Worlds Apart by James Riley

Author:James Riley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

CHAPTER 26

Turn into a train and run Fowen over, Bethany thought. Morph into gravity a thousand times worse than normal. Become a poison and inject yourself into him!

She grabbed her head, almost in pain from too many ideas coming at once. “You . . . you brought those possibility ray guns to Jupiter City,” she said quietly, her mind racing. “Do you understand what you’ve done?”

“Yeah, I got you here,” Fowen said, sounding proud. “Like I said, Nobody wanted to leave Jupiter City alone, but I needed you here if we had any chance of fighting him. You’d never have come if I just showed up as myself, you know that. You’d have attacked me, I’d have won, and we’d both be in trouble, because you’re the only one who’s going to be able to stop Nobod—”

She grabbed him by the neck, her muscles growing superstrong as she grew in height, towering over Fowen’s disguised self. “My father was hit by one of those rays,” she said quietly as Fowen’s eyes widened in surprise. “He’s going to disappear unless I can find a way to save him. And you did this . . . just to get my attention?”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know!” Fowen squeaked, turning back into his regular self so that he now hung several feet off the floor. “You have to believe me. I was trying to help! I thought you’d find me before anything bad happened, I swear!”

She roared in anger and tossed him against one of the nearest walls. He slammed into it hard enough to knock the air from his lungs with a whoosh, then slumped to the floor. “This is all your fault!” she screamed, stomping over to him, the tower shaking with every step. “And you thought you’d get my help this way?”

Fowen quickly scrambled to his feet, mumbling a spell under his breath. Lightning exploded from his fingers, but Bethany just let it hit her, shrugging off the pain. “Whoa,” he said, backing away from her with his hands raised in surrender. “Listen to me! I really am trying to help. I did the same thing to your nonfictional version. I left her and Nowen a note in one of the Quanterium books and told them to open it. Right now, they’re probably freeing Charm and all of her people and they’ll be on their way back any minute. I’m on your side, trust me!”

She grabbed him by his shirt and held him over her head. “You’re on no one’s side but your own!” she roared. “Tell me what your real plan is!”

“To stop Nobody, really!” he said, flinching before giving her an odd look. “Um, did you know you’re disappearing?”

She glanced down and saw that her free hand had lost its fingers. She screamed in frustration and tossed Fowen aside, turning herself back to normal as quickly as she could. Thinking about her old self wasn’t comfortable, but the process seemed to go more smoothly this time. Unfortunately, when she regained her original form, it took far longer to get her fingers back.

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