Tuesday, 11:50 a.m.
The sounds of tapping echoed in a large, dimly lit room filled with monitors. Each monitor was being constantly used, members of the Hero Association constantly on edge, constantly looking for any signs of dangers or monsters. Behind them stood a single man, towering over the rest as he scanned the room. His eyes were hidden behind his sunglasses, constantly wearing them at all times. Commander of Headquarters A, former hero, Danzo. Amongst the sounds of tapping, a loud beeping began to fill the room as one of the employees suddenly jumped in surprise. Beads of sweat began to go down his back. All eyes were on the young man, who seemed like it was his first day working.

"S-Sir, we have bad news....really bad news"

Within seconds the towering man was behind the youngin, grabbing the swiveling chair and tossing it along with the young man aside. The large man slammed his hands down on the keyboard, smashing it to pieces. Silence filled the room.

"It's been decades...why now of all times" He whispered to himself. "WARN CITY K TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATLY. DISPATCH ALL POSSIBLE HEROES TO-"

Before he could finish, he was instantly interrupted by a young woman "S-sir!! The object, I-it's breaking apart!! The pieces are heading to three different cities!!" Danzo quickly turned to her, his eyes widening as his fists began to shake W-what, this is nothing like before Out of old habit, he began to grind his teeth "IMMEDIATLY EVACTUATE CITIES K, S, AND T. DISPATCH ALL POSSIBLE HEROES TO THE THREE CITIES. THE CIVILIANS ARE OUR TOP PRIOTIY.

One brave employee decided to speak "W-what disaster level sir?" The large man glared at him, the employee yelping before quickly turning around and pretending to work. Danzo sighed "ISSUE DISASTER LEVEL TIGER TO ALL THREE CITIES!"

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Miles above City K
A torpedo like spaceship plowed through the atmosphere, coming down towards city Z at alarming speeds. Inside, three shadowy figures maintained a constant, sinister grin "Remember, leave the strongest warrior to the boss. We're just here for recon" The other three nodded in agreement, the ship breaking off into three separate pieces. One piece continued it's path down towards City K while to other two altered their destination, one going for City S and the other going for City T. Within mere moments, each of the pods crash landed, generating powerful shockwaves and intense winds.

City K
A curious civilian walked up to the steaming pod, pulling out a handgun and aiming it at the pod "I-if I take this thing out, then I could become a hero right?" Before firing off a few rounds, the pod door shot out and instantly squashed the civilian like a bug. In a flash, a large figure stood ontop of the burning hot door with a confident grin.

"Hehehe, it's so fun to hear this aliens squish like bugs" He said, stomping on the door a few more times until he got bored. "Well the orders were to look for strong people. What better way than to destroy!!!!" He opened his mouth, a faint orange glow emitting from his mouth before spewing out a orange and yellow spray. The spray instantly melted the surrounding foundations of each building, toppling them over with ease. The large beast laughed in amusement as he watched numerous of citizens running "YES PUNY BUGS RUN HAHAHAHA"

City S
Just like before, the hot door of the alien pod shot out but luckily there were no citizens around. In a blur, a shadowy figure popped out and quickly made it's way on top of a building.

"Tch, knowing Gastro he's just causing havoc. How did I get teamed up with these two, especially that other one" He shuddered at the thought of the last alien. "Well no problem for me, long as our Lord recognizes our good work. Now if I were a bunch of scurrying aliens, where would I go" The alien said, as if talking to himself but in reality just enjoying the sound of his own voice. He looked around the city, noticing a large dome structure. The figured chuckled "Fools make it too easy" The alien aimed it's two claws backwards, powerful streams of water firing out of each claw and propelling the alien towards the Citizen Evacuation with incredible speeds "COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE, GYAHAHAHA"

City T
Once again, the door popped off the pod and dropped to the ground below. However this time, many curious civilians approached the pod. Each one talked and wondered what was inside the pod, vast array of ideas swirling in their heads. One brave citizen looked inside, relief filling his body as he turned to the crowd "It's empty! haha, dumb alien must of died when it landed" The other citizens chuckled, relieved that their city would avoid attack. Sadly, one unlucky citizen felt a slight tug on his shirt, looking down at a small weird figure.

He gasped, startled at first before chuckling "Careful there kid, I almost mistook you for an alien" "Candy?" The man scratched his head "G-get out of here stupid kid before I call your par...ents" The man was confused, wondering why he was now facing the crowd of people instead of the little person in front of him. "Wha" His body collapsed, head spun around like a bottlecap and blood leaking out of his eyes, nose and mouth. It took everybody a second to realize that the alien hadn't died, but was instead the white figure standing before them. Yet by that time, they had all already been dead, holes punched through their chests and heads. The bloodsplattered, white figured skipped off without a second thought, humming a pleasant tune.

"I'm sorry, sir. We don't accept credit cards here," said Clarence.

"IMPOSSIBLE!" said the man, "I was just here three days ago, and I had a credit card, and I bought some sodas. With the credit card."

"You must be thinking of our other location, in the other part of City S. They accept credit there. But not here," replied Clarence as he pushed his cuticles back.

"What? That's ridiculous!" exclaimed the man.

"So are you. Now, are you going to pay in cash, or leave?" asked Clarence.

Before the man could reply, Clarence's boss emerged from the back room, "there's an evacuation! Tiger!"

He left without another word. Clarence blinked and the man he had just been talking to was gone too. He sighed and began walking towards his car. He quickly realized most people had already evacuated. Hopefully, his younger siblings had already gotten away. Then he saw it. The giant crab... thing. It was sailing through the air with jets of water. Straight towards the evacuating people... and his car! Clarence knew he was a hero, but come on, he could be expected to deal with that thing. Maybe if he tried reasoning with it...? He thought for a moment. Nope, not a good idea. What about shooting it? He had his hunting rifle stashed in his trunk. Nah, that wouldn't do.

Well, maybe he could distract the monster, give people more time to evacuate and give better heroes more time to arrive and do their thing. Perhaps he could distract the monster and survive... now, that sounded like a good idea!

He quickly made his way to his minivan and hopped in. He started the engine and then leaned out of the window. "Hey! Could you give me a car wash? There's gunk all over my windshield!" Clarence shouted. As soon as the monster fired his jets of water at him, he'd drive away as fast as possible and try to outmaneuver the crustacean monster.

"After two sunders, we can basically start doing damage to it," Nadia said. Where was she? The answer was simple. She - along with two dozen of her fellow warriors of justice - were assembled in an molten cavern, glancing from a distance at a massive dragon that lied just ahead. Each and every one of them was clad in only the finest of weapons and armor. They were ready for this fight; Nadia knew it. The whole thing might have seemed more epic to onlookers if it weren't for one little issue. None of this was real. Over Nadia's ears was a headset, complete with microphone to let her vocally communicate with fellow gamers, and in front of her was a computer monitor with the "warriors of justice" all on-screen, featuring several action bars with tanking abilities Nadia had set up to use. "When it gets into phase two, nuke it as hard as possible. Until then, you--"

Her explanation of raid boss mechanics was cut short by what sounded like a small alarm going off near her. Dammit! Nadia glanced in the direction of the sound's source, to see evacuation orders issued for Cities K, S, and T. Just her luck. "Sorry guys. Duty calls. Any of you in those cities, go somewhere safe. I want to hear from all of you when this is over." Whatever had dared to threaten these cities was making it difficult to go about the activities she wanted to do on her downtime. City K was closest to her, and as such was the logical destination. No doubt the Association was already deploying heroes to all three cities. Nadia - no, Collider - would have to show whatever was behind this a thing or two about justice.

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It wasn't much later that Nadia was in City K, clad in Collider costume and weapon at hand. From her spot, it was fairly easy to tell where the chaos was coming from. The spot with the fallen buildings, no doubt. There was a...good god that thing was ugly. The nearby pod type thing made it fairly clear. This was some sort of alien, right? Goodie. Fearless though she may have been, however, Nadia wasn't stupid. She had no clue what this alien was capable of. Rather than blindly charging in, she had to get an idea of its powers. And so, Nadia activated her ability for just a brief moment, granting herself superior strength and speed with which she ran toward a small car about half a block down, delivering a full-force kick to the vehicle once she was there. The vehicle flew off, toward her target.

That'll show it to mess with my raid schedule. Maybe.

V E N T U S

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The day didn’t start any differently than most days for Geoffrey. He woke up and immediately focused air beneath his body so he’d float above his bed. He drifted out and into his apartment’s hallway, the walls were plain and the only furniture was his bed. He didn’t need any since he hardly ever touched the ground. Making his way into his kitchen his abilities went on auto-pilot and a pan was pulled from a cabinet, eggs emerged from the refrigerator and cereal and such began preparing themselves. All the while Geoff read a book about a spaceman hitchhiking his way through the galaxy.

Geoff was also known as the Class S hero, Ventus. He was a physics professor by day and a hero by day and asleep by night. His day went rather normal until about the end of his 11-11:50 Tuesday class – Calculus. He taught a wide variety of mathematical and science classes at the university and many, almost all, of his students refused to call him ‘Professor Burr’ in favor of his hero name, Ventus.



“A derivative is the slope at one point on a graph… Or, it is a slope tangent to a function.” There was a marker against the board squeaking away as the man spoke about the subject. It was drawing equations and graphs depending on what Burr said. Burr, floating in front of the board just a few inches above the ground, had his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics which assisted him in utilizing his powers to the optimal efficiency. “Now then, are there any questions?” He’d just explained the standard method to solve derivatives, the long way. His class of two-hundred-fifty students was silent. He took it as a cue to continue.

The class went on like that for almost the entire period then Burr’s phone buzzed and the bell rang immediately afterward. The phone lifted itself off of his desk and made it’s way to his hand where he read the message to himself. “ATTENTION: THREAT LEVEL TIGER IN CITIES K, S, & T. ALL AVAILABLE HEROS RESPOND.”

“I guess I’ll go then.” There was a group of students waiting at the door for him. He knew why, they wanted his autograph or to take a picture or something like that. They were likely in his fan club – that was the issue with being such a prominent hero… Fans always wanted your time. He quickly made his way to the window and flew out. City S isn’t too far this way, I can get there within a few minutes…



He arrived to find a large crash site in the city center there was a sort of small craft in the center. He looked around because most around the 'pod' seemed relatively untouched. That was when he spotted the large monster using some sort of water ability to propel itslef toward the evacuation area. Toward the citizens. Ventus couldn't allow that. He shot toward the beast but could tell that he wasn't going to reach it in time to beat it to the building. He altered the alignment of the air molecules to allow his voice to carry and shouted. "Hey! Ugly! I, Ventus - Class S Hero Rank 12 - challenge you!" He braced himself incase it decided to heed his challenge.

S H I N D O T S U B A S A

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Shindo was, as usual, at school. It was break at that time. He was lying down with his back on the floor and looking up at the clear blue sky above. The feeling of a cool breeze passed by his face and the rustling of the grass and trees. The clouds moved with the wind. He was lying down in the school garden where no one would bother him. At least, no student would. This was his stomping grounds, a place where almost no one went to. It was mostly because they would be busy with things Shindo was already done with. Thanks to his speed, he could do most things in a flash. Ha, right, like Flash Forward. Beat villains in a flash and disappear right after. The villains had horrible timing. They always appear when he's busy with school.

His earpiece started to beep and he answered it. Danger Level Tiger in three cities? What was happening out there? They were dispatching all the heroes, and probably even vigilantes. Must be a real threat. He stood up and stretched. He took his bag and then took out a black half mask. He took off his school jacket and replaced it with a grey hoodie that had a stylized 'FF' on the back and when zipped up, a green lightning bolt within a white circle. Shindo became a blur as he shoved his into the school locker, replaced his shoes with outside shoes and then sped off to City S. The buildings were a blur to his vision but he knew they were there.

It only took him a few minutes to get to the City S and stopped near the building with the alien on it. He saw him shoot out two jet streams and headed for the City Evacuation. Crap. He could see that the alien was fast, but he was certainly faster. He took a deep breath and then disappeared into another blur. Good thing the streets were clear and he was free of bumping into anyone and he could make smooth turns. He could actually track the alien's movement and he long passed him before he got to the evacuation center.

He burst through the doors, much to everyone's fear and surprise. "I suggest you move the civilians to a much more secure place." He told one of the heads there. "The battle's not too far from here and there's a risk that the battle will turn here." He continued to explain. He then opened the door to look out, okay, the other heroes had it covered for now. He'll focus on support then.

E R I K A M I K A Z U C H I

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Erika had closed up shop because of the evacuation notice. Goodness, she hasn't even gotten to take the hero exam and yet here it was, an alien is coming. Hopefully nothing inside the shop would be damaged considering that she pulled so many strings just to get the materials to upgrade Ayu and Razor inside. Erika moved towards the evacuation center with Ayu and Razor in tow.

Curiosity got the better of her and she headed towards where the villain was; basically? Opposite of where the people were running. Someone had already been there, Collider if she wasn't mistaken. Erika hid behind one of the far away buildings and looked at where the villain was. Spewing lava was it? That was hard.

"I think we can take 'im on." Razor said, a cocky grin appearing on his face. "Can't melt what it can't touch right?" The robot male was confident in his speed. Erika was as well but she turned to him with a worried look.

"It wouldn't work. You are at risk." Erika pointed out before looking back and placing a hand on her chin. It was organic, so she couldn't analyze the alien. But she'll observe how it fairs against Collider first before judging just how powerful it is. "Ayu is our best bet. Stand by Ayu."

"Understood." Ayu began warming up her system for a fight. A long ranged fight. Maybe hitting it with the anti-material cannon would seal the deal, but that would take a long time. Collider might need support. She'd decide once the alien moves. But she made sure that she and her robots were well hidden and out of the direct way of the villain. She wasn't a hero. Not yet anyway.

City A - Headquarters
One of the Special Committee heads, Madel Blueford, stood at the far end of the examination room where today's session of Exam Physicals were being held. She held a pen to the examination sheet that sat upon the clipboard in her hand - only one of the many sheets she had to fill for the day. Next to her was a stack of half-filled forms, waiting to be taken to where the written exams were held to be completed. Her eyes were lifted from her sheet, watching the band of mismatched weirdos that claimed to be heroes try to prove that they had what it took to be an Association Hero.

The sound of fast-approaching clicks of high heels caught the committee head's attention. "Ms Blueford, Ms Blueford!" a young woman called out as she burst into the room, out of breath and panting. It was evident that the worker had sprinted into the physical exam room from the , her head covered in sweat and her suit crinkled from running. Over her arm hung the black chador of DreadLock, which indicated that something terrible was afoot outside.

The young woman's hands fell to her knees, and she was panting hard when Madel approached her, a brow raised. "What is it?" she asked, ignoring the confused chatter of the potential heroes behind her. "Threat... Tiger... Cities..." the woman panted as she extended DreadLock's tassled cloak toward Madel.

There was no use in trying to get an answer out of this frazzled woman, Madel figured, judging by the woman's demeanour - not only was she puffed out, she looked terrified. Madel turned back toward the now overly-excited hero applicants, who seemed to think that they could be the ones taking down whatever was outside. "The Entrance Exam has been cancelled," Madel announced, "but you all are to stay inside the vicinity until further notice. That is all."

And with that, Madel turned, basically shoving her semi-filled clipboard into the arms of the timid employee as she passed her to exit into the hallway. The click's of Madel's heels echoed through the large hallways as she briskly navigated through them, heading toward the nearest elevator. She was heading toward the facility's roof, where she could easily fly to any location she required to go - it was much faster than driving.

She pulled her radio from her pocket, pushing in her earpiece as she flicked through the radio channels; Committee... Z-Branch... That cute guy from H-Branch... Director . Eventually landing on the channel she wanted, Madel spoke through her radio: "What is it and where am I going?" One of the perks of being a committee head was having access to the Director's personal radio, that isn't even on the masterlist of radio channels.

As she walked, Madel pulled her cloak around her shoulders and pulled the hood up. Her red hair was steadily augmenting, already spilling out from the hood's front as she entered the elevator up.

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City A - Headquarters' Roof
DreadLock, in place of Madel, stepped out from the elevator that she'd taken up to the top level of the building. DreadLock quickly made her way up to the stairwell that lead to the roof, making use of her prehensile to pull herself up the stairwell much faster (and with far less cardiac exhaustion).

The cloaked woman burst outside, the one-way door locking her out when it slammed shut behind her. She made sure to keep her earpiece pushed firmly into her hear as she formed the hair that had spilled out from her hood into a shape that manifested wings upon her back. As she fluttered these wings, they did indeed lift her from the floor, her dainty feet slipping out from her heels - this was the most common way that DreadLock lost Madel's shoes, or they'd be jammed into one of many alien orifices.

"I'm heading for T," she announced, launching herself from the Association's roof and flying into the direction of City T.

City T - Street
DreadLock floated above the roof of an apartment in the middle of City T, her hair-wings flittering to keep her feet from the ground. She glanced about, watching Citizens flee to the closest exit point, trying to pinpoint the location that they were running from. Eventually, she flew against the stream of panicked citizens, stopping before a convenience store upon spotting the alien creature.

This is a Tiger-Level threat? she thought, almost sounding as if she were disappointed that she flew all the way here for... For what appeared to just be a child in a lazy duck-costume. It skipped about aimlessly, occasionally ceasing it's humming to spurt childish nonsense like "play?" and "candy?" It was only when she looked toward the pod where it had originated, splattered in blood and joined by the semi-liquefied body of a man, she realised that this wouldn't be an easy fight.

A panicked scream ripped Dreadlock's attention back away from the alien's originating place, and to where the scream had originated. A woman, clutching her young child, had trapped herself and her child in an alley between two buildings. She was being steadily approached by the alien, it's arms extended as it repeated "play?" over and over.

Without hesitating, DreadLock flew above the building and sent two tendrils of hair into the alleyway. She wrapped these tendrils about the two citizens, hastily pulling them up and away from the white creature, before gently placing them on the roof of the closest flat-top building.

The creature, upon seeing his chosen victims be whisked away, angrily shrieked "PLAY!" The shriek rang out through the entire city, alerting any nearby hero of the creature's location.

Mrs. Pickles was moderately successful. The crustacean dude, either amused, annoyed, or both, shot a stream of water at him. Clarence was able to dodge with relative ease... However, the water quickly accumulated underneath of Mrs. Pickles vehicle. Thanks to the wonders of hydroplaning, Mrs. Pickles was essentially a sitting duck. Mrs. Pickles grabbed his rifle and the enchanted box. He threw his cape on quickly, and hopped out of the vehicle.

"Well! If I'm going to do this, it's not going to be without a fight! HAAAAA!!!!!" Mrs. Pickles fired his gun at the alien, screaming at the top of his lungs, ready to die in order to protect the city and the ones he loved.
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No, Mrs. Pickles was running like a prepubescent teenage girl to a Justin Bieber concert within seconds of getting out of that vehicle. The water pressure blasted the van to smithereens. Thank goodness for auto insurance.

Despite his cowardice... ahem... What I meant to say was... thanks to Mrs. Pickles' level headed decision making, he had successfully created a distraction, granting some of the other heroes enough time to lend a hand.

V E N T U S

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As it would happen, the alien-crab thing decided that someone near the ground was more notable than Ventus was. This was a major shock to Geoff’s ego. Not that he had much of an ego but what was there was indeed shocked. He quickly flew after the monster dropping into a steep dive and propelling himself as fast as he could reasonably do. All the while he was working out the equations for his descent in his head as a second measure to keep himself alive. Flying around is cool and all but things still have to obey the laws of physics.

The monster had smashed a car to literal nothing while chasing the someone. Hopefully they’re a hero, maybe Guardian or Panther Man… Though I would like one of the other Class S heros to take one of the other threats… The, actually rather tall, man who had caught the monster’s attention wore a very short blue cape with some misaligned duct-tape on it. It looked like the shape was suppose to represent the letter ‘P’ but Ventus wasn’t sure.

He didn’t waste time with small talk - the P was about to be crushed. Burr was relatively certain that most everyone there had already gone since a crowd was gathering around the dome-building, which must’ve been the evacuation center. He focused on the air surrounding the alien and forced it to contract, grasping the crab. He smashed it into the street, severely cracking the later. The impact threw several chunks of road into shops and walls, smashing windows on cars and buildings.

Ventus never really saw the point of naming an attack, his fans did though but he never really paid attention to most of them. He definitely did not see the point of shouting the name, of said attack, while using it - that just didn’t make any sense to him.

The thing about monsters is that they’re not monsters for no reason.

When Ventus smashed part of the street he’d briefly lost focus on the grasp and the alien broke free and sent two powerful jets of water upward toward the flying hero. Ventus had hardly any time to conjure up a wall of condensed air to deflect the water, in fact the wall only partially did that. He’d misjudged the force needed to keep the wall steady and it shot back and slammed into him sending Geoff flying upward until he’d caught himself. It was becoming apparent that Tiger was too low of a threat level for this monster.

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"A tiger level threat in City S?! Well it's a good thing I'm here!"

Evan was standing on the rooftops after he immediately stopped advertising his shop to fulfill his heroic duty. This could be the perfect opportunity to show he was ready for a promotion. There was a wide grin on Evan's face as he adjusted his hoodie, revealing that he was wearing his penguin costume today. He leaped off the building and used his solar abilities to propel himself through the air at a moderate speed, heading towards where he heard the pod crashing. Luckily, it wasn't too far off from his current location, so he should arrive in a short amount of time.

That is where he noticed some kind of crab monster making its way towards the evacuation zone, with some kind of water jet stream. The alien was incredibly fast, but Evan had it in his sights and attempted to pursue it, trying to close the gap between them. Oh no! You're not making it over there! He mentally shouted as both of his arms were in Solar Drive just like his legs. After he managed to catch up to the action, he saw the alien being distracted with a fight occurring on the street just below him. He used this chance to get in position on top of one of the smaller buildings and stayed out of fight waiting for an opening. Solar Drive was no longer active on his legs and the energy was mainly focused on his arms.

There, he found his opening! The moment the alien used his jet stream on the S-Ranked Hero Ventus, he uncrouched from behind the ledge and extended both of his arms out, having the alien in his sights.

"Sunflower Shurikens!"

He shouted, after he was firing off large amount of solar flames in shape of shurikens from both of his arms. This kind of attack costs low energy and allowed him to spam it as much as he wants, at the cost of the little damage it outputs. There is no doubt that this attack wouldn't defeat the alien that easily, which is precisely why he aimed at the creature from the neck up, wishing to burn out its eyes. There were about twenty Sunflower Shurikens closing in on the alien's right side at a high speed.

The Alien realized at the last moment there was something bright incoming from one side. A total of seven shurikens made contact, permanently blinding his right eye with three direct hits. The Alien quickly reacted by raising its right arm up protecting his face from any further damage and swung with its left claw, managing to use its single jet stream to blast away the rest of Evan's flames. Evan's eyes became wide, surprised that the alien reacted fast enough and managed to pinpoint his location with just a glance. He was hit by the powerful stream of water, sending him to the other side of the rooftop biting his lip in pain. Luckily, there were no broken bones, however the strong impact took the wind out of Evan despite the distance between them.

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Atrial sighed as her phone vibrated. "Tiger level huh. Guess it's time to go earn a paycheck." She muttered to herself, looking over at her mother who was asleep. Walking out of the room she passed her father whom she nodded to before stopping him. "I have to work. Make sure she is okay while I am gone." He simply responded with a grunt and walked into her mother's room. Her parents were both well aware of her being a hero and all to aware that she was the destructive force the people called Bomber. They hated that their daughter was out risking her life but accepted it because she was a huge source of their income.

"Looks like the threat in city K is closest. Better suit up and head out." She muttered to herself as she threw on he costume, making sure that her pouches were full. She wouldn't want to run out. After suiting up she headed to the garage of the house in City A she had moved her family into and got on the motorcycle she fixed up to have some transportation. It was a quick drive to City K as she took all the shortcuts she knew and the streets were pretty empty in anticipation of a possible spread of a threat. She left her bike a couple blocks from where the alien was located and went the rest of the way on foot.

Upon arrival she hid behind a random vehicle and the first thing she noticed was the massive amount of destruction. "Of course." She muttered to herself before he eyes were drawn to the alien that caused the mess. She didn't even know how to describe it. The closest thing she could think of was an overgrown turtle or lizard and from the looks of things around it the alien seemed to be able to melt things. 'Best if I stay away from it, though I have to find it's range of attack.' She thought to herself, deciding to get it's attention. Though it seemed there was another hero around that had the same idea. She shrugged, deciding that it looked dumb enough that multiple attacks may temporarily confuse it. Pulling out some marbles she charged them and chucked them at the alien from behind the vehicle, trying to keep herself hidden for at least a little. They exploded a little to the left of the alien, opposite of where the car was being flung from. She wasn't sure which hero was responsible but working as a team was probably their best bet.

It was peaceful as always, the nuns of the Holy Mother played sweet hymns that echoed through the church's halls and out onto the street below. Outside of the church, a few sisters and brothers of the holy order were maintaining the grounds as a large bulky figure approached. Some had stopped for a second to see who it was, simply smiling when the man greeted them with a simple "Father" or "Sister" and continued on with their duties. He stood around six feet, eleven inches and matched that height in pure muscle weight, roughly 360 pounds of lean and toned muscle. Short, black, unkempt hair, blew gently in the coming wind. Light brown eyes smiled to those working outside, accompanied by an unwavering grin. He was covered by a black cape, tattered at the bottom from wear and tear. But, above his body, the hilt of The Crucible stood, silently bearing the name of its wielder.

"Hello father, is Mother Grace in currently?" An older man, with long white hair and beard, pushed his glasses up on his face, turning to see who called out to him. He had been working on the front entrance garden, the one that Allister liked to tend to on his off days besides his own. Father Michael turned to face the tall man and felt a warm come over him. He stood up and chuckled patting Allister on the sides of his arm, one side clinking from the armored sleeve that ran down it.

"Haheheheh! Allister? Ahhhhh, young Allister Matthews! How are you son? I haven't seen you since you left for the academy. But I have been listening to your whereabouts. The newspaper, the TV, radio? We are all very proud of you son...Oh, ah yes! Mother Grace...Come come. She has been expecting you " Placing a hand on his back, he lead Allister inside, carefully closing the door behind him. It hadn't been the first nor second time being in this church. This was originally his home when his parents brought him here, hoping that the church would provide a better life for them than they could. Despite what many had said to him, he found this to be a blessing. For all anyone knew, himself included, he could have been in foster care or worse, on the barrel end of a hero's fist...Or dead. But, he was lucky, not only for being taken in by a merciful mother, but a mother who was a famous S ranked hero. Mother Superior, Sister Elaine Claire was known more commonly as Angel Grace, an outstanding S ranked healer whose range in power trumped many. She worked with powers associated in light mostly, but what made here famous was her healing power. No one knows how she did it at the time, able to heal deep severe wounds to the point that they would appear as if they never happened. But back then they did not know much about Heros. Later on, it was discovered she had the ability to distort time, to a certain degree, reversing the damage that was done in a certain timeframe. Mostly, she was able to heal many, though some were too severe and out of her hands. Now, she watched over the Church of Saint Michael, and works at the academy as a Defensive ability teacher and a nurse. As they approached he knelt down low, with his head bowed. Despite being in her nineties, she still had that youthful appearance. Only looking to be no older than 28.

"Mother Superior, it's good to see you- ACK!"

THUNK!

In a moments notice, a large, heavy bible slammed down on the top of his head, putting his face into the tile flooring. Father recoiled in shock.

"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO STOP CALLING ME THAT!? DO I LOOK LIKE AN OLD LADY!?" If one looked closely, one could see the steam exiting Mother Grace's ears. Looking up with his one eye flinching from the pain, he looked up with a smirk, which faded to fear and more flinching as she raised the bible up again, prepared to but the holy ghost outta him.

"S-S-Sorry Mother Sur- Mom..." With a audible "Hm" and a sigh she knelt down, helping her "little" boy up and then giving him a big hug.

"It's good to see you again Alley. I hear you made it to an S rank hero class. Not only that but the fourth ranked one at that. I'm so proud of you sweetheart. I hope your not planning to stop there now are you?" She smiled as she talked, but a slight hint of frustration entered towards the question. Allister did have a tendency at first to get comfortable with where he was. But with Angel Grace's teachings and training, he learned to always push forward, never looking back. He nodded in response. She gestured for him and Father to follow towards the back of the church, where lunch was being prepared. As they walked he glanced over to her with a light smirk.

"Thanks mom... Uh, yeah actually. I was looking into joining the academy as a student teacher. Study a bit and become a full fledged teacher there. If that doesn't work I may come back and become a pastor or priest." His mother shot him a look to which he returned with a cautious one.

"No son of mine will be a priest. You study your hardest and become the best teacher you can be. You're a bright boy Alley. Full of wisdom and knowledge that can and should be past down to the younger hero generation." Father chimed in.

"I agree. As much as I would appreciate you joining the holy order, you have need else where son, somewhere much more important." Allister smiled and looked down. He truly was blessed with what he had. He still wished to meet his biological parents but had one thing in mind, one thing that prevented it. If after all the media coverage and front article spots he received, they didn't bother searching him out, he wouldn't do the same. Selfish, maybe. But it was probably for the best. They had made it to dining room. A simple little thing with a fairly large table meant to hold most of the convent there. But for now it was just the three and those who were finishing up cooking for the rest of the order.

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Time had past and the meal was delightful. He spent the hour or so chatting with the others about his plans and had mix reviews. One of the older nuns made a very suggestive comment about him joining the order, earning weird looks from everyone which she retorted with "In the end I'm saving myself for Jesus. So what's wrong with a little eye candy." That had made nearly everyone shudder, specifically Allister since this was the same old nun who he considered a grandmother figure. Apparently, she waited until he was older to joke around like that.

It was around now that a nun ran in, panting. Her eyes filled with fear and terror. Everyone at the table looked at her with worried eyes.

"Evac...uation... We need...to go...NOW!" Allister was sipping some fresh tea when she ran in. His warming smile turned to a cold scorn as he glanced over to Angel Grace to which she simply nodded.

"Angel Grace..." He simply stated with a stern voice.

"Right...Everyone go, get to safety, take any and all food, water and medical supplies with you and help the nurses and doctors with any and ALL victims. Father, gather the Knights and meet by the alter. Afterwards, take your leave as well. I will be shortly behind. And with her commanding voice they moved with a chaotic yet controlled haste. The three stood up and made their way to the alter, preparing for the upcoming battle.

"Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris" The fathers of the Knights Order sung as the alter was being prepared. Behind the alter, Angel Grace stood, adorn in her armor of silver and gold, her four wings at their fullest length her hands extended in front of her. In front of the alter, Allister knelt with Grace's hands just above his head. Her eyes were closed as a golden light slowly covered over Allister. Slowly outside, the screaming and yelling could be heard as well as the rumbling of the ground could be felt from the other invaders. "May the lord bless you in the coming crusade against those of darkness. May your shining light bless Allister Matthews and lead him to the light beyond the darkness."

"Amen"
"Amen"

"Go child. And serve the lord and those you have sworn the oath to protect." Angel Grace was one of the few that could command such respect and faith with Allister. With those few words of the command, Allister lowered his head just a bit more, before standing fully erect, a fierce unwavering gaze etched in concrete on his face as he turned towards the door and began his march toward the fray, only his footsteps echoed through the now silent church.




The sounds of terror and anguish grew in sound as he approached the doors of the Cathedral. His hand grasped the handle, clicked down the lever and opened it.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"HELP MEEE!
"OH GOD NO!"

Pain, agony, terror, fear. They bombarded his eardrums as he left the church, Angel Grace and the others had taken the back door if her flight path was anything to go off of. He stared up to her in the sky for a moment before looking back to the streets of people in terror, running from something. That was the way to go. Coming down the now barren steps he turned into the direction of the oncoming civilians, his eyes were focused on the distance. Bodys seemed to be strung out all over the place and in gruesome positions. That was when he heard over the loud speaker.

"-EVEL TIGER! ALL AVAILABLE HEROS PLEASE RESPOND!" He glanced up to the speakers as he walked. Slowly his eyes moved towards the front. Squinted slightly, he thought he could see what the problem was but he was still unsure. He made his approach, unsure if any other heros responded to the distress call for city T. He wondered if he was alone. It mattered not. If today he would die fighting alone to try to save those who couldn't save themselves, then to him it was God's Will. But only fate would hold the answer.

S H I N D O "F L A S H F O R W A R D" T S U B A S A

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@SpookySquid

Shindo looked as the S-Class Ventus and B-Class Sunshine had appeared. And there was another person who was running from the scene. Was that a civilian or a hero? He assumed a civilian considering the fact that he was running away. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as he began assessing the situation. The alien seemed to have its full attention on the fleeing civilian but was being attacked by Ventus and Sunshine. There seemed to be a crushed van that was not there earlier - so Shindo assumed that the civilian came from. Why he was there in the first place is something he had no clue about. He yawned before taking a look at his watch.

CRAP, HE ONLY HAD TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE TIME!

Oh, he was not looking forward to yet another telling off from his oh so strict Physics teacher who, even with the knowledge that he was a hero, seemed to take pleasure in lecturing him for things he cannot control. He once had been told off because he was late when he helped the other heroes rescue the freaking school area from a villain! Guy doesn't have a sense of gratitude, that's for sure. And to think Shindo was actually doing well in his class.

He ran his hand through his hair in habit, accidentally pushing off his hoodie. He heard a chorus of 'ooh's and 'ahh's. He inwardly cursed as he put the hood back up. Then again, he wasn't exactly secretive of his identity. It's not like they'll find something interesting about him. He was just a senior in high school who was still unsure of his own future. Sure, hero business was fun and all, but he only had one goal so he felt like he won't consider himself a true hero.

Anyhow, he took a step back, preparing for a run. He made a two-finger salute which he was known for. He then began a blur before completely disappearing a few seconds after. The civilians' brains couldn't process or even follow his movement. Shindo was out of the building in a flash, running towards the fleeing man. Everything was slow to him in this kind of state. He could analyze the ever closing figure of the 'civilian' earlier. Now that he saw him properly, it was that C-Class dude... Mrs. Pickles. He remembered that much thanks to the peculiar name. The guy was way bigger than him, too big for him to carry normally. He was only 5'10 for goodness's sake.

But he was trained to carry people way bigger than him. Shindo practically tackled the man and placed him over his shoulder. Mrs. Pickles would only feel like he was lifted before everything becomes a blur. He could only take the man only several meters away but that should be fine. Once they were a good amount of distance away that would take minutes upon minutes for Mrs. Pickles to run by himself, Shindo put the guy down and let out a breath. "Give me a break man. You're pretty heavy." He said before cracking his neck and hearing a 'pop'. Ah, that felt good. "Should've brought a gun huh?"

He looked back at Ventus and Sunshine. "Stay safe." He muttered before running at top speed towards the villain. He ran to the nearest house and broke in, sorry, and then took two knives. It was a distraction anyway. He ran back in time to see Sunshine be blown away. He reeled his arm back and then threw the knife with the sharp point towards the alien followed by the second knife.

"First, of all, I did bring a gun. A hunting rifle. And, I wasn't running for the heck of it. I had purpose... okay, I was running for the heck of it... but I was getting an idea. The guy fires streams of water that push him upwards. So, logically, unless he braces himself, every he fires his claw cannons, he sends himself away from wherever he is aiming, at least slightly. So we trick him into pushing himself towards the gas station. If he hits it with enough force, then he's going to be caught in some sort of explosion. I mean, that has to be at least slightly uncomfortable, right? Or maybe just shove things down his water hole things until he has to apply so much pressure until his claw explodes. What do you think?" But it was too late, if Shindo had heard his idea, he hadn't told Clarence.

"Oh no, Mrs. Pickles," said Clarence, mockingly, "You're just a Class C hero. You're not allowed to come up with good ideas. Just let us beat the crap out of him with our super powers. It always works out anyways. It's not like we need a plan. It's just a giant crab monster that's threatening civilians. We got it, no problemo. Just skip around and rescue old ladies from oncoming traffic and save cats from trees." He proceeded to jog to a building that was diagonally facing the gas station, and climb onto the elevator. As the elevator music played Mrs. Pickles went over his plan. Distract the crab monster, and make it push itself into the gas station. Easy. Easy peasy. Who was he kidding? He was just going to be a distraction. But hey, at least he wouldn't die like an idiot. He'd die like a brave idiot.

Mrs. Pickles got to the roof and shouted, "Hey! Want a challenge? Well, I'm rank 388! These guys are weak, low levels! Only twelves! What a joke! But you'll NEVER be able to beat me!"

Danzo watched as the three fights occurred, nervous and unable to contain his concern. His fists were balled up, angry that he had put up his cape for a life of luxury and not fighting. Suddenly, a ringing came from his ear. He tapped it, the voice of Madel coming in. "Madel! Head to City T immediately and distract it as long as possible. None of these beings are a joke." he gulped, turning to the group of worried employees. "Issue the new threat level. Threat level Demon for all three"A slim light of hope appeared in everyone's eyes, quickly getting to work. Sirens blasted in each city, reissuing the new threat level. Disaster level Demon. However the entire time, Danzo kept his attention on the being from City T. That one made his hairs stand up the most.


@Melkor@Animal@Polaris North@SpookySquid
With blood dripping out of its eye, the being couldn't contain it's anger. Not only had its first target escaped, but it had been tossed aside and even blinded by shining stars. Boiling steam began to blast or of its body "DAMN APES THINKING YOU CAN TAKE ME ON" It rose it's left claw, smacking away the two incoming knives with ease. It aimed the same claw at the window which they came from. "Take care of that one for me, I'll take care of the rest" The alien said, as if speaking to itself. Suddenly, the claw shot out of its hand with a powerful stream of water, blasting through the window with incredible speeds and slamming into the way. An eye popped out of the side of the claw, it's focus on Flash Forward. Without wasting any time, three crab-like legs popped out of each side of the claw and kicked itself off the wall, aiming it's tip at Flash Forwards stomach.

Trach, the alien now turned its attention to the other two with a bony like hand growing out to replace the former claw. "Now for you two" Trach spun ta right claw, aiming it at the building Sunshine was on. From it fired off a thin, yet deadly beam of water, slashing the build in two with ease and causing it to collapse. Before he could continue his attack, he heard a voice yell out at him. The same voice from before. It chuckled, turning to the seemingly ordinary citizen "Gyahaha, so you are strongest warrior this city has. My Lord told me to save the strongest for him but at the moment" The being began to shake, it's body in pain yet filled with excitement "I JUST CANT CONTAIN ALL THIS JOY" He kicked off the ground, reducing the concrete beneath him to rubble. He flew towards Mrs Pickle, claw raised and ready to slam him into the ground.

@JustYui@Polaris North@LostDestiny
City K
The alien, Gastro, was beating on its chest and stomping on the ground. It was filled with pride, enjoying the sight of destruction and havoc it caused "HAHAHA puny bugs running everywhere, scurry now bugs, scurry!!" The sound of small explosion drew its attention, looking down at the small exploding marbles. Before it could take another step, a car had landed dead on with its face and erupted in a giant explosion. Smoke and debris filled the area, obscuring the vision of anyone trying to see the result. From the smoke flew the engine of the car, aiming in the direction which the car came flying. The alien emerged from the flames, seemingly unharmed except for minor scratches on its face. Smoke began to emit from its mouth. It began to mutter to itself "Puny bugs, hiding in crevices thinking they can take on the MIGHTY GASTROOO" It roared, intense shockwaves coming from its mightiest yell and sending a flurry of shattered glass around. The ground below it began to crack from immense pressure, the alien firing itself off the ground and relatively high off the ground "SEISMIC DEVASTATION" It yelled before slamming its incredibly body on the ground. The concrete rose like a wave, moving outwards from the point of origin and annihilating everything caught within its path. As this occurred, the sound of sirens filled the city with the new announcement of Threat Level Demon.

City T
@FallenTrinity@Emuxe
The white alien quickly ended its shriek, bouncing a few times before one final bounce that propelled it the top of the building tops. The alien was now at eye level with DreadLock, it's blank eyes meeting hers. A mischievous grin formed on its face as it landed on the building across from DreadLock "Plaaaaayyy" It bounced again, gaining a bit of momentum before bouncing off in a balled up formation, aiming straight for DreadLocks gut.

Oh, come on! My plan worked too well!

Mrs. Pickles did the only thing he could think of. He skirted out of the way, narrowly avoid the attack, and then laughed.

"That's adorable! You're going to slam me into the ground with your little claw things! Pfft. I bet you you aliens think your so advanced. With your little claws and stuff. If you think we're pathetic apes... ha! We have to change our rules of fighting when aliens like you come to our world! In fact, we don't even bother sending out our best, heck, the most powerful warrior's probably watching you from a distance, giggling uncontrollably! How, you might ask? Invisibility, a word you probably can't even spell! Blowing up buildings like a child throwing a tantrum. We have a much simpler way of determining the greatest warrior is. But there's no way you could figure out the rules, pathetic crustacean, they're probably too advanced for your kind."

S H I N D O "F L A S H F O R W A R D" T S U B A S A

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"Oh crap." Shindo muttered to himself as he saw that the alien seemed to have gotten angry. And not just minor angry, really angry. It seemed to get pissed off with what they were doing and how they've harmed it - or at least how Ventus and Sunshine did. But of course, Shindo, being the idiot he is, had already thrown the knives before noticing the great increase in power the alien had. He thought that, hey at least he'd be the distraction while the other two heroes finish it off.

But nooo, the alien had freaking sentient claws! When the claw ejected itself from the alien and headed towards the window, Flash Forward dove sidewards. It was fast, he had to admit that, but it gave him ample time to react. When the claw had grown legs, gross, he was more prepared. Although it didn't seem too smart. Either that or the claw/alien didn't know what actual power he had within him. It was much slower than before, without the water jet propulsion it had when launched off of the alien.

Shindo dodged to the left and into the kitchen where he had taken the knife. And just like that, he couldn't stop himself from moving. He had to find something. Something to fight with! Bare hand fighting with a freaking claw would most likely result to a missing limb or more! His eyes darted from side to side, looking for an apt weapon. He could try knives again, but it probably had some sort of harder-than-chitin shell considering it's an alien. He could feel the claw already rising up for another attack.

Quick Shin! He mentally told himself. He took a frying pan, which looked like durable metal and then two knives. He held the frying pan on his right hand and the two knives on the left. He turned back to the alien and pointed the frying pan mockingly at it, "Come on." He said, taunting the alien to attack. He had enough experience with baseball to know how to swing properly.

E R I K A "T H E P U P P E T E E R" M I K A Z U C H I

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The civilian-turned-vigilante was still watching from the sidelines as a car and explosive marbles were sent towards the alien. Smoke and dust erupted and the alien was covered with it - blocking it from view. Erika knew it would be a bad idea to assume that it was defeated. From the smoke, a car engine was thrown back towards the direction of where the car was thrown. Erika assumed it was aimed at Collider who, from what she saw earlier, was the one responsible for throwing the car.

Gastro, huh? So that was its name. Good, she got tired of calling it an 'it' in her thoughts. Though just from its yell, massive pressure seemed to make cracks appear on the ground and shattered glass flew everywhere. Erika was forced to hide once more until the shards had passed. She had to admit; this thing was childish as hell, considering that it was shouting out its attacks. But it was no less devastating.

Erika didn't know how to describe it - a shockwave of earth? Yeah, that sounds about right. Before she could order anything, Razor picked her up on one arm and Ayu on the other - lifting the two effortlessly. Erika couldn't help but let out a yelp as she was carried. "Hold on tight you two." Ayu nodded and then Razor ran straight for the wave, speed increasing with every step. Once the wave was encountered and the buildings around them started to collapse, Razor jumped, avoiding the wave and its destructive capabilities.

They landed safely on the ground, but they were now visible. "Ayu!" Erika called out, and that one word - her calling the robot's name - had all sorts of meaning. Razor placed the violet haired robot on the ground and she raised her left arm - the plasma semi-automatic rifle - and then shot three concentrated plasma balls towards the alien. They all knew that it wouldn't do much damage - but it should do some. Plasma burns like hell after all. Razor still held onto Erika just in case Gastro had the bright idea to throw something at them. He was prepared to move.

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The damage done to Evan wasn't severe at all. After clenching his mid section with one hand, there was a stingy pain and most likely a bruise around the area, but it didn't hinder his breathing. Looking up at the sky for a moment, he noticed the sun's position indicating that it was almost noon. The power of this Alien is definitely greater than Tiger and that was confirmed when the threat level was advanced to Demon. Once he recollected himself, he tried sitting up slowly, only to realize the building was collapsing. Are you kidding me? He thought.

This Alien had to be stopped before it brings further destruction to the city and its citizens. If there was a time to use Full Body Solar Drive, then it would be now while the timing is perfect. His power should be at its peak by the time noon comes around.

"SOLAR DRIVE!"

The solar energy coated his body and allowed Evan to take flight above the collapsed building. Just in time too, he managed to escape harms way and even knocked away some of the debris with ease just as he was flying out. The physical boost is a real blessing, now he can get up close and personal with the Alien while at the same time leaving that bastard with some serious burns. Speaking of such, he spotted the Alien chasing down someone. He didn't recognize the person, but he was obviously a hero judging by the costume. The caped warrior was doing a good job in distracting the Alien, allowing Evan to blast himself over to them with his flames plus enhanced speed. He wasted little time, knowing full well he only has five minutes in this form.

As Evan was closing in from behind, he straightened out his left leg during mid flight to give that Alien a powerful flaming kick straight into its upper back, hoping he could pin it down on the ground long enough and allow Ventus to finish it off. If that fails to keep the Alien restrained, Evan would just unload a wild barrage of fiery fists the moment he made impact.

V E N T U S

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No time..! Geoff had been struggling to get himself straight as the action happened below him and monster seemed to forget that he existed; declaring that Mr. P must be the strongest hero in the world and promptly pursuing him. This was a second shock to Ventus’, albeit small, ego - he was a Class S hero dammit. He thought that he’d earned just a bit of recognition… at least by the bad guys. But, he was above such trivial matters, such as the ones that plagued his thoughts… Oh well.

He shot himself toward the monster as the hero… Sunshine..? he wasn’t terribly good at remembering the names of all of the heros. But he was relatively certain that this was the man’s name, he was a top hero in Class B. Anyway, he shot himself toward the monster as Sunshine seemed to spontaneously combust. Like he was literally on fire! I hope he has some way of protecting himself from that… Looks like it must burn…

Sunshine launched himself forward as Mr. P dodged the monster’s attack and shouted something at it - Ventus didn’t have time to really process it as he was hurling toward the beast hoping to achieve a combination attack with Sunshine - his plan at the moment was to feed the other hero’s flame and increase the effectiveness of his attack all the while grasping the monster in order to subdue it and have it possibly explain where it came from.

NOTE: Need GM Ruling on Attacks

@Animal@Melkor@Polaris North@SpookySquid
City S
Once again, Trach was duped! Not by the greatest warrior this planet has to offer, not even the cities strongest warrior but this average man before him! Nothing, in his many years of living has a being angered him so much. Its claw shook from anger before eventually calming down "Crustecean? ....CRUSTECEAN?!? WHAT IS THAT AND HOW DARE YOU CALL THE MIGHTY TRACH THAAAAAAAT!!!" In his fit of rage, Trach failed to realize the shining hero from behind. The kick landed square on his back, dropping Trach toa knee but only one knee. He turned, noticing the same boy who had blinded his eye earlier "YOU!!" Before he could finish, a flurry of burning fists were coming straight for him. With his back still burning, Trach turned around and met each fist with his own, countering the punches with his left bone-like hand while the claw remained still. However, his fists would not come out unscathed, greater burn marks being evident on his fists as his full focus was on the boy. "LETS SEE HOW LONG YOU CAN KEEP UP" The speed of his fist began to gradually increase.

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Elsewhere in City S
The claw glared at Flash Forward, studying him and trying to understand him. Suddenly, a deep toned laugh filled the small room. "Interesting, so you're all I have to take care of" Said the claw, with an incredibly deep and eerie voice. "No problem, a little squirt like you should be nothing!" The claw opened its mouth, firing a few preliminary water bullets at Flash Forwards legs before kicking off the ground and aiming straight for his face.