Back in the apartment, Jexi was looking at his comm with a worried look.
"I'm starting to get a little worried. Hope hasn't checked in since this morning." Jexi said. "Think something might have happened to him?"
"Knowing him, probably." David said.
"We should probably go out and…" Jexi began before they heard a door open and close down the hall. "That was the front. Were we expecting anyone?"
"Uh...I don't think so." Ranma said.
Jexi and David went into the halls and found some black smoke leaking from the door. "Oh that is not a good sign." he said before sensing something. "Get back!" he shouted as they jumped back as a surge of darkness broke the door into the wall.
They looked inside and saw a mass of darkness inside as well as a woman in yellow carrying Shinra. "I think my work is done." she said as a curved sword came from her hand and cut open the window, allowing her to jump out.
"A sword from her body? Was that another?" Jexi wondered before the black mass broke through the walls and then out another window to chase the woman.
Jexi and David as well as some of the group went to the balcony and saw the chase leading into the city.
"What the hell is going on? Why is there a black mass even in this house?" Vashyron wondered.
"I don't think that was any kind of black mass." Ulrich said finding Celty's helmet on the ground.
"Then that means…" Jexi said. "Celty. I'm going after her. Petra, Aelita, you two are with me. If we go after her in the air, we can at least keep up."
"Got it!" Petra said.
"Of course." Aelita said.
"Ultimate Color Wings!" Jexi shouted sprouting his wings as did Aelita as they and Petra took off across the sky.
"We have any idea what that was? And if it was even Celty?" Vashyron asked.
"Not sure. It definitely caused a mess." Saburo said before they heard neighing. They looked back into Celty's bedroom as her horse Shooter was going wild.
"Shooter?! Whoa, whoa, easy girl, easy!" Vashyron said.
"It's going agitated because Celty's gone berserk. It's trying to find her." Robin said.
Shooter neighed as it ran past them and jumped out the window, running along the walls before hitting the streets.
"Hey, come back here!" Vashyron said. "Oh great, if we don't get Shooter back soon, the police are gonna go crazy, and you know who loves to cause an epic crash in a car chase…"
"That delinquent of a Traffic Cop, Kinnosuke." Natsu said. "Luckily, we're going for a headless horse so finding it won't be too hard."
"You...do know that Shooter can shapeshift into anything it has absorbed into, right?" Zephyr asked.
"It was in motorcycle form before it changed to its normal. My guess is Shooter won't change until it's calmed down some. But we have to go after it now before it gets too far." Robin said.
"Alright, let's go!" Vashyron said. "Zephyr, you and me'll take the roof tops, Robin and Natsu, check the streets. The four of us are the horse hunters."
"You got it!" Natsu said as the four of them charged out to start the search.
Meanwhile with the Izaya/Head Retrieval group, they were in an alley when a couple of kids were around Shizuo.
"I know who you are. You're Shizuo Heiwajima." one of them said.
"You're suppose to be some tough guy, right?" another said.
"You gonna tell us why you dress like a bartender?" another asked.
"If it's to be cool, it's not. It's lame." a fourth said.
"I was hoping to just wait around here and hope Izaya or one of those sword zombies came around." Shizuo said to himself as the kids were berating him as a tick mark was appearing on his forehead.
"Huh? You're talking like some hobo. You gonna pee your bartender pants or…" the first said before Shizuo tossed him and the bike into the air. As they fell, Shizuo grabbed the kid by his shirt as his bike crashed to the pavement.
"You kids should go now." Sanji said as the four kids ran.
"Huh? Hey! What about your bike?" Hope asked.
"Keep it! Just don't kill me!" the kid shouted.
"Damn." Shizuo said picking the bike up. "Guess we're stuck with a trashed bike."
"You know…" Korra said. "Wouldn't be a better idea to track Izaya through his posts on the web?"
"Huh?" Shizuo asked.
"Think about it. Izaya's a entertainment freak. He puts up so many posts that maybe…" Korra began.
"Problem. There haven't been any posts from him. Nothing today. They all seemed to stop about an hour after the head was found." Hope said.
"Not surprising. He was keeping that thing close and for it to just disappear and appear from under his nose must have him being cautious." Sanji said.
"Let's just keep going. We aren't going to find him standing here." Shizuo said.
Meanwhile with Jexi, Aelita and Petra, the three of them flew after Celty as well as the woman in yellow. She looked over to the three going after her. "So the black rider isn't the only one to go after me. Not that it was unexpected." she said as she shot out sword like wires from her hands.
"Avoid those! If they're what I think they are, we can't let them cut us!" Jexi said.
Petra nimbly dodged the wires. "How does she even have these?"
"Good question. I know Saika is a demon blade. But I never thought anyone else would...wait. I remember something from the first time. If you were to somehow break Saika's blade...you can make an identical sword from the broken blade." Aelita said.
"So we're dealing with someone who's wielded it longer than Anri. Someone who knows how to use Saika to its full potential." Jexi said.
"Huh?" Aelita said looking behind them as they saw Zephyr and Vashyron jumping towards them. "No. You need to get away!"
"Isn't that Aelita and the others?" Zephyr asked.
"Yeah. Wonder what they're saying?" Vashyron wondered.
"Get away!" Aelita said as the sword like wires moved towards the two.
"Whoa!" Zephyr said backflipping away as Vashyron did a somersault.
"Who the hell is that?!" Vashyron asked.
"She's the one who kidnapped Shinra and the reason Celty's gone berserk." Jexi said.
"I will be blunt. Allow me to have the Dullahan...and you can escape unscathed. I only want the Dullahan." the woman said.
"That's going to depend on what you're planning to do to her." Petra said.
"Yeah. We don't know anything about you, not even nour name." Zephyr said.
"I don't need to give you my name. As your friend has already been put under the curse." she said as Vashyron held a gun to Zephyr as his eyes glowed red.
"I'll be sure to make it clean, mother." Vashyron said.
"Vashyron?! Dammit… We got careless." Petra said.
Vashyron fired as Zephyr jumped back. "What's wrong with him?" Zephyr asked.
"He was cut by Saika and put under its control." Jexi said. "Zephyr, you gotta keep Vashyron away from us or else we can't save Celty."
"Before this, we were a little busy tracking down Shooter, ya know!" Zephyr said leaping around Vashyron's bullets.
"That doesn't matter right now!" Jexi shouted before seeing the woman getting farther away with Celty after her. "Its doesn't make any sense. Why would she lead her this far into the city? Wait…"
As Celty got close to her, the woman fired more sword wires all over the buildings, making a makeshift cage as Celty got stuck inside, unable to get out.
"Of course...she was leading her into a trap." Jexi said.
"And now we have to try and break her out of it." Aelita said looking at Zephyr fight Vashyron. "And we're dealing with a professional."
Meanwhile on the streets with the Shizuo team, as they walked them, they could hear neighing down the streets. They saw Shooter running by them before it backed up to face them.
"Shooter?" Hope said. "What the heck are you doing out here without Celty? Wait… don't tell me something's going on with her?"
Shooter then stepped beside the curb.
"You want us...to get on you? Sorry but I've never ridden a horse before." Shizuo said.
Shooter then shifted into its motorcycle form.
"Sorry, don't know how to ride a motorcycle either." Shizuo said as Shooter reverted to horse form before noticing the bike. "Oh this. Got it from a bunch of punk ass kids earlier."
Shooter then grabbed the bike and absorbed it into its body before taking on the form of a four seater bike as the bell dinged.
"You're something else, aren't ya? Yeah I can ride this no sweat." Shizuo said getting on with the other three before the bike zoomed down the road.
"So, I guess Celty's in some kind of trouble right?" Sanji asked as the bell rang twice. "Then hurry and take us to her!"
Now with Rokujo and Masaomi, Rainbow and Ross…
"Alrighty then, so let me try and get all of this straight. That stupid gang you started back in middle school was the cause of all this." Rokujo said.
"That's one way of putting it." Masaomi said.
"Got it. So this started out as a fight between kids. But now your best buddy's gone nuts and he's too far gone so you thought you could beat some sense into his ass." Rokujo said.
"Yeah. But there's a lot of other stuff that…" Rainbow began.
"Hang on, I ain't done yet. The Blue Squares are keeping him away from you so you got your old gang to flush those bitches out." Rokujo said.
"Yes." Masaomi said.
"It's like I was saying. Me and all my honeys think I'm a great listener...dumbass!" Rokujo said headbutting Masaomi in the head.
"The hell's that for?" Masaomi said recoiling in pain.
"Shut the hell up! If you had dealt like this when you had the chance, none of this would have happened. And now you drag me and those two into it? Damn you're such a little bastard." Rokujo said.
"Stop it already you two! It's not worth it beating each other up!" Rainbow said.
"Each other? Last I checked I'm the one taking a beating. Besides, no one told you to join in." Masaomi said.
"Huh? Oh! Holy crap! You're totally right! My bad." Rokujo said.
"Yeah, whatever. Just get the facts straight next time." Masaomi said.
"Like what? Like how you up and left without telling him? Or how you think kicking his ass will fix things? Someone should kick your ass just for thinking that." Rokujo said.
"How come you didn't…." Masaomi began before remembering Rokujo talking with Mikado after the fight in the park. "No...forget it. It's not your fault."
"You know how it is when kids get bent out of shape for the stupidest little thing? Well that's what you're doing now. The problem you both got is that you hate being weak. You think being stronger is gonna cover the fact you're weak. And he thinks destroying everything is gonna cover the fact he's weak. You both just got two different ways of dealing with it." Rokujo said.
"Take it from us. A good friend of mine once met someone with the same problem. He has taught him that taking your anger out on others will not resolve your weaknesses. Only the things you do to make up for them can." Ross said.
"Yeah. Listen to the cow guy. So...you wanna see him?" Rokujo asked.
"What do you think? Nothing is gonna get better unless we see each other. I don't care if we beat the crap out of each other. I don't care if he doesn't wanna talk to me. I don't care if all this is my fault. I'm gonna save him!" Masaomi said.
"Heh. Now you're speaking like a hero." Rokujo smirked.