Jessica had been in put into a daze that could only be described as power drunk but still managed to sense the unique magnetic traces of the living evacuating the damaged structure before she tried to lower it to the ground in a slowed and controlled manner only to have it slip through her energy field as the warped Van Allen belts snapped but to their natural state. The effect on her was akin to a drug overdose nearly killing her as the magnetic weight of the nearby Golden Gate and all the iron and steel pummeled her tortured body like invisible hammers but somehow she endured.
She turned to fly home and was too weak to control her field accurately which put her in power loop that was expanding exponentially. ~ "Danger, danger, danger!" ~ was the only thought she could understand before her intensive training took over and she turned away from the city and followed a current far out to sea accelerating to a speed that she normally would have never attempted as she broke the sound barrier.
Her flimsy bikini was torn from her body was the air compressed inside her field which wasn't strong enough to protect her.
She was lost in a magnetic storm that she knew instinctively couldn't be released till she was as far from civilization as she could get. How long or far she flew she couldn't tell as an electromagnetic pulse built up till she went supernova.
The EMP set off alarms around the world as satellites made to detect nuclear detonations screamed their warnings and for two minutes all magnetic compasses turned towards her from as far away as San Diego.
She felt weightless as she fell from the sky and into the ocean below and would have died in the impact with the water's surface if not for some unknown reason her protective field activated. Still she suffered striking the surface and bouncing like a skipping stone for about a kilometer.
Once she stopped Jess lay on the surface her magnetic field increasing the surface tension to prevent her sinking into the deep.
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British Consulate San Francisco
Special Operations Command
said Petty Officer Standish
Captain White of Her Majesty's special services looked at the reading and got a stern expression as her ordered
"Activate internal neural inhibitor""Aye, aye Sir activating" answered Standish as he turned a key and unlocked the control switch then pushed the button.
The Captain looked on an waited for a confirmation code to flash and tell him the deed done his expression not showing any trace of the remorse he felt knowing that he'd just ordered the death by drowning of a 17 year old girl he'd watched grow from a scared child to a young woman.
"We have negative response sir the device is inactive" said Standish in a professional tone that held both relief and dread.
Captain White then ordered the signal boosted and when that too failed he began to show an expression and it was fear.
"Declare a tier 3 alert and dispatch any assets we have to Drifter's location then pray to God we can control this before she goes Geomagnetic and crashes the west coast into the dark ages growls the normally calm and controlled SAS commander.
Captain White then picks up a special phone and makes a call to his superiors.
