After leaving Newt and Echo, the group went to explore Pleajeune and once again found Gade standing at the edge of a part of the town.
"Well, if it isn't Kat and the Fatebreakers!" Gade said. "How're you all feeling tonight?"
"Pretty good, all things considered." Ethox said. "We met a girl that had a Nevi for a pet, one that wanted to protect her. One thing lead to another, and…we had to put it down."
"Ah, what an odd turn of events." Gade remarked. "I must admit, I'm not sure what the true nature of the Nevi are. But as long as you feel as if you made the right choice, I can't find a reason to question your decisions. In any case…I feel you're ready to save the next part of town!"
"Oh, right! We still have two missing pieces out there." Kat realized.
"Exactly! Obviously, we can't count on Raven to take care of it, so that leaves you all to be the ones to go in and bring back the missing area of Pleajeune." Gade said.
"Stupid gravity storm… I want my family back! Why'd it have to take them?! WHY THEM?!" a person said as he walked by.
Kat stayed silent as she looked downcast, Gade taking notice.
"Does Raven scare you?" Gade asked.
"What's her deal? Who is she and why does she hate me so much? My friends and I are just trying to help." Kat said.
"Raven is just trying to help too, in her own way." Gade said.
"And she thinks we're trying to stop her?" Kat asked.
"From one perspective, you all are interfering with Raven and her mission… But from another, you all are helping the people of Hekseville." Gade said.
"That's quite the insight. Guess you really are an Overseer." Legolia noted.
"Well, yes, but that was a long time ago. I'm not quite as sharp as I used to be…" Gade said.
"Hmph. Some Overseer you are…" Kat said. "Guess that means we just have to pick up the slack and make things right."
"You're beginning to accept your destiny…" Gabe said as he opened his robe, a portal underneath. With a look of renewed determination, Kat led the march into it, plunging once more into the void.
They found themselves inside another Rift Plane, this time having a sort of fire theme to it. The main issue was that the path forward led into a Straight drop right down.
"Uh, Gade? We might have a bit of a traversal problem here… what do we do now?" Michiru asked.
"Don't look before you leap!" Gade said. "Just Slide!"
"Slide? What do you mean?" Kat asked.
"You'll see soon enough." Gade assured.
"Hmm… Kat, you can shift your gravity to propel yourself in different directions in the air, right?" Legolia asked. "What if you shifted gravity to propel yourself forward while you were still on the ground?"
"Hmm, I think I can try." Kat nodded. She took a running start and then activated her powers, sliding across the wooden bridge. "Oh! Now I see why Gade told me to slide!"
"Yeah, that's great and all, but what about us?! We can't follow you down that drop and only so many of us can fly!" Aqua said.
"Oh, right…" Kat said. "Well, I guess I can wrap you and the other non-fliers in my Stasis Field, but I've never had to do that to so many people before."
"Well, me, Seiya, Michru, Tanya and her team can fly no problem. So everyone else should be no problem, I hope." Rista said.
Kat activated her stasis field and put the Non-Fliers in it, everyone floating and/or sliding with her through the Rift plane.
"You doing okay, Kat? Not overexerting yourself?" Ethox asked.
"I'm doing fine actually." Kat said.
"Seriously? Carrying all of us at once isn't too much?" Nemo asked.
"Yeah…I think I'm getting stronger, or like I'm getting a better handle on my powers, or something." Kat said.
"You're something else, Kat…" Michiru noted. "There are a lot of people we know who get really used to their powers or get stronger with time, and you might be one of them."
"It's too soon to say that for sure. We don't know what exactly the true nature of your powers are." Tanya pointed out.
"That's true, but you guys said you'd uncover the truth about Hekseville. I think it would also include me in there too." Kat said. "Maybe we can find out who I really am."
"We'll see, Kat." Mirror Match said.
The group soon reached the end of the wooden bridge as they saw four Nevi on the platform below along with an unbloomed flower. The Nevi were soon defeated as the flower bloomed, revealing the trail of light as the group followed it, leading them to a part of a station that had a few flying Nevi and another flower. The group repeated the process as they followed the second flower's trail, and did so again at the third waypoint before spotting a tree with fruit similar to the one in the first rift as the fruit turned into light and flowed into Kat, granting her a new power.
They soon were able to defeat all the Nevi around the area and made all four flowers bloom, continuing to the missing part of town as it had a ferris wheel on top of a large building. Before long, the Boss Nevi of the Inferno Rift plane showed up, looking like a large leafy seadragon. But before either side could make a move, Raven suddenly flew in out of nowhere and snatched the Nevi's core, pinning it to a wall with her foot before crushing it under her heel, defeating it instantly.
"What the… Raven?!" Kazuma asked.
"No way, she beat that boss Nevi and didn't even break a sweat!" Michiru said.
"I told you all before, I won't let any of you get away with whatever you're up to!" Raven said.
"What's to get away with? All we're doing is trying to bring the city back! We're trying to help people!" Kat said.
"I should've known some of you were Bolsey's pawns. It's just like him to use people to do his dirty work…" Raven said.
"We don't even know anyone named Bolsey! We're doing this for the people!" Kat said.
(Cue: A Stranger I Remain (Maniac Agenda Mix)- Metal Gear Rising Revengance)
"Either way, it looks like I'm going to have to kill you all." Raven said.
"We're not about to let that happen!" Kat said as she and everyone took their battle stances and prepared to fight.
Rogue Shifter
Raven
Being a shifter herself, Raven used the same techniques and abilities Kat had, although she stayed airborne and had a lot more control airborne, flying around seamlessly as the group had a hard time pinning her down as she attacked them from every direction.
"She's too comfortable in the air!" Legolia said.
"I think I'm gonna try my new ability, maybe it'll bring her down." Kat said.
"Go for it, Kat!" Ethox said.
Kat activated her powers as she floated in the air and summoned a hail of energy before launching it toward Raven. This energy converted into debris, which became spikes that rapidly shot at Raven and homed in on her, hitting her back to back.
"Damn! That's effective alright, and crazy!" Grantz noted.
"A non stop barrage of gravity energy… let's call it Gravity Typhoon!" Megumin recommended.
"You picked up a new trick in here huh? That's not gonna stop me!" Raven declared, striking back with her own energy projectiles.
While Raven was firing, Goblin Slayer took this opportunity, taking out his Machine Hook and giving it a good toss, wrapping the chain around Raven's leg while she was suspended in the air.
"What the-?!" Raven asked as she was quickly pulled down by Goblin Slayer as she slammed onto the ground hard.
"Get her!" Nemo called out as he and Molotok rushed towards the downed shifter, the hammerhead Beastman jumping with hammer in hand to crush her.
Raven, however, managed to escape becoming a pancake by gravity sliding out of the way, narrowly avoiding the hammer. Raven then floated up a bit then twirled around, undoing the chain around her leg.
"Strong, fast, controlled, and gorgeous? You really are the full package, huh?" DJ asked jokingly.
"Do you think this is a joke?!" Raven demanded as she pressed her attack on the group. "After I kill all of you, Bolsey is next!"
"Kill us?! Are you crazy?! What's wrong with you?!" Kat asked.
"Yeah, and who's Bolsey?" Ethox asked.
"How'd you even get in here?" Ultra pointed out. "Do you fly into the black hole, or…?"
"Stop playing dumb!" Raven growled.
"We're not dumb, we just don't know what's going on around here!" Kazuma asked. "If you can just take it easy, maybe we can get a few minutes to talk this over and tell us what's going on!"
"Like hell I will!" Raven replied.
"It's no use, we're not getting anything out of her." Tanya said. "We have to end her now. Kat, finish her!"
"O-Okay!" Kat said as she floated in the air and charged forward with Dusty cloaking her as she spiraled, Raven doing the same with her crow as the two clashed for a moment before they were both blown back by the attack as Kat rolled across the ground before stopping and looked up as the dust cleared to find Raven gone.
(end song)
"Holy crap, that was some blast!" Nemo said.
"I-I didn't kill her, did I?" Kat worriedly asked.
"No." Seiya said. "She's done the smart thing: she ran away."
Kat breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good…"
The missing part of town then left the rift and returned to Pleajeune.
"We knew even then that we had to fight if we wanted to protect what we cared about. What we didn't understand was that Raven, too, was fighting to protect something she cared about…" Kat narrated.
Meanwhile…
"The Sacred Gems of the first two districts are beyond my reach for now…" Lucifer Crowe said to herself as she flew high above the city, unseen by its citizens. "But now the third part has been restored. It shall be mine…even if I must tear it from the corpse of that pathetic little thief."
