So preparing for battle, the three of us enter into the portal… and are instantly swept into a divergent dream of epic proportions, the following dreams all took place simultaneously on different planes, in different parallel worlds… I emerge from the portal in a different place, and it appears I am the only one of us to have made it here. I wonder where Asuka might be, I guess I'll have to find her on my own. I wander around what looks like a large harbor, there are many shipping crates all over the place being moved onto and off of large cargo ships. Wait a minute… Nomad had said Asuka was in a dungeon of some kind, so am I now in the wrong place? That wouldn't make any sense, so I start looking around again for some sign of Asuka. I start wandering through the many shipping crates until I finally spot some sign of life, there are quite a few people up ahead. They are transporting a couple of specific shipping crates. I notice I can see what is inside these two crates, the sides are just bars instead of solid… most likely to allow for air to flow freely so the people in the cages can breathe. There is a crate being lowered to the dock with a bunch of naked women in it, all chained together, it looks pretty clear that they are slaves. A dock full of slavers… could Asuka be hidden among the slaves? Either way, I figure there are slavers that need to die. There are more slavers on the ground surrounding another crate with more slaves in it, this one is full of men and children chained together. There are slavers with weapons ready to unload their cargo. I am about to go out and kick some slaver ass when I hear a voice behind me, and I realize I have been so caught up in the slavers that I hadn't been scanning for energy signatures around me… someone had approached me while I was distracted. The voice says something about getting to work, I wonder if this person thinks I am one of the slavers and expects me to help unload the slaves. I turn quickly to see who is there, and I do a quick double take as I recognize the person there with me… Mzzkc? Ok, I figure he is talking about kicking some slaver ass, so I say I am ready to kick some ass. I form my Witchblade into a sword and I am about to attack, Mzzkc is already on some of them. He draws his sword and slices through a slaver only to turn quickly and remove another slaver's head and then dissecting a third slaver before skewering a fourth and slicing a fifth completely in half at the waist. And this is all before the slavers have even had a chance to fire their weapons. Mzzkc says he's going to free the prisoners, so keep the slavers off him. He is going after the crate with the men in it, so I don't take the time to say anything about the possibility of Asuka being in there. If she is there, she would be with the women. So while Mzzkc is freeing the men and the children I am attacking slavers, using my sword to cut through a couple of them and then sending a tendril of Witchblade through a slaver who has apparently decided that running is the best option. The tendril cuts through the target slaver and then through a couple more before returning to Witchblade. Of course this has gotten their attention, they aren't paying much attention to Mzzkc now, they are in a bit of chaos. Many of them are already dead, and the ones left seem to not know what to think of the fact they're being attacked by someone with a sword and some kind of a whip that cuts through flesh like a knife through butter. One of the slavers has his senses enough to fire an automatic weapon in my direction, the armor of Witchblade forms into a shield that blocks the bullets. I pull an Alex Mercer, putting spikes down into the ground which emerge, one beneath each slaver I could see, impaling four of them. I look around to see if there are any more slavers… the only one I can still see is the one operating the crane that has now lowered the cage full of women to the ground. A Witchblade tendril finished him off. I then go over to find Mzzkc by the cage full of men, using a blue energy field to heal them. I am about to say something to him when he disappears… I assume he woke up. So now I go over to the cage with the women inside it, they seem to have barely noticed the fighting going on around their cage, they are just sitting there lifelessly… except one of them. Asuka stands up from the middle of the group and comes over to the side of the cage, looking at me, recognizing me. Asuka says something about being brought here and sold to a bunch of slavers, but someone was using mind control on her… they used mind control on MoSh, too, is MoSh ok? I tell her MoSh is fine, just worried about her. I cut into the cage and then remove the chains from all the women before I use a healing spell on them. I tell Asuka I can take her home now, she is glad to be going home. I open a portal to MoSh's inner world and lead Asuka through… To Be Continued…
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