"And do you have any idea of where we're going to start?" asked Perri, raising an eyebrow slightly as she folded her arms over her chest, as she glared at Emmet.
Emmet lifted a hand up and opened his mouth to say something, though when he began to think about it, he slowly closed his mouth again when he realised that Perri, annoying as she was turning out to be around, had a point; he hadn't thought it through enough to know how he was going to lead them into finding a way to the rest of the crystals.
"Uh…y…you may have a point," said Emmet, slowly lowering his hand down again before he lifted the other up to scratch the back of his head awkwardly.
While all of this had went on, with Emmet and the others trying to think up solutions to try and find the other two crystals, with one of Emmet's suggestions being to hope that the rest of the crystals were in the same realm as the one that had just been found, and try and dig around a bit more, Laval had turned around to face the helicopter, where Agent Chase was still out cold.
As the discussion went on, Laval approached the helicopter, without anyone noticing him leave the others, and began digging around the storage areas of the helicopter.
And while he wasn't one to be around high-tech nick-knacks, since he had grown up, pretty much, isolated from technology, he had picked up a few things during the time he had known the others; he had even managed to tell the difference between some of Chase's high tech agent stuff, and some of the stuff that Emmet had in his apartment when he had him around.
"Hmm…this looks like this could work…" he said to himself, pulling one particular bit of tech out from the storage box, after going through several storage boxes in the sides of the helicopter; the boxes themselves, as well as their contents, were scattered across most of the area near the helicopter.
"Will this work?" he called, trying to get the attention of the others, as he waved the device in his other hand.
Wyldstyle turned around to look at Laval as he shouted that, before she approached the Lion King; the others turning around and approaching the helicopter.
"Hmm…that's the Energy Scanner that Chase said was standard with every Agent…nice job Laval," said Wyldstyle with a genuine smile, the Lion handing over the device to the parkour Master Builder.
As she began fiddling with a few of the knobs and buttons of the device, Emmet approached from behind her and looked over her shoulder for a few seconds, before he said, "I didn't know you were that good with Agent-style technology."
Wyldstyle glanced at her boyfriend, before she glanced back at the device in her hand.
"Uh…well, maybe it's just luck," said Wyldstyle, smiling weakly at her boyfriend as she turned her gaze back to the device in her hands, and she finished off getting the right settings to test her theory.
"Alright, here goes nothing…" muttered Wyldstyle, before turning to face the broken gates that were once the secure place of the Wheel of Oblivion, which caused the scanner in her hand starting to go haywire; buzzing and making other noises that sounded like it was giving of a warning.
"Uh, is it supposed to do that?" asked Laval, looking over one of Wyldstyle's shoulder, as Emmet looked over Wyldstyle's other shoulder, clearly worried about the noises the device was making.
"Trust me, I know what it's doing," said Wyldstyle, casting a look over both of her shoulders to give the two looking over her shoulders a slightly annoyed look.
Laval and Emmet quickly looked away when Wyldstyle glanced behind her, whistling casually, trying to appear like they weren't looking over her shoulder.
Wyldstyle turned her gaze back to the device in her hand, and started turning some of the dials to see if that made any changes that she wanted to get.
After turning one dial, the screen of the device started to change to give Wyldstyle what she was hoping to see.
"Bingo."
"What is it?" asked Emmet, approaching his girlfriend's side to see what she had found out.
Wyldstyle pointed at the screen of the device, and said, "See that?"
Emmet looked closely; she was pointing to what appeared to be a single, white, squiggly line. He nodded.
"OK, watch what happens when I do this," said Wyldstyle, before she slowly turned one of the dials.
Emmet watched carefully, and was intrigued by what happened; the more the dial turned, the white line passing through the screen started to split into five different lines, each with their own different colours.
"OK, so, one of these lines, the white one," said Wyldstyle, pointing at the whine line in the middle of the screen, "this is the energy left behind from the Wheel of Oblivion; because it was created by someone trying to control them, and they used the Trinity's crystals to make it, they all contain the same energy sources."
"So, if we cancel out one of them for the one that Anti-Builder has, and we can tell which one he has by it being the one that's faded slightly," Wyldstyle said as she turned one of the dials, causing one of the lines (the grey one) to fade out into nothing, "we can use this to help us find the other two Trinity crystals and the Wheel of Oblivion."
"But…why is there four now? When you cancelled out the crystal that Anti-Builder took, there should be three; the two crystals of the Trinity and the Wheel of Oblivion. What's the other one?" pointed out Tara, approaching from the side and pointing the fact she just stated physically by pointing at the extra line.
Emmet had noticed this as well, but he hadn't the chance to point it out before Tara spoke up.
"Hm, I don't know. I don't really trust this type of tech enough to be completely accurate. But, it's the closest thing that we can reply on to find the Trinity."
Lloyd glanced up from looking at the device to the helicopter, and glanced back down at the device; though he quickly turned his gaze back to the helicopter.
"Uh…guys…where's Chase?"
All of the figures present turned from looking at the device that was giving them what they needed, to look at the open door of the helicopter.
To their shock and surprise, the seat that Chase had been occupying while he was out cold was vacant.
"Where's he gone? I could have sworn he was there five minutes ago!" said Perri, jumping up to the helicopter and walking into it, double checking that Chase wasn't hiding somewhere.
But he wasn't; it was as though he had vanished completely.
In a dark realm, with a few, black 1x1 bricks floating around, gently bumping into one another on occasion and slowly moving into a different direction, there was a small podium standing on, seemingly, nothing. If it wasn't for the floating bricks surrounding it, it would have looked like the podium had no sense of what way was up.
From the side, a figure walked into sight.
Anti-Builder; with his black ropes covering most of his body, though with a few accents of dark red covering his torso and a few details, such as scuff marks and holes, in the robes on Anti-Builder's back. His black hood, covering his face completely as per usual, cast more shadows on his face than usual. Yet, even in the darkness cast from the realm itself, the dark red light from under his hood could still be seen.
He glanced down to his right hand; clutched in the claw-like hand, was the dark grey crystal. The crystal had just been stolen from the Power Miners, which wasn't that much of a challenge.
Turning his gaze to his left hand, Anti-Builder chuckled darkly as he looked at his best catch so far; a strange-looking piece, which looked like a golden circle, with a dark green triangle in the centre, its three points connecting to the interior of the circle. And on the dark green, there were strange, silver symbols covering it; it looked like words, as though for an alien race.
"Two down….two to go…" said Anti-Builder to no-one in particular, setting the Wheel of Oblivion down on the podium, before lifting his now free hand.
Slowly, the 1x1 bricks started moving towards Anti-Builder, and began combining with each other. After a few seconds, another, slightly shorter podium formed beside the one that had the Wheel settled on it.
After carefully setting the dark grey crystal on the podium, Anti-Builder turned his head slightly; he sensed a presence nearby.
"You're late…" he said slowly, turning around fully to face away from the crystal and Wheel; though since there wasn't any true floor to walk on or for the podium to stay on, the podiums slowly started to float off.
Yet Anti-Builder didn't focus on that just yet; he focus was now on the new being that had just entered his realm.
From the shadows, a figure, clad in dark clothing, walked forward; the item of clothing that would make the figure recognisable was the black helmet the figure was wearing, complete with black visor, blocking the figure's face from view.
The torso had what appeared to be space-style area, with silver armour on the top of the torso, connecting to a black equalette on the figure's shoulders, with a black Pauldron under the right side of the equalette, a brown ammo belt from its right shoulder to its left hip. It had black legs, nothing too special about them.
In one of the hands, there was a small, futuristic looking pistol, and the other hand was free.
"I'm here, aren't I?" asked the new figure, its voice slightly distorted; just enough to not be recognisable.
"Did you get what I wanted?" asked Anti-Builder, his hands slowly going behind his back as he approached the new figure; though out of sight from the new figure, behind his back, Anti-Builder slowly pulled out a knife.
When he was within reach of the new figure into his realm, Anti-Builder revealed that he was armed and tried to strike the new figure.
But this figure was fast; in the time Anti-Builder took to strike downwards, the figure had already moved to the side, grabbed the arm before it within to strike him, kneed Anti-Builder in the side, and twisted the knife around so, if he so desired, could stab the Anti-Builder in the neck.
"You're too slow," said the figure, before disarming Anti-Builder and kicking him back; throwing the knife downwards, and it sunk into a floating 1x1 brick.
"Do you have what I asked for?" growled Anti-Builder, putting the humiliation behind him as he tried to focus on what he was trying to get.
The new figure was quiet for a minute, before he reached behind him.
"I had to go through several rounds of guards, the Warriors Three, and even the God of Thunder himself to get this, and even then it was hard to get out. But I've got it," said the figure, before he pulled out a small, black crystal from behind his back.
Anti-Builder lifted his hand, and the crystal floated out from the figure's hand, and approached Anti-Builder; surrounded with the dark red aura. Grabbing onto the crystal, Anti-Builder examined it for a few seconds before he growled, "You have done well…now where can I find the Venom of the Trinity?"
"Acquired this," said the figure, pulling out a small device and pressed a button; causing images to flicker onto the black area of the realm.
The images flickered through several scenes, though all of them were all similar; they were all in a place that had red ground and tinted red sky, with a few images of green figures stopping and starting across the pictures.
"Hmm…are these accurate?"
Anti-Builder looked up, though all he saw was his own reflection in the black visor.
"Get the Trinity, before I change my mind," said the figure.
Anti-Builder grunted, before he said, "Get out of my sight."
Without a word, the figure pressed a device on his wrist, which looked like a high-tech watch, and was enclosed in a dark red light, and vanished from sight.
Anti-Builder looked through the images that were projected on the black realm, and growled, "Looks like…a Mission to Mars…"
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