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interfere with that and essentially give him a momentary mental break.
With 11 thuds hitting him in succession as he stabilized his stumble Paul was
about to complain to Jason when Bo went the other direction, dropping to a knee
and getting pelted by everything coming in.
    Jason flicked the stop button on the far panel
telekinetically as he frowned. “Bo?”
    “Got some instability,” he said, focusing on it and
dropped his second knee down and sitting back on his heels.
    “About time,” Paul said, getting to his feet and
trying to get a read on his mind. “Say something if you need help.”
    “Don’t worry, I’ve got it,” Bo said as the little
monitor icons on his headband began to tick up into the red. Before long they
started flashing and Bo physically yelled a good imitation of a DBZ powerup as Paul felt the change occur within him. Tissue
flash grew as his mind appeared to explode, dulling
the other trailblazers’ limited connection to him…then after a few seconds it
began to recede as the last bits finished their growth and stabilized.
    “Damn that hurt,” Bo said, holding his head and
sagging backwards even further onto his heels, with them pressing up into his
butt. “Still hurts, actually. Feels like I pulled something.”
    Jason and Paul exchanged glances. “It wasn’t that bad
for us.”
    “Do you mind?” Jason asked, walking up to him and
putting a hand on his head.
    “Help yourself…I’m still picking up the grenade
pieces.”
    Jason linked in and began searching through his mind,
particularly the physical structure, and blinked in surprise. “Ah, I don’t know
what you ascended to, but it isn’t Pren or anything else we’ve got yet. The
tissue is in the wrong place.”
    “You sure?” Bo asked, still
wincing.
    “Positive,” Jason said as Paul came up and put a hand
on the other side of Bo’s head, with Jason mentally directing him to the new
growth.
    “Damn that’s big,” Paul said, seeing a spider-like
network of tendrils where there should be none…and they were all mentally afire
with activity typical of recent flash growth.
    “That’s what she…ah hell, I can’t even make a joke,”
Bo said, leaning forward and curling up into a ball as he sat on his legs with
the pain swelling again.
    “I’m not joking, you have a huge new growth,” Paul
pointed out. “And Jason’s right, I’ve never seen this one before.”
    “Shoot me now,” Bo moaned.
    “Suck it up, cupcake,” Jason said half serious, for
he’d been through worse back when their abilities were first manifesting.
    “Yeah, you’re all heart, Jason.”
    “And focus on slipping into Sesspik,” he added.
    Bo made an exasperated sound. “I can’t even think
straight,” he said, trying to steady himself enough to get into a healing
trance, which hadn’t even occurred to him to try.
    “Hold onto this,” Paul said, creating a telepathic hard
point for Bo to hold onto. When he mentally grasped it the blurriness that came
along with the pain reduced somewhat, but his head was still awash with
disorientation. Paul felt his mind begin to settle a bit, but whether he got
into Sesspik or not he couldn’t say, for his current state was so erratic that
even Paul was having a hard time reading him without exposing himself to the
same pain.
    “Thanks,” Bo said, not moving so much as a muscle as
he tried to bleed off the fragmentation, getting just a hint of coolness as the
Sesspik activated.
    “Wait a sec,” Jason said, not believing what he
thought he was seeing.
    “What?” Paul asked, sensing something important.
    “Stay with him. I’ll be back,” Jason said, letting go
of Bo’s head and hurrying out.
    “What?!” Paul asked.
    “Not sure yet. I’ll let you
know,” he said, leaving the other two trailblazers behind and trying to keep a
mental picture of Bo’s new tissue intact without it warping…too much. He ran
through the corridors until he found the closest room with a computer