Ken-Gi was very successful in knocking away their firearms as they entered the building but they all had short swords that they used to cause all the ...amage.Mark was shot twice in the right side of his chest but other than a collapsed lung he would be ok. For whatever kinky reason Rosa was only wearing her body armor when she was shot twice and it knocked her out. Bobbie Jo and Charlynn were able to pickup pistols and kill one of the attackers running the other off.Nathan was able to warn. “It’s okay, Sygor,” I told the young man. “I’ll explain it to you later, but see here, I’m wearing a protective vest. That stopped the bullets from getting me. As for the drop from the top of the container, well that’s easy to explain. There was a three foot pile of freshly fallen snow to cushion my impact. It still hurt, but it certainly didn’t leave me injured. Now stop worrying, and listen up, I’ve got some work for you two to do.”As I’d spoken to the young man I’d pulled open the front of. Mia ran to Tom's side. Even with her supernaturally acute hearing, she had to press her ear to his chest to make out the faint beating of his heart.Although he was unconscious, she still whispered sadly, "I'm sorry, Tom, but this is really going to hurt."Supporting his weight as much as possible, Mia took hold of the head of one of the spikes and pulled. With a groan of tortured wood, it came free in her hand. She did the same with its twin and lowered Tom to the floor. Hastily she licked. Somehow, it just felt right.She had another problem: Rebecca was pretty sure that Mom would be at her bedroom door within seconds of venturing back to 2014, and that wouldn’t do at all. A solution, she thought, was to pop into her bedroom half an hour earlier, with her younger self safely ensconced in the bathroom and Mom downstairs, watching Grey’s Anatomy. She needed to test her skill on the white globe at some point, anyway. It seemed like a good time to try.Biting her lower lip (on the side.