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him
thuds were coming in and he was having to block them with short-lived grips,
then drop and move on to another. Add in the random Fornax twitches that Paul
and Jason were hitting him with to disrupt his focus and you had one headache
of a training drill…but Archons liked challenges and this one had a very
specific purpose.
    They were trying to get Bo the Pren ability, which was
a power upgrade to Pefbar/Lachka. In order to get him into the desired zone for
it to occur they had to overload his Lachka skills, as they had done with the
others and hope that they hit on the trigger. They still didn’t know exactly
what it was but had narrowed it down considerably. It had taken Jason 3 weeks
to get it, Paul 2.5, and the others above and below them, with Emily finding it
the quickest once she arrived after only 3 days of trying. That said, she’d
been the most recent to arrive aside from Bo and had the benefit of the others’
experience…but it didn’t seem to be helping him.
    He’d been at it now for several weeks and Paul and
Jason’s response to that was to up the intensity even further, pushing him to
the ascension point, in theory, but so far nothing had happened aside from him
getting pelted with thuds from the surrounding walls. He was blocking a lot of
them, but every time one got by it hit him with such force that it knocked his
mental balance off. The trailblazer was having to
constantly reset while trying to minimize the disruptions when they
happened…for his two friends were making sure they did regularly.
    Right now the walls were chucking out some 12 thuds
per second. Some simultaneously, others staggered. The pattern was random and
kept Bo guessing, with him having to relent and just take them as they came,
for he couldn’t get into much of a rhythm. Already he had some small welts from
repeated hits and was trying to cover certain angles more than others…such as
those headed for the face, neck, and crotch.
    He lost himself in the effort…that was the only way he
could hope to keep up, and he had to remain still, for if he stepped outside
the small circle around his feet it would be an immediate disqualification.
That had happened several times already, thanks to the blindsiding of the
Fornax blasts, but lately he’d been managing to stay on his feet when they hit
and the next one was no exception.
    Paul hit him with one from the left where he sat
against the wall underneath the thud shooters, causing Bo to lose his balance
for a microsecond but he didn’t have to take a step to recover. A twitch in his
hips was enough and he was back on center, but he missed swatting down two
thuds and they hit him in the back and lower right leg. He accepted two more
hits to his right side as he concentrated and held one coming in at his head a
split second longer than normal…enough to throw it to his left and hit Paul.
    His fellow trailblazer caught it a foot in front of
his face and tossed it aside with a smile, then tossed another mild Fornax
blast his way. Paul knew they had to keep pressing him in order to find the
trigger, for most of the ascensions that he’d studied the data from occurred
during some form of overload.
    Power comes in
response to a need, not a desire , he remembered Goku saying, and as far as psionics were concerned that appeared to hold true.
Trouble was they still didn’t know exactly where and how to push, but with
every ascension that occurred they got more data. Bo was wearing the monitoring
headband that Jason and Paul were also sporting, though at the moment they were
just sitting and ‘watching’ while Bo was the one working up a good sweat,
despite the fact that he was barely moving.
    Paul sent another three Fornax blasts his way, all low
intensity until Jason threw a big one at him. That sent him forward a step,
just inside the boundary of the circle with Paul cringing. They needed Bo
processing heavily to trigger the ascension, and every big stumble he took was
going to