"Xion..." Diesel shakes Xion vigorously. "Master! Wake up! It's already noon!"


"But I don't want to go to school today..." Xion sleeply mumbles. Xion opens his eyes and looks around. "Oh." A large anime-like sweat drop forms on the back of Xion's head. "I forgot. Life."

"Life of a planeswalker, Master." Diesel replies. "Now, we need for you to meditate and get your skills back."

"Actually, most of my skills are within a database on Gran Da Val." Xion explains. Diesel looks confused. "A large knowledge base...bigger than the sages. The only problem is that I put it all there." Xion grins uneasily. "But in order for me to get there, I need one of two things...Planeswalking magic..." Xion looks at the market below. "...Or a Telepipe. And I am quite sure Ivalace doesn't have that advanced technology to make one." Xion turns around and notices Diesel holding a small black object. "Where...did you get that?"

"Xion, I have a confession to make." Diesel says, ashamed. "I swiped a large amount of your stuff as we were meditating over the year."

"And a telepipe was one of the things you swiped?" Xion says. 'I'm not sure if I should be angry or happy...' Xion thinks.

"Yes. I was selling them on the black market. I was making quite a gil from it too. This is the only one I have left." Diesel raises it to Xion to hand it back. Xion takes it, presses the button, and throws it on the floor. "What are you doing?" Diesel says, distressed.

"Come on..." Xion says. "We have a pylon to take down." Diesel and Xion enter the Telepipe and shift planes and other things to the Gran Da Val base.

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"Hold...still!" Xion says, holding Diesel's ear. Xion puts a small object in Diesel's earlobe, and Diesel flinches. "I think it stuck that time."

"That hurts! Why would you want that in your ear?" Diesel says, fondling his ear.

"For skills, of course." Xion smirks.



Two hours have passed since Xion and Diesel left Ivalace. Xion put his chip in right away. Diesel, however, resisted the chip for an hour and hid in Rach's pen. The other hour was trying to brave the chip and get it implanted in his ear. Diesel didn't like getting things implanted in his ear...or implanted anywhere, for that matter. Diesel had three fears...Needles being one of them. Paranoia didn't help much, and also a fear of electrical shock was his final dread.

"Now what?" Diesel says.

"Now we wait. We wait for the magic to flow into our bodies." Xion explains.

"I don't want to wait...Wanna play a game of chess?" Diesel suggests.

"Sounds good." Xion says, then brings out a chess set.

I apologize for not being on this afternoon, I got PSO3 and played it all afternoon...very godo game.