The Phantom wakes up, tired and thirsty. He lifts his face off of the ground to reveal a room filled with empty bottles, but it is not his room. He gets up and sees a Resistance soldier standing in front of bars. He thinks to himself, "How did I get in here?". The Resistance guard soldier nearly reads his mind, "You were far gone sir, had to put you in here. Jet-Vac told me to stand guard.". The Phantom says, "I apologize, now can you open the door?". The Resistance soldier shakes his head, looking at his watch, "No, you still have 18 hours left in here before he told me to let you out if you were awake. But I can give you breakfast, and water.". The Phantom says, "Oh really? Well who told you to keep me in here?". "Jet-Vac". The soldier responds. The Phantom, upset at this soldier, orders him to let him go. When the soldier refuses, the Phantom sits down on the bench in the cell. He then began to use his mist to make a lockpick and picked the lock to the door. The soldier was standing to the right, and when the Phantom kicked the door open, he tried to make him go back in, but the Phantom caught his arm, then punched him in the face. Then, while he was stunned, threw him into the cell and locked it. The soldier, who dropped his rifle, was stuck there. The Phantom then began to angrily search the compound for Jet-Vac. He found the command center, which was just a room filled with office desks, and he kicked the door open. Then, spotting a terrified Jet-Vac, goes towards him, then grabs him, and jams him against the wall. "Who said that you had the authority to lock me in a cell that I paid for?!". Jet-Vac stutters out something about equal punishment but then Cynder and Stealth Elf break up the confrontation. "Woah woah what's this all about?" says Cynder, pushing the Phantom off of a turning increasingly blue Jet-Vac. The Phantom says, "This jackoff locked me in a cell and told the guard not to let me out for a day!". Jet-Vac says, "He was intoxicated! If I was like that, you would have done the same to me!". Cynder says, "Listen, you aren't in the cell anymore, Jet-Vac now knows not to do that, let's all just calm down." The Stealth Elf, mad at the Phantom, says, "Equal rank, equal punishment, goes for everyone." Jet-Vac, rubbing his neck, says, "Thank you, I am going to my office. YOU, should watch yourself.". The Phantom glares as Jet-Vac walks off, annoyed at his superiority complex. Cynder and Stealth Elf follow him. The Phantom walks to his room in a huff, finding the door open with more bottles on the floor, he begins to clean up. He finishes and sits in his chair, contemplating. He wonders what the other side is planning, plotting to stop their mission and his mission. He then gets a transmission from the SCP foundation. The transmission reads that he must overthrow the government in order to complete the job, knowing what is at stake, he knows it's a small price to pay. He then must come up with a plan to attack Strykore. He goes back to his computer, "Back to business", he thinks.
Strykore sits next to Spyro, hearing the news from a messenger, communications to his palace have not been available for weeks. Once the messenger is done, he is dismissed and Strykore begins to plan with Spyro, who was oddly quiet during the whole thing. Strykore says, "They have the numbers now, it is only a matter of time before they begin an assault, most likely against Malfor, he is weaker at this point, he sent a lot of forces here to stop the Phantom, now he is left defenseless. We shall flank them and stomp them out for good.". Spyro says, "What if they attack us? Won't we be undermanned?". Strykore chuckles, then says, "Oh please, not even the Phantom could convince the Skylanders to go toe to toe with me, they say what happened to Eon.". Spyro shudders at the memory, his pure form taking over for a brief moment. Strykore, unaware, says, "Let's finish these Sky-fools now, then later we can confront Malfor.". Spyro, feeling off, agress unenthusiastically, then retire to his quatars for the night. He feels like they are doing something wrong, this plan can't be right ,but too scared to conflict with Strykore, he allows them to continue. Order 556 still haunts him in the night.