We open back to the place Shizuo and the group was as they were trapped in the with Izaya looked down on them as they were losing air.
"Ah. To think I am to witness this on a clear starless night. Shizu-Chan, can you imagine how long I've been thinking of killing you? A long long time. I wracked my brain trying to think up a proper death for you and I found one. Suffocation." Izaya said. "I tampered with the sprinklers to pump in carbon dioxide. The crane and the pillars were a way to lure you all here. You've survived them all so far. Congrats." Izaya smiled clapping his hands. "But...I think I should put you out of your miseries now." he said getting out some matches.
"What's with those matches he's got?" Hope asked.
"Something tells me he's gonna use em to ignite something and blow us up to smithereens." Zephyr said.
"Its us. The room is filling with Carbon Dioxide. It's highly flammable." Aelita said.
"So? How do we get out of here?!" Zephyr asked.
"We can't. We don't have clean air, the entrance is cut off by fire and we're several stories up. He got us." Petra said.
"Bye." Izaya said before tossing the match into the room as a huge explosion followed. Izaya smiled before the smoke cleared as he saw the heroes and Shizuo gone and a hole in the floor. "Damn it. They broke out." Izaya said before he felt the iron pillar he stood on shaking.
Down below him, Shizuo and the others were giving the pillar a shake.
"How does it feel...to be outsmarted?" Jexi said before the pillar Izaya stood on collapsed as he was falling while Shizuo grabbed a pillar.
"Izaya!" Shizuo shouted.
Izaya quickly moved to use his legs to stop the attack only to be launched by the pillar into a nearby office building window. Izaya weakly got up as blood was coming from his mouth. "What...right. Damn monster." Izaya said hearing crashing nearby. "I hope he fell to his death with those others. No. What's the point if I don't kill him myself." he said getting up and grabbing his side. "Looks like I broke several ribs. Can't worry about it. I gotta get out of here."
The Shizuo group hurried into the building and looked around.
"No doubt. He was tossed into this building." Petra said.
"He couldn't have gotten far. Where did he go?" Hope wondered.
"Hmm. There are a few ways to get out. Would he jump? No. Considering the injuries he sustained, I doubt he would make it. Stairs, no that would be too much time. The only logical solution...the elevator." Aelita said.
"Then we go for him." Hope said. "Petra, you fly up outside, you're fast in the air."
"Sorry, but one of my wings got injured during our fast escape. I need to rest it for awhile." Petra said.
"Hard way it is." Zephyr said.
"I see him!" Jexi said looking down below as Izaya was limping away on foot.
Shizuo looked down at Izaya before deciding to go after him.
Meanwhile in another part of town, the van carrying Kyohei, Walker, Saburo, Anri, Saki, Namie, Seiji, Mika and David and his party were on the road with the Saika zombies marching past them.
"Strange. They're walking past us." Takeshi said.
"Maybe they just don't see us as much of a threat." Kokoro said.
"No. They are being controlled. I don't know who infected them." Anri said.
"Okay, so how does that work?" Kyohei asked as a sword was phasing out of Anri's hand.
"Look. This is Saika." Anri said.
"Wow. Doesn't it hurt when it does that?" Saki asked as Walker was freaking out.
"Uh...Walker?" Anri asked.
"This is incredible! I knew if I was patient, I would have the chance to get my own superpower. Come on, what do I gotta do to have a Saika too? Seriously, I'll train at a dojo with a master swordsman and work hard to prepare my body and mind for when I have to fight the enemy." Walker said.
"I… don't think it works that way, Walker." Mayumi said.
"It doesn't. If he was cut, he would be caught by its desire to love humans." Anri said.
"Humans, huh? Like the 3D kind?" Walker asked.
"I don't think Saika cares much about the 2D kind. Like in manga and stuff." Anri said.
"So what does a blade care so much about?" Kara asked.
"Essentially, Saika's one desire is to love people. And it shows love by cutting them." Tails explained.
"That's just morbid." Kurochi said.
"To each their own, I suppose." Sectonia said.
"Yeah. And those who get cut by Saika gets part of Saika in themselves. They're children of Saika and each person they cut while under its influence take a piece of that curse themselves." Tails said. "A small few of us were cut by it the first time."
"That must've been a horrifying experience." Tapu Lele said.
"Yeah, but with our time away from this world has weakened the curse. We still get the red eyes and feel the other children, but that's about it." Weiss said.
"So...if Erika was really cut by this Saika thing, could you snap her out of it?" Kyohei asked.
"If I were to get in contact with her with Saika, I could definitely do it. Probably." Anri said.
"Then I guess we're counting on you." Kyohei said.
"So how are we supposed to find Erika in this mess of possessing?" Soul asked "Damn, what is with this traffic?"
They looked out to see a few motorcycles and riders driving past them.
"Those bikes. I'm not sure but I think they're from motorcycle gangs across Japan." Daisy said.
"Yep. They do those kinds of rallies from time to time." David said. "But gangs from all across Japan? Something's definitely up."
"Wait, didn't Ross say he was with Rokujo? He's the leader of the Toramaru." Lacy said.
"If they came here to take out a biker gang leader. They couldn't have picked a better night." Leonora said.
"It's too much of a coincidence." Tails said.
"Don't be surprised if one of the Elements shows up too." David said.
"Nein. I don't think ze Elements have anything to do with zis." Rachael said.
"Rachel's right. If they were, one of them would've shown up by now." Kokoro said
"Yeah. But I have a pretty good idea who is. The Blue Squares." Gemini said.
Meanwhile near the square of Ikebukuro where Rokujo, Rainbow and Ross were fighting off both the Saika children and the Blue Squares.
"Ross, can you be a little more helpful?! Use your power in that bull frame and beat these guys up faster!" Rainbow said whacking a child of Saika with her blade.
"Uh...I don't usually go for violence right away." Ross said before one of the Blue Squares hit him with a baseball bat.
"Too bad, cow boy. No use for pacifism in a street fight." one of them said.
"And you...just made a big mistake." Ross said. He then swung the handle of his axe and knocked the punk towards a lamp post.
"Don't you guys hold back. We gotta keep these guys busy until Masaomi and Mikado make up and talk." Rokujo said punching one of the Blue Squares away.
Up on top of a nearby building, Masaomi and Mikado were facing one another.
'So...what is it you wanted to show me?" Masaomi asked.
"The very last meeting...of the Dollars." Mikado said.