[center][b][u][h1]Death and Destruction[/h1][/u][/b][/center]

[i]So these are the bitches who doing all the killing they don't look so tough, I hope these whores are dumb enough to put their hands up I'm spraying their body with bullets fuck an arrest I'm sending them to hell. [/i] Laura was fuming with rage about the loss of life of both her friend among the other members of CNN that Erica killed & the officers she'd witnessed Alena kill with her own eyes. Erica gritted her teeth and stumbled back slightly as the four shots whizzed past her. The pressure from the bullets whizzing past her so close to her face caused a intense painful ringing in her ears as she turned to see her new accomplice had also managed to avoid being hit by Martinez warning shots. "Hmm looks like we have company Magpie." Erica stated back to Alena as if to say was the ball was in your hands on what the initial response should be to this police confrontation, most likely just the first wave.

"The female cop survived.  That is interesting. Bullets do go fast. But not as fast as lightning." Alena said as she immediately went to cover to avoid any more shots. She would also smirk and laugh as she manifested lightning on her palms and focused her mind to shift it into a lightning gun as she would also use her electrical powers to tap in their radios and would speak through them as she taunted them without remorse.

"Have you ever heard of The Three Piggies story. Well in your case, more than three piggies but... sorry t-" Alena as she pause for a moment when she heard Erica speak and she smirked lightly, as if silently saying they would get out of this alive. "As I was saying, I'm sorry to say, that you are the little piggies me and Erica are hunting, so you best put your weapons down before we end your miserable lives!"

"Oh yeah and I plan on fucking you up." Laura declared her gun trained on them, she wasn't in the move to protest any further. Trading glances with Martinez and some of the other officers who all seemed to have the same train of thought. They needed to do whatever in their power to wipe out these monsters who were detrimental to society.  "What the fuck!" Laura blared out seeing as though the elctric generating empowered had somehow hacked into their radio's taking over their transmission victiming them with vicious taunts while also disrupting their communication with each other.

"OPEN FIRE!" Martinez had enough as the women had used her powers over electricity to form what could only be described as a gattling gun made of lightning. Erica tapped into her own power not wanting to end up with her body or that of her new friend riddled with bullets. Using her dominion over senses she caused the scenery of the hallway they were in to shift. The hallway was engulfed in darkness, and from nowhere demonic beasts emerged from the very walls of the corridor growling manifesting noises that sounded as though they were from the depths of Hell itself.

Also targeting their sense of touch, focusing intensely on the use of her powers to go after so many targets at once she caused them to imagine a powerful burning sensation in their hands attributed to their weapons. While at the same time using her power to send forth the hounds, but to add icing on the cake she replaced some of the very officers sent to silence them with the beasts of her illusion in effect turning the officers against each other.

The scene unraveling was one straight out of a horror movie as half of the officers dropped their guns to free their hands of their burning life enders, while the other half were running for their lives from the demonic beasts which in reality where their very own comrades. Three officers struck with fear jumped out the window effectively commiting suicide as they were several floors up, while some officers were shooting at their own fellow officers. [i]This is delightful but it is quite draining..I need to ensure my new ally isn't effected by my power so she can help me get out of here [/I] With her survival instinct motivating her she focused her power on Alena to allow her to see through the illusion only leaving her able to view a small glimmer of the horrifying distorted reality she'd ensnared the officers in.

Just enough that she could both get a hint of Erica's actual power to visualize a sense of what the officers were going through but not enough that she was under her spell for lack of a better word leaving her mostly unaffected allowing her to see the facade of the officers turning against each other thinking they'd been turned to gruesome monsters but leaving her removed from the other distortions to reality such as the "darkness" that had consumed the hallway.

Drawing her own weapon she squeezed the trigger emptying two rounds into an officer near Martinez who had just run into a wall from another officer, firing again into the officer that had been chasing him. Martinez screamed in horror running back from the demonic beast he perceived shooting multiple rounds into the beast letting out a gasp as the "beast" hit the ground unknowing that it was his comrade. While Laura herself kicked one of the beasts hard as possible, another tackled her causing her to bash the beast with the head of her gun. However the force of being slammed into the wall seemed to disrupt her vision of the illusionary nightmare Erica had placed her in causing her to recognize Erica, Alena, & Martinez clearly. "What the fuck....is this...oh no" Quickly springing into action the officer rushed to Martinez who had drawn his weapon but was unable to pull the trigger before she smacked him in the forehead with the butt of her pistol seemingly breaking him free as well. "WHAT LAURA WHAT?"

"It's some kind of trick, there doing this we're killing each other we have to stop them now! " Laura yelled out Martinez's eyes widened in shock seeing blood splattered on him from one of his own fellow officers, and immediately charged Erica and Alena opening fire, while Laura rolled across the hallway then lept up to jump kick another officer hoping to knock him out of the false reality Erica had drawn them in. However before her kick could connect with the cop a blast of electricity struck her causing her to scream in pain as she was sent reeling and crashing through one of the windows in the CNN office dropping her gun as she was sent spiraling through the window into another room in the CNN office.

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At the meantime...

"Alright, you two can help." The SWAT officer handed the two brothers a pair of Kevlar vests, which seemed to be second hand. "We're counting on you."

[color=f7976a]"We'll make sure to help avenge your friends."[/color] Corvus Helstrom gave the man a nod. [color=f7976a]"And to capture these two bitches."[/color]

[color=6ecff6]"Let's go in."[/color]

The SWAT team then surged into the building with the Helstroms following closely behind. With the sounds of gunfire and shouting, it wouldn't be hard to find their objective in there, and when they did, those killer ladies are in for a nasty surprise...

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"Well that's a rush. That's a power that screw with minds. I like that that power, Erica. " Alena smirked lightly before looking towards Laura as she shouted out. This was good way to start the day and it was fun away to get thrills. She would hear Martinez yelling and she'd roll her eyes as she backed away from the choke-point. She would zip towards Laura and stayed behind her during the time that the illusions were active.

"I've got a plan, Erica. I'm going to try and reach a gun. In my lightning form, so I'll be right back." Alena's form would go static as it would spark up with lightning and she'd smirk as she would wave towards Erica would use her electricity powers to attempt to pull several guns towards her and Erica as she would look towards the cops. Alena would then see Laura getting blasted into another room and she'd frown lightly as she would electroport into the room, making sure to barricade the room with lightning.

"You're hurt.  I'm gonna lower the voltage of my powers so I can heal your injuries.  Don't worry, I'm an electrical expert. But I'm gonna need to empty your magazine. I don't want shot. Can you trust me, Cop?"

Just as Alena had come over to Laura and promised to heal her with electricity, the SWAT team began to storm in, but they would make way for the two new empowered people that had pledged to help them beat the hell out of the duo of ladies of death. Corvus stepped forward first, conjuring eldritch flames on his hands, his eyes shifting towards a fiery green color as he focused his attention on Erica. His flames then shot forward in a torrential stream, going full force against the woman of illusions. Only two people could ever get hurt by those flames; Alena and Erica. 

At the same time, Matthias Helstrom unleashed a pair of freezing beams, shooting them at the wall right behind Alena as a warning shot. [color=6ecff6]"Hey, you."[/color] Matthias growled as he conjured ice gauntlets on his hands, complete with three sharp frosty claws that smoked with black mist. [color=6ecff6]"Surrender or I will drop kick you."[/color]

A cough. [color=6ecff6]"And worse."[/color]

Laura groaned in pain crawling trying to force herself to get up after being blasted through a window, seeing cops going at it. [i] Damn it thees things are dangerous, we have to stop them [/i] She reached over to grab her side to prevent any more blood spill, and tried to reach for her gun with her other hand determined to fight to the bloody end. Finally grabbing her gun as the women who'd struck her down had managed to appear in the room erecting a barrier of electricity around the entrance seperating he from the others. "Damn it." She blurted out the shock of Alena's quick entrance causing her to accidentally drop her weapon not intending to follow her instructions. "Your the one who hurt me bitch! I don't trust a word your saying" She attempted to lunge forward for her weapon but succumbed to her injuries falling back.

The smell of thick smoke permeated the air and the door Erica was near caught a-blaze, the fire she'd started in the studio room now spreading to the hallway. As her accomplice sprunge into action using her electrical powers to drag the cop's weapons out of their hands she took that as her chance to make her move rolling across the hallway and quickly planting herself against another door a few feet down the hallway away from the fire starting to spread through the hallway. [i] That was quick, we need to get the fuck out of here before this whole place catches on fire [/i] Her concerns about the fire she'd started herself were quickly overtaken by a man generating his own fire appearing to be on the authorities' side.

Cursing at the two Empowered men wielding fire & ice who appeard to be on the law enforcement side. "You pathetic bastards, how dare you align yourself with these weaklings! You should be with us, your own people!!" She screamed angered to see people with powers aiding regular humans. With a yelp she rolled backwards into the room just narrowly avoiding the brunt of the stream of fire. Unfortunately she hadn't burst into the room unscatched as her arm had been burned by the green flames. Wincing from the pain but still clutching her weapon firmly she unleashed her powers on the SWAT's team's super powered assistance. [i] Oh that's it bastard..you wanna fight someone with powers [/i] Unleashing her power on the boys she twisted their five senses causing a shift in reality causing Corvie to see Matthias as Erica attacking with pure energy  and Matthias to see Corvie as Alena attacking with electricity, Inn the eyes of the SWAT team soldiers the saw a massive lightning bolt strike down both of the boys, and quickly used her powers to make the SWAT team see each other as the girls charging them with their powers causing them to began opening fire on each other.

[color=f7976a]"You're nothing like me and my brother, crazy bitch."[/color] Corvus prepared to unleash a firestorm into the hallway in a bid to incinerate Erica, but... something happened. It all happened very quickly, but Erica's power swept over the Helstroms like a tidal wave, infecting their senses. They had been played, and the illusion had done its work.  [color=6ecff6]"Hoho, lady, you have approached me?"[/color] Matthias spoke with venom as he readied  to attack who seemed to be Alena, though he did not know her name.

[color=f7976a]"I can't beat the shit out of you if I don't come close to you."[/color] Corvus would then douse out the flames that were all around the room, as he hadn't forgotten that they were not supposed to destroy the place. [color=f7976a]"I will strike you down."[/color]

[color=6ecff6]"Be my guest!"[/color] Matthias then unleashed a pair of freezing beams, which would then be countered by what looked like to be a wall of electricity. He would see 'Alena' throw lightning at him... which he quickly blocked with a floating ice shield. He would then send that shield at high speed; too fast to be blocked or melted in time with fi- lightning. It slammed hard, sending 'Alena' towards the wall and hitting her head.

[color=6ecff6]"That hurts..."[/color]  Corvie grumbled as he got up, though his head was still spinning a little. Though he did get up fast enough to see the true identity of 'Erica'; Matthias.

[color=f7976a]"Matt! Stop, it's me, Corvie!"[/color] He held out his hand in an attempt to stop him, but Matthias was coming in hot with his clawed ice gauntlet, and Corvus was forced to get out of the way, using his fire to propel himself away.

[color=f7976a]"That woman is a damn illusionist."[/color] Corvus then looked around and saw the SWAT team shooting at each other; their blood ran on the floor as rivers of red, their dead bodies replete with gunshot wounds.

Corvus conjured a pillar of flame; one that would melt his brother's ice while leaving unscathed. The green flames swirled through the narrow corridor, melting the black ice into water. He then charged through the flames, regrettably punching Matthias rather hard at the face.

[color=f7976a]"That woman was playing tricks on our minds."[/color] Corvus said to his brother as the latter finally got to his senses. 

Matthias looked at his brother in shock. [color=6ecff6]"Oh my God. I almost stabbed you to death."[/color]

[color=f7976a]"We're even."[/color] The SWAT team had already killed each other; what was left of the cops were Martinez and Kohn, and maybe some others.

"Don't bother reaching for your gun." Alena would use her powers to draw the gun towards her as she grasped it lightly with her hand and would fire it towards the outside window as she looked down towards Laura, emptying the magazine at the outside window. She would then throw the gun out of the window as her hands sparked up in lightning as she crouched down and placed her hand against Laura's injuries as she would smile lightly before sending shocks through Laura's body, gently as she attempted to heal the police officer of her injuries.

"Me and Erica will be going now, but you'll be coming with us. Put your handcuffs on or I'll put them- too slow. Also prepare yourself." She would grab Laura's handcuffs and attempted to cuff Laura's wrists and would pull her up to her feet and would electroport to where Erica was.

"Don't shoot, we have one of yours and we will not hesitate to kill her if we even see you trying to play the hero! Erica, we ready to go?" 

Laura cried out in pain as the nut case had unleashed more electricity causing her to scream in pain as the psychopath was talking about healing her only causing her more pain. [i] This bitch fuck aaah..no it's over [/i] The pain was intense from the electricity searing into her already open wounds causing her to cry out Martinez who was free from the illusion witnessed the brutality being unleashed on his partner firing a shot at Alena who was focused on her twisted illogical attempt to "heal" Laura.

With all her intent & focus being poured into her sadistic attempt at "healing" his partner the bullet pierced her shoulder causing the electric manipulator to stumble forward stopping her continous stream of elemental torture on Laura. Laura was in even worse shape then before more blood oozing from her body but the shot that rang from Martinez's gun had saved her from what she was expecting to be her tombstone.

During the the boys battle against each other the flame manipulator of the two had used his powers to put out all the raging fire in the room luckily putting out the one she'd started as well. Considering her position was locked he'd inadvertently saved her from the very fate he'd sought to engulf her in initially. "LAURA!!!!!" Martinez had screamed out again rushing over to his partner as the electric girl grabbed her shoulder to stop the blood from gashing out furious calling out to Erica as electricity began surging through her whole body.

"Martinez...no,...watch out." Laura struggling to speak gasping from her breath after the second round of torture she'd been forced through struggling to maintain her vision as shots rang out from her SWAT team comrades who were laying each other out.  Before Alena could surge with any more electricity it was as if an invisible force slammed Alena into the wall on the side of her gun-shot wound causing her to scream out. "Well well well."

Another voice was heard from an unfamiliar party.  "It seems I was almost late to the party, pardon me the media these days has a way of lying & exaggerating about most things so it's not often you see truth in television." From the midst of visibility an arabian woman materialized. Sporting robin jeans, a white loose fitting shirt and long black hair. The woman materialized in-front of Alena appearing to be the culprit behind the invisible force. Lunging forward she placed her hands around Alena's neck and suddenly the electric manipulator screamed in pure agony as some sort of tranference of energy seemed to take place between the two. Martinez grabbed Laura and bolted back through the door to get away from the women surging with energy.

Within moments the surging of energies stopped and Alena lay against the wall struggling to breath while the woman who had held her neck against the wall appeeared rejuvinated and smiling. "Oh now that was delicious, quite the wonderful meal for Adora now weren't you." Alena cried out weakly as Adora giggled, the next parlor trick she performed seemed tobe a trick straight out of Alena's book. "Let's try this out." With another playful laugh with sinister undertones electricity riveted from Adora's body and surged through Alena's causing her to scream out seemingly pulling forth energy from the depths of her soul ."Oh thiis wondefrully fun let's up the ante shall we." Adora laughed wickedly as she drastically raised the voltage unleashing a torrent of electricity that seemingly left the girl sshe was holding against hte walll a burnt crisp oozing with blood. Releasing the force on the lifeless body watching it drop she turned to face Martinez and Laura who had ran out the room.

"Oh where are you going she was fun but I'd love to test this on some more lively subjects. but oh what the hell can't forget the classics." Martinez didn't appear to want to listen to this woman rumble on pulling the trigger firing his last three rounds at the woman. Nearly shaking with fear as the bullets stopped in mid air infront of Adora who rolled her eyes and without moving caused the bullets to fly out the window into the streets below towards whatever unlucky bastards were securing the permiter. "Now that wasn't nice you've earned yourself a bloody demise" Martinez was lifted into the air by the same force that had moved Alena's body moments ago and shot towards Adora while at the same time rapidly diminshing in size until he was the size of a small insect. ."Goodbye little man." The force released him dropping him on the ground and Adora slammed her foot down on the miniaturized man brutally crushing him alive under the pressure of her foot. "Awhhhhh." Adora exlaimed feeling another life ending beneath her foot, then turned to Laura waving her hand causing the cop to flip around and slam into the wall causing her to cry out as the force of hitting the wall caused her more pain as the wounds she received from Alena were still open and fresh.

"What...are you..." Laura spoke out in pain as Adora laughed. "I'm your worst nightmares in the sexiest form imaginable, now back to that test..." Sparks of electricity danced at the tips of Adora's fingers as she stepped towards Laura sending forth a small bolt of electricity that struck Laura's open wounds causing the blood to bubble and boil causing her to scream as Adora stepped out into the hallway more electricity surging through her hands. High on power and drunk on murder she hadn't even noticed the boys as she approached Laura licking her lips eager for another kill like a savage lion circling it's prey. Two SWAT members that seemed to have broken free from Erica's grasp pulled their weapons screaming at Adora rushing to her from both sides. "Hush boys I want to play with her not you." As they went to fire Adora reduced them both to insect size dragging the mini soldiers infront of her as she marched over to Laura. The SWAT team members screamed out as Adora's foot came down stomping on both of them brutally crushing them alive as she had done Officer Martinez moments before. Tears streamed down Laura's face as she was beaten and bloody with no strength to defend herself from this new superhuman monster who'd waltzed into the CNN office slaughtering three of her co-workers without a care in the world. "Go..t..t...to hell." Laura managed to utter as Adora grinded her foot down making sure the two agents she stepped on were dead smeared into blood and guts on the carpet as more electricity bubbled in Adora's hand as she raised it to Laura." Perhaps but not today, that ride is for you officer." She slowly rised her hand getting ready to unleash a powerful torrent onto the cop to end her life as she'd done the previous four victims.

Just as it seemed that Laura's life was about to end right then and there, a massive block of dark ice came hurtling towards Adora, slamming into her body and sending her flying towards the nearest wall. Laura would see a rather tall man with pretty messy black hair and a scruffy beard run towards her, followed by a much shorter mam that honestly looked six years years than he really was. 

With his brother going to help Laura off the ground, Corvus unleashed  tongues of searing eldritch flames towards Adora, intending to keep her distracted long enough for Matthias to get Laura out of here.

[color=6ecff6]"Officer,"[/color] Matthias started as he applied a cold compress on Laura's most visible wounds with his cryokinetic powers. [color=6ecff6]"Can you stand?.."[/color] Another quick look, and he gave out a sigh. [color=6ecff6]"Guess not."[/color] He would lift her off the floor before erecting a wall of ice that covered pretty much the whole width of the hallway, calling off his pyrokinetic brother from the attack. [color=6ecff6]"Corvie, let's go!"[/color]

[color=f7976a]"But-"[/color]

[color=6ecff6]"G O!"[/color]

The two would then get out of the hallway, Laura in tow as they stepped aside the dead corpses of everyone else that had tried to stop the terrorists in here... this mission was a failure...

Laura braced herself for what she assumed would be some tremendous pain and the true end of her life from this monstrosity of a woman. [i] She's a monster...[/i] Those thoughts flowed through Laura's mind as she was truly shaking with fear. "Buh bye now." Adora spoke softly as she was about to kneel down wanting to be up close and personal for this shocking send off she was going to give Laura to the after life.

Before she could remove Laura from the land of the living she was caught off guard by an unexpected attack. Screaming out in pain as a massive block of ice catapulted her body into a wall. An audible thud was heard as the power thief's world was rocked by the cryokinetic attack. Coughing out blood as she was smashed into the cement and screeching as she accidentally bit her own tongue with force drawing even more blood, "FUCK!!!!" Swearing to eviscerate some of the pain brought to her by the sudden smashing attack.

As the torrent of flames rushed towards her Adora let out a literal scream fighting back the torso of fire with a sonic scream of ear shattering proportions. Windows across the floor shattered into pieces causing glass to rain down on those below. Even the concussive blast of sound protruding from her lungs wasn't enough to stave off the weird flames Corus had sent her. Not wanting to be burnt to a crisp and her body aching from both the block smacking her and it's brutal delivery of her into the wall, she used her teleknetic power to mentally whiplash herself across teh hallway. Being in pain she wasn't able to delicately land herself and cursed as she she'd thrown herself across the hallway once again plopping against a wall to avoid being seared by Corvus's power.

Groaning in agony she forced herself. up now furious that her last victim had gotten away. "AAAHH!!!!!!!!" Adora screamed her lungs out unleashing a sonic scream to shatter the wall of ice. Meanwhile Laura rested her body weight on Matthius's body  the frozen press helping to take pressure of her painful wounds. To think before she'd gotten there all she wanted to see was an empowered human beaten or bleeding near death and now she was being rescued by one. "T...thank you.." She managed to get out trying to save her strength. She was fighting to keep her eyes opened as they carried her down the stairs when she winced in pain as a powerful screeching noise assaulted her ears to the point some blood started to seep out. "Ughh ahhh!!! Make it stop!!!"

Laura was holding on to Matthias taught, resting her head on his chest. For a man who wielded such fine tune control over the power of ice putting her weight on him she couldn't tell. All that was running through her mind was all the anger that was surging through her on the way to the CNN center.

"Going so soon" Adora's voice boomed down the stairway using her powers of sound to project her voice like an evil ventriloquist. Adora hovered into the stairway some drops of blood dripping and falling from the wound Matthias had caused her moments ago by literally hitting her with a brick. "Wait fooooor me." She called out before descending down the stairway flying until catching up with them using her teleknetic power to toss the three down the stairs with unseeable force. Laura cried out as she lost her grip on frozen savior free-falling before hitting a wall her head spinning. Just a regular human she was fighting not to slip into a state of vertigo from the latest pain she'd been put through.

"It's not  nice to hit it and quit honey, now then we have unfinished business don't we?" Adora smirked winking at Laura. "Don't worry I'l save the feds for last, all you had to do was ask if you wanted to invite some handsome men to the party. Fire boy why don't you let the adults have some private time." Arcs of electricity began running through her body as she focused her power on Matthias aiming to miniaturize his size while also sending forth a trickle of  electricity that would seem to be a massive wave of lightning at his new height.  "Don't runnnnnn" The serial killer coo'd as stream of electricity surged from her hand.

"GO TO HELL!!!! FIX HIM NOW!!!!!!!!" Adora turned her head to the direction Laura's voice came from only to cry out in intensive pain as a spray of high powered water smashed into her. Laura had broken out a nearby exstinguier and let loose on Adora. The high pressured hydro assault causing her to experience a full body assault of pain due to the electrical arcs swirling around her figure. "NOW!!!!!!" Laura screamed her finger squeezed on the trigger, using all the strength she could muster to stand her ground. Adora's very hair seemed to frizzle and burn from the chemical water attack, being hoisted by her own petard as a result of her newfound talent. Blood oozing from her very pores she cried out reverting Matthias to full size in order to get Laura to halt her sprayed assault. The chemical reaction triggering an exposion that blew a hole in the wall of the hallway now exposing the outside. The resulting shockwave sending Adora reeling back into the stairway backwards with an audible crack heard as she was catapulted into the stairway above crying out in pain and cursing.

The fire extinguisher dropped from Laura's hands rolling down the stairs as she fell to the ground her eyes closing, blood starting to ooze as the shockwave had shattered the ice compression Matthias had froze onto her body. "Bitch..."Laura managed to utter as her eyelips started shutting unable to stay conscious with all the pain she'd sustained.

Seeing as how their enemy has been disabled, Matthias picked Laura up from the floor and then placed his hand om the glass window, turning it as cold as the direst winter and making it very brittle. With a single kick, the glass was shattered, and their way to the outside was open. A slide of ice began to materialize as Matthias shot his freezing beams unto the air, forming a safe way out of there while Corvus flew out, propelled by his pyrokinesis.

It wouldn't be long before they were on the ground, safe... for now.

Laura lay in Matthias's arms once again being carried away by her savior. [i] I. guess I was wrong, I guess there not all bad after-all [/i] Those were the last thoughts that echoed in her mind as she passed out in her ice man's arms... and would wake up in a hospital bed some time later.