[b] Pariah's victims [/b] 

"I won't need to do it twice if I keep you here." 

The invisible Phantasm sounded amused, "You look pretty pleased with yourself, but you shouldn't underestimate the lengths to which Pariah will go. Nor should you underestimate us. Don't count your chickens before they hatch as they say." As he was speaking, the henchmen were steadily working on extricating the trainers from their imprisonment, with the trainers themselves helping along. Aquamarine had been eating away at the gunk and glue with her water powers before her body changed and she started to leak out of her prison as an animated stream of water. Frost chilled his bonds until they were frozen and henchmen started hacking away at it, the frozen gunk breaking apart as Frost started to remove himself. 

Shocker had woken up and his electricity blackened the goo holding him down allowing him easier escape as he morphed into living lightning to break free. Sentinel had recovered and instead of re-engaging Apogee, he used his fine control in telekinesis to help his teammates break free, including Adamant who had morphed back to human form and changed back and started to cut through the gunk and Bulwark who flexed his superstrong muscles to break free. All in all the bulk of the training team would be back on their feet within under a minute. 

As they were, Bastion's shield flickered more and more. The ambient heat generated didn't contribute all that much to breaking the shield as distance mitigated it's effects but every bit collected into a heat that was breaking down her shield, as Bastion did not construct her shield to block heat. Suddenly the shield fell altogether and the heroes rushed in. Bastion created a sphere around Colossus and fell back to the encircled bus, and lifted both back further down the street with dozens of remaining henchmen between the bus and the heroes. 

Extrusion abandoned his net form and started combating Apogee, stretching out and swatting her with elongated limbs while the rest of the heroes began battling the henchmen who kept them pinned down with disciplined automatic weapons fire. Apogee grabbed one of Extrusion's limbs and swung around in a circle building up speed, Extrusion could barely do anything as he was lifted and disoriented and Apogee let him go and sent him sailing down the street and away from her. Zenith's cousin then dropped down to Earth and helped her teammates, cutting a swath through the henchmen. But the men held their ground and more force was needed to break the stalemate. 

Trained combatant that he was, Phantasm should have heard the footsteps rapidly closing on him. Unfortunately for him it hadn't yet occurred to him what problems villain monologues incur. As such he had little warning before Phantom crashed into him. He was sent crashing to the ground and on the way he instantly pressed a button on his belt, which signaled two nearby henchmen to his position who then pointed rifles at Strix. On the ground Phantasm raised his knee several times in the general vicinity of where his opponent's torso would have been and attempted to flip over and reverse their positions. 

Chrome raised a fist and swung at Changeling, hoping to throw him back before going in for another strike. He heard Furious coming and contrary to the teenager's opinion Chrome was much more than dumb muscle and he had been extensively briefed on all of the trainees. Including Furious. Pariah knew Furious's secret origins and had managed to access his medical files which detailed his powers. As such Chrome neither struck at Furious nor stood his ground. He sidestepped the charging hero with more speed than one would think possible for him and stuck out his foot seeking to cause Furious to fall to the ground. Afterwards Chrome would lift a heavy steel foot and press down on the prone hero with his weight, the weight not causing too much pain but acting as an inexorable force that would leave Furious with little if any chance to move or lift against.