Terry looked worse for wear as he sat down at the table that Sub-Zero and Samus were at. They didn't look any better than he did.

"Do you know what it's like, having to handle a bunch of hormonal teenagers who are sick and tired of the status quo?" Samus said unprompted, "It's like… trying to handle a swarm of cats that haven't been spayed or neutered during mating season… And mating season is all day. I caught two of them sucking face in a broom closet!"

"Try having to reign in a traumatized teenager hellbent on avenging his family. I am not used to this rage not being directed at myself." Sub-Zero sighed as he drank his rice wine.

"Tell me about it." Terry sighed, "Claude, or I guess Augustus, is always getting into trouble. Sneaking around everywhere. But apparently, that's because he's proposing reducing the military budget in favor of free college, and the military investors want him dead for it. I swear, this whole thing here feels like a mistake."

"Perhaps our weariness stems from our initial thinking that this world would play out exactly like it would in the Fire Emblem world." Sub-Zero theorized, "Speaking of, Samus, how is your classroom's leader?"

"Not great. Turns out, her rebellion isn't even against the local religion. It's against the keeper of the crown on her territory. Apparently, he got it in a coup that was supposed to be better for her territory's people, but he just ended up hogging all the money for himself. Lian's trying to figure out how to oust him with minimal casualties. Not helped by the fact that her double-mutation or whatever is literally eating away at her to the point that she needs a constant supply of medicine to stay functional and not collapse in class or the battlefield."

"Good grief, if Lian's giving you that much trouble, I can only imagine how much trouble that Glenn is giving Kuai Liang."

"It is more that he is exasperatingly innocent despite his drive for vengeance." The cryomancer bemoaned, "He is very much harmless until he is provoked. We were battling some marauders two days ago, and only employed an appropriate amount of force once they actually killed a bystander."

"I heard he ripped off the killer's leg and beat them to death with it."

"You do recall what game I'm from, right?" Sub-Zero asked, "It isn't a matter that I disagree with the killing, I simply disagree with the method."

"It's because it reminds you of Qua-"

"Yes, it is because it reminds me of Quan Chi." Sub-Zero sighed, "What of Augustus, Terry?"

"The amount of times I've had to keep him from dying is insane. And unlike Byleth, I don't have time powers."

"You think Byleth has PTSD? From all the deaths that they've had to undo? Both their own friends, and their own deaths?" Samus asked, "Because it's one thing to nearly have your head taken off by Riddly for the sixth time. It's another to see someone you care about nearly lose their head because you sent them into battle with just an axe imbued with gravitons."

"I thought gravitons were hypothetical."

"So were tachyons, but Silver Samurai has them."

"But that's comic books," Terry pointed out, "It's another thing to have them in another place."

"Perhaps many things that were hypothetical are factual here."

"Either that, or it's just some form of energy that they call 'gravitons' because it sounds cool." Samus shrugged.

*BEEEEEPPPPPPP!*

"Good grief, that's the bell. Well, great chat and all, but I have to go and make sure that Agustus doesn't end up taking his head off with a photon accelerator." Terry grumbled, "How do you even accelerate a photon is what I want to know."

"So, um… Our new professors are weird. Can we all agree to that?"

"Sure can, Lian." Augustus replied, "They seem… abnormally stressed out. Especially that Sub-Zero guy."

"Admittedly, my reaction was likely inappropriate-"

"Glenn. You tore off a guy's leg and then beat him over the head with it until their head caved in. I think Kuai Liang was within his right to encase you in ice."

"Don't remind me. I thought I was going to freeze to death when he did that."

"Didn't you get lost and spend a day inside of a snowbank after you lost your shirt?" Augustus asked.

"IT WAS ONE TIME!"

"Losing your shirt, or spending time in a snowbank?" Lian asked.

"… I refuse to comment." Glenn muttered.

"Whatever you say." Lian said as she drank her beverage in one continuous stream.

"Damn, Lian. Thirsty much? I know your new prof is a looker, but still."

"I'm not in the mood for this, Augustus. Besides, don't you have assassins to look out for?"

"Why do you think I went into town and bought instant noodles?"

"Because you're irresponsible with money and spent it on lightning decals for your hoverboard?"

"Hey! Those decals are sick."

They're tacky is what they are." Glenn snarked, "But really. One would think that the local police force would actually, you know, protect people. Why don't they do that with you?"

"Because I guess taking their money that they use for military grade weapons and spending it on making sure that schools are actually well-funded is something that ticks them off. Besides, aren't you dealing with different things? I don't think you're in a position to really say anything about my situation."

"Ah yes. Apparently, the constant 'war on drugs' act that my uncle implemented apparently increased resentment towards my family. I don't know why they don't take it out on the people doing the drugs though…"

"Glenn, the fact that you don't know why they do that is probably part of the problem. For all we know, these people were in a moment of weakness and need help, not incarceration." Lian said as she poured herself another drink with her medication in it, "Or maybe some wannabe tyrant decided to give them drugs so that they could then have an excuse to use their police force to rough up the others."

"Lian, come on now. I highly doubt that the government would do something corrupt like that."

The two other students pointedly stared at him.

"Okay, let me rephrase: I highly doubt that they would do something so blatantly corrupt like that."

The stares did not stop.

"Please let me have this one bit of optimism."

The stares stopped as the two resumed their meals.

"It always falls to the younger generations to make the world a better place, doesn't it?"

"Considering that we're the only ones willing to fight for a better world… It's unfortunately unsurprising." Lian sighed.

*BEEEEEPPPPPPP!*

"Well, that's the bell. I'll see you guys after class, I guess."

Pinkie: This… Does not bode well… And the fact that I'm using fancy words like 'bode' is also probably a bad sign…

Alexis: Chirp chirp chirp… Tweet tweet chirp.

Pinkie: Yeah… This room gives me the creeps. Let's just find a door and get out of here.