Phantom teleported Terumi and the Eds to the altar to prepare them for smelting.

"Let us go you Michael Jackson wannabe!" Eddy shouted.

Terumi tightened the chain's grip on Eddy, making him cough a bit. "Quiet, half-pint! Hey, if you're a good boy, Uncle Terumi will give you all a nice, juicy jawbreaker," Terumi said as he pulled out three massive jawbreakers. Ed and Eddy's eyes grew to the size of saucers and their mouths began to water upon gazing at the thing they work so hard to raise money for.

Double Dee wasn't fazed at all. "How did you manage to get those, exactly and how do we know they're real?" he challenged.

Terumi put on an innocent smile. "Double Dee, you wound me. You see, while I was observing you three losers, I noticed that you all have a serious fetish for these jawbreakers, so I took the liberty of making them myself in order to give myself, you know, leverage," he said with a wink. "They're as real as the ones in your dimension, that much I can assure you."

Eddy finally snapped out of the trance and came to his senses too. "Wait, why WOULD you give us jawbreakers? They could just be poisoned or something! Not falling for it, jerk!" he said with his nose in the air.

Terumi was confused. "Okay, seriously? What am I going to gain from poisoning you, runt? I need you all alive for my experiment," he said as he released the three. "Plus I tried some myself and I can understand why you rip people off for these things. And people think I'M evil!" He held one of the sugar-coated orbs to Ed's face. "C'mon big guy, I know you want it."

Ed's face was a weird combination of resistance and temptation. "J-j-j-j-JAWBREAKER! YUM YUM YUM!" he finally yelled as he started running full-speed at Terumi for the jawbreaker. He ripped it out of the villain's hands and shoved it into his mouth, soon sucking away at it like it was his last meal.

"ED! What are you doing!? That could be poisoned!" Double Dee warned. But Ed showed no negative effects after swallowing the jawbreaker, making his belly look like he was pregnant with a jawbreaker-baby.

Terumi cocked an eyebrow. "You know you're supposed to just let it melt in your mouth, right kid?"

"Welcome to our world," Eddy chimed.

Terumi smiled evilly again. "So Ed, how did it taste? Good?"

Ed had a huge smile plastered on his face. "You betcha!"

"Wonderful! Now how would you like more of them?"

Ed looked at him with stars in his eyes. "You have more!? Tell us where!"

Terumi cackled. "I'll tell ya what, kid. You see that flower-looking thing on top of that altar? I have a whole supply of jawbreakers sitting up there with you and your pals' names on them. They're like a "thank-you" for being introduced to these wonderful candies. Go ahead, they're AAAAAAALL yours, hahahahahaha!"

"Ed, hold on a sec! He's full of baloney!" Eddy called to his friend.

"Jawbreakers, Eddy!" Ed said as he grabbed his two pals and started running up the altar in cartoonish fashion.

"NO ED!" his friends cried in vain. They struggled to get free, but Ed was too strong for them to break free. The Cauldron opened and welcomed the three Eds into it, thus closing behind them and beginning the smelting process.

"AH, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Terumi laughed. "That was TOO easy! Who would have thought those idiots could be bought by CANDY!?"

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Rachel, Ragna, Kokonoe, and Lambda teleported to an area far enough away from the altar to plan their next move.

"Alright, as we have discussed. This dog and I will do whatever it takes to eliminate Terumi and prevent the destruction of the Master Unit. Kokonoe, Lambda, you will do what you can to help save the boys. And if they are smelted, God forbid, incapacitate them and figure out a way to save their souls so that they may rest in peace. Do you all have any questions?"

Kokonoe raised her hand. "Yeah, how do you know Terumi's not going to just kill off Lambda again like last time? She's not going to be able to focus on saving the boys and fending off Terumi at once."

"It is interesting that you say that," Rachel answered. "We are going to prevent Terumi from getting involved with Lambda at all costs by activating the Tsukuyomi Unit, thus separating Ragna, Terumi and I and Lambda and the boys."

Ragna was taken back at that idea. "Wow, Rabbit. That's actually one of the best plans I've heard you come up with yet."

Rachel shook off the compliment. "Unfortunately it is not a perfect plan. It also means that while I am the superior fighter of us two," she said, making Ragna pissed. "You will have to keep me alive so that I may keep the Tsukuyomi activated. In addition to that, it also means that we will not be able to assist Lambda if she gets overwhelmed by the boys in the event Terumi succeeds with his smelting plan." She turned to Kokonoe. "You are certain that this doll will be able to withstand whatever tricks Terumi has up his sleeves?"

Kokonoe put on a determined face. "You bet your ass she is! She's twice as powerful as before. Not only that, but SHE chose to go after the boys, so it's obvious her head's in the game!"

Lambda smiled. "Affirmative. Personal objective is to save subjects Ed, Double Dee, and Eddy at all costs. If they are smelted, I must resort to combat mode and incapacitate the subjects."

Rachel's face was very even and determined. "Very well then, if you all are ready, then let's move forward and defeat this bastard." The four of them teleported to the altar to take on the green-haired villain.

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Meanwhile, in the depths of the NOL, Tao, Bang, and Tager were walking through the strangely-empty hallways.

"Interesting, I thought that since I was from Sector Seven, they would have been alerted to my presence within seconds," Tager observed.

Bang laughed loudly. "It is because they know that the Hero of Love and Justice, BANG SHISHIGAMI, has made his presence and his comrades' presences known here and they are too cowardly to face us!"

Tao looked at Bang with an annoyed look on her face. "Scruffy Man, you need to settle down a little, meow. This place makes Tao's fur bristle." Bang and Tager looked at each other for a second. Taokaka is being serious about something other than food and sleeping?

The three approached a set of large doors at the end of the hallway. On the door there was a plaque that said who this office belonged to. Colonel Relius Clover.

"If anyone would help that fiend Terumi, it would be this man, Relius Clover!" Bang exclaimed.

"Chances are that these doors may be locked and bolted up tight, so I will have to-" Tager began to say before he was cut off.

"FOR EYEBROW GUY, SOCK HEAD GUY, AND SHORTY#2!" Tao yelled as she barrelled through the door at breakneck speeds like a battering ram. The doors were busted wide open, but Tao was dazed from the impact and fell to the ground, unconscious. Bang and Tager burst through the door to find their target. 20 feet in front of them was a middle-aged man dressed in white pants, a burgundy cape, and a golden masquerade mask.

"You three were not who I was expecting to come here," he said sternly. "No matter, you do not pose that much of a threat to me."

Bang held his fist up in rage. "Relius Clover! Your reign of terror ends here!"

Relius smiled. "Terror? Me? No, my dear ninja, this is SCIENCE!" He revealed the computer he was working on that displayed the altar that Terumi was standing on. "You are more than welcome to determine if this is terror or not, but to me, this is magnificent progress towards a new beginning. And I will not let you interfere."

Bang readied his nail and Tager charged up his fists. "Taokaka, are you ready to take down this fi-. Tao?" he said confused. Tao was still knocked unconscious from the breach, meat buns flying around her head in a daze. "No matter, the Red Devil and I are more than enough manpower to take you down! Prepare yourself, villain!"

"I would like to see you try. Ignis!" Relius called to his Nox Nyctores wife as she readied her claws and spikes for battle.

"RELIUS CLOVER!" Bang shouted as a war cry as he dashed towards Relius.