Sandwiched between two waterfalls was a single bridge. Now this bridge used to be a favorite with tourists as the twin waterfalls entranced the people who watched it. However, now it was entirely deserted. Empty of people and animals, with only the noise of falling water filling what would otherwise would be a silent place with noise. Supporting the bridge were four giant pillars on either sides of it safeguarding the bridge from falling into the water. Standing atop one of the pillar was a teenager named Brandon Charbonneau who was currently waiting on a shipment of Dust. Although, most people would be generally happy to just sit and enjoy watching the waterfalls and possibly fall into a quiet nap listening to the noise of the waterfall, Brandon was not most people. Brandon who had 'enjoyed' this sight for hours and hours, had only one word to describe his situation and that was dull.
Dull. A very apt word for the situation he was in Brandon thought. Of course Brandon knew what was at stakes here, but that didn't prevent him from feeling bored. He knew that, preventing the shipment of dust to the Black Bear Organization meant that they wouldn't have the necessary ammo to fight against Torchwick and the White Fang. Forcing them to join Roman and whatever devious plans he may have. Brandon knew that, but he didn't care. After all, The Black Bears, Roman Torchwick, the White Fang, none of them matter to Charbonneau. In fact almost all the activities that the Knights did Brandon didn't really care for, but a job well done was the only thing Brandon strived for nowadays. Plus, now that Father was letting him go on more solo missions he could actually cut loose without having to worry about anyone else. Speaking of cutting loose...
After hours of waiting a truck carrying the dust supply finally came through the tunnel. Unsurprisingly the supply was heavily guarded, with two trucks filled with bodyguards in front and behind the supply truck. What was surprising was who was guarding it.
'Huh, Jade Ninjas? I didn't realize that Junior was that desperate for the dust shipment. Oh well, hopefully he didn't spend too much lien on these guys'
With a careful and precise shot with Magnum Opus, Brandon shoots the front truck tire out, causing the entire vehicle to veer off uncontrollably, twisting and turning until it finally stalled having been turned horizontally, completely blocking the rest of the bridge to the other halting them completely.
'Showtime' thought Brandon before jumping down between two trucks filled with armed ninjas ready to complete his job.
When the Jade Ninjas got a job from Junior of the Black Bear Organization. They assumed it would be an easy job. After all, they had no reason to believe that
there would be anyone that would try and stop them in their task. Sure they had run in with the law concerning some of their other... activities, but this was one of their more tamer jobs. Receive a dust shipment, and transport it to a dropoff and get paid. Sure, they found it suspicious that a gang located all the way in Vale would pay for a shipment of dust, and for it to be protected by them, but then again if it meant getting paid who was going to refuse? After all, who would fight two trucks filled with armed ninjas? Still with the amount of pay they were getting, they might as well have a backup plan. That's why their leader decided to plant "plan B" all across the areas they would travel. Still though, it seemed silly to most of the ninjas, after all who would even want to stop them in the first place?
So, imagine their surprise when a singular teenager, in a very fashionable hat mind you, not only crashes one of the trucks but also comes down and faces off against two trucks worth of ninjas. It's almost like the kid had a death wish. So, If you could imagine that, then imagine the unimaginable, the teenager was actually BEATING the two trucks worth of ninjas! Armed with only a single pistol with a curved blade attached to it, the teenager covered in mostly black jacket, and red button up shirt, was defeating dozens of ninjas armed with swords and guns with relative ease. With a final attempt to hopefully bring down the attacker four Jade Ninjas snuck up behind him, and attempted to strike him down. Only for him catch their blades with the curved blade on his gun and shoot the blades off the weapon. With that failed attempt the Jade Ninja all, two truck worth of them, turned and ran away from the potential beat down that a single teenage stranger would have for them. With promise of the second half of their pay all but vanishing.
'It's a good thing that our leader is so paranoid, otherwise this guy might actually get away with the shipment.' turning back to look at the teenager, the ninja only saw the teenager stoically walk towards the shipment, the obvious goal of his mission. 'Hmph, you must think you're so high and mighty now, don't you kid? Well, don't worry cause not even you will be able to beat this!' pulling out a remote control out of his pocket the Jade Ninja lackey pushed the button in order to activate the Stone Samurais locked away in the waterfalls. 'You may have beaten us now, kid but you won't survive this' he thought before finally reaching the tunnel and fleeing from the bridge.
Disappointing. That is how Brandon would describe the events that transpired. Hoping for even a little bit of excitement in the boring mission Brandon leapt down to confront the Ninjas in an attempt to have excitement in an otherwise dull missing duel. Instead what he got was a boring fight with enemies, that even the breeze could knock down. He hadn't even needed to transform Magnum Opus and his Aura wasn't even damaged a little bit. In truth the fight had almost been just has boring as the waiting had been.
'Oh well, just another boring job I guess' Brandon thought ' Or I would think that, but hopefully you'll be able to bring a little more excitement into it'.
Turning around Brandon saw a peculiar sight. What appeared to be a samurai covered in stone 'armor', with a dull green gem in his forehead, holding a spear with two yellow spikes poking out of it, had appeared before Brandon. The dull green gem in the samurai head suddenly brightened, seemingly bringing the samurai to life. The samurai suddenly twisting his spear into a fighting position against Brandon.
'Okay then, let's see if you could make this job more interesting-' suddenly samurais of the exactly the as the first one came barreling out of both waterfalls coming out in drones of dozens. '...Okay, maybe this really will be more interesting'.
While the samurais were still falling out of the falls, Brandon pulled out his pistol and shot a couple of the samurais out of the air, destroying them before they even hit the ground. Unfortunately, a horde of stone samurais were still perfectly intact and standing against Brandon.
In an attempt to end the battle quickly, the first samurai leapt forward towards Brandon. Brandon seeing the samurai shot at it, only for the machine to deflect the bullets, and throw it's spear at Brandon. Dodging the initial throw, Brandon then had to parry multiple slashes with Magnum Opus, while being forced back. Seeing the losing situation, Brandon allowed the samurai next attack to strike the blade of Magnum, allowing it to transform into the blade form. Shooting with Magnum Opus, while it was transformed allowed him to strike faster and add more velocity allowing him to cut down the samurai weapon and the samurai in half. Twisting the blade into a ready position. Brandon smirked knowing this fight would finally add excitement to an otherwise dull time.
Charging forward, Brandon started slicing samurais left and right. Unfortunately, for Brandon the Stone Samurais were too tough for him to slice through all the way with his normal strength. In order for him to properly destroy them and not get caught mid-slice was for him to use the recoils of the gunshots in order to fully slice through the 'stone armor'. The problem with that was that he was rapidly running out of bullets, meaning that sooner or later he would no longer have the recoil needed to cut them in half. So, even though Brandon usually saved his Semblance for special occasion or when he was really pressed, he figured that he'd make an exception with this fight.
Jumping off three different spears of three different samurais and using them as platforms, Brandon leapt into the air and fell using the recoil of his gun to slice off all three samurais head. Using the momentarily brief pause of action, Brandon activated his Semblance. Forcing heat from his gloved hand into Magnum Opus transforming the metal of the blade to turn from its normal greyish color into a bright orange with visible heat emanating from the blade. With his weapon now heated with his Semblance, Brandon had no trouble at all with dealing with the remaining samurais. While losing the added velocity to his swing with the recoil, the heated weapon more than made up for it, with the fact that Brandon didn't have to deal with the Stone Samurai 'armor' anymore. With the blade heated as it was, it was able to slice through the samurai like they weren't even machines, but rather like paper. In fact, slicing through the samurai had become such an easy feat, that Brandon elected to transform Magnum Opus into its pistol form and shoot through the machines, though the bullets were still super heated.
The Stone Samurais seeing that their numbers were rapidly decreasing decided to initiate one last plan. grouping up together, the samurais formed into a straight wall with all of their spears pointing outwards towards Brandon, and rushing him. Realizing that this was more than likely the Samurais last attack, Brandon decided to launch his final attack as well. Transforming his weapon back into its blade form and simultaneously heating it up Brandon rushed towards the advancing wall. Right before the point of impact, Brandon reeled back his blade as far as he could and swung, pulling the trigger on the gun as well. With the the force of the swing with the added bonus of heat, the blade went cleanly through the samurais, and popping out the cartridge and putting in a new round of ammo into his gun, the samurai were cut in half.
Boring. That would definitely be the word that Brandon would use for defining the wait that he had to endure. After successfully defeating the Stone machines, Brandon called in the Knights to take the package and retrieve him as well. What he didn't expect was the wait before the Knights got to him. Brandon looked over to the remains of the samurais, only to see that they were slowly evaporating into nothing but ash. The heat from the slice of the sword, melting the two halves of the Stone Samurai from the point of impact. Filling the sky with ash.
Brandon sighed and turned away closing his eyes. After all, this sight was even more dull than the waterfalls. Throughout his many years working under his father he had turned many things into ash piles so the sight of it had become rather dull. Though, Brandon was glad for one thing at least, at least he didn't have to go this far against the Jade Ninjas. He could handle the ash, he could handle blackening of the skies, he could handle the light layer of ash that would get on his clothing, he could even handle the problem it had to his breathing. Something that he could never get used to however, was the smell of burning flesh. That smell was something that no matter how many times he smelled it, he could never get used to.
'Finally' Brandon thought, as he heard the plane for the pickup finally arrive. Picking up the dust shipments first, the plane slowly flew low enough for Brandon to jump into the passenger seats. As he was settling down into the seats, Brandon looked back onto the bridge and thought to himself 'Another job, and another job well done'
The plane then lifted off and flew away leaving nothing, but ash falling from the sky. Ash like snow.
Author notes: Hey guys, so I really liked the characters that Mark made and when he gave permission to use them I thought, well I might as well. However a note should be made that since basically no information exist on these people I'm a basically going to make up my own back stories and I'm probably going to wait to do more than do a retelling of the trailers since I'm waiting on the fourth member.