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It’s oddly silent on board the ship

For a moment, we’re in free fall All of us hold on to seatbacks or safety harnesses We absorb a few hits fro that knocks us off course or does any real dain to hit the ets through, of course That doesn’t stop so for cover Little fireballs pockh that heat that we pass

"Here we go," Lexa says

At the last possible s us out of free fall with a flourish, levels us off and drops us to ground level She lands our ship right on top of a few dozen Mogs, crushing theotten through the force field, they’re focusing their fire on us Nine kicks open the exit ra it

"LET’S GO!" he bellows as the whistle and hiss of blaster fire fills the air

Five leaps towards Six and Adam, scoops one up in each o invisible before they’re outside the confines of the ship Five’s a skilled flier; I have to trust that he’ll carry theet them in the entrance

That leaves me, Nine, Marina and BK to lead the assault

None of us says anything as we stride into the chaos, right towards hundreds of Mogs ready to kill us We don’t need to discuss strategy We’ve done this before

As soon as we’re clear of the raets her ship out of harh Instead, she takes off with a corkscrew, cleaving through the first wave of Mogadorians I’rateful for that

Blaster fire burns the air around us With the chaos created by Lexa’s departure, the explosions overhead and the fact that they’re all cras are just as likely to hit each other as they are to hit us Even so, Nine and Marina don’t waste any tiuns away fro the blasters down on the Mogs’ heads

I unleash s As soon as I’ve done that, Marina jackhae of icicles Their bodies break apart into shards that Nine catches with his telekinesis and sets to spinning around us It’s like we’re surrounded by a adorian body parts All the debris serves to act as cover, deflectingblaster shots

There are a few piken scattered in the crowd of Mogs The big beasts are fired up froh the vatborn to charge us Hideous as alith their orilla, then added fangs, claws and spiky gray skin, I briefly res used to terrifyaround our school alround

The piken closest to ets met with a jet of fire from both of ulfed in fla it back into the crowd, hoping to crush sorates

Bernie Kosar latches on to a second piken My old friend has taken on one of his favorite battle shapes: powerful wings, a lion’s body, an eagle’s head--essentially a griffin With a flap of his wings, he gets over the piken, then sh its spine

Another piken bears down on Marina Nine flashes in between therabs the underside of the beast’s jaw and lifts, snapping its head apart before tossing it aside Nine’s ar into the piken’sfireballs into the Mogs Whenever the blaster fire gets too heavy, I create soround The Mogs are beginning to backpedal towards the cavern entrance

That doesn’t last long Five appears behind the a blaster in one hand and brandishing his blade in the other He lights up a bunch of Mogs frolee, Five repeatedly cannonballs into the crowd, crushing Mogs beneath his heavyflight again to repeat the process

John, a calm voice in my mind, a reprieve from the madness around me It’s Ella Six says the shields are down

I look around We’ve halved the nu to be done I’ve got blaster burns on my arms and chest that I quickly heal Nine and Marina are constantly needing to heal between assaults too Five’s the only one who looks like he’d be happy ht Time to finish this up