Anya POV:

Once our group separated, I saw that we had entered a room that had some artistry on the walls and that some of them looked familiar to me. "Hey, these look like the Mural people of Mural Town. Remember, Shu?" I smiled at him.

"Yeah, that's right... can they talk?" Shu asked as we looked at them and then they started to move.

"Indeed we can talk. It has been far too long since anyone has ventured here. Tell me, where do you come from?" the one mural asked while he also had a child mural next to him.

"We come from outside of this cube from the physical planet. We moved to Neo Jibral Castle after the world was ravaged by a madman who wanted to rule the world. He was an ancient named Nene. Do you happen to know anything?" I asked them.

"Nene? I don't remember anyone of that name... do you know if he happened to be of the royal family?" the kid mural asked.

"Not only that, but the king of all Ancients... but enough about that, we're trying to defend the outside world from evil robots that have powerful bombs. If they escape this place, it will be catastrophic," I said to them.

"It is sad to imagine that the tools of the ancients are being used for such evil. And you say that this Nene was the ruler of all ancients?... If that's the case, then I must share something with you. This is the Royal Tomb, where some Ancients decided to go into a frozen slumber. This Nene may have been one that didn't wish to reside in these chambers, but there may be others deeper within. All you must do is defeat the evil monster that is cursing the different murals further down the hall," the father mural said.

"More Ancients? And you say a monster is corrupting other murals? Still your fear, we'll annihilate this monster. What does he look like, by chance?" Jibral asked.

"You can't miss it. It's a mural that is designed after the ultimate bio-genetic warrior. It was said to have been the downfall of the Ancients long ago," the one mural said, me looking at it in confusion before I gasped.

"It must be a mural that looks like Destroy, then! We must be careful and try to stay out of its line of sight when we attack it, guys. Destroy on his own is one thing, but a mural version somehow sounds worse," Jiro said.

"Sounds scary... I'll be brave though," Shifa said as our group proceeded down the hall and we saw the mural in question from far off. It was a giant, flat version of Destroy and it was off of the walls and in a central arena, with different ghosts patrolling the area around him.

"Take out the ghosts first, and make sure you don't step in front of the Destroy Mural. I have a bad feeling about what would happen if we got in its line of fire from the front. Try to attack the backside," I said to everyone.

"Don't worry, we can take anything that giant palooka has to throw at us," Kesu smirked as we flew forward and defeated the ghosts with our shadows, making sure to stay out of the line of sight of the Destroy Mural. And once we handled the ghosts, we got behind Destroy and started to pelt his backside with water attacks. But Shu wasn't very bright and got in the line of fire from Destroy's attack. And when he did, Shu gasped as he held onto his side, me seeing that his right side was extremely burnt from the attack as I delivered the final blow to the mural, it disintegrating soon afterwards.

"Shu, I told you not to go in front of it," I frowned at him as Jiro then went to work on healing him with a pulse of Healus.

"Sorry, I just thought it was a bit crowded in the back and I wanted to face him head-on," Shu said as he then stopped holding his side.

"Well, your best shirt got horribly charred in the process and you almost died. So now you can take the back line for awhile as punishment," Sahlia said, Kluke smirking at that.

"A bit harsh, don't you think?" Jibral asked.

"I'm in agreement with Sahlia. Until we find Nene again, Shu is staying in the back lines," Kluke smiled.

"Dangit," Shu groaned, all of us having a secret agreement when we had joined together. Due to Shifa's young, impressionable age, none of us were to engage in curse words. We then proceeded through the hallway and into the next room, me seeing something in the center and looking at it with intrigue.

"That looks like a suspended sleep capsule. Similar to what Nene had, except this one seems to be operational and doesn't look evil... do we dare?" I asked.

"I'd dare," Sahlia smiled as we proceeded forward and approached the capsule, me looking inside of it and looking at the face with shock. I didn't know if it was my memory playing tricks on me, but this girl looked strikingly similar to a female ancient I'd seen before.

"Hmm..." I frowned as I pushed a button and the machine popped open, the woman inside waking up and emerging from it before standing on the ground with her own two feet.

"Um... hello there, miss... how'd you sleep?" I smiled at her, smacking my head for saying something that stupid, which she giggled at. "Anyways... what's your name?" I asked her. And then she said the name that made me realize that we finally had a leg-up on Nene.

"...Himiko..." the woman said with a kind smile, everyone looking at her in shock who had been with me during the Himiko confrontations with Nene.

"Do you recall anything? Particularly about the name Nene?" I asked her some more... but then she sighed and looked at the ground.

"Mm... I can't remember a thing... only my name... I apologize," she said with a sad smile.

"That's alright. Not everything can come back at once. Give it time, I'm sure that it'll come back eventually," Shifa smiled as Himiko looked at her with a smile.

"Mm..." she hummed kindly at her.

"Would you like to come with us, Himiko? We're trying to find out the reason why this cube is producing bomb robots and trying to prevent them from escaping. We can protect you with our large group," I smiled at her.

"Thank you... I would like that..." Himiko smiled as she then walked down the steps and towards the northern end to a large gate. She then closed her eyes and clasped her hands together, humming a bit as I sensed a small bit of magic leave her body and forced the gate to open.

"Did you remember something just now?" Shu asked.

"Yes... I remember that this door leads further down... but that is all I recall for now..." Himiko said with a small smile.

"Okay, we'll proceed with caution. You should stay in the middle of our group so you don't get lost," I said to her.

"I thank you..." she said kindly, her voice having just as soothing a nature as Mystic Mermaid.

Zola POV:

When we proceeded into the area to the west, we didn't expect what we were going to find. But after proceeding down the hall a bit, we eventually happened upon an area that looked like a scientific research facility with multiple different stasis capsules in the room. And what did we happen to see in the capsules? Let's just say that our group was in shock at what we saw. "I-Impossible..." I gawked as Marumaro looked surprised as well. And as for his siblings, they were scared because of the stories we'd told them.

"It's a whole bunch of Destroys! But how?! I thought you said there was only one!" Marumira gasped audibly.

"We thought there was only one... but he did say he was a bio-genetic warrior. Maybe they made clones of him in case the first model couldn't succeed?" Toripo suggested when he saw the faces of them.

"They seem to all be supported by these strange tubes. But I don't know what'd happen if we just started to cut them. It might wake them up and that would be the worst thing we could do at this point... for now they seem to be sleeping, so, as a wise man once said, let sleeping dogs lie. Or in this case, a bunch of disgusting green monsters," Guru-Guru said.

"Right! Let's move out," Marumaro smiled, taking charge as we ran through the hall and found another way downwards. And when we did so, we couldn't help but feel a bit of unease in the air.

"I sure hope those monsters don't wake up. We don't need anymore of that thing running around if just one was able to kill the Ancients," Fushira said.

"Agreed. Let's proceed with caution in case we happen to find anymore monsters," I said with a serious tone. After seeing what we just saw, I needed to give Anya a call on the communicator.

"Anya? Do you read me?" I asked into it.

"Yes, I read you, Zola. What's your status?" Anya asked me in the communicator.

"Well, we passed a lab that has at least 6 different containment units all containing clones of a certain frog monster that we had to kill in the Primitive Cube... all of them were dormant, but it is something to mention," I said to her.

"More Destroys? Damn, that is not good news. Well, our status is that we had to defeat a Destroy-shaped Mural with power great enough to burn Shu extremely bad. He got patched up, but his clothes are singed badly... but other than that, we happened to find someone that can assist us in the fight against Nene," Anya smiled.

"Is it an Ancient?" I asked her.

"Not just an Ancient. It's Himiko," Anya said, all of our group stopping in place when we heard that name.

"Himiko?! You actually found her?! Does she know anything at all?!" I asked her in shock and surprise. It was very rare for me to get surprised, so this was something new.

"Unfortunately, she seems to have experienced memory loss. Nene said to me once that extreme frozen sleep has side effects. Nene didn't remember who he was at first until he saw Deathroy sealed with him. I'm sure that, with the right kind of push, Himiko will remember everything in due time... just have to worry about what Nene might do if he sees that we have Himiko in our party," Anya said.

"Well, if he is truthful in his words that he loves Himiko, he won't hurt you if you have Himiko sheltered. He may actually be persuaded to our side even, though it is highly unlikely given his disease," Zola said.

"But that's not all. While we were traveling down the hall after waking her up, we happened upon a special robotic soul that we could use on Szabo if we find him again! Isn't that great?" Shu smirked into the device out of nowhere.

"Shu, we told you. Back of the line," Kluke frowned.

"Rgh... fine," Shu groaned, me smiling at that.

"We'll let you know if we happen to encounter anything else important, Anya. Over and out," I said to her.

"Later," she smiled back.