The Palindra that came out of Demo’s shadow fully emerges with his blade already in his hand. Demo is stunned at the fact that a Palindra came out of his shadow. And then he recognizes who it is. It’s the soldier who he met in the fight on Planet Numbers. The Palindra Diwena who sent him into a rage after hurting him.

“Diwena, how are you here?”

Diwena doesn’t reply his mind is filled with anger. Without saying anything, Diwena lets loose a war cry and dashes towards the scientists. The scientists see the raging Palindra coming towards them.

“NO, WAIT! We were just following orders.”

Diwena swings his blade and cuts off the scientist’s head. Without pause he keeps running towards the next scientist. Sachem knows that he is there to protect this lab and the scientists from harm. He needs to stop the Palindra from killing all the scientists. Sachem turns his body and readies himself to run towards Diwena. My-Ty and Demo both charge at top speed towards Sachem and attack him. Sachem blocks their attacks. My-Ty looks Sachem directly in his eyes as he speaks.

“No, you don’t.”

Demo is facing Sachem with Diwena fighting behind his back. Demo can hear the scientists scream in pain as Diwena exacts his revenge. Ugly Face doesn’t fully understand why My-Ty and Demo stopped Sachem. They don’t seem to be friends with the Palindra that just showed up. Could it be that they stopped Sachem to allow Diwena his revenge?

Diwena is cutting scientists in half, decapitating them and punching some straight through their chest. Sachem can tell that he is too late to save all the scientists, but he has to stop the Palindra from leaving this room and finding the others. So he jumps back from Demo and My-Ty.

When he lands, he clenches his fists tight and slams them together twice. The second burst of energy is bigger and stronger than the previous time. The energy that went through his body with the second collision added a glow to his entire body.

“Two.”

Sachem starts hopping in place, with his arms down. Both Demo and My-Ty know that Sachem just got serious and they can sense an aura of death coming from him. My-Ty starts his breathing technique to calm his mind again.

“Demo, what’s about to charge at us is deadly.”

“I know.”

“Make sure you stay focused, and don’t die.”

Demo keeps his gaze on Sachem and starts thinking about what Sachem just did. He slammed his fists together and it looked like the energy from that went into his body. It didn’t feel like body transformation but more of a redistribution of energy. And what’s the most infuriating is that it actually was a pretty cool way to do a re-entry. Demo takes a deep breath and starts using the cover up technique he learned recently and focuses the energy on his fists. He then adds the Higher Reasoning he learned on Planet Numbers to it. The energy of both techniques is born from math and an understanding of Moksi. So the two techniques coalesce and merge into one. Sachem and My-Ty both look at Demo with a surprising look on their face. They don’t know what this weird energy is nor what he is about to do with it.

Demo spreads his arms wide open and then quickly slams them together to create a burst of energy he can use. The energy he created was stable and clean, but the moment they collided they exploded. Demo is sent flying from the explosion. He hits the wall and flies through it, and crashes through 3 more walls. When he hits the 4^th wall, he finally stops. He brushes the dust and rubbish off of him.

“Nope, that didn’t work.”

He looks around and he is in a room filled with scientists who are putting containers filled with brains into a big container. The scientists are startled and stopped mid stocking to look at the sudden intruder. Demo looks at them confused as well, but then he sees something in his peripheral. A stack of young Palindra children’s bodies.

Diwena has finished killing all the scientists that were in the room he was in. He is covered in their blood as he stands motionless with his head down. The rage is about to abide after having finished his revenge, but then a scream is heard.

“DIWENA! HERE!”

It’s Demo’s voice. Diwena looks up and sees Demo in the distance in a room. And that is when he sees a scientist holding a Palindra brain. Diwena’s eyes go dark, he completely snaps. Demo immediately stands up and runs out of the room and passes Diwena as he rushes into the room. Demo has a tortured look on his face as the two pass. Sachem realizes that his fear has come true, he needs to stop the Palindra as quickly as possible. He runs towards the room as well.

My-Ty jumps in between to stop him with a flying kick. Sachem ducks under the kick and keeps going forward. Demo meets him halfway with a body check that sends Sachem backwards. My-Ty uses this chance to roundhouse kick Sachem. But Sachem is able to lean backwards and avoid the kick. He then quickly sidesteps both My-Ty and Demo and rushes towards where Diwena went. Demo grabs a big piece of debris and throws it towards the hole in the wall that Sachem is headed towards.

Sachem hears the big rock flying through the air and instinctively sidesteps it. This small side step was expected by My-Ty who went in a straight line to where he believed Sachem to land. His guess was right and as Sachem is about to land My-Ty throws a body blow that lands and Sachem is sent flying a few meters. Sachem lands and looks at the hole in the wall and where the Palindra is and then back at Demo and My-Ty who are now next to each other. Sachem knows that as long as these two are awake or alive they will try to stop him from reaching the Palindra. He is going to have to take care of them first.

Sachem raises his guard and starts weaving back and forth. He then, in a zigzag pattern, goes towards My-Ty. Sachem uses lightning speed to throw his first 3 punches, but My-Ty is able to block and evade them. But those shots were just feints to allow Sachem to get into close up range. Once Sachem is in, he threw a body uppercut, which connected and then rotated his body upwards to immediately follow it up with an uppercut to the face. My-Ty’s face is sent upwards, but My-Ty grits his teeth and throws a hook aimed at Sachem’s head. But Sachem slips under it, and delivers a left body hook followed up by a right overhand. My-Ty is sent flying backwards. Demo immediately jumps in with a question mark high kick. Sachem catches the kick with his right arm as the guard then delivers a left body hook followed up by a left hook aimed at Demo’s head which is then immediately chased by a right hook that sends Demo to the ground.

My-Ty has gotten back up and throws a right straight just as Demo falls. But Sachem head slips it again and throws an uppercut that lands right in the armpit of My-Ty’s extended arm. My-Ty’s shoulder is immediately dislocated. My-Ty screams in pain, as Demo gets back up and throws a right straight as well, but Sachem slips inwards and throws a right cross over Demo’s arm and knocks Demo back down.

Sachem stands looking down at the two of them.

“Wait right here.”

Sachem turns towards where the Palindra is.

Chapter 70 fin