Back at the Rebellious Crusaders' HQ, the squadron was immersed in light. When the light subsided, everyone found themselves standing at the edge of the Mavis empire.

Frantically looking around at the unfamiliar environment, Bradley asked. “What the heck, where are we, what did you do?”

“Oh yeah, I forgot this is your first time. Right now, our consciences are in the Immersion Sphere: it is a sphere that immerses the mind into a fabricated reality of one’s choosing or rather a reality that is created by the data that has been collected. We may move freely and feel anything in here with our mental bodies but our physical bodies remain immobile as everything in here happens at the speed of a thought. So basically time has stopped in the real world,” explained Ethan.

“Oh my, that’s incredible. So right now we’re having an out of body experience?” Chemic asked, excitedly.

“Technically, yes we are,” Ethan replied.

“Oh my word, that is so cool,” said Chemic.

“Wait Cyber, is this what’s inside that big dark dome?” Colonel asked.

“Yes, this is Mavis’s technological empire.”

They gazed into the city of robots and saw a technologically advanced empire. The architecture of the buildings were modern but the technology and the infrastructure was advanced as cars were flying and buildings were floating in mid-air. Everyone except Ethan was in awe to see the Mavis empire, “You’re joking, right?” Ninja asked.

“Unfortunately no, I’m not.”

“So this whole time, they were more advanced than we were.” Bradley said, baffled like the others.

“Well it was to be expected though since they are robots, but I don’t blame you for being puzzled by this. Even I was surprised to see them this advanced," Ethan said.

“It’s so weird how they’ve destroyed human civilization only to create their own advanced civilization, we could’ve achieved this together,” Chemic said, frustrated.

“True, but we can never truly understand what goes on inside a robot’s head,” Ethan stated.

“If they’re this advanced than how can even we defeat them?” Ninja asked, gloomily.

“Don’t let this overwhelm you guys, it's still very possible for us to win this war. We just need to understand what we’re dealing with, then create a plan of attack,” Ethan said.

“How do you think we should go about doing that?” Colonel asked.

“Well… lets us first find out what threats they have against us. For example, the weapons they have,” said Ethan, levitating from the ground.

“Hooo, you can fly Cyber?!” said Kunoichi gleefully.

“Yes, all of us can fly in here,” Ethan replied.

“But how?” asked Kunoichi, curiously.

“Guys, our mental bodies have no weight. You are only on the ground because you believe gravity has an effect on you but once you release yourself from that believe, your body should start floating.”

Kunoichi instantly released herself from gravity and started floating like Ethan then Ninja, Colonel and Chemic joined them in the air but Bradley remained on the ground.

“Bradley, what’s the matter?” Ethan asked.

“Nothing, I just prefer to be on the ground,” said Bradley.

“Huh? Is he afraid of heights by chance,” asked Ethan.

“...Yes, he is,” Chemic replied.

“NO I’m not, like I said I prefer to be on the ground than in the air,” said Bradley, he pouted.

“Well this is great,” Ethan mumbled.

“Chemic, go help him,” said Kunoichi.

“Me? Why me?” Chemic asked.

“You already know so stop playing dumb,” said Kunoichi with a smirkish grin.

Chemic sighed “Fine...” She levitated down to Bradley. “Brad, I know you’re scared heights but this is not the real world, you need to loosen up a bit and let go of your fears because they cannot hurt you in here.”

“That’s easy for you to say."

“Close your eyes.”

Bradley reluctantly closed his eyes and Chemic put her hands on his cheeks.

“Brad, you’re the strongest member in this squad, other than the Colonel of course, and yet you choose to let fear overcome you, you’re better than this. Eventually you are going to have to face that fear and overcome it, so take a deep breath and when you exhale, let go of yourself and your fears,” said Chemic gently.

Bradley inhaled and thought about what caused him to fear heights, his mind raced into a flashback of his past of him falling down in a helicopter as it was about to crash. He exhaled and let go of his burden, allowing him to float up into the air with Chemic.

“There you go, see it’s not so bad up here,” said Chemic.

Bradley opened his eyes and saw how high he was from the ground but he didn’t panic, well at least not on the outside but on the inside, he was freaking out, “Y-Yeah, it’s not so bad up here,” said Bradley. Like hell it is

“Well, that was unexpected,” said Ethan.

“That was cheesy,” said Ninja, cringing.

“Agreed,” said Ethan, cringing.

“Uh-huh," said Colonel, cringing.

“Come on, that was sweet guys,” said Kunoichi.

“...Nah!”

“Enough of this cheesiness, lets get started on the analysing,” said Ethan. A window graphic popped up in front of him which contained the data that Corruptión collect during Ethan's infiltration.

The others were enjoying themselves, floating and levitating around, Kunoichi & Ninja started flying around rapidly while Colonel, Chemic & Bradley were gazing down at the city.

Ethan analysed the data and saw something that intrigued him, “I found an area where we can learn a lot about our enemy.”

“What area?” Colonel asked.

“The production area, this is where they manufacture their robots,” said Ethan, he closed the window graphic.

“Ooh, well this should be interesting,” said Colonel.

“Indeed,” said Ethan, warping them above four massive manufacturing factories that were surrounded by massive hangars.

“Is this where they make all the robots?” Ninja asked.

“Yes, at least that's what my data says, let’s go inside and see for ourselves,” said Ethan, descending down into a factory.

Kunoichi & Ninja dropped down, descending to the factory before crashing flat onto the roof of the factory.

Ethan chuckled silently. You’ve got to be kidding me... they did not just crash into the roof now, did they?

Ethan rose through the roof and saw two human pancakes on top of the roof, Bradley and Colonel were cackling in the sky while Chemic descended onto the roof to see if they were okay.

“Are you two okay?” Chemic asked.

“Y-Yeah Im fine, justa wittle dazed,” said Kunoichi dizzily.

Ninja didn’t answer, humiliated by what just happened.

“Why didn’t we go through the roof like Cyber did?” Kunoichi asked, bewilderedly.

“You probably didn’t believe that you could slip or faze through the wall,” said Ethan

“But I did believe,” said Kunoichi.

“Well I guess you didn’t believe enough,” said Ethan, “Now try again and focus on fazing through.”

Kunoichi focused herself and instantly slipped through roof, Ninja who hadn’t moved an inch, also focused himself and slipped right through the roof. Everyone else did the same and could see what was happening in the factory. The factory was loud and busy, the sound of working machinery filled the place as the squadron was watching everything from above.

“Is that not the Colossomata?” Ninja asked.

“Yes, but it’s not the usual one, this one is designed differently,” said Colonel.

“Well, my data says that this a Colossal, they are 60 meters tall and that there are three types of Colossals. There’s the gun Colossal, the sword Colossal and the warhead Colossal. I’m sure you can guess what each type specialises in,” said Ethan.

“We’ve encountered the sword colossal but we’ve never seen these other two,” said Colonel.

“We wouldn’t be here if we did encounter them,” said Bradley.

“Yeah, they would've butchered us if we faced them,” said Ninja.

“In my opinion, yes, they would've butchered you and they'll still butcher you now,” said Ethan with an awkward chuckle, “But I might be able to invent something that will help us, although that will depend on what your Science department has up their sleeve.”

“You think that you can create something that can destroy those things?” Chemic asked.

“Well yes, so long as your science department has the resources,” Ethan replied.

“I doubt our science department has the resources you need to create something that amazing,” Chemic stated.

“I’ll be the judge of that later, but for now let’s continue this analysis. Since we’re done with the Colossals, lets go to the next warehouse,” said Ethan.

They levitated out of the warehouse and went into the next warehouse. When they got in the warehouse, Kunoichi chuckled cheerfully, “Ninja look, it’s the spheres.”

“Why’s she so excited to see these robots?” Ethan asked.

“Because she loves destroying them the most,” said Ninja.

“She specialises in taking them down just like Ninja,” said Colonel.

“So does everyone have a robot they specialise in destroying?” Ethan asked.

“Yes, Flash & Bradley specialise in destroying automata while I like to think I specialise in terminating Cybortrons,” said Colonel.

“Speaking of Flash, where is he?” asked Bradley.

Everyone was silent for a moment before realising that Flash was never at the meeting, “Wait, didn’t you guys invite him?” Colonel asked.

“No, you told us to tell Chemic about the meeting. We assumed that you told Flash about the meeting,” Bradley replied.

The Colonel sighed then mumbled. “How did we forget about Flash, unbelievable. When this meeting is done, it will be up to you to inform Flash on the content of this meeting, Bradley.”

“Sure”

“So what data do you have for us on the spheres and cubes thingies, Cyber?” Colonel asked.

“Well, the cubes are called Cuboids and spheres are called Orbata, the Cuboids & Orbata have a 13.5 sq. meter area and are able to levitate due to electromagnetism, the Cuboids are equipped with machine guns as they are more offensive than the Orbatas who are meant for detaining opponents in an electromagnetic barrier.”

“The Cuboids are new to us, we’ve only encountered the spheres and so far we’ve managed fine against this type of robot,” said Colonel.

“That’s good then, but be sure to be cautious against the Cuboids, because once you’re caught within their barrier, the only way to get out is by having someone outside the barrier to attack the Cuboids making the barrier,” said Ethan.

“Did you learn this from experience or your data?” Chemic asked.

“Experience, when I arrived here in this world, Tony and I encountered these two robots. The Cuboids trapped Tony within their barrier so I figured out that destroying one of the Cuboids would disable the barrier and that’s what I did,” said Ethan.

“If you can handle these robots then we can as well,” said Bradley, confidently.

“I’m sure you can... Now then, lets us we move onto the next warehouse?” said Ethan, levitating to the next warehouse and the squadron followed him.

They entered into the next warehouse and saw that it was even busier than the last warehouse, “The Automata, my favourite type of robot to destroy,” said Bradley with a smirked then the squadron watched in awe, they saw how an Automata was being made.

“It’s cool to see how Automata are made,” said Kunoichi.

“Indeed it is,” said Ethan. “Anyways, lets us continue our analysis. The Automata are actually called Androids, they’re similar to humans as they look like humans and have human mannerisms. I see why Bradley was so hostile and cautious towards me and Tony.”

“Uh-huh,” said Bradley with a blank expression while staring at the Colonel.

“The Androids don’t have a specific talent, they are just meant to be similar to us humans so when they go to war, they will go to war with guns, swords and explosives like we do. Amongst the four types of robot, Androids are the mass produced ones so we going face Androids a lot in the future,” said Ethan.

“That we already know, so they haven’t added anything new to the Automata. That’s good for us then, we never struggled in handling Androids and Orbata, but the Colossals and Cybortrons are the problematic ones,” said Colonel.

“Then this last warehouse should be an interesting study,” said Ethan while they all levitated to the last warehouse.

When they entered the last warehouse, they noticed it was dark and quiet. “Huh?? Why is this warehouse so vacant?” Kunoichi asked.

“Well, my data says here that Cybortrons are rarely made and are hand-made by Mavis herself. She hasn’t made a new Cybortron in years and there are 7 Cybortrons that exist who call themselves the 7 Governors,” said Ethan.

“So does that mean you don’t mean have any data on the 7 Governors?” asks Colonel.

“No, it just means that we won’t be able to see how they’re made. Since nothing is happening here and we’ve learned a lot about our opponents, shall we continue this analysis another time, maybe after I’m finished with the Science department?” Ethan suggested.

“Yes I agree, we’ve absorbed enough information for one meeting,” said Colonel.

Ethan was about to deactivate the immersion sphere then remembered, “Oh before I switch off this immersion, all the first timers, be sure to remain seated when you regain consciousness in your physical bodies, your body will feel dizzy & wobbly and your brain may feel discomfort, but don’t worry it will subsided momentarily.”

Ethan deactivated the immersion sphere and everyone was back in their brains. While Bradley & Chemic were recovering from their symptoms, Colonel made an announcement, “I will inform you all soon about our next meeting as we will be discussing battle strategies that will help us invade the Mavis empire and hopefully we will see progress in the science department so all the best Cyber and Chemic,” said Colonel.

“Thank you Colonel, I will do my best to produce results,” said Ethan.

“I have faith you will Cyber,” said Colonel while she left the briefing room.

Ethan sighed. Judging from the data that Corruptión gathered, I have my work cut out for me. I’ll have to see what the science department has to offer then see what we can create that can take down the Colossals. I would use Corruptión like I did before, but it will be busy doing another task for me so we’ll need an alternative. After seeing the data on the 7 Governors, I’m not too worried about the bottom three Governors, but the top 4 Governors are going to be a problem. I’ll start worrying about the Governors after the Science Department investigation but for now let me put my creative cap on for the investigation.”