Leo was having trouble believing what he just heard, two of the people he cared about most in this world…captured?! He felt his blood boil, but he could only ask one thing, "What?!"

The grandmaster sighed, looking forward solemnly, "Frost and Moonstone were captured…one of our students saw it, but, he couldn't do anything."

"Whatever, I don't care about that, how did they get captured?! They were just supposed to go on a shopping spree!"

Daray stood up, and said, "The student detailed to us that at least 5 men jumped them, pinning them to the ground and hauling them away when no one was looking."

Leo looked to his teacher, then back to the grandmaster, "Who were these people?"

The grandmaster sighed, "I'm afraid, I do not know, the student described them as wearing red robes, with hoods covering their faces, the only notifiable trait of their garb was their insignia, a yin yang symbol, with a red line through the center."

Daray sighed, "I know of this cult, they are responsible for the murders of many yin yang wielders…but they have never resorted to kidnapping before..."

Leo shouted, "If you know who they are, Daray, tell me where they are and I'll leave them in ashes."

Asher then stood up, "Absolutely not, it's far too dangerous, we don't know the terrain or the layout of their headquarters, an assault is too risky."

"Did I ask you anything?!"

Asher was taken aback, never before had he seen such a determined gaze, nor had he been disrespected and impressed at the same time. Leo then headed for the door, and Asher realized he had to either stop him or force him to stop, "Guards! Stop him!"

The guards raised their blades, but an instant before they could move, Leo had his hand on his sword hilt and his other hand pointing his revolver at the head of the guard on his left. Asher saw this and looked to Daray, speaking to him telepathically, 'Just how much danger are they in right now?'

Daray responded, 'He's killed 5 students in the past three months, by accident during sparring matches.'

"…Stand down, you two."

The guards put their swords back down, and Leo walked back towards the others, "would you kindly tell me why you won't let me leave?"

Asher cleared his throat, "well, to put it simply, we cannot afford you to die, so, if we cannot stop you from leaving, you cannot go alone."

"And what dumbass is willing to go with me on a suicide mission?"

As soon as Leo said mission, a man came flying through the wall, it was one of the guards from the outside of the building, and outside the hole was none other than Gary Stones, "I told you to get the hell out of my way, that was your fault."

"Heh, speak of the devil," Leo smirked at Gary

"Heard it all, I'm raring to rip these bastards to shreds," Gary said as he and Leo fist bumped

"Now then, if that's taken care of, we'll be going."

Daray and Asher stood up, "Hold on a minute"

Leo and Gary both looked back, each raising an eyebrow, "Hm?"

"Allow us to teach you some new moves, they may help you in the end."

After about 2 hours, the two had finished their new move training, and prepared to leave, but the grandmaster asked, "How will you find your way though, you haven't the location of their headquarters yet."

Leo and Gary raised up their left hands, pointing their watches behind them as they walked out, Leo said, "Just send us the coordinates to our watches, I made them to interface directly with the mission system."

After the two walked out, the grandmaster chuckled to himself, "Such bright young men, hopefully they survive."

Gary and Leo stared off the edge of the mountain, before taking position to run, Leo looked to Gary, "Ready?"

Gary nodded, "Hell yeah!"

At nearly the same Leo said, "Shadowdash!" as Gary said, "Solar Transmission!"

As they said this Leo turned to a shadow, rocketing across the ground, invisible to the naked eye, as Gary became a streak of white light, shooting across the landscape, Leo said, "We'll stop at halfway point, 2500 miles, we'll take a breather and recover our energy."

"Got it," Gary replied

Meanwhile, in the kidnapper's headquarters, Moonstone stirred, opening her eyes to find herself in a strange and small room, strung up against a wall with her arms locked to the wall with steel handcuffs, she struggled, unable to break the chains, she said, "Where the hell am I?!" She then looked to her left, and saw Frost unconscious, strung up in a similar way, but she also saw a door, she tried to wake frost, who wouldn't wake no matter what, "Damn, frost, the one time you decide to sleep in."

"I'm afraid the narc we gave you both will keep her asleep for a nice long while," Moonstone jumped as she looked to the door, and a man walked in, wearing a red robe with the same insignia she saw on the men who jumped them, "You're certainly a strange one, though, I was led to believe nothing could wake you up, but your metabolism has rendered the drug useless much earlier than expected…no matter, it matters not whether you are awake, so long as you both are still alive."

"Who the hell are you?! Why did you take us here?!"

Frost stirred, moaning lightly, "M…moonstone…why the hell are you being so loud this early in the…where the hell are we?"

"Curious, you both already woke up, ah well, I'm sure your screams will be sweet to my ears," The man walked out, laughing raucously

"Moonstone, what's going on?!"

Moonstone growled before sighing, "We were jumped, all I remember is that insignia on that guy's shoulder, but don't worry, I know we'll survive."

Frost furrowed her brow, "Damn…Leo and Gary will come for us, I know they will…god I hate to put them through this though, having to rescue us every time we're in danger…makes me sick."

Moonstone could see the anger in Frost's eyes, and the room began to feel cold, Moonstone sighed, and she could see her breath, "I agree with you on that one, no matter what we always end up holding them back…when we get out of here, we make a pact, we'll get stronger, no matter what!"

Frost and Moonstone nodded, to each other and themselves, before suddenly the door flung open and the man walked in once more.

"Uhhh, Leo?"

"Yeah, Gary?"

"That's a mountain!"

"I can see that, Gary."

"Well, what's the plan? Cuz I'm cool with just plowing clean through it."

"We're formless in these modes, remember?"

"Oh yeah!" Gary laughed as they simply fazed through the mountain, Gary slowing down and grabbing something from the surrounding stone

"The hell did you grab?"

"You'll see!"

A few minutes passed, and Leo spoke again, "Alright, midway in 3…2….1!" They both skidded to a halt, leaving a visible trail in the ground where they had tried to stop to where they actually stopped.

"Whew, good run, but I barely broke a sweat," Gary said, stretching out his limbs and cracking his neck, he noticed Leo staring at him strangely, "What?"

"What the hell are you?!" Leo shouted, scaring the birds from the trees, causing Gary to break out in abject laughter

A few minutes passed, and Gary finally stopped laughing, he then stooped down, drawing something in the ground, shortly afterwards, electricity sparked from the ground and Gary tucked something into his bag, "Alright, ready to go."

"What was that?"

"Hm? Oh just a new trick I learned from one of my pen pals."

"…You know what, I don't know why I bother questioning you anymore."

"Me neither."

Leo stood up, both him and Gary once more speeding off as their respective side of the yin yang spectrum. After about an hour more, due to Gary stopping to force Leo into cooking a deer for them to eat, they came close to a large snowy mountain, "There's our target, hold up, we stop here!"

Once again they skidded to a stop, "What gives?! I want to go kill these bastards already!"

"Let me plan this out, if we mess up they might kill Frost and Moonstone before we even get in there!"

This managed to quiet Gary down, as he solemnly stared at the ground, Leo then noticed something, "Ey, Gary, you see those power lines?"

"Yeah?"

"Look, one of them runs straight into the mountain, see if you can jack in and get us a read on the place with that new technique you learned."

Gary smirked, walking over to a power pole, "On it," Gary then proceeded to grip onto the pole, as he shuddered and chuckled, he said, "I can see everything! Their entire electrical system!"

"Calm down there, bud, now, do they have radar?"

"Yeah, want me to shut it down?"

"Put it on a feedback loop, by the time it comes back online."

"We'll be putting them to the blade, right, on it," Gary then sent an electric shock into their system, "Alright, the entire surveillance system is down, but there are like 6 guards in front of the entrance."

"That means it's my turn, I hope this new technique works," Leo then walked over to Gary, his eyes turned black as he uttered, "Shadow cloak," as he said this they both found themselves cloaked in darkness, invisible to the world around them, "perfect, let's roll."

They both nodded, running up the mountain and stopping at the gate, "How much time do we have on the cloak?"

"2 more minutes, otherwise I won't have enough power if we get into a real fight. How much time on the feedback loop?"

"5 minutes, best I could do with my first time using the power."

"alright," they both then saw the guards, "The three on the left are mine, you take care of the other three"

Gary smirked and growled out, "Yo."

They then separated, the guards felt as though something was off, one of them felt their skin crawl, "Oi, did you guys feel that too?"

Suddenly, Gary and Leo appeared in front of them, the shadow cloak dissipating, and before they could sound the alarm, their heads fell off their bodies, blood coating the ground, "Nah, I didn't feel anything," Leo said with a smirk. After this, they then walked to the door, Leo attempted to open it slowly, but it wouldn't budge, "Aw, they locked us out…should we knock?" Leo asked with a smirk.

"It's only polite."

"Alright then, let's do it," Leo and Gary then took up a stance each, Gary setting up for his onigeri, but Leo took up a stance unfamiliar to Gary.

Gary simply shrugged this off as they began to sync their attacks, as Gary said, "Oni," Leo said, "Ryu," and as they ended calling out the names, Leo landed his punch on the door, shouting, "Ken![1]" as Gary's kick landed, and he shouted, "Geri!"

The door flung off its hinges, crushing 4 people against the far wall, leaving a large blood splatter, and Leo said, "Knock Knock, Bastards!"

As Leo and Gary walked in, everyone in there simply stared forward in disbelief, before they all charged at them, as they charged, Gary said, "Aw, I don't think we're welcome."

"Oh well, Let's party anyways!" Leo shouted as he drew his massive sword, throwing it into the air before catching it and slamming down, "Aether!" as he slammed down, one enemy was cut in half as the rest went flying.

Gary then proceeded to charge at the enemies, zipping around the battlefield, cutting down enemies left and right as Leo proceeded to slash and smash everything within a 100-foot radius, and, one way or another, they ended up being surrounded by about 200 soldiers with their backs to each other, Gary asked, "uhh, how did we end up like this?"

As Gary asked this, every soldier drew a gun and aimed at them both, "I don't know, but I don't see us surviving this currently…I was hoping to keep this a secret for a bit longer, but…" Leo trailed off as he sighed, and reached towards the opposite side of his revolver holster, drawing a strange new gun[2] from this holster that appeared to be an m1911 with two strange tubes on the side, one filled with a pulsating black substance and the other filled with a red, fiery substance, "Gary, when I say duck, drop to the floor and don't get up no matter what," Leo said before he spun his revolver chamber, quickly reloading each .500 magnum round.

"I've never seen a gun like that before, but alright."

Leo then shouted, "Duck!" and as he said this, Gary dropped to the floor as Leo back flipped, spinning midair, and, in a hail of bullets, shot every soldier. Leo first shot two during his initial shot, the shot from his new gun reducing the victims head to ash, as Leo spun midair, he adjusted each shot, occasionally changing arm position to be crossing each other in order to hit another pair of targets, reloading his revolver with each shot as he fired using his dimensional manipulation. When he finally landed, he spun his pistols before holstering, "…drop," as he uttered this word, each enemy fell to the ground, dead.

Gary looked around, surprised, "Whoa, remind me never to question your shooting again."

"You questioned my shooting?"

"Remind me never to question your shooting at all."

"Better," Leo said before they both chuckled, running towards the hallway that would lead them to the elevator, "Alright, almost there, hold on a little longer, you two!"

As the duo came to the elevator, it opened up, revealing 3 guards, one eating a pizza, the other two berating him for not sharing until they looked forward, and saw a pair of guns pointed at them, Gary said, "I'd advise leaving here and never looking back, cuz my friend here has an itchy trigger finger," The 3 nodded like madmen and took off running.

Leo smirked as they entered the elevator, heading to the lowest level, he looked around, before a loud alarm began to sound, "Oop, guess the cameras are back online, think they'll be waiting for us?"

"Probably."

Leo pointed upwards, "Time to get serious then."

Gary looked up, seeing a hatch, "Right, let's do this."

They then both leapt up the hatch, riding the roof of the elevator, Leo sat down, his back over the open hatch, facing the doorway to the elevator, he drew his pistols and sat in wait, as it stopped, he asked, "What floor is this?"

"B9, we're two floors too high."

Leo simply smirked, "Alright, I'll handle this," the door to the elevator then opened, and a small battalion stood outside, about 20 men, all armed with high powered weapons. Leo's actions were quick, and lethal, he swung upside down, flinging his arms in front of him as he hung by his legs, "click click," Leo said before he unloaded into them, leaving a bloodbath, "Boom."

Gary laughed, drawing his katana, "express elevator?"

"Going down," Leo said as he flipped back onto his feet.

Gary then cut the cord, and the elevator fell at breakneck speeds, Gary and Leo both shouting, "Yahooo!" as it fell, then, Leo began counting down from three on his fingers, once they hit zero they both leapt up, as the elevator crashed down, collapsing in on itself before the boys landed on what was left of the roof.

"And they stick the landing!" Leo said, before he and Gary high fived, "Alright, let's move, Gary, I got the door last time, you're turn."

Gary smirked, drawing his katana once more, staring down the door, suddenly, his arm became engulfed in light as his blade began to glitter, "Kōjin![3]" in an instant, Gary had already sheathed his blade once more, and the door fell to a pile of metal shards.

"…Damn," was all Leo could say about what he just saw, "How long it take you to master that one?"

"3 weeks."

Gary and Leo had run down the surprisingly empty hallway, before coming to what looked to be a few cells, next to a massive garage style door, "Gary."

"Yeah?"

"We check every cell until we find them."

Gary nodded, "And if they aren't in a cell?"

"We burn that bridge when we get to it," Leo said, his hands beginning to emit smoke as they both sped off to check each cell, practically ripping each door off its hinges in their anger.

When they reached the final door, Leo literally ripped the door off, embedding it in the ceiling, Gary looked inside, seeing the cell empty, he shouted, "God dammit! They aren't here either!"

Leo looked at the chains, and saw something he recognized instantly, a single bit of icey blonde hair, his hair beginning to smolder, "They were…come on, I know where they are," Leo then ran to the garage-like door, smashing a hole through it without a second thought.

As they stopped in the room, Gary first pointed out the obvious, "It's dark as hell in here! Leo, think you can use your fire to light it up a bit?"

"Sure, but it's black fire, remember? It doesn't give off much light," Leo ignited his hand, a fireball appeared in his hand, glowing slightly, barely giving enough light to see the ground in front of them.

"Hey, a light switch!" Gary ran over, flipping it, and a few seconds later the lights lit up, illuminating the entire room, and what they saw, not only horrified them, but caused their very blood to boil, a massive robot, appearing to be made out of a gold-titanium alloy, easily 4 stories tall, but that isn't what angered them, what angered them, was the shoulders, upon which rested a pair of large glass orbs, encased inside of them were Frost and Moonstone, and they appeared to be in horrible pain, as something flowed out of them.

"you…what are you doing to them?!" Leo screamed as he looked the man dead in the eye who was running the machine, "Let them go, bastard!"

The man chuckled, his voice echoing over the loudspeakers on the mech, "Now, now, that wouldn't be any fun, after all, their screams are rather delicious, like a symphony of pain and fear."

Leo's eye twitched, his hair nearly completely ignited, he looked to Gary, he seemed to be just as angry, but something was off, his skin looked….sickly, to say the least, his hair had gone from its usual color, to a dull glow, Leo would analyze further, but he had other matters, like ripping this asshole limb from limb for even touching frost, "Gary…."

"Yeah…?"

"Primary objective is to free the girls, then we put this guy through unimaginable pain."

"Yo," Gary growled out, electricity sparking in the air around him

Before they took off, you could almost hear their heartbeats synchronize, "Ready?"

"Yeah"

"Move!" Gary and Leo took off, as the mech slammed it's hands down to crush them, they disappeared, running across its arms, before smashing the giant Plexiglas orbs with a single strike each.

"What?! That was 3-foot thick bulletproof Plexiglas! No human could break that without a laser cutter!" The man shouted as Gary and Leo leapt back towards the entrance to the room, gently setting Frost and Moonstone down.

Frost looked up at Leo and said weakly, "You're…Late," she smiled weakly as Leo looked down at her.

"No worries…Now, what happened to you two?" Leo said as he smiled weakly

"He…drained us of all of our…energy…I can't feel any of my energy…it's…all gone…" She began to weep softly, before Leo dried her tears.

Leo looked to Gary, who looked back, they only saw sadness in each other's eyes, "Gary…what happens when a yin yang wielder is drained to absolute zero...?"

Gary sighed, "They…usually lose their ability to use their powers, permanently..."

As Gary said this, he heard behind him, the same obnoxious voice from before laughing maniacally, "Aw, boohoo, you've been rid of your sin of being a yin yang wielder, so don't be a bitch about it."

Gary and Leo both stood up, the mech wound up, sending its fists flying straight to crush all four of them in a single shot, and, for an instant, it looked as though they would die, but then, Leo and Gary turned around, Leo palmed the fist, breaking it, as Gary stopped the other fist with his foot, also shattering it, as Leo said, "You…."

Gary followed, "Low-down…"

"Dirty…"

And they both finished together, saying at the same time, "Son of a bitch!" as the final word echoed, the arena became surrounded by black fire as a storm of white lightning raged above.

"Gary, you take the right arm, I got the left one!"

"Right!" They both then took off, Gary disappearing shortly after running, and almost instantly, a massive crash was audible, Gary was flying through the air on the mech's right side, sheathing his katana.

"Aether!" The man looked to his left as Leo shouted, all he saw was the shining cleaver flying through the air, an instant after that, Leo appeared in front of the sword, gripping it tightly, he spun and went flying towards the ground, slicing the other arm clean off, "Alright, time to finish this!" Leo said as he ran side by side with Gary, before turning around and shouting, "Celestial Combo!"

"Right!"

Leo first ran ahead, leaping into the air and shouting, "Setting Sun!" as he said this, he slammed down, slicing the rear of the mech cockpit in half, before rolling and positioning himself under the mech.

Gary next came running, leaping atop Leo's feet, preparing a quickdraw technique, "Rising Moon!" Leo then launched Gary upwards at blinding speeds, as he sliced the other half of the mech cockpit in half, landing on it and kicking off, before an explosion rang out, and the mech appeared to be destroyed completely.

Leo and Gary landed, running towards Frost and Moonstone, who were beginning to get some strength back, "You girls ok?"

Frost said, "Y..Yeah, thanks to you two…I'm sorry this happened, it's all our fault"

Gary then interrupted both Frost and Moonstone before they could say anything else, "Like hell it is, you couldn't do anything, you were jumped for god's sakes!"

Frost and Moonstone thought this over, then said, "Even so…we made you have to worry about us…like always…so for that we're sorry."

They both did something neither had done for a long time, they gave a warm, genuinely heartfelt smile, "Hey, if we have to worry about something, at least it's something worth protecting, now come on, let's g- HRRK!"

Frost and Moonstone looked on in horror, as both Leo and Gary were impaled, Leo with a spike made of ice piercing his abdomen, and Gary with a spike made of stone, as the two teenagers fell to the ground, bleeding intensely, all Moonstone and Frost could do was scream, "No!"

I…Am…A…Bastard, I know but cliffhangers are so good for building suspense and making people want more. Sorry, but a guy has to get a rise out of his people somehow, anyways, onto my notes

[1] – Ryuken(Dragon Fist): Leo's current strongest punch, by taking up a Karate stance and throwing his entire body weight into the strike, which is about 250 pounds, he can bring force the full strength of his muscles, allowing him to pierce steel with his bare hands.

[2] – This new gun is titled the Shadow-fire shooter, it's an old m1911 that Leo repurposed to use his Shadow-fire energy as ammunition, on the left side is the tube for shadow energy, and the right side is fire energy.

[3] – Kōjin(光刃, Light Blade): This move removes the mass of Gary's sword, but keeps the edge, moving this edge at the speed of light in order to cut almost any known material, unfortunately, due to the large drain of Yin Yang energy, it's mostly just for show.