Ying attempted to move her feet, but she can't. She opened her tired eyes only to feel them sting. She breathed another deep air and exhaled.

"Sl- Slow- Mo Power!" Despite feeling dead tired, she's glad that she still has some energy.

Some energy to heal Yaya. Enough calibrated energy to last until the boys will be back. Yes. The boys. Where are they now, anyway?

She felt stinging in her eyes and then she sniffed. With her two palms resting on Yaya's chest, she couldn't help but cry.

"Yaya... Waaah. Yayaaa!" She cried more. Seeing her best friend in a serious state, she can't help but cry like a child.

She looked again Yaya's features. Yaya's tan skin was now replaced with green and soft skin like those of plants. She looked at her wounded index finger. Among all of Yaya's body parts, it was only filled with saliva and blood. She sniffed and noticing that Yaya was in a futile state, she decided to put off her pink hijab.

The long and wavy brown hair Ying used to admire when Yaya shows them off when the two settle together for the night in their room in T. A. P. O. P. S, was now different. It was changed with thin and long fragile roots which clearly made her look like a plant doll.

Yaya was still breathing, but only faint and long ones which made Ying worry. With her tired eyes and draining energy, she repeated comforting words to her unconscious friend, "You'll be fine, Yaya. I'm here. Just hold on."

Comforting words that she uses for the both of them.

When the flowers on the distant field sing choruses of sad lullaby, Ying will be awaken by Yaya's hum with them. Also, Yaya would murmur familiar names which will make Ying hug her and call her back to consciousness.

With the bad shape that she had, Ying's brilliant mind pushed her to use her Time Manipulation Power. You see, if she can slow down and speed time around her, perhaps she could also use this to Yaya? Perhaps she could find a way to slow down the infection on Yaya's blood stream until help arrives. And with a careful and several attempts, she managed to transfer a small yellow spheres inside Yaya which she thought was her power. And although it drains half of her energy, she was wise enough to replenish her energy by drinking the several bottled waters and wrapped snacks in hers and Yaya's bags.

It would not be a problem, but how she spends half of her energy every 3 hours (which we can assume that it's only equivalent to 48 minute in Earth hour), she needs to take more and more replenishment until she ended up on budgeting them.

Seeing how she has only 2 wrapped biscuits baked by Yaya (note that they are the horrible ones), she wanted to cry. And seeing that there's only a half- filled water in her water bottle, she sighed.

She needed to take the risk. Luckily, consuming Yaya's biscuit, although it really is horrible, they are actually better in giving her energy.

But the horror had finally started when Yaya jerked on her place, which was on the ground, instead of humming the tune, she sang in a hoarse but calming voice,

"And this day the light will shy away, leaving the darkness to watch us wither away."

Ying went near to her after she scouted their parameter, "Yaya? Yaya? Is everything okay?"

Yaya seemed to shiver when she looked at her. That was when Ying saw that the loving brown eyes of Yaya were replaced by those haunting small teeth of the small flowers. She sang silently again, "And this day the light will shy away, leaving the darkness to watch us wither away."

Ying back out, "Y-Yaya! No! NO!" She tried to go closer to her, "HEY YAYA! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ONE OF THEM! NEVER!" She shook her.

Yaya's fragile green body seemed to squeak from the shake. "And this day the light will shy away, leaving the darkness to watch us wither away."

Ying scanned her surroundings and Yaya started to stand. She was not used to standing by her fragile legs so she stumbled unto the rocky ground. The worried yellow clad girl helped her to get up, "Yaya, don't overdo yourself, please."

Yaya silently, but forcefully pushed her away that made her back land on the hard ground. "Aiyah!" Ying was surprised to see her head looking up to where the light was.

She heard the sad lullaby again from the distance and Yaya's hum mixed together.

"Oh no. This sounds horrifying." Ying stood up and scanned the distant field. She saw an army of dark clouds travelling slowly from the south but there was no breeze. She squinted her eyes to see that under the shadow of the dark clouds, the once vibrant colors of the flowers had become withered.

She knew that that dark cloud will be a plague soon so she decided to divert her attention to Yaya. She was now on her knees, basking on the rays of light in the west.

Then another weird thing had happen, Yaya's fragile thin hair that resembled more like thin roots crept its way onto the ground. It was like planting her in that place. Realizing this, Ying had to pull back some of the roots and tied them up using the pink hijab.

With her pulling Yaya up, she noticed that she was stuck. She quickly scanned her kneeling position and found out that she is starting to root on the ground. Ying panicked. What should she have to do now that she can't pull her up? She dashed back to their now almost empty backpacks and thankfully found a knife to quickly  dug out the roots below Yaya. She hauled her up and adjusted her hijab in case that it would fall off and put her on her back. With a grunt, she kneeled again and picked her bag and drag herself away further more.

Now that she felt her legs from shaking mainly due to her draining energy, she settled  the neatly folded blue blanket from her bag and made a nest. She carefully settled down Yaya and checked if she was rooting again. Thankfully, the fabric on the blanket stops the rooting temporarily. She decided to eat three- no, six biscuits of Yaya and chugged them down by drinking enough amount of water.

She went closer to Yaya and performed her Time Manipulation on her again. After that, she dropped to the ground, panting for the energy drainage.

She looked at Yaya again. Her eyes were closed now and her now green and soft face was disturbing her. Before it was bright green but now it is starting to be in it's darker shade of green.

Before she could reach out of her face, a sudden distant chuckle made her yelp.

"Nyuruuu~"

She quickly stood up and scanned their parameter. All that she could see were rocks. Some big in sizes and other are glistening with diamonds, now that she had realized. But she couldn't see any foreign or weird object in their parameter.

Ying went near to Yaya and supported her on her back, like she was cradling a baby. She decided to close her tired eyes and rest for a bit.

"Hey, Gopal! Don't slack off! We're having less than 24 hours!" Fang ordered as he looked back and saw the Indian boy gasping for air.

"I *huff* I need to breathe *huff* just for a moment! *huff*" he tried so hard to open his mouth wide and breathed in a large amount of oxygen.

Fang's eyes went straight to Boboiboy, who was looking ahead. He sighed, "Boboiboy!"

Boboiboy split himself into three original triple split- Wind, Lightning, and Earth. "Wind and Lightning, use your speed to look for Ying and Yaya. Light up a signal when you see them." Earth commanded.

Wind nodded enthusiastically but Lightning gave Earth his usual serious look, "Then how about the three of you? Slack off?"

Earth gave him a look, "Hush it, Lightning. Can't you see Gopal is at his limit? He needs to rest for a moment. We know that the girls need help, but we should also help Gopal. That's why I need you to help us."

Lightning turned to look at Gopal and to Fang. He watched them quietly and then called Wind's attention who was chatting with Gopal, "Wind! No time to chat around! Let's go!"

Wind gave him a mocking tired look, "Ugh. Okay! Lead the way!"

Lightning used his power to dash in a blink of an eye, making Wind gasp, "Whoa! He's fast!" He looked at the others and gave them a big smile, "We'll surely find them! Bye!" He gave them a cheerful wave and went next to Lightning.

Seeing them go, Fang sighed and crossed his arms and looked at Gopal who was transforming everything around him food that he likes. He rolled his eyes, "Seriously, Gopal?"

Gopal gave him a look, "What? Can't I just have a break?"

"I should've helped Lightning and Wind rather than watch you eating in front of my handsome face." He complained.

Earth looked at his watch and look ahead to watch any signal given by Wind or Lightning.

Gopal munched his food, "It's not in the plan to watch me eat until I regain my strength but you to find your worth and track down the girls' signal."

This answer gave earned him a grunt from the alien boy. Fang went to Earth but before he could utter a word, a big explosion was heard just a few kilometers away from them. Then, a strong gust of the wind passed by them.

"That must be the signal! Come on!" Earth started to run as Fang went next to him.

Gopal shouted at them, "Hey! Wait for me!" He grabbed some foods around him and ran behind them.