"Chase?! What are you doing?!" exclaimed Emmet, his arms flying up in the air at the sudden appearance of his friend holding a gun to his face.
Chase held the gun at the same place for a few more seconds, before he lowered it again. Though when it was at his side, his eyes suddenly went black and his back hunched over, his head going limp as he was left hunched over.
The others were left standing there; some of them still too confused to move, while Emmet still had his hands in the air with his eyes firmly shut.
Though when he didn't get a reply, Emmet peaked open one of his eyes, and when he saw what had happened to Chase, he opened both of his eyes and lowered his arms; a confused expression etched onto his face.
"Uh…Chase, are you OK?" asked Emmet cautiously, slowly taking a step forward towards the Agent.
But before he could get too close, he was stopped when a figure came running from the side; though she was wearing a white lab coat now, a pink shirt could still be seen underneath. And her pink hair was also an indication to who she was.
"Rose?" asked Emmet, raising an eyebrow.
"Hey guys; sorry about this," said Rose, a nervous smile on her face as she approached the hunched over Agent Chase; she reached behind him and a metallic clunk could be heard, as though someone was opening a hatch.
"What's wrong with Chase?" asked Wyldstyle, slowly approached now that Rose was there as well.
"Oh, this isn't Agent Chase," said Rose matter-of-factly, before the metallic clunk sound happened again and Chase's figure suddenly started to flicker in and out of existence.
After a bit of flickering, it was revealed that Chase…wasn't actually Chase; instead, the figure that stood in his place was a dark silver coloured exo-skeleton, with a robotic head that had a few buttons on it, as well as a black visor stretching the width of its…face?
At the shocked and surprise of the Master Builder's faces, Rose turned to look at them and said, "This is our latest prototype, 'Chameleon'; he is design to be a droid that goes out first to see if an area is safe. The only reason why it was Chase was because he volunteered to have his appearance copied into the robot."
"Any particular reason why he was pointing a gun at us?" asked Laval, taking a few steps forward as he looked at Rose; casting an uneasy look at the robot, though he remained hunched over, motionless.
"Well….this droid can be used as an Attack Droid in extreme cases; I think I need to adjust some of the data in Chameleon…" said Rose, scratching her bright pink hair softly as she looked behind her and made a gesture for someone to come forward.
After a few seconds, a couple of security guards, with dark blue baseball caps on with a security badge design on it, and dark, navy blue bulletproof vests with the same badge design over the chest, came forward with a dark red hand truck.
After shifting the robot onto the hand truck, the security guards shipped off the robot to the side. Rose then turned to face the Master Builders and Chimaian again, smiling kindly.
"So, what brings you here?" she asked.
"We're here to look for something; one of the Oblivion Crystals may be on Mars, and we need your help to find it," informed Emmet.
Rose nodded slightly, before she thought in silence.
"Follow me; I think I know something that could help you find it quicker," said Rose, before she turned on the spot and walked down one of the corridors that lead away from the decontamination section, gesturing for the others to follow after her.
Emmet and Wyldstyle walked after her first, with Laval following after them, and Perri and Zeon bringing up the rear of the group.
As they walked, more of the Mars base was revealed to them; they first went past a hanger, where there were several small space ships, which were either under repairs or under construction. A few of the people in the hanger were security guards, armed with, what appeared to be, pulse rifles.
But apart from that, the rest of the figures in the hanger were either scientists or engineers, running tests on things or repairing the space ships, respectively.
"This is a pretty large facility you've got here, Rose," said Emmet, looking around as much of the facility as he could as they walked along, trying to avoid getting in the way of any engineers as they carried parts across the walkway towards the building area.
"It is, isn't it? The agency was lucky to come into possession of this at the right time; the Mars Missions were almost out of business. But we managed to buy it so we could carry out important research we can use in Astor City," informed Rose, as they exited the hanger and into another part of the facility.
This part looked more enclosed, with several smaller rooms leading off to other sections of the facility that Rose wasn't taking them down.
Instead, Rose led them to a large, reinforced door. She took out a card from her white coat pocket, scanned it against the screen next to the door, before she typed in the code.
"I think this might be the part of the facility that might be of help for you," said Rose, before a hiss of air came from between the two large steel doors as they began to separate.
As they slowly rolled out of the way, the content of the room was revealed. And the Master Builders were amazed by what was inside.
To put is basically, there were two revamped Jeeps; though the wheels had been replaced with wheels that were much wider and orange in colour. The colours had also been changed from, what Emmet guessed, was a desert colouring, and had changed it to a mostly white with a few orange accents.
The windows had been replaced with orange tinted cockpit glass, and there seemed to be enough room for at least three people in a single vehicle; two in the front, with a third one behind them and between them.
"These are AT-4W, otherwise known as All Terrain 4 Wheelers," said Rose, before she approached one of them. "We've already been working on one of the readings we've downloaded from a Energy Scanner that was linked to the one you had. We've managed to narrow down the area of Mars that the Oblivion Crystal may be located; we'll have more luck of finding it if we split up," Rose added, opening of the cockpits of the AT-4W's, climbing into the back seat.
"I think it would be best if Perri and Zeon come with me, and Emmet and Wyldstyle go with Laval," finished Rose, gesturing for the two Master Builders at the back to follow her into the Jeep she was currently in.
Perri and Zeon looked at one another, before they looked at the other three. "Well, I guess this is it…for the time being," said Perri, patting Wyldstyle on the shoulder as a way of saying goodbye.
"Yeah, seeing you 'round," said Zeon, fist-bumping Emmet and Laval before he and Perri headed towards the vehicle Rose was already in.
Emmet, Wyldstyle and Laval headed to the other vehicle, Emmet and Wyldstyle sitting in the front seats and Laval climbed into the back seat.
"Alright, how do these things work?" asked Emmet, as the cockpit slowly closed and locked into place.
"Hmm, let me try," said Wyldstyle, reaching for the joystick and pressed one of the pedals by her feet.
Almost instantly, the engine came to life with a roar, and the back wheels started spinning wildly on the spot.
After a few seconds of non-movement, the vehicle began moving as the side wall of the hanger came down, exposing the surface to Mars. And the AT-4W rushed forward, onto the rocky surface of Mars, the suspension of the vehicle working overtime as Wyldstyle tried to come to terms with the vehicle's controls.
Laval and Emmet screamed and shouted in panic and, as Wyldstyle was still coming to terms with how much pressure to put on the pedals, Emmet tried to distract himself by looking over the dashboard of the vehicle.
There was what appeared to be a giant, electron map, and there was a light green circle against the dark red main surface area, which must have represented the surface of Mars; with the green marking the area they needed to search.
"Alright, I think I got it," said Wyldstyle, adjusting the controls so that they were moving at a steady pace over the rough terrain.
They continued for a few more minutes in silence, the only sound coming over the vehicle was the sound of rubble coming off of larger chunks of bricks.
"Hang on, I think we've got something," said Wyldstyle, pointing at the GPS; it showed a dark green blip near where they were.
Wyldstyle turned the controller to the right angle and they headed towards the blip. After a few minutes of constant driving, they arrived at the location; what appeared to be a dark cave.
"Is this the place?" asked Laval.
"Looks like it," said Emmet, before he reached behind Laval and pulled out an oxygen mask and a tank, before putting them on.
"We're going with you," said Wyldstyle, before she grabbed a similar oxygen mask and handed one to Laval, and grabbed another one for herself.
After making final checks, they climbed out of the vehicle and approached the cave. After Laval pulled out his fire sword, which provided some light, they walked into the depths of the cave.
"Look!" said Wyldstyle, pointing into the depths of the cave; where what appeared to be a circular rock, sitting on a pedestal.
The three approached it, before Emmet slowly reached forward to touch the rock; though Wyldstyle put her hand on this.
"We're doing this together, Babe," said Wyldstyle.
Emmet looked at her before he nodded slowly, and Laval looked at the two of them.
Together, all three of them reached forward to touch the rock. Before they could touch it, the rock split into two. This revealed a flicker of dark green, and when the light died down, it revealed a dark green crystal.
The three looked at each other, before they all slowly reached forward. The second the three of them touched it, they were enveloped in a flash of white light.
Instantly, they were gone.