[h3][u][i][b]Still One Mile Up[/b][/i][/u][/h3]

The guy was a Super, alright.  She didn't follow the lives of people like that in the comics nearly as much, but he had the strength, the flight, [i]and[/i] the ability to see the inner-workings of this weather machine.  The two of them got to the central structure and he seemed to see right through the place, seeing that there was enough room for a person inside to physically access the core.  This was good.  It meant that their plan didn't have to involve either of them hunting down all over the place for an access panel to try and hotwire this thing from a precarious position.  They could split their efforts and work that much faster on the problem at hand.  Raimi smirked as the Super ripped open a hole for her, stating his intentions as she prepared to drop inside.

[color=silver]"Alright, let's do this."[/color]

As soon as she entered, the field that was accelerating Jon retracted, and everything moved around him at a normal pace.  He could take it, though.  The cold would never bother him, anyway.

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[h3][u][i][b]Inside The Machine...[/b][/i][/u][/h3]

The rip in the weather machine was through outer-plating, some wiring, and heavy insulation, leading the inside to appear smooth with plastics and ceramics lining the floor, walls, and ceiling.  In the center was a thick plexiglass tube surrounded by two metal supported from above and below by metal rods.  Inside the tube was what had to be the power generator...but also the computer [i]and[/i] what looked like a few cameras.  With [i]no warning[/i] at all, Raimi then found out the reason for all the insulation: A built-in security system.  The rings had a series of outlets that fired lasers, or a pinpoint particle beam.  It didn't matter which it was.  The first shot stabbed into her left gauntlet when she reflexively blocked, and would've gone further if she hadn't ducked away.  Amidst the roll, she produced a slow-time field in the chamber and...

[color=silver]"Whoa...  That's not good."[/color]

The machine was still firing at her, and even at a slow speed, several more beams of light were moving in her direction.  They weren't less harmful just because they were slower, only easier to avoid.  Raimi moved around the room and found that the rings were meant for an omni-directional coverage.  As soon as her image resolved on camera to this thing, it would open fire from whatever laser port on the rings happened to be facing her.  Not a terrible problem, except for one thing.  She couldn't maintain this field for too long.  There was a rumble in the floor that indicated the physics of the room were clashing with the outside.  If the Super was moving the machine now, it meant that the room was trying to stay in place from the effects of slow time.  And while she could just envelope herself in faster time instead, this thing was going to chew itself to bits with the lasers.  Even with the insulation, the room was starting to take on a [i]burnt[/i] quality, meaning the machine would eventually damage itself, at some point.  

Quickly, she moved closer, stepping on the bottom ring and grasping the upper ring from its underside, so she could pull back while being out of the line of fire.  Lasers fired rapidly, but with a grunt of effort, her claws pulled off a chunk of the ring.  She did this with the lower one as well, feeling immediate heat from lasers going off close to her feet as another chunk came off in her hands.  Both times, the electro-shocks in her gauntlets were going off, and it fried the wiring inside.  Raimi fully-expected to have to do that [i]after[/i] pulling off parts of the rings, but apparently not. Of course, the reason for [i]that[/i] was something a little more [i]Weather Wizard[/i].  Arcs of electricity now fired off of the two rings, in seemingly random directions before delivering a shock directly to her noggin!

[color=silver]"Hot, hot, [i]HOT![/i]"[/color]

The inside of her helmet was also insulated, but of course the [i]heat[/i] would transfer, and that made Raimi back the hell away.  This room was now like one of those leaded glass balls with arcing volts of electricty inside.  The two rings were spitting electricty all over the place, preventing her from getting near.  She gritted her teeth at this.  Even in slow motion, this was bad, and the room was starting to rumble quite badly.

[i][color=silver]Dammit, what do I do?  The thing might burn itself out eventually, but that'll take too long!  And even if I rigged up an acceleration that WOULDN'T hit me with more energy than my body has room for, the effect would DEFINITELY tear this place apart way too soon!  God, if I could just get it to short itself out...  Wait...[/color][/i]

This weather man had done a pretty good job insulating the place, but the one thing he couldn't do that with was his own security measures, and it was a duel system, above and below.  The bolts above and below were repelling one another, but if she completed the circuit...  Well, one removal of her damaged gauntlet later, there was a clawed metal hand thrown between the two rings, a HUGE volt reaction as the energies collided violently, and something backfiring above and below.  Time returned to normal, though Raimi now prepared to accelerate [i]herself[/i] to deliver enough force to break the tube from its housing - or break it off - and snap the core from its connected systems.  In a minute, Jon would find the machine no longer rotating outside, and things beginning to calm down.