As the flashbang flew towards the crowd of people and the Nightshade now shoving his way out of the door, the flash temporarily dazed and caused screams and more panic about the door as some caught the full brunt of the blast. The Nightshade, unfortunately, was not one of those to catch the problematic effect as people panicking to get away had knocked the weapon away from them. The blast had some effect on the crowd, but the fighters were all left relatively untouched unless they stared into the door. 

The shadow that had been left behind decided the metal mage was causing more trouble than they were worth. With a quick few swings of the shadowy daggers, the metal mage took a few quick cuts as he had been instead focused on stopping the fleeing Nightshade who now was making his way outside with Ling in pursuit with the crossbow. 

As Vana had jumped on the ice mage, there was a close struggle as the metallic mage and the armored ice mage tangled. While the ice mage was slightly dazed from the sudden physical contact, her expression changed when the armor she wore turned into more of a watery mess, soaking Vana as well. Working quickly, Vana was suddenly finding herself either being weighted down or otherwise in some small spots very frozen as the water she had soaked in from the melting backfired. "Thank your boyfriend later for me." She taunted, shoving the mage off and hearing the scream of her fire companion. Thinking quickly, icy daggers were pulled from her armor and launched at Alexander to get him off the fire mage. 

The stone mage could be described as only amused as Joey figured the attempt to assault the face of the armor that he still held strong. As Joey jumped at the earth fighter, he quickly was grabbed, and with almost superhuman strength launched Joey towards Drew, finding the unoccupied mage to likely be the biggest problem at this point. "GIRLS WE ARE LEAVING." With a quick set of stomps, the boards under the earthshaper shattered, giving him access to the bare earth which he wasted no time pulling the earth to do some quick stone throwing with the new source. The rocks themselves were not targeted, being thrown in any direction to either distract or cause panic. 

The fire mage was screaming as her arm was pulled, though Alexander also had to deal with the burning that only intensified as the close combat came into play. While she was obviously downed initially, the assistance from the ice mage meant that Alexander could not just remain there with danger being tossed his way. With the grip released, the fire mage rolled away, and let the fire do similar to what the earth mage now did. Unleash fire just wherever in the hopes of causing chaos, which was MUCH more effective as more of the bar caught fire. 

Raven in the meantime left the fire mage to Alexander who had at least temporarily dealt with the problem, only to now have to race to the ice mage who threw daggers at the Master Illuminate. Bringing his blade to cut, he was met suddenly with an icy spear. With a growl he shoved the ice mage away with a violent shove. At least with him there the few icy daggers which flew at Alexander ceased for now, having to dedicate much more attention to Raven's interference. It also meant that Vana wasn't being actively iced over any more. This left the fire mage to simply leave trails of fire to the door as the remaining mages made their intentions clear. They were leaving, and they did not plan on leaving without leaving a distraction behind.

Meanwhile, as the Nightshade began his retreat into the night, suddenly a bolt slammed into the bag he had carried on his back. "DAMMIT!" Running as fast as they could, the Nightshade did their best to sprint into the dark and try to get away from the eyesight of Ling, hoping that turning a few corners and going off into the night would be too risky for the crossbow mage to follow.