Future Winnings

“Lookin’ good there Mom.”Jinx squinted and blinked through blood-stained eyes, trying to figure out who the robotic voice belonged to. She was still in the pipes, probably. Self-sacrificing through explosives and a literal thousand pound beast landing on top of you tended to scramble a brain that already was a psychiatrists nightmare.The figure reached down, their hands reaching toward Jinx’s eyes. She attempted to swat away the hand, but her arms didn’t move. They felt like they had been turned to powder, heh.Her red-tinted world became clear as the blood was wiped away, and the figure became shaped and defined.A girl a few years younger than her stared back, blue-hair frazzled and a grin to match. A familiar helmet adorned her waist, and her fashion sense had a strange mix of Zaunite and Piltie garbs. Yet it was the hourglass neckless around her neck that made everything click, this girl looked exactly like-“Isha?”——Or, Jinx just broke the cycle and is saved by Isha from a decade in the future. How are either of them alive? Why come back to this point in time? Isha won’t say, but Jinx doesn’t really care because she has her reason to live back. Well, Ekko’s around too.