DIFFERENT FONT STYLES USED:
"STORYLINE" "'SPECIAL SKILLS OR MOVES'" "SPEAKER" "SPEECH" "THOUGHT"
SCENE:Spider Cartel warehouse.
Gravitator and Don Weaver battle, the latter generates four pairs of black, large, long spider limbs from that he lunges at the former, whom creates a dome-like gravity barrier around himself to block them. Gravitator swings his arm out, using gravity to send him flying; the spider rogue screams as he's sent flying.
Black Ant: (seeing this, reacts with concern) Don Weaver!
Crashhopper: (hearing the outburst) Huh?! (sees Don Weaver in danger) Hey! (tries to rush to him but...)
Calculette: (summons a wall to block him) Oh no you don't.
Sound Wave: You're fight's with us. (fires sonic waves at him but Crashhopper attempts to shield himself with his arms but gets sent flying anyway; a scream of surprise escapes his lips)
Black Ant: (turns to Gravitator) Why you…? (attempts to slam the hammer in his direction)
Manhandle: (raises his hand at his back and wraps him in even more sand tendrils around him) I don't think so.
Black Ant struggles to break free yet again; groaning as the binds tighten harder and harder with each passing second. Don Weaver groans as he gets back up before glaring daggers at Gravitator. He points his hands out him and fires threads of webbing at him. Gravitator leaps out of the way, then raises his hands to each opposing shoulder, then swings them out at Don Weaver and fires solid, gravity projectiles at him. Don Weaver blocks the attack with his spider legs and shoots death glares at him, he leaps towards Gravitator and lunges his spider legs at him. Gravitator tries to dodge again, he sidesteps to evade the first strike, but Don Weaver seems to anticipate this and extends three legs in the direction he runs to and he gets stabbed.
Gravitator screams in pain as his right arm and leg being stabbed. Don Weaver retracts his spider legs, then slashes him. Gravitator raises his other arm to protect his face but it gets slashed instead; not a deep enough gash to take him out of the fight, but a really bad scratch that it leaves him stunned and unable to move for few seconds. Don Weaver flashes an evil grin and laugh and throws his hands out at him, sending all eight legs at him once again. Luckily though, those few seconds were enough for Gravitator to recover and jump back to his feet and creating another barrier which blocks it. He winces from the pain in his right leg, being able to stand taking up almost everything he has.
Calculette: (looks over at Gravitator's fight and sees him wounded) Gravitator's injured. He needs help.
Sound Wave: From who? All four of us are busy, right now.
Lazarus: (turns to see Gravitator's state; reacts in surprise and disbelief) Seriously? Even if he's a third-rank, he's still a top-tier, how could get hurt like that? (looks over at Don Weaver) This guy's stronger than he looks; so this is the power of a special-grade villain. (groans in frustration) I don't have time for thisnonsense. (suddenly, he gets a hard punch to his back from a mobster with a glowing fist, the armor on his torso and him coughing out blood) … Crap. I let my guard down.
The mobster tries to deal another punch, but Lazarus teleports out of the way, which surprises them. Lazarus then reappears a bit in the air with is feet at their head-level and kicks them so hard they're sent flying. Energy tendrils sprout from the ground and wrap around him, binding his arms, legs, waist and neck. He grunts as he struggles to escape, three mobsters charge at him, slashing at his torso with their bare hands; ripping through the armor into his flesh through pure strength and fatality. Lazarus coughs out blood, dropping to his knees, several more point their hands at him, ready to fire, but…
Lazarus: (grits his teeth hard enough to draw blood) …! Screw this!
Lazarus sends out a bolt of electricity from his body that envelopes the tendrils, turning them to dust and freeing himself. He then gets back up and summons a pair of dual blades, held in a way with them pointing back to the holder. He dashes through them, slashing through the masses as he bolts pass, as if heading for a specific target; this target being the healer. He leaps into the air and slashes an 'X' shape in the space in front himself, the action creating an X-shaped windslash that strikes the mobster straight in the chest, sending them to the floor; Lazarus coming down with a foot to their face to finish the job.
Lazarus: (turns to the others; speaking in a cold and deathly tone) Your turn. (lunges for them)
Meanwhile, the four continue on their way to the warehouse, more than halfway there when Mavy suddenly senses something coming fast and looks over to see a brightly burning fireball heading towards them.
Mavy: (alarmed) LOOK OUT! (the others turn to notice the fireball as well, Kyle just barely reacting fast enough to raise his arm out, projecting a force shield that effortlessly blocks the attack; they all stop atop a building, trying process what just happened)
Candy: Where did that come from?
Neil: I really was hoping we wouldn't get noticed this quickly.
Mavy: (eyes glow as she shuts them to concentrate, sending out a sensory wave) I sense three aura presences coming from that direction. (points off to right)
Kyle: (yells into the night) Yo! We know your there. Might as well just show yourselves. (a shrill laugh flies through the cold night air as sure enough, three figures leap from the shadows into view, landing unto the same rooftop; three metas seemingly two different ages – two adult men and an adolescent girl – face them with eyes all glowing)
Candy: (nervous sweat drop) … Not good.
Neil: Don't worry. They may be villains but they're minor-grade villains, the lowest grade. They're no threat to us.
Kyle: What do you want? We have nothing to do with you.
Cannon Fire: Oh really? I don't believe that.
Nightwalker: Who the heck are you people? And what are you doing to our ezilzone?!
Mavy: We're not doing anything.
Kyle: We just want to rescue our fri--
Cannon Fire: Don't lie! We're sick and tired of you people coming into our home just to mess it up!
Nightwalker: You think you just do with whatever you want just because we're a low-rank district?! Why are you people always looking down on us?!
Kyle: (a bit frantic) No, we didn't--
Pushback: Enough. (cracking his knuckles) We finally got you to now. You pricks are gonna pay.
The four teens stand on the roof of the business, facing the three villains whom had seen the four during the start of the attack and got the wrong idea. Cannon Fire - a man of average adult male height, with short, spiky, fiery red hair, light brown eyes and dark skin. He wears a two-piece suit consisting of black with a fiery design on the torso, sleeves and legs; with fiery-orange gloves and boots with fire-like shape in the hems. On his face, eyepaint around his eyes in the form of flames that point to the sides of his forehead and a pair of black visor-like glasses – glares at them hatefully.
Nightwalker – the only girl among them, a head shorter than her fiery companion with marshmallow skin, long, wavy, jet-black hair tied by a dull-purple ribbon tied into a bow and purple eyes. Her costume consists of a soft, black, knee-length dress that fades to dull-purple halfway down on both the torso and sleeves; the shoulders of the sleeves absent. In addition to this, she wears a pair of black fingerless, bare-knuckle gloves, a pair of black, knee-length boots, a smear of dull-purple paint on her face over her eyes, a pair of black-framed goggles with purple lenses and violet pendant earrings – growls at them with fury.
Pushback – the other guy, a shorty who's at least a head shorter than even Nightwalker, with a somewhat bulky build, pecan skin, green eyes and short, shaggy, brown hair. On his face, painted over his left eye is a black mark shaped like a four-pointed star outfit consists of being mainly topless, he does though wear a green pouldron over his left shoulder. Black gauntlets with silver wrists, military green pants with a black belt and matching boots – clenches his fists so hard that his knuckles white under his gloves as he bares his teeth at them.
Kyle: (seeing what's coming) Okay, calm down. Just listen for a sec.
Pushback: (yells) Enough talk! (throws out his hand, sending out a solid, holographic hand that grows as it flies at them; Kyle blocks it with a force shield while he and Mavy glare angrily at them)
Kyle: (gets mad) Alright. I've tried to handle this as amicably as possible, but enough. If you're not gonna listen to reason, maybe you'll listen to--
Neil: (puts a hand on Kyle's shoulder to stop him) We don't have time for this Kyle. We don't know when the fight end. We need to go get Laz.
Kyle: …! (pauses to take a moment to think deeply)
Mavy: (gets in front of them, not even turning to face her friends; keeping her eyes on the three villains) You guys go. I'll take care of this. (this leaves the other three shocked)
Kyle: What?!
Neil: Forget it!
Candy: We're not leaving you behind!
Mavy: (screams) Just go! (this leaves them stunned) These guys aren't gonna listen and we can't waste time here with them. I'll take care of this, so just go. I'll catch up with guys later. (the three think for a minute and decide to leave)
Pushback: Oh no you don't! (sends out a holo-push at them but Mavy turns her arm into a tentacle and destroy it)
Cannon Fire: (laughs mockingly) Do you really think you can beat us all on your own? (Mavy doesn't just answer, she just glares at them determinedly; taking a battle stance)
Nightwalker: (grins cockily) Huh! Get us a break. Like you can actually beat three supervillains at once.
Pushback: (glaring angrily) You think just because they got away they're safe? We're gonna make you and then them sorry.
Nightwalker's shadow splits into four and stretches out, a black and purple figure that looks just like Nightwalker rises out of each shadow. They shadow clones lunge at her. Elsewhere, Kyle, Neil and Candy continue on their way on the rooftops, all three not feeling good about leaving Mavy with three villains, even if they are minor-grade.
Meanwhile, Lazarus finally defeats all the mobsters, he stands still, breathing hard to recover some strength. He closes his eyes and focuses for a minute before taking a deep breath and lets it out then turns to Manhandle and Black Ant's fight and runs over to help. Lazarus lunges towards Black Ant ready the blade in his hand outstretched to slash him, slicing a deep gash into the side of his arm on his way through. Black Ant yells in pain and shock from the sudden attack, wrapping through the wound on his arm.
Manhandle: 'Bout time.
Lazarus: Shut up if you want me stay here.
Black Ant rips a length of cloth from his top and ties on his wound to stop the bleed; though it still kinda bleeds through. He grips his hammer tightly as he lunges at them, they leap out of the way, Lazarus dispels the dual blades and summons a thin and strong longsword. He uses his telekinesis to ricochet off air down to Black Ant with the sword raised overhead and brings it down for a vertical slash, only for Black Ant to block it with his hammer. Black Ant swings away Lazarus' sword before going for a sideways swing which Lazarus effortlessly blocks with the sword. Manhandle stretches out and enlarges his hands at Black Ant's back. He grabs him from behind, squeezing him like ketchup bottle.
Black Ant struggles hard and bursts out from Manhandle's grip, the teenage enforcer's hands scattering left and right; he retracts his hands. Black Ant then slams the hammer on the ground, sending ripples of earth throughout the ground that causes pointed-tipped pillars to sprout up from the ground around the two enforcers. The two leap back and scramble about the battlefield to dodge and evade the attack. Black Ant's hammer glows fiery red and he swings it horizontally, sending a wave of heat at them which hits squarely; causing thirty degree burns on Lazarus' body while Manhandle's body of sand gets charred. Lazarus and Manhandle get back up, the former gripping the hilt of his sword tightly while the charred sand crumbles off the latter's body and is replaced with new sand.
They both glare at him, Lazarus dashes towards him, swinging his sword at the mafia rogue who barely manages to block it with his hammer. Manhandle lunges towards him, his hand turning into a blade to slash him, the rogue notices his approach and blocks it with his hammer. Black Ant then swings it about before slamming it on the ground again, making the ground explode into large rocks that shoot up like a geyser. Both enforcers get hit by the attack and while Manhandle is mostly unharmed due to his sand body, Lazarus gets hurt – not so much that he's put in a critical state but enough that he's left bleeding on the ground; his enhanced defense protecting him from the worse of the attack. Gravitator notices this and turns to Calculette.
Gravitator: Calculette! Lazarus needs help.
Calculette: Huh? (turns to Lazarus) Seriously? He seemed way stronger when he was fighting us before.
Sound Wave: (dodging a kick from Crashhopper) Black Ant isn't us. Just go.
Calculette: Will you be okay on your own?
Sound Wave: (fires a sonic blast at his opponent) Yeah. I'll be fine.
Lazarus: (groans as he shakily gets back up, turning to them…) I'm fine. I don't need your help. (…having heard them)
Gravitator: Yes, you do. (fires a gravity blast at Don Weaver) Even if you're super strong, you can't do everything on your own. Even a higher rank needs friends as well.
Lazarus: These guys aren't my-- …! (his mind flashes to blurry images of someone – an adult woman by the shape – telling him something similar) … Fine.
Calculette: (genuinely surprised) Really?
Lazarus: Yeah.
Calculette: I didn't think you'd actually accept help from--
Lazarus: If you're gonna help, do so. (Calculette just rolls her eyes runs of to him)
Crashhopper: (noticing her leave) His feet ignite again and he dashes towards her and leaps in the air and raises his leg for a kick. (just as he's about to make it, he gets hit by a sonic wave)
Sonic Wave: Your fight's with me. (Calculette rushes to Lazarus and points her staff to his chest, the pink glow emits and spreads around his body, instantly healing all his injuries)
Lazarus: (looks around his body) Not bad. (then turns to head back to the fight)
Calculette: (a bit annoyed) Not even a thank you. (both head towards their respective deaths)
Lazarus: (rushes to Black Ant, who's still in battle with Manhandle) Alright. Now that it's no longer everything I have just to stay on my feet, let's try this again. (he slashes at Black Ant who barely manages to block it)
Black Ant: (grits his teeth as he glares at Lazarus) …!
Lazarus and Black Ant swiftly engage in a sword and hammer battle, Black Ant swings his hammer wildly at Lazarus who skillfully waves his sword left and right to effortlessly block them. Seeing an opening he waits for the right moment, in what looks like a whole second - but was probably less – he holds the hilt of his blade with both hands, holding the sword back horizontally and thrusts it forward like it wear a lance, stabbing the older male's left shoulder with it. Black Ant screams in pain, dropping his hammer as he dropped to his knees, clutching his shoulder.
Manhandle: (genuinely impressed) Alright, you got him!
Sound Wave: (surprised) Huh. Interesting.
Calculette: (equally surprised) Wow.
Gravitator: Impressive. (Lazarus raises his sword vertically, the bladed part pointing downwards, and he sets it down heavily, shattering through the hammerhead with the tip of the blade; the shattered hammer fading into smoke, Lazarus then raises the sword, the blade pointing upwards this time)
Lazarus: (a chillingly empty expression on his face)And now it's your turn. (this action surprises everyone watching as they realized what he's going to do; he tries to swing it down but finds he can't move his arm) What's going on?(looks at his hand) What?! (he sees his wrist gripped by a string of spider web)
Don Spider: I don't think so.
Lazarus: (spins around grab the webbing and yanks it off…) Do you want to die first then? (…before dragging it hard to pull Don Weaver to him; his blade ready to strike)
Manhandle: Look out!
Lazarus: …! (notices Black Ant's advance before blocking a hammer strike with barely any effort) His hammer. (Black Ant grips his hammer tightly, having recovered enough to continue fighting, summoning a new hammer and swings it at Lazarus, who does a full turn to face him and block it too; Don Weaver, seeing his chance, prepares to strike at the distracted teen using the momentum of being pulled to run him through with his spider legs)
Gravitator: Lazarus! Behind you. (Lazarus – who's totally focused on Black Ant – remembers Don Weaver almost a bit too late to react)
Lazarus: Goddammit. (Gravitator uses his gravity to pull Don Weaver towards, the mafia boss screaming from the sudden yank and gets a kick to his face from enforcer) Thanks Gravitator. (rips off webbing and full focuses on Black Ant) Now it's just you and me.
Lazarus rushes towards Black Ant and swings it him, the rogue backsteps and lunges at him swinging his hammer at Lazarus. Lazarus teleports in a way that hammer practically passes through him before blocking the next strike. Both metas use their weapons push eachother back, both skidding to a stop. Both fighters' eyes meet, then like a flash of lightning, or more precisely, in a pair of flashsteps, they charge at eachother; clashing weapons. Both swing widely again, clashing weapons. The melee'd clashing of weapons quickly turning into a battle dance duet, they swing, weapons clash, Black Ant swings, Lazarus dodges, Lazarus swings, Black dodges. Lazarus backflips to dodge a horizontal low swing, landing a step back, then delivers a flurry of stabs which Black Ant barely blocks by spinning the hammer.
Lazarus leaps a few feet back, Black Ant takes advantage of the opportunity and slams the hammer on the ground, sending magma-filled cracks travel through the ground straight to Lazarus who leaps out of the way just in time for the spot he had been standing turning into a literal volcanic eruption. This shocks the other high-tier enforcers and the one top-tier, though the two rogues and even Lazarus himself don't seem to react. Lazarus drops to his knees, pressing his free hand to the ground, sending a portion of his minergy into it. This power travels to Black Ant's position, the rogue realizes what's happening a second too late and sinks into the ground that suddenly collapses right under him. Everyone watching the exchange – literally both sides – just stare and gape in stunned silence at the action.
Elsewhere, Mavy – who's holding unto an unconscious Pushback by his face – drops him. She looks around the scene, seeing all three villains defeated.
Mavy: (sighs) Well, that takes care of that. (turns in the direction the others went) Better get to the others. (leaps away, not realizing she is being watched from afar as her stalker grinning cruelly; Kyle, Neil and Candy leap from rooftop to rooftop as they make it to the dome, Kyle notices it and get alerted)
Kyle: Hold up. (skids to a stop and the others do as well; now noticing the dome too)
Candy: Is that…?
Neil: A gravity dome.
Kyle: Compressed gravitational force-energy into a solid construct. (they leap down to ground in front the dome, Kyle giving the wall a hard punch; no effect) Tough. Whoever made this must be very strong.
Neil: Wouldn't be strong enough to stop an entire evilzone of villains otherwise.
Candy: We gotta get through.
Kyle: (nods) Hmm. Get ready, the stronger a meta is, the less subconsciously connected to their spell they are, but there's always still even a string-thin thread connecting them. So once I destroy it, they'll be alerted. (clenches his fist and takes a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth, raising his fist only to spin a full 180 degrees and holding out his hand to project a wall of force shields just in time to block a flurry of metal feathers coming from the sky which bend into deformity upon impact; Neil and Candy turn to the direction of the attack in stunned gazes; they look around for who sent the attack as Kyle dispels the shield)
Neil: …!
Candy: Where did…?
Neil looks around then throws a crystal-bladed throwing knife in one direction that causes someone to yelp in surprise before two figure leap into view; one flying to the ground and the other freefalling. They land, then rise to face the teens. Two grown adults in supervillain costumes face them with sinister smirks.
The man – an adult of averaged height - wears a brownish-orange helmet with black and white lines and a front hem that stretches into the horn-like eyebrows of an owl and dark-brown-framed goggles with dim-orange lens with a beak-like attachment at the center bottom that covers his nose. What little that is shown of his mouth and chin shows he has fair skin. He wears a dark-brown cloak with a pattern of brownish-grey feathers around the wrists of the sleeves and the bottom of the cloak over a black, two-piece outfit; a row of black feathers attached to the backs of his arms. A black utility belt, gloves and boots.
The woman – who's a head taller than her partner – has purple skin, long, sapphire hair worn into a high, tail-length ponytail and amber eyes. She wears a crystal-white, strapless dress that splits a down the waist, matching gloves that go halfway up her forearms and a matching mask over her eyes on her face. Black pants, dark-gray stilettos and white, pearl-like earrings. The three teens and the two villains engage in an unspoken staring contest as an eerie silence looms over them.
Neil: (glares at them) …! Hmmm. These two, Owlperch and Argent. These two are major-grade supervillains; dealing with them might be a little tricky. (turns to Kyle; whispers) Kyle. These guys aren't pushovers like the other three, they're major-grade, I'd say tier-bishops at least. We don't have time to deal with them.
Kyle: (nods, not looking away from the villains) Let me guess. You know that your evilzone in under attack, but now that you've seen us you think we might have something to do with this.
Owlperch: You gonna deny it?
Kyle: We are.
Argent: Oh really? Then do tell as you who you are and what you're doing here, because I'm very certain you're not villains.
Kyle: Admittedly, we're not. But we need to be here. We need to save our friend.
Owlperch: (sounding unconvinced) Save your friend from an evilzone?
Kyle: There's a group of government officials raiding the warehouse of the mafia group taking control of this place. Our friends caught in the middle of it and needs our help. (both villains share a look of confusion and disbelief)
Candy: It's a long story.
Owlperch: (eerily approaches) And we'd love to hear all about it.
Kyle, Neil and Candy: …
Kyle: (feigns a chillingly calm smile) Sure, just not now. Neil, Candy brace yourselves. (generates crystal-white and blue-white electrical energy around his hands and claps…) 'SUPER CLAP'. (…sending a powerful shockwave that spreads around the area, sending the villains flying back; Neil and Candy using their strength to ground themselves)
Neil: That won't hold them back for long.
Candy: (nods in agreement) And we need to be going.
Kyle: (nods) Right! (moves to destroy, only to suddenly sidestep out of the way just in time to dodge more feather projectiles) Whoa!
Owlperch: (walking back to them, Argent walking by his side) Well, that was a surprise.
Back with Lazarus' mission, Black Ant grunts as he climbs out of the hole. Lazarus points the sword at him as he ascends from the hole, only for his eyes to turn to the side; reacting before even the outcry comes out.
Crushhopper: (cries out as he lunges at Lazarus with fire burning on his feet) YOU B*STARD!
Lazarus blocks it with his sword, the collision lasting for a few seconds before sending both flying in respective directions. They rush towards eachother and begin a clash of sword against flaming feet protected by metal footwear equally bathed in these flames. Crushhopper delivers a spinning high-kick which Lazarus ducks down to dodge, then performs an upwards slash with the front of the blade facing up. Crushhopper sidesteps to dodge then throws another kick, Lazarus teleports away.
Calculette: Above you! (Lazarus looks up to see Black Ant descending from the sky with his hammer raised overhead, his face shifting into mild surprised; Calculette manifests an energy tentacle that catches the hammer-wielding rogue off-guard, whacking him in the midsection, sending him into a pile of boxes)
Don Weaver: (yells in anger) Hey! That stuff's invaluable. (uses the legs to leap to Black Ant's direction; Crushhopper leaps towards Calculette, left foot raised back to strike, only for Sound Wave to send him flying with a sonic blast)
Sound Wave: (making a post-kamehameha stance) Not a chance. (turns towards Lazarus, remembering his previous battle against both Black Ant and Crushhopper) Impressive. I figured he was holding back during our fight, but…seeing him just now…I see. I figured he must have been a striker or caster from how he was fighting, but I see now, he's actually a paladin, one with a level of mastery in striking and casting; and yet, I feel like he's still holding back his true-- (suddenly gets incased in a block of ice; the others all look on in shock at what just happened)
Calculette: What the--? (they all turn to see Don Weaver holding a ray gun that he got from one of the crates, he fires an ice-blue energy beam that Gravitator blocks with a gravity barrier; the barrier gets frozen solid and they realize it's a freeze ray)
Gravitator: …! Bishop said that they were smuggling arms for Terror. I guess one of the weapons they're smuggling is freeze ray. (Manhandle fires his arm at him like a sand beam which Don Weaver leaps away with his spider legs)
Manhandle: … (gets mad) Hold still! 'SHURIKEN STORM'. (summons a storm of sand shuriken which he sends at Don Weaver, only for a wall of earth to rise from the ground in front of him) …! (they all turn to see Black Ant who had slammed his hammer on the ground) 'SUPER SHURIKEN'. (fuses the smaller shuriken into two large shuriken that he sends flying at the wall)
The wall gets destroyed in an instance from the attack, lucky for the mafia boss though, Crushhopper managed to pull him out. Gravitator raises both hands and throws them down, sending a downwards gravity wave unto the two; pushing them into the ground which slowly begins to crack. Manhandle stretches his arm into a tentacle ready to strike, Black Ant lunges towards them which Calculette notices and projects a wall in front of them which the former smashes through it like glass in one blow; the force of impact sending a small wave that sends them all back in different directions a bit while Sound Wave's frozen body falls over. This sudden movement disrupts Gravitator's focus, freeing the two rogues.
Calculette: (glares at him) …
Manhandle: (growls in fury) DAMN YOU! (grows his arms into larger, solid versions and lunges for Black Ant; they return into their own battle-dance duet)
Manhandle throws a punch which Black Ant blocks with his hammer then performs a diagonal, downwards swing that harmlessly slashes through Manhandle's body, before the enforcer reconstitutes himself. The teenager delivers a left hook that manages to connect sending man flying back a bit, the rouge grabs and rubs his jaw with his free hand; nursing the ache granted by the punch. He growls at Manhandle and spins his hammer like a bo-staff before swinging it at the younger male, sending a wave of wind like a large, broad, wind blade that actually makes the sand boy react in shock; raising his arms over his face like a shield. Luckily, Calculette projects shield – one reinforced by combining five regular ones together – which successfully blocks the attack, surviving with only a big crack.
Black Ant: …
Manhandle: (turns to her) Thanks.
Calculette: No problem.
Lazarus: (putting his hand to the ice prison Sound Wave is still incased in) 'MOLECULAR CONVERSION'. (sends his power into the ice, causing it to melt, thawing out the taller enforcer)
Sound Wave: (now free, hugs himself shivering) Brreeewwww. Freezing.
Lazarus: Frozen's more like it.
Lazarus and Calculette: (sensing something, or rather someone, multiple someones to be more precise) Heads up! (The enforcers look around to see more mafia men running into the scene)
Sound Wave: …
Back to Kyle and the others' fight. Owlperch takes to the sky, and swings his arms, sending a flurry of feathers off his sleeves which Kyle blocks with shield. Neil brings out his dagger and leaps towards the owl-themed villain who swings out another flurry of feathers, this time at Neil, specifically. Neil proceeds to wave his hand around, blocking and deflecting them with the blade before pulling out a throwing knife and throws it at Owlperch who dodges.
Neil: Kyle.
Kyle: (leaps unto the dome and runs up the construct) Way ahead of you. (charges another crystal-white and blue-white ball of electrical energy around his right fist…) 'SUPER PUNCH'. (…and slams his fist into the wall of the dome, completely devastating the dome in one blow, shattering it like a piece of glass; the shards dematerialize out of existence and this of course alerts Gravitator)
Gravitator: (gasps) What? Goddammit.
Kyle: (landing) Come on.
Candy: Okay.
Neil: (also landing) You go. I'll handle this.
Kyle: You sure?
Neil: Yeah. I'll take care of them.
Candy: But you're outnumbered.
Neil: Maybe. But they're outmatched. (Kyle and Candy share a gaze and decide to trust him)
Kyle: (nods) Sure. (they leap away)
Argent: You really think you can beat us alone? You're as dumb as you are handsome.
Owlperch: This ought to be good.
Neil: … (powers up) Quit blabbering. Unless you intend to insult me to death.
Owlperch: You've got a sharp tongue. Let's hear how smug you are once it's cut off. (shoots off at Neil like a rocket)
The scene fades to black as the chapter ends.
STORY CONTINUES IN CHAPTER: 22 (NIGHTTIME BRAWL III: ANTIHEROES VS. SUPERVILLAINS)