"What the hell is happening now?!"
Evan's shout reached his ears, snapping Arthur's attention upward just as the sky began to split—literally.
The sky cracked and shattered like glass, the atmosphere peeling away to reveal the vast, star-speckled vacuum of space beyond the jagged tear.
From that rip, a streak of azure light descended, crashing into the ground behind the group of teenagers.
A massive dust cloud billowed upward toward the fractured sky, but it dispersed almost instantly, revealing a familiar silver-haired suit-wearing figure.
He looked slightly worse for wear, and there were glistening beads of sweat on his forehead—clear evidence that he had exerted effort to get here.
Extending his arms to either side, the space around him distorted at two points, bending unnaturally.
From these distortions, two identical bodies—bearing the same appearance and energy signature as the one within the cosmic energy vortex before them—were yanked into view by an invisible force.
