Petunia gave an irate sigh and slammed her head against the table as Ty glared at a sandwich distastefully.

"Don't do that, Petunia." Ty said tiredly, not even attempting to take his eyes off the sandwich.

"Piss off," She mumbled, her head still glued to the table.

Ty pounded his fist against the table. "That's it, go run a lap around campus."

"Wow, they really got you bent out of shape. What's next, a hundred push-ups?" Petunia asked sarcastically as she brushed her face across the table in defiance.

"You know the majority of that was aimed at you and they weren't exactly wrong."

Petunia's head jumped off the table with a single eyebrow raised so high Ty thought it could fly off and hit somebody in the face. "We doin' this? This goin' down? This happening? We could go right here if you want. 'Cause I can take you down. Downtown with a clown." She said with an odd amount of emphasis on the word clown.

"Hey, you're clearly the one with the problem here and I don't think any of us have to be weighed down with your issues." Ty furrowed his brow, lifted his sandwich and took a bite out of it. He chewed for a second and then gave it a furious glare. "This isn't tuna! This is Ham!" Ty said furiously as he tossed the sandwich back onto the plate.

"Then maybe you should've grabbed yourself a tuna sandwich."

"Well the ham sandwich was all dressed up like it was a tuna sandwich. Gah, and I was in the mood for eating tuna." Ty said bitterly as he pushed the sandwich away.

"Well I was to, but all the ones that were left looked like they had a bunch of hair on them."

"Eh, gross. Actually, you know what good. I'm glad that you don't get any good tuna."

"Oh, screw you, jerk."

"Please don't fight." Eve asked politely as she pushed around a few leaves of her salad.

"We wouldn't be fighting if she'd just act a little more mature and take responsibility for what she did."

"Well gee, when you put it like that I almost feel like I have to apologize just so you can save face." Petunia replied with a scowl.

"You know what-"

"Hey guys, sorry I was gone for so long." Automne said with a frown as he walked up to the table.

"Where have you been?" Ty asked indignantly as Automne sat down between Eve and him with a plate of salad in his hands.

"I had to toss the lunch lady's salad." Automne replied casually as he placed his fork next to the plate.

"Why were you tossing the lunch lady's salad?" Ty asked with curiously.

"It turns out they ran out and one of the lunch ladies is out sick so I had to toss it for her. Let me tell you she was really rude about it. Kept telling me to toss it harder and really get in there, and when she said I was done she didn't even thank me. She just went outside for a smoke. That's the last time I toss that lady's salad."

"That's kind of selfish on your part, man. You gotta give in sometimes and just toss some salad." Petunia replied curtly as she crossed her arms and slumped over on the table.

"I would agree with Petunia, but she's being thick right now so I'm not going to. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go get some new food to replace this crappy old sandwich."

"Oh, Ty, you don't have to do that." Eve said politely as she reached over towards her bag. "I always carry a banana around with me in case I get a little peckish." Eve said happily as she pulled out a large ripe banana.

"Oh, thanks Eve, but I've never really been into bananas."

"Okay, but if you want I'll show you an easy trick for how to eat them. First you start by licking the-"

"Hey, look a note." Automne interrupted as he reached across the table to pick up a neatly folded piece of paper.

"What does it say?" Ty asked curiously as Automne looked over it.

"All it says is 'Hahaha I couldn't resist. Sorry, I'm a horrible person.' Jeez the guy who wrote this sounds like a real idiot."

"Yeah," Petunia confirmed "A really unfunny, pretentious, socially awkward, weirdo."

"Yeah, and he seems like the kind of moron who doesn't know how to properly punctuate a sentence." Ty added as he took the note and shook his head.

"And he sounds like a really crude and insensitive person." Eve continued shyly, shaking her head in disgust.

"You said it. What a loser." Automne finished as he took a sip of his milk and tossed the note emblazoned with a large CS to the side. "Now, what were we talking about?"

Everyone paused for a moment or two.

Eve snapped her fingers, "I remember, Ty and Petunia were arguing about what Professor Baula said to us."

"Seriously, guys that's stupid." Automne said calmly as he scooped some salad into his mouth.

"Oh yeah, well I'd love to hear your perspective on the subject." Petunia said in her most unapologetically sarcastic reply yet.

"Both of you suck." Automne said flatly.

"Says the guy who Sienaerde wiped the floor with,"

"Yeah dude, she wrecked you; R-E-K-T. You got rekt boy!" Petunia and Ty respectively shouted in protest. The two of them then proceeded to deliver a laundry-list of insults and jeers seemingly without end while Automne patiently waited for them to calm down.

So after about a minute or five when Ty and Petunia were done recalling just how greatly Automne had failed in his fight Automne gave a sigh.

"Are you-"

"You couldn't even walk straight afterwards. That's how bad she wasted you, ya' scrub." Petunia belted out as Automne just stared at her.

"Alright well, I'm just going to be short here and-"

"Short like that fight. Seriously, you didn't even land a hit."

"Shut up, just shut up. Both of you shut up. Look, I'm trying to be fair here. Ty you under reacted. Petunia's problems are our problems, dude, no matter how absolutely stupid they are. And Petunia, chill, seriously is that too much to ask? Everyone around here knows we suck so there's no point in throwing a fit about some stuck-up sociopath who looks at us funny."

"We do not suck!" Petunia yelled at Automne causing quite a few other people in the cafeteria to turn towards them in surprise.

"Petunia," Eve replied quietly, breaking the silence that had quickly swept over them. "Use your indoor voice, please."

Petunia stood up and pulled her aviators out of her jacket. "We've all worked to get here; to be a part of this. We may not be the best here, but I for one worked day in and day out to be here. I'm going to go hit the range before class. I'll catch up with you guys later."

The rest of the team remained completely silent as they watched Petunia walk away with her head hung low.

Automne turned and looked at his fellow teammates for a few moments, a broad frown stretched across his lips. "Honestly I expected this to go much better."

Ty gave a heavy sigh, "Automne, dude-"

"I'm just saying these things usually end with a bit of teasing and a good laugh. Just saying,"

"Automne, let's not talk about this now. Petunia and I will discuss this later." Ty gave a sigh and began to pick apart his sandwich. "So what did Professor Baula want to talk to you about?"

Automne cleared his throat and poked at his salad. "It wasn't anything important: just some motivational stuff and something about an essay."

"Huh, doesn't really seem like he'd need to pull you aside for that."

"Well… he did so, yeah. Anyways who knows why, Professors can be weird. I mean seriously have you seen Oobleck."

Eve gave a small giggle, "Professor Oobleck's hair makes me laugh." She said with a small innocent smile. "Ty do you have any classes with Professor Baula?"

"No, that was actually my first time meeting him. Is he usually like that in his classes?" Ty asked curiously as he leaned forward on the table a bit.

"Yeah, he's a pretty relaxed person."

"Oh, and I've heard quite a bit about him too." Automne added in enthusiastically. "I've heard that he's a very skilled and intelligent Hunter and he's a big hit with the ladies, because he's so yummy and ehm…"

Automne stopped abruptly as he was met with a pair of surprised stares from his teammates.

"Automne," Eve started with a sense of absolute confusion in her eyes. "What do you mean by 'yummy'?"

"I meant to say handsome! Handsome is obviously what I meant to say." Automne gave some obviously forced nervous laughter and looked back and forth between the pair of them with a look that read 'I'm lying and I have no way to get out of this.'

"Well, this is definitely going on the list of things I wish I hadn't heard." Ty said casually as he stood up and swung his legs over the bench.

"Guys, seriously it was just a slip of the tongue. Like when you try and say- ehm breakfast but you mean brunch. It's a common thing. It happens all the time. Ahaha hasn't that ever happened to you guys? Ty?" Ty just stared at Automne with a raised eyebrow. "Yes? That looks like a yes to me."

"Uh huh, well I'm going to go talk to Petunia. I'm sure you two have quite a lot to talk about right now."

"What, no we don't. There's nothing to talk about. There's never anything to talk about. Communication is just a myth!" Automne shouted out hysterically as Ty walked away.

"BANG," Petunia's gunshot rang off the walls of the range as she shattered a clay pigeon into bits and pieces. The shell of her round ejected from the chamber and gave a small clatter as it fell onto the table of her booth. The machine down at the end of the range gave three clicks and hurled a few more targets into the air which she rapidly and systematically destroyed with ease. The targets were nothing, but clouds of orange dust as she pulled the forend of her gun back with a loud click.

Petunia gave a sigh and pressed a large red button to her left. "How long have you been standing there?"

"A couple minutes at the most." Ty replied calmly, standing a few yards behind her with a large pair of headphones over his ears. "You should really be wearing headphones." he replied casually as Petunia glanced over her shoulder at him. Her orange aviators shimmering lightly as she reloaded her weapon.

"There would literally be no point." She replied with a large grin as she moved her hand into her jacket and pulled out a large hearing aid. "I was messing around with some explosive ammunition a couple years back and now I'm just about deaf. And the answer is lip-reading if you were wondering." She placed the ear piece onto the table of here booth and continued to reload her shotgun while looking back over her shoulder.

"Sorry to ruin the surprise, but I've known for over a week. I saw them the first day we met actually. Just didn't say anything, because you were obviously hiding it." He replied with a proud smile as he leaned against the wall behind him.

"Well how very gentlemanly of you. Now, how about you be a true gentleman and get me another box of ammo." Petunia snidely replied as she held out her box of "Schnee brand Shotgun Ammunition", held it upside down and shook it a bit.

"Maybe in a bit, but first I wanted to talk to you about what happened earlier."

Petunia gave a heavy sigh and slouched back against the wall; her shotgun dangling lazily by her side."If this is gonna be one of those 'you apologize for what you did and you say you were wrong and I apologize for what I did and I say I was wrong things', then let's skip it. Automne was right; I overreacted a bit and made it a team thing. I'm sorry," Petunia said in an absolutely lackadaisical tone as she went into a low bow. "So now you do your-"

"Actually I came down here to hear you say you were wrong." Ty responded with a smug smile.

Petunia glared at Ty, who was giving an obnoxiously happy stare back to her, for a moment or two before raising her shotgun and shooting him in the chest. Ty slammed backwards into the wall and fell to the floor with a thud.

"Apology accepted," Petunia replied happily as she turned back around to her booth and tossed the empty box onto the floor.

"Ahh," Ty garbled as he clutched at his chest. "Bitch." A rather irate Ty stated as he got back onto his feet.

"Sticks and stones, bruh. Now how about you sit back and watch me nail these next nine targets and after I'll go buy you a soda."

Ty gave a groan, "You're fired,"

"Yeah, whatever, anything else you have to say before I start?"

Ty rubbed at the back of his head. "Hmm, well I was watching you shoot earlier and I have to say you are a fantastic shot. And I think I know a way you can improve your accuracy even more." Ty began to make his way over to Petunia. "Here let me show you a stance-"

"Touch me and I kill you in your sleep."Petunia responded with hostility, causing Ty to stop dead in his tracks.

"Okay, jeez, just trying to be helpful." Ty insisted with his hands raised defensively.

Petunia gave a chuckle and turned around, "If it makes you feel better you're nowhere as bad as Automne. He's always staring at me when he thinks I'm not looking. It's starting to creep me out."

A clay pigeon suddenly shot out of a hole in the wall and was almost immediately shot down.

"Hey," Petunia shouted before another pigeon was released and promptly shot down. "Let's go beat the crap out of Automne after dinner."