DN - Laser Avoid

Then he shoots me with his friggin’ eye lasers, and why the hell does he have eye lasers, that wasn’t in his file!

Scalding emerald beams rake my chest and arm, my suit instantly going black and crinkled wherever they land. The pain is hot and instant, and I have to bite down on a scream that would have lost me all my air. His eyes glitter with emerald energy again, and I bank left before rolling right. Beams cut the sky where I was, and now the fight has reversed again. Glancing hits are bad enough, but if he manages to put those things on me for more than a moment, I have no doubt they’ll reduce my chest into cinders. Maybe these beams cost him too much to use casually, or maybe he just likes to keep them secret, but I get the feeling that his decision to use them signals he’s decided not to screw around anymore. An instant later I realize the fact that I didn’t know he had these might suggest that everyone else who’s ever seen him use them is dead.

Now there’s a comforting thought.

Flying backwards with my eyes locked on Steel as I weave and bob means I’ve got to split my attention between him and the lattice. Another hunk of debris is coming, but I notice it too late to grab its momentum and tweak it onto a collision course.

Red Steel does not have that problem and stabs lasers at me again and again. There’s no real dodging a laser beam. So the only real way for me to not get toasted here is to beat Red’s reflexes, to be somewhere else at the moment he fires his shot.

It’s a lot of fancy flying, with rolls, loops, twists, and hard turns thrown out one after another. Again and again, twin beams sear through the night to the left or right of me. Twice I get tagged again, and twice more I clench against the pain.

- Sovereign, Chapter 23