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Guest: The scientist would also probably tell everyone that Dust is too volatile for public use.

It was an hour after Marty left from the small town. The trees surrounding the road were so green that he could have mistook it for the forest in Brazil.

Soon he drove out of the forest and into a field. Marty looked around to see if this Vale city was near but the only thing he saw was smoke in the distance.

Now, since the people here relied on Dust to fuel everything, this meant that it was either a bandit or a Grimm attack or a fire that got out of control.

Just in case Marty prepared his AK-47 and AS-50.

As he drove he saw the ruined walls of a small town. It looked like the aftermath of a bomb going of.

He stopped and parked his vehicle at the side of the round and got out.

He looked through the scope of his rifle. Just outside the walls were bandits guarding the entrance and the ones inside were already pillaging the town. What Marty assumed were the survivors were sitting in a circle being watched by four bandits.

The mercenary thought for a while. He could help them but what could he gain from them. Money, perhaps or some food, he didn't eat for some time.

Deciding to help them, he got into a car and turned it on. He took a breath and sped towards the town. The plan was to get into town and take the fight inside, since outside he barely had any cover.

The bandits spotted him and started shooting him, most of them had pistols and bolt-action rifles. Marty took a closer look and saw that some of them had melee weapons such as swords, axes, spears and he like.

The bullets pinged of the vehicles armor not even denting it.

The car sped through the ruined wall and deeper into town. Marty looked to the mirror and saw them running after him, what intrigued him though was one of the bandits just standing there looking at him.

She had some sort of coat, a katana and a mask.

Coming upon a large building that had it's roof caved in, he quickly stopped the car, took the weapons he prepared, plus the MGL-140 and got inside of the building.

Once inside he looked around to look for a good spot to ambush them. Marty saw stairs that lead to the roof. This will be perfect.

He arrived at the top and since the roof was caved in, it gave him good cover. After waiting for a minute he heard numerous footsteps. Just around the corner came numerous bandits.

They were clumped together and running at him with smiled probably thinking they could take him down easily.

Marty took aim with his GL and launched a grenade at them. When the grenade landed it blew the crowd of bandits apart. Their body parts flying everywhere. Since the grenade landed at the front the ones behind were mostly fine.

Marty launched the grenades that remained in the launcher. Only four of them survived, they were extremely lucky in his opinion.

Taking his sniper rifle he killed the remaining ones.

Once they were dead Marty walked back to the car and drove back to the entrance. He parked just around the corner and got out. He peeked around it and saw that only 12 bandits remained and the woman with the mask, they only had melee weapons on them and were standing with the survivors.

He couldn't shoot carelessly since he could hit some of the survivors.

Marty reloaded his sniper rifle and took aim at the closest bandit. He took the shot and the bandit flopped to the ground, before the others realized four more were dead. Marty holstered his sniper and took out the AK.

Only 8 bandits were alive including the woman. Five of them rushed his position.

One Molotov took out two of them. The other three rushed ahead not caring that the other two were burned alive. Just as they came around the corner they were sprayed with a full clip of the AK.

Now only three remained.

Two bandits took a hostage each and threatened them. Only to receive a .50 BMG round through their heads. The woman just silently looked at their bodies.

Marty calmly walked around the corner and took aim at the woman but before he could shoot she sliced the air and some sort of hole opened and she walked through it.

Marty was still alert, the woman probably used her 'semblance' or whatever it was called.

Suddenly his instincts told him to roll forward and he did just that. On the spot he was standing just as second ago, was the woman. She ran at him and swung her sword.

Marty threw down his AK and pulled out his machete just in time to block the attack. He pushed her back and went for a quick swing only for her to parry him.

Marty once again rolled out of reach of an attack. He then lunged for her legs. He was successful on tripping her. She saw him going for an overhead swing but before the attack could hit her she rolled out of the way and stood up.

They slowly circled each other until Marty lunged at her. She thought that he will go for a another overhead swing from his posture, only for him to change the machete's direction so that the swing came from the right.

The attack forced her back, she quickly looked at her Aura meter and widened her eyes. He took 40% of her Aura?! How was this possible?

This man was strong and quite handsome, she thought to herself. She was also planning to bring him into the Branwen Tribe when she won.

Marty narrowed his eyes when he saw her get into an defensive stance. He had to play carefully, as he didn't know what sort of surprise the woman could have.

The battle dragged on for two hours.

The sun was slowly setting but the two were still exchanging blows. Marty was cut in multiple places and he was a little exhausted.

The woman still had her Aura and was panting. She took one last look at her Aura. It was at 8%, just enough to use her semblance.

When Marty saw her create another portal, he knew that he wouldn't be quick enough to stop her, so he took out his Desert Eagle and shot one bullet at her.

Just as she entered the portal the bullet shattered her Aura and pierced her shoulder.

Marty sighed, finally it was over. He took a look at himself he was cut in multiple places but he thought her sword was going to go deeper than this.

Now that he thought about it, ever since he came here he felt lighter, stronger, faster as if he had that Aura thing. Wait wasn't he forgetting something?

Oh, right! The townspeople were still tied. Marty went back to the entrance. There he saw the people anxiously waiting.

He went to them and untied them. Once they were free, a man approached him.

"Young man, in the name of the whole town I thank you for rescuing us. What is you name?" The man was old, he was probably the mayor.

"Name's Marty Alencar, a mercenary." The Brazilian answered.

"A mercenary? I thought you were a huntsman at first, seeing how you took down the most feared bandit clan and their leader. I suppose you want compensation for all the work you've done?"

That was the most feared bandit clan? And their leader? The soldiers in the UAC fought better. These guys here have low standards.

"Naturally I do. But I won't ask much seeing that almost your whole town is dead. I just want some food, money and directions to Vale."

"How about we make a deal? The few people that survived won't be able to get the town back up and running again and because of that we are forced to go to Vale."

"And?"

"I ask that you escort us to Vale, once we get there I can give you the lien."

Marty though about it and after some internal debating he took the offer.

"Very well. When do we leave?"

"Once the supplies are loaded into the two trucks we have left." The old man then went to the survivors to tell them the news.

Marty looked at them, there were around 50 of them. The majority were adults but there were some kids, eight in total.

He looked closely at one of them, she had something strange on top of her head. A pair of rabbit ears. He scrunched his face in confusion. What the hell?

He then came upon a realization. Maybe those are faunus. Good thing Warren wasn't here, he would probably be fangirling over them, the guy was obsessed with those Japanese cartoons.

She was looking around alone, her eyes were also red like she had been crying. Her parents probably died during the bandit attack.

Marty looked around and saw the survivors gathering whatever supplies they could bring, while the children were playing.

He shook his head and went to the lone girl. Once she saw him approaching she shrunk in fear.

"What's your name?" he asked when he got there.

"Scarlet Scarlatina." she quietly answered.

"Well Scarlet, where are your parents?"

"My mom is in Vale"

"What about your dad?"

"I don't know, I never meet him."

So a dad that abandoned his child. Great.

"Do you have relatives here?"

She almost started crying again. Probably hit a spot there.

"My uncle, but he died protecting me."

Well shit isn't this great. Since the other people haven't tried to help her, it was clear that when they'll got to Vale she would be alone and unable to find her mother in the city.

"Do you know where your mother lives exactly?"

"No" She shook her head. "But my sister goes to Beacon academy."

He's probably going to regret asking this. "Do you want me to bring you to your sister?"

"Can you?!" She perked up when he asked her that question.

Once Marty nodded, she cheered even louder.

After that the two talked even more. Well most of the talking was done by Marty since she asked if he knew fairy tales. He told her snow-white, the kid friendly version of course.

When he finished his tale she asked numerous questions about him. He didn't know that kid could get attached to someone so easily.

It was almost night when the mayor arrived to tell Marty that the trucks were ready and he also downloaded a map to his scroll. He nodded and told them to wait at the entrance until he arrived with his car.

"Can I go with you?" The girl asked.

"Well since we're going to find your sister you'll you'll have to go with me." He smirked at the end.

"Yay!"

Marty just shook his head. Kids, he thought to himself.

Arriving at his car he went inside while Scarlet sat at the passenger seat. "You ready Scarlet?"

"I'm ready!" She exclaimed.

The mercenary smirked and started the car. Once he arrived to the trucks, he got in front of them and signaled them to follow him. While driving he opened the map on his scroll and saw that they will arrive sometime in the morning.

Marty turned to the passenger seat and saw that Scarlet was already sleeping. He smiled at the girl. One good deed at a time.

It was around 6 in the morning when they arrived to Vale. The whole city was surrounded by a big wall. Once they arrived at the main gate it automatically opened for them, they went inside and the mayor stepped out of the second truck and cleared them for entrance.

Marty went out of the car and approached the mayor.

"Well it seems we part ways here. Here." The mayor gave him a some plastic cards.

"That's 3000 lien, if I could offer more I would but-"

"That okay, I won't use for anything but fuel and clothes."

Mayor nodded and smiled at Marty. "Goodbye."

Marty went back to the car and woke up Scarlet.

"Scarlet, wake up. We're in Vale." The girl slowly started waking up.

"Good morning."

"Good morning!" At that moment her stomach rumbled.

Her face went red from it. "I seems we're both hungry. Why don't we stop for breakfast somewhere before we go to Beacon?"

She silently nodded.

The two drove around until they came upon a restaurant. Marty parked the car at the parking spot an the two went inside. After eating their breakfast, they went to the airport to get to Beacon.

For the transport Marty used almost half of his money. Apparently transportation was expensive if you're going to an academy.

The two arrived at Beacon and when he saw it Marty wasn't impressed. This was the academy that was meant to train child soldiers? Where were the defenses? The academy was surrounded by towers that were practically useless in case of an attack.

He shook his head and went to the entrance of the academy with Scarlet. Arriving there he saw a statue of a huntsman with some sort of a beast under him, Grimm probably.

"Scarlet!" A voice was heard.