Vinta was a Mipedian with reddish scales with spikes on his head, brown eyes and a long tail. He wore blue and gold shoulder spaulders and also on his knees and a while loincloth. He gazed at the two other Mipedians who looked back at him, "We cannot let the Overworlders see what we did here."

"And what are you suggesting? Chaotic Players are always causing us trouble," Ruhban grunted as he gazed at the two boys. He was a Mipedian with pale yellow scales, silver pair of horns on his forehead and one on his snout. He glared at Vinta with his pale brown eyes. He adjusted his pale gray chest plate, arm gauntlets, leg guards, and shoulder pads of the same color.

Vinta glared back and replied, "We will take them with us obviously," he pointed his claw at the snout of the other Mipedian, "Watch what you said about Chaotic Players."

Ruhban grunted and looked away.

Qwun nodded at Ruhban attitude, "You better correct this. You know we would never have won the war without the tribe alliances. Stop denying it. Mudeenu was able to swallow his pride to assure the safety of his cousin and you cannot? Also, Chaotic Players causes us as much trouble as any creature."

Qwun was a yellow Mipedian with pale purple eyes, red eyebrow and a few spikes on the back of his head and his back. He wore blue shoulder pats attached on his chest with a blue like medallion with the symbol of his tribe. He grabbed Tom and put him on his shoulders while Vinta did the same with Peyton.

Ruhban calmed down and asked, "Why are you two and so many of our tribe like this Peyton? I don't get it."

"There is nothing to get Ruhban," Vinta replied as he adjusted his friend on his back, "You just get to know him."

"Let's go. Ruhban, make sure no one is watching when we go out."

"I will," he grumbled as he turned invisible. He checked and whispered, "Bodal is still chasing those children… Damn. I pity them and they are Overworlders. But their mothers are chasing Bodal."

The two chuckled as they waited for the signal. Ruhban said, "Now!"

And they went outside and began the evacuation of the city.


Chapter 10: Mission At Kiru City Part 2

Meanwhile, the meeting continued between the important members of the two tribes. The negotiations continued as the Mipedian prince kept his calm. They played the game where he was too nervous to say anything under the red gaze of his uncle. The real reason was that he had no reason to call the signal another time after the mission began.

Marquis Darini continued the unnecessary negotiation. They knew their mission was on the way but it was best to act as if there wasn't any mission, "We are asking to reconsider your decision. I know you are fearing the misuse of the Telebracers and that Chaor can obtain the plans and its secrets, but it is easier for him when he can only put his effort on one location. Our king will never let anything so precious out in the open."

"Even if you can guarantee everything, I cannot put the plan of the Telebracers in danger. We also don't have the necessary materials to make one for you right now," Maxxor said.

"One of the important pieces of the Telebracers is extremely hard to obtain and extremely hard to find. We barely managed to obtain enough to create two," Najarin explained.

The Mipedians knew what the piece was but acted as if they didn't know about its existence.

"As if you would be better at protecting anything yourself," Mudeenu said with a small grin, "Chaor managed to steal the Telebracers in front of you and you think you are best suited to protect it?"

"And what about your vault? The Underworlders managed to get inside of it. We have our sources of information too you know," the leader of the Overworld replied with a grin on his face.

It was a slap in the face of the prince who pouted as it was true. He couldn't say anything about Siado helping Peyton to enter in the vault to get a Flux Bubble. He was still holding a grudge at the other Mipedian but it deflated a lot since he didn't dislike Peyton that much anymore.

"Nothing is impossible to overcome," the Mipedian king replied, "Mudeenu and Siado were quick to react during the attack. The two Chaotic Players who got caught up in this managed to get away. I don't know how they went in there but the battle surely created an opportunity to get that Flux Bubble," he crossed his blue scaly fingers and chuckled, "All someone needs is a good plan. Chaor had Agitos to prepare anything."

Najarin nodded, "Even so, the duplicate of the plan is dangerous. I'm also certain you might suspect that we might try to go against your back if it doesn't work," he gazed at his ruler and turned back to them, "Our tribes' relationship is also at risk."

The blue Mipedian lightly frowned. He realised it was a legitimate and strong argument. It was an unexpected angle, "I can understand that risk," his red eyes shined a little brighter, "I wouldn't want to sour our tribes relationship if we can achieve peace."

"My king. We are wasting our time. We won't make any progress if we keep this up. All we will do is talk and talk. We all have something better to do," the orange buffed humanoid Lizard said.

His ruler closed his eyes and nodded, "Yes. We won't go anywhere else with this. We are all wasting our time. As for the tablet," he showed the bag, "We will bring them back with us. We don't want to create some duplicate either," he chuckled as he approached the green Overworlder, "It is good to see how much you mature Maxxor. The Overworld is under the care of a good leader. Just like your father."

"Thank you, Theb-Saar," the ruler replied as he nodded to him.

The king gazed at Najarin and nodded, "And you for teaching Tiane about Mugic."

The High Muge simply nodded with a small smile.

"We should leave my king. We shouldn't let the servant wait for too long," Darini said.

"Sure," he replied as the trio walked outside of the room with the two Overworlder behind them.


The three Mipedians managed to get outside of Kiru City without being discovered with their unsuspected extra baggage. They were in the woods close to the city, hidden by the trees and leaves. They put the two Chaotic Players on the ground and sighed.

"All this trouble because those two spotted us," Ruhban grunted.

"Who was supposed to warn when they spot an intruder?" Vinta asked back.

The two other Mipedians tapped the ground. Ruhban stopped complaining as the fault was also resting on his shoulders.

"How do we fix this?" Qwun asked the two. He raised his shoulders, "Because I have no idea."

Vinta thought about it. They couldn't say it was someone else. It would be obvious that they lied. Peyton knew it was a Mipedian present in the arsenal. He didn't know which Mipedian thought. He sighed, "My only option is to ask them to say nothing but it won't really work."

Ruhban sighed, "We should make a lie," he raised his claws, "Not every Mipedians are loyal to Theb-Saar you know."

"You want us to tell him that it could be those who are still loyal to the predecessor's vision?" Vinta asked.

"Yes. Those bastards," the paled one replied.

The leader of the trio thought about it. The leader of the trio wondered if it was a good idea to make this lie. He snapped his fingers and replied, "We go with that. We came as the guards of Theb-Saar, Mudeenu and Marquis Darini when we noticed something suspicious towards the arsenal. We went in there and we found the two Chaotic Players taken away discreetly and- It doesn't hold up."

Ruhban suggested, "The Chaotic Player came at the wrong time. The supporters went there to collect weapons and plans but they busted those traitorous Mipedians. They were kidnapped because of that rumor about them and brought outside. We noticed the two Chaotic Players floating in the air as they went out of the city and we confronted them. We get them out of here since they are your friends and we went here to hide."

The two humans were regaining consciousness.

"No time for a better story. We go with this," Qwun said.

The reddish Mipedian took a deep breath and slapped his cheeks, before standing by the side of Peyton. Once they boy was up, "Thank the Cothica you are back."

"W-what is going-" Tom remembered what happened and quickly stood up, "What do you want?"

They knew they had no time to ask if they were alright. Vinta helped Peyton standing up while Qwun did the same with Tom, checking if he was alright.

"What do you mean?" Ruhban grunted as he crossed his arms.

"We know you were in the Arsenal? What did you do?"

"So, they really went in the Arsenal," Qwun pensively said as he improvised the lie.

"They? What do you mean bro?" Peyton asked.

"A group of traitorous Mipedians. They have no name just like Theb-Saar father," Vinta resumed.

The brown-haired boy knew why they didn't specify the name and briefly explained it to Tom.

"So, they were the one in the arsenal?" MajorTom asked, not completely buying their lies like Peyton. They could see his suspicious gaze.

"Yes," the pale scaled Mipedian replied as he approached the suspicious human, "They are not numerous in Al Mipedim but they hate the way our king is ruling our tribe. They aren't in search of peace and want to cause conflicts and wars in Perim," his face approached the boy and asked, "Tell us now. What did they do in the arsenal?"

"They surely wanted to steal something," the larger boy said as he searched for what it was. He forgot a little of what it was. He only got a glimpse before he was attacked.

"It was a purple crystal," MajorTom had more time to see it while Peyton focused on who it was.

Vinta took out a purple crystal and said, "You mean this one?"

The other two humanoid reptilian beings managed to contain their reactions of showing off what they used out of the blue.

"Yes, it is!" Peyton yelled.

"How did you get it?"

"When those Mipedians were dragging you away, I manage to snatch it from them during the short battle. I checked on it and it is something that belonged to our tribe. It was the thing that was stolen a while ago. I guess they wanted to use it to collect plans to produce some battlegears. I will give it back to our king. He will be relief," Vinta put it back where he took it off.

"But that means you will have them," Tom said.

Vinta smirked, "But there is also many of our battlegears plans in them. When they stole it, they put many in there. It will be terrible for our tribe to give it back. I'm sure Theb-Saar will destroy it. They stole it once with many battlegears plans and they could do it again," he crossed his arms, "You can rest assure."

That reassured the boy who nodded. He was finally buying their lies.

Ruhban and Qwun thought, nice one Vinta!

"But why didn't we see any of them when we came in Al Mipedim? None of you said, careful Peyton. Evil Mipedians are hiding in the desert," Peyton wondered.

"They are pushed away at the deadliest part of the desert at the northern territory of Al Mipedim. It's extremely arid all seasons. They just barely went out to attack us a few times but they are so few of them now that they are just watching on the side. Waiting to attack," Qwun explained. This time, it wasn't a lie. He just didn't specify that they were barely a few of them now. Less than he implied already. They had no female to have kids and will die out that generation. It was only a question of time.

"They are getting more desperate. Good thing they never used the M'arrillians attack to try anything. It was a bad idea anyway," Ruhban commented.

"I didn't know about that," Peyton whispered. He knew a lot of his favourite tribe but not as much as he expected.

Vinta decided to bring it back to what they began, "Anyway. Are you two alright? You could have get killed you know."

"Yeah," Tom scratched the back of his head, "I'm glad you were here to save us."

"Thank you," his friend replied.

"You should go now. They could still be around," Qwun warned them.

They said a few more things and the Chaotic Players ported out.

The trio of Mipedians sighed loudly.

Vinta said, "We didn't have to bring the rumor."

"Good. Happy they believed us," Qwun sighed.

"We will have to tell Theb-Saar," Ruhban reminded them.

They groaned together before they turned invisible. They waited for their king at the border of Al Mipedim. When dusk came, the king appeared in the horizon with his two councillors, royal guards and servants. They accelerated the pace to meet with the three soldiers.

Theb-Saar greeted them and went straight to business, as no Overworlder was watching, "I suppose it is a success if you aren't nervous," he grabbed the purple stone offered by Vinta.

Qwun sighed, "We had a little and unexpecting problem."

"What happen?" Mudeenu frowned.

"We had an unfortunate encounter with Peyton and Tom in the arsenal," Vinta started.

"What happened?" the king frowned.

The trio explained everything that happened from the start, until the end where they explained the plan to get out of their mess and convince them that they saved the two Chaotic Players from bad Mipedians.

Marquis Darini sighed, "Those two Chaotic Players came at the worse time," he crossed his arms and gazed at the two of royal bloods.

Theb-Saar chuckled, "At least, you made sure we won't have any trouble. I'm glad those Chaotic Players are alright."

"And we have the plan," Mudeenu added quietly as he looked around.

"With this, we can move to the next phase of the plan," they began their return to Al Mipedim.

"If you don't mind my king, what is this plan?" Ruhban asked.

"We are going to make a Telebracers. With it, I plan to bring peace to all Perim. It will be useful to reach the Cothica," the blue Mipedian said.

"Other questions will be later. We are still in their territory," the prince warned them.

"Correct my nephew. We will talk more back in the palace. You three will be in the know, thanks to your performance," Theb-Saar let out a small smile.

They were one step closer to the Cothica. The three soldiers wondered what was in the mind of the king. They knew one thing without a doubt, it was that their ruler knew what he was doing.


AC: This is the end of this chapter. I hope you like it.

Next: Prisoners Of The M'arrillians.

Tom get captured by the M'arrillians and they tried to get answers from the boy.

Follow up by: Behind The Cracked Mask.

The inside the mind of a disillusioned M'arrillian or more. Tom discover the true face of one of them and the chaos of that tribe.