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Lux met the wall with her own attack, breaking it away and sending a shockwave out from the point of impact; luckily for the others, they weren't near the point of impact, or else they would have been blown backwards. A testament to the power of the impact was the shockwave that resulted and snuffed out several oil fires; something that was usually accomplished with explosives.

As this happened, Shock's anger sent her launching forward, propelled by a stream of energy, sending her into a high powered tackle at Lux. They wrestled for control, light meeting energy and both uniforms getting a fair share of angry looking burn marks. Before Shock could electrocute the stupid light b***h, she was kicked in the head and have the wind knocked out of her for the second time in less than a minute. There was no chance of Zephyr helping her again though, as evidenced by how he had simply tossed her aside at her complaint.

This left her vulnerable for long enough that Lux kipped up to her feet and enveloped Shock in light. "...s**t..." Shock managed to get out before she was tossed up and slammed down hard into the ground, causing a crater in the ground to match the one Zephyr and Nox had created. Shock was dazed and failed to notice Lux recharging from the sphere. By the time Shock had regained her senses, Lux was taunting her, something that did not sit well with the young woman.

"Come on now sweetheart, don't tell me you're already finished; I'm just getting warmed up,"

"I'll warm you up b***h!" Shock said as she got to her feet, struggling though to do so. There was blood running down the side of her face from being slammed into the ground, but it seemed to cauterize when a jolt of energy ran over the wound. Shock threw her arms up to her sides, and energy shot to her from the walls, being sucked from the energy grid much the same way Lux pulled in the light from Darren's sphere.

The pulled in energy swarmed around Shock, not in a display of power though. It was simply too much for her to contain inside all at once. When she opened her eyes and looked at Lux, she no longer had irises or pupils... her eyes were completely white, a side effect of all the power running in her right now. It didn't mean she was blind, it was simply how her meta gene reacted to being overloaded.

Shock threw her hands at Lux, and a stream of energy shot out, rushing towards the heroine. As it moved, it gained shape, taking on the form of a Chinese dragon, jaw open wide. Of course, getting bit by the dragon wouldn't lead to a puncture or crushing damage, but it would result in the transfer of a mega s**t ton of electricity, to be scientific.

Lux dodged this attack, but the dragon came back, circling and attacking as it emerged from Shock's hands. Eventually, she seemed to reach her limit and the creature stopped growing, so instead Shock devoted her energy to keeping the beast strong and attacking Lux.

She was not terribly precise with it, as the creature nearly hit several others, including Miss James and JC.

Rotor's apartment

When Jack stood up Diana shrank a little back away from him but she continued standing where she was, looking now up at Jack's face. "You're 'sorry' you helped a psychopath kidnap and lie to a teenager with enough of her own problems? You're 'sorry' that your common sense didn't happen to catch up to you until after Sid tried to kill us and blew up your house?" The instant Jack went from speaking loudly to shouting Diana shut her eyes tightly and turned her head lowering it to the side so her cheek was almost touching her shoulder and she leaned a bit back, trying to get further away from Jack. In her experience when someone shouted at you, you'd get hit. "Well sorry doesn't cut it Diana! Your apologies aren't worth a damn thing to me! You had every chance in the world to warn Cosette; I know Sid wasn't home as much as he probably wanted to be. You could've told her what was going on, warned her, dropped hints even. But did you? NO! Instead, you spent your time smoking cigarettes, cooking, and healing Sid without a second thought. So don't give me any of this remorse or these apologies. I don't want to hear them! Because you failed to ******** use common sense and instead of working as a waitress or a nurses aid, and went traipsing around with a killer instead, Cosette might be dead!"
Diana waited for the blow that never came and suddenly Jack brushed past her and the healer slowly opened her eyes and stood there for a few seconds blinking from confusion but feeling immense relief, someone had shouted at her with out beating her up during or after the shouting was over.

Then the teenage girl thought over what Jack had said and the feeling of relief was swept away and replaced by worry, concern, doubt and a little bit of anger.
Turning around Diana quickly spotted where Jack was standing and moved a little closer to him, but not too close. For all she knew he might end up hitting her anyway though the fear of being hit did not stop the young meta from speaking up. "What do you mean Cosette could be dead? And why do you say that the house has been blown up? How do you know that and how can you be sure?"

Diana waited patiently for Jack to giver her his answer and once she had it the healer stood there for a few moments thinking things over. 'Sid planted bombs in the house? No, he couldn't, he wouldn't.. I won't believe this with out proof. I must go see this for myself as well as find out where Cosette is.' Suddenly her stomach grumbled loudly and Diana grimaced. 'Once I have eaten those noodles.' Then she looked back to where Jack was standing and suddenly a stubborn look came over her face.
"I know you're angry but would you please sit back down before you faint and injure yourself more?" When he turned to look at her Diana gave him a softer look before adding. "Please?" Once Jack was back on the sofa Diana gave him a determined look before she said. "Cosette is alive and we will find her." With that she went back into the kitchen where the water in the kettle had boiled and she poured it over the noodles and grabbed herself a fork before moving over to the kitchen table.

For a few moments Diana sat there in silence, poking at the noodles with her fork as she waited for the food to be ready for her to eat. Then she drew in a deep breath before she looked in the direction of the living room, at the back of the sofa Jack was in. "This might sound too hard to believe but Sid was actually kinda nice to Cosette and me. Yes he lied to her but at least he treated her with kindness and made sure she had everything she needed. And he never shouted at either one of us nor did he ever hit us or abuse us in anyway." Diana then swallowed and took in a deep breath before she continued as she turned her head too look back down at the bowl of noodles. "It's easy for you to put yourself on the high horse and judge me for my actions but you don't know the full story, you don't know anything about me and my life. You say Cosette has problems, well she's not the only one."
Diana's voice was soft and neutral the entire time she spoke but she poked fiercely with her fork at the noodles in front of her though once she had finished talking she still wrapped noodles around her fork and stuffed into her mouth.



Outfit



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As they exchanged blows, Zephyr could feel his own body groaning in protest... his ability really wasn't meant to be used this sort of action. He used the air in place of his own body when landing a lot of blows, letting the force come from that, otherwise he'd break his hands and feet fighting this hard. It was a matter of working out how to use his ability to go above and beyond his limitations. Sure, others were invulnerable, some shot lasers from their eyes, but Zephyr was the best for a reason. Perhaps the only reason the Challengers had not faced him before was that he had been needed elsewhere for the group.

His biggest assignment recently had been to clear out a large group people from the coast in India so that a team could go in and get to work removing some assets and such. He had worked up a hurricane, and quite a severe one, which prompted mass evacuations. The rest of the mission had been a success, but he hadn't really cared what the others did; he did his job, did it well, and was rewarded quite handsomely. What he didn't know was that it let OWC agents in to bug several secret military and nuke bases... again, he had not cared but still worked up an impressive display of power.

Now though, this fight had his interest above and beyond just wanting to have a bit of fun and get paid. He needed to not only prove he was better than this girl, but he was going to finally maybe see just how far he could push himself. Killing someone without getting up was all good and well, but it didn't say much. This fight... the OWC secret weapon was going to be in the public view, and they would fear him.

He went for a blow to her jaw, only to get caught with a wicked punch to the chest. Luckily for him, he was not really someone who you could knock the wind out of, as that would only open him up to getting ripped apart. She launched at him and he met her attacks, resulting in them colliding and disengaging once again.She blocked his kick before delivering a strong one of her own. He was so focused on keeping the force of it from killing him that he was launched practically across the city by it. As he swirled air around himself in a cushion, he painfully went through an old school rock and steel building, only for her to come and collide again with him.

He fought her off, blocking her attacks as they went through some more walls, landing in an office where a man had evidently been napping; hell of a way to wake up. He gave a startled cry, but neither hero nor villain frankly seemed to give a damn as they reengaged in their fight. He grabbed her by her neck and threw her out of the office before shooting off after her. She didn't hit the ground, instead she sunk into some shadows for a moment before rising up out of them, the tentacles staying with her. "That's so not a good look." he chuckled at her; even after all this he still was cracking jokes? What would it take for him to stop laughing and joking?

Then the tentacles shot at him, aiming no doubt to impale him and end him... fat chance. He disappeared into the air, before reappearing next to Nox, grabbing her by her throat and tossing her high up into the sky. An orb of swirling air appeared around her, crushing inwards and forcing her to use the shadows to not get enveloped. Sure, air might not crush her, but how long would she last caught in two hundred mile per hour winds? She would get ripped apart. the air was moving so fast that the clouds around them were pushed outwards, leaving an odd clear patch in the sky above London; they were quite high up at this point.

The orb disappeared and Zephyr appeared behind her, grabbing her cowl and throwing her hard by it; only for it to give away and for her to not be tossed quite as hard as he had intended, but still enough to send her flying through the air. Zephyr reappeared in front of her as she flew, delivering a crushing blow to send her flying down towards the Thames below, long ponytail whipping in the wind behind her. The water swirled under where she would have hit, except for she caught herself with her shadows. It kept her from getting wet, but it didn't look like it had left her in a very good spot. After all, looking around, she would see the water churning across the entire eight hundred foot width of the river...not a good sign.

Suddenly, the water ripped upwards all around her, multiple water spouts... no, water tornadoes, pulling up into the sky and swirling around her; Zephyr reformed high above her, looking down with his arms held wide. The churning water moved so quickly that the flow of the river was beginning to back up, and eventually start pushing the other direction. Multiple boats overturned, and traffic on nearby roads came to a quick stop at the sight of the massive swirling water tornadoes. More than a few people began to panic and flee, not wanting to get caught in whatever this was. After all, it could hardly be good... masses of shadows, tornadoes ripping through buildings? Hardly a good thing.

His arms were still held out wide, and he almost looked like a man on a cross, before he clapped his arms together and the water spouts followed suit; forty thousand gallons, one hundred and sixty tons of water coming crashing down on her. The sheer weight of the water would threaten to obliterate her, leaving no trace of a body to be found. Well, no recognizable trace.