Authors Note: I wanted to thank you all, for what is going to be as of tomorrow, this fic hitting 300 reviews and the 50 chapter milestone. I'm glad so many enjoy my story, I'm trying to work on one shots to the side to help break off from repetitiveness. I hope I do well, but either way I hope you take care and enjoy!

"Where did that elite textoth go?! He was supposed to aid us in our next rampage!" Zeggfor impatiently waited on one of the shutdown assembly lines, looking around the closed factory. Xerain was sitting nearby, looking very bored. The locomotive monster just wanted to run as fast as he could, uncaring if it was into people, vehicles, through buildings or around the world. Anything was better than sitting around bored waiting for a missing elite textoth.

"He did seem a little hardheaded for an elite textoth. Perhaps it is another disobedient one turning against the Xeran Empire?" Xerain suggested, but his creator brushed that aside fast, hopping off the assembly line where tons of rats scurried everywhere around.

"The odds of another traitor textoth are a trillion to one… They would have to have nothing BUT the essence of one whole person, and from no other people… when all that essence is gathered and has a new body, its memories comes flooding back, resulting in an idiotic deserter that we have to waste time hunting… Thankfully, it's only happened three times thus far," Zeggfor elaborated. Traitorous textoth were not really textoth if they became traitors. It tended to mean they were people's emotions reborn into their new body. Anybody would be desperate to avoid death a second time, obviously.

"Should we send out a squad of disguised textoth to search for him, master? Every second wasted is another dozen essence we could have gathered gone," Xerain said. The general of offense was more than aware of the majesty's anger toward failure, but as long as they had gained a lot of essence, then it was a success and a means of survival.

"We've already gathered more than enough essence and already turned it over to the core. The majesty was impressed with you," Zeggfor said. For the first improved Xeran Elite, Xerain had done more than the last Xeran Elites combined together, most likely because of their power differences and use of tactics. It was hard to compete or even compare against what was essentially a tank on legs.

"I'm glad to be of a service to the Xeran race," Xerain laughed, looking down at the many rats running around before reaching down and picking one up. The vermin were not really scared of the monsters.

"This dimension's creatures are so similar to others. Yet, it's just the little differences that are the strangest," Xerain commented, not gaining anymore response from his master. Zeggfor was too focused on the whereabouts of their missing elite textoth to continue minor conversations about rats.

"Zeggfor!" A familiar voice caught their attention. They saw Lincoln Lynn and Lori standing on the upper platform there, having arrived minutes ago and making their dramatic entrance. The general of offense was immensely pleased.

"Guardian Red! I've waited so long for a chance at redemption against you," Zeggfor grinned. They watched as the general of offense detached one of the horns from his head and blew into it like a trumpet, a portal opening up as a ton of textoth immediately came out. Xerain stepped up as well to enter the upcoming battle.

"I lost count again," Lincoln groaned. Trying to keep track of textoth's numbers was difficult now that the Xeran were no longer hesitant on carelessly sending out a trove of them.

"I think it was like… fifty," Lori shrugged with her best estimated guess. The two guardians got their stars out.

"We're not going to let you get away with what you did last night," Lynn declared. Xerain laughed, just letting out a puff of smoke from the stack on his head.

"I'm the first of many improved Xeran Elites… There are many more Xeran warriors soon to come! Let's see if you guardians can put the brakes on this train!" Xerain readied as the textoth were drawing their bone weaponry, the jagged scimitars being accompanied by new bone daggers and razor-jagged short axes, pulled from all parts of their body.

"Let's settle this once and for all!" Zeggfor fired a large bolt of thunder from his hand at the upper railing, forcing the three to jump off to avoid the attack as the railing exploded.

"Guardian mode! Engage!" Lincoln and Lynn morphed as Lori stomped on top of two textoth upon landing to break her fall, slashing away a few around immediately with her drawn sword. The two guardians landed nearby as they knocked several of the skeletal monsters away themselves.

"Lock in!" They grabbed the fronts and backs of their helmets before hearing them clunk securely into place. They tapped the sides of their helmets, making their visors close. The teenage couple hoped that Lori, the one who insisted on coming, would be alright.

"Guardian Red! Guardian of the essence that fuels the flames of life!" Lincoln called out, ducking under an axe swung at his head, and grabbing the textoth and headbutting it to crack its skull, before slashing it away with his clawed gauntlet.

"Guardian Black! Guardian of the essence that gives strength to all life!" Lynn announced while blocking several swords with her guardian knuckles, knocking them back before giving one strong wide punch from her guardian knuckle to send the small band of attacking textoth flying across the room.

"Don't lay a hand on him! He's mine!" Zeggfor shoved a few textoth aside. Lincoln was grabbed and tossed aside, landing onto the assembly line. He was not that surprised that the general of offense wanted to duel him in a one on one battle, considering their last engagement got interrupted by the majesty.

"Hang on, Lincoln! I'm coming!" Lynn called out to her brotherly boyfriend, before hearing the sound of a train whistle ring out.

"You're mine, little guardian!" Xerain let out a burst of steam from his wheels and smoke from the stack on his head as he charged in a slow pace, but quickly went fast. Lynn put up her guard with her guardian knuckles before digging her Guardian boots into the ground, the locomotive monster colliding with her at full force.

"Wow… someone that survived a train collision head on! You guardians really are super humans!" Xerain shoved Lynn along the ground. Despite how hard she had dug herself in, she had wound up being pushed along, her feet leaving a long trail on the ground before breaking through the wall and flying outside with a cry of pain.

"It appears their plan is to divide and conquer," Lisa chimed in over the communicators, having taken a moment to get the notification of the guardian suits being activated, mainly because the child prodigy had been caught up in making Lori's guardian suit.

"Yeah, I gathered that!" Lincoln replied while Zeggfor jumped at him with both fists raised. Guardian Red pushed himself off the assembly line, watching it get broken in half by the strong attack. The general of offense was very unhappy with their last encounter, and was desperate to do things right this time.

"Dual mode! Engage!" Lincoln made the smaller second claw appear on his other wrist from his clawed gauntlet. He got up, lunging forward and stabbing. His attack was blocked as Zeggfor grabbed his arms and spun him around, before the monster's arm began sparking violently with electricity.

"Voltage Punch!" Zeggfor hit Lincoln in the chest a small explosion of thunder, sparks and smoke blasting off his suit's front as he got knocked back.

"It may be best if you retreat. You all threw the element of surprise away, clearly." Lisa recommended fleeing, now that her siblings had gotten rid of what they were very bad with.

"We can't run! They'll go on another rampage!" Lynn replied as she ducked under Xerain's punch. She hit the train monster in the face, hearing a loud clang as her guardian knuckle hit the grill on his face. In reply, the Xeran Elite blew a very hot burst of steam in her face that steamed up her visor so she could not see.

"Darn it, that's dirty fighting!" Lynn exclaimed, before she got punched into a few leftover boxes, breaking them into splinters.

"Don't cry over spilt blood! You're fighting a train! I'm about as fair as fair gets," Xerain laughed and charged for her again. Lynn jumped out of the way, watching him crash into the side of another factory building.

"We'll be fine! We do what we always do! Kill the textoth, kill the elite, and then make the general run!" Lincoln declared. As Zeggfor punched him in the face, he had the opportunity to stab one of his claws into the general of offense's arm, watching smoke blow of it before he pinned his arm to the ground.

"You filthy scum!" Zeggfor growled, his arm trapped. Lincoln let go of his second set of claws before beginning to hack and slash away at the general of offense, sending electrical smoke all around them.

"So this is what I'll have to put up with daily? Nothing different than when I was training under Teronzata," Lori thought. All the textoth had come after her since Zeggfor wanted to fight Guardian Red alone, and Xerain had taken Guardian Black away from sight. The blonde girl kept a very tight grip on her sword.

"At least we know what they were doing here now," Lori said. They had overheard the two Xeran talking about the elite textoth that had gotten sidetracked a while ago and defeated by her and Lynn. She blocked a set of daggers that had tried to get her from behind. "And I'm going to enjoy this lot."

Lori kicked the dagger wielding textoth back before spinning around and slashing its head, hearing its cries of pain as its mask exploded with smoke and sparks. The oldest loud had an idea. She may know only one of the Xeran's moves, but she could use it in a lot of conceivable ways.

"Scatter!" Lori twirled her sword, slashing in a full circle. A bright blue trail was created in her blade's wake. Any textoth that did not get back were cut in half and turned to dust. Lori jumped forward, stabbing a dual axe wielding textoth, piercing its skeletal head, and then taking the blade back out to block another textoth's blade.

"Will you get out of my way?! I have to go help my brother and sister!" Lori slid her sword along the jagged scimitar and ducked under the skeletal monster's swing before she slashed its side, watching the smoke and sparks explode from them.

"Ack!" Lori felt a sharp pain in her leg, where one of the swords hit her there. Another two textoth jumped at her, one digging a dagger into her side. The blonde girl blocked the other one swinging an axe at her. The three were in a bad situation here, each one separated when they were strongest together thus far.

"I don't have much choice but to kill them all," Lori realized while kicking the first textoth with its knives in her side. She ripped the bone daggers out, and stabbed the textoth that first slashed her shoulder. She would live with the blood loss.

"Scatter!" Lori spun and sent out a wave of sharp blue energy that cut half of the group of textoth down. A cloud of electrical smoke rose to the sky as the textoth fell over, beginning to turn into a giant pile of dust.

"Just hang on, Lincoln and Lynn…" She panted.

"I'm going to show you how useful I can be! I'm going to pay you back for saving me!"