Avalon wanders around Link Vrains for a little while longer, thinking of where Revolver might be as he looks up to the digital sky.

'Could he be here... Or did I just give myself false hope?'

Unknown to Avalon he is indeed there, but not under the best of circumstances. Every few hours Varis would try to convince Revolver to help him and his cause, most of the time he's barley conscious and in a lot of pain. Eventually Varis starts to demand that he brings Playmaker's Ignis to him but he still refuses, causing Varis to on purposely try to make his pain worse by causing data surges within the network. Seeing how the pain he's in is debilitating, which he still didn't understand why or how he's even able to feel any pain while on the network. Nor does he really care at this point that Revolver's even in pain. Revolver stiffens in pain as one of Varis's data surges hits him, making him fall to one knee. He tries weakly to stand up but another surge hits him.

"I'll do this as many times as I have to." Varis says with a small smirk on his face.

"Then I guess you'll just-" Revolver passes out in mid-sentence due to his weak mental state, falling back onto the ground.

All Varis can do is sigh and wait for him to regain consciousness again. He walks over to Revolver's side and picks him up. He's light and easy to carry, Varis takes him back to the cell he was placed in when Specter found him and the he logs out of Link Vrains for now with Specter following close behind him since they both have things in the real world that they must attend to. But Varis tries to keep an eye on Revolver but real world duties keep him preoccupied.

'It doesn't hurt to look but let's just hope no one's there, I don't want to fight with anyone,' Avalon thinks to himself going to the Hanoi base within Link Vrains.

He appears in what looks like a dark circuit room, there's only a small glow of the off screens for light. Avalon looks around to make sure no one is there before looking around the base farther.

"So far so good. No one's here," he says to himself, keeping an eye out for anyone.

As Avalon is looking around something, or rather someone, catches his attention. He turns his head to see what caught his eye only to be faced with a cell with his dearly believed friend laying on a bed. He doesn't think and just acts opening the cell door and quickly going to his side. He doesn't know it, but he's triggered a silent alarm which alerts both Specter and Varis and as soon as it goes off

"Oh Revolver, what have they done to you...?" He whispers quietly and gently takes him into his arms. He does a force log out, careful not to leave a trace of himself behind, or so he thinks.

Specter and Varis race back to Link Vrains, but by the time they get there, Avalon is long gone. He's back in the real world as his normal self with his beloved friend in his arms.

"Specter find out who was here!" He orders as he goes to see if Revolver is still somewhere in Link Vrains.

"Right away sir!" Specter says and gets straight to work on trying to find who snuck in.

Night slowly falls over Den City. Avalon sticks to the shadows, so he doesn't catch Yusaku or the Hanoi's attention. He looks around for a place to hide and comes across a hotel.

"I guess this will have to do." He sighs and goes into the hotel and to the front desk.

The woman behind the decks give him a slightly strange look when she sees the unconscious boy in his arms. Avalon is quick to put the teller's worries at ease, saying that his friend is just tired from site seeing. Explaining that they're just visiting the city. The teller lets this slide as a reasonable explanation, and Avalon pays for a room with a credit card. The teller hands him the key to the room and he takes it thanking the woman. He goes up to room 218, he opens the door and looks around. The room is mostly plain, but this didn't bother him. He walks into the room shutting the door behind him with his foot.

He lays his beloved friend down gently on the bed and covers him with a blanket. He stays beside his for a while, hoping that he'll regain consciousness.

While in Link Vrains, Varis is pissed. Not only is Revolver gone but Specter can't seem to find who took him.

"You're sure he didn't log out Specter?" Varis says annoyed.

"I'm positive sir. When we left he was still unconscious," Specter says, still trying to find out how Revolver could have gotten away.

It's been hours in the real world and Ryoken still hasn't woken up. Avalon is growing more concerned and thinks about taking him to a hospital. But he sighs and gets up, going out to a balcony that overlooks the city. He looks out over the lit-up city and slips his phone out of his pocket to check for messages when phone suddenly rings. He answers it without looking to see who it is.

"Where the hell are you?! It's been hours since you went into Link Vrains!" Genome yells into the phone.

"And you're not in Link Vrains because we checked." Faust says, a bit of anger in his voice

"I said that I would find him with or without your help, did I not?" Avalon says calmly.

"Specter you've upset her, she thinks that you're lost like Ryoken." Clarissa says, calling him by his first name because she's mad at him.

Avalon knows that she is referring to Shingetsu but he just sighs.

"Well when I get back she won't have anything to be upset about. In fact, she'll actually smile again like she use to."

"Don't make us come after you Specter." Faust says. Like Clarissa he calls him by his first name because he's mad at him.

From within the room someone lets out a small groan as they come to. They open their eyes; their vision is blurred but slowly clears. They sit up to look around the room but they must have sat up too quickly as they let out a whimper of pain. This whimper catches Avalon's attention and he quickly gets off the phone with the other knight. He turns around to look into the room to see his friend finally awake but in pain.

"I'm so glad you're awake," he says with relief, quickly going to sit beside his. "How are you feeling?"

"Tell Varis that I'm not helping him catch Playmaker's Ignis," he says with a bit of spite. He's in unbearable pain, but he tries his best not to show it. He doesn't knows that this is her dear friend Avalon and tries to get up to move away from him.

"Ryoken, it's me. Avalon." He looks at him worriedly and gently takes his hand.

He glances down at Avalon's hand on his, he doesn't say anything. Avalon fears that his beloved friend no longer remembers him.

"Do you... not remember me?" He whispers.

Ryoken expects to feel some kind of pain from Avalon's touch but instead he feels the pain in his head get a bit lighter.

"So it really is you... Avalon." He whispers and moves closer to him.

"We've been so worried about you, you've been missing for six and half years." He gently wraps his arms around him, holding him close.

Avalon tries to get Ryoken to explain what happened in the six and half years he's been missing, but she refuses to talk about what happened. Only saying that rather not relive what happened. Avalon still tries pressuring him for an explanation but he still refuses, suddenly Ryoken hisses like a cat and holds her head in pain.

"What's wrong?" Avalon asks with worry and fear in his voice.

"My head hurts." He says through the pain, leaning against Avalon for support.

Without a second thought Avalon gently rubs Ryoken's temples, slowly Ryoken starts relaxing against him as his pain grows weaker and weaker. Avalon notices how he immediately relaxed at his touch but that doesn't ease his worries. He gently runs a hand through his hair to add to the now calming atmosphere, causing the man in his arms to cuddle into him.