Kael slid. Not on his knees, but through a collapsing firewall, his digital body phasing into a heat-haze. He came up behind them.
The crystal stopped mid-air. For a nanosecond, it pulsed with a silent, terrible light. Then it fractured . flamefrags edit
Kael’s vision flickered. Warning: Synapse burnout imminent. Kael slid
He set it gently at the base of the shield and ran. The crystal stopped mid-air
He was a creature of light and code. His left hand, rendered as a gauntlet of molten obsidian, trailed a line of fire that clung to the data-floor like napalm. His signature move—the —wasn't a simple grenade. It was a shard of compressed star-stuff that, on impact, didn't just explode. It shattered into a constellation of seeking firelets, each one a screaming homing missile.
“Showoff,” Viper laughed over the comm.