Page 33 of Only Rogue Actions
I rammed the trident into his back.The Hammer screamed, his arms and legs flailed wildly, and he twisted to the side.I yanked the trident out of his body, then rammed it right back in again.The Hammer screamed a second time and kept flailing around, so I kicked him in the head.His screams cut off, and he slumped down to the floor.
Beside him, the second Hammer cursed and scrambled to her feet.I yanked the blaster off my belt and shot her in the chest.
Pew!Pew!Pew!
The woman shrieked and tumbled to the floor.Her war hammer fell out of her hand and slid to a stop at my feet.
Across the corridor, the remaining two warriors—a woman and a man—also cursed and got to their feet.
Since Kyrion was still in the maze and surrounded by psionic dampeners, the mental white fog was still wisping through my mind.I stretched through the haze and plunged my hands into the sticky cobweb of his presence.I grasped as many trickles of his telekinesis as I could, then used his power to sling the war hammer across the floor.
The woman easily sidestepped the skittering weapon, but the man stopped and lurched awkwardly to the side, coming closer to me.
Pew!Pew!Pew!
I also shot him in the chest with the blaster, and he screamed and dropped to the floor.
The woman growled and charged forward, lashing out with her own hammer.I ducked her first blow but not the second one, and she slammed the flat side of the weapon into my stomach.
“Oof!”The hard, bruising blow punched the air out of my lungs and tossed me back.
I bounced off the wall and staggered forward.The trident slipped through my fingers and tumbled end over end down the corridor.I lifted the blaster in my other hand, but the woman spun her hammer around and knocked the weapon out of my grasp.Then she charged forward, put her shoulder down, and shoved me against the wall.She drew her hammer back, then swung it toward my chest.I reached out and locked my hands around her forearms, stopping her strike.
The woman snarled.I did too, and we seesawed back and forth, with her trying to drive the sharp spike on one side of her hammer into my chest and me desperately trying to hold her off.
“Alive!”Jeffrey yelled.“We need her alive!”
But the Hammer wasn’t interested in keeping me alive.Not after I’d just killed three of her friends.She snarled again, dug her feet into the floor, and leaned forward, once again trying to drive the spike into my chest.
I braced my body against the wall and pushed back, but the Hammer was stronger than me, and it was only a matter of time before she shoved past my defenses.I needed a new plan right now.
As if she had heard my thoughts, the woman snarled and surged forward again ...and this time I let her.
I released her arms and jerked out of the way.The woman yelped, surprised by the sudden lack of resistance, and her own momentum propelled her into the wall.
Bang!
The spike on the hammer punched into the wall right where my heart had been.The woman grunted and tried to yank the weapon free, but she’d put all her strength into the blow, and the hammer was deeply wedged in the concrete.
I scrambled around her, flung my hand out toward the blaster I’d dropped earlier, and reached for Kyrion’s telekinesis.Once again, I could only access trickles of his power.Instead of spinning through the air, the blaster merely skipped along the floor.Frustration pounded through me.
The Hammer finally wrenched her weapon free, spun around, and stormed toward me.She clutched the hilt with both hands and raised the hammer high, ready to bring it down and crack my head open like a walnut.I stretched my fingers out a little farther and grabbed a few more trickles of Kyrion’s power ...
The blaster finally lifted off the ground and floated toward me.I stepped forward and scooped it up.The instant the weapon settled into my hand, I whirled to the side and fired.
Pew!Pew!Pew!
The bright red bolts slammed into the woman’s chest, knocking her back against the wall.Her body slumped to the floor, and the war hammer slipped out of her hands and tumbled away.
I stood there, breathing hard, my finger still curled around the trigger in case any of the four warriors weren’t as dead as I thought—
A small squeak sounded.I whirled in that direction.
Behind the control panel, Jeffrey let out another squeak of shock.I ran toward him, still clutching the blaster.
Jeffrey’s eyes widened.He lunged toward the panel, his fingers flying over the buttons.I kept running.I had to reach him before he activated some self-defense mechanism.
With a collective roar, Asterin and Siya lifted the table they were cuffed to off the ground, churned their legs, and surged forward.
