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“Hey Garfield, pack it up and push off, if you've got a problem with Earthlings we're going to have a problem.”
The girl with the fists of fury stamped on her landing, and Titus snarled in response. He pointed at her with his good hand, as a beam of energy lanced out from the mothership. The entire space around Sam buzzed and fizzed with energy, his lens in the helmet adjusting as the blast of energy collided with her. Sam instinctively went for her, but it was too late. In a flash of energy she was gone. He roared back at Titus, raising his fists he let loose a blast of energy, Titus dodged it and returned with a volley of his own. Sam pushed off the hull, energy surrounding his body as he twisted and weaved. Guided as if by some invisible hand. Up, down, left, watch for the shot on the twist, loop back over.
Titus roared in frustration. He pulled a small spherical object from his belt and thumbed the activation. Tossing it towards Sam, who attempted to weave out of its way. However, it followed him. Sam ducked and bobbed, and the sphere continued to follow him as he worked his way through the local debris of the ship still attempting to avoid the fire from Titus. Left, right, look back to see where- a blast of energy collided with him and he tumbled out of control, cursing in pain as he felt the energy contort through his limbs. He closed his eyes and covered his face with his arms as the spherical device came closer.
A flash of blue above Sam and Jaime was there, his right arm twisted and contorted into a sword. Allowing the scarab to guide him, the blade tore through space in a flash of sapphire, slicing the device in half and allowing it to drift off harmlessly.
Jaime turned to look at Titus, who had murder in his one remaining eye as he pointed up at them and yelled something obscene and inaudible. All around them, the weird-looking chariot craft from earlier appeared, out of the belly of the worms, out of the maw of the giant ship that seemed to be exchanging fire with the golden girl. Jaime offered Sam his hand, and the two locked hands around the other's wrist.
"Together hermano?"
"Together."
<THIS COURSE OF ACTION IS UNWISE JAIME REYES>
"Oh shut up."
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
In the distance, they could see Titus, jumping from one chariot to another, to debris, to another ship trying to close the distance between them. His mouth agape as the alien vented his rage out into the abyss. Jaime fired his cannons at Titu,s but he dodged at the last second sending the shots wide, what Titus hadn't expected was the blaze of light as Sam collided with him, sending him off course.
<I AM DETECTING A LARGE BUILDUP OF ENERGY IN NEARBY SPACE. A HYPERSPACE WINDOW IS OPENING>
Jaime turned to face, as in a flash of blue-green, the universe tore itself asunder. He looked too Sam, who returned the look and the two of them nodded in unison. Sam raised his arms, and bobbing and weaving amongst the debris being created by the golden-space-goddess (name pending), peppered Titus with shots, not enough to cause him damage but enough to keep him off balance. Titus fired randomly, and aggressively. Unable to get a fix on either of the two teens, when a large blue battering ram slammed into his back. Jaime groaned out of exertion as he felt his legs be joined together, he willed himself on.
<WARNING PRIMARY ENERGY RESERVES REACHING CRITICAL, BREAK OFF AND RECHARGE JAIME REYES>
"No! We can do this!" Jaime shouted through gritted teeth. Titus tried to turn, tried to claw, paw and punch at Jaime as their momentum changed direction, heading straight for the tear in space. Jaimes vision started to go black; he could feel the pull now; the gravitational force of the anomaly had started to pull in everything. Titus started to accelerate beyond him, and smaller ships and debris tumbled out of control towards the window.
<THE PULL IS TOO MUCH JAIME REYES, BREAK OFF NOW OR WE WILL BECOME TRAPPED WITH THE ENEMY>
"No! Wecanfinishthis..." His vision turned black, the thrusters disengaged and he felt himself float and drift aimlessly. His thoughts drifted to his family. Would they ever find out what had happened, or would he just be another runaway, and ungrateful child who abandoned his family, put them through hell and for-
A blaze of white-hot light tore through the darkness, and he felt his arm nearly be yanked out of its socket. Energy flowed through him, and he looked up to see 'Nova' pulling him away from the event horizon. Swear dripped down from Sam's temple as he pushed on. Energy flowed between them, the Blue Beetles arm grasped around his wrist, and Sam looked to see him twist as the Blue Beetles wings swept back, and his thruster activated. The two young heroes' arms remained locked as they pushed back away from the hole in space, as it finished pulling in the remains of the gold-goddess's conquest before collapsing in on itself.
Sam panted from the physical exertion as he turned to Jaime with a cheeky grin on his face.
"Not bad for our first day."
