Log:Lightning Tag, scene 4, Scene 1

Lightning Tag, scene 4 2012/12/08 	 Star Girl 1

Mega Mall consists of three stories of shops with a gigantic International Food Court in the center, along with a wide variety of other services required by shoppers as they traverse through the large zigzagging corridors. Overhead, large bulletproof lexan skylights let in the natural light of daytime, while full spectrum bulbs are attached around the ceilings to provide light on those sunless days. The floor is made of a special plasti-rubber material that reduces customer fatigue with walking around the shopping mecca. At the end of each corridor, a Mall Directory has been provided to help customers navigate through the mall easily. Stairs, escalators and a glass bubble elevator transport people to the three different levels. Benches are scattered about for tired shoppers to rest on, and in the very center of the food court, is an artificial waterfall and pond. Even in this day and age, people still throw coins into the fountain. On the far end of the Food Court is an entertainment area with a raised stage.

For those who monitor the Maximum Rush website there is a flash announcement that live streaming is about to start, and for those who aren't already members, they're finally told of where the next event is going to be: The Mega Mall in Colonial Bay! It promises that there will be excitement galor for those lucky individuals who can make it for ring side seats!

Of course, the Holiday shopping season is still going on, people buying from now until the after christmas sales really. That means the Mall is /packed/ and there is a lot of risk for innocent bystanders to be hurt.

Those already at the mall might catch murmurs of excitement, and perhaps panick as the area around the fountain is being cleared of people, and obstacles. A woman who is apparently glowing almost to bright to look at is spinning around in the air, sending beams of light cutting through the floor to make a circular ring some thirty meters across. After the ring is created she gestures and bleachers made of solid light form for the onlookers! Meanwhile a woman dressed in dark clothing ensures people get their seats for those who want to stay and watch!

Dawn: An absolutely stunning young woman, when people think of california beach volleyball, she would be the postergirl for it. Long blond hair flows freely, buxom and yet toned. She wears a golden bodysuit that seems to radiate light of it's own instead of shadows, there are highlights.

Dusk: Beautiful as well, but dark instead of light. Slender and fit instead of buxom. Long black hair is worn in a tight braid and she wears a cloth mask over the top half of her face. Her outfit is more in line with a ninja than with anything else. She carries a pair of long straight angled blades, overly-long ninja-to's or straight katana's would be the closest approximation. The blades are golden and shimmer, the handles black, and there is a long thin chain connecting them at the pommels.

"This is crazy," Star Girl says, arriving at the mall and seeing all of the people here. She got the Maximum Result flash announcement and called Longbow to meet her here as well.

Utility is flying through the air once again, with Toby piggybacking on her as they arrive at one of the main entrances to the mall. "Keeps getting better and better." Utility says, "First someone starts a meta fight, and then they host the next one in the mall. Apparently -someone's- more interested in getting hits on youtube than they are in making a safe match." she says as she starts to walk in.

Longbow is actually right behind her. "Why should we fight then if they only want entertainment?" He asks. "They've made the ring close range... detestable."

Most people who live in Colonial Bay are smart enough to /not/ take a seat at the bleachers made of solid light. There are of course, more than enough who /will/ take a seat and so the 'stands' are filling up making it all the more dangerous!

Meanwhile Dusk and Dawn are playing to the crowd, "How long will it be before our so called 'heroes' will arrive to try and stop our performance?" Dawn is doing the speaking, Dusk is doing calisthenic flips and the like, performing various martial arts kata and waving for the crowd to get loud.

Longbow looks at dusk, observing, watching her. He seems interested in her, just standing in the shadows watching from afar.

Star Girl looks to Longbow. "Let's see if we can get the idiot bystanders out of here, before anyone gets hurt, ok?" She leaps towards the makeshift ring. She perches, one story up, clinging to the side of a support pillar. "Alright people! Please leave the area in an orderly fashion... It's not safe here!"

Warlock arrives a little later than the rest of the heroes, mainly because she doesn't have any exceptionally fast means of transport. And because she had to change into her armor without getting caught changing into her armor. As she arrives she looks around, taking note of those heroes whom have made their presence known, and the villains as they are. She walks up behind Utility and says loud enough to carry, "I do no think that people will listen yes?" Her european accent as thick as ever.

Meanwhile a few people clear out, but most of those who are going to leave have already done so. There's about a hundred and fifty people in the stands who start /booing/ at Star Girl! "C'mon give us a show!" "What are you /scared/ of them?!" and a chant of "Maximum! Rush!" starts amongst the bleachers.

Dusk and Dawn however look over towards Star Girl and Dawn laughs, "Awww come on down!" She swings her arm in a wild exagerrated wave, "Quit using those people as shields!" And Dusk starts getting the 'Boo's' started again pointing at Star Girl.

Okay that's not kind. Longbow seems very annoyed by this, well sorta, he always seems calm, just those who get him know this is annoying him. His longbow is present and he is leaning on it plinking the string a bit waiting. Oh he's waiting... plotting. He notices Warlock enter. "Then they can suffer their choices consquences later. For now they want a show, and we should deny them."

( I'm not scared of them, you dummies, I'm trying to protect you... ) O o. Star Girl drops down from her perch into the ring, landing lightly on her feet in front of Dusk and Dawn. She folds her arms in front of herself, and she tries her best impersonation of Force's bravado. "Ok. If you two quit now, then we're just talking about vandalism. If you don't quit, we're going to have to take you in."

As Star Girl jumps down into the 'ring' as it were the crowd goes wild, "Well we have our first contestant!" Dawn announces, "While those other so called heroes stand back and let this poor girl try and take us on by herself!" The crowd boo's! Meanwhile the glow around Dawn brightens and three golden disks of light form around her and start circling of their own accord. Dusk laughs and pulls her swords out and starts spinning them around like a manriki guisari, the chain lengthening and shortening apparently at will!

Longbow sighs, .o0(Dammit Star. I'm going to hurt you then apologize for it.) He reaches into his quiver and fires an arrow at Dusk, A nice, single target arrow.

As the arrow comes flying in Dusk spins one end of her sword around and she then wings it forwards, the chain lengthening as the helocoptering blade flips around in front of Dawn, catching the arrow and rendering it harmless before she whips the blade back near her!

Longbow thinks. o 0 (I have their attention now, and now what?)

As the arrow comes in Dawn doesn't even try to flinch away, apparently trusting Dusk to protect her. She laughs though, "Oh look, there is someone who wants to play the game! Don't you worry studio audience, Maximum Rush cares about your safety!" And Dawn spins around in the air, growing brighter before she spreads an arm out and then /throws/ a beam of light right at Longbow like it was a javelin!

The javelin whistles past Longbow and lances into the ground, /melting/ a hole in the ground!

"Your aim is off." He chuckles.

Warlock leaps forwards and into the 'ring' closing the distance on Dusk since she's the one trying to protect Dawn. As she closes Warlock is silent and when she gets there she plants her left foot, spins, right foot lifting in a beautiful circle kick right towards Dusk's face!

Dusk twists to the side, throwing up the chain between her swords to catch Warlocks foot and with a spin she throws the kick away from her.

Star Girl lifts her hands to take aim at Dawn. "Having a fight in the middle of a crowded mall in the holiday season... that's your idea of safety?" She tries to hit Dawn with a blue-white beam of energy.

Dusk whips her sword on it's chain forwards again, trying to block and disperse Star Girl's energy blast but she's unable to compensate. Third time's the charm for the heroes, of a sort anyways. As it is the energy blast still goes wide however, Dawn easily avoiding the energy blast with a laugh. "Tut tut. Have to try better than that."

Star Girl says, "I don't get it... aren't you guys supposed to be, like, fighting each other?"

Longbow calls out "Your Aim isn't much better!"

Rushing into the mall, Utility arrives in the center amongst dusk and dawn saying, "Alright, fine. You want a show? Might as well, the sooner we finish this the less people get hurt." as she fires off a plasma burst towards Dawn.

Right before the plasma blast would hit all three disks circling Dawn converge on that very point, overlapping and dispersing much of the plasma before it hits the golden girl. Still what gets through is enough to send her spilling backwards, though she ends up on her feet and the crowd goes 'Oooooh!' and 'Ahhh!'.

Longbow notches his bow back and fires an arrow towards Dawn now that she's a bit away from Dusk, the arrow of course being single target. They accuse the heroes of using body shields but rather they themselves are using them. Ah, but blindness and deafness can be cured, maybe another shot, this is jsut for fun.

As another arrow comes in Dusk spins her swords around and again she throws a blade, controlling it through the chain as it spins in the air and the golden blade flashes like a shield, dispersing yet another arrow before it would hit Dawn. After all, whatever it is can't be good for them!

Dawn however is laughing, "Oooh that one's got claws." She spins around again and again, glowing brighter as she lifts off in the air before she wings out a burst of beams, one for each hero!

As the beam hits it literally sucks the energy right out of people, converting their energy into light leaving them glowing momentarily! It's actually quite pleasant in feeling though, tingly, exhausting, but, tingly.

Longbow hmmms. "Interesting. If you wanted to leave me warm and tingly there are other ways madam."

Star Girl dives forward, out of the way of the beams. She executes a combat roll and pops back up to her feet, ready to move.

Longbow takes aim but doesn't fire yet. He sits waits and watches to see what the enemy will be doing. Snide remarks aside he falls silent with his bow.

Dawn dodges out of the way of Utility's claw strike while she laughs at Longbow's comment, "Sorry buddy, I'm already taken and you don't have the equipment to flip my switch anyways." She spins around again and now she /does/ fly up into the air, still spinning before she throws a thick beam of light at Utility! "No touchy now!"

Longbow fires an arrow as Dawn prepares to fire, to strike her while she's airborn gives certian bonuses, and her increased distance from teh other also gives benefits. The idea, seperation.

As Longbow fires another arrow Dusk spins around again and then she wings one of her swords outwards towards the magical attack. The chain lengthens and lengthens and lengthens as the spinning sword intercepts the arrow again before Dusk yanks the chain back to her and spins around, catching the blade!

Meanwhile, Dawn's blast is very well aimed indeed!

Utility falls back as the beam pierces her, and she seems quite out of it, "Nngh..." she says, still dazed as she tries to get her bearings... She doesn't look quite like she's going to be ready for a few more moments, though

Warlock frowns as Dusk seems to be so intent on protecting Dawn and even at this distance. She does the only reasonable thing she can do in this situation is to try and make it so Dusk can no longer protect Dawn. She gathers up her own internal energy, planting her feet as eldritch green energy flows over her arms and then towards her hands, she throws her arms forwards, throwing a blast at short range right at Dusk!

Star Girl speeds over towards Utility. She spins and fans her fingers, shooting a flurry of blastlets at Dusk. "Block this!" she says.

Star Girl turns and calls over her shoulder to Longbow. "Let's take this one out of the fight!"

Dusk tries to block the energy blast from Warlock as it comes in, spinning her sword around to try and disperse it but the eldritch blast is only partially deflected. It clips her shoulder and sends her flying backwards. She flips and spins in the air, landing on her feet with a smirk.

Then Star Girl throws those blastlets and Dusk brings up her swords, parrying several but not enough and she gets caught in the energy blast and thrown into the bleachers with a smack! She hits the ground, not out of it but just bouncing from the impact really!

The crowd however is on their feet cheering like it was a major sports event! Boo's of course also go on as people have their favorites!

Longbow changes targets to the proned Dusk. "Roger." He says launching an arrow with a samll fun explosive charge to detonate in her face. The charge will release a blinding light and a deafening boom for those are close range to it. His face reads nothing but those who know Longbow, this is about tog et serious.

As the arrow goes off with a FLASH and a BANG the crowd nearest is blinded and deafened... and they panic like crazy! People stagger around blindly, others starting to fall off the bleachers from both sides, some spilling into the ring and others falling off the back side! As to the effect against Dusk... well, lets just say she doesn't seem to be bothered.

As the flash bang goes off Dawn frowns, "Oh good job! You just hit civilians!" She announces to the crowd, and the cameras! "Dusk watch out for the civilians!" She calls out and then she spins around in the air, unleashing a /massive/ beam at Longbow! Dusk however sighs and mutters in japanese how she can't hear a thing anymore!

Dusk flips back to her feet and announces, "Dawn, I can't hear you." And then she throws her sword up towards a support pillar and yanks herself back over by Dawn! Landing gracefully she spins around and then she waits, her swords spinning around her as she gracefully flows through her kata.

Star Girl fades from sight as she activates her stealth systems. She jumps up to a pillar and crouched there, trying to get an angle on Dawn that neither she nor Dusk would expect.

Warlock frowns as the standoff continues, "We can no allow dis to continue yes? We must bring Dusk down so she no protect Dawn, then Dawn be vulnerable no?" And so she runs forwards, sliding slightly past Dusk she tries to grab and throw the other woman to the ground!

Dusk easily entangles Warlocks hands at the wrists with the chain in between her swords, spinning she flings her arms out, sending Warlock spinning slightly, but Dusk is very much not thrown.

Star Girl reappears from her perch and tries a full power blast, hoping to catch both Dawn and her protector off-guard. ZAAM!

It's a good try but Dusk is apparently, insanely fast, as she spins around, flips her sword around and flings it up to catch the energy blast before it would hit Dawn and scatters the energy in all directions harmlessly!

Star Girl thinks. o O ( #@$... that was my best shot, and she blocked it easily. )

Longbow is hurting but he won't relent. "Those foolish to want to watch potentially lethal sport have accepted consequences. I find your protective services lacking. You failed to calculate any risks of desbris or anything else. You, madams, are imbiciles." He fires towards Dusk. She'll freaking stop blocking his arrows SOME TIME.

Star Girl's eyes shift to a car on display, just outside the barrier. o O ( Tempting... )

Dusk tries to block the arrow but she amazingly, doesn't get her sword in the way this time, however, the arrow misses wide anyways to smash into the bleachers behind Dusk!

Dawn continues to focus on Longbow, even as his arrow goes and smashes into the bleachers, destroying a chunk of them and sending people falling to the ground as solid light fades out from under them! That gets big booos from remaining crowd as people who couldn't see can now see again and Longbow is not getting any fans! In fact people start throwing stuff at him! It's mostly refuse, nothing painful but... on the other hand, Dawn spins again and again, glowing brighter and brighter before she throws out /both/ hands in a truly massive mega-beam at Longbow!//

Well damn, Today ain't Longbows day as he is sent flying through a wall, rolling and falling unconscious somewhere in Victoria's Secret.

Dusk continues to whirl her blades around and as Longbow goes down she turns her attention towards... the other fallen hero, the one who is about to get up! She considers for a moment but then changes her mind, "Dawn downed combatant is about to get up." She warns her friend. She spins one of her swords around over her head and perhaps in arrogance, or overconfidence, since hero's are starting to fall she swings her sword at Warlock while she is so close!

Warlock throws her armored forearms up into the path of the descending sword, metal clashes on metal and sparks fly but Warlock smiles, saying, "You just gave up advantage had chovexani." And she grins wickedly.

Star Girl turns and tries to rain down bolts of energy on Dusk, from her elevated position.

Star Girl says, "Got her. Let's finish her off!"

Dusk gets tagged and sent flying across the ring and into the bleachers where she hits and hits the ground again! She shakes her head, but is already starting to recover! She is one tough japanese woman!

Utility rushes towards dawn as she says, "This match is over!" as she gathers a great deal of plasma into her hands, before firing it off at Dawn in quite an impressive blast!

Star Girl thinks. o O ( Damnit... Longbow, I hope you're alright. )

Longbow gurgles.

Utility's blast is caught by the three spinning light shields but even still it sends Dawn flying up into the air with a shriek, directly up, and through a skylight which rains shards of glass from above after Dawn flies through it! Already she starts to fall!

Dawn falls and falls and then catches herself a scant few meters from the ground, reorienting herself as she looks down at her costume which is thankfully, not torn or ripped by the glass or the plasma blast. "I'm ok!" She calls out to what remains of the crowd, and no doubt the camera's that are streaming all of this to the net! She then focuses her gaze on Utility, "Let's see how you like it!" And she starts to spin and spin, generating another massive energy blastthis time aimed at Utility but f the same sort that flattened Longbow!

The massive energy beam smashes into Utility, sending her into the bleachers where she hits and then hits the ground, completely out of it. Leaving Star Girl, and Warlock vs Dusk and Dawn... But then... Toby finally arrives! And maybe even Bard, if he can get his ass to the mall in time.

Did someone mention show? Well dang! then a show shall be given Enter Marcus Bard looking at the hole that Utility was sent through he goes 'oooohh' as if feeling that pain. "So what did I miss?" he asks the chewed out bleachers and the staggering deafed people. "I always miss the fun, don't I?" the handsome man pouts.

Toby fumbles at the last second and sends the sphere flying /way/ off target.

Dusk flips to her feet and then once again throws her chain into a support beam to pull herself across the ring and over towards Warlock, "Perhaps you are right hai. Thank you for advice." And she flashes a smile at Warlock, spinning her swords around and preparing to defend Dawn again no doubt!

Bard sees that Dusk is spinngin her weapon around. "Hey You! No! Stop that before you hurt one of these people who are still walking around! You two lovely girls and... you in the mask. As well as you the flying pink thing should know better than to fight this close to the proximity of others with these kind of powers! Now put those weapons way before someone without powers gets hurt like that!" His voice is like a rich chocolate, so tempting to just listen to it. So tempting to just... Put the weapon down. especially for Dusk

Dusk does /not/ put down her weapon, though she hesitates for half a second! "Mentalist!" She shouts to Dawn and she immediately lashes out with her sword, throwing it at Bard!

Sliding to the sid ewith a Micheal Jackson-esque twirl Bard avoids the attack by Dusk holding his hat dramatically and peering with one eye from under the brim. "Technically yes. Masinfestation of will would classify me as a mentalist would it not?" He is posed seductively, because why not, camera's love that crap!

Warlock blinks as Bard does his thing and she frowns .oO (Seriously? What the hell does he think he's doing? Ah, mentalist... note to self, castrate if end up in bed with that man.) Still she's got other things to take care of, like the fact that Dusk has once again left herself open! Warlock reaches out to try and grab hold of Dusk and in the same fluid motion put her down into the ground!

And Dusk hits the ground hard! Bam. Flat on her back!

The guys in the bleachers, yeah, they're starting to bail. They know better than to stay when the bleachers are getting destroyed. Except for a few holdouts...

Star Girl leaps down from her perch, landing close to Dusk. She tries hauling the swords woman up onto her feet, pinning her arms behind her.

Even as Star Girl grabs hold and starts to squeeze the swords and chains are wrapping back around Star Girls arms and wrists, exerting counter pressure so that the squeeze isn't as strong as it should be!

"Gah!" Star Girl gasps in surprise as the chains get all grabby.

Dawn frowns and then she starts to spin in the air again, glowing brighter and brighter and brighter and as she holds her hands over her head a brilliant ball of light forms! She spins around and then comes to a stop, throwing the ball down at the ground where it explodes in a brilliant flash of light! "Lets finish this Dusk I'm getting bored. I want the points for all of them so we can take the lead too."

Dusk assumes that the flash must have blinded them all as she nods towards Dawn, "Drop that mentalist, I'll take care of this one." And she doesn't try to break out of the grab, instead, she drives her head back trying to break Star Girl's nose!

"Nff! Ow!" Star says as Dusk butts her in the nose. Her eyes start to tear up immediately. "God... A little help here please."

Bard is not bound by the need for eyes, but he is bound by the need for clever comments. "Ah, leaving so soon? And I'm hurt you fine ladies don't know little old me. Name is Marcus. Marcus Bard, known meta, yadda yadda. I'm just known for my music." he walks forward without being hampered by the fact he is blinded and closing his eyes. "I do everything from classical to modern dupstep. I'm very fond of... Dropping the bass." With a snap of his finger a bass pulse issues from him towards Dawn who is flying.

Dawn goes flying over towards the food court where she smashes into the Orange Julius stand. Orange juice goes all over the place, people who weren't involved in the fight or even watching the fight scatter. The orange julis stand is totalled and the Panda Express isn't faring much better! Dawn shakes her head after all of that and she grins to herself, her light shields having protected her from the worst of it!

Bard calls out. "Oh, while you're at the food court can you pick me up some Kung Pow chicken?"

Toby covers her eyes just after she gets blinded. "Augh!" She calls out. Toby notes Satrlight and tries to get over to Dusk and Star ASAP.

Warlock is blinded like most everyone else but she was already right /there/ when it went down! She can hear the struggles and she tries to get a sense of who is where before she snaps a kick out towards Dusk!

Warlock of course, misses, unable to connect with the kick as she is blinded!

Star Girl tries her best to hold onto Dusk. "Guys! Over here!" she says. "Can't... hold her for long..!"

Dusk grits her teeth together, not only because of the pressure being placed on her even as her swords and the chain between them reduce that, but also because she /can/ see Dawn go flying and she is /not/ happy. "They can't help you now." She hisses to Star Girl quietly, "You're all going down. It's going to be a shutout."

"What is it with you people and this stupid game," Star grumbles back. "What do you get out if it?"

Dawn starts to glow brilliantly and in a flash she is in the air, not even slowed down by the fact that she was flattened. As a matter of fact, she even closes the distance to land right behind Star Girl! She spins around, and around, gathering up another mass of brilliant light before she stops and thrusts both her hands towards Star Girls back, unleashing a thick blast! "Dusk, you take care of the mentalist. I'll take care of the others honey."

The beam goes blasting through where Star Girl used to be and narrowly NARROWLY misses her! The beam of light tears into the bleachers across the way in a monstrous blast of pure energy!

Now that she has been let free Dusk flips away from the blast of light and heat, as well as where Star Girl miss invisible is, or maybe was, she doesn't know, but she does know something she can do! She flips her swords around her by their chains, spinning them faster and faster and faster before she drops into a throwing motion, propelling the sword and chain before her at speed! The golden blade flickers, leaving an afterimage nobody can see behind it as she tries for her primary target, Bard, but hey maybe she can get Star Girl too!

Toby shakes her head, and just remains where she is for the time being.

Warlock frowns, not saying anything at all, trying to hear what's going on, not wanting to distract herself by the sound of her own voice in all thats going on. But, people have moved, and nobody is close enough to her for her to do /anything/ at all. So she just, waits, listening, trying not to get pounded or look to foolish

Bard is torn at by the attack revealing his toned body free of unsightly hair. "Now-now if you wanted my shirt off me so bad, you could have asked." hE teases before snapping his fingers again at Dawn. "There is just too much time to be had with you, why you have to waste it so? How about afterwards you two and I go catch dinner somewhere? sound good? MY treat~!" This pulse is less' throw them a mile' and more 'ouchy ouchy nono good'

Dusk isn't about to let Dawn get blasted by sound again and so she spins and throws her sword, the chain extend and she pulls the chain just /so/ to send the blade spinning where it deflects the soundwaves and disperses them before she pulls it back to herself, ready to continue blocking!

Bard claps. "Wonderful! Wonderful! So much style so much fun! You know, if I didn't already know we were I'd be guessing that you were a fighter for a show."

Dawn rolls her eyes at Bard, "You know... men like you are the reason why I started dating my own gender." She spins around and around glowing brighter and brighter and the light slides up into her hands before she suddenly stops, flinging her hands out she sends beams of light at Bard, Warlock, and Toby! Not Star Girl though, because she can't see her. Which works in Star Girl's favor, this time!

Bard slides to the side. "I'm told that a lot actually. But so fun to see your responses. Are you two a thing? Oh that's wonderful1"

As the light hits Toby and Warlock, both start to feel themselves getting hot, waves of heat leaving their skin tingly and a euphoric feeling as an aftereffect! It's not so much painful, as pure pleasurable hot exhaustion! Well. Normally. Anyways.

Warlock slumps to her knees with a gasp, apparently zapped enough to be taken out of it at least momentarily!

Toby yelps as she's hit by the blast. Her body turns a bright red color, and she falls to the ground. After a couple of seconds, she returns to her normal pink color. Toby just kind of lays there, unconscious.

As heroes start to fall Dusk is not amused, in fact she's glaring daggers at Bard as she spins her swords around her. "You should run pretty boy. You can't win this and I may emasculate you just to save women everywhere when you're down."

Star Girl picks up a bit of chipped marble floor, knocked loose in the fighting. She wings it sidearm behind Dusk, trying to get it to skip across the ground and catch Dusk's attention. She reappears silently, hoping to catch Dusk by surprise from a different angle.

Those swords seem to have a mind of their own, they get in the way of the blast but it's not enough, not enough to protect Dusk completely. ZAM! Dusk goes flying through the air and smashes into the bleachers head first with a sickening crunch before she hits the ground with a grunt of pain. Amazingly, even after all of that.. Dusk is /still/ starting to get up!

Bard slides forward next to Dawn. "Oh hello there. So It seems that your friend is... Out over there.... BROFIST!" He calls throwing a fist that vrrr's violently with gathered sound energy.

Amazingly Dusk even down as she is is still aware, and she grabs her swords and while prone she manages to spin them enough to give them enough momentum to throw the blade out in the way! She yanks the chain and it causes the blade to spin, the flat of it blocking Bard's attack and protecting Dawn! No wonder Monolith wanted to team with either Dusk or Dawn instead of Freak!

"Bravo Bravo, defending until the end! so enduring so, captivating! I could sing volums on this!" Bard smiles though his attack is blocked as if he wanted to see if Dusk could.

Dawn is in a bit of a predicament, Bard is right there, in her face, and Star Girl is obviously quite dangerous with her blasts judging by how Dusk is practically flattened off to the side. She smiles as Dusk protects her even still and she starts to spin, she doesn't even /say/ anything, she's just spinning, spinning, spinning and glowing ever brighter... before she unleashes a seriously huge beam at Bard!

Bard slams into teh bleachers leaving a dent but seeming fairly unharmed. "Oh,hoho!" He says a small sweat giving him a nice glistening sheen."Wonderful display." HE chuckles in teh tangled metal mess.

Dusk flips to her feet and starts spinning her blades again, the chain whirling as the golden swords spin spin spin, whirl. She uses another throw the sword into a support beam and pull herself over towards Dusk trick so she is standing side by side with her companion. A flick of the wrist yanks the sword down out of the roof and then without further ado she whirls it with a spin and flings it straight at Star Girl! Cuz, she totally earned it.

Star Girl cries out as she gets flattened by the blade strike.

As Star Girl finally goes unconscious it leaves only two heroes left, Bard, and Warlock, who are both now not blind! Yay! But Dawn is ready to strike again! It's clear who the more dangerous threat is, the guy who doesn't care about being blind of course. While he's still prone from smashing into the bleachers Dawn starts to spin, "Time to end this." She says to herself and the glow begins, another large beam of energy gathering up before she comes to a stop and flings the blast at Bard!

Warlock is pretty much on her own at this point, everyone is down and probably out, except her. Both villains are still up and things are looking grim, to put it mildly. "Well, now that they are out of the way yes?" She smiles and eldritch green energy begins to flow over her arms and to her hands, it drips almost like liquid off her fingers before she throws both arms forwards at Dusk!

Dusk easily deflects the blast with her spinning swords and she smiles, "Yes, now they are out of the way. Leaving only you. Dawn shall we?"

Dawn nods towards Dusk, "Lets. Then when we get home, bubble baths." She smiles, "Definitely." And she starts to spin spin spin some more until she unleashes a humongous blast at Warlock!

Warlock tries to avoid the blast, but, she fails and is smashed down and back to the ground where she groans, out of it for the moment.

Bard stands up. "See where this has lead me, you can no longer see. No the world it fades around you and I'm not where I should be." He says looking at Dawn. "Yes look all around you and you can not find, That there was no place there was no message, simply loss of time."

Dawn blinks, "Dusk he disappeared! We have to go, invisible mentalist is not something we can deal with!" Yeah, she's panicking, which of course is understandable, cuz, invisible mentalist? Yikes! Dusk however, /can/ see Bard and she says, "Calm yourself Dawn. He is still here." And she spins her sword around and around before she throws it at Bard, point first! The chain clinking softly behind it like a sibbilant hiss as it streaks towards him!

With both Star Girl and Warlock still down, Dawn manages to shake off the effect of the mental illusions and she says with an annoyed mou, "Oh. Mentalist. I'll teach you to get in my head..." And she starts to spin... we all know where this is going!

Bard is down

Star Girl activates her stealth system, tries to kip up to her feet and move away from her position.

Amazingly, Dusk doesn't notice Star Girl turning invisible! Maybe because she got hammered so far away she doesn't even think that the girl could be back up. When Warlock starts to come around though Dusk decides to prove a point and she twirls her swords and then flings them both at the downed woman holding onto the chain as it slides through her fingers so that she doesn't lose grasp of the weapon!

Warlocks armor protects her from a lethal wound thankfully but it just hammers the point home that they could kill the heroes who are down if they wished to! Dusk looks towards Dawn as she yanks the swords back into her grip, "Lets go. Full points I think. Total Domination." She leans over and rests her cheek against Dawn's shoulder as Dawn wraps her arms around Dusk. She glows brightly and then zoom! They take off through the broken skylight!