Descend- Seeing Stars, Sean Oswald [best e books to read .txt] 📗

of bio-radiation ability to affect their organic parts, supercharged electricity for its ability to fry at least temporarily some of their cybernetic parts, and super condensed flame for its ability to just plan burn everything up.

      Still because he couldn’t stay still long enough to bring his true power to bear on any one ship, he was stuck flying at astounding speeds and weaving in and out of the fleet. His count showed him that there were over five hundred and fifty thousand ships left. They had done a good job of whittling it down, but it was still too large.

      Jay had to hope that this next trick would be worth all the effort that Trudi and Ava had put into making it. He flicked his hand across the subspace crystal that Ava had given him. It opened up to a pocket dimension that was stuffed with a hundred tons of nanium.

      He focused his will on the individual bits of the metal that responded to PSI so well. The material exploded out of the dimensional pocket with incredible force and formed ten then twenty and eventual fifty massive tentacles. Jay then wove between the ships again using the tentacles to puncture holes in the engines or command decks, or weapons depos on the various ships he flew by.

      Instead of focusing on the battleships like he had before, he now focused on the smaller cruisers and even smaller shuttle type ships. The tentacles were each ten fent in diameter so the precision strikes that they launched were almost always fatal to the ship and crew that they hit.

      He was pushing himself beyond anything he had expected to be possible. Desperation forced him to stop thinking about what he couldn’t do and just act. So, each second, he flew through he was destroying forty to fifty ships.

      Jay was a small target but made much larger by the tentacles. He started taking more fire and his focus was stretched thin, so his shields weren’t always perfect. One by one the nanium tentacles took too much damage to continue. By the end of half an hour he had destroyed over eighty thousand of the smaller ships but that still left four hundred and seventy thousand enemy ships of which almost a fifth were battleships.

      In frustration he teleported back to the leviathan. He expected to be balled out for staying behind so long but more than one wife smothered him with a quick kiss only to be pulled away by the next one in line. They all told him they had been watching and that it was amazing what he had done.

      He didn’t want to let them down. He needed to protect them. “Ava, will the leviathan be able to stand up to this many ships for long?”

      She looked at him glumly as she said, “Master, I’m sorry but no. If we go all out on shields, maybe five minutes. If we go all out on weapons, we can maybe last a minute and take out another few thousand of them depending on how closely they are clustered together.”

      “Can we evacuate everyone to the ship we came in?” He asked, kicking himself for not thinking of that sooner.

      “Yes, but not in time. Not before they are here. The best we can hope for is to get about a third of the Tamoori on board,” Huong answered.

      “Lord husband, we cannot leave that many innocents to die. I will lead the starfighters out to buy time for my people to evacuate,” Eesa said.

      “I agree, and besides, I am tired of running. From what I have seen the Forlorn will just grow in number and come after us again. I would rather go all in now,” Jay said.

      A seed of an idea started to blossom in him, and Amelia said, “I know that look. You’ve just thought of another bone headed idea haven’t you.”

      Jay answered her by saying, “You know you love me.”

      Then he telepathically shouted out, “I need all fuses here now.”

      Most had already been there but a few more popped in. He sent instructions for the rest of Team Jay to help the Tamoori get evacuated to the ship in the event this didn’t work.

      Once they were all there, Jay started forming a circuit beginning with Amelia and working his way down the line till he hit Aurora. He only got about a third of the way through before his head felt like it was going to explode. The girls in the circuit were all on the ground whimpering as the amount of PSI flowing through them was slowly cooking them from the inside.

      Jay telepathically said, “Protect them, to the fuses outside of the circuit.” With trillions of PSI in him, even the casual instruction carried so much force with it that the girls were all either knocked out or those with high physical durability or willpower skills were only knocked to the floor with bloody noses.

      He wanted to apologize but was afraid that would hurt them again. He was like a star about to go supernova and he wanted to direct that power at his enemy. The fleet was already bombarding the leviathan and it felt like the estimate of five minutes was overly generous. So, he sprang into action.

      The first thing that they needed was more time. He had been warned and had felt himself the dangers that manipulating time could produce but he also owed his life to messages he had sent back through time. So, he lashed out and froze the entire armada in a single second.

      He was stuck with them, but it was like he was a fish who had been on the shore but was suddenly thrown back into the water. He felt perfectly at home. He directed