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As Aquarina, her parents, and her friends stepped through the blazing gate where the Great Spirit of Fire that had merged with the Blazing Ant Queen was located, they didn't step into a large room where they expected to find the giant bug abomination.
No, unlike anything they could have ever thought or expected, everyone's perception of reality warped. The world around them rapidly twisted and broke apart, shattering like glass. Shade and Nepheline panicked, grabbing the kids with their combined auras and resisting the incoming shockwave of dimensional energies as they were quickly dragged elsewhere.
Another space entirely!
TRUUUM!
As they survived the deadly turbulence and the body-shattering spatial warping effects of being forcefully moved into another space, a pocket dimension, everyone landed on a rocky, hot floor. They glanced around in disbelief at an infernal landscape and a red sky.
