XD Alright! I'm back! Sorry for the later-than-normal update, I haven't had time to write due to school. So, from now on, my updates will be on Saturdays or Sundays, instead of Thursdays. Enjoy the chapter!

"Okay, so why do we have to walk down the mountain again? Can't we just take the helicopter?"

"Masamune, I've told you a million times! One, because the helicopter is too noisy, and two, because Gingka's in charge and he said so! Now would you please stop asking!"

King and Zeo chuckled as they heard Toby yelling at Masamune for about the third time that morning. The group, minus Madoka and Maru, who had stayed back, were headed down the mountain towards the gate leading to Koma Village. Anashi walked silently towards the rear of the group, nervous, despite Gingka's reassurances.

All ten Warriors were masked, the sunlight glinting off of the metal faces of their masks as they walked, leading the group. Wild Fang strode casually along behind Wildwind, confident and happy to be traveling again with him as their leader. Benkei kept muttering his signature "Bu-bu-bu-bull!" under his breath as he walked next to Demure, who was scanning the horizon for any DNA attacks.

Stormflight stopped and held up a hand, signaling the others. He pointed down to the ground, carefully kneeling down behind a large rock and peering cautiously around it.

"They have control of the gate, this is going to be a bit more difficult than I thought." his voice came through the helmets and headgear that the rest of the group was wearing.

"There's another way out of this mountain, but it's a bit further off." Ryo spoke up.

"Lead the way, if we can get outside the wall without being seen, we can attack without them knowing we're coming." the glowing blue eyes of Stormflight focused on Ryo, who was wearing his old Phoenix costume.

"Grandpa looks like a Warrior himself in that outfit, doesn't he?" Arashi whispered to his sister.

Anashi nodded. "Yeah, he kinda does."

Ryo turned and lead the way towards the east, with Gingka following close behind him. The group trudged through the snow, with several of them shivering from the cold, particularly those who were from warmer regions and weren't prepared for the cold.

"H-hey, is there a warmer route to this other exit?" Demure asked.

Ryo paused and looked back.

"Unfortunately not, I am following specific markers here and if I try going off of them, we might get lost." He replied.

"If I had known that we would be in the snow for a longer distance than just from the base to the open rocks, i would have gotten everyone a cloak from the storage room." Stormflight said.

"Maybe next time we should just bring some anyway." Dragonfang said, glancing back at the shivering group behind him.

"Lets keep going, the sooner we get out of this snow the better." Zero spoke up, zipping up his jacket.

After about another thirty minutes of walking, the group came to a near-solid rock wall. Ryo stooped down and crawled into a low cave entrance, disappearing into the darkness. Stormflight soon followed, the light from his glowing blue eyes revealing dripping stalactites, some reaching nearly to the floor. Dragonfang, Warriorbelt, and Wildwind followed, creating an effect very similar to a rainbow inside as the rest of the group entered.

Ryo led them through the shimmering cave, lit only by the glowing eyes of the Warriors, who spaced themselves out evenly among the group to allow everyone to see where they were going.

"Uh-oh." Ryo's voice echoed through the cave.

"What is it?" Da Xiang, at the rear of the group, stopped as he nearly bumped into Chi Yun.

Stormflight let out a long whistle. "That's a big rock. Anyone want a demonstration of how we broke out of where we all were all those years ago when the Warriors first started?"

"When you blew out walls without making a sound and simply disappeared?" Toby asked.

"Exactly. Come on guys, let's do it!" Stormflight raised his launcher as the others stepped up next to him.

"Seasonals, outside, Solar System, in. Wait for the signal." Stormflight said.

"What are they doing?" Anashi asked Ryo.

"Let it Rip!"

"I don't know, blowing the rock away I guess." Ryo replied.

Five streaks of blazing color flew past the group, headed back the way they had come. Five more landed on the ground and waited, spinning steadily in front of the large rock blocking the way out of the cave.

A full minute passed.

"Ready." Stormflight and Dragonfang said at once.

Another minute passed.

"Slowpokes!" The red-orange and blue-clad Warriors teased.

"Ready." Wildwind, Warriorbelt, and Firearrow growled.

"On three." Stormflight said.

"One."

"Two."

"Three!"

The five Solar System beys attacked the rock, grinding against it at full power. The group heard a low, rumbling, cracking noise, then suddenly, daylight was shining on them as the rock broke silently into tiny fragments, revealing the Seasonal beys pushing against it on the other side.

Stormflight caught Pegasus out of the air.

"Silent, and perfectly simple." He said, grinning under his mask at the shocked silence enveloping the rest of the group.

"Let's go." Dragonfang said, climbing over the rubble.

"Hey, I know where this is!" Stormflight exclaimed as he caught sight of a familiar waterfall nearby.

"Yeah, I figured you would. Now, let's get going!" Ryo exclaimed.

"Alright, now that we're close, I'll start telling you guys the plan. You all have already split into groups, as I asked last night, and I have given each group a number from one to five. Now listen closely, because here are the groups." Gingka pressed a few buttons in his wrist as he continued walking towards the village.

"Group one: Zero, Sakyo, Anashi, Arashi, Eiichi, Dad. You will be on the north, following me and Ryuga."

Zero and Eiichi high-fived at the mention of their names as Gingka continued.

"Group two will be on the northeast, closer to east, lead by Kyoya and Chris: Takeshi, Nile, Demure, Benkei, Shinobu. Group three will be southeast, lead by Kenta and Yuki: Da Xiang, Chi Yun, Mei Mei, Chao Xin, Nowaguma, Lera. Group four, southwest, Aguma and King: Bao, Masamune, Toby, Zeo, Takanosuke, Aleksey. And group five, northwest, Titi and Dunamis: Julian, Wales, Sophie, Klaus, Tsubasa, Ren. Everyone got that?" Stormflight glanced back at the group as he finished.

"Yup."

"I think so."

"What side are we approaching from?" Masamune asked.

"Due south." Cosmicbark replied.

"Everyone quiet, get into your groups, we are approaching Koma." Stormflight said.

"Second time within a week?" Arashi whispered to his friends as they all split up.

Takeshi grinned and nodded, then waved as he followed Wildwind and team Wild Fang off towards the right. Group three followed them, as the group split up to make a wide circle around Koma Village.

Groups one, four, and five made their way towards the left, heading northeast as they plunged further into the forest. Group four soon broke off to get into position, and group five was left behind as group one forged ahead.

"Think Hyoma is still around?" Ryo asked.

"I hope so, he did stay behind, didn't he." Stormflight muttered.

"I see something over there." Arashi whispered, pointing off to their right.

"Computer, zoom in." Gingka said.

Everyone paused for a moment as Stormflight's eyes focused on the thick trees off to the right.

"If you can get into a tree quickly, do it, otherwise dive into the deepest bush you can find! It's a DNA squad, and we can't let them know that we are here! Activate grappling hook!" Stormflight said almost all in one breath as he fired his cable into a tall tree above his head, grabbed Anashi, and disappeared into the tree branches above. Ryo dove into the nearest bush he could find and disappeared. Zero picked up Eiichi and shoved him into the tree, then grabbed the black-gloved hand reaching down for him. Arashi glanced around, then dove into the bushes next to Ryo as Dragonfang also hid in a tree.

"I swear, I definitely heard something over here!"

"Oh, shut up, two. There's nothing here except for a few birds."

"I know I heard something, and saw something! It was not just a bird!"

"Would you all just calm down please?" Ian yelled at the arguing squad. "Look, we can't take any risks. If they are out here, which they have to be, we will find them."

"I think we're just all overreacting."

"Are you in charge here, agent?"

"No sir..."

"Then search the clearing, if they are within seeing distance, I want them found!" Ian thundered.

"Yes sir!" the squad split up, each member heading in a different direction.

"I found one!" a squad member grabbed Arashi by the back of his shirt and lifted him out of the bushes.

"Not again!" Arashi exclaimed, struggling.

"Hey, there's a Warrior here too!" the rest of the squad spotted Ryo in the bushes.

Gingka face palmed as Ryo stood up slowly.

"He's not a Warrior, just an imposter." Ian snarled.

Stormflight made a motion to Zero, Eiichi, and Anashi to stay where they were, then began silently climbing down the tree.

"Kyahh!" several of the squad members suddenly began yelling as a crackling noise filled the air, stopping after a few seconds as they fell to the ground unconscious.

"Let it Rip!" Arashi took advantage of the distraction to launch his bey, attacking the hands of the DNA blader holding him and forcing him to let go. The brown-haired teen scrambled over behind Ryo, who was glancing around, surprised.

"Sorry Ian, but we can't let you alert the others." Stormflight stepped up behind the DNA executive and placed a wet cloth over his face, knocking him unconscious. The squad was soon knocked out in the same way and tied to trees so that they could not escape.

"We have to hurry, it won't be too long before they wake up." Stormflight said, helping Anashi down from the tree and hurrying off into the bushes. Dragonfang leapt out of his tree and followed.

"Stormflight to Warriors, we have to hurry up, a DNA squad lead by Ian saw us. We knocked them all out, but they won't be that way for long."

"On it." Wildwind growled. "We're almost in position."

"Duck!" Warriorbelt exclaimed, pulling Shinobu down next to him as he dropped.

Several robots were tramping noisily through the bushes on a patrol only about ten feet away from the group.

"Should we take them out?" Takeshi asked.

"No, their HQ will be alerted if they go offline. Thos robots are being controlled from either Tokyo or Koma, we can't risk being spotted by them. From now on, we go through the trees. Quickly!" Wildwind replied.

The green-clad Warrior rolled out of the bushes, then stood up slowly, making sure there was a tree between him and the robots. He fired his grappling hook silently into the tree, then climbed up it, using his feet and the tree to steady himself. Warriorbelt quickly did the same as soon as his comrade was out of the way, and the two wrapped their lines securely around a couple of strong branches on the tree, then dropped the hooks to the ground.

"Hurry, do exactly what we did!" they hissed down.

Takeshi and Shinobu nodded and copied the Warriors as best as they could. In moments, the entire group was in the tree, with Benkei climbing the line last in typical Benkei fashion. (A/N: Anyone remember in Metal Fusion when he was trying to act like the tree? Episode 6 or so, same episode where Kenta defeated Hikaru, go look it up.)

"Now what?" Shinobu whispered.

"This." Wildwind replied, firing his cable into the next tree and climbing carefully across.

"Duck." Warriorbelt said, following suit.

The two Warriors then fired their cables into the tree the rest of the group was in, hooking the other ends securely around a branch.

"Just like a zipline, now get over here." Wildwind growled, leaning against the tree trunk to wait.

Benkei went first, using both lines, monkey-bars-style. Nile and Demure used them as a tightrope, grabbing each others' hands to keep their balance, and Shinobu and Takeshi clung to them and inched across fearfully. They went through the next few trees in the same way, getting faster and bolder each time.

"Wait." Kyoya said suddenly.

"What is it?" Warriorbelt asked.

"We're in position." the Leone blader replied.

"Good, so are we." Stormflight's voice came.

"Group three, in position." Firearrow's voice came.

"Group four, in position." Scythestrike said.

"Group five is in position." Jadebolt reported.

"Great, now here's what we're going to do. Everyone can see Koma Village, correct?" Stormflight asked.

"Yeah." the others replied.

"Good, do you guys see the large building in the center? If our guess is right, judging by the amount of security around, that's their control room. If we can take that out, Koma is practically ours. Cosmicbark, you set up the new gadgets in the landing bay this morning?"

"Yup, they're on the launch pad and ready to go."

"Good, just making sure. Alright, here's the plan. Warriors, we're attacking the control center first, from the air. But, the rest of our groups are going to attack the outside edge of the village, try to draw away their forces. Got it?"

"Yeah, I think so." Da Xiang replied.

"Good. Now, get them! Ready for launch in three!"

All around the village, the near-thirty bladers whipped out their launchers, adrenaline rushing through their veins as their muscles tensed, readying for battle.

"Two!"

"One!"

"Let it Rip!"

The DNA bladers and robots all throughout Koma Village heard the cry, as well as a certain Aries blader who had been locked up in a basement since the DNA took over the village.

Hyoma looked out the one window providing him with light, and saw DNA bladers and robots rushing past. The Aries blader had chosen to stay when the others evacuated fifteen years ago, and as a result, had been captured by the DNA and forced to show them the layout of the forest around the village. However, he had not told them about any of the other villages scattered around the mountains, since doing so would be betraying his friends. He heard explosions sounding from the edge of the village and smiled.

"You guys finally decided to come back, huh?" he muttered, looking around for a chance to escape, even though he knew it was useless. Aries was locked up somewhere in the control center, so he had no way of blasting open a wall or the ceiling to escape. Plus, even if he had, they would have likely surrounded him and locked him up somewhere else anyway. He returned to the window, watching what little section of the outside he could see for a chance to try getting someone's attention for help.

"Warriors, go!" Stormflight called, taking off with Dragonfang and soaring unseen into the sky as all of the robots and DNA personnel panicked at the sudden attack and rushed to the edges of the village to protect the vital information locked in the center.

All ten Warriors hovered in the clouds above the control center.

"Ready, Let it rip!" Gingka launched Pegasus, blasting a hole through the roof.

"And drop!" the group went into a freefall, cutting off the flames from their jetpacks and activating them again at the last second, landing perfectly.

"Stormflight to everyone else, we're in! Keep them occupied!" Gingka ordered, sending Pegasus smashing through a few robots that were rushing them.

"Let it Rip!" the others launched, smashing through more robots and the beys of the few DNA personnel left.

"Yuki, get those devices here now!" Gingka ordered, retracting his helmet. "It will only be seconds until their Tokyo headquarters figure out what's going on, and we need defenses!" the redhead stepped over to a computer and began typing after inserting a small chip that he had pulled out of his pocket.

"On it!" Yuki pulled a remote controller out of his pocket and pressed a few buttons. A screen popped up in front of him and he handed the device to Gingka, who tapped several places on it before handing it back and continuing to type. Then, he pressed a red button and picked up a microphone lying on the desk.

"Attention DNA personnel, your control center has been taken over. Surrender, and all will go easy for you. Continue fighting, and you will be defeated. You have only one choice. Either way, you lose." the redhead said.

Hyoma grinned, recognizing his friend's voice. "Great Gingka, now come rescue me, would you? This room is feeling a bit cramped."

Gingka pressed a button, deactivating all of the robots, then turned and strode through the open door to the outside.

"See if you can find any information on Hyoma, Yuki. Everyone else, let's go help defeat the rest of the DNA bladers."

"On it." Yuki replied, stepping over to the computer and typing.

"Now what?" Anashi asked as she looked around. With the help of Zero, Eiichi, Ryo, and Sakyo, they had already defeated all of the DNA bladers that had come to their area.

"Well, we could go look for Hyoma, he should still be here, assuming they haven't…" Ryo trailed off. "Come on, let's go search."

"We'll go this way." Arashi volunteered, grabbing Anashi's hand and pulling the redhaired girl off in one direction.

"We'll go this way." Zero lead Eiichi off.

Sakyo crossed his arms and leaned against a tree.

"Guys! Wait! You don't even know what he looks like!" Ryo called, running after his grandchildren.

"Well, what does he look like?" Arashi paused.

"He has very light blue hair and wields Rock Aries, and-"

"Got it!" Arashi and Anashi raced off.

"Just as reckless and impatient as their father." Ryo chuckled. "Good luck guys." he ran off in another direction.

"Find anything?" Gingka asked, turning from looking over the village to face Yuki as the Anubis blader walked up next to him.

"No, except for this." Yuki held up a small silver and pink object.

"Aries? Well, finding his bey is a start. We should keep looking." Gingka said, catching sight of Ryo opening a door and running into a house.

"Hey! In here!" Hyoma called, banging on the window as he saw booted feet rushing past.

"Huh?" Anashi and Arashi paused and looked around.

"It's coming from that house!" Arashi pointed.

"Let's go!" Anashi exclaimed, rushing around to the front of the house to find the front door.

"Wait! I'm-" Hyoma sighed, and slid down against the wall to the floor, burying his face in his hands as the two pairs of boots disappeared from his view.

"Let it Rip!" the light-blue-haired blader glanced up as the muffled cry came from the direction of the door.

"Over here!"

"Which room was it in?"

"Those sound like a couple of kids, could it be that guy Zero and one of his friends?" Hyoma wondered.

"Not here!" Anashi called.

"Or in here…" Arashi said. "I know I heard someone banging on a window."

"Down here! I'm in the basement!" Hyoma called, banging on the ceiling.

"The basement? We're coming!" Arashi called, looking around.

"There! I see a trapdoor!" Anashi pointed under the table.

"Great! Let's move that table!" Arashi moved a few chairs and began shoving the large piece of furniture.

Hyoma stood as he heard a scraping sound, accompanied by grunting as the two teens pushed the table aside.

"Almost…there!" Arashi exclaimed as the table fell over.

"Oops." Anashi flinched as it hit the floor.

"There's a padlock…" Arashi said, getting down on his knees and examining the large lock through a metal loop on the floor.

"I'll look for a key." Anashi said.

"Forget it, I don't think the DNA would leave it lying around. Arashi stood and attached his bey to his launcher.

"Get away from the trapdoor if you're near it, I'm blasting it open!" he shouted. "Let it rip!"

Hyoma ducked as he heard a crashing, splintering sound. He coughed, waving away the dust that had been kicked up by the trapdoor.

"Yeah! We found him!" Arashi exclaimed, peering into the hole.

Hyoma stood up and looked, then stared. Instead of the black-and-orange-haired and blonde teens he had been expecting, he found himself facing a brunette and a redhead.

"Who are you guys? You aren't Zero!" he exclaimed, climbing out of the basement.

"No, of course we're not Zero-san! My name is Arashi, Arashi Hagane. And this is my sister Anashi." the brunette introduced himself.

"Hagane?" Hyoma was confused, then his eyes widened as the realization dawned on him "You're- Great, now I feel old."

"Let's go find dad! He was wondering about you. You're Hyoma, right?" Arashi exclaimed, leading the Aries wielder outside.

"Dad!" Gingka turned as he heard his twins calling for him.

"Forget the search Yuki! The twins found him!" he called before jumping off the building he had been standing in and striding over.

"You-" Hyoma began, but Gingka cut him off.

"I know, I have a lot of explaining to do. I see you already met my kids."

The twins grinned. "We heard him banging on a window, he was in the basement."

"Well, good job you two. Oh, I almost forgot." Gingka reached into his pockets and pulled out two strips of fabric. "You guys have earned these." he held them out to the two.

Arashi took the strip of blue fabric from his father and held it up. It was a headband, similar to Gingka's, except that it only had one wing, on the right side. Anashi's matched it perfectly, only her wing was on the left.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Put them on!" Gingka grinned.

The twins grinned back at their father and pulled the headbands around their heads. Anashi put hers on top of her head, with her red bangs peeking out from under them, while Arashi put his over his bangs, leaving two small wisps of brown hair sticking out on either side.

Gingka chuckled. "You copycat!" he ruffled Arashi's hair.

"So, where's Madoka?" Hyoma asked.

"At the base, it was too dangerous to bring her here."

"Well, good seeing you again. What's the plan from here?"

"Strike one DNA outpost at a time, and finally? Tokyo." Gingka replied.

Gingka: Finally! We start moving!

Hyoma: Finally! I get rescued!

Anashi: Finally! We get headbands like Dad's!

Arashi: You didn't leave anything for me to say…

Me:-hands Arashi a cue card-

Arashi: Next chapter: The DNA tries to counterattack!

Gingka: And they fail! I hope…

Me: Don't worry, I don't plan on injuring anyone for the rest of the story… Plans may change, but the current plan is to keep you guys all in top shape for the big battle.

Gingka: Good to know…