David Jackson
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The fingers the alien was pointing at me were nowhere close to touching me, but I still pushed BB down into our Synchro mode instinctively and let my corona shield flare up. I wasn't willing to take any chances with a creature that could put me on the dirt with a single touch. But there was something I kept forgetting about this universe. The human race wasn't meant to have the amount of manna that I was able to display, and they weren't meant to be as adept at using it. "Human, but you are able to use…-
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I walked over to Akash, Yr'Arl and the Lyrin pair. As usual Akash wasn't wearing anything, though the leaves that shrouded his body did seem tighter somehow. Yr'Arl and the Lyrin, however, were wearing suits that were very similar to my own Yr'Arl's hung loose across his body, barely able to contain his fur. It was as if someone had taken a fluffy kitten and shoved it into a costume. Keeping the smirk off my face was difficult, but I didnt want to insult the one who had supposedly put their faith in me…
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The manna powered shower hadn't killed me. In fact it hadn't even tickled. But how was I to know? You say high powered beam of manna and all I think of is laser blasts, death and doom. After the shower I strolled over to my closet and pulled out another outfit, only to be surprised at what was waiting inside. Yesterday my closet had been filled to the brim with plain tracksuits, perfect for jumping around and fighting bad guys with, but now all I could see were black suit jackets, red ties and smart…
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I stretched out and cracked my neck from side to side as my eyes flickered open. I'd been having the strangest dream about magical powers, alien species and a strange AI that lived in my brain. The now familiar voice of BB echoed around my skull. I shot up in an instant, eyes wide open. I still wasn't in my cramped London apartment room. Dirty laundry wasn't all over the floor, there was no smell of damp or mould. I hadn't been woken by the bone-shaking rumblings of a tube hurtling past my window at…
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I dismissed the final pop-up from my heads up display and finally took stock of where I was. A man in a suit sat in front of me, clearly the same elf-like species that Lara had been with glowing green eyes and pointed ears. For a moment I was worried that this was the girl's father and he'd come to kill me right away for allowing his daughter to jump over the edge, but I felt as if BB would have said something if we were in that sort of a situation. He also didn't look particularly grief-stricken, just…
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Twenty years before Jacob Lyre arrives in the universe... When the humans came to visit your only real option was to run and to hide. Their kind was one of the true boogiemen of the galaxy. A race that had less control over manna than they did technology, but levered that weakness into the design of some of the most fearsome technologically advanced weapons the systems protected by the Guard had ever seen. In some ways, the human race was scarier than the Null Space Invaders that threatened the very…
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The last thing I remember of Lara was the smile on her face and the twinkle in her eyes as she went over the edge. After that, everything was a blur. In her final moments of charging her attack, when I had been fending off the creature from the void, she must have ended up making a call for backup after all. I mean, with her death on the horizon I guess she had stopped caring about what her dad thought about her actions. He couldn't take her back and force her into his confinement if she was dead,…
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The bridge that the Null Space invader was crawling its way across was directly above the raging maelstrom of the ocean below. I called up my energy beams and fired a volley of high powered manna in front and behind the invader. The manna sliced through the floor like butter and took the floor out from right underneath the creature. "Well, that was easier than I'd expected," I snorted, oh so proud of myself for taking out the invader so quickly. "Yeah, I wouldn't count on it," Lara shot back. She…
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As we worked our way deeper and deeper into the mega building, the structure of the place started to change dramatically. While before it seemed like we were passing through rundown housing districts, it was now obvious that we were starting to get into the working guts of the structure. Clanging pipes and the distant whistle of the wind had replaced the cheers and hubbub of the aliens who lived and worked in the mega building. It was also clear that the Null Space Invader had started to get impatient.…
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"You want the two of us to go on a hunt through a gigantic city, alone, for a manna eating monster," I retorted, my voice laced with disbelief. "The exact same type of manna eating monster that the Guard has been fighting, and losing against, for hundreds of years now." Lara smirked at me, "The big bad human frightened of getting his hands dirty?" That hurt. It hadn't seemed like she was going to use my human heritage against me in the past, and now she was using it to goad me? "You just got your ass…
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