Wildcat hadn't been back to HQ long. Upon throwing his costume on, all he'd managed to do was get his feet wet and yell at the kids to turn up the radio and for their resident screamer to use his sonic vocals to bust some ear drums. What he saw after was completely unexpected. Nightlife was the latest addition to the team at this point, his powers and limits were still undefined. The young man had screamed at a creature and his voice tore and ripped at the skin and fractured the skull. It was gruesome. And it was effective. At that point the veteran superhero surveyed the situation clearer from the lower level in the HQ. The battle was mostly contained within the premises of Grant's Gym, but a dozen or so creatures were also tearing up the neighborhood and generally keeping everybody else at bay. That's when Grant saw the ice manipulator... bleeding and on the ground after attempting to freeze these Man Owl creatures with the assistance of the remaining sprinklers. This might have worked if the boy hadn't already been somewhat tapped. The strength and agility of the creatures were taken lightly after the creature they'd fought days earlier didn't put up too much of a fight. 

"Archer, talk to me son... stay awake, we've got to put pressure on these wounds and keep you from losing much more blood..." Wildcat said running to the boy and taking one of the kids shirts laying around and tying it tightly around the boys wounds. 

Wildcat moved some larger debris, desks, tables, etc. around Zero to provide a little more cover. The hero ran towards the lockers on the far side of the gym and noticed Rat Boy's pets were providing quite the distraction against the Amazon Talon. Another glance in the other direction saw what looked like a complete cocoon surrounding the girl dubbed 'Parasite.' Before the veteran could even take it all in he saw the hairy and masked hero do some wrestling moves and toss a creature at the Amazon Talon. 

Ves was hovering, mostly covered in rats, and now an owl creature was thrown at her. El Sasquatcho slid in for another attack but at this point the new Talon was pissed. The creature thrown hit her like a brick wall then fell to the ground, the Luchador missing it just at the right time. With a spin at her top speed the rats were thrown off of her, several being splattered on walls and debris. That's when Wildcat made it to the lockers.e pulled out what looked to be grenades and screamed out once more...

"EVERYBODY COVER YOUR DAMN EARS THIS TIME!" and then pulled the pins on several sonic grenades that blew the creatures' eardrums and immobilized the ones in the building, however the Talon managed to cover her ears...

"Nightlife, 'Squatcho, Rat Boy... its just us and Argo now. Hit her from all sides. Try talking to her, maybe jar her memories. And where the hell is Leviathan?" the elder hero asked at the end.

[b]Across town...[/b]

"You're a lot heavier than you look, are you not a composite being?" Wonder Woman asked carrying the ten feet tall two ton giant in mid air towards the HQ.

"Yeah, would separating help you get us there faster?" Levi asked.

"It wouldn't hurt, I just left a battle outside of the moon's orbit with white martians to get here once Batman mentioned Vesta was in trouble." the Amazon member of the Justice League responded. 

The light glow appeared around the giant like always, but when the giant's size was no longer an issue, he was shocked to find there was still only one being.

"What the..?!?" he yelled as Wonder Woman still held him tightly.

"I take it this has never happened before?" she asked.

"I'll worry about it later... hey? Could you just throw me back towards the base? I'll go giant man before I hit my mark..." the smaller Leviathan asked.

Moments later, the hero on foot battling the remaining creatures in the neighborhood saw the giant man flying on the opposite direction back towards Grant's Gym. 

~KL~