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[Color=teal][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]D E L A W A R E :[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][INDENT][sup][COLOR=SILVER]July 20[SUP]th[/SUP], 2017 - 15:46 | Metro Tower - Metropolis[/COLOR][/sup][/INDENT][/COLOR]
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As the elevator containing the trio of Polarity Man, Apollex and Blue Beetle finally reached the lobby, the lieutenant was the first to get out of the lift. [color=1a7b30]"Alright. I guess I'll just leave you guys here?[/color]

[color=lightblue]"I'll... be fine... I... think..." [/color]Ted replied in his exasperated state. The pain in his chest was beginning to get stronger but he was sure it would pass in no time, just some old man aches.

[color=lemonchiffon]"Yeah, I'll stick with Blue here"[/color] Lexi smiled at Polarity man [color=lemonchiffon]"Thanks by the way."[/color] She flutters her eyelashes ever so slightly at Polarity man before linking an arm with Ted.

[color=lightblue]"What... she said..."[/color] Ted added. He knew if he hadn't been taken out of there when he was it was defiantly possible that he wouldn't have gotten out of there at all.

[color=1a7b30]"I promise I'll be back soon. Hopefully with a way to change all of you back to normal.[/color] And with that, the Polarity Man raced for his mech suit. As he started it up, he could only wonder what the rest of his fellow unaffected Leaguers had found themselves in, specially against the mutated versions of the elemental members. Speaking of which...

Monny couldn't help but shuffle forwards as it's body continued to act out. The idea that it was going to hurt Rookie even more wasn't sitting well with the Clay Monster. It liked it even less as the man laid in a crater next to the wall he had crashed into.

The hero was made of sterner stuff then most humans. For even as Monny lumbered onwards Rookie picked himself up. Rookie glanced around the room and Monny felt his non-existant heart lift. Oh good! Rookie wasn't going to stay and try to fight it. Rookie was going to run. If Monny was an autonomous monster he would had sat down and the wave of relief crashed over him.

Then the worst occured. Rookie locked eyes with Monny. It was too loud in the room to hear what he said. Instead Monny watched his lips move before Rookie put his foot down, hard. Then the hero was gone. Just like that. 

Before Monny even could figure out what had happened it felt it. Monny couldn't feel pain in the normal human sense. But it did feel something akin to acute discomfort when getting a hole punched through it's mud. Especially when a fist goes through the monster's face followed by a male, human body.

It was pretty much as soon as Rookie planted his foot into the ground that he realized a particularly glaring flaw in his choice of tactics; well, two really. One, Monny seemed like kinda of a nice guy and this was... [i]pretty mean...[/i] and two; he was now travelling at mach-speeds and, unlike, say a [i]Kryptonian[/i] who could bend the laws of gravity to fly around as they saw fit, he didn't actually have a means of [i]stopping[/i]. Save for Newton's Laws of Inertia, specifically that bit about 'Objects in motion staying in motion unless acted upon by an opposite and equal force'.

Like, say... the fortified walls of the Metro Tower, specifically built to stand up to assault by superpowered lunatics. 

Like the one he was careening towards at this very second.

[color=teal]"Oh God..."[/color] The half-naked hero panicked, slamming his feet into the ground and wearing out what was left of his shoes and socks as his heels dug fruitlessly in the floor for some traction to stop his forward momentum [color=teal]"Oh no, oh shit! Oh fuck[i]FUCKFUCKFUCKFU-![/I]"[/color]

[B]BOOM![/B]

He hit the wall. And unfortunately for his pride, the wall didn't win. Instead, he kept on going, through the steel door [i]behind[/i] that wall. Then through the big window in the nice comfy sunroom behind [i]that door[/i], and straight towards the turd-riddled [i]public dog park behind the tower[/i].

Before the Rookie could do any damage to public property however, Polarity Man had managed to intercept his flight path to the ground. In order to stop him though, the Patroller mech had to crash into him head-on.

[color=teal]"...Mmph! Gonna wizz red..."[/color] The Rookie responded quite thankfully to the mother of all kidney-shots, but made no further complaints about being saved from landing half-naked in a field of puppy-patties [color=teal]"...Thanks."[/color]

[color=1a7b30]"Think not much about it."[/color] Lieutenant Lawrence would respond, though the Patroller's on-board computers would have said otherwise. While The Rookie's collision managed to somehow inflict more damage to his hardware than Lobo, Polarity Man was still determined to end this conflict sooner than later. [color=1a7b30]"I suggest taking the tunnel you created back into the room where Extant and his creations lay. Are you still able to fly?"[/color]

[color=teal]"Heh, uhh... funny thing that."[/color] Responded with a slight wheeze, still clearly nursing his side, but otherwise alert and ambiable [color=teal][b]"I can't actually fly.[/b] That was [b]jumping.[/b]"[/color]

[color=1a7b30]"Hmm. Then I suggest holding on."[/color] With a flick of a switch, the remaining energy cells of the suit powered the mech's jet boosters, allowing the duo to safely re-enter the Metro Tower. Along the way back to their target though, an encrypted message would make its way to Polarity Man's console screen. A plight to one Supergirl, daughter of The Man of Steel. While it was definitely a surprise, it was a welcomed one and Lawrence decided to capitalize on the situation. Connecting to the Tower's Monitoring room, he would send out a distress signal that showed his exact location as he and the Rookie raced towards Extant.

[color=teal]"You've got a plan, right?"[/color] Rookie asked, seemingly starting to get his bearings back

[color=1a7b30]"Go for the wizard. Hit him hard and hope for the best."[/color] Polarity Man would state. While this was seemingly simple, it was all he could ask The Rookie to do. 

Duncan just stared at the Mecha-Clad Man for a few seconds before breaking into a shit-eating grin.

[color=teal]"Yeah... I think I can do that."[/color][/indent][/indent]