Nine days have passed, with one more day until the day of the battle. In these past eight days Enishi has shown no sign of making a surprise attack. Amid tension and unease, daily life goes on. The sun sets. Later that night Sage is finishing his hot dog near a little stand. “Found you! Telling me to meet you at a hotdog place is fine, but you got to say where! I spent the last week going to every hotdog place in town and now I find you at a roadside stall!” “Who are you?” “It’s me! The Sword Collector of the Ten Sword AnQels,” the man screamed. “Oh yeah that’s right,” Sage as usual not giving a rat’s ass about much. “I'm one of your own cops, damn it! Man, you really tick me off. Can we get out of here?” Sage gets up and leaves a few dollars on the counter, “Here you are.”

They walk off down the street as the Sword Collector comes to talking again, “And, you said once I find this guy I can't kill him.” “Of course not, killing is my job.” Sword Collector thinks to himself, “Is this guy really a cop!?” “Don't just stand there. Tell me what you found out. We're dealing with the gravest aspect of the NekamOrez case, is to find the arms dealer that sold him the battleship.” “It took me some time, but I found them,” hands Sage some photographs. “Here's their headquarters. But it turns out the boss is out on a personal job.” “A personal job?” “I couldn’t get all the details. But MakenZero name did come up.” “So our reunion will be sooner than I thought.” “So who are we going after? The boss? Or MakenZero?” “Yes,” as usual Sage not really answering the question and ignoring most people. He looked at the photos again and narrowed his eyes.

The time for the players to gather is drawing near. The day of the battle has arrived!

Later at the hidden mansion in the forest, Jax, Kumar, Hans, and Juba are gathered looking at something with expressions of amazement on their faces. “These are,” Hans couldn’t finish what he was saying. Enishi spoke, “Have you forgotten? These are the upgraded weapons I spoke of earlier. Please, use them to the best of your abilities. Well, the sun will be setting soon. Shall we go? To deliver up our earthly justice. Let us go to our long-awaited day in style!”

Back at Maken and company’s place, they’re all standing in the front yard. “The sun’s gone down,” said Vivi. “Yeah,” Makenzie nodded.  Swipe spoke, “There's just four or five hours left of today,” to Makenzie, “Did you see the little girl home?” “Yeah.” “Poor Rica,” Vivi shook her head. “There was no choice. It's too dangerous here.” Megan was getting her medical equipment ready.

(Flashback to earlier today.) Maken was giving out orders, “I'll be here at first. Swipe, take the front garden area. I leave its defense to your judgment. Vivi, Makenzie, stay inside. Make defending yourself your first priority. However, Makenzie, if worst comes to worst, I'll allow you to come out to the attack.” “R-right! I’ll do it!” “You sure about that,” Swipe looked at Maken. “She’ll be all right (I think). Megan you’ll be inside as well to take care of the wounded.” “Leave it to me. No matter how badly you're hurt, I'll fix you up, as long as you're not DEAD, Megan looking at Swipe. “What're you looking at me for?”

“And and me?” Rica stuttered. “Rica, you’ll take refuge at your new restaurant with your sister and your other family members.” “But!” “At this late date, Enishi won't attack again there. You'll be far safer there than you are here.” “You're right. If I stayed here, I'd only be in your way.” Makenzie pats Rica on her head, “I’ll walk you home.” “Okay,” Rica blushes but still looking crushed. “Don't worry. Nobody here is going to die. We're all going to live, and we're all going to see you again,” Makenzie had a fire in her eyes; she wanted to promise that to everybody. Maken nodded, “Just as she said. Rica smiles, “All right.” (End of flashback.)

Maken thinking, “Makenzie’s right. None of us will die. We'll live through this.” Vivi comes up to him, “Maken, dinner. Do you want some?” “No I’ll just have some tea.” “I guess Linda didn’t make it in time.” “What?” Maken looked confused. “Oh it’s nothing.” Makenzie looked a bit eager, “They're taking their time. If they're coming they should just come. How do you think they'll attack first?” “No question about it. They'll start out with a blast from that cannon--,” Swipe is cut off by the sound of an explosion.

“They’re here!” Makenzie screamed. Fireworks light up the sky. “It's just fireworks. Sure made me jump,” Makenzie relaxed. “It must be a summer festival day,” Swipe looked up at them. “Every year, after the festivals are over, it's suddenly autumn. The winds starts blowing colder, the skies are clear.” Vivi telling everyone about the summer festival. There's one patch of sky that's dark amidst all the fireworks. “Look that one's not going off. Is it a dud?” Vivi pointed at it. “There's one lower down, too.” Megan pointed at another one. “No. No! Those aren’t fireworks! Those are--,” Maken looked closer.

The dark shapes move closer--they are four hot air balloons, holding Enishi and the others. “Now is the time of earthly justice,” Enishi smiled. “Balloons!?” Makenzie looking confused as everyone else. Hot air balloons were the cutting edge of military technology long ago. These use very little heat sources so much harder to pick up on the hot hair balloons. Not only that, since they’re quite above in the air, there’s no way to reach it, I can’t believe he would go so far.” Maken clenched his fist then relaxed.

The balloons moved closer to Maken and company. “Now this is style!” Kumar laughed. “It's completely useless for attack, but as far as moving in quickly, it's ideal,” Hans nodded. “MakenZero, MakenZero!” Jax leaps from the balloon. “You don't mind? He's jumping the gun a bit,” Ox looked at Enishi who was still smiling. “They're done so well thus far. Let them have a little glory. Still falling, Jax levels his arm-cannon for a shot. “The cannon,” Megan screamed. “He's going to fire from mid-air?!” Vivi froze. “Swipe! I’m going to jump! Lend me your fist!” Maken runs and leaps, landing with his foot on Swipe's energized fist just as Swipe punches; it sends him even higher in the air.