wants energy, let's give it fucking energy. How many guns do you have?'
Hayes glanced at the holsters, 'IV' marked on their chrome clips. “Four a piece.”
'Everything you've got. All at once.'
“If that's what the lady wants...” Hayes let a smile crawl up his cheek as he activated both holsters and pulled a gun from each. As he did so, he activated the functions in his lens to control the antigrav grips of the rest of the weapons held in the holsters' pocket dimensions. Raising the weapons in his grasp, six further guns pulled themselves out of the shimmer of the pocket dimension. Hayes targeted the hole in reality with his lens.
“Centre mass?” he asked Kali, waiting for confirmation of the target.
'Edges. We want to seal this thing up while we feed it.'
“You're the boss.” he said. Realigning the targets for each of the eight weapons at his disposal, and firing.
Fifteen raucous explosions rang out from each of the guns over the course of six seconds, a deafening blast surrounding Hayes, sending tinnitus through his head. The street sounds replaced by a silent, soft whine as he watched the rounds fly off towards the tear, slowing with every moment they neared. He took control of the antigrav grips, sending them back into the holster, followed by the two weapons in his hands. There was nothing more he could do but wait.
He watched the scans, field of vision littered with analysis, graphs and frequencies, monitoring every iota of data coming from the rippling bubble of spacetime ahead of him.
“Come on... work, you fucker.”
Something crashed at his feet, another something smashing on his head. Hayes wiped the blood out of his eyes and sent the nanos to repair the damage as he looked up. The two buildings at either side of the alley were careening towards one another, their rooftops meeting as the singularity was pulling them inwards. Chimneys and roof tiles cascaded street-wards. He took a step back to avoid any further injury.
Zooming in his lens, he watched as the rounds continued their path towards the rift at a snail's pace.
“Come on, blow the fuck up already...” he said.
'Give it a second...' Kali said, watching from what was left of Darvish's feed. His rib cage was ahead of him, internal organs pirouetting around the bones, all being pulled apart as they careened towards oblivion. She could see the explosive rounds coming in to Darvish's field of view.
“We have impact!” said Hayes, watching the early glimmers of an explosion, as the first round met with the edge of the tear, then a second, a third. The initial explosions were just sucked into the hole, but as the remainders of the hundred and twenty rounds launched themselves at the fissure, it was slower to react, slower to absorb the energy.
'I think it's working...' Kali said.
“Think, or know?” Hayes asked, as he watched the explosions retain more force with each that burst out.
Kali continued to monitor Darvish's feed as the rift began to close in on itself, fractures at the edges closing, time steadily getting faster and faster, coming closer and closer to normal speed. Darvish was finally free of its gravitational pull, the remnants of his body hung in the air for a few moments, before falling to the ground. Hayes stepped towards the rippling surface of the anomaly as it began to recede, pulling back in on itself to the centre of the alley.
“I think we did it!” he said, staying a few feet back from the surface of the bubble, stepping closer and closer to the rift as the last of the explosions rang out, the sound almost travelling at normal speed.
'Oh no...' Kali said.
“ 'Oh no' ?” he said “Don't give me fucking 'oh no '!” he stopped following the bubble, filling his field of view with every possible scan, watching in horror at the undefined energy build up he was monitoring. He started stepping back out of the alleyway. It was gaining more and more power with every passing second. He turned to run, tried to
Hayes glanced at the holsters, 'IV' marked on their chrome clips. “Four a piece.”
'Everything you've got. All at once.'
“If that's what the lady wants...” Hayes let a smile crawl up his cheek as he activated both holsters and pulled a gun from each. As he did so, he activated the functions in his lens to control the antigrav grips of the rest of the weapons held in the holsters' pocket dimensions. Raising the weapons in his grasp, six further guns pulled themselves out of the shimmer of the pocket dimension. Hayes targeted the hole in reality with his lens.
“Centre mass?” he asked Kali, waiting for confirmation of the target.
'Edges. We want to seal this thing up while we feed it.'
“You're the boss.” he said. Realigning the targets for each of the eight weapons at his disposal, and firing.
Fifteen raucous explosions rang out from each of the guns over the course of six seconds, a deafening blast surrounding Hayes, sending tinnitus through his head. The street sounds replaced by a silent, soft whine as he watched the rounds fly off towards the tear, slowing with every moment they neared. He took control of the antigrav grips, sending them back into the holster, followed by the two weapons in his hands. There was nothing more he could do but wait.
He watched the scans, field of vision littered with analysis, graphs and frequencies, monitoring every iota of data coming from the rippling bubble of spacetime ahead of him.
“Come on... work, you fucker.”
Something crashed at his feet, another something smashing on his head. Hayes wiped the blood out of his eyes and sent the nanos to repair the damage as he looked up. The two buildings at either side of the alley were careening towards one another, their rooftops meeting as the singularity was pulling them inwards. Chimneys and roof tiles cascaded street-wards. He took a step back to avoid any further injury.
Zooming in his lens, he watched as the rounds continued their path towards the rift at a snail's pace.
“Come on, blow the fuck up already...” he said.
'Give it a second...' Kali said, watching from what was left of Darvish's feed. His rib cage was ahead of him, internal organs pirouetting around the bones, all being pulled apart as they careened towards oblivion. She could see the explosive rounds coming in to Darvish's field of view.
“We have impact!” said Hayes, watching the early glimmers of an explosion, as the first round met with the edge of the tear, then a second, a third. The initial explosions were just sucked into the hole, but as the remainders of the hundred and twenty rounds launched themselves at the fissure, it was slower to react, slower to absorb the energy.
'I think it's working...' Kali said.
“Think, or know?” Hayes asked, as he watched the explosions retain more force with each that burst out.
Kali continued to monitor Darvish's feed as the rift began to close in on itself, fractures at the edges closing, time steadily getting faster and faster, coming closer and closer to normal speed. Darvish was finally free of its gravitational pull, the remnants of his body hung in the air for a few moments, before falling to the ground. Hayes stepped towards the rippling surface of the anomaly as it began to recede, pulling back in on itself to the centre of the alley.
“I think we did it!” he said, staying a few feet back from the surface of the bubble, stepping closer and closer to the rift as the last of the explosions rang out, the sound almost travelling at normal speed.
'Oh no...' Kali said.
“ 'Oh no' ?” he said “Don't give me fucking 'oh no '!” he stopped following the bubble, filling his field of view with every possible scan, watching in horror at the undefined energy build up he was monitoring. He started stepping back out of the alleyway. It was gaining more and more power with every passing second. He turned to run, tried to
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