The Fiendish Four
Malak gets up and readies his rifle "Point us at the right direction." Jasper perks up.
"Finally. Let's get a stretch goin."
"Oh here we go," Vincent quickly says as he prepares his halberd for combat.
Revan gets his axe ready. "finalfukingly."
Argent turns around to address them and then stops and turns to his right and nods to the window "well Malak. I think that's the right direction…" A line appears across the mountain on the left of the train going blazingly fast. Multiple thuds are heard on the roof and thuds quickly move to the back of the train We need to split up into three! They're after the cargo, but they'll try and stop the train too. I don't like whatever that is on the mountain so I need a long range fighter with me on the roof. Split up however you like, but I need men in the cargo hold and the engine" He swings out the window and onto the roof. Argent's sword, becomes a bow.
"I have a 50 caliber sniper. I'll join you." Says Jasper switching his weapon into a sniper.
"Jasper go with Argent. Vincent and Ullysses go to the cargo and Revan come with me to the engine car." Malak orders as he heads towards the engine car. Vincent nods as he straps on his helmet and makes his way to the cargo area with his halberd drawn. Jasper follows out the window and swings out onto the roof. Looking on the mountain top towards the thing on the mountain.
"Its time to kick some ass" Revan runs towards the engine car. The snow is swirling about obscuring the vision that one may get of the figures running to the cargo.
"Good you can make it. Can you see what that is?" Argent points to the mountain
Jasper strains his eyes to see. "I can see it. But I can't make out exactly who it is. They seem to be gliding across the mountain."
"Can you get a clear shot?"
"Considering the speed and how hard it is to see and everything working against me. Easy." Jasper lays down taking time to position the rifle and account for everything. After about 20 seconds he takes a deep breath and as he holds in his breath, he takes shot at the man on the mountain. The figure that is skating on the mountain hears the bullet fly towards him and an explosion goes off under his feet as an avalanche rushes down to the train. Jasper yells out at the top of his lungs, hoping his teammates would here him. "Brace for avalanche!"
At this moment the cart behind the main cart is detached. Argent notices the detached car "Jasper! Let's move!" his pistons fire as he runs to the cargo car doing a powered jump barely making the gap. Jasper quickly stands up and switches his weapon into staff form and uses it to pole vault the gap.
Argent helps Jasper stabilize. "This is gonna hurt."
At the moment Vincent asks his question, the avalanche hits the front two carts of the train, that's holding Malak, Revan, Vince, and Ully, pushing it off the track and rolling down the side of the mountain. Leaving Argent and Jasper the only two still on the tracks.
"God I hope they heard you... Come on, the cargo cars weren't detached by themselves." Says Argent worried for their sakes. A bit shaken from the the impact, Jasper regains his footing.
"I swear. I'm gonna fuck up whoever was on that mountain." He then follows Argent ready for another attack.
"Careful what you wish for!" A fire shoots towards Argent and Jasper. Argent deflects it as the skater emerges from the fire and skids on the roof pulling a donut. He is wearing a grimm mask and rabbit ears can be seen through his hood. His shoes are skates with elemental slots on them "How's it feel to see your friends get wasted?"
"Nah. I'm sure their fine. Little ol' train fallin off a cliff ain't hurt no one." Jasper puts his weapon in spear mode. and whispers to argent "We going for a frontal assault or what? Clearly this person is very fast."
Argent whispers back "I need you to stall him. I'm sorry but the cargo is our mission. Someone has to be in there. Can you stall him long enough for me to capture his partner, possibly partners?"
"That's all I needed to know." Jasper launches towards the skater. Doing a thrusting motion with his spear. The skater narrowly dodges the spear, his left arm being cut as he slides past Jasper swinging his right foot to Jasper's back, the red crystal lighting up as his roller skate burst into flames. Jasper pulls his staff behind his back mid jump just in time to block the kick, but the momentum still pushes him forward. Using his forward motion he does a handspring off the ground and rights himself. Staring intently at the skater. "Gonna have to hit harder than that."
Argent swings down into the cargo hold and the figure turns around. "Stop there! You are under arrest. Surrender now and I promise you no harm."
The mysterious figure speaks. "Long Time no see, Argent. I'm afraid I've waited too long for this" he draws his claws and he and Argent batte.
The Skater chuckles his skates reverting to normal "You're pretty acrobatic. What are you going to do, when you don't have ground to stand on." the skater activates the ice setting as he zooms by Jasper turning the metal roof into a sheet of ice. Jasper responds by jumping up and stabbing his spear into the ground and stands perched on the blunt end of it. "Come at me bro." Jasper taunts.
The Skater stands perfectly still "Well, it may be time to get a 10." he takes a starting position, but then quickly takes off performing a figure 8 around Jasper, performing a routine. Jasper simply stands there watching his opponent intently keeping track of every movement. The Skater breaks into a low catch foot, spinning with one foot on the once while he swings outward the other leg holding it spiraling faster and faster until his right foots switches to the fire setting, a huge barrage of fire blasts flying at Jasper.
The moment the skater stopped moving to do his spin attack and released the fireballs, Jasper dismounted his spear and pulled it out of the ground. He started twirling his spear redirecting some of the fireballs towards the ground creating some dry patches while at the same time twisting and spinning his body to dodge others. The Skater launches a flying kick lightning fast at Jasper "THIS IS THE END."
"For you maybe!" Jasper takes his staff and swings his staff like a bat to intercept the Skater's kick. To Jasper's surprise he felt something change. As he swung the bat not only did it connect with the skater, but it felt like there was much more force behind it. The moment it made contact a gust of wind was released from the area surrounding Jasper launching the skater guy and flipping the train cart they were on derailing it off the mountain joining the other carts at the bottom just a bit ahead of where they previously landed. Jasper stands back up momentarily after the crash. "Holy shit! My semblance!" Jasper says before being hit by a wave of dizziness, falling to his knees. Argent crawls out of the car groaning
"The hell…" he gets up and looks for Jasper and the others.
The scene cuts back to when the team first split up. Malak and Revan arrive at the car "Be ready for anything," Malak says. Girlish laughter is heard behind them. Malak quickly turns around while aiming his rifle as well as Reven. Theres two girls standing there wearing masks that have a grimm like design not unlike White Fang, but full faced. They speak, finishing each other's sentences
"Are you here,"
"To stop us?"
Revan smirks and says,"Or we can take you two lovely ladies out on a date."
Malak chimes in, "I'm sure we'll be able to make an honest woman out of you. How does dinner and a movie sound?" The two fist bump. Malak asks "Or do you prefer straight to the point?" Both girls hold hands up to their mouths and giggle
"How smooth~ Such a shame,"
"That you'll both be," the lights in the car go out and red eyes are seen in the darkness. Both girls speak, "Dead." A flurry of knives fly at Malak and Revan.
Reven quips, "Kinky," as he moves to one of the walls dodging the knives.
A knife hits Malak's shoulder. "Straight to the point then." He fires on the eyes, but all he hits are two floating masks. They hear laughter behind them as the engine car door is shut.
Revan asks, "Why play hard to get?" Malak switches his weapon to the claymore variant, it glows blue from the frost dust. The avalanche hits the front part of the train, derailing the front most cars, and rolling them down the side of the mountain. As it comes to a rest, Malak falls but quickly gets up and prepares for the attack. Revan lies on his back and groans, "I think I may have broken something." He pulls a tree branch out from under him. A snowstorm surrounds them as one girl emerges from it in front of them.
"Hello boys~," she calls. Malak readies his claymore.
"Well hello there. I don't normally meet women like this but for you, I'll make an exception." Malak flashes a smile. She brandishes two wicked looking knives and flourishes them.
"I hope you don't meet many like me~ it would diminish my uniqueness."
Malak replies, "Well you certainly look like a one of a kind. So that begs me to ask on why would a girl like you pick us?" She flashes her blades.
"Isn't obvious? I'm a bully. And bullies love picking on weaker people"
"Hmmm, so a dominatrix eh? Revan you ready for this?"
"Hell yeah, the safe word, Miss Unique, is banana cream." The girl giggles and launches herself at the two spinning her daggers twirling. Malak parries her attacks and counters quickly upon her attacks while Revan dodges the girl's attack and goes for a horizontal slash. The girl is between them, locking blades with both of them.
"You guys are into double teaming huh?" Suddenly, she stops and their blows go through, shredding her cloak and she laughs as she is far from them. "It's been fun." She vanishes into the storm.
Malak remarks, "Well that's another way of pulling out."
"Looks like you got yourself a girlfriend."
"A side girl is more like it."
"You player."
"Your praise is much appreciated. For real though let's go back and check on the guys."
"Alright."
Meanwhile with Vincent and Ully. A figure swings into the window kicking at Vincent and Ully. Vincent managed to bring up his halberd in time to block the kick however it sent him back a couple of feet. He grasps his weapon tightly as he sees his new opponent. (Crap, this is gonna get serious). The figure stands up from a kneeling position being a relatively small man, his face obscured by a grimm-like mask as well
"Well, you're certainly not Atlas. You must be the kids from Beacon. Where's Argent?"
"Sorry to disappoint you but your princess is in another castle," Vincent says with gritted teeth as he loads some dust into his halberd.
The figure slips on a pair of claws but then starts stepping away "It would appear I don't have very much time to play. Sorry to...Split" he hops back and cuts the connector piece of the car Vincent and Ully are in from the car leading to the cargo hold.
"Well isn't he a ray of sunshine, so what's the plan now?"
At the moment Vincent asks his question, the avalanche hits the front part of the train pushing it off the track and rolling down the side of the mountain. The snowstorm rages on and laughter surrounds the derailed train. Vincent groans as he gets up from the cushy landing spot the snow made for him. Vincent could hear the laughter of his attackers over the icy wind. He gets up and once again draws his halberd trying to find a person target. The laughter continues. Vincent and Ully are beset by the sudden appearance of over a dozen people, all identical girls.
"Come play with us." they all unsheathe their knives.
"Wow, what nice...knives you all have. Would you mind getting a better sense of humor and not stab me to death?" Vincent says as he fires a shot from his weapon at one of the girls. One of the many girls fades into nothingness when Vincent's round goes through her
"No Promises~" they all rush Vincent and Ully with multiple lunges and stabs.
"Hey at least your honest," Vincent says as the fire dust loaded into his halberd activated as he quickly swung at the multitude of attackers sending multiple waves of fire at them.
The multiple girls are dispersed until just one remains "You are very fast. A girl doesn't like that. She likes men" she pulls out multiple throwing knives "That she can slay~"
"Thanks for the compliment but I think we should wrap this up," Vincent says as he slams his halberd down on the ground near his attacker releasing a concentrated burst of fire dust. The girl gets thrown back and laughs shrilly
"My my You are interesting. I'll be sure to keep" a red eye stares at him from the storm "an eye for you" as her sentence end, the eyes vanish.
Vincent slowly looks around holding his weapon tightly as he tries to grasp the scenario he had experienced. (Well she was a complete nut).
"Is everyone okay?" Argent yells.
"We're fine." Yells Malak in return.
"I've never been better!" Jasper yells back before falling over.
Vincent began following the sound of Argent's shouting. "I'm good as well!" Vincent shouted in response.
Argent goes to pick up Jasper "Are you okay? Can you hear me?" Jaspers eyes are half closed and his vision is blurry.
"Yea. I just found out my semblance and may have gone a bit over board. Might be a bit before I can walk fine." Malak and Revan arrives with the rest of the group
"So I guess the attackers are Faunus. Like I never saw that coming..." Says Malak.
"So that's what derailed us. Ill carry you." Argent picks jasper up and brings him to the team and "What makes you assume that Malak?"
"And hot. Don't forget hot." Says Revan
Jasper who was still groggy spoke up "Hot? You guys fought a girl? luckkyyyyy..."
"GirlS. We fought 3."
"Tell me about it later. I'm gonna sleep now. Nigh..." Jasper passes out.
"That's important too. But I mean Atlas has been known to be attacked by extreme Faunus as of recently. So for them to be the actual culprit doesn't surprise me too much."
"I only encountered one Faunus. The other I fought, was human. Vincent, how many girls did you fight?" Asks Argent.
"At first twelve...then it turned out to be just one. It might have been her semblance, illusions maybe."
"Very observant. According to your information it seems that numbers may have been exaggerated. I believe we have a bit of a bigger issue. Make no mistake, this was not White Fang, at least, not solely. I believe we're dealing with a team of 4. Hunters."
"Well now, looks like we the hunters are now the hunted." Says Malak.
"I'm going to cut your tongue out of your mouth." Says Revan disappointed in Malak's play on words.
"We'll talk more in the morning. For now, the sun has fallen, and we need to set up camp. There's Grimm out here, so please keep negative emotions to a minimum. I'll take the first watch. We'll plan our route tomorrow. Good work out there. You didn't die, which is a definite plus. Jasper is gonna be vulnerable so don't try and go off on your own to hunt grimm, because we'll have a handicap." Says Argent.
"Alright so Revan, I guess just think of sexual thoughts."
"That worries me a little bit, if we're dealing with full on huntsmen the gap in skill level would be huge. The woman I fought didn't seem too tough, maybe she was toying with me." Says Vince.
"Hey I'm not angry all the time. Hey Vince what did he just say about negative attitude."
"Vincent, I'm impressed. I believe you are correct. They seem to be just...stalling maybe. Their prize was always the cargo of which it seems that they succeeded in taking some. I don't know why they didn't try harder. But it seems that it worked out for us."
"The good thing is nobody died here today!" Vincent said enthusiastically.
"It really is." Says Argent.
"Well then let's get some rest while we can. I'll take first watch."
"Alright, wake me when you need me." Malak says before finding a spot to sleep. Revan immediately falls to the floor snoring. Argent sighs putting Jasper in a sleeping bag. He starts a fire and sits by it cross legged, keeping alert.
Off in the distance the four reunite
Skater: "...It caught me off guard I'm sorry I don't know wh-"
Mysterious Figure: "Shut it. You should've expected him to transform into a dragon. "
Skater: "Umm he can transform into a dragon?"
MF: "...I swear you're better off without those stupid ears of yours, it's not like you can hear anything."
Skater:...
MF: "I meant that you should've have gotten cocky. Anyways it doesn't matter, Argent would've killed me. The kid losing control actually bought me enough time to grab the last container. Fortunately your stalling got me time to toss out the last three. The girls should've-"
Girl 1: "retrieved them?"
Girl 2: "We have." MF turns to them.
MF: "and for your reconnaissance?"
Girl 2: "We saw them sleeping."
Girl 1: "We could've slit their throats."
Girl 2: "What a shame I rather like them."
Girl 1: "Why didn't we kill them?"
MF: They have a purpose to serve. Besides, Argent won't bother looking for us. If we had killed a group of students, Beacon would be dedicated to finding us it may even stop the Vytal Tournament. And you know we can't have that. For now Argent is content that his little birds are alive. I need him in a certain spot. I don't need him distracted with vengeance. Are we clear?"
All: Yes sir.
MF: "Good now grab the weapons we have an appointment to keep." He walks off and finds their stashed ship. They fly off quietly into the night.