You drop ten stories before you link enough air molecules together in order bonds to fly.  Dodging a chunk of steel the size of VW bug, you rise to the surface, and draw in massive Chaos...

The most obvious source for the amount of Chaos you're wanting is the star, Calamity.

And you suck it in....

Hello. The voice is in your head.  Its neither male nor female, and definitely not human.I am the one the Children of Adam call 'Calamity'.

And pour out Chaos fire, and Steelheart dives off the skyscraper in a shining streak that takes him a hundred yards away where he stops and rotates to face you with a smirk on his face.  A twenty yard wide circle of the tower turns to rust and then falls into the floor below it.

"Hope the norms are getting a good look at this.  It will save problems in the future if they see how invincible I am."

And yet, like an undertone, you hear Steelheart telling himself that he is invincible.  He's killed this guy, and that guy, and ...

So we're both flying?


"Nice to meet you Calamity. How about a little help?"

Another Chaos rust blast. Be prepared to move it with him. If he starts moving right, move it with him.

You're both flying.  He seems to have purple energy swathing his feet which is holding him up.  You of course, are riding an air surfboard.

Do you want to be an Epic? Calamity replies.

You gather in the chaos strongly, let loose, and the wind catches you, and you rip off the top of the Sears Tower with your blast.  Steelheart bellows out his laughter which echoes about the city.  Tauntingly he draws in the purple energy around his hand.

"This is going to hurt."

You can see he is playing with you.  He's so arrogant that he's basically walking in a foot race.

"Uh, yeah!!! What can you do for me?"



Throw up an Order shield. I'm ready for him!!!

Is Steelheart Ordered or Chaos? Maybe I'm going about this all wrong. Maybe I should try to him him with Order instead.

Draw Order from the steel. Try to overpower his Chaos magic with it.

"This....." You hear, and its like a lightning bolt cleaves your skull.  You drop, and then suddenly when you realize you have, you lift back up, surrounded by a ten yard wide field of red lightning.

Steelheart shoots you, and his beam scorches your chest, and you .....eat the pain, and you're whole.

You can't see Order or Chaos, but that doesn't matter because all you want to do is kill.  How dare this idiot stand in your way?  How dare the puny humans below you not bow down to kiss the ground as you walk by?  Don't they know who, don't they know what you are?

You are a High Epic.

OOC) I bet this is how a lot of versers would start to feel after a while. The indigs are just toys for their amusement. The torture, murder, arson etc of indigs would become meaningless to them. I think Magehammer would end up like that, if he's not already.

IC) I'm just gonna fly straight at Steelheart, arms outstretched and give him a hug. Then Flame On, hot enough to melt steel.

You grab him, and he screams in agony as the red lightning surrounds him, and arcs from his mouth and eyes.  You try to Flame On, but Chaos and Order don't seem to exist.  Steelheart thrashes, and accidentally shatters your right shoulder.

It hurts, and then you swallow the pain somehow, and your arm is whole.

OOC: Right now, its worse. You WANT to slaughter.  Good thing the one closest to you, who you really, really want to slaughter is someone who's repeatedly volunteered for vengeance.

"Okay flick stick, we'll do this The Hard Way!!!"

Still holding him with my left hand, start bashing his face with my hammer.

And I'm chanting "DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY!!!!" With every blow I make.

Broken nose. Smash. Scream of pain.
Scrape cheekbone.
He crushes his hand on your arm. Or tries to. Massive charley horse in his forearm.  Look of panic in his eyes as red lightning leaps from them.
He ducks his head right. Miss. He ducks his head left. Miss. He chuckles evilly.
He puts his other hand on your jacket, and fires a pulse burst. It shreds and catches on fire. Your coat is now thoroughly on fire.
Smash in the jaw.
Smash in the cheekbone as he yanks his head back, but not far enough.
You're screaming 'Destroy" and he's screaming "AAAAARGGGGGH" in rage and pain.

Order/Chaos magic isn't working so I can't put my coat out. Strange that it's burning considering it's fireproof..... But I do know even water will burn under the right circumstances, so I'm not contesting it at all. I'm probably only vaguely aware of it, actually. I've been in this kind of rage before. Psychotic rage? Yeah, it's real thing. Been there done that. The rest of the world doesn't really exist, except for the target of your rage.

I can't imagine anything here would be changing my course of action though. So, hammer blow, chanting "DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY!!!!!" with every strike.

DESTROY!!!!

You spin his head to the right, denting his face.

DESTROY!!!!

You flatten his nose again.

DEST...

He grabs you by the jacket, and flings you backwards to smash into a skyscraper.  You are dazed and falling, and over at least a dozen bones are broken.  But it put the fire out.  And you 'eat' the pain, and heal, and then you're flying, but Steelheart is diving straight down toward you....

Wait till he's like 5 feet from me, then free fall. Let him smash into the side of the building, then I come back up. I'm behind him, and he's between me and a building. Or to put it a different way, between a hammer and a hard place.

"DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY!!!!"

You freefall, and he bends into the curve a quarter second later, and grabs your jacket with both hands while you are still dropping.

Gentle push with hammer.
Smack, knocking out  a  tooth.

He tries to crush your arm, but the jacket resists.

Bam. The hammer slips out of your hands...

He grins at you with a chilling and wide smile even as you both race head first toward the ground.

I built an electromagnet just for this. Telepathy Robert and tell him to switch it on. Steelheart should be drawn to it.

But try to fly. Pull away from him. Get a few yards away and blast him with an explosive from my double barrel shotgun.

What happens?

Its....Its not working!...Its not...

And suddenly Steelheart is yanked away from you, and you fling him further with your hands in a quick fumble.  A baffled look on his face, and you are slowing, as the winds hook up together underneath you...

Boom.

The shotgun goes off. You've managed to hit the ground with your shotgun blast.

A purple blast of energy from his hand slams you in the chest....

So the magnet did attract him. Good.

Concentrate on getting to the ground in one piece. Retrieve my hammer and whatnot.

"Robert, help me add Order to that electromagnet. We'll crush him in his own body."

That's the idea. Make the magnet so powerful that it crushes Steelheart's steel body on itself.

You don't have Order.  But you swallow what pain you're feeling, and suddenly your body is whole, and without injury,  and surrounded by a ball of flickers of red lightning.

Robert summons Order, and for a second he glows...Black. Then he passes out.

"You've got a Pain Generating Field around your body.  And it seems if you can bear the pain of healing, you can heal from even major injuries in seconds. And you have a very high pain threshold.  Plus, I think that's telekinetic flight, which suggests the pain and healing are some form of TK as well."  Steelheart pauses.

"You aren't blasting me with the hammer anymore. Odd. Anyways, i think I'll call you Paineater."

And then his right hand starts to glow purple.

"I'll inscribe it on your tombstone."

This is driving Magehammer nuts that he can't use his Order/Chaos magic. He can't figure out what to do now.

Eh screw it. I'll do it, what is expression? Old Fashioned Way.

Pull the AK-47 from the backpack. 100 round drum. AK-47 rounds are light armor piercing by their design. Let's see if he can stand up to that.

"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!!!!"

You spray him, struggling to keep the barrel down, but it seems easier somehow, and each bullet is covered by red lightning.  Over a dozen hit, and hammers him to his knees.

You reset your grip, hang on for dear life, and fire another thirty. He weaves at the last second, and only a few hit him in the legs.

And then you go for another...and he shoots straight up and away...after a few seconds, you realize he's not coming back.  He's boogieing out of there.

You have twenty five bullets left.  And he looked in severe pain, and he had lots of dimples all over his shiny chest.  You've been hit by a couple richochets, but you heal yourself.

However, you still feel rage, and there are people near you, including Robert....

"Where ya going sweetheart????"

I'm going to try to chase Steelheart. I know this rage I'm in all too well. If I can't chase Steelheart, someone innocent will suffer, and I can't have that.

So take what little focus I have left and pursue Steelheart. Hammer in hand. Sling the AK over my shoulder.

I can't seem to throw Order/Chaos, but I can seem to throw red lightning. Try to throw that at him. Still using the hammer as a focal point for it. Throwing it from the hammer.

OOC) Did I ever tell you that, years before you even took over my game, God told me that you would give me the name Magehammer? I had a vision of it years before you even took over my game.

OOC: I'll tell my wife...its interesting.

You soar after him, but he's faster than you.

But just as you're about to descend on the crowd's below like an angry god, you see him land on the roof of a sports stadium.  He's clearly hurt, and he's not looking behind him.

I can't seem to throw Order/Chaos, but I can seem to throw red lightning. Try to throw that at him. Still using the hammer as a focal point for it. Throwing it from the hammer.

Lightning flares out, and Steelheart arcs his back in agony.  He steps up, each step shaking the whole dome like it was jello instead of solid steel.  And then the whole dome goes, cracks spreading faster than you can see, shattering the whole dome with a booming screech that knocks the wind from your lungs, and sets your ears to ringing.

You see Steelheart go down in the midst of this.  He dissapers fromt sight.

As if speaking to a child of single-digit age:

"Hey Steelheart, come here baby."

Follow him. Make sure he's dead.

(Doing Therapy)

Down amongst the chunks of steel roof, you see Steelheart half buried under a block the size of a small battle tank.

You're surrounded by many tons of blocks and metal rubble on all sides as the whole roof of the dome caved in.  The walls are vibrating as well with a singing tension that whines loudly through the air.