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

the fusion and I recovered much more quickly. I had the maybe not so brilliant idea to bore a hole into the tempus fugit field so that you could sync with the other fuses. I figured it would be a good exercise for my skill too.

      The problem came when even four hundred thousand PSI wasn’t enough energy to complete the task. I got pig headed at that point and insisted on trying to push through, so I did something with you that I can do with my fuses. I pushed our PSI channels together and we formed a circuit. When you crossed the fifth threshold you became a catalyst for PSI which in simple terms means that you can double my PSI if I send it through you.

      “Anyway, that provided me with enough energy to pierce the bubble and sure enough that caused the sync. The problem was I hadn’t anticipated that your body holding all of that extra PSI would create an issue like it did,” Jay said.

      “I’m hardly complaining about gaining two thousand more stat points, you precious man,” she replied.

      “That isn’t what I feel guilty about. That last notification that I saw when you were so creatively waking me up, said there was more than a one in three chance that you could have died from the process. I apologize for that. It was a silly risk for me to take,” Jay said, looking at her with serious eyes.

      She didn’t immediately say it would be okay but rather paused before saying, “Look, maybe it is something that you shouldn’t do again but it worked out this time. As my brother used to always say to me, ‘no harm, no foul’. So, for now I’m just glad to have made all these gains. I was worried when I woke up and you were lying there unconscious.

      “I could feel that you were okay. Oh, and you were so right. This fusion thing is crazy, amazing. It is so much more than the bond we had before. I can practically read your mind. And for a minute there I could see into the minds of all the other girls you are fused to. So anyway, I knew you were okay and more or less just sleeping off the shock to your system. And since I’ve never known a guy who didn’t like to be woken up that way.”

      She paused again, and her face got red. “Um… not that I’m a slut or anything. I just mean that when I’m a girlfriend, I’m a good girlfriend.”

      “Ha, no need to apologize for that, ever. And remember the fusion goes both ways. If the last month hasn’t already helped us to know each other then the fusion has finished it off. I know you aren’t slutty, and I can sense how important being a good girlfriend is to you. But you do need to know that you aren’t just fused to me. You are fused to all the other parts of me. There are now twenty of us who are made into one,” Jay said.

      “Okay, okay, and while I’m open minded, there are still things that I do with you that I can’t do with them. And the whole good girlfriend thing is about my mom. I’m all for women’s lib and all that, but my mom was a psycho bitch about it. I mean I know I told you all about my mom, but I guess now that we are together forever, I want you to know that I will be a good girlfriend. I am your girlfriend now, right?”

      “That and more. We will work out the details later. But know that I appreciate you. All of you. Now though that they know you are fused; we should probably drop this field. If you don’t mind, I’m going to send my power through you again and then pop this bubble,” Jay said.

      “Um aren’t you forgetting something?”

      Jay looked at her and then her meaning settled in and he returned her wake-up favor and more. She seemed to take great delight in how strong and durable her body was now and well that certainly made it all the more fun for him. So, what he had intended to take thirty minutes ended up taking three hours. Her hair was definitely messed up when he brought down the field and he found most of the room staring at them.

      Due to the time dilation Jay and CeeCee appeared while the other fuses who were not in the science lab were unconscious. Jay picked her up and they rushed around to them one at a time waking them gently. Jay wanted to make sure they were all okay. A couple had words like bonehead or idiotic for him but there was no denying that they were all thrilled about the power increase.

      That said they also all agreed that 37.8% was far too great of a risk to ever try again. Jay’s favorite moment came when CeeCee made a comment about being as strong as Jay now.

      Amelia burst into laughter and said, “Oh now who’s being naive. Welcome to the team, really. I can feel that you and I will get along great. But we still don’t hold a candle to Jay. When we manage to make it past the 8th threshold, we will get another big jump, especially with how much higher our base stats are but Jay is probably at least ten times as powerful as any of us.”

      Trina added, “Not to mention that he has become downright deadly at using his skills. Nope, the truth is that we are all just support for Jay. There is a reason for him being the leader and it isn’t just what is hanging between his legs.”

      CeeCee looked at them all and said, “How high