Early in the afternoon, a train is sitting at a train station as many passengers slowly board the vessel. The conductor rings a loud bell as he stands near the entrance to the car closest to the front of the train, gaining everyone's attention outside of the train. "Last call! The train 'll be leavin' shortly for Vale! If you're plannin' on gettin' on, you better do it now!", the old man shouts in a slightly irritated tone.
As the whistle blows and smoke spews from the train's smokestack, the train finally starts moving. At the end of one of the carts, a tall boy is sitting alone, dressed in brown cargo pants with a plad shirt with different shades of orange and black, causing him to stick out like a soar thumb among the bland looking people on the train. One last thing made him stand out most of all though, his fluffy bear ears on the top of his head. He glances out through the window to his left and says to himself in a scruffy voice, "Vale huh? Probably beats the hell out of Vacuo."
His monologue is suddenly disrupted by a couple talking obnoxiously loud in the seats right behind his. "Why did it have to be a train? Don't you know how dangerous trains are!?", the green haired girl shouts in a panic.
"Dia, calm down. You're going to cause a panic.", the boy dressed in dark purple and black says as he puts his hand on hers, trying to calm her down.
"Mudo, I told you that I hated dangerous things! I told you, I told you, I toooold you! Why did you have to force me out on this...this...this death trap!", Dia shouts in a complete panic.
The boy just grinds his teeth in anger at the girl's annoying squeaky voice as Mudo continues to try to calm her down. "Come on, you're over reacting! It's just a train! What's the worst that could happen?", Mudo asks her with a slight smile on his face.
"The train could crash, we could be robbed by bandits, Grimm could show up and destroy the train, someone could fall off the train and die, I could eat a bad bagel and get diarrhea!", she replies as she counts off all the terrible outcomes that could happen to them.
Mudo hangs his head in disappointment before saying, "Really, you're so paranoid. Nothing like that can possibly happen here."
She raises a finger before adding, "Not to mention those filthy Faunus in the White Fang! They'll probably try to rob this train like they did the one from Atlas!"
The boy suddenly stands up, standing like a giant amongst a group of children, before glaring back at Dia. She and Mudo both notice the boy's bear ears and Mudo gulps. They suddenly see he's armed with a large axe on his back, and Dia's eyes widen in fear. "T-they're here! The White Fang! Someone help, the White Fang is trying to attack me!", she shouts in a panic.
This gains everyone's attention, earning concerned glances and glares from the human passengers while getting irritated glares from the Faunus passengers. The boy's anger finally boils over and he shouts, "Not all Faunus are in the White Fang, you racist! I can't even enjoy half a minute of Gods damned peace without someone like you ruining it! I'm sick of it!" As the girl quivers in fear, the boy pulls open the door to the next train car, slamming the door behind him as he leaves.
As he walks into the next car, he growls to himself in frustration. He slams his fist into the door, leaving a large dent in the metal in the shape of his fist. "She's so- I aughta'- How can people be so ignorant!?", he says to himself as he considers going back to confront Dia again.
He looks at the door and sees the dent he put in it before looking at his fist. He takes a deep breath before exhaling while saying, "Just breath, breath. Don't let people push your buttons. Just...breath..." As he continues to take deep breaths, he slowly calms down. Eventually, he sits down in one of the seats by a window, seeing the red forest just outside the train. "If I let my emotions run wild, Grimm 'll just show up.", he says in a more calm and relaxed tone. He lets out a sigh and thinks, "Maybe I should just sit here for a while. It's nice and quiet back here. No loud mouth girls to annoy me either."
As soon as he finishes his thought, he hears a loud thud come from the next car over. "Did someone's luggage fall over or something?", he asks himself as he stands up.
"You idiot! Don't drop it!", a man shouts from the nearby car.
"Well, I wouldn't 'a dropped it if ya woulda just helped me carry it!", another voice exclaims.
"Quiet you two. The last thing we need is you two blowin' this whole job, now put that damn thing back where ya found it.", a third voice growls in a stricter, more aggressive tone.
"Job? Does that mean-", the boy begins to think before the train comes to a sudden stop. "W-what the hell? Why did we stop?", the boy thought to himself before hearing the three men heading his way.
"That's our queue boys. Now, let's get that girl like the boss planned 'n head back ta camp. Without any huntsmen or huntresses on this train, this 'll be a cake walk.", the bossy guy says to them as the door between the two cars opens. As the three men walk out into the light, the boy sees that they're dressed like bandits.
"I guess that lady had a reason to be worried then. To think some bandits would be petty enough to rob a small train full of commoners.", the boy says to them with his hand on the grip of his large axe.
"Heh, look, it's some dumb bear kid. How about you go find some honey to eat or something, Pooh Bear?", one of the bandits says with a grin on his face.
The boy pulls the weapon off his back to reveal it's similar to a woodsman's axe with a metal handle that has a dual trigger mechanism near the bottom.
"Look kid, you're outnumbered and outclassed. There's three of us here and even more up in those other cars. Just hand over the money and we can all go home, alright?", the bossy one says, seeming to try to avoid a fight as he puts his hands in his pockets.
Without almost any warning, the man lunges at the boy with a switchblade that he pulled out of his pocket. The boy manages to duck under the attack, and with one swing of his axe he sends the man flying through the roof of the train car like a baseball. The other two bandits look up in complete disbelief before pulling their weapons out to fight the boy. One of them has a SMG while the other has a basic machete.
"Don't think ya can get away with tha-", the one with the machete begins to say before his axe transforms into a pump-action shotgun. Their eyes widen right before they're launched out of the same hole their leader was sent flying out of thanks to the explosive round the boy shot right under their feet.
As he pulls back the fore end on his weapon, he says, "You guys are already pissin' me off. A guy can't ever get a moment of peace, can he?" He then glances back at the door where he originally came from and says, "I guess I have to deal with this now. Good grief."
In one of the train cars, a group of men are holding the passengers all at gunpoint. As one of the men points his gun at a woman wearing a fancy necklace, he gestures for her to put her belongings in the bag tied to his hip and she complies. The bandit laughs at her before saying, "Alright guys, lets clear out this last car and meet the others at the rendezvous point in the back. Bunch of fuckin' idiots, not a single huntsman in sight and so many people to rob." The rest of the bandits laugh with him, but their joyful moment is cut off when they hear a door open behind them. It's the door to the second to last car of the train and they see the boy from earlier standing there with his axe in his hand, its head scrapping against the metal floor.
"I-it's him. That Faunus from earlier. Is he a Huntsman?", Mudo asks as he glances over at the boy.
"Look, another filthy Faunus tryna' stand up for what's 'right,' HA! Get 'em boys!", the bandit with the bag on his hip shouts and the five other bandits all rush at the boy all at once. The boy quickly spins the axe in his hand before wailing one of the bandits in the face with the back of its head, sending them head first into the wall. Two more bandits attack together to try to divide his attention, but he blocks both of their attacks with his axe's handle before sweeping their feet out from underneath them. As they hit the ground, he flips his axe around like its a golf club before swinging at the two like their bodies were a large golf ball. With that single swing, he sends the two hurdling into the rest of the low level bandits, leaving only the one with the bag full of valuables.
The bandit points his gun at the boy, but his axe quickly turns into its shotgun form and he just shoots the gun out of the bandit's hand. He scurries to find his gun, but once he does, he sees the barrel and chamber were both melted by the shot, making the weapon useless. "You brat, I'll k-", the bandit begins to say before his mouth is filled with the boy's boot. The powerful kick sends the bandit hurdling back first into the door heading to the next train car, causing him to hit his head and start to bleed.
The bandit looks around for a way to escape and sees a girl cowering in fear, Dia. He grabs the girl by her hair, causing her to scream, before pulling out a small knife from his pocket and putting it to her throat. "Alright, ya lil' shit, drop it! Unless ya want me to paint this train car with this poor girl's blood?", the bandit demands in a cruel tone as he presses the blade against the girl's neck, causing her to quiver in fear.
Mudo panics and exclaims, "No, Dia!", but the boy just lets out a slight chuckle.
"Why would I help a racist?", he asks in a mocking tone.
Dia's eyes widen and the bandit shouts, "Stop screwin' around and drop your weapon! Or I swear by the Gods I'll fucking do it!"
"Please! Do as he asks! I'm begging you! Don't let him hurt her!", Mudo begs the boy, earning him a glare from the grizzly boy. As their eyes make contact, the boy can see the despair in Mudo's eyes. He glances over to something by Mudo's feet then back to Mudo a few times before an evil grin comes across the axeman's face.
He says, "Alright, fine. I'll drop my weapon and when you guys are gone I'll deal with her on my own.", before dropping his axe on the ground with a loud thud. The boy then puts his hands up slightly to show he's totally disarmed. "There. Now, let the ignorant racist go.", the boy says, only earning a growl from the bandit.
"What do ya think I am, stupid? Kick that damn thing out of your reach or I'll turn this girl into a fillet!", the bandit demands as the girl continues to cry. The boy growls before kicking the axe behind him, making sure it was far enough out of his reach. He then glances back over at Mudo and gives him a slight nod, and Mudo nods back.
"There, happy?", the boy asks and the bandit just laughs.
"Yeah, now I'm gonna use this girl to get off this damn train! Maybe I'll take her back to camp with me? Could always use a cute little punchin' bag like this girl, heh. See ya idiots later!", the bandit exclaims before reaching over for the door handle to escape to freedom.
In that moment, he sees something fly up into the air, a shoe. In the chaos of the last fight, one of the bandits lost their shoes from the sheer impact from the boy's last attack. The bandit quickly notices that Mudo was the one who threw it up into the air. "W-what-", the bandit begins to ask in confusion before the boy seems to glow a dark orange. The boy pulls back his right fist and punches the shoe with all his might, sending the shoe flying like a bullet aimed straight at the bandit's head. "the HELL!?", the bandit finishes before the shoe hits him in the dead center of his forehead. The bandit's light green aura seems to shatter before he collapses on the ground, unconscious.
Mudo rushes over to comfort Dia, who's still crying, before turning to the boy and saying, "Thank you, thank you so much!"
The boy turns and walks over to his axe on the ground before stomping on the ground, forcing the head of the weapon to bounce up into the air. As he catches his axe by the handle, he turns back to Dia and glares, causing her to gulp. She continues to panic as he starts walking towards her, dragging his axe behind him as he walks. When he's finally in front of her, she shuts her eyes, waiting for her death, but is surprised when she feels something fall in her lap. She opens her eyes to see it's a small box of medical supplies.
"You're bleeding, you should patch yourself up if you want the wound to heal faster.", the boy suggests as he lifts his axe up onto his shoulder.
"T-thank you.", she replies sheepishly with a quick bow of her head. He doesn't bother replying and simply turns away from them before walking over to take a seat.
"What's your name mister? I'd like to know the F-, the hero who saved our lives.", Mudo asks with a smile.
As the boy sits down, he glances over at the couple and says, "Persi, Persi Pumpkin."