After showing Luis the footage of the portal that was now present in the sky of Eukerion City, Michael proceeded to show him what was currently going on in Asaka.
The Angel was really glad to find out that Tania's parents were both still alive, but the sight of Matilda lying on the floor struggling with her breathing was killing the mood for him.
"If someone doesn't get to her soon, she's really going to die." The Angel said as he bit his lower lip.
"What do you mean she's going to die?" Jude said before quickly getting close to the Angel. "Are you just saying that because…."
"No, I'm serious, her aura is getting weaker and weaker, she doesn't have much time left." He replied.
'I didn't know he could see the aura of people that aren't exactly close to him, but then again, he's getting help from the heat vision in the nanobots.' Michael said subconsciously.
"Wait, you can see people's aura?" Layla said with a surprised expression on his face.
"Um….I do think that's important now, but Luis is right, she doesn't seem like she's going to last long if she's left alone like that." Michael expressed.
"She's going to die," Jude muttered as he bit his lower lips. "Are we really just going to leave her there to die!"
Layla wanted to say something but she was immediately stopped by Bryan who had a better way of handling the situation.
"Do you have any suggestions, Jude?" The Lieutenant asked.
"Not really, but I am going back there to save her." The young knight said.
"What are you talking about?" Tuchel asked. "We barely made it out of there alive and now you want to go back."
"And what do you expect me to do? Sit here in this world and watch her die!" Jude said as he turned to him with a furious look on his face. "And if she ends up dying, who knows what he will do to my parents, what am I going to tell my little sister if he ends up doing something terrible to them?"
'The situation is getting uncomfortably serious.' Lena said.
'Yeah, I'm just glad there aren't any demons showing up in a time like this, we have to do something about this.' Luis replied subconsciously.
"If you're serious about going over there to do something, then, I'm pretty sure you won't be able to do it alone so, I'm going to come along and give you a hand," Michael said as he slowly walked closer to the young knight.
"You would do that?" Jude said as his face suddenly brightened up.
"Yeah," Michael replied with a nod.
"Wow, apart from Bryan and Layla who were happy to help us as soon as we got here, I didn't think there would be anyone else who would care this much about our world here."
"Hey, now, don't get the wrong idea here, I am not doing this merely because I care about your world, I'm not one to take careless risks just because I care about something or someone."
"Hmph." Nicole reacted before slowly crossing her arms.
"Secondly, this problem isn't affecting your world alone, that portal over there is also here now and that means that whatever that's going to happen over there, is also going to happen here and finally, my student over here is also from Asaka, and he's not going to be happy with me if I refuse to help save his world when he knows I can."
Luis didn't know how to react to that and Michael suddenly winking at him made him even more uncomfortable.
"I know you're strong, Michael, and you have a lot of cool things that can make you stronger but I still don't think you guys will be able to stand a chance against him," Tuchel said.
After hearing that, Michael couldn't help but let out a little chuckle before quickly turning his gaze back to the elf.
"This is not a suicide mission, I have no intention of confronting him, all we are going over there to do is to save Matilda and Jude's parents and return immediately, I will find a way to stop the portal, but that isn't a priority now." Michael expressed to clear Tuchel's doubts.
"Aren't you guys going to take one more person?" Luis asked.
"Yeah, I would love to bring Nicole along but that can't work, she has Nova filling in for her for today, but she has to make reports to Kevin herself, the Lieutenants also need to be present here so their sudden absence will stir up questions," Michael explained.
"What about you? Wouldn't your sudden absence do the same?" Tuchel asked.
"No." Michael shook his head in his response. "Unlike them, I don't exactly answer to anyone so I am free to do as I please."
"Oh."
"We'll discuss the details of this rescue operation later, but before that." The CEO suddenly paused as he dipped his hands into his pocket and brought out a watch similar to the one currently on his wrist. "You have to return to the stadium."
After saying that, he put the watch on the Angel's wrist and pushed the teleport button.
He was immediately covered by white light and before he knew it, he was back in his seat.
"Oh, you're back," Chloe said after seeing him suddenly pop up beside her.
"Yeah, is the competition over?" The Angel asked as most of the seats were empty now and there were still more people leaving the stadium.
Ace and Dylan were also gone.
"Yeah, it all ended just like I predicted." She said with a smile on her face.
"Oh, so you guys won this one."
"Yeah, but at least you guys got second place." She said before bringing her gaze down to the reason why she was still there instead of leaving as soon as the competition was over.
Tania wasn't getting up so she had no choice but to stay there and try to find a way to get her to get up.
"She's not getting up huh." The Angel said.
"Yeah, I've tried everything but she won't get up." She said. "Come on, Tania, at least tell me what's going on."
'I think telling her that her parents are still okay will ease her worries a bit.' The Angel said subconsciously.
'Yeah, that's going to work.' Lena said.
'Okay.'
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After Luis somehow managed to get Tania to get up, Chloe left her in his care to go visit her dad.
She knew the passcode to the room he was staying in so all she did was enter it and the door opened up for her.
"Hey, Dad." She called as she entered the room but she immediately stopped moving as soon as she spotted him sitting on his bed watching something on his tablet with a serious expression on his face.
His father wasn't blonde like her, so that had to be something she got from her mother.
His hair was a bit brownish, but his face was something that made it clear that he was her father and there was particularly nothing different between their bright blue eyes.
"What are you watching?" She asked before slowly moving closer to him to see for herself.
All she could see was a dark portal in the sky and she couldn't make anything out of it until she read the caption of the news report.
'Live in Eukerion City.' She read in her mind as a shocked expression suddenly appeared on her face.
Before she could even ask the question in her mind, the reporter began to speak.
"Hello, everyone, we are live on the scene where some kind of portal has been released from the president's house, and on inspecting the residence, we found the president's lifeless body beside the source of the portal."
That was the point where she stopped listening as she slowly turned her gaze to her father with mixed expressions of fear and shock written all over her face.
"What is going on, Dad?"
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A lot of crazy things were going on here and there with most people being oblivious of it but that didn't matter because the few who were aware were going to try and do something.
Michael called Jude to his room that night so that the two could start getting ready to move out in the morning and part of their preparation involved him giving Jude some gadgets and explaining to him how they worked so that their mission would be easier.
"Here," Michael said before throwing a watch over to him.
"This is the stuff you use to teleport between places, right?" Jude asked after catching the watch.
"Yeah, it's not as advanced as mine, but it will help you a lot." He explained.
Jude was about to say something when someone suddenly knocked on the door.
"It's open," Michael said.
As soon as he said that, the door was suddenly pushed open for Tauriel to step into the room.
"Tauriel?" Jude said with a surprised expression on his face. "What are you doing here?"
"I want to come along with you two." She replied without hesitating one bit.
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