Switch by Lindsey R. Loucks & Rebecca Hamilton

Author:Lindsey R. Loucks & Rebecca Hamilton [Loucks, Lindsey R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9996256-4-4
Publisher: Evershade Publishing

Chapter 3

Water exploded into me so hard that it must’ve spun me about. I wasn’t disoriented enough to lose my sense of up though. I jumped so my feet would find the train floor instead of the tracks.

And then I was inside the train carrying the switch in my arms like a football. I had it!

The train’s momentum crashed me into the control room door head first. I bounced off and crumbled to the floor while dark spots crowded behind my eyelids.

A crackling sound snapped my eyes open again. The front of the train had morphed from water to an ice block. Blue tendrils of it webbed across the floor, walls, and ceiling, freezing everything.

How do you quickly change the inside of the train to water to get back out? By turning the whole thing into a speeding block of ice. Okay, Benny. Sure.

A cold breath puffed the air, but it didn’t come from me because I hadn’t started breathing again yet. I glanced up. The conductor and the masked witch behind him both gaped at me and then at the ice spreading quickly around them. Blue tendrils reached out from a control panel and climbed across the witch’s gun gripped in his outstretched hand. It cracked open down the length of the middle, and each half clattered to the floor.

I skated my legs underneath me until they found purchase, facing me toward one side of the train.

Right here, Benny! Now!

I lunged. The toe of my boot tapped against a solid ice wall while the rest of me hung in mid-air seconds behind it. Blue tendrils ripped the wall apart. Rippling fluid waves hovered in front of me, and I splashed through, off the train, and into the wall next to the service platform.

While the train zipped past, I hugged the wall with one hand and shifted the black box in front of me. Next to the blinking red light was a silver switch. No other markings. Just a switch that was in the down position. If I flipped it up, I had to believe that would turn it off.

If not, it would trigger the toaster-shaped computers along the platforms to detect the chemical gas and alert Oli and the rest of the squad. But they may not realize that there were two more bombs down here.

The train had carried me farther away from the second train, and after I retrieved the switch from it, I would be even farther away from the third. How much time did I have left? Not enough to stew for too much longer about how to turn this thing off.

I flipped the switch. The red light stopped blinking. I loosed a breath, but that was the entirety of my relief. Two switches left.

I had Benny turn the ground to dirt using earth magic, quickly buried the box, and then had him turn it back to concrete again. The witches wouldn’t be able to find it and turn it back on now.

Benny, you’re amazing. Anyone ever tell you that? No, I suppose not.

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