It was definitely past curfew and Wally was more aware of a different time limit. In fact, his now self proclaimed time limit to only leave New York for a few hours at most, was more of a factor for him to rush through the restricted zone he have randomly picked to see if he could find what have supposedly been happening for a while in the Academy and he have just found out about. And that thing happened to be grades, which was just great, huh? And he wanted to find his own grades, if they kept them hidden around like he thought his old normal school did. Hey, he definitely thought he was being way better at this Academy than many mages, and deserved a pretty high grade, and if his grade was low, he'd cross that bridge when it came up.

And that's how he ended slipping into the restricted zone the exact same way he got in the last time he got in, making himself look like part of the walls themselves and finding an opening in. Or turning invisible if you wanted to describe illusions quickly. It was very obvious to him that the Academy was probably going to patch that little mistake into the restricted zone soon, so he intended to exploit it until then, because he was intelligent.

Though, right now, nothing was interesting, or impressive, or anything, it just was walls, then hallways, then repeat! But he was here already and did not want to leave empty handed, especially since he was sort of mixing the ways back to the opening he came out of. He'll figure that out after he succeeds! Finally, he turned a corner and saw something different, that guy, Crew, right. Well, guy like that clearly wasn't a staff member, and clearly was here for a similar reason. He couldn't turn in Wally unless he'd want to explain why the hell he was down here as well.

But Wally didn't immediately drop his illusion, he wasn't stupid. He didn't need to be mistaken for a staff member himself and attacked, and while there wasn't many ways this guy could turn him in, it was a possibility, so Wally stayed mostly invisible. But not silent of course. "So you decided to sneak in as well? I'm guessing the secret grades? Why not help me out and we both don't get anything bad happening to us, because this place is annoying like that." The Academy would definitely mess with them both so He saw this as pretty persuasive. He could get some help immediately without a problem, and helping a teleporter was nothing too aggravating. And seriously, if Crew turned out to be someone who turned people into the Academy, which was kind of a possibility, it would be pretty hard for the Crew guy to recognize him through his voice! 

Huh, really looking for the grade book? Yeah, he was beyond sure this was a lie, he was always naturally suspicious and this guy seemed to really dislike school, and Wally did too, don't get him wrong, but this guy just didn't care. Frankly, he didn't really care if Crew was lying, wasn't messing with him even if it was annoying, no, he was more just plain exasperated by Crew's next comment. Ghosts, really? Was enough to make him roll his despite being currently invisible. A ghost joke would always be rather ridiculous.

Wally dropped his illusion afterwards, arms crossed. He wouldn't even start walking just yet towards the end of the hallway he haven't seen yet, he first wanted to try to explain a bit. "You know, you don't have to be looking for grades just to look for high grades of your own, obviously." He was himself, sure, but not everyone who would come down here for the gradebook would! He gestured with a hand to nothing in particular, kind of talking with no plan. "Maybe you want to mess with someone else's grades, or just want to destroy the damn book, try imagining more, seriously."

Thinking he made his point, Wally would walk past Crew, pointing at the darkened hallway ahead. "And now since you agreed to help and I appeared we can actually get moving. We don't have a ton of time after all." Actually he himself had a few hours left, but the staff could do patrols at certain times, or things could change down here at different times, it was possible! Maybe unlikely, but possible!

Wally shook his head. "It's not petty if you need yours to be better, especially if you don't outright fail the person. And besides, if you need it more then you do it, simple as that." Frankly, he only really brought this possibility up to sort of deflect the other possibility that he was checking his own grades, which was true but also besides the point. However, now he decided to defend it a bit, especially since it didn't exactly sound like an idiotic idea in the first place.

Wally glared, tapping his fingers on his glasses, immediately jumping to Crew's next comment. That definitely was some sort of way to make fun if him, there was just several different ways. So he decided to cover all his bases, might as well! He started listing off on one hand, made you look more put together. "If that's supposed to say I would do that because of no morals, that's not really too bad, honestly. But I can easily say the second possibility, that I'm not smart, is obviously not true, I even showed up in a class in this Academy, even if it was a waste!"

"Of course I at least got an idea where to go, we just need to go where the most doors are, then we can just look through many rooms in quicker time! Plus, that means we got more done before staff comes around. I mean, seriously, duh." Wally did not really explain how he could find that specifically, but it sounded like a good enough plan to him. He turned a corner, then waved for Crew to hurry up, smiling. "See? Lots of doors, like I said!"

He didn't really wait for any reply, rushing ahead and going for the nearest door, opening it only to be met by a buzzing generator. "Alright, just keep looking, gotta be more in this hallway then just useless stuff." He would close the door far more loudly than what was certainly necessary, walking towards yet another door.