Everything Stays: In the Future

Notes

Back inside Team SPHE's dorm room, series of files being transferred to Sterling's main computer from his scroll. He tabs the desk as he waits patiently while the rest of his team is behind him. Hunter appears as the most impatient of them all while Phoenix is going over the pictures she took. Most of them were maps, information on taxes and profits from around the industries Helios had her foot in. Entertainment, shipping, dust trade. Support for Faunus Rights Movement, improve citizenship, poverty and so on and so forth.

Phoenix sighed as she sat down on her bed as she kept scanning through everything. Eminence turned to her and cocked an eyebrow.

Eminence: How much evidence did you two gather exactly?

Phoenix: Most of it was all in those encrypted files. So all the photos were just there to see anything out of the ordinary. So for the time being, there isn't much we can do or can worry about. So until we get those files, there's not much we can do.

Hunter: Well, maybe we could take some of this directly to evidence look up and see if anyone could find something for us.

Phoenix: I doubt that highly.

Sterling: My father could look into things. But the general or my mother is a long shot.

Hunter: But your mother's lawyers?

Sterling: After we find suitable evidence. I want to do this as best as possible.

Hunter: Still, don't you think that this could be handled by someone else?

Phoenix: Hunter, we want to do everything in our power to ensure the safety of the kingdom and world. And if we need to get our hands a tad bit dirty then we will. Besides, it's not like we haven't done some illegal missions before.

Hunter: Correction, they were legal. They just didn't tell us that so we feel special while out in the field.

Phoenix: Since when do you have worry so much about legal issues, Hunter?

Eminence: Since he apparently has a criminal record.

Sterling: Excuse me?

Hunter sighed as he leaned his head back and rested on a bedpost. Sterling turned back to him and cocked an eyebrow at him.

Sterling: I'm sorry?

Hunter: I was sent to Atlas for a reason. Same thing with a lot of kids. Remember the slogan "Atlas Academy, the Premier Military Institution in the Four Kingdoms"! (Laughs) What? You'd think I wanted to come here? To be a huntsman?

Eminence: Well, you do now, right?

Hunter crossed his arms, somewhat defensively as his teammates all looked back at him. Before he could say anything, the door to the room knocked. Sterling raised his eyebrows as he closed the download and shut down his computer. He slowly walked to the door and pressed the button, opening the door to reveal, General Elsa Inverno, Headmaster of the Academy, standing before them.

Hunter: General Inverno!

Elsa: At ease. May I?

Sterling stepped back as Elsa walked in. Before the door could close, a foot stepped into the pathway and kept the door open. The team turned back to see Bazaar Hiltzaile stepping into the room as well.

Phoenix: Professor Hiltzaile?

The professor just nodded as Elsa stepped into the middle of the room.

Elsa: Now then...shall we compare notes?

The team is a bit stunned, as they look around to each other. Phoenix nods and Sterling slowly turns back to the General and nods.