Xavier raises an eyebrow at the text. He always wondered how Volke got his information, but he chalked it up to the standard 'I cheated' response. Volke had always been... different. A retired assassin, who once tried to kill Xavier. But that had been when Xavier was a rookie agent. They'd become friends, or at least the closest thing Volke had to a friend. Thinking about it brought back the second time they met, when Volke picked up his... unique ability.
(Backstory Mission)
Xavier was investigating a small town in Massachusetts. A pack of NMCs had been sighted, and he was the closest agent. So far, it seemed that the disappearances and sightings centered around the town dump, but no one had seen anything. So far, the only real hint of what the NMCs were was the random slime trail that was a good 5 ft wide. The technician on staff for him, Alice, had said that it was a slug-based NMC trail, which didn't make him feel better. That usually meant poison, and he hated it when he had to take the antivenom. He was looking into the dump again, this time at night. It was 11:24, and should have been empty. But instead there was a man roasting something. A closer look made Xavier shake his head.
"You shouldn't have eaten that!" Xavier called out, realizing that it was a rat NMC. That made unfortunate sense, rats were usually transformed early.