Running through the streets, Kyou turns and asks.
"You're not going to hurt a lady, are you?"
"Not if I don't have to," he responded. Turning down the alley, Kyou throws seeds in the area and glides her hands across the alley walls. Vines overgrow, but it was no match for Bruno's strength. Single-handedly, he punches through the vines. After losing sight of Kyou, Bruno exits the alley to find Kyou climbing into an abandoned building using her vines. Not wanting to lose sight of her again, Bruno prepares to speed up. Stomping down, he destroys the ground beneath him, hurling himself through the building wall.
"You know women hate guys who don't know how to take no for an answer."
"I'm married." Bruno begins to channel brown nature energy into his forearm. Closing the distance, he towers over Kyou and swipes at her with a fist. She ducks under his swing and turns to see half the building behind her decimated.
"Yeah, no, thank you!" Kyou recreates the mushroom cloud from before. Before Bruno could exit the cloud, she destroys the ground under him. Falling to the lower floor, Kyou binds him with her vines, forming what looks to be a cacoon.
"It may not hold you for long, but it'll have to do." Exiting the building, Kyou heads to the rendezvous point, the minutemen's station. Winded from all the running, everyone regroups.
"If I run any longer, my lungs are gonna freeze; that slime girl can move."
"You're telling me. Leron pretty much played with me the whole time."
"We don't have time for this. The guy chasing me destroyed half a building." Right as Kyou finished her sentence, a loud boom could be heard from the direction Kyou came from. Flying through the air, Bruno channels nature energy into both his feet. Falling, he calls out.
"Quake!" landing Bruno cracks everything around him from the ground and buildings to the station and wall. Stunned by his display of power, the trio questions whether it is possible to escape at this point. Startled by the mini earthquake, a horde of minutemen rush outside, spears in hand.
"What's going on? Who caused this damage," asked the sergeant. Surrounded with nowhere to go, Kyou tells the others.
"It's now or never. Cover your mouths!" Reaching into her pouch, Kyou pulls out a spikey seed and balls a fist over it. Growing the seed, a large white and purple spiral-like flower blooms from the back of her fist.
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"Devil's Trumpet!" Blowing through her fist, flower particles spread throughout the area. The minutemen and Bruno start coughing, and their vision begins to blur.
"Get close." Kyou grows vines, lifting the group onto the station's roof and up the wall. Grunting from irritation, Bruno charges up his fist again.
"Not so fast!" Aiming a dull arrow at Bruno, Hisoka shoots at his fist, knocking it off course. The shock wave lands to the group's left, putting giant cracks in the wall.
"Even from here, that rattles my bones. Is he trying to kill us," asked Hisoka.
"Don't look at me! He's been like this since he started chasing me." Reaching the top of the wall, Jugo asks.
"Ok, so how do we get down now?"
"The same way we got up, genius," claimed Hisoka. Crashing into the top of the wall, Bruno stands there. Shooting off a flurry of arrows, Bruno deflects them with martial arts. Preparing for another 'Devil's Trumpet,' Kyou blows into her fist. Before the seed particles could reach him, Bruno claps, sending the particles back and cracking the wall even more. Quickly reacting, Jugo uses the lung strength of a bear to blow them away. Charging towards each other, Bruno and Jugo clash with 'Quake' and 'Bear Fist.'
"If this keeps up, you will destroy the wall!"
"Not my problem." Continuing with hand-to-hand combat, Jugo feels his bones rattle from the continuous blows from 'Quake.' Starting to growl, the fur on his arm grows further up his arm.
"Where did that strength come from?" Unresponsive, Jugo lashes out. He claws at Bruno, scratching him across the face.
"Their blows are too much for the wall, Kyou; use your vines to hold it in place." While Kyou binds the walls, minutemen emerge from the towers surrounding them again.
"This has gone on long enough! Surrender yourselves," demanded the sergeant. Kyou puts up a wall to protect their back. Slashing and stabbing at the vine wall, Kyou yells.
"It's not gonna hold for long, Jugo; hurry up!" Using all of his strength and rage, Jugo goes in for a final blow. Meeting his punch, Bruno shakes the entire wall.
"Not bad, kid, but it's not enough." Jugo gets thrown back into Hisoka, knocking him over. Bruno sprints towards the group. Placing her palms on the wall, Kyou calls out.
"Iron maiden!" Shooting her thorny vines through the wall, she wraps up Bruno, causing him to bleed more. The minutemen cut through the vine wall and slowly approached from both sides.
"I barely have any strength left. I can't keep putting vines up forever." Standing above the trio, the sergeant announces.
"You three are under arrest for attempting to leave the sanctuary and the destruction of its walls." Looking toward the sunrise, Bruno thinks.
"I guess I have no choice." Breaking free from the thorny vines, he vanishes and appears between the trio.
"Girl, make a pod with your vines." Surrounding the group in a pod of thick vines from the inside, Kyou asks.
"What now?"
"Just hold on tight and watch out for zenith beasts." Swaying back off the wall, Bruno charges up his palm. Extending his palm forward, he slaps the air. The shock wave sent the pod flying off into the sunrise, reducing the surrounding wall to rubble and sending the minutemen off in all directions. Crashing down to the ground, Bruno says.
"Alex isn't gonna like this. If these wounds don't kill me, she will." He disappears back into the town wondering.
"That kid was okay until he started using that bear arm. Whatever it was, hopefully, he can keep it under control.