“This is beyond us.”Sarah bristled at the moonie’s words, even if she made sure her smoke didn’t let it show on her face. She hated being outclassed by the other powers around her, and that’d been happening with depressing regularity of late. Back when she’d been Smokeshow, the one thing she could really hold to was that her power was really good. Maybe not enough to beat Dad, but Sarah knew that she was probably tactical-class. Or could be, if she wanted. “Run for the embassy,” Isaac decided. “I reinforced the front wall, it might keep.” Technically, he wasn’t in charge of their little group, but Sarah had already noticed that he was both used to making decisions, and couldn’t stop himself once he started on something. Which was certainly part of her attraction, but after discussing his power Sarah couldn’t help but notice that both of them were just being swept along by it sometimes — and she wasn’t sure Isaac even realized it yet.Clouds boiled furiously in the sky, moving unnaturally fast as the group broke into an outright sprint toward the embassy. For once they didn’t bother with trying to go around the traffic, Savage and Lia bulling straight through the mounted dinosaurs that filled the streets like cars. The moonie created magical force walls and the cyber-raptor just physically bulldozed any of the smaller dinos that tried to give them grief. The amount of force at play made her wince, as even back in the gang people didn’t play that roughly, but she had to accept that was just how the ikiski worked.For her part, Sarah pushed a column of smoke into the air. Not as high as she once could have managed, but enough to get a better view of what was coming. It looked like a rolling thunderstorm, with small bits of lightning flickering within, but rather than thunder it echoed out the distorted music they were hearing. The lightning rapidly became more powerful, more frequent, the strobing illumination (...)