“Where did she go? GET HER BACK!” The soldier shouts, and for a moment everyone is frozen.
Mystery starts the machine under gunpoint, and Sophia takes over station two. The coordinates are already punched in, and they don’t know what Magenta was thinking! The soldiers are screaming at them, but for some reason, the portal won’t open.
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Magenta runs through the forest as fast as she can, and the warriors find her out of breath and crying. They immediately take her to the chief, and she tries to explain what happened, but it takes a while before she is calm enough to tell him everything. He is furious and tells her that this is why they never let anyone take the weapon.
He gets the information from her about the portal and the people that are holding her family so that they can prepa
