Team OAZN

A man and a woman, husband and wife, sat on a horse drawn carriage. They were travelling through a forest, along a cobblestone path connecting two towns. The sun was beating down overhead, and they were both taking shade underneath their headwear - the husband wore a hat; the wife, a bonnet.

The journey might have gone peaceful and without a hitch, were it not for the bandits who had taken to patrolling the route and preying on unsuspecting travellers. Within seconds they had emerged from the trees and surrounded the carriage, causing them to stop.

"Excuse me for intruding," said one of the bandits, swaggering up, hand resting on the gun at his belt, "But I believe you're carrying something that belongs to us."

The husband spoke, not raising his head. "It's not yours."

The bandit laughed. "You didn't think we'd find out you'd changed your route? You're gonna give us what's ours, and everything else in that carriage."

The bandit's eyes wandered to the man's wife, sitting next to him.

"And then," he said, walking closer, "I think you're gonna give me a bit of... one on one time with the Mrs."

"Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part," said Nomad, now raising his head and looking the bandit in the eye, "I married a powerfully ugly creature."

Okami raised his bonnet-covered head in shock.

"How can you say that?" Okami said. "How can you shame me in front of new people?"

"If I could make you prettier, I would," Nomad said, and he could tell Okami was loving the way his plan was playing out.

Okami gasped. "You are not the man I met a year ago!" By now the bandits were confused as all hell, and the two Huntsmen seized the opportunity. Okami stood up, his hands whipping down to his holsters and drawing two hand cannons. Nomad dropped the reins and ripped his coat off, revealing his metal arms, held up in a guard.

Keeping one gun trained on the bandits, Okami used his other hand to remove the bonnet from his head.

"Now think real hard. You've been bugging these towns for a while now. They wouldn't mind if we put an end to you. Now you can come quietly and end up in a jail cell, but if your hand touches metal... I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you."

The bandit leader raised his hands, keeping them away from the metal at his hip. He glanced at his buddies, keeping the carriage surrounded, and made eye contact with one on their right.

"Get 'em!" He shouted. Okami turned to the side in time to see the bandit on his right aiming a rifle, but before either of them could shoot, the bandit was thrown to the ground, an arrow embedded in his chest. Okami looked to the back of the carriage and saw Artemis hanging out, another arrow already nocked in her bow.

The back of the carriage opened up again and another Huntsman stepped out, carrying a flail with a spiked head over his shoulder.

"Oh, excellent," said Zap, letting the flail head clunk to the ground, "The fight!"

The bandits all raised their guns and Nomad leapt off the carriage, colliding with the nearest one. He went to town, beating them again and again until their aura shattered and then twice more for good measure. He picked them up and tossed them aside. He fired his hands at two more bandits, and they shot off his arms, attached by cables. He grabbed both bandits by the neck, and retracted the cables, dragging them towards him. When his hands connected back with their wrist sockets, he tightened his grip on their necks and smashed their heads together, and threw them away too.

Okami jumped into the air and planted his feet on the side of the carriage, then pushed off as the bandits opened fire. He twisted in the air, dodging the bullets, and then his wings opened in a blaze of orange light and swept them all off their feet. Hovering there above them, Okami released a precise flurry of bullets from his two cannons that rained down on the bandits below. One of them grabbed their forearm with one hand and extended their other hand, using his Semblance to create a shield that Okami's bullets couldn't break through. He swooped downwards, flipping one of his guns around so he was holding the barrel, and a blade extended, turning his hand cannon into a sword. He landed on the ground next to the one with the shield, crouching. The bandit looked at him and Okami saw his eyes widen. He winked and swept his sword at the bandit's legs, knocking them out from under him, and while he was in the air, Okami smacked him in the stomach with the butt of his gun. The bandit crashed to the ground, winded and down for the count.

Zap swung his flail and let the momentum carry him forward into a leap. Upon landing, he looked around to find himself surrounded, but if he was fazed, he didn't show it. He swung the flail once, twice, and it started crackling with electricity. He raised the flail above his head and pressed a button on the handle, and all the spikes shot out. The bandits flinched, expecting the attack to land, but when they opened their eyes, they saw all the spikes had missed, and stuck into the ground in between them. They laughed, and began to advance, readying their weapons. Zap's eyes sparked, and he cracked a grin as electricity travelled from his hand into his weapon, coursed through the chains connecting the spikes to his flail, and electrified everything that resided in their perimeter. The bandits fell, smoking and still crackling with electricity.

Artemis had climbed partway up a tree and was firing shots at the battle below. A manifestation of her Semblance, a shadow-creature resembling a wolf, also ran rampant, jumping from bandit to bandit and taking down target after target. She heard a rustling in the tree above her and leapt to the edge of the branch, keeping her balance as she broke her bow into two knives. A bandit dropped down onto the branch, swayed a little, but regained his balance. He drew a tomahawk from a sheath on his back, and twirled it with a smirk on his face.

"I'm gonna turn you into a carpet, Faunus," he leered.

"Gross," Artemis responded, striding across the branch towards him. He swung the tomahawk downwards, and Artemis dodged to the side to avoid it, nimbly stepping around him and kicking him in the back. He stumbled, straightened up, and turned to face Artemis again. Anger on his face now, he advanced, swinging the tomahawk. Artemis blocked the strike, their blades colliding with a clang, and the bandit spun the other way, bringing the tomahawk around with deadly speed. Artemis ducked, and it sailed overhead, but as she stood up, it came back once again. She flipped both of her knives into reverse grips and extended the bowstring, connecting the handles of her knives by woven strings. As the tomahawk came down, she stretched the string tight and wrapped it around his wrist, leading the bandit's arm in a circle until he was forced to bend when she applied pressure. She kicked him once in the chest and he fell from the branch towards the ground. The shadow-wolf on the ground, her Semblance, perked up as it heard his screams. It abandoned its previous target and sprinted for the falling body, leaping into the air to meet it. But before its jaws closed around the body, the creature morphed into a bird resembling a Nevermore, and it gripped the bandit in its claws, flying high into the sky, and releasing him. The bird vanished, and a cloud of dark matter came rushing back to Artemis.

The main bandit, the leader, had been hanging back, hoping his crew would deal with the Huntsmen. When he saw they hadn't, and that his forces were dwindling before his eyes, he decided it wasn't worth it.

"Guys, he's getting away!" said Nomad, grappling with two bandits at once.

"What should we do, Okami?" Zap asked.

Okami flew upwards, surveying the battle. The bandits were all but defeated, but the leader was making his escape. He pressed a button on his earpiece, connecting him to the rest of his team.

"Nomad, get Zap up here."

"On it."

Zap ran to Nomad, who grabbed him and threw him with all the strength he could muster. Zap flew through the air, but he began to slow, and he didn't quite make it to Okami. He started falling and Okami yelled "Artemis!"

Artemis quickly drew a zipline arrow, one with a flexible string attached, and fired it at a nearby tree. The arrow stuck into the trunk with a thud and she grabbed the other end of the string and pulled tight. Zap landed on the string and it absorbed his momentum, then sprung back, flinging him into the air like a trampoline.

"You're welcome," Artemis muttered to herself.

Zap shot straight up, and he made it to Okami easily.

"Alright, you see him?" Okami said, straining to hold Zap.

"I see him," Zap said, holding out his hand, "He's screwed." Zap's Semblance was the ability to discharge a lightning bolt from his hand that got stronger as the distance between him and his target increased. And up there, in the sky, there was a *lot* of distance between him and his target.

The lightning burst forth, streaking through the sky, until it connected with a loud crash, completely taking the bandit leader off his feet, frying him from head to toe.

There was a celebration in town that night.

(A/N - If you're a fan of Firefly, you would have recognised where I got the inspiration for this story)