March 24

Domon's Campsite 7:46 AM

Bunny, Cath, Janet, and Shirley sat at Domon and Rain's campsite, waiting for them to wake up. Rain stumbled out of the tent, black circles of exhaustion under her eyes. Before her vision even cleared, she was bombarded by the Neo- American girls' shouts of worry. Shortly there after, Domon stumbled out. "What's all the noise out here?" he yawned.

"Chibodee's been gone a REALLY long time!" Bunny cried.

"He left two nights ago and he isn't back," Shirley gave a more detailed explanation of the situation.

"I'm worried," Cath moaned.

Janet nodded in agreement.

The 6 looked up hearing approaching footsteps. It was Chibodee; he cradled Allenby in his arms, wincing each time he took a breath. His jacket was draped over her like a blanket as she slept. "Rain!" he called, despite the pain in his chest, "You gotta take care of Allenby; she's in bad shape." He set her down on the ground, then dropped to his knees, clutching his chest. He looked over at his crew. "Girls, go back to the camp." They hesitated for a moment. "GO!" he demanded, wincing. He looked over at Domon. "I gotta talk to ya, Neo-Japan."

"No you don't!" shouted Rain, "You're injured too! Stay here, I'll check you out after I look at Allenby."

"Fine..." Chibodee rolled his eyes. He held out the folded paper to Domon. "Master Asia told me to give this to you." Domon glanced over the paper, nodded, and then ran off to meet up with the other 3 members of the Shuffle Alliance.

Within the hour, they were all sitting around the last ashes of the campfire at Domon's campsite.

"I destroyed it, attack in 2 days," Domon read the brief note aloud.

"First off, Bro, who is this from and what is 'it'?"

"This note is from the Undefeated of the East," he said calmly.

"WHAT!?" The other 3 were shocked.

A voice called out from inside the tent. "It's true, and he even gave me a swift hit in the head!"

Another voice followed. "Don't do that, Chibodee, you're hurting yourself."

"How?" inquired George.

"Michelo and Chapman," the new king of hearts replied, "They have in their possession the 4 kings, completely revived, as well as the serum created by my father. They used it to revive Master. However, not to worry, Master is on our side."

"Hard to believe that!" Chibodee's voice came from the tent.

"Chibodee!" Rain's demanding voice was heard.

"Yeesh! Sorry!" he replied.

"Well he did let us go, Chib," Allenby's weak voice could be heard.

The 4 turned their attention away from the tent and back to the matter at hand. Domon resumes speaking "The flaw in the serum is it only lasts 5 days, Master has destroyed it. According to him, it will be 2 days before they are vulnerable again." He relayed the information that Fuhai Toho had given him earlier. "The point is," he continued avoiding the doubtful stares of the others, "they will be vulnerable again relatively soon and we need to be ready." He spread out a map of the area to plan their attack.

Rain walked out of the tent a little while later, facing the four men. "Well..." she began, "As for Chibodee, as far as I can tell from what I have here, has a few broken ribs and will need several weeks if not months to recover. Allenby on the other hand is an extraordinarily bad condition. Though she shows no injury, has taken on some intense damage to her body and is seriously lacking energy, in my professional opinion, I am shocked that she is still alive." The 4 men look at each other and nod all had figured out that Allenby must have been injected with the serum.

The Warehouse 7:53 AM

Michelo scowled seeing the metal door to the small closet wide open, and the vials of serum broken, and the liquid spilled on the ground. He turned to the Undefeated of the East. "Didn't you wake up when this happened?" he hissed.

"Me?" Master began, "I always sleep like a baby. Besides, couldn't I ask the same of you and Chapman?"

Michelo smirked. "I'm not out yet, I still have one last plan," he said before entering one room he always kept locked. 5 minutes later he walked out and exited the warehouse with something in his coat pocket.

A/N the SA prepares to launch their attack but run into some unexpected trouble.