Despite the action surrounding the sandy van, Adam didn't have a very good idea of exactly what was happening until he felt the repeated impacts. From his position at the back of the van he wasn't too sure about exactly what his captors were saying, but an inkling did leak through to him: they were under attack. Adam found it ludicrous that suddenly prisoner and captor were on the same side, assailed by some unknown forced that somehow managed to be more intimidating than the men in SWAT gear that had kidnapped him. He also understood that there were more 'supers' among the people in the van -in fact, at this point he suspected that there wasn't a single occupant without powers- as well as among those slamming into the vehicle. A rising sense of worry clouded his thoughts.

However, his thoughts were quite suddenly interrupted by the upending of the van. After a bit of chaotic tumbling, in which Adam saw nothing but felt a great deal of pain, he fell to the floor in a spray of sand. The sudden appearance of light, blindingly brilliant after his extended stay in the darkness of the vehicle, only heightened his confusion. From his daze he didn't really comprehend what the others were saying; in fact, he only started to register sight and sound when the clashing of bullets against still shocked him out of it. At first, he was skeptical. He had never seen a firearm in his life outside of movies and a few police officers. It took a moment to occur to him that he was very likely going to die. When that realization struck him, he released a terrified bellow along the lights of "uuuuuh!"

In response to his panic, the sand within the van suddenly exploded outward, creating a cloud of dust around the vehicle's position that could momentarily throw off the shooters' aim. Into this cloud Adam rushed, still afraid, after the others that had left before him. Like them he headed for the thicket, subliminally hoping to find protection amid the brambles. During the rush, he dimly felt a sharp pain in his left calf, like a bug bite, but ignored it for the time being.