Whatever it took.

Canada was moving as soon as she saw the laser volley, fast as thought. Of all the weapons of the Annunaki lasers were her favourite. Weaponized light? Against [i]her[/i]? You can't fight Poseidon in the ocean, friends, and you can't fight Canada with your false suns.

Her shield sweeps like a tennis racquet, catching the volley all along its length. The light touches the mirror and bends, reversing exactly along her angle, concentrated to a single spot. And then she's moved again, as quick as thought, into the new path of the volley of laser beams - the point behind Shamash. She will catch that now-concentrated volley of laser fire on her shield and reflect the entire destructive blast into a single point in the small of the High God's back where the armour was thinnest. Defense and offense and light and speed - this was how the sun went to war.

Her heart was pounding so hard she felt it was going to burst. She had won. She hadn't hesitated. She just needed to hold steady until those lasers hit.

Until those lasers hit...

Time wasn't moving in slow motion. Canada's eyes reluctantly strayed over to the right where the concentrated volley of crackling, deadly laser fire hung suspended in mid-air, not moving - heading right towards her but never reaching her.

And instead the High God had turned about to face her and was smiling and inviting her to dinner.

...

"um," said Canada, giving another hopeful, yearning glance at those frozen lasers, "I... guess?"


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