Gambit puts their mask back on after attaining the powers of the Summer Maiden
Pigmallion is just looking at the corpse of Psyche. She's holding a Fire Dust Crystal on her hand, but she's gripping onto it like she would die if she let loose
"Pigmallion..."
"I know...I just...need a moment"
"Pigmallion, we don't have a moment, we have all of Vacuo on us"
"I KNOW GAMBIT!"
"Then do it"
"JUST GIVE ME A FUCKING MOMENT!"
She yelled. Gambit then started heading back to where the previous Summer Maiden was impaled at. He immediately pulled her down and put the Kusagirama that was used right on the chest of Psyche's corpse
"Alright. There's your moment. You know that's how our service is"
Pigmallion slowly hovers her hand over Psyche's body
"I can't..."
Gambit starts to slowly walk towards her
"Gambit, I can't...I just...want to be with him a little longer"
Gambit then stands next to her
"You know you will be. Just fight a little longer"
Pigmallion closes her eyes beneath her mask. She drops the crystal on Psyche. It breaks, lighting the corpse on fire
A student comes in screaming from the hallway, Gambit uses the Maiden powers on him, sending him flying into the classroom in front
"Let's go. Huntsmen are here"
Pigmallion reluctantly follows Gambit, summoning her drones on both of them
Both of them walk slowly. Gambit barely limited themselves to use a Wind Element to deflect any projectile's while Pigmallion used her drones to fire at anyone that dared to get close
They walked until they reached a hidden elevator close to the Headmaster's office
It wouldn't open unless the Headmaster inserted a certain key, although it wasn't much of a problem as Pigmallion quickly deciphered the mechanisms of the elevator
After that, one quick underground trip and into the Summer Vault and they had the Sword of Destruction right in front of them, floating over a pedestal
The Sword of Destruction is able to cut through everything its blade touches. That's also a problem when it comes to storing the blade, as everything includes walls, solid rock and even mountain bedrock. Nothing was able to stop the blade from passing
Because of this, gravity Dust or the use of a levitation semblance was necessary to effectively store it, as the Sword was only able to cut through tangible objects
Gambit sprinkled some gravity dust into a sheet then wrapped it around the sword, leaving it floating inside a silky shell that they then strapped across their hips
"There. We can leave now" said Pigmallion
Gambit went back with Pigmallion and closed the vault
"What could you get from this vault's mechanisms?"
"Nothing useful. Whoever made this rigged it so that only the appropriate Maiden can make the gears rotate in a certain, very specific sequence. They are...or were smarter than probably any human"
"Well. Maybe save this for later. Right now, we have to get out of Vacuo and go back with what we have"
Gambit and Pigmallion returned to the surface. Right outside the Headmaster's office, the boy that jumped on them was crawling towards it, but then froze like he saw a ghost once they came out of the elevator
"Hmm. Seems we have a fighter"
Pigmallion just sighs and directly walks past him
"I will join you...later" said Gambit
Gambit's voice changed into a male tone, but...it wasn't the one Pigmallion was closer to
"Just do what you feel you need to" she replied, then kept walking
Gambit then grabbed the Crownbreaker again
"Tell me. Any reason you fight, boy?"
The boy spit out some blood
"Hmm. What's your name?"
"Nolan..."
"Well. To whoever you expect to see in the other side...I hope you can tell them you fought with bravery"
"Not...quite"
Then, Gambit shoots Nolan point blank. He then keeps the Crownbreaker back under his cape and starts walking down the hallways of Shade again
Gambit quickly caught up to Pigmallion
"Sorry..."
"Don't say anything. Let's just get out of this place"
They kept on walking silently until they walked out of Shade...and eventually blended within the citizens of Vacuo
Some days later, somewhere in the desert, Gambit and Pigmallion would see 2 very particular figures walking towards the city. One was a gray haired young man. The other was an obviously enhanced Scorpion Faunus
The figures recognized them too
Both parties slowly approached one another until they were face to face
"Well well, hello strangers...Mind explaining what could possibly be happening in Vacuo? That smoke column isn't looking any good" said the Scorpion Faunus
"Well...Word on the street has it that somebody attacked the Academy. Whoever did it must have been very clever or very stupid" responded the one on the front, a woman
"What? Who in their right mind would do such a thing? Sounds hard to believe" said the younger one with gray hair
"Hmm...Excuse me but...have we met somewhere?" said the Scorpion faunus again
The figures didn't respond
"Hey. My colleague here asked a question, creepy girl. Its not very polite of you to leave him hang-" said the youngling
"Shut up, offspring" responded the one on the back
"What was that? Can't hear you over there!" the youngling replied
"I told you to shut up, Mercury" replied the one on the back starting to walk up
There, Mercury took a step back, given a fright. The figure kept on talking
"What? You didn't think we wouldn't keep an eye on the son of a defector?" said the woman
"Careful. While Mr. Black and I may not be in good terms, I still need him for interests I'm not to disclose with some strangers" said the Scorpio Faunus, looking eager to have a fight
"This goes for you too, Callows. You're only breathing right now because you're still of use to the Commonwealth" said the one that was on the back, hinting his partner to tag along
Callows took a hint and stood back, letting both of them pass by
"We will meet again. Both of you" said the caped man. Both figures would keep on walking towards the dunes, eventually getting lost from the sight of anybody, while Tyrian and Mercury kept walking towards the city