The sandcraft made it's way by auto-pilot during the dark Blue Crane night. The Gang was closing in on their destination, and sure-enough, by the morn at best they should be there, at least that's what Clive believed. Regardless, there was a dark about the ship, what, with Blue Crane being practically pitch dark by night. At midnight, however, there was some light coming in that would be just enough to maneuver in without an alternative source of light other than nature. That being since the full moon was out tonight and Blue Crane's ice and snow acted as perfect mirrors for it's light, even underground Clive rolled over in his bed as Jet hung off his own—he sort of slid off in his sleep so now his legs were draping off the side of his bed. Gallows meanwhile serenaded the ship's inhabitants with some light snoring while Adven lied on the cold floor outside of the room with his pillow wrapped around his head to block out those sounds. In the woman's room Sakura and Virginia quietly slept with naughty dreams in their heads while Emilia had fallen to rest at the helm.

As Emilia sat there, a low sounding beep went off, but since she had acute senses most of the time she picked up on it and came out of her slumber. "Huh?" She looked at a status map of the craft that told her of where any problems or security breaches occurred. She noticed in this case that a small hall on a deck below had an orange indictor light flashing. It was not a problem with the ship, nor was it a security breach, but what it was even she did not quite know, which is rather odd. "That's the part of the original craft that…Ed…" Emilia rose quickly, and on her own, ignoring Adven who she made sure was asleep, lifted the door on the floor and descended into the lower decks where there was metal grating for flooring. Down here was really only engine and other mechanics, as well as some storage for things not already up above. She could not understand what set off her system, but something did. She came to the end of a narrow part of the hall and placed her hand on the metal wall. "The map said it was behind this. But I never made this part of the craft…" She drew her blade and shattered the metal wall, realizing it hollow. It led to a bit more of a hall and then another wall with a square panel on it. Removing the panel she finds a quartz colored crystal that was producing some light. She noted how it was connected to the power generator as well. "This is…no…I…" She nodded and confirmed her thoughts. "This is the Twilight Lone. It must be reacting to our location." It was in this moment that an explosion rocked the ship and the door behind her flung downward in a similar burst. "What the--?"

"Thanks for saving us the trouble of ripping apart the craft to find the Twilight Lone." Nobuo chuckled as he and Carole walked down the hall towards Emilia.

She rips the Element out from the wall and holds onto it tight. "This one won't be yours'! I don't even know how it got here…" She shook her head. "How did you know it was here if I didn't?"

"It's simple. Who was it that taught you about ARMs and how to even build this craft?" Nobuo grinned.

"It was…Ed. He was the one who started this craft and built it's one of the kind engines and so on. I just finished it." Emilia looked to the floor. "He…was working with you?"

"Don't be so glum. He was working with the people who don't want me to have that, but, too bad." Nobuo moved quickly catching Emilia off-guard and punched her in the gut. As he backed up from the bent-over Emilia he snatched the Twilight Lone and came to a stop. It was at this moment that the rest of the Gang showed up, now awoken impolitely. "So…the whole party is here now? You would-be dime novel heroes. All you had to do was stop one bad guy and you couldn't even pull that off."

"Gallows, stop the ship." Jet simply said with a glare directed at Nobuo and Carole. Gallows immediately went to do such.

"Look!" Virginia pointed out. "That's the Twilight Lone, isn't it?"

Nobuo raised it so that the Maxwell Gang could see it, as if he were gloating. "It is. All thanks to your bringing it here do I now have all four Elements."

"Emilia!" Jet roared. "I thought that thing wasn't in this craft?"

Emilia stood up now, since regaining stamina. "I…I didn't know. It was built in long before I built the rest." She stood up fully now. "I'm sorry."

"It wasn't just you who lied." Jet commented. "Gaea told us that this is where Twilight Lone would be. If it was in our ship, then what are we doing here?" He looked at Nobuo. "Is Gaea just another group of your lackeys?"

"Far from it." Nobuo scoffed. "For the last eighteen years those four have been in my hair. They even took away the Twilight Elements and hid them from me, but I was able to find them again…and this time they won't get in my way. Generator Eon is the thing that is nearby. It seems they led you right for me."

"Who are you?" Emilia wondered.

"Glad you asked that question." Nobuo grinned. "I am Nobuo Winslett."

The Gang went a bit quiet as Virginia looked at Clive. "I don't see how that's possible." Clive remarked. "I have no other family than that of my Family of Procreation."

"Clive, Clive, Clive," Nobuo chastised, "Just look at our faces. They are near similar. And my hair…black with green in the back. A green the same color as your own."

Clive nodded. "If this is true. Why do I not know about you? You aren't much older than myself."

"The Winslett family disowned me. They were the first of many who would outcast me and banish me. Every place I ever went to would never have me. I was forced to live forever until now alone, but it allowed me to see the one truth about Filgaia." Nobuo announced. "Humankind is a pollutant to this world and harm it in every way possible. Without mankind Filgaia could flourish and be the world it is meant to be. And that is why I intend to wipe Filgaia clean of these pollutants."

"And you are going along with this mother?" Emilia questioned. Carole remained silent.

"Be quiet." Carole simply said.

"Listen, don't think that now that you've told us your sappy little tale, and revealed to be related to Clive that we will go easy on you!" Emilia declared. "Nobuo, we will take back those Twilight Elements, starting with that one!"

Jet and Adven stepped forward in the small hallway just four people wide. "Leave this to Adven, Emilia, and I." Jet ordered. "It's too small of a place to all try to take them down."

Nobuo grinned wide as Carole moved away from him. "All three of you can attack me and be unable to even touch this Element."

Jet moved forward. "So how do we start?" He wondered.

"We already know he has a good endurance." Emilia noted. "And we all have left our weapons above it would seem, so…we will have to try anything we can muster."

"Pheh!" Adven snorted. "Leave this to me. Surging Punch!" With a purple fist of negative energy Adven swings his arm and his attack is dodged. In the seconds following his miss Nobuo moved and kicked him into the wall with a thump as his head hit first.

"Damnit Adven!" Jet cursed at Adven's eagerness to start off. "Lion's Rage Punch!" As with Adven's attack, Jet's attack is dodged as well.

"Astral Punch, Ha!" While Nobuo was still dodging Jet's attack Emilia's attack hit him in the chest, sending the man with black and green hair into the wall. "Now take this! Gale Force!" Sending countless punches forward Emilia continues to pound Nobuo into the wall, but Nobuo was quick to get out of the attack and launch his body off the wall, headbutting Emilia in the chest and sending the woman to the ground without any breath. As she gasped he kneed her in the head and she fell to the floor in defeat.

"Positive!"

"Negative!"

Nobuo glanced back at the two and promptly took a countermeasure. "Wind Burst!" From Nobuo's hands came a surge of wind that flung Adven into the wall.

Jet continued. "Cannon!" Nobuo moved with speed, kicking Jet back and stopping the scarf wearing boy's attack. As Adven went in to attack Nobuo from behind, the enemy spun and kicked Adven into the wall, sending him to defeat as well. "Looks like it's down to just us." Jet grinned.

"Hmm," Nobuo stepped away tossing the Twilight Lone to Carole. "No, not really."

"Hic et ubique!"

Before anyone could blink a black light swallowed them up.

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There, I started it. I had a lot of new plot ideas that were not in the original NDS, so I'm sorry if this all seems flung together. Originally there was no relation between Nobuo and a character, and Ed's story is a retooled version of another in NDS. Sam's father, made SAND, the ship (sandcraft), in NDS, for the Gaea group. Here the story has been swapped with other characters. I also hashed out a better reason for Nobuo, because in NDS, since I have yet to make Book 11 a second version, Nobuo has no reason, and while he has been at this for 18 years all we ever learned was that he wanted to kill all life because they had treated him poorly and forced him to a life of loneliness. He thinks people are innately evil, after all. Anyway, I have no idea what I'm saying. I'm typing these words, but I'm really not thinking about them. So I'll just stop and say, there's part one of many. Y'know what, I won't make them parts. I will label this and every chapter with it's own chapter. No more "… Pt. 1 of…" coming from me. And you can hold me to that.