Carly put her ear to Rad's chest. "Well, he's breathing, but why hasn't he woken up yet?"

Bluestreak cursed himself for not getting Rad out of the water faster. He sent out a silent prayer. 'Please, please wake up.'

As if answering the prayer, Rad's eyes snapped open and he began coughing up water. Carly hugged him and both Bumblebee and Spike let out relieved sighs.

"Don't scare us like that!" Carly said and released Rad from the hug.

Rad smiled weakly. "I'll try not to."

"That's not funny." Bluestreak said sternly. "I-We could've lost you."

Rad stared at him in disbelief. "It was a joke, I don't plan dying anytime soon." he murmured grumpily.

Bumblebee frowned. "It's not Rad's fault he almost drowned, Blue."

Bluestreak flinched away before picking Rad up. "I know, but I didn't want to lose him."

Rad smiled up at him. "Same here."

"This is bad." Kero said after Rad told him about his almost drowning.

"Is this a Clow Card then?" Rad asked drying his hair with a towel.

"Yes, this is Watery." Kero answered. "She's a high level card, also an offensive card, so she's got quite a temper."

"Gee, wonder why." Rad said sarcastically. "So, how we going to catch her?"

Kero seemed to ignore Rad's question and mused aloud. "I didn't expect this to happen so soon, especially with Watery." he mumbled.

Rad frowned. "Couldn't I just hit her with all the cards?"

Kero shook his head. "She's water, Rad." he said seriously. "We need to come up with something before she ices someone like she tried to do with you."

Rad sweat dropped. "Did you really just say 'ices'?" he asked. 'Wait, ice?' he thought in surprise. He heard a horn honk and looked out his window. He saw a blue and gray Datsun outside and smiled. "Be right back." he told Kero before tossing the towel on the bed and running outside. He got into the car and patted the steering wheel. "Hey Blue."

"Hello Rad. Are you doing okay, because you really did give us quite a scare, and the water must have been freezing, and..." Bluestreak rambled.

"Really, Blue, I'm fine." Rad said smiling. Then his contorted in thought. 'Freezing?' he gasped. "Bluestreak, you're a genius!"

"I am?" Bluestreak questioned.

"Yes, come back here later, I've got a card to catch!" Rad smirked.

Rad stared out at the water as he got out of Bluestreak's alt-mode. Rad took the key off his neck and held it out in front of him. "The key which hides the power of the dark, show your true powers before me, I, Rad, command you, under our contract, Release!" The key elongated into a staff and he look at his two companions. "Yow two stay here."

"What? Are you crazy? We're not going to let you go out there alone!" Kero yelled in protest.

Rad shook his head. "I need to do this, and I don't her to hurt either of you."

Bluestreak also didn't want Rad to go out there alone, but on some level he could understand Rad's need to get even with the card. Watery had tried to kill Rad, so now he was retaliating by catching her. "If this goes, as the humans say, south, I'm coming in."

Rad nodded. He marched out to the beach and glared at the water. "Come out now, Watery!"

The water began frothing and a stream of water shot out and went straight for Rad's neck. Rad deftly dodged and rolled away.

"Is that all you got?" he asked mockingly and stuck his tongue out as he discreetly pulled out a card.

The water sputtered about viciously and a large stream shot into the sky and twisted into a cone shape which morphed into a young girl made of the water. She had long blue hair, blue eyes, webbed hands, fins protruding out of the side of her face like ears, and a pair of fins on her back like wings. On her forehead were four large blue scales, at her waist were a pair of tail fins and from there she was connected to the water.

She let out a strange roar and spread her webbed, clawed hands as she shot toward Rad. Rad dodged her again as she twisted around and swiped at him. He jumped away and threw the card he had into the air. Watery glared and hurried over to him as he struck down on the card. "Freeze, Watery, Windy!"

Watery managed to get a hold of Rad and lifted him into the air by the collar, but by the time she noticed Windy, she had already begun to frost and freeze. Watery glared at Rad resentfully as he smirked. She growled and raised her arm, claws spread. Just as she was about to strike him, her arm had begun to freeze, as well as the rest of her.

Once Watery was fully frozen, Rad wriggled around and slumped his shoulders. It seemed he was stuck. "Um, Blue?" Bluestreak transformed and walked over to him and held the boy as best as he could. Rad smiled at him. "Thanks." he lifted the staff awkwardly above his head. "Return to the guise you were meant to be in, Clow Card!"

A card formed, chimes sounded, and the statue began cracking. The ice got sucked into the shell card like a vacuum. Once all the ice was gone, Rad fell back into Bluestreak's palm as he caught the card. Rad smiled as he got up and gestured for Blue to lean closer. Once within reaching distance, Rad leaned up and planted a kiss on his lip components. "Thanks Bluestreak. If it wasn't for you, I never would've figured it out." he whispered.

Kero floated over. "That was amazing, Rad. How did you know to freeze Watery?"

"When Bluestreak said 'freezing', I got the idea to use Windy." Rad said. He yawned and stretched his arms out. "All that jumping around made me real tired."

Kero smiled. "Well if anyone deserves a rest, it's you."