A single, mighty punch with Marie ‘the Pulverizer’ Mjolnir turned the massive chunk into dust and left me suddenly to defend from an aerial attack from Stein. I crossed my swords and felt impact as he struck the center. My feet dug against the dirt as I was pushed back. Stein’s grin widened. I reinforced my hoodie and work apron – Impact happened.

When I say that impact happened, I say that Marie’s strike launched me faster than I’d ever been launched by anything else and crashed my body through a tree… and another tree… and one more… and then I tumbled over a rather big rock, which really hurt… then I went through one more tree… and finally I just rolled a good dozen or so feet on ground, coming to a stop at another rock.