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Common Worlds: Ch. 10
Yusuke grew exhausted with each step in the immense building, which turned out to be the frame of a giant laser ready to rip worlds apart. In each door he stepped into, he was transported to another door of an illogical location. From the nineteenth floor (or eighteenth? Seventeenth?), he was whisked to the second, then to the ninth, then to the thirteenth, and so on.
Yuu breezed through the doors. He could do this all day. As long as he could distract Yusuke for another hour, the laser would fire. The trouble was, if he used up too much power, his territory and doors will vanish. So he had an idea.
"Hey Urameshi," said Yuu. "Why don't we check on Kuwabara down there?" He chose a door and opened it.
"Why you little-" Yusuke immediately jumped into the opened door in an attempt to chase Yuu. However, he found himself at the first floor. An injured Kuwabara stood on the left side, with a blazing Rei-sword in his right hand. Across from him, Sho stood, uninjured.
"Let's end this, little monkey…" Sho pointed at Kuwabara and squeezed the air, almost as if he was choking the air. Ice particles began to form around Kuwabara's neck, before forming a collar shape and squeezed his neck.
"Kuwabara!" Yusuke shouted. He dashed to Kuwabara and ripped off the ice. Kuwabara gasped for air.
"That won't do," said Sho. "Yuu, why did you lead him back here? I was having fun by myself."
"Damn it, Sho, you don't think I was getting tired running around like that?"
"You're useless here, just go away," said Sho.
"Fine." Yuu chose a door. "I'm gonna go to Fubuki." He walked into the door.
"Hey!" Yusuke ran after him, but realized that the door was locked.
"What are you doing? You're fighting me," said Sho. He formed a sharp projectile and shot it at Yusuke.
"Screw you!" Yusuke pointed his right index finger at him. "Rei-gun!" He shot a burst of blue energy. It annihilated the icicle spear.
Kuwabara took this chance to attack Sho, as well. Sho formed a shield and blocked Kuwabara's attack, but barely shielded himself from the Rei-gun. It barely missed his wounded area.
Damn, I'm too wounded to fight, thought Sho. But only forty more minutes until I can go up.
"What's wrong? Was that too much?" Yusuke sneered.
Sho spat on the ground. He took off his ripped jacket, revealing a white T-shirt. "You can go to hell."
Pillars of ice formed from every angle of the room. They began to fall apart.
"Ice Prison!" Sho clasped his hand. Every fragment of ice in the room shot at Yusuke and Kuwabara.
Kurama and Ginta made it to the twenty-first floor. "There are different devices now," said Kurama. "This must be the internal working of the laser."
"Can't we take apart the laser from here?" asked Ginta.
"No, because with one false move, the energy below will detonate, and whole planets may be destroyed."
"So we have to keep moving?"
"Correct. The control room is on the top floor, probably. My goal is to destroy the controls. This way, we can let the energy erode throughout the years, as it is hidden from human eyes. Then, we'll set up a Kakai Barrier to block out the demons who want it. Twenty minutes left," said Kurama.
They ran to the twenty-fifth floor, but found Yuu standing in the corner of the room.
"Well now, what do we have here?" said Yuu.
"Don't bother attacking," said Kurama. "You're no threat to us." He took a rose out of his hair.
"I'm not here to stop you. I've spoken to Fubuki; he says that we're ahead of schedule."
"What?" Kurama was shocked. That's impossible!
"The laser will fire in a few minutes. Have fun!" Yuu walked into a door.
"Hurry," said Kurama. He ran at full speed, but found that Ginta could not catch up. "I'll carry you."
"Alright." Kurama carried Ginta to the twenty-eighth floor. "This must be the Driver Room," said Kurama. From after the power cell levels, a pillar covered the internal workings in the center of each room. Now, however, there was a giant clear crystal suspended by two metal pillars.
"This is a diamond from the Demon World," said Kurama. "No diamonds on Earth are this size and accessible. I suspect that there's also more upstairs."
"This guy must be pretty desperate," said Ginta. "MÄR-Heaven is a great place, but it's not worth ripping another world apart just to go there!"
"We need to move on," said Kurama. He carried Ginta up to the thirty-fifth floor.
"This is the cable room. It's also where I leave you. You've done well enough; go to the cables and deal as much damage as you can." He gave Ginta an elongated blade of grass. "Here. Good luck, Toramizu Ginta."
"I can't let you go alone!"
"You are powerless against him. I'm sure you have abilities of your own, but right now you can't use them."
"The world's going to fall apart anyways. If there's going to be a fight, I want to be in it too."
Kurama sighed. "Are you sure, human?" He never used that word like that before.
"Yeah, I'm sure."
"Very well. Then let's go." Kurama took out his rose-whip and slashed at the wires, but there was too many of them to cut. Instead, he and Ginta walked up the stairs.
On the last floor, there was no diamond in the room. No power cell. In fact, the middle of the room was once again covered by a metal tube. Kurama and Ginta walked around it and found a staircase to the roof.
When Kurama opened the door, he felt a strong breeze. The roof was surprisingly empty, except for the crater in the center. Another diamond was inside it. Next to the crater, a man in a white suit looked into the distance.
"Fubuki," said Kurama.
"Stop the laser now!" shouted Ginta. "You can't give up on your home just to go to MÄR-Heaven!"
Fubuki turned his head to them. "I can't stop the laser," said Fubuki. "Once it starts, there's no termination. No control room. This was a one-way ticket, I'm afraid."
Ginta charged at Fubuki and punched him in the face. Fubuki recovered and expanded his territory.
"Don't make me kill you," he said.
Kurama took out a rose-whip. "Try me." Ginta backed away. Kurama swung his whip at him, cutting his arm. In turn, the top part of the whip broke in pieces.
Suddenly, a light flashed from the diamond. "It's time," said Fubuki. He dissolved his territory.
A pillar of light erupted from the crater, soaring to the heavens. Then, an explosion was heard, followed by the sound of shattered glass. The beam stabilized to become a zone of light.
Sho, Yuu, Yusuke and Kuwabara fought through a door. They immediately stopped fighting when they saw the light.
"Shit! We're too late!" exclaimed Yusuke.
"We can only stop the other laser from firing now!" said Kuwabara.
"You're welcome to follow us," said Fubuki. "Let's go." He stepped into the light and vanished. Sho and Yuu followed suit; their territories were gone.
"What are we waiting for? We came this far," said Yusuke.
"MÄR-Heaven, here I come again," said Ginta. The four of them stepped into the light and found themselves in a floating position.
Alviss missed Nil's head by an inch. On the other hand, he saw several strands of his own hair on the ground. The sizzling blade was moments from ending his life.
"Not bad," said Nil. "I managed to miss that."
"Heh."
Dorothy looked out of the window. "Look! The laser from the other world has already been fired!" Sure enough, a beam of light fell upon MÄR-Heaven.
"Soon, our light will rise as well," said Nil. "Fear not, my dear, you will not be left out."
Alviss slashed at Nil with his totem pole, but he blocked it with the handle of his sword. He leapt back and swung it. "Hundred Luster Flare!" Many bolts of energy were shot at Alviss, but he dodged them all.
"Well done, Alviss," said Nil.
"Let's end this!"
"I don't think so. Besides, why fight me when you can go and meet your new friends?" Nil held up a ring. "Dimension ÄRM, Myriagon Gate." A door opened in the wall. "See you later."
"Hey!" Alviss tried to follow him, but the door would not open for him, and soon it vanished.
"Myriagon Gate? I've never heard of that," said Dorothy.
"I think our top priority is to meet these 'new friends', Dorothy. Where was that light coming from again?"
"It was somewhere in that forest region. Who do you think we're going to meet?" Dorothy gestured in that general direction. "Andarta!"