Tails and Klonoa were searching through a corridor on the 3rd floor for the Chaos Emerald.

"Tails?" Klonoa said to Tails.

"Yeah, Klonoa?" Tails replied.

"How are we supposed to find it?" Klonoa then asked.

"I'm not sure, honestly." Tails said. "I-"

Before he continue, however, his flashlight began to flicker on and off until it went out.

"Aw, man, what happened?" Klonoa asked.

"My flashlight's dead." Tails answered.

They they heard what seemed like snarling.

"Who's there?" Klonoa called out in the darkness.

It then became silent as what appeared to be three shadowy figures appeared before them. The two couldn't see who they were

"Come on, come on!" Tails told Klonoa.

As they ran away from the figures, Tail was trying to get his flashlight to work again.

"Got it!" Tails said having fixed his flashlight. As he shown his light, however, Klonoa saw something offscreen that spelled bad news.

"Uh-oh!" Klonoa exclaimed.

"What?" Tails asked not knowing what Klonoa was frightened of.

"Look!" Klonoa said pointing at where the flashlight was aimed at.

Tails directed his flashlight up and found Tower from House of the Dead 2 right in front of them ready to attack the two.

"Both of you, get down!" James' voice told Tails and Klonoa, who did as they told. "Shadow, aim for the mouths!"

"Chaos spear!" Shadow chanted firing his Chaos Spear at Tower with a direct hit.

The resulting blast hit all five of the monster's heads as it roared in pain and immediately died afterwards.

"Shadow?" Tails asked spotting Shadow with James and Patrick from behind him and Klonoa.

"All right, then. It's dead." Shadow said.

"What was that?" Tails asked wondering what the monster they encountered was.

"Tower. Your friends might be dead if we don't hurry and reach them on time, rabbit and fox." James informed Tails.

"Tails." Tails told James his name.

"Klonoa." Klonoa did the same.

"Right. Anyway, Shadow, can you do that thing one more time?" James then asked Shadow.

"I'm sick of doing this." Shadow complained. "Only Tyler, our leader can tell me what to do, like Chaos Control. Everyone, get close."

They all did as Shadow asked as he got ready to perform Chaos Control.

"Chaos Control!" Shadow chanted as they all warped to the attic where Tyler, Nights, John and Silver were at.

At the attic, the four were searching for the Emelad.

"Now where is that Emerald?" Tyler wondered.

"I feel like we looked everywhere, Tyler." Silver said to Tyler.

"Should we check the other floors and get back to the others?" Nights asked Tyler.

"You four are not going anywhere..." A booming voice said in the darkness.

"Who said that?" Silver asked.

Tyler clicked on his flashlight and flashed it to reveal Emporer from House of the Dead. "Gotcha!"

"Who's that?" Night asked.

"I am the perfect creation. I am the Emporer." The Emporer introduced himself.

"You four will never get to Curien." The Emporer said to our heroes.

"We'll see about that, Emporer." Tyler talked back at Emporer drawing out his sword while he said it.

"WAIT!" James shouted from behind.

"James?" Tyler exclaimed.

"Everyone, fight together!" James ordered.

Both groups fought against the Emporer, who fought back and tried to kill them, even though he was outnumbered.

In the end, our heroes were victorious and the Emporer was defeated.

"You may have beaten me, but you will not defeat Curien." The Emporer informed our heroes as he soon exploded.

"Thank goodness." James exclaimed in relief glad that Tyler and his team are okay. "I thought you four were dead."

"Thank you for saving us." Nights thanked James.

"No thanks necessary, Jester." James assured Nights.

"Jester? My name is Nights!" Nights corrected James outraged by what he called him.

"Nights, calm down!" Tyler told Nights stopping the latter from attacking James.

"Sorry." Nights apologized.

"It'll take too long to walk all the way back downstairs." Tyler said. "Shadow, mind giving us a hand?"

"Sure thing." Shadow said. "But I'll probably need another hand."

"I'd love to." Tyler said agreeing to help.

"Chaos... CONTROL!" Both Shadow and Tyler chanted as they all warped back into the foyer.

"Good. We're back on the main floor." Tyler said.

"I can sense the Emerald." Shadow sensed.

"Where, Shadow?" Tyler asked him.

"Underneath the mansion." Shadow stated.

"Maybe this place has a basement." Tyler assumed. "Everyone, look for a button or a switch."

The group searched around the entire 1st floor for a way into the basement, but eventually returned to the foyer with no results.

"Well, we looked everywhere." Nights said before noticing something on one of the gargoyles. "Wait, what's this?"

Nights took a closer look at the the gargoyle and saw that its head could be flipped down and it revealed it had a hidden button under it. Nights pushed the hidden button, which caused a secret staircase to be revealed.

"Nights, you did it!" Tyler congratulated Nights for having found the way to the basement. "Now, we can go and get the Emerald."

"Tyler?" Nights then asked Tyler.

"Yes, Nights?" Tyler then asked back.

"Is it all right if I dualize with you?" Nights asked.

"Sure, Nights." Tyler said.

Nights then began his dualization as he touched Tyler's shoulder and a bright light flashed. When the light faded, Tyler was gone.

"What did you do to my brother? Where is he?" Patrick asked Nights concerned about his younger brother's safety.

"Right here." Tyler's voice told Patrick.

"What happened?" Patrick asked again.

"Your brother and I performed a procedure called dualization." Nights informed Patrick.

"What's that?" James asked.

"Never mind, let's just go!" Nights insisted.

They all went down the staircase down to the basement of the mansion.

"Look! There's someone down here!" John pointed out spotting someone amidst the darkness.

"That's Curien." James pointed out before turning to Curien. "You hear that, Curien? We found you. There's no way out this time."

"I must admit, you have managed to defeat my creations with such ease." Dr. Curien applauded the group. "However, I'm afraid there is zero chance of you stopping me."

"What are you talking about?" James asked Dr. Curien.

"Perhaps showing you will answer your question." Dr. Curien said. "Come, my masterpieces!"

Instantly, the Magician and the Wheel of Fate then appeared next to Dr. Curien.

"It's time, my creations." Dr. Curien said to his creations. "Time to fuse."

As he said, Curien then fused with the Magician and the Wheel of Fate, resulting in them becoming an abomination.

"I'm Curien's most powerful creation!" The mutant said. "You will all die here!"

"Everyone, look for a weakness!" Tyler ordered everyone. "James, what does the book say?"

"It says it's weakness is unknown." James informed Tyler looking into a bestiary of the monsters from the game before he shot six shots at the creature.

The mutant laughed evilly at the group's attempts to defeat it. "Face it, James. You and your comrades cannot touch me!"

James then checked the chamber of his gun and found there was only one single bullet left.

"One bullet left..." James muttered before he pointed the gun at the creature. "...here goes..."

James decided to take a chance and fired at the chest of the monster, which actually hurt it.

"AHHH! NO! THEY FOUND MY WEAK SPOT!" The mutant screamed in pain. "BUT HOW CAN THAT BE?! THIS GEM WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME INVINCIBLE!"

"The Chaos Emerald! That's it!" Tyler exclaimed having discovered the location of the Chaos Emerald. "Everyone, focus on the chest! That's where the Emerald is!"

The group then attacked the creature's chest in hopes of defeating it.

"Now we got you!" Nights said to the mutant.

Suddenly, the mutant caught Nights as it split him and Tyler apart from their dualization and threw them both to the ground.

Both received massive damage, but Tyler suffered the most.

"Nights..." Tyler said to Nights weakly.

Shadow spotted Tyler and Nights on the ground and was immediately enraged by what the creature did to them.

"Chaos Spear!" Shadow shouted firing Chaos Spear at the mutant's chest. The shot was a direct hit.

"NOOOO!" The creature screamed in absolute pain as it reverted back to Dr. Curien.

"What happened? I was invincible." Dr. Curien said not understanding what went wrong as James walked up to him.

"It's all over, Curien." James told Dr. Curien as he aimed his gun at the latter.

However, before he had the chance to end Curien, there was slow clapping, which caught him and everyone else offguard.

"Impressive, James." Someone said stepping out and revealing himself to be a shady business man.

"Goldman!" James exclaimed recognizing the man.

"It's been a while, hasn't it, my friend?" Goldman asked James. "From the AMS."

"Why are you here?!" James asked Goldman.

"Have you not figured it out yet?" Goldman asked back. "I'm the one who left the map for your leader to find, planted Curien's creations throughout the mansion and have been pulling the strings."

"Are you working with Wizeman?" Shadow questioned Goldman.

"Wizeman? I work alone, friend." Goldman answered Shadow's question.

"I'd leave unless you want to end up like Curien." Shadow threatened Goldman.

"Then I'll give you a choice. "Goldman offered. "Either kill me and take the gem or save your friends."

Most of the heroes were left in bad shape after their fight with the mutated Curien. The only ones that weren't badly injured were John and Klonoa.

"I choose my friends." Shadow answered making his choice.

"Wrong choice, hedgehog. You should have chose me." Goldman told Shadow as he picked up Curien and ran off. "Good bye, friends."

"Tails, grab the Emerald." Shadow ordered Tails.

"Right." Tails obeyed as he collected the Emerald that was left behind and went back to the others.

"Tyler, are you all right?" Shadow asked Tyler running over and kneeling down to him and checking to see if he was okay.

"Shad, is that you?" Tyler weakly asked.

"Let's get you and everyone else out of here." Shadow said.

"Tyler, did I do good?" Nights asked Tyler weakly.

"John, grab Tyler." Shadow ordered John, who did just that. "Klonoa, you grab Nights." Klonoa did what Shadow said as well as they retrieved everyone else. "Now, Chaos... CONTROL!"

Shadow managed to warp everyone out of there.

Tyler injured?

Why would Goldman take Curien?

Is it part of a bigger scheme?

But luckily, the Chronicles now have three Chaos Emeralds as they retrieve back their HQ to recover from their battle against the enemy and figure out what to do next.

Find out on Episode 8: The Puppet.