"I'm here to make sure that this," he gestured to the Venom Oblivion Crystal, "doesn't fall into the wrong hands; after all, the last time we didn't secure it, look what happened," said Chase, his tone remaining the same throughout as he pulled forward a black briefcase and slipped the Oblivion Crystal into it.
He clipped it shut, before he secured a handcuff to his hand and attached the other end to the handle of the briefcase.
"How did you get here, Chase? More importantly, where did you go when we were back in the Realm with the Wheel? We thought you lost you!" exclaimed Emmet, as Wyldstyle, Laval, Perri and Zeon all gathered, wondering the same thing silently; seeing as they had all been present when Chase had vanished, when the others had seen Chase one moment, and the next, he was gone.
"I came too and realised that I didn't know what happened to the Chaos Oblivion Crystal. Plus, I had to report to my boss about the current situation. I didn't have time to tell you guys since I might have missed my boss' time keeping, and she get really annoyed when people don't meet her schedule," explained Chase, and the others could see that he was trying to apologies.
Though seeing as this was Chase, it might not have sounded like an apology; but the closet thing one would get to an apology out of Chase.
"Wait, who's your boss?" asked Wyldstyle, raising an eyebrow slightly.
"That would be me."
The Master Builders and Others turned around to see who had said that.
A figure was standing just beyond the reach of the light; partly covering themselves in shadows to build suspense.
Slowly stepping forward, the figure stepped into the light.
This revealed that it was a female; she was wearing a white suit with a white shirt underneath, with a black tie to complete the outfit. She had pure white hair, the same shade of her suit; though none of them could tell if that was natural or if that was intentional to match her suit.
Going down the right side of her suit, there were small silver stars apparently sewn into the fabric of the suit. Perhaps there was a reason behind this, but Emmet could think of one that was obvious.
Though perhaps the most unique thing about this figure was what was in place of her right hand; instead of the standard yellow hand, there was what appeared to be the front of a rocket sticking out of her forearm, with it appearing to travel up her arm up to the elbow.
"My name is Roxanne Blackstar; I am the Commander in Chief of the Agency. I hear that Chase and you others are well acquainted," said Blackstar, lifting her normal hand up to gesture to the Master Builders.
"Uh…yeah," said Emmet slowly, looking at the other Master Builders and Laval.
All except Wyldstyle; the Master Builder blinked in surprise at the sight of Blackstar.
"You're alive?" she asked in shock.
While the others of her group looked at her with a raised eyebrow, Blackstar simply chuckled lightly and approached the group slowly.
"Yes, I am alive…Wyldstyle. I am surprised I survive the explosion as well, but…here I am," said Blackstar, stopping once she was in line with Chase, facing the group.
"I trust you have the Crystal?" Blackstar asked Chase.
"I have it right here," said Chase to his superior, tapping the side of the briefcase with his free hand.
"Good. We just need to locate the last Oblivion Crystal before Anti-Builder finds it," said Agent Blackstar, before she turned around, after hearing the doors sliding open and close.
"Ma'am, we've got a problem," said one of the Security Officers, making it clear that Blackstar should follow him.
Blackstar, gesturing for Chase to follow her, turned around and headed after the Security Officerl not knowing what to do, Wyldstyle gestured for the rest of them to follow her after the two Agents.
Following Blackstar and Chase into one of the larger, main control rooms of the Base, the Master Builders found themselves surrounded by several Agency members sitting at communication computers, their voices overlapping on more than one occasion.
"What is the problem?" asked Blackstar, approaching the central command post of the Communication Room, and was soon joined by Agent Chase.
The Master Builders stood at the doorway, where they could still see most of what was going on at any point.
"I'm putting it up on screen now," said one of the Communication Officers, tapping a few keys on his computer and tapped the screen a few times before a large screen lowered itself from the roof and stopped in front of the Central Command Post.
After a few seconds of flickering and static, a static-filled image started to come through; it appeared to be the surface of Mars, judging from the dark red colours breaking through the black and white static. And there appeared to be a figure standing at the centre of the flickering image.
They didn't appear to be wearing any sort of breathing equipment, but instead they wore dark clothing.
"Who is that?" asked the Officer that put the screen and image up.
"I think you're well acquainted with him," said Blackstar, turning back to face the Master Builders, Chase and Laval.
Emmet and Wyldstyle looked closely at the image that flickered in and out of focus, and they tried to think who it was.
Then it came to them.
"What's he doing here?" Emmet whispered to Wyldstyle in a panicked tone.
Wyldstyle just shrugged, and Chase seemed to know what was going through the couple's head.
"I believe Anti-Builder is trying to pay us a visit," commented Chase lightly.
"Commander!" shouted Aleena, as she and Cindel came running into the Command Room. "Several of the Astronauts we've sent out haven't returned!"
Blackstar and Chase turned their attention back from the two to the screen again.
Almost as if on cue, the figure at the centre of the picture slowly lifted up something in his hand; since it was heavily static filled, it was initially hard to make out.
But when the image was finally clear enough to get a good look of what the figure was carrying, it sent a chill down most of the figure's collective spines.
It was a white helmet with a golden visor; the golden visor had several cracks in it, with a large gash running through the centre of it. The white helmet was also several scars covering it.
Dropping the helmet to the ground slowly, Anti-Builder let out a slightly distorted chuckle and said, simply, "I know where it is. And you're not going to get it."
With that, the communications suddenly cut out, the screen completely filled with static.
"Do you think he's talking about the third Crystal?" asked Chase to Blackstar.
"I fear he might be," said Blackstar, making sure that the Master Builders and Laval heard.
"Have we been able to decipher the last code yet?" asked Chase, stepping down from the Command post to speak with one of the officers stationed to the side of the post.
"We haven't, sir; I haven't seen any bit of scrambled information to this degree before," said the officer, scratching the side of his head as he explained the situation.
Emmet approached behind Chase's shoulder to see what they were dealing with; from what he could see, it was a similar set up to what Wyldstyle used to have on her little Energy Scanner before the space shuttle blew up.
There was the dark green squiggly line going through the centre of the screen, with that mysterious faded, golden line near the edge of the screen still there. The officer was tapping away furiously at the keyboard, trying to decipher the code; but, so far, was having an unsuccessful time doing so.
"You're not getting anywhere," commented Wyldstyle after a few seconds, walking up to the other side of Chase.
Chase glared to the side Wyldstyle was on, and was quiet for a few moments.
"Ma'am," he said suddenly, turning back around and looking up to Blackstar, "I think I know how we can locate the third Oblivion Crystal."
"And what might that be?" asked Blackstar in reply.
"We need to be able to decipher this, correct? Then we'll need the greatest mind in all of the Realms to do so," said Chase.
"Who's that then?" asked Emmet, raising an eyebrow.
Chase turned to face Emmet once again and said, "I think you've already met him before; you know what he's capable of doing if he puts his mind to it."
Emmet just looked at Chase blankly, asking, "Who?"
Chase put his hand to his head with an annoyed sigh, before he answered Emmet.
"It's Inferno I'm talking about, Emmet."
Roxanne Blackstar's OC belongs to Just-A-Passer-Named-Fourth.
Also, I love how some of the reviews think Chase is turning bad... :3
Nf991, signing out.