It wasn’t something she did often, but after too many steep ascents followed by steep descents, she bridged a gap to a more distant building with her chain, forming a horizontal tightrope, and ran along it.

Sounds like a much better option, honestly. A little more risky, maybe.

Shadow Stalker was waiting for her when she got to the other end.  She did her best not to pant for breath.

That’s the problem with hanging out with heroes. They’re always going to be better than you at something.

“Don’t you run out of chain?”

Flechette turned, reached over her shoulder to tap her back. “Tinker teammate back home specializes in replication and cloning.

Cool!

Small pack back here consumes energy from a small fusion battery to create a steady supply.  I’ve also got a kit back at the base that makes me a fresh stock of bolts.”

Are the needlebolts also tinkertech?

“I could use one of those.”

Yeah, sounds handy.

I say this as someone who loves the Infinity enchantment in Minecraft because I keep running out of arrows if I don’t have it.

Crusader was flanked by a half dozen translucent replicas of himself, each armed with a ten foot long spear.

So Crusader basically makes a mini-army of himself. Neat.

He could use his power to generate ethereal simulacrums of himself, a legion of ghosts, if you wanted to be dramatic.  I was more willing to peg them as some sort of semi-sentient forcefield molded in his shape or some telekinetic energy infused with fragments of his ego.  Whatever.

Sounds about right.

The important thing was that his images could carry him up into the air, letting him fly, and they could pass through walls, armor and other solid barriers to impale you with those spears of theirs.

Huh, that’s pretty handy. It sounds kinda like fusing Holo-Pearls from Steven Universe with Vexes from Minecraft (neither of which were things Wildbow could know about unless he can time travel – I’m not saying he literally based the power on those things) and giving them spears.