Everything is happening at the same time, the Blades and the escaped criminals make their moves, the thread of the Dark Signers looms over the city and Miraak is still on the loose.
We will hop back and forth between the several events, the beginning of it all was kicked off by Leo who was confronted by Zelysy a Maormer or Sea Elf, in the end Zelysy died and was revived as a Dark Signer send by an unknown entity to attack the Blades headquarters.
35. The Skooma Dealer.
Jack and Richard, a few minutes after the Duel between Leo and Zelysy started:
Jack was sitting in the back of Richard's car, several files of the escaped criminals laid next to him.
'So Richard, what is it about Raz?' Jack could see the surprised look from Richard in the rearview mirror.
'Seems you have the same idea Jack.' Richard replied.
'Something doesn't add up!' They both then said at the same time.
'The file states that his original name was Rachid.' Jack said: 'He was a contestant at the Oblivion Tournament, records the Blades have on the tournament confirms this, records state that he had three Scroll Cards when he was approached by a Thalmor for a test, if he would defeat the Thalmor he would go straight to the finals, of course Rachid disappeared.'
Jack paused as he sought through some files.
'What happened to Rachid is unknown, Lucien's personal reports states that he had not given his approval on that test, but that it was Errol's idea.'
Jack looked in the rearview mirror he saw the questioned look on Richard's face. 'My guess is that Errol was indeed the one who Dueled him, probably a test on the Orichalcos, Errol won and Rachid's soul was taken, Errol left the body on the site of their Duel, probably a hidden cave or anything, when I defeated the Orichalcos all souls returned to their owner, Rachid woke up in that cave probably wondering what happened he was then enveloped by the explosion of magic Lucien caused, since he was so close to the magic explosion he got Affected.'
Jack took another file.
'This file states that Rachid visited a doctor a few weeks after the tournament, he noticed something weird with his body, his body was changing into a Khajiit body.'
The Dragonborn put the folder back.
'These documents confirm that theory as a probability.' Richard said, more to himself then to Jack.
'Rachid's criminal records say that has been dealing drugs in the past after we have given him almost thirty Criminal Marks he suddenly stopped dealing.' Richard said.
'Thirty? That is a lot.' Jack muttered.
'We could never keep in jail for more than a week.' Richard replied: 'Dealing drugs is illegal but not that heavy of a crime and the times that we kept him in prison was more for owning weapons than for actual drugs dealing he was also active in the Duel Monster busyness, stealing cards and selling selling those cards, stealing D-Wheels, illegally modifying Duel Disk so they could read fake cards.' Richard continued.
'So Richard when talking to Raz does he talk like a Khajiit, a lot of saying his own name when talking about himself or saying ''this one'' instead of I?'
Richard shook his head. 'No when we brought him in after the ''accident'' he talked like a normal person, why?'
Jack placed all the papers back in the file.
'That confirms my theory, those who became Affected after the tournament had DNA in them of the other races and so they took over the mannerisms of the creature they transformed into, Rachid was only struck by magic that happened to change him into a Khajiit, so he doesn't have the Khajiit mannerisms that is also why he made bad Skooma, he didn't know how to, Khajiit are resistant to Skooma so they produce it.'
Richard slowed down a bit as they entered the normally busy neighborhood.
'Jack that Skooma of Raz affected three people, one of them has lost her memory as results of a coma, she will fully recover in time, the second person has lost his voice, he'll never be able to talk again then the third person, he died as a direct result of the Skooma.' Richard summed up the report, then he stopped his car in front of one of the many bars the city had.
'In the back alley that is where Raz made his Skooma deals, we will find him there.' Richard said.
'Richard before we go what can I expect? It is normally against my Duelists honor to know the opponent's Deck beforehand but in this situation I'll take all the advantages I can get.'
Richard looked over his shoulder to Jack.
'I don't know Jack, every time Sector Security faced him he has used a different Deck, mostly Fiends, Beast or Beat-Down, but at his last arrest we found files, he was experimenting with the Egyptian God cards, he had found a way to control their power he already had the cards ready but not powered up, we took all that research and since that time he has been in jail.' Richard said.
Jack opened the door of the car. 'Could he have made new ones?'
Richard shook his head. 'No his notes say that it would take him at least a month, his notes did say he had some weaker cards made as test and that he had hidden them, we never found those cards and we don't know what those cards were, so you must be prepared to deal with those cards whatever they are.'
As Richard and Jack entered the alley they saw Raz standing in the middle of the alley surrounded by at least a dozen of crates filled with bottles of Skooma, Raz looked pretty young but the aging of Khajiit worked different, Unaware people would see a man in his fifties with a lot of hair on his arms and face, he had black dreadlocks and his face was decorated with rows and rows of Criminal Marks.
The Aware people would see a Khajiit with black and gray fur, Raz wore his prison uniform which consisted of a gray shirt without pockets, his prison number was readable on his chest and back, matching cotton pants without pockets and black shoes without laces, his Criminal Marks were hidden by his fur, he held a cigarette in his hand.
'Raz, surrender.' Richard stated: 'Turn around, hands behind your head and sit down on your knees.' Richard took his gun and aimed it at Raz's chest.
'I will surrender, if you beat me in a Duel.' The Khajiit said with a grin, he took a puff from his cigarette before he tossed it aside, then he activated his Duel Disk and his D-Gazer, the Duel Disk and D-Gazer of Jack also activated followed by the D-Gazer of Richard.
'Duel!' Both Jack and Raz shouted.
(Jack: 8000) - (Raz: 8000)
'You may have the first turn Blade.' Raz said with a grin, Jack drew his opening hand keeping his eyes on his opponent.
'I don't know what Raz is using, him experimenting with the Egyptian God cards and coming close to recreate them I must expect anything.'
Jack looked over his hand before he chose a card. 'For now I shall Set a Monster.' Jack stated, a hidden Monster appeared before him.
'I end my turn.'
Raz drew his card, he started to laugh then he took three cards from his hand and three Continuous Spell cards appeared, the first one was Burden of the Mighty, followed by Convulsion of Nature and finally Deck Lockdown.
'Richard, go and evacuate the immediate area, I know what Raz was experimenting on, they might not be as destructive as the God cards but if he fully revived them they might still be able to level this entire neighborhood.' Richard heard the serious tone in Jack's voice and he ran off to warn some colleagues to help him.
'I send all my Trap cards to the Graveyard!' Raz shouted as three pillars of light shot through the cards. 'Let your lightning scorch the earth! I call upon you Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder!'
Dark clouds packed together, lightning struck down behind Raz who spread his arms, behind him appeared the yellow form that looked like The Winged Dragon of Ra, but on closer inspection it was more demonic in appearance, with sharper edges and small horns covering several parts of it's body, the tips of it's wings were covered with a large, curved horn, it's head was more monstrous, the creature let out a terrifying roar, lightning struck behind the monstrosity. (4000 ATK)
Raz was laughing like crazy, Jack looked at the terrifying creature, fear in his eyes.
'I can see you're wondering how I got this.' Raz said, a grin on his face, he had lowered his hands and had taken a more relaxed pose, his eyes were closed and his tail was slowing wagging.
'When people look at me they see a Skooma addict Khajiit.' Raz spoke his voice sounded calm.
'Those cards were destroyed when I defeated the Thalmor during the tournament who used them.' Jack said.
'That is true.' Raz agreed: 'But this is on the head of your government, those Sacred Beasts were used in the time of Jaden Yuki, at that time Industrial Illusions still held the market on Duel Monsters, Pegasus gave the orders to keep the cards in a vault in his office, the government at that time agreed and they covered it up, there were no records and all details on the cards were destroyed, however...' Raz said as he opened his eyes, a sly look on his face: 'Industrial Illusions lost the grip on the market with smaller companies who started to design and publish cards, Pegasus had to step down, Industrial Illusions moved to a smaller location the old headquarters stayed on lock-down, it was rather easy for Errol to get his hands on the real cards however you Jack destroyed them.'
'You're not telling me...' Jack started but Raz stopped him.
'My soul was taken by the Orichalcos, when I woke up there was panic nobody was watching me, I went into the Thalmor Headquarters I found Errol's secret room with details on the Sacred Beasts, from the looks of it he was planning to create an army of Duelists who all used the Sacred Beasts, that plan was ultimately destroyed and nobody even knew about it.'
Raz concluded.
'So now you're gonna do that?' Jack asked.
Raz shook his head: 'I am not stupid Jack, I only created the ones I have now, I destroyed all Errol's research, that research is all in my head!'
Raz took a card from his hand: 'Now I activate the Field Spell Fallen Paradise!' The back alley changed into a rocky area, it was gloomy and dark with black clouds drifting in the sky in the middle of the field stood a dead tree an apple laid in front of the tree. 'Don't try to Target my Hamon or destroy it through card Effects, that won't work also when I control a Sacred Beast I can draw two cards once per turn.' Raz explained as he drew two cards.
'Hamon attack!' Raz shouted, first Jack's hidden Monster disappeared and Quillbolt Hedgehog appeared in it's place. (800 DEF)
Lightning struck the small Monster.
'When Hamon destroys a Monster by battle my opponent takes 1000 damage.' Raz explained then lightning struck Jack, he expected a lot of pain but no pain came.
(Jack: 7000) - (Raz: 8000)
'You expected pain?' Raz said with an amused look on his face: 'Jack like I said I am no fool, I only recreated the cards I did not infuse them with magic, I wouldn't want the wrath of those creatures over me, they are no God cards after all so using magic-less copies of these cards is quite harmless.'
Raz gave the sign he ended his turn.
Jack quickly drew his card. 'I Set two cards...' Jack stated, one card appeared horizontally while the other appeared vertically: 'I end my turn.'
'On the defensive are we now Jack?' Raz sneered, he drew his card.
'First I shall Set a card.' Raz played one of his cards it appeared vertically behind Hamon.
'Now I can activate Phantasmal Martyrs.' Raz played the Spell card.
'I discard my two cards from my hand in order to Special Summon three Phantasmal Martyr Tokens.' Raz looked at the two cards in his hand, they were: Phantom of Chaos and Dark Summoning Beast, both cards disappeared into the Graveyard, on the Field appeared three figures clad in black robes and hoods. (0 ATK x3)
'Next I Banish the Dark Summoning Beast I just send to my Graveyard in order to add Raviel to my hand.' The card slipped from Raz's Graveyard he put it in his Deck Holder then he took one card from his Deck.
'I Release my three Tokens!' This time three pillars of darkness shot through the Tokens. 'Time to unleash Hell on Earth! Come forth Raviel, Lord of Phantasms!'
Next to Hamon appeared the more demonic version of Obelisk the Tormentor, it had wings, it's limbs were less muscular than those of Obelisk, Raviel had an exoskeleton, sharp claws and a tail. (4000 ATK)
'You are in luck Jack, because of Phantasmal Martyrs I cannot attack, so I use the Effect of Fallen Paradise to draw two cards.' The Khajiit did as he said then he immediately played the two cards he just got, they appeared vertically next to the other Set card.
Jack drew his card, he looked over his hand, an idea started to form in his head. 'For now I'll Set a Monster.' Jack stated, his new reversed Monster appeared next to his other hidden Monster.
'I end my turn.'
Raz narrowed his eyes, he drew his card. 'Jack, he's planning something, Cid told me to be careful around him, Cid is well informed about everything I have to be careful from here on out.' Raz thought.
'First I use the Effect of Fallen Paradise to draw two cards.' Raz stated as he drew the cards.
'Now I activate my Set cards: Royal Decree, Imperial Custom and Anti-Spell Fragrance!' Three Continuous Trap cards appeared.
'Now I send them to the Graveyard!' Three pillars of flames devoured the Trap card. 'Blacken the lands with your scorching heat! Descent Uria, Lord of Searing Flames!' Finally the demonic version of Slifer the Sky Dragon appeared, it looked almost exactly the same however Uria had more horns covering it's body and it missed Slifer's second mouth. (0 ATK)
'Uria gains 1000 Attack Points for each Continuous Trap in my Graveyard which are three right now.' Raz explained, Uria let out a roar. (0- 3000 ATK)
'First I will use the Effect of Uria to destroy your Set card.' Raz said with a grin, flames erupted around Jack's Trap card, it was revealed to be Scrap-Iron Scarecrow before it was reduced to ashes.
'Hamon, destroy the Monster on the left!'
Lightning struck the card for a brief second the younger look-a-like of Stardust Dragon, Debris Dragon appeared before it got incinerated, then a second bolt of lightning struck Jack.
(Jack: 6000) - (Raz: 8000)
'Uria!' Raz shouted, flames licked Jack's second reversed Monster, Junk Blader appeared before it was turned to ashes.
'Raviel!' Raz continued.
'I activate the Effect of Junk Defender from my hand, when a direct attack is called I can Special Summon it!' Jack quickly played the card, in front of him appeared a triangular head with huge shoulder guards attached to the side it shielded itself with it's arms. (1800 DEF)
The mighty fist of Raviel punched straight through it.
'So you managed to survive my first attack, I must say I'm impressed.' Raz said.
Jack silently drew his card.
'I Summon Junk Changer.' He stated, the weird cylinder creature appeared. (1500 ATK)
'You Normal Summoned a Monster this means I get a Phantasm Token.'
One of the cloaked figures appeared crouching before Raz. (1000 DEF)
'Now that I have a Tuner I Special Summon Quillbolt Hedgehog.' Jack continued, the orange creature with screws in it's back appeared. (800 DEF)
'Next I increase the Level of Junk Changer by one.' Junk Changer started to glow. 'I Tune my now Level four Junk Changer to my Level two Quillbolt Hedgehog!' Junk Changer changed into four green rings, Quillbolt Hedgehog flew through them followed by the green light.
'Gathering stars light the way to my destiny, become the light to shatter the darkness! Synchro Summon! Shine, Stardust Charge Warrior!' The warrior clad in white armor appeared, it had it's blades in it's hand. (2000 ATK)
'I draw a card through Stardust Charge Warrior's Effect.' Jack explained as he drew his card.
'Next I activate Mystical Space Typhoon!' Jack shouted, a strong tornado ravaged the Field Spell until it slowly disappeared and they were back in the alley.
'Now I Equip Stardust Charge Warrior with Magnum Shield which increases it's Attack with it's Defense.' Jack explained, Jack played the card he got through Charge Warrior's Effect, a fancy-looking shield appeared on the back of Stardust Charge Warrior, it's Attack Points increased. (2000- 3300 ATK)
'Finally I activate Riryoku!' The Dragonborn shouted playing the last card from his hand, Raviel became weaker while Stardust Charge Warrior became stronger. (Raviel: 4000- 2000 ATK, Charge Warrior: 3300- 5300 ATK)
'Stardust Charge Warrior allows me to attack all Special Summoned Monsters!' Stardust Charge Warrior disappeared then he briefly appeared slicing up the Phantasm Token, then the Warrior leaped to Uria beheading the creature, it leaped off the body of the Sacred Beast slamming it's swords into the chest of Raviel then it yanked the swords back out, as Raviel fell to the ground Charge Warrior leaped off the body and pushed the sword through the head of Hamon, the creature fell down with a loud moan.
(Jack: 6000) - (Raz: 1100)
Raz slowly turned around looking at the bodies of his three Sacred Beasts, slowly the bodies disappeared, Stardust Charge Warrior landed back in front of Jack it's Attack Points decreased a bit. (5300- 3300 ATK)
'Y-you!' Raz cursed, he quickly drew his card he placed it and the remaining card from his hand into his Duel Disk, both cards appeared vertically.
'This time you're on the defense Raz.' Jack said with a grin.
'Damn you!' Raz replied, one of his cards opened up, it was Threatening Roar, the roar of the invisible beast sounded through the alley.
'I change my Monster to defense mode.' Jack stated, Stardust Charge Warrior sheathed it's weapons then it crouched down. (1300- 3300 DEF)
'Then I Set a card and end my turn.' Jack stated, a vertical card appeared behind his Monster.
'Who is defending now?' Raz sneered, he quickly drew his card.
'I activate Reckless Greed!' He shouted as his second Trap card opened up, he quickly drew two more cards.
'Your defense means nothing to me!' Raz bellowed: 'I activate Dark Hole!' Jack watched with fear in his eyes as a black hole opened up and sucked Stardust Charge Warrior through.
'Next I activate Monster Reborn!' Raz played his second card: 'I Special Summon the Phantom of Chaos I discarded earlier!'
A pool of black, swirling goo appeared on the ground before Raz. (0 ATK)
'Now Inferno Reckless Summon!' Raz shouted as he played his Spell card.
'This allows me to Special Summon two more Phantom of Chaos from my Deck.' Left and right of the first pool of more pools of goo appeared. (0 ATK x2)
'I use the Effect of Phantom of Chaos, each one of them takes the identity of one of the Sacred Beasts!' Raz shouted, the three pools started to change, slowly they formed into a smaller, slimier version of one of the Sacred Beasts.
Raz crossed his arms, Jack knew what was coming next.
'The one who scorches the earth, the one who always strikes true, the one who converges with the dead! Three forces combine into the ultimate creature! Fusion Summon!' Behind Raz shadows starting to appear, the creature stood as tall as a skyscraper, it's lower body had the serpentine form of Uria the upper body was shaped more like the body of Raviel, it had Raviel's head, the wings of Hamon on it's back, it had a normal right arm the left arm was the head of Uria. (0 ATK)
'Armityle the Chaos Phantom!' Raz laughed.
Jack stared at the demon, memories of the tournament flashed through his head, back then he had Juliet and Leo with him as well as the Legendary Knight, this time he was alone but with the power of the Crimson Dragon.
'Bring it.' Jack growled as he spread his arms.
'Armityle! Wipe out my opponent! Land Wide Obliteration-Transmigration Wave!' The maw of Uria opened up, Armityle let out a terrifying roar as it's Attack Points skyrocketed to 10.000.
A storm of black fire washed over Jack, Raz was laughing like crazy, slowly the flames died out.
(Jack: 0) - (Raz: 1100)
Jack was sitting on his knees, he was looking at the ground.
Raz had a huge grin on his face, then Jack slowly stood up, a loud cry echoed through the streets Stardust Dragon ascended from behind the row of houses. (2500 ATK)
(Jack: 6000) - (Raz: 1100)
'What the hell!' Raz howled.
'I had my Trap card.' Jack said Raz looked down only to see a Trap card dissolve into nothing.
'Stardust Re-Spark, when my opponent attacks directly all Battle Damage becomes zero and I get to Summon a Stardust Monster.
'Raz, when you Summoned Armityle you gave me the opportunity I needed.' Jack looked up.
'Now that your Battle Phase is over the Attack of Armityle returns to nothing, you have no cards left in your hand nor on the Field, you're wide open!' Jack roared.
'No wait! This ain't fair! The Sacred Beasts! With them I can't lose!' Raz rambled.
'Still you lost, maybe a sign that you should not mettle with powers you have no understanding of.' Jack turned around as Richard came running into the alley. 'Stardust Dragon! Shooting Sonic!' Jack yelled as he slowly started to walk away, he could hear the screams of Raz behind him.
'Richard, bring him in for questioning I want answers.' Jack said without looking at the Captain as they passed each other.
(Jack: 6000) - (Raz: 0)
Ten minutes later: Unknown location.
Jack, Richard and Raz were sitting in a cold, empty room the only things in the room were a steel table which was anchored to the concrete floor, a steel chair where Raz was sitting on, his hands cuffed in front of him and connected to the table with a short chain, Richard and Jack were sitting on wooden chairs in one of the corners stood several empty crates and a couple of crates with bottles in them, half of those bottles were filled with Skooma on the table laid a gun-shaped device with some sort of laser pointer at the end of the barrel, there were a few buttons and some dials visible on the base of the device, around this time Leo's Duel with Zelysy had just ended and the terrible accident had happened.
Raz was staring at the ceiling nobody said a thing.
'So we can add Skooma to the list again.' Richard sighted.
'Not to mention creating illegal cards, walking around with an illegal modified Duel Disk, resisting authorities and the most important one bringing everyone in danger, those Sacred Beasts when I destroyed them the first time those cards were possessed by recreating them you risked those evil spirits coming back.' Jack added to the list.
Richard stood up as he took the device from the table, he walked up to Raz.
'This ain't gonna be pretty Jack.' Richard said as a warning.
'No I want to see this, I actually want to add the last one myself.' Jack coldly replied.
Richard turned the dial on the device then he pressed some buttons.
'Raz will get a Criminal Mark for the following criminal facts, creating of illegal cards, possessing a modified Duel Disk, using a modified Duel Disk, resisting officers can only be punished if the criminal did not resist with a Duel, on the account of the Skooma, possession of Skooma is not illegal, visibly having Skooma out on the streets is illegal, however the full bottles were found in the bar, it is unknown who actually owned the Skooma, Raz only had empty bottles which is perfectly legal, he didn't openly consume Skooma nor is proven that he sold any, so we have to drop that charge.' Richard took a headlock from the floor behind him and attached it to the chair then he strapped Raz's head in it.
Richard took a step back he held the gun-like device about a meter from Raz's face.
As he pulled the trigger three small lasers appeared from the tip, they slowly burned three new Criminal Marks on Raz's skin right on his chin, Raz howled as his skin was burned by the laser, when Richard was done Jack took the device over from Richard. 'Now I will be adding one for the fact that you recklessly recreated the Sacred Beasts.' Jack turned the dial back so that it would only set one Mark, then he turned another dial to it's max, he pushed the gun to Raz's forehead then pulled the trigger, Raz screamed and howled as the laser slowly burned a large, ''V'' shaped Criminal Mark across Raz's forehead, when Jack was done he placed the device back on the table, Richard had a look of shock on his face.
Richard and Jack sat in silence, Raz was still crying a bit, Richard was busy adding the new Criminal Marks to the database, suddenly Jack leaned forward a bit looking Raz straight in his eyes.
Leo had just reported in to all the Blades and Sector Security that Zelysy had died, he also told them that at least two people were involved one being a male the gender of the other was unknown they were clad in only black robes.
'You'd better talk now Raz, I want to know who those unknown people are, I am pretty annoyed right now.' Jack growled, the Khajiit tugged at his handcuffs but they wouldn't budge.
'I won't talk, I am dead if I talk.' The prisoner replied.
Jack took a metal bar that stood next to him then he grabbed Raz's hand, the scream of the Khajiit filled the air.
'Next time I break your wrist Raz, now TALK!'
The Khajiit drew back in fear, his eyes shifted to Richard.
'This is ordinary torture.' He squealed.
'The Blades work together with Sector Security, they are not part of Sector Security, I do not approve of torture but the circumstances leave not many options, what I am trying to say is I cannot stop Jack.' Richard said, Jack could hear the disapproval in Richard's voice.
For a few seconds Raz seemed to consider his options.
'Raz we know your back-story we know your real name is Rachid, you learned Skooma making from someone, someone who wanted you to kill a person with bad Skooma, someone who wanted you inside the prison so they had eyes on the inside, so they could tell Alduin and Miraak where to place the bombs to take out the entire facility.'
Richard looked at Jack with a surprised look on his face.
'When did you...' Richard started but Jack stopped him.
'Since the bombing of the facility I had a feeling something was wrong, when we were underway to Raz I went over the files again, I could find a connection for all the criminals except for Raz, even for what he did going to the facility was a bit much, people died to other drugs many times before, never was the punishment for the dealer this harsh if there was any punishment at all, somebody used their influence to get Raz inside there and I want to know who.'
Raz looked away nervously. 'I don't know who they are okay! There were two, both dressed in black robes and they covered their faces with a hood, only one of the two talked, a man, I couldn't find out if the other was male or female nor what their race was, but those two did not teach me how to make Skooma, that was a third one or maybe one of the first two pretending to be a third person, I only know that that person was female.' Raz rattled.
Jack sat back down.
'I'm done here.' He said: 'This confirms it another group is involved, at least two people both unknown, one male one female and probably a third, I'm gonna report this to the others, Richard I'll be waiting in your car, I need some time to think of our next move, you just order a transport for Raz, make it a armed transport, don't want anybody go and kill Raz here in the hopes of making him a Dark Signer.'
The moment Jack walked out the room Richard removed the handcuffs.
'Let me see your hand.' Richard said as he carefully took Raz's hand.
'Can you move it?' Raz nodded as he slightly moved his hand.
'Hurts.' He groaned.
Then Richard checked Raz's forehead.
'Damn Jack really was angry.' The captain felt the Criminal Mark: 'Left no damage, I will call in an ambulance to check it just to be sure.' Richard took the handcuffs from the table.
'Will you cooperate? Or else I need to put the cuffs back on, wouldn't be comfortable with your hand in this state.'
Raz sighted: 'I am dead anyway, no need for me to be difficult.'
Jack sat in Richard's car, he took the pager.
'This is Jack for all the Blades and Sector Security personnel, the escaped criminal Raz is arrested.'
Next time:
We go forward in time a bit.
Zelysy has just awakened as a Dark Signer, her task is laid before her, destroy the Blades HQ.
''Assault on Blades HQ'' coming next.