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///Buckle down for a long story! This is something fun I decided to do for the Karmine family, which includes some new toys for three of the members and a post-huntsman job possibility for Auron. A bit more info will be at the end. Also, I couldn't put it under a "read more" thing because it kept messing up on me because of the pictures I included in it.///

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It had been a year since the group of bandits known as Grimmhammer had been destroyed and their remaining members scattered around the world, and since their leader had stabbed Ebony in the back. The leader, the man known as Locke, was dead and their efforts in creating abominations of Grimm for their own personal gain were stomped into the dirt. Since then, the Rangers had worked on destroying the last remaining bases and labs of the bandit group one by one and were close to wiping them all out.

A loud gunshot was heard as Auron aimed down the sights of Last Call, taking down the last of the bandits that were in the base he and two of his Ranger friends had assaulted. It was a base deep in one of Anima's snowy, northern forests. The snow lightly fell on the base the bandits had set up around what looked to be an old garage they had fixed up to house their supplies and most likely weapons. "I think that's the last bastard," Auron said into his earpiece to his friends, "Let's regroup near the garage."

"Sounds good." A feminine voice replied.

"I'm going to scout around the area a bit more for any stragglers," Another, male voice said, "I'll meet up with you both soon."

Auron took the magazine out of Last Call and reloaded a few shells into it to top it off, and then he put it back in the gun. Soon after, as if out of thin air, one of the Rangers appeared next to him. She stood at five feet and seven inches tall with a lithe and athletic body, lightly tanned skin, medium-length dark red hair, and a pair of red fox ears on her head that were in two custom pockets in her hood. She took her hood off and revealed her striking violet eyes, and the grey strands in her hair that showed her age along with the very shallow crow's feet at the corner's of her eyes.

"Any injuries, Auron?" She asked the gunslinger.

Auron smirked. "Now Emowyn, you know these people can't do shit to us."

The faunus called Emowyn chuckled at that. "True enough. And you know I have to make sure because Shyla would kill me and Erron if you got hurt."

Auron couldn't help but laugh and he nodded. "That's fair too."

"Want to search around before we gather up their weapons?"

"Sounds good to me. I'm curious on what's in their garage there."

Auron and Emowyn walked forward toward the garage as Auron put Last Call on his back, and pulled Smoke & Preacher from their holsters. He stepped up to the large metal door and aimed his revolvers, and then he used his semblance to raise multiple dust metal poles from the ground under the door to raise it up and open it. Emowyn had her longbow, named Firefly, out now and had an arrow drawn back as the door raised in case there was any opposition from any surviving bandits, but they found none initially. In their place however were three militarized vehicles. One was a medium-sized humvee that was painted matte black with deep-treaded tires, and flat-faced, square windshields. And along with that, the humvee had light doors with canvas covering them on the outsides with multiple pouches for different means, along with a black canvas roof that could be removed and stored. Next to it on its left side was another humvee but it looked more like a truck and was the same color as the other. It only had two doors while the back had been modified to have a transport bed for both small bits of cargo and people as well with sideboards included. It had the same type of doors as the other humvee did, and on the back of the cab there looked to be a rack for a gun to be sat over the top half of the rear window. Both humvees each had a winch in the front bumper.

///The first humvee is modeled mainly after a standard, classic US military humvee like in the first picture, and the other is modeled mainly like the one in the second picture. The overall design on the outsides of the two are like in the third picture, especially around the hood and the frame around the windshields. The doors for both are like the jeep's in the fourth picture. The interior of the first humvee looks like in the fifth picture, and the interior of the other looks like in the sixth picture except with a wall behind the seats. Lastly, both humvees have a winch in the front bumper like in the last picture.///

The second vehicle was much larger and looked to be more of a transport vehicle for both more of the bandits themselves and cargo as evidenced by the eight foot wide frame and body, and the ten foot long, eight and a half foot wide bed. It was matte black as well with tinted windows, and two-foot-high sideboards consisting of multiple thick, dark wooden planks, on the sides of the bed but they were let down to cover the two rear wheels. The truck had a snorkel that reached the height of the cab on the side of the engine bay above the front-right wheel, and it had the exhaust situated just behind the snorkel. It was a huge six-by-six truck, and Auron was surprised to see that Grimmhammer still had a vehicle like that after their forces had been scattered and destroyed. It was definitely a modified version of one of the trucks that transported the miners from place to place up in Mantle. Like the humvees, the truck had a winch on the front bumper but it was larger than the others. On its other side was a fairly large, dual-axle trailer that was the same side as the bed of the truck as well.

///And this is what the larger truck looks like. It's based and basically is just like the truck in the first picture here, a Military M923A2 6x6 Crew Cab truck and has the same sideboards for the bed as well. The snorkel exhaust, and winch are like in the second picture and situated in the same way. The interior in the front is like in the third picture, but with a video screen in the console to the right of the steering wheel. The trailer is like in the fourth picture.///

Auron whistled a bit and walked around the vehicles toward their backs, still ready for any bandit to jump out at him from the shadows the lights had casted in the garage. After searching around for several moments, neither Auron nor Emowyn could find any hiding bandits, so they began to relax as Auron holstered his revolvers. Emowyn could see that Auron was immensely interested in the three vehicles as he was walking around them and checking them out very closely. First, he looked around and inside the first humvee and inspected every small detail of it, and found the key was in the ignition.

"Hmm, this one's got a comms radio. If I could hazard a guess with the fancy dashboard an' shit in here, I'd say this was more of a scout vehicle," Auron remarked, "Probably what they used to find this place so deep in a snowy forest."

"And this one is definitely more for transport," Erron said at the other humvee, "It's very simple on the inside."

Auron jolted at the sound of his voice and hit his head on the roof of the one he was inspecting. "Ow, dammit!"

Erron laughed and shook his head. "There were no more bandits around." He was six feet in height and had an athletic body, along with short, jet-black hair with small bits of grey throughout. His eyes were a deep red color, and his skin was slightly tanned from his time out under the sun for the majority of his life as a Ranger. Strapped across his back was a rather simple, silenced combat rifle he called Frostbite.

"You couldn't have warned me you was comin' in?" Auron asked him, looking at the ranger as he sat down in the humble's driver's seat.

"Rangers hardly ever announce their presence, you know that."

"Oh for fuck's sake," Auron shook his head at that, rubbing his head a bit, "One o' these days, I'm shootin' you. You're gettin' to be about like Preacher."

"Now that's going a bit far, Auron."

Auron ignored hum and began to look around the interior of the humvee some more, and saw the release for the hood and he pulled it, and the hood popped up a bit near the windshield. He got out of the humvee and opened the hood up fully to check it out, and he noticed a large cap near the battery. He lifted the cap off and revealed a large, cylindrical fire dust crystal with a handle on the top of it, and he took it out to inspect it. "Huh, this one's been modified to take crystals instead o' fuel. I'm assumin' the other humvee has the same."

Erron checked the engine of the transport humvee soon after and saw different. "This one has two. I think that's probably to let it last longer on cargo runs."

"I'm noticing the same here," Emowyn replied as she herself was looking over the cargo truck's engine, "This one's engine is almost twice the size of your truck's, Auron. It takes three crystals."

Auron put the crystal back in the slot and put the cap back on, and he hummed. "Hell, that thing's fuckin' powerful then. Mine takes two. Hmmm…"

"Seems like it. And I checked the back too and it looks like the bed can tip back like your truck's can."

Auron went from the humvee over to the truck, and he climbed up onto the steps on the side, opened the door, and looked inside to see what the interior held. "A rear view camera, air conditionin', a radio, a comms radio, an' a lever for the bed I'm guessin'…" He climbed further in and looked in the back seats to see a long bench that could easily fit three people. He then sat himself in the driver's seat and let himself relax in its surprising comfort, "Hey guys…"

Emowyn slammed the hood of the truck shut and looked at him. She could see a certain look in his eyes and it made her smirk a bit. "What is it?"

Auron gave her a grin. "I'm keepin' this stuff."

The veteran Ranger gave a laugh. "Of course. This truck has some rolled up canvas in the back to cover cargo too. Some poles can be pulled out of the sideboards for it."

"Same for this one over here." Erron remarked from the one he was checking out.

"This keeps gettin' better an' better," Auron said, his grin widening, "I'm gettin' something like that set up for mine too. I just gotta get some canvas for it. I think I know just what to do with all o' these. That trailer's mine too now. Em, you wanna drive one o' the humvees out when we go?"

"Sure," Emowyn replied, "How are we getting them all out?"

"I'm gonna winch the other humvee to my truck," Auron laughed a bit, "This ain't somethin' I expected today."

X x X x X x X

Two months passed by after the raid on the Grimmhammer base. Auron and the two Rangers had recovered a very good amount of weapons, dust, and ammunition from the base that Auron was able to sell to S&S Munitions for a profit, and of course kept the humvees and the truck for himself. He had titles drawn up for them all and put the truck under his name, and the four-door humvee under Shyla's, and he had the humvee be repainted to a dark, olive green color. He had driven the cargo truck around a good amount in since the raid, and he loved it. It was a huge truck but easy to drive even if it takes up a lot of space. He had gotten used to changing gears for it fairly quickly and had decided to always keep the bed uncovered and the sideboards down as well until he needed them up.

"Oh, I love it!" Shyla exclaimed when she first laid eyes on the humvee when Auron had uncovered it from a large tarp in front of the house. He had towed it back to the house with his new truck with the tarp covering it so she wouldn't know exactly what it was until it was uncovered.

"I'm glad to hear it," Auron said with a grin, his arm around her shoulders as he led her around it, "I got a holster for a rifle on the side here, right outside the driver's side door an' I had a rack put inside between the front seats goin' all the way back for a shotgun too. I figured you might need somethin' like this in case you needed to go out if I'm not here. I think it's perfect for my weapon designin' queen."

"Is it automatic or manual?" Shyla asked curiously.

"It's automatic. I had it changed to be easier on you. Wanna take it for a spin?"

"Ummm, of course I do!" Shyla replied, and Auron handed her the key. She jumped into him and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, and she gave him a kiss on the lips, "Thank you, Aure!"

Auron gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Have fun, dear. I love you too."

Shyla took the key and smiled happily at Auron, and she got in the humvee. She turned the key and the engine fired right up, and she couldn't help but giggle in excitement before she slowly drove off. For Shyla, it felt a bit bumpy for her as she drove the humvee slowly across the field in front of their home. She didn't mind any bumpiness at all though. It actually made it more enjoyable and satisfying in a way. Plus, she had always kind of wanted a military vehicle like this but was never able to buy one for herself past other things and now she had one and she really did love it.

Back near the house, April slowly walked around her father's new truck with him. "Damn, dad. This thing looks like a beast."

"Definitely feels like it too," Auron remarked, a grin still on his face, "You definitely feel pretty powerful drivin' it. People are less inclined to honk at ya."

April laughed at that. "I'd imagine so."

Auron reached into his pocket and pulled out the key to the other humvee he had hidden in the garage. "Come to the garage. I got somethin' to show ya."

April looked at him curiously for a moment. "Alright, sure."

Auron led his youngest daughter past the cargo truck and around the house toward the garage he had built next to the workshops. "Y'know, after I retire from bein' a Huntsman, I might start a little job an' haul stuff for people."

"Oh dang, seriously?" April replied as they walked past the graves of Auron's parents, and April's grandparents, "That sounds like it would be fun."

"Yup. I got dad's truck an' trailer for general stuff, an' my new one for the bigger stuff," Auron said and stroked his beard a bit, "I think that'd be great to do."

"I say go for it. Maybe that could be a side job for me an' Holly too."

"Now that's a good idea too," They reached the garage fairly quickly and Auron began to grin once more, "I think what's in here is gonna help out a lot with that for you."

Auron handed April the key he had gotten out of his pocket, and she took it in her fingers and stared at it. "Huh?"

"I know ya love Blazer an' everything, but…" Auron slid one of the doors open, and then he did the same with the other door and the lights came on inside automatically, "I think that this is perfect for you."

April's eyes laid upon the sight of the other humvee that Auron had taken from the bandits, except it had been changed a bit. The humvee itself was a metallic dark red color instead of matte black, and the sideboards had been changed to be made of a wood that had been stained a red color to match the humvee. Over the rear wheels were armor plates much like the ones on Holly's truck to protect them. Strapped to the left side of the bed was a roll of canvas that would go over the bed of the humvee to protect its cargo from the elements. On the outside of the driver's side door was a sheath near the front of it that was obviously for Jacknife.

"Oh, here's this too," Auron said and took a piece of paper from his pocket and he handed it to her, "It's the title for it. All yours, Red."

April looked between the key, the title, and the humvee over and over for several moments before she could even think of anything to say. "So… this is mine?"

Auron grinned and patted her on the shoulder. "It's yours. I got it from that raid too. What do ya think?"

"I think I'm gonna need to drive this thing!" April exclaimed and walked over to the driver's side, "Holy fuck… Automatic or manual?"

"I had that get an automatic transmission too. I figure you'd appreciate that since you're used to Blazer bein' automatic. It takes two big fire dust crystals for power like dad's an' Holly's does."

"Sweet! I wouldn't mind learnin' a manual thing, but I'm glad you did that with this."

Auron laughed at that. "You can drive my new truck around an' learn sometime if you want. Hell, my original plan was to give that thing to ya."

"That woulda been badass, but I don't think that thing would fit in a parkin' spot at Beacon," April remarked, and she started to grin widely as it set in her mind that she had a new vehicle, "Blazer can fit in the back, right?"

Auron nodded in response. "It can. It's got ramps you can pull out from the back. I also got you a trailer for it that can have a canvas cover on it like the humvee. You can do what you want with it. It can carry Blazer too."

"Thanks, dad!" April said and went over to hug her father, "This is awesome! I can't wait to see the look on Star's face when I pick her up later!"

Auron laughed and patted her back. "That'll be great. You can even put Jacknife in the sheath on the door, an' you can put Jackhammer on the rack inside."

"And I saw a holster for Bear Claw under the dash behind the steerin' wheel," April said, her grin just growing across her face, "I think I'm gonna love this."

"I don't expect you to ignore Blazer though, especially after you put so much work into it."

"Oh hell no, that's still my baby. I'm just givin' it some breaks now."

"I thought so."

///Alright, so Humvees are still a thing for this universe in my eyes! In the real world, Humvees are "High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)" , which is called Humvee by pretty much anyone. They just have a bit of a different look in this universe.

I hope you all enjoyed this story, because it's canon that the Karmine family now have these trucks! Have a nice day/night!///

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