Beam

Dr. Alma teleported out of the way of the arms while Mr. Slick barely dodged them. Estella called upon her energy doppelganger and helpers to try and distract Time Warp while Bianca used her energy force-shield and short-range attacks to protect her and her wife from the arms. The arms became quite determined to try and break through Bianca’s forcefield.

“We will win,” she stated with sheer determination as she saw how Dr. Alma used her teleportation to try and distract Time Warp while Mr. Slick used the combination of speed, agility, and strength to harm him as much as he could, “We have to win!”

“We gotta,” Bianca grunted as each arm used various attacks to try and crack the shield. The shield is becoming weaker, “I told the kids we will survive and I don’t like makin’ them sad…”

Suddenly, the shield had suddenly been attacked with a powerful beam. It was so powerful that it made the shield shake violently inside and due to this, one of Bianca’s short-range attacks had struck her hard against her head; knocking her out cold. The shield immediately disappeared.

“Bi! Bi!” Estella screamed in terror as she bends down and tried to shake her wife awake, “You have to wake up!”

As she did so, one of the arms glowed as it made several of the sharper rocks float up in the air before it snapped its fingers. Estella screamed in horror and before she could react, one impacted her so hard that she flew several feet in the air and hit the trunk hard. She grabbed her side in pain. Another sharp rock flew at her and barely missed her, but pinned her ponytail against the trunk. Her energy doppelganger and helpers immediately disappeared.

“Estella! Bianca!” Dr. Alma called out when she and Mr. Slick noticed their dilemma. They couldn’t get closer as Time Warp attacked them with more beams. More sharp rocks flew towards Estella and each one became closer to making her mark. She struggled to pull the rock that pinned her ponytail, but it was lodged too deep in the tree.

“No, Bi!” the baker called out in terror when she saw that the sharpest of the rocks were aimed to kill her instantly if it were to strike her.

Determined, Estella winced in pain as she reached into her zip pocket and pulled out her bag. She flicked it to make it become much larger. She quickly dug into it and pulled out what she needed right now. She cut her ponytail messily off before she ran towards her wife.

“Bi, you gotta wake up!” the baker cried as she bent down and tried to shake her awake. Bianca groggily opened her eyes and looked quite disoriented. At that exact moment, the sharp rock suddenly launched at them.

“No!” Dr. Alma screamed in terror. She quickly teleported in front of them and quickly formed a portal in front of her. The rock flew through the portal and the doctor quickly formed another one for the rock to pin against another tree.

“Let’s get you out of here now!” the doctor hissed in pain as she and Estella helped Bianca to her feet.

“Yes,” Estella agreed.

‘Perfect,’ Time Warp thought to himself when he saw his plan had worked. He ignored Mr. Slick’s attacks as his gigantic eye glowed blue and then white.

“No!” Mr. Slick gasped in horror when he noticed the vuoto’s eye glow and where he was staring, “Ladies, get out of there, now!”

Before they could even respond, Time Warp fired the beam. Alma tried to teleport, but she was too weak. The trio hugged each other and closed their eyes as they prepared for the worse.

All the sudden, they had been shoved out of the way by a powerful force. All three belles had their winds knocked out of them as Mr. Slick used all his might and speed to get them out of harm’s way.

But, this act of bravery didn’t come without a price. As he shoved them out of the way of the beam, he didn’t have time to save himself.

Dr. Alma stared in horror. Couldn’t even scream as her husband had been evaporated in front of her. His frightened expression will forever haunt her. When the beam had finished its deed, her husband’s bowler hat slowly glided down towards her and landed on her feet.

To be continued…