"I apologize for the sudden intrusion… but I am here to get my son back."
"..."
Clones.
The Diana of this other universe, much like the Diana of Riley's universe, is used to seeing clones and has even dabbled in creating a couple here and there. What she was completely unaware of, however, was how one feels when they see an exact replica of them.
undefinedSuffice it to say, she knows now—but not exactly. Because the woman in front of her was not her clone, but an entirely different one that lived a different life… well, maybe this other version was a little fatter than her.
"Oh, she looks prettier than you, Dee."
"Shut up… and no, she's not."
The situation was weird. Weird enough that even the Aerith of this universe, who had just witnessed the destruction of her race, almost forgot it momentarily due to her confusion. It almost made her wonder if she was going crazy due to the tragedy that happened to her.
And so, the only thing she could really do was just stand there utterly stupefied, watching as the crack that opened up in the air out of nowhere continued to grow. Watch as someone that looked exactly like Diana stepped out of the said hole with her hands raised.
"Please, don't panic Earth-1—we came here with no ill intentions," Diana calmly and very softly said as she looked Diana straight in the eyes. But after a few seconds, she turned to look at Alice, "We made a mistake, and we just want to fix it and leave, you will never have to see us again. And…"
Diana then turned to look at the headless corpse just casually laying on the floor, "...I am truly sorry for what my son did."
"...This is weird," Alice could not help but blink a couple of times as she looked back and forth between Diana and Diana; the calculation she was doing in her brain, loud enough to project from her eyes, "This is double weird."
"Earth-1?" Earth-1 Diana, on the other hand, tried her best to stay as calm as possible as she carefully approached Diana, "...I take it you named your world Earth-0?"
"...Yes," Diana smiled and nodded.
"How presumptuous of you to assume that you're the first to discover dimensional travel."
"Well… considering you haven't yet," Diana let out a small giggle as she finally lowered her arms and looked at Riley, who was still being blocked by Alice, "Riley, we need to drag you back home. Is… he stable?"
"...What do you mean 'is he stable'?" Alice squinted her eyes as she subtly blocked Riley from the rest of the people in the room even more, "He's just… a little lost."
"He's suffering from dementia."
"So he said too," Earth-1 Diana joined in on the conversation, "But we didn't detect anything in his brain when we scanned it. But seeing him now… perhaps he really is."
"...You didn't detect anything?" Diana squinted her eyes as she stared at Riley, who was quietly whispering to himself, repeating his words over and over again; asking himself where Aerith is.
"..." Diana then turned toward the Earth-1 Aerith. She looked at her from head to toe, before raising an eyebrow and saying, "...Queen Adel?"
"...No," Aerith knitted her eyebrows as this was the second time she was mistaken for her mother.
"...I guess it doesn't matter," Diana shook her head as she continued to approach Alice and Riley, "I may need your help in restraining him if he—"
"No."
But before Diana could even take a single step, Earth-1 Aerith suddenly appeared in front of her; placing her hand on Diana's chest and blocking her path,
"I don't know what is going on here, but you're not taking this man anywhere."
"..." Diana could really only look Aerith in the eyes. Although Aerith seemed calm, it was obvious from her slightly trembling voice and watering eyes that she was only trying her best to pretend to be so.
"But I do need to," Diana once again raised her hand to show that she wasn't a threat as she looked at everyone in the room, "All this time, we thought that we were sending our criminals into a void, not knowing that there were actually people here… that this was another universe like our own. We will pay everything that we need to for what we did, but for now…
…Riley Ross needs to go back to our universe. None of you have any idea of how dangerous my son—"
"No… idea?" And before Diana could finish her words, Aerith slightly pushed her; her eyes, glowing red as her breaths released more like growls, "This man just wiped out my people! He killed each and every one that I held dear and I watched helpless as he did it to others. You're the one that has no idea of how I feel!"
"...But I do," the tone of Diana's voice became meek as she returned Aerith's glare.
"...What?"
"I do," Diana subtly nodded as she let out a sigh.
"..." The room suddenly became silent as they all just looked at Diana. Earth-1 Diana, who was carefully looking at the crack in the air, also could not help but lower her eyebrows as she heard her counterpart's words.
"So, why is he still alive?" Earth-1 Diana's voice was as cold as it could get, "Did you show mercy because he's your son?"
"...You don't know yet?" Diana blinked a couple of times, "He's immortal."
"So are we."
"No, we're just very hard to kill," Diana let out a wry chuckle as she shook her head, "He truly can't die—and the longer he stays here, the longer your universe will be in danger—that is why I am here."
"Maybe you just haven't tried enough," Aerith's eyes once again turned red as she looked at Riley.
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