares into his eyes pensively, "Eric..."