John shot up out of the earth and had managed to get high enough to grab Storm from behind, encasing her in an earthen tomb and as he thought Strom's fear had loosened the Shadow Kings grip over her, but this had the danger of aggravating Strom, who had summoned a very large bolt of lightning to destroy her prison sending the newbie earth mutant flying backwards away from her and towards the ground crashing into it and making baby sized creator. [i]damn that hurt[/i] John thought, giving himself a couple of moments to rest before getting up.

From Johns eyes it looked like the Professor had started to take part in the recapture of the Shadow King - but it was a harder task then first thought due to Storms current state and so the mission objective was to calm her down or just simply knock her out. As he stood he could see Darkshadow lining up to take a shot at Storm, seeing something that resembled a javelin, The Earth Elemental decided to wait and see what would happen of Darkshadow's attempt before going in for another shot himself.

Thinking to himself John realized that in her state, Storm would not notice if he did a repeat of his last attack but instead of encasing her he could just smack her one to knock her out. through the blustering gales and the odd bolt of lightning, John slowly made his way over to the other mutants: " We need to regroup!" he tried to shout over the roaring of the wind and hoping to see who was still at least somewhat up and about.