(Opening: Hamatora the Animation Opening 1)

-Sometime Ago on Pandora; World of Curiosities (Rhys & Shadow's P.O.V)-

They followed Shade further into the World of Curiosities where they would get the Vault Key from a man named August. As they walked in Shade had said, "My grandpappy, he's the one who came up with this place. He was a real thinker, you know, a real lover for animals. Still is, actually because he's definitely not dead! But the place itself-"

He was cut off when they heard another man's voice; it was the very same voice that Rhys and Shadow heard when he called Vasquez.

"What happened?" He said, "You get stuck in traffic?"

They turned to see him sitting at a table, with a woman with short dreadlock hair who was leaning on the table with a gun in her hand. Judging from the voice they concluded that it was the man named August. The man named August had said, "You Hyperion guys are usually so punctual. Gettin' 10 million together can't be too much trouble for you guys."

Rhys had said to him, "I figured you'd want to take the tour, maybe get here a little early."

"Early?" August said, "You think I like being here, you think this is fun? I mean have any of you guys seen the bathroom yet? Every minute in this horror factory is like an hour."

"Alright than." Shade said, "Well… I'll just leave you to your business things then."

With that Shade took his leave, and August introduced himself to them, "I'm August." He said, "But I figure you guys already knew that."

AUGUST

THE GUY WITH THE KEY

Shadow had noticed that the girl was looking at him and Mion funny. Of course he figured that she found it strange at the fact that two teenagers were working with Hyperion, but he couldn't blame her for thinking that. All Shadow did was tilt his head when he looked at her. She turned her attention away from him and Mion.

August had then asked, "So uh… Is Vasquez coming?"

"Vasquez?" Rhys had said with a smirk, "He was just the go-between, the middle man."

"The puppet, the pigeon." Vaughn had added.

"Stop." Rhys said to Vaughn, "I'm the one buying the Key."

"Yeah?" August had said to him, "Well… I guess… As long as you got the money… One Hyperion bootlicker's as good as another. So what's your name? Just so we're on equal footing."

"You want my name?" Rhys said, "My name's Ten Million Dollars for all you should care. You're a Vault Key to me, 'kay? That's me!"

This Shadow and Mion to slap themselves in the face while everyone else just stood there dumbfounded. "Damn it Rhys…" Shadow mumbled to himself with an unamused look, "Don't make yourself look like a fool…"

"And I thought Jack's jokes were bad…" Mion had added with her hand over her mouth.

August rubbed both of his eyes, "Look." He said, "I don't what the hell you think you're doing, but this is not how I operate, alright? I expected Vasquez, and I got you."

"Yeah!" The woman said.

"So let's all get friendly real fast." He said before turning to the woman, "Aren't I trying? Huh? Aren't I trying?"

"You're trying." The woman said.

August had said to Rhys, "So… Let's try this again. I'm August. What's yours?"

Rhys still feeling confident had said, "You can pout all you want. You're not getting my name."

Shadow rolled his eyes, "Well things are just going smoothly." Shadow said with sarcasm.

Mion had whispered to Shadow, "I think this whole thing is starting to get into his head."

He whispered back again with sarcasm, "Oh really? What was your first clue?" They heard August clear his throat, "Just… Sit down." He said taking his seat, "Let's do this so we can get on with our lives."

Rhys took his seat while the others stood by his side; Vaughn mentally complained that there wasn't any other seat.

"Okay, let's see the money." August said to them.

Rhys shook his head and said to him, "No uh, uh. We know how these deals work."

Shadow had added, "First show us the key, then you'll get the money."

"Yeah!" Mion and Vaughn both said in unison.

August cracked a smile, "So the baby wants it's bottle? Alright, fine." He picked up the case that sat on the side and carefully placed it on the table. He opened it up and they were in awe when they saw the Vault Key shine with Iridium.

"Woah…" Mion said at a loss for words.

"You ever see anything so pretty in your miserable lives?" August had asked them, "This thing will practically dance at your wedding. It's state of the art alien crap. I'd use it myself but… You know… Monsters and all."

"It's goddamn gorgeous." Rhys said, to which August had added, "Friggin' A right, it is."

"You took the words right out of my mouth." Shadow had said.

August put his hands together and leaned back in his chair, "Okay, so… the way I, ah, usually do these things is-"

The woman cut August off when she suddenly slammed the case shut and said, "Wait!" Which made everyone slightly jump. August turned to her, "What?" Shadow saw the look in her eyes as she said, "IIIII… Just don't like it. I got a-I gotta feeling."

Shadow raised his eyebrow when he saw this kind of behavior. "Somethings not right…" He thought to himself. "What feeling?" Vaughn had asked her.

"Look." She said to August, "You said when I get a feeling about something that I should tell you that we should walk away, right?"

"What are you feeling right now?" August said to her, "We're almost done!"

"I get intuitions about this stuff!" She said.

"Is she okay?" Rhys couldn't help but ask August.

"Yeah, yeah… She's just freaking out." He replied to Rhys, "She does that sometimes."

Than she did something unexpected; she grabbed the case which sat on the table. August got up from his seat. "Sasha!" He said to the woman, "What the hell are you-"

The woman who was named Sasha had said as she backed up with the case behind her back, "I just-I just don't like it! They've had this… dumb attitude on their dumb faces since the moment they walked in!"

Mion saw the look that Shadow had on his face. "Shades?" Mion whispered, "What is it?"

Shadow's eyes wandered to the case that was behind Sasha's back. "There's something not right about this…" He whispered back, "I can't say for sure, but she's hiding something. It's got something to do with that key…"

"What do you mean?" She asked him.

Shadow said nothing but thought to himself, "This deal… The way she's acting… Could it be…"

"What are you talking about!?" He heard August say.

"He's been a giant dick this entire time!" Sasha had said just out of the blue, "And… Why wouldn't they show you the money huh?! What's up with that!?"

"You're lying." Shadow had said out of the blue which caused everyone to turn to him.

"What?" Sasha said to him.

"This whole time you've been lying." Shadow had clarified, "All your doing is just say stuff you've been thinking at the top of your head."

Sasha immediately said, "I'm not!"

"There it is." He said, "You did it again. What are you hiding?"

"I'm not hiding anything!"

"Stop trying to talk you're out of it. I can tell that you're hiding something."

Rhys had then said, "Hey, Sasha right? You're making a big mistake here. This money we're offering is life changing and it's right here in this case. I know you don't trust Hyperion."

"Yeah, you think?" Sasha said to him.

Rhys continued to say, "And I know you have zero reason to trust us… But I'm telling you… We're not like those assholes. In fact we're trying to get back at one of the worst assholes up there and we need that key to do it. So please, take the money and let us screw over one of the biggest jerks on Hyperion. Please?"

Everyone was pretty much silent by what Rhys had said. "Wow…" Mion said breaking the silence, "That was deep."

Sasha had then said, "So what you're trying to say is that this key will get used to screw over some wretched Hyperion stooge?"

"That's exactly what we're saying." Vaughn had said.

Sasha had thought about it but eventually let out a smile, "Alright, I'm sold."

"Great!" Mion said with a smile, "So let's finish up this deal shall we?"

August had said, "Well… Just, wait, just wait."

"August." Sasha said to him, "Everything is fine now." She handed the case back to him. "I mean…" August had said, "I don't know if you really think…"

"No, no, it's okay." Sasha had said, "The feelings gone August. Let's go do the deal."

August was starting to have second thoughts about the whole thing. "I dunno. Maybe today's not right for this." He said, "If things are weird. I mean if you have a feeling about this than…"

"No, no, no. I was wrong." Sasha said, "We should definitely do it."

Rhys had said, "The bad feeling is gone now August. She said so herself. We still got a deal here. There's no problem, let's just-"

Rhys was cut off by August, "No I'm-I'm sorry guys. I was- I thought I was gonna deal with Vasquez and… Now this I just… I think we should just call it off until I think things are square. Maybe another time fellas."

He was walking away as Sasha followed behind him, "Hon, we're here now. We should just do this. Really."

"Nah I made up my mind." He said to her.

"Hey! August! Wait a minute!" Mion had shouted to him.

Vaughn had turned to Rhys, "Rhys this is your department! Do something!" Rhys at first honestly didn't know what to do as they made their way towards the door. He struggled to think of something to stop them until finally he thought of what to do. All Rhys did was give Shadow, Mion and Vaughn a look and they understood what he was going to do.

"August." Rhys said getting his attention. August stopped and took a moment to shake his head. He approached him as August turned to him, "Actually, that's okay. You don't know it yet."

"Know what?" August asked him.

"That this is it." Rhys said as he started to circle August, "You can't see that one day… maybe ten years from now, maybe ten months, maybe tomorrow… you're gonna think back on right now and scream to the stars for mercy of death just so you'll not have to live wondering of what could've been."

August placed the case down and sat down with his hands in his hair.

Rhys continued, "'What if I seized that chance by the throat, what if I had beaten my fears, taken what was rightfully mine? What if… What if I had won?""

August was pretty much crying at that point; He said with his voice cracking, "I am a winner! I… Am… A… Winner!"

Mion couldn't help but chuckle by what had just happened, she whispered, "He's got it in the bag." And all Shadow did was shake his head and say, "You overdid it…" Rhys stood proudly and felt as though a million people were cheering clapping and chanting his name. August got out the Vault Key and handed it to Rhys.

Rhys had it in the air like he was holding the world in the palm of his hand and-

What a steaming load of skag crap!

I don't remember that happening.

-Present-

Rhys found himself out of his fantasy and back into reality where he had just remembered that he and Shadow were both getting dragged by a man armed himself with a shotgun and intimidating. They were both being dragged towards where the deal took place; The World of Curiosities.

"I did say you were overdoing it…" Shadow said.

Rhys ignored what he said and picked up his head to glare at a young woman with a black bowler hat with short brown hair and dark grey eyes with a small amount of hair dyed with pink; she wore a black and grey jacket wearing a pair of grey pants and brown boots. Under her jacket she wore a red corset with a white collar.

Next to her was a young preteen with shoulder length lavender hair*, which was braided, and a pair of magenta eyes. She wore a dress with black shorts; one side she had a long baggy sleeve and she had a short sleeve on the other was short, revealing light blue tattoos similar to a Siren's markings and not only that there were markings on both of her legs as well. Her dress was of a mahogany color but the long baggy sleeve was dark green and she had a black choker around her neck and she wore a pair of black ankle boots as well.

(*There's a reason for this, don't worry, we'll get to it eventually.)

Rhys had said as the person dragged them over to them, "Well, well, well, look who decided to show her face. I was about to get to my favorite part, you know where you come in and ruin my life you no class, scheming, Pandora scum!"

"Hey!" Shadow said with a pissed off look on his face, "I find that insulting you know!"

"Oh, nice haircut you lying Hyperion scum!" The woman said.

"It IS a nice haircut!" Rhys shouted to her. She started to kick dirt at Rhys as the person stopped dragging him and Shadow.

"OH SHUT UP!" She shouted.

Shadow turned away as Rhys tried to avoid the dirt, "STOP IT! YOU'RE GETTING DIRT IN MY EYE!"

The girl with lavender hair had said, "Big sister stop it! Don't be mean to them!"

"I'm not being mean to them!" She said to her, "I'm just being mean to the jackass that had the nerve to tell a lie!"

FIONA

THE CON ARTIST

The girl with the lavender hair made a pouty face as she said, "You shouldn't say stuff like that big sister! I don't want to have to get angry but if you keep being mean to them, I'll get really, really, really mad and hurt somebody!"

PLUTIA

SIREN/YOUNGEST CON-ARTIST & FIONA'S LITTLE SISTER

Shadow had said as he coughed out a bit of dirt that managed to get into his mouth and said, "Okay, the last thing we need is for you to get mad, and have you-know-who come out and bash in a few heads. So Fiona please just for everyone's sake here, stop kicking dirt at Rhys."

Fiona stopped but she still had that angry look in her eye.

Rhys coughed out dirt and said, "And for one thing I'm not lying okay? I'm… embellishing. And more importantly how the hell do you two know about anyway?! You both weren't at the deal!"

"They were Rhys." Shadow said, "They were…"

"Wait really?" He asked the teen.

"What do you think I was trying to tell you then?" He said to him.

"He is right." Fiona said, "Plutia and I were there you dope. I can't believe your friend manages to figure it out then but you didn't even now. I knew you were dense from the moment I-"

They were cut off when the person fired a shot in the air, causing Plutia to let out a small scream and for Shadow to squeeze his eyes shut, while Rhys and Fiona jumped at the sound. The person turned to her and Plutia.

"It's your turn now." He said to the two of them.

"Our turn?" Plutia said with confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Tell me your side of the deal." He clarified.

"You couldn't have asked us that first?" She said, "You kidnapped me and Plutie* hours ago!"

(*Plutia's nickname, as a reference to Hyperdimension Neptunia)

The person stayed silent for a few short seconds before saying, "I guess I could've."

"You guess?" Fiona said, "Me and my sister have been baking in the sun with rak's dive bombing me for the last-"

The person fired another shot in the air, letting everyone have the same reaction like they did before.

"COULD YOU NOT DO THAT!?" Shadow couldn't help but yell to him. The person didn't answer him, all he did was ignore him. Fiona had said, "Okay, okay. I get it. This fraud was completely left out the most important part of this whole thing."

Rhys turned his head towards her, "Which is…?"

"Umm…" Plutia said, "It's a bit… Complicated."

-Sometime Ago on Pandora; World of Curiosities (Fiona & Plutia's P.O.V)-

Fiona and Plutia both watched from the sidelines just behind the gigantic fan as they saw August trying to prevent the man from Hyperion from taking away the case. The only thing was they were both fighting over it like a child would with a doll.

"Come on! Let go!" They heard the guy yell out, "I need that!"

"It's mine! Give it!" They heard August say, "What's your fricking problem anyway?!" They soon heard the sound of a car crashing right into the building and guns were starting to go off explosions happening left and right and-

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

-Present-

Plutia was forced to stop in the middle of the story since Rhys was the one that interrupted her. She turned him and tilted her head asking, "What?"

"How is THAT the most important thing?" Rhys had asked her, "Aren't you forgetting something?"

"Huh?" Plutia said, "What am I forgetting?"

"Oh I don't know." Rhys said, "How about the part where it was… YOUR OWN SISTER'S FAULT!?"

Fiona gave a look towards Rhys. "Oh come on!" She said, "That was not my fault!" All Rhys and Shadow did was give Fiona a 'Really' look which caused her to say, "Well, not all of it anyway." She looked at their kidnapper. "Are you making a face under there?" She asked him, "I can't tell what you're thinking if-"

She was cut off again when he pointed the gun towards her and Plutia.

"Trust me when I say he's not in the mood for any funny business." Shadow had told the two, "So you might as well just tell what he wants to hear."

Her and Plutia both looked at each other; they both let out a sigh. "Okay." Plutia said, "I guess that's fair."

"Fine." Fiona said, "But let's start at the beginning…"

(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)