Shadow found himself floating in what appeared to be a dark abyss. The ringing was echoing all around as he tried to put together what happened. He tried to block out the sound but the ringing continued to make his ears bleed.

"Damn it this hurts! Where is it coming from?"

The ringing had gotten louder and louder, causing him to cry out in pain as he tried his best to keep his brain from turning into soup. And just when he thought it would kill him the ringing just came to a sudden stop.

He removed his hands from his ears and began to look around.

"Huh? Why did it stop?"

It wasn't long till he found out he wasn't the only one within the darkness. Out from the darkness… Came a voice.

"i'M veRy diSaPpoInTeD In yOu."

The voice sounded like a demon from hell; it was filled with static and distorted so he couldn't tell if it was someone he knew or not.

"WHO'S THERE!?"

The voice continued to speak, like it was taunting him.

"diDJa rEaLly ThInK YoU cOuLD fOlLoW iN mY fOoTsTepS?"

He soon felt as though he was being watched; someone within the abyss was circling like a vulture circling a corpse.

"SHOW YOURSELF!"

The voice continued to speak to him, this time it had sounded close.

"yOU aRE nOtHIng mOrE tHAn aNoTHer piTIFul LiTtLe cOdE MoNKey."

It sounded ever so closer. It caused him to look around frantically, filled with a bit of panic. "DAMN IT ALL! STOP TAUNTING ME LIKE THIS! JUST WHO ARE YOU!?"

The voice spoke once more, but this time, when he heard it , the voice was right to his ear. Whoever was speaking was standing right behind him which made his whole body just shut down as a chill went down his spine.

"AlL swAgGeR, nO SuBStANce."

Just when he was about to turn around to see who the voice belonged to, the dark abyss was soon filled with a blinding light.

(Opening Theme: Hamatora the Animation Opening 1)

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

Shadow groaned as he forced his eyes to open. As he opened them he felt someone poking his cheek. He found himself staring into a pair of magenta eyes. Lo and behold it was Fiona and Sasha's little sister. She sighed with relief and stopped poking his face, "Thank goodness!" She said a comforting smile, "You're not dead!"

Shadow rubbed his head and continued to groan, "Sorry…" He said, "Who are you again?"

"Plutia." She replied, "I'm Plutia. I'm glad to see that you're not dead."

He slowly sat up as he continued to rub his head. "Gah… My head. Wha…" He than noticed the memory drive that he plugged in wasn't in his head anymore. "The drive!" He exclaimed as he started to look around frantically, "Where did-"

"You're friend Rhys has the drive." Plutia replied.

Shadow turned to her, "Rhys?"

Plutia pointed towards the other side of the caravan, and he saw Rhys one the floor with the memory stuck in his head. "RHYS!" He exclaimed before running over to him. He tried to shake him awake.

"Rhys! Hey, Rhys! Wake up!" Shadow had said. Plutia walked over to him and kneeled beside him. "Don't worry." She told him, "He's okay."

He turned to her, "What happened?"

Plutia had replied, "After you passed out that man named Vaughn tried to get the tracker working, but I think he said the information just stopped suddenly and only had gotten half of the information. So Rhys tried to download the information on the memory stick in his head, but he passed out too."

"Stopped suddenly? Really?" He asked Plutia.

Plutia nodded, "But don't worry, they managed to get the tracker that you were talking about working when soon after Rhys was knocked out."

"So where are we now?"

"We're at the location of the case right now. Felix drove us here while you were unconscious."

Shadow couldn't help but think back to the voice he heard while he was unconscious. "I wonder…" He thought as thought back to the voice.

"AlL swAgGeR, nO SuBStANce."

"I wonder if Rhys heard that voice too."

He was brought out of thought when he heard Plutia say, "That reminds. I wanted to say thank you!"

Shadow looked at her with confusion, "Thank me? For what?"

"For helping my big sister with August." She replied still smiling.

"Oh well… It wasn't really a big deal."

"Of course it's a big deal. My sisters say that people that work for Hyperion are scumbags but you and your friends don't seem that all bad."

Shadow turned away from her and mumbled so that she wouldn't hear, "I didn't always work for them." It wasn't until he felt pain not from his head but his shoulder; where he was hit by the Bandit. "Son-of-a-taint." He said aloud, "I forgot about that wound."

He was startled when Plutia started to remove the makeshift bandage. "Hey! What are you doing?"

"I thought I'd help you out." Plutia said throwing the bandage to the side, "It seemed like you were in pain with this wound you have. Plus I owe you for helping out big sister."

"What are you going to do?"

"Just hold still, and I'll have it healed in seconds."

Shadow wondered what she meant by that until he saw that her marks started to glow blue. She let dragged her finger over his wound almost as if she was drawing, and just like that Shadow saw the wound and even his own jacket put itself back together.

And as she said, within seconds the wound was healed up.

Shadow was awe by what she had just did. "All done!" Plutia said with a smile; the marks on her arm and legs had stopped glowing.

"My God…" Shadow said feeling his own shoulder; Surprisingly he felt no pain, "It's like it wasn't even there. How did you do that?"

Plutia explained, "It's one of my abilities as a Siren. I can help heal almost any kind of wound on others than myself. Sometimes I can heal them with just a movement of my finger. I can't use it that much depending on the wound though; I can tire myself out easily."

"But that just now… You used Eridium to heal my wound, right?"

"Yup. But like I said, depending on the wound I get really sleepy. I guess that's one of the reasons my sisters and Felix don't let me use them so often. They always say use it for emergencies."

"If you can get tired pretty easily than I would understand why they would say something like that. But still that's really amazing what you can do when you're a Siren. Any other powers I should know about?"

"I would tell you, but I don't think Felix will let me. He doesn't really like me talking about her that much."

Shadow gave a quizzical look to her. "Her?" He asked, "Who do you mean?"

Plutia held up her doll in front of him and replied, "Her, Iris." She said, "She is really nice when you know her, but she has a personality that makes them feel uncomfortable."

"But…" He said questioningly, "Your friend Iris is a doll… How can-"

He was cut off when he heard Rhys let out a groan. They saw his eyes start to open. "Oh hey!" Plutia said, "You're friend is up!"

Rhys sat up and rubbed his head, with memory drive still stuck to him. He noticed that Shadow was up. "Oh hey…" He said a bit dizzy, "You're not dead."

"And you're not either." Shadow said, "How do you feel?"

"I feel like a something that a skag at and then threw up…" He told him, "How about you?"

"Same thing but times it by ten or twenty and then you'll know."

Rhys removed the memory stick from his head, and pulled up a map in the palm of his robotic arm. "Looks like Vaughn managed to get the tracker working while we both out."

Rhys looked around the caravan as he got up. "Hey you wouldn't happen to know where the others are by any chance would you?" He asked Shadow.

Shadow looked around the caravan as well, "Now that you mention it, no one else is in here." He stated. He turned to Plutia, "Do you know where they went?"

"They're outside." Plutia said, "They're checking out the area. Come on, let's go to them!"

Plutia took both Rhys's and Shadow's hand and proceeded to pull them outside. When they stepped outside they saw the rest of the group up on the hill, doing what Plutia said, checking out the area. They went to go and join the group to see what they were looking at, with Plutia running ahead of them.

They saw what they were looking at; Bandits driving around the in there motorcycles cars in front of what large building. Mion noticed that Shadow and Rhys were both up and about.

"Shades! Rhys!" Mion exclaimed as she ran over to them throwing her arms around them both, "Thank God! You're both alright!"

"Mion…" Shadow gasped, "Mion you're…"

"Kind of choking us…" Rhys said.

"Oh, sorry!" Mion said letting go of the two of them, "But seriously you two had me and Vaughn worried, we really thought you were done for."

"Sorry for making the two of you worry." Shadow told the two of them.

"Yeah." Rhys said rubbing the back of his head, "Sorry about that."

They heard Felix shush them, "Keep it down, this place is crawling with Bandits." He said.

They nodded their head to Felix and went back to checking things out. "You two sure you're okay?" Vaughn had asked Shadow and Rhys, "Both of you were kind of whacked in the head. I mean after you two plugged in that ID drive… It made this really gross sound."

"Gross sound?" Shadow had asked.

Mion nodded and said, "It sounded like what a skag would sound like when it took a dump."

Shadow shuttered at the thought and said sarcastically, "Thanks for giving me that image."

"But in the end we managed to find the money." Rhys said.

"Considering that I was the one who managed to figure out that rust bucket's navigation systems. You know something, some of that stuff is older than Atlas tech."

"You make a good point." Shadow told him. They went to check out the place for themselves. "If I had to guess, I'd say that case is there right?" Rhys had asked.

"Somewhere." Felix replied.

"What kind of place is this?" Sasha had asked.

"From the looks of it, it looks like some kind of an abandoned Atlas warehouse." Vaughn had replied.

"Really?" Fiona had said, "It doesn't look abandoned. In fact, it looks as though every Bandit on this side of the planet has shown up."

Sasha turned to Rhys, "How about it Mr. Roboto? Do you see any way to get inside?"

"If it really is Atlas tech, than you should be able to scan it." Vaughn told him.

"Shades can even help out!" Mion said while hitting him on the back.

"Why me?" He couldn't but ask her.

"Because that ECHOeye of yours needs a little workout now doesn't it?" She replied.

"As if my brain couldn't take much more." Shadow couldn't help but mumble.

"What?"

"Nothing."

Both him and Rhys went to scanning the area looking for a way in. It had only been a few moments but for them it seemed like hours. "Do you see anything that could help?" Plutia had eventually asked.

"No." Shadow had replied, "I don't see anything."

It wasn't until he saw one of the Bandits get killed by a sniper. They all saw the shot. "Who was that?" Plutia couldn't help but ask Shadow. He looked over to where the sniper was. He saw who had taken the shot. "Zer0." He said to himself.

"What?" Rhys had asked.

Shadow immediately shook his head and said, "It's the Vault Hunter. From the World of Curiosities."

"Zer0, really?" Mion said.

"Oh perfect." Vaughn couldn't help but say, "As soon as a Vault Hunter finds a case with millions of dollars in it's as good as gone. You know how they are! They're worse than the Bandits."

"Can't we just get in the same way the Vault Hunter did?" Sasha asked them

"We could but then again, we're not Vault Hunters." Fiona said.

"We're just gonna have to find another way in." Rhys said.

Shadow and him went back to looking around the area. Shadow watched as Zero entered the building. As he saw the Bandits chase after him, he heard the ringing sound again which made him grasp his head and groan.

Vaughn and Mion noticed Shadow in pain. Rhys saw that his own ECHOeye acting up; his eye began fill up with static.

"What the-" Rhys said, hitting his own head Sasha noticed Rhys acting this way. The static had stopped within seconds as did the ringing in Shadow's head.

"Something the matter?" Sasha had asked

"N-no, everythings fine." Rhys told her.

Shadow shook his head to get rid of the after pain. "You okay?" Vaughn asked him.

"Ye-yeah." He replied while rubbing his head, "I'm alright."

It wasn't before Rhys found what appeared to be a hatch. "There's a hatch that goes into the building." Rhys said, "But it looks like it's guarded."

"Okay, so you found a way in." Felix said. He stood up and said to Fiona, Sasha and Plutia, "Now remember to get in and out of there quickly. We've already taken too many risks today."

"You mean you're not coming?" Plutia asked Felix.

"Somebody needs to stay and protect the getaway car." Felix replied, "I'll be waiting for your signal. Fiona, Sasha, Plutia, be prepared for anything. Don't trust anyone." The three of them nodded their heads and Felix went back to the caravan.

Sasha had then turned back to Rhys, "Alright, so we got a way inside." She said, "But how are we supposed to get in there? There is literally a Bandit parade going by."

"Oh… That's the easy part." Rhys said before he started to explain the plan, "First we find a crafty hiding spot, we make ourselves a new friend. Fiona, Sasha and Plutia cover in order to sneak closer. We casually take our new pal for a stroll. Then we borrow one of the guards gun, making sure that his buddy doesn't feel left out. We then take the secret entrance, which leads us to the briefcase, where we take a moment to celebrate our swift and easy victory, and we're good to go! Everyone got that?"

"Rhys?" Shadow said getting his attention.

"Yeah?" Rhys asked.

Shadow had replied, "They just left."

Rhys looked around and saw that they were indeed gone and already down to where the hatch was. "Damnit." Rhys said. Shadow took Rhys's arms and dragged him towards the hatch.

"We found another way down." Fiona said with her hand on her hip.

"I'm just gonna assume that you guys just did everything that I was saying so…" Rhys had said, "So, you know."

"Alright so… Divide and conquer?" Mion had suggested.

"That's actually not a bad idea." Vaughn had said.

Rhys had suggested, "Alright then, Shadow and I will go down there to see what we can find."

Fiona had then added, "Sasha and Plutia will go with the two of you. The rest of us will stay out here to keep a look out."

"Sounds good to me." Shadow said.

"You and Rhys be careful down there." Mion had said to them.

Both Rhys and Shadow nodded their heads, and then they proceeded down the hatch. Plutia and Sasha soon followed in after them, but as soon as they were halfway down the ladder they heard the hatch slam shut.

(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)