The guardians were training in a sanctioned training session in Bannerfall with their New Lights they had taken under their wings. Wren was demonstrating how to use their latest weapon, the Glaive.

Wren: Okay, what I have here is a glaive. Now I know what you're thinking, why is it so small? Well big things call in small packages.

Yang: Giggity.

Wren: Shut up. Now then just press this button and-

With a swift spin of the blade, the short sword turns into a long glaive

Ruby/Marcy: So cool!!

Wren: Yes it's very cool. Now you can't do much but it's great for keeping you enemies at a distance. See you can go for a stab! And then an upper jab! Follow up with a hit from the back end of the staff! And finish your opponent off with a downward slash!!

Andromeda: Ahem!

Wren looked to his teammate who tapped on her wrist signalling him to hurry on with the lecture

Wren: Right! Ehehe~ And that's really all there is to the glaive.

Yang: Ehh I'm not gonna use it. I have my hammer and my fists!

Dak: Your hands are the greatest weapons you can behold young Titan. But your mind, that is your strongest weapon. Sharpen it like any blade and you will not be defeated.

Luz: So wise~

Catra: So wait, you just want us to wave a stick around for an hour?

Wren: You wave a stick around as a super! Don't try and get out of this because you find it foolish!

Weiss: But why can't some of us learn more advanced techniques? Why are you holding us back from the more powerful abilities we can use? You forbid us from using stasis for some reason

Andromeda: Because you're not ready. And with your attitude you might never be.

Weiss: What's that supposed to mean!

Dak: It means the darkness within Stasis will corrupt you. Use it for evil. You could never fight the impulses of it as you are now.

Weiss: Impulses?! Wren used it last Sunday to make snow cones!!

Wren: Oh is it my fault I wanted to give the Eliksni children an earth dessert?

Dak: We don't want these powers of the darkness to scare our allies. Using it sparingly is all that is keeping us from being corrupted by its influence.

Wren: Look, what we train you to do is for the betterment of the future and that's final!

The warlock stabs his glaive into the concrete and storms off to the side mumbling to himself as he stomps his feet across the way

Andromeda:*sigh* He rarely gets like this.

Dak: You should train your mind to silence your lips young warlock. It may save you from losing your closest friends and from making enemies.

Weiss: But-

Dak: No butts. Except for yours on the floor thinking of an apology.

Both Ana and Dak follow their friend leaving the New Lights to train and converse amongst themselves

Wren:*sitting on a box* Can't believe. The nerve. I killed Ghaul for this kinda treatment?

Andromeda: You gonna keep muttering to yourself grumpy pants?

Wren: Yes.

Dak: You are troubled by something guardian. Tell us. We are your friends. And do not spare us any details.

The warlock sighs and takes off his helmet and let's his white hair fall down to his face. Brushing it aside he looks to his friends

Wren: I had another vision.

Andromeda: Wait what another one? Holy fuck it's been...since Ghaul ever since you had one!

Dak: What did you see? Was it the second Collapse? Our victory?

Wren: No. I saw...a city. An advanced metropolis. Nothing like here on earth. And...I saw us. Fighting the Cabal.

Andromeda: Were they Calus' loyalists? Red Legion?

Wren: Maybe Calus. I couldn't tell, they wore armor I haven't seen before. We fought them with these strange new powers. I couldn't put my finger on it but...

Dak: But?

Wren: I think I know how we can unlock these powers.

Wren's ghost appears beside him and it zips around him before taking it's place at his side

Ghost: We can't be for certain if these powers won't change you.

Dak: If they will help us in the upcoming fight as Stasis did, then we may not have a choice.

Andromeda: But why? We've already come so far. Why now do we need a new power to fight the Cabal?

Wren: Because the Witness is aiding them. That we know already and now that my vision has confirmed it, we need all the help we can get.

Dak: Indeed. Hopefully we can finish the fight once and for all.

Wren: Maybe..

Looking off to the side, Wren's vision blurrs for a second and he sees another image of the future battle and their new powers that were just beyond the horizon.