Taking a deep breath, I felt for that place between the two worlds and prayed the breeders couldn’t block me like last time. If I had limits to my mental strength, then maybe they would too.
Hopefully.
I knew Dawn was in pain; she was quivering while trying to hold steady so I could do my thing. I stayed on her back though, in case I needed to be airborne again.
Come on, baby. I need this to work.
Rather than try to go in slowly and do shit inch by inch like Ronnie would like, I just decided to go big or go home. It would take big power to push past the breeders’ block, which was still there, like a steel trap they had used to shut down my ability to open between worlds. Taking in a deep breath, I held on to Dawn with my thighs and put my hands out before me.
One.
Two.
With a battle cry, I thrust all of my mental power into tearing that steel trap open, and a giant hole ripped open before us.
“Good lord!” Maxine exclaimed at the hundred-foot-diameter circle opened up right at the edge of the lake in Oregon. It wasn’t the hole that had me transfixed, it was the freaking thousands of soldiers who were now marching towards us, guns drawn.
Damien had called in the cavalry.
Dawn needed no urging. Together, she and Clyde burst forward, hovering a few inches off the ground. The second we entered Earth, Jeremy popped out behind a tree, scaring the shit out of me.
“Keep it open!” he shouted to me, indicating the portal.
It was causing a major throb at the base of my skull; I’d just been about to close it. But I forced it to remain open, the biggest one I’d ever created. Damien slid in next to Jeremy and I noticed they both were carrying cylinders, like some type of black tubing with a spike at the bottom.
They walked to the edge of the portal I had opened; Jeremy went to the far left while Damien went to the outermost right, almost into the water.
“Now!” Jeremy shouted, and they both shoved the spikes into the ground.
A small shockwave burst out, throwing them both backward a little.
“Jeremy!” I leapt off of Dawn and ran for my boyfriend’s brother.
He was grinning ear to ear, lying flat on his back and looking up at the portal.
When I spun, I realized I’d lost my concentration on the portal… but it was still open.
I looked at him incredulously. “You did that?”
Jeremy stood, brushing off his pants. “Easy once I realized it was a quantum field. The two quantum flux stabilizers should keep it open for now.”
He’d just spoken Latin but I didn’t care. Jeremy had found a way to keep the portal open!
The military was moving into position to guard the newly-opened gateway and I wanted to get Jeremy away from the opening in case the breeders came down with their giants and firepower.
“Come on, buddy, let’s find your brother.” I hauled him away from the opening by the armpit, ignoring the dull headache throbbing at the base of my skull.
“Kit! Jer!” Damien cried out as I wove Jeremy through the advancing army.
“No touching,” Jeremy reminded me and pulled away from my hand.
“Sorry.”
When we finally broke through the crowd, Damien was just getting to us.
He crashed into me, wrapping his arms around me so tightly I thought I might be crushed.
“K, bye. I need to look at the data readings,” Jeremy mumbled and ran off. Damien held me, his chest rising and falling as my own emotions clashed within me.
