On Ashar, the two teams landed with their ships as Flamberge got off first.
"Oh, yeah, now we're talking!" Flamberge said. "THIS is my kind of planet!"
"Focus. Remember why we're here." Jexi said.
"We're here to eliminate the Legion here and also try and find out where Grax could be hiding." Tails said.
"Lets not forget, Wolf also has Operations here. We need to find what he was up to here." Hope said.
"We should split up." Shoji said. "Half of us will disrupt the Legion activity on Ashar while the others go find what wolf was up too."
"Oh that won't be necessary. I can handle the Legion." Phon said.
"That's odd. Since when are you so eager to deal with the enemy?" Jet asked.
"Well you know, I just thought you would need help dealing with them and I wanna be of some worth." Phon said.
"That's strange to us. We never gave you any orders." Hope said. "We told you hang back as our communications officer. Why would you be so eager to fight?"
"I just want to, okay? Well look at the time. Off to fight the legion!" Phon said running off.
"Hmm. This is odd even for Phon. Something doesn't feel right." Jet said to himself. "I'm headed out too."
"In the meantime, let's check out what Wolf's been up to here." Hope said.
Jet got onto his fighter as he quietly followed Phon making sure no one was tracking him. He soon saw Phon approach a large hive of Legion with a prime approaching.
"Excellent." Phon said dialing something on his phone as the legion soon turned to him. "Now listen carefully. I control you creatures now. My order...a large ship is within this space. Destroy it and leave no survivors. Do not even leave the ship intact." he said as the Legion moved out. "There now all of my…"
"Talking to yourself?" Jet asked.
"Oh, uh Jet. Good thing you found me. These Legion appear to be acting strangely." Phon said.
"Yeah they are...cause you just hijacked them." Jet said. "Ordering them to...You...you. Its you. You're the sabotage man."
"Grrr. Ah!" Phon said firing on Jet as he dodged as Phon flew off across the planet. "Son of a...I didn't think they would find out so quick. Just need to stay calm. I need to erase all of my tracks. Thankfully...I've already taken the precaution. I have the bombs planted. I just need to get as far away as possible so I don't get caught in the blast."
"One problem with that Phon…" Jet said catching up. "You actually have to escape to do that plan." Jet said firing on Phon.
"Damn it. I forget who I was running from. Next to Stealth, Jet was one of the fastest flyers at Port Alpha." Phon said.
"You betrayed them...we trusted you...treated you like you were one of us...and...this is how you repay us?!" Jet shouted.
"Relations are meaningless. Knowledge needs to be controlled and kept to a single source or else we risk losing control of it." Phon said.
"Knowledge…I'm not that bright but I know one thing...you are gonna pay for all those pilots you got killed!" Jet said.
"I do not think so." Phon said as he saw Rainbow and Star Fox approach. "Well...right on time." he said dialing something on his phone.
"What the, why's Jet shooting at Phon?!" Rainbow asked before her mech sparked. "What?!"
"Thank you. Your fighter is now mine. You get to shoot down Jet while I get away." Phon said.
"Jet! He hacked my ship! Look out!" Rainbow called.
"Don't need to say that." Jet said as he went over her and shot at Phon's fighter and blowing off a wing.
"Damn it." Phon growled.
"Your troubles are about to get a whole lot worse, pal!" a voice came over the comms the Last Crusade and Spirit Celsius arrived.
"Gonna send you to hell!" Another voice added as Ace held up a pulse rifle and took aim.
"Vera, Ace is gonna need a clear shot! Fire now!" Omnimon said.
"You got it. Firing Anti-Particle Cannon!" Vera said.
"Hold it. I still hold the cards here!" Phon said holding his phone up. "You fire at me...I blow us all up!"
"Damn… he must've planted bombs in our ships!" Rainbow said.
"No one will ever know I was here. Nor will they know you were….Ah!" Phon said as a shot blew off his hand and the phone. "Jet…."
"Phon...let me say this to you...this is your honorable discharge." Jet said.
Vera fired the Anti-Particle Cannon. Phon managed to dodge it only to come into Ace's line of fire.
"Oversee this, bitch." Ace said as he pulled the trigger and the energy bullet pierced through Phon's fighter.
"You son of a…" Phon said as his fighter crashed into the ground below.
"Told you I would send you to Hell personally." Ace said.
"I'm just glad we made it in time. Our group wouldn't have known about it if it weren't for you guys." David said as he looked to Omnimon and UlforceVeedramon.
"Wait, how did they know?" Chase asked.
"After we finished up in Tundria, Veevee spotted a video camera on a crashed fighter. Phon was the one who took out the heater and left the pilot to freeze to death." David said.
"On the way here, my Omega Inforce reacted and I saw a glimpse of Phon attacking Jet." Omnimon said. "That's how I knew that we had to get here fast."
"Yeah...he volunteered to deal with the Legion but that was only to sic them on the others." Jet said. "He didn't even realize I was following till I caught him in the act. Still...he acted so happy and strange. I never would have guessed he was the saboteur." Jet said.
"He even mentioned that he was working with the All Science Go Corporation. The same organization that digitized Tokyo." Ace said.
David looked to the Royal Knights. "Sorry… I didn't want you guys to find out like this. That these were the kind of people that resurrected you all."
"There is nothing for you to apologize for." Alphamon said.
"I know. It just… It just sickens me that those kinds of people were the reason your battle poured into my home." David said. "I guess humans really are just a bunch of selfish monsters, are they?"
"Actually, you yourself are part of the contrary. Your pure heart and resolve to reunite us with Jexi and our other former allies were all it took to free us from their grasp. You have nothing to be ashamed about." Alphamon said.
"All I can say is that, even though I was the one to kill Phon, Jet deserves most of the credit for bringing him down. You've earned my trust." Ace said to Jet.
"I wasn't doing this to earn anything. I was just honoring a friend's last request." Jet said.
"Good enough of a start." Ace said.
"I wonder how everyone is doing on Ashar?" Al asked.
Back on Ashar, Flamberge and the heroes tracked Wolf's activity to a vault nearby.
"This looks like the place. And there's that laser machine Raid mentioned. It looks like they were trying to open this vault." Flamberge said.
"Then we just bust it down ourselves then." Natsu said.
"Uh uh, bad idea. If you go all out, then the whole vault will go down." Lucy said.
"No worries Luce. I got this." Yang said as she made her way to the doors. She stretched before punching the doors in and then forced them open. "There we go."
"Great work, Yang!" Flamberge said.
"We got inbound!" Jiro said.
"Well, isn't this just peachy." a deep alien voice came over the comms as a ship descended with two guard probes. "I gave my crew one job. Clear the area, and get that vault open. That… that's one job. I know it sounds like two, but it's one, I swear."
"It's an Outlaw, and a big one!" Flamberge said.
"Koval Grimm. He's tough. Be careful." Shaid said.
"Oh is that right? This shouldn't be too long then." Yang said.
"Let's get em, Yang!" Flamberge said.
"Bring it, ladies!" Koval said firing his weapons.
"You have no idea who you're dealing with, I'll melt that ship into slag!" Flamberge said using her multi thrust attack and shredding into Koval's ship as she laughed. She then summoned more of her swords and stabbed them into the ship, making it catch fire. "Yang, wreck em!"
"I'm all over it." Yang said. She then smashed into Koval's ship and punched it, denting it as it was sent flying, wrecking Koval's ship and making him eject.
"Argh! I'll let you off easy this time. Next fight, you two won't be so lucky." Koval said reatreating.
"We'll see about that. Now, let's see what was in that vault." Flamberge said looking inside. "You gotta be kidding me… a Prime?"
"Why would Wolf want those goliaths?" Jiro asked.
"I could only think of one reason." Fox said getting on the comm system. "An all out war on Corneria."
"If he gets into the Lylat System with that sort of power, Corneria won't last. We have to stop him." Hope said.
"This would be worse than Andross." Peppy said.
"We need to find Wolf as soon as possible." Falco said.
"That won't be a problem. If we track the signatures of the prime cores and look for the strongest signal…" Tails said. "Got it! I found Wolf's hideout!"
"Then we know where we're going next." Fox said.
"Hey, did we miss anything?" A voice asked over the comms as David and Ace's ships approached.
"You will not believe what we had just witnessed." David said.
"To keep it a long story short, Phon was working with the All Science Go Corporation and was sabotaging the other fighters that came here." Sectonia said.
"Damn, and we trusted him too." Hope said.
"We all did…" Dynasmon said in a growl. "Good thing we won't need to worry about him anymore."
"Yeah...least now we have one of three problems settled. Now we need to deal with Wolf and Grax." Jet said.
"Wait...where's Sheer?" Hope asked.
"On the ship. He hasn't left his room since the Pharaoh incident." Jexi said.
"Seriously? What's he holding himself up for?" Examon asked.
"Last time he did that...it was because he was experiencing a barrage of visions at once." Jexi said. "He did the same when I first met him."
"Is he okay?" Ace asked.
"As long as he isn't disturbed, he'll be fine." Jexi said.
"So...where do we go from here now?" Ace asked.
"It's obvious isn't it?" Hope asked. "We go and stop Wolf."
"Sorry if I asked." Ace said.
David was leaning against the wall, silent in thought.
"Something is on your mind, correct?" Tsuki asked.
"Y-yeah. I'm just...taking in some info I got. Sorry if it worries you. I think I just need some time to think." David said as he started heading to his room.
"We'll go have a talk with him. I have a feeling we know what this is about." Omnimon said as the Royal Knights followed him.
"Very well." Tsuki said. "(I had the same feeling…)" She thought. "Ancient people of the moon, please continue watching over him…" She silently prayed.
"I can't really blame him for this. Tokyo is his home after all, and the corporation involved the Royal Knights in its digitization." Sectonia said.
"It's our home, too, Sectonia, so yeah. We understand completely how he feels." Sachiko said motioning to David's investigation group.
"I just hope he doesn't think of doing anything drastic." Sectonia said.
"So, what's our next move?" Francisca asked.
"Wolf. He needs to be dealt with before we finish things with Grax." Jexi said arriving.
'I'm down with that." Mayumi said.
"I think I have an idea of where he might be." Ace said. "On my way to Necrom, I saw this unknown area surrounded by a barrier. I think that's where Wolf might be."
"Then that's where we're headed." Hunter said.
"Can I say it this time, Fox?" Rainbow asked.
"Go for it." Fox smiled.
"Let's Rock and Roll, Boys!" Rainbow cheered.
