Victoria returned the kiss lovingly to Andy. She looked into his eyes.

"All right...here's my thinking...we've got you and I...I'm magic and fisticuffs....you're brawn and badassness...we could probably use a tactician, a sharpshooter, and perhaps a stealth specialist."

  Andy smiled, and said "Meg does magnetics and gravity.  Icepick does ice.  Bill is the Guardian of the planet, and Darren's sorta a water expert."  He kissed her again, and said "Ozzy does magic too."

"So...we'd have a reunion of the New Age Defenders...only a more covert, preemptive approach? I'd be all right with that, as long as they are."

  Andy nodded, and said "Some of the team are more into covert than overt anyway."

"That may suit our overall purpose then," Victoria said as they moved along. "We'll work on a proposal and present it to them."

  Andy nodded, then frowned as he asked "Know anything that leeches the color from basalt?"

"Not sure. But based off of what I've seen here so far, it probably isn't good."

  Andy nodded, and pointed to the wall, then touched it.  The basalt crumbled easily.

Victoria frowned at that, as she wondered what could have caused the basalt to crumble.

  He had her touch the stone, feeling it's weak crumblyness.

Victoria felt the basalt. It crumbled with little effort.

"All right...the creature's probably close. I know we've faced things like this before..just be careful.." Victoria said to Andy and Magda as they continued on.

  Andy nodded, and said softly "Certainly isn't an encouraging thing."

"No it's not...what is encouraging is that you're here with me..."

  He flashed her a smile, and said "You're so sweet to me, Vic."

She flashed him a smile, then returned to the task at hand in tracking the creature down.

  The walls looked like the color shifted strangely, no color and every color and it made Vic realize what it was.  A horror!

Victoria instantly jumped back, telling Andy "Don't let it touch you! It blights everything it touches!"

She then let loose a blast of arcane energy at the horror.

  The color shifted and swirled in the stone, approaching them.

  Andy smiled, and threw a lightning bolt at it, backing up a bit as he did.  The vivid purple energies the same shade as his eyes.

Victoria threw another arcane bolt at it, backing up as Andy did.

  The thing screamed, a thing more felt than heard, and the world twitched.

Victoria could feel the world warp around them. It was a trademark of these creatures. But she pressed her attack, as she launched another arcane bolt at it.

  It screamed again, making the wold twitch again.

Victoria scowled at the creature.

"You will leave now! I banish you!"

She then began to chant in an ancient tongue, a spell taught to her by Adri. Meant to banish the creature back to where it came from.

  Andy used it's distraction to call up a tremendous lightning bolt.   Making it writhe and screech, unable to fight back for a few.