Let Me Help!

Adam suddenly found himself in a rather dimly lit room. The walls seemed to be made of concrete, and filled with casual furniture and shelves full of daily necessities.

("Where am I?") [Adam]

Taking a quick glance around, he saw many familiar people. It appeared that Aurora, Tiffany, and Roy had been waiting in such a room.

"Ah, there he is." [Aurora]

There sat Aurora, lazing about on a couch.

"You must be wondering where you are." [Roy]

Adam nodded.

"We're inside Sebastian's bunker. You know, the one he never let us in as kids." [Felix]

"Oh. That one? He gave you permission to use it?" [Adam]

Roy laughed.

"Nope. I opened it up for us." [Roy]

Adam stared at Roy for a moment.

"You know, I would be surprised by your shamelessness. Sadly, it's not impossible for you to do something like this." [Adam]

"I'll take that as a compliment." [Roy]

Pointing finger guns at Adam, Roy searched through a cabinet.

"Felix, do you know where the snacks are?" [Roy]

Felix ignored him.

"In any case, Adam. This is where we'll stay until everything outside dies down." [Felix]

"What? Wait, how come we're not going to a shelter?" [Adam]

"It can't withstand this kind of invasion. If you were to look outside, it'd be like a miniature version of the Great Collapse." [Aurora]

Adam was dumbfounded.

"We're just going to let people die?" [Adam]

"...That's all that we can do." [Felix]

Adam clenched his fists.

"I'm heading back out there." [Adam]

"Stop." [Felix]

Grabbing Adam's shoulder, Felix stopped him in his tracks.

"Listen. You can't save everyone. You're not even a hero." [Felix]

Glancing at Tiffany, Felix expected her to say something. She seemed a bit panicked as to what to say, so Felix tried another method.

"Say, what do you think Tiffany?" [Felix]

Adam looked at her with confusion.

"Hold on. No one told me how she got here." [Adam]

"I… wanted to show you my soul weapon. I didn't realize you weren't home." [Tiffany]

Felix rolled his eyes.

"Then the rift opened, voidlings came out, yadda yadda yadda, this doesn't matter. Tiffany, tell Adam to stay." [Felix]

Tiffany twiddled her fingers nervously.

"Actually… I agree with Adam." [Tiffany]

"Huh?!" [Felix]

Looking between Adam and Tiffany, Felix sighed.

"I know what's going on. First of all, you guys are crazy. Second, get a fucking room!" [Felix]

His sudden outburst had everyone wide-eyed. That is, except for Roy who was still looking for snacks.

"Woah, rude?" [Aurora]

"Shut up, loli hag." [Felix]

"What was that?" [Aurora]

She held up a fist, which made Felix back away.

"...Alright. Let's think about it. What can you even do out there, Adam?" [Felix]

"Kill voidlings." [Adam]

"Okay, but how long do you think those rifts are going to be open? How many voidlings will you kill until they finally close?" [Felix]

"Probably a lot." [Adam]

Felix scratched his head in frustration.

"Is there no plan in your head?! You'll only tire yourself out and die!" [Felix]

Adam shook his head.

"I get that you're concerned for me, but I have to do this." [Adam]

He turned to leave, but Felix pulled Adam back.

"No! You literally don't! Unless there was a concrete plan to close those rifts, I'm not letting you out there!" [Felix]

"Funny you say that. There is a way to close those rifts." [Aurora]

Felix froze.

"...There is?" [Felix]

"Yeah. Rifts out that size usually are operated by variants. Or rather, intelligent voidlings. Just kill them and they'll close." [Aurora]

"There's the plan. Can I go now?" [Adam]

Felix placed his palm on his face.

"Wait wait wait. You're just now telling us this?" [Felix]

Aurora shrugged.

"You didn't ask. Also, it's supposed to be confidential information so don't spread that around." [Aurora]

"...Says the person leaking the information." [Felix]

"You say something?" [Aurora]

"Nothing." [Felix]

Now that they had a method, Felix changed his mind.

"Alright. I'll help you." [Felix]

"Hold!" [Roy]

Raising a hand, Roy gave up on finding those snacks.

"I brought you guys in here for your safety. Not to plan a method to deal with those rifts." [Roy]

"Who?" [Felix]

"You guys-" [Roy]

"Asked. Who asked?" [Felix]

Roy gave him an unamused look.

"In any case, none of you guys are leaving. If something happened to you guys, Sebastian will have my head. Literally." [Roy]

Felix scoffed.

"All the more reason to leave." [Felix]

He moved towards the door, but found himself bumping into Roy who now stood in front of it.

"Leave it to the heroes." [Roy]

Felix locked eyes with Roy in silence.

"...Hey, Tiffany." [Felix]

"Yes?" [Tiffany]

"Do you want to help too?" [Felix]

"If I may be of use?" [Tiffany]

"You'll be plenty helpful, Tiffany." [Adam]

"So us three then?" [Felix]

Roy remained silent as he watched them speak. It was only until seconds later that he realized what was going on.

"Wait, you're-" [Roy]

"Warp!" [Felix]

Within an instant, all three vanished.

"...Sebastian's gonna kill me." [Roy]