Chapter 2: Making the Resistance.
Moon, Sarah, and Paula all awoke the next day and gathered around their surroundings.
"Alright." Moon said, after they had a quick breakfast from the food provided in the sector area. "So, it's been a while. We need to start working on rescuing the heroes of the tournament. I've got a course of action planned out."
"Excellent." Paula said. "So, we start looking for Ness first right?"
"Not exactly." Moon responded. "Out of all the competitors here, there is a competitor we MUST get out of the hands of the villains first if we wish for our plan to be successful."
"Which would be...who...exactly?" Sarah asked.
Moon pulled out the Demonrift to a page he had marked and flipped it over to them. "Fighter number 17." he said. "The Wise Queen of Hyrule, Princess Zelda."
"Why Zelda of all competitors?" Paula asked with a hint of curiosity.
"Do you see that little triangle object she has attached to a necklace around her neck in this picture?" Moon asked, pointing to the object. Paula nodded in response. "That's no ordinary fancy jewelry piece Paula, that's the Triforce of Wisdom!"
"The...what?" Paula asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"The Triforce of Wisdom." Sarah explained. "It's a third of a powerful object that exists within the Tribus Cluster known as the Triforce. When the three pieces are connected, it can grant the connector anything they desire. Two of the pieces, the Triforce of Wisdom, which is always held by Zelda, and the Triforce of Power, usually held by Ganondorf will remain constant in what they can do throughout the Multiverse. However, the third piece, held by Link will vary in what power they can grant."
"The three worlds in the Tribus cluster are named for their varying Triforce piece." Moon said. "The Triforce of Courage, held by Link, allows him to become a master of any weapon as well as use basically anything as a weapon, as well as giving him courage that cannot be erased. For Lonk, he has the Triforce of Patience, it allows him to play magical instruments without any training, and, as the name implies, gives him the longest attention span known to mankind, you could tell him the entire plot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and he'd listen to the whole thing. For Faroe, he uses the Triforce of Curiosity, it basically turns him into a master navigator with an itch for exploration, which is probably why he's a pirate. We need Zelda because if we took away one of the Links, the villains could just use a different Link for the Triforce completion."
"Okay, but, I see one problem in this plan." Paula said. "If we took away Zelda, couldn't the villains just use Sheik instead?"
Moon cracked a grin. "An excellent thought Paula." he responded. "But, Sheik doesn't actually have the Triforce of Wisdom. You see, the Tribus cluster used to be one world, however, during Link's fights with Ganondorf, an object known as the Ocarina of Time used by someone other than Link to help him defeat Ganon, the Ocarina allows one to control time in the Tribus Cluster, only Link was able to use it, however. Because someone used it without knowing how to control its power, the Tribus Clusters timeline became unstable and the world was torn into three. During the resulting tear, time froze in World Patient, leaving Zelda forever trapped in her Sheik form, making her Triforce of Wisdom useless as can be, Sheik's Triforce piece has no true power."
"But couldn't they just combine the Three Link's pieces of the Triforce in place of the Wisdom Piece?" Paula asked.
"That's unknown." Sarah responded. "However, it's likely that the result of combining the three Links pieces would result in the breakdown of reality since at their core, they are essentially the same piece."
"Even if those factors didn't come into play." Moon continued. "The Triforce of Wisdom is easily the most powerful of the pieces. It allows one to learn ANYTHING from any Multiverse, timeline, future, past, or date...it's an all seeing object. So essentially, it could tell the Villains what we are doing, and that would be really really bad."
"Alright, just, one last question." Paula said. "How do we find Zelda...and...follow up...how do we know that she's not the most heavily guarded competitor?" Sarah looked at Moon, not even she knew the answer to that question.
"It's...a bit of a gamble." Moon responded. "But I'm going to use the Villain Instincts I've inherited from Giygas to make my best guess." He didn't say another word to the two of them and began flipping through the Demonrift.
Paula turned to Sarah. "Villain Instincts?" she asked.
"Another word for evil thoughts." Sarah whispered. "When we were talking with Giygas, Moon's corruption had sort of an...allergic reaction...it gave him a bunch of unique stuff that we still believe we don't know the full extent of. It also...changed him in a weird way. But, basically put it, he can think like a villain."
"Alright, got it." Moon said, startling both of them. "That purple figure that I saw in my vision HAS to be the leader of the Villains...now...I'm going to guess he isn't very bright...considering he relied on other villains throughout the Multiverse instead of just the ones provided by the roster. That may sound like a smarter move on paper, but Ridley and Dark Samus alone could easily overpower half the roster at full power. So...whoever this person is, they're probably taking advice from the villains...which means Zelda was most likely put in a place of taunting importance...many villains like to collect trophies and put them in insulting places. Zelda is most likely going to be found in the Temple battlefield."
"Then let's get going!" Sarah said. Both girls grabbed onto Moon and they vanished in a flash of pink light.
(Imperium Cluster; Subspace, The Great Maze)
Meta Knight flew into the grand hallway of the base that had been made of the former Great Maze. He remembered very fondly being rescued by King Dedede, Ness, and Luigi. He clutched Galaxia in his grip. It was very hard acting okay with all that was going on with the rest of villains...Kirby had shown him and King Dedede the light side, so being back on the dark side was very uncomfortable...especially since the pressure was on for him to find Mewtwo and rescue everyone else.
Tabuuto was awaiting him, the purple figure glowed brightly. To him however, it wasn't a problem. Thankfully, some of the other heroes had attempted defense from that weird corruption beam fired at them. Leaving them weak, but at least not as brainwashed as others. However, throughout all of it, Kirby seemed to have vanished. He hoped Kirby was okay, without him, Dreamland would be left in futile chaos.
"Ah, Meta Knight." Tabuuto said upon his entrance into the room. "Yes, I've wanted to talk to you about something."
He had to fight down his urge to just attack right there. "What is it, Master Tabuuto?" he asked.
The purple figure folded his hands together. "Well, as you know, we've placed the captured corrupt heroes in there own places, scattered about looking for those that aren't under the corruption that we've invoked...Dark Pit and Viridi said it will take quite some time to crack the barriers set in place for the tournament so that no one illegally enters to spectate, many of the villains are taking the time to relax with their new pet puppets, but I was hoping you wouldn't mind going out and checking up on Zelda."
"Why can't Ganon?" Meta Knight asked.
"Ganon is...busy...plus...I have confidence that you can do fine."
Meta Knight wasn't going to waste any more time, he was being asked to go and check on one of the better fighters, if he could figure out a way to undo that corruption effect, he could start a resistance. "Very well then, shall I inform Sire?"
"Yes of course, take King Dedede with you." Tabuuto replied. "Now, I've got more important things to do, so get the hell out of here."
The blue creature flew out of the room and down to his conjoined room with King Dedede, Nightmare, and Marx...he did not approve of being in the same room as them...but he had to put up with it. King Dedede was waiting for him when he arrived.
"Sire, get your hammer." he said. "We're going to save Zelda."
"Already Meta Knight? You sure it's a good idea startin this resistance immediately?"
"Sire, we don't have the time to sit around, let's just get going."
(Temple Battlefield)
Mewtwo slowly and cautiously floated around the massive recreation of Hyrule's Temple. Looking around was certainly a bust...but he had already checked Gerudo Valley and there was no sign of Zelda there, though, he had a very close call with Ganondorf. With the competitors captured, they each had to be held hostage somewhere.
Needless to say, he felt like he was just looking for nothing. Anyone with half a brain would make guarding a captured Zelda the number one priority. He knew full well that the Triforce of Wisdom was a force to be reckoned with. He needed that out of the hands of the villains if he had any chance at surviving this.
As he slowly looked around, his thoughts drifted back to the kids he had seen in the stadium. Now that he was thinking about it, the girl in pink that was next to the boy had to be Paula, he remembered from the numerous times Ness had tried to get her into the tournaments. He wasn't a member of the council, but, being the only Pokemon that could actually communicate with humans, he served as a translator for Pikachu and Jigglypuff. He didn't like his job, but it was what allowed him to learn a lot of information that not many other fighters had access to.
The other boy and girl though, they looked sort of familiar. A faint memory of a boy with a Silver Ninetales, and Lucario. As well as a girl with a Gardevoir came to his faint memory, but quickly vanished. The three of them had to be from the Giegue Cluster. If he could find them, maybe he could recruit them as well.
He let out a sigh to himself, the boy's thoughts had been really weird...all that talk about how he was the competitor he could relate to was weird. Especially if he came from Ness' cluster. Remembering back to all the horrors he witnessed from Giovanni...he had come to distrust humans. Red had shown him compassion and understanding, even releasing him back into the wild after small talk...and then there was Zelda, who was sweet and understanding of his troubles. But the boy...like him...was a clone...designed for destruction? Ness had never spoken of such a thing on his world.
He was snapped back to reality by the sudden klanking of metal. He recognized the sound pattern and turned around, his eyes flashed blue just before a dark knight with a sword slashed at him with its sword. The phantom knight disassembled and fell to the floor with a clunk. In it's scraps he saw Zelda, only, she looked different. She had an evil grin on her usually bright and happy face and her eyes looked cold and heartless.
"Zelda...it's me." Mewtwo said. The princess ignored his words and waved her hand around. Little fireballs appeared out of thin air and shot towards him. They moved fast, way too fast, they hit his tail and weirdly shaped body. Even when he put the flames out with his psychic powers, he felt some continuous damage of stinging, burning pain on his body. He kept dodging her large variety of attacks...but didn't he didn't fight back. The last thing he wanted was to attack her, if she were snapped back to normal while his powers multi hit her, he'd be hurting her.
Zelda vanished in a flash of green light and appeared behind him, unleashing a lightning kick at his back. Mewtwo was flung across the temple he used his levitation to stop himself from smashing into the floor. Then, a phantom knight knocked him against the wall again, before small sparkling flames attacked him again.
Mewtwo felt himself running out of energy. Somehow, whatever happened to Zelda had given her an immense power boost. It didn't help that the continuous damage effect was hurting him. Zelda charged up another fireball before launching it at him. However, the fireball exploded on some sort of invisible barrier.
A sudden whoosh of wind saw Meta Knight in front of Mewtwo. His gray gloved hands clutching Galaxia while looking forward.
"Sire! Strike now!"
From the sky, King Dedede slammed on top of Zelda with his body. His blow from above made her sink into the ground, burying her.
The two creatures then turned to Mewtwo. "It is lucky that your telekinesis picked up on the villain's plans." Meta Knight said. "I was worried that King Dedede and I would've had to do this whole operation alone."
Mewtwo's eyes narrowed as he read their thoughts.
"Of course he's not going to believe us...but it remains essential that we get him and Zelda out of here."
"Quit readin our minds Mewtwo." King Dedede snapped. "We gotta figure out how to remove this corruption effect on Zelda."
Mewtwo frowned. "Very well then...I believe you. Let's get Zelda out of here so we can-"
In a flash of green light, Zelda appeared behind them and lightning kicked Meta Knight across the Temple grounds. King Dedede pulled out a gordo and hit one at her, Zelda quickly spun around and a crystal shield surrounded her. The gordo bounced off the shield and back into him. Zelda then turned her attention back to Mewtwo, who was charging up a shadow ball attack.
"Zelda...I don't want to do this...please...snap out of it!" Zelda responded by unleashing more fireballs at him, he quickly dodged the attacks, not losing his concentration on his own. Mewtwo hesitated, then, he fired off his attack.
"PK Accelerate."
A streak of blue dashed by him and towards the attack heading at Zelda. In its wake, was the boy Mewtwo had seen in the stadium. The boy withdrew his sword, which had a blue blade and green hilt, the boy slashed through his shadow ball attack slicing the projectile in two. Both parts shot past Zelda and collided with trees on the temple grounds creating two mini explosions. The boy then turned to face Zelda, suddenly, the princess fell to the ground.
"Moon!" Mewtwo turned and saw the two girls that had been with the boy run up them. Both girls looked identical, with the exception of their clothing, one wore a star pendant, blue ribbon, and purple dress, the other just wore a pink dress and red ribbon. Meta Knight and King Dedede joined them a moment later.
"Looks like all six of us had the same idea." The boy said, looking at Mewtwo, Meta Knight, and King Dedede. "I'd expect nothing less from Meta Knight and Mewtwo."
"Who the heck are you?" King Dedede asked.
"Moon Wolfe." The boy said. "This is my wife Sarah." he pointed at the girl in purple. "And I'm sure you don't need an introduction to Paula?"
"You're the boy I saw in the stadium...you alerted me to the villains plan and allowed me to escape...thank you."
"How did you know that the villains were going to attack?" Meta Knight asked.
"He got a vision." Sarah replied. "We didn't think anyone survived the attack."
"King Dedede and I were technically on the villain's side." Meta Knight said. "We got an invite to join Tabuuto's army earlier this year, we decided to join to hopefully save the Multiverse should the plan be successful."
"I read your mind Moon, I didn't believe you at first, at least until I read Bowser's mind and heard him counting down the moments until the attack."
The three kids' faces went into a slight panic. "H-How much did you get from Moon's mind?" Paula asked nervously. "Also...I thought Ness said that the Pokemon couldn't talk with humans."
"I am no ordinary Pokemon Paula." Mewtwo responded. "I have very strong psychic powers, those powers allow me to communicate with non-pokemon and translate Pokemon speech. As for what I found from your brain, just word of the villain's attack, you teleported out of the stadium before I could penetrate any deeper...I do apologize for my invasion of your mind, you just had some sort of weird dark energy senses around you. However, seeing as how the villains burst through the stadium from where you were sitting, I was probably picking up on them."
"Now is not the time for playing icebreakers." Meta Knight said. "We need to figure out how to change Zelda back to normal. The villains used some sort of weird beam that turned almost all of the competitors evil. It also appears to make them deal some type of weird...poison effect on us."
"Poison effect? Evil?" Moon and Sarah's faces became pale. They looked at Zelda, who was still under Moon's hypnosis effect. Her appearance had altered to them, her skin was now a shadowy color, she wore a black dress with blood red eyes.
"Corruption." Moon hissed. Earning him a look from everyone except Sarah. "The villains are using Giygas' corruption to hold the heroes in place! Which means that…"
"Pokey's here." Paula said. "Moon, you have the most experience with corruption, there has to be some way you can save her."
"You know of a way to change her back to normal?" Mewtwo asked. "Please, fix her, we can't allow her to be in the villain's hands any longer."
Moon looked at Sarah, then back at the other heroes. "I do know of a way to help her." he said slowly. "While I am inclined to help all of you, it'll cost you guys something."
"Oh come on!" Meta Knight snapped at him. "Are you not a hero? Just do it already! Before she wakes up!"
"She's out cold." Moon responded dully. "Listen, I'm just saying, we all want to save the Multiverse, but if we try and work the way we are now, we're going to have problems, all I ask of you, is that you agree to listen to my rules and do as I say."
"You want us to put our trust in you! Someone we literally just met?" King Dedede asked.
Mewtwo looked at Zelda, seeing her like this was unimaginable, someone so sweet and caring, just becoming a cold blooded evil monster in a snap...if the boy knew some way to help her, and the rest of the competitors, and all he asked was that they follow his plan, that didn't seem like a bad trade off.
"I'll agree to that, Moon Wolfe." Mewtwo said. "So long as you can actually return Zelda to normal." Meta Knight and King Dedede looked at him in shock. "He saved my life." Mewtwo continued without looking at them. "If he can save the rest of the competitors and already has a plan of how to do it, that's far better than we will ever get...I trust him, you two should too."
"I'm a knight, and a Star Warrior." Meta Knight said, facing Moon. "I hope you are okay with showing us how exactly you intend to remove this...corruption...from Zelda before I agree to anything so crazy."
"I completely understand." Moon replied. "Sarah, I'll need your help for this."
Both kids moved over onto opposite sides of Zelda. They placed their hands on her arms and stood in silence. About three minutes of dead silence passed by before they removed their hands from her arms. Zelda blinked, and shook her head. Her eyes became soft and passionate, and she backed away from them, holding her head.
"Ow, Ow, OW!" The princess said. "Where...Where am I?...Why am I suddenly at the Temple battlegrounds?"
"You were placed under Corruption." Sarah explained. "You were basically a puppet to the villains, you attacked others without hesitation, it's like a weird type of mind control device."
"W-Where's...Where's Link?"
"Like the rest of the competitors, he's captured." Moon said. "Sarah and I drained the corruption from your body, freeing you of control from the villains...us, along with Mewtwo, King Dedede, Meta Knight, and Paula are the only survivors from that disaster, we rescued you, just like we will do with your husband and the rest of them. You need some rest princess, corruption can have some severe symptoms on your body, so we need to get you someplace safe and secure."
"So...we're going to find a base of operations?" Meta Knight asked. "Good luck with that, there isn't a single place not under watch by the villains."
"Listen, right now, I'm going to make my first move." Moon said. "King Dedede, I need you to report back to the villains base, tell them you've gotten suspicious of Dark Pit and sent Meta Knight to Skyworld. We need a spy to make sure the villains don't spring at trap on us."
King Dedede looked like he'd rather whack Moon with his hammer.
"Sire, listen to the boy." Meta Knight said calmly. "He is our best bet to rescuing Kirby and the rest of the Super Smash Brothers."
"Alright Meta Knight." King Dedede began his trek back through the woods near the temple.
"As for the rest of you." Moon said. "Grab onto me or teleport yourselves to Skyworld, that's where we're setting up our base of operations." Meta Knight, Sarha, and Paula grabbed onto his arm. While Mewtwo and Zelda vanished in flashes of purple and green lights respectively.
(Skyworld)
The six of them appeared inside of a grand temple. All of them quickly looked around for any signs of immediate danger. They heard a quick sound of metal clanking together, they turned around and were greeted with an edgy looking angel with black robes, wings, and hair. He had a double staff bow that also functioned as blades, the bow was knocked with a dark arrow pointing at them. He was accompanied by a woman with long white hair, and some sort of weird wooden scythe blade. Moon grabbed Sarah and quickly warped behind the two of them.
"Don't bother." he said coldly. "The two of you are outnumbered, 3 to 1. Plus, I know that you have no intentions of helping the villains, so drop the act Dark Pit and Viridi."
The two people scowled and returned their weapons back to a more passive stance.
"How'd you know kid?" Dark Pit asked.
"I know that Skyworld's barrier on the restrictive clusters travel during the tournaments is easy to remove, incase of an emergency. It would take you only thirty minutes to crack it, yet you haven't done it."
"Ah, a smart human!" Viridi exclaimed. "Finally we get one that takes the time to research!"
"How do we know that they won't just betray us and turn us over to the villains?" Meta Knight asked, with Galaxia braced in a battle stance.
"We won't." Dark Pit growled. "Palutena would banish us from Skyworld if we did something like that. Even though she's captured, we were banking on someone foiling the villains plans, and if they didn't, well...it was a win win situation for us."
"Can we make sure that's true?" Mewtwo asked. "I say we should make sure."
Zelda placed her hand over the Triforce of Wisdom and closed her eyes. A bit of yellow light started to flash from behind her hand, making her glow brightly. After a moment, she opened her eyes and the light settled down.
"The Triforce of Wisdom says that you are telling the truth." she said. "I'll believe you." The princess suddenly clutched her stomach and vomited, a bit of blood shot out of her mouth.
"Zelda...are you okay?" Paula asked, running to her side.
"No...there's some type of...burning pain." she grunted.
"Looks like your body hasn't adjusted to the remaining bits of corruption left by drainage, you aren't from the Giegue Cluster, so you're more vulnerable to corruption, all of you are, you're body should've adjust by tomorrow morning. Luckily, the drainage bits of corruption are temporary, so they'll vanish on their own."
"So...question." Meta Knight said. "How did you remove the corruption effect from Zelda. Pokey said that there was no way of removal."
Sarah bit down on her lip as she looked at the group of heroes, Moon spoke up for her. "Um, using PSI Magnet we were able to take the corruption and transfer it into our own bodies, since we are from the Giegue Cluster, where this corruption was used by Giygas, we are able to feel no effect of it. We've built up an immunity."
"So, anyway." Zelda said. "Now that we've built up a small little force, Moon, what do you recommend we do next? If I may make a recommendation, can we please go rescue Link?"
"No, we must rescue Kirby." Meta Knight snapped at her. "He is the most powerful, the villains can destroy us with just him."
"We will rescue Link later princess." Moon said. "As for Kirby, if we start taking stronger and more powerful competitors, the villains will realize something is going on. We'll have to make our attacks random, rescue heroes who may not be as strong as others." he pulled out a black and red striped book and opened it.
Dark Pit was looking over his shoulder, he looked pretty confused by whatever was written on it.
"Kid, what the hell is up with your book?" he asked. "You're staring at blank pages with nothing but a picture of someone flipping you off."
Sarah facepalmed. "The book is a little special." she said. "Anyone from your cluster can't read it, someone was worried about people of your cluster discovering it, so they placed a special charm on it to prevent your cluster from seeing it. The book is basically an encyclopedia on the various clusters in the Multiverse and the important people within them."
"Talk about a bunch of crap." Virdi groaned. "Is the book like that for everyone not from Giegue?"
"No, according to the Demonrift, just your cluster." Paula said.
"Fantastic...so...who are we going after next?" Meta Knight asked.
"WE are not going after anyone." Moon said. "You all will stay here, only Sarah, myself, and Paula will go rescue heroes, depending on who we are rescuing, I may take one of you with me. But for the most part, the three of us will go alone. Everyone go find your guest room that I know that stupid goddess made for each of you...Tommorow I'll annouce my plan." Everyone nodded and left the room, leaving Moon, Sarah, Dark Pit and Viridi.
"As for you two." Moon said, turning to them. "I'm willing to place you in charge of Skyworld until this whole thing is over, IF you are willing to give me something."
The angel and goddess of nature looked at each other, then back at the two of them. "You know about our laws then, I'm assuming?" Viridi asked. Moon and Sarah both nodded.
"I promise that you both will have my full protection from Palutena, will be cleared of any charges, and, if you're willing to comply, I may be able to help you with your mission."
"What are you talking about?" Viridi asked.
"We know you are looking for evidence to try and weaken Palutena's power." Sarah said. "Despite what you may think, Moon and I didn't come here to watch the tournament with Paula, we came because we wish to seek answers about our existence, answers that we know Palutena won't provide, we were hoping that you guys could get us into Skyworld's technology."
"Are you crazy?" Dark Pit scoffed. "We let anyone into Skyworld's technology, and we're getting executed."
"Even if we could get you into that technology, you'd never be able to access that information. Palutena's rank is the only person able to access it."
"We have our ways of getting things done." Moon said. "We have access to telepathy, so, we could just, you know, say that we stole it from your brain...so...how about you show us where you're loyalty stands...with us...or with that good for nothing goddess?"
Dark Pit and Viridi looked at each other. After a moment of consideration, Dark Pit extended his hand out to Moon and shook it.
"You've got yourself a deal. We'll support you and your crazy antics, so long as you can promise us that you'll find something that can take Palutena's power out of commission."
"We can't be certain that we'll find something." Moon said. "But we'll do that...we'll try and find something that will be reputation ruining for her."
"We can only wish you two good luck." Viridi replied. "We've been trying for years, she's got no dirt on her period."
"Everyone is hiding something, we wish to fix problems that others ignore. This gives us that opportunity." Sarah said.
The angel and goddess of nature left them in a room with a large round table, with a large screen and multiple different sector areas.
"Skyworld Central Control." Moon said. "The most advanced piece of technology in the Multiverse...next to the Triforce of Wisdom...but we'll deal with that problem later. It's supposed to be accessible to anyone, however, deeper more cynical knowledge is held by very few. Under normal circumstances, we'd need that bitchy goddess' permission. But, we have something better." He turned to face Sarah, who had a nervous look on her face.
"Moon...if Palutena finds out...what...what's going to happen to us?"
"She won't find out...because by the time we rescue her...we'll have her where we need her." Moon said. "If she's going to get that power back, she'll have to comply by us. If she doesn't...then...that's her problem."
Both of their hands were now a shadowy color. They both looked at it, then back at each other.
"Looks like they're back...Tomorrow we'll have to go after Captain Falcon and Samus. According to Meta Knight, they're over on Shadow Moses Island. But first...let's see if this technology can handle the power of corruption."
That's all for today's chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it. As I mentioned, this is a sequel, so if anything doesn't make sense please go check out Bound By Earth. I've also referenced a plan in the future for my Pokemon Fanfic if you're interested in that. But anyway, back to this, I've had this series planned for a long time, and I'm not going to make this a "One Chapter One Hero." Because then these chapters would be like 1,000 words and would have like zero plot. Next up, we've got three heroes to rescue with an interaction with the villains.
Also, incase you're wondering, Mewtwo talks in Italics because that's how I envisioned Pokémon talking in their own respective language, Mewtwo uses his physic powers to communicate so he's using telepathy or something...that's just how I pictured it. Leave a review letting me know what you think, and I'll see you in the next chapter.