The Loss of Something Valuable

The time had come. First attempt to eradicate the Talons, an enemy to Vexus. From her research she had found their base and a list of their members. She was almost able to get a hold of the base blueprints in order to set traps throughout the entire place. However her hold on the word's technology was beginning to fade and she was no longer capable of what she had been before. Though where she may be lacking in one area she was making up for it with more power, and in a big way. The power that Elena Vexus possessed right now could not be matched by and of the tiny heroes that tried to stand in her way. Many have stood before her only for every last one of them to be cut down.
Elena would not be attending this bloodshed event, but just her assistant Helena. Vexus told her the mission an she was confident, but the confidence was programmed. She was made to think that she would always win no matter how impossible the situation might be. Elena knew herself that Helena would not be returning from this conflict, nor would she be putting in the money to have her rebuilt again. Vexus no longer needed the protection that Helena provided her with while she was in her previous form. The funds that could be invested in Helena's inevitable repair will instead be spent on improvements to Elena's systems.
There was no official plan that was given to Helena, she was simply told to walk up and knock on the front door of the Talon's Headquarters and see what happens. Vexus' real goal for this was just to gauge the abilities of the Talons, particularly Phoenix. It had been sometime since she had seen her dear friend and wanted to see how he was doing with everything. There had been rumor of his demise after that multi-dimensional threat that had taken place in New York not too long ago. If they proved true Vexus would be disappointed, if anyone should do away with the bug of a hero it should be her, and she had a feeling that he would agree.

Helena walked along the stretch of road that lead up to the base of the Talons, she was sure that there were cameras or security systems of some sort that had alerted them to her arrival. Nothing was done in response to hear approach, she could assume it was because they knew who she was and what she had probably come for. Helena was in her clownish green and blue outfit that was tattered up with her heels on that were adorned with a metal covering for a little protection. She had her ring blade on around her body as she skipped merrily down the path to her demise.
Meanwhile Vexus sat in a coffee shop some miles away in the city watching everything from the eyes of her drone. She was in the process of hacking some of the cameras on the Headquater's ground so that she could see the fight at a few different angles. Elena took a sip of her coffee waiting to see how the downfall of one of her greatest creations would unfold. Gaining access to some of the cameras, she could now see behind Helena, to the left and right, and also a view from the doorstep of the base. Which Helena had just made her way up to. The android looked up at it and gave a wink with a thumbs up. She gave four powerful knocks on the doors which cracked rather heavily. After she jumped back about ten feet and put her hands over her mouth to try and project her voice.
"OOOHHH MR. PHOEEEEEENIIIIIIIX!!!! I've come to have a word with you Sirr!! We've not seen you in quite some time, we worried that you had fallen off the face of the earth into, sayyyy, another dimension maybe? Hahahaaa!!! Who knows!!! Nowww... COME OUT AND PLAY!!!"
Helena's voice was cold and sinister. Twisted, dark, and maniacal. She was out for blood and there would be no way she would leave without it. Unfortunately for her, the last time she saw Phoenix was Elena's first rebirth and that is the information that she had. It was outdated and wrong, very wrong, and Elena knew that. She knew that Helena did not stand a change against him at this point in time. However she needed the dated information to remain intact so that she can study the differences later. Vexus was plotting the downfall of not only Phoenix, but the Talons as a whole and the death of Helena Vexus would be an unfortunate, but necessary step in the obliteration of these petty heroes...

"No Hartley, I don't want to smoke weed right now." Andrew said into the speaker of his cell phone.
It was a normal day for the Talons. The sun was high, the sky was blue, the air was crisp. Nothing wrong at this point in time.
Andrew had spent all morning working on some new attack formations for the Talons.
In truth, it had been a while since they had all been pushed to their limit, so The Phoenix wanted to come up with exercises to simulate such a threat.
Inside the battle simulator, Andrew and Sean had worked on a new water and fire duo move.
It was looking pretty powerful as hologram after hologram of Pain fell to their death.
It had put some happiness into the cold heart of the flame champion.
Now it was relaxing time, something the young hero had seemed to significantly been lacking. With no one else stepping up to the plate, he had taken it upon himself to deal with the world's problems.
Something to him felt off though. There was an unsettling silence in the air. The kind you can feel before something catastrophic happened. Of course, he had been feeling that a lot recently duo to all his visions in the other dimension. However today, today he knew something would happen.

Tyuki had left a note on the kitchen table informing him that she was out grocery shopping with Gene. "Ah great. No food. No girlfriend. No friends around. Maybe I will cash on that weed with Hartl..." his sentence was cut off as he looked into the monitor displaying Helena Vexus outside their base.
"Are you fucking kidding me? I thought Vexus was crazy, but I didn't think she was stupid."
Andrew made his way down the elevator to ground level where he walked into the living quarters for the Talons
He grabbed his Sword of Eternal Flames and Boe Staff. "This bitch has a lot of nerve coming to our front door."
To be honest he didn't even pay attention to the words coming from the robots mouth. She was but a toy Vexus had, and Andrew was going to break it.
The front door to the base clicked open and he walked out.
"Excuse me." The hero said waiting for the robot to turn his way.
"Get the hell of my property or I will blast you into that Harbor behind you."
Pulling the sword off his back, fire began to surge throughout it.
"This thing is stronger than any one of those stupid weapons you brought last time."
He pointed the sword towards his opponent and let a blast of fire come bursting out of it.
The flame was headed straight for the cybernetic nuisance.

Helena grinned at the new weapon as the image was relayed directly back to Elena. He wasted no time sending a powerful blast of fire speeding towards her. She sprung backwards as fast as she could but then leaped to the left avoiding the blast as it was moving faster than she was. Once she planted herself she went in towards the boy at a full sprint. She spun her ring blade around her wrist fast enough and with enough power to create a gust of wind around her as she was running towards him. There was not much of a gap to close so before Helena reached him she threw the blade of death speeding towards Phoenix's head.
Regardless of his next move, once in range Helena went into a sliding tackle to take out his legs. Assuming he had avoided the ring blade and would jump upwards to avoid the tackle, she rolled forward onto her hands and launched herself back at the possibly airborne hero. She aimed for her fully extended legs to make contact with the manipulator's back and send him tumbling forward, her heels digging deep into his spine.
From Vexus' point of view she was already leaning a lot. This weapon was new, and it seemed rather powerful. She also collected data that his fire was much hotter than their last encounter, and he clearly was not trying. This was only the beginning of the fight and his improvements have already made quite the dent in her older information. Elena could only hope that he did not bend the readings to the point of breaking, if that became the case she may have to reformulate her strategy on taking him and the heroes he associated with himself out.

Elena crossed her other leg leaning back in the chair and taking a sip of her coffee watching the battle unfold from a few different angle. This would be one of the few times that things were not going as planned for Ms.Vexus.