Just Like Any Night (Open)

Looking over Shard's shoulder at the new arrival, Jasper was startled by this thing's appearance. It was humanoid in nature but looked like something from urban legend. "What is that thing? Is it going to hurt us?
Do I need to hurt it back?" He wasn't going to have this new friend he'd made that was so much like himself be hurt because of this thing. He focused on the pieces of glass hanging in the air around Shard, ready to defend the both of them if she wouldn't. Then a huge man fell out of the sky who looked like he was about to unleash a can of whoop-ass on this salamander. Jasper stood in awe as the man planted himself in front of Jasper and Shard shielding them with his menacing stature. He admired the way this man stood up for others at the cost of his own life. He didn't need protecting he found out he could do that himself, but he did appreciate the gesture. "Anthony." he whispered, happy to have such good people who cared about him more than his parents ever had.

Enough was enough. Shard wasn't going to stand here in the street and try to argue with an amateur.  The arrival of an additional person meant that this event was drawing too much attention as is.  Shard felt her power wrap the boy in its embrace as the boy was made of glass and Shard's power afforded her telekinetic control over silicates.   Her own armor lifted with her inside and her and the boy would levitate upwards, away from the green dragon man.

The glass shard hanging in the air swirled into the air after Shard and gathered in a cloud around her. The shards would obscure the two from view and if bullets were fired, one would have to guess at the location of where the two would be.

AAT-08317 turned his head upwards to trace both Shard and Jasper levitate upwards before they were consumed by a cloud of silicate. The assassin simply watched as the rest of the police seemed to stand back in fear, knowing that these shards of glass had wounded and nearly killed officers before.

AAT-08317's attention shifted down toward this 'Anthony' and Dregan. He didn't lift his shotgun, but he made it clear he had the intention to fire if they were to try to do anything. The assassin glanced down toward the Private that stood by his side, as he merely suggested to the officer that they try to intervene with the tip of his head.

The officer complied, as he stepped forward: "Hey! I need everyone here to stop now! We have civilians here! Calm down! We don't want anybody getting hurt!"

AAT-08317 then decided to speak, as he motioned toward the cloud and toward the two metahumans on the ground: "Let's settle this. Shard, was it? Bring the child down. We just need to talk."

Anthony stood looking at the villain in front of him with a confused look on his face. Did he just stutter? Anthony thought. He just couldn't shake the feeling he was missing something. Anthony looked up at the lady and the kid in the sky and yelled ”Just go! I'll hold him off.” Anthony fixed his eyes on the dragon man, “Alright you amateur you wanna fight, then let's do this.” He said revealing the smg turret in his left arm.

A cop behind him panicked and pulled his gun, he pointed the gun at Anthony, and hands shaking fired. The bullet hit anthony in the side of the head and ricocheted off, but the damage was already done. The side of his head sparked and his eye started to glow red. Anthony fired his smg at the cop who had shot him, and slashed a nearby cop in half. As the cops opened fire on him, he super jumped into the air, bringing his sword down toward the dragon man.

Aaand Dregan's heart sunk at the boy's words. 'Do I need to hurt it back?' Those words stung.
Like, for a start 'it'? Like, that's just rude, that was a person the kid was talking about! Okay, a big kinda scary dragon-y person, but a person all the same!
Although the main concern wasn't that. The main concern was that he had EVIDENTLY gotten the wrong end of the stick. And whilst he wasn't gonna beat himself too much over it - in fact, in many respects, the situation still wasn't entirely clear - it did stand out as a bit of a failure on his part. Still, his mind did wonder... if that was the kid's reaction to any sort of thing he deemed a 'threat'... Well, that would perhaps make sense as to why some of those cops were injured before. And he wasn't sure if he trusted the hero who's reaction to him being 'Piss off, newbie.' was exactly the most promising guide on emotional stability and positivity to those who upset you.

Still, he wasn't exactly given much time to ponder the matter as Shard took to the air. Considering all the cops about? Yeah, bad move.
"Wait you idiot, don't-!"
Unfortunately it seemed to be all too late for such things. The great cyborg had interpreted his previous comments as apparently some sort of invitation to fight...
And then all hell broke loose.

In a moment the police opened fire. A moment more, and two officers had been downed as the enormous man put his blade to use - the same blade that was now being bought down towards the head of the dragon!
Panicking, and quite desperate in his attempt to not be cleft in twain, Sion lifted his scaled hands - and clapped them either side of the oncoming blade, holding it just long enough to try and shove it's downwards course to one side of himself. It was a narrowly avoided attack - and a method that had had it's cost.
As he released the brief hold he'd had on the weapon, he was left with a horrific pain in the palms of his hands. A quick examination revealed both to be stained in blood. yeah, that... that was gonna hurt for a while. He was just glad he hadn't actually wrapped his hands round the blade - otherwise he was certain that right now he'd be missing some fingers. Add the fact, cut open hands were certainly better than a sliced open head.

Still, he hadn't the time to ponder. There was a crazed cyborg present, and unfortunately, it was right next to him.
Hoping to take advantage of redirected blade swing, the dragon man stepped forward... and shoved an open palm towards the man's face. The plan was to unleash a burst of sparks. Nothing to seriously harm... but enough to try and shock and dazzle the sight from him. If he could blind him for but a moment, he HOPED he could take the upper hand!

Jasper's eyes widened as the cyborg proceeded to dispatch two officers with swift precision. Something told him that this was not supposed to be happening, something had messed with Anthony. He watched as the dragon man redirected Anthony's blade and a cop down below had asked for them to come down. "Miss, we have to help them! Anthony's not in control of himself."