"Piko! Piko!" the silver-haired male blinked his eyes as the faraway voice and face came into focus.
"Would anyone like to tell me why his green eye is practically glowing?"
"Heh." Piko laughed, "your face is soft." He proceeded to pet Miku's teal twin-tails.
"He hit his head." She responded monotonously as she slapped Piko's hand away, only for it to return and pet her hair.
"That doesn't explain why his eye was glowing just a second ago." Len sat back onto the heels of his black boots and brought up his question again.
"Maybe it's just something that happens with people who have different colored eyes." Rin shrugged.
Piko giggled and leaned his head back onto the ground as his body flickered like it was a video experiencing slow internet.
"What in the world just happened?" Miku asked as she quickly backed away.
"This is just a dream. Piko isn't just a figment of our imagination. He hasn't gone insane. I haven't gone insane. This is just a dream." Rin muttered the mantra to herself as she held her head and closed her eyes like she was experiencing an intense migraine.
Len tilted his head to the side and squinted his eyes. He then placed his hand onto Piko's shoulder and immediately his blue eyes closed as his head fell forwards. As if he had just fallen asleep on his knees.
"What the heck?" Miku demanded, "now both of the guys have passed out and are probably insane!" Miku grabbed her bow and quickly nocked an arrow into it as she spun around to scan the area.
"Miku, relax. Len's just using his semblance!" Rin jumped to her feet and rested a hand on the taller woman's arm, "at least. I think so. That's what happens when he uses his semblance, his physical body zonks out. But…" Rin trailed off into her own train of thought.
"But…?" Miku prompted the short blonde after a moment of silence.
"His semblance only works with computers and electronic objects." Rin answered slowly.
"Great! So Piko has been a droid this entire time!" Miku threw her hands up into the air in frustration.
Rin tapped her index fingers together and rolled onto the balls of her feet. "Well, I don't know. I've only seen him do it with electronics."
"So how long is he going to be like that?" Miku asked as she looked around keenly for any remaining grimm.
"Five minutes on the dot." The giant fan wielder replied quickly, "not a moment longer or a moment less."
"Well. His semblance just became all the more useless." The bow wielder scoffed. Both women stiffened when they heard the howl of a grimm in the distance. "As soon as these two wake up. We're out." Miku demanded.
"You've got that right." Rin agreed nervously. Once again the two women tensed when they heard the deep intake of a breath. As if the owner of the voice just resurfaced from being underwater for too long. "Len!" the owner of the voice ran towards the kneeling twin. The force of the wind caused her knee-length skirt to catch onto her legs. "What happened?"
"I don't know!" Len cried out in a panic as he held his head. His shards of the perfect sky that people called eyes were wide open as if he had just seen a ghost. "I don't know what I saw! It wasn't a computer! But if it was a human I couldn't have gone in!"
"'It' just so happens to be a person." Piko groaned as he sat up.
"Nobody asked you!" Len snapped back in a hysteria.
"Len!" Rin scolded her blond twin.
"Sorry to rain on your parade." Miku said coldly from above the group that was on the ground. "But there's a grimm in this area, so if you don't get your game together, we're going to be killed by that grimm. So let's leave now and find a better place to camp."
"I'm sorry. Who died and made you leader?" Len asked snarkily.
"You all will be dead if you don't listen to me." Miku answered back with an extra emphasis on 'will'.
"She's right. We've got to move." Piko agreed as he stood back up and dusted dirt off of his white trench coat.
"Len. Come on." Rin tugged on her brother's arm to try and wake him from his shock-induced stupor.
"Get up you lazy butt." Miku demanded as she grabbed Len's tiny ponytail and yanked up.
"Ow!" Len shrieked as he jumped to his feet and grabbed his twin pistols to point it at Miku.
"What's got you in a twist?" Miku snarled.
Len shook his head before stowing his guns back into their holsters, "sorry."
"We've got to go!" Rin grabbed her giant fan that was still on the ground and attached it to the holster on her back. "Where to?" she then looked up expectantly at Piko, who looked at Miku for advice. Miku scoffed before turning around and heading off in a direction.
"That way then." Piko said as he followed with his staff in his hands.
"Are you alright Len?" Rin put a hand on his shoulder and looked into his eyes.
Len's eyes met with identical blue eyes before whispering, "Piko's not natural."