Eye-Catching

[Hannah Murphy]

As Starbolt's blast streaks towards Taliyah, it's intercepted by another blast of energy.

A huge wolf has made it's way to the battle. And it does not look happy. A deep growl fills it's throat as red energy crackles between it's jaws.

[Rachel O'Brien]

Rachel ran up, armed with a plasma rifle and already reaching towards Smasher's mind as she started firing.

[Zero]

A prone Shi'ar commando starts to stand up, holding a rifle.

With a smirk, it takes aim at Manta and fires.

[Samantha McManus]

"Have a taste of the fear you inspired when last you came," Ms. McManus said, lancing at Manta's mind with a quite vivid memory of the collective fear she'd been bombarded with when the Guard had nearly demolished the Institute.

[Genevieve Winchester]

As Tommy moves to flank, large metallic spheres rise around him. Each the size of a grown man's fist, they move to intercept any attacks towards him.

From the ground, Gen smirks at him. Magnetic energy crackling around her.

[Janice Gilbertson]

"I don't care if she's your bloody goddess of death, she's my friend!" Captain Britain shouted as she charged Arc.

[Byrna Cooper]

manta would find that not only was she dealing with an incoming brass humanoid and a powerfully angry psychic, but several metal spheres began exploding next to her, with disorienting loudness.

[Hedera Araliac]

"You are interrupting my slumber," a quiet voice says, rising from the ground in a sea of vines and flowers, "This is my place now and you lot do not belong here."

Vines lash out, attacking Oracle.

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

Valdis closed a bit of the distance, then punched at the air again, sending a shockwave toward Starbolt.

[Onyx]

Onyx appears out of a shadow behind Plutonia, without a word she attempts to put the member of the guard in a sleeper hold.

[Eric Osgood]

"Dumbasses, the whole lot o' ya!"

A blazing blur appeared, heading directly for smasher and unleashing a torrent of punches.

[Chloe Grant]

A angry ball of dinosaur fury launched herself at Neutron.

[Robert West]

Rob floats down from the roof of the school, the flight ring glowing faintly.

"You would think you would have all learned this lesson by now," Rob says, raising a small copper colored staff in the air that was tipped with glass bulb.

As he did, a bolt of lightning seemed to come out of the sky, heading straight towards Gladiator.

[Brett Wakely]

Three Bretts, meanwhile, launched themselves with reckless abandon at Smasher; two more stayed put.

[Cassandra Reyes]

"Idiot people attacking this idiot school," Cass says with a grumble, grabbing the bumper of Bobby's van.

With a yell, she launches it blindly into the fray.

[Tommy More]

Tommy let a burst of flame head for Manta.

[Jake]

jake turned really solid and charged at Starbolt, throwing a punch as he wondered where the hell Coby was.

[Will Stanton]

Will backed Chloe up, lunging himself at Neutron.

[Svetlana Zaytsev]

Several black lines slash themselves at Smasher.

"You will be defeating us?" Lana says, "Is alien comedy, yes?"

[Melody Martens]

"Oh what the flying FUCK?!" Melody yelled, sprinting onto the quad. She'd been nearly halfway across London when she got notice that things were happening, and traffic was at nearly a standstill. She'd been lucky to find pretty much the craziest cabbie in Britain, tipped him insanely well, and ran like hell.

Bombs flared to life in her hands and she flung them at the closest combatants she could find without taking out any of her allies.

[Stan Bowen]

Stan stood off to the side, his hands glowing and distributing metal toughness as needed to the large assembly, but he abstained from jumping into the fight

[Becky Badby]

"You lot of tossers want a bite to eat, 'eh?" Becky says, "Try 'is on fer size."

Becky lashes out at Arc with her telepathic abilities, focusing on creating images of intense fear and panic.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

Stephanie charged into the quad, shifting as she went, her work clothes from a coffee shop shredding to reveal the werewolf within. She snarled and launched herself into the fray, landing near Murph and looking for a distracted enemy to tag team.

[Lei Heng]

Lei Heng followed after Claire, running interference and stopping any errant attacks with some sort of strange barrier focused around a bracelet she was wearing.

[Salma Tournier]

Salma's eyepiece went crazy once Cal, Taliyah and Eric jumped into the fight. Once she saw the free-for-all with her own eyes, part of her wanted to flee from the madness, but part of her couldn't, not with Cal there. Conflicted, she just stayed back and watched for now, wishing she was better in a fight than she was. As it was, she would probably just be in the way if she jumped into the fray.

[Edward Carver]

A huge black dog charges Fang, it's master running alongside it with a Askani battle staff.

[Trev Anderson]

Trev was NOT in shape for this shit. He was red-faced, covered in sweat, and leaned against a tree a good distance away from the fray for most of the gathering of forces. He watched with nervous anticipation as he gathered his strength back, and once punches--and arrows, energy blasts, and fangs--started flying, he knew he had to suck it up and just get in there to see if he could still fight back. Though he mostly wanted to piss himself from fear. He'd read about the Shiar, and he knew they packed serious firepower.

Trev trudged into the fray, took a deep breath a screamed, shockwaves blurring the air in front of him and towards the nearest alien.

"GET THE HELL OFF OUR PLANET"

[Alyson Gregory]

Alyson stepped out of the shadow behind Onyx, ready to back her up.

[Jane Doe]

Jane was staying in hiding, watching the battle without participating.

And then she spotted Will.

Her eyes widened and with a sudden scream she ran into the fight, attacking Neutron as well in a savage fury.

[Madison West]

A red dot appears on Manta's forehead. Then there's a shot.

From the roof, Madison holds what appears to be an anti-tank rifle. Using it to snipe at the Guard.

[Derek Scott]

Derek was hauling a trauma kit as he and the other medically inclined got ready to do their thing.

[Daniel Uriel]

Shitshitshitshitshitsyncsyncsyncsync...

There was a flare of heat, and a smirk of satisfaction on Daniel's face as he was punched across the quad, creating another crater on the other side of it.

[Michael Asters]

"Big mistake, Kallark," Cassiel growled, rising off the ground in a blue nimbus of energy as his psychic profile flared, far stronger than he'd had reason to display yet this year. "You should have never come back... and you should never have attacked this school again."

He thrust out his hand, and along with his telekinetic strike, a psychic bolt struck at the main weakness of Gladiator's race: Doubt. Fear. Self-loathing. He tapped into the darkest corners of his mind, all of the horrors that he hid away from the light that he'd taken in over the years, and armed himself for the battle of his life.

[Gladiator]

"You shouldn't have put a petty grudge ahead of the fate of stars 'Cassiel,'" Gladiator said as he took to the air after his opponent.

Gazing into his mind was like staring at the sun. Such righteous fury, the knowledge that entire planets counted on him, and the nigh-unshakable belief that he was right burned brightly. He spun as the telekinetic strike glanced off his shoulder, but was soon righted again and barreling at Cassiel. The telepathic attack that accompanied was finding some purchase, but the force of Gladiator's faith in his cause was staggering, and wasn't going down so easily.

[Starbolt]

Starbolt was staggered, first by Valdis' shockwave, then by Jake's punch. Jake would find however that Starbolt's skin burned to touch, and the guardsman opened his mouth and breathed a gout of flame at him.

[Manta]

Manta's flight altered as the heat of the gunfire registered before the actual gunfire, sweeping clear of the impending explosions. She wove so that Ryan's blast missed, shooting across Tommy's path instead. A burst of energy dazzled her attackers as she rolled in midair, siezing Bobby and rolling under him to hurl him at Zero, through the explosions Bear's projectiles set off. "We are here for the safety of countless worlds!" she stated, rocked by Sam's mental attack, but retreating into instinctual movements. "We protect the galaxy for the good of all!"

[Jake]

Jake instinctually drew back from the burning skin of Starbolt, before covering his head with his arms and cranking up the density of his body even more.

[Neutron]

Neutron gave a loud battle cry as he started wrestling with John, countered by the giant lizard's intense strength, but able to use his experience to lever him into a throw, angled at Will. A comparatively slow parry came, trying to fend off the dinosaur, but Chloe would find his skin too dense to penetrate with her claws or teeth. He gave a backward glance when he felt Jane's punches hit him... then turned his attention back to the dinosaur.

[Chloe Grant]

When Chloe realized that her claws and teeth couldn't hurt him, she leaped away, heading for a more squishable target.

[Bobby Bowen]

"Woah!" bobby was thrown, but he quickly reached out with his arms, stretching them and attempting to latch back onto the flying enemy.

"Not so easy to deal with me, lady!"