(Opening Theme: Hamatora the Animation Opening 1)

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

Everything was going as planned. While Fiona, Plutia and Felix were in the caravan at a safe distance Sasha and August were preparing for the arrival of Vasquez. "We're in position." Sasha said through the small ECHO device which was connected back to the caravan.

"Let us know when they arrive." Felix had said to her.

Sasha then proceeded to get rid of the evidence of the key being a fake. "Hey August." She said getting his attention, "You-You got something on your face. Come here, let me get that for you." She proceeded to get the paint off.

"Oh thanks hon." They heard August say over the ECHO.

Felix had his arms crossed as he sat, while Fiona sat back on the chair with her hat covering her eyes, and Plutia sitting on the couch brushing the hair on her doll. "I can't believe you let him touch the key." Felix said to her, "Don't touch it was what I said."

"It worked out in the end didn't it?" Fiona said.

"Yeah." Plutia said to him, "Big sister knew what she was doing.

Felix let out a sigh knowing he couldn't argue with them, "This time… Luckily."

Fiona and Plutia giggled a bit, "The look on your face when he smeared it on his cheek."

"It really was funny!" Plutia said with a smile.

"No it wasn't." Felix said.

Sasha than heard Shade come in with the client, or the proper term, clients. Two of them were men about one with a golden yellow eye, and a blue eye with a robotic arm and a man with state of the art glasses. But what really surprised her was when she saw that there were two teens, a girl with an emerald green hair and a long pony tail, and a boy with short black hair with crimson eyes; his left eye had some kind of metal plating and looked like the eye of a cat; He appeared to injured on the shoulder however, judging from the makeshift bandage he had wrapped around his shoulder.

"Still is." She heard Shade say, "Actually, because he's definitely not dead! But the place itself is…"

"Alright we're on." Sasha said over the ECHO.

"What happened? You get stuck in traffic?" August had asked them.

The three of them listened to their conversation.

"Usually you Hyperion guys are so punctual." They heard August say, "Gettin' 10 million together can't be too much trouble for you guys.

They heard the other man say, "I figured you'd want get here to take a tour, maybe get here a little early."

"Early? 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."

Plutia tilted her head in confusion, "I thought there was supposed to be one guy, right?" She said.

"Sasha?" Felix said through the ECHO device, "Is the man named Vasquez there?"

"Alright, well…" She heard Shade say, "I'll just leave you to your business things than!" And with that Shade took his leave.

"I'm August." He said introducing himself to them, "But I figured you already knew that. Is uh… Is Vasquez coming?"

Sasha turned away from them as they talked.

"There are four guys here." Sasha whispered, "But none of them appear to be Vasquez."

"Four guys?" Fiona said, "That seems a bit much don't you think."

"He may have sent some lackeys." Felix concluded, "Didn't want to get his hands dirty."

"And get this." They heard Sasha say, "Two of the four guys, are teenagers."

All three of them were shocked to hear that from her. "Teenagers?" Fiona said, "Working for Hyperion?"

"That seems young don't you think?" Plutia said. Felix and Fiona both turned to look at Plutia for a moment. "Then again…" Felix couldn't help but mumble, "We shouldn't be the ones talking."

Sasha looked closely at the crimson eye teen. When she did all he did was tilt his head like he a dog would when it heard something out of the ordinary. "He seems to be harmless enough, if you don't count the sword he's got carrying. Doesn't seem like the type of guy to work for Hyperion though. Same can go for his friend." Sasha thought to herself, "Doesn't seem like an idiot either; I had better be careful." Panic started to rise however when her eyes fell upon the man with the different colored eyes, and let out a silent gasp by what she saw.

One of his eyes was lit up.

"Oh damn it." She said, and proceeded to tell the others, "One of them has an ECHOeye implant."

Fiona and Felix's eyes widened in shock. Plutia on the other hand was confused. "ECHOeye?" She said, "What's an ECHOeye?"

"It's a really high tech machinery." Fiona replied, "If a person has that, than we're in serious trouble."

"Trouble?" Plutia asked again.

"Let me put it this way." Sasha said, "If he scans the key, he'll know it's a fake."

Plutia's eyes widened, "That is bad. If he does that, we won't get the money."

"They're still talking." Sasha explained, "But there's no way they're not gonna scan it, unless they really are complete morons."

"We can't take that chance!" Fiona said, "We have to disable it!"

"Okay, yes, good thinking!" Felix said to her.

"Disable it?" Plutia said tilting her head, "How?"

Felix got up from his seat and went over to the toolbox, "There's a small EMP device in the chest over there!" He said to Fiona and Plutia, "Grab it for me while I assemble the detonator!"

Both Fiona and Plutia nodded their heads and went over to the chest. When they opened however-

"UGH! WHAT!?" Fiona exclaimed.

"Uh-oh." Plutia said.

There within the chest were a hell of a lot of gadgets and gizmos some they didn't even know how to work. Plutia made a whine, "This is just bothersome!"

"Ah come on!" Fiona said before turning to Felix, "HOW DO YOU FIND ANYTHING IN HERE!?"

"It's about palm sized!" Felix explained, "It has a small circuit board sticking out of it!"

They both looked around in the case, and soon Plutia saw it. She picked it up and held it to Felix. "Is this it?" Plutia asked. "Yes that's it!" Felix said, "Bring it here!" Plutia bought it over and gave it to him. He finished putting together the device.

He then gave it to Fiona, "Here!" He said while handing it to her, "This will generate a low level electromagnetic pulse. That should be enough to scramble his system. But you need it close to the Key."

He went over to the ECHO device and said, "Sasha, on my signal you need to get the case over to the vent behind you."

Sasha turned slightly to not cause any suspicion. She saw the vent that he was talking about which was a behind a huge fan. "How the hell do I do that?!" She whispered angrily.

"I don't know, figure it out!" He told her. He turned back to Fiona, "There's a ventilation shaft in the back that'll give you access." He explained, "Once you're in, I'll talk you through it. But stay in the shadows, the walls are paper thin. Don't be seen and don't be heard."

Fiona nodded and turned to Plutia, "Let's get going Plutie!"

"Right!" Plutia said, "I'm right behind you big sister!"

"Wait a minute, why is Plutia going with you?" Felix had asked.

"She plays as the back-up, remember?" Fiona reminded him.

Felix stayed silent before saying, "Right good point. Go hurry!"

Fiona and Plutia nodded and exited the caravan. They approached the World of Curiosities quickly and quietly as possible. When they got close enough they got a better look at the people they were dealing with. "They look kind of funny looking." Plutia whispered.

"Felix we can see them." Fiona said through the small ECHO device, "How do we get inside?"

Felix had replied, "There should be a small air duct that leads to the room their in. Find it. That's where you'll take your position."

"Got it." Fiona said as she started to take a look around. Plutia was about to follow when she suddenly sensed a very strange presence. The markings of the siren on her arm and that showed on her legs glowed a little bit. She turned back and she was eyeing the teen with the crimson eyes. She tilted her head slightly as she stared at him.

"This presence… " Plutia thought to herself as she looked at the slight glow from her markings; she turned back to the teen, "Him? But there's no way, it couldn't be..."

She was brought out of these thoughts when she heard Fiona. "Plutie!" She called out in a somewhat loud whisper, "What are you doing? Come on, we gotta move!"

"Right, I'm coming!" Plutia whispered. She took a moment to turn back to the teen despite the fact that he didn't nay, couldn't notice her. "I wonder…" She continued to think, before she went to follow Fiona. They turned around the corner and found where the vent was supposed to be.

However the area was covered posters both old and new and a giant billboard of Handsome Jack. Most of the old wanted posters consisted of a bounty hunter who wore a black cloak and gas mask of some kind, with other kinds of dark clothing; having what appeared markings of a siren on his arm but instead of being blue they were dark red; the poster was titled Black Wind.

"That's funny." Plutia said, "I didn't even realize they still had those posters of the Black Wind."

"Focus Plutie." Fiona told her, "We need to find that vent, so start looking."

"Kay big sister." She said to her. Thus they started to look. They ripped the posters off of the walls and still they didn't couldn't find the opening of the vent. It wasn't long until Plutia looked behind the bill board of Handsome Jack. There it was, the opening of the vent.

"Big sister I found it!" Plutia said.

Fiona went over to where she was, "Atta girl Plutie!" She said, "Help me move this!"

Plutia nodded, and just like that, they started to push the bill board out of the way. "Alright, we just need to find a way to get up there." She soon noticed a tool chest. "That'll work." She pushed it just under the vent.

They heard Felix's voice, "Are you two in position?"

"We're almost in the vent." Fiona replied as she climbed on top of the tool chest. "Good." He said, "When the two of you get to the end of the air duct let me know."

"We'll do." Fiona replied.

Fiona got the vent open. "Alright Plutie, you go in first." Fiona as she climbed down. Plutia nodded her head, Fiona helped her climb on the tool chest. She was just about to enter the vent when all of a sudden she was face to face with an unexpected face.

It was the owner of the World of Curiosities.

"Hi!" He said. Plutia let out a small scream as she fell backward; Luckily Fiona caught her and immediately shushed her. "Sorry." She whispered.

"My deepest apologies." He said with a voice that wasn't exactly indoor, "But we're actually closed. Also this isn't really a door but-"

"Shh!" Fiona said as she immediately went ahead to cover the man's mouth, "How did you get in there?!" At first when he was talking he was muffled, that is until Fiona removed her hand from his mouth. He then finished whatever he was saying, "After those Hyperion's were kind enough to express an interest in my collection. "

August looked around the room. The teen with crimson eyes had asked him, "Is there something the matter?"

"I thought I heard something." He said to him.

Sasha had immediately said, "I didn't hear anything."

Fiona and Plutia both sighed with relief when they didn't realize that they were out there. "Keep it down!" Fiona whispered to the guy.

"I came back to my special place." He said ignoring what Fiona had told him, "I'm Shade pleased to meet you both! I know it's hard to trust but I'm a people person!"

Before Fiona could tell him off Plutia had said, "Nice to meet you! I'm Plutia and this is my big sister Fiona."

"Plutie!?" Fiona said.

"Oh delighted!" Shade had said, "Sometimes you wanna talk to someone not decomposing, know what I mean?"

"Ye-Yeah." Fiona said hesitantly, "Sure."

"Um…" Plutia said, "I don't mean to be a pest but can you let me and my big sister through? It's really important."

"Course, come on in!" He said as he made room, "Although it may be a tight squeeze."

"Thank you!" Plutia said with a smile. She climbed in the vent leaving Fiona stunned by what just happened. "I didn't even know you could do that." Fiona then climbed through the vent. "Alright let's go." Fiona said to Plutia.

Plutia nodded before turning to Shade, "Thanks again."

"Wait you're going?" Shade said before saying sadly, "Aww, and we were having such a nice chat."

Fiona and Plutia made their way down the vent, slowly and quietly as possible. They heard Felix again. "Are you two in place yet?" He had asked.

"We're almost there." Fiona had replied. They both slightly jumped when they heard a familiar voice

"So where are we going?"

They turned to see that it was Shade. "Oh, Shade!" Plutia said, "You followed us."

"Ssh!" Fiona had said to Shade, "Go away!"

"You two are looking for that girl right?" He asked them, "The one with the hair?"

They both stopped for a minute and turned to Shade. "That's right." Plutia told him, "Like I said it's important."

"I know a best spot to peek without getting caught." He said, "Let me come with you two. It's been a long time since I had any friends, back in Oasis I-"

Fiona immediately said knowing he wouldn't go away, "No need to go explaining alright. You can come with us, but just keep it quiet and make yourself useful."

"You...You won't regret this!" Shade had said, delighted to hear this. Fiona and Plutia started to shush him. Shade lead them to the end of the vent where they saw the deal taking place. "There's big sis." Plutia whispered, "Looks like she's having trouble."

"No." Fiona said, "She's giving us an opening. Plutie, let me go first."

Plutia nodded and Fiona went ahead of her. She got close enough to see what was going on. She saw that Sasha had the case behind her. They were talking with one another, they surprised to hear that the crimson eye teen had caught Sasha in a lie, but Fiona didn't let that stop her.

Fiona got in position, "Okay Felix we're here." She said.

"Good." Felix said, "Sasha is waiting near the end of the vent. Get the EMP device on the case."

Fiona moved all the way to the end of the vent and took out the EMP. As they continued to talk to one another, she took the opportunity to put the EMP device right on the case.

"Alright." Fiona whispered, "It's ready."

Sasha and said to them after they explained themselves, "So you're saying this key will get used to screw over some Hyperion stooge?"

"That's exactly what we're saying." The guy with the glasses had said.

Sasha took only a moment to think before saying, "Alright I'm sold." And she moved away from the vent.

"Alright good work Fiona." Felix said.

"Are you two gonna join your friends?" Shade had asked them.

"Well no." Plutia said.

"We're going to sit here and play the quiet game." Fiona added.

Felix had then said to Sasha, "Sasha if you see him trying to scan the key, give us a signal." They heard Sasha was talking to August; While she was doing that Felix had then said to Fiona, "When you hear the signal, activate the EMP."

They suddenly heard August say, "Nah, I've made up my mind."

August and Sasha both started to walk away. "August wait!" The man with the glasses said, before turning turning to the man with the robotic arm, "Rhys! This is your department! Do something!"

"Rhys?" Plutia said, "So that's his name."

The man with the robotic arm named Rhys had got his attention, "August!" They both stopped in there tracks. "What?" August had asked turning to him. Both Fiona and Plutia were wondering what he was going to do. What he did was very unexpected.

He just got on his knees and said, "Come on man! Pleeeeeeeease?"

Neither of them couldn't find the words to describe what they just saw. They saw the crimson eye teen and the girl with the long ponytail smack themselves in the face. "Damn it Rhys…" They heard the crimson eye say, "Way to make a fool of yourself…"

The girl with the long ponytail said, "Did you seriously just say please?"

August was unsure by what just happened and unsure of what to do; he heard Sasha say, "Dude, ten million dollars."

The girl with the long ponytail, helped the guy with the glasses out of the cuffs. He opened up the case and showed them the money to show that they weren't lying. "You make a good point." August said to her. Everyone in the room just sighed with relief when August had changed his mind about making the deal.

He opened up the case and Rhys picked up the Key. Unknowingly to Sasha, Plutia and Fiona, the crimson eye teen had some type of ECHOeye as well. He scanned the key as Rhys removed it from the case. He's eyes widened in shock by what he found. He proceeded to scan the entire room, even more shocked by what he found when he detected three additional heat signatures.

"Okay Fiona, he's about to scan it." Sasha said to Fiona over on the small ECHO device focusing on Rhys.

"Got it." Fiona said whispered before turning to Plutia, "Alright hand me the switch."

Plutia took out the device "Here you go big sister." She said handing it to her. "Alright let's do this!" Fiona said.

"Rhys! Don't!" The crimson eye teen shouted getting his attention.

He was about to ask what was wrong when the EMP device on the case had activated. That's when things took a turn for the worse as Rhys's arm malfunctioned, letting him drop the key onto the floor. It broke on impact.

Everyone's jaw dropped by what had just happened the whole room fell silent.

"What's happening?" Felix had asked.

"He…" Plutia said, "He dropped it."

Felix couldn't help but ask, "What?"

"He dropped the Key." Fiona had clarified.

"He dropped it!?" He exclaimed, "What do you mean he dropped it!?"

Fiona couldn't help but wonder, "It wouldn't have mattered… That red eye teen tried to stop him from scanning it meaning he knew. So how did he…"

Plutia found the answer to that, "Big sister…" She said before pointing to his left eye. Fiona's eyes widened when she saw that his left eye was lit up. "Oh shit…" Fiona mumbled

"How did he know?" Felix asked, "It's impossible for him! Only one had an ECHOeye!"

"We got it wrong..." She said, "He has an ECHOeye too. He must've scanned it before I turned on the EMP." Judging from the silence Fiona received on the other end, he was stunned by what he just heard.

The silence in the room was finally broken by August when he exclaimed, "What the hell!?"

"I knew it." The crimson eye teen had said before examining the pieces, "This whole time the Vault Key he was about to sell us was a fake."

"What?!" The girl with the long ponytail said, "A fake!?"

"It's fake?" Rhys had said before glaring at August.

Just than they heard what appeared to be the sound of explosions outside of the World of Curiosities leaving everyone to wonder what it was.

"What's that sound?" The guy with the glasses asked.

They heard the sound of what appeared to be music and a car screeching. Both of the teens widened in shock when they recognized that tune. It wasn't before the girl with the ponytail had shouted, "EVERYONE MOVE! NOW!"

A car a suddenly drove right through the billboard with Bandit's at the wheel.

BOSSANOVA

MUSICIAN, MOTORCYCLIST, MURDER

Bossanova's came crashing in the building. As the car spun everyone took cover jumping on opposite sides. "BWAH HA HA HA HA!" Bossanova laughed. Bandits came rushing in, and out from the dust cloud there appeared to be a Vault Hunter; An assassin for hire to be exact.

ZER0

A BIGGER NUMBER THAN YOU

Zer0 sliced a Bandit in half with his sword as he landed on his feet. "Now Bossanova. /" He said while standing up, "You know what I'm searching for. / Tell me where it is. /"

"I got no idea what you're talking about Vault Hunter!" Bossanova shouted to him with his voice mashed in the speakers, both unaware of what was going on at the moment. The man with glasses soon noticed they were missing something. He saw the case with the money just next to the car.

"GUYS! THE MONEY!" The man with the glasses said to his friends, "SOMEONE GET THE MONEY!"

The girl with the long ponytail got up, "I GOT IT!" Sasha got up as well. They dove for the money but neither of them managed to grab it. Bossanova was the one who picked up the case.

"NO GODDAMNIT!" Both Sasha and the teen shouted.

"Ooooo!" Bossanova said, "Looks like our lucky day boys! Let's ride!"

Sasha and the teen quickly moved as the car started; it backed away breaking the wall and the Bandits surrounded Zer0 before he could go after him. Zer0 started to attack them.

Fiona and Plutia watched helplessly from the vent. "Oh no this is bad!" Plutia said.

Shade had asked, "Did these fellows come with you?"

Fiona had replied, "No they were definitely not invited!"

"What the hell is going!?" Felix had said.

"Just get in here! We need your help!" Fiona had said to him as they watched Zer0 take out more and more of the Bandits. "I think he kicked that guy's head." Plutia said.

"Oh for the love of…" Felix said, "On my way."

"Come on!" The girl with the long ponytail said, "We gotta get out of here!"

"Well yeah, no shit!" Rhys had said to her. Three Bandits blocked their path, that's when the crimson eyed teen pulled out his sword and just sliced all of their heads off. Plutia's eyes widened when she saw his sword which was an arondigit. "That weapon…!" She thought as she stared in awe.

"Let's move now!" He shouted to them. They than ran out of the building leaving only, Sasha, Fiona, Plutia, August, Shade, Zer0 and the Bandits inside.

Sasha didn't know what to do. She didn't know if she would want to run, since she's pretty sure that August is pissed at her for providing him with a fake Vault Key. Soon enough Felix came into the picture, and through a smoke grenade.

"COME ON! HURRY!" Felix shouted over to Sasha. She saw her opportunity and turned to August, feeling a bit sorry that she had to leave him there, "Oooooohhhh… Sorry." She said as she got up and ran.

"YOU!" August shouted as he got up and pulled out his gun. He started to fire but luckily one of the bullets managed to hit a Bandit in the head. He continued to fire at her but ultimately kept on missing.

"BIG SIS!" Plutia shouted.

"SASHA!" Fiona exclaimed.

Plutia turned to Fiona and started to tug on her sleeve, "BIG SISTER WE HAVE TO HELP HER!" An idea soon popped into Fiona's head. She got up and kicked the fan so it would stop moving. "HELP ME PUSH THIS DOWN!" She shouted to Plutia and Shade. They both nodded and started to push the fan. August continued to fire at Sasha unaware that the fan was about to come down on top of him. To which it did, unfortunately August had accidentally pulled the trigger on the gun, and the bullet had ended up hitting Felix in the back of the shoulder.

"OH NO! FELIX!" Plutia shouted. She tried to run over to him but Fiona stopped her because of the many Bandits in their way. "Are you okay?!" Fiona shouted over to them.

"Ye-yeah!" Sasha shouted over to her as she supported Felix, "I'm fine! Let's just get out of here!"

"Plutie! Run!" Fiona shouted, "Don't stop!"

Plutia nodded and started to run ahead of her, as Fiona ran behind. Zer0 luckily was taking out most of the Bandits so they didn't have much to worry about. That is until August got the fan off of him and aimed the gun at her.

"BIG SISTER!" Plutia exclaimed stopping in her tracks, "BEHIND YOU!"

Fiona turned and saw that August was shooting at her. She jumped on top of a Bandit and her hidden gun and aimed it at August but something was stopping her from doing so. She realized that Plutia was within range of getting picked off by at least one of the Bandits, and second if she took the shot to August, he might accidently hit Plutia. She couldn't let that happen. So she decided to not risk the shot; As soon she hit the ground she quickly picked up Plutia and ran back to the caravan.

They managed to make it back to the caravan alive; One wounded, but alive. "Okay, okay, easy now." Sasha said as she helped Felix inside.

But Felix shook her off, "Sasha I'm fine!" He said, "Thanks, but I'm fine."

He got the caravan door open and they all went inside with Plutia still in Fiona's arms. "Let's just not have any surprises today." He said

Fiona was the first to enter, while she still carried Plutia; their eyes were wide with shock when they saw a little surprise in the vehicle.

"Uh, Felix." Fiona said.

"Hey it's you guys!" Plutia had said.

"What?" Felix said. He turned to the front of the caravan, "OH COME ON!" He said. There were the four people that they were trying to rip off; two of them were frozen in place while the other two had their weapons pulled out, be prepared to attack one of them. One teen with a gun and the other with his sword as he stood in front of the four.

"Are you guys really trying to steal our caravan?!" Felix had said to them.

"I didn't exactly see your names on it." The red eye teen said.

"And it would be considered payback after you people tried to rip us off!" The girl with the pony had shouted with rage filled in her eyes. The one named Rhys immediately stopped the two, "GAH! Shadow, Mion wait a minute hold one! Put your weapons away no need for bloodshed!"

"THERE IS A PERFECT REASON FOR BLOODSHED RIGHT NOW!" The one named Mion had shouted to him.

"They tried to rip us off Rhys!" The other one named Shadow had said, "And like we said, when living on Pandora whenever the enemy pushes you, you push back hard."

"Yeah well considering the situation, just make an acception alright?" Rhys said to them, "Let me handle this."

They both gritted their teeth and drew back their weapons. Rhys stepped forward and tried to explain himself, "Okay look, this is not what it looks it looks like-Okay it is, but look we're really sorry okay!"

Sasha then pulled out her gun, and in turn Shadow and Mion both drew their weapons again. She didn't even flinch when she felt Shadow's blade near her neck. "Give us one good reason we shouldn't shoot you four and drag your bodies out of that door."

They all jumped when they heard the sound of gunshots.

"There's one reason." Rhys said.

They heard August shout outside, "HEY! WE'RE NOT DONE YET!"

"Alright, everyone put down your weapons, shut the hell up and let me take the wheel!" Felix had shouted as he made his way to the driver's seat. The man with the glasses moved over as Felix took the wheel and everyone within the vehicle drew back their weapons.

"FIONA GET THE DOOR!" Felix shouted to her.

She put Plutia down and immediately went to shut the door; but was stopped by August.

"I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE LIE TO ME!" August had shouted as he tried to get in.

"BIG SISTER!" Plutia shouted seeing as how she was in distress.

The teen named Shadow had did something unexpected, to them anyway. He ran over to help Fiona. "Open the door!" He said to her.

"What?!" She exclaimed, "Why?!"

"Just do it!"

She opened the door a bit wider and Shadow let out a powerful punch letting him land on his back; he groaned in pain from the wound on his shoulder. He backed his friends quickly ran to his side when they saw him fall to his knees. Fiona immediately shut the door when she saw August get back up again.

"JUST DRIVE!" She shouted to Felix.

"WHERE!?" He shouted back.

She replied, "ANYWHERE BUT HERE!" Felix pressed on the gas pedal and they drove away from the World of Curiosities.

They all sighed with relief when they had managed to get away. "I think we lost him." Felix said to the girls. Sasha turned to the people in the back of the caravan. The one named Mion checking on Shadows injury, seeing blood stain his jacket.

"So…" Sasha said, "What do we do with them?"

-Present-

Their kidnapper circled them as he listened to Rhys and Fiona bicker amongst one another; Shadow and Plutia couldn't help but watch as well.

"Yes Fiona." Rhys said who didn't have a choice but to lean back onto her back, "What do we do with them huh? I mean other than try to con us out of our money!?"

"You guys weren't even supposed to be there!" Fiona countered.

"WELL THAT DIDN'T STOP YOU DID IT! I MEAN AT LEAST THE MONEY WAS REAL!"

"DON'T YOU RUB THAT ON ME!"

Plutia had then said leaning back against a crate, "You two please stop arguing, it's getting kind of annoying."

"Seriously you two bicker like an old married couple." Shadow had added doing the thing as Plutia was.

"WE'RE NOT A COUPLE!" They both exclaimed.

"You sure as hell sound like one." He told them.

"He's right you kind of do." Plutia said.

"BUT WE'RE NOT!" They shouted again.

"Alright, alright." The person said, "I get it. You didn't trust each other."

Fiona had said to him, "And as it turns out we had good reasons to not to. I'll give Sasha this much: from the start she knew not trust them, while Plutie and I thought she was just being paranoid."

"What happened next?" The person asked.

"Yeah, yeah." Rhys said, "Tell the nice man what you did to us next… you know, in our time of need. Tell him what you did."

Fiona smiled innocently, "We tried to throw them out."

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

Rhys let out a horrific scream as he was struggling to not fall of the caravan. They had managed to disarm Shadow and Mion of their weapons and at the moment they were trying to push Rhys out of the caravan.

"HNNNNGGGGAAAAHHHHHH!" He couldn't help but scream.

Shadow, Mion, and the girl named Plutia, couldn't help but cover their ears at that. "That one is too noisy." The little one name Plutia said "We should've just shoot them first!" The one named Sasha had said.

"No save the bullet." The one named Fiona said holding Vaughn, Shadow and Mion at gunpoint, "The fall will definitely kill them."

Rhys continued to let out a horrific scream.

(KIDNAPPER)

Stop with the embellishments. What really happened?

(SHADOW)

Actually, believe or not… that's what really happened.

(RHYS)

He's right. That's exactly how it went down.

(PLUTIA)

We were trying to kill him. Well I wasn't trying to, but big sister and big sis were trying to.

(FIONA)

Yup I actually did.

(KIDNAPPER)

Oh… Okay. Continue.

"WAIT!" Rhys exclaimed still trying to keep himself from falling out, "YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THIS!"

"He's just stalling." They heard the man named Felix say, "This is a waste of time."

Rhys almost slipped out of the car; he let a near shriek. "OKAY, OKAY!" He said filled with panic, "YOU CONVINCED ME! WE'LL SPLIT THE MONEY… 60-40!"

"Wrong answer!" Sasha said.

"Hold on a second!" Mion said to them, "We can help you guys find the money!"

"She's right, we can help!" Vaughn said.

Plutia tilted her head, "Really? How?" She asked.

"There's a tracker." Shadow explained, "We put a tracker in the case, Rhys can follow it!"

Felix thought about it before saying, "Let him back in Sasha."

Sasha pulled Rhys back in the caravan. Rhys turned to them, "That was supposed to a secret!"

"Hey a little thank you would suffice!" Mion said to him.

"We did just save your life!" Vaughn said to Rhys.

Shadow sighed and added something else, "Just so you know, even if you get the case back you won't be able to open it." Fiona had asked, "What do you mean?"

Vaughn had explained, "It has a top-of-the-line biometric lock. It's impossible to open without me and my passcodes."

"Felix can open any lock." Plutia said, "It doesn't matter if it's biometric."

"That maybe so." Rhys added, "But getting the case back is the hard part." Felix had then said, "Alright Hyperion. Prove it. Find the money."

Rhys had said, "Yeah, no problem."

"Your gonna Yvette aren't you?" Shadow asked him.

"That's just what I'm going to do." Rhys replied.

"Wait a minute." Sasha said, "Your just gonna call Hyperion after us?"

"Calm down Sasha." Felix said to her, "Let's see what they can do."

"Thank you!" Rhys said to him.

Felix soon added, "And then kill them if they betray us."

"And there it is." Mion said. Rhys gulped and went ahead to call Yvette. Luckily she was there to pick up. "Rhys what the hell is going on down there?" Yvette said over the phone, "You guys were supposed to do the deal then come right back. People are looking for you now!"

Rhys replied, "Oh, we're fine, we're fine. Just… Hit a minor setback in the plan."

"A minor setback?" She said, "That's not what it looks like from up here. Vasquez was already pissed about the car. That was before he got a call from this "August" guy. You guys have already been blacklisted up here, and it's only gonna get worse the more Vasquez keeps yelling."

"Unbelieveable." He said.

Vaughn had asked, "Can't you do anything?"

"Not without implicating all five of us. I already had security asking me everything I know. You guys are going to need me to get back to Helios once you clean up the mess."

"Come on Yvette!" Rhys said to her, "I just need network access!"

Yvette let out a sigh, "It's like I said Rhys; you're cut off. My login ID is being monitored. I'm doing my best to keep the heat you but… You have to find someone else. There's only so much I could do. I shouldn't be talking this long; they'll trace the signal."

"Don't worry!" Rhys said, "I'm sure I can come up with something."

"I've gotta go Rhys." She said, "You're gonna have to fix this one yourself." Rhys than hung up, and at this point they were out of ideas. "Now what are we supposed to do!?" Mion said.

"How in the hell are we supposed to get another Hyperion ID?!" Vaughn exclaimed, "We're not allowed to talk to other employees!"

"So that means you got nothing." Felix said.

"Out you go!" Sasha said before she started to push Rhys out again. Rhys acted fast and grabbed onto the door frame. Shadow couldn't help but bite his own thumb, seeing as how they were stuck in a situation they couldn't get out of. "Damn it." He mumbled to himself, "What the hell do we do?"

Mion turned to Vaughn, "Can't Rhys just install someone else's credentials in his head?!"

"Well yeah it is possible." Vaughn told her, "But the problem is we don't have anything that can help us with that!"

Shadow soon enough remembered something that they picked up at the World of Curiosities earlier. He immediately stood up and he yelled over to Sasha, "HANG ON A SECOND! WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT CAN HELP US!"

Fiona turned to him and pointed the gun towards him, "Don't try to stall us kid."

"I'm not going to stall!" Shadow had said, "We do have something that can help us out!"

Rhys than realized what he meant, "Oh yeah! Nakayama's ID drive! You still have it!?"

"Of course I do!" Shadow told him. He went took out the ID drive and showed them so that they weren't lying.

"How is that going to help?" Fiona asked him.

"The reason this will help because it's black ops." Shadow had told her, "And up in Hyperion, this will get higher clearance than us. It'll help us get into the network and track down the case; All we need to do, is download it."

Fiona looked over at Felix than to Sasha and Plutia. "It seems like he's telling the truth." Plutia had said.

"I am telling the truth." Shadow had said, "Just pull Rhys back in. He'll download it and take you straight to the money."

Fiona thought about as did the others. Eventually she pulled back her gun and said, "Alright kid, you got a deal."

Sasha pulled Rhys back in and shut the door behind him. Shadow was about to hand the ID drive to Rhys but Fiona stopped him. "You download it." She said to him.

"What?" Shadow questioningly, "Why me?"

"You've got an ECHOeye too don't you?" She said, "So that means you can download too, right?"

"Ye-yeah. But Rhys has the latest ECHOeye, so he is more capable than-"Sasha cut him off by saying, "Either you download the information, or you guys can have a nice fall."

Shadow stayed silent but eventual let out a sigh. "Okay, I'll do it. Just don't kill anyone."

Mion immediately got up, "Shades hold on a second! You know as well as I do that you never tried a direct download from a memory drive! You could get hurt or worse... killed! Who knows how much information is on that drive!"

Plutia was a bit nervous when she heard Mion say that. Shadow clenched his fist and said, "I know. But I don't care. I can't let any of you die." He then proceeded to move some of his hair back revealing a small plug up on the side of his left eye.

"Maybe we shouldn't let him do this." Plutia had said to Fiona, Sasha and Felix, "He might get killed." "If this is the only way we're going to get the money than we have no choice." Fiona told her.

He pressed a button on the ID drive and it revealed a large needle and electricity. He turned to Rhys, "So all I have to do is shove this into my brain right?"

"That's the idea." Rhys said a bit worried about what was about to happen.

Shadow gulped and said, "Well here goes nothing." With a quick motion he shoved the ID drive right into his head. He felt a little pain, but was surprised not to feel anything else. "Huh." Shadow said, "That's weird I thought there would be this kind of in-"

He spoke too soon however, when all of sudden the information in the drive started to go into his head all at once causing him to scream at the top his lungs which made everyone to jump. His friends shouted his name as the whole world turned dark around him.

"i'M veRy diSaPpoInTeD In yOu. yoU thOuGHt YoU cOuLD fOlLoW iN mY fOoTsTepS? yOU aRE nOtHIng mOrE tHAn aNoTHer piTIFul LiTtLe cOdE MoNKey. AlL swAgGeR, nO SuBStANce."

(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)