"commander Beef, we're starting to get really worried about her, she wakes up screaming every night, won't talk to us about the nightmares and also won't take those pills she was given in Netopia"

"hm, maybe we can talk her into at least the pills if not talking to you guys about what she's been through"

well the other net agents failed in getting her to take the pills or talking to her parents

"look I'm dealing with it in my own way OK?"

"you're worrying your parents over this"

"look the meeting is going to start soon, let's just do that shall we?"

and so they start updating each other on the happenings at school and other areas when suddenly Rachel's PET went off and Dingo showed up on screen

"Dingo what's up? I was going to contact either you or Barrel later this week"

"Rachel, have you seen Barrel in Dentech?"

that makes everyone pay closer attention to the conversation and Rachel sit up a little bit taller

"no, why?"

"drat, and I was hoping you had seen him, I've tried Sharo, Brightland and even a few places you haven't even been to"

"Dingo, what's going on?"

"nothing Rachel"

in a warning tone of voice Rachel speaks up again

"Dingo...tell, now"

"OK, OK, Barrel's been missing for the past week with no form of contact"

"he's missing?"

"yeah, and we've tried all the places we could think of"

"what about Colonel?, have you had any contact with him?"

"no, none"

"dang it, and Barrel wouldn't be any where's without Colonel"

"so what now?"

"now?...now we try and find Barrel wherever he is, and if he's been taken captive by the same guys that took me, well...I think you know my line of thinking right now"

"Rachel there's something else you need to know and it comes strait from command, they say it's time Rachel, time for the truth to be known, before you go off on your adventure and possibly get yourself killed"

"but I thought that, he only had one time option"

"actually they wanted him to think that, reality is if you were ever actually gone and he started to lose it, not like when he was on parole but I mean really lose it, like say try and kill himself when no one was looking, then he would be able to reveal himself for his own sanity"

"so their orders are for me to tell my parents the truth after lying to them for years, before I leave"

"yes, and Rachel if it is the guys that took you captive we have more information then you gave us"

"how?"

"guess what they tried to pull recently"

"oh, they tried to take over your country didn't they?"

"exactly"

"alright I'll tell them, get Netopia ready for more attacks, we'll get SciLabs on alert and make our plans there"

"fair enough Dingo out"

with that Dingo cuts communications and Rachel puts her PET away

"get packing, I'll tell my parents what Netopia wants me to tell them, and pack myself, meet at SciLabs in an hour"

and so everyone leaves early

"Rachel, why is everyone leaving early?"

"mom, dad, I have to leave again"

"what?"

she goes to her room and starts packing for a month in a very tiny pack because of the way she packed for trips

"why are you leaving us so soon"

"Barrel's gone missing and he might have been taken by the same group that took me, but we don't know that for sure"

she finishes packing and looks at her parents straight in the eye

"there's something else you should know before I leave possibly for a long time...Barrel, he's not who you think he is"

"what do you mean sweetie?, of course he's Barrel a Netopian soldier"

(shakes her head) "no mom, he's not Barrel or at least not the Barrel you think he is...mom, dad Barrel's true name, was Barranel, my 'dead' brother"

"what?"

"you see when he fought Grave that one time and disappeared he didn't actually die, he went twenty years into the past and landed in Netopia as well, they took him in and saved Buster, but Buster was badly damaged saving some Netopian navi's and he was saved and reformatted into a soldier himself because Barranel was to be a soldier"

"wait you mean Buster is..."

"yes mom Buster became Colonel, one of the best military navi's under the Netopian army"

"and Barranel became Barrel the immortal of the Netopian army"

"exactly"

"and now he's gone missing, possibly taken by the same group that took you"

"yeah"

"go, go and save your big brother, like you promised you would when you were younger"

(smiles) "thanks mom"

"just promise us one thing"

"what?"

"try and come back to us alive, if not perfectly OK"

"I'll try mom, dad"

and with that she leaves her house and goes to SciLabs making it there at the hour mark