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095 Springfield's Future
Jack cut across the lot in three long bounds and landed between Morgana and the broken door.He didn't wait for her to reach him. He threw punch after punch into the air, and blast after blast slammed into her chest and drove her back a step, then another.Morgana stopped.Her whole body shook. The growl in her chest rose into a scream of pure rage that rattled the crystal walls of the dome."You dare get in my way, errand boy!"The gray hide on her back split open with a wet tearing sound.Two more arms burst out behind her shoulders. They were longer than the first pair, and black ooze dripped from their claws. They shot over her head and hurtled at Jack from both sides.He smashed the first one away with an air blast. The second one wrapped around his chest.Then the first swung back and seized his legs.The instant they touched him, his strength started to drain away.It poured out of him like water out of a cracked bucket. His skin burned wherever the gray flesh pressed against i
094 Dark Alchemy
"Run, little rabbit! Run!"Morgana's shriek split the night as the second rain of thorns hammered down.Jack threw himself sideways. Black spears punched into the dirt one after another along his trail, and every one of them left a glowing pit of molten rock behind it.He landed in a crouch by the dome's wall, his boot smoking where the heat had caught it.Ashley's apparition was already beside him. The thorns had passed straight through her misty shape.Overhead, Morgana folded her wings and dropped out of the sky. She hit the ground at the far end of the lot with a thud that cracked the earth under her claws, and her black eyes fixed on him. She stood too far off to catch a low voice over the hiss of the molten pits.Jack rose slowly and dusted off his coat."Now I understand why they call her the Black Witch," he said. "She has performed some kind of dark alchemy inside her own body."His gaze ran over the gray hump of her back and the wings twitching behind it."But the bigger que
093 Born Yesterday
Morgana's black robe split down her back with a sound like tearing canvas.Gray flesh bulged through the rip, mottled like a corpse. Her spine cracked and stretched until she hunched taller than the doorway she had just smashed, and her eyes swelled black from lid to lid above the veil.Both her arms shot out across the dome.They grew longer and longer, bones popping as they lengthened, and twisted around each other into one huge spiral of gray flesh and black claws. It drilled through the air toward the platform, straight at Jack and Victor behind him."I will rip you both to pieces!"On the highway, Jack had caught that hand and been shoved down the road. This time he had no intention of catching anything.He planted his feet and threw a single punch.His fist stopped a hand's width short of the claws, and the air in front of it exploded.The blast smashed the spiral back down its own length. The gray arms crumpled like a stamped-on garden hose, and the force kept going, straight i
092 The Replacement
Victor never finished the sentence. A cough tore out of him and doubled him over the cables, and blood dripped from his lips onto the crystal.Jack dropped to one knee beside him. He pulled the handkerchief from his coat pocket and wiped his father's mouth, the way Ashley used to wipe his face when he was small.Then he unscrewed the small water flask at his belt and held it to Victor's lips."Drink, Dad. Slowly.""Tell me where Mom is."Victor swallowed a few mouthfuls. Some of the gray left his face."Let me tell you everything, from the start. You've earned that much."He let his head sag and closed his eyes."When we found Jill, we thought we could just take her home. We watched her from a distance for days, and your mother cried every night.""Then we got hold of the palace medical files and learned what you learned the hard way. The moment she got near the city border, the plasma core in her chest would start burning her alive."Jack's jaw clenched. He still remembered his siste
091 The Power Source
Jack kicked a twisted turret barrel out of his path. His burns still stung, but his strength had flooded back the moment the beams stopped.Vexler had left a junkyard behind the camouflage veil. Turrets lay torn off their mechanical arms, their barrels bent like straws, and cannons lay split open.The madman hadn't left a single gun standing. But the dome stood untouched.It towered over the ruins, smooth and gleaming. Vexler's stray railgun rounds lay flattened at its base.The earpiece crackled and Vandrake spoke up."My Lord. The chopper has picked up the King of Diamonds. He's unconscious, but he keeps mumbling that he can still fight.""Good. Keep him away from the guns until he heals, even if he begs.""Understood."Vandrake hesitated."My Lord, are you certain you don't want backup? Give the word and Springfield will have a full battalion over that dome within an hour.""No. This is personal, Vandrake. These are my parents who are in danger. I should have been the one coming in
090 Done for Today
Blue light blazed across the ruined lot in front of Morgana's dome.The beam held Jack by the chest. Crackling electricity crawled under his skin and clamped his jaw shut. A second beam lanced out of the dark and seared his shoulder. A third struck his thigh."Target struck. Increasing output."The turrets whirred down together and opened fire again. This time the bullets didn't bounce off. They sparked blue against his skin.Every round bit like a taser. Shocks jolted into him from every direction, and his muscles twitched uncontrollably across his arms and back.Jack gritted his teeth and kept walking. He had marched through gunfire his whole life."Target slowing. Full array engaged."Every emitter in the lot fired at once, and a cage of crisscrossing beams closed around him.His boots dragged through the dirt. Each step took more out of him than the last.Jack clenched his fist. In front of Brakus's army, that same fist had shaken the ground and split the asphalt.Now nothing happ
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