Meanwhile, Verne too realized something was off with the electricity in the building. Strangely, it seemed to effect Mr. Voice's screens more than anything else. This got him to leave the room and go... some place. But wherever he intended to go, the secret door wouldn't open. He was trapped in this room. He then looked at what he wore around his wrist. He pressed the appropriate buttons, so to change into Boukemerald. He mumbled something in his own language, after which he used his fist to slam a way out of the room.

In the infirmary, everyone was surprised to hear Sakura's statement.

"A Precious in our systems?" Masumi questioned, "How does that work?"

"It wouldn't be..." Satoru whispered.

"The Atlantians!" Sakura realized, "They must have send it with us!"

"Why would the Atlantians do that?" Natsuki wondered.

"I think we've got more pressing problems than that." Eiji remarked.

"You're right." Satoru agreed, "We'd better..."

"Wait!" Souta shouted, "You still need to recover."

"I think I've slept enough." Satoru replied, after which he brought up his Accellular.

Upon doing so, he noticed something strange. It's screen appeared to show all kinds of gibberish. Seeing this, he asked: "What's all this?"

"What's wrong?" Souta asked, after which Satoru showed him his Accellular.

Sakura saw it too, which got her to look at her own. It showed the same thing. She then tried to spin the button, so to transform, but it didn't work. That's when she realized: "It must have gotten in my Accellular when I scanned it, and then made it's way to yours. It's disabling our henshin mechanism."

"Alright, that's it!" Masumi exclaimed, "I'm not gonna stay here and do nothing!"

He started towards the door, but it too shut down on it's own. There was no way out for them. Masumi tried to bang his way out, but only hurt his shoulder doing so.

"Masumi-chan!" Natsuki cried, after which she ran to him, trying to help him in every way she could.

"A broken shoulder now." Souta laughed, "Staying here is becoming a habit of yours."

"This is just great." Eiji remarked, "Our own henshin devices are still broken, those who aren't are useless, and Verne... where the hell is he?"

"Some teammember he makes." Masumi complained.

"He's probably having the same trouble as we do." Satoru realized.

"Not really reassuring." Sakura said, "What do we do now?"

What they didn't know is that Boukemerald, who changed back into Verne, was running around the building, trying to make sense out of all this. That's when somebody tried to contact him.

"Verne? Can you hear me?" that someone asked.

Verne raised his hand, so he could reply to this someone, who's voice he recognized: "Makino?"

"I'm using my old laptop to contact you." he replied, "We've got a problem."

"No kidding." Verne sounded sarcastic.

"Whatever it is, it appears to know much about our systems." Makino explained, "Which is weird."

"Why is that?" Verne asked.

"This system is a reverse-engineered version of many Precious we've found." Makino explained, "Not many can know about it, nor find a way to invade it."

"No wonder you use your own laptop." Verne understood.

"Yes. It doesn't seem to do much to mundane systems." Makino said, "It's like it doesn't know it. But I'm afraid it won't last long. It's already gotten to the others. I can't reach them anymore."

"Their henshin devices are still broken, that doesn't surprise me." Verne replied.
"But not of Red or Pink." Makino reasoned, "But I can't reach them. It must have found it's way in their system as well."

"Then why can I still speak to you?" Verne wondered.

"It must be because yours is of a new design." Makino figured, "Whatever's doing all this doesn't seem to recognize your own device. But I have reason to believe it's trying to get in."

That's when Verne realized something else: "Hang on! What about..."

He had, for some reason, trouble to mention the name he was about to mention, but Makino knew what he wanted to know: "Mr. Voice only just left the building."

"Big surprise." Verne sighed, although he appeared relieved.

"I'm trying to create something that would repel that thing." Makino explained, "But it will take some time."

"What do you want me to do?" Verne asked.

"You'd better keep it from spreading outside the building." Makino suggested.

"How?" Verne had no idea.

"Go cut the power from the main grid. That should stop him for some time." Makino replied, "Hurry!"

"I'm on it!" Verne acknowledged.