Dimensional rip-tiding

-Henry: "This place is making me feel strange....... Where am I?.........I feel so cold. What's with all these portal things all around me? My skin, it's bubbling......it's turning white. Owww! My head! It feels like it's splitting in two. My vision is going colorless; everything is in black and white!"

I laid there in agony for about five minutes. The pain felt horrible, the worst I had ever felt in my life.

-Henry: "It hurts; it hurts.... why won't it stop?"

As the searing pain surged through my body, I could feel something in me changing. I felt different, I felt decisive, wild, but above all else—I felt furious. My appearance changed completely, it was like I became an entirely new person. My thoughts felt planned, mature and properly matriculated. All these new feelings are so alien to me, but even so—I was far from confused.

I gazed at each portal and saw different places I could go. Some were unnecessary and irrational directions that served no current purpose to my situation. I studied them for a few seconds. After analyzing the portals, I selected one that put me right between the water drill and the bay.

At this point, I was running on nothing but pure instinct. I really had no time for thinking, I just acted with my first thought. My plan was to summon a portal to redirect the drill's direction. A simple plan, but it will do just fine.

If I had wanted to, I could have just put this thing right above the armor guy and wipe him out just like that. Trust me, it was very tempting, but I would much prefer beating the snot out of him myself. So instead, I sent the drill barreling into the ocean somewhere far off from here.

-Henry: "My breathing feels.... off in a way, it's shallow and slow. My body feels so hot! It hurts.... but it feels amazing. I can't stop these thoughts rushing into my head. Such a deep-seated rage. Where is it coming from? Every fiber in my being is telling me to kill this guy. Just the bare thought of it had my blood pumping. I can't hold myself back any longer. All I wanna do is tear this guy apart."

As those thoughts flew through my head, my body began to feel light and weightless like a leaf. Slowly, I began to rise up off the ground. For a moment I was surprised, but right now I'm far too angry to think straight. Like a bullet, I shot up into the sky and met face to armored face.

His body language looked calm, but I could just hear his heart throbbing in fear. He slowly floated backwards then pointed his lance at me. In an instant my body reacted, and out of my arms came a glossy crimson blade.

At this point nothing could surprise me. Not even the fact that I was completely colorblind, yet I could see the color red. Nothing mattered anymore; all that existed was me and my armored prey. He floated there in silence with his lance at the ready. I couldn't see his eyes, but I could just tell he was studying me.

-Henry: "Well, that's just too bad armor guy, I'm not here for a lesson—I'm here to end your sorry life!"

I bolted forward and clashed my blades with his lance. At the moment of contact it was like my blades were telling me something. They were telling me to skip the pleasantries and just cut through. The sparks from our clashes began to spark and gash into flames, then dissipate like steam into the humid air.

With each slash my rage began to grow hotter and hotter until I broke my cap. Instantly, I stopped the whole clashing game and went for only lethal strikes. With one slash I melted a cut into his armored chest. When I did, I could hear the fear rushing through his body like blood pumping through veins.

He was mortified and frozen in terror; yet he didn't even try to protect himself anymore. This guy had completely given up; he was done, but I was far from it. With great speed I zoomed to him and grabbed his head. I flew him into a portal that crashed us into the docks.

As soon as we hit the docks, I made sure to decommission this guy for good. I gripped and tore the armor open with intention to destroy whoever was inside, but what I saw left me broken. I saw a young boy that looked the same age as me. His eyes were filled with tears, and his body was tattered and scared. I reached out to touch him but before I could, he screamed out: "Don't kill me you monster, you're the one who sent me here."

His eyes welled up with even more tears and his voice began to tremble, his last words were:

-Armor guy: "You're gonna pay for this Ranic".

Then all that anger I felt turned into regret and sadness. So much that I turned back to my normal form. I kneeled there on the docks crushed by guilt and slobbering like a baby.

-Henry: "Ohh man, what have I done? Is he dead? Did I kill him? Please don't be dead."

Thunder quietly crackled in the sky above me, then it began to rain.

-Henry: "Man.... this must really be the saddest day of my life, even the sky is crying."

Out of nowhere I heard a strange ringing in my ear.

-Henry: "What's that annoying ringing? No, it's beeping I hear, wait....is it coming from the suit?"

Immediately the squid form took over, and I was in full defense mode, but why? The beeping became faster and faster, then the answer hit me.

-Henry: "AHHH!! THIS THING IS GONNA BLOW!!!!"

I moved as fast as I could, grabbed the boy from the suit, then threw it into the air. The suit beeped until it exploded in a big ball of fire. Half of the docks were burnt to a crisp, including the skin on my back, it smelled like roasted squid out here.

The burning felt horrible, but what came after made it all worth it in the end. While I was clinging the boy to my chest, I felt something weak but at the same time so wonderful. The sound of a beautiful heartbeat, topped off with a sweet faint breath.