Lypix touched down in the pouring rain, by now she couldn't feel her fingers, a bad storm was approaching.

Scrabbling in the soaked bag she pulled out a pair of gloves and the blue crystal that Eci and Nonte had given her at Skymas. The gloves were magnetic and would help her climb the cliffs that housed the mine. It was a metal they were mining for, and that would be their downfall.

Carefully she hid her skimmer and started to scale the wall, the wind getting crueller and more vicious with about every meter she ascended, "Piper better be the most gracious person in the Atmos after this!" Lypix mentally screamed, as her foot slipped off a slight ledge she'd placed it on.

Gradually, she reached the top of the fanged cliff and pulled herself up, several Talons stood a few meters away, but they didn't see her as they stood huddled together trying to keep warm.

"Do you think she's going to show?" A woman yelled over the sound of the rain and wind.

"No chance!" The male one yelled back, "Why would anyone try to break in here, in this weather?"

They both laughed and Lypix took cover behind a wayward tree that was growing up there. What on earth were they on about? Was it about her?

Lypix shrugged her doubts off, it didn't matter, Piper needed her, and hopefully so did Kit. She took the gloves off and placed them back in the rucksack. It would be too heavy to cart through the mines whilst attacking Talons, she'd have to leave it there.

Placing one booster gun in her belt, putting on another pair of gloves she could use to dissolve metal (as it created a strong reaction on touch), several Icers and the blue crystal in her back pockets, she was ready to go.

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"How long Stork?" Aerrow called down, there was still no sign of Ka.

"At best, twenty minutes. In this rain, maybe half an hour."

"Well let's see if we can go faster, okay?"

"Try this." Starling chucked a Velocity crystal into his hands, "That should give us some speed."

"Piper's heli-scooter is still here." Finn reported from the Hanger, "But there are other Tyre tracks, I think someone else came for Ka."

"Damn it." Aerrow frowned, "Finn, go help Junko in the engine room, we're going to get there first if it kills us."

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Piper looked up at the dripping ceiling. A whole day spent in the mines, not one alarm. Looked like Aerrow wasn't coming, not that she blamed him, there was almost no way into here without getting caught. Piper sighed, and if Lypix couldn't do it, who could?

"Don't worry." Kit smiled, "They'll come."

The arrangement in this prison was a free for all, you found a random bed and you slept in it, there were no cells because it was one big cell.

"How can you be so sure?" She asked sadly.

"Because they won't give up on you. Sure, they may not be able to get in here without your technological brilliance, but they'll get in eventually."

The sound of a body hitting the floor aroused the ears of the few people who were awake. It was followed shortly by the sound of a metal bar falling on the floor.

Some of the prisoners went over to the bars, there was someone there.

"Piper, Kit, don't worry, it's just me. Lypix." A small, tired voice answered.

Piper looked at Kit who stared back in horror, her veins started to stand out in her skin, throbbing violently as signals were sent into her brain.

"What's the matter?" Lypix asked, stopping melting the bars for one second and stepping aside for prisoners to get out.

"I don't know, some sort of crystal caused her to stay here, and she can't say the name of the crystal or your name, or something happens!" Piper seemed distressed, "Where's Aerrow?!"

"He's not here." Lypix looked down, "He was tricked by Ka. And we need to get out of here real soon, the Talons haven't noticed their unconscious guards yet, but they will."

"Okay." Piper grabbed Kit's arm and gently started to pull her out of the cell but se stopped and faced Lypix, "Now we fight."

Lypix studied Kit's vicious face, but kept on melting the bars at the tops and bottoms. "If needs be, but you should be trying to get out."

"NO!" Kit shouted, "Now we fight." And she shoved Lypix backwards.

"Hey! Kit, I am not fighting you. For a start you're my friend, and secondly you have no crystal energy in you leaving you at a disadvantage."

"FIGHT! NOW!" Kit punched directly into the ground where Lypix had been seconds before. It left an extremely deep hole the length of Kit's forearm.

"Yes. I agree." A snide creeping voice announced from the other end of the hallway, "One more fight for freedom."

"Cyclonis, this is sick!" Piper shouted.

"Which part? The fact I've forcing two best friends to fight, or the fact none of you are getting out of here alive?"

Piper scowled. "Forget her Piper." Lypix struggled against the fighting force of Kit, "Get out of here."

"She cares too much. And that's the problem."

"No, we have more chance while we stick together."

Kit managed to disable Lypix's blocking attack and pushed her backwards again, however this time she managed to stay upright.

"Have to do better than that." Lypix puffed.

"Oh I will." Kit snarled picking up a small icer off the floor. Lypix patted her back pocket, one was missing.

Kit absorbed it into her crystal heart and grinned dangerously, "Looks like it's my go again!"