Chapter 96: Sacrifice

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Meanwhile over at the {now destroyed} pavilion, the gang could really have used a god that wasn't passed out.


To Mei, it seemed like time was slowing, even though nothing of the sort was happening. Time was functioning the same it always had, no fat pig men involved, it was just pure adrenaline. The black hole's gravitational energy made the ground almost like a steep cliff in which any and all handholds are rare but valuable. She herself had both hands clung into a few gopher holes.


When she looked around she saw that everyone had found a similar patch of ground in which to cling to. Most eye catching of all was Bastion. The roboi seemed to have rocket punched a few holes into the ground with the sheer force of will. Hanging off him were Emily and Tracer, who were sitting next to him at the reception. He seemed pretty solid there in the ground, unlike everyone else, who were all flailing all over the place just trying to pull against the big boy.


Finally, the sight of her husband, clinging for dear life to a pole that was falling away from the ground. It made her realize what needed to be done. She yelled over the "vacuum-cleaner-at-4-AM" levels of loudness, "EVERYBODY COME TOWARDS ME!" Those who heard her did what she asked, and those who didn't saw everyone else moving towards her and moved the same direction. Most of them moved slowly so that they could find hand and foot holds, Genji and Hanzo moved quicker for some reason.


But unfortunately, Junkrat was too far away from Mei to hear her and also had his eyes closed; he had always had an irrational fear of not dying to explosives, so the black hole scared him. He was not moving and his pole was getting closer and closer to falling away.


The closest people to him was Bastion and the two girls hanging off him. He was slowly making his way towards Mei before Emily began beating at his beefy robo leg. When Bastion noticed Emily's bappage, he turned his head like an owl to look and beeped some terror beeps that couldn't possibly be heard over the noisemaker below them. He began to climb back down, but he was a slow boi.


At some point during the downward goings, Emily noticed that her girlfriend was gone. She was worried of course, this was maybe the worst time to lose Tracer of all the times she had run off in the past. But good for all of them, she was actually falling towards Junkrat. She tore him off his doomed pole at what seemed like the speed of sound and grabbed him tight. Just before the both of them were about to disappear into the black hole, they both popped out of existence in a flash of light. Emily was used to Tracer's time manipulation by then and looked up to where Tracer, as well as both Bastion and she, were just 3 seconds before. They both appeared a small way up, as Bastion had traveled slightly in the time it took Tracer to get Junkrat. Tracer was no longer holding on to Junkrat, so they both fell freely. Tracer grabbed onto Bastion's shoulder gear without jostling him even a little {she weighed about as much as a waffle and Bastion was made of steel}, but Junkrat was not to quick at reacting. He was not used to Tracer's shenanigans and just a few seconds ago he was staring into a black hole. He fell a small way, thinking again that he was going to die once more; until his hand caught on something. It was Emily's outstretched hand. She managed not to fall off herself from the force of the big boi by hooking her arm around one of Bastion's pneumatic parts. Emily hoisted Junkrat up to Bastion's back and returned her hands to her original position when he had a good hold on. He looked at all three of his saviors with something akin to thanks in his eyes, but it was more than that, and he wasn't able to articulate it then with all the distractions; in fact, he never would truly be able to articulate it. Emily taped Bastion on the shoulder, he looked at her for a second and began to climb back up, no faster or slower despite the added weight.

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