All the wizards made it back to Universe 1, carrying the heavily injured Ryan onto the medical room to be saved.
Multiple Doctors began operating on him, re-arranging his broken ribs and drawing blood back into him.
Derrick and Sven watched over Ryan as James and the others spoke to the new member from Universe 2.
“It’s quite odd out of all the people we could find, you and ONLY you were the first normal human we found, what happened Nathan?”
James spoke.
“Please, call me Nate, my collogues loved to call me that. It was all a little hazy, all i really remember was fire and smoke throughout the city, many of us hid away from the dark wizards, but all had been either turned or slaughtered.”
Nate replied.
“How did you survive?”
Alice questioned.
Nate removed his grey-lab coat to reveal a black jumpsuit with a device strapped at middle of his chest.
“It’s a cloaking device, optical distortion…if you will.”
Nate proudly spoke.
“I created it so that whenever a wizard who had a certain amount of negative magic, will not be able to see me as long as they aren’t focusing.”
Nate concluded.
“Neat, but is it anywhere near to the Universal Portal i made?”
Winston proudly spoke.
“That crude ring of nuts and bolts? Sure.”
Nate turned around and grinned at Winston.
Finley then entered the room, having finished his healing process looked at Nate with anger and shock.
“You!”
Finley growled.
Finley picked Nate off the ground and began strangling him.
“Hey, Hey, let him go!”
James would push Finley off of him.
“You should be dead, how aren’t you dead?!”
Finley pointed at him.
“What’s going on between you two?”
Fang questioned.
“That…bastard! He is the reason the whole universe fell into ruin; he paired up with the dark wizards!”
Finley replied.
All of the wizards looked at Nate with disgust, almost disappointment.
“I never wanted to do it, i was alone…scared, all of the heroes turned into demons, they threatened to kill my wife if i did not listen, but i eventually turned on them, managing to kill and save some wizards and for that, i got her murdered by them, i am the reason she is dead, I KILLED HER!!”
Nate responded, almost tearing up.
Finley paused in pity for the scientist, nodding before leaving the room with his arms crossed.
“That man who attacked Ryan, why was he obsessed with him?”
Alice questioned.
Nate eventually calmed down and took a seat, looking up at her almost like he was waiting for that question.
“Heh, quite the long story but sure, I’ll give a great interpretation.”
Nate smiled, as he waved his hand at the couches for them to sit as well.
"You see, our Universes aren’t so different, even i made that conclusion the moment i stepped on this one.
Nate spoke.
“Even the people here, James Silver, Derrick Lamina…even Fang were all unique people on my universe, but Ryan especially.”
Nate looked at each one of them.
“Knightfall is a man named Charles Salore, the father of Ryan in my own universe, he had just lost both his wife and son, he wanted the pain to end, that pain led to anger, anger to suffering, suffering…to darkness.”
Nate continued.
“After murdering countless innocents, his son, who had survived the fire tried desperately to bring his father back to the light…but died in doing so.”
Nate explained.
Everyone became quiet as they looked over at Ryan, who was sleeping on a hospital bed.
“And now he wants to kill his son, again.”
Nate’s eyes leered over at him as he concluded.
Everyone was left quiet, almost sadness how one, small moment in time turned the man they all knew, Charles into a deranged murderer.
“But that’s how we stop him right? If he wants to kill Ryan, he needs to access the portal room to get here.”
James theorized.
“James is right, we have an advantage, he’s coming for us first and I almost had him until he teleported away…Nate, do you have any special firearm capable of completely disabling his magic?”
Fang questioned.
“It’ll be tough to neutralize all of it, but i can try.”
Nate grabbed his coat off the floor, putting it on once again.
“We’ll also need diversions, something to distract Knightfall so Nate can get the shot in, Winston, you may have failed on the portal room once or twice, but you can nail a convincing Hologram, get to work.”
James concluded.
All the wizards got to work, preparing troops, training as well as a trap room where they would lure him into and defeat him.
“When the time comes, you will need to open up the portal and let the demon through.”
Alice spoke to Winston.
-Elsewhere | Universe 1-
The wizards were working tough, creating solutions to defeat Knightfall, before he kills Ryan, however, on the tallest building in their city a white portal opened up as the dark wizard landed on top of the building with his arm replaced with a red-glowing aura.
“Ahhhh~”
Knightfall took a deep breathe of Universe 1’s fresh air as many other dark wizards landed on the building behind him.
-To Be Continued-