Lady Nova would instantly allows herself to act as a source of light, projecting a wide aura of visibility for all combatants to see around her as they continue, as she shouts...

"I cannot keep this up for too long, we need to find another viable source light if we are even going to try and continue this!"

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The light around Talon was dim, far too dim for a normal human to see, but she was far from normal, as Talon's strikes only increase in strength, her lithe form now darting around Sin with every attack, her natural stealth enhancing he effectiveness of her actions as she taunts...

"And yet you rely on aid to fight one. simple. woman...all while neglecting the safety of your friends..." She would smile as she eyes Nova, who's abdomen is showing signs of a wound as she is forced to divert her energized regeneration, to provide light to the area...

TeeKay's manipulations seemed to keep everyone uninterested in the cops, which he took full advantage of. As the song ended with Vincent Price's laugh, most of the cops had been put to sleep, with a select few moved into a formation on the steps. With the lights out, it would be difficult to notice that their feet weren't planted on the ground. Their toes dragged barely on the cement, each of them appearing suspended by strings from their shoulders. The human marionettes collapsed into an awkward pile on the steps as TeeKay's focus turned to a more pressing matter. A sadistic grin crossed his face. Someone was looking for him.

Talon would smirk at that, seeming to enjoy their stalemate as she speaks teasingly...

"Your prowess is remarkable, for a bipolar supernatural blight!" Insults

After the Robot Police drones were sent Isis continued scanning the area using Sin Luna and Samson as her anchors. Isis Ghost and Stitch were all that remained of Sin's old crew the others had left to pursue other endeavors Stitch had already arrived to the location only to see Lady Nova was already healed. Meanwhile sin continued to battle it out with Talon.

"You are as witty as you are beautiful. It's really too bad I may have to bleed you, but what is a little blood between friends. We can stop fighting take the orb and split and leave the fighting to the others"

Lady Nova manages to just deflect the knives thrown by Scarlet with a hastily projected shield, but the exhaustion of the battle is beginning to show, as she turns back to Jutan, not giving up as she sends a single powerful beam of scalding light his way, hoping to blind him if not burn him...

"I don't care who he is, take him down!" She growls

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Suddenly, Talon would pull Sin in for a sword lock, bringing his masked face towards hers as she whispers...

"This isn't a battle, simply a skirmish...all for the tool of a god who desires this very chaos in the first place...this is almost pointless" She would be using her dangerous charm to it's full effect, as she adds...

"Both you and Shepard have an entire team, a family practically, I have no such thing...my allies are dangerous, wildcards...I can't guarantee their safety here despite their skills, there has been enough bloodshed tonight..." She pleads...

"Please, the orb...?"

Permafrost finally finished dealing with the newbie hero who'd been flying along and spied them on the roof just before they had jumped down and had attacked him. Finally getting him frozen to the roof, but not completely encased, Permafrost shifted to his ice wind form and blew down into the battle, rapidly beginning to circle Lady Nova, as he'd heard Scarlet complaining about being able to take here and Rotten Luck was busy with the Frost Giant that had shown up out of nowhere.

As he rapidly circled the light-wielding heroine, he created a miniature Arctic cyclone that encased her, lowering the temperature in the few feet around her to -50 Fahrenheir within just a few seconds. He also began peppering her with hundreds of half-inch long icicles propelled by the windblast, forcing her shield to work overtime to keep them all out. Any that penetrated would barely even scratch her, but their impact would simply add to the chilling effect.

But he could only attack in that form for so long, and he had to eventually break it off and re-solidify, breathing hard for a few seconds. He looked up to see the damage his attack had done to the heroine.

Talon's eyes widen at the sight of a police cruiser rocketing towards them, and responds by kicking Sin out of the way within the space of a second, before evading the impact of the vehicle by outright vaulting over it in a dizzying twist, landing on her feet swiftly, katana extended in her right arm, her head lowered, only the black of the tips of her eye mask visible as she shouts to Teekay, her once honey-sweet voice dripping with malice...

"I should have killed you the second you walked on this operation: MY MISTAKE!" With that, she races toward her former ally at a staggering speed, leaping over another parked car as she fires numerous hypodermic, poison darts filled with the venom of a Taipan from her fur cloaked left bracer, at the betrayer whilst she charges...

His reaction to leap into the air was a trifle slow, and a few darts hit just above his ankle along his boots. Unsuspectingly, he remained in the air, watching Talon land. He attempted to telekinetically hold her onto the pavement. "There's more ways than one to skin your cat-hide!"

"You may find me an unrelenting pain in your side just yet!" He mocked back, nihilistic about the impending poison that would knock him out. He dropped down to where she was rooted and locked eyes with her. He brought his hands over his head to Lift her into the air. The Lift wasn't the main attack, but the slam back into the ground once he dropped her would make quite the Impact!

As the battle Continued Shepherd's clone, Sin's original body appeared with Isis and Ghost following behind.. the clones of Talon disappeared as Sin began to absorb the energy that created the Talon clones and his body back into Shepherd's body. He looked at Ron and he went and grabbed him then teleported Ron and Himself to the roof of the museum.

"Hey Bones I won't be much use to you like this. I need to use some of the magical energy from the orb to fix this and separate myself and Shepherd once more before the big guy gets up here."

Talon would grin before outright chuckling as she is lifted, revealing the venom's nature before being slammed...

"Did I forget to mention that paralysis sets in not too long after, or respiratory failure?" After being effectively body slam, she would rest in the crater for several seconds, before lifting her head, her previously hidden regeneration finally revealed as her grazed face quickly heals, smiling wide as the rest of her injuries follow suit, the impact still painful and jarring, but her wounds disappearing as she coos...

"Now, that wasn't very nice..." With that, she suddenly leaps forward, spinning in the air before aiming to land on Teekay's shoulders, hoping to bring him down in what's known as a Thai choke, twisting her legs around his neck with staggering speed and force, bring him down in a pin, and suffocate him with unnatural strength betraying her appearance, hoping to speed the flow of the poison by triggering his adrenaline...

The Shepherd clone which was Sin's body had pointed to the roof where Sin and Ron were.

"It's in the roof with Ron and the original Shepherd or as he is now Sin Reaper."

Meanwhile back on the roof Sin reaper inscribed some runes in the area around Ron and the orb a the magical energies of his own body and the orb began to seperate the part of Shepherd's spirit that held Sin Reaper's core and transfered it back to his original body below. As Shepherd's hair and eyes changed back to their original color and the Ghostwalker had been restored. He looked at Ron.

"Ok bud we need to end this fight and quick."

Shepherd held the orb as the illussions started back up but this time Shepherd had placed some runes around himself and Ron meanwhile Sin did the same below around Talon Lady Nova and his allies with their names spelled in aramaic runes. the image that had been manifest were of the creator of the Locust stepping through the rifts with his three sons. they all looked the same. hulking bodies, wide mouth no nose clad in armor they looked like Giants as tall as Jutan. The first being was the Architect clad in some sort of layered armor with blue skin no hair his son Onixion clad in similar armor pointy elfish ears long beard with obsidian skin and a jewel on his forehead. the next was Ragnarock with long spikey hair that looked like the quills of a porcupine grey skin with long bony spikes protruding from his elbows and the final son Armageddon blue skin with stripes like a what you would see in a tiger and long horns on his head wielding a huge battle ax. The locust would bow to them, for eventhough they were mindless creatures, they recognized who were their masters.

"These runes are what are keeping us from seeing the illusions. I have placed them around ourselves and Sin has placed them around he others. Should give us time to escape."

The poison acted quickly, and the added pressure ensured that TeeKay want unconscious before Jutan attempted mass control on everyone. However, TeeKay was not down for long. He was Unrelenting, and rose with a Domination he only tapped in the most intense situations. As he stood and became aware of the invoked monstrosities, he Invoked Panic, projecting an aura of pure fear. He turned to seek the orb, hyper focused on his task.

"I'm on it," he called back to Jutan, still resisting the illusions from the orb. TeeKay suspected he knew the source of the illusions...the orb and Shephed. "By the way, love the suit."

He flew up to the rooftop to chase behind Ghostwalker, hoping to intercept before the orb was unattainable tonight.

TeeKay's lead vanished. Vanished and out of range! After howling in frustration, he flew back to the ice giant, perched near a rain gutter ledge on a nearby building, "they vanished out of my range. What are you?"

"She started it," TeeKay grumbled before he followed behind the car.

Permafrost had bugged out with the rest of the group, having recovered from Lady Nova's stunning attack long enough to toss a small object towards Shepherd. The object had detonated with a PHUT! sound only seconds before the divine warrior had teleported away.

He secreted himself in an alley several blocks from the Museum and pulled a slim backpack from a rusted-out box transformer at the back of the dead-end alley. He took a tablet out of the bag and activated it. The tablet booted up and he immediately began tracking the NanoDots that had been spewed out of the small grenade-like device. Most of them had stayed on the street, but enough of them had been sprayed on Sheperd that he could establish their location.

Whistling a jaunty tune, he slid the tablet into the backpack and shouldered it. Angling his hand downwards, he created an ice slide in front of him and began gliding along it, booking across the city at a fair clip. Once he arrived back at the shop, he entered through the back door again, still whistling jauntily, and looked around.

"All of yeh 'ave got looks on yer faces like we been dealt out of th' game. Guess I 'ave to save th' day again." he said, taking the tablet out, setting it on the table, and activating it's holographic interface. It displayed the city map with the blinking dot on it where Shepherd was located, with the orb.

Talon grins wide to Permafrost and Scarlet, before turning a completely impassive face to Jutan as she speaks...

"It appears Teekay had his own methods in mind at the museum, I had simply arrived to place a tracking device on the orb should complications arise, which they did, as Shepard managed to acquire the orb, and in the process summoned his allies, as we did ours to mobilize against them...that's when the battle royale took place" States matter of factly, before adding...

"I assualted TK when he launched a police cruiser at me during combat against Sin Reaper, believing he had betrayed us...neutralizing the threat before it could rise against us, my mistake" Coldly muses as she twirls a throwing knife in between her fingers in waiting...

When he heard TeeKay's voice, Permafrost cocked his head in that direction. Before turning his body however, he shifted his right arm over from where it had been resting and tapped the hidden button on the inside of his left wrist. He felt the reassuring vibration of the mental dampener as it activated, then turned and smirked at TeeKay.

"It be soundin' t' me like wot we 'ave is a profound lack of communication an' trust in this group. Most 'f that can be layed at yer feet, TeeKay. Yeh 'ave barely communicated wit' us since gettin' 'ired an' some of yer actions 'ave been 'ighly suspect. I fink to alleviate suspiscion, yeh should take this." he said, tossing a small earbud towards TeeKay.

"It's signal is untraceable an' undetectable, an' it's small enough t' be invisible once placed in yer ear. In fact, I fink we should all wear one. They c'n transmit ci'ywide, allowin' us to coordinate from now on." he followed that up by producing a handful of the devices and putting one in his own ear. He then took the last two and offered them to Talon and Scarlet.

Permafrost waited for Jutan, Scarlet, and Talon to finish, then looked back over at TeeKay.

"Ah, but th't's already accounted fer, m'son. If yeh'll place it in yer ear, all yeh 'ave t' do is tap twice 'ere..." he demonstrated by tapping directly in front of his tragus, "...An' it activates an' deactivates quick as a wink."

Permafrost sighed and turned back to his tablet. "I cou' tell yeh th't it is a simple transceiver, but I doubt th't someone as paranoid and distrustful as yeh would believe me. Better t' just show yeh."

He minimized the map of the city and brought up a diagram of the earbud. " 'Ere yeh'll see th't all it's got inside it is a transmitter an' a receiver. Fair 'nough?" he asked, masking his irritation.

Picking up on the hints of irritation, and in the interest of moving on to how to subdue Shepherd, he stuck the tranceiver in his ear. "Cool. This should be quite helpful. So Shepherd...What are our options? Strengths, weaknesses...past encounters?"

"Another fing that needs t' be determined is if th' Museum is goin' t' want t' try t' move th' orb, since it's now obviously 'azardous, or if they'll want t' lock it down until it c'n be analyzed." Permafrost added.

He turned to look at Scarlet. "Goin' "super villain" and assaultin' bases is not me style by any stretch o' th' imagination, luv."

Talon chuckles as soon as Jutan leaves, before turning to Scarlet...

"Are you alright? You took a hit from Lady Nova earlier...and on the subject, what was THAT after Jutan attempted to control her?"

TeeKay wasn't ashamed of what he did, but at least the whole reason for this foray agreed Talon was just as guilty. He smiled inwardly knowing that. "Sidenote, I may have an in to their base, or some base connected to the Titans Legacy. I won't know until tomorrow unless Talon would rather head up the recon."

"Very well th'n, Ms. Scarlet. Wh't I was goin' t' offer was this." he said, stopping on a diagram of an ovoid. Detached from the main diagram of the ovoid was several arrays of tubing and needles with delicate graspers surrounding the needle. Inside the ovoid was a bit of machinery and 4 tubules. "Dependin' on th' nature o' yer concoction, it c'n be giv'n as an intramuscular, intravenous, intraspinal, or even intracranial injection. No more gaggin' down drug or needle sticks t' deal wit'. 'Twould require minor surgery, o' course. Somethin' t' ponder upon." he said.

He walked over to her and held the tablet near her phone, then tapped the diagram. If her phone was not encrypted, she would receive it as a 2D file or a 3D file for phones with holo-displays. He then walked back over to the table and watch as Talon departed. Closing the file with his various devices in it, he brought back up the map of the city with the blinking dot on it. "As f'r Frosty, it's obvious th't th'r c'n be no more big battles. Too much attention. I'm wit' Talon's idea of performin' recon."

"Yeah, I won't know more or if the lead's a dead end until tomorrow. I'll call." TeeKay said, finding no reason to stay at this point. The moment he had exited the shop, he pulled the earpiece out and put it back in his pocket. "Thing may be a GPS, but that's all I care to let it do."