"Im short, I don't want to sink into a swamp." Xan says looking up at Barbara with large expressive eyes.

Barbara nodded
'We'll try to look after you'

Xan nodded and kept close to Barbara.

She adds rope and mini flotation devices to the list

There is a sound that while distant catches Barbara's ears at first, then Millenia's finally Deans then the others.

It is steady repetitive and growing louder.

To Barbara it sounds like any number of organized groups of armored villains or heroes from her world.

To Dean it sounds like marching storm troopers.

Barbara looked around,  both for what was happening,  and for any high ground.
"Heads up, everyone.   Something is happening "

Barbara if she wished could easily shoot up to high ground there were several levels of the Agora and many stairs a healthy amount with convenient guard rails. If she wanted to use an item of her trade.

Barbara bounded up to get a better view

Up the stairs she can see on about the third level a group of well armored and armed goons or police, or army, or something humanoid, several in fact like twenty marching in precision towards the Agora. She then sees a bright flash and with her newly shined brain and time with other heroes she recognizes it as a magic teleport and a woman appears before the armored figures.



The woman is conversing with them and it looks heated.

The woman is gesturing quite a bit when all at once the figures open up on her and start firing energy blasts from their weapons.

They seem to hit this as beautiful as Millenia's dark cloud is terrifying shield of light and designs before the woman which absorbs the shots from the men but the woman is falling back but she calls out in louder then what would be humanly possible, "Warden's I call upon you !"

Barbara was stunned at the scene before her, and tried to make sense of it.
It was obvious that the woman needed help, however,  due to the armed men firing without provocation.   She looked at the others.
"There's a woman there, another warden maybe,  who needs help!!"
Using her grappling hook, she swung over to the woman's aid, throwing a baterang to attempt to disarm some, if not all, of the men.

Several vendors duck for cover some tents are set ablaze by the shots.
Screams of fear can be heard. The woman dodges shots displaying some pretty amazing acrobatic skill. When Barbara from her vantage throws her batarang the men ignore it and it hits some kind of field around one of them but it goes through. Which seems to amaze them as it hits into a power pack causing an explosion several of them men are blown back in the aftermath.

Xantastic is somehow up by Barbara's side she blocks a couple energy blasts with her hammer though there are black marks where it was hit it doesn't look badly damaged. Xan looks determined.

Jill looks to Dean, "Even if I had that gun I don't think I should get involved in that but I will patch people up."

Millenia grows wings and preps to jump looking Deans way, "If you want a lift get over here because this rocket isn't waiting." She gave a wide smile of excitement.

Up in the aftermath of the explosion the men look around scanning the area forgetting about combat almost entirely till they find the Batarang and put it in a hip pouch.

The Woman takes out a pistol by then and starts firing nearly taking out a man with each shot seemingly lethal like with the Batarang there is a field that stops the bullets for a few moments lessening the impact but not enough.

Barbara yelled angrily
"Hey!!!  That's mine!!!"

She swung down to engage the men in hand to hand combat

Barbara is able to swing into one and it hurts just as she suspected they have some kind of force field she gets through it and connects sending the man back into a wall but she also receives a bit of a jolt that stuns her for a moment.

The men closest to her start switching out weapons for what look like small thin technological clubs. She has shaken off the stun by then.

Barbara throws down a smoke bomb

  Dean nods to Jill. "Take cover until it's safe.  I'll be back."

  The big man had been in firefights before.  He had run up a line of machine gun fire in the desert on more than one occasion, and had been quick and lucky enough to have never taken wounds.  His Kevlar had been toast afterward, but he had come through unscathed somehow.  He had no idea why.

  Taking his quickest line into the fray, Dean starts moving fast and direct.  He needed to get close, inside their ranks, hand-to-hand.

Seeing Dean run towards the fray and not take her offer of flight Millenia looks confused a moment but used to chaos more then she most she shrugged and leapt into the air to fly up.

Dean is able to make his way through obstacles or around them easy enough as almost all people have taken cover. As he takes a turn on the stair he sees Barbara about to get swarmed then WHOOMF there is a purplish smoke where she had been and it quickly fills the area making it hard to see.

Dean arrives somehow before Millenia. There is a woman up there who looks at him she has a very fancy looking pistol. "You here to help ?"

She then looks past Dean and her optimistic look is replaced with exasperation.
"Millenia..."

  "Yup."  It was a simple enough reply, and he charges into the squad without hesitation, swinging hard.

Barbara you can sense Dean coming in the billowing smoke you have trained yourself to fight in. The men not so much even so they are moving more effectively then normal people would and seem to be gathering their fallen though they don't seem to be able to sense you they do seem to be able to sense each other.

Dean you occasionally see motion in the smoke it does remind you of some of your fighting during wartime. In fact it is due your knowledge of Barbara being in here and your training that you avoid clocking your young new friend. Then you see a glimpse of someone in armor you connect and though you feel a jolt your able to shrug it off mostly and the man after the crunching sound of contact sails off into the smoke.

A bit more movement and Dean feels his foot contact something a glance and by the feel of it a grenade ?

  “Sunuvabi...”

  He might have been able to kick it somewhere away, but no telling where it would land.  There were civilians around here, including Jill.  At least she might be able to patch him up.

  Without hesitation he drops, covering the grenade with his torso.  Maybe somewhere it’d count for something, he thinks as he clenched his teeth and waits for it.

There is a loud Whumpfff sound and though Dean thought there might have been an explosion it was a pathetic one. Then Dean rose about a foot in the air as he was buffeted by strong winds.
A vortex that blows the smoke about though not as much as it would have with Dean above it.
No damage from it but very disorienting.

Though for the moment Dean has a clear view of peoples shoes, and boots including Barbara's.

The arguing discussion between the woman and Millenia stopped as the smoke billowed out their way.

Barbara could see better now as the smoke has lightened up some. She can feel the strong winds from where Dean seems to be floating above the floor.

Barbara goes full tilt, trying to use her marital arts skills to take out the men under the cover of smoke

Each strike is a bit stunning to Barbara and after taking out four attackers she can hear her heartbeat in her ears and her body is shaking as if she had been tazed.


Dean the wind stops and you land with a thump on the grenade.


From the direction of the women. Millenia calls out, "Oh technology, I love technology so much can go wrong."

Dean hears one of the men curse, "Umbra user light her up, light her up."

A blaze of fire comes from the dissipating smoke. Puncturing one of Millenia's wings causing her to drop to the ground. In a way good as a hail of other fire misses where she had been.

Dean you can see only about ten men left.

  Getting his feet back under him, Dean charges.  He puts everything into his swings.  As his DI used to say, he wasn’t simply punching the man in front of him, but through him to hit the guy behind him.

One, two, three men down bleeding and some scorch marks from shocks on Deans sleeves.
Two rifles  get turned in Dean's direction but they seem to lock up and his arm goes through a man and the other is sent back colliding with a wall.

The remaining men break and run from death on two legs and seemingly failing equipment.

Barbara feels her limbs coming back under her control again.

Since hand to hand combat was getting dangerous,  Barbara switched to throwing baterangs to stun people