(Opening Theme: Hamatora the Animation Opening 1)

-Sometime Ago on Pandora; Supposedly Abandoned Building (Fiona's P.O.V)-

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

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

Rhys had suggested, "Alright than, 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. Just as they were halfway down the hatch, they heard someone shout out, "Hey, you three!"

"Oh crap." Mion mumbled to herself. They turned to see that it was a Bandit.

"Get away from there!" He said to them. Fiona had immediately closed the hatch so that the others wouldn't get spotted as the Bandit approached them. "What a strange little group we got here." The Bandit said, "We got Glasses Face, Hat Lady and Balloon Girl. You guys really know how to accessorize."

Mion immediately put her arms over her chest and said with some tears, "Well you didn't have to put it like that."

He had ignored what Mion had stated and said, "What are you three doing here?"

"Hey uh…" Vaughn started to say, "Huh… This is a funny story actually… So, we're-We're here for-What was the question again?"

"More importantly…" Fiona had said, "What are YOU doing here is more like it?"

The Bandit had replied, "Okay… Uh, you're not supposed to answer a question with a question. I already know what I'm doing here."

"Really?" Fiona said while raising an eyebrow, "And what would that be?"

"Wow. That's aggressive. Sort of caught me off guard… Uh…"

The Bandit tried to think about how to answer them exactly.

"Don't be shy." Fiona said to him.

"I prep cars…" The Bandit replied, "For drivers."

Mion's eyes widened at that. Than she immediately asked, "Wait a minute. Would this be a race track by any chance?" The Bandit had said to her, "Ye-yeah. If it wasn't than I wouldn't prepping cars."

"Race track?" Both Fiona and Vaughn said in unison.

"So…" The Bandit said, "You familiar with this race?"

"Of course I am!" Mion said with a smirk, "Why I participated with the race champ! The name Black Wind ring a bell?" The Bandit thought why the name sounded familiar; after such a short amount of time of thinking he realized where he heard that name.

"Oh yeah!" The Bandit replied, "I remember him! He was such a great guy, always knew how to just kill it out there."

"Black Wind?" Vaughn had said.

"Hold on, you mean to tell me you're Black Winds partner?" The Bandit said, "Game Master* right?"

(*As a reference to Mion's strategical mind in the anime Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni; Apologies if it's not accurate.)

Vaughn and Fiona both looked at each other when they heard the name "Game Master".

Mion nodded her head, "Yup that's me, the one and only."

"Well why didn't you just say so?" The Bandit had asked, "Your friends there drivers or what?"

Fiona whispered to Mion, "What are you doing?"

Mion whispered back to him, "Just play along." She then said to the Bandit, "Yes, they are racers! They're really good friends of mine and they were hoping to race around the track. Isn't that right guys?" Both Fiona and Vaughn both sighed; seeing as how they had no choice they did as Mion had said, "Play along."

"We just love to race!" Fiona immediately said, "It's been our dream, for like, ever!"

"Definitely." Vaughn added, "It's our favorite!"

The Bandit (Buying their story) had then said, "Well then, I guess you're in the right place."

"Vroom. Vroom." Vaughn couldn't help but say, which made Mion slap her face and Fiona let out a painful sigh as she smiled awkwardly. "Yeah…" The Bandit said awkwardly, "That's what they sound like, vroom, vroom."

Mion said to the Bandit, "It's been such a long time since I participated in a race like this, and especially since Black Wind went missing."

"I know, it's a real shame." The Bandit said to her, "Don't worry I'll get you a ride."

"Oh thank you!" Mion said with a smile, "We'd really appreciate that." The three proceeded to follow the Bandit towards the garage. They stopped just outside with a metal trunk.

"Oh, hey." The Bandit said getting their attention, "I got something that might interest you. If you guys are going to be racing, you should look the part."

He opened the metal trunk and it was revealed to have three masks; One a Psycho Mask, Skeletal Menace Mask and a Steve Mask. "Picked these up from the last race." The Bandit explained, "The whole floor was littered with them; cleaned most of the blood off."

Mion had recognized the Menace Mask. "Well hello old friend." She said picking up, "Mind if I take this one?"

"Sure." The Bandit replied, "You just gotta pay up,"

Mion got the amount of money that the mask cost and handed it to the Bandit. He then turned to Fiona and Vaughn, "Alright that just leaves the two of you. Take your pick." Fiona and Vaughn couldn't exactly pay for the other masks. The only one that was free was a Psycho Mask; so they had to go with that.

"Good choice." The Bandit said to them as they picked up their mask; they turned to the Bandit.

"Okay, if anyone asks, you didn't get these from me. Now get going! Your ride is waiting!" The Bandit told them.

A truck had pulled in. Up in the back there appeared to be two motorcycles and a giant cart. The three turned to each other and smiled. They got on their masks and got on there rides.

-Within the Garage-

The truck pulled up within the garage. Most of the Bandits were giving very strange looks when they saw the new riders enter; As Fion and Mion tried to get the motorcycle off of Vaughn which had fallen over when he attempted to start the engine. Mion had managed to get the motorcycle to stand up and Fiona helped Vaughn to sit upright.

"I did say it was all about balance didn't I?" Mion said through her mask as she patted him on the back.

All Vaughn did was let out a sigh, and said as he brushed himself, "I could've been on a nice clean space station right now tabulating columns of beautiful numbers."

"But you've gotta admit that was pretty boring." Mion said to Vaughn, "You gotta get some excitement once in awhile."

"Okay." Fiona said to the two, "Am I the only one who has the funny smell in the mask?"

"No it's not just you." Vaughn said picking up the same scent as Fiona was.

"That's probably the stench that the last people that wore these mask before." Mion told them, "Don't worry after awhile the smell will fade."

Fiona had said to the the two, "Look the important thing is that we're inside and away from that…" Her words started to trail off when she saw that within the garage it was filled with a whole bunch other Bandits, which caused her jaw to drop in her mask.

"Bandits." She finished putting together what she saw. She removed her mask as did Mion and Vaughn.

"Well on the bright side they seem a bit preoccupied." Mion said to them.

Panic started to rise as he looked upon the many Bandits. "This is bad!" He said, "This is bad! What the hell have we gotten ourselves into here!?"

"What do you mean?" Mion asked him.

"What do I mean? What do I mean?" Vaughn had said, "Have you surveyed the situation?! I mean look around! They're psychos, motor chariot-thingies, and sponsors!"

Fiona had said to Mion, "You know I'm going to take a shot in the dark here based on what your friend over there looks like but… I'm guessing he's not really into sports."

"You mean bloodsports?" Vaughn had asked Fiona.

"Oh come on." Fiona said, "I'm sure you'd call any game where you can skin your knee a bloodsport."

"You shouldn't worry too much though Vaughn." Mion said, "It's just a simple race. As you long as you stay calm and have a clear head you'll be able to pull through." They drove towards a flat screen TV with the Bandit Lord from Bossanova on the screen.

"The race will begin- uh- oh-" Bossanova started to say soon stopped mid-sentence when he realized that his speakers were off. "What an ass…" Fiona couldn't help but say as she rolled her eyes.

Bossanova spoke again with his speakers on, "The race will begin in 30 minutes! 30 minutes until race time!"

"Are you kidding me with this!?" Vaughn exclaimed.

"Look, just take a page from your friends book and just relax." Fiona said to him.

"How can I relax?' He said, "They're guns, guns and more guns! What are we supposed to do? I don't know how you can handle it Mion, but I'm sick of guns pointed at me."

"Hey, you'd be surprised how I managed to live through it." Mion said to him. All Fiona did was let out a sigh and say, "Anyway, for now we need to find Sasha and Plutia… and your two friends, Rhys and Shadow."

"I guess you're right." Vaughn said.

Mion had then said with a worried tone, "I really hope they're okay."

"I'm sure they're fine." Fiona reassured, "We just need to get to them first, somehow."

"Yeah… That's what's upsetting me." Vaughn had said.

They heard Bossanova say on the TV screen, "And awaiting to today's earlier happenings the grand prize for tonight's race is…"

He held up the case that they were looking for in the first place for everyone in the racetrack to see. "...A one of a kind Hyperion mystery box! No one has been able to open it, but you know you want it."

"I guess we have to win the race to get the money." Fiona said to the two of them.

"Yup that's the plan!" Mion said with a smile.

"You two make it sound sound so simple." Vaughn had said.

Fiona said with her words trailing off a bit, "It is Simple… Ish…"

Soon enough their vehicle was dropped off at one of the entrances of the supposed racetrack. They started to getting everything together. While Mion was making sure that she was packed with enough ammo for her gun. Earlier she picked up another gun which was a shotgun. She was deciding if she she should just put regular bullets or elemental bullets.

Fiona approached her and leaned up against their ride as Mion tried her best to decide.

"So…" Fiona said starting up a conversation, "You're Game Master huh?"

"Well…" Mion replied, "Yeah, that's me."

Mion decided to put elemental bullets within the shotgun.

"Did you really live here on Pandora and participate in things like this?" Fiona asked her.

Mion nodded her head, "Yup, born and raised. And yeah, I used to enter races all the time to get a hell of a lot of money to get by."

After she filled the shotgun with the elemental bullets, she went to sharpen her blade. "Not only that I went to events like Mercenary Day and got into all sorts of crazy ass adventures, sometimes for the money, sometimes for fun, and most of the time helping people."

"I take it that most of those adventures and races you participated in you were with the Black Wind?" Fiona couldn't help but ask.

Mion winced in pain when she felt herself cut her finger on the blade. She waved her hand around getting rid of the pain before sticking her finger her mouth to stop the additional pain. "That Bandit guy mentioned it before." Fiona had said, "Did you really race with the Black Wind himself?"

"Ye-yeah." Mion said hesitantly as she removed her finger from her mouth, "That's also correct."

"So, you knew him personally?"

"Yeah. Shades and I participated with the Black Wind in races a couple times. Like the guy said he was a reigning champ."

"Shades? Oh you must mean Shadow. What, he didn't get a cool name like you did?"

Mion shook her head, "Nah, he wasn't really a fan of having names like me. He was always the serious type. Don't bother asking if we ever saw his face, because well… We didn't." Fiona was really curious now. Not only was she curious about how she and Shadow met the Black Wind, but what struck her as odd still, is how they ended up in the worst company possible Hyperion.

"Just out of curiosity…" Fiona said, "How did you and your friend end up working in one of the worst places possible on Pandora?"

Mion checked out her blade after she finished sharpening her blade. Mion let out a sigh and said, "Trust me when I say… It's a bit complicated to how we started working with Hyperion."

"Complicated how?"

"Complicated as in, I'm not sure how to explain it without anyone trying to immediately rage on me and Shades the minute I try to explain it."

"Must be a good reason than."

"In a way yes, but it's more of Shades reason than it is mine."

Fiona tilted her head slightly in a bit of confusion. She was about to ask that when Mion had told her, "Sorry, I made a promise to Shades that I wouldn't talk about anything personal."

"He doesn't like talking about anything personal?" Fiona said.

Mion nodded her head before replying, "He never likes to talk about it to anyone. He has his reasons. Like he has his own for working with Hyperion."

"What about you?" Fiona couldn't help but ask, "Don't you have a reason?"

"Not really." She replied, "But no matter what Shadow chooses, I'll follow him, no matter what."

As Vaughn was double checking the engine of the motorcycle, he found himself being stared down by someone. He turned but immediately jumped and screamed when he saw that it was a Bandit. Both Fiona and Mion came rushing over.

"WHOA! WHOA!" Vaughn exclaimed as the Psycho leaned in closer while Vaughn just backed up from his face.

"Oh hey you made a new friend." Fiona said jokingly.

"Mion help me out here!" Vaughn said, "I think this guy wants to eat my eyeballs."

"That's a bit drama-"

Fiona was cut off when the Psycho suddenly said, "Tasty eyeballs… Good for fricassee!"

"Mion!" Vaughn said.

"Alright calm down and don't lean in." Mion said to him, "That's just what he wants you to do."

The Psycho suddenly yelled out, "My doom-buggy! Filthy death stealer!"

"No, no, no!" Vaughn immediately said, "You've got this all wrong! We didn't do anything!"

"Talking to him won't do anything!" Mion said with a bit of panic.

Vaughn then turned to Fiona, "If you let him kill me, you'll never get the money."

Fiona than said putting her hand on her hip, "Oh yeah, sure I will. Felix can bypass any lock. He'll have your case open faster than this guy can eat your lips."

"Urrrrrghhh!" The Psycho shouted before he started to make a grab for Vaughn. Vaughn immediately started to move away from his hands, desperately avoiding his hands.

Mion then turned to Fiona and shouted, "That may be true but I highly doubt he can diffuse a bomb linked to Vaughn's bio-signature!"

Fiona's eyes widened by what Mion had just told her, "A BOMB!?" She exclaimed before grasping her shoulders, "YOU GUYS PUT A BOMB IN THAT CASE!?" The Psycho managed to grab a hold of Vaughn and tried to pull him off. "GAH! HEY LET ME GO!" Vaughn shouted.

Mion got Fiona's hands off of her, "Nevermind that!" She said to her, "Just hurry up and head butt the guy!"

"What!?" Fiona said, "How will that help!?"

"It will help!" Mion told her, "Just trust me and just do it!"

Fiona immediately went over to the Psycho. She grabbed his head and hit him with her own head. She backed up, holding her head as she groaned. After the Psycho recovered from the impact, he threw his arms up in the air and shouted, "MEAT BUDDIES RIDIN' THE DEATH TRAIN!"

"Holy shit it worked." Fiona said.

"Told you." Mion said with a smile.

They suddenly heard the doors unlocking from the outside. "Uh… What was that noise?" Vaughn asked.

They heard Bossanova over the PA again, "What's this? Hooo! Sounds like we're starting early!"

The three got on their masks and onto the vehicle.

"DYIN' HIGH ON A PSYCHO-CYCLE!" The Psycho shouted.

Fiona and Mion climbed in on the back; Mion arming herself with the shotgun. "You Pandorans are all crazy!" Vaughn said, "You do know that right?"

"What can I say?" Mion said to him, "It's a requirement!"

"Drivers drive!" The Psycho continued to shout, "DRIVERS DRIVE!"

"LET'S KICK THE TIRES AND LIGHT SOME FIRES!" Fiona shouted with enthusiasm.

"Let's…" Vaughn had said, "Try not to die."

The doors opened and it revealed the race track. Fiona couldn't help but say, "Okay, I'll admit… That looks pretty dangerous."

"That's what makes it fun!" Mion said.

They heard the Psycho say, "Life come… Life go… GO, GO, GO, GO, GO!" The engines started to rev up, and thus they started to drive straight onto the track. "This is fine!" Fiona shouted, "We're okay!"

"We're gonna freaking die!" Vaughn couldn't help but shout.

They drove right onto the track with the other racers, and at that very same moment, Rhys, Shadow, Sasha and Plutia along with the Vault Hunter Zer0 had entered the arena that lied in the very center of the race track.

(Ending Theme: Bleach Ending 6 My Pace)