"What?!" exclaimed Emmet, his voice shouting louder than he might have intended it to be. He couldn't help it; he had never been more shocked or surprised about anything since today.

Anti-Builder…was one of this Council? Anti-Builder, who tried to destroy the Realms.

Anti-Builder, who ripped off Eris' wing without caring if he heard her.

Anti-Builder, who had taken him over…

Emmet shook his head, trying to rid his head of that; he didn't want to remember what had happened…

"But…But that doesn't make any sense. You guys are all good, and like, he's…not," said Emmet, taking a step closer to the three white hooded figures.

But the moment he took a step towards them, the mechanical stone beast known as 'Darsin' came to life again, his body turning from the stone texture back to the black steel armoured plating. His head reared up from its place resting on the front paws to look up, glaring down at Emmet.

Seeing that he was out of line with the other two, a deep growl rumbled in the back of the mechanical dragon's neck and he leaned forward, his head resting right in front of Emmet's face. He continued to growl lowly, smoke pouring out of his nostrils and covering Emmet.

The Master Builder was left in a weathered colour of his construction worker overalls, and coughed out some smoke when Darsin had pulled away. He shook himself, the black smoke coming off of his clothing and leaving small black clouds surrounding him, looking up at Darsin.

He was quiet for a few moments, before he looked back at Laval and Wyldstyle, who had stayed where they were since he appeared there.

Very slowly, he took a step back so that he was back in line with the other two again.

Darsin growled slowly, before he slowly rested his head back down on his clawed front feet and kept his eyes on the Master Builders and Laval, as he slowly turned back to stone. His eyes glazed over as he was turned slowly back to stone; yet even though he was stone again, Emmet still had this uneasy feeling that the mechanical Dragon could still see him.

'What the so-called 'Anti-Builder' is, is not your main concern at this moment, Brickowski. Your main concern as of right now, is to collect the three Oblivion Crystals before he finds them,' said the female Council member, the light blue light returning under her hood for a few seconds before it faded again.

'If you do not complete your mission, then all of the Realms shall be doomed,' said the centre figure, his face glowing blue under his white hood for a second before it faded out again.

'Now go,' said the third figure, his own face lighting up in a blue light before faded once more, like the others.

Emmet, Laval and Wyldstyle looked at one another before Emmet opened his mouth to speak out; but Laval covered his mouth quickly, saying, "I think it best that we don't anger them; they have powers beyond our imagination."

Emmet glanced aside at Laval, and the Lion slowly removed his hand from covering Emmet's mouth; Emmet thought to best to follow his advice, and said nothing.

'Darsin…send them on their way,' said the middle Council member, lifting a hand up slightly to gesture towards the two Master Builders and Chimaian.

The stone features, once again, left the black steel undercoat of Darsin's body, and his ability to move returned to him. He slowly pushed himself to his clawed feet, reaching his full height; putting him just shorter than the height of the thrones.

But that didn't mean he wasn't tall.

Taking a slow step towards the group of three, Darsin glared down at them and breathed through his nostrils slowly, small puffs of black smoke starting to pour out; slowly building up in front of him.

"Uh…what's he doing?" asked Emmet, looking on either side of him to share a look with Wyldstyle and Laval.

While Wyldstyle shrugged a little, Laval kept his gaze up to the mechanical Dragon as he muttered, "I think he's sending us back to the cave on Mars…"

"How's he going to do that? What's he going to do, get us a Police Box?" asked Emmet, a tint of kind sarcasm in his voice.

But Laval didn't reply; Emmet turned up to look at Darsin.

Just as the mechanical Dragon, with a large mass of black smoke formed in front of his closed mouth. Taking a deep breath inward, the Dragon suddenly breathed outward.

Along with the dark blue fire that came out of the thick, armoured muzzle, the black smoke came flying at the figures, covering them completely; also cutting off any light from the surrounding them.

"What's going on?" asked Emmet, looking around wildly; the black smoke from Darsin was so thick that he couldn't see Laval or Wyldstyle; when they had just been on either side of him moments ago.

After a few seconds of the black smoke swirling around them rapidly, Emmet started to feel a little faint; he fell down to his knees, trying to keep himself awake for as long as possible. But he couldn't keep himself awake much longer.

He passed out flat on the ground, his vision completely encased in black fog.

Breathing deeply, Emmet looked around rapidly when he last woke up; he was glad when he saw the familiar colour of dark red of the cave's interior.

Aside from being glad that he had woken up to find that he was still wearing the oxygen tank on his back and mask over his face, Emmet was relieved that both of his friends were in the cave with him.

He felt his hand clasp onto something when he put his hands onto the ground when he went to get up; looking down, he found, with a low gasp, that he had the Dark red Oblivion Crystal in his clawed hand.

Hearing the sound of shuffling near him, Emmet saw Wyldstyle pushing herself to her feet, while Laval was using the wall to help him stay on his feet.

"You guys OK?" asked Emmet, pushing himself to his feet as he looked between the two of them.

Laval nodded while Wyldstyle said, "Yeah, I'm good. You got the Crystal?"

Emmet looked down at his hand with the Oblivion Crystal clutched in it and said, "Yeah, I've got it."

"That was strange; really weird," said Emmet softly as they slowly walked out of the cave, looking behind him.

"Uh…Emmet…" said Wyldstyle, pointing in front of her boyfriend.

Emmet raised an eyebrow as a result and turned back around to see what Wyldstyle was pointing at; his eyes shrunk slightly when he saw that the sun was no longer visible in the sky above. And it felt extremely cold; Emmet rubbed his arms to try and keep himself warm.

"We should get back to the Base as soon as possible; I don't want to freeze to death out here," said Wyldstyle, quickly approaching the vehicle they arrived in and getting into the pilot's seat.

Emmet and Laval quickly followed after her, getting into their respective seats and the cockpit window closed firmly once they were inside. With a roar of the engine coming to life and the warmth instantly returning to them.

"Alright, let's go," said Wyldstyle, turning the controls and put the vehicle in the right direction, and floored it.

As they moved over the rocky surface of Mars, Emmet looked at the Oblivion Crystal still clutched firmly in his hand; the dark red colouring of the gem reflecting what little light was coming off, mostly from the HUD from the vehicle.

"So, we have one…" said Laval, leaning over the back of Emmet and Wyldstyle's seats.

"Yeah…we just need to get the other one, and get the third one back from Anti-Builder," said Emmet, leaning back in his seat and closed his eyes; thinking about what they were going to do next.

After a few minutes of silent riding, Wyldstyle nudged Emmet's arm and said, "We're here."

Emmet slowly woke up and looked up; they had arrived at the entrance to the Base, entering the same way they had come out with.

With the wall closing behind them once they had come to a stop inside, the three of them climbed out of the vehicle and looked around. The other vehicle was already there, meaning that Rose, Perri and Zeon were already back.

"Your back!" said Perri, suddenly rushing forward from the corridor linked to the bay, and hugged Wyldstyle tightly.

"Did you guys find anything? And what took you so long?" asked Rose, rushing forward with Zeon in tow.

Emmet looked over at Rose, and slowly looked at his hand; Rose looked at Emmet's hand and gasped softly at the sight of the dark Red Oblivion Crystal.

"Wow," she said softly, approaching Emmet and reaching out to take the Crystal for him.

Emmet lifted his hand to give her the Crystal, when someone came to the side and snatched the Crystal from Emmet's hand before he could pass it to Rose.

"I'll be taking that from you."

Emmet and Rose turned to look who it was, before Emmet blinked in surprise.

"Chase?"

For all those still confused about the Anti-Builder/Council sub-plot (or whatever you call it), it will all be explained soon.

Nf991, signing out.