As the vine crossed the halfway point.
Then—only then—Don moved.
Not far.
Just enough.
He shifted his weight sideways, boots sliding across rubble as the vine screamed past where his chest had been a moment earlier. The ground shook as it struck—KRRRAAAASH~—the impact drowning the crater in a choking cloud of dust and shattered debris.
The shockwave rippled outward, flinging loose stone and bodies alike.
And Don jumped.
He vanished into the cloud.
Above, Pyro and Starboy both reacted at the sound.
Pyro twisted mid-burn, flames sputtering as his eyes dropped to the crater. "Don—?!"
There was nothing there.
No movement. No silhouette. Just rolling dust and collapsing debris.
Pyro hesitated.
"Don't you dare stop!" Starboy snapped, voice hoarse as he drove a beam straight through an incoming vine—BOOOM~—and followed it with a brutal punch that sent another recoiling. "Keep going! Don't lose focus now!"
