The Falcon became one of Mina's best friends, although it was closer to Stockholm syndrome because the thing never really left her. The droid family Mina had encountered had known Lloyd, or at least, Zane and PIXEL had before. So when Lloyd came back, the droids moved closer to the city. Which meant that Alice became a new friend of Mina's as well. Then there was Kass, who wasn't really a new adversary, but since Cole was seeing Lloyd often, that meant that Mina saw Kass often too.

Today, Kass was getting ready to with Cole to see Lloyd and Mina. Nothing stopped him from cocking an attitude while doing so. Unknown to him, the Overlord was attracted to this attitude and negative energy. In a mist-like form, the Overlord snuck his way over to Kass. Sensing something was off, Kass looked around the room.

"Who's there?" he asked. He saw nothing, until a mist formed in front of him to shape a dragon-like human being. Kass jumped back in surprise and shock.

"Who are you?!" Kass asked in surprise. The dragon-man looked at Kass and smiled maliciously.

"You know the Gold Kunoichi." the dragon-man said, licking his lips.

"Who?" Kass asked, starting to feel a little afraid. The dragon-man did not answer, and instead melted into a mist and started toward Kass. Kass tried to run away, but the mist had bound his feet together without using rope. The mist made its way to Kass's mouth and thrust itself inside. The next thing Kass remembered was the world being a blur, then absolute darkness.

. . .

No one was none the wiser as the Overlord controlled Kass's body from the inside. Kass was terrified in reality, but it was only a voice at the back of your head that could be ignored.

"Hello Kass." Mina greeted when she saw him. "Do you feel alright? You look a little funny."

The Overlord possessed Kass looked at her and nodded.

"I am fine." Kass's vocal cords told her. "But I would like to speak to you personally, and alone."

Mina looked at Kass. She knew something was different about him, but she couldn't quite figure out what...

Overhead, the Falcon circled above their heads as if it was waiting for something to happen. As if it knew something Mina didn't...

"Sure, I don't see why not." Mina finally decided. "I trust you."

With a sneer, Kass led Mina outside to a place rather pleasant, where a couple of cherry blossom trees were planted. Mina looked around and enjoyed what she saw.

"This is nice." she said, mostly to herself. Kass laughed, in a rather ruthless way. Mina quickly turned to look at him.

"Something is wrong with you Kass." Mina said, starting to back up a little. "I don't know what..."

Kass chuckled in a way that sent chills up Mina's spine.

"Look how virtue repaid you," he started to say, "You turn and someone betrayed you."

Suddenly, two Serpentine appeared next to Mina. She looked at them both with fear growing inside of her. One was male with white scales and light purple detailing, the other was female with light purple scales with darker purple detailing.

"But betray her first.." the male said in a raspy tone.

"And the game's reversed." the female said in a low, dangerous tone.

Mina nervously looked from the two Serpentine to Kass.

"You're not Kass." she told him. "Who... who are you?"

Kass laughed in a tone Mina now knew was never Kass's to begin with.

"I came to tuck you into bed." he said in a low tone. The next thing Mina saw was darkness.

With this bit of the deed done, the Overlord took himself out of Kass's body and reformed into a dragon-man once more in front of Mina's body. Kass's body lay on the ground, presummably without life, but he was only unconscious.

"Take her to the Anacondrai tomb." the Overlord ordered the Serpentine. Before the Serpentine could give an audible response, there was a gasp from behind them. The Overlord turned and saw Kai standing there frozen in his spot.

Kai had been sent to see where the kids had gone to, and had seen enough to have actually done something if he wasn't completely surprised.

"And take the hot head." the Overlord added. The white Serpentine slithered over to Kai, gave a malicious smile, and knocked him out.

Satisfied with his plan so far, the Overlord looked up at the sky. The falcon was still flying over head, it was ready to tell of what it had saw, which meant the Overlord could not waste time in taking the hostages. But it was all part of the plan.