I continued running onward, the once concrete like ground was replaced with ankle high water and the walls surrounding me were now a grey cloudy sky. There was definitely something wrong with me, but I pushed the thought to the side as I continued running. Up ahead I saw someone waiting for me, It was Sarah, she stood still as I passed her by while trying to escape.

"Dad." Came her soft voice from behind, no matter how far I ran her voice still followed

"Please, Dad no more running." She said sadly

I looked behind myself as I ran, she was walking slowly behind me but still catching up. I tried to ignore her and find a way out of this mess.

"You have to let go." She continued

I looked down at Sarah's gem in my hand, inside her gem I could see a reflection of her ghostly image.

"I can't." I said quietly to myself

I stopped and so did Sarah, I turned around to face her.

"This is all my fault, I let you die, how can a father let his own daughter die!" I sobbed to her

"I spent my whole life away from you, all I have left of you is a handful of memories of when we were together. You lived to fast and died to soon, and now I have no one!" I continued through the tears

"That's all you had to say." She said with a smile

She turned away from me and began to walk. I begged her not to go and tried to chase after her but before I could I tripped over myself and fell face first into the ankle high water

I stumbled through it like a cloud of smoke and landed on my hands and knees, looking up was multiple of those red circular ships in a large hanger. I looked around, no gem in sight it was like luck was shining down on me. As I walked through the corridor to the hanger, I heard her voice.

"STOP!" It was the orange gem

I spun around, drawing the weapon from my lab coat, at the back of the corridor the orange gem came running towards me but stopped when she saw me pulling the weapon. Her teeth were gritted, and her hands were balled in anger, she stared me down like a wolf.

"You think I wouldn't have noticed your little stunt. Do you really believe you could run away." She said slowly

"Who's running?" I said standing my ground

She stood their examining me from a distance, possibly trying to find some sort of weakness

"You took the unstable gem too, why?" She said

I didn't reply

"Whatever that thing means to you, it does not matter. It's one of us and does not belong to you, hand her over and I will consider sparing you." She said matter-of-factly

"She belongs to no one, it's my responsibility to make sure she survives in one piece." I said preparing myself for anything

"You're both coming back." She said angrily

I took off my lab coat and gently slid it towards the hanger with Sarah's gem in the pocket

"You'll have to kill me first." I said back to her

She gave me a wicked smirk before crouching down into a fighting position, I followed suit extending the weapon out like some sort of makeshift sword. We started to circle each other, trying to find a fault in each other's defense. She rushed towards me with a straight punch, I barely dodged and swiped at her but she jumped back. We continued to circle

"I've killed things bigger than you, human!" She taunted

"Let's see you try!" I quipped back

I charged at her swinging my sword wildly, she merely dodged all of them and sent a kick straight into my stomach sending me backwards. She tried following up with an overhead slam, but I rolled out of the way. I was huffing and panting, but she showed no signs of stopping

"It's over human, all I have to do is wait you out, backup will be here soon." She said with a smile

I charged at her, but she caught my arm and twisted it, causing me to drop the weapon. She grabbed the weapon and threw it to the wall behind her and casually picked me up and threw me also to the wall. When I impacted to the wall a horrifying pain shot through my lower abdomen, when I fell to the ground I could barely stand, I coughed and out came blood. I struggled to look down, the weapon pierced my back, and was poking out of the right side of my abdomen.

"How foolish of you, know that your death will be slow and painful." She sauntered over to me

She grabbed the prongs that were sticking out, and yanked on them, sending a painful shock through my body. I used the last of my strength and grabbed the hilt of the weapon and sent a shock through me, staggering the orange gem in surprise. I lifted myself up and stuck her with the prongs in a half-handed hug, sending surges of electricity through me and her.

Cracking light splayed across her body; her face contorted in anger

"How D-dare Y-you!" She said glitching out

Her body poofed into smoke and sent me to the ground, her gem clattering alongside me. I clenched my fists and tried to sit up, but the pain was too much. I grabbed the weapon from my back and began to pull, it came out with splatter of blood and I threw it to the side.

With barely any energy left, I crawled towards my coat, grabbed Sarah's gem and left the coat behind. I crawled towards the closest ship, blood trailing behind me.