The call had cut. Diana stopped in her tracks, her face sweaty and livid from fear. She wasn't about to continue the walk only to regret it later. She placed the pocket tent on the ground and asked Ethan to come out.
She ordered Viora to give Ethan a similar armour as hers from the male ones. The hatch of the pocket tent opened like it did when the car came out of it, but this time what came out was an armour, the male variant of the series Diana was wearing right now.
"Wear it," she commanded. Ethan hesitated and then nodded and put on the armour.
"Viora, gimme the fastest and the best crowd control armour we have."
"At once, Lady Diana," Viora said in her helmet.
The hatch opened again, and a gleaming suit of armour stood there in a glass case, majestic and intimidating.
It was a full-body armour, like the previous one, divided effectively into several metal plates for easy movement. A suitcase-like structure was present on the back, upon which were mounted a pair of golden wings that had metal plates for feathers.
Diana didn't waste a second. She approached the armour. The glass withdrew, leaving the gleaming armour stood bare under the moonlight. She touched the armour's chest. The armour shrunk and enveloped itself around Diana's hand and gradually covered her.
There she stood, shining like an angel, an angel that was out for blood to save the life of a loved one.
She gave Ethan a nod. The suitcase-like structure transformed a bit and turned into a jetpack. She wrapped the wings around her, shrunk down for better surface contact for the jump.
BOOM!
She shot up like a bullet, rotating around. At supersonic speeds, she took flight, looking like a column of golden light from afar. When the jump ended, she stretched out her wings, stopped rotating. There was another boom and she shot towards the building. She reached it in about a minute.
But she didn't slow down. She smashed through the roof and landed on the second floor with a loud smash.
The Ortho Sapiens looked at her, so did the revenants. The humans took aim, and the revenants rushed towards the new source of Kana energy that appeared before them.
"I don't have time for you," she said angrily.
She wrapped her wings around her, forming a protective cocoon. The humans shot, their bullets just ricocheted off the armour.
"My turn," she said.
The metal feathers on the wings straightened up. They were all about three inches wide and sixteen inches long. They got charged with Kana energy almost instantly, and then they shot away in every direction, cutting away necks, arms, guns—whatever came in contact with them. She did three waves of these attacks, and when she finished, what was left behind was nothing but mutilated masses of flesh.
"Jack," she called out and started looking around. Then she heard thuds and growls from below. She looked around the room to find a hole in the floor. When she looked through it, she was shocked and didn't waste a second to jump into it.
Jack was huddled in a corner, clutching his sides. A lot of Kana recovery syrup bottles were lying around him. He was clutching one in his arms. He was pushing back a horde of revenants with a Kana barrier.
About ten or fifteen revenants lay immobile around him, growling.
His Dantian pained. After drinking so many Kana recovery bottles, he had a high chance to develop a cancer there. Blood flowed freshly from his side. He had shrunk his helmet so that he could keep drinking the bottles.
He wanted to give up, but he couldn't, because deep down he wanted to see everyone again, and that hope kept him fighting.
Just then, a shining armour landed in front of him. Looking at it, he smiled.
"You sure are fast. Thank you for coming, Diana," he said with a smile and a mouthful of blood, which he had to spit out.
Diana didn't reply. She got out of her armour and filled Jack in her embrace, hugging him as hard as she could and burst into tears. Extracting one hand, she started healing him.
Then she started to transfer her Kana energy to him. Warm energy spread all over Jack as he lay there, patting Diana on the back. Pain and anguish gave way to relief and determination.
"Don't thank me, idiot. I feared I was too late," Diana said between sniffles.
"Sorry. Let's get out of here now, yeah?"
Jack didn't have all his energy back—after all, he had a Dantian about twice the size of Diana's—but it was more than enough to deal with the remaining revenants.
Diana nodded and stood up and redeployed her armour. Jack put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. He transformed the barrier into a Kana hand and lifted all the revenants all at once. Just then, the roof caved in. He deployed a Kana slab above them for safety.
When the dust cleared away, Jack could see the revenants coming out of it again, and he could see one more thing—the Kadestone sphere that the Ortho Sapiens had used to trap Kratians.
He lifted a sphere with a Kana arm and crushed it into fragments. Picking up one fragment in his Kana arms, he picked up a blue revenant in his other.
"I don't wanna be princess-lifted home by a lady, so please get on the Kana slab in front of you," he asked Diana.
She nodded softly and walked onto the slab in front of her. Jack followed suit and then deployed another slab over it, locking away their feet on the slab as they were locked gently between them.
He held the revenant and brought the shard of the sphere close to his Dantian. He held them like that and then started to move the slab.
It felt like he was balancing on a surfboard. Diana hugged him tightly from behind and they rode up, high above the building, while he kept the revenant and the shard in place. Jack gently stopped the slab up high in the sky and then held it in place.
"Enak, I think we are really going out with a bang," he said with a smirk.
"Ohh indeed, indeed,"
Diana looked puzzled, and then she looked below. Jack pushed the shard into the Dantian of the revenant.
BOOM!!
There was a deafening explosion followed by a lot of other similar ones. The building was reduced to dust because of these mighty smokeless explosions, and Jack and Diana watched it as they stood high in the sky.
"Wanna sit for a bit?" Jack asked Diana as the explosion subsided.
"Okay."
They both settled onto the slab, hanging their feet from the edge. Jack felt Diana clutch his arm tightly as she nuzzled into his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Diana. I had no choice," he said, petting her head.
At this, she burst into tears. Jack sat there consoling her. After a bit, she regained her composure and leaned onto his shoulder as they both watched the full moon appear back from behind the clouds.
"I was scared, you know."
"I know. And I'm sorry. As I said, I didn't have a choice. This is what it means to be strong enough—you protect those weaker than you."
Diana nodded softly against his shoulder.
"It's 12 AM. Let's get going to Ethan and the others," Jack said after a while, and they both stood up on the slab and surfed the air to the hill.