[center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/217175409903534080/310907722625318914/cooltext243099446643387.png[/img][/center] [hr] [b]Time: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYSgtwLLnw]Fuck-Me-O’Clock[/url] Location: Sherman Square, Lost Haven[/b] Charlie folded her arms as both Nemesis, Fletch and finally Icon scolding them came directed at herself and Pantheon. She scratched at her nose, commenting with a dash of vinegar largely to herself. “[color=honeydew]Right, I forgot. Can’t have an opinion around super hearing.[/color]” Ready to follow Icon when the distant sound of helicopters caught her attention. She looked up, her jaw popping open as they brought in their deliveries of goddamn mecha units. All around the square swathes of Hounds arrived. The scenes of the University flashing before her on waves of intense fear. Charlie turned on her heel feeling the walls literally closing in, again. Heart rate doubling, she thought briefly if this was enough for heart failure. She froze, uttering “[color=honeydew]F-f-f-[i]fuck me.[/i][/color]” Heroes and metahumans alike leapt into action, Pantheon went straight for one of the mecha units. Fliers were targeted by, some sensibly going straight for the big guns. The Hounds on the ground were storming out of their vehicles coming straight for them. In a blink of an eye, their weapons disappeared from their hands stolen away by the pink speedster. Lady Hex bumped up against Charlie and she hardly registered it, seized in a fit of panic. White knuckling her staff, she couldn’t move. Her breath caught and stuttered, feeling the edges of her vision beginning to blur. “[i][color=honeydew]H-h-hydrogen…[/color][/i]” Lady Hex called and conjured chaos to surround them, brewing a sizeable storm over the square. Claps of thunder and the first few drops of rain splattered on Charlie’s cheeks and her goggles jolting her. It began to pour drenching the Alchemyst through waking her from her panic. Clearly seeing Hounds were closing in on Lady Hex, Charlie was fuelled with energy, her panic burning away into adrenaline. Nobody, not a single one of them would touch Maddi. Charlie dug into her pockets holding a pair of lithium batteries in her hand, already knowing what to do. She gripped her staff dashing forward to cut them off, balling the batteries in her fist. The carbon fibres encasing the batteries formed up out of her hand, going straight for the first Hound armed with a baton. In her other hand, the butt of her staff changed shape into that of crowbar on her approach. She was faster and closer, smoothly hooking the Hound operative under his armpit sharply turning him of course breaking their momentum. Charlie took a guess at what the visor was made of gambling on plastic instead of fibreglass. She was rewarded when her fist glided through the plastic protected by the carbon wrapped around her hand making a direct hit on their nose. She growled, “[color=honeydew]Helium![/color]” He fell back with a grunt, the second Hound attacking was ready for Charlie having switched targets. She swung her baton down and Charlie met the attack with her staff, stepping right she hooked under her foot pulling up. The Hound face planted to the wet ground with a splash, Charlie spun her staff cracking her helmet open like an egg. She opened her hand, rainwater began to vaporize into steam. Waving her hand about like a lunatic she created a thick cloud of steam, the more water she touched the thicker it became. It enveloped both her and Hex, another Hound came through the alchemical fog and was met with Charlie’s ferocious counterattack. They stepped out reach of her crowbar, giving her ground as her attacks found their torso and shoulders battering them away. With every landed hit she recited more of the periodic table. “[color=honeydew]Lithium! Beryllium! Boron! Carbon![/color]” Cracking open another helmet she snarled, “[color=honeydew][i]Nitrogen![/i][/color]” They were out cold. She watched Pantheon take down a mech with some difficulty, knowing he’d do better with something other than his own fists. Scraps of the mecha he destroyed littered about. The fog dissipated quickly with the continued rain, stepping up to Lady Hex. “[color=honeydew]Stay close! I need to make something for Pantheon! He’s not going anywhere fast fighting these shits barehanded.[/color]” She beckoned for her to follow, Lady Hex came with a nod they dashed into certain danger. Charlie meeting any approaching Hounds with a swing of her staff, stripping them of their armour as she went and praying to dodge any debris. She stopped short of the mess of a mech Pantheon took down, throwing scraps into a pile surrounding the largest piece of steel. A leg. Ducking under a beam, she dried the steel to write on. Accounting for the plastics, copper, iron, fibreglass, and other stray elements Charlie wrote out the alchemical formula to fuse it all together. Rubbing her hands together she flattened her hands against the steel, concentrating. Her hands glowed lightly the sharpie written alchemical formula brightening. Across the pile of debris the alchemical formula snaked covering it in its entirety. A generous mix of old alchemy symbols and modern chemistry equations blended. The metal shifted into itself, pulling with it the wires and broken glass. Her brow furrowed, sweat mixing with the rainwater. It took the shape of a large spiked bat. 12 feet in length, solid, and adorned with spikes on the end. Wires wrapped for the grip, ready to be used. Calling to her ridiculous body guard, “[color=honeydew]Pantheon! Use this![/color]” She felt the ground rumble and familiar earthen hands shoot up from the ground taking down Hounds and vehicles alike. Seeing Terra Firma make his entrance, she grinned. “[color=honeydew]They’re proper fucked now.[/color]”