Still hunting the rooms and corridors, room after room of no one being there - Johns searching had unknowingly led him to the corridors around the main art room, he entered the room and took a good 5 - 10 minutes looking under tables, behind some of the drying canvas' and store rooms, but with his search, no students were found, even speaking out in case any of them were using their powers to hide from what ever had caused this, so he turned and left the art room.

With the full chaos unfolding in the mansion and the very little light provided by the torch in his earthen hands the mobile monolith, he failed to notice the blue-furred ninja that he didnt feel the bolt hit him until the brimstone smell hit his nose he knew what was going to happen, but not where he would end up as the smoke and total darkness engulfed him for a moment as the surprise his hand loosened on the torch, letting it clattered as it hit the floor as the smoke whisked John away.

Moments later he reappeared...but something was hugely wrong; he was being crushed - but it was not the instant sensation one would expect from the situation, but it was like his skin was putting up a fight against what was going on; from what John could gather Bamf had only meant to prank John but had miscalculated the earth movers extra mass.

The external pain was slowly gaining in intensity as John opened his eyes to try to see what he knew in his mind where he was - yes he had been teleported underneath the mansion, so in a word - John was doomed.

As the external crushing pain got to a point John was wincing and felt moments away from being ground into his own element, a second sensation had spouted in his heart, as the sensation spread outwards a more familiar pain made itself known - the pain of his mutation kicking things up a gear, as John yelled and cursed as these new pains were taking over (the crushing sensation now slowly easing) the earth mover had only a few thoughts in his mind: He would survive this pain, that anything that happened while he was stuck would not cause any problems from what was going on (mostly his actions causing any tremors or earthquakes within the area of the mansion) and that when he got out he would have to have words with the ninja about doing this sort of shit.

Time passed, John's yells slowly subsided as the pain faded - soon he felt as if his body changed to keep the earth mover alive as it almost half fused with the earth around him, he could still feel his arms, hands legs and feet as he became more acclimatized with the new situation.

Now John knew he would survive what had happened thoughts turned to getting out of the ground and back to helping the kids in the mansion. As an experiment, John slowly pulled his arm to his side, he could see the gap his arm had occupied but instinctively knew that slow and timid movements would keep him down here for a long time - with unprecedented ferocity John began to smash his way downwards - thinking to himself that any damage caused to the structure of the mansion, from the backlash of his actions would have to be repaired by him. It took perhaps about 20-35 minutes to beat through the earth before his fist met something that was there, he had punched through a sheet of concrete and hit air, as the Terrakenetic made the final surge forward he fell from the roof and hit the elevated walk way of the sewer with a thud, he lay there for a few moments, resting from the efforts and the aches of what just happened, he lifted his hand to see if his appearance had changed, it had - his hand still looked like a hand, but it did not have the human look to it, it had an obvious earthy texture and colour to it with small stone spikes protruding from both the hand and arm that was in view and shuddered at how the rest of him must look.like.

Eventually John stood up - and looked at the damage his landing had caused, judging from the distance he fell he must be a lot heavier then he used to be and his skin must be able to withstand more - thinking about what this new advancement would do for John (both the positive and negative) John walked along to the rungs that would lead him to the surface, but the moment he let them take his full weight they snapped and he dropped the few inches back to the walk way.

[i]first new issue, larger mass - will need to get more reinforcements to areas of the mansion...Why cant these things ever be simple?[/i]

John shook his head as he tried to think of another way out, quickly coming to a conclusion John closed his eyes and cast his mind back to the mission to save Storm from the Shadow King and that he was able to make a sturdy wall, which he focused on which allowed him to make a pillar which elevated him to the manhole cover which he pushed open. As luck would have it he emerged from the sewers into an area of the grounds near the front entrance but was at the moment obscured by trees, as he looked around he could see no one so he made his way towards the front doors; they were open. He walked inside and called out:

"HELLO?! ANYONE THERE?"