Hey everyone, sorry for the wait, I've been having a lot on my mind, so it's been hard to focus on writing.

Now another thing, someone asked me if I could do persona story, and I started to think about it, then I came up with an idea of a Persona 4 X Pokemon Ranger Crossover. (And if you're wondering why Pokemon Ranger, it's because out of all my stories, the ones I have out now and the ones I'm saving for later, Pokemon ranger is the one Pokemon game I haven't used yet.) (Also I'll be using both the anime and the game when I'm writing the story, using the best of both parts. But I'm going to use Persona 4 Golden for most of the story.)

The idea is that Pokemon have been going missing on the Pokemon World, so the Pokemon Rangers are investigating the cause, and while investigating My OC and his partner gets dragged into TV world, and in the TV world he witness the first murder, feeling guilty about being unable to save her, he works with the Persona 4 Team to help find out the person behind this murder.

Now that was just the base of the idea, I'm still working out a few ideas for it, but what do you think, is this something you want to read? Please leave a review if you're interested in reading it. (Also I plan to post it after I'm done with Fire Emblem, I was planning to, so please don't tell me to wait, tell me if you're interested in reading it.)

Now let's start Chapter 8.

Chapter 8

Ride Off Into The Electric Desert Ruins

After deciding to go after Ion, they all started to walk through the desert, with Diaz in his Violet Iron form and Kansan back in his Pokeball, Anise, Fie, and Mieu suffering from the heat, and Luke a few feet ahead of everyone.

"Hey, hey! What're you doing? You're so slow!" Luke said to everyone. "If we keep on like this, I'm gonna dry up and shrivel into a husk and die." Anise said to everyone. (I don't think that will happen.) Fie said to Anise.

"You know I'm glad this suit has an AC function. Makes this desert trip so much easier on me. But I don't get why Luke's in such a rush, it's not like we can move any faster than we already are." Diaz said to everyone.

"Master, you walk too fast." Mieu said to Luke. "Shut up, Thing. I don't want to keep Master Van waiting." Luke said to everyone. "Can you think about anything but that deadbeat master of yours?" Diaz asked Luke. "What did you just say?" Luke asked Diaz.

"Our goal isn't to catch up with Van, you know." Jade said to Luke. "He's right. Ion is more important than Van, who I need to remind you keeps ditching us and is of no help. Well, minus that time with passports." Diaz said to Luke. "Master Van is being the decoy for us. He is helping us." Luke said to Diaz. "A pointless decoy now, so I'll say it again. Master van is of no help." DIaz said to Luke.

"Why I oughta-." Luke said to Diaz, but was interrupted by Tear. "Enough fighting you two, save it for the oasis." Tear said to Luke and Diaz, making them huff at each other. "Fine." Luke and Diaz said to Tear at the same time, before turning away from each other.

Soon they reached a very tiny and ruined city that was built around a small lake with a massive stone in the middle of it. But once they walked in, Luke got a killer headache. "Answer me! Answer me!" Asch's voice echoed in Luke's head, causing Luek to put a hand on his head.

"Aaah… what the heck?!" Luke said, getting everyone's attention. "Luke! Is it those headaches again?" Guy asked Luke. "Headaches?" Tear asked Guy. " Ever since he was kidnapped, he'll occasionally get headaches or sometimes even hear voices." Guy said to Tear.

"Hearing strange voices in your head is not a good sign of one's sanity, you should have told us sooner." Diaz said to Guy.

"Answer me, you dreck!" Asch voice asked Luke. "Who… the heck… are you?!" Luke asked, not realizing it was Asch. "You know who I am. You look just like me." Asch voice said to Luke. "Asch!" Luke said, finally realizing it was Asch.

"Where do you think you're going, idiot? Don't blame me if something happens to Ion." Aschvoice said to Luke. "Where are you?!" Luke asked Asch. "The Zo ruins… Though I doubt dreck like you can make it here." Asch voice said to Luke, before fading away and making Luke fall to his knees.

"Luke! Are you all right?" Anise asked Luke. "Master, do you feel sick?" Mieu asked Luke, as Tear walked up to Luke. "Hold on, Luke." Tear said to Luke, kneeling and putting a hand on his back. "Hearing imaginary voices again?" Guy asked Luke.

"I doubt that was just my imagination." Luke said to Guy. "You said something about "Asch". Did you mean that Oracle Knight?" Natalia asked Luke. "The voice I heard was definitely Asch's. He said he was with Ion in the Zao Ruins." Luke said to everyone, as she and Tear stood up.

"Ion's there?!" Anise asked Luke. "The Zao Ruins? From 2000 years ago?" Jade asked everyone. "Why would they bring him there?" Diaz asked Jade. "I haven't the foggiest idea." Jade said to Diaz.

"But where are the ruins?" Luke asked Jade. "I'm afraid I don't know. I'd be most grateful if the leader of this mission would find them for us." Jade said to Luke. "You really like to be a jerk, don't you?" Luke asked Jade.

"Not at all. I'm so good-natured and honest, it almost hurts." Jade said to Luke. "Yeah, you're a real bleeding heart." Diaz said to Jade, with a sacrestic tune in his voice. "Colonel! Please stop teasing Luke." Tear said to Jade. "Luke, let's ask the people here in the oasis." Tear said to Luke. "Right." Luke said to everyone, as they scattered and started to talk to the few people that were around the oasis, with Diaz turning off his Violet Iron form.

But they found nothing, and while everyone regrouped to talk about what to do next, Anise and Fie didn't join them. "This was a waste of time." Luke said to everyone. "No completely, we know the Zao Ruins are nearby, but the sand keeps moving, burying and unburying it, so no one knows exactly where it is." Diaz said to Luke.

"Colonell, can't you just tell us where the Zao Ruins are?" Tear asked Jade. "Let's wait for Anise and Fie to return first." Jade said to Tear. "I can't tell if you enjoy making us run around like idiots, or you're just that cruel." Diaz said to Jade. "Oh no, I just feel we should leave Anise and Fie out of the conversation." Jade said to Diaz, touching his glasses.

Then Anise and Fie came running up to everyone. "Luke, you have to see this amazing flower I discovered." Anise said to Luke, as she started to pull Luke away. This confused everyone and made them follow Anise and Luke.

Anise led Luke to a massive flower, with everyone following them. The flower had three layers, with the first layer being six thick dark blue petals with teal tips, the next layer was four thick dark purple petals, and the last layer was three thick but tiny teal petals.

"Look Luke. Isn't this an amazing flower. And I'm the one who found it. Doesn't that make me better than the other girls." Anise said to Luke, as she pulled him towards the flower, earring a mean look from Natalia. But it took two seconds for Diaz to realize what that flower was.

"ANISE! LUKE! MOVE AWAY FROM HER!" Diaz yelled at Anise, and Luke, as the flower started to spin, and hit Anise and Luke, forcing them back. "I tried to warn you." Diaz said to Luke and Anise, as the flower started to float and closed its petals. Then it turned around to see a long transparent spike with two yellow dots in it.

(Can't a lady take a nap in the sun without someone trying to touch me.) The flower said to everyone with a gentle female voice. "Hey Cindal." Diaz said to the flower, making it look at Diaz. (Diaz Oh, thank goodness. I was so worried about you.) Cindal said to Diaz, moving closer to Diaz.

"You know this weird flower?" Anise asked Diaz, as she and Luke stood up. "She may look like a flower, but she's actually a rock, a poisonous rock. Everyone, this is Cindal, my Glimmora and Kansan's love." Diaz said to everyone. "A Glim- what?" Luke asked Diaz. "Here." Diaz said to Luke, as he pulled out his Rotom Phone.

Name/Glimmora

Classification/Ore Pokemon

Type/Rock + Poison

Text/When this Pokemon detects danger, it will open up its crystalline petals and fire beams from its conical body.

"Wired, but this doesn't help us find Ion." Anise said to Diaz, as Diaz put his Rotom Phone away. "We know where Ion is, we just don't know where the Zao Ruins are." Diaz said to Anise.

(If you mean some ruins in the desert. I know where that is.) Cindal said to everyone. "Cindal said, she knows where the Zao Ruins are?" Mieu said to everyone. "What? How would she know?" Luke asked everyone.

"Well, China's kind prefer to live deep underground, but mine enjoys sleeping in the sun. That's how I met her, I was riding along with Kansan following me, when we found her asleep in the road, Kansan woke her up, then one thing led to another, and that's how I got Cindal.

"What does that have to do with the Zao Ruins?" Luke asked Diaz. "It means, the Zao Ruins are buried deep underground, and must have an exit to the surface, since Cindal kind can't dig out of the ground."

"Can you take us to the ruins?" Diaz asked Cindal. (Of course, but know that I saw a few people enter the ruins before I left.) Cindal said to Diaz. "She said she can, but they're are people there the last time she was there." Mieu said to everyone.

"That must be Ion." Anise said to everyone. "How long ago did you leave the Zao Ruins?" Diaz asked Cindal. (A couple hours, maybe more.) Cindal said to Diaz. "She said, a couple hours or more." Mieu said to everyone.

"Then they might still be there. Can you lead us there? Diaz asked Cindal. (Of course, follow me.) Cindal said to Diaz, before they started to walk, heading east.

"I don't understand. How come Luke can hear Asch's voice?" Tear asked Jade, as they walked through the desert, following Cindal. "Dist probably did something to him in Choral Castle." Jade said to Tear.

"Even so, why tell us where he is?" Guy asked everyone. "I don't know! I just heard what I heard! He makes me sick. Anyway, let's hurry to thos Zao Ruins." Luke said to everyone, as he tried to walk farther away from everyone, but was stopped but Diaz.

"Hold it Luke. we can't just rush into this. The fact that Asch told you where they are, means they'll be expecting us. If we rush in without a plan, chances are Scarlet will smash us to pieces, or do I need to remind you of the fight we just had with him." Diaz said to Luke.

"We can handle him and whatever Asch is planning." Luke said to Diaz. "You mean I'll have to handle it. How many times has it been me doing most of the fighting?" Diaz asked Luke.

"You can still handle whatever happens. Why else do I keep you around?" Luke said to Diaz, earning a headlock from Diaz. "I'm here to say I told you so when your mission goes wrong, because you're literally the last person to lead a peace mission." Diaz said to Luke.

"Okay enough fighting you two. Now's not the time for this." Tear said to Diaz and Luke, as she forces them apart. "Anyway, I might be able to handle the grunts with little effort, and maybe a few of the God Generals with a lot of effort, but Scarlet is something else."

"Then we'll just have to out-think him. From the sound of it, Scarlet isn't that smart. It looks like Diaz and Asch are the ones with drains when compared to Scarlet and Luke." Whina said to everyone. "Hey!" Luke said to Whina.

"Asch the Bloody. He really looks like Luke, does he not?" Natalia asked everyone, getting everyone's attention. "Yeah. He might be his long lost brother." Guy said to Natalia. "But Luke is supposed to be the only son of Duke Fabre." Natalia said to Guy.

"Is it really that strange to see two people with the same looks, back home, the nurses and cops generally have a female that looks the same in every town, with different uniforms and hair styles." Diaz said to everyone. "That sounds confusing and strange." Luke said to Diaz.

"There's no point worrying about something we can't understand. We should focus on rescuing Fon Master Ion for now." Jade said to everyone. (I agree with Jade, Ion comes first. We can figure out the reason behind the looks later.) Jataayu said to everyone. "I suppose so." Natalia said to everyone.

A few minutes later, Cindal led everyone to some ruins that were mostly buried in sand, minus a large underground entrance. (This is the place.) Cindal said to everyone. "That's got to be it!" Guy said to everyone. (That's what I just said.) Cindal said to Guy, as they moved to the entrance.

"Inside here, huh?" Luke asked everyone. "It looks dark inside." Natalia said to everyone. "I'll breathe fire." Mieu said to everyone. "You're gonna keep breathing fire the whole time? That'll never work." Luke said to Mieu.

"Perhaps it's because of the wind, but there aren't any landship tracks about." Jade said to everyone. "Have they already left? Or are they still inside?" Tear asked everyone. (No idea, all I know is that I saw some people show up here before I left for the oasis.) Cindal said to Tear.

"Cindal said, she has no clue." Mieu said to Tear. "Whatever the case, there could be clues about Ion, so let's go!" Anise said to everyone. (I'll lead the way, I know most of the paths in this place.) Cindal said, as she took the lead.

"We're really going to follow that thing?" Luke asked everyone, earring a kick to the leg by Diaz. "Ow!" Luke said, as he pulled his leg up, held it to his chest, and started to hop on his other leg. "She knows this place better than us, and her kind are used to living underground without sunlight, so she can see better than us." Diaz said to Luke.

"Fine. Whatever. Let's just get this over with. I don't want to keep Master Van waiting." Luke said to everyone, as they started to go deep into the Zao Ruins.

While walking through the buried and forgotten city, they found themselves blocked by some large boulders. (These are new. No matter. I'll take care of this, Moral Spin!) Cindal said, as she put her face on the ground, spun like a top, letting out purple ooze as she spun. Cindal then rushed the boulders, and smashed through them, clearing the way.

"Whoa. What was that?" Anise asked Diaz, as Cindal started to float again and moved back to everyone. "Moral Spin, it's a simple attack that not only poisons the target, but clears our side of the field. But normally she doesn't smash through such big things" Diaz said to everyone.

"The poor thing. Cindal doesn't that hurt?" Natalia asked Cindal. "She's a rock. She's fine." Luke said to Natalia. This caused Cindal to move to Luke, and clamped her petals around Luke's head, making Luke muffle scream, as he tried to get Cindal off his head.

"See what you did Luke, you never should insult a lady like that." Natalia said to Luke, as Cindal let go of Luke. (I'm fine Natalia. And thank you for your manners. It's more than this one has.) Cindal said to Natalia, giving Luke a mean look.

"Cindal said, she's fine, and thinks you have more manners than Master." Mieu said to Luke. "Yes. Luke could stand to learn a thing or two from her." Tear said to everyone. "More like, could stand to learn everything from her." Diaz said to everyone. "Shut up." Luke said to everyone, before walking away.

"Come on! Hurry up!" Luke said to everyone, as he kept walking away. "Though he's already similar in this regard." Jade said to everyone. "Similar to who?" Anise asked Jade. "To Natalia, I assume." Guy said to Anise. "Well Natalia prefers to have Luke at her side as much as she can so he can remember their past. So it makes sense that he would pick up a few of her traits." Qadira said to everyone.

"Well! I never!" Natalia said to everyone, before walking away. "Stop dawdling and get moving!" Natalia said to everyone, as she kept walking away. But this just made everyone giggle at her.

A little bit later, everyone found themselves in front of multiple paths. "Where to now?" Diaz asked Cindal. (Unfortunately I do not know, each path leads to a different part of the ruin. So your guess is as good as time.) Cindal said to Diaz. "She said doesn't know." Mieu said to everyone. "Great. So where do we go now?" Luke asked everyone.

Then Diaz started to feel a pull down one of the paths, and walked down the path. "What is it, Diaz?" Whina asked Diaz. "I don't know, but I feel something down this way." Diaz said to Whina. "How can you feel anyway that way? There's no way you can just feel away." Luke said to Diaz.

That's when Diaz noticed something ahead on the path. Diaz walked up, and on the ground, he found one of his Ignition keys. With one side being yellow and had an electric symbol on it and the other side dark tan and had a symbol of a rock on it, with one edge of the key looked like a bolt of lighting, and the other edge looked like jagged rocks.

"Considering this was on the path. I think they did go this way. But I have no idea why they brought it." Diaz said to everyone, showing off the new Ignition key. "For whatever reason, it doesn't matter, we know where to go. So shall we." Jade said to everyone, as they started to follow Diaz down the path he picked.

A few minutes later, the team hid behind a large rock. The reason, they saw Ion standing in front of a building with a fancy glass door, with Scarlet, Cyclizar, Asch, Carlo, Sync, and now Largo around him.

"There's Ion. We have to save him!" Anise said to everyone, as she tried to rush the God-Generals, but was stopped by Diaz pulling on the back of her clothes. "We can't just rush in. We need a plan." Diaz said to Anise.

"Then what do you propose we do?" Anise asked Diaz. "Just give me a second to think." Diaz said to Anise, as he looked around. "We don't have a second. I'm charging in." Luke said to Diaz, trying to charge at everyone, only for Diaz to stop him. "We need to think this through. We can just run out there." Diaz said to Luke.

"Diaz is right. We need a diversion. And I volunteer for Diaz." Jade said to everyone. "Hey." Diaz said to Jade. "What. You're the one that doesn't want us to rush into battle? So it should be you." Jade said to Diaz, with everyone nodding in agreement with Jade.

"What do you guys want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?!" Diaz asked everyone. Everyone said nothing, but gave Diaz a smirk. "Why are you all looking at me like that?" Diaz asked everyone, a feeling of worry washing over him.

A second later, some hawaiian music filled the cave, and Ion, Scarlet, Cyclizar, Asch, Carlo, Sync, and Largo turned their heads to see Diaz wearing a large leaf skirt, a violet aloha shirt, a yellow lei around his neck, no shoes, and his Rotom Phone floating next to him.

Diaz then started to dance the hula, making very, very, very confused faces appear on Ion, Scarlet, Cyclizar, Asch, Carlo, Sync, and Largo.

"He's doing pretty well. But where did that outfit come from?" Whina asked everyone. "Who cares, this is funny." Anise said to Whina, as she held back some giggles. "Should we get Ion now?" Guy asked everyone. "Let's wait a bit, I'm enjoying seeing him act like a fool." Luke said to Guy. (Why do I get the feeling this was more about making fun of Diaz than actually saving Ion.) Miles said to everyone.

Diaz danced for about three minutes, confusing Ion, Scarlet, Cyclizar, Asch, Carlo, Sync, and Largo more and more, with everyone else, minus Miles, enjoying the show. But Diaz stopped dancing when he turned around and saw everyone hadn't moved.

"What are you all doing? I thought the plan was for you to grab Ion while I distracted them?" Diaz asked everyone, making Ion, Scarlet, Cyclizar, Asch, Carlo, Sync, and Largo come to their senses and realized this was just a weird distraction.

"I actually didn't think a distraction would work. I just wanted to see if you would do it." Jade said to Diaz. "So I danced like a fool for three minutes for your enjoyment?" Diaz asked Jade. "Not just mine. But for everyone's enjoyment." Jade said to Diaz, flicking his glasses, as everyone, minus Miles, nodded in agreement.

This made Diaz fall to the ground, like he short circuit, making a small dust cloud. "You know what, forget it, let's do this your way and just charge in." Diaz said to everyone, as he stood up, the dust cloud faded away, revealing Diaz wearing his normal clothes. "How did you change so fast?" Luke asked Diaz. "Forget his clothes, get Ion." Whina said to everyone, as they came out of hiding.

"The Fon Master is in the middle of a ritual. We'll have no interference from you." Largo said to everyone. "You make it sound like we care, hand over Ion." Whina said to Largo. "Such impudence, after kidnapping the one you're supposed to serve!" Natalia said to the God-Generals.

"Sync! Largo! Give Ion back!" Anise said to Sync and Largo. (Big talk for someone that had a hard time fighting Scarlet alone last time. Do you really think you can order us to do anything?) Carlo asked Anise. "Carlo said, you can't make them." Mieu said to everyone.

"And he's right. Besides, we still have work for him." Sync said to everyone. "Then we'll take him back by force." Luke said to Sync. "Me… fin… ish." Scarlet said, as he tried to take a few steps ahead of everyone, cracking his knuckles.

Sync pulled out the riding crop and smacked Scarlet in the head with it multiple times, leaving one small cut on his left cheek. "Now your place, beast. Stand down. We don't need you for this." Sync said to Scarlet, earning a mean look from Scarlet.

"This should be fun. Let's see how you've grown since I last saw you, cowering on the Tartarus." Largo said to everyone, as he and Sync stepped forward, with Sync putting the riding crop away. "That's nice, coming from someone who was half-dead after one shot by Jade." Luke said to Largo.

"Wah hah hah hah! Yeah, well, we won't lose so easily this time, boy." Largo said to Luke. "You say that but, minus Scarlet, I was able to deal major damage to Sync and Asch, while jade took you out with one shot.." Diaz said to Largo.

"I won't lose to you this time. Sync the Tempest, God-General of the Oracle Knights, shows no mercy." Sync to Diaz. "Neither does Largo the Black Lion. Prepare!" Largo said to Diaz.

"That's the easy part." Diaz said, as he spun the tire on his driver, making a giant purple crystal tire popped out of Miles' throat. "TERASTALLIZING!" Diaz yelled, as the tire hit him and caused the tire to fall apart. VIOLET IRON!" A techno voice said, from the driver, as the crystals broke apart, revealing Diaz in his Violet Iron form.

"Charcadet use Ember." Luke said to Charcadet, as Diaz fired electricity blasts at Sync and Largo. (Fine) Charcadet said, as he fired a burst of fire at Sync and Largo.

But Largo and Sync dodged their attacks, and charged at everyone. "Liran/Inesa/ use Round." Tear and Whina said to Liran and Inesa. (ON IT!) Liran and Inesa said, as Liran let out a red soundwave, and Inesa let out a blue soundwave. The soundwaves resonated, and hit them, and forced them to stop and cover their ears.

That's when everyone charged at Sync and Largo. "Plata use Tackle." Natalia said to Plata, as she fired arrows at them. (If you say so.) Plata said to Natalia, as they charged at Sync.

But Largo and Sync dodged their attacks, and Sync tried to punch Plata away as he dodged the Tackle. Only to hurt his knuckles when he tired. "Babila use Metal Claw." Qadira said to Babila, as they charged at Largo. "And Lokej use Rock Smash." Guy said to Lokej, as they charged at Sync.

(Right.) Babila and Lokej said, as Babila's rattle had three silver claws appeared on the end of it, and Lokej's leek glowed red. And while Guy and Lokej tried to slash Sync, who kept dodging their attacks. Largo used the end of his scythe to hit Babila away, and forced Qadira's sword down.

Largo then tried to slam the top of his scythe into Qadira, but Whina appeared in front of her, and used her shield to block it. But the two girls had to work together to keep Largo from pushing them into the cave wall.

(Confusion.) Jaatayu said, as his eyes glowed teal, and a teal outline appeared on Largo's sythe, making it move slightly to the right, slipping on Whina's shield, and making it miss them, letting Whina and Qadira move away from Largo.

"Fie use Gust." Anise said, as she summoned her doll, and changed at Sync, with Sync forcing Guy and Lokej away from him. (If you say so.) Fie said, as he flapped his wings, blowing a gust of wind at Sync, kicking up some sand off the ground, blowing sand into Sync. Anise tried to smash Sync. But Sync dodged their attack, and moved around the doll, and hit Anise off her ball.

"Susu 1, 2, 3, use Infestation." Jade said to the Susus, as he battled Largo. (On it.) the Susus said, as they let out some green glowing flees. The flees moved towards them, but Largo and Sync jumped pack avoiding the flees.

"Okay, let's try something else, Cindal try to hit them with Moral Spin, Miles with me with Dragon Rush." Diaz said to Cindal and Miles, as he spun the tire on his driver. (On it.) Cindal and Miles said, as Cindal put her face on the ground, spun like a top, letting out purple ooze as she spun, and as Miles body became encased in purple energy, with wings and a dragon head formed the energy around his head and the back of front legs.

Cindal then spun around, and actually hit Sync and Largo, and while Largo was big enough to withstand it, Sync started feel weak, that's when Diaz and Miles jumped into the air, and came down on Sync, with Diaz's glowing violet, and his thousters firing at full blast.

The two attacks hit Sync, and caused a massive explosion, sending Sync flying into the cave wall, causing massive cracks to appear around a groaning Sync.

"Now it's just you Largo." Diaz said to Largo. "I will not be as easy to stop as Sync." Largo said to Diaz. "Then let's try this new Ignition Key on you Largo." Diaz said to Largo, as he pulled out the Ignition Key he found a few minutes ago, and opened the slot on the side of his driver. (I see he found the Ignition Key I left for him.) Carlo thought, giving Diaz a cocky look.

Diaz then put the Ignition Key into the slot with the dark tan side facing him. "ROCK!" A techno voice said from the driver.

Diaz then hit the button This caused the handle to pop out of the slot, minus the crystal, and made the tire spin clockwise, with the tire glowing dark tan. This made Miles' tire sack glow dark tan, and a giant dark tan crystal tire popped out of Miles' throat.

The tire headed straight for Diaz. "TERASTALLIZING!" Diaz yelled, as the tire hit him and caused the tire to fall apart. This let out a dark tan pulse of energy, and the crystals attached to Diaz's body.

"A WALKING GIANT! WITH MIGHTY ARMOR AND THE POWER TO MOVE MOUNTAINS! NOTHING CAN STOP THE FORCE OF IRON THORNS!" A techno voice said, from the driver, as all the crystals broke apart, revealing Diaz in new armor.

He still had his violet jumpsuit on, but no armor appeared, instead Diaz jumped up and hugged his leg into his chest, that's when a large green metal oval appeared and opened up before closing around Diaz.

Then oval's lower part slide down revealing black metal before shooting two massive four foot long black legs with the lower part of the leg bing green and three large black claws on the tip of the feet, then two four foot long green arms with a long patch on front of his wrist, black claws for fingers, next a large tail shot out of his back, with the tip of the tail opening up revealing a black spike, then glowing light green spikes popped out of his back, some light green lights appeared on his chest, then Diaz's normal size head pop out of the top, with most of it cover in green metal, minus everything from the nose down, and three greenhorns over his eyes.

"Oh ho, I like this. So Largo, ready to face someone your own size." Diaz said to Largo, as he got into a fighting stance. "I've had face beasts bigger than me and they always fell to my blade." Largo said to Diaz. "Well then let's see if I'm better than those beasts." Diaz said to Largo, as he charged at Largo.

Largo charged at Daiz, and tried to slash Diaz, but Diaz blocked the blade with his right claw and then punched Largo, making Largo move back into the cave wall. Diaz then tried to punch Largo with his right hand, but Largo was able to dodge out of the way in time, making Diaz slam his hand into the cave wall.

This caused electricity to flow down his right arm and into the cave wall. Then Diaz pulled out his arm out of the rock wall, pulling out a massive rock, before throwing it at Largo. Largo slashed the rock in half, making it miss him.

But when Largo did that, it gave Diaz an opening to deliver a few punches into Largo's chest, forcing Largo back a bit, and with the poison starting to take effect, Largo was feeling too weak to block the attacks, and was forced back with a couple bruises on himself.

Diaz then jumped into the air, and jammed his arms into the ceiling of the cave. This caused electricity to flow up his right arm and into the cave ceiling. Then Diaz pulled out his arm down, pulling out a large rock, and brought it down on Largo, crushing Largo into the ground.

Diaz then picked the rock off Largo, seeing he was still alive, but in a lot of pain, before tossing the rock away. "I gotta say, this form rocks. Pun intended." Diaz said to everyone, as he started to flex, with Scarlet giving Diaz an interesting look.

"The two of you together STILL can't handle them? Pathetic!" Asch said to Sync and Largo, before chagrin at Diaz, with Carlo staying behind. (Fool, that armor was made for facing massive monsters in mine, a small sword like that won't have much effect on anything except the head.) Carlo thought, as he watched Asch charged.

Asch tried a circle slash before an upper slash. But Diaz raised his arms to protect his head, luckily the armor took the attack, and Diaz was able to kick Asch back.

"That was… That was one of Master Van's moves! How did YOU know it?!" Luke asked Asch. "What are you, stupid?! It's because we trained in the same style, how else?!" Asch asked Luke.

"Well it's not like his teaching is going to help you survive this." Diaz said to Asch, as he used his right tump to spin his tire clockwise.

This caused his right first to let out a surge of electricity. Diaz then punched the ground for a second, causing some rocks to shoot out of the ground, covered in the electricity. The rocks caused Asch to fly up into the air and get mixed up in the rocks.

Diaz then pulled back his right arm, making the rocks move towards Diaz's fist, also making the rocks form into a massive fist with Asch trapped in it fingers. Diaz then punched his fist forward, shooting the rocks off his arm into the roof of the building that Ion was standing on, making a large explosion.

A second after the explosion, and very hurt Asch fell to the ground. "Im… press… ive…" Scarlett said, liking what he was seeing. Sync turned his head to see Scarlet hadn't moved. "You stupid beast. We're going to lose if you don't fight. So fight." Sync said to Scarlet, as he, Largo, and Asch stood up.

"You… no… need… me…" Scarlet said to Sync, making Sync mad. "You dare talk back to me." Sync said to Scarlet, as he pulled out the riding crop, and started to smack Scarlet with it. "You are nothing but a tool that's beneath me. Now do what you're told and fight." Sync said to Scarlet, as Scarlet gave Sync a very mean look, before pulling out a new Ignition key, and opening the slot on his driver.

The Ignition key had one side being yellow and had an electric symbol on it and the other side light brown and had a symbol of a ground on it, with one edge of the key looked like a bolt of lighting, and the other edge looked like a couple layers of the earth.

put the Ignition Key into the slot, with the yellow side facing him. "ELECTRICITY!" An aggressive voice said from his driver, as Scarlet ripped it out of the slot with enough force to not only break the crystal off it, but making the tire on his driver spin counter clockwise, and glowed yellow.

This made Cyclizar's tire sack glow yellow, and a giant yellow crystal tire popped out of Cyclizar's throat. "TE… RA… STALL… I… ZING!" Scarlet said, as the yellow crystal tire moved towards him, and hit him, causing the tire to fall apart. This let out a yellow pulse of energy, and the crystals attached to his body.

"WHEN THREE HEADS WORK TOGETHER, THE VERY LAND BELOW AND SKY ABOVE WILL ANSWERs THEIR CALLS. BEWARE THE STORM OF SANDY SHOCKS!" An aggressive voice said from his driver, as the crystals broke apart, revealing Scarlet in a new armor.

His body still had the scarlet jumpsuit on, with patches of black spike fur tied around his chest, legs and arms with silver string, his shoulders had round rocks with a yellow circle and a black dot on the front, his helmet was now gray with a large yellow glass circle in the front, a black dot on the glass and four black marks under the circle, and the top of his helmet was spiky black hair that was standing up tied into a ponytail with a grey string.

The handle grew, becoming a grey staff with the handle in the middle, the top of the staff had a U shape grey stone tied to with with black string, with the tip of the stone being red and blue, and tied at part where the stone and staff meet was a six inch long gray beed with four metal disc on it and it's end was a ball of black spiky hair.

"Very good. Now take him down." Sync said to Scarlet as he pointed the riding crop to Diaz. That's when Scarlet's staff started to let out small sparks of electricity. The ground started to shake, and sand in the shape of a tentacle with a few sparks of electricity coming out of it appeared out of the ground.

This got everyone on edge. "That's more like it, now strike them!" Sync said to Scarlet smirking, turning to face Scarlet, and hitting Scarlet with his riding crop in the helmet. Scarlet's staff then started to let out more electricity, making the tentacle move.

But to everyone's surprise the tentacle didn't move to the team, no it japped into Sync's right leg, going right thru it, and wrapping around it around his leg. Everyone watched with a surprised look on their face, as Sync screamed and was getting whipped around like a rag doll.

"Scarlet what are you doing? I command you to stop!" Asch said to Scarlet, as Scarlet slammed Sync into a cave wall. "Weak… All… weak… Me… STRONGEST!" Scarlet yelled, as he put both hands on his staff, and raised it up, letting out a massive amount of electricity.

Scarlet then slammed his staff's head into the ground, making the whole place shake. Then as Scarlet pulled his staff out of the ground, and slammed the base of it into the ground, a massive amount of sand tentacles came bursting out of everywhere and started to whip at everyone.

"WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Luke said to everyone, as they all dodged the tentacles, and he was panicking a little. "WE CAN'T LEAVE ION!" Anise said to everyone. "I'LL GET ION!" Diaz said, as he used his massive size to smash through the sand tentacles, and grab Ion, with Carlo putting up no fight.

"RUN!" Diaz said to everyone, as he carried Ion through the sand tentacles, and everyone started to run out of the ruins for their lives, leaving Asch, Carlo, Sync and Largo to face Scarlet's rampage. But Natalia stopped and looked at them, feeling bad about leaving them. "NATALIA WE HAVE TO GO!" Qadira said to Natalia, pulling Natalia away, and surprised Largo.

"What's wrong with you? You're on my side. You are not supposed to fight me!" Asch said to Scarlet, as he tried slashing the sand tentacles. "You… all… weak… Me… no… listen… to… you." Scarlet said to Asch.

"Then I'll make you listen." Largo said, as he rushed Scarlet, and tried to slash him. But Scarlet just slammed his staff into ground, making a few of the sand tentacles wrap around Largo's sythe, and a few other sand tentacles whip into Larog's chest and arms, making him fly to the distance, and lose his scythe.

Scarlet then did a couple spins with his staff, before slamming the base of the staff into the ground, making the sand tentacles around Largo's scythe bend and crushing it. "I'm… done… with… weak… lings… like… you." Scarlet said to everyone, as he spun the tire on his driver counterclockwise.

This caused the sand tentacles to break apart and become three large sand balls, trapping Sync, Largo, and Asch in them. Then the three balls of sand moved and clashed into the middle of the area.

That's when Scarlet put both hands on his staff, and pointed the head of his staff at everyone, firing a massive burst of electricity at them, hitting the sand, and making an explosion of sand and electricity. Then the sand and electricity faded, Scarlet noticed Sync, Largo, and Asch, breathing heavily and half buried in sand.

This left only Carlo, and Scarlet turned to him, and made new sand tentacles that pointed at him. (No need. I know I can't win. So I want to offer you something." Carlo said to Scarlet, and while Scarlet didn't understood what he was saying, he kinda felt what he was saying, and stood down for a bit.

(I know you were impressed by Violet's new form. But what if I tell you that he has one more form left.) Carlo said to Scarlet, as he pulled out one of Diaz's Ignition Key. One side of the Ignition Key was red with a fire symbol on it, the other side was dark purple with a poison symbol on it, one edge of the key looked like a flame, and the other edge looked like dripping goo.

(Now wouldn't that be more interesting than fighting us? To fight Violet at full power then play with us ragdolls?) Carlo asked Scarlet, waving the Ignition Key into Scarlet's face for a few seconds.

Scarlet took the Ignition Key away from Carlo in a second of it being waved in his face, and turned to Cyclizar. "We… leave…" Scarlet said to Cyclizar, before making his staff let out a few zaps of electricity and made the sand above them move and pick them up, and started to take them up and out of the ruins.

Once Scarlet and Cyclizar left, Carlo walked up to Asch, Largo, and Sync. (Well, that went well.) Carlo said to them, as he slashed them out of the sand, letting them stand up.

Once they stood up Largo looked at the exit that everyone else took, and Sync noticed this. "So, they have Princess Natalia with them. It must be fate, Largo." Sync said to Largo. "Are you connected to Natalia somehow?" Asch asked Largo. "It was a long time ago. I've forgotten." Largo said to Asch, not looking at Asch in the eyes.

"There's no need for the Six God-Generals to know each other's past. You should be painfully aware of that. You, of all people- the leftover ashes of the "holy flame"." Sync said to Asch.

"Still to think Scarlet would abandon like that. Instead of being our weapon to bring about our noble mission, he has become a problem." Largo said to everyone. "Well he was always going to be a problem. I don't know why you wanted him Asch." Sync said to everyone.

"I don't need to explain myself to someone who is clearly jealous of his very existence." Asch said to Sync. "Like you're any better." Sync said to Asch. "Enough both of you. We need to leave this place and report what happened." Largo said to them.

"Whatever." Asch said to Largo, before he started to leave. (I wonder if the master's lord planned for this.) Carlo thought, as they all started to leave the ruins.

After a bit everyone made it outside, with the God-Generals still deep in the ruins. "Whew. Even if it's hot and sandy and dusty, it's still good to be outside." Anise said to everyone, as Diaz put Ion down, and turned off his driver, turning back to his normal form. "Yeah, Scarlet got really scary near the end. But at least we have Ion back." Whina said to everyone.

"I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you all. If I hadn't been so careless." Ion said to everyone. "You had no idea Scarlet and Cyclizar weren't me and Miles. It's not your fault." Diaz said to Ion.

"By the way, Ion, what were they having you do? This is another one of the Sephiroth, isn't it?" Jade asked Ion. "Yes. To protect the Sephiroth. The Order of Lorelei placed Daathic seals on them. Only a Fon Master can remove them. The Six God-Generals demanded that I do so here." Ion said to Jade.

"Why is the Order protecting the Sephiroth?" Guy asked Ion. "That's confidential to the Order. But even with the seal open, they shouldn't be able to do anything." Ion said to Guy.

"Are you sure about that?" Diaz asked Ion. "Yes I'm quite sure. Why do you ask?" Ion asked Diaz. "Because they're going to a lot of trouble to have you open a door. It can't just be that, there must be more to their actions." Diaz said to everyone.

"Well, whatever. Let's hurry up and get to town. I'm gonna shrivel up out here." Luke said to everyone. "Yes. Let's head for Chesedonia." Tear said to everyone. "I agree." Natalia said to everyone. "Me, too!" Mieu said to everyone.

"Quiet, Thing! If you open your mouth, you'll just make things hotter." Luke said to Mieu, with a very harsh tune. "I'm sorry, Master. Mieuu." Mieu said to Luke, feeling sad, making Miles and Cindal give Luke a mean look.

(Stop picking on Mieu!) Miles said to Mieu, as he bit Luke's leg, and Cindal clamped her petals on Luke's head, making Luke muffle scream, while everyone else laughed at this.

But what they didn't know was that Scarlet and Cyclizar made it to the surface, and were looking at everyone from the cliff edge above the Zao Ruin entrance. From there he watched as Miles and Cindal let Luke go, and everyone started to walk away.

"Le…ave… But… we… st… ill… a… fig… hit… to… set… tle." Scarlet said, as he pressed the slot on the side of his driver, turning himself into his Scarlet Beast form. Then Scarlet hopped onto Cyclizar's back and started to leave.

TWISTED REALM.

Meanwhile in the Twisted Realm, The cloak figure was moving pieces around on the bord, with Eshu looking at the cloak figure. "You knew Scarlett would betray the God-Generals? Didn't you?" Eshu asked the cloak figure.

"With Sync's jealousy towards Scarlet, and Scarlet's instinct to prove he's the alpha, the thought crossed my mind. But are you really surprised by this? They thought they made an obedient weapon, but forgetting that a living weapon that's controlled by strength isn't something that can be controlled when you're weaker than it." The cloak figure said to Eshu.

"True, but now Scarlet has broken his leash. There's no telling what he'll do now." Eshu said to the cloak figure. "I think we can guess what he's about to do." The cloak figure said to Eshu, as he moved Scarlet's piece, at the time he moved the team pieces, like Scarlet was following them.

Hello everyone please like, follow, or review if you like this story. And what Scarlet said at the end was "Leave. But we still a fight to settle." and that's how I wanted Scared to say it, so please don't pick on the grammar.

Also the "dress in drag and do the hula" thing was from the Lion King, I just couldn't resist doing it at least once in my stories.