"No, there's no such thing as a drug that let you control people's minds." Violet told Peach irritably. The girl had a bottomless supply of stupid questions, it seemed. "Where do you even hear this stuff anyway?" She asked.

"Rumors" Peach responded. "I have a lot of friends who like to talk a lot."

"Well, rule one of learning things," Violet advised. "If it comes out of a living things mouth, there's a 56% chance it isn't true."

"Why?" Peach wondered.

"Because facts are oftentimes too boring for conversation." Violet said, turning up the volume on her headphones, and sighing happily as she blissfully ignored everyone and everything. Perhaps ironically, this meant she didn't hear or see Rain walk up to her and and manually turn down the volume. It took a good second or so before Violet actually realised what was happening and jerked away angrily.

"Hey, what gives?" She spat at Rain, but the other girl cut her off.

"Environmental awareness" Rain stated, as if that explained everything.

"Annnd what the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Violet said, more confused now than anything.

"It means that if you can't hear a grimm preparing to pounce on you, you're not gonna be prepared and probably gonna die. This is basic tactical knowledge, by the way." Rain told violet .

"Riiiight." Violet replied. "I don't know what goes on in Atlas, but we have a standardized education that encompasses more than just military stuff."

"Education or not, she has a point." Ivan cut in, who had caught wind of the argument. "You should be able to hear what's going on around you." Violet groaned in exasperation.

"Well she could have just asked!" she exclaimed, followed by a "What?" when everybody looked at her like she was a idiot. When everyone started laughing, she facepalmed, realizing what she just said. "Can we just get moving?" She asked.

"For a chemist/engineer, you can be very oblivious sometimes." Lavender commented slyly as they set off again.

"Terrible pun Lav." Violet replied darkly, not even looking back.

"I'm sorry, what pun?" Miracle asked with a smirk. "I wasn't paying attention." Violet did turn towards the speaker this time, and was actually smiling.

"Hey, how did we even get into this discussion?" She asked.

"I dunno, I couldn't hear." Rain yelled from the back of the group, catching on. It continued like that for a while, with even Seirra, who never even talked unless spoken to, chiming in. Somewhat Ironically however, it was then the group ran into trouble. Being the one at the front end, Peach felt the anomaly fist.

"Hey guys?" she said uncertainly. "Does anyone else notice the ground rumbling?" Everyone had just enough time to slide into more defensive positions, or in Emma's case gasp happily, before the ground seemingly exploded from under them, sending them flying. Violet, after a brief moment of confusion, reoriented herself and when she did, gasped as well. But it was in no way a happy one. As she fell, she tried to process the grimm in front of her. It was a insect, that's for sure, but you could put the capital of Vacuo on that thing and it wouldn't even feel it. The top half this thing was entirely armored, and it's long, stick-like legs had plating near the knees. Also, by "stick-like", I mean it was about the width of a tree. Violet hit the ground with a little bit more shock to the legs than she would like, realizing that she had landed near Lavender, Emma, and Ivan. The other four had landed on the other side of the monster. Her eyes still glued to it, she asked the question on everyone's minds.

"What in the name of hell is that?" she yelled, and surprisingly, was actually answered.

"Chasam Nester!" Emma replied joyfully.

"Never heard of it." Lavender replied calmly. Violet, however, was still in full panic mode.

"More importantly, Never heard of how to KILL it!" She screamed. Apparently the thing had ears, because the second she did, it moved its massive head, looked at her, and began to slowly raise a leg. The legs, too, were awe inspiring, considering the size of the thing they carried. Violet, along with most everyone, was struck dumb as the appendage moved gradually towards them.

"For fucks sake, MOVE!" Ivan shouted, Jarring everyone back to reality. Violet barely had time to dive out of the way before the appendage struck the ground, creating a veritable sandstorm with the impact.

"Basically," Ivan explained between coughs, "We have to destabilize it, which shouldn't be hard considering the entire body structure is designed to support that thing and it just barely does."

"Take out its legs." Lavender simplified. Violet sighed with relief.

"Well they won't be hard to hit," she said confidently, creating a blade and preparing to throw it.

"By the way, those legs are solid muscle and bone." Ivan told her.

"So?!, This is ACID!" Violet responded, waving her blade in front of Ivan. "So it shouldn't-"

"Don't forget the babies!" Emma interjected happily.

"I'm sorry the what now?" Lavender asked.

"The swarm." Ivan clarified. Violet sighed. It seemed she wasn't the only oblivious one.

"Yeaahhhh still no idea what the fuck you're talking about." She explained, throwing the blade, expecting the fight to end quickly, only to be greatly disappointed. The Blade sheared through, but it had hit the lower part and didn't do much damage. The monster definitely noticed part of it's leg was missing, because it opened it's mouth to scream, or so violet thought. Rather than a howl of pain, what came out of the grimm's mouth were… more grimm? They were small, Violet noticed, but there were a lot of them, like a swarm of bees. Except scarier.

"Now do you have a idea what I'm talking about?" Ivan asked smugly.

"Yeah, pretty sure I do," Violet gasped as every single one of those insects turned straight towards her.