Ruth and Maggie had barricaded themselves between a wall and floor, using a camouflage with dirt and bits of rocks to hide from the enemies above. Ruth dug out of the walls and waited for Maggie to exit out also before plugging it back up with dirt and rocks.

“That was a close call; I didn’t think that would work...” Ruth sighed in relief, sticking himself off the wall. “Now all we have to do is—”

“I can see now,” Maggie said unexpectedly. “Why I’m stuck here.”

“Uh, are you ok?” Ruth asked, noticing Maggie smiling uncontrollably.

“Yeah, because I realize what I must do... destroy the Orso Loobas.” She turned to face the bear. It was then, that the bear noticed her deep blue eyes turned dark purple. “Hail Kira Onyx, the future Mistress of—”

“Hello?” A different voice called out from above.

The voice sounded familiar to the two, causing Maggie to snap out of her senses and return to normal.

“Hey, we’re down here!” Ruth called out, waving to the voice above. “Tommy, is that you? I can hear your voice!”

Tommy peeked his head down through the fog and found Ruth and Maggie. “How and why are you down there?”

“It’s a long story, but could you help get us out of here?”

Tommy wanted to help, but he didn’t know what to do to get everyone out of this situation. He had to think of something; he looked around at his surroundings, wondering if he could use something to help. Tommy looked up at the cages dangling from the ceiling with what seemed to be easily detachable chains. That was when he thought up a plan.

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“Hang on; I’m going to rescue you!” Tommy exclaimed.

“Not so loud, you’ll wake them up!” Ruth warned.

“Them? Who’s ‘them’?”

“No time to explain, running out of time; just hurry, please!”

Tommy nodded in agreement. He made a head start so he could dash toward the edge of the cliff and jumped toward the cages, clutching onto the bars.

Ok, the pit doesn’t look too thick. Tommy thought, while looking down. If I lower the other cage by using some aerobatics, then maybe—

A purple glow appeared out of the corner of his eye. The light pierced through the darkness from beneath the cliff wall.

“What’s that sound? Can’t you see I’m trying to sleep—?” The purple eyes blinked and looked around the room. When they noticed Tommy, the eyes grew fierce with rage. “Hey, what do you think you’re doing? Not on my watch!” A surge formed around what looked to be their mouth and charged up an attack.

“Oh, crud!” Tommy panicked.

He got stuck and had no way of escaping from the attack. His heart dropped as he grew stricken with fear, wondering what he should do. As the blast got fully charged, and it fired at Tommy, he quickly shut his eyes tight to brace the impact.

Riley entered the area and charged over to the cages, jumping in front of Tommy to take the blast instead. Tommy looked up and noticed Riley closing its eyes as the body turned from pink to purple to black as the lights dispersed into multiple balls of fire before getting sucked back into the dark area with purple eyes.

“R-Riley?” Tommy asked. Tears poured from his eyes as he screamed. “NOO!”

“Hmm, that was good...” The voice echoed. “Now, it’s your turn…” Another purple blast went to attack Tommy. However, the explosion got countered and blocked with another beam, one that was colored aqua green. “What the — how did that happen?”

“A-ha, I found you, Kira!” A familiar voice declared. Tommy looked over and saw Amy wielding a magical floating orb in her hand.

“You! How did you get here?” The voice questioned.

“A girl has her ways.” Amy glanced over at Tommy. “Regret separating from me now, huh?”

“I can’t believe you’re here again, face to face...” The voice in the dark hissed.

“Oh, a generic evil-looking cloud,” Amy muttered, rolling her eyes.

“What? How dare you forget about me?”

“Calm down, will you? I recognize your voice, but you’re irritating, you know that?”

“Ooh, that does it, you’re going down!”

“Fine then, bring it on!”

The two fought it out, and Tommy looked over to watch. He wondered how the two knew each other, but he didn’t have time to think. He had to get the others out, but how?