"B…But how's that possible? Lloyd wouldn't have let that happen without putting up a fight; though I don't know about Tara, I'm sure she was the same. They wouldn't give up on any fight unless they were overpowered," said Emmet, as he, Chase, Laval and Wyldstyle all walked down the corridor; Duke quickly walking down after them, still wanting his questions to be answered.

"I still don't understand; who the heck is this Anti-Builder guy?" asked Duke, walking faster so he was walking alongside Laval, who was on Emmet's right side.

"He's a monster; there's no other word to describe him," said Laval, turning his head slightly to look at Duke.

"Trust me, I've met some monsters in my time; though all they wanted to steal our crystal we were trying to get. How can this one be any different?" asked Duke as they turned a corner to head back into the engine room to meet with Brains.

Chase opened his mouth to answer Duke's question, as he had done so beforehand with others, but he was suddenly cut short.

The reason? I frying pan came flying out from the side of the door, hitting Chase square in the face. He was sent stumbling backwards, hitting the wall behind him and slowly sinking down, sitting down, unconscious.

Emmet, Wyldstyle and Laval all jumped backwards; though when Laval shot forward and tackled the shadows, he found out who it was that had knocked out Chase.

"Zeon?" asked Emmet, a bit of surprise in his voice.

Sure enough, pinned down beneath Laval, was the cyan coloured hair Master Builder that Emmet had met earlier at the Agent HQ.

"Hey guys," Zeon greeted casually, freeing one of his arms, the one that was still clutching the frying pan in his claw-like hand, and waved it at the others.

"How did you get here? And…what's with the frying pan?" asked Emmet, gesturing to the cooking utensil in Zeon's hand.

"What? My bag's full of random bricks," said Zeon, before he asked, "Mind getting off me?" to Laval.

After glancing back at Emmet, who was making a gesture that told him to get off of the figure, Laval slowly got off of Zeon and offered a hand to get up. But Zeon ignored the offered hand completely, pushing himself to his feet and brushing himself off.

As he slipped the frying pan back into his side bag, Wyldstyle headed back to check on Chase, who was still out cold, and checked to see if she could wake him up.

"He's out cold," said Wyldstyle, grabbing Chase's arm and put it around her shoulders, hauling the Agent up so she could carry him alongside her, his feet dragging along the ground with each step Wyldstyle took.

"Great; no we don't have anyone to take us to that Realm," said Emmet, facing palming himself as Wyldstyle walked back into the room with the unconscious Agent.

"I can get us there," said another voice, causing all of the figures, except Zeon, to turn around to see what figure was talking.

It was Perri; her cyan hair partly covering part of her face, as she leaned against the side of the small mining vehicle, the same one that Emmet, Chase, Laval and Wyldstyle had used to get down to this level in the first place.

"Perri?! What the heck are you doing here? How are you here?" asked Emmet, throwing his hands up in the air as though he was starting to get fed up with all of the new appearances without explanation.

"It's obvious, isn't it?" asked Zeon, sauntering over to Perri and facing the Master Builders.

"We managed to sneak into that helicopter of yours, after getting the security guards into one of the cells, and sneaked down the hole you left behind when you were skedaddling about down here," said Perri, casually high fiving Zeon; obvious, the two were starting to work together.

"Wait…cells?" asked Wyldstyle, glancing at the unconscious Chase, wondering if she had heard Perri right.

"Yeah; I mean, they were block-style cells. Basic stuff; a block bed, a bathroom, and that was it. Something ain't right about what they're got doing down," said Zeon, folding his arms over his chest, raising an eyebrow as he glanced around at the figures in front of him.

"But now, thanks to you," said Wyldstyle, pointing her free hand at Zeon, "we haven't got anyone to pilot us to the Realm with something that could stop the end of every world!"

"Ah, don't worry yourself; I've got this," said Zeon, putting his hands to out to show the others 'Don't worry about it', before he grabbed the side of the smaller miner and jumped into the driver's seat, saying, "Well, what are you all waiting for? Hope in!"

Emmet, Laval and Wyldstyle both glanced at each other, unsure about whether or not to trust these two. But, since Chase was out cold, and they didn't have anyone that knew which way to go-wait a minute…

"How do you guys know where this place is?" asked Emmet.

"We managed to sneak into a part of the helicopter that had a window; we could see," said Perri, before she too jumped into the miner and buckled up.

"I don't know about this…" said Laval, uncertainty in his tone.

"Well…it doesn't seem like we have any other option," said Emmet, though he was just as unsure as Laval was sounding.

Even though they were still unsure about this, the Master Builders and Lion approached the miner and got into the seats; Wyldstyle helping Chase into a sitting down position in the seat.

With that, Zeon powered up the miner and they were off towards the surface, and towards the helicopter.

"What the heck happened here?" asked Emmet, looking on at the sight before him.

Before him, Laval, Wyldstyle, Zeon and Perri-Chase was still out cold and sitting in one of the seats of the helicopter-there was the gates that Lloyd and Tara had been ordered to protect.

But now, the gates had been ripped off from where they had been attached to the mountain, and they were several scorch marks visible through the darkness of the area. There were a couple of dents visible in the rocks, though what worried Emmet the most was what was in front of him.

Laying on its back with his mouth hanging open, Lloyd's Golden Dragon was lying; its wings looked as though they were ripped in some places, and some areas of the wings looked as though they had been taken apart completely. There were even some areas that had been turned red, and were still turning red.

Lloyd was kneeling beside his dragon, gently stroking its chin; a weak crooning sound coming from the dragon, as though it was in pain.

Tara was sitting beside Lloyd, nursing something that looked as though it was something Emmet hadn't noticed beforehand; she had wings. The wings had two colours of feathers; the top half were a dark brown, while the bottom half were a dark orange. Though Emmet thought that he should say 'wing'; since it appeared that one of the wings were missing, and it was the stump that was left behind that she was caressing.

Lloyd heard the voices behind him and quickly turned around, hand resting on the handle of one of his Katanas, as though he was expecting another attack. But he removed his hand when he noticed it was people that he knew.

"What happened Lloyd?" asked Emmet, slowly approaching the Ninja.

Lloyd sighed a little, rubbing a couple of scars on the side of his face that looked recent.

"He happened…he came here, and…and, well…you can see what happened," said Lloyd, gesturing to all around him, as well as to his fallen Dragon and Tara's injures.

"But…how is that possible? He was just with us," said Laval.

"You know what he's capable of; are you really surprised of anything anymore?" asked Lloyd, a sour tint to his tone.

Emmet recoiled a little at the tone Lloyd used, but he understood what Lloyd was going through; he had just lost his Dragon and his friend was injured, so he may have been legible to be fairly angry.

"So, he's taken the Wheel of Oblivion?" asked Emmet, slowly walking towards the broken gates. Though before he could get much closer, he stopped suddenly as he suddenly realized something.

The gates in his dream…the shade of gold…it was the same as the one before him.

"Emmet?" asked Wyldstyle, setting a hand on her boyfriend's shoulder when she saw Emmet's sudden stop.

Emmet flinched slightly at the touch, before he said, "This…I've seen this place before…like this…"

"What do you mean?"

"M…My dreams…the nightmares…t-there like this…" said Emmet shakily, slowly pointing at the gates.

Without a second hesitation, Emmet walked forward towards the interior of the mountain the gate was built into, and began looking around.

Inside, there wasn't anything that seemed special; the walls were roughly sanded down, with bits standing out, and there was a podium standing in the middle of the room; this was obviously where the mysterious Wheel of Oblivion was. Before Anti-Builder came along.

"What do we do from here?" asked Zeon, glancing at the others.

"It's simple," said Emmet, looking up from the podium before turning around to look at the others, who all turned their heads around to look at Emmet.

"We final the other crystals."

Blaze Darkrunner - Well, I don't think I'll say for now... ;)

-Nf991, signing out