Nighthawk awoke to a room filled with heat and light. A semi welcome response to his previous conditions, if he didn’t know that suddenly his life was also on the line. He looked up to see his jail cell door open, swinging on one hinge. And then suddenly, it fell off its hinge with a large bang. He looked outside the cell to the right only to see the elevator shaft completely on fire, illuminating the whole jail cell. He looked to his left, to find the three morons waking up from their attack. Before they could get up, Nighthawk grabbed the Battle Axe that Giant had dropped. He put his taloned foot down on Liam’s chest, with the axe his throat. “Now...let us talk some more, ‘Emperor’.” ___________________________ The group of four finally reached the bottom stair, leading to what appeared to be a kitchen of sorts. Aku stopped to catch his breath. “Ugh...why does there have to be so many stairs in this place?” Eagle glided past him. “Hey, it’s easy when you got wings.” “Yeah, and I don’t have any!” Saber moved in between them both. “Guys, guys, remember why we’re down here. The signal keeps bouncing around here. Maybe we can figure out what keeps bouncing it.” Eagle investigated the fridge. So far, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But there was a ton of leftover pizza for some reason. Saber looked behind everything in the cabinets. Bowls, plates, yet nothing electronic. Aku checked the coffee and tea machines, then proceeded to pour himself a cup of tea. Demon approached a countertop, lined with toasters. One of them seemed to be…beeping? Yes, a red beeping light on one of the toasters. He motioned toward Saber and Eagle to check it out. “What is it?” Eagle responded. Aku eyed him warily. Something didn’t seem right. Saber decided to push the red light, and then suddenly, the lights turned off. “What the hell?!” Saber exclaimed. Then, emergency blue lights flared above the fridge, and slowly the fridge moved to the side, revealing a secret passageway. All four of them stared directly at the new entrance. It was a foreboding stairwell, dark, covered in cobwebs. More blue lights turned on illuminating the stairwell, and then a hallway leading off from the kitchen. Aku looked at Saber. “Is the signal-“ “Yep.” He responded. Aku looked back at the stairwell. “And this is-?” “Obviously a trap of some kind.” Eagle interjected. Aku sighed. “Then I guess we-“ Demon began going down the stairs. Aku turned to look at the others, who looked a little shocked that he would move so quickly into what was obviously a trap. Aku sighed with annoyance. Without any other real options though, they descended into the tunnel. After a few minutes, they arrived at a door with a strange symbol on top of it. The door slowly opened, with a loud creaking sound. In front of them, laid a giant console with TVs surrounding it. On one screen it read as a question: “ACTIVATE SYSTEM?” Saber walked up to the keyboard. “Y+E+S spells ‘yes’!” *Beep* Saber looked back the group confidently. “Shall we play a game? Now, we can see what sort of secrets-“ The screens blared to life with a savage screech as the sound speakers turned on. The whole room lit up, revealing a giant data bank network. Then, the monitors began broadcasting an image of a face in green Matrix-Like coding. A voice reverbed from the TVs. “It Toast-Toast-Toaster the kitch-ch-en with the butter kni-kni-kni-knife.” Demon looked at the TVs and crossed his arms. He growled, as if displeased. “It was the Toaster in the kitchen with the butter knife.” The system replied again. “Ooooo-Kay...Saber can you see if you can extract any data from this recording?” Eagle asked. Saber looked back at him, “Sure, but without an access point it’ll be hard to-“ “I am not a recording Eagle.” The TV spoke. “I may not be the unit I once was when the Hawk murdered me and my other units, BUT I AM.” An image of Toaster, the former Offtopic member appeared on a side monitor. Aku’s has dropped. “No way...it’s...it’s Toaster!! How are you alive? Are you the murderer?!” “That would be a no you tea sipping moron.” Toaster replied. “I am merely a tool for his schemes. A tool in which I am eager to repay his ‘kindness’ back to him.” Aku stares at the screen. “Then who is he? Another dead offtopican come back to life?” Toasters eyes on the screen drifted toward Demon. “Well, well, well. Speaking of the dead, and he has appeared. How have you been old ‘buddy?’” Eagle, Saber, and Aku all looked at Demon. “Buddy?” They said in confused unison. Demon sighed, and moved his hands to his hood. He began pulling it back, revealing someone underneath. Eagle and Saber did not recognize him, but Aku screeched in fear. “WHA-HOW-YOU DIED!! THEY TURNED YOUR BODY INTO WOOD CHIPS!!” “Don’t believe everything you hear, Aku.” Said Chubbyninja, holding his hood to his side. “After all, death is often irrelevant for someone like us.”