Space Surfing

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The ship beneath them left their feet as Charlie and Alex's magnetic boots made way for physics, the chain around Charlie's wrist felt like it was burning from the acceleration of the ship and he was sure Alex's felt the same, eventually after some time and careful movement they were both securely stood back on the ship.

"Thank fuck for these chains." Alex said with a sigh of relief.

"Yeah, thankfully your suit didn't rip." Charlie said whilst rubbing his wrist.
They both reached down and adjusted their boots magnetic setting to 'strong' before turning their attention to the amalgamation they called an engine. More pieces had fallen off and huge parts of metal and mecro had warped and bent.

"Crap, let me try something." Hella's voice echoed in his head.

"Wait!" He shouted before Hella's form flew forward and turned to look back at them. They looked at her like they'd just seen a ghost, which technically they have. Charlie felt the feeling of having a left arm fade as she did so, his space suit now went limp in the area.

"I did use to live up here ya know, I'm space-trans-movable?" She said questioning if that was even a term.

"What?" Alex asked, "We can't hear you."

"You can't?" Charlie perked up.

"What?" Hella asked. "I can't what?"

"No I was talking to him." He nodded to Alex, Charlie was the only one that could hear the both of them.

"You, speak!" She commanded.

"What's she saying to me?" Alex asked.

"I can't hear him either, we must be speaking telepathically." She stated like it was obvious.

Alex nudged him, curiosity getting the better of him.

"It's telepathy, we're talking telepathically." He said quietly.

"Oh! Oh! Try it on me you power hoarder."

"Come on man really?"

"That's three and counting, four if you count hosting a god."

"Fine," Charlie gave in and tried to speak to his mind. "fizzy ass."

After a couple seconds he asked, "get anything?"

"Nope." He said disappointedly.

"So you didn't hear 'fizzy ass' just then?"

"Really dude?" He said before he leant back laughing.

"Just me and you then." Hella interjected with a smile which to Charlie responded with another.

After shrugging it off she went back toward the jittering engine and tried to use her power, when it appeared that nothing was happening she turned back with confusion littered on her face before she realised and asked, "Air?"

He clambered over with the gas tank, each step a struggle after turning up the strength of their boots, but when it still wasn't working they came to a problem.

"The whole engine is slipping to the left!" He announced panicking.
"Hella come back in and we'll try something else!" He started towards her before a sheet of metal came loose flying backwards crashing into Charlie's left side, breaking his chain, lifting him straight out of his boots and sending him backwards, the spwood spun away and fear washed over him as he hurdled towards the void, unlocking a new fear of being away from Hella as she wouldn't be able to help him this time, or so he thought. a purple transparent hand grasped his own, pulling him back to the still accelerating ship.

He clambered back into his boots before staring at Hella in disbelief.
"You can touch me? You can move freely in space?

After trying to grasp Alex's shoulder she replied, "only you." With a shrug.

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