As Ray flew backwards, he crashed right into Damien, who immediately wrapped his arms around Ray and covered them in a pulsating, purple force field. He covered his arms with gravity and began to squeeze. "We killed you once fucker. we can do it again. I'll toss the whole fucking world at you if that's what it takes. But since you seem to be able to survive being burnt to bones, i wonder how you'll do when your bones are crushed to powder?"

Ray let out a chuckle as he heard Damien's threat, he knew the man was serious but Ray was insane and he was able to defeat death and walk around with puncture holes in him, some crushed bone didn't really matter to him, still he didn't want that to happen.

He nodded his head downward causing a wall of darkness to push away Damien and the shards. "Bring it one dickhead!", he gestured his hand into a Vulcan salute, and dark energy beams shot out of the 'V' towards Damien.

Damien jumped off the 30 story roof, narrowly avoiding the attacks. he brought the the force field in closer, crushing Ray, then flipped headfirst and started to create rotation. he then increased the grav. force so they hurtled towards earth. Damien would be fine, but once Ray hit ground he would die, and there would be no chance of him coming back after that. "Say hello to the devil for me. You avoided death once, but now I personally will send you down to hell, and make sure you never come back."

Ryan was relieved to see Amy, standing there, filling the broken building with her light, but something wasn't right. She was getting hot, way too hot, and he was worried. Also, the look on her face... either she had finally tipped over the edge and become the ruthless killer she had never wanted to be, or she knew something awful the rest of them didn't.

He glanced to his right as Kris shuffled up to him. "Looks like the Damsel can take care of herself, eh Arthur? Looks like this dragon didn't want to stay dead. What say we use Excalibur this time?" he glanced down briefly at the saber, then turned his eyes back on Amy. Then he noticed the various monsters barreling in on him and Kris. "Shit. Ready your blade, Sir Dashing."

His energy was severely depleted. As three of the land-bound beasts rushed at him, it took all his strength to open up a hole beneath them, and all his strength again to raise a shield to catch one that dropped from above, wrapping around it and smothering it into oblivion. His attacks were getting sloppy, and some were starting to simply disintegrate before he had fully used them. Two of the freaks emerged from his left, seemingly out of thin air, and he barely had time to react. His shield was too weak, and they broke right through it, lunging at him and Kris, fangs dripping with black saliva. Ryan's legs betrayed him as he tried to backpedal, fumbling for the gun on his hip, and he fell, the charging monsters now mere yards away.

Kris Swung his blade, severing one of the beasts heads. Ryan had fallen down and by the time Kris hand turned around he saw one of the beasts about to jump onto him. Kris moved fast to dispatch the creature. but as soon as he did another took its place. there were far too many of these black demons."Shit, this isn't good." He looked around and couldn't see Damien and Ray. Don't tell me the idiot jumped off the building." he slashed down two other creatures, staying in place to defend the weakened Ryan.

When he turned to see Amy, he wondered if it was alright for her to be burning like that. She was bright and it seemed like she had control over her power, but she didn't seem to be herself. It was frightening how powerful she truly was. "Ryan, any clue if we should try and get closer to Amy?" The beasts weren't coming at them frequently. Maybe it was because Ray was out of sight. Once again his eyes went back to Amy to see a dark flying creature coming from behind her. "Watch out!" He shouted as he swung his saber, rending the air and creating a blade like wind that severed the creature in half. The better defensive position would be to group up and fight off the remaining black creatures, but at this point, Kris didn't know if it was safe to be close to Amy. It looked as if she could burn anything with a simple touch.

Ray drew the energy away from his minions causing the to disappear into the shadows, most of them cackling as they faded away from existence. he focused his energy into a shield as he collide with the ground, effectively saving his life. He quickly arose from the ground coughing up some blood, the blood that hit the ground formed into a group of minions.

"You guys hold off these weirdos, I'm going to get a beer." he muttered under his breath walking into a destroyed apartment.

Damien raised both hand then threw them, open palmed, to the ground. the gravity formed a wall and crushed all the minions in his way. he walked into the apartment where Ray disappeared. "Come out, come out, where ever you are..." Damien snarled.

Ray entered the kitchen of the apartment rooms, two corpse lied at both ends of the room, one with an exploded head and the other who appeared to be lite on fire. "Hm, that's pleasant." he muttered to himself as he walked over towards a fridge opening it. He reached his hand inside the fridge pulling out a beer bottle. He leaned against the wall, taking his time to enjoy the cold drink.

"No, don't." Ryan said, grabbing onto Kris' hand and using it to pull himself up. He stood still for a moment, breathing hard, then gazed across the rubble to Amy. The minions had disappeared, it seemed, but he was far from at ease. Her light was warming him, giving him strength, refilling his energy stores, but it was also burning everything around it, just like it had in the alley where they met, and he feared what would happen if they got too close. It was an agonizing feeling, knowing that something was wrong, and fearing for her, but not being able to go to her.

"Amy!" he yelled to her, but she seemed not to hear him, so he resorted to the only other way he could think of to get to her. A thin tendril of goo slowly snaked across the ground towards her, then rose up and touched her cheek, and even as it began to melt away in the burning fire of her presence, gently but firmly turned her face to look at him. Ryan yelled to her again, this time making sure to mouth the words clearly so she could understand, even is she couldn't hear him. "Amy! What's going on?" he took a step forward, feeling a small but distinct rise in temperature as he did so.

She had burnt away a few more of the shadow creatures before all of them vanished completely, along with Ray and soon Damien, leaving her, Kris, and Ryan alone on the rooftop. The other two were breathing heavily and seemingly wearily, though Amy stood still, gazing after the spot where Ray had vanished.

The traces of shadow were still visible that Ray had left, leading into a nearby apartment followed by a light source that was presumably Damien. She wasn't willing to let Ray escape- not this time. As she considered the best way to move down the building, a thin vine of goo reared before her, one she dimly recognized. It stroked her cheek and turned her to look over her shoulder, where she could see Kris and Ryan stood wearily. As the goo froze, crumbled, and melted, she took a step in their direction before pausing.

She was burning too hot, of that much she was certain. Waves of radiation pulsed from her body in a meter radius, the heat within that region enough to roast a chicken in no time at all. Still, she was able to see Ryan call, "Amy! What's going on?"

Amy... right! That was right. She frowned and stiffened. How did I forget my name? She opened her mouth to speak, and though her words came out in a hoarse whisper, they could still be heard clearly.

"I... I don't... know... I can't turn it off, Ryan!" She could feel a bit of her self return, and fear began to seep inward. She looked to the ground. The cement around her was melting and dripping away, falling in gooey clumps to the inside of the building. Somehow, she had managed to protect the bottom of her feet, where the small chunk of roof that she stood upon remained solid. She didn't recall making herself do that.

She looked to the others, who seemed worried. What's wrong with me?! Why is no one else on fire?! She felt a tear roll down her cheek, though it evaporated in a second. "Ryan... Help me," Amy moaned, feeling her bones burning. The gun had been incinerated on her hip and vanished completely. "Hit me, knock me out... Do something!"

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Yorgmiester:

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Ryan was already moving forward before Amy had finished her sentence. He thought he might have heard a protest from Kris, but it didn't matter. What mattered was that Amy was in danger, terrible danger, even more so then in their previous battles. She had lost control of her power, and for her, that was a completely new variation of the word deadly. There was really only only thing to do.

He ran forward, towards the heat, towards the burning light, running now purely on his adrenaline rush. Goo rushed up from the ground to meet him, gathering up behind him like a storm cloud. His heart beat like it would burst out of his chest, his eyes bloodshot, his skin burning. He could faintly detect the smell of singed hair. It didn't matter though. He had to save her. Just as the heat and light were almost too much to bare, he stopped, abruptly, freezing in his tracks, using the momentum to help launch his goo forward. Sorry, Amy, this is gonna hurt.

The goo solidified into a blunt point, rocketing forward through the space between them even as it's outer layers were burned clean off, and struck her clean in the head, knocking her backwards onto the ground, clearly unconscious. The light went out instantly, the fire sputtered and died, wisping up into the air like smoke, and the goo continued on over the side of the building, crumbling into so many pieces of charred concrete.

Ryan got a few more steps toward her before he too collapsed, his strength now completely spent. The world blurred before him as he sank to the ground, still struggling to get to her. "A-Am.." the words barely came out, before his eyes shut and he went limp, rolling onto his back on the hot cement.

Xero Scythe:

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Kris watched as Ryan approached Amy, he also heard Amy's plea. When he was about to move, he saw Ryan dig deep into himself to bring out the strength to create more goo and hit Amy, knocking her out. As soon as Amy hit the floor, the heat and the light all around them disappeared. What was left felt a lot darker than before. Kris deemed it safer to move towards Amy and Ryan, both unconscious on the floor. "What the hell am i gonna do now?"

He looked around and saw that Damien was still alright."Hey Damien, come help me move these two...We should get the hell off this roof. In the building maybe."He was standing over the both of them."Looks like we didn't get to use Excalibur"He muttered to himself as he made his saber vanish. Kris knelt down and picked Amy up. "Hope you don't mind me holding your damsel." He looked down to Ryan."Hey, Damien, grab Ryan and lets get in this building."Kris looked for a door and was relieved to find that it had not been destroyed in the fighting. He walked slowly towards it, his legs were a bit wobbly under both Amy and his own weight but he still made it to the door. He opened it and descended the stairs.

Damien picked up Ryan and followed. "So, time to go and lick our wounds. Where are we going, anyways? My place is only a mile away."

/timewarp

Ray fell back into a couch of the apartment, slowly dozing off on the beat up sofa. He snapped his fingers before falling asleep causing the crazed supers to awaken and presume the chaos.

"Resume your work boys......" He muttered as he heard the chaos outside.

Damien used his powers to lift their group off the ground. "you might not, but i can." He quickly floated them the mile to his home. When they got there, all that the group saw was a small, 15' by 20' shack. Damien ushered them inside, threw the bed to the other wall, and exposed the square opening in the ground. Damien lowered them down and pulled the bed back over the opening When they had reached the bottom about 100 feet below ground, they saw a gigantic ampitheatre, at least as big as the coliseum's ground floor. Damien was again starting to get exausted. "Training room. i created this place by compacting the dirt. Right now, the walls could withstand a nuclear blast. all poisonous gases are gone. Beds are right...behind....that.....curtai-" he slumped to the ground unconsious and exausted, pointing at the room he was referring to.

...A lightning gun? Seriously? And you accuse me of having no imagination! She knew the perfect counter against an attack like this and, as an added bonus, it'd confuse the hell out of Terry. She let the attack hit her. As the spear struck it's target it simply disappeared, as did the bullets. The explanation was fairly easy to think up, but she'd let Terry stress about it for a while yet.

"More powerful than I can imagine? I don't know about that... I can imagine pretty well by now."

A few supers around her were starting to stir now, waking from the sleep that Ray had forced upon them. What she couldn't tell was whether they were as chaotic as before or whether they were normal again. Either way she wouldn't stick around to find out. "My next trick!" she called out before disappearing.

It almost seemed Catherine had taken it a step further than just imagining objects. She could reimagine reality.

And she reimagined herself in a new location. She reappeared, not where she was aiming for, every person who teleports themselves is off on the first few tries, but very close. She landed with a dull thud on a set of beds. She raised her head and gazed at her new surroundings, confused for a moment. "Damn... They must have gone further than I thought..."

Once he made it down, Kris was impressed at the size of this place. He was looking around when he heard Damien fall to the ground."You shouldn't have pushed yourself too hard..."He shook his head and decided to set Amy down on a bed before moving the others. he made it to the room where Damien had been pointing before he fainted and set Amy down.

He started to look her over to see if she had any wounds and he noticed a little bit of bleeding from her head. Most likely due to the hit Ryan had made. Kris sighed and tore a piece of his t-shirt to use as a cloth to wipe up the blood. He tore another piece to use as a bandage with he tied around her head like a headband. She was still bleeding, but it wasn't anything serious, given a few minutes it would most likely stop.

When he was done mending Amy, he turned around to go get the others he heard a thud and had to turn back to the beds to see another woman there."Well, i never knew Damien could make a place like this! Making girls appear out of nowhere like that, ha! pretty nice trick!"He joked as he walked up to the bed with the girl. When he got to it he saw that it was Super Girl."Oh, hey there! sorry about that, hope you didn't mind the joking around."He laughed nervously."How on earth did you get here? weren't you fighting that Terrible guy?"he asked.

terrible simply looked in front of him to see Cathy vanish.
"ugh is she trying to be a magician or something I mean she`s already got the cape" terrible sighed before turning around noticing that the lightning storm was still active and there was no one to stop him.

"big mistake guys,now I`m super powerful and no one is around to stop me" mister terrible let out a evil chuckle as he summoned a huge ball of lightning from the sky and tossed it at a building ripping it apart terrible felt a surge of power as he witnessed the building collapse in front of him.

"WOO I MISSED THIS FEELING" terrible laughed as he drew out another ball of lightning and dropped it onto the streets below looking with a glee in his eyes as several people all started to convulse as their bodies were killed by the lightning.

"now what to destroy next" mister terrible sighed looking about the city for something else to annihilate.