Author's Notes:

Once again, this chapter contains slight spoilers for V-Oblivion's story of A new world, A new game. Only slight ones, I checked, nothing major is revealed. I think.
This is also one of four. Strap in.

The next morning seemed to dawn far too early, as the apartment building seemed to be baking from the inside out. Apparently, while only a small increase in heat had been scheduled, a heat wave had forced its way in, and now the city was about to be far too hot for any sane being to stand.

Bit, you need to procure some parts for the AC today.

The program nodded and made to leave, but Vincent held up a hand and cleared his throat. Before you go, I'd like to try something.

Bit turned his disconnected head back around and tilted it to one side. "Please define."

I'm going to try teaching Lucy Heal Pulse from your head.

The two 'mon stiffened at the declaration, but slowly, Lucy nodded. "We may need such a move in the future."

Bit ticked for a few seconds before dinging. "I will attempt to make the inside of my head easily accessible for such an endeavor."

The lobby was then home to a blue flash of light, and two groans. Lucy was clutching her head as information seemed to appear inside of it, and Vincent was merely moaning in pain. Good Arceus, but is that how you see everything, Bit?

The program dinged once. "That is mostly correct." And shortly thereafter, Bit left the apartment building, in search of parts.

It was afternoon by now. Vincent sat in the lobby of the apartment building, hot and tired. How long is it going to be before Bit comes back with the parts? This is what I wanted to avoid!

Lucy sat nearby, panting in an effort to get some cool air in her lungs. A futile effort that was based on there being cool air. “No idea…”

Sam merely lay on the floor, his wings fluttering weakly in an attempt to regulate his body temperature. “Hate my shell now…”

A wave of psychic power washed through the lobby, carrying a familiar word with it. One that caused Vincent to smile. Ping! it said to him.

Vincent replied in kind, quickly putting his own spin on the return. Pong! he sent. Well, my teacher...what brings you here, Vincent thought to himself. Meanwhile, the Kadabra was talking out loud to his family. “Well, Checkmate is checking in at the moment.”

Lucy groaned and Sam raised one claw in response.

It was a good half-hour before the next pulse came, informing Vincent of Checkmate's closer approach, and he decided to greet them personally. With a flexing of his power, the Kadabra appeared just between the group and the front door. My apologies, air conditioning is something Bit is working on today. I have no idea when he’ll be back with the proper parts. Or if he’ll be back with the proper parts. The only thing I can offer you is some rooms to lay yourself down in at the moment.

“That will do, as long we have a bed for him.” pointed Weiss, both figuratively about their situation and physically about a rather banged up Scizor laying on Xavier’s head.

Vincent gently pushed the front door open and gestured for them all to enter. Just find a room and set yourselves up...except for the third floor, that’s where we sleep. And seeing as how we don’t have everything refit yet, I think we can forget rent or the need to be repaid for now. As long as there aren’t any damages, that is.

The mercs did as they were told, as they entered the apartments they seemed to notice the whole remodel that was going on. Xavier said, with curiosity and a bit of admiration, “A good call should I say, this solves the problem of housing Pokemon and give your family a proper income.”

The mere act of leaving the scorching sunlight and walking under the slightly less hot shade of the building seemed to do a world of good for the mercs.

“By the way, how has life been treating you and your family?” asked Weiss casually as he checked on Char, who was still unconscious.

Well enough. Ran into a few interesting faces, had a lovely time in Ponyville and Canterlot, and once we got back here, I began refitting this place so that ponies could see what working with Pokemon had to offer them. If only we’d thought to set Bit to gathering air conditioning parts yesterday instead of letting him do...whatever he was doing, we could be beating this problem too.

Lucy slowly got up and walked over to Char before nodding and closing her eyes. “It’s not all bad, though. You did ask him to teach me this move this morning, and while it tingled a bit, it’s about to prove useful. Heal Pulse.”

The wave of energy left the Lucario and impacted the downed Scizor. The healing move didn’t take long to wake Char as he soon opened his eyes and sprang right up, wings flaring and claws wide open as he looked around in the search of any kind of foe.

“...easy there…” slowly said Weiss as calm but seriously as possible, an aggressive Char apparently wasn't something to take lightly. “We are safe. We are at Vincent’s home, you remember Vincent right?”

It seemed to take a moment for the Scizor to realize the truth behind Weiss' words, and none of his teammates relaxed at all until he did. “... so… he…” The Scizor began.

“Yes, he got away.” Simon replied from his end with a defeated tone.

“It’s still okay buddy.” Weiss said with the same tone of before. “We made it out alive, we will later see what happened, but for now let’s take it easy okay?”

Char nodded, seeming to accept his defeat. He then turned to the group and said, “I see the ‘doc’ is not yet with us, so I take it one of you healed me.” He then turned to Lucy and Vince, “I thank you, and I apologize for what you just saw.”

Lucy shrugged and returned to where she’d been sitting. “You seem to forget that we’ve our own share of terrible memories. More than once, we’ve woken up, screaming, in the middle of the night.”

Fortunately, it’s been happening less and less.

Sam panted from his position on the floor before responding as well. “Though this day is definitely going in the ‘terrible’ list. Where the hell is Bit?!”

Sadly, there was no suddenly appearing Bit to relieve Sam of his woe. Vincent merely shrugged. I could find out, but I swore that unless you lot tried to get my attention, I’d let my family’s minds be their own.

This only caused Sam to let out another groan.

“Yeah, we do have our shares of jump frights, but is rare to see Char here getting one of those, but either way, we will get even soon.” proclaimed Weiss matter of factly. “So back to you kid, you mention meeting some people at Ponyville and Canterlot, did you visit our mighty deity as well?”

Vincent smiled softly. Indeed I did. And I got all the answers I was after, along with a few I wasn’t. Father and all his staff are not here. The subjects are, which is a slight cause for concern, especially number thirty-four, but we’ll deal should Christine show up. And Xerneas is the only reason I lived all that time. She did what she could to keep me intact on Earth...and my door is always open to her.

“You hear guys, we held the same honor than a legendary!” Weiss joked, the group laughed back in a funny but kind way. “Did you happen to give my regards to lord Arceus?” The once human teased.

I did mention you, and he said something along the lines of your connection to Latias being one of the reasons you were allowed to come with, Vincent replied, his eyes sparkling with mischief. Had I known you had so many friends in high places, I would have put out a red carpet.

“You will remember it next time” he pridefully and nonchalantly replied. “So you owe your life to a legendary, makes sense.” Kindly added the merc. “I presume that makes her okay in our list as well. But now that we talk about lists and friends lets go talk about foes, I take these subjects are okay so long we don’t poke them too much. The only exception being this Christine, anything we should know?”

“Besides not killing her.” Joked/added Rouge as she seemed to be way better by now.

Sam pushed himself into a crouching position as he realized where the conversation had turned. “Don’t…”

Vincent didn’t seem to take any notice. Well, the Doctor never really lost his love of genetic manipulation, so for her, when she was a Gibel, she underwent a series of treatments to fuse Kecleon DNA with her own. It messed up her colors something fierce...and when she Evolved into a Gabite, she learned to control her camouflage. She has the red stripe of a Kecleon that she can’t hide, along with more anger issues than you could shake a stick at. She only really calmed down around me.

Lucy pitched her two bits in then, smirking all the while. “Or Sam. She has a thing for Sam.”

The elder brother of the family groaned as that fact made itself known. “Why…”

“She sounds like Scylla alright… minus the love issues.” Concluded Simon. “But hey, look at this way, there is at least one person who found you attractive!”

“Okay, anger issues, capable to become invisible save a red line and a pseudo legendary. Its surprising we haven’t heard of her already.” Listed and admitted Weiss. “If we ever see her, we would be sure to give her a proper guidance… would you like it to be toward or away from you Sam?” He however couldn’t seem to resist teasing him at the end.

Sam eventually pushed himself to a kneeling position and glared at everyone in the lobby. “You guys suck…”

She liked the ‘taller, dashing swordsman’ who told us all ‘tales of the wonders of the outside.’ I’m afraid she developed a crush on an ideal of him, rather than the actual him. She escaped recently enough, probably to try and find authorities to bring back. Here, it is a wonder that we haven’t heard of her before now. Maybe she was dumped in a wilderness.

“Because her working through her issues and settling down somewhere else is so likely,” Lucy snarked.

She once used Flamethrower on an aide for merely looking at her for too long, Vincent deadpanned back. I’m afraid that if she learns where we are, she’ll come anyways. And holding the information from her is sure to end in pain for someone. Might as well direct her here anyways.

“Don’t I get a say?...”

“No,” Lucy said with a grin. “Besides, if it came to keeping everyone else safe and you miserable, or letting everyone be in danger because she freely roamed away from you just so you could be happy, we’d pick the first option every time.”

“Okay, chaos for LP it is then.” admitted Pancha with a serious expression.

“You have no idea of what they just said do you?” added her Poison-type friend.

“But I have a doubt,” inquired Char, “If she idolizes the ‘swordsman’ then would she still like the ‘scissor-man’? I mean, by what you said she seems to be quite fixated on that idea, so much so that the actual Sam may not be enough to calm her down from now on.”

A fair point, Vincent conceded. However, she will at least calm down for me. She did before, simply because I wasn’t like the others. And if you keep what Sam is away from the topic of conversation, she’ll likely come along.

“Plus, once she sees Sam’s a Scizor now, she’ll likely stop and reconsider her crush. Either she’ll try getting used to him for him or she’ll drop the matter altogether.”

Sam actually blinked at that, having not considered the likelihood that Christine could see reason. “Worth a shot,” he concluded.

“Or she could throw an angry fit and level the city, it won’t be the first time a pseudo has done it.” Simon pointed out.

“That is what happen to Hill Town” Added Char.

“Where?” asked Sam.

“Exactly.”

“That is also a possibility.” Acknowledged Xavier, returning to the topic of Christine, “If she were to go crazy with anger and denial, do you guys think you could stop her?”

Vincent merely smirked and raised one hand. Release Psychic Seal.

A wave of blue burst from the boy as he assumed his full power for a moment. He let the mercenaries feel the strength he and Xavier had worked to hone, the strength that could make him be mistaken for an Alakazam already, before he spoke again. Reform Psychic Seal.

The pressure died off as quickly as it came, and Vincent spoke three words then. Yes, I can.

“Good, you can, how about them?” pointed Weiss at Vincent’s siblings.

“At best, we could delay her,” Lucy said. “But that’s not what we would have to do at all.”

Sam shook his head and pointed one claw at it. “Links. Vincent could hear us if we spoke loud enough.”

And for something like Christine, I would respond instantly. I’ve gotten very good with Teleport lately. Multiple people is still something I have to focus on, but going to my family? No problem at all. The moment they clap eyes on her, I would know.

“Mhm…” Weiss stood up as if he were thinking, walking around and considering what they just heard. After a moment, he turned to look at Vincent with the same jolly air as before.

“That won’t do.” He said matter-of-factly, “Yes you can teleport as soon your family gaze upon her, but as far as we know she is hard to see. Not to mention has a tendency to act rashly.”

“Besides, there is no such thing as a fail proof plan, I think I can be proof of that right now.” added Char with slight sadness.

“So tell you what guys, how about we give you ‘lot’ some training?” Finished the leader with a smile.

Vincent blinked before looking at Xavier. I...think I can sit this one out, thanks to what you and I did. Sam and Lucy, though…

The two siblings seemed to realize that their ‘younger brother’ was throwing them under the metaphorical bus, and turned to look at him at the same time. “Wait...what?”

Vincent merely smiled at their shared sentiment and turned to Weiss with a mock scowl on. Now take care with them, I’ll want them back in one piece before nightfall!

“I make no promises, after all.” Weiss stood up once more in a militaristic stance. “That would depend on how well they perform.”

“And I thought you didn’t catch any of Shredder’s traits…” said Pancha with a bit of fright.

“We will need a good place to throw them down.” Pointed Simon.

“Don’t you mean a place for US to throw YOU down?” inquired Sam, only to receive a rather blank look from the hot blooded Pokemon.

“You heard me right.”

“So any ideas?” asked Rouge.

Two separate crime families were taken down before we left on our tour, Vincent replied with a wave of his hand. I’m sure it won’t be hard to find an abandoned warehouse that no pony would mind you using as a battleground.

At that moment, Vincent 'felt' Bit's link coming towards the apartment building, and decided to inform the others. Oh, on a lighter note: Bit’s coming back with all the parts he thinks he needs. So when you do get back, I’m fairly sure we’ll have air conditioning!

“That sounds like a good idea.” Weiss then looked at the rather large group and added. “I think we can split for now, so who wanna kick some butts?” Asked the leader.

Rouge, Pancha, Simon and Char raised their respective appendages.

“Good, now who wants to give Vince and Bit a helping hand with these contraptions of his?”

Xavier and Greninja nodded, but not only they seemed to want to help as Roa also held one of her claws up.

“...if is okay with mister Vincent… of course…” she stuttered right after.

“That is up to Vince, so the rest will stay and laze off right?”

The rest being Daring, Valerie and her husband, along with Surskit just grunted in agreement. Although the Fairy/Flying-type seemed surprised and proud about Roa’s interest to help out.

More hands are always welcome. Though, fair warning: if Bit tells you to move, no second-guessing him.

Speak of the devil, Bit appeared at the doorstep, dragging a rather sizeable cart full of parts behind him. He beeped once at the sight of Checkmate before commenting on the situation.

“Greetings again, Checkmate. If you will kindly move out of the way, I have parts to take to the basement.”

“Greetings to you too Bit.” Saluted the former human as the rest did as well in their own ways. The ‘lazy’ group then replied to Bit’s words and moved to lay down somewhere else, while Xavier, Greninja and Roa waited for instructions, the latter one seemed slightly afraid of something, though it was uncertain what precisely.

“Okay, and this is our cue to go. So will you come on your own?” joked Weiss, sort of.

Sam sighed as he moved to stand up more fully, only to stop and shake his head. “Too hot. Bit?”

The Porygon-Z nodded once and aimed his beak upwards. “Ice Beam, dispersal mode.”

With that, the room quickly became host to temperatures more befitting wintertime as flakes drifted through the air around the program. Sam and Lucy sighed in relief before nodding at the mercenary group as a whole.

“Okay, and now we’re ready,” Lucy said.

“Yeah, this should last us a good while,” Sam finished.

The group felt revitalized with the sudden drop of temperature to the point they almost regretted leaving.

“Okay, but we are not taking the walking route.” Said Simon as he open the nearest window and shout, “Hey Edge!”

“WHAT!?” come an annoyed reply from somewhere out there.

“We need a transport!” was all explanation the Steel-type give, shortly after the large head of the team’s Noivern hung down the window.

“Where to?” Asked Edge with slight excitement, while also adding a casual, “and how you doing there, Lucy, Bit, Sam, Vincent.” The last name included a playful blind blink.

Lucy merely growled before pointing at the Noivern. “Mine. Go get your own.”

Now now, Lucy. You can’t blame her for not knowing. It’s not like we’re wearing giant signs or anything. The Kadabra gave the Lucario a hug before nodding at Edge. Do take care with them, Edge. I’d rather they come back in one whole piece.

The mercs, more accurately Weiss and Char, froze at this sudden show of possessiveness.

“Now, correct me if I am wrong but: did she just show some jealousy… and from Edge of all 'mons?” inquired Weiss.

“HEY!”

“That does seem to be the case.” Added the Claw Pokemon with a slightly intrigued look. “But jumping to conclusions is not a good habit, so would you kids mind enlightening us on these events?”

Vincent chuckled. Ah, well, one part of it is we finally confessed to one another, after a Charizard named Ignis helped me put quite a few things I didn’t understand to context.

“And another part of it is that same Charizard telling us about his run-in with you, Edge,” Lucy added, a slight growl in her voice.

“I wouldn’t get any closer, Edge,” Sam added. “Lucy’s rather protective of Vincent anyways. Until the early stages of this new relationship of theirs is past the ‘want to make up for lost time’ stage, they’re probably going to jump at everything.”

Bit had nearly hauled the cart through the entryway of the apartment building before turning his head back to the party and dinging once. “Isn’t that our default state?”

We’re getting better, Vincent said with a bit of a sulk.

“Hey, lil' Vince is cute, but not that kind of cute.” Replied the dragoness with a dismissive tone. “No offense Vince.”

“Well congratulations kids!” voiced out Simon with his normal voice, which was close to a shout, while giving the duo a couple of back breaker palms, the rest congratulated the young couple in similarly euphoric ways, although not as damaging or dangerous.

All but two Pokemon.

“So correct me if am wrong again but… you rejected our invitation for a drink," Char started.

At these words, the mercenaries looked at Vincent with disbelief, surprise and exaggerated hurt expressions, although none seemed to be angry.

“Telling us you were ‘too young’ for that,” Weiss continued.

“And now.” Concluded Char, “you go and tell us you now have a girlfriend.”

Simon brought the couple together so he could whisper to them, “You shouldn’t have done that.” rather dramatically.

Lucy merely smirked before turning to Char and Weiss. “Sadly, we have a previous engagement. But if any of your friends here desire to take Vincent out on the town, all I ask is that you bring him back in one piece before morning.”

Hey! I’m not okay with this!

Sam ignored the protests. “Yes, and do make sure the boy doesn’t do anything Lucy will make him regret later. I’d rather he only have to congeal once.”

Oh not you too!

The smiles on the two ‘siblings’ of Vincent could not be wider or more Sharpedo like if they tried.

“We have authorization guys!” proclaimed Weiss as the males cheered, minus Xavier and Greninja.

Meanwhile Char placed a claw on Sam’s shoulder. “Be sure that we will take proper care of him.” he said matter-of-factly at the end.

“Daring, I want the strongest things one can buy in this world!” ordered Weiss towards the mare on the ground.

“You do realize this is the capital of sin right?” she asked back without raising her head.

“Your point is?”

“Just checking.”

Bit merely shook his head at the antics of the Pokemon in the lobby, though there was a slight smile in his eyes, if you knew where to look. “While the coming intoxication of Vincent may be something to celebrate for some of you, I must proceed to install this central air conditioning unit. Any who wish to accompany me had best do so now.”

Greninja just took hold of the rough blueprints that had been sketched up the night before while Xavier took most of the equipment with his psychic grasp, Roa simply followed them, not sure of what to do.

“Okay, we can celebrate latter tonight, as for now we march to hell!” he finished dramatically as he jumped out the window and landed on Edge’s back. The rest of the smaller mercenaries following shortly after.

Meaning Char would go on his own. “So shall we then?” He offered a claw to the Steel-type siblings.

Sam nodded and proceeded to walk out the front door, followed shortly by Lucy. Vincent merely grumbled and went to the stairs. I’m going to hang out with the Berries. Maybe by the time you lot come back, you’ll have forgotten some of this madness.

“You wish!” sarcastically shouted Weiss back as they left.

Vincent hadn’t left the room yet when a ribbon like limb took hold of his hand.

“Wait, mister Vincent, I couldn’t help but hear you talk about some berries.” Inquired the Sylveon with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

“I apologize for my husband.” Valerie quickly added. “He is quite a fan of the fruit.”

Vincent merely nodded once. Xerneas dropped them off the other day. Managed to get some pots and earth for them and set up a rudimentary rooftop garden. I’ll probably look into getting a greenhouse installed up there in the near future so that we can control the environment up there. If you’ve any expertise to lend in the art of growing them, it’d be most welcome.

Valerie just facewinged as the glimmer in Sylveon’s eyes became a blinding light.

“My good sir, I think you and I will get along just fine.”

Lucy and Sam led the small group of mercenaries to a large, abandoned warehouse. They paused briefly at the doors and shuddered slightly before nodding and pushing one open each and looking inside. Seeing that it had been cleared of all the crates that used to be in there, the siblings nodded and turned back to the mercenaries.

“Unless someone is using this to store air, we should be good,” Sam snarked.

“Until the whole thing comes crashing down on us,” Lucy said. “And with your luck…”

“I already said I tripped and it was an accident!” The Scizor defended himself. Lucy rolled her eyes and walked in, closely followed by her older brother.

“That is a good start.” Pointed out Char as he followed the siblings in, Weiss and co. meanwhile landed close by. “I take you are still adapting to your new exoskeleton then.” he inquired.

Sam merely nodded. “Yeah...I mean, I’d gotten used to adjusting myself when I was a Scyther, but not only is it now made of metal, my exoskeleton is thicker than my instincts say it should be. Trips, spills, fumbles...I’ve gotten a little training in how not to mess up, but anything you can impart would be a boon.”

“Surprisingly enough, this isn’t such a rare case for newly evolved Scizors, I have even heard some Pokemon become really clumsy once there is a drastic change on the Evolution. Especially when a new type is added. All we have to do is work on your coordination," Char said.

Sam rotated all his joints, prepared for what his mentor in dealing with his new chitin was about to impart to him. Meanwhile Char began to circle around Sam, carefully looking at him as he stretched.

“Mhm… definitely, the extra weight may be a problem, but I don’t see any strain on your limbs and joints, so its all a matter of balance.”

Once he was done, he took a small rock of rubble from the ground, a rather flat one, and place it over Sam’s head.

“Let’s start with something simple: keep the rock there,” was all he instructed.

Sam shifted slightly near constantly, trying to both keep the stone on his head and keep Char in his field of view. “Okay…”

“Don’t worry, I won’t throw any attack at you, at least not yet,” calmly said the older Scizor to the younger one. “I first want you to keep your balance as centered as possible, then we work on keeping it while moving around.”

Sam decided to start mimicking Vincent during his meditation sessions, and held himself perfectly still while breathing as slowly as possible.

“Good start, keep your mind focused on your breathing and burn the idea of this balance in your memory with each of them.” Praised the veteran. After a few minutes of Sam holding still, Char spoke up again.

“This seems to be enough. You have a good balance, at least when standing. But now I want you to go and walk all over there,” he pointed at a wall, “and walk back while carrying the stone, that is all.”

Lucy shook her head as the memories of what this place had been used for not a week ago kept filtering in. Heck, the hole in the roof from where Bit had used Signal Beam was still there.

A whistle sound all over the place as Simon looked at the walls and ceiling. “This was one heck of a battle.”

The rest of the mercenaries nodded in agreement as they could follow what seemed to have happen by the damage the warehouse sustained.

“A raid?” Inquired Weiss.

Lucy nodded absently. “Thankfully, not only were the ones responsible taken care of, but the one who did most of this damage was...dealt with.” She sighed and looked away from the hole, back to the group. “Fortunately enough, Vincent knew what to do, and had Bit cut out the operating system for the Simulator room. Now he can’t go all ‘rage mode’ on us anymore.”

The merc group seemed surprised at this news.

“So Bit was capable of going all haywire?” Asked Pancha.

“You can do it as well. What is so impressive about it?” Pointed out Simon.

Lucy nodded again, this time walking to a nearby wall and sighing.

“He was the backup plan for everything...everything...at that facility. The fact that the Doctor broke him so badly just makes me...argh!”

With that, she punched the wall, putting a perfectly circular hole through it while only getting a bit of dust and dirt in her fur. She blinked at the sound of destruction before withdrawing her arm and smiling sheepishly.

“Heh. Sorry about that. Sometimes I forget myself.”

“Welp, I see a problem alright.” Pointed out Simon with very little delicacy, “she has a mood problem as bad as Vincent, no offense.” He quickly added.

“That…” added Weiss as he looked at the new hole on the wall. “And she needs to learn how to control her strength as well.”

“Then it’s back to the basics for her as well.” Acknowledged Rouge as Pancha tried to pretend she understood what were they talking about.

“Very well, first thing on the schedule: bring me as many stones you can find, no matter the size as long they fit on your palm.” Ordered Weiss. “Think you can do that?”

Lucy shrugged, not certain of the purpose of the exercise, but began to walk around gathering stones. “And no offense taken. We aren’t exactly the most...stable of individuals. It’s going to take time before our reaction to those times isn’t anger.”

As Lucy gathered up stones, Weiss replied to her statement. “Knowing how to hit is one thing, but knowing when not to hit is even more important. That is what we will start with. Then we will pass to make you spar with us.”

“Tranquila, we will go ease on you!” Pancha chirped.

“As Maylene’s Lucario said. Power is having strength, and knowing when not to use it. I think...I think prodding my more sensitive points until I failed to react would help,” Lucy said, casting a gaze between the hole and Weiss before nodding once as she presented the stones she'd gathered. “This is going to suck, but I’m ready. I hope.”

The mercenaries looked at each others and nodded.

“We will… eventually. But for now.” Weiss took one of the stones from Lucy’s paws and threw it at the other side of the room, hitting the wall on the other side with a sonorous ‘crash.’ “Now we work with your body, we are going to throw these rocks at the wall, all you have to do is catch them.”

“Pretty simple right?” Asked Rouge with her elegant tone.

“The tricky part however,” added Simon with a smile, “Is that you mustn’t crush them when you catch them.”

However, neither of the siblings were told that the wall Sam was going to walk to and the wall Lucy was going to ‘protect’ were the same wall.

Lucy walked over to the wall and turned to face Weiss and his group before closing her eyes. On the back of her head, the Aura-sensing organs lit up with an eerie blue glow, and it was only then she said “Ready.”

Sam meanwhile looked at the wall and nearly nodded before recalling that there was a stone on his head. He merely started to take his steps, slowly and cautiously.

Each member of Weiss’ group took a couple of stones and prepared themselves to begin their assault in their own unique way. Weiss held them as anyone would hold a stone, Simon had them placed them between his fingers/claws, Rouge made a slingshot out of one of her vines and Pancha held a small boulder over her head with both hands.

“... dear, we are supposed to be teaching her, not crushing her.” the Roserade pointed out.

Char on his end just waited for the chaos to start as Sam took slow steps, ignorant of his sister standing not far from him, and the firing squad aiming at his general direction.

“We can be really evil when we want to.” Char hummed to himself with a chuckle.