Again I lack ownership of anything, oh well, here's the next chapter.

Eight bolts of lightning brought the remaining eight villains to a grassy, and for the most part, warm area. "This is so much better than the last one," Shego said, getting the rest of the villains, save Xana and Vexus, to agree.

"Welcome all remaining champions to the third challenge," Mog announced appearing in front of the villains.

"So what must we do this time," Vexus asked.

"Think of this challenge as target practice, the villain who destroys the least will be eliminated. The villain who destroys the most will receive no tactical advantage in the next match, so don't try to destroy more than you really have too," Mog explained.

"And where might these targets be," Zeno asked.

"Everywhere, they are in the air, on the ground, and are limitless," Mog answered, "You may begin the challenge as I dismiss you, Xana you were the first to arrive in the last challenge therefore you may begin first," Mog said finishing his speech. "One last thing, there are no restrictions whatsoever, do whatever you please."

"Excellent, this makes it so much easier to fulfill my goals," Xana said walking away. The next pair of villains to leave would be Shego and Slade, and they were a good twenty minutes behind him. Not a single villain thought it was possible that Xana could go out in this round, and they were right. None of the villains however thought that he would determine who would go out in this round though, like he did the last time. By summoning his monsters Xana had successfully destroyed near two-hundred targets in the form of Danny Phantom, the Lyoko crew, the American Dragon, and some of the other heroes. That was when Shego and Slade were released, who had a mere seven minutes before Vlad was sent out.

"It's a good thing that there isn't a bonus for destroying these things, otherwise, Xana would have such a lead he'd win for sure," Shego said blasting a Kim Possible target, her favorite.

"Yes, but then we'd be close behind," Slade responded knocking the head off of a dragon shaped figure, followed by a goblin shaped one.

"What about Vlad, it seems that Xana has his own schedule on who to take out, my guess is that he's on the list, just like Wuya was," Shego said blasting more targets.

"Yes, but Vlad is over halfway, it's unlikely that he'll go after him. Besides, I know for sure that the Master of Games is trying to take out the Huntsmaster. It's just simply a matter of who can hinder the others more," Slade said, "Besides, we'll be lucky to be ahead of Vlad, with his ability to split into four he'll likely be able to destroy the targets four times as fast." And that he did, because as soon as Vlad was sent out, closely followed by Zeno only a minute later, he immediately split into four and head out in every direction.Vexus would be the next to leave after another ten minutes.

"Now this is a challenge I can finally enjoy, Teozaker," Zeno yelled destroying a target shaped and colored like Zatch. They weren't the only targets that he destroyed, he found that the Dragon ones were really fun because the blew up into more pieces than the other, but the Zatch target were still his favorite. Zeno spotted another Zatch target, this time with someone (who Zeno guessed was his bookholder) right besides him. "More fun for me, Zak-," Zeno started, but was cut off by a laser hitting him. "I swear I'll kill Xana," Zeno yelled thinking that it was him. It was a shame that Zeno hadn't seen all of Xana's monsters, or knew about the eye, because if he had he'd have known that this was no Xana monster. It was shaped like a spider, eight legs, pincers, even the hair. However the 'spider' also seemed to have a laser on its back.

"I'll show you, Zakeruga," Zeno yelled a concentrated bolt of lightning left his palm. The spider responded by firing a beam of web at the shot, causing a huge explosion and a fire. After that the spider shot back with its laser hitting Zeno in the chest, and ticking him off even more. "Why you," Zeno yelled running up to the spider. Before he got the chance to destroy it however one of Xana's tarantulas did the job for him. Then the Xana monster stared at Zeno before walking along. "Alright, I think that this guy might have a malfunction," Zeno said not realizing that the spider hadn't been his monster. "oh well, Zeo Zakeruga," Zeno yelled as a huge dragon made up of electricity erupted from his hand (just like Bao Zakeruga, only silver) and destroyed the entire area where the Zatch and Kiyo target were. "Glad I got that out of my system."

Unlike Vlad, and like Zeno, Vexus seemed to be having trouble. Xana seemed to be targeting her as his next victim. However because Vexus's main targets were the Jenny and Danny Phantom targets that were in the air, and she was far faster than the Mantas, the only monsters that Xana could effectively use were the hornets, which were all quickly destroyed. "Just great, it seems that I'm Xana's new favorite," Vexus said sarcastically unleashing a barrage of missiles on a swarm of hornets. "It's a shame, XJ9 could do better."

"Than let's see how you fare against the actual mastermind," Xana said blasting her from the behind with electricity, short circuiting her. "And now for the finisher," Xana said summoning a guardian getting it to swallow her. Vexus had destroyed a mere fifteen targets, and it wasn't about to change.

"Curse you Xana, I'll get you out as soon as the Huntsmaster is gone. All I have to do id make sure that the Huntsmaster doesn't destroy a single target," Mog mumbled to himself. He would have made the noise louder, but he was still in the 'arena'. Speaking of which I think I should mention that Zeno was dismissed, leaving only Azula and the Huntsmaster.

By now Xana was bored waiting for the competition to be over. Now that the virus thought about it Mog never had said when the tournament would be over, and in his mind Vexus had lost for sure, there was simply no way that she could win. Little did he know that Mog wouldn't allow that, though he unfortunately didn't know how to defeat the guardian he did know how to defeat the Huntsmaster, who would be leaving in fifteen minutes.

By now the Huntsmaster was gone and Azula was just getting out. Mog, however, kept a close eye on the Huntsmaster trying to make sure that he was constantly in battle. It would have been a lot easier, but Xana was trying to make sure that the spiders were destroyed before they could reach him. So far the Huntsmaster had only been able to destroy two targets, while Azula had already destroyed ten. And as if things weren't bad enough for the Huntsmaster now they were about to get so much worse.

"Sixty seconds until the battle is over, sixty seconds," Mog's voice said all around the system.

"Curse that cheater, oh well, so long as me or Slade win than the world is safe, even if Shego wins there still may be hope," Xana said referring to Mog as 'the cheater'. Some of the last villains who had left, namely Azula and the Huntsmaster, were frantically trying to make sure that they weren't eliminated.

"The battle is over," Mog said as lightning bolts took all the villains back to the lobby, except for one, the Huntsmaster, who had lost.

"Welcome back all of you, or mostly all of you," Mog said as seven bolts of lightning struck the lobby, leaving seven villains. "And though this doesn't matter I will show you the score," Mog said as a scoreboard appeared behind him. It read like this-

Xana- Targets destroyed 210

Vlad- Targets Destroyed 196

Shego- Targets Destroyed 121

Slade- Targets Destroyed 110

Zeno- Targets Destroyed 58

Azula- Targets Destroyed 27

Vexus- Targets Destroyed 15

Huntsmaster- Targets Destroyed 3, Eliminated.

"Only fifteen, well, if it weren't for Xana. I'll make sure you lose in the next round," Vexus said annoyed, "After all, you almost lost your first place position."

"Please you robotic fool, I could have destroyed a thousand had it have mattered. I only destroyed that many to make sure not to get eliminated myself, but it seems that save for Vlad I underestimated you," Xana said, "But like I said it matters not, now I must leave you to your own fun and games, I need to practice or the next round," Xana lied, "I'll be in my room." The real reason that Xana wanted to return to his room was to decode more of Mog's plans, and about the amulet that he wore. Xana knew that with every villain that lost he got stronger, however he also knew his weakness, which I will not say.

"I've never asked this before, but what does happen to the losers," Azula asked. She was nervous, she had been ties for second to last in the first round, in last in the second, and was back in second to last in the third. She wasn't doing so well herself, and knew it was only a matter of time until she lost like Wuya and the others.

"They have been sent home," Mog answered. Only Slade and Xana knew that he was lying.

"It's a shame, the weaklings should suffer," Zeno said.

"Weaklings, as I recall you have an odd talent of always placing fifth, and slowly your coming closer to last," Vlad said already making a run for it.

"You old fool, come back here so I can destroy you," Zeno yelled. He would have caught Vlad too, had his room not been so close to the lobby. Vlad winning in the first round proved to be very helpful after all. "I swear I'll kill him eventually," Zeno muttered.

"For no reason whatsoever, besides enjoying more fighting that will come from gloating, I have decided to show you your overall score, the lower the better. If you got in first than it's one point, second than two points and so on," Mog said. Another scoreboard showed up behind him. It read like this-

Xana- 4 points

Vlad- 6 points

Slade- 9 points

Shego- 10 points

Zeno- 15 points

Azula- 21 points

Vexus- 21 points

"Enjoy gloating," Mog said disappearing.

"I'm tied for last," Azula and Vexus said at once turning to one another. "Your going down," They both said, also at the same time.

"I'm in fifth place," Zeno said annoyed.

"What a surprise, the old man was right, you always are placing in fifth," Slade said, "and also not a bad job Shego," Slade said, not using the word apprentice. . . yet.

"Ya, but what about this Xana guy, he's placed first or second in every round, and he pretty much eliminated Wuya in the second match, and tried to take out Vexus this time," Shego said wondering how he always won.

"Xana is merely lucky, Vexus is weak to his electric and energy attacks, allowing him to take the second star in the first round, the cold didn't affect him in the race in the second round, and he got such a lead from that, he was practically unstoppable," Slade said, "But he may lose in the next round, now that his lead no longer matters."

"Well, it would be funny to see him lose in the next round," Shego said walking to her room. Slade was still insulting Zeno in the lobby, which he found very entertaining. Zeno might had been a match for him with his spells, but without them Slade could defeat Zeno with his hands tied behind his back. Vexus and Azula were fighting each other, both trying to prove that they were stronger, and that they wouldn't lose. Eventually night came, and with it dinner, and after that Slade, like every other night decided to check on how Xana was doing with the code. Soon after Slade reached the door Xana heard a knock on it.

"Ah, welcome, where is Shego, weren't you going to bring her," Xana asked.

"No, I'm not planning on staying, not sleeping that much for three nights in a row might kill my chances of surviving the next round, if you remember, my position now means nothing."

"I understand, it would be disastrous if you lost," Xana said agreeing ,turning back to his work.

"So, any new info," Slade asked.

"Yes, some, I have managed to decode the history of the amulet. I appears that it's full name is the amulet of Tesbian, which is where our current location is, the eleventh dimension. The amulet was originally forged from ten shards found in each of the ten dimensions, each having it's own power. I might be able to identify some of them, ah, here we go.

"From the dimension that Cree was from is the gem of youth, from the dimension that Wuya is from is the gem of heart, from the dimension that the Huntsmaster is from is the gem of strength. From my dimension is the gem of creation, yours is the gem of destruction, and Shego's is the gem of soul. From Vlad's dimension is the gem of teleportation, from Zeno's is the gem of mind, from Azula's is the gem of nature, and finally from Vexus's dimension is the gem of shape.

"I unfortunately cannot identify what each gem does, but there names should give you an idea. When the ten gems came together the amulet of Tesbian was formed, being indestructible, and granting the user the power to bend and create dimensions, as well as immortality. The only way to destroy the amulet is to separate it and then destroy the separate pieces. I, however, as of now do not know how to achieve such a goal," Xana said saying what he knew about the gem.

"So that means that the Master of Games is all powerful," Slade asked.

"Yes, that is if he knew all the powers of the gem. as it is he seems to only have access to the powers of creation, teleportation, soul, and nature. I have also identified that the power of the soul gem allows him to bring weakened souls into the gem by lightning, which is obviously what happened to the losers, then he can use their powers."

"So, he has the power of Wuya and the Huntsmaster," Slade asked leaving out Cree, as she had no real power.

"Yes, but he hasn't even used most of his abilities, he must not learn of them or we will all be doomed, or at least, nine of us."

"Well, do you know his weakness, if he has one," Slade asked.

"Yes, do you think you could use my powers as effectively as I could, no, he lacks the full power, which my guess will end if he uses the power of the gem of strength, and he lacks the knowledge of how to use them, which my guess is will cease if he uses the gem of mind."

"Well, we'll take him down eventually, but first try to find a way to separate the gem," Slade, in a way, commanded. Xana would never take commands from anyone, but it was in his best interest as well so he did.

"Very well, you may leave," Xana said as he continued to decode the ancient text. At that Slade left, and went to sleep. All the while Xana worked through the night. . .

"Welcome champions to the fourth challenge," the Master of Games said, earning cheers from some and grunts from others. Slade felt like he was stronger than he had ever been before, Xana felt the same way, though it wasn't a feeling per say, as he was a machine. "The fourth challenge shall be . . .

And so ends chapter four. What is Xana so happy about, now that the places are reset can Vexus and Azula catch back up, and who will be eliminated next. Please review and I'll update so much faster.