Power Core Series 3: Distraction

Tom and Emma were in immense pain following the rift in time that had formed above Torbay, and were combating the pain while trying to repair the hole; Naomi meanwhile worked on neutralising whatever the lightning tore out of time and into the present day.


On the one-block perimeter that Jack, Connie and Maddi had formed, the three of them were fighting and mostly killing anything that attempted to get to the warehouse, or worse, anything that tried to get out of the warehouse.
            “Jack! How are we supposed to keep everything out?” Maddi asked as they passed each other.
            “We’re not,” Jack admitted. “Naomi has the perimeter of the warehouse covered. If anything gets through then she should be able to handle it.”
            “Let’s hope she can,” Maddi sighed while forming a fireball in her hand and launching it at a Vinto who entered from one of the side alley’s.
            “Go,” Jack ordered, walking forwards as a wave of medieval warriors suddenly appeared down the street in front of him.

“Excuse me,” he asked politely, ready to strike if the situation demands it. “Can I help you?”
            “Why art thou dressed in such strange clothing?” the leader of the group asked, sizing Jack up in the process.
            “Because I’m strange,” Jack shrugged. “I could ask you the same question.”
            “And why is that?”
            “Because it isn’t normal for grown men to go around dressed like that anymore. It hasn’t been for ages,” Jack explained.
            “What? We were just about to go to battle against the usurper Richard III,” one of the soldiers responded. “How is this not normal for people who are going to battle.”
            “Because you’re out of place,” Jack warned cryptically. “Head to the building in the middle of the square and you’ll get to your battle.”
            “What does that building have to do with anything?” the leader asked.
            “There are people in there that can send you back to your rightful place in time,” Jack elaborated as a small Vinto transport ship materialised above him. Without looking he pointed his hand up in the air and shot a beam of light straight up before forcing it to explode in a blinding flash in front of it causing it to crash onto the building it was above, exploding upon contact.
            “What sort of witchcraft was that!” the leader of the soldiers yelled, raising his sword.
            “Not witchcraft,” Jack smiled. “Humanity’s final hope at survival.”
            “Why would we need a ‘final hope at survival’,” the man asked, his sword moving slowly towards Jack’s chest.
            “Because we are invaded by three alien races simultaneously, and they can’t be beaten without playing on their term,” Jack explained quickly. “We were the last resort created because what we had wasn’t enough. We nearly weren’t enough. Now go. The people in the building will send you home.”

Jack quickly formed a sword out of light and dove left into a Vinto who was attempting to sneak past him before stabbing him in the throat. In his free left hand, he formed a knife which he threw across the street and into the head of a second Vinto. At the end of the street which led to the warehouse was an entire battle group of Vintos that had climbed down from the crashed ship.

He looked beyond them to see that Naomi was busy fighting triceratops; because of this, he ran forwards to try and take out the group before they made it Tom and Emma in the warehouse. He almost made it but was suddenly attacked by Pterodactyl who gripped his shoulders in its talons before flying into the air with him.
            “Maddi! Connie!” he screamed into his earpiece. “Vinto battle group heading towards the warehouse. Naomi and I are a bit tied up right now.”
            “So am I,” Maddi groaned as a mammoth almost sat on her, but she rolled out of the way just in time. “Connie?”
            “I see them,” the girl agreed and made a beeline from her surprisingly quiet position to the front of the warehouse where the Vinto battle group were approaching from.

By the time she made it around the warehouse she had barely anytime to drop to the floor and slide when she realised that the Vintos had set up metal poles out of the corner of the building to try and knock her out. As she slid she passed three of the Vintos and set their clothes on fire with a simple click of her fingers before jumping to her feet and launching three fireballs at three of the Vintos that happened to be in front of her.


The remaining Vintos turned on her at this point, which baffled Connie slightly because they had bypassed the other easy targets in Jack and Naomi and seemed to be making a beeline for the warehouse. But she didn’t have time to think it through as she was swarmed by twenty Vintos as well as some very angry pirates that arrived via lightning bolt.

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