Supers - Ex Heroes 3 by Jamie Hawke

Author:Jamie Hawke [Hawke, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Double Down Press
Published: 2018-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

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In the pyramid, the first step we took was to have Twitch set up buttresses in the form of moving walls around and setting up energy fields, along with sensors to tell us when the enemy made it through. Shimmer put illusions on us so that to anyone but ourselves we’d appear like several of the supers we’d fought outside, and Charm worked her powers to give us all a calming but alert status—after a fight like that and then being trapped in this pyramid, we definitely needed the former.

Andromida took three steps into the pyramid and a series of lasers shot out in a crisscross pattern. If not for her metallic powers that twisted her surroundings momentarily, the laser would’ve sliced her in two. As it was, she only lost a slice of hair.

She screamed in frustration, then turned and thrust her hands out. Metal rippled, moved apart momentarily, and then thrust back in.

“Daos! Come fight me, you coward!”

A portion of the nearest wall transformed into a screen, one that seemed to be following him. “Name-calling, my dear Andromida? So unlike you.”

“Fucking show yourself,” she said through clenched teeth.

“I will, if you survive long enough. You see, if the pyramid doesn’t kill you, Ranger will. He’s on his way.”

“And what will he do when he finds out we’re still alive and that you’ve failed?” I taunted, hoping to rile him.

He laughed. “It won’t matter to you, because you’ll be dead. You’ll likely die long before that, but believe me, having been the one to capture you will earn me a place at his side. How ironic that all I had to do was open the door and invite you in.”

A glance around made me feel pretty stupid about the plan. At the moment, it was hard to think this was anything other than him holding all the cards.

“Don’t worry,” he said as if reading my mind. “We want to make it interesting. This place is a masterpiece, a work of art. We’ve been designing it for some time, and consider ourselves very lucky to have someone to test it out on. Enjoy your stay, as brief as it may be.”

“What do you think that means?” Charm asked.

“Who the fuck cares?” Andromida said, reassessing the passageway. “Let’s go get him.”

“Just a moment,” Twitch said, her screens up. I joined her, looking for other traps and ways to get around this one. My screen, however, seemed to think this was a simple hallway, nothing special to it. That or I was reading it wrong. Either way I let it disappear, turning to watch Twitch and hoping she’d found something else.

Gale leaned against the wall, hands to her mouth as she tried to get a hold of herself. Apparently she was freaking out.

“You sure I can’t get you some charm for that?” Charm said. “I can make you feel another emotion that might make you distracted, at least.”

Gale grimaced. “I… I don’t know. Don’t want to be walking around here all horny or pissed off either.

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