This is one of the weakest and most powerful of all the energies. The conundrum comes when the user is in action. If the energy user is standing still and being attacked by someone with a knife, they don’t have enough built up energy to defend themselves, even with the energy of the knife due to its, relatively slow motion. Have that same user be attacked by a bullet shot from a high powered rifle and you have a great fight on your hands. These users can’t attack first as they will not have enough built up energy to do anything of true relevance. However, once the fighting starts, these are some of the most powerful beings on the battle field.
Kinetic Energy is the energy of motion. Anything in motion will transfer energy and the user can “steal” that energy for use in their own attacks. Without motion, or without built up energy, these users are nothing but mortals with some fighting skills. With motion, they can be as powerful as the motion itself, or even stronger depending on the surroundings. Due to this most of these users are pacifists that want no trouble but that have no issue defending themselves when push comes to shove. There are plenty, however, that are more than willing to fight to try and make a name for themselves. The most powerful of these was Gabriel Sir Thomas. He took on an army of mortals alone for over an hour without a scratch and defeated all but a handful. It was Gridlok that brought an end to him, but that end cost Gridlok dearly as well as he had to pay a visit to probe 5 (Technosphere) to have his arm and leg remodeled after they had been crushed by Gabriel. (See Technosphere.)
Kinetic Energy comes if five different areas of study:
1. Crusher – This users can focus their energy into a crushing blow, like that of a hammer. The blow does not come forward at their opponents, but in the slice of the user’s hand. It is almost like the user is wielding an actual hammer, but the hammer can be focused to the edges of the user’s eyesight. This crushing force can be as powerful as all the energy that the user consumes within a given area, or as light as a single punch. It gets the name crusher because it does not hit like a blade or a fist but actually will continue forward until the energy is completely exhausted. So if someone were to put up a shield, any portion of their body that is exposed will be hit, or anything behind them that is not shielded will be hit by this force. Due to this, the force will not hit for a single blow, but multiple blows until it is completely defended. (If the attack is 100 pts. And the shield held up defends 50 pts. the remaining points are taken to the shields life, just like any attack. However, due to the fact that 50 pts. were shielded and not 100, there will be a second attack of 50 pts. against the attacker. Only the points that are expended, or shielded, will be reduced and this will continue until all points are reduced to 0 on a defense.)
2. Area Force – This user can not pinpoint their attacks directly, but can deal damage in an area effect using all of the force of the given area into the attack. Every attack that happens during the use of this power, every defense, etc. will be added to the attack of the area force and deals its damage exactly the same as Crusher. Most of these users are front line attackers and don’t sit in the back often due to their insane ability for destruction. However, they have little defense so they are usually flanked by Dalim or Whelif when going into battles. (See Dalim, Whelif.)
3. Kinetic Alteration – A lighter ability than the others, this allows the user not so much to deal great deals of force, but to stop them. The user can focus their energy to remove the energy of an attack. Though it will not remove the magic, mental, etc. from the attack, it will remove the force of the attack and often keep it from even hitting its target. When used, the user will then absorb the energy into themselves making them stronger, faster, more durable, etc. This is a rare ability, but those with it are usually very long lived and much stronger than their normal race.
4. Kinetic Blasts – Much like Area Force and Crusher, the Kinetic Blast ability allows the user to absorb a large amount of Kinetic Energy into themselves and then blast it out in massive waves of energy. The difference here is that the energy will be absorbed at a slower and longer rate than that of the other two. Much like the Kinetic Alteration ability, this user will be stronger, faster, more durable, etc. than their normal race but without calling attention to themselves. They can not use their ability to absorb an attack before it hits them. They will only siphon an area of Kinetic Energy, thus when around the user all attacks will be less than normal, but only to a degree and only to those that know what they are looking for. The more powerful one of these users becomes, however, the more obvious. The most powerful Kinetic Blast user could enter a room the size of a ball room and siphon so much Kinetic Energy that a ball thrown with full force from a vampire would travel no more than five feet. It is rare, but masters of this ability do exist. Be wary of their power for this user will get more and more powerful the more and more you attack them. (See vampire.)
5. Kinetic Manipulation – This user can do everything the others do and much more. With this ability the user can manipulate Kinetic Energy on a global scale. Kinetic Energy from anywhere on the globe will add to their abilities and powers. The can manipulate it in such a way as to pick things up using the force of the energy around them, push things away, fire concussive blasts, place shields, etc. that all feed off of any attack leveled at it. Thus they have near limitless power as long as they are being attacked, but nearly no power if they are simply standing still. Be wary of this user for they can actually alter their focus to your own weapons and have them deal damage as the Kinetic Energy is being released. If that happens, every time you try to use a weapon, item, etc. that the user is focused on, it will deal damage to you in the amount of damage it should have dealt to the victim.
Note: Kinetic Energy users will usually try to learn hand to hand fighting, or something similar for defense. They do not learn projectile weapons as when they focus on them to ensure they hit their target, the energy is removed from them and the weapon will not fire properly. It is a problem that all of them have faced and none, so far, have found a way around.
Note 2: Kinetic Energy users can “feel” the energy around them. So trying to sneak up on one of these users is nearly impossible. Every footstep you take will release the energy and the moment it is released within a given area of the user, the user will know it.
Note 3: Kinetic Energy users can not use magic of any sort, at least not as for as it has been witnessed. Something in the ability siphons the spells energy before it can be cast and nothing will happen. They have a similar issue with using religious abilities as well. It is believed that much of the magics that are used through the land actually are based in Kinetic Energy and the ability to store that energy into the spell.