Big was the surprise when the decapitated body didn't bleed. As it turned out, it wasn't a man in a suit, or a man at all. It was a machine. With the head now separated from the body, everyone could see the cogs and electric wires that kept it running.

"What the..." Snake couldn't understand what he just saw.

"Something's still not right." Max said.

"Zort?" Ginger mentioned, which nobody understood.

Spawn, meanwhile, was getting up, with some difficulty: "Ugh... what's happening?"

"What's 'zort'?" Snake asked Ginger.

"I don't know." Ginger snapped at him, "You better ask the one saying that."

"Who are you talking about?" Snake still didn't understand.

"Our man's a robot?" Spawn only just saw for himself.

Max, meanwhile, approached the robot's head. She picked it up, while the other ones are still talking.

"I don't know what the fuck's going on, but I keep hearing two people talking." Ginger explained.

"Then why don't we hear anything?" Snake wondered.

"She's a werewolf. She's got sharper senses." Spawn explained.

"Guys, listen!" Max said to them.

Everyone listened intently, then they started to hear it too.

"... must get out of this head, and get the plans back." a voice was getting louder.

"Is that Orson Welles?" Spawn wondered.

"Don't think so." Max said.

Jason had had enough. He grabbed the head, threw it towards a nearby wall, causing it to smash itself open. When opened, everyone could distinguish two white mice, each of whom appeared to wear peculiar belts, just like the robot they, apparently, controlled.

"Naaaaarf..." the tallest and skinniest of the two mumbled.

"If I knew my new bio-mechanical suit would... cause such tremendous... pain..." the smaller one with a large head moaned.

"Mice?" Spawn sounded more than a little surprised, disappointed maybe, "Our man was controlled by two... mice?"

"So that's what I sensed." Max explained.

"That cat-DNA of yours helps you to sense mice?" Snake wondered, "You must be joking."

The smaller one shook his head, somehow shaking his pain away, then spoke to the other: "Pinky. We'd better change!"

"Poit! Got it Brain!" the taller one, Pinky, replied, "Oh, wait, no. Into what?"

As the the smaller one, Brain, smacked his own forehead, Max couldn't help herself, but she started to laugh: "This is easy."

She went down to pick up the two, but not before Brain had punched a button on both his and Pinky's belt. Max grabbed them both, but somehow they both changed into suits, similar to what their robot wore, which helped them to be much stronger, so they could get out of her grip. Once out, they ran to their robot's body, but the way there wasn't easy, as everybody tried to block their ways.

"Quick, Pinky." Brain then said, "We must gro... never mind."

He punched another button on both his and Pinky's chest, which somehow caused them to become human-sized.

"What... how did you do that?" Max wondered.

"Who cares? Now it's easier to fight them." Spawn replied.

This turned out to be a underestimation, as earlier they were fighting one man, and now there were two of them. On the other hand, the fight was heavy enough, so neither Pinky or Brain managed to get to the body and snatch away the plans they made.

"Pinky, we'd better retreat." Brain then decided.

"Narf... alright, Brain." Pinky replied.

They dodged all the next attacks, and made it to one of the room's doors, which they opened, right before pressing that button on their chest, which made them small again.

"What is that?" Max saw a small mechanical device, waiting behind the door, which the two mice were about to mount. Max didn't know what that device was, but she wouldn't allow them to escape.

The two have mounted the device, while Brain said: "We'd better return, and prepare for tomorrow night."

"Why, Brain?" Pinky wondered, as the device was being activated, "What are we going to do tomorrow night?"

"Same thing we do every night, Pinky." Brain answered, "Try to take o..."

Just as he was finishing his sentence, the device, along with it's passengers, vanished into thin air, as though it was never there to begin with. Max had only just jumped through the open door and was about to grab them when that happened. Needless to say that she didn't catch them, and smacked on the floor, not knowing what just happened.

"Damn, those mice were prepared." Snake remarked.

"Where did they go?" Ginger wondered.

Spawn didn't care much about that, as he moved towards the robot-body, and took out the plans that were hidden inside it: "At least we got what we came for. And right before they even finished their plans. I'd say we succeeded!"

Everyone agreed to that, safe for Max: "This isn't right. Where's that girl, Tess Doerner?"

"Maybe in another room." Ginger reasoned.

"Hold on one second." Snake then realized it too, "This doesn't make sense. Why kidnap that girl when they didn't finish their plans? It would be much to difficult for them to keep her alive until it's finished.

"Not to mention that if they kept her in another room, she has to be nearby, so they can reach her any minute, but she's not anywhere near." Max reasoned.

"In other words..." Spawn thought out loud, "The girl is not here?"

"Then that means..." Snake realized.

"Her kidnapping has nothing to do with this theft!" Max said.

"This is confusing." Ginger whined, "Don't you think, Jase?"

Spawn still wasn't entirely convinced: "It's still too much of a coincidence, that of all people, it has to be that one 4400 woman that they kidnapped."

"Your point?" Snake asked.

Before anyone could answer, the whole Cube started to shake. Everyone could feel it, but nobody could explain it.

"An earthquake?" Ginger wondered.

"I don't think so..." Max said, "It feels more like..."

Before she could say anything, something tore the ceiling open. How this happened, none of them were sure, but it looked as though fire was being blown through the Cube, which torched much of the structure.

What none of them knew, is that the dragons that started to rampage the planet two years earlier, had found this structure. It made peculiar sounds, which made a small group of them quite curious. So they tried to open up the outer shell, only to see the actual Cube, but their curiosity wasn't satisfied then. Again, they used all their might, claws, fangs and fire, to open up the Cube.

The ones inside could only run for cover. Spawn created a shield, which covered all five of them, but that became obsolete when the floor beneath them gave in. It didn't take long before the entire Cube was torn down.

Nobody knew how much time had passed since then, but at least Snake woke up at some point. There was much rubble and he suffered quite some injuries. But he had recovered from worse before, so he knew this was nothing in comparison. When he opened his eyes, he saw that most of his body was stuck under a heavy wall. With only one arm loose, he tried to heave it, but it didn't work. That's when two other arms appeared before him, which helped him heave up the wall. It also didn't take long before Snake recognized the one helping him. It was the same young man whom he's met before.

"You..." Snake hissed.

"The other four are still unconscious." the young man said, "They'll be alright, but the little girl looks in a bad shape."

Once Snake was free from the wall, he searched for his gun, so he could point it to the young man, but he couldn't find it.

"Looking for that?" the young man pointed to a gun, which lay nearby.

"Alright, why don't you just tell me why you're here, Kenneth Tam." Snake sounded threatening.

The young man smirked: "So you know my name. Then you must also understand why I'm doing this."

"Doing what?" Snake asked him.

"Do you know how I stop that girl's shaking?" he asked Snake.

Snake sighed, just before asking him: "Where is she, Kenny?"

The young man, Kenny, hesitated at first, but eventually pointed: "She's over there."

Snake ran to the place he pointed out, where he helped Max take her pills. Meanwhile, Kenny tried to help the other three out as well.

"You know, Snake, only my girlfriend gets to call me Kenny." Kenny told him.

"Always the girlfriend, huh..." Snake hissed, not caring much.

Once he had helped Max, he got up and marched to Kenny, was about to punch him, but Kenny appeared to have eyes on his back, as he dodged the attack.

"Got a problem? Why don't you just talk?" Kenny suggested.

"Talk, huh?" Snake considered this, "Why are you here, and why didn't you help us back there?"

"Did you need my help?" Kenny sounded somewhat cocky, "If you know who I am, you should know that my girlfriend's kidnapped. And I will not rest until she is saved."

"Is that why you're still alive?" Snake asked, "Even when you're dead?"

"Should I tell him?" Kenny said, apparently talking to someone who's not there, then waited for a reply, which he must have received as he continued talking, "All you need to know is that you people can help me find her, that's why I'm helping."

"But why do you only talk to me?" Snake didn't understand that bit.

"Because of all the five, at least you have an idea of honor. I wouldn't trust anything to them just yet." Kenny answered.

"This is just great." Snake sighed, "Why does everyone have this..."

Snake had turned away for one second while talking, but when he turned back to Kenny, he had disappeared again.