Chapter 11: Dark Land Strikes Back
09:50 AM (Japan Time), Saturday January the 31st…
"… It's a pity that Tamashita – san wanted Nelaus to come do some shopping at Densan City… He could've come along."
"Maybe this way he wouldn't be worried about that guy named Gate. He needs something to shake off the stress."
Netto and Saito were sitting in the back seats of the usual black Honda FRV model: there was only one agent as the driver.
"Well. Yeah. Nelaus needs some calm atmosphere to concentrate, after all, so... Overstress won't do him good." Netto shrugged.
"I'm sure that we can ask Trill to tag along and have fun together."
"By the way! It looks like today is gonna be a rainy day… I'm now glad we brought over our umbrellas." Netto commented as he looked out through his window.
"By the way! Agent Puma… Denpa –san couldn't come today?"
"Regrettably… He had to attend an important meeting at HQ and Agent On Air has gotten a cold. So I was asked to drive you gentlemen to the rendezvous point." Agent Puma politely replied.
"People get colds during this time of the year…" Saito shrugged.
"Oh. We must stop to refill the gasoline tank. I hadn't realized it was this low…" Agent Puma announced.
"No problem."
The car entered a gasoline stand near a large avenue: another three cars were also filling up their deposits so the Honda stopped and Agent Puma stepped out: the twins also came out to stretch for a bit.
"Sigma and Blood went ahead of us, right?" Netto asked Saito.
"I'm sure they must be having a fierce competition by now." Saito smiled and sounded sure of it.
Agent Puma finished loading up the gasoline tank and returned the hose on its place.
"I'll go pay. We'll depart soon enough." Agent Puma announced.
He headed over to the store and picked a spot in the customers' queue to pay for the refilling.
"Let the rules hit the window!" Netto joked to Saito.
"Jeez." Saito didn't find it funny.
Several buzz-like sounds began to sound from an alleyway close by all of sudden: various persons looked around, intrigued.
"Huh? What's that?"
"Oi! Look there!" One yelled.
Everyone looked at the alleyway were several pairs of red eyes had gathered.
"Rats?"
The figures suddenly jumped out of the alley and tackled several people to the ground in the blink of an eye.
"What in the…?" Netto uttered.
"I think I know what's going on…" Saito grimly muttered.
Something very quick tackled Saito into the ground and latched into him so Netto gasped: it was one of the four-legged Nibelung robots.
"What the…?" He uttered.
Another of the robots tackled him to the ground and latched into him: Netto tried to shake it off, but it was too heavy.
"Huff! Get outta me, you piece of junk…!"
It opened one small hatch where the mouth would normally be at and took out the stun-gun extension: it hit Netto's right side of the neck with it and he immediately felt how his consciousness faded into blackness…
09:25 AM (Mongolia Time)…
SPLASH!
Netto suddenly awakened upon feeling that his whole head and part of his torso were submerged in a mass of water.
WTF?
He felt some strong arms pushing him into the water so he tried to move, but he felt thick ropes around his shoulders, elbows and wrists: he tried to hold his breathing and couldn't see anything inside of the water.
What the…! I'm gonna drown or what?
He was suddenly pulled out of the water and forced to stand; he panted heavily and tried to regain his breath.
"Enough." A voice commanded.
He was pushed into a chair and he sat on it: he felt totally disoriented and dizzy as he tried to regain his breath.
"Hullo." The same voice greeted in an amused tone.
Netto tried to focus his sight: in the meanwhile, he noticed that his shirt, vest and coat had been removed, leaving his chest and torso naked: he felt a shiver going down his spine from the cold feeling.
He still wore his jeans, socks and sneakers, however.
"Take a wild guess." A blurry face close by told him.
"Da… Dark Land…!" Netto realized.
"Bravo." The voice congratulated.
His sight by now was rather clear: he was facing General Meta, who looked in a very good mood.
A Dark Land jerk! Last thing we needed, damn it!
A large stone rectangle about a meter and fifty tall, and which was filled with water, was located behind him.
The room he was sitting in was largely bare, its walls, ceiling and floor made of symmetric blocks of black stone.
A metallic door with a closed slit was placed behind him.
The light came from fluorescent tubes on the ceiling.
He could see two men in t-shirts and camouflage pants standing behind him; balaclavas and sunglasses hid their faces.
"Y-you guys… Never tire… of making life… impossible… And act like cowards! Don't you!" Netto cursed.
"Oh. You must mean Satan Takaisho…" General Meta guessed.
"T-that's right…! He worked for you guys…!"
"I won't deny the fact. Although I will admit that his methods were rather too… Uncivilized. The guy was a rogue, anyway." General Meta made a dismissing gesture.
"W-where's Saito – niisan! What have you guys done to him…?"
"Oh. You needn't fret… My secretary is asking him some questions in the adjacent room…"
"Y-you're part of that Foreign Department who made t-those weapons!"
"Indeed! As expected of a Net Savior!"
"H-how could you guys know what route we would take…? We use several for safety reasons…" He tried asking.
"We used a little psychological trick…"
"Ah…! Agent Puma… He's not… a "Committee" agent…! You somehow kept Denpa - san and Agent On Air busy so that he would pick us… in a copied car…!" Netto realized.
"That was an excellent deduction, Dr. Watson." General Meta grinned.
"Hmpf… Save your sarcasm… for your aunt's deafness… Shadow Man will come up with a pun too…" Netto cursed with some sarcasm as well.
"Do we apply a corrective, General?" One of the men asked.
"No, no. It is fine as it is. Remember: the Secret Service people are leeches waiting to suck our blood, so we better not go too far or they'll swarm us." General Meta warned them.
"… Call the medical team!" A man's voice shouted suddenly outside of the room.
"You had to go too far!" One man complained.
"The General is so gonna have your head in a silver platter, Vulture! You moron!" A second man added.
"I know! Just go fetch the medical team or a doctor! Move your butts: you morons!" Vulture commanded.
General Meta frowned and looked like he wasn't expecting this whole scandal.
"… I'll go check. You two: don't do anything." General Meta announced.
General Meta opened the door and stepped out into a stone corridor lit by fluorescent lights on the ceiling: Vulture was standing near an open door adjacent to the room Netto was at and looked very nervous.
"I demand to know what the cause of this scandal is, Vulture." General Meta demanded in a hushed tone.
"Ah… Meta – sama… I…" Vulture seemed to be taken aback and was avoiding his gaze.
"I order you: answer me!" General Meta raised his voice's volume and sounded enraged.
"Roger, Meta – sama! Eh… I tried to… use an innovative method… but I went too far and… he's fainted… so I've called… for help… and a medical team…" Vulture slowly replied as if trying to find a way to make it sound like it was no big deal.
"… What method, you fool?" General Meta demanded with a hint of anger on his voice.
"…H-hot embers… I pressed them against his skin to force him to speak and then cooled them with cold water… But he fainted, so I think that… I should've… researched…"
Vulture's voice volume began to decrease as he spotted his superior building up obvious anger: he gulped and stood still, knowing that he was going to be punished.
"… Vanish immediately or I'm going to cause a ruckus here and now. Run: you imbecile." General Meta hissed in an icy tone of voice.
Vulture didn't need to be told twice: he ran off towards the south at top speed; General Meta breathed deeply and slowly expired: two soldiers and a medic ran past him and headed for the other room.
"By the Lord! What a thing…!" The medic uttered.
"What do we do?" One soldier asked.
"Untie him and take him to his room immediately. And if you meet either Viper or Bella tell them that they shall have to wait!" General Meta told them without bothering to enter into the room or move.
The two soldiers came out taking Saito with them: like Netto, he'd been stripped of all of his body's upper half clothing and had several ugly burn marks on several spots on his body and torso and his wrists had the mark of restrains on them: the medic followed them.
"… Hmmm… What to do… The younger one won't want to answer anything taking into account this state of affairs… And I don't want to push it or the Secret Service guys will have found two reasons to crackpot on us… Take him to the room as well." He commanded while grumbling.
The door opened and the two soldiers carried Netto out by pressing their hands against his shoulders; they'd put a blindfold on him.
"And don't push it." General Meta added in an icy tone of voice.
"R-roger, sir." Both gulped.
"I'm watching! I won't tolerate any more blunders, get me?"
09:38 AM (Mongolia Time)…
"… Here's the place... You. Open up."
"Jeez. OK, OK."
Netto heard a door opened and he was pushed into a room: his blindfold was removed and his ropes cut but, before he could react, the door was shut behind him.
"Huff. At last I'm out of that room."
Netto looked around: the room was small and made of stone, like the one he'd been at before; there were only two beds.
Saito was lying in one of those, his torso filled with bandages, and he was still unconscious.
There was a small cubical room on the north-west corner of the room with a door, which was the restroom.
Apart from the beds, there were no other pieces of furniture whatsoever.
"Damn it. These jerks… Twilight shouldn't have fueled them up!"
He sat on the adjacent bed and gazed upon his brother's immobile body: Netto sighed and lied face up on the adjacent bed.
"And if they got us here so quickly, they must've used "Dimensional Converters"… This is obviously underground. But I'm sure Vadous – san and the others will quickly put two and two together. The news of what happened at the gasoline stand will be headlines soon enough, so they'll know what happened." Netto muttered.
He glanced again at Saito's immobile body and sighed again as he stared at the stone ceiling.
"Bah… Yeah… Knowing Vadous – san… Before 2 hours have passed, he'll have found a way out of here… Omega could easily beat all these guys along with Blood and Sigma… Nothing would be able to oppose them!"
Fight your way inside and give these jerks a lesson!
09:44 AM (Mongolia Time)…
"… Viper. Listen to me. I'm not in the best of moods."
"I can see that, Meta."
"Forget about playing dominatrix S&M with them: Vulture screwed it up and now the Secret Service is about to laugh at us. I don't want them to begin spreading rumors next to demoralize the troops."
"So… What I gotta do?"
"Nothing. Just do some bureaucratic stuff until the atmosphere cools down but do nothing apart from that. Don't answer the phone unless it's either me or Scorpion either."
General Meta was discussing with Viper on his office and she looked nervous at his extremely irritated mood: the phone rang and he brusquely picked it up.
"Hiya~…" A woman replied.
"Bella? Is that you? What's with that casual tone?" He grumbled.
"Nope. The biggest bad girl ever…" The woman giggled.
"Tell Bella to stop joking with me." He told Viper.
"But Bella would never joke with a superior officer." Viper frowned.
"Tee, heh, heh. See ya 'round, baby~… Crybaby boy~…"
The phone call ended and General Meta violently slammed the receiver on its place while snarling: Viper gulped.
"SOMEONE BRING ME GREEN TEA~!"
"R-roger… I'll fetch Vulture and…"
"No! Have some moron bring it over! ON THE DOUBLE~!"
"R-roger, Meta!"
"DAMN THEM! VULTURE, YOU FUCKER! YOU SCREWED IT UP BIG! GRAH!"
10:02 AM (Mongolia Time)…
"… Uh-huh… The pain… it's painful… it won't leave me…"
"Hang in there, Saito – niisan!"
Saito had begun to move and mutter things: he looked like he was starting to awaken and was in pain.
"Ne-Netto – kun…" He muttered.
"It's me! Calm down…" Netto told him.
Saito slowly opened his eyes and looked around: he immediately spotted Netto looking towards him as he leant on his bed's edge.
"W-where are we…? What happened to me…?" Saito seemed to be disconcerted.
"We're being held hostages in Dark Land. Someone named Vulture was interrogating you somehow and you fainted…"
"I remember… He… pressed hot embers against my skin… The heat… the burning… I'll never forget them… and he then soaked me with cold water. The sudden cooling inflicted pain on me as well… He did about five times since I kept on cursing him… I fainted afterwards…" Saito muttered while recalling.
"They only held me inside of a recipient of water to wake me up… I realized what trick they'd used but before the guy could start to question me, a scandal formed outside because you'd fainted… So he gave up on it and tossed me here with you…" Netto explained, sighing.
"I'm sure that… Vadous – san… will find us… soon enough…" Saito muttered as he tried to suppress his pain exhales.
"I dunno where they stacked our upper clothing, though… This is place is warm, but I'd feel better if I had something on…"
"I have the feeling they have… something worse… in store… for us… I feel like… another S&M sadist… roams close by… And it's not Twilight… I've got the hunch that it's… someone else… maybe a woman, even…"
"I hate being defeatist, but you're probably right. Damn. Why do they have to show up around us, anyway?" Netto sighed in defeat.
Saito tried to sit up on the bed slowly and managed to do so; he panted, since it was obvious that it had taken him a lot of effort.
"I feel weak… They must've given me something weird…" He grumbled and made a grimace.
"That's not possible. Your internal nanomachines would have broken down any foreign thing which wasn't acknowledged beforehand by you, see. And I'm sure they don't know about them. They couldn't do the same trick with me, either, 'cause I also have them." Netto reminded him.
THUD!
"Oof!"
Both tensed upon hearing some heavy hit the floor and someone letting out a muffle cry.
"It's us!" A familiar voice announced.
"Kuro Kaze – san?" Netto recognized it.
"Oi! Don't tell you guys forgot 'bout me as well." Another voice added with some amusement.
"Daratsu – san!" Saito exclaimed.
The door was unlocked and two men dressed in ninja attire entered.
They were both around the same height: a meter and eighty tall.
Both had thermal goggles on.
The only difference between the two of them was the stamping of their black wool tunic.
One had a purple Alphabet "D" letter drawn on the chest.
The other, however, had the initials "K2" painted in a purple color.
They carried katana sheaths and both of them twins' upper body clothes.
"Where did you find those?" Netto asked.
"They were in a locker close by." Daratsu replied.
"Hah! And they call this "security"… The guard was reading a gaming magazine. We simply snuck behind him and stunned him." Kuro Kaze chuckled and sounded like he found it laughable.
"How long have we been missing?" Saito asked.
"About two hours." Daratsu reported.
"The way out is secured. Good ol' Omega is waiting outside with a shuttle vehicle." Kuro Kaze told them.
"Put these on… By the way… Saito – kun: can you walk or do you need help?" Daratsu told them before asking Saito.
"I need some help… I feel too weak…" Saito admitted.
Netto helped Saito put his clothes on and then dressed up with his own clothes: Kuro Kaze helped Saito walk while Daratsu handed Netto a gun he took out from a pouch attached to his belt.
"It's a Beretta M92F modified to hold tranquilizer rounds. If we spot anyone, we put him to sleep. Okay?" He told Netto.
"Heh. Like Solid Snake…"
"Truly. Let's move it!"
The group of four easily made it through the empty corridors and reached an opened door, which led to some ascending stone stairs: they climbed them and exited into the surface near a large gray stone building.
"There! Omega."
"Phew. You're in one piece."
A small aerodynamic-looking white spacecraft was stationed there.
The shuttle looked aerodynamic and was colored silver: the shuttle had a front Plexiglas view window and two short wings and tail.
It also didn't seem to have any visible means of propulsion: entrance was gained through an open hatch on the left side of the body.
Omega was standing at the right of the opened side door.
"Let's hurry it up." He told them.
Everyone climbed onboard the craft and Omega sealed the lock door: he then seated on the pilot's seat.
"Fasten your seatbelts. We're going straight to Japan." Omega announced to the passengers.
Everyone did so (Netto helped Saito do so) and the craft began to lift off the ground.
"Good… Nobody noticed us insofar!"
Omega pressed some buttons and an active stealth field engaged: the craft headed for the skies without any apparent propulsion system.
"Phew. Operation: success."
To those inside, it looked like they weren't moving at all, but, nevertheless, the landscape changed: to those outside, it was moving at an incredibly high speed without any visible propulsion system.
"No one detected our coming and leaving. By the time the guys in the basement react, we'll be safe. This affair will leave those guys stained and there's gonna be a lot of internal conflict." Omega commented.
"We should go to a hospital… I'm worried about niisan's condition." Netto suggested.
"I agree. We're going to cover it saying they took you to an illegal base they had and that we rescued you. We brought you home and that's when your parents decided to bring you to the hospital. We don't want to make it look like we violated their borders." Omega told them.
"Yeah. But now they're done for." Saito muttered with a hint of anger.
"Sure… Nobody gets away with kidnapping "Net Saviors!"
10:55 AM (Mongolia Time)…
"… Meta! We're in deep shit!"
"What's wrong, Scorpion?"
General Meta had been drinking a tea to calm his earlier outburst when Scorpion entered the office, visibly excited.
"The Net Saviors… They've escaped!" He let out the bad news.
"PUAH!"
General Meta coughed and spat the tea he had been drinking: he looked at Scorpion, baffled.
"Impossible! One of them was in no condition to walk unaided and the door can't be opened from the inside!" General Meta uttered.
"They had outside help! Two ninja guys got in and knocked out the sentinel. They retrieved their belongings and locked the sentinel inside of the cell. I dunno how they got into the country so quickly, though... That's the enigma." Scorpion reported.
"… We've clearly underestimated the Subspace guys… To be able to come up with a rescue plan in so little time and carry out… I'm baffled…"
"But that's not everything… They left this behind for cha to read, it'd seem." Scorpion announced.
He took out a sealed vulgar envelop with a wax seal, which had the purple "V" engraved on it; the envelope was addressed to "General Meta: Head of the Foreign Department".
"Hand it over!"
General Meta snatched it and opened it: there was a computer-written letter in English.
"…"General Meta. You have toyed with powerful people beyond your comprehension. Now you have an example of what I am capable of. This time, I shall be a gentleman and do nothing."…"
"Yikes." Scorpion seemingly foresaw the next part.
"… "Next time, I shall use any necessary methods to bring down the whole system which shaped your own existence. Vadous."… My God!" General Meta read before gasping in horror.
"You know why he let us go, right? He wants the Secret Service to suck our blood outta us and then provoke their collapse… He wants us to destroy each other." Scorpion told him.
"… However…! I'd foreseen a similar situation… I have a backup plan ready to be executed."
"And what's it about?" Scorpion asked.
"Hah! It's simple: we're going to say "farewell" to Dark Land and become an independent nomad organization… This way… We will be able to operate anywhere, anytime without anyone setting up obstacles on our path. How's that like?" General Meta explained with a broad grin.
"I love how it sounds. To be honest, I was tired with the whims of the big boss too! How much time do you think we'd need to carry it out?"
"I've already secured a way out… I'm sure that the Big Boss is gonna send us to some frontier outpost as a punishment, so we can easily slip over the border and go to a spot I've prepared. Once in there we will use "Dimensional Converters" to go to the secret base I've arranged for. All is already in place."
"So… We act like we have been caught red-handed and everything will flow out from there?" Scorpion grasped.
"Yeah. Call over those two and Cobra. I'll call up Vulture and tell him the plan. The sooner we do it, the better! Heh, heh, heh!"
"Count on it."
Scorpion walked out rubbing his hands in excitement while General Meta chuckled under his breath.
"Hmpf… It won't be over just yet… A new chapter is about to begin…"
14:14 PM (Japan Time)…
"… Phew."
Netto was sitting in a chair next to Saito's bed in a hospital room.
The medics have applied some lotions to regenerate his skin and given him a painkiller via an IV... And since Saito – niisan acknowledged the use of it, his nanomachines didn't break it down into harmless substances. He's now deeply asleep.
"Everything is gonna be alright, niisan…" Netto muttered.
"… Netto? What happened?"
"Oh. Meiru – chan… Well… We got into a mess, as usual."
"Is Saito – kun grave?"
"No… He just needs some rest…"
"Phew. Thank goodness."
Meiru walked in while wearing her usual vest but she'd replaced the skirt for jeans and now wore white sneakers: she sat down to Netto's left.
"Saito – kun…" Roll muttered.
"He's going to be OK…" Netto calmed her down.
"Who did this?"
"Dark Land. But they're over by now. They're going to beat each other. They deserve it, really!"
"Good… I can't stand them either! Remember what they did to Princess Pride with that Napalm Man ploy!" She fumed.
"I remember that all too well, yeah."
"Be strong, Saito – kun…" Roll muttered.
"He'll make it through, Roll. You know him: he's strong. And macho."
"Meiru – chan… That last adjective was unnecessary…" Nettto sighed.
14:25 PM (Japan Time)…
DING DONG!
"Coming…"
Nelaus walked towards the entrance door and checked out through the peephole: it was Tamashita, as usual.
"Hello. What's up?" Nelaus greeted.
"Can we… talk…?" Tamashita slowly asked.
"Sure. You're always welcome!"
"Thanks…"
Tamashita stepped in and hung the coat in one of the lobby's perches before she stepped into the living room and sat on the sofa: she carried what looked like a photo album and Nelaus soon came in with the tea.
"You look troubled, Felicia – chan." Isaac commented.
"It's… nothing." Felicia hesitantly replied.
Nelaus sat down on the opposite sofa and glanced at the photo album on her lap.
"Say… Are those pictures of your family?" Nelaus assumed.
"No. I received them via post mail today… And I don't understand it at all. I thought you'd have an idea of what these are about." Tamashita sighed.
Nelaus picked the album and inwardly gasped: it was full of photographs about the abandoned Gondwana facility where he had begun his own existence: there about two dozen photos, covering every detail of the facility so Nelaus quickly derived a conclusion.
That Gate bastard lied. He's trying to split me from Aura – chan by scaring her… I need to come up with something to calm her down… And I'm sure Maria approve of this too… I dunno about Twilight but maybe he'd find it amusing to try to make me behave like Raiden… He began to wander the world and didn't want to know anything about Rose for years…
"… There's no need to fret. This looks like it was taken out of some movie or series… It must be a lame prank." Nelaus put up a confident smile and looked up from the album.
"Ah. This relieves me… I thought I was in the midst of some mess for some reason or another… I already made a mess the other day and I didn't want to start up another one…" Tamashita sighed in relief.
"I'll go toss this stupidity into the garbage bin… Enjoy the tea in the meanwhile, please."
"O. K.!"
Nelaus walked out of the living room and into the kitchen: he opened the garbage bin and tossed the album inside.
"Farewell… Gondwana." He muttered.
He quickly returned to the living room while looking like nothing had happened: he whistled a tune.
"I'm glad that you found such a nice scarf today's morning when we went shopping." Nelaus tried to switch the topic of conversation around.
"Oh! Thank you!"
"Hey. Listen, Felicia – chan… If you were to receive weird emails or calls, tell us. It's our job as Net Saviors to defend you from the bad guys who pick on you girls." Isaac told her.
"You sound like a knight, Isaac – kun!" Felicia giggled.
"Guess so… Maybe I should get a shield and a sword and look up to Link to begin with…" Isaac shrugged.
"I'll tell you if something weird happens, Isaac – kun. I know you'll take care of it." Felicia assured him.
"Sure. Take care!" Isaac smiled.
"Bye-bye!"
"Ciao!"
"See you around!"
Once Tamashita had left, Nelaus turned serious as he entered the living room and clenched a fist.
"Gate… You better be ready, because I am going to defeat you lowlife so as to break free of the chains of my past… I won't let you lowlife ruin the bonds which I have managed to build insofar…" He hissed with obvious anger on his voice.
"Together we'll take you down!" Isaac proclaimed.
"Yeah. That guy is no more than a leftover from a no-longer-existing crime empire. It's about time we made sure to completely get rid of any leftovers." Nelaus muttered.
"We will complete our redemptions. Countless suffered because of that woman. We will avenge them by wholly wiping out those leftovers. They're asking for it, anyway."
"Yeah… Twilight goes next. The guy's cornered in Melbourne and will soon be confronted with Mr. Vadous' power… But maybe he'll pull a stunt and run away like last time, over half a year ago…"
"And once Twilight's been caught then the "Talon" will not be able to move around and be able to do anything… Hmpf… You deserve it, you freaks who tried to destroy Japan's future… Go to Hell! Hmpf!" Isaac muttered next.
"Huff. Let's go visit Hikari. He probably needs company. Those Dark Land cowards… But now they'll kill each other. Have at you!"
Nelaus picked up his coat and hat and exited the house, locking it; he looked up the hospital address on the PET and then walked at a quick pace towards the bus stop.
"I called Blood, he said visits are allowed. Sakurai is already there."
"Gotcha. But knowing Saito, tomorrow he'll be in top condition."
"Of course. He's like a rock. Hence Rock Man. Heh!"
17:17 PM (Melbourne Time)…
"… There you are!"
"Kyoudai. I was waiting for ya."
"That's enough cat-and-mouse!"
"May I introduce you to a business partner?"
"Business partner? Who? That Gate guy?"
"Glory to the One Sith!"
"Fuck. Darth Krayt."
"Enjoy~…"
"Shit. I knew it was a trap but I wasn't expecting this guy…"
"Or us."
"Lovely. Darth Maladi, Darth Talon and Darth Nihl… And Darth Wyyrlok the 3rd…"
Vadous jumped inside of the living room by plunging through the windows and found Twilight calmly standing in front of the sofa and clasping his hands behind him: Vadous aimed both swords at him but then the dreaded Sith began to appear from behind the curtains.
"Enjoy this 5 VS 1 match. Maybe you'll teach Krayt why Darth Bane's Rule of Two is the most intelligent thing ever. Ciao."
Twilight laughed and de-materialized while the five enemies drew their light-sabers and began to attack Vadous: he began to try to fend them off but they were too many for him and they began to land blows on him, which were repelled by the armor.
"You morons. It has an EM field which repels energy."
He began to fight them back and Omega broke through another window having drawn his weapon: he quickly plunged it from behind into Darth Nihl and he was deleted.
"One down. They're but cannon fodder."
"Krayt isn't but I'll find a way around: your Vaapad technique could help on that, Omega." Vadous replied.
"Roger."
Vadous and Omega quickly disposed of the rest of the enemies and Omega began to attack Krayt by using an imitation of the famed Vaapad technique in which he skillfully spun the blade and began to land blow after blow too fast for the eye to count; Darth Krayt had to yield terrain and suddenly used the "Force" (or some magnetic field) to levitate the table and shoot it at Omega who split into two.
"Lorentz force." He guessed aloud.
"No wonder." Vadous wasn't surprised.
"If first was the "van der Waals force"… Next had to be this... But this charade's over by now. Go nap."
Omega quickly cut through Krayt's armor and plunged his sword through him to defeat him.
"Glory to the One Sith!"
He got deleted and both quickly began to search the house: Vadous quickly turned on a pair of thermal goggles as if to find heat traces while Omega found the basement's hidden door in the corridor and kicked it open to rush there: it was totally empty and clean.
"Hmpf. He had plenty of time to move everything."
"They should call the guy Cat-N-Mouse Man." Vadous grumbled over the radio.
"He's like the Joker or Ra's al Ghul: they always come back somehow no matter what you do. Gotham's freaks end up showing up again more than once too." Omega fumed.
"Sheesh. Then let's try to find Gate: he can't be that slippery… Twilight! I'll settle it with you later… Gate must be tackled first… Let's go!"