Arm Cannon Academy 2 by Mark Torr

Author:Mark Torr [Torr, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

A few hours later, I found myself a bit torn between whether Blink Shift was more impressive than my companions’ new outfits. Miriam and Tatiana definitely looked great, but teleportation wasn’t anything to scoff at either.

I grinned as I reached down and lifted a small piece of igneous rock from the tunnel floor and held it in front of my Arm Cannon. Experience was enough to tell me that I could already have blown the piece of rock from here to Smithereens with a single Plasma Shot.

Now, I could also use Blink Shift to teleport it there instead.

I grinned down at the bit of rock and turned it in my hand, eagerly anticipating the chance to use my power again.

Blink Shift, like so many of my new powers, was something that required a bit of finagling to get right. Since it shared space with my Arm Cannon, it behaved a mostly similarly. The only difference was that, instead of squeezing my hand into a fist in order to use it, I flattened my imaginary fingers and then rotated them ninety degrees instead.

The action brought to mind turning a key in a lock. Only my hand was the key, and the lock was both hidden, magical, and capable of literal teleportation.

Talk about a lock!

As I rotated my wrist, my Arm Cannon rotated along with it. Or, most of my Arm Cannon rotated along with it.

The onyx black ring which comprised Blink Shift acted like a gimbal on a professional photography setup. Whichever way my Arm Cannon rotated, the shiny black adjustment knob at the top remained vertically oriented. Pointed directly towards the planet’s center, like my own personal plumb line.

The second difference between Blink Shift and my usual Plasma Shots were their colorations. My Plasma Shots glowed orange, red, or yellow depending on how hot and intense they’d grown. Just like any good lumber tossed into a bonfire, the heat they burned at was reflected in the color they glowed.

It was handy that Blink Shift glowed blue, like normal Thanni instead. This made me less nervous about putting my hand into it. Once I discovered that something in Blink Shift’s circuitry could define and reject bits of my own body, I had no problem even waving my hand through the blue sphere that glowed at the end of my Arm Cannon.

A sharp hiss and crack later, and the igneous rock disappeared from my palm. The blue sphere of teleportation exploded in a shower of whisper quiet sparks and a crackle that I wasn’t sure anyone else could feel. The sound was barely louder than a dying candle guttering for the last time.

I was just about to pick up another rock and test it again when a tinny voice rang out from behind me.

“Stop that, Mike!” Ash said in a tinny voice from within her Repair Bot. “Do you have any idea how difficult it is, extracting your Blink Shifted detritus from the pack? It’ll be four hours of prying, just to get those two lumps of stone out.

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