(eng) Marion G. Harmon - Wearing the Cape 03 by Young Sentinels

Author:Young Sentinels [Sentinels, Young]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Grendel

Since I could pretty much fall from orbit and walk out of the crater, I’d drilled in free-falling at Hillwood; now I spun so I could see the jet as Ozma jumped after me. Reese jumped last — actually stepping out to close and latch the door behind him before flying after us.

Golden hair whipping around her face, Ozma was laughing, so at least she was having fun. I angled belly down for maximum air resistance and decided our pilot was pretty good; he’d really put us right over the airport and the green wave attacking it. No need to angle our descent — a rock would have hit the top of the tower.

Reese caught me and Ozma in twin updrafts before we free-fell too far, and took us in. I was impressed — he had to be twisting air into tornado speeds to even slow me down. I shifted into armor mode, skin thickening and knotting into plates. I knew Reese — he’d drop me from as high as he thought he could just for kicks as soon as he had me over a spot where I wasn’t going to happen to any capes or bystanders.

And he did, maybe five hundred feet above the tarmac and naturally over the green. I smacked down into a runway, not that it wasn’t already cracked into pieces and buried under green — new trees and what looked like mutant kudzu, kudzu that crawled faster than I could run when I wasn’t configured for speed.

Thanks, Reese. Absorbing my armor to run faster and extruding longer claws, I headed north for the terminal — the only landmark I could see above the trees — ripping up vines that tried to eat my feet with each step.

A fresh-faced blonde kid missing her cape landed beside me. “Glad you could make it, but can I give you a lift? Seriously, we don’t have time to for you to cut your way out!” Standing there ignoring the vines, she had to lean back to see higher than my pecs.

“Sure — hey!” Grabbing my right wrist in both hands — they barely got all the way around — she lifted off hard and threw us straight at the tower.

Past the tower, close enough I could have reached out and given it a swipe as we arced over the main building and down to the screaming, stampeding crowd.

“We can’t help them empty the connected planes and concourses faster,” she explained as we flew. “But we need to clear the bottlenecks outside! Keep anyone from trying to drive out of here! Push any stopped cars out of the road so people can get away to the north!”

She dropped me on top of my first job — an abandoned airport shuttle stuck in a jam of taxies so wide people were crawling over them. Normally I scare people if I happen to them suddenly, but nobody paid me a second glance as I scrambled down off the shuttle. My biggest problem

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