In the city of Voropolis, a familiar “tear” appears in the middle of the street.  Out of it walks Alex, once again in his psychic soul sync. Ending the sync to save energy, his purple fur, brown hair, and teal eyes returns to his normal orange fur, darker orange hair, and brown eyes. Likewise, his shoulderless long-sleeved navy blue shirt and blue bellbottoms fade away to his normal attire of a blue button-up shirt, white long-sleeved undershirt with one white ribbon tied to his right arm and one red ribbon tied to his left arm, blue-ish black pants, and simple black loafers. Looking around, he sees that the city is completely deserted, long since abandoned by the competitors, who had managed to leave it with minimal damage. 
Walking around a bit as he searches for something, he thinks to himself, [I don’t see anything… but I know the signal came from around here somewhere. I have to be missing something.]
Taking another step the ground seems to shift beneath him, prompting him to take a closer look. Finding a storm drain, he steps on it again and finds it loose. [Ah,] he thinks to himself, [it was right under my nose the whole time.]
Lifting up the storm drain cover, he slowly climbs down the ladder. Feeling uneasy as he descends into the depths of the city, he can’t help but notice that he does not smell any sewage or waste. Taking this as a sign that he’s on the right track, he picks up the pace, soon making it to the bottom finding what looks like a boiler room. It was rather large with cement all around, with pipes running along the walls and a door at each end; red lights being all that illuminate the room. Looking at each door he thinks to himself, [The aura is so strong in here… No wonder I wasn’t able to sense anything unusual. Heck, even when so close I can’t sense anything because of that freaking aura blocking my ability to sense any other auras.]
Taking a step towards one door he hears something that sounds like chains rattling coming from the opposite door. Pausing for a moment, he suddenly hears them again. Walking up to the door he prepares to knock and ask who is there, but suddenly stops. He realizes that drawing attention to himself in such a small area is probably a bad idea, and instead decides to just grab the metal latch and pull the door open directly.
With a powerful tug he slowly manages to open the large, heavy door. Taking a quick peek inside, he sees someone and quickly pulled his head back behind the large, metal frame. Hoping the red lighting would have helped hide his orange fur, he hears someone call out, “W-who’s there?”
Noticing that the tone is fearful, Alex walks out from behind the door and sees a hippopotamus in a scientist’s attire, his hands in shackles connected to the ground across from an old-fashioned heater and coal. The hippo pleads to him in a relatively quiet tone, “P-please, hurry and get me out of here. Before she gets back…”
Hurrying over, Alex uses his power of water to concentrate the water in the air to fire a small laser from his finger with enough force to cut through the lock on the shackles. “Tell me, who are you? And what are you doing here? And who is ‘she’?”
“I am professor Yamikari. I was running research on same-dimension portals on this island when I was captured by that witch.”
“Yamikari…?” Alex asks as he pauses for a moment after finally breaking the lock. “By any chance, are you-”
“Witch?” a mysterious feminine voice says from the entrance. “Please, you should be grateful I made you my pet. After all, with everything going on at the surface right now you’d likely be dead several times over by now.”
Turning around, Alex sees a black-furred woman at the door. She is wearing a short-sleeved dark purple (nearly pitch-black) shirt with green pants, her eyes a menacing-looking gold and short, silver hair. Her build and features indicate she is some sort of “big cat” species, much like a lion or tiger, but not exactly. She has an odd, small fin-like attribute around her neck that doesn’t cover under her chin. Likewise, lumps on the back of her shirt indicate they run along her back as well, going all the way down to the tip of her tail.
Deciding to try and act on his authority, Alex pulls out his Striker badge and brings it up to his chest. “I am an official of the tournament that is taking place on the surface of the island. What are you doing here when we ordered everyone to leave?”
Chuckling a bit, she seems to completely blow off his established authority. “Please, I know everything that’s been going on. Your little competition has been completely turned upside-down and you’ve been completely left behind. Your authority is utterly meaningless.”
Putting his badge away, Alex responds, “The fact you know what’s going on means nothing. You still shouldn’t be here and I’m still a Striker. Now tell me: who are you?”
Rolling her eyes, she sighs and responds, “Fine, I suppose I can humor you a bit… My name is Sonja. I’ve been living on this island for some time now, but when you and your little group ordered everyone off the island I had to be sure me and my pet stayed hidden.”
“So you were using the island’s aura to hide your own.”
“Seemed to work out pretty well until now. I guess I just need to be sure you don’t tell anyone I’m here.”
“Please. You have no idea what I’m capable of.”
“Oh come now, I told you I’ve been paying attention to everything that’s been going on. I have a pretty good idea of what you’re capable of, and I can tell you now it’s nowhere near enough.”
“And why is that?”
“Silly child, nothing can stand up to the power of chaos. Especially in a place such as this, where the chaos is everywhere.”
“Wait, you control ‘chaos’? How is that even possible?”
“Oh, I don’t control chaos…” Sonja says as she holds up her hand and creates a orb of energy in it. “I AM chaos. Hence why I am a ‘chaos jile’.”
[Chaos… jile?] Alex thinks to himself. Thinking hard, he tries to remember anything that he could. [I think I read up about a cat-like creature called a ‘jile’ once. They draw power from whatever element that they were specified as, but… They’re identified as ‘dream creatures’. They couldn’t exist in this world, could they? And one that draws power from chaos, of all things…]
Extinguishing the energy orb and crossing her arms, she comments, “This island has been quite fun lately with the addition of your little competition, but once it’s over I won’t really have much use for it.”
Surprised by what she is implying, he states “Are you kidding? You say that knowing everything going on with the island?”
“As I said: nobody on this island can compete with the power of chaos. Once this is all over I’ll make everything end with a real bang. It’ll be a fitting end to such a fun competition like this.”
“Well sorry to disappoint you,” Alex says as he takes his chakrams from his side, “but I’m afraid I can’t let you do that.”
Smiling as she keeps her pose, Sonja says, “So you’re feeling that confident? Good. Should make things all the more interesting when I crush you.”
[The embodiment of chaos she says…] Alex thinks to himself. [Regardless of whether or not her claims are true, her powers still appear to be chaos-based. There’s only one soul I can sync with that can handle that kind of power, and it’s the one I was hoping I wouldn’t have to use...] He looks to the side a bit and continues his thoughts, [But it can save professor Yamikari as well. I just have to be sure I don’t drag out the fight...]
Taking a stance, Sonja calls out, “I hope you’re ready, kid. I like my fights to last!” before she dashes towards him.
With only a split-second to react, Alex syncs with Pukachi’s soul as he dodges to the side, his body glowing quickly before it fades to reveal the changes as Sonja’s fist smashes into the wall behind him, creating a crater in the wall. [Wow, that’s quite a bit of physical power…] Alex thinks as he sees the damage she does to the wall. [And I doubt she was putting everything she had into that punch.]
Pulling her fist from the wall, she turns and tries an upper-kick. He ducks and points at the floor beneath Yamikari, where a boundary tear appears beneath him much like the ones Alex use to teleport, dropping him through before it closes up again.
Turning around, Sonja notices this and cries out, “HEY!” Clenching her fists as she growls at him, she says, “I don’t know what you did, but I hope you’re ready to replace him, you little whelp!”
Smirking a bit, Alex creates a psychic blast and throws it at her, only to have Sonja dodge it and seemingly “split” into three other copies of herself, creating four in all. Each one holds out an arm and creates a pink energy sphere to throw at Alex, forcing him to weave across the small room as much as he can. [This isn’t good, I’m at a real disadvantage in close quarters like this,] he thinks to himself.
Pulling his arm back and arcing it in front of him, he fires four psychic blasts at each copy. However, before any can hit their target, three of them turn and redirect themselves towards the copy the remaining blast was aimed for, the sudden shift causing Sonja to be unable to block all four at once. As they detonate upon hitting her, the ‘fake’ copies vanish and the small room fills with smoke.
Unable to sense if she was defeated or not, Alex tries to fan the smoke with his arm a bit to avoid getting close, only to have an arm come out from the cloud and grab his neck, pinning him against the wall. Pulling her fist back she prepares to punch him in the face, but before she can he opens up another boundary tear on the wall behind them, causing them to fall backwards into it, both of them landing on the pavement beside one another in the middle of the city street while the tear closes up behind them.
Taken by complete surprise by this, Sonja is disoriented as Alex gets up and jumps back. As she gets up back on her feet and looks around for a moment to recollect her bearings, Alex thinks, [Good. There’s nothing in the way here, anymore.] 
Just as the two prepare to charge again, the ground begins to make several loud “THUMP!” sounds, like giant footsteps. Looking behind himself, Alex sees the ogre, Gorash, charging at them at full speed. “What… IS that thing!?” he cries out as he fires a psychic blast at the behemoth, the ogre simply knocking it aside with his huge arms. Not quite sure how that’s possible, Alex decides to just run away from it, only to get clotheslined by Sonja as he tries to pass her.
With Alex on the ground, Sonja preps herself and “catches” Gorash in his dash, her feet sliding against the ground as his momentum gradually slows down. He lifts up his club to strike her with, only to have her catch it and punch him in the gut. He gets pushed back a bit, but charges forward and tries to punch her, but she catches his fist in her hand, grabbing at his stomach with the other, and gives out an angry cry as she musters her strength to lift him up and throw him.
Meanwhile, Alex prepares himself. [It’s a tad risky,] he thinks to himself. [But only he should be at risk if I manipulate the boundaries of his po-]
His thoughts are interrupted by a pink energy blast fired by Sonja. Barely dodging, he cries out, “You idiot! I could have dealt with him if you had given me a moment!”
Still trading blows with the ogre, Sonja cries out in response, “Are you kidding? This brute is all muscle and no brains, while you can create portals at will. Between the two of you he’s hardly the biggest threat!”
Angered by this, Alex softly says to himself, “Why do they keep calling it ‘portal’ powers? It’s not anywhere near that simple…”
Suddenly, he notices that Gorash was once again headed straight for him. [Oh no… that attack of hers must have drawn his attention to me!] he thinks as he begins fleeing. [I can’t handle both of these guys at once… I need to get him out of here, somehow.]
Thinking as fast as he can, he stops and turns around as he says, “Hey! Monster dude! What if I told you there was candy in the forest over there?”
Noticing that Gorash’s momentum in movement wasn’t changing, he ducked behind a building hoping the ogre wouldn’t see where he was going, only to see him keep running past and turn into the forest, yelling, “CANDY! CANDY!”
A tad stunned for a moment, Alex can’t help but think to himself, [Wow… I expected that to buy me some time, but I didn’t expect it to actually get rid of him.]
His thoughts cut short by a shot to the corner of the building he’s hiding behind, he jumps back to prepare to fight Sonja again. Extending her arms to her sides, she creates white, shining energy attacks that seem to have four “blades” coming out to make it look like the orbs have an X-shape in them. Not sure if these were just for show or not, Alex puts his palms forward, making each glow a pink-ish purple as he crosses them to create a barrier, which blocks the blasts.
Taking a deep breath, Alex thinks to himself, [I knew this would work. My four-layered barrier technique can even stop attacks capable of killing me.]
However, before he can try to think of something, Sonja walks up, pulls her fist back, and punches the barrier directly. Flinching a bit as it hits the barrier, Alex can feel the force of the attack as it smashes against the shield. Pulling back again, Sonja cries out as she hits it again, this time shattering the barrier. Her fist does not strike him directly, but the force from it still manages to blow him back a ways.
Getting up, he sees her walking towards him and thinks to himself, [This isn’t good. If this battle lasts any longer I’m going to be too tired to keep going. I guess I don’t have much choice anymore…]
Putting his arms on the ground, he focuses a bit to create a boundary tear beneath himself, causing him to vanish. Annoyed, Sonja looks around, failing to notice that another had appeared beneath her until she began falling through.
Appearing on top of the tallest building, Alex lands on the roof next to Yamikari. He turns to the professor and says, “Sorry, I thought this would be a safe spot where we could talk more after this was over, but it looks like we aren’t going to get the chance. Don’t worry though, I’ll give you a way to get out of here.”
Before the professor can respond, Alex points to the floor beneath the professor once more, another boundary tear appearing to send him to a safer location. Looking back at where Sonja had disappeared, he thinks to himself, [I only trapped her in an area of the street that’s made of solid cement. She’ll break through soon, so I’d better hurry.]
Just as Alex predicted, the ground starts to rumble where she was trapped before she smashes up through the ground with a loud yell. Looking around, she notices Alex standing atop the tallest building. Squinting a bit due to the sun hanging overhead, she sees him lift his arms, lower them, and then lift them again, a “shadow” appearing from behind the building. “Just what is that little maggot doing?” she asks herself as the shadow seems to block out the sun, covering that part of the city in darkness.
 [I can’t manipulate the boundary of order and chaos to block her source of power since that could aggravate it instead,] he thinks to himself as he puts down his arms, [my best bet is to simply overpower her. However, even the powers of both light and darkness are not enough to destroy pure chaos by themselves, but perhaps by manipulating the boundaries of the two I can make something that even chaos itself cannot stop.]
Not wanting to see what he’s planning, Sonja fires another attack directly at Alex as he slowly raises his right arm. However, he simply snaps his fingers in response, time seemingly standing still as the powers of light and darkness are pulled into the great black mass right before it fires off an enormous blast of neither light nor darkness, and yet both at the same time. The power from the blast is so great that the entire island shakes violently from it, affecting all areas near and far, and the city is ultimately reduced to rubble.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island the rabbit Magi is sitting on a rock, taking a rest from walking so much. Just then, a boundary tear appears behind him and the professor falls out, landing right on his back. Sighing a bit, Magi thinks to himself, [That kid just won’t give me a break…]
Turning around, Magi prepares to say something before the great earthquake from the blast shakes the area, knocking him off-balance and causing him to almost fall over. Plunging his huge scythe into the ground, he holds onto it to try and stay stable for the full duration of the quake. After it subsides, the two gather their bearings before Magi says, “Need help getting off this island?”
“YES!” Yamikari cries out. “Please, get me off of this living nightmare as soon as possible!”
“Sure thing,” Magi says. “I’ve got a boat I’m gathering survivors on. I’ll show it to you.”
The two begin to leave as Magi suddenly asks, “By the way, what’s your name?”
“I am professor Yamikari,” the professor gives in his most professional-sounding voice. “Before I was captured here I was running research on same-dimension portals.”
“Yamikari…?” Magi asks under his breath.
Talking as they walk over to the ship hidden on one of the shores, Magi eventually leaves the professor to board the ship alone so that he can go and search for more survivors. As he walks away, he thinks to himself, [That poor man… I couldn’t bear to tell him his counterpart from another world came to save him, only to end up a victim of this island’s horrific competition. Just what are those Strikers up to? What are they after that justifies all of this? Be careful, Alex. Don’t go getting yourself killed…]