The main lobby of Techway was currently filled with the mumbles and murmurs of personnel, Corry, and Pool. First the Headmaster had spoken, then none other than Chris had come to the mic, shocking everyone in the room.

  "What is the Headmaster doing with Captain Chris?" A disgruntled soldier asks.

  Corry and Pool quickly look towards the group of enemies, currently too stunned and weak to do much.

  "Captain...?" Pool asks quietly.

  "Hey... What's that all about!?" Corry shouts.

  "Listen up well, you two. I'm here with the Headmaster and Nond. I want you to know one thing thing: I've actually been spying on you guys, not Techway. I've been with Techway all along, I realized you guys would be a danger to the company, so I decided we could nip this thing at the bud. I'm going to kill Nond right here, right now. So I recommend you give your st regards to him." Chris's voice announces over the loudspeaker.

  Pool gasps, covering her mouth with her hands. Corry's eyes widen with horror, he grits his teeth and runs over to where his sword had gotten thrown earlier and picks it up before trying to run down the hall, the soldiers barely even trying to stop him. However, when Corry starts running, he grunts, wincing in pain. He still wasn't recovered from the damage he took earlier.

  "Pool! Can you please carry me to the Headmaster's pce!?" Corry asks desperately.

  "W-Where is it!?" Pool squeals, becoming overwhelmed.

  "I don't know, let's just keep going up, it's bound to be at the top!!" Corry shouts.

  "O-Ok... Right!" Pool says, swimming up to Corry swiftly.

  Corry wraps his arms around Pool's waist and they both speed down the hallway. In the Headmaster's Quarters, Nond stares mortified at Chris.

  "You're gonna... K-Kill... Me??" Nond stutters.

  "Didn't you hear what I said?" Chris says darkly, walking towards Nond.

  Nond quickly backs up, but hits a wall, looking up frightfully at Chris.

  "N-No, stay b-back!! I'll shoot!" Nond shrieks, quickly pulling out one of his Proto-Pistols with his uninjured arm.

  Before Nond can do anything with it however, Chris quickly swipes it out of his hand and aims it at Nond. At this point, Nond was much too afraid to move any further, just staring bnkly at his own weapon. The Headmaster chortles in the background, amused by the fright on Nond's face.

  "Behahahaha!! Killed by your own weapon!! How ironic!" Bellows guffaws.

  "Any st words, friend?" Chris asks solemnly...

  Back in the halls, Pool is still speeding along with Corry before coming to a flight of stairs.

  "U-Uh oh-!! I can't swim up there, there's no water!!" Pool squeals.

  Before she can react, Corry had pnted his feet onto the ground under the water and was now lifting up Pool.

  "E-Ehh!?" Pool gasps, her fish tail turning back into legs as she was lifted up.

  "I'll carry us... The rest of the way!" Corry grunts, seemingly feeling a bit better.

  Corry shakily runs up the stairs, Pool slung over his shoulder as he went.

  Back in Bellows' room, the old man just keeps ughing loudly as Chris aims the Proto-Pistol at Nond.

  "L-Last words...?" Nond whimpers.

  Chris remains silent, awaiting Nond's answer. Nond seems to think for a bit, gulping lightly.

  "Come on boy, don't keep us waiting!!" Bellows sneers.

  "My st words... My st words are that... This old fart should be taken down!! Techway needs to go down!" Nond yells.

  "Behahahahahaha, that's your choice of words!? Pathetic!! Kill him quick now, Chris!" Bellows shouts out.

  Chris stares at Nond before smirking.

  "Those are some strong words. Fortunately, they definitely won't be your st." Chris states before turning around to face the Headmaster, aiming the gun at him.

  "E-Ehh!? Christopher, just what do you think you're doing with that thing!?" Bellows cries out.

  "Did you really think I'd kill one of my best friends for a ball of rd like you?" Chris says, popping his neck.

  Nond breathes a sigh of relief and gets up, walking next to Chris.

  "You know, I thought that pn would have been a lot less terrifying..." Nond sighs.

  "Well I had to make it seem authentic somehow!" Chris says defensively.

  "You were... Conspiring with this young fool the whole time!?" Bellows yells, appalled.

  "Eh, I may have said a bit about the pn when we were crawling through your ventition system. I kept it vague so I could get a genuine reaction from him." Chris says smugly.

  "It worked a little too well..." Nond mutters.

  Jack and Joseph run into the room after hearing the Headmaster yelling. When they see Chris aiming the gun at their boss, they both aim their rifles. Nond yelps and hides behind Chris.

  "Jack, Joseph, you have to help me!! Christopher is a traitor!!" Bellows cries out.

  "Finally! Y'know, I never liked you from the start Chris, so I'm gonna enjoy this!" Jack yells.

  "....Why?" Chris asks, genuinely curious.

  "....I dunno, I just did." Jack says casually.

  "That's kinda stupid bro-" Joseph says.

  "Would you two dolts shut up and kill Christopher and 4-Eyes!?" The Headmaster screams.

  "Yes, sir!" The two soldiers shout, aiming their rifles at Chris and Nond.

  Before they can fire their guns though, both of them are clocked in the head and knocked out. It was Corry, carrying Pool over his shoulder.

  "Chris!! I don't know what the hell you're doing, but-!" Corry yells, but then takes a bit to examine the situation.

  Corry sets down Pool, who also takes a bit to see the situation.

  "I thought you were-" Corry starts.

  "Yes indeed-" Pool agrees.

  "Long story short, that was to get you guys to come up here. I'm still your friend." Chris expins.

  "Ah, ok." Corry and Pool say in unison, closing the double doors behind them.

  "No... No this can't be happening!! Techway must go on!" Bellows yells, defeated.

  "Sorry, Old Timer. We're not gonna let you guys go on for any longer." Chris states.

  Corry and Pool walk up next to Chris and Nond, all four of them staring down Bellows.

  "I cannot let you get away with trying to hurt my people..." Pool says quietly, her usually soft face now showing signs of anger.

  ".....Killing me won't destroy Techway, I hope you know!" Bellows says suddenly.

  "Expin yourself!" Corry yells.

  Chris stares in confusion, tilting his head.

  "Behehe... Grandmaster Keller will be able to finish you off! The Grandmaster is much stronger than anyone here at Techway! If you kill me, you'll have to face his wrath! Does that deter you!?" Bellows sneers, a droplet of sweat rolling down his face.

  "You mean... You're not the leader of Techway?" Nond asks, shocked.

  "Far from, my four-eyed friend." The Headmaster chuckles.

  The crew stares in terror, Chris was shocked, but his shock seems to shift into quiet anger. Bellows just keeps chuckling at the expense of his enemies before noticing something: the light on the loudspeaker microphone was still on.

  "....E-Eh?" Bellows manages to slip out.

  All throughout the building, personnel were looking up at the loudspeaker modules, now talking amongst themselves.

  "Grandmaster Keller? Who's that guy?" Somebody asks.

  "He's more of a leader than the Headmaster?" Someone else asks.

  "...What's got you so shocked?" Chris says angrily.

  "I-I..." The Old Headmaster starts before being cut off.

  Static fills the loudspeaker all throughout the building before a deep voice comes through.

  "You just had to go and spout all of this info to everyone in the building, didn't you!? I knew you were useless, but this is a whole new level of pathetic!" The voice yells.

  Nond, Corry, Chris, and Pool are caught off guard by the voice bsting throughout the building. Bellows starts to sweat horribly as he looks around.

  "W-Wait, just listen-!!" Bellows begs.

  "Listen to what? You ramble on about me to everyone!?" The voice shouts furiously.

  The Headmaster freezes, he was at a loss for words. Everyone in the building stares up at the speakers, listening to the voice. The voice sighs and clears his throat before speaking more calmly.

  "Now that the cat's out of the bag, yes, I am Grandmaster Keller. My branch of Techway was supposed to be much more secretive. You fools are with Andrew because you're all weak, just like him. Only the best of the best get to be with me and the others." Keller expins.

  "H-Hey, he just called us weak!!" A soldier calls out.

  "What does he mean by others...?" A scientist questions.

  Back in the Headmaster's Quarters, Bellows frantically starts getting up from his seat, trying to make an escape. He pushes Chris and Corry aside to make his way to the door, but before he can open the door, 10 thin little cyan beams smash through the window behind his desk, flying across the room and impaling the Headmaster in 10 different areas, including his brain, before the beams seemingly get pulled out of Bellows and dragged back to where they came from, like strings. Pool gasps as she watches Bellows fall to the ground, murdered out of cold blood. Corry and Chris look out the broken window to try and see where the beams came from. Nond backs up against the wall, trying to avoid any attacks.

  "The old man was pathetic anyway, honestly it's quite therapeutic to seem him pass away." The Grandmaster sighs.

  All the other personnel in the building open their mouths wide with shock. Andrew Bellows had just been killed.

  Chris grits his teeth and shouts out the window.

  "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS DOING ALL THIS!?!? IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!!!" Chris yells, absolutely furious.

  "Why must you attack my home? Why must you throw away all of these lives so unhesitatingly!?" Pool shouts.

  Keller ughs slyly, his voice reverberating through the walls.

  "Why you ask? It's simple. Humanity is bound to fall on it's own, Techway is going to prevent that from happening, however some sacrifices will be made." Keller says.

  The crew stares at the loudspeaker, terrified, angry, confused, all at the same time.

  "Yes... We do all of this... To maintain the universe's natural order." Keller says softly...

  To Be Continued...