Everybody's Here!

[Sara Stanton]

"Get away from him, you bloody wanker!"

Knocking aside a Black Air agent, a giant rock golem that only vaguely resembles Sara charges towards Simon and Will, shaking the ground with each step as she aims to simply crash into the monkey-man and his ridiculous gun.

[Robin Stanton]

As Artemis is getting swarmed, one of the alien drones crawling over her Sentinel is suddenly impacted by Robin having flung herself onto it, hanging on to it's frame by wrapping her arms around it multiple times in a big knot. "Come 'ere you rude little Matrix-reject." she says as she begins seeping into it and soon the drone starts sweeping others off the Scraptinel, metal tentacles lashing out, punching through robot bodies and punching Faceless Ones to send them tumbling down, taking down some Vampires on the way down.

"Falling back's for people with vital organs!" she announces cheerfully.

[Mizuki Hino]

On the ground, Mizuki slowly falling back, clearing a path by throwing tiny punches that send much larger opponents flying backwards a good hundred yards, clearing routes in the process. But for every one she knocks away three more pop up around her.

[Nailah Weaver]

Dodging and weaving through the crowd, Nailah manages to make her way over to the tiny powerhouse who she thought was going to be Haley, but sticks near anyway, cause she seems like she might use some help, twirling her nightsticks and bashing aside a Doombot that was threatening to jump Mizuki from behind.

[Kathrin Schmidt]

Above them Kat is swooping across the battlefield, in her wake a growing trail of vampires, drones, agents and smaller faceless, caught in a gravitational wake that yanked them right off the ground. The red-head suddenly stops on a dime and, both hands extended to channel a concentrated beam of gravitation, whips the entire group of people and things around like a hammerthrower, sending them all flying off into the distance, across the cliff and into the ocean. She doesn't have much time to gloat before a giant rock slams into her and knocks her out of the air.

[Samantha McManus]

"Go if you want to!" Sam half snarls, before slamming her fist into a Skrull's jaw.

"I'm."

She plants a kick in its ribs, sending it tumbling away.

"Planting."

She leaps onto a Black Air agent from behind, choking him out.

"My."

Gripping the unconscious agent she swings him about, launching him into a row of drones.

"Banner."

She rips a bladed limb from a downed drone and starts swinging at the next opponent.

"Here."

[Will]

"Tell tactics to the War Goddess, Will. That always goes swimmingly, Will," Will grumbled, coming in to try to, uh...mop up anything Sam was leaving behind.

Which wasn't much, but hey, someone has to take out the trash.

[Byrna Cooper]

Bear had been tossing various explosives, gas and sticky/electric balls at various groups of various bad guys, slowly depleting her arsenal.

She hung onto the end of her grapple ball, swinging wildly from behind Aiden, tossing bang balls like a tiny WWII bomber.

“We need to back up the tech team! Those who can break off, form up on me!”

Bear unlatched her grapple, landing on the ground and somersaulting to an entryway to the lighthouse.

[Tereza Rozanov]

Tereza ducks to her left, slamming her shoulder into a Doombot and grabbing him to slam him onto some sort of alien-bug-thing. She lets out a short howl that is somehow complex as well. If any telepath had time to pay attention, they might gather the intent. It's a call, a summons for her pack to rally. She rolls right, launching a spike of ice over Null's head send a flying alien-bug-thing to the ground.

[Isolde Schwarz]

A large black wolf comes barreling through the fray, knocking assailants this way and that as it makes its way towards Tereza.

[Red]

Though perhaps less people were expecting a similar-statured red pelted wolf to answer the call from the opposite side, also fighting its way through the melee.

[Artemis]

From underneath the swarm of bots and drones, with Robin fighting to remain king of the hill, there came a soft beeping sound and a foreboding electronic whirr. And then a countdown, starting at 10. Nothing good ever came from a countdown. From the growing pitch of the whine and the glow through the gaps between the bodies, SOMETHING down there had been set to overload. Not the Scraptinel's power core though, that thing had been destroyed when it was originally fought and defeated. That Artemis could act as a replacement battery was rather impressive.

Hey, whatever happened to that power core the school used when they had to deal with the time travel incident? Surely that was locked up somewhere safe. Where there'd be locks. That weren't necessarily robot-arm proof. And alarms. That under normal circumstances would not have gone ignored.

-----

Simon looked up from Will to the charging rock golem, the man foolishly choosing to stand his ground and open fire, bullets ricocheting off of Sara's rocky form before she smashed into him. But the man was tougher than he looked, and more spry; no sooner was Sara on him than he was scrambling up her massive arm and onto her back where it'd be harder for her to reach him.

"Excuse me, we're trying to have a PRIVATE conversation here. Very rude."

[Tereza Rozanov]

As the other werewolves arrive, even the unexpected newbie, Tereza seems to start working them into the fight, knocking over opponents to savage them, ripping away armor plating to give her companions better shots at sensitive equipment. If Sam wants to plant her metaphorical flag, Tereza seems to be intent on giving her the space to do it in.

[Will Stanton]

Simon looked up from Will to the charging rock golem, the man foolishly choosing to stand his ground and open fire, bullets ricocheting off of Sara's rocky form before she smashed into him. But the man was tougher than he looked, and more spry; no sooner was Sara on him than he was scrambling up her massive arm and onto her back where it'd be harder for her to reach him.

"Excuse me, we're trying to have a PRIVATE conversation here. Very rude."

"Watch out, Sara! He has a gun!"

[Sean Hall]

Younger Sean broke off to follow Bear while the older Sean stayed to continue the magical onslaught. Another few flaming rocks fell from the sky creating decent sized dents in the numbers of villains present due to well either giant rocks falling on them or the resulting explosion of fire from when the meteors hit the ground, but the tide seemed never ending. Another group charged towards the older Sean and he made a series of gestures before pointing his hands at them. Their shapes seemed to painfully change as they advanced until all that was left was a small patch of flowers.

"I do rather enjoy that spell," Sean said looking for where he could help most.

[Aiden Mitchell]

Aiden continued fighting on the ground. He amplified his physical abilities higher to help with more efficiently dispatching the seemingly endless tide of... things. He punched one Doombot sending it flying backwards into a group of villains before snap kicking a skrull in the face. He followed up by breaking the stunned Skrull's neck before holding the now deceased skrull up as a shield for some incoming ranged attacks. He charged behind his rapidly deteriorating makeshift shield into a group of Black Air agents tossing the Skrull-Shield at one before beginning to dismantle the group one limb at a time.

[Sara Stanton]

Sara's frame is built to be tough, not nimble. She moves a little faster than something of her size and weight should, but not enough to stop the monkey-man from clambering up on top of her, much less reach him where he's perched on her back.

"Well, do something about it!" she bellows as she slowly spinning in place trying to reach back, arms shifting to elongate and bend in an attempt to grab Evil Simon.

[Robin Stanton]

Robin in her spider-robot-shell notices the ominous beeping sound and starts pulling mooks off the pile rapidly in an attempt to dig down. "Robot lady! You gotta get out!" Then she suddenly floats up into the air, robot-tentacles reaching and grasping for something to hold on to but only grabbing a Mindless One to pull along into the air with her. Up above Kat is floating, beam of gravitation fixed on Robin as she lifts her up and away from the explosion.

"Gosh darnit, sassafrassa SWORD, lemme go, I gotta help the robot!" she objects to no avail.

[Miranda Weaver]

Off to one side, surrounded by a small clear patch of ground even in the chaos, two women seem to be dueling, so focused is their attention on one another. One is easily recognizable as Miranda. The other is hooded and dressed in blood red and black, wielding a sword against Miranda's staff. An outside observer might consider the fight choreographed if it weren't moving at speed and in otherwise obvious deadly earnest.

[Will Stanton]

Sara's frame is built to be tough, not nimble. She moves a little faster than something of her size and weight should, but not enough to stop the monkey-man from clambering up on top of her, much less reach him where he's perched on her back.

"Well, do something about it!" she bellows as she slowly spinning in place trying to reach back, arms shifting to elongate and bend in an attempt to grab Evil Simon.

Will had basically frozen in panic.

"No...nonononono not like Taliesin..." he cried.

"NOT LIKE TALIESIN!" he shouted, getting larger, and trying to kick Evil Simon in the bum with a ten-foot-tall boot.

[Dr. Tomorrow]

As the other werewolves arrive, even the unexpected newbie, Tereza seems to start working them into the fight, knocking over opponents to savage them, ripping away armor plating to give her companions better shots at sensitive equipment. If Sam wants to plant her metaphorical flag, Tereza seems to be intent on giving her the space to do it in.

"Hmm. No, no, no. This won't do ~at all~," Dr. Tomorrow said, frowning. "We have a leash law in most civilized universes."

With that a great sideways force would be applied to all the Wolves and wolf-adjacent allies, as if gravity had just decided that no, down was passe, and to the left was where to go.

The problem with falling sideways, of course, is that there wasn't immediately something there to CATCH their fall.

[Kathrin Schmidt]

"Hey, that's my schtick!" Kat complains, but she's too busy wrangling Robin away from the self-destructing Scraptinel to do anything about it.

[Chase Delacroix]

Roland, who had been floored by the other Roland, saw Chase in serious trouble.

"Boy!" he shouted. "Do thou well with this!"

He tossed Excalibur across the battlefield, into the waiting arms of Chase.

Chase reflexively caught the blade just in time to snap out of his paralysis and block an incoming slash from Xianlong. Death was a greater fear than that of holding a blade again.

"I won't let you take any more from me!" Chase vowed, gritting his teeth.

"Excellent... there's a spine in there after all! Perhaps this fight won't be a complete waste of time," the cult leader grinned, attacking swiftly and powerfully. It was all Chase could do to keep up his defense. He still needed help.

[Samantha McManus]

"Dig in," Sam shouts to the pack.

"I'm going to go ruin his bloody Christmas..."

With that, Sam breaks apart into the worst Hitchcock reference Dr. Tomorrow has ever known, and starts flying for him.

[Tereza Rozanov]

The immediate tumble catches Tereza by surprise, but Sam's call brings her back and she starts tossing up ice walls "underneath" the pack, at least trying to slow their fall, even if she can't get something thick enough to stop it.

[John Hino]

John and Apo's miniature kaiju battle continued to rage across the battlefield. A power stomp from the villain sent John flying to crash through a doombot to land at Mizuki's feet.

"Oh... hey teenage sis," he groaned as he rose.

[Aiden Mitchell]

Aiden grabs the uh, earth as he falls sideways managing to stop, which was hopefullybetter than most of the non-Dr.Tomorrow super villains did. Seeing the Morrigan charge and having a relatively clear line of sight with everybody falling more or less out of the way Aiden fires multiple full-power energy blasts at Doctor Tomorrow hoping to provide the War goddess with some semblance of cover fire.

[Shane Marsh]

Shane rooted himself and a web of vines grew between two lampposts to catch them.

[Null]

The immediate tumble catches Tereza by surprise, but Sam's call brings her back and she starts tossing up ice walls "underneath" the pack, at least trying to slow their fall, even if she can't get something thick enough to stop it.

"God damn it," the boy spat, clinging to Tereza's ice wall.. "I have enough trouble with physics as it is."

[Dr. Tomorrow]

"Dig in," Sam shouts to the pack.

"I'm going to go ruin his bloody Christmas..."

With that, Sam breaks apart into the worst Hitchcock reference Dr. Tomorrow has ever known, and starts flying for him.

Doctor Tomorrow spun his staff, creating a forcefield that would at least slow down the birds.

"You like Hitchcock, do you? I must admit, I'm more of a Tarantino fan!"

Invisible blades flashed out, trying to slice and dice the ravens into tiny bird bits.

[Artemis]

[... 8... 7... 6...]

Robin, in her robo-spider clothes, is lifted up from the pile. Which was for the best, because those things aren't sporting the hardest of hard drives if one catches the meaning. There is clunking, clattering, shaking going on deep in that little mountain of robot bodies.

[... 5... 4... 3...]

A plume of servos, limbs, and scrap metal shot into the air as the pink and chrome form was violently ejected from the center, trailing flame and black smoke like a meteorite, slowing as it reaches the apex of it's arc before it begins to fall back to Earth.

[... 2... 1...]

Already smoking like an erupting volcano, the mound of broken bots is blown into shrapnel by the force of the explosion, knocking people off of their feet and shattering any windows in the manor that hadn't been broken already. If the Scraptinel hadn't been buried under so much cannon fodder, the blast likely would have been much, much worse.

Artemis crashes into one of the few trees left standing in the quad, cracking it in two before she bounces and tumbles to a stop on the other side.

-----

Simon was pretty good at climbing around, using Sara's stretching arms to avoid each other between strikes to that stony head. Yeah, he was punching a rock, but this was a guy who had punched metal doors off of their hinges, so even if he was bloodying his knuckles he was counting on Sara to give out before he would. Still, Will's scream caught his attention, turning around just in time for the massive boot to catch him across the jaw and send him flipping to land on his back, blood and foam on his lips.

[Sara Stanton]

Sara, clutching her head that has a number of sizeable cracks in it, stomps down on the monkey-man. Intentionally missing, her foot slams into the ground next to his head and the ground begins to swallow Evil Simon up.

[William Stanton]

Artemis crashes into one of the few trees left standing in the quad, cracking it in two before she bounces and tumbles to a stop on the other side.

"Oh geez, oh geez, oh geez,' William said, having extricated himself from the wreckage of the van.

He ran over to Artemis to see if she was alright.

[Tereza Rozanov]

Tereza adds more ice to the wall, clambering up onto it next to Null. She glances at the boy and holds out her hand. "She needs you."

[Null]

The boy frowned, and took Tereza's hand. "She needs tons of help. She's going to get herself hurt, otherwise.

You in?" he said, looking first at Tereza, then at the other Will.

[Tereza Rozanov]

"Soon as I can," she says, "But you first." With that, she gets a better grip on Null and throws him into next week or maybe just at Tomorrow. She immediately reaches for the other Will.

[Null]

"Waitwaitwaiiiiiiit" the boy cried, having not expected that exact sequence of events.

[Will]

"Nice shot," Will smirked. "You pulled a little to the left that time, though. Ah well, second time's a charm."

[Tereza Rozanov]

With that, Tereza grabbed other Will and sent him hurtling along behind.

[Samantha McManus]

Some of the ravens are indeed in a bad way as they collide with the invisible forcefield made of razor blades, though one wonders exactly what thought process leads one to invent such a thing. A few are dead, some recombine messily and start regrouping.

Sam starts probing at what is likely a null telepathy field cobbled together from three packs of Juicy Fruit and an electric can opener.