Finding the place where Erza was taken was a hassle, but the fact that Natsu was the major game piece in finding her captor's location was a bigger hassle due to his motion sickness.
"Are you sure this is the way?" Gray asked.
"Y-Yeah" Natsu said shakily, trying to hold in his vomit.
"This is truly troubling, what could they need Erza for after all this time?" Lucy said.
"What's more shocking is that Erza got defeated" Juvia said as Gray glared at the rain woman.
"She didn't get defeated so watch your mouth" Gray said as Juvia flinches in fear.
"Gray shut up, everyone has a moment of weakness and loses from time to time, it's called being human, they played her on her mental side for sure; also we're in the middle of the sea, Juvia has the chance to actually kill you" Jeff said flying from the sky.
"Sorry, it's just that this is getting me all worked up" Gray said.
"It's understandable, it's not everyday such a thing like this happens" Lucy said as a tall structure comes into view, heading straight for the place, the crew get off and try to come up with a plan to infiltrate and save Erza with Happy.
"Jeff-Sama there is an underwater entrance" Juvia said.
"Nice work" Jeff said parting her head, as Juvia blushes and gets in Lucy's face.
"Jeff-Sama praised Juvia, not you" Juvia said with a smug look.
"Yeah, I get it" Lucy said, sweat dropping.
"Anyways, how do we get there?" Gray asked.
"Swimming you dumbass" Natsu said.
"What'd you say flame breath?!" Gray asked annoyed.
"You heard me popsicle" Natsu said.
"Not now you two" Jeff said glaring at the two, as they straightened up and saluted.
"Yes sir" They said as Lucy sweat drops.
"Juvia can you do an air bubble helmet for them, I can hold my breath for at least 2 hours" Jeff said.
"How?!" Gray asked.
"When you have a captain for an idiot, you get to swim more than once a day; that and also training" Jeff said as Juvia creates air bubbles for the others, and jumping in with Juvia leading the way they are able to get to the entrance.
"Well, this seems easy" Lucy thought.
"Hey, who are you jerks and what are you doing here?!" A guard said as others were alerted.
"You just had to jinx us" Natsu said as they all beat the shit out of the guards, before a door suddenly opened and they head up the ladder to the next floor.
"We should be stealthy about this" Natsu said.
"Not much can be said after we beat those guards, they definitely know we're here" Gray said.
"Anyways, someone had to have opened that door from this side" Juvia said.
"So that would mean that someone is watching us, I would suspect that someone from the top is watching" Jeff said, summoning his katana and going to stage 2 transformation; just then Erza kicked the door in front of them, alerting them all before calming down.
"Seems you found us, we just have to save Happy then we can leave" Jeff said as Erza walks up to them.
"What are you all doing here?" Erza asked.
"What do you mean 'what are we doing?', we're here to save you" Natsu said.
"You can't save me, so go home" Erza said.
"No, we're here to save you" Gray said.
"I said go home, this is something only I can solve" Erza said as Jeff places his hand on her shoulder, looking her in the eyes.
"Erza, let us help you with what you're going through" Jeff said with a pleading expression, as Erza looks away.
"This is not a place you all should be, ease go home" Erza said.
"We can't leave, especially after coming this far" Gray said.
"Please, no matter what you do we will be by your side" Lucy said.
"Go home" Erza said.
"Erza we're giving you our strength, I know this may be hard but I know you've had those weak moments, so what's the problem now?" Jeff said before asking, as Erza looks back at them causing them to be shocked by her expression and Jeff's expression is neutral but his nose was blasting blood.
"Ah! Jeff you're bleeding" Lucy said.
"Juvia will save you Jeff-Sama" Juvia said, trying to stop the bleeding, as Erza wipes her tears away.
"Sorry, I'll let you in on what happened……" Erza said as she explained the R-System aka Tower of Heaven, telling them about her time as a slave, the people who she spent that with, their failed attempt to escape costing her her eye, then the torture of Jellal, they're revolt against the cultist, the death of Grandpa Rob, the activation of her magic, the release of Jellal, him going crazy and killing the cultists, the deal he'd forced on her and the burden he left he with.
"That bastard" Gray said.
"I can't believe your friend would do such a thing" Lucy said.
"Let's get to it then" Jeff said.
"What?" Lucy asked.
"Natsu has already gone, so let's get a move on, besides………." Jeff said as a demonic aura poured out shocking everyone.
"I can't let such a person get away with making Erza cry" Jeff said.
"We have to tread carefully if we are to get to Jellal" Erza said, as footsteps are heard, turning to see Shô there trying to understand what she had said and falling into despair, soon after a huge male with a skull like jaw shows up having revealed himself to be Simon, but also knowing that what Erza had said was true, soon they pull themselves together to form a team in hopes of beating Jellal and stopping the Tower Of Heaven.