Khan and Kevin were seen sprinting as if they were in a race competing with each other. Khan kept increasing his strides and pace as if he were merely powerwalking. Kevin had already improved by leaps and bounds. If he were compared to one of the best athletes on earth, combined with his special energy cultivation technique learned from his late master, he would have few he could even call his rival. But he had a hard time keeping up with Khan.

“It is better we talk like this. Suspicion of us doing or planning anything together will be reduced this way if we keep updating each other like this, even though it's once a month,” Khan stated without slowing down his pace.

“Well, no kidding. With the way you are running, the others would think I am trying to challenge you to a race. The only problem is that I am failing at that, and why don’t you… slow… down,” Kevin was surprised that he was losing his breath already; it had been a long time since that had happened since he started practicing the energy cultivation technique passed down to him.

“Why should I? If you can’t even keep up with me now, what makes you think you will be any better than a meat shield?” Khan teased to get a rise from Kevin.

“Just say what you want to say. They would send us back soon,” Kevin said as he caught up with Khan immediately and was getting impatient.

Khan nodded and shared a bit of his plans with Kevin, and the guardian automatons soon issued the prisoners out. Khan kept training Kevin physically for months to develop a physique necessary for his plans. He even taught Kevin about how the guardian automatons worked since he had been an engineer once among other professions in his long life; to him, time is currency and knowledge power.

Even though Kevin was in the most secure holding in the universe reserved for the world’s worst criminals, he simply saw that place as an educational facility that he had come to accept. Khan taught him new styles of combat every time they sparred, but his styles still paled in comparison to his late master. Khan made sure Kevin was at a decent level at sleight of hands, only that the level Khan wanted was something skillful magicians would work for and still not have.

Three months before Kevin’s birthday, it was time for the prisoners' recreational activity. Khan nodded slightly towards Kevin, and the latter responded in kind. Khan walked to the most populated area in the field and whispered a few words to the inmates. They all had firm resolutions after hearing Khan's proposal. These inmates were smart enough to know that something was going on between Khan and Kevin and could only chalk it up to leaving the place. As soon as Khan passed the last alien in that group, he was pushed, or at least the alien tried to push him. Khan, seeing that the noisy inmates he had were not just lousy but had brains to show for it, smiled and played his part by falling.

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Khan got up slowly and looked at his back. He stomped on the ground made of foreign material that was sturdy, but the ground broke apart oddly. A large piece of the ground became airborne as if he summoned the material and without hesitation launched it with his foot in that same instant. That attack took both the inmates and the guardian automatons by surprise as several inmates were sent flying across the field. Inmates who had been locked in for centuries marveled at that sight but immediately retaliated. Khan would play along, but he won’t tolerate being challenged in any shape or form since he can’t deny his nature completely.

Chaos ensued, and it was every man/alien/creature for themselves. The guardian automatons immediately rushed to the field to restrain and capture the inmates in numbers. Kevin, who watched everything from a distance, waited for a guardian automaton warden to cross his path. An automaton soon hovered over him. Kevin was basking in the chaos as he reclined on a wall but readied himself.

Kevin launched himself above the automaton and morphed his right hand into that of a Petrosapien. His mastery over his energy cultivation method had increased, and he could morph part of his body into the alien’s traits he kept. It took Kevin only five seconds to shut down the automaton mechanically. The automaton then crashed with Kevin on top of it. Without losing any second, Kevin morphed his left hand into that of a Technomorphs’ and interacted with the machinery.

After Kevin had gotten his human form back again, he stored three different alien DNA that found useful. His energy cultivation technique is limitless and would allow him to accumulate the ten aliens that he used to have as long as his mastery increased. But after interacting with the philosopher's orb, he gained a little insight and how to go about things differently.

His job was to shut down the automaton, look for its transmitter inside it, and give it to Khan so he could tweak it and use the automaton as a keycard to control the holding and eventually leave. But Kevin had been exposed to so much knowledge and experiences after his stunt with the orb and knew that Khan wasn’t as simple as he made himself be. There was more than a fifty percent chance that Khan would betray him and leave him behind, so Kevin hacked the automaton first and its entirety.

Information about the automaton, the network server it was connected to, and the levels it could access were shared to Kevin’s mind. Kevin then engineered a small key from the automaton that he kept for himself, removed its transmitter, and rebooted it. Kevin ran towards a square hole that was five meters above ground (sixteen feet), jumped towards it, and yelled to Khan afterward. Khan heard Kevin’s signal, and an aura that radiated killing intent filled the area.

The inmates paused when they felt such raw killing intent and turned to the source. They all felt a new type of fear when they knew who it was coming from. Khan had an evil grin on his face, and his purple eyes glowed in the dust as he uttered a sentence that shook the entire inmates.

“I told you I would kill you all.”