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For a moment, as Vinnie began to cough up blood with the coat rack speared into his hefty stomach, Tom thought somehow that he had done it. Maybe Vinnie's weakness was coat racks, or maybe he hit some kind of unhealable artery. Tom was about to say something cool and smug, like a hero one-liner, but this was cut short as Vinnie nonchalantly pulled the coat rack out of his stomach, the wound healing immediately. Tom felt himself gulp, and his mind raced as the mobster suddenly lunged forward. Tom was thinking about what he could do now, but the thought was snuffed out when his legs were suddenly swiped and he crashed to the floor, landing on his already injured shoulder. He cried out, pain throbbing down his arm, as he looked up at Vinnie, feeling too weak to even use his powers now. 

Tom winced a few times as Vinnie prodded him in the chest with the spear-like rack, feeling the blood dripping out from these new wounds. And then Vinnie raised the wooden spear above him, and Tom felt a strange feeling wash over him. Vinnie was about to kill him - he was about to die in front of his friends, and there was nothing that he could do about it. Had he lived a good life? Hero work was definitely rewarding, he wasn't going to die a scumbag. But he felt a twinge of sadness that he wasn't going to have a girlfriend or a fiance or whatever to mourn for him after he was done. That twinge of sadness washed over him, and suddenly made him feel really hot. Wait, that wasn't normal... why was the room feeling so hot all of a sudden? Tom glanced up in time to see Vinnie blasted with an immense burst of fire. That could only mean one thing - Blake had arrived!

Tom watched from the floor as Vinnie was physically blasted out of the mansion by the fire, before Blake walked back over to him, and Tom simply nodded as Blake mentioned how fucked up he was. [color=SteelBlue]"Yeah... shit... It's not great."[/color] That was of course before Vinnie got up and Blake quickly left to get back to fighting Vinnie, telling Tom to get everyone out, which he was now in no position to do. [color=SteelBlue]"Yeah, I'll try..."[/color] But this was quickly cut out by Blake immediately getting grabbed by Vinnie. Tom managed to sit up, trying to quickly muster the strength to use his powers again and save Blake from getting his throat crushed. And then Patty walked past, and Tom weakly tried to grab at her so she couldn't be stupid and get herself killed, but she just kept on walking. 

He heard Patty's song filling his eardrums and leaned back against the floor, feeling absolutely useless right now. But maybe Patty's song would work on Vinnie - Tom's hope for this was dashed when he heard a loud smacking sound, and he sat up again, seeing Patty reeling from the punch. This time, he tried to stand up, which he managed to do, and he began to walk over to the scene. He only got a few steps before he saw Vinnie suddenly surrounded by the fog, and the hulking mobster fall to the ground, coughing and spluttering... Holy shit, he was dying... but how? As Vinnie fell to the ground, still, Tom felt all his adrenaline leave his body, and he sat down on the corridor floor, before leaning back and passing out. 

Tom woke up to the feeling of something being patted on his shoulder. [color=SteelBlue]"Huh... What..."[/color] He turned his head only to be face-to-face with Joseph, patting a rune onto his shoulder. [color=SteelBlue]"Oh shit... Thanks. That doesn't hurt much anymore..."[/color] Tom flexed his arm a little bit, still wincing as the movement around the socket felt weird. [color=SteelBlue]"I definitely think I need to go to the hospital still, though."[/color] He glanced down at his chest. His shirt had been opened slightly, and there was dressing on the wounds where Vinnie had poked the rack on his chest. There were Division X members and medics running around everywhere, and Tom sat up, looking around. 

[color=SteelBlue]"Where's everybody else? There better be explanations for everything that happened here... Like why they kidnapped Will, and what the hell that fog was that killed Vinnie!"[/color] 

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