Clarence had not walked into this arena without plans and ambitions of his own.  His opponents were right to sense his hostile intent – for within his own mind there was no question that he had intended to throw everything he had at his foe as quickly as he could manage.  With Time Alter – Final Black Flash on his side though – Clarence could actually manage the feat pretty darn quickly.  As the effects of Time Alter take effect the moment he touches his weapon he was essentially already under the effects of Final Black Flash while the attacks were incoming.  Clarence’s own plan had been a straightforward one; beginning with the activation of his Subversion Field as the flames around him began to shift from ardent red to an energetic blue plasma.

That blue, “cold” plasma is where Mimring and Jason’s opening gambit made things interesting.  Because plasma is ionized (cold or not), and the plasma field formed a dome around Clarence’s body the initial lightning strike would have been deflected to ground by the Subversion Field acting as a sort of Faraday Cage.  And even if by some fluke of speed or raw power the lightning persisted in penetrating the Subversion Field Clarence was already using his pyrokinetic abilities to manipulate some of his cold plasma into a fluid membrane around his body that would act as a second Faraday Cage within the first.

Clarence was momentarily distracted by the incoming chunk of armor; however.  Still within the effects of his own Time Alter he could spare the time to break the armor piece down with his pyrokinetic abilities.  Once he became aware of it crossing into his Subversion Field – he used it to generate more tungsten and form more of the cold plasma membrane now being fashioned into a counter-attack of his own.  Even as his Artic Flames gathered at the tip of his Staff – the membrane around his body began to shift forms into several hundred balls of chronotron-infused cold plasma.   The original intent had been to pummel Mimring in a shower of his Magma Blossom Bombs while firing off a quick stream of his Artic Flame.

Then came the dragon’s speedy maneuvering after becoming what looked like a lightning elemental.  Clarence didn’t come across such abilities very often and was actually taken aback.  But as long as Time Alter remained in effect he could keep a rough track of Mimring’s path and so tried to lead his barrage along his right flank.  Each Magma Blossom Bomb was individually weak and tiny for plasma – but their infused chronotrons ensured that whatever they struck would continually burn for several seconds at the thousands of degrees plasma burned at.  Including the pillars holding up much of the pyramid.  And so Clarence kept his Artic Flame in reserve even as he released Time Alter: Final Black Flash.  The moment that he exited Time Alter his Magma Blossom Bombs fired off in all directions like a deadly hailstorm.  

Only this hailstorm didn’t evaporate.  Everything it touched would burn away eventually under the persistent effects of the Magma Blossom Bombs.  Sadly the side-effects of Time Alter became apparent as the left gauntlet of his Cryogenic Combat Armor cracked from the haptic feedback as the flow of normal time reasserted itself.  But for the moment Clarence got to watch, bemused, to see how Mimring would react to this barrage.