The villain reappeared on the street just as the laser beam hit him. He let out a grunt of pain and stumbled a few steps before retaliating. His entire body suddenly grew an armor of ice. He turned to blast the radioactive hero with another shot of ice. Orren took this as his chance to make a move. He struck at the villain's back with his blades, the sharpened edges cutting clean through the man's coat and into skin. It left a nasty cut along the villain's back. Orren then moved to land a kick in him, but was instead greeted with cold, hard metal.

Frostbite whipped around just before Orren could deliver his blow and struck him with his crystal blade. The hero cried out as he fell, a bloody gash between his ribs. At first, it didn't seem like a big deal; he began to heal almost immediately. Then the crystals began to grow. Orren let out an agonized cry as the icy crystals slowly grew down into his flesh and organs. He was left writhing on the ground, defenseless. The ice villain looked rather smug. 

"It seems you heroes aren't at all what you're cut out to be. It's cute that you try, though." By now, police were arriving on the scene and setting up a blockade. They had guns aimed and looking for an opening to shoot. Frostbite couldn't fight both them AND the heroes. "But I've got what I need for now. I'll see again real soon." With that, the villain threw up a large, icy wall to block off the entrance to the alley behind him. By the time any of the heroes could have broken it down, he would have been long gone. 

For now, they had a street to clean up and injuries to tend to.