Make a huge deal out of it publicly.

The following day, after discussing things with Shea and Brighid Carey and coming up with a plan of action, Amy joined her peers at the Denver Capitol. The family literally had only one shot at making it work. Amy spent much of the previous night researching online how to officially emigrate from the United States to the Plutonian Empire, especially by magical teleportation. The most she was able to gather was announce her arrival as a political refugee to the Plutonian embassy located in the country of origin, in this case the USA. There was a one hour grace period to allow new arrivals to send the local Plutonian embassy an email, voicemail, or videomail via any available device, after arrival.

By four in the afternoon, the protest was in full swing. Amy managed to bribe her way into being the one on the megaphone, protesting religious oppression, since the American government had been passing legislation after legislation repeatedly inhibiting and eroding the First Amendment. The most recent loss has been the Freedom of Religion protections. Since then, various states have barred several alternative religions, including Plutonianism in Colorado. The Republican Party has had full control of the US government for over a full decade now, with the last-ever Democratic Majority losing the 2026 Mid-Term Elections.

"What do we want?!" Amy shouted into the megaphone.

"Freedom of Religion!" The crowd shouted.

"When do we want it?!"

"NOW!"

Before Amy could continue, she sensed the police arriving from a flanking position towards the crowd seemingly undetected. Instead of resuming the chant, Amy betrayed the presence of the police. This was her moment. She knew her mother and granna were watching this live as well.

Amy looked in the direction of the riot control cops and yelled into the megaphone, gesturing at them, blowing their cover.

"TANKS! WATCH OUT! TANKS!"

Taken almost by surprise, the riot police immediately fired tear gas and water cannons into the protest crowd. Screaming erupts, as the protestors that werd still unharmed start throwing molotov cocktails at the riot police, knowing full well they have been using blatant, inhumane, and dictatorship atrocity tactics for several years now. Without warning, the captain of the riot police squad shouts into his own megaphone, standing on top of a military battle tank, re-painted into Denver PD colors.

"We are here for Amy O'Rinn only. Surrender yourself NOW, Amy!"

The first sentence was a lie. They were using Amy as an excuse to "humanely" kill as many protestors as possible. Amy had a split-second decision to make. Publicly pledge allegience to the Plutonian Empire, or start magic attacks?

"All!" She screamed into the megaphone climbed onto protestors' heads, making herself light as a feather. Magical antigravity probably helped.

Mellifera attackum!

"Hail!" Amy began throwing swarms of killer hornets at the police, mentally chanting the latinized spell. The limits of her body speed cause slight pauses between verbalized words.

Mellifera attackum!

"The!"

Incrementum aedes attackum!

"Plutonian!" This time, supersized mosquitos manifested in the swarms Amy was throwing at the cops.

Incrementum aedes attackum!

"Empire!" More supersized mosquitoes. Amy took ten whole seconds to complete the whole thing, and was on the other side of the crowd by the time she finished.

Shieldum corpus!

Amy applied a magic shield on herself literally one second before the riot cops started shooting water cannons at her, at the same time half the crowd turned on her for blatantly supporting an American politcal enemy. The other half of the crowd that was still standing seemed to have some odd eureka moment, as the started chanting "Hail Pluto!", as the entire protest erupted into an all out melee, accentuated by two swarms of killer wasps and huge mosquitos attacking the riot police.

Amy took a few moments to stand in awe of the mayhem she just caused. Everything was bouncing off her shield, from rubber bullets, water, and the fists of pissed off protestors. Remembering her magic shield was only temporary, Amy ran as fast as possible, still tightly holding the megaphone, towards the top of the steps of the Denver Capitol. Halfway there, she noticed out of the corner of her right eye movement on the military battle tank, and turned her head to see the captain of the riot police entering and closing the tank. The turret began to follow Amy, as the tank began moving forward, intentionally ignoring and running over any protestors in the way. The police on the ground was already dodging out of the way.

Fuck!

Amy knew she couldn't kill the tank in one shot, and she didn't want to strike anyone else either. Just as she got to the Capitol steps, Amy tripped and fell onto the concrete. Knowing she didn't have time for anything else, she immediately surrounded herself with her yellow portal, as her shield wasn't strong enough to withstand projectile explosives.

The tank fired at Amy, but it was too late. She was gone milliseconds before the round would have penetrated her shield.