Ashwood Chapter 13 - Tifa and Evil

"We did it…we beat it!" Sienna gasped for breath, looking at the boar on the 10th Floor. It was the size of the house, and it took everything they had to defeat it, when this was among the weakest beasts on the whole floor. She slowly closed her eyes, opening them to only look at her fiancée, covered in scars, and Benny, their childhood friend was lying on the ground, barely breathing. The only one that could even stand in their group was Irene, but even she was sweating buckets because of the excessive use of her mana.

"You are not ready," 2B walked in their sight, along with Sarada, who had a worried look on their face, "You should leave."

"No!" Ricardo shouted, raising his head, "The least we can do is protect you!"

"You can't," Sarada hurriedly shook her head, "Tsunade-sama…and Miss Tifa are strong. The sound of shaking we heard a while ago…that was like Tsunade-sama…that means Miss Tifa is around here somewhere…waiting. She's scarier than Tsunade-sama."

"Why?" Sienna breathed out in defeat. She could see her fiancée didn't want to leave since they owed a big favour, and her little sister, 'well…she doesn't want to leave altogether. The best I can do is gather more information.'

Sarada glanced at her, "Tsuande-sama…she was depressed before, drowned in booze and gambling before…and when affected by the Negative Energy that side of her came out more. Miss Tifa is different…she didn't have a long life like Lady Tsunade… I don't know about her life…and her history, but I know that Negative Energy makes her more aggressive, wilder, more…apathetic. She…is the truly scary one."

"Is that what you think…Sarada?"

Sarada gasped, coughing, arching her back, feeling the fingers inside of her chest, digging through her heart, coming out from the front. She started at the hand with trembling eyes when the woman made her raise her head. Her Sharingan met with the ruby-eyed woman, who placed her palm on her eyes, covering them, "you hurt my feelings…Sarada."

"Miss…Tifa…."

"Mm, Sarada? Do you want to sleep? Do rest," Tifa gently, kindly said when she heard lightning, along with a scream.

"Get away from her!!!" Irene's whips made a straight path for her, which she easily dodged with quick footwork, taking a few steps sideways, and back, all the while she didn't let go of Sarada, who was trying to heal her heart through Byakugou. Though someone else noticed that, swiping down her Katana to cut her arm, but she stopped, raising her finger from her left hand, blocking the katana with it.

"You didn't think that would work, did you?"

"No," 2B lightly declared, having only used one hand to swing. She kept the second one towards her waist, summoning her sword from right to left, and she pierced it towards Tifa's stomach, who grimaced but didn't let her hand out of Sarada's chest. The sword passed through her stomach, but she still didn't let go, "it's like Master said."

Tifa raised her eyebrows for when 2B passed lightning through her body, shocking her from inside out, being as resilient as she was, that made her take a single step back, and enough distance for Irene to wrap thundering and sword whips around her neck and pull her away, just giving enough time to Sarada's healing powers to heal her heart and power her Mangekyo Sharingan. This time, her Mangekyo Sharingan appeared in her both eyes, and pinkish-red skeleton ribs appeared around her, along with a hand that slammed down towards Tifa.

She covered her wound with one hand, and stopped the arm with another, "that was unexpected…but at the end of the day…."

She moved her palm away, having used healing magic to heal her wound. She swiped her palm, and the blood covering it got splashed forward, the drops turned into bullets, piercing through their bodies, "cheap tricks."

2B backed away, injured. She scanned to the other people, seeing their injuries, if they could manage and dashed forward. She swung her sword, and shockwave came out of the blade, hitting Tifa, but they were all blocked by the glove she was wearing. Tifa mercilessly landed the roundhouse kick to her stomach, hurling her through the ground. She couldn't come to a stop, and the force left her hands, feet, neck and what not broken.

She twitched, trying to stand up, only to fall back down. She tried again, and she fell again, breaking more parts of her body. She heard the sparks coming from all over the body, and yet, she managed to climb on her feet. She took a step forward and tripped right again. She lifted her body again when a pop-up appeared.

[Unknown Energy Detected. Do you wish to allow this energy to make changes?]

'Unknown Energy…Master's Energy,' 2B parted her lips, nodding, "Yes."

[Congratulations. You Levelled Up.]

[Host Name – Yohra No. 2 Type B (E).]

[Race – Android]

[Affiliation – Kal I. Ashwood]

Level - 151

Energy – 18.75 Million

Strength –150

Endurance – 150

Body – 150

Agility – 150

Intelligence – 150

Mind – 150

Memory - 150

Energy – 150

[(New) Superior Android (via Nanites) – Immortality (via Regeneration Level 6) Skill Creation (Via Nanites) Flight (Via Nanites)]

[Passive Abilities – Micro Natural Disaster (250x All Hidden Attributes). Type Executioner (10x All Hidden Attributes) Protagonist (x5 Everything)]

[Summoning Skills – Virtuous Contract]

[Skills – Sword Mastery (Expert). Great sword Master (Expert) Bracers Mastery (Expert) Spear Mastery (Expert) Perfect Evade (Expert) Counter (Expert)]

[Created Skills – Laser, Mirage, Hammer, Blade, Spear, Shield, Wave, Wire, Decoy, Slow, Repair, Bomb, Gravity, Volt, Missile, Scanner.]

[Titles – Executioner (Enhanced Stats). Protagonist (Five Times Experience/Stats/Points. Protagonist's Fate).]

[Free Attribute Points – 35]

[Talent Points – 5]

She summoned her sword, and a compact thruster appeared on her back, by her hands and feet, and she rose in the sky, flying through it. She zoomed through the sky, fixing her gaze on the black-haired woman. The space near her rippled and a golden laser came out of it, along with blades, spears, wires, missiles, volt of golden lightning, all of them firing forward and Tifa zig-zagged, evading every one of them without slowing down.

When she was near 2B, a hammer appeared, slamming down where she was about to step and Tifa had to back away, while 2B landed on the disappearing golden hammer, swinging her sword, shooting shockwaves.

Tifa easily evaded all of them, firing fireballs towards 2B, who made a shield and she blitz forward. She could tell that the android wanted to put down the shield and attack but they were too close for her to do that. She punched the shield, which broke and through it she punched the white haired android in the stomach.

2B's body broke apart and healed through the Nanites, which protected the black box. She turned, landing on the ground, plunging her sword in the ground to hold herself in place. She looked up, only to find Tifa standing in front of her, grabbing her white hair to raise her further, "You changed. Evolved? It doesn't matter. The gap between us…it can't be crossed by a single evolution."

"Good! Then you will be able to deal with this!"

Tifa shot a look towards the unexpected voice, seeing the blonde with the diamond mark on her forehead and the coffin that she threw. She followed the coffin, which fell near her, lodging itself in the ground. She was about to look back towards Tsunade when the door to the coffin opened. She watched the purple gas come out, and when she was focused on it, a thin strap came out, wrapping around her head, like, the next strap which wrapped itself around her wrist, and tens more, and then hundreds, all of them pulling her inside, "Tsunade!!!!!!"

"Not my doing," Tsunade shrugged, holding an android body over her shoulder, watching Tifa getting pulled it, until it disappeared inside the coffin, and the door shut.

She walked to 2B, "alive?"

"Master?" 2B looked at Ashwood's android's body, making Tsunade shake her head as she put down, "It has no consciousness…but that coffin…it has been thrashing around."

She walked over to the injured people, who were being healed by Sarada, "Need help?"

"Tsunade…sama?"

Tsunade knelt down beside her, healing the seven feet giant, "Sorry for causing all the trouble."

"Are you?"

"Better."

"And Miss Tifa?"

"There," Tsunade looked towards the coffin, which was still shaking, and then it stopped.

Inside Coffin,

Tifa panted, kneeling on the darkness, being surrounded by it. She tried to pull away from the darkness, but it only covered her more, swallowing her. She looked up at the face made of darkness. It came down on her, taking a bite, and eating. She screamed, only for the darkness to enter her through her mouth. She widened her eyes, and tears dripped down her cheek as her struggles slowly died down, and she suffocated on the darkness. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head, and the last thing she got a look at was the mouths, pulling out the negative energy from inside of her, until there was none.

She didn't know how long it was, but when she opened her eyes again, she found herself in the arms of someone else. She slowly blinked, "you…are…him?"

"Yeah…your enemy."

"Where is this?"

"Truth be told…I don't know," Ashwood raised Tifa's chin, looking into her vulnerable ruby eyes, glancing towards those red lips, 'She's the Tifa I know from stories.'

"Would it help you if I tell you I have no idea how to leave this place?"

"No," Tifa smilingly closed her eyes, taking another breath of darkness, which made her feel restless, "thank…you."