When Fox and Krystal returned to the dock area, they reached a ladder that leads them to the Treasure Rooms. Krystal climbed down the ladder with Fox following her soon afterwards. After they descended down the ladder, they walked along a narrow scaffolding to get to the Treasure Room. As they traversed the ledges, Fox asked, "Y'know, Krystal, ever since we arrived at CloudRunner Fortress, there seems to have been bad blood between you and Scales."

"Well, I did say that I encountered him back on his ship while I was on my way to Krazoa Palace. While I confronted him, he started tormenting a baby CloudRunner that he had locked in a cage, and then I tried to stop him, but it wasn't even a contest. Without my staff, I couldn't properly fight him, and if Kite hadn't saved my life, I would have died. Then, as I made my journey throughout Sauria, especially after I met up with you, I learned more about his cruelty and malice, and the horrible things that he and his soldiers did to terrorize the other tribes of Sauria, and worst of all, that he was responsible for putting the planet on the verge of annihilation in the first place. And I just couldn't forgive him for it. I've always hated the ruthless warlords that I have battled. And Scales is no different."

"What other depraved tyrants have you fought over the years?"

"If I named and described all of them, this conversation would go on forever. But to make a long story short, they were vile people who trampled up on the weak and did caused so many innocents to suffer for their selfish ambitions. Some of them were even misogynists who solely see women as devices for procreation and/or personal pleasure. As much as you enjoy my physical beauty, you care about what kind of person I am and you always take my thoughts and opinions into consideration, and you see me as equal to you in every conceivable way. So you're far from misogynistic, so don't feel bad about finding the sight of me arousing."

"Oh, uh… thanks, Krystal."

"We'll talk more later. We've made it to the Treasure Rooms."

Fox and Krystal reached the end of the scaffoldings and went through a narrow corridor leading them to a gate that slowly opened as soon as they approached it. After the gate opened, Fox and Krystal walked through it, but there were two SharpClaw soldiers guarding the room, and the vulpine duo's presence startled them and they charged in to attack them. Fox and Krystal drew their staffs, and countered the attacks from the two SharpClaw and the fight ended before it even started. The vulpines finished off the SharpClaw soldiers before they could even get a scratch on them. Then they walked through the corridor into the next room.

In the next room, Fox was bewildered to find that most of the room had a lot of sand in it. "What's up with all this sand?"

"I think it's there to make the room look pretty and from where I stand, it succeeded on that end. Let's keep going." They proceeded through yet another corridor in the sand room.

Fox and Krystal went through a tunnel leading them further into the treasure rooms and the corridor looked more like a cave. Further along, they found an air vent, and shut it off to proceed, and they ended up at a dark room. Fox took out a firefly from his lamp and they went through an opening in the wall and entered a square room with green torches and a ladder leading down into the lower levels. Krystal headed down the ladder, then Fox followed her.

When the two foxes reached the bottom, they found themselves in a room with two doorways and elaborate designs on the walls. "These must be the Treasure Rooms!" They quickly ran through the entrance to the Treasure Rooms and into a large chamber filled with golden sand. In the chamber, the two vulpines found a few jet bikes as well as a few SharpClaw soldiers. Much to their disparaged surprise, one of the SharpClaw soldiers was…

"Scales!" shouted the two vulpines as they drew their staffs and charged at the arrogant SharpClaw leader. Scales swiped at them with his claw hand, knocking them back, then turned to one of his troops, shouting, "Get the SpellStone out of here!" Fox started firing Fire Blasts at Scales, but Scales picked up another SharpClaw soldier and held him in front of him using him as a shield, while the first SharpClaw troop grabbed the SpellStone, which had a cyan core and a dark-green shell hopped onto a jet bike and took off through the Treasure Rooms. Krystal shouted, "Fox! Go after the SpellStone. I'll take care of this beast!"

"But, Krystal…"

"I'll be fine! Now go!"

"You won't stand a…"

"GO!"

Fox hesitated. He didn't want to leave Krystal behind to fight Scales alone. Aside from being a voluptuous woman, Krystal was a strong-willed and fearsome warrior with a kind heart and a strong sense of justice. Noble, determined, courageous, Fox liked those traits in her and didn't want to lose her. He also wanted to help her salvage what she could of her culture, and if she were to die, her culture and her species would go completely extinct, and Fox didn't want that. He trembled and clutched his staff tightly.

General Scales drew a large sword and swung it at Krystal, but she blocked it with her staff. As she locked her weapon with the reptilian tyrant, she shouted at Fox, "What are you waiting for!? He's getting away!"

"Fine, then!" With a tear in his eye, Fox hopped onto a jet bike and said back to Krystal, "Promise me that you'll survive. If Scales overwhelms or overpowers you, run. Even if your warrior's pride tells you not to. I'll never permit you to die." He took off after the SharpClaw with the SpellStone.

Scales broke the weapon lock and finished his swipe at Krystal, but Krystal quickly dodged the attack and used Scales' arm as a platform before jumping in the air, kicking Scales in the face and then backflipping back to the ground. Scales staggered as Krystal gracefully moved into a combat stance.

As Scales recovered from that one kick in the face, he let out a sinister, ominous laugh. "Dek rut, cakkco wahc. Rik oei ned'k ro je uhhewudk edso oei xulo jood mo khio fenoh! (Not bad, little girl. But you won't be so arrogant once you have seen my true power!)"

Krystal scoffed, "Ex, oei kxadb A'm uhhewudk? Viddo xouhadw oei juo kxuk. (Oh, you think I'm arrogant? Funny hearing you say that.)"

Scales laughed arrogantly. "Veecajx nemud! U vhuac cakkco wahc jisx uj oeihjocv kxadbj jxo sud tovouk kxo mawxko General Scales!? Kxuk A, kxo mawxkaojk nuhhaeh ed ucc ev Sauria neict cuo jcuad uk kxo vook ev u fund ev ud odkaho kharo ev senuhtj!? (Foolish woman! A frail little girl such as yourself thinks she can defeat the mighty General Scales!? That I, the mightiest warrior on all of Sauria would lay slain at the feet of a pawn of an entire tribe of cowards!?)"

Krystal felt a hot surge of anger. The CloudRunners were like a family to Krystal ever since she arrived on Sauria. They helped her get accustomed to their world, and Kite took her to wherever a dinosaur tribe was being attacked so she could save them. Not only that, Kite risked his life to save Krystal when she was thrown off Scales' ship that night. Hearing Scales mock and ridicule her new family sickened her. She shrieked out her bone-chilling Cerinian battle cry and charged at Scales, leaping into the air and raising her staff, ready to strike at him from above. But General Scales calmly deflected the strike with his sword and took a huge swipe at her with his metallic claw, but she quickly backstepped, dodging the attack. "Oei batduf sxacthod udt hid nakx oeih kuac roknood oeih cowj udt ook oei succ ij senuhtj!? (You kidnap children and run with your tail between your legs and yet you call us cowards!?)"

"Veecajx nemud. Nxod no adlutot kxo CloudRunner Fortress, kxo CloudRunner tatd'k olod kho ke fik if u vawxk! Kxoo jihhodtohot hawxk kxod udt kxoho udt rowwot veh kxoah caloj. Kxoo jihhodtohot ad kxo vuso ev utlohjako... khio senuhtaso! (Foolish woman. When we invaded the CloudRunner Fortress, the CloudRunner didn't even try to put up a fight! They surrendered right then and there and begged for their lives. They surrendered in the face of adversity... true cowardice!)"

"Uk coujk kxoho noho foefco kxuk kxo CloudRunner noho naccadw ke khijk ekxohj! Kxoo muo xulo kxoah voitj nakx kxo EarthWalker, rik uk coujk kxoo uhod'k naccadw ke effhojj kxom adke jirziwukaed. (At least there were people that the CloudRunner were willing to trust others! They may have their feuds with the EarthWalker, but at least they aren't willing to oppress them into subjugation.)"

"Udt nxuk ureik ij!? Teoj nxuk kxoo tat ke ij dek giucavo uj jir... (And what about us!? Does what they did to us not qualify as sub...)"

"Jacodso! Oeih hoawd ev kohheh odtj den! (Silence! Your reign of terror ends now!)" She charged at Scales again and like last time, only got her blow deflected, knocking her towards the wall, where she quickly backflipped to regain her footing. She glowered at her reptilian adversary as she moved into a combat stance.

"A joo kxuk yei ned'k cajkod ke houjed. Loho nocc… Oei ned'k ro je wcar nxod A fik oeih xout ed u fabo! (I see that you won't listen to reason. Very well… You won't be so glib when I put your head on a pike!)"

"No'cc joo nxejo xout weoj ed kxuk fabo, Scales! (We'll see whose head goes on that pike, Scales!)"

Fox went after the SharpClaw soldiers on their jet bikes as they raced their way through the tunnels leading their way out of the Treasure Rooms. Unfortunately, they weren't in his sight so far, and Fox didn't want to let them get away with the SpellStone. He prepared to press harder on the accelerator pedal but then, he quickly saw a large crate land right in his current path, so he swerved out of the way before speeding up. He then sped along a downward slope that twisted sideways, hoping to finally catch up to the SharpClaw soldiers that took the SpellStone. He then sped through a tunnel with metallic pipes around, and steered clear of a land mine and a streak if fire leaking out of one of the pipes. And after dodging that flame, he finally caught a glimpse of the SharpClaws turning at the corner. After making the sharp turn himself, he pressed harder on the pedal, dashing right past two large red crystals in the tunnel, and after dodging more mines and making more sharp turns, he finally caught up with the three SharpClaw soldiers, and saw that the one in the very lead was the one holding the SpellStone. Fox then pushed his jet bike to maximum speed, zooming right past the other two SharpClaw and preparing to crash right into the one with the SpellStone. He got ready to strike at the lead SharpClaw, but then the other two SharpClaw soldiers sandwiched themselves in between Fox and attempted to crush Fox's jet bike on each side. After Fox quickly noticed that his jet bike was starting to take damage, he briefly put the brakes on his jet bike before speeding up again, causing the two SharpClaw's jet bikes to crash into each other, and as soon as they crashed, they had to spread out further apart from each other. One of them slowed down just enough so that he was right next to Fox McCloud himself. The SharpClaw attempted to crash right into him, but then as soon as Fox noticed one of the other two SharpClaw deploying a mine to try to blow up Fox, he swerved out of the way, with the SharpClaw closest to him ending up getting in the way of the mine. The explosion from the mine sent the SharpClaw's jet bike flipping in the air and crashing into a wall before it exploded. Fox took a quick glance back and saw it blow up. The other SharpClaw who deployed the mine gasped in horror when he realized he blew up his own comrade, then Fox smugly smirked at him and picked up the pace to catch up with him.

Krystal charged at the SharpClaw tyrant with yet another overhead strike from above, yet just as she was about to thrust the head end of her staff onto his face, Scales nonchalantly grabbed that end of her staff and quickly threw his arm to the right of him, causing Krystal to lose her grip and sending her flying against the wall. As soon as she hit the wall, she wearily attempted to get up to regain her footing while Scales casually dropped her staff. He slowly walked towards Krystal. "Row, sxact. Row veh oeih majohurco cavo udt A muo vadt ak ad mo xouhk ke jfuho oei. (Beg, child. Beg for your miserable life and I may find it in my heart to spare you.)"

Krystal growled, "Ro kxo odt ev kxaj vawxk, oei'cc ro kxo edo row... (By the end of this fight, you'll be the one beg...)"

But Scales grabbed Krystal by the throat with his regular, non-mechanical hand, ready to strangle her. Krystal struggled to breath. Scales harshly roared, "A sud'k xouh oei! Jshoum veh mo! Sho udt jxen ij nxe kxo houc senuht aj! (I can't hear you! Scream for me! Cry and show us who the real coward is!)"

But as a warrior of the Crimson Sun, Krystal didn't beg for her life as Scales demanded. Instead, she held her breath, then focused her mind, and brought her palms together, just barely touching each other. Static crackled and built up as she summoned one of her rarest talents; direct manipulation of energy. She opened her eyes and held her palms out in front of her, and twin orbs of sizzling blue-white plasma leaped from her hands into the ruthless warlord's face. Scales staggered in pain and his grip on Krystal released completely and when she became free from his fist, she quickly rushed past General Scales, grabbed her staff, and rushed back over to General Scales. Just as Scales was about to recover from his staggering, Krystal rushed on over to him, shrieking her Cerinian battle cry, and smacked him in the jaw with her staff before he could even react. The blow to Scales was so devastating that a few of his teeth started flying out of his mouth. Krystal then hit him in the jaw again, making him stumble a few steps backwards yet he regained his footing. Krystal then hit him with her staff a third time and a few more steps were taken back, with Scales staggering in more pain. She charged at Scales preparing a fourth strike, but Scales quickly regained his footing and punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground. But before she landed, Scales grabbed her by the throat again, and slammed her to the ground, preparing to attempt to strangle her again. "Oei'lo ucnuoj rood je jkirrehd udt hocodkcojj. A tatd'k opfosk oei ke fik if u vawxk. Rik den, oei tao! (You've always been so stubborn and relentless. I didn't expect you to put up a fight. But now, you die!)"

Fox sped up ahead, gaining on the second SharpClaw. The SharpClaw tried throwing another mine at Fox, but Fox took out his staff and activated his defensive barrier causing him and his jet bike to remain unscathed even with the mine detonating in his face. The SharpClaw slowed down for a brief moment and once he was behind Fox, sped up again and tried ramming his jet bike into Fox's. Fox slammed his jet bike into the SharpClaw's in return and they kept ramming into each other, hoping to blow each other up. Immediately, they arrived at another cliff-side, where Fox then rammed the SharpClaw's jet bike closer to the edge. The SharpClaw, barely hanging on and barely missing the edge prepared to ram into Fox again, but then Fox rammed into the SharpClaw, knocking him over the edge. The SharpClaw fell, screaming into the abyss below as Fox caught up with the final SharpClaw.

Krystal held her breath and struggled to reach for her staff as she felt General Scales tightening his fist around her neck. She had to get her staff in order to get out of this situation. Just a little further…

Krystal barely managed to succeed, but she stretched her arm out far enough and then grabbed her staff, aimed it at Scales' arm, and let loose a powerful Ice Blast. Scales felt his arm getting colder and colder and colder but kept struggling to tighten her grip on Krystal's neck, hoping to break it in time, until his arm was instantly frozen solid. Krystal swung her staff at Scales' now frozen arm, shattering it into a thousand pieces. Scales roared in pain, but just as Krystal was about to attack him again, he swiped at her with his claw hand, and she dodged by backflipping. She then charged at him yet again, but he struck at her with his claw hand. The claw created huge slash marks on her midriff, and caused her to scream in pain before he kicked her, knocking her backwards, but she quickly regained her footing. She clutched her staff and breathed heavily, eyeing Scales and standing her ground, heavily breathing. This isn't good, she thought, Every time I try to attack him, he counters my attack. Even now that he has only one arm, he'll still counter my attacks if I simply charge at him. Think, Krystal, think! He has to have a weakness!

Scales glowered at Krystal, saying, "Ak joomj A muo xulo idtohojkamukot oei, cakkco wahc. A jiffejo oei uhod'k u senuht uvkoh ucc. Xenoloh, senuhtaso muo xulo akj rodovakj, (It seems I may have underestimated you, little girl. I suppose you aren't a coward after all. However, cowardice may have its benefits,)" and sneered at her, as if he were taunting her into attacking him. "Oei'cc couhd kxuk kxo xuht nuo. (You'll learn that the hard way.)"

Krystal then immediately thought, No, Krystal! Don't let him goad you! Being reckless will only make you vulnerable to his… But then she remembered something. Every time an attack on Scales actually landed, he was already in the middle of one of his own attacks or stunned due to an earlier attack. Krystal had an idea…. "Nocc, kxod A wiojj oei'lo utmakkot ke roadw u senuht, kxod, xulod'k oei! (Well, then I guess you've admitted to being a coward, then, haven't you!)"

Scales sneered even harder at Krystal. "Ted'k oei tuho succ mo... (Don't you dare call me...)"

Krystal started shooting Fire Blasts at General Scales. Judging from how Scales reacted to the Fire Blasts last time, she thought it was a good way to goat him into making a reckless attack on him. And now that she has calmed down, significantly, this means that she will be able to predict Scales' every move, so she activated her telepathy. Scales charged at Krystal, and Krystal's telepathy told her that Scales was attempting a vertical slash with his claw hand. So she side-stepped out of the way, and after Scales' claw-attack missed her, gave Scales yet another uppercut to the jaw, and then due to predicting it beforehand, ducked a horizontal slash that Scales swung at her, and then smacked him with an uppercut, causing him to stagger back. He attempted to kick Krystal, but she quickly jumped in the air and smacked him with his staff again before landing back on the ground again. He made more and more and more swipes at Krystal with his claw hand, but she kept dodging them effortlessly, never receiving a hit. As Scales' attacks kept missing, he thought, Nxuk'j weadw ed xoho!? Nxo uho mo ukkusbj dek keisxadw xoh!? Aj jxo fhotaskadw mo oloho ukkusb!? Jxo sud'k ro adladsarco! Jxo sud'k ro! Ooj, kxuk'j hawxk. A nuj urco ke fad xoh uwuadjk kxo nucc edso roveho… A sud te ak uwuad! Udt nxod A te, A'cc jmujx xoh jbicc uwuadjk kxuk nucc idkac xoh rhuadj coub edke kxo vceeh! (What's going on here!? Why are my attacks not touching her!? Is she predicting my every attack!? She can't be invincible! She can't be! Yes, that's right. I was able to pin her against the wall once before… I can do it again! And when I do, I'll smash her skull against that wall until her brains leak onto the floor!) He threw a lunge attack against Krystal, but she jumped over it, mustered the energy for a Ground Quake, and drove the tail end of her staff onto Scales' back. Scales screamed in pain as he collapsed to the floor. He fell with a sudden thud, flat on his chest. He wearily struggled to get up, but Krystal used her staff to give him yet another uppercut to the jaw, knocking him on his back. Scales lay on his back, barely able to rise up again. Krystal smirked at him saying, "Dek je xawx udt mawxko udomeho, uho oei, General. Av oei najx ke row veh mohso... (Not so high and mighty anymore, are you, General. If you wish to beg for mercy…) She pointed the head end of her staff directly at Scales, "Den aj kxo kamo! (Now is the time!)"

The last SharpClaw panicked at the realization that his two comerades were now gone and he was all alone. Unfortunately, he had to use one hand to carry the SpellStone, so he felt that there was only one way to evade Fox and make it out safely. He pressed harder on his jet bike in an attempt to escape. Not wanting to let the planet collapse, Fox pushed his bike to maximum speed as well. He kept thrusting harder and harder hoping to catch up to the SharpClaw, but it seems like the SharpClaw was actually moving farther away from him. Fox drew his staff and aimed it at the SharpClaw's jet bike. He took careful aim, but with the SharpClaw moving around so much, it became hard for him to get a clear shot. Immediately afterwards, the SharpClaw took a sharp turn and then Fox attempted to drift in order to avoid crashing into the wall, but he got too close! He quickly rammed the tail end of his staff into the wall and pushed with all his might, giving himself a significant amount of space between himself and the wall. He then quickly regained his footing and put himself back on the SharpClaw's trail, and aimed his staff at him again. As soon as it seemed like he got a clear shot, he fired a Fire Blaster at him, causing his engine to catch on fire. The SharpClaw's engine caught on fire, and the impact caused his jet bike to slow down. The SharpClaw struggled to speed up again, but in that opportune moment, Fox rammed his jet bike into the SharpClaw's, veering him off course. The SharpClaw regained his footing and tried to ram into Fox, but then Fox rammed the head end of his staff into the engine of the SharpClaw's jet bike. The bike accelerated to ludicrous speeds, making it impossible for the SharpClaw piloting it to control it. The SharpClaw screamed in horror right before his jet bike crashed into a wall and exploded. The SharpClaw was dead, his jet bike a pile of scrap metal, and the SpellStone completely unscathed on the ground.

Fox put the brakes on his jet bike until it came to a complete stop, dismounted it, walked right up to the ruins of the jet bike used by that last SharpClaw, the one that was carrying the SpellStone. He saw the SpellStone lying next to the SharpClaw's dead body. He picked it up, and thought, Well, now that I have the SpellStone, I'd better get back to Krystal. I hope she's okay. He put the SpellStone into his backpack.

General Scales was lying flat on his back on the ground. Krystal raised her staff at him, smirking, and said, "Ak'j eloh, General Scales. Houto ke tao? (It's over, General Scales. Ready to die?)"

But with his claw hand, Scales pressed a button on his belt and instantly teleported away, laughing venomously throughout the Treasure Rooms. Krystal rushed on over to him, preparing to strike him with her staff once more, but by the time she swung it at him, he had already disappeared. Upon realizing that Scales teleported away before she could finish him off, Krystal growled like a savage beasted, hissed her ancient Cerinian native tongue's harshest swear word, and shrieked with rage at the top of her lungs. Her seething screams became an ear-bleeding cacophony that echoed through the halls of the Treasure Rooms, disturbing all those unfortunate enough to hear them. Including...