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But his arrogance was his undoing since instead of either firing his shotgun or using his sword, he sneered at her. She shifted the second blade to her right hand and flicked it swiftly, catching him deep in his neck.
His eyes went wide. He clutched his throat, blood pouring from his mouth as he fell to the grid floor.
The battle had thinned in Duncan’s direction when his telepathy, aimed at the entire team, hit her mind hard. We’ve got less than two minutes to get to the portal.
When he waved the team forward, she followed on his heels swiftly.
His telepathic voice arrived once more. Endelle, do what you can to hold the rest off.
You got it, came back from the woman who’d ruled Second Earth for millennia.
~
Endelle slipped through another fold just as Duncan and the forward portion of the team disappeared down the grid. She felt enlivened as though electricity vibrated through every cell of her body.
She saw the battle in slow-motion yet at the same time faster than ever. While within nether-space, she could see Luken and Merl grappling hard with several wreckers, each pushed to his limit.
The entire time she’d been fighting in the grid, she’d kept her peripheral vision fixed on Luken, guarding him with every ounce of energy she possessed. She spent at least half her time hidden within the nether-space of a fold so that she could surprise the enemy at just the right time.
So far, Luken had held his own against the Third Earth wreckers, his massive arms bulked with his phenomenal physical power. He was an Atlas among the vampires of Second and now Third Earth.
She re-materialized behind another wrecker, levitated to gain the right angle, and pierced him through the space below the collar bone, deep into his chest cavity. He fell where he stood.
She saw six more wreckers leap from the busted out wall of the darkening grid.
Shit.
The three of them now battled another dozen warriors and they had to get their asses to the portal. The darkening was an unpredictable mass of passages through time and space and the blasts of the wreckers had no doubt tipped the grid all on its own.
Just as she prepared to fold again, she saw her nightmare roll over on her. Luken had three wreckers in front and a fourth behind him. He’d be dead in a heartbeat, if she didn’t get her righteous ass in gear.
Summoning her grayle power, she flew at the bastard behind him with her arms raised and her sword held aloft. She came down on his sword arm and took it off. The wrecker screamed, but Endelle didn’t stop there. She allowed her forward momentum to catch him in the side, knocking him to the floor. In one quick movement she spun and brought her sword down on his neck, decapitating him.
We need to get out of here, she sent to Luken and Owen. Duncan needs us at the portal now.
We know, Luken returned.
She folded once more, coming up behind another wrecker and another. A few more seconds later and Owen brought the last of the wreckers down.
She contacted Duncan who immediately sent. Fold to me now.
Endelle locked onto Duncan’s position, then grabbed both Luken and Owen, folding them to the rest of the team. The portal glowed a gold color, an indication the grid had locked in on Yolanthe’s prison.
Yet for some reason, Duncan hesitated using the code she knew he possessed because of his original his vision.
“What are you waiting for?” Endelle called out.
~
Duncan stared at his wrist scanner, which h
ad synced with Yolanthe’s portal. But he couldn’t act. Something didn’t feel right or the future had changed yet again. He wasn’t sure.
And before he could act, he had to know exactly what he was getting the team into.
Rachel, try to shield us. Something’s wrong.
He shifted toward her and though he could see her grayle smoke as she attempted to access her shielding ability, nothing happened. “You were right; I’m being blocked somehow.”
