How's everyone doing? Tell me what you think should be changed or added. Thanks to bhark3 for notifying me about my summary. Other than that, on with the story!
The plane shook and rattled as it lifted off the ground. Then the pilot maneuvered the plane towards the entrance. The plane rumbled as the thrusters started and the pilot and Aionion left the hangar.
As they arrived near the coordinates, Aionion could see the incompetent police looking around the area, looking for obvious clues. Aionion shook his head at their stupidity.
As the plane neared the ground, Aionion stood from the edge and jumped to the ground, landing in the classic hero pose, on one knee with a fist planted in the ground. This created small cracks that spread around him.
Badass entrance? Check.
Trouble with the police? Check that as well...
The pilot flew off and Aionion was left to deal with the police. Not very easy when you have a scythe, folded up or not, strapped to your hip.
The police had theirs guns trained on him when they heard him hit the ground. Oh...now that they have their guns out they're all big and bad now. Let me show them how it's done.
Aionion unfolded his scythe, spun it around his back, and slammed it point first into the ground. It cleanly slid the first seven inches in, then came to a stop halfway up the blade. When the police saw this, their guns shook slightly and Aionion wanted to smile.
Aionion pulled his scythe from the ground and flicked it to rid it of the rubble and dust on it. The man in charge, Aionion assumed, walked to Aionion with his hand on his holster ready to pull his gun out.
He asked, "Why are you here? This is a police investigation and you are trespassing. Leave the premises or we'll be forced to arrest you." Aionion blinked and a keyboard appeared. He took a moment to type his message on his visor before playing it through the microphone in a neutral male voice. "I am here to find the direction they flew to. My employer has been looking for these people for a while."
The police officer grumbled but allowed Aionion to begin his search. Then he shouted, "Hey! Don't go in that warehouse, it's structurally unsafe!" Aionion ignored him and continued walking into the building.
Aionion looked around the area and noted the scorch marks along the walls and the clear shape of a plane picked out in the marks. The plane shape was stretched out to the back of the warehouse and led to a sealed door. Aionion looked around for a control panel to open the door but found none.
Aionion returned to the door and unfolded his scythe. He slashed three times and a large piece of the door fell. Aionion stepped over the pieces of the door and observed the skid marks that went from the door towards the southeast.
Aionion blinked and brought up the icons that his HUD stored. He activated the icon at the bottom left side. It flashed twice and Aionion removed the icons from the visor.
Twenty minutes later, the plane arrived back at the airfield. The pilot came upon the sight of Aionion and the police officers playing a large game of poker. Aionion had the largest stack of money by far, and he was slouching like he was bored.
When Aionion noticed the plane, he gathered up his new-found money and strode to the plane. He jumped into the open cargo hold and stood at the edge as they flew off. As they disappeared into the clouds, the pilot called him up to the cockpit.
The pilot was smirking at Aionion when Aionion arrived. "I saw you loosen their bowels a bit before I left. I leave for two hours and you're playing cards with them and taking all of their money." He chuckled and resumed flying.
48 minutes later, inside Malcom's office...
Aionion sat down in the straight-backed chair across from Malcom. Malcom had some lined paper and a pen for communication and Aionion had his mission report written but one of the edges looked singed.
Malcom noticed the paper and huffed but slid the paper and pen to Aionion. "Explain, paper first, then the mission." Aionion began writing in his terrible handwriting, which Malcom made a note to fix later, and passed the paper to Malcom when he was finished.
Minor disturbance about some new kids. Thought they were the top dogs. I knocked them down a few pegs. As for the mission, no enemies found, but they were flying off towards the southeast.
Malcom straightened in his chair, as he had leaned forward to read the note. This just kept getting better and better...
"Alright, now, instead of sending you after them, you are going to take care of a problem that keeps cropping up. The dust shipments we get are being stolen and it is obviously foul-play if the dead guards and scorch marks are any indication. Just go to the next shipment and get it here safely."
A knock on the door interrupted their conversation. The interrupter entered the room and sat in the chair next to Aionion. "Aionion please leave." Aionion, understanding that some things were best kept from others, began to stand from his chair.
"Aionion before you go, take this folder. It has all that you need for this assignment." Aionion caught the folder after Malcom threw it at him and Aionion left to go read it over. Before he left though, he caught the sight of the mans white hair as the door closed.
Aionion had read the folders contents and still didn't know what he could do to stop the robbery. Sure, he had his semblance, and sure he was one of the best reapers there, but he still didn't know this persons fighting style. It seemed like they used fire quite a bit, maybe a semblance, maybe a lot of dust crystals. None of it added up to what Aionion needed. There was too many what-ifs and variables that could change this situation.
Aionion mentally sighed and looked at the time he had to be ready to move. The shipment was coming in the day after tomorrow. So he had two days to train and prepare for this fight. Aionion just hoped his weapons and semblance would be enough. Tired of arguing with himself, Aionion lay back and fell asleep.
The next morning saw Aionion sitting on the roof training with his semblance. He didn't have his armor on, just the mesh suit that went on underneath. He was adjusting the gravity around him and trying to balance himself. It hadn't worked out so well the first few times. He had either took off too much and launched himself skyward or put so much he slammed his head on the ground.
Aionion was getting tired and lay back to get a rest. After a few moments of resting, Aionion sat back up and attempted to lift just himself off the ground again. Aionion finally had it right, when a bird nearby squawked and Aionion lost his concentration and hit his head again.
Aionion picked up a small rock nearby and used his semblance to hit the bird faster than it could fly away. This gave Aionion an idea, instead of lifting one object, lift as many as possible. So Aionion spent the next few moments gathering small rocks that were on the roof. He set them a few inches from each other and tried to lift them all at once. The rocks lifted but shook and fell down quickly. Aionion tried again and again until a young woman arrived on the roof.
She sat down on the edge near Aionion and he noticed the air change directions and blow towards her. When the girl finally noticed Aionion, she looked at him intensely before moving closer. The girl got close to Aionion and Aionion could almost smell the jasmine perfume she wore.
She looked at him for a moment more."My name's Kate, what's yours?" Aionion couldn't reply and so didn't. "Hey don't you understand English? What's your name?" Aionion finally turned to face her and her mouth dropped to the floor. "Erm... I'm sorry, I-I thought you could talk for a moment." She finally realized she was staring at the man who could destroy an entire building with the semblance he had. The thought of that shut her up and she backed away from Aionion.
Aionion turned back to the rocks in front of him and began to try to lift them all at once. Again they rose and fell quickly. Kate looked over and decided to help him. "Hey, you're doing it wrong. Lift them one at a time and when you have it work on the next. You can also do a hand motion to help. Try raising your hand."
Aionion did as she said and raised his hand and the first four rocks lifted off the ground and stayed there. Aionion focused on the next rock and it slowly lifted off the ground to join the others. Aionion did this with the next two and began on the third one when his concentration broke and all of the rocks fell to the roof again.
By now it was dark and Aionion had to prepare to watch over the shipment tomorrow afternoon. Aionion set the rocks into a corner of the roof and went back inside the complex. Kate had already went back inside so he was alone with his thoughts for a few moments. Aionion continued walking back to his room which was on the far side of the complex. While he walked he noticed that there was no one in the halls and it was disturbingly quiet. Thinking they were being attacked, Aionion grabbed his scythe and unfolded it then refolded it into an ax.
He continued on his way but jumped at every slight sound he heard. Only when he got to his room did he notice the time. It was past three in the morning. Aionion had been on the roof for a little under a day. Aionion folded his scythe back up and put it with his armor. Aionion lay down on his bed to catch the few hours of sleep that he could.