Free Apex by Adam Moon Page A

slowly. It picked up speed like a miniature helicopter rotor. Then the legs that had stuck into the ground began to gyrate up and down wobbling the cylindrical object so that it spun around, tracing out a cone shape in the air.
    Suddenly, a bright ray of light, like a laser beam, came from the spinning rod. The rod spun around for several seconds and then stopped abruptly. The laser light turned off. The metallic legs stopped pumping up and down and the cylinder stood stock still. The confused faces of the spectators quickly turned to panic as they realized they’d been cut in half. Then their expressions fell as their bodies fell too.
    Building crumbled and crashed to the ground burying a population that never saw this coming.
    The Rocky Mountains rumbled from having just been cleaved through several times. Landslides subsided as the great mountain range settled once more, an inch shorter than just a minute ago.

    Unleashing their Powers
     
    The teenagers weren’t hopped up on sugar but the adrenaline surge more than made up for that inconvenience. Jack teleported a trooper away. If anyone asked him later where he’d sent him, he’d lie. The truth was that he didn’t know where he’d sent the man, and that scared him half to death. What if he’d teleported him into the corona of the sun, or onto Mars, or into the center of the Earth?
    Scott used his force field to cut another soldier in two. It was far more gruesome than any of them had anticipated and the man’s screams only fueled t he fury in his fellow soldiers as he bled to death, his lower body having been deposited thirty feet away from his torso.
    Scott tried to rush forward and help the dying soldier. He was panic stricken. Clearly he hadn’t meant to actually hurt him. But Jack held him back until Scott regained his senses. Rushing into the line of fire would be certain death.
    Melanie disarmed a man with her telekinesis but it wasn’t as easy as it looked in the movies. His trigger finger was yanked off violently as the gun whipped away from him with exaggerated force. Blood gushed an arc in the air before the soldier realized what happened and got behind cover, holding his injured hand to stave off the blood loss.
    Jack got hit in the thigh with a round. The pain was far more intense than he imagined it would be, given the fact that he was super tough. He rubbed it vigorously, trying his best to keep from screaming out in pain.
    Melanie stood in between Jack and the soldiers and redirected every bullet that came their way. One of the bullets hit a soldier right in the eye socket and he fell away from view behind the hedgerow he had taken cover behind. He didn’t reemerge so that could mean only one thing.
    Scott had a guy sealed inside a force field. The guy was shooting wildly, wondering why all of his rounds were pinging off of an invisible barrier just a few feet in front of him. But despite the futility of his hail of bullets, he kept it up, desperate to kill one of the teenagers.
    And then the general came into view. Jack stood erect at the sight of the man. His angular features no doubt inspire d respect in his men, but they inspired hatred in Jack. The general was an uncompromising, unthinking fool with murder on his mind. He had traveled to their home town with armed men, harassed people he knew and loved, just so he could kill Jack and his friends. The general was the worst human being Jack had ever met.
    He consciously decided to teleport him somewhere awful. He would teleport him ten thousand feet up and then watch him fall to his death.
    B ut before he was able to do anything too drastic, one of the general’s men yelled out, “Cease fire. General, you’re going to want to hear this.” He held out his radio for the general to take.
    The general did a doub le-take at his soldier but he relented, saying, “Weapons down, men. This had better be good.”
    Jack concentrated on the general now. This was the perfect opportunity to be rid of