A/N: Guess who still doesn't know how timezones work? Sorry for such a late update yesterday, I'm just really excited to get to this part, I've been wanting to write it since I thought it up! I guess I just really like the season end climaxes, with all their drama. And, man, I really hope you read A Cautionary Tale, or a good half of this chapter won't make any sense. BTW, Ezra hasn't been kidnapped, even though the masters and kids think so. Context clues are your friend.

{Master Tobanobu, please.}

Hector's eyes opened at the sound of the unfamiliar voice, and he realized that he was once again dreaming. He appeared to be in the temple, but it was vastly different than how he remembered it, looking a touch younger and with almost no Light Creatures patrolling the halls, replaced by torches. He looked around to see who was speaking, and saw a group of five duel Masters, all of them kneeling around an altar.

The man who had spoken appeared to be a Light Master, and he was chiding the Darkness Master, of whom Chavez barely recognized as the boy from his previous dream. He also saw that the Fire Master resembled the girl. In the Darkness Master's hands was The First Gauntlet, which hadn't appeared to have changed a single day.

{I don't think you understand how important this is!} Tobanobu responded, clutching it tighter to his body. {Do you know how much this will change?}

The Nature Master was the second to speak up. {Change, ha! You really think that a metal glove is just going to magically change how things have been done since the beginning?}

The fire Master, a bit annoyed by the other's scolding and mockery tapped on the altar's top to get their attention as she said {If it's all the same to you, you should at least let him have a chance to demonstrate it, before you all judge.} The Water Master nodded at this, extending a hand and motioning in front of the altar.

Tobanobu have a sort of grateful smile to the Fire Master, and got up from where he was kneeling, and stood in front of the four. Hector braced himself for the worst when the Darkness Master placed on the gauntlet, and it clacked around his wrist with a hiss of mana. And the Darkness Master proceeded to perform the spell kata to open the veil, without a hitch. But, when he attempted to close it, something went horribly wrong.

The breach refused to shut, screeching and crackling as Tobanobu trained to contain it. The other four Masters all rose up, only able to gaze in horror at what he'd done. Straining heavily, he attempted to lower his hand, only for the breach to suddenly crackle out and start to drag him in. The fire Master rushed forward, yelling {Brother!} as she grabbed onto his arm, pulling him backwards. But, it wasn't enough as the Darkness Master cried out in pain as the mana surged around his arm.

And then, in a flash of blue and white light, he was gone. The gauntlet and the Fire Master both fell to the ground. Hector had no idea how to respond, or what even to do next, until a sharp jab jarred him awake. He gasped as he awoke, breathing heavily, and not really taking in his surroundings. But, when he did, he saw that he was in a small, windowless grey room and Master Ezra was right by his side.

"Oh, I'm sorry about that!" She said. "I didn't mean to frighten you!"

"Where… where are we?" Hector asked, blinking in the dim lights, trying to get his eyes to focus. But, he felt like he already knew what had happened. He and Master Ezra had been kidnapped by the Injured Order, no wonder they had her partner creature on hand. But, he did notice that she was holding his gauntlet in her hand, examining the jewels and metal closely.

"We're safe, for now," She said softly as she lifted the gauntlet up to the dim lights. "How on earth did this find its way into your hands? I thought we'd lost it for good in the Water Civilization." Hector was quiet, out of both guilt and paranoia that there might be video cameras or microphones in the room. "Well, it doesn't matter." She said, getting up off the bed. "What matters now is that we have it, and everything's back on track! You've helped a lot more than you know."

The door opened, and a rather tall duelist proceeded to enter the room. Master Ezra, placing down the gauntlet back on the bedside, walked up to him and politely nodded. She went out with him, only turning to Hector and winking before she left. The boy was in shock, absolutely unable to take any of this in, and laid back down on the bed. How was he going to get out of this one?

"This is madness!" yelled Brightmore, as he and the other masters loudly argued about what to do. Nadia and Kimora, both quiet out of grief and guilt, had come back to the temple with the masters after their call to Master Jaha ended up revealing a little more than intended. They'd hurt one of their friends, stolen a magical artifact, and gotten another one of them kidnapped. Of course, these events weren't fully their faults, but did it ever feel like it.

Sitting on the steps in front of the room, the two of them now had their gauntlets back with them, and they halfly listened to hat the masters were having to say, not like they could do much else other than just sit and wait for it to all blow over; the least they could get is some closure or explanation of what they should do. And, after a short period of silence, the two were called to the table.

"For what's happened to Hawkins, Chavez, and possibly Master Ezra," Master Tiera started. "It's been a universal agreement that the two of you are currently suspended from Kaijudo."

"What, no!" Nadia yelled. "You can't do this, we have to find them, we have to help, we have to- have to…" She stopped dead in her tracks, not wanting to make anything tenser than it already was. Kimora seemed just as shocked, but kept quiet as Master Brightmore got up from the table, and walked over to the both of them.

He extended a hand. "Your gauntlets," The two of them, with the pits of their stomachs feeling deeper than ever, deactivated their gauntlets, and handed them to the Light Master. Brightmore sighed, and then turned back to the table. "August. Escort her home, would you?" The Water Master nodded, getting up as Nadia and Kimora shared one last stare before Kimora bolted out of the room, barely keeping himself together.

When he'd gotten outside of the store, he slid to the ground, his back up against the door, and sobbed loudly. How virtually everything could have gone so wrong over the course of a month, he had no idea. Kimora knew he had to find some way to fix this, some way to save Hector, to help Nadia, to find the gauntlet and Ezra. But, there was something he had to do first.

It was late at night when Nadia had been returned home, and she was scolded for being out so late. She knew she couldn't tell them the truth or make of any excuses without sounding like a fool or a liar, so she merely said that she wouldn't do it again and went straight up to her room. It wasn't like being sent to bed without supper was too bad for her, she had more important things on her mind than eating.

For, you see, young Nadia had a plan for rescuing Hector, as well as getting her gauntlet back. All she needed to do was wait. Wait until all the other Duel Masters were asleep, and then break into the temple with her way line, take her gauntlet back, and get Kimora to help her out.

It was ingenious as far as 14-year old girls could think up, but extremely time sensitive. She assumed she could get a few hours of sleep in before it, but a few hours slowly melded into many, the only thing waking her up being a soft buzzing noise right above her head. Hold on, a soft buzzing nose above her head?

Nadia's eyes snapped open as she saw a cyber virus hovering right above her, its prongs open and zapping slightly. She screamed, and whacked it with a pillow until it stopped moving. Breathing heavily, she wondered why nobody had come to her door to ask why she'd screamed. Ripping her door pen, she immediately went into everyone's rooms, only to find that every single one of her family members was being kept asleep with a cyber virus.

Almost sent into a panic, she rushed downstairs, and was grabbed by Aqua Seneschal. She tried to wrest out of his grip, but he simply picked her up and proceeded to carry her back upstairs as she loudly protested and pounded against him. As he nearly threw her into her room, Nadia screamed again and attempted to run for the door, but he'd slammed it shut and locked it tight.

With mounting terror, she looked out the window, and saw Master August outside of the house. Obviously, August had been controlling Seneschal, and in the distance, she could see a flash of golden light, followed by a dissipating dark green haze floating over the horizon. Ra-Vu's unmistakable silhouette appeared after this, and Nadia ducked out of sight from the window. Well, this plan had gone horribly awry in more ways than one, and she hadn't even been given a chance to start it.