[center][h3][color=F00B48]Allie[/color], Hollie, [color=0072bc]Will[/color][/h3]
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[b]Team Awesomesauce: Part 3[/b]

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It was nice to see that the youngest of their team wasn’t completely helpless, but still, Hollie couldn’t help but notice the amount of exertion that Will was doing. Clearly, he couldn’t do that forever. 

Hollie returned to her feet and was delighted to hear that Allison finally weighing in. Her suggestion seemed to make sense but in practice, Hollie wasn’t sure. “Tch. Don’t get yourself stepped on.” She said with an air of sarcasm. It was probably the fact that she was being ordered by someone younger or something that she sounded a bit ungrateful for the suggested plan. 

Hollie turned and watched her teammate wander off to a certain point and call out to their opponent. Of course the thick-headed mutant took the bait and charged. Slightly impressed, Hollie watched Allison dodge the charging giant with some success, even managing to get the lead-headed baffoon to run into a wall. That was Hollie’s cue.

Hollie charged the giant without a word and leapt into crater in the wall where Juggernaut had just previously smashed into. She managed to grab the giant around his throat and she squeezed him tightly. As an insurance policy, she rapidly grew a crystal from her body and surrounded the two of them in that crater, creating a sort of quartz cocoon.

When the giant realized he was trapped he began bashing his back against the crystal wall that prevented his escape. Unfortunately for Hollie, she sat in between the two and was smashed between a brutal giant and her own crystal cocoon, but she endured in order to hang on for longer. 

If Juggernaut was getting tired from Hollie’s draining touch, he sure wasn’t showing it. It didn’t take long before Hollie could hear the crystal behind her cracking and breaking. Then with one final heave, Juggernaut burst through the wall, sending shards of the wall flying in all directions, with Hollie still on his back. She clung on for a second longer before kicking off from his back and landing on her back a distance away. She wasn’t done with him yet, however.

She could feel the crystal lattice surging with power and by extension, herself, as the energy flowed into her. She flung out her hands towards Juggernaut and smashed them together. Two large crystal crags suddenly and violently emerged from the concrete of the street and surrounded the giant, leaving a small opening for Will’s wind tunnel. 

Will watched in awe as Hollie more or less threw herself at the Juggernaut, he was standing ready to intervene. He knew the part he had to play, but it didn’t stop him from wanting to jump in to stop someone else from being hurt. Even if that person was made from crystal that was pretty damn hard to break. Still, instinct had to be fought against. The ‘heroes gut’ as his mum liked to talk about in reference to his father.

Upon formation of the crystal Will let go of a breath he didn’t even know he was holding, hands behind him he swing them around on front of him sending what would essentially equate to a wall of pure wind into the tunnel that Hollie had just formed. Putting everything he had into it, thankfully pushing was a little easier than pulling so he could put more into it… at the cost of not being able to maintain the effort for long. Falling down onto his knees after almost a minute panting.

“Did we get him?”

Allison walked over to the crystal formation, “I don’t know...let’s see.” Once Hollie took down her crystal formation, Juggernaut laid there, collapsed on the ground. Nervous, Allison checked the hulking man out. Juggernaut wasn’t known for being a faker, or a trickster, he was more full force. “Hollie, can you see if you can put some crystal handcuffs on him or something. I think we got him down though.”

Hollie watched as the plan appeared to proceed without a hitch. Will's gale force wind ripped through the tunnel and spun violently inside the crystal cage Hollie had placed their opponent in. Once Will was gassed, he dropped his wind and everything fell quiet for a moment as the tense air of uncertainty washed over them. With some reluctance, Hollie waved her hand across her crystal cage and the crystal began eroding away to a finite dust. The tension was palpable as it slowly cleared from the top down to the bottom but judging from the motionless body at the center, it became clear that the three were the victors.

"Mm... Of course." Hollie replied to Allison's request, sounding a bit in awe and taken back by their easy and painless success. Hollie waved her hand over Juggernaut's collapsed form causing a crystal cast to form over the entirety of Juggernaut's body, save for his head. It was at this point, Hollie actually considered herself impressed. No, not by herself, she always knew she was good, but by her teammates. Will was no pushover, though "beginner's luck" came to mind, and Hollie had clearly underestimated Allison's role. Turns out seeing the exactly how they would be Juggernaut was a pretty significant advantage. 

The crystal around Hollie's face peeled away as her face came into view. "Wow. I can't believe we did it..." Hollie paused as removed her gaze from Juggernaut and looked to her teammates. ".. You guys did well." Hollie's expression brightened giving her teammates a faint smile. She wasn't exactly the nicest but at the moment, she didn't have anything negative to say about the two who stood in front of her. Hollie turned away and waited until they were pulled out of the simulation before withdrawing her crystal armor.