"So this is it? Is this the moment the future crushes us and replaces us?"
From the center of the arena beneath the white sand, Shymphony watches the blue sky tear apart.
"If they are the heralds of evolution..." Her hoarse voice remains unshaken. "... I will make them remember that this world will resist."
Ships of various sizes pass through the portal as they take over the sky and the courage of all who witness such an abnormality.
Casting a distant glance toward a garden that lies above and behind the arena, all Shymphony sees is a female silhouette watching the sky.
"So this is your answer? So be it! I know exactly what I will do!"
Shymphony turns her gaze once more to the portal. Several small ships begin to approach the ground throughout Atlântis.
Even before the metal of any of them touches the ground, androids dressed in white and technological suits plunge down from them.
Whether animal or human, all run in despair. Some hide, others throw themselves into the currents.
Seeing that one of the ships is very close by, Shymphony adjusts her golden shield on her arm and dashes toward it.
When she reaches the place below, she finds a fierce battle taking place. A woman alone, holding two curved blades, one in each hand, faces eight androids at once.
But she receives a strong blow and ends up being thrown far away.
Shymphony seizes the moment and vibrates her fist with everything she has and strikes it against her shield aimed at the androids. The shockwave causes most of them to be thrown backward and fall unconscious.
Running to the woman, she extends her hand to help her.
"Sarah, I do not have much time to explain, but I ask you to dance for me one more time!"
Without trying to understand, Sarah observes Symphony before her, illuminated by the sun's rays, while the white cloak on her back sways in the wind blowing through the area.
She extends her hand back and the two rise ready for battle.
The androids rise again and block their path. Sarah takes the lead, leaving the curved blades secured at her lower back, and now using a black dagger that shines intensely with a blue and silver aura. Lightning begins to take over the place. When the first android is struck and falls stiff to the ground, the others are forced to dodge almost as if they were dancing as they engage in combat.
One after another, they all succumb, whether to the black blade that pierces and electrifies them, or to the lightning that cuts through the air. Shymphony remains standing in the same place while echoing an intense and musical rhythm in Sarah's mind, who upon reaching directly beneath where the ship is, points her dagger upward and with a concentrated discharge of energy strikes it, causing it to fall powered down.
"No more!" Whispers echo almost inaudibly from her mouth as she watches Shymphony approach.
"Good work, now I need to get up there!" Shymphony points her fist and her shield toward the tear in the sky.
Sarah begins to understand what must be done, then invades the ship, expels the android pilot and restarts it with another discharge of energy. Shymphony, instead of entering, climbs on top of the ship and stands there. Then the ship begins to take off while she vibrates her fist again generating an energy field that grows with each second.
"It was very good to meet you, Sarah, I hope that one day you reach your goal." Shymphony echoes thoughts to Sarah. "How I wish I could see you dance more times." Tears stream from Shymphony's eyes.
Sarah's gaze does not stray for a single instant from the roof of the ship, even without being able to see her, she knows exactly where she is. Her clenched fist opens and futilely tries to grasp her.
"One more time..." Whispers escape from her mouth as she brings her fist closed again near her chest.
"Sarah..." Shymphony speaks again, but interrupts herself for a moment while biting her teeth. "... you know what needs to be done, I am counting on you!"
Now, only silence, physical and mental, echoes in that ascending chaos. All the androids in their ships and on the ground watch that shooting star defy the sky. Even animals, humans and non-humans stop their despair to observe such insolence.
Near the tear in the sky, the ship begins to break apart. Upon getting close enough, Shymphony gives one last push with her whole body vibrating and her fist shining so intensely that it outshines any other source of light. Then she leaps toward the portal using the ship as a base, thus making it change trajectory, toward the north carrying Sarah with it.
"Survive!"
"Survive!"
One last mental plea echoes from both at the same instant, before everything collapses.
Sarah watches, already distant, as Shymphony collides like a meteor into the portal.
But there was no explosion.
Or any crash.
First, all the light in the world was seized and gathered into a halo planted at the site of the impact.
Then, everything cracked and shattered like glass, thus making the darkness disappear.