Icepick wasn't sure what to make of....that display. So he looked away and kept on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary.

  Darren admitted "It felt really, really weird.  But, I had to try and help.  That creep was gonna fry you, and. . . . I couldn't let him do that.  I couldn't.  I . . . I love you."  His voice broke on the soft, whispered last three words, and his cheeks colored a  bit.

"Darren, I, I love you too I thought " The costume fades and soon Excelsior is back to Bill who wraps his arms around Darren.  "I thought I lost you forever" He says throuch sobs as tears stream down his cheeks.

  Darren held him tightly, and said softly "I seem to be hard to get rid of.  So, I'm gonna stick real close.  I finally got myself put . . . put together, I guess, in the city water supply.  Talk about your weird feelings, get filtered!"

Bill didn't want to let go. "I- I'm so glad your back, I I din't know what to do without you..."

  Outside, a force slammed into the earth, making the entire building shake.  What remained of a crumpled car in a crater in the parking lot still smoked.  Several windows had shattered when the building shook, and they heard a weirdly familiar voice call "Hey boys, time to come out and play."

Icepick turned towards the "new girl".

"Um guys..we have a plan for this, right?"

And most everyone could feel the temperature start to drop...

Painter sighed, "Great, just what we need, a distraction. Do you guys think you can handle her? I'll head on in, make sure LeCarde isn't stealing the Pitiless."

Bill pulled away from Darren Rather reluctantly before turning back to Excelsior. "I say me Andy and Darren can handle it, the two of you should head inside in case the guy shows up. MAking his way out the door and towards the 'new girl' he stops dead in his tracks when he catches sight of her. "Meg is that you?"

  She laughed, and said "Of course I'm me.  Who else would I be?  Except . . . maybe you should be asking me to dance."  She lifted both hands, the large, curving wings, so like Andy's, keeping her aloft, even as two vans (the crews inside bailing in a rush) rose into the sky, then came hurtling back down, one of them smashing into the wall and carving a large hole in the side of the museum.  The other one slammed into the power transformer nearby, sending the whole area into a blackout.

  Icepick turned to follow Ozzy, glancing back as he iced over.  This looked bad . . .

Painter skated back into the museum, headed for the Pitiless. Unfortunately, with the blackout, this was going to be difficult. Hopefully the museum's emergency lights would hold up...

Gritting his teeth Ex takes in a large breath before unelashing a sonci scream in Demon Megs direction.

As Ozzy makes his way through the dark museum He sees a blue light. As he comes closer he sees that the light is coming from the combat Mage from before his hand is glowing and he seems to be looking for something.
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Icepick continued to follow Ozzy, and then slowed up as he saw the blue light...

  The scream clearly didn't feel good at all.  Blood trickled down from both ear, like a macabre necklace stringing itself around her throat, and she made a 'push' motion at him.  Gravity suddenly came from behind him, somewhere along the lines of 20 gravities of it!!

  Fluid winked at Ex, then flattened into a broad puddle beneath her, slowly thickening as she ignored him.

  Andy had gotten outside, then clawed for altitude.  It LOOKED sort of like Meg, if you gave her wings like his, and made her eyes glow red!!  Achieving a good altitude, he paused for a moment and whispered "God help me to do this.  But that isn't Meg as Meg should be!"  And then he dove, lining up his horns, with their wicked, 18 inches of razor-sharpness to impale her.

Ex went fying forward crashing into a nearby building. As Andy Is diving Ex comes flying out of the rubble like a shot straight at demonic Meg.

  Andy slammed into the back of her as Ex slammed into the front, and Ex could hear the bones breaking and tissues tearing, even as Andy's horn-tips had erupted from where the collarbones lay on either side of her neck, a good eight inches sticking out through her all the way.    And she laughed, her eyes still glowing brilliant scarlet.

Seeing that the combat mage hadn't apparently noticed them quite yet, Painter launched a quick barrage of paint-balls at him, aiming to wrap him up and hopefully disable him.

In conjunction with Painter, Icepick also let loose a beam of ice at the combat mage.

The mage turns in the two's direction at the last second diving to the gorund to avoid the attacks. He quickly stands his hands glowing with energy.

In reply to The Possessed (msg #62):

As hitting her didn'tseem to work, and they probably should've figured that out beffore hand, Ex tried restraining her reaching out quickly to grab her in a bear hug using his considerable stranght. "Meg its us, you need to fight this!"

In reply to Justice (msg #65):

OK...on MK2...Sub-Zero had a ground ice move...why didn't I think of that?

"All right magic boy...try THIS on for size!"

And this time Icepick laid out a sheet of ice on the ground around the combat mage, hoping to cause the mage to slip off of his feet.
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