[h3][u][b][i]Gotham, One Mile Up[/i][/b][/u][/h3]

With her progress no longer being hampered by the wind and the snow, the force and velocity reduced by the effect on time around her, Raimi had managed to move from a point closer to the end and almost reach the center...when it happened.  The sound had, at first, seemed like an effect of the storm, like a slowed-down thundercrack or some other similar action.  Such was not the case.  As she neared the center, a [i]new[/i] form landed a short distance from her, close enough to be heard as he spoke.  Raimi's first impression, upon seeing this guy, was a decided 'Uh oh'.  Then, she reminded herself that this guy looked very much like You-Know-Who that everyone always wants Bats to be in a tussle with.  And directly after he spoke, there was a decided 'Oh Crap' feeling as what ultimately had to be a super man addressed her as a potential enemy.

This was bad, but then she could clear this up.  The only thing about that was that the same time field that had allowed her to carefully walk up here without falling was still accelerating her in every way possible.  So, when Raimi spoke...

[color=silver][i]"What?Nonono,that'snotwhatI'mdoinghere!Thatdoesn'tevenmakesense!Whywouldthisguyhaveapartneraroundasinglemachinewhenhe'sdoingthisaroundthe- Holdon."[/i][/color]

...which is when she stopped, because she realized that as much as he was [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRXQh8KHC6c]speaking in slow motion[/url] to her, she must've sounded like a tape recording with the fast forward button jammed on to him.  There was every possibility that he could follow all that because he had super senses or something, but Raimi wasn't sure, so she fixed it with a quick gesture, expanding the field.  The blur of a human being that John had seen standing there, talking a mile a minute with rapid gestures suddenly resolved into a form that moved and acted normally...before his surroundings began to slow down by a marked degree.  The figure shugged, speaking alot more coherently now.

[color=silver]"Sorry, time physics.  Gets weird.  I'm not here to help the wizard.  I came up here to disable this thing, find the guidance system, and send it crashing down somewhere empty-ish.  Pretty sure you want the same thing, so how 'bout a hand?  The only thing you can do here is trust or not trust, 'cause you don't know me and we really don't have time to back-and-forth, so what do you say?"[/color]

She waited for an answer, knowing that very little time was technically passing in reality, but that what she was doing now was only a case of allowing the act of talking to effectively be a free action.  Raimi felt that she could do this without him, but it would be much easier WITH the S-Man, and alot harder to counteract the sheer speed that he could bring to bear.