"Travis S. Taylor - The Quantum Connection" - читать интересную книгу автора (Taylor Travis S)

Warp Speed




CHAPTER 1
I just barely ducked the knife that was thrown at me by her, my nemesis, JackieZZ. I responded by
slipping left, crouching, and leaping at her with all my strength focused on taking out her helmet laser. I
was nowhere near quick enough, because she burned off my left hand with a full second to spare.
Although it vibrated and I could feel the light shock, I tried not to let it stop me from pressing the attack.
With the momentum in the fight that I had gained by the lunge, there was a chance, a good one I hoped,
that I could take her now. I managed to wrap my hands, erh, hand and stump, around her backpack
power supply and then I ripped it right off of her armor. Sparks flew everywhere and there was a
cool-looking array of secondary explosions as I rolled off her back to the side.
JackieZZ was too damned good. For a woman with such big breasts on such a small frame, damn,
and the powerful spritelike movement she had, she made it difficult to focus and I barely managed to roll
out of the way of her counterstrike. I did a back flip just in time to miss a venom-spiked boot crushing
through my face.
"Damnit, quit watchin' the scenery and fight!" I had to remind myself. I had been playing these
gladiatorial games for years now and was undefeated; I couldn't lose now! There was no way I could
lose!
I tried to deepen my concentration and my hand moved as fast as I could make it. JackieZZ and me,
StevieM09, had been at it for hours now, maybe longer, and we both were wearing down. My back was
killing me, my fingers hurt, and my right wrist ached all the way up to my shoulder. Then she made her
mistake; she stepped backward while throwing an x-block with her forearm quantum shields. I figured I
could get her the same way I defeated MarsKen44 last weekend. The quantum shields drain the power
level below my secret attack's power level, so I went for it. As fast as my fingers could move, I lunged
forward, then rolled to my left, then launched myself with my hydraulic jumper boots to more than eighty
feet above JackieZZ, then I turned down headfirst, hit my downward thrusters, and then came the secret
code. Left circle, right triangle, forward, forward, right right1, left circle, right x, right x, left x, left left1,
and then both left and right circles on both controllers. I turned myself into a pure energy being and was
propelled at JackieZZ faster than any reflexes or secret codes I had ever heard of, but something
different happened this time.
JackieZZ wasn't just throwing a quantum x-block, but instead was completing a secret code of her
own. The quantum force field amazingly shaped itself into a quantum singularity or mini black hole. There
she was in an awesome gung-fu-style fighting stance with her hands cupped upward holding a mini black
hole over her head. The tidal forces were so great that the hair protruding from beneath her helmet as
well as her mammoth CGI boobs pointed upward and toward the event horizon. Material from all around
The Realm was being sucked into the singularityтАФexcept for JackieZZ who stood there basically
unaffected.
Baffled, I tried everything I knew to steer my new energy form away from the black hole, but it was
far too late! I was sucked into the timeless abyss from which there was no known escape, forever. I
became a pencil-thin beam, and then a single, ray-thin beam of light and finally my visor blinked to totally
black. I flipped up the visor and looked at the big screen just in time to see her standing there,
triumphantly, and maniacally, laughing. The black hole had dissipated and the big screen now displayed in
gigantic font JACKIEZZ WINS!!!
"Shit!" I cursed my controllers, my puppy, and I kicked my forty-ounce beer bottle over. I stood up
and stretched for the few seconds I would have while the game logged off to the Waiting Room. I slipped
my visor and headphones off, rolled my neck left and then right, and then I realized, "Shew, puppy, either
you or I stink and one of us needs a bath!" It was probably both of us since I had been sweating