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His first attack apparently missed, and that was fine- just wanted to give the guy something else to think about. Hands clenched to a sudden close... this guy had to be slowed down a bit for anything to matter. Range was horrible... get in close and do the deed was his way. So with the energy he'd started to accumulate, Lazenca started to run forward to the Viceroy. For now the thermite was forgotton, though when the fire started he'd start up again.

Which was when Nascen came back into play. Even as he couldn't see the buildings anymore, he could feel the one he was ontop of, and he gripped a water spout and slid rapidly down the side, "yee"-ing and "youch"-ing as it left a few small but painful cuts on his hands before he made it to the land again, wiping the blood off and focusing on his target again.

Only they had even more help now, and as the team's mode of support, that was great, even if they weren't his team anymore.
They were the worlds team now. cool

Or at least, that's what he told himself, finding a good vantage point off to the side, taking up his job of looking for openings again. Instead of going for the Viceroy, he took after keeping the people there to do it for him safe, starting with a pulse impact shot from the palm of his left hand, directed right at tossing the hurtling chunk of rubble away from its current course, tossing the thing off to one side several meters, only about four if it was a big-big chunk, more, maybe up to almost ten meters if it's mass wasn't more than a touch over that of a human's. In anycase, the point was that the single directional shockwave slid him back a part of an inch and would throw the rock away and stop it striking the wolf-ice guy.

Hey, the world was the world, and while it was at stake it and a lot of other things besides were too, and the only guys he'd call an enemy at time like this consisted mostly of the fella' trying to kill them all and destroy it right now.

Of course, Nascen's pulse impact shot was accompanied by the normal sizable boom of sound too, and in this case some small amount of blood spraying from his hand onto the earth in front of him, so as soon as he'd safe guarded that part of the offensive side's safety, he went running to find himself a new vantage point to take up his work from.

Owle grinned as she heard the voice in her mind. There he was.

Wrong answer, she sent to him, and began to send out her snakes, seeking out his connections to Leon's body, trying to prise them apart. She didn't usually do this sort of thing to an unwilling mind, so who knew if it would work, but at least it might distract the Viceroy somewhat, maybe make it harder to control Leon's muscles.

She spared a single snake, just one single snake, to talk to the other telepath.

There's a lot worth saving here... she sent to Alex. You just got to keep looking for it.

She didn't intend to pry too deeply into the other woman's pain. That would be too rude. But if the other telepath was going to help this freak, Owle might have no choice.

((Would Owle get any inkling that a good part of Alex's anger/pain/sadness had to do with Sejai's death?))

Athan was hardly in position to charge or really do anything at the point. The Viceroy was charging, and Athan's sword was held above his head. So what was there to do?

Whether it was a sudden change of heart or Athan was just lucky, it was unknown.

But as the Viceroy drew near (since this is occuring before the sword comes down, I'm assuming that Athan has just recently gained his footing), Athan's weight was just recently coming forward.

This gave him a second option, and seeing as how he was going to be floored and scorched if he didn't, Athan was willing to take the given opportunity. His right foot suddenly left the ground, knee coming forward and out on a collision course with the area just below the Viceroy's sternum as he whipped past. The knee would likely strike the Viceroy before the clothesline, and given his speed, send him up and over and onto his back.

Sure, Athan looked goofy as the sword was held above his head, but it was in perfect position. Should the Viceroy land prone, the sword would follow. It wouldn't be an accurate stab by any means, as it would be directed behind Athan, but it was still a threat.

"MY FOREST!" Kit cried, watching as the thermite start burning the trees.

He felt like crying.

Instead, he growled an angry growl and put his gun away. He replaced it with a dagger in each hand. The angry kitsune watched as mister "Viceroy" charge at Athan. If that hit lands, which he knew probably will, he'll get in a shot as well...

Edit:
Probably at the man's side, he was watching this thing to the right of the whole conflict.

Well if Alexiel had to trick herself into sympathizing with Viceroy, she sure as hell wasn't having any problems with it because she was indeed exposed to the chaotic energies. She could feel herself crossing over further to the dark side and there was more than that... She felt so much more aware. It was rather invigorating.

As the flames were fueled once again, Alex stepped back from a lashing tendril that bit at her jacket. The jacket however was unaffected. Apparently death by fire wasn't much of a problem for her thanks to her flame resistant jacket.

And then there was that other telepath chick. In her head. This annoyed her. 'There's nothing worth keeping that I can see...' Seeing, speaking of that, Alexiel's pupils seemed to have dilated after her exposure to the chaos energies.

Two more rocks would go flying as Alex concentrated on defending Viceroy, one at Laz again and the other at Athan.