You and Tom quickly run up to the pregnant woman who's lying on the altar and Tom inspects her body to diagnose the state of her health.
" She's still alive. "
Tom says as he breaks her bonds loose to set her free. The woman stays completely still, staring mindlessly at the ceiling; so Tom holds her face and looks into her eyes as he tries to get through to her.
" Look at me, okay? Look at me. Can you hear me? "
The woman's eyes begin to faintly flutter as Tom speaks to her and you ask him a question.
" Can you read her mind? "
" Already did. Her stomach is in excruciating pain from what they did to her and it's so intense that she can't perceive her surroundings. "
Tom says as he looks down at her stomach with his Trap Sight.
" Her stomach is swollen but I don't see anything inside of it… "
You think back to the dream you had of this place and you bring up what you remember from it to Tom.
" I dreamed of this place, remember? Back when Uphedis spoke to me… There's gotta be something sharp stabbing her from inside. "
" Look for yourself, Donny. There's nothing- "
Tom cuts himself off abruptly and looks at you with a grim look in his eyes. The woman suddenly lets out an ear piercing scream that immediately recaptures your attention as her body begins to writhe around uncontrollably. You and Tom slowly back away from the altar and you look at the ground to notice that the blood around the altar from the intestines of the surrounding corpses is bubbling. You watch as the bodies of the dead robed men slowly melt into the ground from laying in their own boiling blood and you can see that each of them were missing their eyes as the woman continues to wildly scream and twitch uncontrollably on top of the altar.
" Looks like our time's up, Donny… "
Tom says before you see what looks like an adult's sharp bloody fingers emerge outwards from within the woman's stomach, piercing and ripping her pregnant belly open from the inside. The woman continues to scream while banging the back of her head on the altar and she shakes violently as you watch her blood pouring out of the tear in her stomach, merging with the boiling blood on the floor. Once her stomach is fully ripped open from her waist to her ribcage, the hands submerge back inside the bloody rip in her stomach and you're greeted by a hauntingly familiar set of horns and feminine eyes that peek up at you from the pool of blood that's pouring out of the gaping hole in the pregnant woman's body.
Tom steps in front of you defensively as the womanly Valghuli Exemplar that once tried to kill you in Somniohm fully rises out of the pregnant woman's bloody corpse with a sinister smile.
" Lamenter… "
Valanyah says as she steps down from the altar, causing the pregnant woman's corpse to fall over, splatting onto ground before she slowly walks towards you covered in the woman's blood.
" You didn't think that portals were the only way to access this realm, did you? "
Tom wastes no time, blitzing the demon and throwing several serious strikes at her that explode violently but she dodges and blocks them before throwing a few strikes of her own. Tom and Valanyah go back and forth fighting each other in what looks like an even exchange of offense and defense as if they're dancing faster than the eye can see.
" DONNY, RUN!! TAKE MIMI BACK TO MORIARCH!! "
Tom shouts to you telepathically in an urgent tone while he continues to keep the Valghuli Exemplar occupied. Valanyah then catches Tom with a spinning kick to the side of the head, stunning him before she quickly grabs him by the throat and lifts him in the air, holding him outwards off the ground while she chokes him with an entertained smile.
" The Lamenter isn't going anywhere. "
Valanyah says with a smirk after reading your mind, knowing exactly what Tom told you telepathically.
" What the fuck is going on!? "
Pads asks in a panicked tone as you look back at the door contemplating whether you should leave Tom like he asked you to.
After a brief moment of contemplation, you turn back towards Tom and talk to Pads in with a determined glint in your eye.
" Alert Amy and Roary that our enemies are here. Tell them to escape with Mimi to Moriarch. "
" What about you? "
Pads asks, concerned.
" I'm not leaving here without Tom. "
You say before blitzing Valanyah, throwing a kick at her stomach. Valanyah reacts perfectly, letting go of Tom's neck and catching your foot before swinging you around to throw you at the wall behind her. You spin through the air, catching yourself with your ability to levitate and immediately fly back directly at her to deliver an onslaught of punches and kicks. Once you reach her, Tom stands up behind her and throws his own barrage of strikes at her and Valanyah goes on the defensive to dodge and block both of your strikes the best that she can. Valanyah quickly gets overwhelmed and a few of your strikes land on her body and face before she becomes translucent, causing your strikes to go through her like she's a ghost. In a split second, Valanyah puts her arm through Tom's chest and makes her arm tangible again, impaling him before kicking you in the face and knocking you backwards onto the ground.
Tom's face goes pale as he tries to fight to break free from the arm through his chest, but Valanyah jumps onto the altar and slams him down onto where the pregnant woman's corpse was, shattering the altar into pieces. She then rips her arm out of his chest and mounts him on the crumbled altar, pinning him with her legs before throwing several elbows and punches down at his face. You try to telekinetically pull Valanyah off of him but she doesn't budge while Tom blocks her strikes the best that he can with his arms as the hole in his chest slowly heals.
" I tried contacting Amy and Roary but I can't reach them, Abbadon! There are some creepy motherfuckers right outside my server room trying to break in and I gotta take care of them! If they get in here, I'm fucked! "
Pads says urgently before Tom siphons the Light from the crumbled altar underneath him, causing him and Valanyah to both fall downwards for a split second which buys him enough time to fly out from underneath her. The air explodes behind him as he barrels towards you, grabbing you with a hug and rapidly expanding the room around you with his telekinesis until the entire club that you're in shatters into several pieces, raining rubble down onto the city streets and putting both of you outside. In an instant, Tom bolts through the air, flying at an incredible speed to the giant crater that you put in the city earlier and lands in the middle of it before letting you go and sliding to slow down, taking the fight to a wide open environment.
Valanyah wastes no time, immediately appearing behind him and throwing a barrage of punches at him that break the sound barrier. Tom clocks these strikes, floating backwards to distance himself as he goes on the defensive while she rushes him. You assist Tom by blitzing Valanyah and throwing several strikes of your own at her, which causes her to react and finally gives Tom an opening to counter. Tom nails her in the face with a hook before kicking the legs out from underneath her, then he uses his telekinesis to encapsulate her in the rocky ground in an attempt to immobilize her before throwing her into the atmosphere. Tom launches himself upwards, causing a shockwave of air behind him before making contact with the rocky encapsulation that's holding Valanyah and shattering it with his fist, scattering the rocky pieces in every direction and launching her even farther upwards. As Tom goes in for another strike, Valanyah weaves it mid-air and counters it with a kick to Tom's abdomen which explodes violently and staggers him as soon as you reach them. Valanyah goes in for another strike, but you catch her arm inside her elbow and spin her around to protect Tom, who then flies up behind her and puts her in a headlock mid-air. Valanyah struggles as your fists explode upon impact, wailing on her face and body until you and Tom both sense a red beam coming towards you, causing Tom to release her as you both evade it.
You look down in the direction that the beam came from and see Verzo, another one of the Valghuli Exemplars from earlier, quickly flying towards you with glowing red hands before he shoots a multitude of red beams at you and Tom to keep you on the run while Valanyah recovers. Verzo then focuses on you, chasing you through the air and trying to shoot you down while you spin around flying unpredictably to evade him and pull pieces of rock up behind you telekinetically to block a few of the beams. Valanyah engages Tom again, trading strikes with him in the air as you circle around back to where they are and you distract Valanyah by trying to grab her hair before Tom headbutts her back down into the crater, completely shattering the rock underneath her. Verzo then flies directly into Tom, kicking him into the distance before engaging you with a flurry of strikes. He's much faster than Valanyah, making his strikes harder to dodge and block while you're on the defensive and he lands several punches and kicks on you before being interrupted by Tom in the distance who claps his hands, sending a vertical shockwave directly towards you that separates you and Verzo on opposite sides of it. The shockwave absolutely decimates the rocky crater beneath you into pieces and Tom uses his telekinesis to form the rocky pieces flying through the air into a tornado of giant swords that are hundreds of feet long each. Looking at Tom, you see a glowing green aura of raw power that's emanating from his body and his eyes are now a bright green instead of his usual blue. Verzo looks at Tom with an entertained glare, taunting him.
" There he is! The Lapdog of Legend that the Valghuli have grown to fear!! Let's see if you're worthy of your reputation! "