We open on Velvet's perspective, at least giving Sun credit that he's helpful for the fact that he knows how to navigate the confusing clusterfuck of a city that is Vacuo. The people here hate outsiders, so asking for directions nets you getting pointed in the wrong direction.
Sun admits he didn't grow up in the city, he and his family moved around a lot like most clans. Neptune adds that Sun doesn't like the city because there's not enough tall buildings to climb, which just prompts Velvet to start thinking about how incomprehensible it is that Neptune seems to forgive Sun for his terrible deed.
It's brought up that Sun's cousin, I'm assuming it's the same cousin from the flashback, has a dojo around this part of the city. We're reminded that the city moves and changes on it's own so the dojo might not be around there anymore. As well as an implication that, for one reason or another, Sun wants to avoid that place.
“You have family here and you haven’t told them you’re back?” Yatsuhashi asked.
Scarlet laughed. “That’s Sun for you.”
Velvet puffed out her cheeks and sighed. She was grateful that Team CFVY had worked out their past difficulties. She didn’t know what she would do without her friends. They knew one another as well as Sun knew the streets of this city.
Sun lowered his head, and his tail dragged behind him. Velvet decided to rescue him—again.
And, of course, Velvet's chapter sounds almost just like Coco's. Usually, when you change points of view, that view is then characterized by the person we're following, or giving us information or ideas that we wouldn't get from another person's view. The only difference there seems to be here is that instead of reading other character's thoughts, we just have the description say what they're probably thinking.
Velvet asks why Sun didn't go to Shade academy instead of Haven, to which Sun simply explains that he hates looking at Shade. It's the one structure that doesn't move in Vacuo, so you always see it no matter where you turn.
To be fair, this is actually one of the more natural and creative segways into describing what the surroundings look like and how it metaphorically shares similarities with the people.
When Sun mentions that he wanted to see the world, we delve into a flashback of Velvet's about visiting her father's lab up in Atlas as a child. She's looking at blueprints on her scroll as her father tries desperately to get her attention, before lying about there being a pumpkin pete statue to get her curious (Pumpkin Pete is a cartoon rabbit, don't think that was confirmed before now). Then, oddly enough, she complains internally about how she just wants to spend some time with her father and is annoyed that he's trying to impress her with him being Atlas's best 'tinkerer'. The opening paragraph makes it look like she's ignoring his attempts to bond with her because she's too busy fiddling with her ipad, yet she's annoyed that he's not 'trying' to spend time with her?
On the other hand, could he have turned down the military escort if he’d wanted to? Velvet’s mother said that his mind was too important—too important to risk his personal safety on public transit. Too important for him to return to Vale. Too important to be a good husband or father
anymore. As long as he was helping design new top secret technologies for Atlas, that meant Velvet wasn’t important enough. She didn’t deserve his full attention, so he hardly had room to complain that he didn’t have hers.
Again, this guy is clearly trying to get her attention with what he finds interesting and yet she's treating it like he's ignoring her? What the fuck?
When she calls him out on lying about the statue, he merely jokes that it's another way he's disappointed her. Velvet objects, but is unable to argue. So, he just agrees to try and convince Ironwood to build a statue of Pumpkin Pete.
He says he's glad she came to visit. Velvet initially says she came because she wanted to see the center of Technology and innovation on Remnant, but when her father asks if she came because she missed him, it's only there she admits she did. He said he misses her every day, which leads into Velvet complaining that he doesn't come home often and I think her father hints at a possible divorce in the future. “Thing is, I don’t think I am. Your mother and I don’t see things
the same way anymore. Maybe we haven’t for a while and we just couldn’t admit it to ourselves. Or to you.” His decision to get a big job at Atlas didn't go over well with his family, mostly because he didn't tell them about it. Velvet says that he always told her that anything can be fixed if you put your mind to it, to which he just regurgitates that "Machines are easier than people.".
Velvet shows her father the designs for her weapon, the one that replicates weapons after taking images of them. Which is another confirmation of how much Velvet's weapon bugs me. It doesn't require her semblance, her semblance is just being able to memorize combat styles well. So... Why the fuck is she the only one who has this shit? She can literally recreate weapons just by taking a picture of them, how amazingly useful would that be for fighting battles? You could use it to reverse engineer people's weapons, you could use it to have a more convenient storage of weapons and equipment that takes up no space. Atlas is the most technologically advanced city in the world, but this 17 year old is the only one able to create this technological marvel.
The flashback ends with Velvet's father telling her he'll go to Ironwood to get more hardlight dust to truly test Velvet's weapon and that he's proud of her acceptance into Beacon.
In the present, the group come upon the Weeping Wall. A large rock formation that leaks water. Velvet and Coco are confused, because apparently non-literal names are new to them. "That isn't a wall, and it's not weeping!"
There's some more blind jokes with Fox before they get closer to the formation. From there, Velvet see's that it's actually a shrine of sorts with a lot of decoration and offerings left before a wall of missing person's posters. Velvet whispers the details to Fox because SSSN isn't trusted enough to know Fox's semblance. Why doesn't she just tell him mentally? Not like SSSN will hear it.
“These are the missing and lost of the city of Vacuo,” Sun said. “People who have disappeared without a trace. Most of them in the last year.”
“Where’d they go?” Sage asked.
“They wouldn’t be missing if we knew where they are.” Scarlet patted Sage on the arm. “Oh, right.”
Get it? Team SSSN are all sucky idiots!
Velvet starts complaining about how these people apparently aren't important enough for Theodore to take action, but Fox makes a good point that resources are limited in Vacuo, he has to use them carefully.
Sun repeats that he needs to to save these people, they could be in trouble, which just has Scarlet taunting him about being noble and selfish at the same time. Of course, we get more description of how bad Sun usually is. He usually takes childish bait, he doesn't usually devote himself to a 'cause like this'. Yeah, Sun would never devote himself to helping people, or going after criminals, or going to help a friend take down a terrorist organisation.
To pledge to fight a big cause with no clear solution or end in sight? That really didn’t sound like Sun. Maybe his time with Blake in Menagerie had changed him.
Him following Blake is LITERALLY him pledging to fight a big cause with no clear solution.
“We’ll help you,” Velvet said with conviction. “We’ll find them.”
Coco cleared her throat. “After we track down the Crown.”
Oh, I get it. You guys get to admonish others for putting the bigger picture before your problems, but you're perfectly fine going "We're not saving innocent people until after we've found what we want!". Either way, don't you beleive that the Crown and the missing people are connected?
When looking closer at the posters, Velvet realizes that one of the missing people is the Pink Thug from the night before. Coco assumes that someone with a semblance like hers would be of interest to the Crown, but Sun is quick to point out that she didn't seem like she was kidnapped and was probably a willing participant like Carmine and Bertilak.
Taking a picture of the poster, Velvet quickly finds that her name is Rosa Schwein and Coco suggests someone going down to interview her family. Sun volunteers himself and team SSSN... To which Scarlet groans, Sage sighs and Neptune shrugs. Sun is terrible for abandoning his team when these fuckers are getting pissy about having to do work to SAVE MISSING CHILDREN. The fuck? Then again, it seems like Scarlet's only role in the story so far is to be pissed about everything.
A girl wonders over. Neptune asks how she is. She bursts into tears because he sister is missing. I mention this only because I can see people in future somehow twisting this to show Neptune as a dick for not knowing the girl was sad.
They grill her for information, the girl explaining that her sister when missing two days prior when going to a club to gamble money on a fight. Coco asks about her semblance, which turns out to being able to make things stick together for a few minutes, leading to Coco making a pretty dickish comment about the sister 'not rocking anybody's world with that'. The girl scowls at her and leaves, with only Scarlet really pointing out what a shitty thing to say it was, but Coco dismisses it. She then goes on to assume that Lily just got to deep into debt and either got into trouble or is too ashamed to return home. Velvet points out that the family doesn't seem to be the type that wouldn't accept her if that was the case.
We end the chapter on Coco admitting that, even in Vacuo, families stick together. On the subject of families, team CFVY need to show SSSN something. Peeking at the next chapter, it seems this somthing is a therapy group for those who survived Beacon.