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CHAPTER 5: OPERATION BLOCKS

"Ughhh… what happened?" Natsume asked, getting up from the ground. She found Ryoko next to her and looked around to realize they were standing in a dark, completely blank field.

"I don't have a clue, but if I recall, we were following Kite around in tha weird field…" Ryoko said, recalling that their avatars had appeared as chibi pixilated figures before.

"Ah… they're finally awake…" said a voice behind them. They turned around to notice a giant box-like figure.

"And who might you be?" Ryoko questioned.

'Hmmm… these two are the ones that also have their sights on Bracelet-boy…' The box thought and used his ribbon to reach behind him and pull out a seed that was the Eight Phase version two. 'They'll do just fine…'

"Um.. excuse me…? Sir?" Natsume said, wondering what would happen. 'I'm not getting a very good feeling about this…'

Meanwhile, in Lambda: Hideous Falling Shapes

Blackrose walked around the seeming blank field

"Where is he? Could someone realy get mutilated in a place like this? That-" suddenly a large object hit her in the head from above. "GAAH! Oww… What the hell?" she looked up and saw what looked like a huge mask.

"Die under my blocks of terror!" it yelled and dropped more blocks on Blackrose.

"Ow! Hey! Gah! Stop dropping those..OW!…" Blackrose's anger had suddenly peeked "Youuuu…..RRRAAAH!" she equipped her broad sword and swung hard at the next block, launching it back at the mask. Upon contact, the mask fell over and landed flat on the ground, dead.

"….ooooookay…" Blackrose said, confused at what had happened.

At a nameless field…

"What? It failed? Just like that?" the box yelled out in disbelief.

"Yes. It seems you never gave Fidgeter they programming that you install in the rest of us to make us invincible." Blarnvas explained.

"GYAAAH!" Box slammed his ribbon-fist onto a table "Get Gargle and prepare for the 5th operation then."

Elsewhere in a random field…

Kite lay down under a tree, staring up into the overcast sky, taking a break from all his exploits.

"Oh, it's Kite." A girl's voice came from behind the tree

"Hm? Oh, hi A-20." Kite greeted when something flashed in his head. He looked at the area information and the fellow twinblade's level. "Uh, this area is at least 30 levels above your own…"

"Yeah, but I heard there was a golden grunty here which I wanted to get."

"But you be killed in no time if you went up against any monsters here."

"Oh no worries. I thought I'd sneak around all of them. Maybe they wont' notice." A-20 said. Kite sweatdropped at the plan seeing as how it's inevitable to fight monsters in the dungeon.

"Uh… how about I help you out instead?"

"Oh, that would be great. Thanks."

The two twinblades ventured through the dungeon, defeating one monster after the other until they got the grunty from the gott statue.

"Yay!" A-20 exclaimed as she took the golden grunty. But just before she could use it, a shadow swiftly entered the room and snatched it from her hands and went back the way it came. "Wha…?" Kite took off after whatever it was. He caught a glimpse of the figure turning a corner and dashed after it. He was led into a dead end and in the next moment, found a steel blade at the side of his neck.

"Gr337ing5 f3110w 7win814d3!"

"Sora? What do you want?" Kite said, turning around and backing quickly to escape the blade's range of attack.

"Why I'v3 833n m34ning to 54y 7hi5 f0r 4 whi13 n0w. Ki73, I ch4113ng3 y0u 70 4 du31!"

"What? Right here? Now?

"y35555 ind33d!"

"mmm… well, can you at least give back the golden grunty?"

"I wi11. If y0u c4n 8347 m3 7h47 i5." Kite figured it was the only way to get back A-20's item. He took out his strongest blades and accepted the challenge.

"3xc3113n7!" Sora said as he unleashed his blades from the wrist device and jumped into the air "Pr3P4R3 YOURSE-"

"There you are!" A red-clad long arm interrupted

"Hm? Krim?" Kite looked toward the entrance of the room.

"4h, I h4v3 4n07h3r 74rg37 70 p14y wi7h!" Sora said, landing and changing his direction toward Krim.

"This is revenge for last time!" the long arm shouted as he took out his weapon only to find Sora jumping over him and land behind him.

"R3v3ng3? N07 in y0ur 1if37im3!" Sora reached down and gripped hold of Krim's garment and yanked hard, giving him a wedgie.

"GYAAH! Hey! Let go you-" Before he could finish his sentence Sora let go and let the clothing article snap at Crim's back, making him yelp another cry of pain.

'I didn't think that was possible in The World…' Kite thought, watching the whole scene.

"M4y83 7h47'11 734ch y0u 70 n07 in73rup7 m3 in 4n imp0r74n7 847713!"

"You little… that's it!" Krim shouted as he started casting magic spells at Sora while chasing him around the room, Sora jumping about in a silly manner, dodging each blast.

"H3r3, 74k3 84ck y0ur G01d3n Grun7y. W3'11 figh7 4n07h3r d4y." Sora said as he took off trough the exit while tossing the grunty back to Kite. Krim took pursuit of the green haired twin blade. Kite walked back to the statue room and returned the golden grunty.

"Thank you Kite. Um…oh! Here, you can have this in return for helping me." A-20 gave Kite a "Warped Potion".

"Hm? What does this item do?"

"I don't know. I just found it one day. Well, I need to go. Gotta do some things. See you later." A-20 used the golden grunty to increase her max HP before using a sprite ocarina. Kite decided to log out for a short while.

Meanwhile…

Blackrose checked through her email and found one new message.

Dear Blackrose,

When you can, please meet me and Terajima Ryoko and me at Omega: Befallen Maidens Sipping-bug. Thank you.

-Natsume

'Hmm…alrighty then.' Blackrose slipped on the head set and logged into The World.

Later at the designated area, she found the two girls standing at the entrance of the dungeon.

"Hi girls. So, what is it that you want?" she asked in a friendly tone.

"Come with us" Terajima said in a monotonic voice.

"To the Gott Statue room." Natsume said in an equally apathetic tone.

"Um…. Alright." Blackrose responded. She couldn't' shake the fact that something wasn't right. She dismissed it for now and followed them in. She noticed that the dungeon was cleared of monsters and all the chests were gone. When they reached the Gott Statue room, she found it to be empty as well.

"Hey, uh, what's with this dungeon, there's no one here, and…" Before she could finish, the twinblade and heavy axewoman held their respective sword and axe to Blackrose's throat

"Natsume! Terajima! What the hell are you two…"

NEXT CHAPTER: SUNFLOWER's WRATH

Preview: What has come over Natsume and Terajima? How will Blackrsoe get out of this situation? And what exactly is a Warped Potion suppose to do? Well, you'll have to wait and find out, that's what! Hahaha! Cliffhanger! XP XD