Running ahead, Rue suddenly thought something was wrong, seeing that Xerox was missing from behind him, he started to panic. As he started to try to head back to Xerox, he knew that suddenly Xerox was moving at fast speeds. Suddenly, he was passed by Syrus, hauling Xerox to the airships. Getting on all fours, he followed, getting on the same airship as Xerox was on. Rue did not take up a passenger's seat, due to his size.
It was odd, with Xerox strapped into the airship, with his giant spanner and toolbox strapped ... or rather magnetically attached to him. Rue took off the giant spanner and toolbox and placed them in the corner of the airship. As the moomba placed the equipment down, the pilot spoke. He could hear the other airship, where Duncan and Eika were, and the pilot said the same words as the one Rue, Xerox and Syrus were on. This was thanks to his senses being far superior to most animals and humans.
With the birds lifting off, over the radio between the two airships, connected the call about the missiles and the pilots were asking assistance. However, Rue could take no part, as he had no ability to use para-magic nor did he have anything to attack at a range with. With Xerox out of commission, Rue could not get anything from the ESS either. But the threat did not last long as the magic users had taken down the missiles targeting them. Not long after, the airships decided to dive, and became submerged underwater.
There was not much Rue could do, except sit on the ship's floor and watch Xerox. Eventually feeling tired, he started to get some shut eye.
Moments after Rue fell asleep, Xerox started to gain consciousness. "Ugh...." He groaned, his body weak. There was a miscalculation on the side-effects from both the use of his limit break and the teleportation device. The strain was not simply additive, but multiplicative. It was immense. It was a great strain, and he was pushing himself to fight and run earlier, just made it worse. There was no way he could move his body any time soon. Due to the side-effect coming from his own GF, he believed it was unlikely that a para-magic cure would help him at all, and that all that could be done was to rest.
Looking at his hand ... it phased for a moment. His body had gone under too much. His body was falling out of sync with the physics of the world. Most likely another side-effect of the teleportation. Xerox's body was unstable, possibly in a volatile state. Again, part of his body phased, becoming blurred and disconnected from the world. He wasn't sure anyone saw it. Taking in some deep breaths, he tried to take in his surroundings.
So .... traveling underwater .... he could tell where they were, and what was happening, but he had yet to become fully oriented. He wasn't even sure who was with him. Did we make it?
Did I get captured?
Where am I?
What's going on?
Where's Rue?
Where's everyone else?
His thoughts spiraled out of control for a moment. Once again, his body phased, his left leg phased out for a moment, almost losing all structure of it. Unable to think straight or do anything, he collapsed to sleep again.