And Another One Bites The Dust by Adam Bowie | World Anvil

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Mon 1st Jan 2024 07:15

And Another One Bites The Dust

by Adam Bowie aka Switch Blade

So, who knew that there was such a thing as ‘negative’ energy. Well, that’s what my handlers called it. Something about the energy of The Hollow or something. I really don’t need to know a lot about it though as I’m not a ‘tech’ guy. Ok, so maybe my suit is high tech, but I don’t really know much about that either. All they told me was to collect the energy fragments in the box that they were going to give me.
 
I arrive where I’m told to go. I can see the energy fragments, well, kinda see them. This park has a lot of trees, and it makes it hard to see. I take off after the first one that I see. It’s fairly far away, but I’m not moving as fast as I can. Hindsight, I should have moved faster, but not knowing what the situation really was, I thought it was smarter to be more careful.
 
About the time I get close to the first one I’m after, I hear that RBC’s bike in the park. That thing is loud.
 
Getting close to the first one, movement takes a lot more energy than I’m used to. It would have been easier if I didn’t have to bulk up to carry this stupid crate to hold these things in.
 
I open the crate and capture the fragments. Moving became much easier after that. Hum… So, the fragments seem to affect gravity in a way similar to what I can do, but not close enough that it doesn’t affect me like my ability.
 
I see my second target and turn towards it. RBC and Claws are on the bike and start making their way towards me. I can’t take the chance and move all out like I should. I get as close as I can while they are approaching me. I am able to capture the second fragment before they arrive.
 
I'm about to get the third fragment when RBC gets froggy and tries to kick me. Ok, well she does, but the body armor blocks most of what she does. There is a bit of a shock to my system but not too bad. While she’s doing that, Claws steals another fragment from me just before I can get to it.
 
So, they want to fight, fine, I’ll give them a fight. I rare back and swing the crate that I’m holding into the two of them. It breaks apart as I send them flying. I have no idea how Claws kept ahold of her crate, but she did.
 
I hop on over to her and kick the snot out of her, knocking her away from the crate. I reach down and pick it up and start to fly away.
 
What is it with RBC, doesn’t she just know when to quit? She jumps up and latches onto the crate.
 
An IERA fighter jet decides to get in on the act also. They tell us to cease and desist. I’m not letting go of this crate and RBC isn’t letting go.
 
I suggested to her that she grab onto the crate and to me so that I can fly us away. I can tell that I’m running on fumes. No, she has to try to claim the crate just for her. I stole it fair and square. Ok. If she wants the crate, she can have the pieces of it so I slam it into the ground as hard as I can.
 
I mis-calculate how tired I am. The crate hits the ground, and then so do I, just as the IERA jet lets loose with some sort of energy blast. The world goes black around me…