Chapter 130: Pandora's Box.
After Seven's amazing appearance and departure, the whole of Raymond's group was buzzing with energy, especially the new guys who had never met the leader of the Free Peoples before.
So to see the man that all of them raved about and spoke so highly of and for him to appear and disappear in such a dramatic fashion really got everyone pumped up.
"No wonder you guys all seem to look up to him so much, I mean if the dude can fly then you are quite literally all looking up to him," Paladin Wright said with a grin as they all sat at the conference table.
"That kind of a new thing I assure you, I mean I've heard the others talk about him getting these smoke wings and hovering off the floor like some kind of vengeful angel before he levelled a slave trader outpost, but I've never actually seen him, well you know, fly before," Raymond said.
"How do you think he does it without wings?" Jewel asked curiously with all of her Featherguard companions nodding their approval of the question.
"Oh, I'd say that's kinda simple," Lucas who was currently acting as both an attendee and as Zixxy's personal seat at the table said.
All of them turned to look at him and Raymond gestured for him to continue his thoughts with a wave of his large hand.
"Think about it, you said he's telekinetic correct?" Lucas said and Raymond nodded.
"Yeah so?" he said and suddenly Sasha's face lit up as an idea struck him.
"I believe I see what young Lucas is thinking, he believes that because Seven has the power to lift things with mind, then he also to has the power to lift himself and others with mind, yes?" he said and Lucas pointed at the grizzled Cossak and smiled.
"Exactly! Think about it, you've said on multiple occasions that he can pick up people or objects and throw them around or crush them with ease, then there is really nothing to stop him from turning that power inward and using it to lift his own mass, therefore rendering him effectively weightless, all he has to do is lift and accelerate, to him it would be essentially as simple as one of us thinking 'I would like to go here,'" he said.
"Ok well, that covers in part the how, but what I'd like to know is how he manages to travel at such speed without consequence, we all blatantly heard him break the sound barrier up there, that kind of speed would rip the scales clean off a Claw's ass with zero issues, even in his power armour the air resistance would tear plates off it, so how the hell does he pull off that little trick?" Paladin Wright asked looking around the table.
Lia shrugged before glancing downwards and behind her as if to make sure none of the scales of her own ass was missing, as if a sympathetic fear for such a Claw-related indignity worried her, kinda like a man wincing upon seeing another man getting kicked full force in the balls.
"I believe he is creating a psionic bubble," Zixxy said and all of them turned to look at the little extraterrestrial sat upon Lucas's lap and once again Raymond made his 'please continue' gesture to her.
"Well think about it, we know from experience that Seven can create hands made of nothing but pure psionic energy that while invisible to the naked eye have as much mass and substance as the real thing, he's used them to torment poor Visa more than once in our sight," Zixxy said.
"I doubt she sees it as torment, more as a reason to pounce on him when the chance presents itself, as any healthy Claw woman would if her beloved male were to tease her so," Lia said shooting a loaded and very fang-filled grin at Raymond who simply swallowed hard but grinned back all the same.
"Well err yes quite, but all the same, if we think about it it makes perfect sense, there would be nothing to stop him from dictating the shape or even really the size of the shape he created other than his own power and imagination, so, in essence, all he'd have to do is create a bubble for them to ride in while he lifted them and propelled them along, this bubble would kinda act like a dart, allowing him to cut through the air with ease while deflecting all of the air resistance away from its passengers, so in short higher speed and no risk," Zixxy said.
"Well I wouldn't say no risk, as anybody who can fly would concur with me on this, it is all about concentration, any kind of lapse in it can result in catastrophic damage to yourself or anything you are carrying, say if someone were to shoot at you while you were carrying someone and that shot was a near miss, therefore startling you and causing you to both pause your wing beat while also releasing your talon grip," Jewel said.
Zixxy nodded in agreement with this as did Jewel's fellow Featherguard.
"Agreed which is why I do hope that Seven has thought up some potential countermeasures to such an occurrence, such as making the field bulletproof to protect those within it," she said.
"He can do that?" Paladin Wright asked in surprise and Raymond nodded.
"Aye he can, all of us that have been around him long enough have seen him catch bullets out of the air and throw them back at their shooter with more force than the original gun had, we've seen him deflect them, hell we've even seen him block the end of people's gun barrels causing them to blow up when they've tried to fire them, kinda like if they had a squib round jammed in the barrel, honestly it never ceases to amaze me the uses he figures out for that power of his," he said.
