The Immortal hovered over to the reactor. It would finally be over, after all these years. A sudden pink wall appeared suddenly to block his way. The Immortal turned to see MicWiz being the cause of the irritation before him. "There's no point in trying to stop me, boy. You're obviously not a normal human, so I suggest using your powers to escape. Maybe you can save some the civilians nearby," he told MicWiz. He saw Revel, Widowmaker, and Chimera as well, but ignored them. If they got in the way he would simply plow through them like he did the police from before. "Though, if I were you, I'd stay and accept the inevitable. What I'm about to do will probably be much preferable to what he plans on doing. Now, drop the... wall, before I have to hurt you."

Alex felt a bit relived to see some of the others, in truth, he really did believe that there were not coming. He remembered there Codenames from their introductions back at the base. Chimera, he most likely had the ability to shape shift, the name kind of hinted at it, although he was not so sure. His ability may be useful in the fight against a god, he could always land on him, as a whale. Next was Widowmaker, the gun-ho badass, and the one with the clear disadvantage. Shooting the guy would be like throwing seeds at a concrete wall. She may end up holding them back if she was not careful. Then their was Revel, he could not guess his powers, maybe he had the ability to moon, anywhere, that would be something. Despite this, the guys carried himself well, with an aura of confidence, although Alex may have been the only person who felt that way.

Alex glanced at Revel while the guy told them to let him think, he made sure to keep the wall up and strong. Revel looked like he was thinking hard, whatever it was, Alex hoped it would help them. Unfortunately, Revel's first comment did not help them much, he was stating the obvious. "That didn't help us in anyway." He mumbled to himself despondently. The guys plan was as straight forward as Crosscut, peel his focus off the reactor and towards them. They were basically trying to annoy a tiger enough to leave it's prey and come after us. Alex shrugged, "Alrighty, make him focus us...this was suicide was a suicide mission from the start huh?" he said as he let down his shield.

Alex did not wait for a response before activating his wand. The gem on top glowed, pink aura emanating from it brightly. Alex closed his eyes for a few seconds, and took a deep breath. In his minds eye he imagined a tank, during his training for the MetaOps program, he was made to memorize the inner working of hundreds of vehicles. Alex brought his wand up into the air, and then brought it down quickly, as if he was going to hit the ground. Suddenly, pink smoke enveloped the air, by the time it cleared, a pink, M18 "Hell Cat" was in front of them. It was not transparent, but is lines were think black, making it look as if it was drawn, but the pink energy made it so life like. On the side there was Alexs' code name MicWiz in all caps. The hatch at the very top opened up and Alex climbed inside. His upper body could be seen poking out over the hatch. He brought his wand forward, "Fire" he yelled and a flash of pink energy shout out from the tanks cannon, heading straight for The Immortal.

Drake's power was a little more complicated than Izzy's own, it seemed, but that made it fun to hear about. She nodded in understanding, and was about to ask why he had described it as 'broken,' but stopped when Cathryn introduced herself as the Pirate Queen. Izzy stared at the woman for a moment, certain she recognized her in some way.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the abrupt reappearance of the Director. He turned on a projector, showing footage of a meta-human.

As the Director spoke, Izzy stared at the footage, in muted shock. This man, The Immortal, had the power to be a proper super-hero, straight out of a comic book, and yet... he was doing this.

And she would have to fight him. Izzy had little experience in general, and even less when it came to meta-humans. The most she had ever gone up against were metas with C-list abilities.

Her heart-rate increased as she picked herself up out of her chair, a little unsteady at first. As she followed Michelle to the Armory, she kept reminding herself that she couldn't die, that she had nothing to fear. Over and over and over.

No... fear, the voice croaked out.

Izzy was unsure about what she should grab, considering how little she knew about The Immortal. A SIG Sauer P226 pistol was a decent idea, as it was the firearm she was most comfortable with. It likely wouldn't do much against her enemy, but she couldn't not take a gun. A combat knife she could take. Even if she didn't use it, it was light enough to justify.

And grenades. The only thing she thought might be able to damage the meta and that she felt she had enough training with to use. She threw on the smallest, thinnest combat vest she could find, and filled it's pockets with fragmentation, stun, and concussive grenades, along with a few extra clips for her pistol.

Jogging after the others of her new team, she focused on keeping herself as calm as possible. She regarded Ray with a nervous, but determined look, and nodded as firmly as she could manage, to tell him that she was ready.

A blink later, Izzy found herself in the plant, disorientated after the sudden, drastic change in surroundings. Eyes wide and teeth grinding, she took a second to ground herself, spotting the others of MetaOps who had already been teleported here. Her first instinct was to run towards them, as both Revel and Widowmaker appeared to know what they were doing.

Before she could act on that, however, she noticed the floating Immortal, who did not seem to care in the slightest that several meta-humans had just appeared to challenge him. A pink wall suddenly obstructed the course he was currently set on, created by Alex. He turned to the robe-clad man. The Immortal's words were cryptic and foreboding, but Izzy quickly disregarded it all after he finished on a threat directed towards Alex.

The tank conjured up by Alex took her by surprise, but at this point, she chose not to think about it too much. She had to do the only thing she could. Distract.

The girl fumbled with a pouch, pulling out a stun grenade and tossing away the pin. "Look away!" she yelled in the loudest voice she could muster while lobbing it at The Immortal's feet, the timing such that it would detonate a moment after Alex's cannon-shot hit.

Izzy turned and ran further away from the group, heart pounding in her ears, trying to split the enemy's attention. She hoped he'd go after her, the easy, lone target, giving everyone else a little more time to do... whatever they could do.

Drake appeared with the others after Alex had already done the most important task of the evening; meaning he had already blocked off the reactor in order to buy them time. Somehow, that one act caused him to begin to like the guy just a bit more. Next he went on to listen to Revel's plan, feeling the same as the rest: underwhelmed. Find something in another room? Seriously? There was a Meta-Human who was threatening the safety of everyone here, there was no way they could waste time like that.

Fortunately Drake agreed with Alex and knew their only chance was to peel the Immortal off from the reactor, a definitely reasonable and more effective task. In the back of Drake's mind he decided he almost certainly needed to buy Alex a drink or something after he conjured a tank in order to apply a distraction, and Izzy's addition of a grenade was greatly appreciated. Drake turned his head to cover his hyper-sensitive ears just in time, cursing slightly as he heard the noise. He couldn't be distracted now though, they needed a distraction on this guy, and while he knew little about everyone elses powers he knew his were more than suited to the task at hand. He almost certainly couldn't take this guy if what they knew about his strength was right, but distract him and maybe even give him a fight? Hell yeah.

"Now that's a plan!" Drake shouted as he stepped forwards, his eyes slowly turning to pure black. "Cover me Wiz!" With that his body began to bulge, growing at an absolutely impossible rate. First fur began to spread across his skin, ripping through his clothing as if it were made of paper, following by his enormous tail and huge, leathery wings. Soon enough he was in his massive form, definitely giving an intimidating appearance. His four legs were bloated with muscle, his shoulders and wings following suit with massive mass. His wings flapped and slowly unfurled as he bared his razor sharp teeth, letting out a large roar. This guy had strength? Check, so did the Chimera. He could fly? So could Drake, though he was almost certainly not as agile. Still with his partners behind him he had to hope he could give them enough time to come in and save his ass. And with that, he charged the meta.

When the Immortal appeared only a few meters away, Revel could barely keep himself from jumping in surprise. “Good grief, I only saw a few seconds forward? How terrible!” Revel composed himself and leaped backwards, clearing the way for MicWiz to summon his tank. It was an impressive feat; no sense in risking himself on the front lines if someone else was intent on being the main event. Instinctively, the string-puller loosed the muscles that controlled his whips, preparing to fire them out. He had barely accomplished this, however, when a new report flashed in his mind. When he threw out his whips to wrap around the Immortal's body, they would restrain him for mere seconds before succumbing to his hyper strength and ripping apart like weeds in the hand of a grim gardener. Even electrifying them wouldn't buy enough time, and even if Revel decided to make the sacrifice anyway, relying upon his crack team of metas to take the initiative, he'd be disarmed. This perilous situation courted death in a multitude of ways, but Revel knew better than to let the stress get to him. He lived for these rushes. There was nothing so satisfying than defeating an ultra-powered meta with wits—brain over brawn of the highest calibre.

So thinking, Revel jumped back again, trusting MicWiz's barrage to keep the Immortal back. He sidled up to the wizard and warned, “After he bops our Chimera between the eyes he'll go for you to stop this magic at the source. I'm going to place a trap around you. When he swoops down to hit you, dive forward, not backward. I'll take care of it.” So saying, Revel loosened his whips and shot them upward toward the ceiling. After letting out some slack, he laid it around MicWiz's feet, and stepped away. It was not his intention to try and snare the Immortal; rather, he would pull his electrified cables taught and let Revel hit them. Hard things could be broken with concussive force, but soft things like cords had to cut or pulled apart by tension. Revel predicted that if the Immortal punched his stretched whips, he'd get a numbing shock, but the cables would be unharmed. An invincible being's nerves couldn't be destroyed, but with the right impulse, they could be jolted into acting randomly. Plus, if the Immortal saw the trap and went to disable it, he'd leave himself wide open.

More information poured into Revel's head, but this cache held only one, dreadful secret. Beneath the cyan tint of his goggles, his eyes widened in alarm. “Looks like the Immortal doesn't want to be immortal any longer. He's going to try to blow up the reactor with himself inside, in hopes of ending his miserable existence.” This comment was made more to himself than anyone else, but anybody in his immediate vicinity would hear it, too.

MicWiz's tank shot hit The Immortal just as MicWiz had intended. Unfortunately for the youth, it did not have the results he may have wished for. The Immortal got into position to quickly rush his opponent, until a stun grenade went off in front of him. As The Immortal recovered from disorientation, he looked up to see Chimera flying towards him. The Immortal looked at the 'beast' coming towards him with unamusement. Before Chimera could land an attack, The Immortal grabbed him by the throat and told him, "I have lived on this Earth for longer than you can conceive. This fight is pointless. Just let me end my suffering." He threw the boy with no effort, only sending him to the other side of the facility. Then, he turned towards MicWiz. "I already have you a chance to leave. Know that you have brought this on yourself." The Immortal quickly flew to the MicWiz, intending to grab him, but Revel's foresight seemed to have saved MicWiz's life. Electricity flowed through his body and he quickly tried to entangle himself from the wires. When he was finally free, The Immortal turned to Revel. "I was mistaken, obviously you are the biggest threat here. Show me what else you've got."

Chimera flew across the room, slamming into the wall and causing it to crack slightly. Fortunately, he could recover from a blow like that, but unfortunately he was most certainly dazed. He had known it was only a short term distraction for the Immortal, but he hadn't exactly expected it to be that short termed.

Obviously bull rushing someone that fast was a bad idea in foresight, but he knew that at least on a physical plane, he needed to at least absorb the Immortals blows while they actually discovered how to defeat him. Slowly standing up and shaking his massive head, Chimera slowly began to creep forwards, hoping his team would back him up.

If anyone could help him at this point, it was probably Revel since the meta seemed to be focused completely on him. Hopefully Revel understood. Drake was going for a second bout, this time from behind, and would coordinate something behind that. Or at least maybe he'd give Drake other directions besides just 'sneak up behind the man', which seemed to be his best course of action at the moment.

Things weren't going the way Alex expected, the guys was practically eating the tanks shells. How they were supposed to kill this guy without pushing him into a black hole was beyond Alex. No wonder the SWAT and police had not chance, they were fighting a sayian in golden diapers. It seemed that the Revels plan was working though, the monster was slowly taking his focus off the reactor, and towards them, which was good and bad at the same time.

"Look away!" a voice rang, before Alex had a chance to turn to see who it was, a flash of bright light forced him to close his eyes. "I...see the light." He mumbled, but the explosion quickly died down, but the Immortal was stunned for a few seconds. He barley noticed the Chimera's command to cover him, by the time he looked back, the kid he once knew was a giant four legged, muscular, winged...beast. Alex immediately looked away, that was not a pretty sight to see. Before Alex could fire again, Chimera was already up and away, attacking the Immortal, but his attack was quickly cut short, with the grabbing of his neck, and chucking of his body.

The Immortal then focused on Alex, which again was not the most pleasant of thoughts. The threat was much more than what a school bully would say, this was a serious, "Your life is over" type thing. Suddenly, Revel entangled him in some whips that electrocuted him, but the Immortal quickly escaped. Alex was half listening to Revel's plan, and half focused on the ever closing Immortal. Alex nodded, move forward, not backwards, easy enough. The big guy came at him and the tanks treads went into overdrive, quickly getting Alex out of harms way. Suddenly, the Immortal was entangled in a web of wires, and his attention know directed to Revel, which was relieve to him, but bad for Revel.

Alex noticed Chimera trying to sneak up behind the Immortal. It was not the best of ideas, but it was one. In an attempt to support Chimera, Alex dispelled his tank. Once his feet were now planted to the ground, he raised his wand once again, and repeated the same process he did anytime he was constructing something. This time, what formed in front of Alex was a giant, pink golem completely made out of solidified pink energy. It began to circle around to were Revel was standing, it's lifeless eyes stared at the Immortal, it stood at a whooping 9 feet. Alex had no real fighting ability on his own, but his constructs, and his imagination were all he needed.

Gloria was the last to be transported to the site. Mostly because she stalled in the Armory. Gloria didn't really have any reason she'd want to do this. Sure this Immortal guy had to be pretty bad but the reactor he was targeting was relatively isolated. If his intention had been to cause mass carnage there were other easier ways and even other nuclear reactors closer to populated centers. The death count from an overload would be minimal, in fact from what Gloria had seen on the news tapes most of the facility's crew had already been evacuated.

However Gloria knew that if she tried to skip out on a mission she'd find herself back in prison before the battle was through. Sighing Gloria strapped on a weapons belt, she didn't like guns. To destructive and... inelegant, instead she took a number of stun grenades as well as a couple of the explosive variety. She strapped two combat knives to her hips and one to her hand before making her way to the control room where she was transported into the heart of the battle.

Gloria couldn't have been more than a couple of minutes behind the others but already the main floor of the plant, far too close to the reactor was in chaos. They seemed to be fighting a losing battle. Chimera looked the worse for wear, McWizz was standing behind a 9 foot... pink golem and the Immortal was bearing down on Revel. They didn't have much time left. From the state of things it was clear that the Immortal would sweep them aside, whether it took him ten minutes or an hour.

Everything they'd done so far seemed at its greatest capacity, yet the Immortal was unfazed and perhaps even... bored. They were nothing more than an annoyance to him. Like flees on a dogs back. None of them could hope to keep this up. Yet Gloria couldn't stand by and do nothing. When she had been in the armory it had simply been a matter of probability of success vs the collateral damage of failure, now that she was here however it was Gloria's life on the line. Crosscut couldn't transport them all out of harms way at the same time and when he finally realized that they couldn't win this it would be too late for him to save more than maybe one of them. Gloria wasn't taking chances on being that one.

Their only option was to defeat the Immortal if they wanted to survive and Gloria knew damn well that she wasn't going to die in a power plant in the middle of god knows were surrounded by people she barely knew. On the streets Gloria had learned how to fight, it was never fair and it was never sportsman like but it kept her alive, there was no reason why the same rules shouldn't apply here.

With the Immortal's attention focused on Revel Gloria had her shot at an attack. Her powers weren't exactly combat oriented but that didn't change what she needed to do. Gloria started to run fast as she could, she was still in her own clothing having no time to change and her shoes were built for silence and speed. At the last second Gloria leaped into the air catching the Immortal on the back. She wrapped her legs around his chest and pulled herself up so her head was next to his. In a matter of seconds she detached the knives from her belt and bringing them round she stabbed both of them viciously into the Immortal's eyes.

Major Stone watched how the team started to prepare for their first mission. It was his job to teach all those individuals the skills necessary to be a good field agent. He knew more than anyone that it takes much more than just your superpower to be a MetaOps member. Some of the strike team might pack some serious punch but almost everyone was new to the organization and lacking in both training and experience. Not to mention that they have never worked together. In Major Stone's book, the team was not ready to go on a mission. Especially not on a mission that involves fighting the Immortal.

The Major walked into the operations command center and saluted to the Director. "Carnage reporting for duty, sir. I see you've already send out the new strike team on their first mission. Maybe that's a bit prematurely but at least we'll get to see The Immortal squat some bugs." Spoke Carnage as he looked at the screen that was displaying security cam footage from the nuclear power plant.

On the various screens major Stone could follow the operation through all the security cams in the power plant. Just by watching he could get a good grasp of how every single agent was performing in the field. Just by the looks of it, the team was utterly disappointing in his book. Not only where they weak, their effort lacked coordination, planning and communication. None of the agents seem to have much of a clue on how to combat The Immortal as a team. Revel tried to use his brain but his knowledge of both the Immortal as his own team seemed to limited at the moment to come up with a plan that works.

Carnage sat down in one of the seats at the operations room and started to organize his personal displays. Making sure that he had always a good view on any of the Strike team's members. As he continued to watch the battle Carnage quickly noticed that The Immortal was holding back. He had the opportunity to finish The Chimera off but he did not do it. The Immortal seemed bend on not killing anyone and yet he wanted to cause a nuclear meltdown. A rather suicidal act, even for the Immortal.

Even though The Immortal was holding back, there seemed little chance for the team to win. MicWiz attacks where useless, The Chimera way to weak, grenades did not hurt The Immortal at all and Revels next plan failed. It looked rather hopeless for the team to the point that the Major even wondered if there would be anyone to train left after this mission. That was until he watched how Gloria stabbed two knifes into the eyes of the gold and blue wearing villain. Vincent Stone could not help but to smile. Such viciousness, dirtiness and decisiveness where all traits the former field agent could appreciate. "Look at that, that's the way i'd like to see how our operatives fight, sir." Spoke Carnage as he turned towards the commander. "At least one of the recruits shows some promise. The rest seems to lack...murderous intend"

Having the Immortal's attention on him was, for Revel, equal parts terrifying and galvanizing. Though never one to back away from taking the field, he hosted an instinct he assumed thoroughly commonplace among humans: to back away when faced by a god. Based upon his stunning earlier display of predicting mere seconds into the future, the string-puller had rather expected his makeshift plan to fail, but miraculously his wires spared the life of the young magician. Noting this, to make sure that MicWiz remembered this debt later, Revel honed in all of his focus on the crazy-powerful being set to pound him into oblivion. At this point, the worst possible option to use was to attempt force. It pleased Revel to no end, however, to be at last fully in possession of an ingenious plan. This had been assured the very instant that the Immortal's words -let me end my suffering- met his ears.

With a gallant smile Revel raised his hands in placation. “Most powerful I don't doubt, but most threatening? Not this time. It is not my objective to threaten you.” The movement of the Chimera back in this direction, plus the manifestation of MicWiz's golem, all pointed toward the signs of an allied counterattack. Did they really think that Revel was not in control of the situation, that he was a mere distraction for them to get their attacks in? Fools. Their furor to destroy the Immortal blinded them to a more intelligent resolution, one that circumvented the eventuality of the entire team lying dead on the floor and the Immortal's self-immolating in a nuclear inferno. “There is as much use in contesting you physically as there is of normal humans surviving in a meltdown. My strength is elsewhere: the mind. I can predict the future with uncanny accuracy. Not that you'd be interested, of course...what's a mere ant obstructing your death crawl? Well, listen to this. You'll reduce us to smithereens one by one, then go for the reactor, expecting your aeons of torment to finally crumble into peaceful darkness. Problem is, you're going to survive. Hear that? You're going to live through the meltdown. Unfortunately, the radiation will be branded so deeply into your bones that every second will be pure agony, a thousand times worse than the depression that made you seek this.” Revel monitored his own voice carefully. These words were not precognition, but bluff. He was gambling on the Immortal's own instincts for self-preservation. “There is a way, however, that I can he-- oh, no.”

At that moment, Gloria sailed in in all her unwanted glory. The string-pullers excited heartrate instantly plummeted to a cold crawl. How could he not have foreseen this!? Before Revel could shout at her to stop, screaming that she was ruining a negotiation that could save all of their miserable skins, she forcibly introduced the Immortal's eyes to her knifeblades. Growling in anger, Revel discharged his whips, which lashed against Gloria's back and clung around her shoulders. “Stupid bitch!” He bellowed, and gave an outraged yank on the cords more than powerful enough to abruptly reunite Gloria with the ground if she didn't cling on to the very man she'd shanked or find a way to cut the cords. “Now he will not listen to reason, even if your stabbies bounced off his eyeballs! He will kill us all!” Hoping that the Immortal took his action against Gloria as a sign that he, at least, was on his side, Revel shouted at the meta while he backed away. “There is still a way to end this peacefully, to gain the peace you long for!”

Chimera watched the situation through observing eyes, crawling slowly back towards his team with care. He understood now that his force could not stop the Immortal even enough for a distraction, but that didn't stop him from hoping Revel had a plan, which he soon found was to be an answered prayer. He began to make a prediction, or at least pretend to make one... Revel was, at best, an average liar. Of course it was unfair for Drake to make that decision as he had the ability to almost literally smell lies off of someone when in this form; hopefully the Immortal didn't share such a trait with Drake.

He began to think that Revel might actually have a chance of talking the enemy down, when out of nowhere a girl flew through the sky and landed on the Immortals back, plunging her thin blades right into his eyes. Drake only had two thoughts at the events which occurred before him: Idiots! and when Revel attacked his own partner, another thought Fucking moron!. There were two sides of Drakes here, one which caused him to want to protect people, and one which caused him to fear for his own safety, however in this case his protective side won out.

More out of instinct than actual ration thought, the massive beast leapt through the air and landed just underneath the girl, belly side up so that she would at least have a soft landing as opposed to hitting the ground. Drake had no knowledge of this girls powers, for all he knew a fall like this would kill her, something not on the top of his list of things to happen today. The team was falling apart like stones, not because of the Immortals powers but because of every single one of their flaws. Alex wanted to act before thinking, much like Drake, however that would get them no where with someone of this power. Izzy was too afraid, and Michelle was almost useless. Revel was simply too arrogant to be of any help, maybe if he had the ability to share his plan they could stand a chance but something in the back of Drakes mind told him the man's ego was too large for him to be able to think objectively, and he would believe only his plan would work. And the girl now laying on his sizeable chest was more reckless than all of them combined. That left them with... what? Nothing. Not a team, just a bunch of people with all separate plans which might stand a chance of working: If they could all just agree on one, and there was little to know chance of that ever happening.

Before Gloria could see what kind of damage her attack had done to the Immortal she heard a shout, not of pain or fear as would be expected but of anger. "Stupid bitch!" Seconds later Gloria felt pain rip across her back as Revel's whips cut into her yanking her from the Immortal. He'd attacked her, Revel had attacked her, his whips yanked her from her station on the Immortal's back. She expected to hit hard unforgiving earth but as she landed Gloria felt something soft and furry. Quickly she scrambled away to look at the thing that had helped her. It was some sort of beast, her best guess was Chimera in another form, he had shape shifting powers after all. "Thanks." she muttered.

Now on her feet and in as good condition as could be expected Gloria probed the wound on her back with her fingers. One of the hooks was deeper than the other but both were relatively superficial, if they got out of this alive a couple of stitches and a few days bed rest would see her in peek condition again.

With a murderous intent on her face Gloria turned on her powers, excluding the whips from her intangible molecules. They fell through her body and moment later Gloria touched there ends allowing them to join her field. Gloria ground the whip ends into the floor with her foot causing them not only to bend but also to sink into the concrete. Her work done Gloria released them causing the weapons to become trapped in the stone. What did Revel need weapons for after all, so far he'd been all but useless and proved that he couldn't even be trusted to allow his teammates to attack. This wasn't over, if they both survived this then there would be a serious reckoning brewing.

Gloria had however gathered some important information from listening to Revel try to negotiate with the Immortal. The ancient meta-human was apparently suicidal. Something Gloria understood all too well. He was however unfortunate enough to also be immortal. This must be the only way he could think of to end his life. Because Gloria was feeling spiteful and more than a little rage she decided that as well as stomping Revel's whip into the ground, she'd do the same with his plan.

"He has no idea." She started, her face set hard. Gloria didn't actually know the limits to Revel's power which he claimed was precognition but it didn't matter. Her story was far more believable then his. "His ability to see the future is limited. He couldn't tell you what'll happen in an hour or two. He can barely see minutes ahead, sometimes only seconds. He has no idea if you'll survive the explosion or not. He just wants to convince you not to do it cause he loves his own miserable carcass too much." She was fairly confident that Revel was bluffing, she'd gotten a good read on him, he was the kind of guy that loved to be in control. Not as a leader but to know that he had power over everyone else. One of the surest ways to show that would be to talk about his knowledge of future events yet at the briefing the only piece of future info he'd shared was that Michelle's water bottle would spill. If he'd had more he would have used it, no his power was limited so much so that he didn't know how this fight ended much less if the Immortal would die from the blast.

Pushing Revel's whips into the ground had given Gloria a rather nasty idea. Something she'd only try in the most dire situation, then again that was were they were now. The team was falling apart. No coordination, each member thinking there plan would work over everyone else's or being too scared to enter the fray. Gloria took one of the grenades from her belt and pulled the pin. She could be almost certain from the amount of damage a bullet did that detonating a grenade would do little damage to the Immortal. That was if she set it off outside of him. Gloria was capable of releasing things inside objects she phased through. Gloria kept talking as she prepared her plan. "He can't know one way or the other how this will turn out. You may live, you may die. More than likely if you survive you'll have a painful recovery or all your suffering will be over. No one can tell for sure."

As Gloria was saying this she raised the grenade in her hand and activated her ability around the explosive and her arm. With determination born of a desperate need to live Gloria pushed the grenade into the Immortal's chest. As she hand entered his body Gloria gave off a scream that could shatter glass. She'd phased through humans and animals before and it was always mildly painful but never ever like this. This was like trying to force her way through a electric grid, worse even. In seconds Gloria dropped the grenade and yanked her arm out from the Immortal. As it was exposed to air pain raced over the skin, like a burn forming.

The pressure of reintegration would provide enough force to detonate the grenade, if it really blew the guy apart from the inside out Gloria wanted a safe distance. Chimera had saved her a serious back injury and though she didn't really like his attitude Gloria owed him. Grabbing the beast by the scruff of the neck with her uninjured arm Gloria dragged both of them behind a concrete support beam. There she waited for the explosion.

Appearing alongside Revel and Chimera when she teleported, she saw the Immortal in person for the first time. She trained her submachine gun on him, but did not fire. After all, bullets weren't going to serve much more than an annoyance. That was the problem with people like him, that tough skin made any assault she could do pointless. She would have to rely on her teammates to do any significant damage.

As she watched the battle, she briefly wondered why the Immortal would come here. The nuclear reactor didn't seem to have any significant value, after all. Then came Revel's revelation about the Immortal trying to end his own life through the use of the reactor. Surprised, Michelle was momentarily stunned, then recovered from the shock. Those words made the mission to stop the Immortal even more imperative than before.

But what could they do? Their attacks didn't seem to be damaging him in even the slightest. There were some rather daring attacks, like Gloria's, though, although it was interrupted by Revel.

Her train of thought ruined, Michelle turned to Revel and said, "Then stop babbling and tell us! Quit wasting everyone's time!" She doubted the Immortal was more interested in his words than she was, and Revel's words were beginning to bore her. "What we need right now is a solution, not pretty words about ants and strength!"

Then Gloria's words came spouting out of her mouth. Only then did Michelle actually at least respect the bluff Revel was using. Michelle began to speak, but quickly silenced herself. Anything she would say would perhaps make it worse.

The Immortal continued hovering off the ground, waiting for an attack by Revel, completely ignoring MicWiz and his golem, Chimera's approach, and Widowmaker and Freyja's gawking. Instead, Revel began to speak. The Immortal listened to his words respectfully, and when he had finished, began to reply. "What you say could be true, but I feel that what I'm about to do is worth the r-" The Immortal was suddenly interrupted by a woman with knives. Her attack was useless as the knives simply bounced off, she would have had better luck puncturing a boulder with those weapons. He began to reach behind him to grab her, but she was pulled off by Revel instead. He watched with some amusement as the team members quarreled. The Immortal turned to leave the metas to their own devices, before Specter called to him. He turned back around to give her his full attention. The Immortal saw the grenade, ignoring it, thinking that her using it was a useless endeavor.

Back at MetaOps HQ, The Director watched the battle on the screens in the Sat Room. "Your team isn't doing too well," he told Crosscut. Crosscut looked away from the door to the room, looked up toward the screens above, then toward The Director.

"That's because you stuck me on transport duty, sir. I'm team leader, I should be there leading," he replied.

The Director continued watching with a smirk on his face. He didn't actually care for the outcome of this battle. No matter which way it ended, he could spin it towards his favor. They lose, he could complain to his superiors that they hadn't given him enough funding to complete their objective. They win, another accommodation for a job well done. His mood changed suddenly as Specter raised the grenade in her hand. "Crosscut! We need The Immortal alive for interrogation! Stop her!"

Crosscut immediately teleported next to Specter to prevent her from trying to kill The Immortal. "No! Stop!" he shouted, but it was too late, and her hand phased through The Immortal's chest. Crosscut teleported to cover and waited for the sound of an explosion. A muffled sound came instead. He looked back over the cement pillar he had been standing behind and saw The Immortal still very much alive. So not even that could stop him. "Damn it!" Crosscut said before teleporting back to the Sat Room. He then began making a mad dash through the facility's hallways finding anybody on the team he had not teleported to the nuclear plant yet and doing just that. There was no more time to let everyone be prepared. Once he teleported the last of the team there, Crosscut contacted The Director. "Sir? Orders?" A few seconds of silence passed before a reply came.

"Kill order is given. We have reinforcements on the way, if you can't finish him soon enough."

"Thank you, sir. Alright team, plans hasn't changed! Hit him!" Crosscut teleported to a piece of rebar and grabbed it, he immediately teleported it inside The Immortal. Seeing as how Specter's plan hadn't worked before, Crosscut wasn't surprised that impaling him would be as affective, but if he did it enough times it could slow him down. So, Crosscut began teleporting around the facility and reappearing with them inside The Immortal. Meanwhile, The Immortal just continued his destructive path towards the reactor.

Now thoroughly furious, Revel heaved against his trapped whips, causing them to snap unevenly. Their rather pitiful remains snaked back into his bracers, useless for the time being. Grinding his teeth, Revel spat, “I don't need my power to know what comes next is going to be utterly insipid.” He glanced at Michelle, unmotivated to explain himself now that, thanks to Gloria, his scheme lay in ashes. However, the omen of Spectre shrieking in agony cheered him up a bit.

Adrenaline rushing through his veins made the seconds slip by like molasses, but he was stunned that the Immortal hadn't yet made a move. Why is she arguing against me, other than petty revenge? This twit needs to learn what it means to look at the big picture. He stepped back as he watched her jam the grenade into the Immortal's torso, taking minor pleasure in hearing her scream beyond the confines of his mind. “Deliberate sabotage,” he muttered, motioning for Michelle to accompany him in his retreat beyond the grenade's blast range. “I was planning to...oh, it doesn't matter now. The twat's grenade is only going to make him madder in the end. That's not a guess, either. How did she think this was going to play out? Invincible, unbounded strength, and motivation.” The sudden appearance of Crosscut, failing to prevent the ensuing explosion, did not improve his mood.

Revel's ears hadn't quite finished ringing from the detonation before Crosscut belted out the new orders. “Looks like reasoning phase is done.” He stood back as the remainder of the team piled into the Immortal. Even if his weapons had been whole, their lashes would only have further pitted the other metas against him with their broad swathes. Additionally, with others present that could boast greater fighting ability, Revel didn't feel the need to electrify his gloves and charge in. Instead, he concentrated on rhythmic breathing, trying to attain the peace of mind through which clearest foresight could be had. A moment later, his eyes blinked open, though indiscernible beneath his goggles.. “The Immortal isn't going to pay anyone any attention. He's going to go straight for the reactor. I'm going to attempt to stall him with my whips, which means I have to replace him. Ultimately I won't be able to hold him, but two strangers will appear and ultimately prevail. Hm...Hopper and Stratos. Not ordinary members of the team. Very interesting.” As Revel spoke, he started to move, fleeing from the combat in the room and into the reactor chamber itself. As he did, he flicked open his bracers' and swapped out their reels for spares. It didn't take a tactical genius to bring extras when your main weapon was easily breakable. Unfortunately, this set wouldn't conduct electricity as well.

Upon entering the reactor room, Revel strode to the balcony and whistled. The entire chamber hummed with an ethereal blue luminescence, More than a hundred feet down a spiraling crosswalk stair, behind a vast cylinder of glass, lay the reactor itself. Revel turned around and spent a moment figuring out how to close the room's door, left open by the evacuated plant personnel, though he knew it wouldn't stall the Immortal should he make it past the rest of his team. A vision flashed in his mind of Gloria talking to him, and he decided against shutting the door. Revel flicked out the knew whips, testing their speed, before winding one around the crosswalk's guard rail and leaping over.

Shit hit the fan real quick this time. Alex's golems was basically a chew toy for the Immortal, his strength beyond his constructs capabilities. The truth of the situation frustrated him, he was talking about the uselessness of others, and yet what were his abilities compared to the others. He had to remember to apologize to his fellow comrades after this was over, but as of now, he would have to start imagining again. Alex constructed another golem, giving this one armor, a shied, but best of all, a blade of pure energy, not solidified. He gave this all to to the other golem, this took a lot of energy out of Alex, but he was still alert and could run, but as long as these were out, he would be hindered a bit.

Alex was planning to have his golems attack, but he noticed Revel was...talking to the Immortal. Alex could not hear what he was saying, but he would not dare interrupt. Despite Alexs' own resolve, Gloria did not, she attacked, attempting to stab him in the eyes with her knife. Unfortunately, that would prove impossible, her knives broke instantly. Revel grabbed her and began to yell and scream in her face, he could not blame him. Even Crosscut appeared in an attempt to stop her.

Then Michelle came, an argument was slowly forming between them. This would be a problem, the Immortal would be annoyed, and loose interest. Revel's plan may have worked, but there could have been another way to kill himself. "Think, think." Alex mumbled to himself, at this rate, they would kill everyone in the state of Florida. Crosscut appeared once again and gave them the order to kill, which would prove extremely difficult. Suddenly, things were appearing inside the Immortal, it was Crosscut, that plan may havd worked. An idea formed in his head hopefully this would work.

Alex dispelled his golems, and with new found energy he created a pink dart. On the inside was liquefied energy, his plan was to imbued this into the objects that were jutting from the Immortals body. Alex was gonna use his intelligence on this one, by injecting energy into the steal beam, he would make the atom unstable. In an attempt to reach a stable state, it will give off more energy, known as quanta, making it radioactive, and in turn making Immortal radioactive. Alex was not sure if giving the Immortal radiation poisoning would kill him, but it was worth a try. The radioactive atoms would rip through his body, then would infect the rest of his body, destroying the rest of his bodily functions. Alex took and deep breath and fired at the steel beam in his stomach.

The Immortal's body was now covered in concrete, rebar, and other materials from Crosscut's attacks, but it only seemed to slow him down and not stop him. The Immortal was done with the fools around him, all they seemed to do was increase his suffering. The Immortal was ignorant enough that he did not notice MicWiz's newest construct. The radiation began to spread throughout The Immortal's body, bringing him immense pain, but not killing him. "Ahh! I have had enough of your pink shit! Get over here!" He screamed as he flew towards his attacker. The closer he got to MicWiz though, the slower he seemed to be. "What... is... this?" he said as he slowly turned his head as if he was resisting against an invisible force. Which he was. Witch stood not too far off, trying to use her telekinesis to keep The Immortal away from MicWiz.

"Move out of the way, MicWiz!" she shouted. "Don't know how much longer I can hold him."

"You can't." The Immortal replied ominously. The Immortal then began grabbing several pieces of rebar and pulling them out of his body. "I've had enough of you all. If you won't let me complete my goal, then you leave me no choice." The Immortal used his strength to throw the rebar at Witch. Instinctively, she began using her powers to stop the incoming steel bars. They all stopped only a few feet from her, but in her haste to stop the attack, she had forgotten the one who had thrown them. The Immortal zoomed towards her while she was distracted and grabbed her by the throat, lifting her off the ground. "You brought this on yourselves," he said before slightly moving his thumb and snapping her neck with his immense strength. The Immortal dropped the body of the now lifeless woman and continued making his way to the reactor, forgetting MicWiz, his original target.

Crosscut looked on hopelessly. It had been years since he had last lost a teammate in the field, but there had been nothing he could have done to save Witch. Crosscut only hoped that someone could do something to turn this battle around.

Chimera was slightly stunned as he hit the ground, almost surprised at his success at catching the smaller creature without hurting her. As Gloria thanked him, he nodded his head and quickly rolled to his feet, watching as she shouted out that Revel was lying. Yes, he knew that, but shouting out that he was lying was almost definitely a stupid plan, and Drake's suspicions about it being a terrible idea were confirmed as she leapt at the Immortal with the grenade. What the hell could she possibly be thinking?! As she grabbed his fur, he followed the small girl like a dog on a leash, more out of simple confusion then obedience.

Unfortunately, the plan didn't work and all it did was take the Immortals attention off of his plan and onto the reactor once again. "Do me a favor." He spoke, his voice no longer like the innocent Drakes, but now warbled and gravelly as if he was grinding his teeth down onto rocks as he spoke and the words slightly slurred thanks to his less than human mouth. "Any more brilliant plans you have, ask someone first." With that he rushed out from behind the pillar just in time to hear Crosscuts order: kill. He might as well have asked them to blow up the earth with nothing more than a potato and a tin can since that seemed easier than the task at hand. A blur in the corner of his eye caught Chimera's attention before he could join the fray; he watched Revel come shooting past him towards the reactor. Maybe he didn't like the mans arrogance, but twice he had been the only one to give any help at all to delaying this Meta, so if they were to stand any chance he needed to buy Revel time to do whatever it was he was doing. Without any more hesitation, Drake growled under his breath and charged the immortal, flapping his giant wings to begin to slowly get as much air as he could.

As he did however, he saw the Immortal turn his sights. Drake had never been a fan of violence, much less death. When his partner was killed so quickly... So brutally... He froze and landed back down onto the ground. He couldn't have even moved fast enough to save her. She really was just gone, and he couldn't have done anything but watch on. His eyes darkened as he let out a vicious roar, suddenly charging the Immortal just as he turned around. This time Chimera was faster, leaping through the air and barreling straight into the immortal with his much larger mass, slamming him directly into the floor. "No more killing!" He shouted in his distorted voice, ripping into the meta's clothing with his feral claws but doing no damage to the actual man. Finding this unsuccessful, he simply used his tail to slam him into the wall. He attempted to repeat this plan, only to find the Immortal was finally recovering and caught his tail, this time slinging Drake into the cement structure with a much larger bang.

Gloria's plan had been effective in conception but in practice it fell far short of what she expected. The broken remnants of her two combat knives lay scattered at the Immortal's feet. Luckily she still had one more strapped to her arm but that wasn't really a boon at the moment as the knives had shattered on contact with the Immortal's skin. Crosscut had come in just a moment before Gloria's grenade went off, trying to stop her but it made no difference one way or another. Gloria heard the bang of the explosive, severely muffled and the Immortal seemed no worse for wear. Gloria would never have considered doing that to a normal man and with the Immortal it seemed it was overkill. The insides should have been more penetrable than the exterior.

In a vain attempt to rectify her mistake Crosscut warped into the zone materialized construction equipment inside the Immortal's body, just as with the grenade it seemed to have no effect. Gloria watched as McWizz infected the rebar with some form of energy. Finally this seemed to get the reaction of pain from the Immortal though he was no less capable of sending this plant into melt down. As the flying man made to attack McWizz he was impeded by a girl, Gloria had seen in the briefing, Gloria hadn't learned her name. The Immortal turned on her throwing the infected rebar at her. Though she was skilled enough with her power to prevent the rebar from cracking her skull the girl didn't see what was coming next, but Gloria did.

The Specter started to run as fast as her legs would move in the girl's direction but a feeling deep within her told her she would be too late. The Immortal grasped the girl by the throat and despite the noise of the area Gloria heard the sickening sound of her neck crack. She was dead. Moments later the beast the Chimera had now become came barreling past her and slammed into the Immortal enraged. Chimera hit their enemy with enough force that he actually hit the ground before retaliating violently.

Gloria stopped beside the dead girl and held her head in her arms. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I didn't learn your name and I'm sorry you won't see anything that comes after. You deserved better than this." Words echoed in Gloria's head. "I have to go somewhere else now don’t I?" "Gloria what did you do?" A single tear fell from Gloria's eyes and landed on the dead girl's forehead. "I promise you I'll make this right."

With fire in her veins Gloria stood and turned to face the Immortal. After his fight with Chimera he was very close to the wall of the plant. This granted Gloria an opportunity she hadn't had before. Gloria started to run again. Her velocity increasing with her anger. Just as the Immortal was done shrugging off the impact of Chimera Gloria hit him with all her combined strength pushing him a few meters back into the wall. As she did this Gloria extended her powers around him. Pain shot up Gloria's body as she used her power over the massive electric field the Immortal was generating. Rage dulled the pain and Gloria pushed submerging the Immortal's head halfway into the concrete then pushing his hands in too. She moved a distance from him. This wouldn't hold long.

With limited time and even more limited options a crazed plan came over Gloria, truly an insane idea and yet it might just work. Gloria glanced at the Immortal, then to the broken body of the nameless girl. Gloria started to sprint. Not towards the Immortal who for the moment was trapped but towards the Reactor Chamber.

The doors were sealed but despite being impeded Gloria didn't break stride as she ran through the hallway. As she approached the door Gloria switch her gift into active being and phased straight throw the stainless steal. Once through the doors Gloria ran down the stairs taking then three at the time. She'd seen Revel repel down just a moment ago. Sure enough there he was at the bottom of the shaft, just above the reactor itself. "Revel, I need to talk to you." She was interrupted by the sound of fighting from upstairs. The battle wasn't going well.

"Never mind what you did to my back, I deal with that later. I think I have a plan to stop the Immortal. We've been given the kill order and the Immortal wants to die. He's under the impression that a reactor meltdown is the only way to do it and he knows a lot more about his powers than we do. Maybe he's right, maybe the reactor is the only thing that can kill him. So we give him what he wants. Use the reactor to end his life but we do it in a way that won't cause an overload. If I phase him through all of the containment barriers and he rematerializes within the reactor itself with any luck it will immolate him leaving the plant unharmed. It'll royally screw up the reactor long term but short term we're down a super villain and the area is safe."