Sky vs. Everybody

Sky travels to the lightswitch (his second jump), points one pistol at the telephone, pulls the switch and pulls the trigger at the same time. 

Good luck finding a lucky traveler in the dark, Iron heads! 

In his mind's eye, he pictures teleporting behind the Hitomi throwing a strangling wire around the man's filthy neck, imagining the event in gruesome and precise detail. 

Hitomi hisses in discomfort. In fact, he loses a moment, standing there with his arms around all three of his Iron Guards.

"Psychic attack!" he says, in English. "Quintana! Disrupt him with the Inward Shout!"

Quintana (the young Reader) who is on the floor covering his head with his arms because his telephone just exploded in his hand, rolls over, clutching said hand with every appearance of pain. He does not disrupt Sky with the Inward Shout, opting instead for the better-known Outward Whimper.

Meanwhile Sky trots over to the last known position of Richter, using his luck to avoid blundering into oil cans or assassins in the dark. He feels the jazz as his Power racks up one lucky break after another -- it's using up his magic, but it feels like it's revving him up. Like it always does.

The Iron Guard Torch throws flames ten feet in the air. Sky is lit up like two big spotlights were on him, just as he bends over to free Richter.

"He's got my ring," is the thing Richter chooses to say first. "He can do things through it."

Then the two-ton lift Richter is strapped to lurches off the concrete floor, falling upward with all the massive weight of its steel construction. Gravity has flipped upside-down!

Also, a dangling chain from a motor hoist whips through the air like a possessed bullwhip, striking at Sky's torso. It, too, packs a mighty punch.