Taylor - Planeswalks Echidna to barren world, limits on skill use

A tentacle wrapped around my neck from behind, lifting me up. Suddenly I couldn't breathe, and despite Gamer's Body, I found this to be distracting.

The building around us shifted and changed, blocking Armsmaster off from us, and putting us in some kind of vault. Alexandria might have been able to break through, but she was busy dealing with her own clones.

I couldn't talk, and while some of my powers didn't require a command, working by will, others, like Far Strike did.

I waved my arms ineffectually for a moment before I reached for the menu screen.

PLANEWALKER! I selected, and a moment later she and I were both in another world.

She stared in shock; the world around us was a desolate ruin.

NEW ABILITY CREATED!

RADIATION RESISTANCE!

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Noelle dropped me.

"What have you done?"

"Taken you away," I said. "To a place where you will fry."

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The sand on the shore had been turned to glass, and the radiation was already starting to damage me. The place was hot.

"Planewalker," I said, hoping to go back to Brockton Bay.

She lunged for me, presumably hoping to come with me.

Instead, the world shifted around me, and I realized that I wasn't in the Bay at all.

Instead I was in a place covered in thick fog, thick enough that I could only see the outlines of buildings in the distance. I didn't see or smell water, either. Where was I? Did Planewalking move me in space as well as time?

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Sirens