A Cyclops, A Ranger, and A Winged Girl

After the events on Dreamland and Zan Partizanne joining Spirit Force, Ace decided to take Jago and the others back home saying that it was time for them to rebuild from the damage Gargos has done. It was a long goodbye, but Ace said they are all welcome back at any time. Raijinto was returned as it turned into a gold orb as it was sent back to Hoshido.

A few hours after that, Spirit Force came across another world as they headed to the Sky Universe, the thing that Ace found odd about the world in front of them is it looked to be an underground city as it had a tri-hexagon with weird symbols engraved on it, floating around.

"What do you make of this world, Anna?" Ace asked as he and the others saw the world on the monitor.

"From what I can tell, the people of that world suffered a great calamity on the surface and were forced to retreat and build a city underground. Now they mostly refer to the surface as "The Sky". And it seems I am only able to transport four of you there, whatever's on that world is causing interference with the transporter." Anna said.

"I see, Simon, Spade, Zan. Would you be willing to join me?" Ace asked.

"Someone's gotta keep an eye on you and Simon, little bro." Spade said as he ruffled Ace's hair.

"I haven't got much practice in with Siegfried, so count me in!" Simon said excitedly.

"This will be a good opportunity to test the limits of my new form, so I shall come along as well." Zan said.

"Alright, we're ready Anna." Ace said as he, his brothers, and Zan stood on the transporter.

"Understood, but word of warning, once you enter the world, all communications will be offline, so be careful." Anna said.

"Don't worry, we will." Ace said as the transporter lit up.

"Alright, commencing transfer!" Anna said as Ace and the others were transported. "Be careful."

[Old Waste Shaft]

Ace and others looked at the area around them as they seem to be in some kind of junkyard.

"Talk about abandoned, I didn't think the underground part of this world would be this bad." Spade said.

"What do you think caused the people of this world to live underground?" Simon asked.

"I guess we'll find out as we go alo-" Ace started before he and the others heard stomping and ran to the noise as they saw what seemed to be a cyclops and was seen carrying a little girl. She had blonde hair, black colored eyes, a white dress, red wings of some kind attached to her back, and weird bracelets on her right wrist and left ankle.

"What on earth is that thing?" Zan asked.

"I'm not sure, but it looks to be a monster of some kind, but I've never seen anything like that before." Spade said.

"Hey, there's someone over there." Simon said as the other three looked to see a boy with black hair in a ponytail, blue eyes, weird goggles on top of his head, a jacket with orange stripes going down the sleeves over a white shirt, pants of the same design, a sword sheathed at his waist, orange gloves, and orange shoes.

(BOF DQ-The Strong Enemy)

The boy shook his head as he closed his eyes and looked down as the area distorted around him before he looked up with pure red eyes and orange aura around him as he ran up a junkpile and jumped off it, allowing him to stab the monster through the chest with his sword. The monster roared in pain and shook the boy off him into a junk pile as he quickly recovered and dashed out of the way before the monster attacked and took the chance to cut its arm off and grab the girl. He laid the girl down and put her left hand over her chest and stood up as he saw the Cyclops approach and began to gather energy.

"Let's give him a hand!" Ace said as the others nodded and ran over to help.

"Need a hand?" Spade asked as the boy looked up and saw them with a surprised look.

"Who are-" The boy started before Zan interrupted.

"We'll explain later, right now we have to take care of this monster first." She said as she pulled out her spear and got into a fighting stance (Eleanor Hume's fighting stance).

"Blazing Tempest!" Ace yelled as he did a spinning sword strike as Yato was covered in flames, dealing damage to the Cyclops.

"O darkened storm cloud, lose thy blade and run my enemies through...Thunder Blade!" Zan chanted as a blade made of lightning launched through the air, down onto the cyclops as it shocked him a couple of times.

"Heat Blade!" Spade yelled as Falchion was covered in flames and slashed at the Cyclops.

"Cross...Slash!" Simon yelled as he did a cross shaped slash on the Cyclops as he looked at boy. "Finish him off!"

"Right!" The boy said as he dashed at the Cyclops and sliced him in half. "Thanks for the assist, but who are you people?" He asked Ace and the others.

"My name is Ace and these are my brothers, Spade and Simon, and this is one of our teammates, Zan." Ace said as he introduced himself and the others.

(BOF DQ-A Small Departure)

"Nice to meet you all, my name is Ryu, I'm a Ranger." Ryu said as he saluted to them before walking over to the girl and kneeled down to her and held her up as she opened her eyes and quickly hugged Ryu as she shook. "It's okay, I got him. Can you stand?" He asked as the girl nodded and stood up as she looked at Ace and others. "It's okay, they helped me rescue you. I'm Ryu, and you are?" He asked.

"N.. ..Ni..na." Nina said trying to speak.

"Ni..na? Your voice. You can't..?" Ryu trailed off as Nina

"She must've lost her ability to speak, the poor child." Zan said.

"Anyway, we have to get out of here, Nina." Ryu said.

"Right, we'll come as well." Ace said as he and the others began to leave before they turned to see Nina standing in the same spot.

"Come on, let's go." Ryu said as he held his hand out and Nina ran over and slowly took it as she looked at the others and nodded her head to them.