For as much as she thinks of herself, her voice does back up some of her attitude as she finishes up on a long note, past the point of the rest of the band finishing up the song.
And as the band is starting into their second song and the sun is hanging low on the horizon, a pair of vastly differently sized silhouettes leaps through the evening sky and lands on the Marble Arch across from the stage, the smaller one clinging to the back of the larger. The crowd doesn't notice, their attention focused on the performance, but the people backstage might catch a glimpse.
"You can't run away forever
But there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start
You want to shut out the night, you want to shut down the sun
You want to shut away the pieces of a broken heart
Think of how we'd lay down together
We'd be listening to the radio so loud and so strong
Every golden nugget coming like a gift of the gods
Someone must have blessed us when he gave us those songs!"Danny is belting out on stage as the two figures step up to the edge of the Arch. The towering figure of a giant shark rises to his full height and lifts the barrel of what appears to be a large gun and on his shoulder a manically grinning girl is leaning out, holding on to the back of the Shark-Man's head as she points across the crowd. The band continues to play as the strange brackets suspended around the barrel of the gun begin to spin and blur...
"Once upon a time was a backbeat
Once upon a time all the chords came to Life
And the angels had guitars even before they had wings
If you hold onto a chorus you can get through the night
(Get you through the night)
I treasure your love, I never want to lose it
You've been through the fires of hell
And I know you've got the ashes to prove it
I treasure your love, I want to show you how to use it
You've been through a lot of pain in the dirt
And I know you've got the scars to prove it."
(Keep on believing, and you'll discover baby)
There's always something magic
There's always something new
And when you really really need it the most
That's when rock and roll dreams come trough!"
And as the song crests Conduit and Tresher fire their gun and it's like time slows to a crawl. All the X-Men backstage and the few scattered mutants throughout the crowd can feel it in their bones, a vibrating, pushing and pulling at their very core the moment the trigger is pulled and a narrow beam of bright light discharges from the gun. It looks almost more like someone took a scalpel to reality and carved a line out of the world it's so bright as it sweeps through the audience in a diagonal line from near the Arch towards the stage. Panic is about to break out but is swiftly replaced with fear and confusion when the beam passes, cuts out and the people hit are still standing there, moving, blinking, many patting down their body as if they can hardly believe they're still alive. It's only a couple moments later that all hell breaks loose. From the stage it's easier to see, though it's still pure chaos as the crowd begins to move without any clear consensus on which direction to go. But the people hit by the beam, now no longer in a neat line as people move, draw all the attention.
One person's torso opens up, cleanly, no blood, unspooling almost and engulfing the person unlucky enough to stand next to them, swallowing them whole as the original person takes on spiraling swirls across their body and clothes that match those of the one he just 'swallowed'.
♪You're still inside me...Let me fall apart without letting go...I will replace you...Disappeared to the back of my mind...♫Another woman is staring up at the sky, her eyes gone and replaced with the erratic flickering of flame.
♪A candle burning in her eye...♫A man is running, trying to push away a person in front of him and suddenly his leg is gone and he stumbles into the one in front of him who too almost goes down as he grows a third leg, the two trying to disentangle themselves in a confusing pile of swapping, transferring and stolen body-parts.
♪Let me be your eyes, a hand in your darkness... Baby drop them bones...♫A woman somewhere in the back is screaming as flakes of ash peel away from her skin in billowing clouds, swirling around her trying to take shape as sections of wall, fence, sections of roof, existing only for moments before dispersing back into ash. And as her panic rises the clouds of ash begin to be dotted with sparks, threatening to burst into a blaze.
♪And I know you've got the ashes to prove it... let me fall apart without letting go... didn't want to escape from the bricks I laid down...♫A man next to her is frozen in place in fear, the swirling ash cloud having ground away most of his left arm, but in it's place he's regrowing a limb that is slimy, almost a bit oily and trapping the ash particles, turning them into hardened flakes of armor.
♪What doesn't kill me makes me stronger... Downplay the losses and exaggerate the wins...♫A person pops into existence in the middle of a group of people, twenty feet or so away his exact duplicate looks on in confusion, as does the new copy. Then the original disappears, bursting with a kinetic force that knocks the people around him to the ground. Then another copy appears and the one who'd existed for maybe a handful of seconds pops. And so he continues copying and disappearing throughout the crowd.
♪Jenny died of suicide... Where there's a will there's a way... One step ahead, two steps away...♫A woman is flailing about, literally coming apart as arms, legs, torso unravel into flat, inch-wide ribbons that snap out at anything and anyone in reach. Where they grab a support strut of one of the stands the metal gives in and crumples. Where the tendrils wrap around people, screams erupt and blood wells. All the while the unravelling woman is nothing but a head on top of dozens and dozens of ribbons that are clearly out of her control.
♪Let me fall apart without letting go... Steel in her bones... Attack me with knives, cut me up in the night...♫All around those chaotic manifestations of power are less catastrophic ones. Someone is turning into sounds and reconstituting themselves away from the mayhem.
♪A good song takes you far...♫ Another fades from view as she mimics the world around her like a chameleon.
♪When I wanna go to a place I can hide...I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are...♫ Somebody is distorting into geometric angles and waves that almost hurt to look at as she moves but seems relatively in control.
♪One step ahead, two steps away...Burned away a blood into stone...♫ Another has fallen unconscious and is being carried inside of a translucent creature made of rainbow hues.
♪Disappeared to the back of my mind...Dream about the stars...Till there's nothing left but the voice in my head...♫In the Pandemonium it's easy to miss but where mutations are bursting forth they're accompanied by faint echoes and fragments of music that hang in the air like skipping records...