A/N: Last time, the Runners are captured by the mastermind who stole the heat data and are trapped into a deadly sauna! Let's see them get out of this fiery situation in Part 3!

Virtual Springs: Part 3

Back at the Magic Springs pool, Tina is in the middle of an yoga class when Heath is walking down the pool with his assistant and guards and notices his guests.

"Well, things look good here," he said as he stepped up to the diving board "Hey folks, why don't you let me, Leland Heathcliff, show you how a cannonball is done."

With that, Leland jumped on the board several times before cannonballing into the pool, splashing several guests.

After the yoga class, Tina is wiping off her sweat with a towel when she notices her towel is now wet. She then tries to call some waiters or employees for a fresh towel, but none came.

"Hmm... Looks like they're busy. Maybe I can get a fresh towel by myself," she said as she heads inside the resort to find one.

Tina looked through the resort and saw a door with a sign that said "Storage Basement".

"Maybe there are fresh towels there," she said as she head through the door and started down the stairs. At the bottom, she glanced around looking for any sign of some towels.

"Ms. Reyheart!"

Noticing those familiar voices, Tina approaches the cell door and sees the three Runners, now sweating due to the sun above them.

"Waters, Kurosawa, Starr?! If this is another way to get away from your mission..."

"Trust me, Ms. Reyheart. We're still focusing our mission," Jordan said in exhaustion. "In fact, the owner of Magic Springs is responsible for the Data Core tampering!"

"Come again?!"

"He stole the heat data from those worlds to create this resort," Itzal explained. "However, he's unaware that the amount the data he stole is too much the world will handle."

"I-If we don't restore those data back to their proper worlds in 40 minutes, not only they will be unrecoverable," Zeus said in a same tone as Itzal and Jordan's, "This world will go-"

"BOOM!" Jordan finished.

"Oh my! We have to stop him before it's too late," Tina said in a stern, but worried tone.

"T-That's not all," Jordan says as she points at their RunComs to the nearby table that Tina is standing. "A-Although he's too clueless about who we really are, h-he's somehow smart of him t-to confiscate our RunComs since h-he thinks of them as communicators to call for help."

"I have to admit, he's rather clever," Tina said. "Don't worry, Runners. I'll get you out of there."

Tina looked around and saw a crowbar laying up against the wall. She grabbed it and jammed one end in-between the frame and door and pried and pried until the door popped open and the three spilled out into a sweaty pile on the ground.

"Here, you can't be a Runner without your RunComs," she said as she gives their RunComs back to the kids.

"Thanks, Ms. Reyheart. No offense, but despite you're kind a scary stern woman, you still kinda nice," Jordan said in gratitude as she puts on her RunCom.

"None taken. Now, to answer your question on how to restore the heat data to their original worlds, this world's Data Core must be reset. It won't stop the world from exploding, but it's the only way to save the data."

"And let me guess, since you're the Councilwomen, you're the only one who can reset it?" Jordan guessed.

"Actually, all of the field Runners can reset it. However, since all of you are first-timers, I'll volunteer to go into the Core."

"Well, we better find the Core fast before this world is about-"

Before Zeus can finish his sentence, Itzal's RunCom makes a beeping sound and when he answers it, he sees a news channel in his TV app.

"This is Rey McCoil with the weather report! Southdale is experiencing a weird blizzard, despite it being the middle of April and the fact that it never snows in this part of the state. The sudden change in the weather has had weather experts baffled beyond comprehension. We'll bring more of this breaking report as it continues," the news reporter said in panic.

"Oh no! He must have stole the heat data from my hometown!" Itzal said in shock. "That's it! I'm going on -Dark Reaper- mode on that guy!"

"Well, let's do it before my world will have the same fate as yours!" Jordan said in determination as she and Itzal turn on their secret apps.

"I'm way behind you!" Zeus said as he does the same thing.

"Run Convertion! Log In!"

Upon shouting out the phrase needed to activate the app, they instantly changed into their Runner forms.

"Get behind us, Ms. Reyheart! I think it's time to eclipse Heath's sunny plans!" Jordan said in determination as they got out of the cell room to stop Heath, once and for all.

Heath got out of the pool and on of his men handed him a towel.

"Ah, nothing like a fresh dip in the pool to celebrate my thriving fortunes," he said satisfyingly.

"Well that's a shame, 'cause we're about to drive you into bankruptcy!"

Recognizing that voice, Heath turns around and was shocked to see Jordan, Itzal, Zeus, and Tina right in front of him with the three Runners wielding their weapons, which the guests notices them and runs out of the pool in panic.

"So, you brats got out of my sauna, eh? Looks like I underestimated you all," he said in a little sarcasm. "Unfortunately, Magic Springs will never close down until I wipe out of my competition!"

Heath then turns to his guards and says, "Show these rude guests how to relax. Permanently."

Following his order, the thugs grab some weights from the gym and starts throwing them to the heroes, which they were able to dodge at the last second. As they try to dodge the weights, one of the thugs throw one of them behind Zeus. But due to his -Battle Premonition- ability, he was able to grab an umbrella in the last second and uses it as a shield to protect him and his friends from the ambush.

"Yeesh! I thought muscle-bound thugs only work for ugly bad guys, not resort owners," Jordan said in annoyance.

"How do we warn the guests? We still need to evacuate the resort before it explodes," Itzal asks.

"I know," Jordan said. As Zeus blocked the weights with the umbrella, Jordan ran to the lifeguard tower and grabbed a megaphone from it. She then climbed up to the top.

"Attention everyone," she said through the megaphone. "Mr. Heath has stolen heat data from other worlds in order to make this resort of his enjoyable. But the amount of heat he has stolen has caused the world Data Core to become unstable, and it will soon explode. So I urge all of you to quickly but calmly evacuate to the shuttles and buses and taxis you took to get here and leave this place now!"

As that was said, the guest quickly ran to gather their things and leave immediately.

"No hold it," Heath said, still not believing that the place was going to blow. "The place is safe, completely flaw free."

As they are still defending themselves from the thugs' weights, their RunComs suddenly make some beeping sounds, which they recognized that a Data Core is nearby.

"Looks like we found the Core. Only how do we stop these thugs?!" Jordan said in panic.

Realizing that they got no other option to escape, Tina suddenly jumps out of the umbrella and in front to the thugs, much to Jordan and Itzal's shock.

"Ms. Reyheart, don't!" she shouts in worry.

"You can't defeat these guys by yourself!" Itzal added.

"D-Don't be so sure, guys!"

Jordan and Itzal turns to Zeus as he continues to block the weights with an umbrella.

"She may look like a defenseless game creator, but she's more than that," he said with confidence.

"He's right, you two. I think I've relaxed enough," Tina said in a same tone.

Without hesitation, she throws her tote bag in the air, revealing her RunCom inside. She quickly catches it and puts it on her wrist in determination

"It's time to show how a true Runner fight!" she said as she activates the same app as the other Runners.

"Run Convertion! Log In!"

In a flash of bright black and purple light, she was transformed into her a 13 year old girl with long black hair and purple eyes and wears a black and white Japanese school uniform, white skirt, long white knee-length socks, and black loafers. On her belt was a card deck box with a purple moon logo and a rapier mounted on her right side on it.

"N-No way, I never seen her in-game, but her avatar is really beautiful," Jordan said in awe.

"Yeah, I can't believe that the Councilwomen of the Black and White Union is right in front us in person," Itzal said in a same tone. "She's known as her title, the -Piercing Dusk-. Even her name is even feared and respected."

"Lilith Shroud"

"Lilith," Jordan repeated. "Wow."

Without a word, Lilith opens her eyes as she pulls out her rapier and prepares herself. The thugs quickly attacks her with the weights, but she easily dodges them with ease and she quickly disappears in the wind as she rushed to them and reappears in front of the thugs and strikes them with one hit.

"No way! She's fast," Jordan said in shock and awe.

"Really fast," Itzal added.

As Lilith fights some of the thugs, Zeus throws the umbrella away and joins his friends as he said, "Looks like we better join the party."

"Agree, let's go!" Jordan said. "Itzal, can you help Ms. Rey- I mean Lilith?"

"It will be my pleasure," Itzal said as he rushed to Lilith's aid.

"Come on, Z! Time to close down Heath's resort plan!"

"I'm right behind you!" Zeus said as he and Jordan fight the other thugs to get to Heath.

Jordan quickly knocked one thug out with a flying roundhouse kick, Zeus did another with a leg sweep. For the last thug who was larger than the others, Jordan froze him up to his neck with an -Aqua Freeze Blast- while Zeus tried his -Flash Block- on him. But the thug quickly broke out of the ice due to the heat melting it.

"What the-," Jordan said "How'd he-"

"The heat melted the ice," Zeus said, as he noticed the sunglasses on the thug's eyes. "And those glasses shielded his eyes."

Frustrated, Jordan charged the large thug, who quickly grabbed her raised her over his head threw her into the pool. Zeus then did the same, but the thug then grabbed a bottle of sunscreen and squirted it where he ran, causing him to slip on the sunscreen and slide into the pool alongside Jordan. The giant thug laughed at this.

"What a rip off," Jordan said angrily.

With Itzal and Lilith, Itzal managed to block several blows with his scythe and used his -Blackout Push- to push the thugs back. Lilith then stepped in and shouted "Aria of Illusions!" which several shadows appeared on Lilith's feet and when she points her hand to the thugs, the shadows gathered around it and uses her rapier to stab in the air near her hand like a bow, launching the shadows to the thugs, causing them to stun for a while, then fainted due to intense illusions from the shadows. Lilith then shouted "Rushing Dusk!", which she rushes to the thugs in a shadowy blur and slashing the last of the thugs, finishing them off.

Itzal then noticed Jordan and Zeus in the pool. Realizing they needed help, he took something short and wrapped up out.

"Hey Zeus, catch!" he shouted as he threw it at Zeus. Zeus turned and saw the wrapped package and caught it. He unwrapped it and found…

"A katar?" he said in surprise.

"A -Hidden Katar- actually," Jordan said. "Itzal gave it to you to battle with and boost your power since you didn't want a second class."

"Wow," Zeus said. He then turned to Itzal and shouted, "Thanks, man."

"No prob," Itzal said.

With the katana and katar in hand, Zeus leapt of the pool with Jordan following. The giant thug stopped laughing and looked with fear at Zeus and his new weapon.

"Alright big guy, take this," Zeus said as he charged the thug again and kicked him in the face, breaking his glasses. He then used his -Flash Block- to stun the thug. Finally Zeus shouted, "Nova Ambush!", which charges his katar with light aura and strikes the katar to the thug. Although it passes through his body, it quickly hits him on the stomach. The thug stood firm for a while, then keeled over backwards and collapsed on his back, finally defeated.

"You have been resigned," he said with a smirk.

"Nice job, Z!" Jordan said with glee as she and the other Runner swarmed to Zeus. "Cool new skill by the way."

"Yes, it should be fitted to your new weapon," Lilith complimented.

"Thanks, guys," Zeus said in gratitude.

"Well, we stopped Heath's thugs, but we still need to reset the Data Core before this world explodes," Itzal reminded everyone.

"Plus, we need to stop Heath," Jordan said in determination, which it disappears when she realizes something. "But, where is he anyway?"

"Right here!"

The Runners turned around to see Heath, now angry at what they done so far.

"You may stop my henchmen and emptied the resort, but you will never close down Magic Springs!" Heath declared in anger. "Cause when I'm done with you brats, I will expand my resort and restore my guests! Magic Springs will be Number 1 and NOBODY CAN STOP ME!"

"Guess again, resort geek! Can you two handle this guy while I lead Lilith to the Core?" Zeus asked to his friends.

"Don't worry, we'll show this guy the meaning of relaxation," Jordan said with confidence as Itzal nodded in determination.

"Good luck, Runners," Lilith said as she and Zeus left the battlefield to find the Data Core.

"Aww, looks like your friends are running away from me," Heath said in a mocking tone.

"Don't get cocky, Leland! If you want to fight them, then you got to get through us!" Jordan said as she and Itzal prepare themselves to fight him.

"You got spunk, kid. No matter, it time for you two to be banned from Magic Springs, forever!"

Heath then rushed to the Runners to fight them.

At the wall of the resort's main building, Zeus and Lilith notices a wall as they try to find the Core, which their RunComs detected it.

"Looks like it's in there," Lilith said in a stern tone. "How many minutes until the world explodes?"

Zeus checks the time through his holographic screen and replies, "15 minutes. You better hurry."

"Right."

As the holgraphic screen with the log-in page of ULO appears, Lilith types in her username and password. Then, the door from before appears right in front of the Runners, which Lilith enters afterwards.

Back at the pool, Jordan and Itzal continue to fight Heath as he fights them using a limbo stick as a bo staff.

Jordan does flying kick on him, but he quickly blocks it and grabs her leg to throw her to the smoothies shack.

Inside Magic Springs' Data Core, Lilith approaches the database and opens the main menu to the Core.

"I never done this in months now," she whispered. "But, despite that incident caused me to doubt my abilities to help "him", I won't ignore my duties."

At the pool, Heath successfully disarms Itzal's scythe as it fell down to the pool. Luckily, Jordan was able to stop Heath's final strike to him by using her -Crystal Grenades- to freeze his legs.

As she touches the -Main Controls- button on the screen, she whispers, "I never had any happy memories in the past, but because of you all, I was able to move on."

However, due to the heat, his legs was quickly thaw out as he picks up a volleyball net from the ground and throws it to Jordan, which she was quickly trapped.

Seeing her in danger, Itzal summons his secondary weapon, his own sword and slashes the net to free her.

In the -Main Controls- screen, she saw the -Reset- button and touches it, bringing her to a confirmation window to ask her to reset the Data Core with the consequences of losing some of the recent data within it.

After that, Jordan summons her staff and shouts out, "Waterfall Cannon!"

A large stream of water shot out of the staff, but it was dodged by Heath as he's about hit the two Runners with the table.

Without a hesitation, she touches -Yes- on the screen.

Suddenly, the lights inside the Core disappear as the database and the other computers shut down, leaving the room inside the Core in total darkness.

Then, lights start to shine behind Lilith as the everything in the Core turns on by itself, which it create a flash of purple and black light.

Outside, several lights quickly burst out the Core, shocking Zeus in awe.

"Whoa!" he said as he quickly stumbles in shock. "Looks like she made in time."

Back at the pool, Heath was about to hit them when he quickly notices the lights not far away.

"What the?!"

As they watched the lights, Zeus notices the temperature window appeared near him, which he was shocked at what was written.

"Jordan! The world is cooling down!" he declared. "The lights must be the heat data from the other worlds! They are returning to their proper owners!"

"N-No!" Heath said in horror.

"Oh yes!" Jordan said in triumphant.

At some several worlds that was frozen over due to the missing heat data, the snow starts to melt as the citizens notice the suns from their respective worlds starts to reappear to the skies, overjoying them with relief.

As Zeus watched the lights returning to their worlds in awe, Lilith came out of the Core and asks, "Looks like I made it."

"Your guess is good as mine," he said.

Suddenly, they felt the ground shaking, realizing that it's not over yet.

"Uh-oh! We may saved and restored the heat data, but even if they are gone from here, this world is still about to explode!" Zeus said in panic.

"You're right! It must've have become too overloaded with the heat data's power!" Lilith guessed. "We need to evacuate this world immediately!"

With that, Zeus and Lilith decided to rejoin Jordan and Itzal.

Back at the pool, after they saw the data returning to their own worlds, they noticed Zeus and Lilith run towards them as the former shouts out, "Guys!"

"Let me guess, your theory on restoring the heat data won't stop the explosion came true, right?" Jordan sheepishly asks.

"I'm afraid it's true. We need to leave this resort world now!" Lilith said.

"But Zeus's ability-"

"Don't worry, I deactivated the -Anti-Portal World- setting after I resetted the Core. Zeus, what world you choose isn't matter. We need to leave before it's too late."

"Wait! What about Heath?" Itzal reminded them when the Runners turns around and saw Leland escaping through his flight-modified 1967 Mustang with his assistant.

"Great, his car can fly, but we can't. What do we do?" Jordan asks in a desperate tone.

Just then, Zeus thought up of something and asks to the Water Runner, "Hey Jordan, quick quiz. Other than Electric and Rock, what is the weakness of Flying-type Pokemon?"

"Zeus! This is no time to play 'Pokemon Quiz'!" Itzal exclaimed.

However, Jordan gets the idea at what Zeus's question meant as she pulls out her staff and aimed it at Heath's modified car. "Actually, I know the answer! Is it this?"

"Boreas's Blizzard Star!" she shouted as she fires a charged-up blue magic to the car, creating a small blizzard around it, and when it hits, half of it starts to covered in ice, much to Heath and his assistant's shock.

Due to the engines inside of the car stops because of the ice, the car quickly falls down to a shivelled lake near the resort as the Runners approached it.

"And the other status ailment that is easier to catch Pokemon is the Frozen status," Jordan quipped.

"Don't need a question for that. Congrats, Jordan!" Zeus complimented her.

"Yes, excellent job, Waters," Lilith added with gratitude.

As the Runners congratulate Jordan, Heath and Jules got out of the car in dismay, now wet because of the lake.

Inside the portal's vortex, the Runners are gliding to a random world while carrying Heath and Jules inside some sort of energy bubble when they saw through the vortex is the Magic Springs, which quickly explodes after that.

"My resort, MY BEAUTIFUL RESORT!" Heath exclaimed in panic.

"Why did I work with you in the first place anyway?" Jules asks in annoyance, which Heath only replied with a groan.

At Southdale, Leland is now taken away by some kids in unique outfits as Jordan, Zeus, and Tina, now in their normal forms, watched them.

"Great job on you first mission as a team, everyone," Tina said in gratitude.

"Thanks, Ms. Reyheart. I'm just glad I don't have to worry about my parents explaining about snow on my clothes," Jordan said in relief. "But where are those kids taking Heath to anyway? Runner prison?"

"We have no prisons in the game world, but the other Runners are sending him back to our world to be put in L.A. prison," she explained. "As for the guests in Magic Springs who saw us, we erased any memories about our confrontation with him for protection. We also told the others that there's a faulty power box that is unrepairable."

"Okay..."

"YOW!" Heath shouted as he as being lead away. "Watch the sunburn!"

"And now you see kids, why you should always wear your sunblock," Zeus quipped.

"Yeah, and I'd hate to see him when he starts peeling," Jordan said. Everybody laughed at this.

Meanwhile, Itzal, now transformed back into Tony, is also watching the amusing moment when his older siblings runs to him in their spy suits.

"Tony, where have you've been?!" Lee demanded.

"Uh, nowhere," Tony said without exposing his secret. "Just been around. I see things are normal here at home."

"Normal? Does a snowstorm in the middle of April looks normal to you?!" Megan exclaimed.

"Don't worry, it will clear up soon," he casually said.

But Marc didn't believe him as he said, "Clear up?! Something tells me this is man-made, and it will not clear up like a normal-"

Before Marc finishes his sentence, the light from Magic Springs appeared from the sky and crashes into the whole city, returning the heat data to the Data Core and causing the snow around the Clarks to melt due to the returning heat of the sun.

"Uh..."

"You were saying?"

"How'd you-"

"Just had a gut feeling."

"Well how did that happen?" Lee asked.

"No clue."

"Well we should go tell Jerry about this," Megan said. "You coming Tony?"

"Nah, you guys go ahead. I'm just gonna hang here for a while."

"Okay…," Marc said as the three left.

"That was close," Tony said in relief.

"I'm impressed. You were able to tell them without exposing yourself as a Runner," Tina said. "Which I think it would be better off you can become an official one."

"Wait, seriously?!"

"Yes, and without a doubt, you three will make a good team. The worlds are counting on you on their safety."

"Don't worry, Ms. Reyheart. They won't worry about Black Tundra any second now that the new heroes are born," Zeus said with confidence.

"Second... Second screen..."

Then Jordan realizes something as she panickly shouts, "OH MY GOSH! THE MII-Z!"

She quickly runs to the portal where Zeus created to go back to California in panic as the other Runners looked on, which they only shrugged each other.

Back at Fils-Aime Moffitt School, Jordan is relaxing at the couch in the Mid-School Zone as Zeus and Itzal enters the lounge.

"Hey, Jordan. What's up?" Itzal asks.

"What's up? I'll tell you what's up!"

She grabs some kind of bag near her backpack and pulls out a white game console along with some kind of a game controller with a screen.

"My new Mii-Z! I grabbed it at the game store just in time before they close," she explained.

"Cool! Remind me to get one for myself," Itzal said in an impressed tone. "So can we play it with you?"

"With Mii Remote, sure! But not now."

"Huh? I thought you said-"

"Actually, I need to update the system to use it's full features when I get home," Jordan said. "Until then, I have time to finish some loose ends."

She then pulls out her GX Portable and plays it for a few seconds, until she quickly shouts out, "YES! I CAUGHT TORNADUS!"

"Wow, congratulations!" Zeus said.

"Hey, it's because of your hints back there that helped me stop Heath and solve my catching problems. You should get my share of the credit," she said.

"Uh, thanks."

"Huh? You must have play Jordan's game for about, 8 or more times before you got here," Itzal said.

"Actually, I didn't play that game," Zeus declared.

Jordan and Itzal are surprised about what he said.

"Not even one previous game?" she asked.

"Nope."

"Well do you watch the show, or read the manga, or play the trading card game?"

"A little bit, no, and no."

"That's peculiar," Jordan said. Suddenly Calla, Kani, Andre and Bren walked into the room. Calla was crying over something.

"Hey guys," Itzal said. "What's wrong with Calla?"

"You didn't hear?" Andre said. "Magic Springs was shut down!"

"What?" Jordan gasped, pretending to be shocked. "That's terrible!"

"Yeah, it's all over the news," Bren said.

"What happened?" Zeus asked.

"Something about a major rat and roach infestation," Kani told him. "They said the place is closed down indefinitely. Calla's taking it pretty hard."

"Because I wanted to go so badly," Calla sobbed. "I had so much planned for us to do there."

"Don't worry, Calla, you still have your mansion," Kani said. "It practically a mini-resort."

"Well maybe we could come over there and hang out," Jordan suggested.

"That's a great idea," Itzal said. "What do you say Calla?"

Calla thought for a while, before saying, "Okay, I guess."

"So party at Calla's this weekend!" Jordan said.

The gang the shouted with glee.

A/N: There not going to a luxury resort, but Calla's mansion is still cooler than that! Review and stay tuned for the next episode! Until then, see ya!