Nyght sighed, but didn't budge. Ostensibly 'watching the game', she resolved to wait a bit longer in the shade of the van, to see if her suspicions bore fruit - or if she was just overreacting.

Nyght watched as he left the van and walked away, unaware of what he had done inside. She had no idea at all what should or shouldn't be running inside a TV News-van, but it occurred to her that the news-station might be a help. Fishing her cellphone out, she dialed for Directory assistance and asked to be put through to the local news station, intending to ask if they could put her through to the tech who'd left so precipitously.

It took a moment for Millie to don most of the contents of the case, the exception being for Marianne, who took the case afterwards. Clad in lab coat, safety goggles, utility belt, and jet pack, Tinker Belle walked casually up to the van. Pulling out a chemscanner, she checked for explosives.

Meanwhile, Marianne spoke into a dedicated com from the briefcase, loud enough for Lexi to hear. "There's a timer. Ten seconds left." She picked up the twins and moved to the far side of the rise from the van. Lexi sprinted to between the van and the group of civilians nearest to it, and extended her force field.

Abandoning casualness, Tinker Belle opened the door and sought the device with the timer...

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The dial hit zero,a combination of custom made chemicals started to fuse ,the outer casing of the disk peeled away as the temperature started to rise at a dangerously high rate,a massive explosion was created only to be repelled inward and up because of the field that surrounded it, blowing a hole clear through the top of the van ,a heavy grey gas breached the top of the van ,it was a cocktail of homemade chemicals as well blistering lungs and blindness a direct effect from the deadly gas that spilled from the van like a volcano ,and drew close to the crowd of people ,Jorortis never uncrossing his large arms as he stood there.

Ron could have teleported the van but that was not possible with Nightshade and Tinklebell there. So when the top of the van blew open like a volcano emitting some type of gas he opened the portal near the top so the supply of new gasses went somewhere out in the bay. "HEY THOSE THAT COULD MANIPULATE ICE! SEE OF YOU CAN COOL THOSE GASES INTO LIQUID OR EVEN ICE AS WELL!"

Lady Nova immediately springs into action as the explosion is semi contained and fully realized, generating a shimmering dome of cosmic golden energy over the crowds of panicking people, gaining strength in part due to working with Shepard's own shields. Occupied and without a way to engage their enemy unless she sacrificed their safety, she calls out.

"Check for anyone caught in the explosion! And someone stop him!" She emphasizes the last part towards Jatoris with a palpable malice.

Seeing as Roxicon and Blue have the gas contained and the crowds migrated to a safety zone, Lady Nova drops her shield and gathers her energy into her palms before releasing it into a blinding beam of concussive force intending to launch him slightly into Rotten's kick.

Eyeing him for a moment, she offers a similar sentiment.

"What could someone offer you to harm so many innocent people? Your hired help, a pawn."

Jorortis used what little time he had to get away and exploded his legs off of the ground sending his large frame high into the air ,the power of his jump allowed for him to cross the length of 400 yards in a single bound ,he landed atop a roof of a building ,almost caveing it in, he turned and stared at the people ready to attack him ,his arms refolding again as he looked at them ,no emotion being showed under in mask.

Lady Nova wastes no time in converging with her allies to assault the cyborg behemoth, streaking through the sky to rest floating just above Shepard, before launching a volley of six concussive energy discs at him, hoping to wear him down after Whipcrack reaches him. She then implores in the midst of her attack...

"What was your goal here?! That was stupidly brazen given the area...unless it's a distraction?!" Theorizes

Nyght needed no encouragement to avoid inhaling, but couldn’t say so, as that would have required inhaling.

Instead, she nodded briskly to Tinker Belle, and then - seeing Ron rush Jorortis, and Jorotis spring to the top of a building, Nyght sprinted toward the building with unnatural swiftness and sprang up the side of it to land on a flanking rooftop corner from the other gathering Heros, readying a mental “punch” which she hoped would at the very least give Jorotis pause, if the big man resisted the others.

A man clad in a black, open on the front, trench coat, black formal pants, dark purple shirt, which was visible due to his open trench coat, a pair of black gloves and a pair of black business shoes arrived from a nearby dark alley. Civilian screams were heard however, due to one oddity: the man's head was replaced by a floating skull set ablaze by an eerie, light blue flame. As he noticed the clash of titans on the rooftop of a building, he floated upwards and pocketed his gloved hands into his trench coat. He glanced over the battle and the various heroes, currently not choosing to act, but simply floating mid-air.

Shepherd sensed the new arrival as he turned his attention to the ghostly looking figure. his eyes glowing intensly and blazing with a similar blue flame. he wondered whether the new arrival was here to help or was he another villain.

With his body temperature continuing to rise ,the forces inside of his very being was beginning to stir, as he was insulted by Whiprack. he lay there atop a pile of rubble ,the energy had to get out ,by any means ,and it traveled through his core ,his circuitry and outer skin and blasted out in the form of bright red heat ,anything in a 60 foot radius was either melted or was sent flying outwards with a destructive and powerful wave of debris and red energy.

Nyght didn't know if the newcomer was a threat, but it was a sure bet the big guy who'd just dropped down into the building was.

As the blast of heat rocked the floor below, she moved to the edge of the roof-top cave-in and peered down and in. She winced from the heat, but did her best to target Jorortis and attempted to stun him with a focused mental blast.

Rotten jumped down into the hole landing on the glowing rubble his flesh starting scorching by the heat. "Ya heard of the Pits? It's an underground fight club, I was champion." With that Rotten charge throwing a fake right then a Left uppercut to Jorortis's jaw.

Shepherd phase shifted letting the debri pass through his incorporal form before solidifying as the Ghostwalker launched the cross blades at the cyborg. the energy blades spun as they reached their target.

"Brighid bless!" cursed Tinker Belle as her target fell through the roof. She flew over to directly above, trying to get a clear shot. She noted the man with the flaming head, and the debris that flew through him, but as long as he wasn't helping the cyborg terrorist, or attacking anyone she was fairly sure weren't villains, she would let him be. As she came up over the hole, she looked down. [font=lucida bright]AIko[/font] had jumped down into the hole, her force field protecting her from the debris and the heat.

[font=lucida bright]AIko's[/font] clothing was burnt anywhere that it hadn't been skin-tight, and there were a few tears in her plastiskin. But she jumped down and played her ace: four megawatt-seconds poured through a specially designed transmitter in her skull, generating an EMP burst focused on the cyborg's torso. Only her own shielding protected her comm gear and other components from being fried. Her batteries drained, the fusion cells in her arms and legs went to full output, and her reserve coolant system started pouring water out though her scalp...

Marianne noticed the new flying person just before the explosion, and took a photo with her phone for future reference. Then she led the twins over to the Titan Taco and placed an order for lunch.

The whisper in Jorortis' head spoke up again to answer his question:"Chaos, my friend, chaos. You seem to spark it quite nicely."

Edit: I didn't notice that someone photographed Faceless at first so i'll add it here: The photo would only show the flying clothes, his skull was nowhere to be found in it.

Shepherd teleported and appeared behind him as his fists began to crackle wit lightning while The Ghostwalker focused his energy to his fists and hit him with an open palm to the back.

Rotten staggered back from the blow "Nowt bad." He then charged forward and instead of a punch he drove a knee to his gut. Those that know Ron would note the slurred speech the heat and damage was draining him.

With Jorortis' finishing word 'help', both him and Faceless would light up in eerie blue flames, disappearing in less than a second. Jorortis' body would leave a glowing pile of eerie ashes behind, while Faceless' did not. Jorortis would suddenly realize he was standing somewhere on the edge of the city in a dark alley. The whisper spoke again:"I will be watching you and interfering if needed." Then Jorortis would feel the presence in his head disappearing and the whispers no longer there.

[font=lucida Bright]AIko's[/font] supply of cooling water was almost gone when the cyborg vanished, leaving only ashes. She grabbed Shepherd and Rotten Luck, the two nearest heroes, and leaped out of the pile of rubble.

Lady Nova would have attempted to speak as he falls through the roof.

"Well I'm sorry I didn't estimate his weight-" She would be sent flying back by the force of the blast, managing to weather the heat amidst being propelled upward, dazed. By the time she recovered, he was already spirited away from the scene by Faceless.

With that done, the fight over, she lowered herself to the ground slowly as she surveys the damage done, internally frustrated as she makes her way to her allies.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid...and I don't suppose we have any idea who that demented candle was?" States hardly.

Ron was drooling really drooling and looking at AIko. "Yar smmmell wrrong. Mee eatt not." He then staggered for the now abandoned food venders ignoring anything but the offered food.

Lady Nova sighs as she surveys the damage wrecked, simply nodding at Whipcrack's statement as she shakes off her residual anger and moves to help move along the shaken civilians back to the fairgrounds. However, when she heard her named being yelled so loudly and rather jubilantly, her face lights up much like her namesake as she strides over to the abforementioned child with a dazzling smile.

"I'm so sorry about all that trouble, it's alright now, I promise. So did someone call?" She grins as she assures and kneels by the said girl.

Shepherd looked at Lady Nova, Rotten luck and whipcrack. He then looked at the little boy. He then looked at Roxicon.

'Can you take a picture of me, Rotten, Nova and Whipcrack with the boy"

The building's occupants had apparently paid attention to fire drills, and evacuated in an orderly fashion all on their own. Nyght hiked up to the upper level anyway, just to be sure, and did find an elderly woman hobbling toward the stairwell with a cane and a shoulder bag that could well have housed a bowling ball. "Good lord, what happened to you?" the woman exclaimed, catching sight of Nyght.

"There was an explosion," Nyght began.

"I already know that! I can't believe that everybody just dashed off like that, without even backing up their files!" the woman grumbled, shoving a flashdrive into the depths of her bag as she kept moving briskly toward the stairwell, cane thumping out a staccato beat against the ominous groans of the ceiling above them.. "Are you some Superhero?"

"Um... well, yes Ma'am, that's why Ah'm heah, to help you down and out befoah anythin' worse happens." Nyght gamely offered the woman an arm, and got a bit of a glare instead.

"Looks like you need this cane more than I do," the woman huffed as they started down the stairwell.

"Ah'm OK, really."

"Don't be silly, you've got the worst sunburn I've seen in ages. You need to get that looked at!"

"Yes, Ma'am," Nyght promised meekly, as she escorted the woman the rest of the way down and out.

Once her charge was safely out and away from the building, Nyght excused herself and headed off toward the gathered Heroes and fans at the other end of the field, hood once more securely pulled up over her head. Her limp gradually began to ease as she moved, and had vanished by the time she caught up to the other Heroes, although the ‘sunburn’ was going to take a good bit longer to heal, she knew. Fortunately, it looked as though the other Heroes injured seemed to be doing OK now. And the enthusiasm of the kids crowding around them brought a smile.

She looked around to see who might have a moment to speak with her. With the kids and the crowds, it might take a bit, she thought, but Nyght very much wanted to learn if any of them had recognized the bomber or had any idea what he had really wanted.

Seeking out a meager scrap of shade on the side of the field’s bleachers, she wrapped her bedraggled cape a bit more securely, and settled to wait till one of them might be free.

"Not a problem, pilgrim." Marianne handed him the bag with the burritos next, then offered an iced tea.

As the photo session continued, Marianne tried to keep herself and the twins out of the pictures, but it was quickly apparent that it was a lost cause. Too many had seen her and the twins with Tinker Belle and [font=lucida bright]AIko[/font] before the fight. Ah, well, at lest no one had recognized her as the Duchess. Yet.

Nyght smiled in return, and dropped to one knee to speak to the young girl. "Hello theah, Shugah, nice to meet you." She offered a gloved hand to the child. "Are you enjoyin' the day so far?"

Nyght looked startled by the request. "Um... mah costume's kind of tore up, Shugah. Ah'm glad to take one with you, but are you shoah you wouldn't ratheh have one with some of the otheh Heroes?"

Fortunately, [font=lucida bright]Aiko's[/font] force field had protected more than enough of her clothing to leave her at a T-for-teen rating. So neither of her mothers objected to pictures, after a quick cleaning of soot from her face, though Marianne seemed to have some reservations.

Nyght's smile became a little wry, but she rose and held out her hand to the little girl. "And heah, Ah thought you weah just a big fan of purple. Well, Shugah, let's go get you a picture." As they began to walk toward the epicenter of the Heroes and fans, Nyght dipped her head in thanks to Blue for the inclusion.

The all-too familiar, generic sound of a teleport splitting the air ripped through the fairgrounds just above the Ferris wheel. The tall rhombus opening split wider, revealing an black-oily interior. A nothingness reflecting light away from entry. The figure which stepped out could have been human, or at least partially, but it was also accurate to think it looked like a monster. It stood upright, had two arms, and two legs, but it sported a spiked tail, and digitigrade legs, like the hind legs of a hound. Large claws tipped it's hands and feet, and slick scales covered it's body. Along it's form were what looked like tiger stripes, however, they pulsed an umbral violet in sync with it's breath. Opaque Crystaline protrusions extended from it's back, and it's lower jaw almost seemed to be entirely crystalized. Several hardened plates protectsit's abdomen over what would be a human's pectoral and abdominal muscles. Perhaps it's anatomy was derivative of human physiology? A series of horns, or spikes gave this creature a decorative crown, also pulsing to it's breath. Was this a violent abomination? Or... an emissary from somewhere afar? Who's to say.

The creature wore no clothing: but it had no apparent genitalia to display indecency. As this world's gravity took hold of the creature's 8 foot tall form, he was sent down on top of one of the ferris wheel carriages with a thump, and the sound of cheap metal suddenly giving way under nearly 500 pounds of weight. As the wheel-ride began to move, the creature's eyes widened, and leapt into another portal, appearing on top of another Ferris wheel carriage which now sat at the highest point. This teleporter in the very least had good control of it's movements. It's soft landing in contrast to it's uncaring arrival was proof to that. The operator quickly stopped the ride with the emergency lever and started fuddling with his radio. A simple police officer raised his smartphone and opened up an app, then took a quick snapshot of the creature's face. A spinning wheel meant the app was searching, and then a red X appeared on his screen. "Well, he ain't doing much right now, But whoever or whatever he is, he ain't a registered super."

The creature's eyes scanned over the crowds of gawking individuals and seemed to be thinking. It slowly rose and stood upright again, pondering where this was. But like the thoughts were scattered, and hard to come by. Off in some direction there were plumes of smoke, and the obvious damage to a structure. It seemed familiar, but in a way this thing couldn't place. A cluster of creatures were the center of attention for several lesser creatures over in some direction. The creature couldn't help but stare at them. Why were they special?

"That or something mystical. Worth a shot it hasn't done anything yet." He looked to the officer "might want to guide the civilians away just in case. We already had one surprise today."

A clearing started to form in the area around the foreigner. People were slowly pushed away with "awwws..." from little kids, and nervous thankyous from parents. One or two muttered something along the lines of "There's always gotta be a villain to ruin a hero day..." A reporter or two showed up after just briefly covering the scuffle with the cyborg earlier in an attempt to get the first scoop on the unregistered super. They even started spurting out premptive names to try to beat the headlines. "Standing hear live at the appearance of a new Super to Titan City! We don't know who he is or where he came from, but he's here now! What will this Warp-Beast, this Jumping-Lizard, this Creature from the Void do next! Brought to you first by channel 12!" The scattering crowds did garner the creature's attention, and in a brief moment, it leapt from atop the ferris wheel and landed on the packed dirt ground. Deep footprints marked where it landed, but the creature seemed mostly un-phased by the impact of the fall. Nothing too special in a city where a few people could kick a car into orbit... An abandoned picnic table was decorated with what could have been called food, became the creature's focus. Hotdogs, cotton candy, popcorn, fried dough, staple fair foods. All giving off pungent smells that mixed in the most bizarre of ways.

The camera crew backed off just a little bit, relying more on their zoom lens than proximity now that the crew and the creature were on the same elevation. The reporter became silent for a moment, then began whispering. "It seems this visitor is now observing our simply fairgrounds food. If he goes for the popcorn, then perhaps he won't crave human flesh after all-" The creature glanced up at the reporter briefly. She stopped talking and left him to his curious behavior.

Shepherd looked at this new creature that arrived as Whpcrack approached it.

Lady Nova moves to stand beside Whipcrack as she greets the creature, formally.

"And I am Lady Nova, a heroine of Titan City and the current bearer of the Cosmic Heart, and emissary of the Solarians within Sector 2313. We welcome you with open arms to Earth."