-Right now, saving explanations for the Nexus might be our only option. Well, other than let the kid blow up.- Zero heads on through the rooms... but now the security systems have been activated.

Nothing but a few drones, though, and soon they'll be close enough to hear Copy X shouting, "No, I won't lose you too! Go!"

And when they get to the room itself, they'll be just in time to see Fafnir and Leviathan, half-pulling a more reluctant Harpuia with them through a far door. A screen nearby displays grainy, repeating, soundless... and if they pay attention, highly edited, footage of the events with Phantom.

And Copy X, tearfaced and in his white-trimmed battle armor, buster pointed at them. "You betrayed us. What did you do to Phantom? Where is he!?"