To everyone's surprise, Arnold had taken his time setting up as per Mystique's request, and it has been a few hours since they arrived at the vantage point of the place they assembled.
Several rounds of scouts got dispatched and returned, yet he was still in it.
It was already past afternoon, but even then the sweltering heat thrived as he basked under the blazing sun; it didn't stop him from committing to such tasks.
With Sylvester and Veronica, they had set up a few tents that were out of the enemy's sight. Rations and other equipment were kept in safe storage.
But then, he couldn't help but observe from the sidelines, like the rest of them, how his work came to fruition as he started from scratch.
Other than Arnold asking for the necessary resources that Sylvester provided, he had to assemble and even crawled to the bottom of the alleged siege weapon that he constructed.
