10,000 Bullets

Story Summary for 10,000 Bullets:

The Purists send Kallisti to locate and grab The Legacy, a powerful magical artifact from the Four Monarch's previous reality, that's now somewhere in modern day Hong Kong. In true Shadowfist form, the other factions find out about it, and mayhem ensues.

In the first battle, Tommy Hsu and Big Brother Tsien lead the Lotus goons to a warehouse, expecting to ambush the Purist agent. But Kallisti manipulated Tommy's divination, and duped the other factions to show up as well. A big firefight starts between the Lotus and the Buro troops, but that's complicated by the arrival of the CDCA abominations, the Jammers, and the Dragons. Magog goes up against Furious George, and Johnny Tso squares off against Tsien. [Johnny has a major grudge against Tsien; we know from the Operation Killdeer story that the Poison Thorns killed Johnny's folks] The Dragons capture Tommy Hsu. After surveying the mess, Kallisti heads to the Hong Kong Museum of History where she expects to find information about the location of the Legacy. Captain Liu arrives to clean up, and lets his Ascended bosses know that something big is going on.

At the museum, Lord Shi and Lord Hawskmoor show up in the right place with the Monarchs contingent, but they're stymied by the Guiding Hand led by Shi Ho Kuai and Derek Han. The Hand are the custodians of the artifact, and aren't about to let anyone steal it. Kallisti makes a dash for the scroll with the information she needs, but she's stopped by Bleys Fontaine as the Ascended get directly involved. The Dragons show up after "convincing" Tommy Hsu to spill his guts. There's a series of running battles like a square dance where adversaries pair off, beat each other up and then get new "partners" just before administering the final blow. But there is some permanent damage: Lord Shi cuts off Kallisti's hand, and Steven Wu wounds Phillipe Benoit and kills (?) Rachel McShane. In the end, Tricia manages to grab the scroll. And Tommy Hsu gets in a car accident.

The Dragons figure out that the Legacy is guarded at the Temple of Celestial Mercy, so they head over to deliver a warning. Of course, everyone follows them, and there's another running battle in the Temple. Kallisti invokes the Father of Chaos who proceeds to demolish the Temple, sucking in Phillipe along the way. Johnny unloads his shotgun into Tsien, knocking him into the Father of Chaos as well. Lord Shi manages to grab the Legacy, but gets hit by lightning from the Father of Chaos and disappears. Everybody runs at that point.

Kallisti then travels to the ancient China juncture, and steals the Legacy from the Temple of Celestial Mercy, paradox be darned.

This story summary was written by Stefan Vincent, and can originally be found on his website, here.