Chapter 10: X Day
02:31 AM (New York Time), Tuesday October the 1st…
"… This is Freeze Man… All cameras are disabled… All OK…"
"Here's Cloud Man – sama~… All sensors are out… All OK…"
"Swallow Man reporting… The locks have been released… All OK…"
"Yamato Man here… The insides are empty, as expected… All OK…"
"Cosmo Man… The outsides are quiet, as scheduled… All OK…"
"Zoan Gate Man… Legion 64 members are on their positions… All OK…"
"Good. I'll soon get there myself along with Bapgei."
"Did we really need to do this at this hour, Master?"
"It can't be helped. It's just 18:30 PM in Japan. And it's a normal Tuesday: I wanted those two to come too so…"
"Oh well. Can't be helped, then…"
Twilight was chatting with the Darkloids over an earphone and mike he carried on his head: Philip was with him as they stood inside of a small almost unlit chamber somewhere.
"I brought your suit. Go get changed." Twilight ordered.
"Roger."
Philip headed further in while Twilight opened the door and snuck out into a corridor which was poorly lit as well but it seemed to be part of some company given the workspaces which could be seen past the glass doors closing them.
"Heh, heh, heh. You couldn't see this one coming, kyoudai… And, anyway, almost no-one on the outside will realize… All sounds will be kept inside the building and the Dimensional Area will be invisible… We'll surely have finished before 6 AM, anyway. What a surprise they'll have when they come in and find the insides wrecked! They'll say it was a ghost! Hah!"
03:09 AM (New York Time)…
"… This is Nelaus… Floor 56… Nothing yet…"
"Roger. Maintain radio contact."
"Who'd said Twilight would decide to stage a series of battles in this building out of all places?"
"I hate to admit it but he caught us with the pants down. 10 minutes ago we all got an email from the guy challenging us to come here and to try to stop him… There was a list of floors which must be where each Darkloid is waiting at…"
"How odd, though… I mean…"
"I know."
"Heh, heh, heh. Welcome, ex – comrades…"
"Cosmo Man. I thought Cloud Man would be my opponent."
"Twilight – sama thought I could mess it up if it was Rock Man so Cloud Man and I got swapped."
"CF" Nelaus was making his way through a workspace somewhere in that building while talking with Isaac: Cosmo Man suddenly came in through another door.
"Fine. Let's fight!"
"Heh, heh, heh."
"CF" Nelaus' eyes remained the same and some blonde hair popped out behind the helmet.
The helmet kept the blue coloring yet it had gained three square dots on the ear-pads and on the middle of the forehead which were colored golden, crystal and silver from left to right: a black matrix filled the rest of the helmet's surface.
The emblem remained unchanged and so did the armor protecting the base of his neck.
Yet, on the space below the emblem and before the waist belt (unchanged) the alphabet letters "N" and "S" colored in a platinum color had been drawn: the "N" was on the left and the "S" to the right of the vertical line splitting the body in two.
The shoulder design hadn't changed.
The arms' patterns remained the same yet his forearms armor was different: the armor over the wrist was transparent purple in color and the Alphabet "N" letter colored green was set over it: the space over the palm had a black circle which contained a small red dot in the middle surrounded by different scales of red from dull red to crimson red.
The fingers had transparent red rings set on each one which glowed with a dull red glow.
His waist belt design hadn't been altered and his legs' drawings and knee guards were still the same.
His boots had slightly changed because they now had red and black matrixes across their whole surface and they included those "eyes" like in the space over the hands and set on both sides of each boot.
"Elemental Cannon!"
"CF" Nelaus' right forearm got greenish armor over it, his left forearm formed red armor, his right boot gained extra bluish armor and the left boot was strengthened by yellow armor: energy flew out of each and formed a white spheroid: Isaac then pushed it forward and it became a beam of energy which expanded as it flew across the space: the attack did hit Cosmo Man and did propel him into the wall: he groaned and soon recovered.
"Sheesh. Devil. I forgot about your special built-in techniques. No consequence: I can still have you taste the despair!"
"Bring it on, Golden Boy." "CF" Nelaus taunted.
"We'll collect your bones." Isaac added.
"HMPF! We'll see who will laugh in the end! Cosmo Gate~! EAT THIS!"
03:14 AM (New York Time)…
"… Charlie~ Team here… Emptier than Empty Vanity~…"
"What the heck is that, Charles?"
"Ask HAL, my dear Dave~…"
"Sheesh."
"What floor are you at?"
"41. Nothing yet. But I suspect Swallow Man's lurking close by."
"Alright. Maintain radio contact."
"I still find it odd Twilight bothered so much."
"Obviously, Charles. To begin with: the Dimensional Area covering this building is generated from the inside with Dimensional Converters and thus can't be seen from the outside. He's recycling what his Darkloids and Umbra did in that "alternate Time – Space"… When they hijacked the Neo WWW skyscraper yet they only occupied the very top floors so there was no need to fill the whole building with a "DA"…"
"Bravo, College of Charleston!"
"Swallow Man. I knew it. Show your shallow hide."
"Not bad. Maybe I'll praise ya, College of Davidson!"
"CF" Charles' design included red boots and forearms along with brown chest armor which had a golden cross set on the middle of it: matrixes of on/off squares colored green and blue spread across his forearms and legs.
His helmet's forehead had a blue hexagon-shaped jewel set on its center which was glowing with a pale sapphire glow while his eyes' irises were blue: a mouth-guard having an outer golden edge and a main silver body formed over his mouth.
A backpack with two exhaust tubes colored silver and golden materialized and attached to his back while extending four red lines arching over his body.
These lines created a bluish ring around the chest emblem with four small black rectangles having a red dot on their center.
He had some extra armor coiling around his right arm too and he wielded a pyramidal energy saber colored blue.
"Fight!"
"Of course! Swallow Cutter!"
"CF" Charles drew the sword and blocked the incoming attack but Swallow Man was already there and he clashed his sword with "CF" Charles' one: they began to push each other but got nowhere so they jumped a step backwards to then charge in again.
"Heh, heh, heh. College of Martinson didn't come, eh?" Swallow Man chuckled.
"He had another mission to take care of anyway." "CF" Charles merely shrugged.
"Hunting for anti-swallow spray." Davis dully added.
"Not bad! The Anti-College Spray: by Swallow Shallow Man!"
"Sheesh." Both grumbled.
"Beware! You will be given 7 adventures and an adventurer!"
"Another of Vincent's useless mottos… Go soda."
"Heh, heh, heh. General Campestre's bro-in-law will bring you nightmares soon enough!"
"Tank Cannon!"
"Uack!"
The sudden change of tactics caught Swallow Man off-guard and the blast did push him away: he recovered and chuckled.
"Not bad… But not enough! This building will be your end! Hra~h!"
"We'll see about that, you neo punk! Let's go, Davis! Hra~h!"
03:20 AM (New York Time)…
"… This is Colonel… Too quiet… Floor 62…"
"Roger. Go all out on them."
"That was my intention, anyway."
"Heh, heh, heh… The ex-Colonel wants to shine~?"
"Hmpf. Show your hide."
"Demon Hand!"
"Screen Divide!"
"What!"
"Don't look down on me. Zoan Gate Man."
"Devil! Greiga Army Zoan Colonel's counterpart!"
"So what. Will blurting that out help you win, novice?"
"NOVICE? ME? I was in an army, too! The Falzer Army!"
"That doesn't say much. Armies have rookies too."
"I'll prove my power to you, you moron!"
"Fine."
Colonel had been advancing through another workspace while looking mistrusting of his surroundings: a voice rang out and Colonel turned around quickly enough to shoot his Screen Divide: it split the Demon Hand in two and Zoan Gate Man gasped: Colonel looked dull and unimpressed while Zoan Gate Man was starting to get annoyed.
"Gate Cannon!"
"Colonel Cannon!"
Colonel ducked and shot his blast which hit the stomach area of Zoan Gate Man, whose blast missed and hit the far wall: Colonel quickly rushed in and slashed to split the Gate Cannon in twice.
"What? Ugrah!"
It detonated and, using that momentary distraction, Colonel quickly assaulted Zoan Gate man several times before backing up as if being careful: Zoan Gate Man grumbled.
"Go! Gate Soldiers!"
"Gate! Gate! Gate!"
"Hmpf. Inductosyn Missiles!"
Colonel formed a multiple missile launcher and shot five of them skywards: they drew an arch and converged on different spots of Zoan Gate Man's body: they detonated and he groaned since the recoil pushed him back: Colonel suddenly flung his cloak at him to blind him and quickly rushed in to deliver an attack which plunged into his stomach area and emerged from the back: he pulled out and Zoan Gate Man growled as he tried to recover.
"Damn it." He growled.
"You picked the wrong opponent." Colonel dully announced.
"I'm not done yet! Remote Gate!"
Zoan Gate Man opened his Remote Gate and ran inside: Colonel merely looked around and spotted it forming NW of his position so he quickly drew his Colonel Cannon and aimed it there.
"Colonel Cannon!"
The blast hit Zoan Gate Man just as he was about to emerge and attack and it crippled his Gate Cannon again: Zoan Gate Man cursed and ran back inside.
"Hmpf. If you were thinking of attacking from a blind spot… Give it up: I have no blind spots."
"Damn it! I'm going to make mincemeat outta you~!"
"Threaten in vain. There you are! Screen Divider!"
03:23 AM (New York Time)…
"… Zero here… Floor 13…"
"It's not Swallow Man and we know Cloud Man will be Hikari's opponent so… It's either Yamato Man or Freeze Man…"
"I'd suspect the second. The guy has an obsession with trying to beat me which he proved last summer."
"Yeah. I know. Maintain radio contact."
"Fine."
"Heh, heh, heh, heh… Wrong, ronin!"
"Sheesh. So it was you, Yamato Man."
"Indeed! The campaign has begun!"
"Show your hide."
"Show your worth."
"How original."
"Isn't it?"
Zero was inspecting another floor's offices when a voice rang out: it turned out to be Yamato Man so Zero drew his sword while Yamato Man had replaced the sword by his spear.
"Thousand Spear!"
"Eat these!"
Zero swung his saber up and down and left and right to create two greenish curve-shaped energy slices which Yamato Man gracefully dodged without losing the speed or direction of his attack: Zero brought up his sword to block some of the blows and yielded terrain yet he was using Float Shoes just in case.
"Feeling careful, ronin? Maybe you need to borrow Shadow Man's ninja sandals? Heh, heh, heh."
"How original."
"Too bad the ronin couldn't come, eh?" Yamato Man taunted.
"They had another mission to take care of, anyway." Zero didn't seem to care.
"To sweep the ground with stealth!" He came up with some lame motto on the spot.
"How brilliant."
"How dull, ronin!"
"Are you going to fight or not? Eat this!"
Zero formed a stream of energy from his left hand and hit Yamato Man's chest armor but he didn't seem to mind it as he renewed his assault using the spear: Zero began to try to block or counter them and tried not to mind the blows that did connect.
"I find it off your Boss is being so quiet this time around."
"He wants the ever-so-prideful CIA and company to boil their brains to figure out what happened! There'll be no sensor data left behind to tell them what happened! Heh, heh, heh."
"Hmpf."
"Hra~h! Let's go!"
"Fine! Eat this!"
They resumed attacking: Zero shot another stream of energy at the guy who didn't mind it either.
"We're getting nowhere at this rate." Zero grumbled.
"I wonder about that… Dark Generator: Activate! Hra~h!" Yamato Man suddenly announced.
"Shit. I talk too fast."
"Too late, ronin! Regret it on the afterlife! Mwah, hah, hah, hah!"
03:28 AM (New York Time)…
"… Hikari here! I'm at Floor 77. I guess Cloud Man or Freeze Man will be coming for me… I think Cloud Man, though…"
"Obviously…"
"Maintain radio contact. I'm trying to find that rascal."
"Good luck."
"Same over there. Over."
"Game Over, Lucy~!"
"Cloud Man. Show your hide."
"Heh, heh, heh. Let's see what stuff ya are made of, buddies!"
"Hmpf."
"CF" Netto was exploring yet another floor and reporting to Vadous over the radio: he happened to stumble upon Cloud Man, who, as always, wanted to pull jokes.
"Heh, heh, heh. So? Did ya find Arceus, dudes?"
"Who knows?"
"Did ya see the cool creation event? I had Bapgei get Giratina: the real bad guy of the generation! Mwah, hah, hah, hah."
"Oh come on." Netto grumbled.
"We didn't come here to listen to your jokes, Cloud Man." Rock Man challenged.
"Nope! Ya came here to fight me~… Let's go! Cross Thunder!"
Cloud Man formed a storm cloud which generated four streaks of lighting in the shape of a cross: the southern one hit "CF" Netto because the cloud had formed behind him: he yelped and jumped away.
"That's cowardly!"
"A Darkloid never plays fair, Mr. Smith!"
"Sheesh."
"Fine! Program Advance! Flame, Aqua, Elec, Bamboo Sword! Elemental Sword! Eat this!"
"Oho."
"CF" Netto formed the Elemental Sword and hit Cloud Man with it, since he didn't bother to block or dodge: he then drew his own sword and it glowed before he formed a copy of the Program Advance: "CF" Netto gasped and jumped out of the way just in time.
"I see. The sword copies Sword – type PAs." Rock Man guessed.
"Then I better avoid those. Then again, swords aren't my forte."
"Because Forte stole them?" Cloud Man joked.
"Sheesh. Forte was just a victim of Twilight's ambition."
"By the way~… Do you know what'll happen to the VP and the Lead Soldier?"
"They'll meet Viruses? No! Wait. They'll meet Bapgei." Rock Man guessed.
"Bravo, Lestrade and Wiggins!"
"Sheesh."
"Beware! Many Cloud!"
Cloud Man formed a swarm of clouds which shot Spark Balls while a large mass of clouds spawned behind "CF" Netto: he gasped and began to focus on dodging.
"Find me inside of one of these~!" Cloud Man's voice echoed.
"Shit. Wind God Racket!"
The blast of wind dispelled the clouds but Cloud Man had already formed a Dream Sword Program Advance which he flung at "CF" Netto: he gasped and began to charge the Rock Buster to try to counter…
03:33 AM (New York Time)…
"… Heh, heh, heh… Feel the despair. Rebels… The Court of Owls has sentenced you to… failure."
"Sheesh. This guy IS annoying."
"And the downside is that we need to limit ourselves because the opponent is a human."
"CF" Blues and "CF" Laika were facing Bapgei, who'd donned a weird costume.
He now wore black leather clothes which covered his whole body including a hood with goggles: it design was reminiscent of an owl's face, even.
He carried a belt spanning from the right shoulder to the left flank of his body and which had sheaths for 6 knives: it included a medallion with the drawing of an owl close to the shoulder.
Other equipment included gauntlets: the right one had metallic armor shaped like an owl's face and the left one had some sheaths for smaller knives.
The guy carried leather boots as well and two knife sheaths attached to the belt's waist.
His gear included two short swords' sheaths attached to his back.
He was now spinning clockwise and throwing knives at "CF" Laika and "CF" Blues at the same time he jumped across the corridor to try to lure them into attacking each other by accident.
"Nelaus says he's got a Dream Aura beneath those clothes and which protects the skin so at least we can do something."
"Yeah. Eat this! Flame Sword!"
"Hmpf…"
"What?"
"CF" Blues tried to hit Bapgei but he suddenly turned transparent and five knives were thrown at him from the NW: they hit his shoulders, chest above the emblem and hips.
"Shit. A 3D image…! Laika! Aim up!"
"I see him! Scope Gun!"
"CF" Laika took aim with the Scope Gun and hit Bapgei as he hung from the ceiling like a ninja: he merely detached and landed on his fours with grace before running towards a wall and suddenly start to climb it: he spun on it and jumped away to throw some knives at "CF" Laika which hit his knees: he winced in pain but didn't lose his aim.
"Satellite Ray!"
The satellite formed behind Bapgei and shot a laser at him but he ignored it: he rushed for "CF" Laika but "CF" Blues got in the way and attacked with the Flame Sword: he made a cut over the navel area but found that, indeed, a Dream Aura existed beneath the cloth.
"It's useless." Bapgei taunted.
"I wonder about that." Blues muttered.
"Nothing is useless. Except for your vanity." Search Man taunted.
"The Dark Side will always exist."
"Did we try to deny it, anyway?" "CF" Blues countered.
"Shut up and fight." "CF" Laika taunted.
"Fine. Heating up is over… The real deal…"
"That was heating up? Shit." "CF" Blues cursed.
"Set a Dream Aura over your chest emblem." "CF" Laika whispered.
Bapgei jumped into the air and attached to the ceiling to crawl across it heading south.
"Let's give chase! Quickly!"
03:39 AM (New York Time)…
"… Heh, heh, heh. Did you enjoy my ice back then?"
"Not really. I didn't even notice it."
"Penguin Man."
"Why not…"
"Roll… This guy is too clever to fall for simple taunts."
"I knew it, Meiru – chan."
"CF" Roll happened to be fighting Freeze Man: the room they were in was totally frozen and filled with ice.
"This is Floor 87… Too bad you missed something a little lower…" Freeze Man taunted.
"I don't need to. Get serious, Danna."
"Heh, heh, heh… Fine…"
"Remember, Freeze Man! Don't screw it up. IQ – sama has an interest on those two lil girls! She wants them in one piece and alive!" Twilight hushed over the radio.
"Acknowledged."
"We heard that, cha."
"Heh, heh, heh. Starting to feel the fear? FEAR!"
"Maybe we're feeling the skepticism." Roll shot back.
"Heh, heh, heh. We'll see, we'll see… yes, my precious… Precioussss…"
"Acting like Gollum won't help you win against your kyoudai – sama."
"We shall see, my precious, we shall see~…" He chuckled.
"Mountain Spear!"
"Area Steal! Hell's Burner!"
"Hmpf…"
"CF" Roll warped behind Freeze Man and hit his back with the Hell's Burner but he didn't seem to notice it to begin with: "CF" Roll had already brought up a Reflect Battle Chip to shield herself from Freeze Man's next attack: he turned around and drew the sword.
"Taste the despair!"
He rushed forward and swung the sword: the attack was blocked by the shield and a counter-attack formed yet Freeze Man didn't mind it either: "CF" Roll narrowed her eyes as if suspecting that Freeze Man had some ace up his sleeves.
"Heh, heh, heh. Ice Tower!"
Eight Ice Towers rose around "CF" Roll thus forming a cage: she didn't lose her cool and merely formed aSamurai Sword Battle Chip: she quickly began to cut the three first Ice Towers while using the ice to slide towards Freeze Man: he simply drew his sword and they clashed blades: "CF" Roll looked serious and hostile.
"The fire of youth?" He taunted.
"Who knows? Maybe your Boss knows." She dully shot back.
"Not bad, not bad…" Twilight chuckled.
"There you are! Enough cat 'n mouse, Twilight! You had me climb up to Floor 103 in purpose and I'm not in the best of moods." Vadous grumbled close by.
"Kyoudai~… Die~…" He made up some lame pun.
"Die! I won't!" Vadous shot back with irony.
"Heh, heh, heh. Not bad… Let's get this show on the road!"
"CF" Roll simply jumped away and drew her bow-gun.
"Roll Arrow! Triple Burst Mode! Fire~!"
"Heh, heh, heh! Icicles Fall! Let us put out that burning fire of youth!"
03:45 AM (New York Time)…
"… Only you would think of doing this."
"Wasn't it obvious?"
"Sheesh. Trouble-maker…!"
"Heh, heh, heh. Welcome to NYC, kyoudai~…"
"Who else would think of hijacking the Empire State Building?"
"ME~!"
"Sheesh."
Vadous was fighting Twilight in the open area surrounding the spire of the Empire State Building.
Twilight had gained Navi-like armor over his body.
He wore a helmet with a mouth guard activated: his eyes' irises were visible and it could be seen that they were colored crimson red.
His chest emblem consisted on just two shades of black and white split by a horizontal grey line.
He had two curious shoulder pads which were shaped as two split halves of a diamond.
His main body's color was navy blue although the forearms and his boots were colored in purple.
A black smooth cape hung from the back of his shoulders and reached all the way to the floor as well as an add-on to his bodysuit.
He currently had two swords drawn and he was clashing them against Vadous' own drawn swords.
"And you just wanted to play clever. You gain nothing from this."
"I do gain something, you moron."
"Oh yeah? Illuminate me, Mr. Smith."
"Fear!"
"Fear? Then why did you set it up so that no – one…? Ah! I see. The fear is that people will come to work in some hours' time, will find remains of a battle in several floors, and no evidence which can tell what happened to begin with. So you set the fear of the unknown on them, the fear of that which can't be understood." Vadous analyzed.
"Bravo, Mr. Wayne~!"
"HTFKBHGXH!" He howled something undecipherable.
"Hit a vibe~?" He sneered.
"Boss…" Omega sighed over the radio.
"I know!"
"Feral! You're late for Fatman's party~!"
"Hmpf. I wonder about that." Omega didn't fall for that taunt.
"Heh, heh, heh. It's a way of killing the boredom!"
"So apart from gaining "fear" you only did this to have fun."
"Would you have preferred this to happen at rush hour? With lots of tourists inside?" He snickered.
"Sheesh."
"Heh, heh, heh. Be glad IQ – sama felt compassionate~!"
"Compassionate? Anaya? No way. She just wanted to play Duchess or something like that. Another of the bitch's random moods." He grumbled aloud.
"Don't dare to insult IQ – sama's glory~!"
Twilight's assaults suddenly turned stronger and Vadous had to yield terrain as they circled the spire: there was a familiar hum and Guilty Spark showed up there along with some Sentinels.
"Greetings."
"Monitor? Who told you we were here?"
"Reclaimer Omega did."
"Did you, Omega?" Vadous frowned.
"No. And I doubt it was this guy." Omega replied.
"I guess Sigma faked a mail." Vadous sighed.
"Sheesh. The guy doesn't learn! At least Shadow Man did get a lesson and this should keep the guy under tabs for a while, but Sigma…! I'm about to go hit the guy's head with a hammer 100 times!"
"Don't overdo it either."
"I know. I'll vent off running down the 2nd deck corridor."
"The Donut Corridor!" Twilight taunted.
"The donut which Cloud Man stole."
"What! Cloud Man! You moron! I knew it!" He grumbled.
Vadous used the momentary lack of concentration to deliver two strikes to Twilight: he recoiled and suddenly made his swords float in the air: they began to spin clockwise and shot towards Vadous: he blocked them but then Twilight attacked him with "Sith Lightning": Vadous wasn't affected in the least.
"Did you forget this armor is built of plastics and such? Vader's was more metallic because it supposedly was far more resistant."
"Sheesh."
"Hey! I've got an idea… Monitor! Send your sentinels to the coordinates I'll now transmit and record video and audio data…" Vadous suddenly grinned.
"Excellent."
"What? No!" Twilight gasped.
"Too bad. Your "fear" won't come to pass."
"DAMN YOU~!"
Twilight began to rampage by shooting lightning and remotely throwing the swords at Vadous while also forming energy balls colored purple which he threw at Vadous: none of those seemed to take effect since the balls lacked proper aiming and just hit the floor.
"My subordinates! Dispose of the interlopers!"
"What? Ah! The Sentinels! Eat these!" Freeze Man grumbled.
Vadous seemed to smirk for a split second as if he'd already thought of something else by now: he merely let Twilight continue his rampage but, in the meanwhile, Vadous' chest emblem began to glow: it suddenly released a purple flash and the Pokémon "Palkia" showed up there to block the blunt of the attacks.
"Not fair! Palkia is my pet!" He growled.
"Bite me." Vadous taunted.
"Nya~gra~h!" Twilight snarled.
"Major Ocelot would say you lack grace."
"Obey me, Palkia!"
"Pa~ru~kia~!"
"Palkia" merely rammed into Twilight and he shot into the air: he hit an invisible wall which formed some cracks: Twilight didn't seem to notice those as he tried to defeat "Palkia": Vadous quickly threw one of his swords there: it hit the center of the cracks and shattered the invisible wall like it was glass.
"What! The stealth dome…!" Twilight cursed.
"Let's light this up. Omega!"
"Roger!"
The spire's lights suddenly began to glow in a white, blue and red pattern which repeated every a few seconds.
"Bah! This hole looks out into the west side: not many pedestrians will be able to see it and…! Hey!" He realized.
"Who said I wanted pedestrians to see it?"
"Damn it. Security cameras in the adjacent buildings…!"
"Monitor! Can you disable this dome?"
"Delighted!"
Guilty Spark formed a reddish beam of energy and hit the top of the dome above the spire: the whole dome turned red and shattered like glass to expose the spire area: "Palkia" growled and swung the air with one claw to form a "tear" colored purple.
"Say hi to the Subspace Tear!" Vadous snickered.
"Damn it! Uowa~h!"
"Don't worry! It'll drop you 5 kilometers NNW of Melbourne's city edge so ya only need pick the bus back home!"
"I'll remember this…! Ouwa~h!"
Twilight was sucked into the crack and it vanished: there were some sounds of "Dimensional Converters" working and then it all returned to being silent.
"Let's pull out, guys, before the NYPD comes in and fires before asking: we'll later send a notice to explain what happened. Oh. And Omega did turn on the in-building sensors and cameras ever since we got here so there'll be more than enough recordings of what happened." Vadous ordered with a smile.
"Roger." The fighters confirmed.
"Delighted! I shall not let such an interloper get away with disabling security systems!" Guilty Spark muttered aloud.
Vadous looked over the edge at the nighttime NYC landscape.
I foiled your ambition again, Twilight… But this isn't over. Not yet…!