A few days went by without any incidents. They lived as normally as they could.

Until one day.

Akari was at the couch, working on something in her computer, when someone knocked on the door. She got up and opened the door. On the other side, she saw a man from the government.

"Hello? Can I help you?" Akari asked.

"Yes," the man answered. Is Yuma Tsukumo here?"

"No, he's at school. He should be here later, though. Why do you need him?"

"Oh, no reason. Have a nice day, ma'am." With that, he walked away calmly.

Akari watched him walk away with a puzzled expression. She had a feeling that maybe he wasn't here for Yuma, but for Astral and Black Mist. Good thing they weren't here.

~.~.~

Later in the afternoon, Yuma rushed home. Astral and Black Mist had already gone before him, so they weren't in the Key.

Black Mist reached the house before Astral could. He grinned when his brother showed up.

"What took you?" he teased.

Astral just smiled. They waited for Yuma to catch up. When he did, they went inside.

Astral caught his breath when he saw what was inside.

Many men in black waited. They looked over to the door, and the leader stood up.

"Thank you for letting us stay, Mr. and Mrs. Tsukumo," he said. "Now, Yuma Tsukumo. I'm glad that they came with you."

"We have you now," a man in black said. He pointed a gun at the Tsukumo family. "Don't try to escape again."

Astral clung onto Black Mist. "I'm scared," he whispered. "What are we going to do?"

Black Mist returned Astral's embrace. "I guess we have to go with them."

Tears welled in Astral's eyes. "I don't want to go..."

Yuma walked up to them, ignoring the man's gun. "I wish there was something I could to."

Black Mist smiled warmly. "Just take care of the Emperor's Key for us."

"Break it up!" the man hollered. "You two, come with us if you value the lives of your friends!"

"Don't be so violent," another man, the leader, said. He turned to the twins. "Now, come with us."

With one last look back, Astral and Black Mist floated toward the men. Two of the men took some kind of special restraints and put it on their wrists. Then, they left.

"What was the doc thinking?" on man mumbled as he forced the twins in the car. "What did he hope to accomplish with these things?"

"What do you mean by that!?" demanded an outraged Black Mist. "He just made us 'cause Mom couldn't have kids!"

"You, shut up!" the aggressive one shouted at the wheel. "Can't you see I'm driving here!"

"Dad didn't have trouble driving while I talked," Black Mist mumbled, earning a tazer to the neck.

Astral caught his breath. Black Mist stifled a gasp of pain. Astral's body surrounded in lightning, causing the death of the one next to him.

Another one of them injected a needle into Astral, and he was forced to sleep. Black Mist glared at them all. When they arrived, they also knocked Black Mist out cold.

~.~.~

Yuma organized his reck and shuffled it again to have something to do while he plotted  way to get the twins out.

Akari entered his room. "Yuma, you don't plan on going after them, do you?"

"They'll do terrible things to them," Yuma said, "before they kill them. I have to."

Akari sighed. "I knew it. Well, I guess they aren't supposed to die. I dunno."

"How do you think I should do it?"

"I have no idea..."

~.~.~

Black Mist and Astral were shaken awake. They were forced out of the car and into the lab.

The lab brought up memories to Astral of when he was born in the lab, when he was ignorant and innocent.

Suddenly, something was injected into both if them. They looked behind them. They were being taken away.

"NO!" Astral screamed as he was being taken away by one of the people in white.

"We'll be together again, Astral!" Black Mist called back, tears running down his cheeks, fear of what they might do to his twin taking over. "I promise...I promise..."

Astral started struggling against the hands, sobbing and crying out for his brother. Unfortunately, what they were injected with must have weakened their heightened strength.

"Stop struggling!" a woman in a white coat grunted. She injected another drug into Astral's neck.

"ASTRAL!!" Black Mist screamed. He once again tried to get out of the grip on the man.

Then, he was knocked out again.