Confounded Conflagration

The second Pair was having much more trouble pushing in a straight line, missing the transfer orientation on their first pass. As the B-pair slowed the Twenty, I flipped the Eights into action and began to push toward the errant pair with the synchro drive. Speed was not required, just accuracy.

While taking swingshots around the Seven to help out on the synchro drive, I noticed a blip in the response. Then more little blips. Concerned, I promoted a local electron to drive captain and slipped down to the Seven for a quick scan. Things appeared normal, until I focused on the terminus of the pathway. It was teeming with incoming electrons.

Knowing of the incoming cascade, I hopped across the Sixes and charged the Eights with my added presence as I directed the Shorty to take up a position between the terminus and the Twenty that was inhabited by the B-pair. As we closed the distance, the cascade of Electrons began to wash past us. The negative charge on the Eights did a very good job of deflecting the inbounds, and preventing an unwelcome collision with the Twenty.