Gearfried scanned the room he broke into, a small office that had been ransacked, the door was a jar though. He moved up to it, and looked through the crack, he saw something large and green.

They stood about 5.8, they were humanoid in shape, but they were giant snakes, they had long tails, wore Egyptian garbs, had the hoods of a cobra, they each carried a wooden shield, and a jagged blade.

Cobraman Sukazy, they aren't very strong, but there are a lot of them. Aaron said to himself.

All of a sudden, he caught a glimpse; Ashley was bound and gagged in the center of the room, surrounded by the monsters, like a mouse in a snake pit.

"IRON FRIECE!!!" He called out, firing the energy out the window, using the recoil to shoot him through the door!

The Snakes responded with lightning swift speed as the speeding metal soldier was shooting towards them!

"Out of my way!" Gear growled as he whacked one away with his shield.

Just then, 5 Gagagigos descended from a large hole in the ceiling, and made a line drive right at him, sending the Knight flying backwards as he smashed against the wall.

"That was fun." He groaned, getting back on his feet as a Cobraman came flying at him with his blade aimed for his throat!

Gearfried released the tension on his leather shoes, and slid across the wood floor; the blade went sliding over his head and smashed into the wall. Gear swung his blade up and burst the snake into dark vapor and was back for another round.

"Alright, who wants some?" He called out, his blade shining brightly.

Two of the Gagagigos came running on all fours like a crocodile, and lunged for him.

Gear swung his blade forward, and stuck it in the wood floor, "IRON FRIECE!!!" He shouted, as the energy flew out of the blade, and sent him shooting forward, he held out his left shoulder. The Gagagigos bounced off his armor, and were sent spiraling down the pit in the floor from His attack's aftermath.

Aaron was sent barreling at full bore, Hold on, I'm coming!

Just then, 5 of the Cobramen intercepted him and grabbed on tight, "Let go!" he growled as he struggled to escape their grasp.

The 5 reptiles ran with their package and dove off the edge and into Aaron's pit plummeting down into the depths!

NOO!!! Ashley needs me and I won't let you stop me!!! Aaron called out inside Gearfried, grabbing a card from his deck and threw it into his duel brace.

"KUNAI WITH CHAIN!!!" He called out, as the metal boomerang shot out of his shield, followed with a chain.

The rang grabbed a hold of the damaged planks, and the sudden tension caused the Cobras to get shaken off. But Gear's weight was too much for the damaged wood to take, and snapped off!

Gear began to fall again, he looked down to see that the entire floor of the foundation was covered in all sorts of reptile and Dinosaur monsters! Their teeth gleamed in the sparse light shining down in the pit.

Teeth, Where's a dentist when you need one?

Gearfried, pulled back his blade, "METAL FOREARM THRUST!!!" He shouted, as he swung the blade with as much force he could muster.

The resulting shockwave blew away a small portion of the monsters, and causing a crater in the cement.

Gearfried crashed at the bottom of the crater, and watched the masses of cold blooded monsters came charging for him, jaws snapping.

"COME AND GET IT!!!" He called out, as he held up his blade and began to draw his energy into it.

Inside him, Aaron reached into his deck and loaded up magic and traps inside his brace, "If I'm going down, I'm taking these things out with me." He said, and then looked up at the hole in the ceiling.

Ashley, forgive me, All I can hope for is that you'll make it out of here alright. He thought to himself.

"Aaron, don't give up!" A voice called out to him.

The voice surprised him, But that was-!

Just then, his duel brace began to flash, and burn with light!!!

Gearfried began to glow and burn with Rema, his body turning a bright white.

The Dinosaurs and Reptiles halted their advance; they stood in anger and snapped at the glowing warrior.

Just then, a vortex appeared in the air, Injection Fairy Lily, with Neo and Archfiend siding shotgun came flying out.

"Here comes the Calvary!" Jordan called out.

"What's going on!?" Chuck demanded, seeing Gearfried glowing.

"It…looks like a spirit merge!" Amy stated.

Just then, the light exploded, revealing, Fairy King Truesdale, his staff at the ready, and his wings out folded.

Jacob at the castle of Dragons nearly fell back in his chair, "He did it. He escaped the level 4 barrier!"

Aaron looked around inside his new area, it was the same but different, he looked at his brace, and saw the card V had given him.

"How'd I do that!?" Truesdale called out.

"Aaron! Look out!" Neo called out.

Truesdale looked and saw a Black Tyranno coming down on him!

He spun the staff in his hands and aimed it at the Dino, "PROMENIACE FORCE!!!" He called out.

The staff head gathered in energy from around it, and released an incredibly strong beam of green energy that swept the T-rex into the Stone Age!

Truesdale opened his wings, and floated up into the air, and held his staff over his head, "PETAL THUNDER STORM!!!" He called out, as his wings lit up with energy, and vast storm of leaves and pedals flew from them and blew the monsters against the walls of the basement.

"Everyone ready?" Chuck called out.

"Affirmative." Aaron answered.

"Roger." Amy replied.

"Oh yeah." Jordan said, holding his blade at his side.

"ATTACK!!! SABER OF LIGHT!!!" Neo shouted, his blade glowing with light rivaling the sun, and swung it at his side of the basement.

"NOIR INFERNO FISSURE!!!" Archfiend called out, as the wave of black fire flew from his blade and barbecued his monsters.

"NEEDLE SHOCK WAVE!!!" Lily called out, as her needle plunger pulled back then shot out a incredible stream of energy!

"PROMENACE FORCE!!!" Truesdale said, as he aimed his staff and let loose a powerful wave of green energy at the cold blooded beasts.

The powerful forces destroyed the monsters in less than an instant, but then, the walls began cracking, and the build began shaking.

"The foundation's crumbling; the whole building's going to implode!" Chuck shouted.

"Ashley! She's still upstairs!" Aaron called out.

"Let's bail!" Archfiend shouted, as ran up the side of the falling wall.

Neo grabbed onto Lily's Needle as she and Truesdale took to the skies in an attempt to fly their way out of the collapsing structure.

Just then, the supports of the top floor smashed, and the building began its destructive path as the floors from the roof were crushing there way down to ground level!

Aaron knew time was running short, This new form gives me more strength than Gearfried, but its not as fast, I need to go back a step. I may never be able to turn back into Truesdale, but I'll gladly sacrifice it for Ashley! HHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Fairy King turned into energy, and emerged as Gearfried.

"Kunai With Chain!!!" He called out as his boomerang fired again, and grabbed a hold of sturdy wood.

With a great tug, he pulled himself up with blinding speed!

The 4 escaped the basement, just as the last floor came crashing down!

Neo, Lily, and Archfiend dove out the nearest window, as the building sank down into the foundation, trapping everything inside under 200 hundred tons of building materials.

"Where are Aaron and Ashley?" Jacob called from Chuck's duel brace.

"Oh my god, did they make it out?" Amy gasped.

Jordan didn't standby and do nothing, he immediately ran over to the rubble and began digging through it.

Come on Aaron, don't be dead!

Just then, he felt the rubble rumbling, the bricks were shaking.

Yes!!

He jumped off the pile, just as a large portion shot into the air. Chuck and Amy went running forward to see that Gearfried had changed back in to a banged up and winded Aaron, with an unconscious Ashley in his arms.

"A…little…help here." He wheezed, as he started to lose his balance.

Chuck took Ashley out of his arms, and Amy tried to keep him up right.

"I think, I'll take a little nap now." He said, as he blacked out.

"This is starting to be a nasty habit for him." Amy said.

"I knew he had it in him, he just needed a push in the right direction." Jordan said.

"After his day with you I'm surprised." Chuck smirked.

"Hey, I'll let you know I'm a good role model." He shot back.

"Yeah, when you're head's rolling from when you are spying on girl's shower." Chuck answered.

"That was you!!!" Amy, and 2 other voices coming over the duel brace shouted.

"Uh oh, Gotta run!" Jordan stated, and made a mad dash for it.

"Here hold this," Amy said, throwing Aaron on top of Ashley in Chuck's arms, "GET BACK HERE!!!" As she took off after him.

"Hey!" Chuck called out, as he lost his balance, and was now stuck with two people on top of him, and couldn't get up.

"Maybe the bomb would have been a better way to spend the afternoon." He muttered to himself.

Well into the afternoon, Aaron woke up in a hospital bed, "How you doing?" Chuck asked, standing by a window in the room.

"Feels like a ton of bricks landed on me." He muttered.

"You'll live, and so will Ashley, She made it out of there with out a scratch. Not a bad job out there."

"What'd she tell the cops? There's bound to be a whole story on the news about this."

"Actually No." Amy said, coming into the room.

"What?"

"Amy's got limited telepathic capabilities. She managed to convince everyone into believing it was bad prank played on her." Chuck answered.

"And that a local teenager found her and saved her from the collapsing building." Amy said, "A young man with a flat top."

"Oh no you didn't!" Aaron wallowed, "What am I going to say to her? Oh I just realized that some chump was playing a trick on you and knew that he was hiding in the woods?"

"Why not? You did figure it out on your own, Come on man, get a back bone and tell her you like her." Jordan said, as he rolled in with a wheelchair.

"Looks like you need one more than I do, what happened?" Aaron asked.

"Oh, he had what was coming to him." Amy said, cracking her knuckles.

"I used to remember when she wouldn't hurt a fly, and then she met Jordan." Chuck whispered to Aaron.

"And I was taking dating advice from him?"

"You could have done worse."

"How?"

Chuck paused for a second, "I guess you got a point there."

"Hey!" Jordan called out in self defense.

"Whatever, I got to get going before the press catches me." Aaron said, climbing out of bed.

"Aaron, how did you change into Fairy King Truesdale?" Amy asked.

Aaron paused for a second, then said, "I think it was an accident, I lost my focus when I was inside Gearfried, something had surprised me. The next thing I knew my brace was burning with energy, and then I changed to Truesdale."

"You have any idea what caused it?" Chuck asked, trying to learn as much as possible.

"It was the sound of Ashley's voice, telling me not to give up." Aaron said, as he made his way to the door, "Thanks for your help guys, but now comes my job." He said, before leaving.

Chuck stood contemplating, This is still hard to believe, first he manages to reach our level in practically no time, he regains his strength faster than anyone else, and now he manages to Ascend beyond us in transformation. He has no idea either, but now why this? The Daikai had no reason to go after Ashley, and now she manages to influence Aaron into evolving to a level 6 form. If he is excelling at this pace, it may be time to step up the testing.

"Hey Chuck look." Amy said, looking out into the hall.

Chuck stepped over, and saw Aaron was stopped in front of the elevator, with Ashley standing in front of him. "This should be interesting."

"Aaron, I never got the chance to thank you. Your friends told me you went through Hell for me." She said.

"Oh it wasn't so bad, aside from a slight concussion and a sliver or two. It seemed to me you got the worse end of the bargain." He countered.

"Yeah, I was kind of worried, but when I was in the dark, I could have sworn I felt a warm presence around me. Saying it would be okay, and everything would be alright. Then when it felt like the world was coming down all around me, that presence was even stronger, I could have sworn I felt something metal, but it felt warm as flesh, it was probably my imagination, but it was so real."

"So how's Dave taking your safe return? I'm sure he must be worried sick about you." Aaron asked, trying to change the subject.

"Not exactly, sure he was worried, but I think he was too immersed in his own fear to worry about anyone but himself." She said, a little sad.

"Maybe he should learn a thing from you, you kept your cool even under fire."

"Maybe he could learn a thing from you." She said.

"Say wha?" Aaron asked, a tad startled.

"Anyone would have been scared out of their mind running to a collapsing building, but you were willing to throw your life away."

"But you were in danger, I couldn't just let you die, you mean too much to me and I…" Aaron cut himself off, Oh man I let it slip!

"Come on Aaron, pull it together!" Jordan spoke softly.

"And what would you know about keeping it together when dealing with a woman?" Amy asked

"I did when you were cracking my femurs, spine, and rib cage."

That must have been something to watch, Chuck thought to himself.

Aaron was now dead silent and his face was turning scarlet.

"Come on Aaron, you and I have known each other for over 5 years, I know you've been doing your best to try and hide your feelings. And till now I've watched you try your best to make the others around you happy, but now when you're about to let out your feelings you still hold back. Why?"

"I…was afraid, of losing our friendship if I brought it up. You were always so nice to me when we first met, and when you started to date Dave, I felt happy for you, since I knew I could never be what he was." Aaron said, looking down at the floor, afraid to look into her eyes.

Just then, she put her fingers under his chin, and lifted his face, they both stared into each other's eyes. "No, you're better."

The doors to the elevator opened, and Ashley stepped inside.

Aaron remained motionless, until a doorstop nailed him in the head, he looked to see Chuck and Jordan mouthing, "Ask her!"

Aaron spun around, and held the door open, "Uh, Ashley… I was wondering…would you go…out with me to the dance Friday?" He asked.

She grinned, "Of course, see you at 6." She said, as the doors closed.

Aaron's face turned into a burning smile, "ALRIGHT!!!"

"My Pupil has grown up so much, I could cry." Jordan started to get teary eyed.

"Oh gimme a break." Amy and Chuck said, at the same time, as they ran out to talk to Aaron.