"Thank you all for coming. I know all of you must be exhausted, but the situation has taken a turn for the worst."
"It's my fault...if I'd finished off the Monster I fought before she self-destructed, this might not have happened," Responded Jaden with a grimace, dark circles under his eyes.
"Pointing fingers and assigning blame isn't going to change anything, so there's no point in blaming yourself."
It was a few hours later, and all of the X-Aces had been summoned to the HUC headquarters, in Sanctuary Gamma.
The building wasn't caught up in the destructive trail of the Monster Aria fought, it was still standing and intact, though about a fifth of the area of the Sanctuary had been devastated.
But, well...it could've been a hell of a lot worse. Nearly a third of Sanctuary Zeta was razed to the ground in a fiery explosion, and a bit over a third of Sanctuary Alpha was destroyed by the appearance of the massive Dungeon, a few hundred thousand killed in the process.
