Tommy speed

Something came flying over the barrier, and this time it was almost at his Dad's feet. Tommy didn't think; he dropped his weapon and he threw himself over the grenade.

The world seemed to slow around him, and then he saw a woman in white appear before him.

He felt a pain in his head, and then a vision of… something that he couldn't remember.

"So it does work," the woman said, looking down at him. "You're a hero now; why don't you save your family?"

The world snapped back into focus, and suddenly he understood what was happening. There were lines connecting everything, lines that showed not only how things were moving, but how they could move, and he could control those lines.

The grenade thumped beneath him, and he prevented the movement of the shrapnel so that his chest was burned as the shards of metal heated up almost instantly, but they contained the blast.

He stood up slowly, ignoring the pain in his chest which was badly burned.

***

White