Power Core Series 3: Plasma

Connie had no idea that four members of the Vinto assault squad had made it inside the building. Neither did Jack, Maddi or Naomi. And worst of all, Tom and Emma also didn’t know of the threat that was now hovering behind their backs.

Emma and Tom had been working had on repairing the rift but for each section of time repaired, another would rip open, releasing something new into the modern day world. “This is stupid,” Emma moaned as another section tore open releasing a caveman.

            “It won’t stay together,” Tom agreed, pointing his left palm at the ancient human and teleporting him back to his own time. “What if we try repairing it from the inside out?”

            “Wouldn’t the radius just increase continuously. As we repair the centre, the outer reaches would open,” Emma warned.

            “I’m trying to think of something other than the only logical thought going through my brain,” Tom replied, the pain in his voice showing.

            “Shoot,” Emma suggested.

            “We need to send something with enough energy to amplify our fixes across the entire rift,” Tom explained. “We either need a Vinto ship or we need to send everything that is out of time up, all at once.”

            “How fast can the amplifiers get here?” Emma asked quickly, unaware of the Vintos sneaking around behind her.

            “Amplify our powers and use the engines of another one to amplify it further within the rift itself,” Tom agreed. “Ours will amplify, Vicky’s engines can go into the rift?”

            “They were the most powerful since they needed to counteract her body, and by extension of the amplifier, her ship being attracted with hell of a lot of force towards the Earth,” Emma nodded, while Tom reached for his watch and called for the three amplifiers to be flown on autopilot to their location.

Suddenly the elite squad of Vintos took their chance to attack and fired two plasma bullets that strike Tom in his shoulders causing him to collapse to the floor in pain. Meanwhile, Emma’s instincts kicked in and she used her power the air to launch the Vintos into the air. Two of four of them flew up at supersonic speeds and disappeared into the rift which suddenly allowed itself to be slightly repaired as the energy of the Vintos amplified Emma’s repair attempts.

The remaining two Vintos were flailing around in the air as Emma forced them to turn as her amplifier arrived overhead.

Without any warning, the rift suddenly tore itself open further causing Emma to drop the Vintos to the floor who quickly located their weapons during Emma’s brief period of weakness. They both approached the girl and was about to execute her via a shot to the head when Naomi appeared in the entrance way, having subdued the triceratops and realised that Connie may have missed some of the Vintos.

Once inside she swept her right hand through the air in front of her, sending one of the Vintos flying while the other stayed put. But only briefly.

Before Naomi could move onto the other Vinto, the reptilian creature suddenly exploded into dust, revealing a glowing red sword coming from Emma’s hand. “Send him up!” Emma called to her mother while she ran to her father’s side, grabbed his wrist and used his watch to send Vicky’s newly arrived amplifier upwards into the rift, causing the pure white craft to disappear in a sea of red.

The sea of red slowly began to recede into the centre as the extra energy allowed Emma to concentrate on singlehandedly repairing the hole in time. However, the energy was only enough to close half of it, so Emma got Naomi to take Tom back to the house while she used the amplifier to increase her power enough to finish the job.

And it was barely enough and required the sacrifice of the Pterodactyl that had grabbed Jack earlier, much to Emma’s own dismay. It took her around ten minutes of concentrating on the giant red blob in the sky for her to completely close it, and during this time, Jack, Maddi and Connie moved on to attacking the Vinto ship responsible for sending the elite squad, and thus finding the location of Emily and Darren.