"So...what now?" Layla asks as she and the Winx walked through the streets of Magix, after Griselda kicked them out of the school for vandalizing school property. The Pixies couldn't come with them since they had to go undercover as the Minx's pixies and find at least some information about them and their plans. But Tune, Digit, Pam, and Fixit decided to tag with them. Since Tune and Digit are clearly replaced by Cara and Cherie, but they were cool with it by now, Fixit is very important for their new mission on getting rid of the Minx, and Pam just doesn't have anything better to do.

Roxy also couldn't come with them because she was a student at Alfea and didn't have permission to leave, so she also went undercover.

"The only logical thing for you, or us, to do is to find a place to stay. Obviously. You wouldn't want to sleep in the streets, do you? Because I will not like it one bit." Digit suggests, shaking her head at the thought of them sleeping in the streets.

"But we can't go home. And we don't have any money!" Flora muttered, obviously upset about their situation.

"Wait, I thought we had money when we came back here? Where'd go?" Bloom questions, blinking in confusion.

There was no answer, instead, the rest of the girls glared at the blonde fairy. "What?" Stella innocently blinked, but the nervous sweating made it clearly obvious that she knows why her friends are giving her that look. After what it felt like forever, Stella sighed in defeat and hung her head. "Fine, I'm sorry for shopping and spending all our money with fabulous clothes! I have a shopping-disorder! Cut me some slack!"

"Stella!" The girls collectively groaned and rolled their eyes.

"There's no such thing as a shopping disorder." Tecna sighed, rubbing her temples as if she had a headache.

But before the blonde could defend herself, a 'Chain Reaction' ringtone suddenly rang, silencing the group as they stared at the pink-haired fairy. Tecna immediately noticed this and picked the phone up, blinking in confusion, why would someone call her when almost everyone doesn't even remember her and her friends? Seeing the name of the caller, she blinked again before turning to her friends. "It's my brother." She informed.

"You have a brother?" Flora raised a brow at her techno-loving friend, surprised that she did not know her friend has a sibling.

"Why would Link call you?" Musa questions, confused. "I mean, he remembers you?"

"Your brother's name is 'Link'?" Stella scoffed, finding the name somewhat funny. "That's silly! Who would name their child that?!"

Tecna frowned at Stella, obviously offended that her friend just indirectly insulted her parents. Before looking back at her phone and pressed 'Answer'. She then held her phone out as a hologram came out.

The hologram showed a surprisingly handsome young man in his mid-late 20's. He had a somewhat wavy chin-length hair with the same color as Tecna's, but a bit darker, he had soft teal eyes, well, at least on his left eye. His right one is a neon blue color that seemed to glow, looking like a robotic eyes, which it is. "Finally, do you have any idea of how worried I was when you weren't calling for, oh I don't know, almost a year? You know, I have even come to the conclusion that you died! And these robots replaced you and your friends like no-"

"You know? About them I mean." Tecna interrupted, giving her brother a questionable and surprised look.

"He's hot." Stella whispered to her friend as she lightly elbowed her.

Link chuckled. "Why thank you, Princess Stella. But unfortunately, I am taken." He formally bowed at the Solarian princess, before turning to his sister with a serious expression. "What do you mean that I know? Everyone knows the Minx Club! But for some reason, no one has heard of the Winx ever since the Minx had shown up..."

The Winx's eyes widened as they looked at each other, surprised that someone else had remembered their existence. Link only grinned at their reaction and continued. "And I suppose you ladies have no information about them except for the fact that they're robots, correct? Well, I have some information."

"Spill it!" Musa demanded, desperate for answers. "Before I literally choke a bitch!"

"Whoa, Muse. Chill." Link cautiously stepped backwards, knowing who he's dealing with. "Uh, you might want to hear the information in private. For safety precautions."

"And how do you suppo-"

"In my place, of course." He cut his sister's words off, "Plus, you and your friends can stay here if you'd want. Since you don't have any places to stay." He shrugged.

"How did you kn-"

"I overheard your conversation." He cut her off again.

"How?!" Musa panicked, looking around around for the man's presence. "Are you a creep or something?!"

Link shrugged. "Not really, it's not hard spotting you girls. Since you are so loud and is standing in front of my home."

The Winx blinked and turned their heads towards the house. "Hey there!" A woman in her mid 20's with long dark hair waved at the Winx as she waters her garden. The Winx awkwardly waved back while Tecna grinned and ran to hug her. before turning to one of the windows of the house and seeing Link waving at them. "Oh,"

...

"So..." Musa started awkwardly after a moment of silence in the living room with the Winx and Tecna's brother.

Link clears his throat and crosses his arms, already knowing what the musical fairy is going to ask. "The reason of why I'm fully aware of your existence, along with pixies and other magical creatures, with the exception of fairies, heroes, humans, and witches is because...we're not affected with their hypnotic waves."

"Wait...didn't you attend Red Fountain way back?" Musa raised a brow in confusion. "And doesn't that technically mean that you are a hero yourself?"

"Yes." Link nodded, shifting uncomfortable on his seat as if he doesn't want to discuss it. "But due to an accident back then, I am literally half-machine right now." He points at his mechanical eye. "See?"

"I...still don't get it." Stella blinked in confusion, pointing at Link. "If you're a robot, then does that mean you're one of them?! How should we trust you?!"

"Ooh, Fixit can scan him for any dark energy!" Pam suggested, speaking for the first time in this chapter.

"I can't sense any dark energy, to be honest." Flora says honestly, examining Link. "Yup, he's not lying about helping us. I even sense light energy around here."

"Flora's right." Bloom shrugged. "There's really nothing out of the ordinary about him. Well, except his eyes, but still."

"As I was saying," Link continued. "I think whoever built them had no intention of the Minx replacing their memories of you with them instead. If I'm right, it might be someone really close to you..."

The Winx went silent, looking at each other as if communicating and debating who their suspect might be. "Wait...since when did the Minx replace us?" Stella questions.

"If I'm correct, probably ten months ago." Link shrugged.

They looked at each other again, until someone popped into Musa's mind. "What if it's Timmy?"

"That's very unlikely." Tecna crossed her arms and shook her head.

"C'mon, think about it," Musa insisted, holding her chin in attempt to think. "Timmy's the only smart one who is kinda close to us, besides you, and then he stopped calling you ten months ago, which is the time where the Minx showed up, and uh..."

"I refuse to think that."

"It's a possibility." Flora shrugged. "But the question is: Why would he build such things?"

"But we're not sure yet. I need proof." Said Tecna, frowning at the thought of her beloved boyfriend building those...replacements. "But what if it's the Trix? Valtor? Tritannus? That... other guy we fought during Sophomore year?"

"Darkar." Bloom corrected. "I can't believe you already forgot him. He was the worst."

"And don't forget the Wizards of the Black Circle." Layla pointed out. "Err, also...Selina?"

"But most of them are gone." Flora said softly. "Darkar, destroyed. Valtor, destroyed. The Wizards of The Black Circle, frozen, except for Duman though, poor guy. Tritannus, banished. The Trix, who knows what they're up to? And Selina...err, is she even evil by now? I mean, isn't she forgiven?"

"So our suspects are The Trix and Timmy." Bloom declared, "But then again, if it's the Trix...then shouldn't they show up by now to destroy us?"

"Well, let's give then a visit, just to be sure." Musa says, the others nodded at this as they turned to Link. "Do you have any other information for us?"

"Not really, that is all the information I can get, from the internet, of course." He shrugged. "But if you do want to stay in my place then you could probably stay in Tecna's old room, or at the guest room. Your choice." He then stood up and walked away as he casually waved at them. "You can leave your bags in the room you're staying in."

The Winx turned to Tecna. "Is your brother really that...careless? I mean, he just lets us stay here, just like that? We're strangers!" Stella exclaimed. "Or maybe he's a creep-"

"Stella, he's not a creep." Tecna said firmly, obviously irritated at her blonde friend that is thinking that her own brother is a creep. "He has a stable job, the woman I greeted earlier was his wife for 5 years now, and he has 2-year-old son. I don't see anything creepy about him."

"Be lucky that we actually have a place to stay in, Stell." Musa says to Stella. "Plus, Link's a great guy. I think Tec's kinda lucky to have him as a brother. I always wanted a brother.."

"How did you know about Tecna's brother when the rest of us doesn't, anyway?" Flora questions to the musical fairy.

Musa shrugged. "I only met him when he visited our dorm room because he didn't know what to name his kid and asked Tec for help. Poor guy."

"Anyway, Stella, can you teleport our belongings in..." Flora trails off and looks at Tecna for answers.

"Err, depends on you." Tecna turns to her friends. "Where do you want to sleep in?"

"Tecna's room for me." Musa said. "If it's okay for you, y'know, I'm actually used to you being my roommate and all..."

"It's fine."

"I'm going for the guest room, Tecna's closet is probably not enough for my wardrobe." Stella shrugged.

"Tecna's room," Layla crossed her arms. "At least Tecna actually knows not to wake everyone up at 4:00 am." She glares at Stella. Who scowled.

"Eh, if Musa and Layla are staying with Tecna, then Flora and I can stay with Stella in the guest room, so it will be fair, y'know? 3 on Tecna's room and 3 in the guest room. Sounds fair." Bloom suggested, the others agreed and proceeded in unpacking in their rooms.

...

"Girls, I've managed to track them down." Tecna informed the Winx as they sat on the couch, watching television after their dinner.

The girls sat up and looked at Tecna, who sat down with them as she continued on looking down at her tracking device. Finally, she looked at them with a slightly confused expression. "They're in...Cloud Tower."

"Ooh, I've seen them visit Alfea and Red Fountain from time to time also." Fixit says, also speaking for the first time in this chapter, or is it? The Author forgot.

"How would you see them at Alfea and Red Fountain when you're supposed to be in Pixie Village?" Layla raises a brow at Fixit.

"First of all; it's now called PixieVille, not Pixie Village. And it's not really a village for pixies, at least, not anymore." Fixit pointed out. "And secondly, male pixies bond with heroes. You know, like fairies bond with female pixies? Elves bond with witches and stuff like that. And let's just say that I have bonded with a hero attending Red Fountain, and also visiting Alfea frequently. So yeah."

"Wow, what else did I miss?" Layla asks.

"No time for that, we've gotta go to Cloud Tower for the Trix." Bloom says, opening the front door and looking at her friends. "I honestly want this to be over as soon as possible."

"You're not alone, B." Musa agreed as she and the rest of the Winx raced outside of the house, before teleporting to Cloud Tower.


A/N: Eh, that's all I can write for now. Won't be updating any stories tomorrow since a friend of mine needs help updating his own, he's hopeless, I know.

Anyway, about this chapter. Our main suspects are either The Trix, or Timmy. Who is it? Is it...both of them? We won't know until next chapter! But then again, there are still other people out there...

If you're confused about the hypnotic mumbo jumbo Tecna's brother was talking about, it's mainly like this: The Minx used hypnotic waves to erase everyone's memories with the Winx and replaced it with them, the Minx, instead. The hypnotic waves does not affect Pixies, animals, and machines/robots. But the reason why Roxy knows about them is because she's the Fairy of ANIMALS. Get it? Because she's t- Ah, never mind. The reason it does not affect the Winx either is because..well, they ARE the Minx. If they are affected by it, then it means that they would forget about themselves and remember themselves as the Minx, which is silly.

Link is obviously made up, if you're wondering. Who knows if she really has a brother out there? The show is too focused on Bloom that it almost took 6 seasons for Tecna's parents to have at least an appearance. They were not even mentioned when Tecna sacrificed herself in the Omega Dimension! Or were they? I don't know. Y'know, I like the comics better to be honest. I mean, it focuses on the other Winx without Bloom having a main role. Like Love Beach for example, it mainly focuses on Tecna and Timmy, and their relationship. There are others, too. Like a Flora and Helia comic, Roxy and another guy I don't know the name of. Too bad they're not canon.

Oops, I've been ranting. Sorry about that, I went from Tecna's parents and took an unexpected turn to the comics. I'm so sorry.

Anyway, thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!