"I'm glad you all could come." Tsubasa sighed as the whole group finally gathered in his office, Zero and Maru glancing worriedly over at Gingka, who was sitting on the couch with a headset on, talking to his father in a low tone.

"What's going on, exactly?" Zero asked.

"I'll explain later. For now, I have a job for you two." Tsubasa said. "We need you to find a friend of Gingka's who we do not have any sort of wired or wireless connection to due to where he lives. It is extremely important that you find this person."

"Who is it?" Maru asked, eager to help.

"Tsubasa, I need this linked to the main screen." Gingka said suddenly, removing one ear of his headset. "My dad wants to tell all of us about something."

"Got it. I'll explain in a moment, Zero." Tsubasa said, pulling out a cord from under his desk and extending it to Gingka, who plugged it into the laptop in front of him, causing Ryo's face to appear on the screen.

"Alright, go. We can all hear you now." Gingka said.

"Good." Ryo sighed. "Tsubasa, you should know that I got two phone calls within the last twenty-four hours that might have something to do with what Gingka was just explaining to me."

"How so?" Tsubasa asked.

"The first gave no name and was male, saying only that we should watch our backs for another threat. I tried to pry out of him who he was but he refused to say."

Madoka gasped at this, recalling her own call from the night before.

"What time did you get that call?" She asked. "And did he use some sort of nickname?"

Ryo blinked, looking at the brunette. "It was as I was up late last night, sorting through papers. I'd guess it was around two in the morning."

"I got a call from the same person. But they seemed to have hacked into my computer and only ever called me 'Mechanic Girl.'"

Ryo frowned. "It had to be the same person then. Their voice came from my computer. Knowing you, you tried to hack it to its source correct?"

"Yeah but I didn't find anything." Madoka said. "It was heavily encrypted and I didn't have time to even get started before I was cut off."

"The person who spoke to me called me 'Man-child.'" Ryo sighed. "It's a similar type of term to what they used for you."

"And they said almost the same thing." Madoka said.

"... And you didn't tell me about this? Is that who I heard you talking to last night?" Gingka asked, raising an eyebrow.

"... I didn't want to worry you until I knew more but apparently we now know more." Madoka sighed. "I'm sorry."

Gingka sighed and nodded. "I understand. Still, I would have liked to have known."

"The creepy thing is that we don't know how they did it." Ryo said. "We know it shouldn't take too much to hack Madoka's computer like that, it's encrypted but not super heavily. My personal computer here at the WBBA, however, is a whole different story. You would have to know the WBBA's security systems or be an extremely good hacker to get in."

"Which leaves us with either someone like Kira and the DNA, or…" Tsubasa trailed off.

"Someone who works for and has access to the WBBA's systems." Ryo nodded. "I'm not entirely sure which is more likely. And there is no trace of this hack. It was not picked up by security."

"Whoever hacked in had the passcodes to get through it." Tsubasa frowned.

"The odd thing is that I would have recognized the voice if it were someone who worked closely with me." Ryo said.

"With how many people work with you, it'd be better to have someone else help look, someone we can trust. Was Kenta there?" Gingka asked.

Ryo shook his head. "He wasn't there when this happened. We got a rare call from our friends over in Africa and he went to help investigate something there."

"Right when we need him." Gingka sighed. "Because we just would have to go looking for everyone again."

"He should be back soon." Ryo said. "He told me he'd be calling me whenever he had an update."

"What was the other phone call about?" Tsubasa asked.

"That was the stranger one. It was also someone trying to warn me, but this person called me by name, a nd was definitely a woman, although I don't recognize her voice. She was trying to disguise it by speaking differently. I suspect I would recognize her normal voice, or she was afraid of someone listening who would. I have the recording of this one. It came after I went to bed, about an hour after the first."

"A voicemail then." Tsubasa said. Ryo nodded and pressed a button on his keyboard.

"This one was also a direct call from outside, but the number was listed as unknown." Ryo said.

"H-Hello Mr. Hagane…" A woman's voice began. "I don't have much time so I'll make this quick. I just wanted to warn you about something. Your son is in danger. You need to get him far, far away from anything he knows well. You have to make him disappear. His life and perhaps even the world are at stake if you don't. Hurry. Please, if you value anything, send him somewhere safe."

Gingka narrowed his eyes as a slight beep indicated the end of the voicemail. "And once again, someone's after me. Big surprise there."

"It has to be all connected." Zero said. "I'm guessing it is, right? I mean, you guys haven't told us why Gingka's and apparently Kyoya's beys were glowing, but if that means something bad, and this one voice was saying that something's about to happen, and then this lady calls and says we have to hide Gingka, it's got to be all connected, right?"

Ryo sighed. "Probably."

"I hate hiding." Gingka grumbled. "Even with what it meant last time, I'd rather fight my enemy face to face than running to hide from him."

"We all would, but you heard that woman. She was pretty panicked." Tsubasa said. "She knows something."

"I can't call her back either." Ryo sighed. "The line isn't connected, I tried. It's like she called from a nonexistent phone line."

"Mr. Hagane, there's a phone call for you." Hikaru's voice called. "It's from a woman. She sounds desperate."

Tsubasa and Ryo glanced at each other.

"Put her through." Ryo said. "To my main phone line, not my computer."

"Will do, Director." Hikaru replied.

Ryo waited a few moments until he heard a tonal sound that indicated Hikaru had patched the caller through. "Ryo Hagane speaking, how may I help you?" He asked calmly. It was no surprise to anyone, based on Hikaru's information, when the same voice from the voicemail came through, sounding even more panicked than before.

"I called last night. Did you receive my message?"

"I did." Ryo said calmly, narrowing his eyes.

"Have you hidden him yet?" She asked, urgency in her voice.

"No. He is on another line and can hear you. I would like to know who you are and why you seem so desperate that he needs to be hidden."

The woman hesitated. "You can call me Himitsu. And please, there's no time to explain. You simply must hide him before they come to take him."

"Just answer me this then." Ryo said. "Who and how do you know?"

"I live with the person who wants him. Now please, hurry! I am out of time. I have to go, I'm sorry." The call cut off abruptly, leaving Ryo and the others with not much more information than they had previously had.

"So all we know is that this lady knows something." Gingka sighed.

"'Himitsu' just means 'secret' so it's not like she really told us anything else there." Madoka sighed. "Did anyone recognize that voice?"

Everyone shook their heads sadly.

"The only new information is that she personally knows whoever it is that's after Gingka." Ryo sighed. "And she seems to not want them to get him."

"I hate not knowing why." Gingka said. "Someone trying to come after me is the least of my worries right now."

Tsubasa nodded. "Yes but if it's related, perhaps it should be a higher priority."

"Pegasus is still glowing." Gingka said. "It may have a new form than last time but it is made out of the same materials. It has the exact same power it had seven years ago. And it is detecting the exact same thing that it was seven years ago."

"What was that?" Zero asked. "You all keep talking about it and I'm not particularly enjoying being left in the dark."

Gingka looked at his protege seriously. "If I told you, you might lose your lunch from sheer panic."

"... Since when have I panicked over a threat?" Zero asked quizzically, although a sliver of fear was in his eyes at how deathly serious Gingka had been when he said that. The redhead clearly was not joking around in his wording.

"Never. But never has a threat you've actively faced been this big, either." Gingka sighed, looking to his father. "So, what do we do? We can gather the others and go to the site, see what's up, which would be my preference, or I can go hide away like a coward."

"When you put it that way the first option sounds much better." Tsubasa facepalmed.

"Well I can't say I enjoy the idea of Himitsu's suggestion, urgent warning or not." Gingka said. "I've been kidnapped twice now and I don't plan on letting it happen again."

"That's just it though." Maru pointed out. "You've been kidnapped. Twice."

"And both times, as you've told us, by falling down a pit and hitting your head." Madoka crossed her arms. "Can't say the villains are being all that creative, but at the same time, when you keep falling for it, they don't need to be."

Gingka sweatdropped. "As if that's the oldest trick in the book for nothing."

"It will take time to gather the others." Ryo said. "Gingka, you can go find some of the remote ones. Tsubasa, I believe I heard you telling Zero you were going to send him to one of them."

Tsubasa nodded. "Assuming that our Jupiter blader is still at his temple, which I see no reason for him not to be, I was going to send Zero and Maru there."

"We can send Gingka to Beylin to gather Saturn." Ryo said. "It's remote and barely anyone knows about it other than those who train there. It will keep him actively in the fight without keeping him here in Japan where people are likely to look for him. We also have direct contact with them, so if we needed to warn him of something or if he needed to call us, we can do so easily."

Gingka sighed. "As much as I don't like the idea of running, I can't argue with that idea. At least I'll be doing something, and it'll be nice to see that group again."

"We'll put you on the first flight out there that we can and I'll call Da Xiang ahead of time to let him know you're coming." Tsubasa said.

Gingka nodded. "I'll get ready then. Madoka, care to come with me?"

Madoka nodded nervously, sidling up to the redhead and grasping his hand for reassurance.

"Meanwhile, Zero and Maru will go to Africa to find Dynamis. I'll give you two a map from when we had gone there in the past so that you know what to look out for." Tsubasa looked at the two, who nodded.

"Call Nile. He should be able to escort them as well." Ryo said. "And Kenta should also be there. That's where he was investigating."

Tsubasa nodded. "I will. You be careful. If this Himitsu really does know whoever is behind this, then it's possible that that person knows of her calls to us. They may use us to try to get to Gingka."

Ryo nodded. "I'll be fine, don't worry. We all have our own things to worry about. I have a lot more calls to place if we're going to respond as quickly as we may need to."

Tsubasa nodded. "Good luck. I'll get everyone over here moved to where they need to go."

Ryo nodded and simply hung up.

"This keeps getting more and more complicated." Gingka sighed, rubbing his head as if he had a headache, which he likely did after all that was going on.

"We'll handle it like we did last time." Tsubasa said. "Now we'd all best get moving. I'll meet you all at the airport in a few hours."

"Call us when you're on your way." Madoka said as she followed Gingka out.

"Here goes disaster again." Maru joked half-heartedly as she and Zero followed as well.

"I sure hope not." Zero sighed, "But it certainly looks that way."