Discovery [Full] [mezmo's Influence]

[mezmo]

The Naga managed a bite into Shockwave's shoulder. He yelped in pain, his powers turning it into a blast of orange energy. The Naga hit the wall again. She lashed out with her tail, knocking the superhero down.

As he looked up at the sky he'd fallen from, he saw another person manifest from no where. A quick roll to his side and the newest stranger crashed into the ground near him.

Again, the stranger was as confused as Shockwave was. He wanted to know where he was.

"You're in Oz pal, grab Dorthy, Tinman and the Lion there. I'll meet you outside!"

Shockwave began to hyper ventilate. This wasn't a problem for him. He was about to unleash one of the most powerful attacks he'd ever used.

Then the Naga wrapped her body around him, and began to squeeze.

[Taliat Miskar]

Taliat had leaned over on Eve, thanking her for her help and getting ready to flee when something crashed down behind them. He pulled away from Eve suddenly, and whipped around to face the newcomer.

"I'll take care of him, miss," said Taliat. "He fell from a long way. He's probably injured." He kneeled down to inspect the man, looking him over carefully.

[Nephry]

Eve shrugged and let him go. There was a freaking huge snake thing squeezing the superhero dude to death and Mr. Four-eyes wanted to take care of some other random dude. If everything weren't piling on top of each other at once, she'd help the new guy, too. She looked over to where she had dropped the handle of the pan and winced as it turned into a toy train. If it had only stayed in shape long enough, she could have tried to stab the monster... thing.

She turned back to Taliat and Axel. "Hey," she said, "if he's injured, we gotta carry him out of here. C'mon."

[mezmo]

The Naga was trying to squeeze the breath out of Shockwave. He couldn't tell if the civilians were out of the building yet or not. If he was going to blast this monster into oblivion, he'd only get one chance. If he failed, the Naga's grip on him meant that he wouldn't be able to get enough of a breath for a second attack. As it was, things were starting to get hazy.

He tilted his head, it looked like the man and woman were trying to get the newest guy out. The big thug with the bat was still by the door. Maybe he was standing guard, in case the Naga attempted to get the others as they retreated. Maybe he was going to attack them...

Getting hard to hold on... Dark rings began to appear at the edge of Shockwave's vision. It wouldn't be long now...

[tubbehcustard]

Completely confused, Axel tried to get up once again, but failed. "I don't need you freaks to touch me!" he shouted in anger. He then pulled out his knife, Lucy, and cut him self across the top of his forearm. He screamed in pain, he then put away Lucy as if nothing had happened.

As soon as he recovered a bit he managed to say, "If a greater pain overwhelms me.. Then I should forget about my last one..." With that he tried to stand up and he did, but after about three seconds he fell back down. He turned back towards Taliat and Eve. "I have failed..." he mumbled, "Please help me," he begged, looking completely miserable.

[Taliat Miskar]

Taliat winced. Now he'd have to deal with the man's bleeding as well. All insults aside, the man seemed to be mentally unstable and the knife simply added to the list of troubles. He nodded at Eve and said, "I'll lift his torso. You take his legs." If the man was to use the knife again, Taliat didn't want Eve to get injured; he figured it would be easier to deal with his own injuries than have to bandage up a young lady who may or may not panic and fight back.

Taliat carefully lifted the man onto his shoulders, glancing at Eve to make sure she was ready.

[Nephry]

"I'll lift his torso," said Taliat, "you lift his legs." Eve nodded, grateful that she didn't have to deal with the top half, which held a knife. She was starting to regret offering to help the stranger at all. He looked to be like he was more trouble then he was worth. She hoisted the man's legs up, one on each shoulder. Not the safest position in retrospect, but that's all she could think of at the moment.

She nodded to Taliat, and the ran out of the pillar, leaving the Superhero to his fight.

[mezmo]

Great- the new kid's nutty. Shockwave made a mental list of everyone he'd met so far. One guy might be a paramedic. The girl seemed reasonable. Then there was a drugged up brute. And now the new kid, who plainly needed to be in an asylum.

A rib cracked in the superheroes chest, sending waves of pain throughout his body. It was now or never. Shockwave released what he thought would be his last scream.

The force of the yell battered the Naga. Her arms flailed wildly, her head whipped back. In an amazing show of strength, she squeezed Shockwave harder, cutting off his airflow. The yell subsided. The Naga was barely alive, but still constricting against the superhero.

He couldn't breath, but he still managed a small smile. As the world faded to black, he saw a large chunk of wall blast outward from his attack. This made two other parts of the wall bow inward... and break.

Large chunks of wall collapsed in on the Naga and superhero.

And the world blacked out.

[mezmo]

Shard awoke surrounded by rubble. He was unsure how he had gotten into this position. Perhaps when the rubble landed, it had hit him in the head. A concussion would explain the lack of memories.

With an appraising eye, Shard began generating ice pillars to support the rubble above him. He slowly built the pillars up, very slowly moving the debris away from himself. With some effort, a small enough gap was opened.

It was uncivilized, but Shard crawled out of the collapsed building on his belly. With effort he found himself in a dessert at about twilight. Several humans stood not far away. Shard pulled himself up to his full two foot, seven inch height and examined the people.

Two appeared as potential threats. The other to looked harmless.

"Greeting humans. I am Shard of the Eternal Ice. In which direction will you be traveling?"

[tubbehcustard]

As Axel was being carried away by two strangers, he began thinking. The first few basic questions popped into his head (where am I, what is happening, what is going to happen). Soon after these questions hit him came the more complicated ones (What should I do with these people? What should I do with myself?). Axel was getting frustrated with so much thinking. He moaned, he was so tired he couldn't even scream. He passed out, due to loss of blood and tiredness.

[Taliat Miskar]

Once they were out of the pillar, Taliat tugged the man away from Eve, laying him down on the ground face-up. He tore a bit of cloth from his shirt and started to wrap the man's arm right above the cut as a makeshift tourniquet. Utterly oblivious to the collapse of the pillar, Taliat focused on stemming the bleeding. There were so many things that he lacked at this point, like replacement blood for the amount the man had lost, the stuff he used to stitch the skin together, painkillers... Without all of that, he was afraid this fellow would die.

He looked up at Eve. "Do you have any needles or thread? I need to stitch up this wound."

[mezmo]

One of the humans was bleeding. Another was trying to help repair the wound. Shard examined the area until he found the blade. The knife was streaked in blood. "This is obviously a hazard. I will reduce it's threat level now."

Shard picked up the knife. It looked like a sword in his small hands. The ice elemental focused on the blade, and thin sheets of ice began to coat the weapon. In a short time, the knife was encased in ice, several inches thick.

"As to the humans injuries, I may be able to help." Shard generated a burst of cold, and shaped it into a perfect needle.

"I am able to keep this cold enough that it will not melt while being used. However, the same cold may cause great discomfort for him and you."

If they had been in Union City, Shard would simply take the injured person to the hospital. With that thought in mind, a ghostly image of the building flickered befor his eyes. It was almost as if his conciseness had manifested.

(OOC- anyone mind if I start generating my influence? Starting with the hospital?)

[Nephry]

(OOC - I certainly don't mind. If T.C doesn't mind, I'm all for it. :3)

Eve backed away a little, feeling squeamish at the sight of blood. She looked at the ice-dude, wondering where he had come from and where the superhero guy had gone off to. Unless, of course, the two were the same? In all the comics that she had read, Eve had come across only one superhero that could transform like that, though she couldn't quite remember the name of him.

She walked over to the little ice-dude and took the needle from him. "Thanks," she said, wincing at how cold the needle was, "I think the coldness might help stem the bleeding, too." She gave the needle to Taliat, along with some string that she had been keeping in her pocket. There was this odd feeling that she had seen that ice-dude before, heard his name somewhere.

"So, Shard of the Eternal Ice," she said, putting her hands in her pockets, "where are you from? I think I might've heard your name before."

[tubbehcustard]

(( OOC: Go for it (: ))

As soon as the cold presence of Shard reached Axel's body his eye flashed open. He looked around for a moment and noticed the man who seemed to be a medic holding a needle and some thread. He looked over in the other direction where Shard was freezing over Lucy. Even though in pain he thrashed from side to side in anger that he would do such a thing.

He tried to get up but he fell right back down. Axel screamed in agony. "Lucy!" he shouted. "Don't let that evil man touch you!" Feeling the pain in his arm he screamed once more and started having an emotional breakdown. He looked frantically from side to side. "Somebody get that freak off of my Lucy!" he yelled trying to get someone to listen to him.

[mezmo]

Shard backed away from the knife. It caused the injured human too much stress for him to be near it. That stress, and the thrashing around would make it impossible for the medic to do his job.

Once again, the though of the medic reminded Shard of the hospital. He could almost see the building behind the group of people. He had to maintain his focus on the ice needle, to keep it cold. But he could see the tall towers, the skyway tubes, the lines of the building were so clear...

Without understanding why or how, Shard put up a hand. A beam of ice blasted the hospital's flickering, spectral wall. To Shard's great surprise, the ice seemed to hit the wall, and force it into reality. He moved his hand, spraying the doors and windows, and Union City Municipal Hospital began to appear.

"I am Shard of the Eternal Ice. I am an ice elemental, bound to serve the people of Union City." he told the young woman. The front doors to the hospital were compleat. And while there had not been enough ice to make the rest of the building yet, Shard could see a lobby behind those grass doors.

"Perhaps we should take the injured human to be repaired?" he motioned to the doors, while still moving his hands, and ice beams over the exterior of the building.