AN: The heat made this chapter come out late, this chapter got too long again. I might have to consider just making a chapter longer at this point.
For Jaune Arc, it was a strange and eventful day.
For Victor Kallo it would be the second time he thought he would die.
Victor Kallo has been on the wrong side of the law longer then he's been on the right side. His first job was as a courier for drugs at the age of 12. It kept him from starving and gave him a roof over his head on some days.
Later on, he would become a pickpocket and leave that life behind.
When he got older and more confident in his skills, he joined a gang that would hijack cars, remodel them and later sell them for profit. He eventually became the leader of the gang when his way of doing things started making more money.
The only difference between him and the others being his low ambitions, so he would always go for safer targets. He thought he had low ambitions at least.
Becoming the leader changed him.
He didn't notice at the time but years later he would hear the phrase about how power can change people. When he became the leader, he started getting bolder with his operations and arrogant.
He thought nothing could touch him, that no one could stop him from one day ruling the city and all it took was one kid to ruin everything.
As his organization grew, he would eventually have to diversify his targets. His men started to take more than just cars, they started robbing homes and stores.
It wasn't exactly a big step up but it wasn't as complicated as stealing cars had started to get. People had started to install better security in their cars and robbing a store seemed like the better alternative. At least one could hide lien much easier than a stolen car.
Sometimes he would go with them, to make sure his skills didn't weaken.
It was on a robbery that was almost no different from any other, the only difference is what they sell. What they were robbing this time was a store selling clothes.
They were doing what they would usually do. They would steal the lien and take some of the wares to sell later on. The incident happened when one of his guys decided to intimidate the shopkeeper by ripping some of the clothes.
Unfortunately, they were some people that didn't like that. The shopkeeper and a girl that they must have missed during our initial sweep of the store. Made her presence known by berating us for being enemies of fashion. It wasn't the first time they missed someone, though people would usually look more scared if they found them. This girl looked outright murderous when she saw us.
He didn't know someone so young could make a face like that.
He almost stepped back out of both fear and surprise when she advanced towards them. When he remembered that they outnumbered her and that she was just a little kid having a tantrum that he calmed down.
He sent two of his guys to restrain her and went back to business.
At the time he thought two guys would be overkill but later on, he would learn that he severely underestimated her.
He had barely turned around when he could hear more sounds than he would expect. Turning back to berate them for causing a ruckus, he is instead met with a scene out of a movie.
The one where a lone martial artist goes up against a gang. The difference being that the martial artist here is a little kid and the gang currently consist of two of his men groaning on the floor. And her choice of weapon is not a sword or a staff but a handbag.
Who uses a handbag as a weapon!?
He soon found out why it has been so effective when she has to drop it as she is attacked from an angle she couldn't defend against. Two audible sounds are heard from that; the sound of the bag hitting the floor with such weight that the floor cracks and the bat that one his men attacked with breaking.
The room goes silent at that when the girls grab the weapon and start using it with no problems whatsoever from the hit is when Victor starts to panic.
His panic leads him to an obvious observation, that he is in a situation that he is not prepared for and that there is only one obvious thing to do.
Run as far away from here as possible.
It was already too late though, as all of his men were already out. There was nothing left to distract the girl or to be more precise the monster from going after me. No human can be that strong.
To make things even worse she had picked up her bag and must have done something to it as the bag was shifting into a new form. The new form could be a cannon or a minigun with how it was formed.
He honestly thought he was going to die, killed by a little girl over a ripped shirt. It wasn't even him that ripped it!
He never saw what it truly would be as the transformation stopped midway and gave him a chance to slip away as she was distracted by it stopping.
He doesn't know how he got away that day, he only remembers that he never stopped running after that.
He moved to Vale after that, letting someone else run his organization. The further he got away from that town the better.
It was only later that he would learn about Aura, mecha-shift weapons and Huntsmen. That knowledge only made him more afraid. If a trainee could kill him easily then he didn't want to meet an actual one.
In present-day Victor is just a regular thief in a small gang with money problems. Its a long way from what he used to be but as long as he doesn't have to fight against someone with Aura then he would be fine.
Tom and Alec were having the same old argument about leadership, one that always leads to another argument later. Very rarely does it turn into anything more than that and even rarer is an actual fight.
His card game continues with only some of his attention directed towards them, just in case they decide to include him. It's only when he hears an unfamiliar voice that he turns his full attention towards them.
The first thing he notices is that Alec has invited someone new inside and that this new person has decided to stand in front of an angry Tom. Pity is what he felt for the guy as he stood there, presumably trying to stop a fight that won't happen.
The pity turned into fear when his stance changed into a familiar stance that Victor remembers extremely well. A stance he learned after moving to Vale is a basic stance all Huntsmen trainees learn when they're young. One that means they're prepared for a fight to happen. Him going for what looks like a cooler box but its definitely a mecha-shift weapon in disguise makes the decision for him. The murderous expression the girl had and the fight flashes through his mind, reminding him what they are capable of.
It felt like teleportation with how fast he moved across the room to stop Tom from killing us all.
Throwing Tom into a wall might have been a bit much but it was the only thing he could think of. It managed to knock him out at least so that's one problem solved.
The much bigger threat in front of him is the one he's worried about. He could only hope that taking care of Tom would be enough to calm the guy.
He calmed down when the room didn't descend into a whirlwind of violence. Finding out that he was invited surprised him and let the final bit of tension he felt loosen.
When they introduced ourselves and the reason for Jaunes visit came to light he was sceptical. What kind of plan could he have that would free us from our debt?
His scepticism flew away as soon as what the plan would entail came to light. He felt a feeling that he hasn't felt in a long time since he moved here.
Excitement.
He barely noticed Jaune leaving after receiving the plans, already picking out which Dust shop to look at. What broke him out of his thought was Julia coming in with a package that Jaune left them. Its contents confusing them.
It was filled with steaks.
He hopes that the first day of this job isn't going to be what he should expect every time they meet.