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Started February 23, 2018 by @_sleeby_rat_

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Mike furrowed his brow. "That's….possibly not good, considering our current relationship with Old Sammy. I hope–" He stopped and stared at something on the other side of the street, his expression changing.

"Yeah, the Ladies are…What're you looking at?"

He came to a halt, seeming lost for words. After a few moments, he started to slowly step off the sidewalk and into the street, his eyes riveted on something in the distance.

"Hey hey hey, come back here! It's an illusion you idiot!" Pluto said, chasing after him

Asura rolled his eyes. "Didn't we just go over this?" He said.

Mike snapped out of it just before a bus nearly killed him. He blinked and looked around, looking confused and somehow upset. "What the–oh. Shoot." He backed up and returned to the others, not making eye contact. "Sorry. That was stupid of me." There was something odd about his voice as he said it, and he kept glancing behind them as they walked.

"What the hell did you even see?"

Mike didn't answer for a minute. Then he said shortly, "I just saw my sister. She killed herself when I was fourteen."

Pluto's frown softened. "Oh."

Asura gave him a sympathetic look. "It's not real, Mike. It might look like her, and you might want to see her again, but that's not your sister."

"I know. " For some reason, Mike did not seem comforted by this fact. "Sorry to get distracted like that. Let's keep going."
"The illusions are getting more unsettling now," Kaiser muttered to himself. "We've caught 'A's attention. We'll have to pick up the pace."

"I haven't seen any yet," Asura said, looking around.

Pluto kept her head down. She had far too many bad experiences that this 'A' could use against her, so she resolved to staring at the ground

So of course, that was when the sound came, a great whistling scream that dropped in pitch and rose in volume, corresponding with a small, bright pinprick in the sky that was falling steadily closer…..
The crowd around them cried out like the shriek of wind. "Raid!" they wailed, scattering. "Bombs!"

Pluto's head snapped up. One moment she was staring at the ground, and the next she was watching the bombs drop on her home town. She gasped quietly, putting a hand over her mouth. Her eyes were wide and panic-stricken, and she froze in sheer terror. She couldn't move, couldn't breath right, was helpless to stop any of it. And that's when she saw the living corpse of her brother limping towards her. She let out a strangled scream, gagging a little around her panic

The buildings, at once modern and decrepit, crumbled around them. Bodies littered the street, cars collided with each other, fire fell from the sky. Mike and Kaiser were nowhere to be seen, lost in the dust and smoke and screams.

(I think it's just Pluto) Pluto fell to her knees, tears drawing themselves from her eyes. Her brother ambled towards her on broken, flaming crutches. His leg was missing, and half his face was a burnt mess covered in radiation damage. He stared at Pluto with a single pitch black eye, uniform tattered and partially on fire

Asura stepped back, looking at the sky. A giant creature that looked like a falcon with the legs of a lion hovered above the city. Its black void eyes stood directly into Asura's gold ones. Fire rained from the sky, and buildings near him exploded. He looked around frantically. The others were gone. Instead, he saw his friend Amber running from a pawn shop, dragging Milo behind her. He looked away. "This isn't real," he said. Screams filled the air around him, and tears fell from his eyes.

Pluto started to sob, ugly and loud. "Not real, not-not real," she kept trying to tell herself

Pluto's brother reached down and brushed her shoulder with his dry, dirty fingers. As he did, everything changed. The fires went out, the buildings disappeared, and all noise ceased. The monster shrank, becoming little more than a swirling cloud of darkness in the distance.
Pluto's brother stared at her curiously. He didn't look like her brother anymore. His hair was faded red, his clothes were shabby, and he wore wire-framed glasses over his misty green eyes. He was painfully thin.
"Are you all right?" He asked softly.

Pluto looked up at him through tear-blurred glasses. "W-Who are you?"

The boy smiled. He might have been fourteen or fifteen. "I'm Perry. Who are you guys? Why are you crying?"

"I…I…" She sniffled, trying to rub her eyes behind her glasses. "I'm nobody. We're nobody."

"Nobody?" Perry rocked back on his heels. "But you seem different from the others somehow. You're….breathing. Most people here don't breathe like me."

"Breathing?" Pluto asked, moving off her knees to sit like a normal person on the ground. She took her glasses off, trying to clean the splotches off with shaky hands

"Yeah." He sat down next to her, hugging himself. His face was covered in tiny scars and scratches, especially around his mouth. "At least, it looks like you're breathing. But I guess I could be seeing things again."