"What is this world?" I asked myself as I came through the portal, noticing that we were out in space. Before exiting the portal, Nizmo floated beside me and asked, "It seems like we were brought back to Earth, or did we go back in time?"
When Blitz exited the portal, he lost his balance and began to drift, trying to maintain his balance, "S4, didn't you say that portal was gonna lead us to another universe or something of that sort? Also, how are we breathing in space?"
"Because of my protection and being within my range," I answered as I held him from drifting.
"I guess, this explains: why you couldn't stop us from drifting," Nizmo said as he floated upside down with his arms folded.
I naturally reacted by sighing.
"My question is, how are we gonna get from here to there?" asked Blitz while looking down to earth.
"The right way," I said while smiling. Nizmo squinted, his eyes as he looked at me, and asked, "What are you planning?"
I grabbed Blitz and placed him underneath my feet (like someone riding a skateboard) while placing his shield in front of him to soften the landing. Blitz felt concerned and asked, "Um, what are you doing?"
As Nizmo hopped onto Blitz, "We are using you as a re-entry device. So, hold on tight to the air or whatever we are going to run into before we land."
"Plus, he did say, he is the tankiest of the group. So, might as well use him as one," I implied.
"Nizmo, give us a push, why don't you."
"Sure thing, S4," He replied as he used his fire ability to repel us to earth. After entering the earth's atmosphere and crashing within a forest. We landed in a place we never know or seen before.
"This is not our Universe since, I've never seen this type of forest before," Nizmo claimed while observing the surroundings.
I thought to myself, "Times like this remind me of how important and dangerous Glitchiona is, yet I can use my ability to analyze this planet instead."
After analyzing the planet, I faced the direction, I sensed a power like my own and said, "Someone's here and there just like Nizmo."
"Can't you sense it as well, Nizmo?" I asked as I looked at him.
"Yes, but it's quite similar to my own," He replied as he drew his sword.
"Well, whoever it is, needs to show themselves!" Blitz shouted.
It seems they took the right approach and stepped out of the bushes. I looked at the stranger and said, "We don't wish to cause any harm to you, or your planet, however, I wish for you to answer some questions."
"...By that you mean?" he asked as he slowly swayed, his eyes at us one by one.
"You'll see after you finish answering my questions. First, shall be... hmm, what's your name?" I asked him.
"You may call me, Shade," he answered.
"His manner says a lot, but there is a hidden power close to matching the infinite power or even Nizmo's," I said in my mind. "Number two, what is this place?" I asked as I placed two fingers up.
"So, it seems I was right: you're not from here," he muttered.
"Hmm?"
"You're not here to harm the planet, so what are you really?" he questioned, staring into my eyes.
Nizmo took a step forward, "Hmph, you didn't answer the question, kid."
"Cier... this land is Cier, you're currently in the Raitera Forest. Take a right, and you'll see the Aether Ruins," He said as slowly he pointed.
"Hey, don't you guys smell that?" asked Blitz as he sniffed the air.
"Smell what?" Nizmo and I simultaneously asked.
"I smell Amie's scent. In this area," he said as his face is filled with confusion.
"Impossible, she couldn't have jumped through with us. She would be even lucky to be stuck in the world with us also," I stated.
"That scent is coming from him by the way," Blitz stated as he stared directly into ShadedSword eyes.
Flash of ShadedSword's power
"Question three, where is Amie?!" Blitz growled.
"Are you sure? You might be imagining things?" asked Nizmo.
He immediately answered, "I know what Amie smells like."
"I don't think it's Amie," I said.
"Bullshit! Stop lying, S4! Why are you both doubting my sense of smell?" Blitz said as he quickly shifted to me and darted back to ShadedSword.
"Yeah, I am, I also think she had a twin or a sister," I responded as I prepared to use my gravitational powers on him. ShadedSword, on the other hand, stood there in silence with his arms still pointed downward. I scanned the area with my eyes and saw something invisible behind him with a coat on.
"Well! Since you haven't answered question three, it says a lot," Nizmo stated as he set fire to his hand and sword.
"Hold on, guys," I said as I walked up to ShadedSword.
"Huh!?" Blitz and Nizmo reacted.
"You have a shield up that is not being produced by you so, who is providing you with it, that's my question," I said as I stretched out my hand in front of the invisible shield.
ShadedSword, with his arms still pointed downwards, having such a dead gaze as he stared at me, saying, "Someone, that I know you came here to kill." I curiously said, "Glitchiona?" Once again, he remained silent.
I curiously said, "Glitchiona?" Once again, he remained silent.
I destroyed the shield that was covering him while Nizmo threw a fireball, and Blitz locked his feet by using his earth powers.
"Render Elemental!" someone shouted in the woods behind Shade. (Render Elemental, it's a move that lowers elemental moves and abilities, effectiveness or disables them completely.) ShadedSword gave a soft sigh before quickly stepping into the shadows beside him. Swords began spawning around us and started to fly towards us at an alarming rate.
"How long can he keep his ability going?" asked Blitz.
Nizmo changed into his demon form to block the swords with his wings, then he slammed his right arm into the ground, creating a dragon's rib cage that surrounded us and said, "This might hold them off until we can find a way to counter this."
I nodded my head in agreement and forced on their location. "I have an idea!" shouted Blitz and dug a hole.
"So... He dug a hole and not give us any details about his plan," Nizmo facepalmed.
"Doesn't he normally do this?" I rhetorically asked.
The ground started to shake, then Nizmo asked me, "Wait... how is he able to use his powers when Render Elemental is active?"
"It might have been set to a limited range..." I said before jumping out of the dragon's ribcage and hovered about fifty meters in height.
"Why does no one tell me their plan before doing stuff," Nizmo said while pouting.
Blitz stuck his head out of the ground. "Did it work?" he asked.
"I don't think so," replied Nizmo.
"Dammit. So, where is S4?" he asked.
"Look up," Nizmo answered.
In the distance, Mary's drone is preparing itself to fire a beam. As the weaponry reached its maximum, Blitz asked, "Do you hear that?" The concentrated blast of hot plasma sliced through the dragon's ribcage and missed them by a few inches.
After recuperating from the attack, Nizmo peeked through the entry hole and discovered what shot at him. "A drone?" he questioned, staring at it.
"So, who are these two people?" I asked myself as I saw their location.
"What do you think you're doing?" I asked as I emerged behind them.
ShadedSword slowly faced me and positioned the person behind him before cloaking themselves again. I held her in place with my gravitational powers, and shouted, "Glitchiona, if that's you, stop using him for personal gain!" ShadedSword immediately summoned his swords and sliced through my chest, but it did nothing. "Hm?" he reacted as he stepped back and tried again.
"Shade, stay back I got this!" The person shouted while being suspended in the air.
"I'm not, Glitchiona! It's Mary, Mary Schutz, and you're S4 Yamada, one of the members of the Devil's Trio! You come here to murder me, didn't you!" she shouted as her eyes glowed.
"Were any of you listening? I'm not here to harm anyone, I'm searching for Glitchiona," I stated as I placed her on the ground slowly.
"How can I trust you! For all I know is that those two back there are fakes," Mary said as she stared into my eyes.
"You can trust me because you're not dead as yet," I replied as I folded my arms.
"Was that a threat?!" she asked.
"Maybe, but you attacked me without even answering my questions, isn't that right, Shade?" I said while looking at him.
"Don't even answer him, Shady!" she shouted. Eines Madchens emerged from his cloak. "Ms. Schutz! I believe Mr. Yamada is being framed," said Eines Madchens, hovering. "According to my records, we were transported here because Ms. Schutz insisted: we investigate the Demon trio," he answered. "Well... um," she blushed in embarrassment. "They spawned in the same area as you did before at least one year ago," he stated as he turned to me. "But, didn't you dig up a fragment that gave us more information about them, and you said, they came here to kill me," She replied as she waved her hands around to express herself. "Correct, but it seems that Glitchiona is more powerful than them. She was able to manipulate the data I received from the fragment from the portal that leads you here," He said. "So, does this mean we're good now?" I asked. "Not yet!" she shouted as she pointed her finger at me. "I don't care if you believe me or your drone here, but I have a mission here, and if you try to stop me... I'll truly end you," I stated as I stared at her while activating my eyes. "Eye of Reality energy rising. Caution! Emergency barrier activated!" said Eines as he placed the barrel. "I see your friend over there is not much of a talker. While you are being ignorant or is it just stupidity," I said as I tried to teleport Blitz and Nizmo here.
A few meters from my location, Nizmo and Blitz were still in combat.
"Well, S4 vanished and left us here," said Blitz as he dodged the incoming swords.
"This must be a loop. After I had memorized most of the swords, I noticed a repeating pattern," Nizmo said as he moved around.
"Could be, I just hope S4 can get us out of this!" Blitz shouted before I teleported them to my location. "I sometimes hate it when you do that," he said as he saw me.
"WTF! Who are you!" Nizmo reacted by pointing his sword at Mary.
"That drone is hers' or his'?" he asked himself as he assessed the situation.
"That's one of Amie's toys," Blitz said as he gazed at it.
"Where did you get that?" he asked her.
"Amie is my sister, and she made it for me before she went missing," Mary replied.
"Oh!" Blitz reacted with a surprised look on his face, then turned around, rubbing his head while looking at me.
"So, what did you say about your senses?" I asked.
"I never knew she had a sister, okay, she never told me," He replied as he lowered his head. "Wait, she never told you anything about me?" Mary asks as her eyes change from orange-red to bright blue. "I guess both sides are telling the truth," I said to myself. Eines scans Blitz. "What did you do?" he asked as Eines continues. "Analyze complete! Matching timeline, body structure, and energy capacity! This is the same Blitz you were following, my lady." Eines said as he floats in front of her. "So, I guess you were telling the truth. Sorry, about that," Mary said as she rubbed her shoulder and bowed her head.
"We all make mistakes," said Blitz as he smiles at her. "Shade you can lower your guard seems like they're on our side," she said as she looks at him. He then slowly lowered his weapons and walked up to her with his arms folded. She points at Nizmo, and asked, "Can you also?" "Yeah, but can you answer my question, what was that move you used back there?" Nizmo asked as he lowers his sword. ShadedSword looked at Mary before answering, she nodded her head and then, before slowly turning his head to look back he said, "I call it the Lotus, I have placed it within a loop thanks to Eines here."
"I guess that's the name of the bot?" Nizmo asked as he raised his eyebrow. "Yes, sir. My name is Eines Madchens, Protector of young lady Mary, I was also built by Doctor Amie Schutz before she went missing," he replied. "Interesting," I said. "So, what is Glitchiona... other than being your daughter, Mr. Yamada?" asked Mary. "She's an S class Hacker and if you could remember what that is. It's having the ability to create, recreate and delete anything that exists or doesn't exist, once it has an ability or source, they can manipulate it." I replied.
"Eines should have some information on that if you read the fragment," I said as I pointed at him. "Negative, Mr. Yamada, that fragment only had information on your abilities, moves, passives, weapons, and intentions on coming here," he stated as he floats around us. "I guess Glitchiona knows how to place people against us. Since we start following her." I said as I looked around. "Why are you looking around the place? Do you still not trust us?" Mary asked as she takes two steps away from Shade. "That's not why I'm looking around. I'm looking for fragments since they mostly come from people who jump universe or dimensions, I should be able to pick them up if I see their location." I said as I stared at her.
"My fragment was somewhere in the sky if I can recall," she said while looking up. "Eines do you remember the distance or location?" I asked. "It was approximately two thousand and twenty-eight meters in the sky," he answered as it displayed the distance and location from our location. Before leaping into the air, I said, "I'll be right back."