Chapter 5: The Saint and the Sinner

Present: The loft

The team sat at their dining table, enjoying their breakfast, while shade gave her usual morning briefing. "Okay everybody, here's the plan for the day."

"Are you gonna let us go back to sleep?" grumbled the slacker pouring some of Shade's vodka into his glass of orange juice.

"No you idiot, us normal people actually get up when the sun does."

"Yeah Kole, haven't you ever heard that nothing good happens after midnight." Taunted Katherine

"Exactly, which is why were night owls." Said Marcus, taking the bottle of vodka and pouring himself a screwdriver. "Care for some, boss?"

"No…" she said with haste "We got work to do. Our fight is in two days, so Kole and I are going to be practicing today, so Marcus, Kate. You two are gonna be going after some bandits that are harassing a nearby village."

"Okie Dokie."

"Cool."

Katherine and Marcus gathered their weapons and armor and made the trek through the Industrial District. Katherine skipped along as usual and Marcus was blasting out his rap music while they walked.

"Okay, I'm tired of all this walking shit." Said Marcus

"Language. And why? Walking is good for you." Laughed Katherine as she began to skip backwards.

"But we're always walking. If we are gonna go on a mission then we have to go in style."

"And how do you expect us to do that?"

"Follow me."

Marcus lead the way to an old storage facility in the middle of the Industrial District. The gambler walked along the rows of storage lockers until he stopped at one marked with graffiti.

"Hello beautiful." He said placing his scroll to the electronic lock and pulled up the garage door. He smirked as he pressed a button on his scroll and a pair of headlights flicked on.

Katherine stood in awe as the Huntsman rolled out of the locker with a cherry red mussel car with gold trim on the rims, bumpers, grill, and decal stripes on the hood, and white walled low profile tires. Marcus pulled up to Katherine and rolled down his black tinted windows "Kate, say hello to The Jackpot.

Katherine grinned eagerly at the automobile. She had never driven a car before and always dreamt of that day.

"What do you like my whip?"

"Since when did you have a car?" she said not taking her eyes off of the car.

"I won it off some douche a year back. I never really get a chance to flex in this thing, so I figure why the hell not?"

"Can I drive?"

"No way, baby girl. A lady like this needs to be handled with care."

"Well, let's go then. I want to see how fast this thing can go."

The Huntsman drove them out to their target, they had arrived right when the village was being besieged by the bandits they were sent to battle.

"Hurry! We have to help them!" yelled Katherine

"I'm sorry beautiful." Whispered Marcus as he rubbed the steering wheel. He slammed on the clutch, threw the car into fourth gear, and accelerated towards the bandits, hitting two of them with his car. He slammed on the brakes and drifted, turning back around. He stopped the car and the two jumped out swinging. Before he got out of the car, Marcus cranked up the volume on his stereo, blasting his mixtape of badass hip-hop fighting music.

Katherine unsheathed one of her kukri's, Masa, in her right hand and held three throwing knives in her left hand. She threw the knives at the gunmen around her. Four bandits encircled Marcus as he bobbed his head to the music. "Ah yeah. This is my jam." He said sending a wave of Gravity dust energy towards the four as he drew out his saber.

The remaining bandits turned their attention from the siege on the village, to the Huntsman and Huntress. The men in tactical black uniforms opened fire at the two. Katherine grabbed Marcus and threw him down behind the driver's side of the car. The bandits opened fire at the two, riddling the car with bullet holes.

"No! Not my car! You bitches are dead you hear me! I'll kill you all!" yelled an enraged Marcus as the tinted windows were shot out. Every scratch, every dent, and every bullet hole, was fuel for his fury. Katherine tried to pop her head up to see how many gunmen were left but the incoming fire kept her pinned down. She ripped off the driver's mirror and used it as a periscope "No! Kate what are you doing?"

"I can see three of them. They're using a constant fire tactic. I can distract them for you, but you won't like how."

"Sure, do whatever it takes. Just don't kill them. Those punk-ass bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride."

Katherine grinned as she crawled into the car and turned on the key. "It's not working. And why are there so many pedals in this thing?"

"It's a manual. Push in the clutch and put it in neutral. Neutral is in the middle where you can jerk the stick around in all directions "

"I'm moving the stick, but nothing's happening."

"First: That's what she said! Secondly: now turn the key. Put it in first, all the way to the left and up, slowly take your foot off the clutch, and then give it a little gas."

Katherine did as she was told and took off driving erratically. Marcus cringed as he heard the sound of the grinding gears and the thought of Katherine wrecking his beloved car. She swerved around in the dirt and caught the gunmen's attention for the gambler to get his revenge.

The Huntsman focused his aura and activated his semblance. All around him a pale yellow light glowed. He cracked his knuckles and bolted towards the men. One of the gunmen aimed at him, but when he pulled the trigger the gun only clicked

"Forgot to reload, asshole." Said Marcus punching the man in the face. Marcus grabbed the rifle from his hand and beat a second bandit in the side of the head with it.

The two other gunmen loaded their guns and aimed them at Marcus. His luck had finally, ran out. He was staring down the barrels trying to think of a way out of this. From nowhere Katherine sped up and hit the two men, crashing and pinning them to a tree.

"Wooh hoo! That was really fun!" Yelled Katherine. Marcus fell to his knees and wept at the sight of his beloved car, nearly destroyed. "I'm sorry about your car, Marcus. I can see if my daddy can pay for the damages.

"You are never driving my baby again. And you are never going to tell Kole of Shade about Jackpot. You, just wrecked her. If either of those two hear I have a car they'll ruin her for good. Now promise me, you insane bitch!" Yelled Marcus teeming with anger.

"M-Marcus." Kate whispered hanging her head low

The Huntsman let out a sigh as he realized what he just said. "Kate…I'm sorry. I just…"

"No…It's not that, it's just, speaking of promising. Do you think that what were are doing is the right idea? Shade told us to never tell him, but I just don't know.

"Shade has never steered us in the wrong before."

"But in Vacuo-"

"What happened in Vacuo had to happen. I never expected that to happen, but it did."

"So how is your part of the plan going?"

"I don't know. I've been searching, but I have no idea where to find that, bitch."

"Language! But I know what you mean. I came face to face with her in Mantle, but Kole prevented me from killing her."

"Damn. Well baby girl, Let's hope Shade is having better luck than us."

Author's Note: Sorry for the short entry its all I could do with my schedule being weird. I just wanted you guys to know that I am still thinking of doing another story after Team SMKK, Which I'm calling Up in SMKK. But I also have ideas on other stories to do. Please PM me and let me know what you guys want to read next. I could continue SMKK or I could do something new. Its all up to you, the readers.