Last Time: Karl and the others back at White Spirit Base find that Rachel and Ashley have left to finish the mission alone. Lane Derskin, the ghost of White Spirit Base, leads the crew to the answer to the question "where are the Night Warriors going?"

The Night Warriors
We're Here

Rachel sat in her cockpit as she tried to sort out the mess that had become her life. It started when she and Ashley came back from looking over an evacuated, enemy base that they had nearly been blown up with. They had returned to White Spirit Base to find a unit of Republican soldiers: Colonel Kruger, Colonel Herman, and Captain O'Connell among them. Karl and the Guardian Force had also arrived at White Spirit Base.

Now Rachel and Ashley were going to finish the mission that should have finished with the end of the Silent Battle, but continued because there were traitors among them, Calvin and Jacob Rhodes. This battle was either going to end with the death of the Night Warriors or the capture of the Rhodes brothers. Still, Rachel couldn't help but think that she was making the biggest mistake, her final mistake.

"Rachel, you can't wonder if you did the right thing," Ashley said. "We need to concentrate."

"Ashley, have you ever kissed O'Connell?" Rachel said out of the blue.

Ashley got a funny look on her face. "I haven't let him get close enough to hug me."

"Liar."

Ashley sighed, she had never been a good liar to Rachel or Freedmen. "Okay. I hugged O'Connell once, but I've never kissed him. Why do you ask?"

"Herman kissed me a couple of times and I've been thinking how this adventure could be written down to be a very bad romance story," Rachel said shrugging.

"I'll get back to the fact that you kissed Herman later," Ashley said with a somewhat disgusted voice. "We're here."

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Night Cat and Night Tiger. We challenge you to a dual at Blood Pass. Unlike you two, we have no problem killing those who are not involved, so don't think about not coming or coming with backup because we will kill all those close to you, whether they are involved or not.
Signed
White Kong
&
White Horn

"Who are White Kong and White Horn?" Thomas asked. Everyone was gathered in the strategy room. Lane Derskin had disappeared a while ago to return to her normal haunting; many were suggesting it never happened that a ghost led them to Ashley and Rachel's hideout.

Sammy lowered her gaze slightly. "Calvin and Jordan Rhodes."

"In other words, our Traitors," Danni said, twirling a strand of hair around her finger. "Come to think of it, Rachel has never been fond of the two. She kept talking about how untrustworthy they were."

"Then why would she trust them with her zoid?" Herman asked.

A.C. began tugging at one of his ear lobes. "A spy's last resort is his or her zoid. Rachel is basically telling Calvin and Jordan that she's not scared of them."

"That had to be a good blow to the pride," M.C. said, scratching his nose. After that the four spies got up to leave the room.

"Where are you going?" Moonbay demanded.

Danni smirked. "Just follow our lead and try not to mess us up." The Guardian Force followed the spies out of the room.

"Colonel Freedmen, Colonel Kruger, King, I would like to go see my father, the King of Cravane, so I can inform him what's going on," Lady Kara said.

Kruger nodded. "I agree. Ace will go with you to make sure that you arrive safely."

"I'll go too," May added.

"Thank you," Lady Kara said. "Now I'll see to the preparations."

Lady Kara swept out of the room. Ace and May followed as soon they said good-bye to Alex, a handshake from Ace and a hug from May. Arguing could be heard up the hallway between the Guardian Force and the four spies. Kruger and King followed the voices to keep anyone from being murdered by Sammy and Danni, who had hung around Rachel and Ashley long enough to pick up their worst habits.

"You've become close to Ace and May, Alex," Freedmen observed.

Alex shrugged. "We arrived at the Cravane base around the same time and we've been working together for awhile."

"And Herman and O'Connell have become close to our Night Warriors," Freedmen continued. Herman, who had been staring out the window made eye contact with Karl and shuddered. O'Connell avoided eye contact with Alex all together.

"So almost all of us have a reason to do our best," Karl said. "I just hope we're not too late."

"I do too," Herman said.

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Ashley looked up at the boulders that blocked the pass Rachel had planned to use. "Hurrah! We don't have to go through Blood Pass," Ashley yelled in happiness. Ashley, who loved taking chances, avoided places that had blood, death, torture, and similar words in their names. Rachel could care less; to her Blood Pass was like any other pass.

"Of course not," Rachel said. "Blood Pass has been cut off for over ten years."

Ashley sighed. "Then what are we doing here?"

"This is where we told you to meet us," Calvin Rhodes said with a smirk. Next to him was Jacob. To the Night Warriors, however, they no longer had those names; Calvin and Jacob were simply the Traitors.