Hello, readers. Welcome back to "Sideline: Another Story" and the start of the first mission for the characters after Volume 2 ended. Today, we'll be focusing on Team SLVR and their bounty hunting mission in Vale for two reasons. First, they don't need an airship to reach their destination as they're staying in the city. Second, SLVR was actually the first team I made up and I never showed how they did in the initiation, so I want to give them focus. Either way, I'm going to be focusing more on showing each team and their mentors as characters as Fragment Hunter does the work they signed up for.
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"Well, I guess we'll see each other within the week," Azalea said to the rest of Fragment Hunter as she waved goodbye to Team SLVR and Team SAFR before leaving with Team FCSA to find the Bullhead they were going to take. After all three teams said their farewells, Team SLVR was ready to head off into Vale and meet up with their current mentor. Holding onto Rua, the four teenagers warped from Beacon Academy to the city in a flash of light.
Seeing that they warped to where the Breach started, the team turned to Rua. "Is this the first place that you could think of before teleporting us," Lapis asked.
"Yeah," Rua stated as she caught her breath. Teleporting multiple people always took a lot out of her, but it was getting easier to do with how much she was doing it. "It was either here or Magnolia's. And we're here for work."
"True," Lapis noted. "Let's see where we were supposed to meet up with our mentor," she said as she pulled out her Scroll and looked at the details of the Bounty mission they selected. "Hmm... It says that we should meet up with him at A Simple Wok?"
"Isn't it a little early for lunch," Vixen asked.
"Well, at least we know where that is," Silver remarked. "Come on, let's go." At Silver's instruction, Rua grabbed onto all three of her teammates and they teleported away again.
After reaching their destination, Team SLVR saw that the noodle stand was open for business and the shopkeep was tending to a customer. From what they could see, the man sitting down at the stand was a Faunus as they saw his bare feet were actually falcon talons. Turning around, the man was still slurping his meal as he looked at Team SLVR with sky blue eyes. He looked to be 5'11", had a lightly tanned lean build, spiky windswept blonde hair, and a pair of aviator goggles rested on his forehead as he finished his meal. "Hey there. You guys Team SLVR," the Faunus asked as he placed the bowl he had on the counter and left his payment next to the empty dish.
"Yeah, we are," Rua said as she looked at the Falcon Faunus' outfit. He wore a black t-shirt, black and silver fingerless gloves, a pair of brown cargo pants with a gold-colored belt buckle, and a bomber jacket with armor on the sleeves and shoulders. Silver and the others saw that the shoulders of his jacket and his belt buckle had an emblem that looked like a tornado with a wing emerging from the side. He also carried a falcon-designed combat knife with what looked like Wind Dust in the hilt and wore a pair of greaves that Team SLVR immediately compared to Mercury Black's boots. "Who are you?"
"Name's Ventus," the Falcon Faunus stated in a friendly manner. "Call me 'Ven' if you want."
"Why does that name sound familiar," Lapis questioned as she tried to think of the answer.
"Who cares," Vixen told her teammate. "Let's just go and catch some bad guys! I hope that we can trick them before getting them."
"Your pranks tend to need prep time and we need to catch them ASAP," Rua retorted. "Let's just get to work."
"That's the spirit," Ventus said as he stood up. "Come on! We need to get info about our bounties. I know just the place to start, too."
Team SLVR and Ventus all made their way to Junior's nightclub that the teenagers visited before in order to get information about Smoke Shadow. The Falcon Faunus walked up to the bar where Junior was taking stock of what he had available when the information broker saw the Huntsman. "What do you want? We aren't open yet," Junior told Ventus before he and the twin girls at the bar with him noticed Team SLVR. "Oh, it's you kids again. I take it that you need to know more about somebody?"
"That would be a 'yes', Junior," Rua said as she glared at the large man.
"We need to know about the usual hideouts of Redd Stone, Nicole Blade, Clay Crimson, Duncan Upaz, and Lucas Lloyd," Ventus told Junior. "A few friends of mine in Vale said that they used to hang out around here before some girl trashed the place."
"Please don't bring that up," Junior said to Ventus before moving from the bar and picked up a large bazooka. Now standing over Ven, the club owner looked at the Faunus before speaking again. "I'm not going to give you any information because you haven't exactly done anything to make it worth my time. So, I suggest that you and those brats leave before we have to make you leave," he threatened as several of Junior's subordinates surrounded the five warriors. "Unless you can do something for me," Junior added.
While the members of Team SLVR looked annoyed with the man, Ventus just laughed in amusement. "You really want to make a deal with me," Ven asked Junior, who only smirked at the Faunus. Suddenly, Ventus grabbed Junior and jumped into the air while holding onto the man. Everyone was surprised at the fact that Ventus was now floating in midair while holding onto Junior's outfit with his talons. "Let's discuss it then," Ven remarked with a smile as he held a panicking Junior above the nightclub's dance floor. As Junior flailed around, he dropped his bazooka and it landed right on one of his henchmen, hitting them in the head. "So, how should I pay you for the intel I need? I'm kind of low on money at the moment. A Simple Wok has great food," Ven said casually as he held onto Junior and flew around the room like he was pacing on the ground. "I could do you a favor? What would you want me to do?"
"Put me down! Please, put me down! Just put me back on the floor," Junior practically screamed as Ven kept moving.
"Oh, that works," Ventus remarked as he began to lean against the disco ball. "Is that a deal," he asked as he placed Junior on top of the disco ball and offered his hand.
"Yes! It's a deal," Junior said in a hasty and panicking voice as he clung to the disco ball.
Offering his own hand, Junior and Ventus made their deal and the Falcon Faunus put the club's owner down on the ground. "Great! Now, about those hangouts of who I mentioned," Ventus told Junior. As the large man began heading over to the bar to get something to write down the addresses Ven requested on, Team SLVR and Junior's henchmen were still shocked at what just happened. "What? You've never met somebody who could fly before," Ven questioned as he turned to Team SLVR.
"Well... Not like that," Silver replied.
"And we've never really seen somebody do that before," Rua mentioned as she referred to Ven's 'negotiation style'.
"Oh yeah, when you go to school in Vacuo, you tend to try and do what you can to get what you can," Ventus remarked. Soon, Junior returned with the list of locations that the team's bounty tended to frequent. "Thanks, Junior! See you some other time," Ventus said as he took the slip of paper.
"Please don't," Junior meekly replied as he looked at the Huntsman.
"Come on, we've got some bounties to catch," Ven told Team SLVR as the five left the nightclub.
After leaving the club, Ventus and Team SLVR checked out the list given to them and started searching the areas that were closest to their location. "Okay, then. The locals say that this old apartment complex is where Redd Stone and Duncan Upaz used to live in before it became too bad for people to stay," Ventus said as he approached the teenagers after speaking to somebody across the street. "They'd probably stick around this place to keep some of their things or even hide from the cops."
"Yeah, that makes sense," Lapis remarked as she looked at the old building. "Think they might be in there now?"
"One way to find out," Silver said as he turned into his wolf form and walked up to the building. Entering through the open door, Team SLVR assisted Ven in searching the place for any sign of their bounty. Silver sniffed around for any sign of somebody else in the building before he picked up something. "Somebody else is here," he told the others before changing back to normal and lead them to a door. They saw that it was slightly open and that two males were watching television in silence. Pulling out his weapon and preparing the whip mode of it, Silver and the others turned to Ventus. "Alright, what do we do now," Silver asked.
"Charge 'em, now," Ventus practically screamed as he jumped into the room. Team SLVR was surprised at their instructor's actions, but Rua followed after him and helped fight the two other men in the room. Hearing grunts and swears, the rest of Team SLVR entered the room to see Ventus and Rua standing on top of Redd Stone and Duncan Upaz. "Two down, three to go," Ventus said as Silver used his weapon to tie up the criminals. "Let's bring these two back to the police."
In an old warehouse near the docks, a young male with gray hair approached a woman with black hair. "I've got some bad news, Nicole," the male said. "Duncan and Redd have been captured."
"Are you sure, Lloyd," Nicole asked.
"Yeah. Just as I was about to head over there and talk to them about what Clay wanted, I saw that a Huntsman and these Beacon Academy students were dragging them to the police station," he explained.
"Clay's not going to like this," Nicole said.
"No... I don't," a second male's voice replied, which made Lloyd and Nicole nervously turn around to see the man who spoke. The new male was 6'0" with a tanned muscular physique, brown eyes, and brown hair with two dark red streaks framing the right side of his face. He wore a light brown tank top with black designs that made his shirt resemble a clay doll of sorts, a pair of dark red pants with a black ribbon acting as a belt and orange flame patterns on the legs, and a pair of black combat boots. He also had a pair of gloves that left his thumbs and index fingers uncovered, as well as a piece of rope that he wore as a headband. "Care to take a guess?"
"N-no, Clay," Nicole said as she backed away from the man.
"We know exactly why you're unhappy, Crimson," Lloyd stated as he held up a wood plank to shield himself. Unfortunately for him, it was ineffective as Clay punched the plank in two. Panicking, Lloyd threw the pieces of wood away as if they would harm him if he held on any longer.
"You better," Clay Crimson told the two as he adjusted his gloves after the punch he threw. "So, it appears that we're being hunted for what we did recently... This will be a good opportunity to show just who those 'heroes' are messing with," Clay said with a smug grin on his face.
"What do you mean," Nicole asked.
"They don't know that we're expecting them," Clay stated as he lifted his right hand and positioned it like he was holding something. "I'd say that it's the perfect time to prepare for them." Placing his thumb on his index finger, the pieces of wood that Clay previously punched suddenly exploded and burning splinters flew throughout the room. "Nicole. Lucas. I'll prepare for our 'guests'. You two keep a lookout for them and be sure to tell me when they're coming by," Clay said before smiling smugly again.
Alright. With this chapter done, we've been introduced to Ventus and Team SLVR has started their bounty hunting mission. We've also got a bit villain that I wanted to come up with for a while, but haven't really reached a good point in the story to introduce him yet. Now that we have, we'll be in for a fight scene in the next chapter and I'll show off more of Ven's personality there.
After the next chapter ends, I'll be showing Team FCSA's mission at the coastal village. In that, I got to thinking this one little thing. 'What if there were missions that overlapped each other such as one team working Village Security met up with a team doing their own job like Grimm killing or Search and Rescue?' In that one, I'll be showing off more than just Team FCSA. But for now, I'm going to focus on Ven and Team SLVR taking down Clay Crimson.
Until next time, WaterDragonMaverick out.