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"Their daughter?" was Dekagreen's first reaction.

"Weren't they siblings?" Dekapink asked, which got everyone else to drop down.

Wells sighed: "First of all, you guys need to sleep more. Second of all, It's not because they were siblings, that that means they can't have kids. Even the ancient Egyptians knew that, when they suggested Osiris and Isis could conceive Horus."

This was something nobody understood: "It's the ancient Egyptian... why do I bother explaining?"

"Oh shut up!" Shelly, or rather Lilith, shouted, "So now you know who I am. But that won't stop me from having my revenge!"

"Revenge?" Dekabreak questioned.

"They were people like all of you, who worked hard to built their empire!" Lilith exclaimed, "But you had to tear all of it down! You, who think of yourself to be so much better than my parents, or my uncle! You, who..."

"Who believe to not be much different from them." Wells interrupted.

This made everyone quiet, including Lilith. Once Wells was sure he had everyone's attention, he continued: "Indeed, we all think we are better than everyone else, and we all think we deserve to live. Even if it means taking lives, then so be it."

"Who's side is he on?" Dekadawn wondered.

For once, neither Dekablue or Dekared had anything to say, which Dekamaster noticed: "You've become quiet so suddenly?"

"However..." Wells continued, "... what your parents did wasn't just taking lives so they could live. It was plain old murder. When they died, many more lives were saved, and those who lost loved ones were rejoiced to know..."

"Loved ones?" Lilith laughed, "What a joke."

Wells snickered: "Of course, her parents don't know any love, maybe that's what created this child in the first place. You'd say she was an accident."

Hearing him say that, Lilith swung some of her blades, but by rolling away, Wells managed to dodge those attacks. Some of the other Dekarangers thought of intervening, but they stopped midway. Dekayellow didn't stop immediately, until Dekagreen held out his arm.

"No." he said, "It's better for them to handle this by themselves."

"Why?" Dekayellow asked, "It's us she hates."

"Not so much as she hates me now." Wells reasoned, after which he turned back to Lilith, "Who was it that foiled her first plan with that Frankenstein monster? Who was it that solved the case with Flora's mother? Who is it that hid that kid? Who destroyed DaiJin? Who helped in thwarting those six freaks? In the end, who was it that kept this group together? It was me. That's why you had to get rid of me. That's why you framed me. I was becoming a threat to your grand scheme. You have more reasons to hate me than to hate them."

"Maybe..." Lilith hissed, "... but, I still have one trumpcard!"

She took out her License, upon which she pressed one button. This way, when everyone wanted to stop her, they backed down once their suits deactivated.

"Huh?" Hoji wondered, "What just happened?"

Bunta tried to use his License: "Emergency! Dekacenturion!"

Needless to say, this didn't help, nor did it help when others tried.

"Hah! Now what do you say?!" Lilith asked.

Wells appeared unimpressed by this: "Only that a hacker is always ten steps ahead of the police."

This surprised her: "What?"

Shortly after she said that, everybody heard a loud barking.

"Murphy!" Umeko sounded.

"What?" this surprised even Lilith.

Murphy stopped running at some point, opened his mouth at the same time, so whatever he held there was released, so Wells could catch it.

"That won't work." Lilith was suddenly hopeful.

"Maybe not." Wells replied, "Or would it?!"

Lilith didn't know what to think of this, but Wells didn't appear to care.

"What are you doing?" Hoji asked, "Didn't you see what she did to our suits?"

"I did." Wells answered, "And now you'll see what you look like when you henshin."

Wells opened his License, which appeared to be switched off, which surprised Lilith even more, but Wells still didn't care, as he made a stance of his own, shouting: "Emergency! Dekaranger!"

After his suit has been put on, Lilith still stood in awe, but Wells, now Dekasilver, didn't stop there: "Even in the deepest of darkness, a light shines within. Detective of the moonlight. Dekasilver!"

Finally, Lillith dared to speak: "You had your License switched off?"

"I had to do either that to keep the virus from entering it, or get an anti-virus downloaded in it." Dekasilver answered, "Unfortunately, that would've taken too long, so I only downloaded one in Murphy, who's now allowing it into the systems. It'll take a while, but everything should work again soon."

Lilith had started shaking when she heard him mention the word 'antivirus', so she hauled at him, but now Dekasilver could use his sword to block her attacks and push her away."

"Alright now, Reversa Seijn Lillith..." Dekasilver was holding up his License, "... for..."

"Hold it!" a voice called.

Everybody looked up to the Dekabase Tank, where they saw ten figures. One of them was Numa-O, who was the one who called a second earlier.

Before anyone could express how surprised they were to see him, Numa-O spoke: "Everybody, meet the universe's ultimate court. When we heard there was a traitor in your mids, we came as soon as we could, to see him deleted personally. But now that we've heard what we just heard..."

He then turned back to the other ones: "Chikyuu Seijin William Frederick Wells, for insubordination, hacking into SPD's computers, and creating a virus that destroyed most of our files, if anyone is still in favor of his deletion, raise hands!"

Nobody raised their hands, which relieved every other Dekaranger, and left particularly Ban and Hoji speechless.

"Delete annulled." Numa-O continued, "Now... Reversa Seijin Lillith, for leaking out information to criminals, abduction, multiple attempts at homicides, multiple destructions of buildings, including our own moonbase, some of which succeeded,..."

"Which ones?" Ban asked, after which he got slapped on his head.

"Idiot!" Umeko reminded him, "Tetsu's stalker, Niwande, remember?"

"... and many more crimes to mention at once." Numa-O continued, "All in favor of her deletion, raise hands!"

Everybody raised their hands, which meant they all agreed.

"Delete approved." Numa-O acknowledged.

Lilith, for a second, thought she could run away. She tried, but though without their armor, the other Dekarangers were able to form a barrier that stopped her from going anywhere.

"Don't try to run now." Dekasilver said, "You still want revenge? Why won't we set this out in this battle?"

Though she knew she would be deleted afterwards, this still sounded like an offer she couldn't refuse: "Very well. Even if it ends with my deletion, at least let me have the chance to kill you before that happens."

"Now we're talking." Dekasilver replied, as he raised his sword, ready for a fight.

"Bill!" Jasmine shouted, but Sen and Umeko could stop her.

"Let them do this." Sen told her.

"Don't worry, I'm sure he'll be fine." Umeko told her.

"I don't know." Tetsu said, "He's never met a Reversa Seijin before."

No matter what they had to say, both Dekasilver and Lilith were ready for battle. When they fought, sparks were flying, for every time that their blades clashed, or every time they damaged each other's armors. The batlle was heating up, and both fighters grew tired of this. At times Jasmine wanted to come in between, but she had to be held back each time, to a point where they threatened to ask Yaako to restrain her.

When the battle lasted long enough, when the sun started to become visible over the horizons, both fighters had a hard time standing on their feet. At long last, with Dekasilver on one side, and Lilith at the other, panting from their fight, they both realized this needed to finish now.

"Never thought I'd be part of a typical Kurosawa-scene." Dekasilver whispered.

"He knows Kurosawa?" this surprised Shun.

"Who's Kurosawa?" Doggy asked.

Both fighters raised their blades one last time and ran towards each other as fast as their legs could carry them at this point. They ran, and ran, and when they were close enough to touch each other, they used their blades on each other. They still ran some two meters away from each other, seemingly unharmed, and apparently frozen in the moment. So they stood, for ten seconds. Until one of them started to show some kind of seizure, until it couldn't stand like this any more, fell down and exploded, so only Dekasilver was left standing.

There was still a moment of silence, not even Dekasilver moved an inch. But after some seconds, Jasmine decided to break with the silence, and shouted: "You did it!"

She ran to him, about ready to hold him in her arms, but once she was close enough to him, she realized something wasn't right: "What's wrong?"

That's when Dekasilver dropped his sword, after which his suit deactivated itself, revealing a severe cut at his belly. As Jasmine was shocked to see this, Wells couldn't stand on his feet anymore and fell down, only narrowly being caught by Jasmine.

"Bill... Bill!" Jasmine cried, "This can't be happening!"

Wells tried to open his eyes to look at her: "Urgh... what... what do you want me to say? 'Rosebud'? Or 'I love you'?"

That's when he completely lost all strength in his body. Jasmine kept calling his name, but he still didn't respond. Meanwhile, everyone else did what they could to help. Tried to call for medical assistance over their Licenses, while they were still not one hundred percent operative.