She grinned through grit teeth, letting her hand fall to her side. It had been a close thing with that stupid dump truck attack he'd dropped on her. If she'd reacted a second too late, she probably would have been buried alive, if not snapped like a toothpick the moment it all fell on her. Even still, Kayla was nursing bruises and cuts now from the sand that had managed to fall on her.
Kayla struggled to her feet. At least she'd get a small moment of rest now, to try and rethink this whole strategy.
Or not.
Rows of spikes shot out from the ground, and Kayla let out a muffled gasp as one pierced into her side. A snake of electricity flickered down her arm and the spike dissolved back into sand the moment she touched it, but the damage was done. Kayla collapsed back onto one knee, one hand held over the gaping wound. Blood welled up between her fingers, and the sand inside the open gash made it sting like fire.
'TIS BUT A SCRATCH.And now this fucker was quoting the Shawshank Redemption.
I'm going to kill this dork.With shaking hands, she reached into her pocket and pulled out an old arcade coin. Kayla flicked it into the air, sparks crackling around her thumb, and watched it spin end over end through the dust. Sparks raced down her hand to collect at her fingertips.
Metal projectiles could be fired at three times the speed of sound using electromagnetism. The principle was the same as a railgun, even if all she had to use was a tin game token smaller than a quarter.
I wanted to avoid this.She flicked the coin as it came back down, and a laser-like beam of light shot out from her finger at Mach 5. The ray of lightning scorched an orange glow into the air like an afterimage. There was an explosion of noise that followed with a slight delay, ripping through the battlefield like thunder.
The shockwave that came after made her lose her sense of balance, and Kayla toppled to the ground, coughing. Red droplets speckled the sand in front of her where she'd fallen.
Ow.
