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"Thank you. And if you really wanna get on my good side, you'll come and help out." Matt said.
Then without waiting for a reply he turned and charged through the gaps in the walls that he and the girl had created with their explosion. When he arrived in the room where Kiro was he saw his friend on his knees with the large muscular man standing over him.
Matt didn't even hesitate. He thrust his fist forward and unleashed a stream of fire that burst forth like a lance. He was careful to aim it directly at the enemy, and not at Kiro, though Kiro might get singed a bit anyway due to proximity.
"Get away from him!" Matt roared.

Hiro relaxed when the wave was disrupted. It seemed it had worked. He smirked at Xin's comment. "Heh, can't let them down on my first day on the team. Wouldn't look good on a resume or recommendation." he said. "Your persistence and molding skill is commendable." he said in admiration of his foe's abilities.

Using this moment to find an opening, Hiro's allies fired a volley. As much as he admired their abilities, they had a mission and that was to rescue a comrade. They were not going to just stand by and talk about their skills. They were there to stop them and take them out as soon as possible.

Hiro, now back to reality, readied himself and began to engage Xin in melee combat. "You know, I'd like to end this without having to kill anyone." he said as he began his attack. "We seem to gaining the upper hand. Would surrendering be an option?" he asked even though he was pretty certain of the response. Xin's comrades did not seem to be the surrendering type and there was really no reason why he would do the same.

Matt managed to avert his eyes from those of his enemy. Fortunately the dancing flames helped cast concealing shadows.
"Damnit, Kiro, you let him steal your super peepers!?" Matt exclaimed. "Alright you freak, let's do this. Finally, I get to burn one of you sons of bitches to charcoal."
As he said it Matt unleashed twin blazes at Ajax. One from each side, aimed to impact together on him.

Gene saw as the enemy archer drew and lined up a shot on him, but he was already committed. He lined up his shot a little bit more and fired his heavy bolt.

Malkin stepped up to the defeated warrior and brought his scimitar down through the back of his neck, decapitating him. He hated to desecrate the body of such a skilled warrior in death, but with these human experiments is seemed that there was no such thing as being too careful.
"Thank's for the assistance, Sven." Malkin said in his raspy voice. "I think we'd best move in and assist our other comrades."
That said Malkin turned and surveyed the battlefield. In only a moment he had assessed the situation and knew what he had to do.
"Sven, move in to assist Digo." Malkin said.
That said Malkin darted off, his fiendish speed eating up the distance between himself and his target. In a moment he arrived, breaking his scimitars into two weapons again and thrusting forward with a rushing stab at the chest of the woman that stood over Mathias.

Isaac was about to move in to recommence his battle with the enemy archer, but he saw that Gene was now in the midst of an archer duel with her. Knowing he'd only get in the way of that he decided to make himself useful elsewhere and ran over to where Hiro was engaging a man who appeared to have powers similar to Sven's. Isaac stepped into striking distance and set his halberd into an offensive spinning pattern as he neared the enemy.

TJ, seeing that Isaac was back to fighting fit, nocked another bolt on her crossbow, took aim, and fired at the enemy archer once again.

Digo continued to dodge and weave, running and running. He made sure not to put enough distance between himself and the fiend that it would grow bored and seek easier prey. He needed to keep its attentions on himself. He only hoped that one or more of his allies would be able to come to assistance very soon. He had already taken a couple of grazing hits, which his scales had partly protected him from. The burns were slowing his healing, though, and he felt as though too many of them would overwhelm his ability to recover.
The fiend swiped at him again with it's oversized flaming claws. Digo dropped straight down to the ground and the paw passed over him, though he could feel its heat along his back. The instant it was clear he rolled and leapt back to his feet, turning and running to put distance between them again.
Suddenly a series of spikes of ice thrust up from the ground at and angle and stabbed up at the fiend. Where they impacted they flashed to steam without actually making contact, but for a moment the flames along that portion of the beast had been extinguished. In only a moment the flames spread in from the rest of the creature's body and covered it in fire once again.
Digo looked over to see Sven off to one side with his hands against the ground, a layer of ice coating the ground around his hands and leading from there to where the spikes has erupted.
Digo was suddenly struck with an idea. But then realized he had no way to communicate it. His fiendish features rendered him incapable of speech. He could shift forms, which he would have to do for his plan to work anyways, but that would leave him vulnerable until he was able to shift again.
Damnit. He thought to himself. I don't think I have any other options.
Digo gestured at Sven until he got his attention and then pointed at the fiend. Sven looked confused but then nodded and started forming ice spikes that came at it form multiple directions.
Digo darted back and around the corner of a building. He began to shift back into his human form. As soon as his throat changed enough He called out.
"Kait! Kait, where are you!?" He yelled.
In a second she appeared at his side.
"What? You're not chickening out, are you?" She asked with a hint of her usual attitude, though Digo could tell she was unnerved.
"Do you have any daggers left?" He asked.
"Only a couple."
"That's good enough. If we do this right we really only need one."
"You have something in mind?"
"Yeah. When Sven hit that thing with his ice it put out its flames for a second. If you can cut it with one of your daggers while its extinguished then maybe we can make it bleed. And if we can make it bleed then I can even the playing field."
Digo watched as the reality of his plan dawned on Kait.
"Alright." She said, settling her features into determination. "I still say that ability of yours is unnatural and an abomination. But right now, it's also damn useful. Let's do this."

Will was right behind the dagger and he stepped up right next to the woman as she caught his dagger. His blade flashed out in a horizontal arc aimed to go under her arms and through her abdomen.

Matt was ready and took his hammer in his right hand, as he did it, too, erupted into searing flames. He kept his eyes on the man's torso, where he could watch his movements without having to look him in the eyes.

Mathias continued to pant, feeling the sweat trickling down his face and brow. He gritted his teeth as he reached to unfasten the buckles and straps holding his breastplate on. His movement would be too restricted in its ruined state and would be as helpless as a turtle on its back. Hfie had her chain and blade back in hand by the time he managed to drop the useless armor onto the ground and pushed back to his feet, still using the sword for balance.
"Yeah....pant pant...maybe..." Mathias brought his sword up into a cross body guard with both hands. He didn't think he could beat this woman anymore, but neither was he going to just lie down and die...

Drustwn had to give the girl credit, she wasn't afraid. When she darted forward, he advanced as well, but not as quickly. His arms remained nonchalantly at his sides until she was two steps away, then suddenly exploded into motion. His arms twisted this way and that, his blades weaving an intricate pattern around him. A web of steel that moved so quickly the motions appeared to become opaque flashed of light. If she got through this guard, he'd be impressed.

Hiro could feel the cold chill of the ice as it narrowly passed him. Flakes of frost sprinkled on his skin forcing goosebumps to form on his neck. Despite missing him, he felt a shiver within him knowing that to be injured by such a weapon would hurt more severely than a mere blade. He had to avoid touching it as much as possible, but with Xin's ability to create any weapon of his choice through ice, he was certainly at a disadvantage. He had to be smarter. More unpredictable. Understand his foe's moves before he could engage him further. The attacks thus far were merely tests. Both of them wished to know their enemy's capabilities, but one does not reveal all his secrets. The next would be more interesting.

After evading the ice blade Hiro brought his staff to his side. Then with a strong push of his legs he launched his body upward followed by thrusting the end of the staff toward Xin's body. Through the use of momentum and body mechanics in sequence, the end of the of the staff would reach tremendous speed.

Isaac had intended to step in on Hiro's fight with the water controller and assist, but the two were so engrossed in their combat that he knew there was no way he could really intrude. If he forced himself into middle of the fight there was just as much chance that he would get Hiro killed as there was that he would succeed in killing the enemy.
Instead Isaac stepped back and began hurriedly reloading his flintlock.

As soon as Gene saw the shot enter the woman's skull he dropped his ballista to one side, stood, kicked his bow back up into his hands, nocked another arrow, and spun about looking for the next target.
It seemed that the majority of their enemies had been felled. Only Hiro's opponent remained in sight, though Gene could hear the sounds of battle still taking place elsewhere. It looked as though Hiro had his battle well in hand, and Isaac was already standing in reserve. Gene decided to investigate the other sounds.

TJ likewise surveyed the battlefield. Though it was not entirely over it appeared that things had favored them significantly. The enemy was down to one, in sight. And the Corps. members had not lost a single person. Her gaze fell on Mathias and saw him struggling with a bleeding injury.
TJ ran over to him and sliced her index finger with one of her thumb talons. She stuck the finger up in front of his face, blood already welling up and running down her hand.
"Drink this." She commanded.

Kait ran out form behind cover, moving in closer to the flaming fiend. The monster was still keeping itself busy trying to kill Sven. The beast didn't bear a single visible injury and it's entire body was still wreathed in blazing flames. Sven, on the other hand, while not injured was dripping sweat and gasping for breath as he continually made walls of ice to protect himself and attempting in vain to pierce into the fiend with spires of ice that thrust up from the ground and burst into steam on contact. The battlefield was becoming obscured in a thick veil of the roiling steam. Perfect.
Kait moved unnoticed around the edges of the battlefield, through the ruins of the building that had been about, many of which were now on fire. She assumed that Digo had already moved to their agreed upon rendezvous point. Once she was in position she waited, watching.
The beast attacked. Sven called up a thick wall of ice between them. The beast collided with it. The wall cracked and broke even as it burst into a could of steam. The beasts flames were extinguished momentarily. Then the blazed back to life. As the beast recoiled from the impact with the wall Sven struck, forming spikes of ice that thrust up from the ground to drive into the beast sides and belly. But eh spikes flash melted into vapor even as they hit, robbing them of their piercing power and most of heir impact.
This cycle repeated twice before Kait made her move.
The beast attacked. Sven defended. The beast recoiled. Sven struck. The flames extinguished. Kait struck into the beast exposed flank with one of her few remaining daggers, slicing into its flesh and darting away even as the flames flared back up.
Holding the dagger Kait made to run for her meeting point with Digo when she suddenly felt an excruciating pain in her hand. She glanced down and saw that the beasts blood had run down the dagger and was burning into her hand. She grit her teeth and growled her pain through them as she ran. It took her only seconds to get to the meeting point.
"Guah!!" She screamed out and held out the dagger to Digo. "Take the damn thing! Quick!"
"Sorry, Kait." Digo said.
Then he leaned forward and licked some of the blazing hot blood off of the dagger.
Kait dropped the dagger and clutched at her burned hand. Then stepped back and looked on in awe and even a bit of fear as Digo put the blood to use.

Malkin darted off again as soon as his victim fell. He saw that all of the remaining opponents were either fallen or occupied. All but one. One of the enemies remained standing right where she had been the entire time the battles had raged around her. Well, Malkin was not about to leave a single one of these kidnappers and assassins standing while he still drew breath.
Adjusting his course Malkin's fiendish speed ate up the distance and he quickly closed upon the lone figure.

Will gave no response when his opponent declared that she was going to end their battle. Other than to ready his sword and prepare himself. He was fairly sure he knew what was coming next. He thought back on his many sparring sessions with Matt and formulated a quick plan. If it didn't work there was no way he'd be able to make her fall for it again. He'd have to be perfect.

Matt knew his gauntlets wouldn't be able to stop that weapon, maybe his hammer. If he wanted it smashed into himself. He saw only one course of action left open to him. He charged in recklessly.
Matt threw himself at Ajax, which he hoped would put him to far inside the arc of the sword for it to really hit him. But the real reason he did it was because he wanted to make the sunovabitch BURN. As Matt jumped forward he unleashed the full power of his flames. His entire body erupted into a column of searing crimson fire tinged blue at its uppermost fringes, which licked across the ceiling.
"Burn!!" Matt screamed in Ajax's face as he flew towards him.

Mathias crossed his eyes to stare at the bloody finger shoved under his nose and blanched," What!? Ewww, no way!"
He was about to tell TJ just how disgusting her suggestion was when her expression darkened and she thrust her finger into his mouth, slathering a good bit of blood onto his tongue. Mathias swallowed reflexively before he could start sputtering and coughing. His protests of indignation died on his tongue when he realized the pain in his shoulder was receding. He worked his arm experimentally and found that in jut a few moments he had full motion back, and no pain. He smiled broadly and nodded to TJ, who just snorted and turned to see to any others.
Mathias heard the last opponent speak and walk amongst them and felt immediately wary. He'd barely survived his own opponent, and hadn't been able to defeat her. This one seemed unconcerned that she was totally outnumbered and surrounded. Mathias had a sinking feeling this wasn't going to turn out well...

Drustwn watched Liora collapse and relaxed his stance, still shaking his head sadly. At that moment he heard the other woman call out angrily and turned to see her slash toward William with an enormous sword made out of flames. Drustwn exploded into motion, sprinting towards Wilhelmia with blades held low ready to lift in either attack or defense. He didn't think he would make it in time to save William from her attack, but if not, she'd be wide open...

((OOC: Hey Kiro. What are those Axis moniters up to? We haven't seen them in a little bit.))