The next day as soon as the ship reached ten miles from the islands the ship hit a huge storm that came out of nowhere. NGin and Tropy were on the deck when they noticed a huge cylinder shaped cloud form above them "Ah I see it's that time of the year again." NGin said, Tropy looked a little confused.

"Time for what?"

"Oh the turbines have reset that's all, for about ten minutes all the islands and the academy of E.V.I.L are exposed to the world. That's why there's this storm, it's a good thing we caught it, we would have had to spend hours going to the entry point," This only made Tropy more confused but he seemed he wanted to find out more one way or another, NGin also saw it wasn't making much sense to him. "Let's go in, I'll try to explain it further." Tropy followed NGin to his quarters. Cortex was in the canteen with Uka. NGin and Tropy sat down at a desk. "Well you know about the technology that keeps this ship hidden most of the time right?"

"Ah yes, something about electromagnetic turbines that create a sort of dome around the ship making it invisible."

"That's right, the islands are hidden with the same technology but on a much greater scale."

"I see, but what does this have to do with the storm?"

"This storm occurs once every year when the big reset happens."

"Big reset?"

"Well because the electromagnetic field is so big it has to be reset once a year to keep it maintained, the same that the ship can only stay hidden for a few hours at a time."

"Ok, and what else does this shield do?"

"Well it stops any ship from entering the shield as well a making us invisible and hides us from any radars and satellites."

"Right, and what if the storm had already passed when we got here?"

"Then we would have had to contact Brio and ask for the new angle bearings from the main computer," Tropy raised an eyebrow. "The shield was originally powered by the master crystal on XTreme island and the turbines increase the strength and size of the dome. The turbines are programmed, monitored and maintained by the main computer at the castle and as you know every computer has a back door, our computer has two."

"So the dome is like a big computer login screen."

"That's right and these 'back doors' are specific magnetic bearings that anyone can easily pass through. One to the north and south. The bearings never actually move but the angle at which we can enter those bearings does."

"I see."

"When I built the computer that controls it Neo wanted it so that communication with the islands can only be made from the islands."

"But I've answered calls from Nina in the past."

"Actually the academy shares the shield with the islands since they're only eleven miles apart. The one at the academy is powered with its own turbine though. Here, I'll draw a quick diagram," NGin got out two pens and a paper from his desk and drew a diagram of the shield and how it covers the islands. (* link to diagram http://juslion .deviantart .com/art/Fan-Art-123767298)

"But we are still able to make outside calls, the computer in the comms room at the castle and on the ship make them harder to trace."

"So what will happen if someone was to encounter the shield and they did not know about the entry points?"

"Well by the time they've gotten close enough their compass or navigation systems would be going crazy and they would encounter an even bigger storm to this one which would force them to either go back the way they came or go around the shield. That's why it's a good thing the islands are located just south enough away from shipping lanes."

"How long have you been at the islands now?"

"Oh since the late eighties I think. When we arrived the dome was actually already here when me Brio and… Cortex came to the islands but it only covered one of the three islands; Xtreme Island. Cortex had enough money to buy the castle and NSanity islands from Australia and some agreement about some sort of project. When we settled I built my first lot of robots to help build the castle on top of an old colonial fort. It was only during a huge storm that we saw XTreme island appear for a few minutes, at first we had no idea what was going on so we hired a top physicist to work everything out. Unfortunately I can't remember what he said thanks to the accident, can't remember a lot of things for that matter. Anyway we decided to get him to hide all the islands just like XTreme was. It was around this time that our old headmaster came to us wanting the same thing for the academy. We figured that the Australian government did not know of Xtreme island so we managed to make them believe a huge earthquake had taken place that completely wiped out the entire Wumpa archipelago. I just used one of my inventions to make a tidal wave in Tasman Sea but not so much that it cost lives, just flooded a few coastal towns, that's all. They also must have been unaware about the tribes people living on NSanity island."

"Is this physicist still around?"

"I don't know to be honest I just remember us no longer needing him so we let him leave and go back home, probably for the best now days, if the wrong person know as much he does it could mean trouble for all of us."

"So are we going through one of those bearings now?"

"Actually we're not, this is the reset storm so the two entry points are temporarily shut down for about five minutes allowing us to enter the dome."

"Does not this mean that anyone can enter the dome as well?"

"Yes but the chances of someone being able to stay on course like my ship are pretty slim."

"And planes?"

"Well unless the pilot is looking for us they would just fly around the storm."

"And these turbines that generate the dome, do you know where they are?"

"I know that one of them is on the academy's island but I've forgotten where the other one is, all I remember is a temple of some animal I think and that they are both powered by their own power crystals. You seem quite interested by all this."

"Well yes, I have often wondered what kept us hidden all these years."