Rieden Reece and the Broken Moon by Matt Guzman

Author:Matt Guzman [Guzman, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Thirty minutes later, on the south side of town, they arrived at the old gas station. A tourist attraction with an ancient car and gas pumps from the 1950s. It had crumbled into disrepair along with many other buildings in town. The cloud of shards hovered above the dilapidated building like a fancy chandelier. Ri grinned from ear to ear. “Jackpot!”

Rozul mindlessly twisted the unraveled stuffing from his glove. “How do we access them? They are too high in the sky.”

“There you go again, forgetting you’re the most powerful being in this universe. A million ways. Stretch your arm and declare, ‘Go, go, Gadget Arm,’ for all I care.”

“Go, go…what?”

“Shadow Man!”

Rozul rested his glove on Ri’s shoulder. “You’re the creative one in this partnership. I’m too inconsistent. You demonstrate a rare intellect in many universes. Sometimes I cannot keep up.”

Ri frowned, unsure if Rozul was complimenting him, lecturing him, or passing him the buck. “We need another shard. How do we grab one?”

He squinted his painted peeper and peered up. “Hmm. I could lift you onto the roof of the gas station, and you could reach one from there.”

“Okay, smart. Save your powers. Let’s do this!”

Rozul’s height, around ten feet tall, allowed him to lift Ri high. Ri grabbed the broken metal roof with chipped paint and lifted himself over. He smeared up his clothes with dirt and debris. He slid a few tentative steps across the roof—it seemed sturdy enough. Tiptoeing to the center, he targeted a low-hanging shard. He jumped several times. No luck.

His knee-jerk reflex involved forcing Rozul to help him. Did he rely too much on Rozul’s powers? He could solve this one himself. He scanned the debris strewn along the rooftop and spotted a broken broom handle. He pulled it out from beneath a jumble of dusty broken shingles. He tested the stick’s integrity by jamming it down on the rooftop. The stick would work.

With great care and extended jumping and stretching, he knocked the shard hard. When the stick smacked into it, a spark of electricity exploded. It blasted the stick from his grip, and the moon shard went sailing. The shard fell over the side.

Ri ran to the edge and almost slid off. From below, Rozul jumped in a way that implied he could control gravity. “I caught it! We’re in the business district!”

A glint on the horizon hooked Ri’s concentration. Another patch of moon shards? No such fortune. He recognized that silver vehicle. The universal agent ripped through reality.

Ri shouted, “We gotta leave, now!”

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