Jason, stands before Kira as he unsheathed his katana with a smirk on his face. "I've fought time criminals, dimensional terrors with Chrono-Savior, you're nothing in terms of power." With a offensive stance, Jason darted forward in a blur, his katana slashing a streak of blue light. Kira intercepted, her fractured sword colliding against his blade with a deafening crack, creating what's known as a "Time Collapse", the moment of impact when two people who have the ability to alter time, clash. the power of Jason's power vs Kira's time altering sword sent out a shockwave that froze people in time for 3 full seconds, even Aoi wasn't safe from the effect. In those 3 seconds that time was frozen for, Jason and Kira already clash their blades against each other 20 times.
When time reverts back to normal, Kira and Jason's come out the smoke, barely a scratch on either of them, both of them barely saying a word. Just laser focused.
This time, Kira dashed towards Jason, preparing her fractured sword in a curved arc.
Jason barely blocks the hit, but is surprised to see that Kira's already preparing another attack, sweeping through Jason's legs with calm and cold precision. Jason falls to the ground with a soft thud and Kira tries to stab through his chest, but Jason blocks with his own blade as they clash.
While Aoi sprints away with his father in his hands, the constant hiss of blades clashing can be heard from afar. "Chrono-Savior!" The name rings through his head as he sprints through the sidewalk, bumping into a couple people who look back with concerned and confused looks.
Meanwhile, Jason is on the brink of losing the contest of pure concentration and strength. Before he can lose, he kicks Kira away, making her lose her grip on her fractured sword, Jason grabs the sword and tosses it into open traffic. "Let's end this." Jason says confidently before blitzing towards Kira as a blue streak follows behind him, katana raised.
The katana almost connects with Kira's neck, but Jason's rush comes to a stop, and so does his attack, to reveal that Kira plunged a pocket knife into Jason's ribs. Once the knife is stuck in his skin, Kira grabs the handle and drags the blade vertically down Jason's side, making his katana drop as well as himself.
"I'm sorry I had to resort to something like this, your death should've been more…..special..." Kira mutters, half mocking, half serious as she moves pasts Jason's motionless body. Anyone nearby who saw what Kira did, instantly made way for her in fear. Some straight up ran, others were too traumatized to do anything.
At this point, Kira had just lost Aoi, and now has to look for him again. "Took too long to kill that sidekick-" Kira mumbles under her breath as she makes her weapon crystallize in her hand with a purple and blue light before dragging her fractured weapon along the concrete. While Kira searches for Aoi, Aoi ran to the hospital Chrono-Savior was held in, in hopes to get whatever help he can get, and to also find a doctor for his father.
When nearby doctors or nurses saw Aoi walk into the building, holding an unconscious elderly man, they immediately rushed to Aoi's aid.
After 15 minutes, Aoi, standing before Chrono-Savior's hospital room, while the doctors rushed the elder man to check up on him. When Aoi knocked on the door, it's like Chrono-Savior opened immediately.
"What happened? Why's my father here?!" Chrono-Savior had no time for small talk, gripping Aoi's shoulders with both of his hands, begging for an answer. But Aoi didn't have the heart to tell him the ENTIRE story.
"He got attacked.." Aoi mutters to Chrono-Savior quietly while slipping his hands off his shoulders, this clearly upset Chrono-Savior, and it might be the reason why Aoi won't ever be allowed in another timeline again.
"This is YOUR fault, isn't it?" Chrono-Savior accuses, pushing Aoi back a little so he steps out the doorframe. "I knew there was risks to having another one of me in a timeline at once, but if I knew it was gonna be this bad…I would've rather died back there." Chrono-Savior's words silenced the space, making Aoi ball up his fists in frustration. He knew Chrono-Savior was right in some way, Prime Aoi's interest in him, and with Kira hunting him down, staying in one timeline for longer periods of time could endanger the state of the timeline.
Aoi looks at Chrono-Savior with frustration in his eyes as he looks him in the eye. "I'll fix it all, I promise! Your father, our father, is going to be okay! I can always do this.." He looks at his Chrono-Watch, he's gonna go back in time, There's only one problem..
Chrono-Savior's face scrunches up as he realized what Aoi was going to do with the power of the Chrono-Watch. "You're going to travel back in time, aren't you?" Chrono-Savior's expression is neutral, like he knew exactly what Aoi was up to. "Even if you travel back in time, I'll know because of the bond I have with my Chrono-Watch. Doing this is dangerous, especially if there's more than one Aoi in the timeline." Chrono-Savior turns his attention back to the nearby window, his back facing Aoi. "I should be getting my Chrono-Arm soon, wait until then, and you can travel back in time, I'll be helping you against whatever you're facing. In return, you save my father." He reassured, but as he was going to finish talking, the sound of a door being broken down can be heard downstairs. Kira is here..
Downstairs, Kira is searching every room, while nearby doctors and nurses try to address this situation, Kira pushes some away, and injuries 10 people in the process with her fractured sword.
"Where's Aoi Takamura?" She turns her head to the reception desk, where a receptionist was dialing the police. He looks at Kira with a terrified expression. "He's..on the second floor.." he says, his hands shaking and his voice going quiet. Since police were already notified from previous actions, they arrived rather quickly, around when Kira was halfway up the stairs.
The police moved effectively and quietly, they peeked around the corner to see Kira, who around noticed them.
"Open fire!" One officer says as he loads his firearm and starts firing at Kira, along with him, multiple other officers start shooting.
"Nuisances." Kira moves like a hawk, blocking bullets that we're traveling faster than the human eye before getting up and close enough to cut down the police officers, one by one. She plunged her sword in one officer's head, making his head stuck to the wall like a wall mount. Before the other can realize, Kira already hit the officer with a fatal uppercut to the jaw before grabbing her sword from the other police officer's head and slicing the 3rd officer's head clean off. Reinforcements came immediately, along with a white large truck that was supposed to arrive to give Chrono-Savior his arm back.
On the second floor, inside room 57, Chrono-Savior awaited his Chrono-Arm, while Aoi stood right beside him, Chrono-Watch charged all the way. He knew that Kira was going to find them, one way or another.
"I'll get the arm for you, it's the least I can do.." Aoi reached to the doorknob as the door creaked open slowly.
Kira was still downstairs, she just got done with slaughtering two groups of police officers, she was starting to breathe heavily, her hands and the tip of her sword were nearly fully covered in blood. A group of researchers walk in with a huge box to find a pile of officers, dead at Kira's feet. Kira instinctively dashed towards the researchers but was interrupted at the last second by someone calling out her name.
"KIRA!" Aoi calls out as he makes his way downstairs. Fist balled up, Kira can tell that he's not here just to talk. Kira ignored the researchers and immediately moved towards Aoi with efficiency.
Aoi narrowly dodges the first hit when he fully reached downstairs. He grabbed Kira's arm, kicked her in the stomach. "You're not going all out, aren't you? You wouldn't fall back to attacks like mine!" Aoi accused as Kira stepped back.
Kira doesn't respond, although the irritation on her face says a thousand words as she backhands Aoi, making him fall down as his head hit the staircase behind him, giving him a concussion.
Kira, desperate to prove that she doesn't care, stabs Aoi's arm with her sword. Thankfully it wasn't his right arm,Aoi screams in pain, the only response to pain he's never felt before. The researchers from before watch in horror as Aoi breaks free, but not without a cost, he ripped his hand off to get free. He pins Kira to the wall out of pure adrenaline with only one hand.
"Go upstairs!" he shouts to the others as they scurry upstairs with the box that clearly contain Chrono-Savior's Arm.
The researchers find Chrono-Savior's room, but he isn't there.."WHERE'S CHRONO-SAVIOR!?!" One researcher cries out in frustration, another one checks every room on the floor. He isn't there..
Chrono-Savior stands before his father's body, still unconscious after all of this, he's on the 3rd floor.
"Dad…I didn't mean to get you into this.." Chrono-Savior's facade crumbles under his own father, he clutches his fist before slamming it down on a nearby desk. "WHY DID I SAVE HIM…?!..IT WOULD'VE ONLY BEEN ONE VARIANT THAT DIED..!..Instead I took the hit for him, he should've died..and the cost for saving myself, was you." Tears that were kept in since he saw his father in the hospital come back, and he just couldn't contain them anymore..
Researchers bust into the room, holding the box everyone's been waiting for him to get back..While holding back tears, he opens the box, takes his Chrono-Arm, and turns it on once again.."To save another.."
Meanwhile, Aoi continued to hold off Kira, and his strength was weakening, with only one arm, he pushed Kira aside. Just enough time to start running up the stairs and start looking for Chrono-Savior.
Kira was chasing Aoi down like an apex predator, her blade missing his back by mere inches as she hawked him down, running on walls, using nearby objects to make him slow down.
Aoi reached the third floor and saw the Researchers waving from the last room, he runs as fast as he can, his stamina is fading. He loses stamina and that's when Kira pounces on him, but the Researchers risk their lives to hold Kira back.
"Come on! Just go!!" The men reassured, Aoi ran into the room with Chrono-Savior and closed the door behind him with a loud slam.
With that, Aoi and Chrono-Savior used their Chrono-Watches to travel back in time to save his father, their father. This time, Aoi was awake the entire time, he can see the empty dimension that stood in the middle of timelines, he could see Chrono-Savior just traveling through with ease and experience. Aoi was still feeling his left hand, his body traumatized from the pain of losing a body part..
But Chrono-Savior was used to these situations, he looks back at Aoi before facing forward again. "You do realize that once Aoi variants go back in time, it erases that timeline we were just in and creates another one. This device, is dangerous. Matter of fact, I'm surprised we can handle this power.." Chrono-Savior says to Aoi as they travel through a white tube in an empty void leading to a previous time.
2 hours, 30 minutes ago.
Aoi only blinks before he's with his father again, they are around halfway through with finishing his "new" Chrono-Watch. Although Aoi has his improved Chrono-Watch on his wrist. Hiro notices the Chrono-Watch on Aoi's wrist and immediately jumps to conclusions.
"What could have happened, that was so wrong, that you had to travel back in time?" Hiro questioned, he could always know if someone just got done time traveling, after all, he's experienced.
"I'm not surprised you know, but Kira, AND mom are going to get attacked in a couple minutes, I already have my improved Watch. I need to save them, and YOU." Aoi makes haste upstairs to meet Akira and Kira chatting while sipping on their drinks. Aoi hurries over to the door and looks through it, it's clear, nobody's there.
Akira, with a skeptical expression, gets up from her seat to go talk with Aoi. "What's going on? Aoi? Aoi??" Aoi didn't respond, after all, the only one who could actually understand what's going on is his father..
"The boy has something to do, take the girl and head upstairs." Hiro said calmly whirl Akira and Kira looked at Hiro and Aoi, both confused and suspicion. Although beside all of that, Akira still guided Kira upstairs. Leaving Aoi and Hiro downstairs to fend off the upcoming threat.
"Are we going to just sit here like sitting ducks, waiting for this threat?" Hiro's barks, still looking through the peephole. Aoi looks at his father before analyzing the entire room for weapons he can use to defend himself. The kitchen contained sharp knife's, the living room contained vases that he could smash on Kira's head, but he takes a deep breath, knowing that Chrono-Savior will be on his way, although only for the sake of Hiro Takamura. "This threat, it's Kira from another timeline. She's extremely strong, not even Jason could handle her in a battle of pure skill.." Aoi says, his hands shaking just thinking about Kira's skills and abilities, especially that sword of hers.
"Things took a turn for the worse in the future? You should've stayed in there, something different might happen now." Hiro said with a neutral smile even though what he said could change the tide of Aoi and his other variant, Chrono-Savior's plan.
While Aoi and Hiro prepared for Kira's arrival, Chrono-Savior woke up, his memories from the future still intact, along with his cybernetic arm. The first thing he does is grab his phone from the nightstand next to him, and call Jason.
Jason, sat on his couch lazily, the only thing keeping him awake was the constant noise of his television as he switched through channels, feet crossed. A buzz came from his right, it was his phone.
Jason picked up his phone lazily, to see it was Chrono-Savior, he answers the call. "Hey, uhm..shouldn't you be resting right about now?" He says lazily into the phone as Chrono-Savior replied with a sigh.
"I traveled back in time, Jason." Those words struck confusion in Jason's expression, but he soon realized what he meant.
"Traveled back in time..what're…" Jason paused, realizing the potential gravity of this situation. "Oh….I'll be at your location in a bit." His words were short and carried a stern tone of voice as he got up from his couch and rushed towards his bedroom, the sound of rushed steps fill the room.
"Remember, don't hold back. If you do, you'll die for sure. I'll accompany you but I can't help you much." Chrono-Savior's words through the phone were enough for Jason to take everything more seriously, grabbing his black, Chrono-Watch empowered bodysuit with thin padded armor, along with his blue and black katana with a look that has its own meaning behind it.
"Got it. I'll do whatever you need me to do."
While Jason prepared for the upcoming battle, Aoi and Hiro barricaded the door with chairs and small desks, hoping to stall Kira enough for Jason or Chrono-Savior to arrive. Kira from this timeline, with Akira, Aoi's mother, are hiding in the corner in a guest bedroom.
"What's going on?! Those two just sent us up here with no real explanation? I'm going down there—" before Kira could stand up, Akira held her arm, with a reassuring expression.
"You can't..! Look, In a world of time travel, lord knows what's going on or could be going on down there. Even if they explained, we couldn't possibly even begin to understand.."
Akira's words were enough for Kira to stay where she was and wait it out. While the two were waiting, the house seemingly started to shake violently.
Kira busted down from the ceiling and in front of Hiro and Aoi who were downstairs.
"What?! KIRA?! That's not how it happened!" Aoi panicked as he looked at the hole in the ceiling, then back at the opposing Kira. Aoi stepped in front of Hiro to protect him, after all, that's what he promised Chrono-Savior.
"I told you things could end up different!….either that or.." Hiro takes a look at Kira's fractured sword from over Aoi's shoulder. "Or she knows you time traveled…!"