It's been a day since Yoshi and Belle had left. It was now that Alice's loneliness started to sink in. She had no one to talk to except for the two of them. She tried to go out into the Skyfall Dance Academy and make more friends, but all the students avoided her. Some ran when she approached, some ignored her, and some just fainted on the spot.
Alice went back to her room, defeated. Her curse aura began leaking out of her body and started killing the grass and trees outside her room. So much had happened, that she forgot the very reason she came here. It gets her powers under ontology so she wouldn't be executed. She locked in quickly and sealed her curse aura back up. If any of the higher-ups or people who wanted her dead found out she let her aura leak out, they wouldn't hesitate to hold it against her.
"Alice decided if she was going to have the day to herself, she should at least find ways to pass the time. There was no telling how long Yoshi and Belle were gonna be gone and she couldn't rely on them solely.
She went to the art room, grabbed one of the canvases, and went outside the school to a cliff. She ended up taking a bunch of watercolor paint with her and began recreating the landscape on her canvas.
As she painted, she was getting messages from both Taiyo and Willow. Alice decided to turn off her phone. Those two only caused problems for her and she didn't want to hear from either of them.
Meanwhile, Yoshi and Belle had arrived at the location Taiyo had sent them. They waited at the top of a 30-story building for their target. Yoshi kept watch as Belle scrolled for new material for her clothing and cosplay outfits.
"Hey, Yoshi. I got a question for you. What exactly is Taiyo's power?"
"I really don't know. All I know is she's unbeatable for people like us."
"Why doesn't she just handle everything?"
"Because she's lazy. She might be a keeper, but she could care less about the people or anyone else for that matter. Honestly, she is more evil than good... though I'm not really one to talk."
"Hey, are you ever gonna take off your mask around me? Alice says your face is quite the unique piece to behold."
"Well... she's not wrong. I don't know. Probably never."
"Well, you got nice eyes. Surely your mouth can't be that bad."
"You'd be surprised... Hey Belle, why did you become a keeper? It had to be for more than just to kill Alice. We get paired more money than we know what to do with from the government and we put our lives on the line to fight things most wouldn't even consider."
"Well... Alice was part of the reason I attended this school. I originally wanted to kill her because I found out she killed my cousin, Seiko, but even if she didn't, I would have come here eventually because-"
The two looked down and saw a suspicious-looking line of trucks leaving the city.
"There's our catch."
The two jumped 20 stories down to the nearest building and jumped from rooftop to rooftop. They followed the trucks closely while trying to stay out of the sight of the drivers and the civilization roaming the city. They eventually came to a warehouse. It was the same one where Alice, Belle, and Yoshi fought Rose. The wear house was already fully rebuilt. Outside of the warehouse was a group of people; about 70 human soldiers who were in front of several vans and crated filled with weapons and chemicals.
The trucks drove up to the people. Out of them came 30 humans and 17 keepers. They were all members of Yerlen. Among them, there was a girl who stood out from amount the rest. She was a very beautiful young woman with straight, shoulder-length pink hair that had flowery hair ornaments in it, pink eyes, and a curvy figure. She wore a light blue and white magical girl dress, matching knee-length white socks, and a pair of gloves with light purple frills on the hems. She wears pink shoes with matching ribbons on her chest.
Both Yoshi and Belle watched her walk up to a scientist on the Derozues side of 70. He gave her a box of crystos; small gems that were used to craft the weapons of Keepers.
"Yoshi, we can't take them all on."
"Yeah. Taiyo... why did she send us on this mission? What here is... important."
Both Yoshi and Belle's faces fell into shock. The two could barely breathe at the sight that they saw. Out from one of the vans, several of the humans carried 10 bodies. And two of them looked awfully familiar. They were the bodies of Seiko and Yoshi's dead adoptive mother.
"What... the hell."
Out from the van came another person. He was a buff young man with spiky red hair and red eyes. He had a white T-shirt, a black jacket, black pants, black shoes, and black gloves. He brought a giant machine out with her. He placed it in front of the bodies and threw the crystos shards in the machine. It scanned the 10 corpses. Yoshi and Belle were even more shocked at what happened next.
The 10 started to rise. However, they were far from normal. They grew into monsters. They all changed into Anomalies. Yoshi and Belle were so stunned they couldn't even move. Belle covered her mouth, feeling like she was gonna throw up.
The man then sent out the 10 Anomalies into the city.
"Oh, what do we have here?" A voice said from behind Yoshi and Belle. "Eavesdropping are we?"
The two turned around and saw a girl. She had white hair with light blonde tips which reached down to the bottom of her back. She has heterochromic eyes; one blue and one yellow. She wears a purple dress with detached sleeves, white stockings, and purple shoes.
"Spying on the commander is forbidden."
One of them was echo class, but she was still abnormally strong. If that were bad enough, two attack helicopters surrounded them. The other members of Derozues and Yerlen had come over to them. They were now completely surrounded.
"Oh, cute." The buff man said. "Skyfall Dance students. Oh, the master's gonna love this. Kill the man, but keep the girl intact. You know how the boss likes em."
"Yoshi, what do we do?"
Yoshi tapped his foot on the ground. Though they were high up, the ground beneath them was mostly hollow. There was most likely a cave beneath them. Not only that, but Yoshi could feel the water in the air below them. It wasn't in the soil, it was in a gas form in a spatial space.
"Belle, slam..."
Belle nodded. She transformed into her minotaur form and punched the ground with full force. It caused the ground to shake and caved in the ground beneath them. A massive sinkhole formed around them, making every single keeper and human fall into the massive cave.