Jonathan took Young Aether, Maiuri, and Sasha aboard a separate flying quadcopter.
The aircraft hummed with deep resonance as crimson energy rippled beneath its four rotors, forming vector-like streams that spiralled downward before effortlessly lifting the craft into the sky.
Below them, Delta City stretched into a nightmarish wasteland.
Entire districts had collapsed into smoking craters. Skyscrapers leaned at impossible angles, their steel skeletons exposed like broken ribs.
Swarms of autonomous construction drones hovered between the ruins, spraying metallic foam over fractured support beams while skeletal recovery drones silently gathered shattered bones into black containment crates.
Massive transport mechs hauled away mountains of debris as emergency sirens echoed endlessly through the ruined metropolis.
"Wooo…"
Young Aether's eyes widened as he sat by the window.
NO! He wasn't interested in the ruined city below.
