Morning had come to the valley once again, the sun creeping over the mountains, illuminating them for another day. Takumi had been spending his time in his ship since the fight with Kaixa last night, resting as he wondered on and on whom the suited figure that had saved him was.

As this was going on, Shorty was in his Gillis outfit, practicing some moves in an out of the way place, jumping and running a bit as he grunted, before chopping some rocks in half with some powerful punches. He also roared a bit as he shot out the tendrils from his wrists, wrapping them around branches nearby as he practiced with them, trying to make them more effective than ever.

Gillis looked on at the branches as he caught his breath, retracting his tendrils into his wrists as he stood and looked to the outskirts of the Valley.

"Yeah…you just try and get me now Kusaka…" He muttered to himself. "This 'animal' will be ready for you." He then laughed a bit as he grunted and kicked a big tree a few times swiftly; trying out his spin kicks a little as he suddenly heard a voice.

"Well…you're up early."

Gillis turned to see Grandma looking at him. He then nodded a bit as he shifted back into his normal self.

"Well, I was feeling a bit restless, so I thought I'd get up and exercise a bit."

"I see" Grandma said as she walked over and saw the slightly beat up tree. "You should be careful next time. We do like to eat off those, you know." She chuckled a bit as she got a few leaves down from the tree for Shorty. "You remember eating don't you? It's something you can do instead of fighting."

"I know, I know." Shorty smiled a bit as he leaned over and took a few bites. "Mmm..wow, I didn't realize how hungry I was until now…guess I had too much on my mind to realize it."

Grandma looked at him as her smile faded a little. "Like revenge, right?"

Shorty sighed, and stayed silent for a moment, before shaking his head. It was clear that he couldn't deceive this older longneck at all.

"It just wasn't fair." He said out loud. "I barely got to know the guy. I didn't even have a chance to properly apologize to him for attacking, and all of a sudden he's dead. If only I'd gotten to Littlefoot sooner…"

"Then you'd be the dead one" Grandma simply responded.

Shorty huffed a bit in frustration. "Well, what do you know about it, huh? What could you possibly know about losing someone who didn't have to be lost in the first place?"

Grandma looked at him sternly. "I know more about it then you think I do. You have no idea what my life was like until now…I have a lot in common with you, Shorty."

Shorty gave her a strange look. "You?…no offense, Grandma, but I find that a little hard to believe."

Grandma smiled just a little as she gazed at him. "Well, I wasn't born a kind, sweet old lady, you know. That part of me took years to develop."

"Really?" Shorty looked up at her with an amazed gaze, very interested in what she had to say.

"Oh, you wouldn't believe what my life was like before. See, I was orphaned just like you were when I was young. I went from herd to herd, though I mostly kept to myself. I quarreled with other longnecks often, and as I got older I started recklessly fighting sharpteeth by myself." She turned and showed him a faint, but visible scar on her right hind leg. "That's how I got this beauty."

Shorty went wide-eyed as he heard all of this. "Wow…but what made you change your ways?"

Grandma smiled as she continued. "I met my husband of course. He was very bright, but such an introvert most of the time, but he seemed to have a strange interest in me. I didn't care for him much at first, in fact I even tail-slapped him a few times when he got too close."

Shorty laughed a bit as Grandma chuckled, before going on. "But then he finally conquered his fears, and helped me save his herd from those three sharpteeth…and I could see how much he cared for me. Nobody had ever cared for me to put them self in danger of death like that. I fell in love with him immediately afterward. And after I had Bron, it was like a part of me had finally found some peace. And that was when I settled down."

Shorty nodded a bit as Grandma leaned closer to him. "Look, I know you're frustrated, and hurt, and angry right now, but that Mihara fellow sacrificed himself because he cared about you and every one here, just like there are people here in the valley who care about you. Don't forget about them, like I forgot about my husband for so long. Otherwise it might be too late when you finally realize it."

Shorty nodded a little as he smiled some. "Thanks, Grandma."

Grandma gave him a light nuzzling. "Anytime, Shorty." She then slowly walked off before turning and adding. "Oh, and pick up your legs more when you run"

Shorty chuckled "Ok, will do." He smiled as he ate some more of his breakfast hungrily.

"Another suit?" Littlefoot asked Takumi, who had just arrived to him, and his friend to tell him of this news, as Shorty was still off eating and practicing. "Are you sure?"

"I can't think of anything else it could be. It has to be another one of the professor's suits." Takumi responded.

Ali piped up after this. "Well, maybe we should call the grasshopper, get the information from him."

Takumi sighed as this was mentioned. "Well, I thought of that earlier…but when I got back to my ship, look at what I found…"

Everyone's jaw dropped when he pulled out the smashed up remains of the tiny android.

"Oh no." Littlefoot said, breaking the stunned silence. "Can it be fixed?"

"Well, it's very advanced technology, but I can certainly give it a try…but I've already got some information after patching what remained of it's cpu into the ship's computer."

"Oh?" Ali asked "And what did you find out?"

Takumi looked at her and Littlefoot as he responded. "Well, I wasn't able to find out the identity of the user unfortunately, but I did find this…" He whipped out his device and punched a few special buttons, as an image of the suit he saw last night popped up on a hologram viewer for all to see.

"This is Mochizuki's model 690125, code name: Leangle. This particular model is designed to be the perfect balance between strength and speed. The model is quite large and bulky, thus capable of great strength, but it can also run faster than most organic creatures if need be."

"Sounds impressive" Littlefoot responded as he looked at the image in astonishment. "He sure looks like someone I wouldn't to make angry."

"And that's not all" Takumi continued. "I probed into more of what the data droid might have known, and I came up with another shocking discovery." He looked right at Littlefoot and Ali as he revealed the information. "There are two other suits we haven't discovered yet."

Ali gasped and gazed right at Takumi. "Really? Are you sure?"

Takumi nodded "I have the data right here…" he punched a few buttons as the image of a blue- and silver colored suit appeared. "Model 477231, Code Name: Blade…" he pressed a button as the image vanished and the picture of another suit came up, this one silver with burgundy coverings. "And Model 992161, Code Name: Garren."

Littlefoot tilted his head a bit as he saw these other new designs. "Amazing…but how are we going to find them if the grasshopper isn't working anymore?"

Takumi shrugged. "Well, it looks like we'll just have to let them find us, like Leangle did. The one thing we have going for us is that the Neo Organism seems to have a hard time finding the suits before they've activated inside of their hosts' bodies. He can pick up faint signals here and there, but nothing solid."

Littlefoot looked on at the designs displayed on the viewer before looking back at Takumi. "Then, I hope whoever these suits are inside of will find us before the enemy finds them. We don't need anyone else ending up like Mihara."

Time passed after this conversation, and Shorty was eventually told what Takumi had told them. And as this was going on, Ducky was relating her experience on Takumi's ship to Cera, Spike, and Petrie.

"Wow…he actually let you look at the thing?" Cera asked, her eyes wide open in astonishment.

Ducky giggled "Yeah…I guess maybe he needed something to do, but he showed me how it works and everything."

"Wow." Petrie exclaimed. "It's almost as if he's grooming you to be the new Delta, Ducky."

"Oh, come on Petrie" Ducky laughed at this notion. "Why would he want to do that?"

"I don't know" He shrugged. "But then again, why would those other suits choose Littlefoot, Shorty, and Ali?"

Ducky scoffed a bit. "Well, I don't think Takumi is seriously considering something like that. I think he could tell just from seeing me that I wouldn't be much of a fighter."

"Ducky, everyone has a chance to be a great fighter" Cera jumped in. "It all depends on how much exposure to it you've had, and how much you're willing to do and learn from it, right Spike?"

Spike just smiled and simply nodded. "I think you're right Cera. I think if she had enough practice, my sis could really kick some butt around here." He grinned as the others, including Ducky, laughed.

Meanwhile, Shorty had just arrived and was being briefed on what Takumi had just told Littlefoot and Ali, before they suddenly heard a voice call out. "Help me!"

They all turned to see a frightened female Flyer swooping into the valley, with a very frantic look on her face, as if she had just seen something truly horrifying.

Littlefoot immediately ran to her side. "What is it? What's wrong?"

The Flyer looked at her wide-eyed and told her tale. "Oh, it was terrible. This big thing just suddenly came down from the sky and landed on the ground…there were all these weird creatures in it…one of them had a shiny black body…"

"Logia" Takumi simply said softly.

Ali ran to her side. "Was there another creature too…an ugly one with a green body and big antennae?"

The flyer simply nodded. "Yes…but how would you know about that?"

Ali just looked at her, not sure how to answer as Takumi walked up to her. "Do you know where this thing landed exactly?"

The Flyer nodded and pointed out from the valley. "It landed in the swamplands, a few miles from here."

"Ok then" He looked to Littlefoot, Ali and Shorty as he walked over and picked up his Faiz Gear case. "Let's go have a look around, guys."

The others nodded quickly and ran off with him, getting ready to transform as they disappeared from view of the female flyer.

At this point the flyer, now all alone, smiled widely, reaching up and hitting a hidden communications button on her neck as she softly spoke, "I'm in…"

Ducky, Petrie, Spike, and Cera were all sitting around as they suddenly saw Faiz, Agito, Gillis, and Chalice on their bikes, pulling up a few feet away from them.

"Whoa, hey guys!" Cera exclaimed as they appeared. "Duty calls again, huh?"

Agito simply nodded as Faiz looked over at Ducky. "I've got a favor to ask you Ducky…"

"What is it?" She responded, curiously.

Faiz tossed her the Delta driver, minus the belt, which she caught in her hands. "Use that to keep in touch with us. If something should happen here while we're away, just enter my access code, 555." He pointed her out to the specific number on the keypad. "You'll be able to get in contact with me that way. Just speak into the microphone on the driver."

Ducky nodded as she handled the device, while Cera looked over at it curiously along with the others. "Ok Takumi. I won't let you down."

Faiz nodded as Gillis revved up his bike. "Ok then, let's get going!"

Chalice nodded softly in response as the group of heroes left the valley, heading in the direction the flyer pointed them to.

As they were driving along the earth, Gillis looked over at Chalice. "Now remember what I told you…" he said to her. "Don't think too much…just act!"

"Right Shorty…I'll remember" Chalice responded as they drove further off into the direction of the swamplands.

Meanwhile, Ducky still held the driver in her hands as Petrie looked over it with Cera.

"Wow, that thing's pretty neat looking…but where's the belt that goes with it."

Ducky shook her head and smiled to him. "I already told you Petrie, he doesn't want me messing around with that thing."

"Maybe he just doesn't think you can handle it just yet" Cera responded with a smile. "Maybe you could swipe it from him when he's not looking, and prove him wrong."

"Now why would I want to do something like that?" Ducky laughed, hiding her own curiosity over the Delta Gear, even though the others seemed to see right through her anyway.

"Ah, come on Ducky" Spike chuckled as he walked over to her. "I remember the look on your face when you told me about Takumi showing this to you. You looked like you would've slapped that belt on right there if he had let you."

"But that's just it, Spike" Ducky responded with a smile. "He doesn't want me to put it on, and I'm going to respect that."

"For now, you mean." Petrie said with a laugh as Ducky just smiled and narrowed her eyes, shaking her head at him.

Out in the swamplands that they were directed to, Agito, Faiz, Gillis and Chalice drove in from the woods nearby, stopping their bikes as they got off and walked around, seeing the bubbling swamp water around them as they searched for any sign of the impactor's ship.

"Can you sense anything?" Faiz asked Agito as they searched.

Agito simply shook his head slowly. "No…I'm not picking up anything the least bit threatening."

"Neither are we" Responded Chalice, who was walking with Gillis.

"What do you think this means?" Gillis asked as he frantically looked around the trees and rocks and water, seeing all sorts of lizards and insects, but no Impactors.

"It might be the one thing I feared this would be…" Faiz said as two big green feet stepped slowly from the shadows, just out of view.

"What?" Asked Chalice as the figure stepped out into the open.

Faiz quickly turned and responded, "A trap!"

Agito's senses suddenly kicked in, along with those in Gillis and Chalice, as they all immediately dove out of the way from the laser shots sent by Doras' shoulder cannon!

Doras stepped onto the scene and growled loudly as three creatures he recently created stepped out from the shadows as well. They had humanoid shapes, but were clearly derived from the fearsome scorpion. Their barbed tails whipped around as they hissed and snapped their claws in anticipation, as Faiz went to his bike and withdrew his sword from the handle bar.

As the others got ready to fight, Logia stepped out from behind some trees as well, laughing a little, tauntingly. "Now we've got you all right where we want you, away from your valley…away from your ship."

"You knew we were coming?" Gillis growled, as he got ready to fight.

"Of course" Logia said, as he looked to the group. "Didn't that Paxerian tell you…this is a trap." He laughed a bit as he readied his gun. "You fell for the story of the operative we sent into the valley…Lucia's always been so good with disguises…"

"Lucia?" Faiz stepped forward. "What are you planning to do with her, Logia?"

"You want more information?" Logia said as he cocked his gun. "Then you're going to have to beat it out of me…"

"Happy to oblige you!" Gillis yelled out as he ran towards Logia, crying out in rage. Logia quickly spun with his gun and shot it, hitting Gillis in the shoulder with the shot as he yelled in pain and fell onto his back from the force!

"Shorty!" Chailce yelled, as she tried to run over and help him, only to be met with a swing from a scorpion's tail! She quickly ducked to avoid the barb, and slashed the creature away with her bow, relying on her instincts now as she ignored her vendetta with Doras, who was simply standing and watching her from a distance.

Faiz ran over and fired shots from his own pistol at Logia, as Agito quickly ducked and kicked at two scorpions teaming up on him. They slashed and swung their tails at him as he dodged and dodged, before kicking them both out of the way and instinctively using a new ability he just discovered in his mind, reaching into his belt and pulling out the sword from his flame form, and the staff of his typhoon form, holding them out as his body became a mix of red and blue, achieving the "Trinity" form of his suit!

Gillis got back up as he saw this, and ran in to assist his ally as Logia fired his gun at Faiz, and at Chalice, who was now firing back with her energy arrows from her bow, as she used them to keep the other scorpion at bay too.

Faiz tried to get in close to nail Logia with a few power moves, but Logia was just too good, and caught Faiz by the arm, kicking him repeatedly in chest before tossing him aside.

Gillis rushed in and caught one scorpion off guard with a jump kick, as Agito slashed at the other one with his two weapons, gracefully and expertly as he whirled the sword and brought it down, lopping off one of the claws on the scorpion! The creature shrieked in pain and tried to let Agito have it with it's tail, as he ducked and quickly brought up the bladed staff, lopping off the barbed end of it's tail as well! Doras watched on in surprise at the display of power, as Agito then quickly brought up both the weapons and slashed them across each other, taking off the monster's head finally as its body fell over and exploded from the power Agito used to do it!

Gills continued to fight with the second scorpion, dodging and kicking furiously before the creature found an opening, and wrapped him up in its tail, holding him firmly as it readie3d its stinger for a finishing blow.

Chalice saw this, and, acting on her instincts once more, kicked the third scorpion aside, and let fly an energy arrow that would have hit Gillis if she had not been careful. Instead, it hit the scorpion right in the eye! The creature shrieked in pain and let go of Gillis as he roared out and let the blades grow on the back of his feet, jumping into the sky and coming down with his right heel, burying a blade in the monster's shoulder as he roared out in triumph, kicking himself off of the scorpion as it exploded!

Logia was still fighting close quarters with Faiz, neither side gaining an advantage this time, as Doras growled in frustration, letting another barrage of laser blasts fly from his shoulder cannon. Agito, Chalice, and Gillis were all hit as they fell back, grunting as the one remaining scorpion walked up next to both Doras, and Logia as he sent Faiz flying with a well placed jump kick.

The group of heroes got back on their feet, facing down Logia, Doras, and the monster as they walked closer.

"You're all much more powerful than I expected" Logia said, as he cocked his gun one more time. "Not that it matters much now…the scorpions may not have killed you, but I won't let that distract me from adding a few more stats to my lifetime kills…"

Doras simply growled, as if to say "Get on with it…" as the group of warriors got ready for another attack. Logia laughed softly and got ready to fire some lethal blasts from his gun…

A blast was heard afterward, but not from Logia's gun, as another blast came in from the side, and smashed into Logia's shooting hand! Logia yelled out in frustration as the force made him drop his gun, pieces of his outer shell flying from the force as he grunted and turned!

The others turned as well, seeing a figure only familiar from the screen that Takumi had showed them earlier, a figure in silver and burgundy armor, its outstretched right arm holding a large gun which had just been fired!

"What in the name of…" Logia exclaimed as he faced the armored figure.

Agito gasped and looked to the others. "It's Garren!"

Faiz simply nodded as Gillis and Chalice looked on in amazement.

Doras growled and looked to the Scorpion, pointing to Garren as the Scorpion nodded slightly and took off, charging right towards the new warrior. Garren simply let the monster have it with a barrage of laser blasts that sounded almost like bullets as they were fired, smacking into the creature's chest with great force!

The Scorpion shrieked in pain as it stood there, trembling from the force of the blows as Garren simply put away his gun, and jumped into the sky, somersaulting as a flash came over him, and two of him were now twirling in mid-air over the monster! Garren's feet were alight with flame as the two visions of him came down at once, letting him have it with a double jump kick as his two forms became one again after the blow, which made the scorpion shriek and tumble as it landed back on the ground, and exploded!

Doras was about to go in himself after this, as Logia caught his shoulder. "No…let's not be too hasty…this plan failed, so we'll simply devise another one…" Doras nodded and turned back into a sphere, as Logia became a ball of light, and both flew off together.

Agito, Gillis, Chalice, and Faiz, all stood and watched, as Garren, not saying a word, got back onto his bike and drove off before anyone could ask anything.

"I wish we knew who these guys were." Chalice said, breaking the silence.

"Don't worry." Agito responded. "I have a feeling we will at some point, once we've earned some more of their trust."

Back in the valley, a light shone briefly on the mountains, as the Flyer who had come in to tell Takumi and the others about the supposed ship changed back into her true form.

Lucia now stood over the mountains, unseen as she readied her weapons at her side.

"Yes…it's about time now." She said as she looked down at the now defenseless creatures of the valley, their protectors now far off in the swamplands. "Those troublesome creatures are about to find out exactly what happens when you cross the Impactors…"

She laughed a little as she slowly descended from the mountains with her crescent-like sword at the ready…