Oh my god it's been nearly two months since I've updated, but an update nonetheless!

First and foremost, Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!

Secondly, thank you all for being so patient! I'm off of this semester now and will have now have more time to work on the story! I don't mean to take so long but I was working this out through my time in college and I didn't have too much time in the midst of it, but it is here now!

I won't say too much but will definitely have other chapters out faster than two months.

Enjoy everyone!

Onward!


Inside a dark void, shockwaves were seen amidst the black space. Golden aura clashed against dark purple aura rapidly, and the beings that emitted the energies repeatedly vanished from one spot to another.

Yusuke glared at Mira hard as he crossed his arms to block an incoming punch from the bio-android. Mira opened up the palm of his opposite hand and charged Ki, prompting the Time Patroller to leap away from his opponent, only for Mira to phase in front of him, and punched him in the face, staggering Yusuke.


Yusuke's eyes twitched, and blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.


Ann roared, and fired off a large Ki wave from both of her hands at the charging Mira.

Her attack went straight past him, and the Saiyan immediately shot her head up as Towa's creation appeared above her, and dived down with a fist ready to launch. Ann brought out her golden aura to intercept, and brought back her own fist.

Both fighters clashed their punches at one another, resulting in a large shockwave. As Ann brought back another arm to launch forward, Mira was faster in delivering a punch towards her stomach. Ann gritted her teeth, and inevitably keeled down in pain, wincing with a closed eye.


Ann's frown deepened, and blood leaked out of both corners of her mouth.

Marissa watched both Saiyans in sitting positions with their legs crossed, facing each other with their eyes closed. She sighed in her chair with worry, and looked at the other side of the room where the rest of the Fairy Tail members were at. Natsu was currently sitting on a windowsill, looking hard at the city and beyond while Happy sadly sat below him on the floor. Lucy and Wendy were sitting on a couch with the former having her hands on her head, her elbows on her knees, lost on what action to take while the latter looked downcasted, also lost on how to approach their next course of action. On the table of the room they were all currently at was Carla, scribbling on a piece of paper with haste.

It was only about a minute or so later that Natsu grew impatient, and stepped onto the floor.

"I can't wait any longer… I'm going in!" Natsu announced.

"Wait just a little longer!" Carla interrupted.

"And why should I?!" He shouted.

"Because I'm almost done with the plan that we can use… the images that have been popping up in my head have been coming up more frequently ever since we arrived here." Carla explained calmly as she continued to write on the paper.

"What are you even doing?" Marissa asked.

"I'm coming up with a plan obviously… in order to return everyone back to normal." The white feline answered, causing Natsu to let out an irritated sigh of impatience.

"Everyone's been turned into that Lacrima… how do we change them back…?" Wendy meekly asked.

"... … we have no choice but to ask the King himself if we were to turn everyone else back." Carla said.

"... there's no way he'll tell us." The youngest dragonslayer said.

"Wait… would the King really know how to change everyone back?" Lucy asked, standing up from her seat.

"He'd be the only person I'd ask after that annoying speech he gave…" Marissa growled.

"I have an idea then. If we can get close to the King, then that will give us a chance to get everyone back to normal!"

"How do we do that exactly?" Wendy asked, looking up at the blonde.

"We use Gemini! They can transform into anyone they touch, and when they do, they'll have everything that person knows! So if we can get Gemini to touch the King, then we'll know how to turn everyone back!" Lucy explained, causing Natsu's and Wendy's features to brighten while Marissa gave a blank look of wonder. "However, their max time to transform is only five minutes, and they can only transform up to two people at a time… so if they happen to transform into someone new, then they won't be able to transform into the older one."

"I'm curious… think you can bring them out?" Marissa asked.

"Oh, uh, sure." Lucy reached into her satchel and pulled out Gemini's golden key.

OPEN! GATE OF THE TWINS: GEMINI!

Golden light appeared in front of Lucy, and out of it came the two Celestial Spirits Gemi and Mini. They danced around before floating in front of Lucy.

"How can we…" Gemi started to say

"... be of service?" Mini finished.

"Aww, they're so cute." Marissa went up to the duo spirits and giggled to herself. Gemi and Mini twirled around the Earthling before they both touched her shoulders.

The Celestial Spirits moved away from the rest and smoke surrounded them. A moment later, another copy of Marissa was seen standing in the room with a grin on her face and her hands on her hips.

"Hi there!" Gemini introduced.

"Whoa… a spitting image of myself, but literally! That's so cool!" Marissa gushed.

"The name's Marissa! Seventeen years old, loves hot chocolate, and a hopeless romantic!" Gemini said.

The grin from Marissa's dropped, and she dropped to the ground, sulking and making circles with her finger on the ground.

"... not that hopeless…" Marissa uttered.

"E-Ehehe… why don't we move onto something else?" Lucy said with a sweatdrop.

"Oh! I know!" Marissa exclaimed, immediately standing back up. "Why don't we try it on Bro? I really want to ask him something."

"No probl" Gemini responded, and walked over to the sitting Yusuke. Almost cautiously, Gemini outstretched an arm to touch Yusuke's shoulder, and managed to do so ever so gently.

Yusuke's left closed eye twitched ever so slightly.

Gemini took a few steps back and turned around to face the rest of the group. Smoke surrounded the spirit for a moment before revealing another copy of the male Saiyan with his arms crossed and smirking.

"Yo." Gemini greeted.

"Oh my god, this is too good." Marissa rubbed her hands together with a large grin.

"What did you want to ask him?" Wendy asked.

"What did you and Amber do that one time when she took you to go shopping?" Marissa asked.

"Hm…" Gemini closed its eyes in thought. "I can't exactly remember."

"Huh?" Marissa turned her head towards Lucy. "I thought you said they know everything the person they touch knows."

"I-I mean… they should… shouldn't you?" Lucy asked Gemini.

"Well, it's only recent stuff that person remembers. Like having four plates of pancakes this morning!" Gemini said with a grin.

"Aww... what a bummer." Marissa slumped forward.

"Anything else you think you could ask?" Happy asked.

"Hm…" Marissa thought for a while until someone familiar spoke up.

"Hey…"

Marissa flinched and looked behind her to see Yusuke look at her somewhat irritated, and was wiping the blood off the corner of his mouth.

"Kind of impolite trying to get into my head, Kid." Yusuke stated, crossing his arms.

"Uh… h-hey Bro… done with your image training already?" Marissa nervously said.

"I've been done… the moment when I felt Lucy's spirit touched me."

"...oh. So about my first question-"

"I told you before, I'm not saying anything." Yusuke interrupted.

"...fine." Marissa pouted.

"Still, pretty neat that Gemini was able to copy me." Yusuke commented, walking up to his lookalike.

"Ya got no magic power! It was easy as pie!" Gemini gleefully exclaimed, causing Marissa to snicker behind the Saiyan.

"O-Oh my god… when would you ever hear him say those words? Haha!" Marissa laughed.

"Aside from that… when did you get this spirit?" Yusuke asked Lucy.

"You helped out with that remember? Back when we we teamed up with Blue Pegasus and Lamia scale to fight against Oracion Seis. That Angel women had keys, and I made contracts with them after we came back." Lucy explained.

"...oh yeah. I forgot this thing copied that Ichiya creep." Yusuke looked back at Gemini, slightly narrowing his eyes. He turned his head back towards the others. "Anyway, do we have a plan of attack yet?"

"Yes, we do now." Carla answered, and hopped off the table towards the group. She held a piece of paper in hand and presented it to the others. It was a sketch of a map of the city in a circular shape with the King's castle right in the middle. There was also a location of a coal mine labeled along with a location of an underground passage.

"What is that?" Lucy asked.

"It's how we will get close to the King while using your spirit in order to gain information on how to revert everyone back." Carla answered.

"What does it mean exactly?" Natsu asked.

"There is a mine that is connected to the King's castle with an underground passage. We can enter there and infiltrate from the inside." Carla explained.

"That's amazing… how did you know this?" Wendy asked her friend.

"Information keeps popping up inside my head, like I've explained before." Carla responded.

"So we get inside the castle, use Lucy's spirit to make contact with the King, and then we'll be set?" Marissa asked.

"Yes. As long as everything goes according to plan, then we should be able to turn everyone back to normal with no problems. We will go at night time, so now it is a good time for everyone to rest."

Shuffling can be heard from behind everyone, and they looked to see Ann standing up from where she sat. Opening her eyes, Ann spat out blood to the side and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Catching the other's' gazes, she raised an eyebrow to see another copy of the male Saiyan.

"What the hell is going on?" Ann asked.

"Man, she sure is feisty, good thing I know I can stand up to her!" Gemini exclaimed.

"Oh boy…" Marissa muttered.

"... ...you want to say that again Tarok?" Ann angrily snarled as a tick mark was formed on her forehead.

"Hey, it wasn't me." Yusuke said with his hands up in defense.

"...I think it's time for you to return Gemini…" Lucy nervously said, and forced closed the celestial spirit back to its own world.

Ann sighed to the side, and looked at the group again before speaking. "It looks like you guys came up with something, mind filling me in?"

"Yeah." Marissa nodded. "We'll use Lucy's spirit, Gemini, that was here just now to copy the King so that we'll be able get the information to get everyone back to normal."

"And how do we get close to the King?"

"With this." Marissa grabbed Carla's drawing that was laid on the table, and showed it to Ann. "Apparently if we go through the mine there and travel underground, we'll be under the castle so we can infiltrate it."

Ann took the piece of paper and looked at it. "It's not exactly my type to approach things… but whatever. I'll go along with it."

"Then we all go tonight. Everyone should rest up for the time being and prepare." Carla stated.


Night had come shortly after the plan to rescue everyone back on Earthland was introduced. With Carla being the guide, everyone in the group followed the white feline to their destination of the mines.

The group continued to walk until they reached to a cliff that can be easily missed if people were to walk around and not pay attention. At the base of it, was the entrance to the mine, and the entire group stopped at just in front of it.

"It's pretty dark…" Lucy said.

"If only I could use my fire…" Natsu muttered.

"No problem! I got the solution!" Marissa exclaimed, and held out a hand to bring out a bright ball of Ki. She grinned to everyone else. "Alrighty, shall we start exploring?"

Mostly everyone nodded, and with Marissa now in the front, but just behind Carla, the group entered the dark mine with the Earthling illuminating their surroundings, and began to travel through.

It was a long and silent walk with nothing happening so far for the Fairy Tail group. Eventually, they all arrived in front of a stone constructed wall with planks of wood stuck on to it. On one of the planks of wood, there were letters and numbers of "KY-20" carved onto it.

"It's coated in magic… probably to prevent it from falling and letting anyone in or out." Lucy said as she touched the wall.

"We have to get through here in order to reach the castle." Carla stated.

"Leave that to me then!" Lucy exclaimed and brought out a golden key from her satchel.

OPEN! GATE OF THE GOLDEN BULL: TAURUS!

In a bright golden light, Taurus appeared in front of Lucy and the group.

"Alright Taurus, break this down!" Lucy ordered.

"Moo! Of course!" Taurus brought back an arm, and focusing on his strength, he punched the wall a few seconds later and the entire thing came crashing down.

Ahead of the destroyed wall, everybody was able to see another passageway thanks to Marissa's source of light. With the job done, Lucy called back Taurus.

"I didn't think there'd be anything behind this." Lucy said.

"Me too… you've really thought this all out haven't you, Carla?" Wendy said.

"It can't be helped that all of this has been in my head to plan out… I only hope this will lead into the basement of the castle…" Carla said.

As the group continued on, Natsu noticed Happy slowing down his movements, and looking down on the ground.

"What's wrong buddy?" Natsu asked.

"... why can't I get all of this information in my head… I should be the same, aren't I?" Happy meekly asked, rubbing his forehead. The group looked at each other with no answer, besides Carla.

"You promised me that you wouldn't ask, remember?" Carla said.

"A-Aye…"

"Let's move on further inside."

And so the group continued doing so. Along the way however, the two Saiyans lagged behind the mages and their Earthling friend who was supplying the light for the group in the front, but Ann walked up towards Yusuke.

"I think we're close… but do you feel all of that?" Ann asked the male Saiyan in a hushed voice.

"What is it?" Yusuke asked.

"A bunch of energy signatures… up ahead."

"Should we let them know?"

"I don't recommend it." Ann answered, causing Yusuke to look at her with a curious eyebrow raised.

"Why is that?" Yusuke asked.

"Feel closely. Recognize someone?"

Yusuke sensed ahead with closed eyes, feeling a large number of small energy signatures, and one standing out, who he was familiar with since coming to Edolas.

"It's Erza… of this world." Yusuke muttered. "But… why would she be all the way down here?"

"Beats me… you don't think she knows about what we're about to do, right?" Ann asked.

"Shouldn't be… there's no way." Yusuke said.

"That's why if something happens… we shouldn't do anything then."

"What? Why?"

"We want to get into the castle, right? If they're not there by some mere coincidence, then this can be a good chance to not cause any trouble." Ann explained, and looked ahead. "Stealth isn't our strong suit… it's a good opportunity to sneak in."

"So if they do happen to find and catch us… we're just not gonna do anything?" Yusuke asked, and the female Saiyan nodded.

"It'll catch them off guard once we start to take action once it's necessary. If we don't want to put anyone back on Earthland in danger that is, then we have to be patient."

"... I don't like it. What bothers me the most is why soldiers, let alone Erza, are over at the mine at this time. Something's not right." Yusuke said, and they both continued moving along with everyone else.

Carla kept leading everybody through twists and turns through the tunnels of the mine. With Yusuke and Ann still just behind everyone else, they sensed the group of energy signatures ahead of them. At times, they looked at each other with knowing glances as they progressed further into the mine.

Within time, the group arrived into a clearing in the mine. There was plenty of room in the space in front of them, and the Time Patrollers tensed up a bit.

"We should be close now… the basement of the castle should be shortly up ahead." Carla said.

"I gotta say… it's pretty impressive that you guided us." Lucy complimented.

"It can't be helped, all of this just popped in my head."

"Thanks Carla!" Happy said.

"Save that for when we rescue everyone back to normal. After we enter the castle comes the hard part where we will need to sneak into the King's quarters and come out with no problems."

As the mages talked, Marissa slowly treaded her way back towards the Saiyan silently.

"Do the both of you feel all of that?" Marissa hushly asked the two Saiyan's, and they nodded.

"Yeah… a while back." Yusuke said.

"Mari, whatever happens, we can't do anything reckless." Ann said.

"What? Why? They basically have us surrounded!" Marissa hushly said.

"Kid, trust us on this…" Yusuke whispered back, and the Earthling sighed quietly.

The three Time Patrollers walked back towards the mages who hardly noticed them by the side.

"Well, if we do run into any trouble, I'm sure Yusuke and I will be able to handle it no problem." Lucy boasted.

"How about us…" Ann deadpanned.

"Yeah! You consider us chopped liver or what?" Marissa exclaimed.

"Of course I meant you guys as well!" Lucy quickly said.

"Come on everyone, we should go." Wendy took one step forward until all of a sudden, a substance came flying out of nowhere and wrapped itself around the sky dragonslayer, causing her to tumble and fall to the ground. "Ah!"

"Wendy!" The others exclaimed, and as Natsu ran over to her, more of the substance came out of nowhere and wrapped itself around the fire dragonslayer. Same with Wendy, Natsu yelped and lost his balance. When more of the unknown substance came out and wrapped it around his mouth caused him to crash to the ground.

At the same time, more of the substance flew towards Lucy and the Time Patrollers. While the blonde was unlucky to escape from it, the three Time Patrollers phased out in time to dodge from being caught in it.

Appearing just a ways away from the mages and cats, Yusuke, Ann and Marissa saw several soldiers holding torches of fire and weaponry surround the Fairy Tail mages and Time Patrollers. Near the mages, Erza Knightwalker appeared out of the array of soldiers, and stood next to Lucy who was on her knees.

Instinctively, all three Time Patrollers extended their arms out to defend, but a quick reaction from Knightwalker where she stomped Lucy to the ground, causing the blonde to cry out, and placed the blade of her spear next to the Celestial Mages neck.

"One move, and I will not hesitate to end her." Was Knightwalker's one threat that caused the Patrollers to grit their teeth in frustration. The sight of Knightwalker caused Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Happy and Carla to widen their eyes in surprise as it was the first time seeing her.

"Damnit…" Yusuke muttered angrily. His eyes winced when he saw Lucy struggling from under Knightwalker's boot, as well as shaking from having a weapon up against her.

"W-Why are there so many here…" Wendy weakly said, surveying her surroundings. Just next to her, Natsu squirmed violently on the ground, trying to break free.

"H-How…" Happy shakily asked, and next to him, Carla looked around her disbelievingly, also shaking.

"Hm. So these are the Earthland mages…" Knightwalker observed, and rolled Lucy around with her boot so that she was on her back, still keeping her spear close to the blonde. She took a look at Lucy's face, and glanced over to Natsu's next. "And they look just like Lucy Ashley and Natsu Dragion... "

Knightwalker looked over to the Time Patrollers, meeting up with their glares with one of her own.

"Resisting is futile." Knightwalker stated, and placed her spear an inch closer to Lucy's neck, causing her to cry out. The counterpart of Erza narrowed her eyes knowingly towards the Patrollers.

Yusuke growled audibly, and just briefly his eyes went over to Ann, who looked back at him sternly. He went to Marissa's eyes next, and saw the slightest insecurity within them, but gave him a knowing look. Taking a breath, Yusuke closed his eyes and exhaled. Slowly, he brought back his arm that was extended out, and held out his hands to his sides.

"We surrender." Yusuke announced, and Ann and Marissa also held their hands to the side shortly after.

"Hmph… Smart. Contain them." Knightwalker ordered, and the substance that held the Fairy Tail mages in place were also wrapped around the Time Patrollers from the soldiers' weapons. "Take them away."

The soldiers began dragging the captives away. While the mages kept struggling, the Patrollers were tugged along with little resistance.

"Wendy!" Carla cried out, but was stopped when Knightwalker pierced her spear on the ground. She looked down at the two cats.

"Exceeds." Knightwalker simply said, confusing Carla and Happy. The Fairy Tail group looked at the interaction, and was greatly surprised when Knightwalker and every single soldier present, besides the ones who held their captives, kneeled down in front of Carla and Happy. "We welcome you back."

"What the…" Marissa muttered, watching the scene.

"Congratulations on escorting the trespassers."


"Make sure it's locked tight." A soldier ordered another soldier, who was currently locking Lucy, Yusuke, Ann and Marissa in large cuff boards made out of wood that was chained from the ceiling, and entrapped their wrists and neck.

"That should keep them in place." Another soldier said, finishing up locking up Yusuke. After doing so, he walked over to the cell door where other soldiers were waiting, and closed the door behind him, locking it.

Footsteps clanked on the stone floor farther and farther away from the cell room.

"What happened back there?" Lucy said through her teeth, slightly glaring at the three Time Patrollers.

"You were pinned under her!" Marissa reasoned.

"But you guys are fast enough, aren't you?"

"We had reasons why we didn't act." Ann spoke up, and looked over at Lucy. "We wanted to get into the castle, but not cause a ruckus? We figured that was a good chance."

"Plus, we knew they were there beforehand." Marissa added in with her head down in shame.

"What?!" Lucy screeched. "And you didn't bother to tell the rest of us?"

"Calm down Lucy… we didn't tell because if everyone else knew, then we probably would have changed the entire plan, and wasting more time than we already have." Yusuke reasoned, and directly looked at the blonde. "We got into the castle no problem. They think they really got us that that we can't do anything. If we have that element of surprise, then we can get the jump on them."

"We can't really go back to our original plan… could we?" Lucy asked, processing his words.

"We could. But they know we're here now, I'm not sure if it'll work." Marissa answered.

"Then… you haven't thought of anything further than this?"

"...not really." Marissa said, and Lucy sighed.

"I hope Wendy and Natsu are alright… but, what about Happy and Carla?" Lucy said.

"Yeah, that was a surprise… them being these Exceeds?"

"Angels of this world… hm. Not too sure about that." Yusuke commented.

"Well the people here really think so. With how the Erza of this world and those soldiers reacted, they must see them in high regards." Lucy said.

"... you don't think they betrayed us, do you?" Marissa asked.

"No! They wouldn't…" Lucy trailed off, and looked down on the ground.

"... I don't sense them here… but Natsu and Wendy are at the opposite side from where we're at" Yusuke said.

"But why did they separate them from us? What do they want from them?" Marissa questioned.

"I don't know... " Yusuke clenched his fists.

"I just hope they're safe…" Lucy muttered.

"... god this is uncomfortable." Ann commented, shaking around that resonated the chains connected to the board around her.

"We're just gonna have to make do for now. Least until something happens." Yusuke said. But just as he said that, he turned his head towards the cell door, sensing someone just outside.

Marissa and Ann made the same gestures with turning their heads towards the door, sensing a person. Lucy looked up at the door as well, hearing footsteps out in the quiet hall.

"It's Erza…" Marissa whispered.

"... Eh?!" Lucy quietly exclaimed.

The cell door opened up, and all four inside the room looked up to see Edolas Erza walk in with her spear in hand. She looked down at each of the four individually, and narrowed her eyes when hers met with Yusuke. Knightwalker walked over to the male Saiyan and lifted up her spear.

"Yusuke!" Lucy shouted, and Knightwalker forced her weapon down onto Yusuke.

Knightwalker broke apart the wooden board around Yusuke, and he hunched over and glanced up at her.

"Get up." Knightwalker demanded, and grabbed ahold of Yusuke's collar of his gray jacket. The male was forced to stand up, and Erza's counterpart pulled him towards the door. "Restrain him."

A couple of soldiers came from the side of the doorway with the weapons that were used to hold them in place. They forced Yusuke to turn around and held his arms behind his back. After doing so, Yusuke felt more of the substance wrap around his hands, holding him in place.

Looking forward with narrowed eyes, Yusuke saw Knightwalker walk over to Marissa, and just like what she did with him, Knightwalker broke apart the wooden board around her. Edolas Erza forced the Earthling up by her shirt, and pushed her towards the soldiers.

"Ah! Watch it!" Marissa exclaimed, and the soldiers also restrained her hands behind her back.

"What are you doing with them?" Ann demanded.

"What needs to be done." Knightwalker responded, turning her head back to look at Ann with a smirk.

Ann narrowed her eyes and looked towards Marissa, and quirked an eyebrow.

Marissa looked over towards Yusuke discreetly with a curious eye, and the Saiyan quickly shook his head.

The Earthling shrugged, and seeing so gave Ann her answer.

Knightwalker grabbed Marissa's collar and held up the tip of her spear towards her neck.

"Start walking." Knightwalker commanded, looking at Yusuke who currently had his eyes furrowed.

The soldiers beside him forced him away from the cell room by grabbing ahold of his arms. Knightwalker let herself and Marissa out, and closed the cell door behind her.

"Where are you taking us?" Marissa asked.

"You'll find out soon." Knightwalker answered.

"Do you really think it's right to keep a hostage? I'd thought you'd have more honor Erza." Yusuke said, glancing back.

"Hmph.I will not take any chances with the stunts you've pulled. I will eliminate all those affiliated with Fairy Tail."

With the hallways coming to an end, both Patrollers could see light up ahead. Walking out of the hallway, they winced their eyes from the brightness of the sun. After clearing up their vision, they could see other soldiers out in a clearing that was high up on the building they were at, and there were two groups of soldiers that had two large objects that very much resembled cannonballs.

Yusuke stopped in his tracks for a second, eyeing the stone objects with a raised eyebrow, but was forced forward by the soldiers besides him who still held his arms in place.

While Knightwalker walked Marissa over to one group of soldiers, on the opposite side of them Yusuke arrived at the other group of soldiers where one had a large metal bracelet in hand while at least four soldiers were around the large stone objects.

Yusuke felt himself being pulled forward even more as his ankles were now being embraced by the bracelet that was connected to the stone balls.

"Get moving." A soldier ordered, and Yusuke once again found himself moving by the soldiers beside him.

'I guess I can act it out…' Yusuke idly thought, hardly feeling the weight of the objects that were connected to him.

Marissa watched on from a distance as she saw Yusuke struggling to walk while the soldiers around her connected metal bracelets to her ankle, also being chained with the stone orbs.

'...really Bro?' Marissa deadpanned in thought. She blinked once and looked ahead where the male Saiyan was walking to. '...a ledge?'

"You two, keep her in place." Knightwalker commanded towards a couple of soldiers beside her.

"Yessir!" both soldiers went and grabbed both of Marissa's arms and brought up their spears towards her neck. The Earthling instinctively brought her head back, and sighed in irritation.

Knightwalker walked towards the edge of the building where Yusuke arrived, who was currently looking down from the high distance.

"Leave us." Knightwalker ordered the two soldiers that were beside Yusuke, and they both went left their Captain and the prisoner alone.

"You're not serious, are you?" Yusuke asked.

"It is the only means that has been brought up to avoid that trick you and your friends pull with all of your flying." Knightwalker answered.

"Why do this? What do you gain if you were to do this?"

"That answer is simple… satisfaction." Knightwalker grinned and went to grab Yusuke's shoulder. She forcefully turned him around to the side, stepped forward once as he did so as well, and the next thing Yusuke knew he was hanging from the ledge with Knightwalkers support of her hand grabbing the collar of his jacket, and having both of his feet touching the ledge.

"You don't have to do this!" Yusuke exclaimed.

"In this case, I do have to. But, even if I didn't, I would have wanted to in the first place." Knightwalker smirked at him, and Yusuke narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth.

"You're sick."

"I'm sure you've heard of my title… The Fairy Hunter. You're apart of Fairy Tail, and that is no exception, even if you are from Earthland."

"So what, kill me first then kill her? Is that what's going to happen?" Yusuke asked, and looked over at Marissa.

"No, you'll be the first to go. But I can only imagine the suffering look on her face once I throw you off. She'll go later." Knightwalker answered, her smirk widening.

Yusuke locked eyes with the Edolas' Erza, and turned his head towards Marissa. "Sorry Kid, you'll be on your own!"

'Great…' Marissa inwardly rolled her eyes. She struggled a bit in order to alert the soldiers, and forced her to keep her in place. "No! Stop!"

"You won't win…" Yusuke said towards Knightwalker.

"We'll see about that." With their final words said towards each other, Knightwalker pushed Yusuke off the ledge of the building.

"Nng!" The chained balls that were connected to Yusuke also fell along with him, and Knightwalker continued watching from the edge, her grin intact.

Hearing a satisfying faint thud from down below, Knightwalker turned around and walked away. She looked over towards Marissa, who currently stood frozen with her mouth slightly open.

"Take her back to her cell. Execution complete."


"So uhm… how did you and Yusuke meet?" Lucy nervously asked Ann. The female Saiyan looked over towards the blonde, and she recoiled a bit. "Y-You don't have to talk if you don't want to…"

"No… it's fine." Ann sighed.

After Yusuke and Marissa were dragged away from the prison cell, Ann sat back and did nothing but wait for them. It was only a few minutes after before Lucy started to try and make a conversation.

"I'm sure he's told you about how he joined the Time Patrol, fighting against the Time Breakers and all of that." Ann said, and she saw Lucy nod. "It's funny honestly, now that I think back on it…"

"What happened exactly?"

"Long story short… he was basically assigned along with a mission I took back on Earth. I was against it, but our superior was firm in his decision. By the end of it… I was on the short end of the stick and he had to help me." Ann explained. "At that time, I was pretty angry at him, and how far he's helped the Time Patrol in such a short amount of time. I guess you can just call that jealousy…"

"Do you still feel that way about him?"

"Oh hell yeah, definitely." Ann simply answered, but continued. "Maybe now it's… not as much."

"How long have you known him? Maybe that played a factor." Lucy asked.

"That's hard to say honestly… I probably first met him shortly after he joined. Ever since then, he's been performing missions for the Supreme Kai of Time to revert any distortions in our timeline so that it flows naturally. I'll be honest, with how much he's done in just a short amount of time even amazes me."

"Do you mind if you can elaborate…?"

"You're pretty bored right now aren't you?"

"I mean, I don't think it's all that bad getting to know you. That way, we can be friends can't we?" Lucy said with a smile.

Ann widened her eyes by a small margin at Lucy's answer and looked away, feeling her face heat up.

'...why am I feeling happy?' Ann rapidly thought.

"...is something wrong?" Lucy asked.

"I-It's nothing." Ann bit her lip, inwardly cursing herself from stuttering and now feeling a bit embarrassed. "What did you ask again?"

"Oh, I was just wondering if you could go into detail about how much he's done to help the Time Patrol out in just a short amount of time."

"Right… I mean, technically that short amount of time could have been pretty long for everyone. We had the advantage to manipulate time on our side. Tarok probably took the most out of that. It would make the most sense since he blew nearly all of us away in terms of strength and power."

"I see… so how about Marissa?" Lucy asked next.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean, how did the two of you meet?"

"Wouldn't Mari have told you that already?"

"It didn't really come up whenever I've talked to her…" Lucy answered, making Ann sigh quietly.

"It was before we both met Tarok if you were wondering about that. She gets pretty excited whenever we get new members to join the Time Patrol. I was no exception." Ann said, and smiled a bit. "She pretty much grew on me, and I suppose the same can be said for both her and Tarok."

"I can see that, she has a pretty hyper personality." Lucy commented.

"It's different once she starts to fight seriously. Then again, I suppose that's all of us." Ann stated, almost solemnly.

"You won't get away with this!"

Ann and Lucy perked up at Marissa voice from outside their prison cell. They could hear her struggling along with chains rattling.

The prison door opened abruptly, and Marissa was seen being thrown inside. Lucy and Ann gasped at the chained balls that were connected to Marissa. The Earthling wriggled a bit, and looked towards the door, glaring at a grinning Knightwalker.

"Mari!" Ann exclaimed.

"W-What happened?" Lucy shakily asked.

"I swear! When I get out of here, you're going to pay for what you did!" Marissa screeched, tears forming in the corner of her eyes that Erza's counterpart could see..

"I would say I'd like to see you try, that is, if you can survive later." Knightwalker said. She chuckled and closed the cell door behind her, and walked away.

Marissa sniffled on the ground as she heard the footsteps go farther and farther. When she couldn't hear them anymore, and sensed Knightwalker was far away enough, she turned her body to face Ann and Lucy.

"So, how was my acting?" Marissa said with a grin.

"Acting?!" Lucy shrieked.

"Mari…" Ann sighed. "Where's Tarok?"

"I dunno. He got pushed off the building by her, so he should be fine." Marissa shrugged.

"You say that so casually…" Lucy sweatdropped.

"I almost found it funny that they used these on us." The Earthling stood up and lifted up a leg, which also brought up the stone ball that was chained onto her. "Probably thought it'd stop us from getting away. Pfft, they wish."

"You said Yusuke got pushed off a building… and he just let it happen?"

"Yeah. I guess he really wants to get the drop on them later."

"Well he's not doing much… he's just down below not doing anything at all." Ann said, sensing where the male Saiyan was at currently.

"I'm sure he'll do something or later. Until then, guess we'll just have to wait until he takes action." Marissa said, sliding against the wall to sit down next to Ann.


Two soldiers of the Royal Army were currently walking through a stone hallway.

"So you said this guy fell all the way from the top of the East Tower?" A soldier said with a mop in hand.

"Yeah. Captain Knightwalker just threw him off. Least that's how one of my buddies said who was there." Another soldier said, a bucket full of water and soap in hand.

"So… I guess we're just there going to clean up the mess?"

"Pretty much. You can probably imagine the damage done to a person if they were to fall from that height."

"I… don't think I want to."

"Well, you're not gonna look forward to what you're gonna see next then."

"Why the hell are we even assigned to doing this?"

"Hey, Knightwalker's orders. She'd probably kill us if we didn't listen."

"Ugh, I guess this is the better option then."

"Yeup. Wonder how many Fairy Tail members she's killed now."

"Must have been alot, wasn't it?"

"That's what I've heard."

The conversation between both soldiers ended when they reached the end of the hallway into a small courtyard. Just a short ways ahead of them they could see a small crater.

When both of them reached to the edge of the crater, they both widened their eyes by the sight of a body that has been chained with two stone balls attached to both of his ankles.

"What the hell, isn't there suppose to blood, limbs and bones everywhere?" The soldier with the mop said, looking all around the crater.

"That's… really odd." The soldier with the bucket of water entered the crater with the other just following behind him.

When both soldiers arrived to inspect the body, the person currently has his eyes closed and mouth slightly open.

"I can't even tell whether this guy's dead or alive." The one with the mop said.

"Safe assumption is dead. C'mon, who would survive a fall from that kind of height? On top of that, this guy had those on him." The soldier with the bucket pointed over to the chained balls. "Get real man."

"I… guess we should drag this guy away to the morgue or something."

"We don't even have the keys to unlock the braces on him… damn it this is gonna suck… Alright, I'll take this side, you go on the other."

The soldier with the mop threw the mop away and went over to the opposite side of the body.

When both soldiers went to grab body's arms, the next thing they knew they were hanging in the middle of the air with their mouths covered up by a hand.

It took a few moments for both soldiers to blink and process their situation when they let out muffled screens when their eyes saw another pair of eyes looking at them, and a face that held a smirk.

"Don't worry you two, I won't do anything too damaging. Say goodnight boys." Yusuke knocked their heads together and in an instant, both soldiers fell unconscious.

Yusuke bent and broke the braces around his ankles with ease, and went to stretch his body next.

"Alright… no one else around here… what to do next…?" Yusuke muttered to himself as he took a look around his surroundings. "Well, if nothing else, I guess it's time to-!"

Yusuke stopped mid-sentence and looked at a direction, feeling a familiar energy rise in power.

'Gajeel…?! He's here?' Yusuke thought, and narrowed his eyes. 'I need to find out what's going on…'

Flaring out his white aura, Yusuke hastily flew away from the castle unseen.


I will also have to admit, incorporating the Time Patrollers in the Edolas Arc has been somewhat of a challenge, so I do hope those who have read this chapter have enjoyed it!

Not much to say but I will work on the next chapter ASAP, that's where the fun starts!

I do apologize for not answering any questions this chapter, but for those who still want answers from me, please PM or leave a review for me to answer in the next chapter!

I'm also very grateful for those who have begun to follow and favorite my story! Thank you to those who have done so lately and a huge thank you to those sticking to this story for the longest time! I really appreciate it! If I could, I'd give you presents that you want for Christmas!

Until then.

Timestamp: December 25, 2016. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!