Rareth turned back at the mouth of the cave when her sensors picked up on what happened to Memnon. The creature’s massive spike pierced through even his armor and caused critical injury, but she could still attempt to save him. Or at least, she could have if there was no one else for her to protect. She had the tools within her to reach him, and bring him back. In the milliseconds before she made her decision, her neural implant had already powered on the immensely powerful antimatter reactor within her body, which was dedicated solely to a single, experimental device. However, before she made her move, she spotted another threat. 

Even as the creature was weakened from the detonations and the shelf was collapsing away, the swarm seemed desperate for their blood. Multiple tendrils coalesced to form another massive spike, which was aimed to pierce through the heart of the cave entrance. Even if Memnon could be grabbed, there was no guarantee he would survive, and others could die if she did nothing to stop the creature. 

Rareth fired one more micro-missile straight at the spike just as the creature stabbed it forward. The creature could move its limbs remarkably quickly, but a missile was still fast enough to find its mark in time. The explosive detonated halfway up the limb to split it in half, though the explosion was also danger close to Rareth. It shattered her shields and crumbled the stone underneath her. She started to fall as well, but as she turned onto her back and looked up at the sky, her neural implant painted another set of destination coordinates on her HUD. 

The amount of power that flowed into the device situated in Rareth’s chest far eclipsed every other weapon and tool at her disposal…combined. From the outside, one might see light bending in a sphere around her, following the path of the increasingly warped spacetime she was shaping. At the same time, right at her destination at the cave entrance in front of the others, the same kind of warped sphere of spacetime could be seen. From Rareth’s perspective, she was falling straight down until she passed through the wormhole and flew out the other side, her momentum sending her rolling across the cavern floor towards the others. 

Nirann nearly had to dive out of the way to avoid Rareth tumbling in to him. He was more than knowledgeable, and observant, enough to recognize the physics at play in what he witnessed, but even he had trouble believing that technology was possible in such a small frame. “Did…she just teleport?”