Just A Mess

Power flooded into me as the fourth Gate burst open and I threw the handle up. I was able to get it three meters up and I ran forward, throwing my hands up. I pushed the fourth Gate wide open as I slammed my hands up into the rock, and I pushed.

The crowd had started to roar the second my hands slammed up, and that was all I needed. Plus, I could hear Ice Ice Baby in the background firing me up, so I flexed my arms and legs and emptied the fourth gate. When I shoved the block up, the ground under me cracked, but still held as the massive stone flue forward on a giant crying hinge that screeched from being open possibly for the first time.

As the rock reached the zenith of its motion, it slowed, the hinges screaming bloody murder and the crowd had gone dead silent. Then the screech stopped, and the rock froze, and for a moment I was considering If I should move from where it could possibly fall back to.