Putting it simply, Chrono was just confused by the answer he was given. She...was a Lieutenant General? There was a couple of reason as to why he found that hard to believe, the primary one was how she acted most of the time. It was very hard to believe that a Lieutenant General would act the way that she does. A part of him almost felt sorry for whoever it was that she was in charge of. "Okay." Chrono noticed how much she seemed to be enjoying this. "What was your home like?" She'd asked a personal question about him, so why not do the same.
It was simple enough to understand as well as being fair. Her first question was simple enough. "No, Tinarah is my only sibling." Simple question, simple answer. Now as for what he was going to ask her, there was one thing that he'd recently heard that he was wondering about. "Okay, why did Take call you a Lieutenant General?" His hands were idly placed into his pocket as he waited for the answer to his question.
Having been preoccupied with the rope, the scrap of paper, and the impromptu flashback, Chrono hadn't noticed or realized that Illiana had been reading the it over his shoulder. When she did finally speak it, he was completely caught off guard by it and turned. Turned just in time to see the crab guy fall flat on his face as Illiana retracted her umbrella. Chrono internally sighed at this. "Sure, I suppose. Long as I can ask some questions afterwards." If he was going to answer questions likely about himself, then it was only fair that he would be able to do the same afterwards.
Everyone from both teams had been able to reunite without too much issue, so they should be able to head back with no trouble at all. The roar of an Ursa quickly changed that mindset and with its tremendous weight when it landed had caused the ground to shake, making it harder to instantly retaliate when ran off with one of his teammates. Arian too, but he wasn't much of a concern for Lazuli. By the time he could grab hold his weapon, the grim was already out of range of his swords gun mode. Some strange woman had arrived, having dispatched the Grim that had carried off Auburn and Arian. She'd called herself Noire and was the one that Qrow had been waiting for. Which did mean that she was relatively on their side. Relatively was the key word there as both her introduction and how she'd placed a gun to Qrow's head said other things about her. "Now, now, maybe we should egg her on until after we've made sure that our teammates are okay." Lloyd did have a point, but Lazuli didn't think that they, with their varying degrees of experience, could take on someone like her who was specifically sent here to ideally be of some assistance.
Just as Chrono had put the cut piece of rope down and was about to start walking around the deck of the ship, his eyes looked up and saw a piece of paper, burnt at that, falling in front of him. He held his hand out so it could land there and brought it up to his face to read it. Reading the note didn't bring back any fond memories for Chrono and it only got worse when he got to the point regarding the whoever wrote this mother shielding them. That was the point in which his hand had started trembling. Vivid images had resurfaced all at once. His mother telling him to hide, watching his mother's murder taking place right before his eyes and lastly, his hands being stained red in her blood as a result of his futile attempts to keep her alive. Because of this, Chrono had started taking deep breaths to calm himself down. His hands were clenched tightly to combat the trembling. A tactic that was slowly working. A couple of seconds had passed and he was relatively calmer than he was before. Remember this is why you left to train. To find out who or why his mother was murdered and, if need be, get even.
Kel was honestly impressed that they had managed to get to Little Rodentia without getting lost. The sign did help to confirm that they actually had gotten to the right place after all. The next step was to find the person that they were supposed to be interrogating, to which Kel took a quick look to refresh himself on what Duke Weaselton looked like. When he was certain that he had memorized what he looked like, Kel looked up and started looking around to try and find him. He'd done this right as Luna had gone up to a weasel that just happened to be Duke Weaselton himself. Kel approached him soon after Luna did, adding in, "We promise that it won't take too long."
Speak of the devil. Rather a devil as it actually was. Just as the words had left Lea's mouth, the door to the hideout was knocked down right before all of them. First assumptions being that an enemy had found them, Vallus had readied himself for a right rather quickly. His posture changed upon seeing that it was just a loud man that Lea knew for some odd reason. With further introduction, Finlay was indeed quite the character with the variety of accolades that he himself seemed to be very impressed with. If the cycle of introducing oneself had begun again, then he might as well . "Vallus, that's my name." He was certain that he didn't have a title and even if he did, it would've been taken away from him by this point. "Got anymore 'hideouts' in mind?" Vallus had actually made the air quotes motion when said the word "hideout". If Lea did have another one in mind, then hopefully the door to that would be stronger.
Chrono had no intention on suddenly relying on Illiana as a shrink, especially when he knew next to nothing about her to begin with. He did take a sip of the tea she had provided for him and spoke after putting the glass down. "Kinda hard not to, but I'm not going to get into details. I barely know you after all." He could've said more, but not only did he not feel like doing so, there wasn't much else that he wanted to say in the first place. When they were address by the captain and she made their position very clear on the ship. Not wanting to be thrown into the brig for an undetermined amount of time, Chrono did the smart thing and responded with a simple "Yes Ma'am." Tensing up as he said that too, though said tensity only last for the duration of the captains focus at them. Once she turned away, Chrono very quickly and noticeable relaxed from his posture. He stayed like that just long enough to hear that they had lost someone and the aftermath of that realization. Everyone had gone their own ways and Chrono had walked towards the lifeline of Mister Arrow to examine it. Making a mistake was possible, but this was something to keep people alive. Such tasks would usually cause whoever working on them to take extra precautions to ensure that something didn't go wrong. Chrono really just wanted to see for himself how the lifeline became undone. He grasps the line and ran his free hand down, closely examined the rope. He found where it had come undone and further down the rope he caught something else. The point where his hand hand currently stopped at was where the rope looked to have been cut by something sharp. Chrono was surprised to see this and yet he knew that he couldn't tell anyone. Not without some evidence or knowing who did it. He was already an newbie to this ship which wouldn't help back any baseless accusations that he made. It'd make things worse, probably start something and get himself thrown in the brig.
Zephyr stalked into the building shortly behind Dylan, his mind being elsewhere for the most part. Mainly regarding that strange guy he briefly spoke to back at the plaza. Everything about that guy brought up more questions that there was weren't really any answers that he could come up with to any of them. If the guy actually did how up here then maybe he could get some answer, maybe. But did he really want the guy show up though? Finally giving up on trying to think through that with the limited information that he had, he focused back onto reality right in the middle conversation between Kara and Dylan. Even half paying attention he managed to catch the gist of what was going on between the two of them. Dylan had a secret friend, they were going to see him, which could very well get them killed. He can hit people? That sounded like it would get them killed faster if anything.
Chrono was among the growing amount of people that were concerned with what Take had said in reaction to being called out by smiling. Before he could go see if he his friend was alright, Aria had gone ahead and done just that. Now it was just him, Illiana and Gylde. "It's Chrono." He said, pondering the idea of drinking tea. Other than how out of place it seemed to be drinking tea on the middle of the ship, it was a good idea for him to attempt to relax somewhat. At the very least relax his mind. "Sure, I suppose. I'll take some tea."
Two of their officers had gone missing and they were to interrogate the ones who had might know what happened to them. Sounded simple enough despite not knowing much about how to interrogate. Something about a good cop and a bad cop? Whatever, they could figure it all out when they got there or along the way. Kel briefly skimmed through the file that was handed to them specifically, momentarily surprised to hear someone else say his last name at that. With the objective being given to them they headed towards their destination. "Maybe someone wanted them out of the picture. They could've gotten annoyed with all those parking ticket thing." Kel said. 200 of those things was both impressive and a bit much.
2 points of AP and 1 point of HP for Chrono As well as the Combo Plus Ability
The brief respite after dealing with the heartless was very short lived as a result of the star that had gone supernova behind them had turned into a full on black hole. Just hearing the word "black hole" was enough for Chrono to firmly grasp the life line that he had attached to himself prior. It couldn't have been the first time that this crew has dealt with this situation with the way that the captain gave out orders. Amidst the cheering from the other crew mates, they were given time to rest. "What do you mean Lieutenant General?" That being the first thing Chrono was curious about on the account of Take had said that to Illiana of all people. Chrono then took noticed of the weak smile Aria had given him before her legs seemed to just give out from under her. "You sure you don't need some help?" Regardless of whether to not she took it, he felt like he should at least offer to help.
The lack of any out of nowhere time distortions made it harder for Chrono to dodge the attack from the air pirate. Despitr guarding the attack as best he could, it was still a heavy blow that was felt throughout his body and had sent him back a bit. Chrono ignored the pain and went back on the offensive. Take had struck down the air pirate that had attacked him just as Illiana and Glyde had arrived out of nowhere. It'd be better to ask where they had been. A near miss from a pirate had recentered focus and he retaliated with an attack of his own before it could get too far away. Following up on that with a quick spin of his keyblade, Chrono stabbed it through another pirate that had tried attacking him from behind. Good thing they weren't the sneakiest of things. HP: 11 AP: 0/16 (2 Pirates) MP: 12 2 pirates left
There was an odd sensation when the pirate hearless went to attack Chrono. With it being in the heat of battle, he didn't notice it when it had occurred, but when the attack had happened everything around Chrono briefly slowed down and he was able to dodge the attack with ease. Looking to see where the attack had gone, Chrono caught a glimpse of what looked to be a faded version of himself vanishing as a result of the attack. Finding the to be odd, like really odd, Chrono made a mental note of that before turning his focus back on to the heartless. The nearest two for him to attack both happened to be pirates, both of which distracted by Take's sudden burst of intensity. Providing him with the perfect chance to sneak up on them and strike. Those two heartless were taken down easily, but Chrono really did hope that Take would be okay presuming those heartless took to his aggression and all attacked him. HP: 30 AP: 0/16 (2 Pirates) MP: 12
After a while it looked that the they had managed to put all of the tickets that they possibly could on the cars in "violation". That, and the fact that the machine had looked broken according to Ignis. A broken machine was as good as any reason to return to the police station and that's what they did. Once there, Kel walked up the the cheetah at the desk. "Um, we're done hanging out those tickets."
While they seemed to be okay and still somewhat reeling from the effects of the supernova, everyone else had just sprung into action following the presumed captain bursting out of their quarters. Moment after later and they were tossed a rope to use as an anchor throughout this whole ordeal. Following the others, Chrono tied the rope around his waist just as the heartless had started to form on the deck. A flick of the wrist had lead to his keyblade forming in his hand and Chrono went on the offensive. A stream of lightning flew of the keyblade and struck down eight of the of the Fiery Globes. Tightening his grip on his keyblade, Chrono went into attack a smaller group of heartless that had drifted away from the main group. Three Red Nocturnes to be exactly. It was easy enough to take them down in a couple of them in a few strikes which fortunately thinned out the numbers that they were dealing with. Not by a whole lot, but it was a start mind you. HP: 30 AP: 10/16 (8 Fiery Globes, 3 Red Nocturnes) MP: 12
Chrono couldn't help himself but to stare at Silver as he strode up to Jim. It was mainly the cybernetic eye that stared at them. It was cool in a sense, but more so there was a bit of concern as to the long stare it gave him. Before anything could be said, a wave of heat collided into him before the sheer lurching of the ship had thrown him onto its deck. During the process of getting his bearings, the word 'supernova' was heard clearly. "Supernova, what?" Not completely believing what he heard, he glanced up towards the stary sky. Very quickly afterward his hand went to shield his eyes from the bright light that lasted a few seconds longer before fading away. "Its not a monster, nor something that you can really fight." Chrono said to Take, surprised by the fact that one had happened this close to them. Slowly he got back onto his feet, giving Aria a quick thumbs up. "I'm good."
Kel stood there and watched and the cheetah had explained to them what they were supposed to be doing and by the end of it, he had no idea what it was exactly that they were supposed to be doing. Parking duty? With a shrug he choose not to dwell to hard on it for the time being, nor the work ethics of the ZPD based off of what Clawhauser had told them. A swift change of outfit into the appropriate police attire and they were out dealing parking tickets. To be honest, Kel hadn't really cared about how to do this and had it not been for Steel demonstrating how to properly do them. He took a guess at the date and wrote them down on the various notes and started putting them on any car that he saw didn't already have on it. Hopefully he was doing this right and not have to worry about any backlash as a result of this. 60/100 Tickets
The wait before she had gotten to the terms of what she wanted to say was short, but in that time she had adjusted herself to what he assumed to be a more comfortable position. Really it was just a tilt and nothing more, but with the way that the light had reflected off her skin had made it harder for him to to not take notice of it. Lumen's head started to nod his head at her explanation, taking in the situation that was presented to him. It was vague to the point where he did want to know more about this 'incident'. His hand reached out to meet hers and gave it a firm shake. "And I'm Lumen." His first name would be plenty sufficient for the time being.
