When we found Grandmother Yoko, she was flat on her stomach in the alleyway like Sylvia described. But she apparently left out the part that, oh I don't know, Grandma Yoko's legs were gone!
Enkigann managed to toss the other half of the club from the ground. Sylvia and I helped grandmother into Enkigann's open palm. I couldn't help myself from looking back at the puddle of crushed blood and bones that was sitting in the bottom of the crater the club has created
Sylvia and I climbed into Enkigann's other hand and sat on the shoulder as Enkigann carried us somewhere.
"Viral?" I shouted as Enkigann was making his way towards the crater wall of the city. "Where are you taking us?"
"Back to the factory." Viral answered. I looked over at my grandmother as she laid in Enkigann's palm. The sockets from where her legs used to be now leaked out pools of her crimson blood. Her face was white as snow and the color in her eyes was slowly fading away. Yet, despite all the pain she was having, Grandmother Yoko managed to somehow turn her head and weakly smiled at me. She raised her wrinkled pale hand and waved at me. I waved back, tears welling up in my eyes. I wiped my face as Sylvia put her hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry." She stated. "Everything is gonna be all right."
"Are you sure?" I replied. "But what if-"
"Don't even say it."
Enkigann arrived at the factory, stepping over the front gate and making his way into the workshop. Ehnkgann kneeled down and let me and Sylvia on climb our way down to the ground. We hurried over to grandmother and grabbed hold of her arms and lifted her up, giving her support as Viral "parked" Enkigann behind the metal frames and walkways that we've used to work on him.
Viral hurried out of Enkigann's chest mouth and grabbed hold of Grandmother Yoko's leg stumps.
"Follow me." He ordered. We rotated grandmother around so that Viral could lead us where we were suppose to go. I was worried about what was going to happen.
Viral lead us out of the workshop and around the left corner to another building. It was much smaller, like an apartment. The front entrance was covered with a blue ragged cloth. Viral pushed it out of the way and we rotated around so that grandmother's head got in before the rest of her did.
"Set her down in there." Viral used on free hand and pointed to the back of the room. In the soft darkness, there were two metal cylinders stacked on top of each other with a staircase that ended at a platform in front of the top cylinder. The bottom one was open, a flickering white light greeting us inside.
I stopped , only a few feet in front of the open tin can.
"Viral, what are you trying to make us do?" I asked him. I was about to put my grandmother in a metal coffin. (Seriously, not today.)
"Do you want to save Yoko or not?"
I didn't even hesitate to answer. "Hell yeah!"
"Then put her in the machine and get in the top capsule!" I thought for a second. I mean, I've known Viral for years and mechanics is what he's good at. But I wasn't sure what Viral was going to do.
We cautiously placed Grandmother Yoko in the capsule(?) with her back leaning against the side of the capsule. I was about to walk out when grandmother grabbed my hand. I quickly turned my head around to look at her.
"Inoichi..." She was talking in a bit of a whisper. Her voice was raspy and she could barely keep her eyes open.
"Yes grandmother?"
"..." She smiled weakly at me. "...See you on the other side, okay?"
Tears were pouring down my face at this point. "Of course you will!"
I walked out of capsule and ran up the rusty stairway, skipping every other step so that I would get there faster. Viral tossed a dusty cream sheet off of a grayish brown metal box that had the top filled with various buttons and knobs and a bright blue screen in the middle of it. I watched him turn a brown knob and the machine buzzed to life. I could hear the door of the capsule below me slam close as the one in front of me whirled open. The inside went front a flickering white to a lively and flashing blue. I jumped back, grabbing hold of the metal railing. My goggles bounced around my neck as the cylinder hummed and buzzed in front of me. I couldn't help but feel scared!
"Inoichi!" I heard Viral yell my name. "You have to step inside!"
"Nope! Not gonna do it!" I replied. "Not today!"
I heard the steps creak as Sylvia came up the steps. She grabbed my left arm and pulled me close to the machine. I tried stopping myself, my feet shuffling against the aluminum platform.
"Okay." Sylvia said with a smile coming across her face. "I have been waiting a long time to do this!"
"...Do what exactly?" I questioned her. Sylvia let go of my arm and grabbed my around my waist and tossed me inside. (God damn I am light!) I landed upside down on my head. The door closed in front of me as I fell over to right myself up. I banged on the door with my fist, trying to break it open.
"Hey! Get me out of here! Now!" I screamed. The lights inside started swirling around inside of my circular chamber, forming a spiral around the inside of the walls. I huddled against the wall more and more until I was squished against the door. The lights were forming a full spiral now, spinning around me at stupendous speed.
What happen next is going to haunt my nightmares.
I felt a tingling feeling in my toes. I looked down to see that my feet were engulfed in these blue sparkles. The sparkles crept up my body, taking over all of my legs in less than a minute. When it got to my waist, I lost all feeling in my feet because the sparkles were , get this, swirling with the lights. I was literally unraveling. Right here, right now. I started screaming as the sparkles made their way up my neck and the feeling in my stomach disappeared as it swirled with the rest of me. My molecules were become a spiral with the lights. I closed my eyes as the sparkles crept over my nose and my chest unraveled below me. I was forced to stop screaming when my mouth swirled out of existence. This is it....
At that moment, I swirled out of existence....
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