Spores, Dear Brother...

The female figure was Aliya and her fist made contact with Pietro and knocked him back despite his quick use of cosmic energy to defend himself.

Nozel remained calmly seated and watched as Tanya swallowed the dark red liquid in a vial and watched as the liquid sparked a change within her. 

The whites of her eyes turned bloodshot and her green pupils turned darker due to dilation while beastly force began to exude from her being.

"Well, isn't this interesting" Nozel said, "Dystopian upgrade?" 

Tanya said nothing...

The dark red liquid was of course that of Beldar the Dystopian and ever since she got it, she had been experimenting on how she could make use of it, and this last year, she had augmented it to be swallowed and give her the significant boost that Nozel could feel.

"Pitiful," Nozel said and his image shimmered into a mirage right at the same time that his fist connected with Tanya's chest and sent her smacking against the room wall.