The next day at school, Slash and Jam were approaching the front door of the building, where Linda and Nancy were waiting for them; as well Roger was approaching a bit of a distance behind the two boys.

"So did you get the last bits of information for our project, Slash?" Linda asked as the boys approached.

"Yeah, yeah." Slash began, "It was actually easy, I decided to take a walk down by Rookie Mountain on the way here and see how people were gumming up the lines, and I found a few more bits of information."

Linda nodded in acknowledgement and picked up her backpack, which was sitting on the front door steps. Jam and Nancy had already walked into the building, followed by Slash, Linda, and Roger who was now catching up to Slash and Linda.

"Hey guys, some race the other day, huh?" Roger exclaimed as he approached the two.

"Hey Roger, yeah, it got a little heated, no thanks to Damien though." Slash replied.

"Damien?" Linda asked, raising an eyebrow. "What happened?"

Slash realized Linda hadn't been at the race, so she hadn't known about anything that occurred at it. "Well, during the race, Damien barged in and started to cause trouble. He wasn't all that much of a problem to deal with, though he did take us by surprise early on." Slash explained.

"I'll keep an eye out for him as well then." Linda replied. "If he went after all of you during a race, he's bound to show up again; he hasn't shown himself in a while, so this is kind of unexpected."

"I still don't get who this Damien guy is…" Roger started. "I mean, he had skin that looked like he'd been out in the snow a bit too long, hair as black as Slash's, and horns?"

"Wendy, one of our friends, said he was some sort of demon from the Netherworld." Linda began to explain.

"I already told him that part." Slash said.

"Well I don't know everything you do, do I Slash?" Linda corrected him. "He's supposedly very smart and very good at snowboarding, and she thinks his purpose for being here is to simply cause trouble in Snow Town for everyone by pulling dangerous pranks, many to a much higher degree than Slash does."

"Hey! My pranks are funny!" Slash exclaimed at Linda's comment.

"It wasn't an insult, Slash." Linda corrected him once again.

"So he's likely back thinking he's found a new way that he can beat you all, like what you said back at Dizzy Land?" Roger asked.

Slash nodded, and shrugged a moment after, "After how we beat him before, I'm surprised he hasn't gotten the message yet. He lost despite his efforts, he should just back down and give up."

Roger gave a light glare to Slash for his words, keeping the glare concealed though so as not to attract attention. "Perhaps he'll just end up like he did before…" Roger said quickly, attempting to redirect his offense to Slash's comment.

"That's what I think, for sure." Slash agreed.

"Anyway…" Linda interrupted, "We should probably get to class and refine what information we've gotten on our project. Today's the last day to work on it in class, and I think we've got enough information now that we can probably finish it in class today."

Slash nodded again. "Yeah, we'll talk to you later Roger."

Roger waved and headed off down another hallway in the school, while the others walked to their classroom down the main hallway…

In the meantime, Jam and Nancy were already in the classroom, speaking to each other on the events of yesterday.

Jam was obviously still excited of the race before with his comments, "And I was all like, 'You can't get me!' and Roger was all 'Oh no you don't!' Then the start of that last lap where I plowed that snowman into Roger and nabbed my place back, then got by Slash and Damien, that was awesome! I even showed everyone up with that trick at the last jump!"

Nancy smiled a bit, "I'm glad you're happy you won the other day, Jam. You really did well during that race."

Jam replied still as excited as ever, "You bet I did! That was one of the most intense races I've ever been in, and I won it! This is a race I won't forget in a while!"

Nancy sighed a moment, and nodded. After a few moments later, class began and the kids prepared for their day at school…

Meanwhile, near Snow Town Central, Damien was lurking around the shops, avoiding notice of the large crowds that were gathered in town. Many of the groups from the previous days had begun to disperse with the distribution of homes and the like, but some were still present. Damien scurried through the alleys and approached Wendy's Internet, taking out a small device and approaching the back door. The door had a strange sensor lock on it, obviously made by Wendy herself.

"Okay, now I just use these buttons here…" Damien thought to himself, pressing a few keys on the device. A small beam of light emitted from the device, which Damien pointed to the sensor. The sensor beeped and flashed a moment, and then the lock opened. Damien opened the door and snuck inside.

Within, Damien entered what appeared to be a storage room for the building. Many boxes, shelves, and tools were neatly placed along the walls and on stand-alone shelves. He began to shuffle through some of the boxes, and when he found a part that he liked, he pocketed it and moved to the next one.

Eventually, he heard someone approaching the room; Damien quickly jumped into a larger box and closed the lid.

The light inside turned on, and Wendy entered the room from the main room door. She approached the bookshelves and searched for something.

"Hmm, I just need a USB extension cord for that network adaptor. There's bound to be one still in here…" She muttered to herself in thought. She then searched the other shelves, and was thankful to finally find a few extensions in a small box on one of the shelves. She took the box and left the room through where she came.

Damien waited for silence, and then poked out of the box he hid within. He looked around carefully again, trying to keep silent.

"Plenty of stuff to use, but I still can't find it…" Damien thought to himself, looking for something in specific.

Beginning to get a bit more drastic, Damien approached a series of filing cabinets, and took out a small lever to wedge the locked cabinets open. With a loud pop sound, the lock on one of the cabinets snapped off of its attachment. Damien pushed the cabinet shut again and retreated into the box he was in before, as the noise would have surely alerted someone.

His instincts were right, as Wendy again showed up in the room alerted to the noise. She checked the room carefully, and then, finally chalking up the noise probably to a bratty kid doing something outside, left the room.

Damien came out again from his hiding spot, and opened up the filing cabinet he opened earlier, flipping through the papers within. He pulled out one paper he seemed to be looking for, and then nodded a bit to himself.

"Alright, now to just get out of here…" He thought to himself, and was able to easily weave his way out the back door, then locking the sensor lock again.

Damien walked away calmly from the building, and headed towards his home nestled behind a forest in Snowboard Street. "Well, either this will really cause a lot of trouble, or it'll just bring me back to square one…" Damien muttered a bit. "It just makes me wonder how I'll decide to actually use this."

He looked at the paper again, it being a series of blueprints for robots and different weaponry…

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Once again, more foreshadowing here. Believe me, these will all tie in together when the story finishes. I plan to have only a few more chapters for this volume, so don't fret, this volume will be completed!