Void's Psionics (20 page)

“
Understandable, Lad. I’ll
personally look over the skulls after making sure no pathogens are
dangerous. Renee’s safety is yer only goal. We agree on that much.
Saving me a piece will have to wait. I know the wrath burning in
yer belly all too well.”

“
I’m making my approach. Ten
minutes.”

“
Out of me way, Ye Dogs!”
Jake stood and moved to the elevator followed only by the Hunters.
Option one. Get trampled by a two hundred and thirty centimeter
tall Scotsman or option two, get the hell out of dodge. The crew
wisely moved.

Inside the elevator Satellite chirped “He has
eyes like the Creelin. They smoke. And I got the impression he
wasn’t doing it on purpose.”

“
Same here.” Steven said
with a bit of a grin. “Poor bastards took the wrong
woman.”

“
The lad
let
us sense him.”

“
Captain?” Stone
asked.

“
Me ship’s sensors detected
him near five hours the speed of light away and its sensors
still
couldn’t get a read.
He wasn’t disguising his psionic reach like I must do to keep ye
lads from itching yerselves to death. He let us know he was coming.
Before we entered the elevator me link to the ship showed Oliver
shielding us from his power. He wanted us to… nay, he wanted
me
to understand just how
powerful he had become and know he alone has more power within than
me entire pirate fleet put together. He wanted me to see he can get
me daughter home safe.”

“
Well I can’t wait to see
the Cerberus skeleton. Those Beasts are impossible to fight face to
face. They attack faster than human reactions can… well react. I’ve
only ever seen one undamaged skeleton.” Admitted Stone crossing his
arms.

During the elevator travel Jake tapped his
com. “Medics, prepare to aid Seventy three potential injured bodies
in approximately six hours and take Sparky out of the induced coma.
By the time we arrive the problem will be resolved.” The fifteen
confirmed the order.

Just as the elevator door opened they could
see the Flare slowly entering the guiding lights from the Dorgenox.
Being out in deep space made it a requirement. Too dark otherwise.
The golden glint of the fighter grew and beneath was the filled net
glinting with polished white bones. Jake surrounded himself with an
airtight barrier while the Hunters did the same since the
quarantined planet had dangerous bacteria and viruses that make
humans violently ill. Oliver’s immune system was robust in
comparison.

The Flare slid right in and
carefully lowered the pile of bones of varying size, the Thunder
Lizard’s being the largest of them all. A sharp and controlled
telepathic mind entered theirs and they saw Oliver’s gaze upon
them.
“I’m off.”

“
Best of luck to ye.”
Jake thought back.
“We’ll
be right behind.”

Oliver spun the ship around and left the
dock. Barely had he left the hull that he entered FTL. Jake tapped
his ear. “Abdul, you know what to do.”

“
Aye aye!” as the
hull/docking gate lowered, the men saw bright colors telling them
the Dorgenox was on the way.

White mist seeped out vents to clean
everything. The mist being organic microbes specifically engineered
to seek out dangerous or harmful particles, combine and render them
harmless in little time.

When the mist was finished and cleared the
three men went to the pile and were dumbstruck. Stone removed the
gauntlet to lay his hands on the three pristine Cerberus skulls.
“Amazing. They are still frightening after being turned into
this.”

“
These cuts definitely came
from our brother. The bones are cut cleanly without psionic burns.
I only know of his cutlass able to cut bone so cleanly and not
leave splinters or grooves.” Steven said as he lifted another
vicious looking skull. It took a moment before his eyes bugged.
“Uh, Stone, please tell me I’m mistaken and am not holding a Joint
Ape…”

“
I thought they were an old
Hunter’s myth!” Stone came over to see an apelike skull, but its
bones were more like scale mesh able to move around and fit through
the narrowest of places like an octopus. “But it has to be… How did
Oliver kill it? It’s said they are indestructible.”

“
We need to put them away
before someone gets any funny ideas.” Steven admitted with a
devilish grin.

“
Doubt anyone has balls big
enough to steal from the lad after seeing how different he has
become and the boast of his power. Stone, how about ye go up to the
forest and cut down a dying tree to make mounts to hold these
skulls up for
proper
display. Ye have six hours to kill. Steven, ye help me to
arrange them properly and take measurements Stone needs.” They got
to it.

What would take six hours on the Dorgenox
took the Flare little over two minutes. He dropped out into a
unique system home to a rare triple star system and had just five
planets, only one being habitable and small with a single moon
keeping it oriented. The planet was ideal for all means of people,
having half standard gravity for those being space born. On the
planet surface supported a massive outlaw city, but was in fact a
major fortress ninety kilometers across and very deep. Thousands of
starships were parked around its perimeter with more holding orbit.
Hundreds of millions of enormous orbital defense systems surrounded
the planet so it had no blind spots for infiltration.

Down in the fortress command center one
mercenary took his feet off the deck as an alert came up. He yelled
“Hey Jimbo! I’ve got an unidentified fighter inbound. I’m not
reading any codes of ours.”

“
Hail it.” The other man
grunted.

Oliver smirked, deciding on a simpler course
of action when receiving an incoming video. He answered, but put on
his helmet first. The helmet hid the glowing and smoking eyes.
“Hello boys.”

“
Identify yourself.” One
demanded.

“
It won’t matter. You took
the most irreplaceable person from me in this universe and are
going to pay the ultimate price for it.”

The two men in the control
room looked at each other and burst out laughing. “It’s one
of
those
idiots yet
again… eh Jimbo?”

“
Yeah… this’ll be fun to
watch. Blow him apart.”

A dozen defenses were turned and locked onto
the Flare. When all were trained to the point of a pinhead the man
at the console hit the button and opened fire. Ten defenses held
enough piercing power to cut through the strongest of starship
shields. Two more would just be sure to look really amazing. The
two men grinned to kick back and watch the show.

Oliver though didn’t bother flipping out of
the path as he easily could have. Instead he raised the palm of his
hand to create a sharply pointed pyramid out front. Netting of
energy so tight and condensed it could punch through planets. He
could literally see pathways of power was made perfectly and yet
remained invisible to human and technology eyes. Holding enough
power to not buckle in the slightest.

The barrier was hit at the speed of light by
the twelve precise beams, but the four angles of the pyramid
barrier deflected the incoming assault like child play. “My
turn.”

The two men lost all color in their faces as
they didn’t get any satisfaction of an explosion or so much as a
scream. Oliver’s intimidating helmet never left their screens as
they watched the fighter turn up over itself as his hand aimed
straight up for a better angle when the Flare’s cabin opened to
pure vacuum. His suit allowed him to breathe and without the
cockpit lid in the way, a clear line of sight was made without
obstruction.

Using telepathy, Oliver precisely located the
two most terrified men inside the fortress as well as every single
of the six million and a half minds below. The chip and telepathy
worked in tandem to precisely fix the aim till he made the minute
corrections to perfect his own pinpoint aim. “Bye, Boys.” They
couldn’t hear him without air to be received in the microphone. A
twenty meter wide kinetic stream blew out from Oliver’s palm. It
destroyed a satellite and two ships before shooting down on the
fortress and vaporized everything inside the diameter of the
stream. Driving a hole halfway down to the planet’s cold core. The
two men hadn’t a chance.

It took about fifteen
seconds, fifteen seconds
too
long for the warning to get out the outlaws were
under attack and to go out and defend. Brigand ships brought
weapons to lock onto a single fighter that ripped their defenses
apart without even trying. Great beams of plasma cut through
starship and battleship shields, through reinforced hulls like
butter and returned fire was effortlessly blocked by a surrounding
barrier. Some made short FTL jumps to attack from behind, but
Oliver cut them down too. Crushed under telekinesis.

The fortress’s deflector shields were up and
ion cannons fired into space, but a telekinetic hand plucked out
the heavy artillery likes blades of grass. Ripped right out of
thick concrete roofs and foundations.

During the battle
Oliver
at last
found her. His heart soared and all the pressure that had laid
a suffocating weight on his chest for near eight months had lifted
and the first real breath taken was bliss.

Renee, alone in a deep dark hole felt a mind
of immense power slide right into hers like nothing she felt before
and rather than be afraid the enemy had at last broken into her
mental defenses, she could feel so much love and joy from the mind
she breathed one name. “Olly.”

“
Red, I’m coming for you.
Just hold on.”

She thought back with a
soaring heart, knowing that mind anywhere. She had been inside it
more than any man’s she knew. Second only to Sparky.
“Oh Olly. I knew you would come get me. All the
noise and sirens I hear must be you! Only my man can turn this
place upside down. Be careful. There are others in the same area as
me, but I want you to kill them all. Oliver… they motherfucking
raped me!”

She had sensed him angry before from time to
time, but what she felt this time exploded along the link was
nothing short of unlimited, total fury. She practically heard his
yell and had to disconnect because his anger seared through her
mind so hard and hot it hurt physically and hadn’t a clue what he
would do, nor did she want to watch.

Hearing they raped his
female and seeing the memories by how she
let
them to save the lives of a child
and mother from suffering the same fate had been the last straw. He
no longer played around. Oliver locked down the Flare as he jumped
out screaming into the cold embrace of space. He mentally searched
for every man who had a hand in raping his woman while mercilessly
crushing every ship attacking and trying to flee. More than five
hundred men were found to have gang raped Renee these months and
countless others who were also captured for ransom or slavery from
their own vile recollection. A small piece of his mind retained
just enough sanity to hold his right hand out down to the kidnapped
victims and surrounded them as well as the rapists along with one
other before gathering a sphere twice his own height and throwing
it with a vengeance straight down to the planet.

The eventual cataclysmic
explosion shook the entire planet and left a crater twice that of
what the fortress
had
been. He shook with fury that was not satisfied and connected
with every remaining weapon and person not protected in this entire
star system to mercilessly crush them to death.

Renee’s jaw had dropped when
the blinding flash had dissipated as she found herself in a near
perfect sphere of clear blue energy she could actually see
normally.
Without
making her eyes glow. That was power no human could wield.
Outside the sphere her view was utter destruction. A mushroom cloud
had risen along with millions of tons of debris. A sudden immense
power smacked it away like a tempest’s gust of wind, clearing the
devastated scene. She had been blinded from lack of sunlight for so
long in the darkness, but squinting, she saw a crater below and she
was being gently laid down. Beside, she saw other balls protecting
people who had missing body parts used for proof of life. Some had
hands over their sensitive eyes.

As Renee touched the ground
the barrier disappeared and she looked up as a glint of black and
silver shone high above. She watched Oliver slowly fly down, but
from different directions came captured men in cubes who were
brought together. Too mesmerized to look away, Renee held entirely
still as Oliver touched down completely armored and frightening.
Her womb throbbed and her pussy wet in response to it. But she
noticed his fists shaking and the cape fluttered in the wind. Then
she heard his deep masculine voice and it held no inkling
whatsoever of showing mercy. “You raped my female… and
others
. Now you fuckers
DIE!!!” Oliver showed his face and as he screamed a kinetic stream
blasted from his mouth so wide it vaporized each and every one of
them in an instant, the beam flying through the rock and beyond the
planet.

Only one man and some metal vault was left
standing. Oliver looked at him and suddenly the well dressed
individual eyes rolled up into his skull to collapse, but the
barrier remained still up.