"Alright Joyce, the Chief gave us these warrants. Here, these are yours."
"Okay, aren't you going to take yours?"
"Nah, I have mines already. Anyways, I'll go find those guys."
"Hold on, but what about that Cade kid?"
"It's okay, I'll deal with that. You just deal with the others."
"Fine. I'll tell the others to be on the look out for anyone associated with Pantheon."
"Yeah, you go do that."
The detectives head out to find anyone associated with Pantheon. They are no longer concerned about the attacks that occurred 3 days ago since they were given the warrants. However, Watkins is very suspicious of Olyphant as he had not been doing his investigative work and had went after Cade rather than investigate the alleged wrongdoing by Pantheon. Meanwhile, Jack, Sarah, Matthew, and Julian are hiding out hoping to evade authorities. However, Julian had been seeing what the files had entailed and walks toward Jack.
"What do you want Julian? Are you suddenly growing a conscience."
"Sir, I can't believe you didn't tell me about what you were going to do. I thought we were going to stop the infection!"
"Are you crazy? I had to keep you in the dark in order for my plan to work."
"Julian, are you giving up on this?"
"We're done! We don't have any more reason to be here! They exposed us and now we're done. Matthew, you used them to get your way. How dare you? You expected me to do a job and now I realize that you planned to kill those people. What is wrong with you? I thought we were supposed to help people, not kill them."
"Listen, I paid you to do a job and now you're getting cold feet?"
"I'm done with this! I'm turning myself in and there's nothing you can do about that."
"Wrong! Looks like we're going to have to kill you now!"
Before they can transform, Xavier, Russell and Owen arrive on the scene not aware of what is going on.
"What the hell is going on here?"
"Hey, it's those guys who gave us the belts. Looks like you're out of business now."
"Hey Owen, maybe if we take them down they might give us a reward."
"I guess so. Let's do this!"
"You wanna fight kids? Fine!"
"Transform!"
"Lemon Energy!"
"Peach Energy!"
"Cherry Energy!"
"Grape!"
"Acorn!"
"Walnut!"
"Pine Cone!"
"Locks On!"
"Soda!"
Julian steps aside while the other Riders fight each other. The fight lasts for a few minutes until they end up at the forest. The Energy Riders and Dragon Slayer manage to overpower them, causing Shadow's Pine Cone Lock to be broken. Xavier finds a maturing fruitlock and eats it, but notices that he is transforming into a monster similar to the ones living in the forest. He transforms into a monster that shocks all the Riders. Xavier charges towards the energy riders but is killed. Russell and Owen are devastated by Xavier's death and fight against the dark Riders. However, Julian arrives in his Neo Moon Slayer form to help the other Riders.
"Buster, Knuckle, get out of here! I'll take care of them."
"Right!"
The two Riders head for the city in the hopes of finding Cade and the others while Julian fights on his own.
Back at the antique shop, Lena and Jane interrogate Cade and Luke about the events that had transpired days ago. Lena is visibly upset that the police had visited her shop and that they were interested in speaking with him.
"Son, we haven't talked much and I blame myself for that, but what happened? Why did the police come to visit?"
"Well, they saw me investigate something."
"But son, what is it of your concern?"
"Mom, dad hasn't been seen in a long time and I wanted to know what they were up to."
"Son, I get that. You want to know if they had anything to do with his death. And after watching the news I understand you. By the way, the two detectives wanted to talk to you. Maybe you should talk to them."
"I guess so. Sorry for worrying you mom."
"It's okay son. Just don't do anything stupid again."
"I won't."
"Luke, you stay with Cade to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid."
"You got it ma'am."
Meanwhile, back at the forest, Julian is severely wounded after trying to fight off all the Riders. All the Riders combine their energy bow attacks to devastate Julian. He is forced to power down and Matthew walks up to his lifeless body to steal the Melon Energy Lock and the Genesis Driver Belt from him.
"Alright Doug. Here's the belt."
"Thanks. I'll be sure to take good care of this."
"So what do we do with him?"
"Leave him Sarah. We have business to deal with."
As the dark Riders leave, the strange monster who had helped the Riders earlier arrives to help Julian. He changes his form and reveals that he is DJ Snow who had been hiding all along. He carries his body to the village where he takes care of him.
Meanwhile, Russell and Owen rush up to the antique shop to tell them about what had happened.
"Hey Cade!"
"Hey guys, where's X?"
"He's dead!"
"What? How did he die?"
"He ate a fruit in the forest and turned into a monster. Then they killed him."
"Who killed him?"
"You know, those guys that work for that company."
"Damn it! I knew it was them. Hey Luke, let's go."
"Right. Excuse me ma'am we're off."
"But Cade, shouldn't you be talking to the detectives?"
"I'll meet them later."
They run towards a nearby portal where Russell and Owen fill them in on what had happened. And then James shows up after overhearing about what had happened to Xavier.
"Dude what happened to X?"
"He turned into a monster and then was killed."
"What? How the hell did that happen?"
"I don't know. So, where's the team?"
"They left for the day. What the hell is going on here?"
"I don't know, but we have to go in there. Plus we have to help that guy who was fighting the other Riders by himself."
"Really, well let's go. So, you're their friend."
"Yeah, my name is James."
"Well James, are you ready to see what's going to happen next?"
"I guess so."