Portal shield

There were men coming up from above us, and I grinned as they started firing down at us. From their end, the portal existed; from ours it didn’t. Worse, it was invisible to them.

My men didn’t understand what was happening. Their bullets weren’t hitting us, but ours were hitting them, especially since they were back lit from a floor where they had blacked out all the windows and left the lights on. Some of them tried to push past me, but I stopped them, sometimes forcibly if I had to.

There were corpses up above us, and after a moment, I dismissed the portal, and then send a glamour covered tentacle higher to create another gate, allowing us to move up in steps.

***

Bullets were flying toward us, and the men were retreating into a portal hanging in the middle of the room. I could hear screams from the other side, but it seemed that they preferred their chances on that side.

It helped that they couldn’t see portals; I could only make one at a time, and now that we were in a room instead of a corridor, all they’d have to do was throw a grenade to the side and shrapnel would hit us all.

***

Brains