Gravity

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EVA had no idea what she was supposed to do but she saw 6 receivers activate their powers at the same time and aim it at Lydia, Kelè, Cameron and herself. "Oh My God!" Eva yelled and stuck out her hands providing a shield as a column of fire blasts at the four of them. "What the hell!" The girl named Lydia says as she tries to gather the four of them up. "Okay no time for introductions, just tell me your powers and we need to get that flag." Eva and Cameron tell her their powers and she smiles. "Okay. On three. 1,2,3!"

Eva pushes with all her might and launched her forcefield outwards towards the fire column. The forcefield extinguished the fire as it forced the Asian boy named Joe to dodge to the side. His left hand now no longer extended. "SHKKKK." Joe extends his right hand and ice spikes protrude from the ground towards Eva, missing her side by inches. "Wow! That's so cool!" Eva said getting caught up in the awe of the powers. Joe's left hand could shoot fire and his right hand ice!

Lydia rushed towards the center, cancelling gravity around her hoping to deter anyone from getting to her. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to work as she felt her throat instantly began to tighten. She glanced desperately around trying to find the culprit. It was none other than Bayley, smirking at a distance as he made her throat swell up from God knows what infection. "HCKK" Lydia gasped as she tried desperately to get some air. "THUD!" Lydia heard the sound of bodies crashing as Cameron rammed himself into Bayley's body. "Go!" He yelled at Lydia telling her to rush for the flag.

Lydia's throat opened up allowing air to flow in again and she got up and began rushing towards the center again. Off to her left Kelè was handling Carson and Isla. Carson seemed to have some sort of supersonic scream power and was sending wave after wave of sound burst to Kelè knocking her off her feet. Isla took that as an opportunity to rush towards Kelè for a knockout blow but failed as Kelè waved her hands and a grotesque rotting hand grabbed Isla's leg towards the floor causing her to face plant and knock out.

1 down, 5 to go.

Cameron dodged a blow from Bayley and swerved to the right, avoiding Bayley's punch by inches. "You want to play with me boy!" Bayley yelled and outstretched his hand, immediately Cameron felt the energy begin to drain from within and he began falling onto his knees, feeling absolutely weak. "Urgh...." He whimpered as he felt like the life was draining from his being. WHOOSH. A translucent ball came flying through the air, smacking Bayley in the end, startling him. Cameron seized the moment and rushed towards him, hoping to tackle him and knock him out. Instead, Cameron went straight through him!

"WOAH!" Cameron yelled as her halted his sprint to digest what had just happened. He had ran through Bayley's body. Looking down at his hands, he could see a slight translucent quality to his skin, and getting caught up in the moment he begun to wave his hands over one another, shocked at how quickly and suddenly his powers had come and developed. "Nice trick! Useless though." He heard a deep voice, belonging to none other than Bayley say behind him. Turning on his heels, Cameron spun to face Bayley and in the midst of his turn, began to feel completely and utterly sick to his stomach, within seconds Cameron was retching his breakfast and lunch onto the floor of Alpha Course.

Lydia continued to sprint toward the center, now free from the clutches of Bayley 's insanely terrifying disease-ridden powers, she could see the tip of the flag. It was a dark blood red and stood on a metal beam about a meter in height. Further down, about 300m away, Lydia could see the home ground of the trained Receivers. A grey line demarcated the touchdown zone. Lydia had played Touch Rugby back in The Innocence of the Blessed Virgin, and although she wasn't the best on the team, she did have a competitive streak, and she wasn't going to let her team down. Buckling down, she bobbed and weaved her way across the playing field, feeling intense blasts of heat, just behind her. Joe was hot on her heels, literally. As she ran, her mind wandered slightly and she realized that she hadn't seen two of the trained Receivers since the initial blowout of powers. She wondered and tried to place a face to who they were, as she continued sprinting while columns of hot flames chased after her. BOOM ! CLAP ! The sound of thunder reverberated through the arena, and Penn, the dark haired SnapBack wearing skater boy appeared in front of her, grinning. Shit ! She thought as she tried to stop herself from crashing into him, but it was too late. She skidded and flew straight into him, the both of them sprawled on the floor, with her on top, her head throbbing.

Back near the center, Eva was having a tough time. Out of the corner of her eye, she say her boyfriend literally spilling his guts onto the floor, and although she wanted to help she was too preoccupied with helping Kelè with the pig-tailed blonde girl, whose name she would later come to learn was Carson. Although she looked sweet, Carson was not as dainty as she looked. Each time she opened her mouth, bursts of sonic waves bellowed out at a high frequency, that was almost unbearable. Holding up her hands, Eva had created a curved forcefield to shield Kelè and herself, while Carson continued to blast them with her sonic waves, only stopping for a short while to catch her breath. Kelè, undoubtedly the most experienced and powerful Receiver on the New Receivers team, was still shell-shocked while her ears rang. Kelè could tell Eva was shouting at her to do something but she just couldn't make out what she was saying. Eva was trying to get her to summon something to deal with Carson, but nothing seemed to be going through. Guess I'll have to do it myself then.  She thought.

Taking a breath, Eva turned to face Carson, and stared her down. Closing her eyes for a moment, Eva collected herself, and reopening them she was struck with an idea. Eva had no idea whether it was going to work but then again, just a few days ago, gravity worked normally and Eva couldn't create forcefields. Looking down at Kelè for some sort of reassurance, which never came, Eva finally pulled back her right hand and punched the wall of force in front of her. As she imagined, a ball of force flew towards Carson, while the wall in protecting Kelè and herself remained strong. The ball hit. OOF! She heard Carson say in her normal speaking voice, as she hunched over clutching her belly. Score! Eva thought to herself. Time for a hat trick ! Eva punched again, alternating between her left and her right, and two more balls flew towards Carson, one directed at her shoulders and another at her feet. They hit their target simultaneously, causing Carson to literally spin in the air before landing flat on her back, the wind taken out of her lungs.

"2 down ! 4 to go !" Eva yelled shaking Kelè's shoulders.

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