Messing up Titan Oberon's footing

He dropped to all fours, back hunched over, and I could see the flashes of green-gold light dancing between each individual muscle.

He leaped, as far up as forward.

No, that was definitely Prancer.

It took me a full second to fathom the sheer scale of the leap. A mile and a half might have separated him and Titan Eve, and he was now on a collision course with her.

I flew to intercept. I couldn't even fly up in time to reach him before he started his descent, but I could meet him near the landing point.

I went straight for the part of him that I knew I could get a grip on. That damaged hoof, where the rims of the holes seemed to be structurally reinforced.

Breath hissing through the mask, I flew with all of my strength. Same ideas as in the past, but with cleaner execution. In the air, there was no leverage from the ground to grant that added power when you needed. There was rotational power.

I moved the forcefield, with movements of my hand and with my own control over it. To give it spin, so it hurtled around me. The force of limbs and irregular shapes cutting through the air actually made flying forward harder, slowing me down. Titan Eve was creating a wall of hard gas in anticipation of the impact. I was going to have to deal with that too.

I reached it when he halfway back to the ground, and the spinning forcefield raked the surface of the hoof's underside. I grunted with exertion and sudden panic. Not what I wanted.

I could feel the sheer force and weight of him, in the moment after. I was about to have his full weight come down on top of me.

One of the hands got a grip on the rim of a hole in the hoof's underside. Well, less of a grip, more that the hand found the inside edge, palm flat against it. It bucked a little with the the impact of my hand, bucking a bit more when I flared out with my aura. Then the forcefield found more holds.

I tried to pull the hoof back, and he reacted almost instantaneously, going the other direction, forward.

So I obliged, instead, reversing direction and hauling the hoof forward, putting myself directly beneath the hoof and the ground, pulling it a little further than he intended to go.

It was only through my Syndicate connection to Kenzie that I had any sense of where the ground was. I slipped free in the last moment, canceling out the forcefield so I had the space, re-enabling it so I had something when the hoof crashed and skidded across broken road.

The shockwave rippled out, and I felt it hit the forcefield, hit me. I was thrown through the wall of hard gas, within a short distance of Titan Eve, and into the side of a window, where the wooden infrastructure of the building splintered.

Residual momentum carried me skidding across the floor.

All to mess up his footing a little. He'd landed on one foot, the other slipping. Now he climbed to his feet again, and I could see only a narrow slice of him through the windows on the floor of some business headquarters I was in

He didn't move like a giant, with the added mass, the added air resistance, or any of that. Even without the power boosting the occasional movement or creating a shockwave, he was faster than an ordinary person.

Shrouded in gas, that was creeping into the space I was in, because I'd punched through the wall Eve had created, returning some of it to its ordinary state, I'd punched through the wall of the building.

- Radiation 18.4