Chapter 729: We’re Not So Different, You and I

Chapter 729: We’re Not So Different, You and I

Still in the city with Tyrant Zaydra threatening that its mortals will die if Harmona kills the mutant.

“You wouldn’t be able to kill anyone before I could stop you, let alone the entire population,” Harmona replies, calling Tyrant Zaydra’s bluff.

Tyrant Zaydra glares down at her with extreme disapproval. Without saying a word, she snaps her fingers. A small section of the city crumbles away as a hole opens in the ground, dropping all of the humans, buildings, and cars directly into some kind of glowing liquid down below. The people scream as they are absorbed into the liquid, and all Harmona, Zaydra, and Keith can do is watch in horror. After it stops, the ground magically reforms, but leaving that section now barren.

“Now, do you take my threat seriously?” Tyrant Zaydra asks in a serious tone. “I can drop this entire city in if I want to. It would be one massive plunge. Their deaths would be on your hands.”

Finally, Harmona begins to hesitate, but her Star Shine Blast is still aimed at the mutant.

Tyrant Zaydra continues. “Surrender. All three of you. Come with me or all of these people will be taking a swim.”

“We can’t give in like this!” Zaydra shouts, furious at her tyrant counterpart.

Tyrant Zaydra smirks and rubs her chin while asking, “Oh alternate Mother, are you sure you raised your daughter to be any different than me? She doesn’t seem to care about these people at all.”

Harmona’s Star Shine Blast dissipates in her hand, and she fully lowers her guard. “I surrender.” She turns her head toward Zaydra and Keith, who still look ready to fight. “Both of you, stand down!”

Finally, feeling defeated, Zaydra and Keith too lower their guards.

Tyrant Zaydra smiles victoriously. “That’s good. You three will be coming with me.”

Harmona, Zaydra, and Keith all lower their eyes in defeat, dreading what is to come.

***

Elsewhere in a portal vortex.

A sloppy mess of nothing but black and purple begins to swirl around almost like mixing paint.

A female voice begins speaking. “You’ve seen it, haven’t you? …The way things unfold. Everything seems calm at first…”

The woman’s voice pauses as the black and purple continue to swirl.

“But mixing things in a forced way… can bring ruin.”

The voice pauses again.

“You know, we’re not so different, you and I.”

Sasha’s body begins swirling around in the vortex of purple and black. Her eyes are closed.

“Right… Sasha…”

Her eyes open in a dazed manner, seeming to mentally be completely out of it.

“After all, we both want to protect Zeth. We just have different ways of doing that.”

Sasha is still dazed as her body travels along the swirling vortex of black and purple, not acknowledging the voice.

“Did you think you could prevent the coming fire?”

Still nothing but a dazed look out of Sasha as she continues to travel along the swirling vortex of black and purple.

“Your world will burn until all that is left are the ashes of the past.”

Sasha blinks but nothing more.

“As I said though. We’re not so different. You could have sided with us. We could have burned the world together.”

Within Sasha’s eyes, even as dark as they are, is the reflection of Tyrant Sasha. She has a victorious smirk on her face.

“But you didn’t. And now you will pay the ultimate price,” Tyrant Sasha says sinisterly before saying in a mocking tone, “You can’t blame me. I’m just protecting my Zeth from you.”

The speed of the swirl inside the vortex rapidly increases until everything goes dark again.

***

At an unknown location.

Sasha lies in a grassy field. She slowly opens her eyes, becoming conscious. “Where am I…?”

She rubs her forehead as she sits and notices the clear blue sky and vividly green grass all around. “Is this Earth? How did I get here…?”

She suddenly has a flashback to Rom sending her and Zeth through a portal while in the Tyrant Alternate Universe. She grits her teeth in frustration. “I remember now! Damn it! We’ve been separated and I have no idea if this is my Earth or another alternate universe!”

She stands up and begins walking. “Zeth was sent in the portal with me. Perhaps he is somewhere too.”

Not far from there, she stops in place, her eyes focused and her fingers twitching. She quickly turns around and grabs a lunging gray goblin demon by his face and slams him down to the ground. “Who are you?!” she demands to know.

Other demons of various types show up and stand, glaring at Sasha with a deep anger.

A male demon yells, “We found you, traitorous heretic!!”

Sasha’s expression changes to a mix of confusion and anger. “Traitorous heretic? I don’t know who any of you are.”

***

Meanwhile.

Zeth is wandering around in a park with a stone floor, metal benches, and isolated planted trees. A short distance away is a city.

“Where the hell am I? Sasha and I were sent through the portal together, and yet we are separated. This sucks.”

Suddenly, numerous angels fly down from the sky and land all around him, leaving him completely surrounded. The angels glare at him with anger and severe disapproval.

Zeth glances all around at them in confusion. “What’s the meaning of this?”

A male angel blurts, “We found you, traitorous heretic!”

“Huh?!?!?!” Zeth blurts out, nearly falling back from shock and confusion.

Something launches down from the sky and slams into the ground with bits of stone blasting away, creating a dust cloud. Knee and hand on the ground, the person turns out to be Zaydra, but not the one from Zeth’s world. This one appears as she did before the Final Great Chaos with her eye fully intact. She stands and focuses on Zeth with intense anger.

“So you finally came back? You scumbag,” she says with a snarl.

Zeth again nearly falls over from shock and confusion. “Huh?!?!?!?!?!?!”

Zeth and Sasha both find themselves being confronted by angels and demons respectively, who are calling them traitorous heretics! Just what is going on?!

Chapter 729 END

To be Continued in Chapter 730: The Destined Lovers Alternate Universe