The City of Vacuo. One oasis in the middle of the desert...Or at least so it would seem

With the amount of improvised structures, it is hard to believe that this is the city to have the Relic of Destruction buried somewhere in it. But that wasn't a worry. Not for Gambit

"Hey. Gambit" said a mysterious woman that walked up behind them casually

"Oracle." they said, in their usual somber, gutural tone to then nod

"So. Today you're..."

"A she" replied Gambit, hissing a bit after responding and then continuing

"So. How is everything with Psyche?"

"We are alright. He just secured the new house's land ownership with the Ministry. We should be good to move to Trolesund after...well, everything"

"I'm glad for you..." said Gambit. They weren't exactly good at keeping conversations

"Fine. Come on, lady anti-social. You may not mind, but I really wouldn't like to be standing out here in this damn dune right outside of the City. Let's go, Medea and Numerian will have to catch up, because they are late" said Oracle, then proceeding to sprint full on, with Gambit catching up quickly

"So. Relic of Destruction. The sword that can destroy anything its blade touches..." says Oracle, in a manner similar to a lecturing

"Yeah, I know already. Thing is. We need to find the Summer Maiden to get it. And I don't think that the people in Shade will make it anywhere easy. That woman from the Darkness Derrelict is basically preparing very hard to go for the Relic at Atlas as we speak and apparently her goons already managed to get their hands on the Relic of Knowledge" says Gambit

"Wait, what?! Okay, screw it. Just...be loud, break things...be...the Gambit that scares people" says Oracle, preparing something under her cape

"Fine. Just don't take too long" says Gambit, preparing her signature weapon, an Assault Rifle

"Guess I'm going to be using the Crownbreaker today" said Gambit, switching to a deeper male voice as he loaded the weapon and did the proper preparations

"Don't push it too hard. You know what happens" says Oracle, before splitting off, while Gambit starts sprinting head first towards the main gates of Shade Academy, Crownbreaker in his hand and a prepared grenade in the other

Gambit stops sprinting and throws the grenade, sending it right past the gates, breaching his way inside, raising every possible alarm. Right after that, a smoke cloud follows, allowing Gambit to walk in without the risk of being right in the open to any Huntsman

Team SSSN was training, trying to help Neptune with his fear of water but then the alarms started ringing, which sent Sun and his team running around the campus, trying to figure out the emergency, until, from one of the windows, they saw a black caped figure dispatching Vacuo Huntsmen without any possible effort

"Dude, what the hell?!" said Neptune to Sun

"Umm...I think someone's looking for a fight here" said Sage

"I don't know. But this only means that whoever attacked Beacon is now coming for us" Sun replied

"Come on, we can't let some random stain Vacuo" said Sun, guiding his colleagues

After some running, Team SSSN would reach a scene nowhere short of nightmare. Everyone he once had seen fighting in the main entrance, trying to repel the mysterious intruder, was now lying apparently dead on the ground, the black figure walking amongst the dead, without showing any sort of emotion about it

"Hey! You, the one with the ugly...face" said Sun, trying to taunt Gambit, feeling confident, but hiding his fear and concern

"Dude, Sun, are you insane?! That ¿man just killed every Hunstman lying around you!" Said Neptune, evidently scared but rifle in hand

There, Gambit would notice

"Really poor choice of words...banana boy" Gambit replied, removing his cowl, revealing that not only do they wear a mask, beneath the mask, he has clothing covering the rest of their head

"What did you just say? Can't hear you with that piece of metal over your..."

Then, Gambit would be standing right in front of Sun, right in the middle of Team SSSN

"Banana boy" replied Gambit a bit louder, to then immediately do a full 360° swipe kick, kicking everyone off balance. While Sun regained it, he still took one demolishing knee-slam to the stomach, while Neptune, Sage and Scarlet where kicked away

"Out of everyone else lying dead in this place, you're actually the first one to try and taunt me. I will give you that. But words won't cut it with me" said Gambit, as she rushed in to try and get the easy kill on Sun, but she miscalculated, with Sun pulling out Ruyi Bang right on Gambit's face, only missing as Gambit dodges with a backflip at the last second.

Right after landing, Gambit starts to deflect Sun's attacks with inhuman precision. Neptune, barely able to stand up, pulls out Tri-Hard, putting it in its gun mode, trying to aim for Gambit, having a difficult time with Gambit's seemingly erratic fighting style, Gambit twisting and even contorting their body beyond what was humanly possible with every parry, counter and attack

"What the hell are you even doing here?! Are you with the White Fang?! Trying to do more damage like at Beacon?!" screams Sun, trying to get something out of Gambit, slowly getting overwhelmed by such a strange rival

"No. What I'm doing here is what any other Huntsman or Huntress would much probably do. Wet work" replies Gambit, to finally find an opening on Sun and, using a hidden butterfly knife under his sleeve, landing a stab close enough to Sun's liver

"AAAARGH!"

"Sun!" yelled Neptune, taking the chance to shoot, only for him to not only miss, but to see that the caped figure grabbed his shoot mid-air with a prosthetic arm

"Close enough..." said Gambit, dropping the bullet on the ground

Sun is gasping on the floor, more from the force of impact that the stab had than the wound proper. Sun still had the butterfly knife in him when Gambit approached him, Neptune too shocked to even aim properly at him.

Gambit pulled out the knife from Sun's gut but just as he prepared to stab him again...She nodded

"Hmm. So Sun...You make a good fighter. But you still are years of training away from being a proper Hunstman..." says Gambit, as she puts her cowl back on and starts walking away, having received the confirmation from Oracle that she found the Summer Maiden

As Gambit walked away, Sun would twist on the ground out of not only the pain of the wound itself, but also trying to catch his breath as the air had been punched out of him

"Consider yourself...unfortunate" she says, slowly headed towards the main building of Shade Academy