Valt and Rantarou charged onto the jet as soon as the doors opened. Valt looked at Wakiya, literally inches from him face, spittle flying as he shouted, "You gotta tell us what's going on!"

Wakiya grimaced, shielding his face, "Stop it! You're slobbering everywhere!"

As Valt grinned apologetically as Daigo dragged him back, "Sit down. We're about to be debriefed as soon as the jet has taken off properly." He instructed.

The two nodded and obediently buckled in. After the jet was in the air, and they were allowed to remove their seatbelts, Wakiya stood up, a screen whirring to life behind him, "So, Shu was in the Raging Bulls last time I checked. He's been on a crazy winning spree since he started out on the world scene. Felicity... Was harder to track. But also easier. There is a huge international fanbase for her. Even though I don't why. They are pictures of her from all over the world. Canada, Spain, Mexico, Japan, USA. So she could be basically anywhere, except..." He pulled out a picture of a newspaper clip that had a picture of Felicity holding a mask and the headline, "World class Blader rejoining the Raging Bulls?"

"Look familiar?"

Daigo's eyes sharpened, "That Azure Eye guy had a similar mask."

Valt blinked, "What Azure Eye guy?"

Rantarou sighed, "From the island Royale, Valt!"

Valt grinned, "Oh, right, he looks kinda familiar!"

Wakiya nodded, "So, I had private detectives look into this, and they all agree that the most likely place they could be is at a training grounds in Mexico. In fact, there's a 300% chance that Shu and Felicity are there."

Rantarou snorted, "Are you serious? 300% is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Did you miss maths class?"

"Don't start this now, you two." Daigo sighed. "Look, the sooner we get this over with, the sooner we get Fliss and Shu back."

The two nodded, sighing. Wakiya huffed, "Alright. We're about to land in Mexico City. You should get ready."

The four nodded, scrambling to get their possessions together.

The plane started to decline, making a smooth landing, before opening the doors. The four quickly disembarked, into the hot sun.

"Oh my God, I think I'm melting." Rantarou complained.

Daigo was already slathering sunscreen on his face, "Yeah, no kidding."

Valt was already looking around wildly, "So where do we start? Is the Snakepit around here or something?"

"Don't be an idiot." Wakiya huffed, "Why would the Snakepit be here? It'll be somewhere in the woods. I'm gonna look over the footage from our flight here for any hints."

"So what do we do?" Daigo asked.

Wakiya waved them away, "Just explore or something. But stay out of trouble, please."

Valt saluted, "You got it! C'mon, guys, I smell food!"

He raced away, followed closely by Rantarou, with Daigo trailing behind the two.

Mexico was alright, he supposed. He wished Akiba was here, but he had ducked out, saying something about a paid position on a club.

After Felicity had made a hasty retreat home, Daigo had time to contemplate. He got asked to join AS Gallus by the boy he'd beaten at the Royale, and quickly rose through the ranks to team captain. It was all good. Especially when he had won against Valt in the European league. Felicity had spared nothing in making Deathsizor, and he was his best companion. He had meant to keep in contact with her, but she never picked up, nor responded to his texts.

Shu was a more casual acquaintance, someone who he knew and acknowledged. He had helped him a lot in getting used to the new Deathsizor, and he would never forget that. And now, he was gonna find them.

As, he stood and brooded as he watched Valt and Rantarou talk to the boy from the German team, a boy suddenly sidled up beside him, carrying a stack of books, "Hey! Is this bench taken?" He asked, referring to the bench Daigo was standing next to.

Daigo cast a glance at the boy, who looked vaguely familiar, "No. Go ahead."

The boy immediately set down his books, shoving them into his more manageable backpack, "Hey, thanks!" He grinned, taking a close look at Daigo, "Woah, you're Daigo Kurogami! From AS Gallus!"

Daigo nodded, "That's me. You a fan?"

The boy, who was still frustratingly familiar shook his head, "Not exactly. I used to play for the AS Gallus before. Glad to see that it picked itself out of its slump."

And then it clicked, "You're Boa Alcazaba." He was in some of the pictures in the AS Gallus HQ. One of the best bladers they had ever got before Daigo. He and Kajuri had become legends in the club before vanishing.

The boy now confirmed to be Boa blinked, "Woah, you know my name. That is so creepy."

He coughed, "Everyone from last year's lineup of AS Gallus talks about you. How you're legends."

Boa nodded, "That's cool. So what're you doing here?"

Daigo looked at where Valt and Rantarou were with the Ackerman boy, "We're looking for a friend of mine. Shu Kurenai. We don't really know where he is so we're checking out this place called the Snakepit."

Boa smiled at him, "Well, good luck I guess."

He nodded, "Thanks." And watched the boy make a run for it. What a weird kid.

Suddenly, Wakiya walked out, "Hey guys! We have found a location in the jungle for the Snakepit! Get in!"

Valt and Rantarou dashed into the plane, followed by Cuza, who was immediately stopped by Wakiya, "Who let the circus monkey in here?"

Cuza scowled, "I'm not a circus monkey! I wanna help you find your friends!"

Valt jumped to his defense, "Yeah! He really knows what he's doing! Please let him stay, Wakiya!"

Rantarou nodded, "Please!" And all three made puppy eyes. Daigo and Wakiya sweatdropped.

"Ugh, fine!" Wakiya snapped, "But that bird better not get the seats dirty."

Cuza saluted, "You can count on it! Karl is very well trained!"

Karl followed it up with, "Well trained!"

Wakiya scowled, "It better not do this the whole way, or I will personally murder it."

Daigo sighed, this was gonna be a long flight.

Boa sprinted into the safe house, where Kajuri was reading through hypnosis and psychology books. He looked up when Boa came in, "Did you get the books?"

Boa nodded, placing the bag down. "Everything on my list. Also I bring some unfortunate news."

Kajuri quirked a brow, "What news?"

Boa toed the ground, "Shu's friends have figured out he's missing. They're going to the Snakepit to look for him."

Kajuri glanced at the room where they had kept Red Eye, "They're going on a wild goose chase, though."

Boa nodded, "Yeah. They could be brainwashed too. Or killed."

Kajuri jolted up, "They don't do that anymore, right?"

Boa shrugged, "I've never seen them do it, but you never know."

Kajuri gulped, "We'll need to keep an eye on these guys. Where are they?"

Boa looked up, "Currently flying to their destination in a private jet."

Kajuri made a face, "They'll have adults with them, then. That'll make it fine."

Boa nodded, "Alright. Cool. But we should totally get started on Shu's unconditioning, right? I mean, if this goes on any longer they might get the police to start an investigation. And this face is not meant to go to juvenile detention. Ever."

Kajuri nodded, "Fine. I've looked through this. I've got a vague idea of what we're doing. Now, let's just hope we can pull this off."

The group landed at the airstrip and made their way through the jungle fairly quickly. It was ridiculously hot, and all of them were very sweaty by the time that it was done and they had reached the pyramid structure. The place looked mostly abandoned, with nothing there if importance. "Are you sure this is the right place?" Cuza asked.

Wakiya growled, "Of course this is the right place! Where else would this be?"

Cuza sweatdropped uneasily, "Sorry! I mean there's nothing here is there?"

Wakiya pouted, "Look around! There's gotta be something here!"

Just as he spoke, a voice rang out, "Trespassers aren't allowed. What is your purpose?"

They all spun around to look at the figure, leaning on the side of the structure. She had on a black and red mask, with clear eyepieces. Short choppy brown hair stuck up irregularly, and she wore a white trench coat with orange accents and no sleeves over a plain black shirt and tactical dark green pants. Her left hand was covered with a long glove, that reached up to her elbow, while the other was bare. She seemed to exude an aura of power in her sharp actions. They stared at her in shock, as she glared at them, "Do you have no purpose?!"

Wakiya jolted, "We're looking for two friends of ours. Felicity Comas and Shu Kurenai. I trust you've heard of him?"

The girl in the mask crossed her arms, grinning sharply, "The Kurenai boy escaped. Weeks ago he fled the place. We haven't heard of him since then."

Wakiya narrowed his eyes, "What about the girl? Felicity Comas?"

The grin was wiped off, replaced with a snarl instead, "Felicity Comas is no more. She is dead. That is the fate for all traitors."

There was a quick intake of breaths, then Valt yelled out, "It's not true! How dare you! Felicity would never die that easily!"

The girl repeated stiffly, "She's dead. She no longer exists. I don't know what childish beliefs you have of her, but they are wrong. She is not infallible. The girl was as delicate as the rest of us. She is dead, and her death will lead to the greatness of the Snakepit."

Rantarou spoke up next, "And who the hell are you? Bossing us around like you're better than us?"

The girl looked down her nose at them, "My name is Mirror Eye." She said snidely, "And I am better than you."

Valt growled, "That's so not true! Let's go, me and you! I'll kick your ass with Valtryek here!"

Mirror Eye sneered at him, before holding up an eerily familiar bey, "My Virus Falcon will cut you down before you land."

Daigo stared. Stunned. That bey... It looked exactly like Felicity's Falcon. Except, that Falcon was one of a kind. There were no others. And this one, something was off about it. There was another disk there. And it was pitch black, a startling difference from the mostly monochromatic bey. He stared at the way she was holding the bey, tilted to it's side, so you could get a look at it's other workings too. He had only see one other person hold a bey like that. Could it be...?

The sight of the modified bey enraged Valt even more, "Hey! That's not yours! Give it back! It belongs to Felicity Comas!"

He made to lunge at Mirror Eye, but the others held him back. This seemed to amuse the her, since she smirked, "Wow... A spitfire. That's rare." She nodded towards a bey stadium that was set up on the side, "How about you put your bey where your mouth is and let's go a few rounds? If I win, you leave here forever."

Valt grinned savagely, "Now we're talking! And if I win, you'll give us back Falcon, alright?!"

Mirror Eye smirked, "Sure. But you won't win."

They both pulled out their launchers, and took positions on opposite sides of the arena. 3! 2! 1! Let it... Rip!

The two beys zipped out, Falcon almost clipping the side of Valtryek, but missing by centimeters. Valt smirked, and looked up, and froze when he saw her blue eyepieces, "Weren't those just clear?" He yelped.

Rantarou gasped, "Yeah! How'd she do that?"

Daigo bit the inside of his cheek, mind already running through calculations. He didn't want to admit it, but it looked like it really was...

Falcon burst through Valtryek easily. She smirked as Valt gaped in shock. "Not so tough now? It's always the nail that sticks out the most that gets beaten down."

Valt took a deep breath, "Oh yeah! Well, I'm not done yet! We're going to find them! Even if it's the last thing I do!"

Mirror Eye was about to reply when she froze up. Her head tilted just sideways as though she was listening to someone in an earpiece. When she spoke next, it was flat, quiet, "Ashtem had agreed to test you. To see if are worth bothering about."

Rantarou nodded, "Hell yeah, we're worth bothering about! You better watch out."

The door of the structure opened, and out stepped two other masked bladers. One of them had silver tinted lenses and he looked at Mirror Eye with disappointment, "Really, Mirror? This is how you treat visitors?" Mirror Eye hung her head, but the other was already moving on, "My name is Silver Eye. And I've been sent to guide you through your trials. Come along now!"

The rest of them shuffled into the base, but Daigo held back, watching Mirror Eye be taken away by the other masked blader. He didn't want to believe it, but his suspicions kept nagging him. "Are you coming?" Silver Eye asked, pulling him out of his thoughts,

"Yeah, sorry." Daigo replied, hurrying after him. His suspicions will have to wait...