Scimitar whistled a happy tune, spinning the Dragonball on his finger.
/You keep doing that, and you'll lose it./
When it fell out of Scimitar's hands, and into a river, Mewtwo tried not to 
say "I told you so".

They followed the river, with Scimitar trying to lock onto the Dragonball.
"Are you looking for this?"
Scimitar turned to see the guy from the factory, holding the Dragonball.
/Xelloss./ Mewtwo growled.
Scimitar waved his hand, signalling Mewtwo to hush up. "Is there something 
you want, sorceror?"
"Yes," Xelloss said, "you to have not left Nerima."
Scimitar's eyes widened. He just realised, he couldn't sense anyone from 
Nerima's general direction. Mewtwo flew past Xelloss, grabbing the ball with 
his tail.

Scimitar took a look over the wreckage. Nerima was leveled. There didn't seem 
to be any life, anywhere.
"Sad, isn't it?" Xelloss's voice asked.
Scimitar spun around, grabbing Xelloss by the throat.
"WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"It turns out that your friend, Gordon, had a piece of Shabranigdo in him." 
Xelloss said with that irritating grin. "Alkanphel found out on the day you 
left. And, later that evening, he was captured. And if they made him a 
Zoanoid"
/Scimitar, I can't tell if he's lying or not./
"So," Scimitar asked, "what now?"
"If you go back to before you left, you can stop this."
"Why? Why does all this depend on me?"
"It doesn't." Xelloss replied. "You, Gordon, Noname, Akisame, Kailan, and the 
others. You think that you all came here by accident? No, L-sama has more 
planned for you then that."
/Like what?/
"Let's just say," he replied, with his hand glowing white, "that's a secret."
And suddenly, everything became white.

Scimitar blinked away the blindness, and looked around. Nerima was back. And 
more importantly, it was night.
/He actually did it./
"How can you tell?"
/Because there we are, when we left./
Scimitar looked where Mewtwo was watching. Sure enough, there was his past 
self, leaving with Mewtwo out of Nerima.
*Something is going to happen here.* Scimitar reasoned. *Something that needs 
me and the others here.*
He smiled.
"Well, who am I to argue with destiny?"
And he and Mewtwo took off, looking for Gordon.