The blades slammed home against the ground with dull thuds; the Earth around them fracturing as they came to a momentary standstill before melting into the Earth. Fast as he was, Rivet was unable to put enough distance between himself and the fog so as to render its senses useless; when only working to fill a vague area the particles had been moving around 20ft/s. Now though, that Xavier knew his prey was fleeing the fog, he was forcing it to chase Rivet down at just over twice its original speed at 41 Ft/s; roughly 28 mph. With every move that he made the fog responded in kind, almost mirroring every action he made so as to stay right on top of him.

Xaviers body still hadn’t budged an inch as he stood at attention within the crater; analyzing the constant stream of information that the cloud of energy particles relayed back to him. By the time he was able to formulate a plan, Rivet had only been running for a few seconds.

 While he could not tell exactly where his opponent would go, he could see a general path along which he would travel so as to better avoid the cloud of energy; the cloud was after all spreading in all directions to encompass a large area so the best idea would be to run [I]away[/I] from it. A single quiver of movement came from Xaviers face as his eyes darted to his left and fell upon the dirt. In an instant, the glass of the crater was shattered as a plume of red dust billowed around Xavier; the earth off to his left undergoing a strange change of color that resembled a thick red line being drawn in the dirt. As this line was drawn through it left a horrible, seemingly unending, gouge in the crust as it took with it as much of the Earth and energy around it as it could.

 With the information of Rivets location being constantly streamed to him, Xavier was able to constantly correct and guide this strange line into the front of Rivets path as it tore through the space occupied by his fog in a single second. Just an instant before it left the confines of the fog, the particles nearest the border suddenly relayed a vibration in the air as some sort of mechanism is released somewhere in the field. Then, as it breached the barrier of the fog, just 3 seconds after being created, there was a sudden quake in the earth as a massive, 10 ft tall 2 ft thick wall of red stone pulverized its way through the surface. This looked like, and moved as fast as, a stone freight train; breaking through the surface of the planet and gouging its way along the surface so as to create a 10 ft tall barrier in front of Rivet that may force him to change his direction. Even a momentary hesitation would allow his fog to gain those final crucial feet it needed to embrace him.