Lafferty, Mur by Playing for Keeps

Author:Playing for Keeps [html] [Keeps, Playing for]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-06T22:29:26+00:00

She peered up at him. "You still mad?"

"Uh, no, it's just been a stressful sort of day, that's all. Thanks for the cavalry."

She dropped her eyes. "All of this -all of it -is my fault. I'm trying to fix what I can. But the thing that’s bugging me is, where is Ian? He wasn’t with Clever Jack and Doodad.”

Peter blinked. “I have no idea. We haven’t seen him.”

He put his hand on her shoulder. "Keepsie." They stopped and the others moved on ahead.

She looked up at him, unhappiness scrawled across her face. With every fiber in his being telling him to kiss her, he squeezed her shoulder briefly and said, "We, ah, need to talk about your power. In the middle of all this excitement, I have discovered some new, well, aspects of my talents that I was previously unaware of. And through those talents I found out some things you need to know."

She stared at him blankly. "What are you talking about?"

"We can’t talk in front of The Librarian, but we need to discuss this soon."

She nodded and ran her hand through her hair. "Let's go, we need to figure out what to do about that nuclear chick."

Peter followed her up the corridor toward the glowing light.

"So what's going on?" Keepsie asked as she reached the group clustered around the opening of the hill.

As her friends shielded their eyes, The Librarian spoke in her monotone, cataloguing every person battling outside.

"-of Mornings, who has apparently gained the power of flight along with her other nuclear capabilities. White Lightning, with super strength, flight, and command of lightning. The Crane, with flight and the ability to stretch his limbs."

She continued her monologue as the group stared in horror. Light of Mornings still looked groggy, but hovered with a golden force field surrounding her. The air was filled with the cracklings and booms of White Lightning's attacks, but the heroes looked much the worse for wear, with burns showing up bright on their skin, and Light of Mornings looking groggy but unharmed.

"Oh lord," Peter said. "They're using children."

Terrified-looking teenagers, heroes that Peter had never seen before, children he now knew were born and raised within the Academy, had joined the fight. Children with powers that seemed more likely to fizzle out than actually do damage to a villain. One teen had encased his entire body in ice and had approached the force field, fashioning a drill from ice sticking off the end of his hand. He tried to drill into her force field, but the ice melted before it could even touch it. Another had turned herself into a massive crane with a wrecking ball and was clanging the ball off the force field.

"This is too big for us," Peter said. "I think we should probably get to safety and let them duke it out."

"No, I'm responsible and I'm going to -" Keepsie said, but Peter interrupted her.

"Keepsie. Can you figure out how to fight a bomb? Because that's what she is. A confused nuclear bomb who is on Clever Jack's side.

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