With help from Zesiro and Gemma, John quickly uncovered the buried man, and was about to start worrying about all the hundreds of people who he now realized might very well be buried alive right under his feet, when his train of thought was interrupted by a *THWUMP*.

THWUMP

Slow and powerful, the sound of enormous wings laboriously beating the air to keep a massive body aloft.

THWUMP

John looked up and saw an airplane... in the jaws of a dragon.

He slowly straightened up. He shook his head to clear his vision, which completely failed to make the image disappear. "Well" he said. "That's an illegal splice job if I ever saw one."

"So kid, you got some orders here or we just improvising? 'Cause, uh, not to undermine your weapon granted authority here, but maybe we should think about getting into some cover."