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For three days the world had watched and waited. Nothing else filled the news nets. When the object first appeared, a panicked rush evacuated the downtown area and authorities cordoned off a ten-mile circumference. Overhead, two fighter bombers flew a holding pattern with their nuclear loads armed. Wild speculation over what it all meant reached a fevered pitch but now the object began to glow. Across the world, mouths hung open as a human-like, caped female emerged.

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Tamir stepped from the portal. Wary, alert. Around her beams of x-ray, infrared, ultraviolet, sound, probed and scanned. None could penetrate her defenses. Ignored were the myriad audio and video transmitters. Her footsteps struck eerie echoes along the deserted street.

She paused, puzzled by a whining, turbine sound. Internal sensors triangulated the source lifting her gaze upward. Atmospheric flyers. With nuclear devices. Primitive indeed, as the High Council had revealed. Born, engineered, and trained for this moment, pride swelled within. Out of only nine Kronos Swords, the Council had selected her.

The people of this planet remained oblivious to their reality. They existed because eons ago a Temporal Shift had threatened her world forcing them to bang a power surge through the fabric of space/time. Ultimately, Earth, a Child of their own time line appeared. Within moments, another Temporal would strike here, threatening to destroy her own world along with everything and everyone she knew. Already, power swirls presaged its emergence.

She waited with the patience trained into all Swords. Tamir had prepared well. Nothing would deter her from the honor the High Council had placed on her shoulders. She would not fail them or her responsibility.

Force fields hummed and vibrated. Tamir began to raise her sword and placed a shield around the signal transmitting this moment across the globe. None could imagine the power about to be unleashed. The power of a Kronos Sword.

*****
100% iRay, no postwork

Description
For three days the world had watched and waited. Nothing else filled the news nets. When the object first appeared, a panicked rush evacuated the downtown area and authorities cordoned off a ten-mile circumference. Overhead, two fighter bombers flew a holding pattern with their nuclear loads armed. Wild speculation over what it all meant reached a fevered pitch but now the object began to glow. Across the world, mouths hung open as a human-like, caped female emerged.

*****

Tamir stepped from the portal. Wary, alert. Around her beams of x-ray, infrared, ultraviolet, sound, probed and scanned. None could penetrate her defenses. Ignored were the myriad audio and video transmitters. Her footsteps struck eerie echoes along the deserted street.

She paused, puzzled by a whining, turbine sound. Internal sensors triangulated the source lifting her gaze upward. Atmospheric flyers. With nuclear devices. Primitive indeed, as the High Council had revealed. Born, engineered, and trained for this moment, pride swelled within. Out of only nine Kronos Swords, the Council had selected her.

The people of this planet remained oblivious to their reality. They existed because eons ago a Temporal Shift had threatened her world forcing them to bang a power surge through the fabric of space/time. Ultimately, Earth, a Child of their own time line appeared. Within moments, another Temporal would strike here, threatening to destroy her own world along with everything and everyone she knew. Already, power swirls presaged its emergence.

She waited with the patience trained into all Swords. Tamir had prepared well. Nothing would deter her from the honor the High Council had placed on her shoulders. She would not fail them or her responsibility.

Force fields hummed and vibrated. Tamir began to raise her sword and placed a shield around the signal transmitting this moment across the globe. None could imagine the power about to be unleashed. The power of a Kronos Sword.

*****
100% iRay, no postwork