Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

dilation fields. Before Sherlyn had even gotten a chance to ask him what he was doing, Jay erected a Tempus Fugit field around her.

      He poured his PSI into it and worked to maximize it. He figured he could break it later as necessary but for now it would feel like only thirty seconds had passed for her but in the outside world a full year would go by. As he teleported back to the others, he did allow himself a brief chuckle. This was truly putting his enemies on ice. He wished he had possessed an ability like this early on.

      Once he was back to the rest of the group he said, “Okay, if there are any questions, you can ask your pod leader after I fill them all in. I will tell you this much. Sherlyn is perfectly unharmed, and I simply put her in a time out, quite literally.

      “Now it is time to move on to a new exercise. You are going to break up into teams and attack me. We have healers on hand, so you don’t have to worry about holding back. Each team will be six people and we are going to do this every other day. The only requirements are that no team can have more than one fused on it and you need to try to work with people you don’t know so you can learn how to combine your powers.

      “If any of your teams actually manages to knock me out or otherwise incapacitate me then there will be a special reward for the team. I will continue the matches with you until you either surrender or are unable to continue fighting. Oh, and divide yourselves up into six person teams.

      Many of the girls looked at him as though they were wondering if he was serious. One of them, Alia, he believed, a pyrokinetic said, “You can’t be serious. I could burn you beyond the point of healing.”

      “Thank you for pointing that out, and I want you to know that I will be holding back, so none of you will be permanently hurt, but you shouldn’t hold back. It is especially important that you trust me and part of that is going to be seeing just what I’m capable of,” Jay replied.

Chapter 13- Three of a Kind

      From there he gave them two hours to team up and build strategies. This was supposed to be his personal refining time, but he decided that there was a better use for it. Because he hadn’t engaged in any extra-curricular activities during the time he spent refining all the girls today, he hadn’t gotten the chance to fuse with the new girl for the day.

      “Oh, one other thing. Scarlett, if you have a minute, I’d like to talk to you,” Jay said.

      She looked up at him and then walked over. He would have to say that she was about 6’4” although who knew how tall she was before she started evolving. Despite her name there was nothing red about her hair, but it was long and a dirty blond color. Her figure was to die for, but then again so were all the other girls here. As he looked at her Jay realized that what he probably liked the most about her was the way her cheeks popped dimples when she grinned at him.

      “Sure thing, something wrong?” she asked when she reached him.

      “Not at all, but I believe you spoke to my wife Ava?” Jay said but his inflection rose to turn it into a question.

      “Oh, yeah, I was wondering if you forgot about it or what. I didn’t want to impose,” she replied.

      “Does that mean you aren’t excited about it?” Jay asked. This was one of his biggest concerns about letting his fuses pick the next girls to be fused. He still wanted to make sure that these girls were content with him for the rest of their lives.

      She looked at him for a second and Jay saw indecision cross her face. Then she said, “I don’t know exactly how to answer that. So, if I ramble just tell me to shut up. First off, there are like only a handful of guys in existence and half of them might well be douchebags.

      “Sure, I could wait for some baby to grow up, but first off, they would never have my experience coming from Earth, so it would always seem weird. Second, from what I have seen the percent of babies coming out as boys isn’t exactly exceedingly high either.

      “Then there is the fact that you are hot as fuck and I’ve talked to a bunch of people and they all swear you are like the hot guy version of Mother Teresa or something but still good in bed. And maybe this disqualifies me with you, but from what I have been told if I fuse with you, I’m gonna get a helluva lot stronger and that seems cool.”

      Jay listened to her and other than being a bit put off by her Bostonian accent he still didn’t know where she stood. “You understand this is a permanent decision. Not because divorce is impossible but because we will become one being at least in part.”

      “That was explained to me,” she answered.

      “I’m sure it was but no one can fully explain it to you. It is just something you have to experience for yourself.”

      “This is the end of the world, or maybe if we win it isn’t. I’m prepared to join up and I want to be part of the team that saves the world,” Scarlett said.

      “And you understand about the exclusivity provision?”

      “Yeah and again, not a ton of choices, so count me in. I am willing to make the oath. They told me that