As like the others, John had been briefed on the mission he and the other students were about to undertake, and they had landed in Africa a while ago and it had not taken long to find their target. before Storm had been taken;John was not overly familiar with the weather witch or what the extent of what she could do - but on the flight over here the latter at least, had changed.

Unlike most of the others the harsh winds were not as effective on the earth mover due in part to his increased mass (although he didnt look it, he was quite heavy) but mostly due to him moving the earth around his feet to stop him from being blown about - but this plan to combat the winds although good for that, didnt help with much else as it was more difficult to dodge the bolts of lighting she threw. It seemed at the time her lightning bolts were being targeted else where; he saw in the corner of his vision a ball of darkness just get tossed away and destroyed as if it were nothing.

He focused his sights on Storm once more as he moved forwards her as if he were on a conveyor belt, cupping his hands around his mouth he tried to yell over the harsh winds:

"[b]Miss Storm - please try to fight this, you are stronger then this you have to fight back, realize who you are Miss Storm![/b]"

trying to think ahead John had an idea, if he couldn't reach her as she floated in the air letting off her powers, he might be able to do something if he tried to lift himself up to her in a column of earth and knocked her out - great plan he thought - just one slight problem; he didnt quite know if he was able to maintain something like that, after all he was a new student to the school and not much control over his powers - but he could prepare himself for it and did one of the few things he knew he could do, he burrowed his way underground and began to move under where storm was.