PSYC Ward: Explorer

World 6, Part F: Rescue Mission

PART F: Rescue Mission

Run or she dies, run or she dies. Those were the words Rachel kept repeating as she followed Dizera through the city streets. Dizera was constantly checking her ring. Rachel asked her why, and Dizera told her that it could track the Creatures.

"They'll work together, sometimes. That one only needed you, so it let a nearby one have your buddy. Convenience, over anything else." Dizera explained.

Suddenly, the Hunter stopped.

"She's here." Dizera said.

Rachel gave a nod and reached into her pocket for something - a gemstone, her other hand still holding the kunai from before.

"If you want to leave this to m-"

"No." Rachel interrupted her.

Dizera gave a smirk, and lifted her ring in front of her. It suddenly sprouted a green light that went a few inches above her hand. The light peeled itself apart, like a blooming flower, and turned the hydrangea from before. She set the flower to her hair, and in a brilliant flash of green light she was once again dressed in that same armor outfit from before. She had another throwing dagger in her hand, which she slashed at the air in front of her and left a glowing green wound in the air itself.

She punched the light, and like shattered glass the sky fell to pieces revealing another world on the other side. In the same way that Rachel had seen the city become red and molten, here it was darkened and black, with only highlights of red and white drawing out any sort of distinct shapes. Dizera and Rachel weren't affected by it.

But Kyle had been. Rachel's eyes went wide as she looked up and saw her. Strung across the skyline, with small little spiders crawling along lines and peeling pieces out of her and dragging them to make the strings that tied her to the spot. Two thickened posts of some kind were stuck into Kyle's head and connected to a screen that was currently showing rapidly flashing images, none of them focused on long enough for Rachel to make anything out about them.

"Oh good." Dizera said. "This one likes to play with her food."

"KYLE!" Rachel shouted.

She couldn't jump high enough to guarantee cutting Kyle down, but she could jump and grab her. Before she could continue planning though, the screen stopped flashing images and showed a solid one. The letters R - A - C - H - E - L? appeared on it, before both Rachel and Dizera were sucked into a memory.

The two girls were in Kyle's room at Singer. It was painted with purple and had a soft blue carpet. They were sitting together on a twin sized bed, with a checkerboard blanket and two pillows - one white, one black. The sheets beneath were purple. A black and white stylized eye was painted on the wall, just above the bed, watching over it. A shelf sat by a window looking outside, and on it was a letter and a vial of purple fluid.

Kyle leaned back on the bed.

"So, I've been thinking...just because The Willow Witch is dead, doesn't mean the war will just...stop."

"Yeah. There's hope for peace now, though, right?"

"N-no, there is. I'm...not saying we failed. But we need to do something to help it."

Rachel nodded and leaned back as well.

"Yeah. You have that look on your face that says 'I got an idea.'"

Kyle smiled and reached up to the sky.

"What if...there was a world where this war never happened? What if we found out the difference between them? And then, we used that knowledge to fix here?"