>>6186126And on go you launch yourself forward, your ki shielding the humans from the sudden acceleration. Blasting through the tunnel it takes you less than a second to exit the underground, taking off low to the ground to the portal. Cutting through the side streets and staying away from the active battles, dashing to the portal. And instead of slowing down you dash into it, sliding through and to a stop outside it. For a split-second everything feels, looks, even SMELLS wrong, but then you're back in the other Earth, stopping before the redheaded woman and white-haired fighters, you think they were called Ace and another Chaya, ending your technique and letting the children fall off of you.
“Good work.” the other Chaya, the one you didn't get to see yet says to you with an encouraging thumbs up. A gesture you return before dashing back through the portal, back into your own timeline. Over and over you repeat the process, quickly funneling more than seventy people back and forth. However, once you've got the last group, things stop going so smoothly. Taking off, the moment you escape the tunnels, there's suddenly a MASSIVE pink energy blast aimed down at all of you.
“SHIT!!” you exclaim, ending the shield on the last of your people, including Uncle Yajirobe and Mai, who had insisted on everyone else getting to safety first. Throwing both hands forward you catch the blast, heels smashing back down to earth as you struggle to hold the blast upright. To keep it from falling onto you and the last baker's dozen survivors left in this time. “Ghhhh! Tch! Hrrrrrr!”
“Come on, you can do it! Fight!” Mai shouts encouragingly as you hear Yajirobe scramble to his feet, taking off towards the nearby alley. Gritting your teeth, you have no choice, digging deep and Ascending. Giving it a hundred percent of your newfound strength after that month of intense training, with a roar you're able to reflect the blast, sending it flying back over your head and towards the horizon. Where you see none other than Amaya Black overhead, in her pink-haired form flying smugly over you all.
“So, you're the one I was sent to execute? You don't seem like much.” she says, you immediately realizing that this has to be a DIFFERENT Amaya Black. Not the same one your mother attacked, which means there have to be even more beings around. However, as she is about to speak again she stops, and the world itself starts to tremble. Glancing back over her shoulder, you following her gaze and seeing the blazing pink aura in the distance. Exerting pressure you've only felt on this level once before, realizing that Meloka Black has joined the battle. “Oh? Seems she's getting serious.”
