It was in the newspaper that she finally heard what had went down early New Years Day…the dragon some say was composed out of sparks, others said smoke, while others said both. "What the heck is this about?" she thought to herself.

"Guess you saw the paper too?" Asked the voice of Raptor, coming up from behind her. "Sounds like something Demitri or Jedah would attempt."

"No, Demitri doesn't have the resources for something like this…and this is too sterile of an operation to be anything Jedah would try." Felicia told Raptor.

"Well I'm going out for a walk…want to come with?" Raptor asked. Felicia shook her head, "Fine…your loss kitty-cat."

Just as Raptor was about three blocks from the hotel he and Felicia were staying at a black limo pulled up beside him, the window rolled down and there was Dominic, "Well I'll be blessed…our paths cross again Mr. Raptor…may I offer you a ride?" he asked.

Raptor shrugged and said, "Fine by me mate, wanted to speak with you anyway."

"I'm sure you did." Said Dominic cheerfully while opening the door for him.

As soon as Raptor was inside Dominic said, "I had a feeling you wanted to talk about the record deal I offered last night?" Dominic asked

"Exactly, I'm willing to be on-board with you on that…Felicia don't speak for us all and she don't speak for me, she turned down a good offer and I just can't see why—?"

"Why'd she do that? I quite agree Mr. Raptor…she was a little too careful, and one should never be too careful when an opportunity like this one comes along. But you I can tell…are a man that knows when to grab life by the horns." Dominic said proudly.

"Damn straight I am." Said Raptor.

"Good because I'll need you when the time is right." Dominic thought to himself, an evil smile crossed his face.

MEXICO JAN. 3rd, 7:30 A.M.

Phobos then came on something that both amazed and horrified him, he saw that a portion of the forest had been either scorched or looked like it'd had the life sucked out of it, "What could have done this destruction…this chaos?"

"It asks a question, we'd be willing to answer…right Othello?" Asked a voice behind Phobos.

"Quite right Ajax…but does the contraption wants to know what it faces is its own annihilation?" another voice asked.

Phobos turned around and saw a blond and black haired duo, "Who are you?" Phobos asked.

"Why we're representatives of a syndicate…aren't we Othello." Said Ajax.

"Ajax…we weren't supposed to tell him that, now he probably won't join us." Othello hissed.

"Oops…my bad." Ajax said looking rather embarrassed.

"And you're the ones who did this…all of this!" Phobos asked.

"We needed to test our powers out on something, big guy." Othello said pressing his hand against the trunk of a living tree, suddenly Phobos watched as the tree started to die. "A syndicate…is that like a group?" Phobos asked.

"Yeah in a way it is…I guess." Ajax answered.

"Then…I never would join a group whose followers destroy nature just to test their powers." Phobos told them.

"Oh man, you're one dense piece of machinery then…guess we're going to have to teach him a lesson, right Othello?" Ajax asked, Othello nodded, "Right Ajax…you get yourself ready, I'll deal with this piece of scrap-metal." Othello replied.

Suddenly Ajax seemed to hunch over slightly; an aurora writhed and twisted around him…but before Phobos could do anything about it something grabbed the robot from behind, Phobos turned around to see a skeleton grabbing him from behind.

"What is this?" Phobos asked in disbelief.

"I call from the River Styx, my army of the undead." Othello said, an eerie dark green glow covered his hand, suddenly a great flash of white light appeared and where Ajax had been standing…there was now a being that appeared to be made of pure energy.

"Pyron?" Phobos asked.

"Pyron…did you here that Othello, he called me Pyron. Well sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not that useless piece of space trash!" Ajax argued, firing a beam a fiery energy from his hand, hitting Phobos and knocking him about a quarter of a mile away. "The names Ajax…but you can call me Apollo."

Othello nodded and said, "And my name's Othello…but you can call me Hades."

Phobos was starting to get back up when Ajax (Apollo) became a shape-less form of energy and struck Phobos back to the ground, "Don't bother getting back up you piece of junk." He then looked at Othello (Hades) and said, "Punish him H-Man!"

"My pleasure." Othello said darkly, suddenly the green glow incased his entire body and the next thing Phobos knew a giant Skeleton at least several times his size came bursting out of the ground, the radiance covered Othello in the center of its chest. The heart no doubt, "Catacomb Crush!" Othello called out, suddenly the giant skeleton brought its fist up and then back down as if attempting to squashing a bug, and Phobos was that bug, he at least managed to roll out of the way of ground zero, but the impact was so powerful it created a 47 foot wide 40 foot deep crater. Othello looked pleased at what he'd done…but soon his look changed to one of disbelief. "Good God, He's still alive?"

Phobos then struck the skeletal hand, forcing it and the rest of the skeleton to break apart…but Othello levitated down to the ground slowly and safely, Ajax came up to his right side and said, "You thinking what I'm thinking of doing?" Ajax asked.

"It's time to end this." Othello answered.

"Alpha!" Ajax shouted, a ball of fiery energy building in his hand.

"Omega!" Othello yelled, the same green ball of energy building in his hand as well.

"CYCLONE!" Both of them said simultaneously, suddenly the balls of fire and light became energy beams…both mixed together, and hit Phobos head on, when the attack subsided there was a sloth of devastation in the ground about 33 feet across and stretching for five miles. Ajax returned to his normal form and he and Othello walked to the end of the destruction they'd caused to find Phobos lying on the ground, "Is he finished?" Ajax asked.

Othello walked up to the downed automaton and kicked it a few times, "Yep…it's gone, lets go." Othello answered.

Unbeknownst to them, Phobos wasn't gone…but more or less rebooting his system. It sat up and said, "Uh…ouch."

BOSTON, JAN. 3rd 10:40 A.M.

"Well it was fun doing business with you mate." Raptor said as he stepped out of Dominic's limo.

"As well as it was you Mr. Raptor, I'll run your information by all my connection and see if anyone's interested in investing in you…good day." Dominic said.

As the limo pulled away Dominic got a phone call, he picked it up and said, "Ahoy-hoy…Othello, so how did it go?"

Dominic nodded and said, "Oh really? That's a crying shame…well I guess that's what happens when you destroy someone's home, good bye."

As he hung up he to out a list that had all the Darkstalkers names on it, he took a pen and put an X by Jon Talbain, Hsien-Ko, and Phobos' names, and an O by Lord Raptors'

"Let's hope the others aren't as blind sighted." Dominic thought to himself.