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  Chapter One

  “Why is everything so blurry?” Tracey murmured beside me as she fiddled with her glasses.

  “When I mated with Daphne and returned with her to Dimension One, her night vision abilities were given to us all.” I shrugged. “Maybe superior eyesight was her extra gift to you.”

  My newest partner Daphne had become pregnant and agreed to return with me to live her life as a fellow Wayfarer. Her dimension’s sun had all but gone out, and so their version of humanity was forced to adapt. This evolution had given them pale skin and large black eyes, all the better to see in the darkness, which was now an advantage she’d passed on to Natalie, Tracey, and me.

  Tracey shoved her glasses up into her ash-brown hair and squinted.

  “Wow, you’re right, Hunter,” she said after a long moment, and a broad grin spread across her face. “I can’t remember the last time I could see this clearly!”

  “Good thing, too!” Natalie snickered as she entered from the changing rooms, and her sparkling blue eyes lit up with the prospect of another training session as she expertly tied her long, corn-blonde hair away from her face.

  “You guys don’t stand a chance, this is gonna be easy for me!” Daphne giggled as she sauntered past and batted her long eyelashes. She’d taken after Natalie and also tied her mass of black curly hair up into a high ponytail, so dark wisps of hair perfectly framed her petite face. Her rosy, plump lips were always turned up in a slight smile, and I was glad it hadn’t taken her too long to adjust to how bright my world was, though she still squinted through her large eyes out of instinct most of the time.

  It made her look sexy as hell, though. Talk about a smolder.

  My three mates and I were all dressed in sleek black bodysuits that hugged every curve, dip, and shape of our bodies. They all looked like Catwoman, which was awesome, but getting an erection while I wore my own tight leather pants was a bit uncomfortable, so I tried not to appreciate how insanely sexy they looked for too long.

  Focus, Hunter, focus.

  Karla had transformed the massive sparring room at the back of the Nash mansion into an at-home Ninja Warrior course. Rock climbing walls, metal beams, and even a freaking moat of water separated the huge, airplane-hangar like room into different obstacles, and I swore the obstacles changed minutely every night, just to keep us on our toes.

  I’d never asked Karla just how rich her and her AI father actually were, but judging from my hefty paychecks and this never-ending mansion, billionaires didn’t seem far off.

  To think that a call for termites had brought me here.

  It had only been a couple days since we’d returned from Dimension Three-Oh-Twelve after helping Daphne’s brother against the Nightcrawlers. Our success had allowed the scientists of that dimension to start rebuilding humanity, and now a third Wayfarer woman was carrying my unborn child.

  Not to brag, or anything.

  “I’ve poached Daphne for my team,” Natalie said, and she looped an arm around my newest mate’s slender shoulders with a grin.

  “You’re on.” I smirked.

  Natalie and Daphne headed to the opposing side, and Tracey and I took our own positions. Suddenly, the lights in the sparring room shut off with a dull whir, and I had to blink a couple of times against the sudden change. The fluorescents above us glowed brightly for a second before they darkened almost completely, and the space around me was plunged into a dark green that was hazy at the edges.

  “Oh, we’re coming for you both!” I shouted across to Natalie and Daphne. Then I instinctively hunched down in the dark, and Tracey seductively blew an exaggerated kiss back at me.

  “Your goal is to capture the flag hanging in the middle of the room,” Karla’s disembodied voice called out through the speakers. “How you do so is entirely up to you. Are you ready?”

  “Born ready!” I called out excitedly, and my enthusiasm earned me varying degrees of laughter from my three beautiful partners.

  I’d played Capture The Flag about a million times before in video games, but now I got to play it for real? With a bunch of crazy, superhuman abilities and super hot women?

  I was literally living the dream.

  A piercing klaxon sounded loudly from the speakers, and I immediately sprang into action. I leaped from our starting point and jumped straight into a bunch of netting. I barely had to think about it before muscle memory took over, and I scrambled my way up the rope squares with all the ease of climbing out of bed.

  I could hear Tracey already gaining on me from below.

  I swung a leg over the summit and stopped for half a second, just to test out just how good this new night vision, courtesy of my newest mate, Daphne, really was.

  Despite Karla having turned out all the lights, I could easily see to the far end of the room, where I spotted both Natalie and Daphne scampering up the rope netting on their side. They’d both tied their hair out of their faces, so their ponytails accentuated their cheekbones and slender necks, and I maybe stayed still for more than half a second while I watched their bodies move gracefully in the green haze.

  “You’re doing a wonderful job of focusing, my love,” Tracey chuckled as she also straddled the beam I was sitting on. She gave me a quick kiss on the nose as she twisted her torso around and made sure to give me a great view of her perfect behind in the skin-tight bodysuit she was wearing, and then she started to slide her way down the other side using the length of rope attached to the wall.

  Oh. My. God.

  This was Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment level sexiness.

  “I’m coming…” I threw my other leg over the side, grabbed my rope, and hauled my body down the wall. I made it to the bottom just as Tracey did, and I was about to make a smart comment when a group of figures emerged from the green shadows.

  With my heightened vision, I could see they were the same test dummies we always sparred with, but it was as if they’d become sentient since the last time.

  Sentient and pissed off.

  The first one took a running swing at me, but I dodged his right hook easily and socked him straight in the side of the head, which sent him stumbling back with a drunken swagger. Then I kicked the dummy in the abdomen to send him to the floor just as three more had started to approach me.

  I hunkered down, and I kept my body smaller and my feet a shoulder width apart, just as Karla had taught us. Next, I raised my fists to my face, resisted the urge to give the humanoid lumps of rubber the classic “come on” hand gesture, and took on the remaining three all at once.

  I jabbed the first dummy hard in the throat, again in the belly, and grabbed him by the shoulders when he was stunned. Then I swung the dummy around and sent him flying into his other friend, which knocked them both out of the designated fighting vicinity.

  One left.

  This time, I couldn’t resist as I held my fists up to my face once more.

  “Come on, buddy,” I teased, and I heard Tracey laugh as she finished off one of her own opponents with a graceful roundhouse kick to the knees.

  I made light work of the last fighter as I twisted his arm around so he had his back to me, and then I nearly popped his rubber head off his shoulders in a vise-like chokehold.

  Tracey was on her last rubber dummy, with her glasses still somehow shoved up haphazardly into her brunette hair, and her eyebrows were furrowed as her deceptively slight frame battled against the opposition.

  Watching my girls was maybe the only physical weakness I had left.

  I tore my eyes away from the sight of her long, leather-clad legs to move on to my next obstacle. I could see a large tank filled with rippling, green-tinted water before me, and from where I stood on the edge, I could see the entrance to a large metal tunnel submerged in the pool.

  My best guess was Karla wanted to firstly see if we could all still hold our breaths as long as before, and secondly, to see whether our night vision helped us out underwater, too.

  I let out a long breath before I stood up as tall as I could make myself and filled my lungs with as much air as they could take. Then I jumped into the water, and my god, was it freezing cold.

  Nice, Karla.

  I opened my eyes to locate the metal tunnel and swam over to the entrance. It turned out my eyesight was just as good underwater as it was above ground, so in no time flat, I grabbed the lip of the tunnel and launched myself through it with as much speed as I could muster. Once the initial push started to peter out, I began to kick my feet.

  The tunnel was tight and claustrophobic, and I was forced to adjust my natural instinct to forward-stroke. The underwater tube was barely the width of my shoulders, so I pushed my hands out in front of me and kicked my feet as quickly as I possibly could instead.

  Since it was pitch black, both underwater and above, I couldn’t tell the end of the tunnel from the middle, even with the green blur of my night vision. The smallest prickle of panic started to ping at the base of my spine, but I refused to listen to it and kept kicking instead. Eventually, I let out a tiny burst o f bubbles from the corner of my mouth, more out of frustration than anything else.

  Come on, Karla, way to make a point.

  After what felt like an hour, but was probably closer to maybe ten or fifteen minutes, I sensed a change in the water above my head. The pressure lightened ever so slightly, and with one last push, I surged forward. My head broke the surface, and I took a long moment to fill my lungs with air again. I didn’t feel particularly out of breath or uncomfortable, I was more annoyed at how long that had taken.

  I deftly swam to the edge of the pool and pulled myself out of the water, and I resisted the urge to shake myself off like a dog. Tracey was just swimming out of the tunnel on her side, and this time I absolutely could not get distracted by her dripping wet body.

  “How’s that twenty-twenty vision suiting you?” I jokingly called out to her.

  “It’s like everything is in high definition!” she shouted back from the water with a laugh, and she didn’t sound out of breath at all.

  That’s my girl.

  The course turned a corner as I rubbed the water from my eyes. I was met with a rock-climbing wall as my next obstacle, and the hand and footholds glowed a weird, sickly green in my night vision.

  But I could see them.

  “You’re making it too easy for us, Karla!” I yelled out into the darkness, and I could hear Natalie’s peal of laughter from the other side of the sparring room.

  Every challenge and course Karla set up had been important to our training. I’d thought we would end up getting bored of flexing our skills in new and improved ways, but with each new ability my Wayfarer mates gave me, the more I enjoyed them.

  Going from Pest Control Technician to savior of a bunch of different dimensions was the best thing that had ever happened to me.

  I rubbed my hands together to dry off the remaining water, took a brief moment to survey the rock-climbing wall, and mentally mapped out the quickest and easiest route. There were more hand and footholds on the left side, but it jutted out at a tighter angle than the middle, which would make it harder to keep my grip and leverage. Despite my newfound skills, I still detested heights, so I opted for the middle route which was far more flush against the wall and wouldn’t leave me dangling in the air so much.

  I stretched my arms high above my head, and even now I noticed how much my biceps skimmed against my temples from where the muscles had grown in size.

  I swallowed a smug grin and started to climb.

  “Too easy,” I muttered to myself with a chuckle, but that was before I had a chance to look out at my surroundings once I reached the summit.

  I stood on a metal platform no bigger than a pizza box, and I had to steady myself when I saw how high up I was. The only way forward was across a thin metal beam about the width of a road marking, and I got all of two seconds to start my journey over it when something suddenly whooshed past my head.

  And it didn’t sound friendly at all.

  I brought my body lower on instinct, as close to the metal beam as I could, and I listened for the sound of the air being cut through again.

  To my left.

  I dodged the arrow easily as I lunged forward. Then I threw my left arm out to steady myself, and my right foot lunged ahead of myself to evenly distribute my weight against the thin metal beam.

  I felt like Spider-Man, especially in this skin-tight black bodysuit.

  Another green arrow flew through the air and narrowly missed my back, and I figured the best way to do this was gonna be speed. The metal beam was too thin to hunker down on with a decent amount of balance, and the faster I moved, the quicker I was going to make it off this thing. Even if Karla turned the fluorescents back on and illuminated the sparring room, this was gonna be a challenge.

  Because the beam was so thin, I was never going to get the running start I wanted, so I planted my feet as best as I could and started to move my way forward. As I began to pick up speed, another arrow shot past my face barely an inch away from my nose, but I refused to let anything break my concentration.

  I knew from experience Karla would never create traps and courses that were lethal, and for all I knew, the arrows flying around me were nothing more than Nerf gun pellets, but if I lost my balance, I was still going to fall.

  I glanced down at my feet and saw nothing but a green-tinted floor beneath me, and I must have been a good couple stories high.

  It might not kill me, but it would definitely hurt.

  If an arrow got me, then so be it. I would rather take a slight impact wound than topple off this beam, so I continued forward and kept my eyesight dead in front of me.

  The air around me hissed as more arrows started to fly, and I had no idea whether Tracey had even made it up the rock-climbing wall yet. After what seemed like an eternity, I made it to the corresponding metal pizza box at the other side, and I stood up to glance behind me. Tracey had only just started across her metal beam, and I felt a flash of worry hit me in the chest.

  Training was all well and good, but my girls were carrying my children, and if they fell, then they might not just injure themselves. Not to mention if they got hit in the bellies.

  I figured the best way to end this was to finish first, and if that meant winning, then… Well, what a shame.

  I steadied myself on the metal square and surveyed my surroundings. Still no way down yet, and all I could actually see on this part of the course was a maze of square podiums sprouting up from the floor below like freakishly tall metal mushrooms that glowed a sickly green.

  Karla was definitely obsessed with testing our balance and agility with this one.

  The flag hanging in the middle of the room wasn’t so far away now, and I figured this was the last obstacle to pass to get to it. Where before all I would have been able to see was darkness, I could now see a platform wide enough for me to stand on normally at the other side of the metal mushrooms.

  I could work out how to get to the flag above once I got over there.

  I stared out at the podiums to try and map out the best way across, but there didn’t seem to be any kind of pattern to them.

  “You take all the time you need, love!” I heard Natalie’s voice call out to me closer than before, and I looked over to see her on the corresponding metal podium across from me.

  Tracey was still dancing gracefully along the metal beam, and she didn’t seem to be at all concerned with the arrows and tasers flying in the air around her as her long legs carried her effortlessly across.

  Daphne had just pulled herself up from the rock-climbing wall on the other side, and her mass of beautiful curly hair started to tumble free from her ponytail.

  “Me and you, baby.” I blew a theatrical kiss to Natalie, who giggled before making her first jump onto the next podium.

  As soon as her feet hit the metal square, it illuminated like the floor of an old 70’s disco, and the sudden brightness caused her to gasp in shock. Since our eyes had become so accustomed to the darkness, the burst of light was almost painful, and the Scavenger wobbled precariously for a second before steadying herself.

  Now I knew what to expect, though.

  “Thank you, Natalie,” I taunted in a singsong voice.

  Then I leapt onto my first platform, and before it could blind me with light, I immediately moved to jump onto the next. All my years of playing hopscotch as a kid had been building up to this.

  Just, for the love of God, I couldn’t look down.

  I continued to skip from metal square to metal square, and each of them glowed brightly as I went. I managed to build up enough momentum to hit them with one foot at a time, and before I knew it, I was jumping onto the safety of the grated platform at the other end.

  “Hell, yeah!” I ran across to where I could see the flag hanging from a rope directly in the middle of the room, except now I was almost eye level with the thing. It looked like it was made from white cotton, but the glow of my night vision had turned it a slime-green.

  Although I was now level with where the flag hung, I was at the edge of the metal platform with no way to grab it.

  I looked down and saw nothing but empty green. We were almost as high as the ceiling, still a good couple of stories up, and I frowned.

  “You’re forgetting, Hunter!” Natalie called out gleefully as she hopped across the podiums, and I watched them light up at her touch and admired her body soaring through the air.

 

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