An arrow of crimson blood along with a blitzing Rainbow Dash torpedoed themself against the falling curse mid-air. Rainbow was the first to make contact with the immobilised cursed first, diving hoof-first into her abdomen with an explosive boom, driving her through the Piercing Blood. The red liquid penetrated her right shoulder.
Yelling out in pain, Usowamoto tried to shove the blue mare off of her. This only further encouraged Rainbow to drive her in faster, flapping her wings and generating more energy, she spearheaded the curse towards Yuta.
On the other side of the blood, Yuta had already released the technique, reaching into Rika to grab a weapon, he pulled out a short sword with a black blade.
"Get ready, Rika."
"Yup."
As the curse and Rainbow were fast approaching, Yuta readies a stance, pulling back his sword, he aims for the curse, as Rika too, readies herself. Right as Rainbow was about to enter the building that Yuta and Rika were occupying, he shouts the timing.
"Now!"
Lunging forward, he gave a diagonal slash while Rika attacks alongside Yuta. Usowamoto wasn't having any of it, flexing her fingers in the air, she turned her hands inversely against one another. Focusing on her technique, she conjured two portals behind the sorcerer and the pegasus.
"Portal Technique: Rotating Mirror."
The two portals suddenly dashed to each other, catching Yuta, Rainbow, and Usowamoto in it right when the two attacks were about to connect. Sending all three of them spinning and tumbling into a lush grassy field a good distance away from the fallen city of Cloudsdale.
Usowamoto was the first to land, plopping onto the greenery with a painful thud. Getting up, she was about to scratch her head when an ominous surge of cursed energy from her right instinctively told her to jump up. She was glad she did, as Yuta only grazed her clothing with his black blade.
Not letting her rest, the sudden change in wind pressure from her left forced her to spin leftward in order to dodge the speeding Rainbow Dash who was quick to follow up on the assault.
The two allies moved in near-perfect synchronisation, their pacing and speed closely complemented one another. Halting their movements, the two jumped back at the curse, which she only had to open a small portal to get herself a good distance away from them.
Now, Rainbow and Yuta stood on one side of the field, while Usowamoto stands on the other. Rainbow was perched onto Yuta's shoulder, her eyes deep in focus, Yuta's eyes too told a different story than the normally cheerful first-year the Jujutsu Tokyo School usually knows. The bloodlust seeping from him and the concentration drooling from Rainbow forced the cursed child to take a step back in hesitation.
"Constantly apply pressure, keep putting her on the back foot. She needs a longer time to open a portal to travel far-off distances. Once we close the gap, I'll be able to finish her." Yuta explained with a deadly chill in his voice.
Unbothered, Dash replied with a simple, "Gotcha."
There was only a single thought running through Rainbow's mind, it was how she was going to pay dearly for attacking the school Twilight painstakingly went through to get it to open up. Not to mention, the students that died in the attack on said School. And lastly, her friends who were gravely injured from trying to fend off the curses to buy time for the other students to escape.
Rainbow and Yuta exchanged glances, both knew what the other was thinking. They both shared the same thoughts in their minds, neither needing to speak for communication to take place.
Dash was the first to make a move, bursting forth, she angled herself hindlegs forward to give a dive kick. Usowamoto raised an arm, prepared to conjure another portal to redirect Rainbow and her attack.
"Don't move!" Yuta commanded,
Usowamoto froze, through grunts and grumbles, her body refusing to move an inch.
'A cursed technique that imparts commands through voices? It is sound?'
That was all Usowamoto could think before Rainbow's hooves connected with her chest, dragging her for a mile through the dirt and stone on the grassy hills. Rainbow took a step back into the air, preparing herself for another divebomb. Usowamoto wasn't having it, summoning a portal behind her to move Rainbow to another location.
However, a flash of light and the sound of hands clapping interrupted her plans. As Yuta is now in place of the blue pegasus, raising his arm faster than the curse could raise another, he brought the black blade down unto Usowamoto, severing her left arm like a hot knife to butter.
The cursed child jumped back, dumbfounded at how easily Yuta severed her arm even though she reinforced it with cursed energy. Unbeknownst to her, Yuta had activated the Ratio Technique, her body now susceptible to being severed at any and all places.
Thinking she was safe, Usowamoto tried to open a portal back to Cloudsdale, only for Rika to deliver a skull-crushing punch to the back of her head. Purple blood and saliva splattered across the green scenery, as she stumbled from the slight concussion.
Yuta was quick to follow up, switching the blade to his left, he swung mercilessly at the downed curse. Thinking quickly, she opened a small portal diagonally in front of Yuta and her. As well as another towards the ground beneath them. The Sorcerer hit the floor with the blade through the porta with a thud, but that didn't stop him though, as he slipped through the portal and focused his cursed energy into his heel.
Slipping through, Yuta now laid head first into the grassy fields, his legs facing up into the sky. Folding his legs slightly, the natural angle at which his knees bend allowed his heel to make contact with Usowamoto.
The force sent her head downward, which Rika followed up with an uppercut.
Sliding out of the portal before it closed, Rainbow had already made her way back into the scene. It was a 3-on-1 now.
'Crap, my head's spinning, but I need to watch for that Sorcerer... that speech technique...' Usowamoto thought, her eyes blurred.
Rainbow and Rika continued the onslaught, as Rika delivered a right hook to Usowamoto, Rainbow jumped back, dishing a left kick. The resultant forces caused her to float mid-air for a moment before Rika grabbed her by the head and slammed her into the ground.
Pulling her back up, Rika pummeled her on the ground some more before tossing her to Rainbow, as she came in with a flurry of kicks. Locking her hindlegs around her neck, she flipped backwards and flung her towards Yuta.
Though dizzy, Usowamoto could faintly observe that Yuta had a hand over his mouth.
'Is he about to use it!?' She yelled in her mind.
Raising her now regenerated hands, she tried to muffle the oncoming cursed speech by covering her ears. Yuta responded in kind, raising the hand that was previously covering his face and pointing his index and middle finger up in the air. Blood spewed out from underneath Usowamoto, wrapping around her in a net-like construct, her arms that were used to cover her ears now were strung in an awkward position next to her face.
"Crimson Binding."
Yuta dashed forward at blinding speed, amplified by the marking of Flowing Red Scales, he socked Usowamoto in the face with his blade. The vengeful curse stumbled back into Rika, and she too knocked Usowamoto back forward. Rainbow and Yuta closed in on her. The two punched and slashed away at the helpless curse.
Rika soon jumped into the action too, attacking from behind to ensure she doesn't get sent flying away by Yuta and Rainbow.
By this point, Usowamoto was getting attacked on all three sides. Her head jolted back and forth from the punches, kicks, and swings, while her body was bound by the blood Yuta had deployed earlier on.
Tripping over herself, Usowamoto tumbles onto the ground. In doing so, her own blood spilled out into the grassy plains. With nowhere else to go, she was forced to roll with the fall, rolling over several times before coming to a halt.
This didn't stop Rainbow, Yuta, or Rika, as their kicks and punches ruthlessly shoveled themselves in the poor thing. Her head, shoulders, and legs bashed themselves along the ground, bruises running along her body.
Struggling for breath, the cursed youth thought about her options through the cries of the pegasus yelling something about paying for Applejack. What should she do? How can she get out of this mess alive? She couldn't just run away, if she did that, she would be asking for the death sentence. She didn't want that. Not when she worked hard to get herself here. All her preparations have led her up to this moment.
Filled with despair, Usowamoto thought about how she could get out of this predicament, her eyes glazed over, as she looked at the trio. Yuta bent down over her, his hand outstretched and reaching out to touch her.
Three portals opened above her, redirecting the kicks and punches back to the attackers. Stumbling back, Yuta prepared another swing of his blade, only for a miniature hole to puncture the shoulder which held his weapon.
A portal of similar size appeared in front of him, bending his knee, the Sorcerer barely dodged the stream of water, as it grazed his cheek. Running down his cheek and into his mouth, it was a unique taste he could distinguish easily.
"Salt water?" Yuta mumbled.
That's when it hit him, Usowamoto had opened a portal in the ocean, and the pressure from it sent streams of seawater out like a pressure washer. Not to mention it was strengthened by cursed energy as it passed the portal ring.
This little opening allowed Usowamoto to another portal, allowing a centipede-like curse to crawl out and attack Rainbow. While opening another to summon a bear and a lion-like curse to attack Rika.
"Outta my way!!" Rika and Rainbow yelled.
Finally able to breathe from the gang up, she quickly opened a portal beneath her to escape. But the tightening of the Crimson Binding messed with her concentration.
All of a sudden, a deafening boom sounded from over the horizon. Turning his attention over to the sound, Yuta could see a grey mushroom cloud rises, and a sonic wave of greyscale sweeps past the lands, desaturating all the colour it touches.
"A nuclear explosion!?" He questions. Using the distraction, Usowamoto managed to slip through a portal beneath her. Yuta tried to hold her using Blood Manipulation but was too late. Not having time to curse under his breath, he gritted his teeth, turning over to Rika, shouting "Rika! Grab her!!"
Doing as she was told, Rika grabbed Rainbow from her fight despite her protest and shoved her into the void contained within her body. Flying back to Yuta, she huddles behind him for protection.
As the dust clouds quickly approached The Special-Grade Sorcerer, the markings of Flowing Red Scales disappears, and he stares at the wave of dust, awaiting its arrival. Allowing it to envelop him in a sea of haze and smoke.
And by then, 3 minutes have elapsed for the duration of sustained connection between Rika and Yuta.