Love Lost Leap

My forcefield, invisible to everyone present, was scratching at the road.

I took flight, lifting myself up enough that the arms couldn't reach the ground. About eight feet up.

- Flare 2.3

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The time I spent looking was time they spent noticing I existed. Some raised rifles, handguns, and other weapons to point at me. I flew for cover, one of the parked cars by the side of the road, close to the field.


Wretch still out, I put my hands on the car and I pushed. Wheels resisted more than they skidded, the Wretch broke a window and tore at the metal, and I thought the vehicle might roll- too much.


A shift to one side helped- and the back end swung their way. With that movement, the front end moved some too. I'd hoped to ram them, disabling the majority, but instead they scattered.


"-clear!" I heard a voice.


The rocket launcher.


I flew, putting myself in the way of the rocket, Wretch active.


They fired. Pulling the trigger when a target presented itself, instinct more than smarts.


It was loud, but the upper ends of the sound were dampened by the forcefield, making it sound more like a loud noise from a television that couldn't be set to an ear-hurting volume. Heat and fire rolled around the Wretch and surrounded me, and as the Wretch went down, the air exchanged that had been protected along with me mixed in violently with the hot air immediately beyond it. My hair stirred and I was reminded of how much my mouth, nose, and scalp hurt.


The blast had been unexpectedly close to them, I was pretty sure. Most of the people in that group were reeling now.

- Polarize 10.13

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I flew down to Capricorn.  Love Lost leaped up at me, intercepting.  Her initial contact broke through the Wretch.  Her mover power let her connect to me despite the interruption in her course.  I felt her claws scrape my breastplate.

I punched her, and she dropped down and away, landing amid people.

- Shadow 5.12