Honoree (Forcie and Pat)

"I have such good timing." Deathbringer muttered to himself after witnessing the results of his entrance into this battle. In just one move he turned the tide of this battle in his favor. He swung his sword to fire an aerokinetic attack, and it would lead to Bliss getting knocked unconscious. Granted it was Alpha that delivered the blow that rendered the crazy Asian heroine unconscious, but that mattered not for him. This part of the job was complete, and they could proceed to the next part.

Even though Bliss was out cold, the battle wasn't quite over. There was still the young woman known as "Tamamoa" to deal with. She didn't seem too keen on letting them harm Bliss. She also wasn't faring too well against the combined might of Alpha and his two lackeys. Deathbringer watched the little fight with vague amusement for a moment before addressing Alpha. "Do you have this under control? If so I'm going to go ahead and take our target back to the scaly woman that's paying all of us for this little gig."

Deathbringer finished talking to Alpha and started walking over to were Bliss now lay. He proceeded carefully just in case she wasn't actually unconscious and was playing possum. Now standing over her, Deathbringer would kneel down and grabb her by the back of her clothes and tried to lift her off the ground. Now, was she actually out cold? This will probably be the point that she takes action if she was faking. If not he would lift her over his shoulder and begin to carry her back to where their temporary employer and the bomb holding android were.

Bliss did not move. Not on her own at least; someone else took care of her current trek towards the back of the event center. Getting Bliss to the business spot would not take a long or noticeable route. Right down the hall and to the left stood a janitors closet with a note taped to the door. Didn't want to be here for the end. The nicer Bliss is in the closet. A robotic Bliss wearing a more sultry black and red dress stood ready for activation by pulling on her earring. The closet itself would keep Bliss hidden until she woke up and made everything Blissy. The exact same idea a scaled over woman had for the robotic Bliss.

Danny felt slightly better about not choking to death, but felt worse about everything else in the environment. A plea to her bracelet gave her a slight chance to pull the chain from her wrists, but as her bracelet saved her, so did it find a way to get stuck on the chain. "You got demoted and won't be up for promotion because Alpha will just build a better version of you." True quips were the best. "You know that guy is crazy right? He has a nice sword though; I might take up the sword. Want to help me practice- oh it's not Gamma anymore. You gotta help me out here Ellen. Are you Epsilon? No, that would be a promotion, and you're not getting any of those. Omega? No, he's calm tempered and thinks things through. Zeta? No, that bottom loser is still recovering from the most meaningful message he's ever gotten from a pretty girl with a cell phone. Oh well, I guess you're not really all that important."

Ashley got up from her table. If no one would call her or give her a heads up she would just need to figure this out herself. Some other montage ran behind her highlighting the exploits of a famous actor meta who worked his hardest to battle cancer and other sicknesses plaguing the world. His name slipped Ashley, but she was sure she could find him in the brochure or something.

”I have things under control here.” Alpha responded with a casual motion of his hand, letting Deathbringer make off with Bliss while he dealt with the final loose end. While Deathbringer would take Bliss wherever, he would turn his sights upon Danny. She seemed to be giving Theta the usual loving treatment, via tossing insults in the hopes of perhaps provoking her. ” Insults, you continue to sink lower and lower Danny.” Alpha tutted shaking his head, more than aware that Danny had been taken down by a supposed nothing. Not that he would do something like throwing her out to die with the people in the rally, she had her uses and they were not quite done yet. Whether Deathbringer abided this mattered little to Alpha really, considering that he did not seemingly trust him much now anyway.

With that done, he would have her brought behind him, catching sight of what looked like a note on a door. Opening it, Alpha would take notice of the Bliss machine that they were supposed to activate and blow the entire place up. Tugging on the left earing, it would activate and things could continue to go as planned. ”Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a few things I need to tend to.” Alpha stated looking to both Zeta, as well as Theta. It was just them and the Bliss robot, though likely they were already doing their thing. ”So you two take care of her.” With that, he would walk off but that was not the end of his plan.

Now listen close Danny, because I’m only going to tell you this once. Alpha’s voice would then speak into her mind. In three seconds, hit theta in the face. I mean, really deck her, and run. You have a metahuman rally to save, and adoration to soak up. Whether Danny trusted him or not was unimportant, she had her heroic duty to uphold and that involved stopping something bad from happening. He had an appearance to make as the beloved Travis Masters. It was likely Colin was doing his usual supporting thing, something Alpha could appreciate.

Slipping through a few hallways with no one around he got rid of the mask in a usual hiding place and illusions took care of the rest, changing his clothes into the usual fare. You know what to do from there. A bomb is about to go off, that should be stopped soon. he sent one more telepathic message to Danny before stepping onto the stage, smiles and all charisma. So while he was making his acceptance speech, hopefully Danny was doing her part. If anyone asked, he could say she overpowered her help.

After the target had been neutralized, Deathbringer decided to take her over to where she was meant to be moved to so that she could be replaced with a robotic duplicate with a bomb inside of them. That place was a closet. That's it? A closet was the special hiding place. He was actually disappointed by this. There was a strong desire for things to be much more grandeur than they were presently, and it ate away at him from the inside. The way things were being done just wasn't good enough for him. Hopefully killing Bliss will make up for these feelings of emptiness.

The robot had already been activated and left the closet to head towards the stage. Deathbringer looked in that direction for a moment before diverting his attention back to the unconscious woman that lay in the closet. He then began to voice some of his displeasure. "I doubt you can hear me since you're you know, out of it right now, but I'm not fully invested in this plan. I like the idea of the robotic duplicate of you containing a bomb that will go off and kill everyone in there, I really do, but here's the thing." he paused and contemplated how to put this next part. "Here's the thing, you need to die too, and I'm going to be the one that kills you, but not here, and not now." he said and grabbed Bliss again and began drag her down the hall and towards an exit.

The ongoings in the auditorium could just barely be heard from back here. The next person being honored was somebody that he knew. This actually made him laugh. Oh it was all too good. Please let that bomb go off just as they're accepting their precious little reward. It would be so fitting, and a joy to witness if he could. Shame though, the bomb was potentially too dangerous to be in the same room as when it goes off, and he had other priorities right now.

"Anyways, where was I? Hmm, I honestly can't remember. Oh well. Now then, I kind of hope you've regained consciousness by now and you're just pretending to still be out of it as part of some plan you have in mind. I really do, and I'm being honest when I say that." he told her and squeezed tightly on her left wrist to try and jolt her awake in pain. When nothing happened, he went back to what he was doing. "Did you know that one of the reasons I took this little gig was for the chance to kill you? Do you know why that would be? It's because you're such a big name and recognizable figure." he told her, and his voice began to lower as they reached the exit. "I'm going to kill you, and I'm going to do it publicly. I want everyone to know that I did it, and I'll take credit for this bombing too. Your family and friends, which I'm sure you have a lot of, are all going to be cursing my name and swearing vengeance upon me. I can't wait for them to try and come after me, considering what hatred can do to even the most innocent of minds." he concluded and pushed the exit door open to take her outside.

"You're going to blow up a ceremony honoring..." The announcement of the next guest left Danny sick inside. "So, are you getting your award first or are you going to pick it out of the rubble after the explosion?" The chain still kept Danny's hands from expressing her frustration across someone's face, but her fury burned. Left with Theta and Zeta, Danny prepared for another round of verbal sparring before she heard a familiar voice come into her mind. Just count to three and do what came natural. It seemed easy enough, but what angle did Alpha seek to push? She could think of that after getting past the fun part. "One thing the two of you don't quite get is that it takes more than three..." And with a new jolt of energy, Danny pushed both hands into Theta's side, impacting just on top of the liver, hopefully knocking Theta out. "I was counting. Guess who told me to." Alpha told Danny to scram afterwards, but Zeta's face looked like it needed a kick.

After delivering roundhouse justice, Danny ran out of the hall and slammed into a woman in a blue dress. Ashley looked down to see the chain still binding Danny's hands, and Danny more than energetically put them into Ashley's face. "Help."

"Hold still." A force of energy shot through Ashley and took the manacles to the floor. "There you..." Danny scrambled past Ashley giving no thanks for her rescue. "...Go." Before Ashley could check the back of the event center, she bumped into a familiar form. "Oh, Bliss. You changed. Is that what took you so long?" With one hand on her hip and the other waving freely, the robotic Bliss traipsed past Ashley with no more than a look. "Well, this is a horrible group of people tonight."

A set of yellow eyes passed through the doors into the auditorium as a chorus of praise rang out. Watching a young man accept an award swayed the Broodmaster to no extent. Seeing the visage of Bliss walking towards the stage did all she needed for the sinister eyed woman. Her tongue flickered as she watched a brunette in a red dress scurry about, trying desperately to give a warning only to be drowned in applause. A needle emerged from her wrist as the snake pulled closer to the little mouse trying to spoil her plans.

Before the needle could puncture through Danny's back, A wave of telekinesis thrust the needled blade towards a pillar, pinning the woman in place. Ashley stepped forward, dressed to thrill, but not exactly kill, even though her current disposition would see her do both. "What's going on?"

"Bliss is a robot. With a bomb inside!"

The knifed hand pulled out from the pillar and lunged for Danny's neck. Without a clear shot, Ashley could only throw Danny out of the path while the blade lunged and pierced Ashley's chest beneath her collar bone. "Um?.."

Blood splattered out as the blade pulled from the fresh wound. It lined up just above her heart, imposing a doom over her heart. All momentum stayed still as Danny emerged with her hand gripped around Broodmother's forearm. "Nope."

All while this distraction played out in the back, the more impressive figured robot of Bliss made her way towards the main stage to accept her award...

Waking up with a slight blur, Bliss only made out a few words pouring from Deathbringer's mouth. "You talk a lot. My friends won't need to take vengeance for me. I'll do that myself. You got my dress dirty."

Alpha was putting an undue amount of trust within a person that could easily screw him over, but then again he had hope his assumption about her desire to do good would work in his favor. Heroes had their ways of trying to mess with his plans, but they also had a certain way of working that was exploitable when done correctly. Despite the damage done to them, Zeta and Theta were still conscious, if not somewhat angry for him ordering that they be beaten up. Once he was done with his speech, Alpha would step down after a few nods, waves and accepting the award that he was to be given. People cheered, and he soaked it up much like a sponge. Once that was done, he would have to either sit down due to the fact the bomb problem as fixed or get out of there because blowing up was not something he wanted to deal with.

You did not just tell her to hit me did you?

I did, now be a big girl and get over it. He mentally responded, though the annoyance within the mental message was more than palpable. Alpha had his own reasons for doing this, and mass murder was not one of them, though it did seem to be more than enough of a reason for him to get himself in on this operation. His eyes followed the Bliss bot with an eerie precision, sending Colin out for something should the bomb go off anyway. He had around a five minute window now to stop this, otherwise either death or a coincidence would follow. The fact that this Bliss bot was still functioning meant that Danny wasn’t doing her job correctly, or perhaps she had been held up by someone, either Deathbringer or the woman with the scales.

What could Travis Masters do in a situation like this? It was a simple really, he just had to make sure he was prepared for everything, and that meant even having to do a little antagonization against the antagonist. Eta, do what you do best. He would let the telepathic message send out resting an elbow on his table and waiting for whatever to happen next. Luckily, of all his little siblings, this one could not be traced back to him, as either Travis or Alpha, it made things so much easier.

A small, but powerful burst if wind would be sent from seemingly nowhere to knock the broodmother away. “Looks like you could use a little help.” A young kid around fifteen chimed in, stepping onto the scene of Danny and whatever the scaled woman was. If his hit had connected and disoriented the woman, he would walk up to Danny where he could whisper loud enough for only her to hear. “Hey I’m with Alpha, you deal with the bomb, I got this here.”

The bright light of the sun was the first thing he saw upon opening the exit door of the building that contained the auditorium. Deathbringer walked through the door and made his way outside, all while continuing to drag Bliss along the ground. Some people that were passing by outside noticed him coming out while dragging an unconscious woman along and promptly started freaking out about it. "Aw, I was hoping for a bigger crowd than this. Also that it would be televised. Any news reporters would be inside, wouldn't they?" he said to nobody in particular

A few people decided to try and be brave and move forward to try and help out dear Blissy. Deathbringer merely put his sword out in front of him to get them to back down. "Step aside. I have places to be." he said to all of them and they started to back off in fear. Deathbringer started pulling Bliss again to get moving, but felt a tug indicating some resistance. He looked down at her to see that she was awake, and very much against his little plan.

"Oh, will you now?" Deathbringer said with a mocking tone to the woman that had just claimed she would take vengeance for herself. "You know I'm not surprised you woke up at this exact moment. You hero types are just masters of good timing. It's like a skill that you acquire upon deciding to become one. An annoying skill, and the only reason a lot of you are even still alive. I've dealt with it many times over the years, and have learned how to work around it. But enough about me, let's kill you." he said and then attempted to stab Bliss through her torso with his sword.

Danny got a little help from someone just a few grade levels below her. While the rest of the room stood in between praise and confusion, only one person came to assist her in dealing with the problem at hand. The problem only a few feet away from the stage. "Thanks kid, you know we could always..." And then she found out who it was. "I almost liked you for a second. It's over."

Getting to the stage was the utmost priority, but it left Ashley alone and wounded. Danny could easily drag her out and leave the fate of the auditorium to the blast, but the easy choice would come the hardest. "Hold the wound." Danny placed Ashley's hand over her shoulder, trying to keep in blood, but the shock in Ashley kept her hand loose and trembling.

"D-D-D-on't leave..." As blood poured down her shoulders and into the crevices of her torso, Ashley began to go cold.

"I'll be right back with help." She looked to Alpha. "Help her! Please." Not waiting for a reply, Danny took off towards the stage to remove the threat of the imposter Bliss. Cutting through the confusion took a little effort, but the difference between grazing cows and charging bulls stood as the difference between Danny being apprehended and getting on stage to grab the bot by the legs and pick it off the ground while keeping momentum. A window pane shattered and Danny fell outside the building with Bliss Bot under her. An immense heat began to burn Danny's arm. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no..." Danny ripped wildly at anything on the robot she could muster, pulling clothes, gauging eyes, exercising some real demons she felt about Bliss, but none of it cooled the automaton down. A fierce slam of Danny's fists shocked through the imposter's face, forcing her ears to begin to come apart. Once the right and left ear fell off, a release of air began to discharge. Danny breathed easy and stood, moving towards the auditorium with the scrap heap behind her.

Even thought the primary explosive could no longer detonate, a small back up explosive lay dormant to handle anyone trying to sabotage anyone trying to obstruct the mission of the robot. A small hiss began to ring from the holes making the nose before an explosion rang out. While small in nature, it still packed enough force to throw Danny into the side of the building, dropping her to the ground with no sensation of the world around her.

Bliss looked down at the blade prodding through her side. Not a kill shot. Not yet. Right now it gave Bliss all the energy she needed for one last burst of energy. "Should've gone for the head." Bliss gripped her hands around the blade and held it inside her. While she gripped the blade, pulses of energy would begin to seep from her hand, vibrating the blade and filling it with a large surge of potential energy. Once she reached her critical mass, Bliss would let go of the blade, and allow the energy to throw the sword back into Deathbringer's gut. Hopefully projecting him back into the building behind her with enough force to put him through the building or incapacitate him against it.

With Eta’s help it seemed that Danny could stop focusing upon the strange scaly lady and more upon the problem of the exploding Blisses. Despite the fact that she did have something against them, with good reason at that, rivalries would have to wait until the current issue was dealt with. Someone was dying so close to Eta, and knowing his weak heart he would not be able to look at it too long, they had other things to worry about. So he did what he did best and sent out a mental SOS to Alpha and hoped he would be willing to help out with the dying woman part.

So breaking away from the crowd, he would navigate his way towards the place of conflict, trying to keep the illusion that he wasn’t a supervillain. All it took was a quick assessment to know that the blood Ashley was losing could be fatal if she was not taken care of. He sighed, she could be saved but that would require a little concentration on his part, though a healing power now would have been nice.  His younger bother looked to him with an almost pleading expression, and it seemed things were set.”The things I do for the people I care about.” he muttered under his breath, kneeling down and applying a hand to the wound, telekinetically binding it as best he could.

”She sure got you good didn’t she?” The blood wasn’t gushing now, but he was dealing with something that needed proper medical attention to heal up. ”Hey stay with me, you’re not dying.” That much he intended to make sure happened, pointless deaths were never something Alpha stomached well. The sound of a small explosion nearby could be heard, yet he wasn’t dead, meaning that the bomb that was meant for everyone did not go off. Letting out a sigh, he continued to apply pressure. Whipping out his phone, he quickly dialed 911 like in intelligent person would when dealing with someone that was bleeding out.

While he did that, Eta would source the explosion, which seemed to have been the Blissbot still, and yet the building wasn’t destroyed. Doing the typical for him, he would check around for the young hero who had been knocked to the ground, people milling around in shock. ”Hey, you okay?” He would ask worriedly, running to check up on the downed Danny.

With a mighty blade in hand, Deathbringer thrust it forward and aimed to stab Bliss through her torso with it. The tip of the blade struck and went straight through her, but not directly through her chest. It was a bit off to the side. Now either she managed to move enough to avoid what would have been a death blow, or his aim was off here. Either way even though she currently had a sharp blade piercing through her, she wasn't dead. She was clearly in pain, but not dead. Not yet at least, he thought.

"I want you to still be recognizable. I may want to hang your head up on my wall as a trophy or something. You never know." Deathbringer said as he attempted to pull the blade out so he could stab her again, Bliss grabbed hold of it and this led to a game of tug of war between the two of them. The fact that the sword was inside her made it harder for him to pull on. Then he noticed what she was up to. She was using her telekinetic powers to pump energy into the blade to attack him with. An attempt to hoist him upon his own petard, and one that left him with only two options. Either let go of his blade and effectively disarm himself, or take this attack head on and hope to withstand. It was a matter of pride versus preservation, a major decision for him to make.....and he didn't make it fast enough.

The power of her attack sent the blade flying out of her and a tremendous force went through him backwards and sent him crashing into the wall behind him. The wall was heavily damaged and didn't remain intact as a hole opened up where he had hit it. Deathbringer got out of the way as the hole caved in, the whole building would perhaps shake from that, who even knew? He staggered a bit as he took a few steps and regained his equilibrium. "Don't think I've seen that one before." Deathbringer said before swinging the sword. A sharp blast of wind tore through the air as it flew towards where Bliss was.

Ashley felt herself warm up again as the call for paramedics went out, and a napkin came in as a tourniquet. "Thank you-Mr.- Mr. Masters. It's a p-p-pleasure- to meet you." A dead stare stayed focus on the ceiling while trying to remain as cordial as possible. "W-watch. Out." The Broodmother emerged again from behind Alpha. Her talons sharp and deadly as ever and with less mercy than before. She would try to drive them into Alpha's back to open up a large enough hole to cause him to bleed out.

Yet again the kid came for Danny. What was with this evil organization and helping others? "Not knowing how I should feel about Alpha makes me hate him more." Lying on her side, but accepting the help to get onto her feet, Danny looked down to see blood swelling up around her elbows and knees, but at least she did not lose any of her limbs. "Wait, where's Bliss?"

Crawling with a trail of blood seeping out of her, Bliss felt a burst of wind swell past her, knocking her towards the street. Plans for a public execution fell apart, but plans for homicide still swirled about. "Even if you kill me, it will be the last thing you ever do." Still, she did not want to play out the worst case scenario and instead wanted to just end this fight in one piece. One living breathing piece.

A two prong attack with three prongs went out. The first portion involved Bliss tearing up a hydrant from the street, sending a heavy metal object towards the second floor support pillar. A fire hydrant to the Deathbringer's chest would cause a gross amount of pain, but bringing a build down on him seemed even better. The second part of the plan she sought to enact would launch a telekinetic grab to pull the shirt off a nearby on looker. A quick tight tie would keep anymore blood from pouring out of Bliss' torso. For now. "Call 911!" The startled crowd no longer fearing the retribution of a villain made good on Bliss' order.

Once Deathbringer looked like he would try to live up to his name again, Bliss would make a grab for a metal light pole and propel the fixture towards the building, while also directing the geyser of what erupting from the destroyed fire hydrant towards the crumbling building. Instead of calling this overkill, Bliss just called it payback with interest and once the water met the loose electricity, it got interesting.

”Try not to talk, save your strength for the not dying.” Alpha said as calming as he could, though an interesting little bit he drew from her mind gave him a warning. He had no choice within this moment, and with no one paying attention to them, he could react as he wanted. The air waved where the broodmother would have stabbed, the forming of a telekinetic shield. While it was not by any means strong enough to stop her claws completely, it did keep them from burying into his back. The very tips however did jab him, drawing blood and an annoyed growl from Travis. ”Now, how about we keep the next part between us.” using his telekinesis, he would attempt to grab onto the Broodmothers own hands and force the claws into her own chest. Hopefully that would do something, because he had a problem with tis dying woman.

Eta had offered his hand to help Danny up and she for the most part accepted it, getting to her feet with little damage done. ”I..don’t know where she is…oh there she is.” He would say, pointing at the woman yelling for someone to call 911 and making the people around only more flustered. ”Doesn’t look too good though, I think we might need to do something about that.” Stating the obvious, he would need to do something but collapsing buildings was on her agenda, likely trying to crush someone.

Getting blasted into a building so hard that it caused the wall to cave in was not going to stop Deathbringer from attempting to kill his target. It was going to take far more than that to take him down, let alone get him to stay down. Instead he just got up and went back to attempting murder. With a deadly blade in hand, Deathbringer fired out a sharp blast of wind that hit Bliss and knocked her backwards, but didn't kill her. Fine, he could do this slowly. In fact, it's more fun that way.

"Oh, but I have every intention to kill you and do many more things afterwards." he said in response to what she had said about this being the last thing he ever does. Deathbringer started to walk towards her to continue his onslaught as she continued to try and retaliate. She retaliated by sending a fire hydrant at him. As water gushed out from where the hydrant had been, the object flew fast at Deathbringer, only to be cut in half by his blade. "That's not as good as what you did before. Don't tell me you're slipping out of fear." he said as he continued to approach.

Deathbringer raised the sword up as he prepared to strike again. Meanwhile the geyser that had been created by that hydrant getting ripped out of the ground was curving in his general direction, mainly at the building that he had been blasted in to. "Heh, up to something I see." he said as he watched what she was trying to do. Wait, was she seriously planning on dropping the building on him? Oh no, that is not going to be allowed, not at all. Deathbringer swung the sword to unleash another air cutter attack before thrusting it downwards to try and stab her again, this time with much more power behind it.

The Broodmother slashed forward to attempt disemboweling Alpha. In her rush to find villains to dispatch Bliss, she never ascertained the true identity of Travis. Instead, she just sought to destroy another hero attempting to get in her way. "One more hero goes down the hard way." Thrusting a fierce slash to sever Travis, her force turned against herself. The severe edge of her nails counteracted any attempts to slash at Travis, but instead found their sinister edges tearing through her own flesh. Entrails spilled across the floor, lifeblood more pure in viscosity than she was with intentions. One beat with at half a second. A second beat at one second. The third beat took two seconds. The fourth never came.

Ashley passed into unconsciousness. It felt good. Peaceful. Eternal. But, unwanted. Unwarranted. Permanent. She kept fading. Further. Deeper. Unending.

Another strike of wind thrust Bliss back into the side of a vehicle. Nothing superficial broke, but she could feel an intense pain rising beneath the surface. With the final deathblow coming to usher her time in this world into oblivion, Bliss put up her last ditch defense to grab the hilt of the blade with telekinesis. Struggle drained Bliss quickly. If she lost, she lost everything. Hoping chagrin took over Deathbringer's thoughts, which by all assumptions Bliss made would make her plan highly probable in success, Bliss would begin to move towards the middle of the vehicle where the steel frame could assist her.

Bliss let go of her force, letting the blade go into the chasis. Deathbringer would likely tear through the vehicle with no problem, but it would take him a few seconds. A few seconds to give Bliss time to roll forward and put her hand against her adversary's stomach and let loose a blast to try and throw him back into the collapsed building, full of water and still sparking with electricity.

Danny raced across the street with her bloody knees eventually bringing her to the ground. It hurt to move, but Danny needed to help Bliss. Possibly.

The sword had been raised to provide more momentum to the strike that Deathbringer would try to hit Bliss with to put an end to her existence. A strong lust for blood could be felt inside of him as the blade came down towards its target, its wielder full of the intent to harm, maim and kill. It looked like the blade would reach its target unhindered, but something stopped it short of reaching the woman that Deathbringer was aiming to kill. Bliss was using her telekinetic powers to protect herself. Another struggle, another game of tug of war, this time deciding whether somebody lives or dies.

This telekinesis of hers was a bit of a difficulty to deal with. There had to be a way around them. Deathbringer would have to remember to invest in making this weapon more resistant to things like this. There had to be something that could do that. There better be. That was definitely something worth investing in, he thought as he continued to try and thrust the sword through his target. It was barely budging and then slowly began to move away from its target. Bliss was winning the game, again. Oh, was she fun to play with or what?

Deathbringer saw that she was moving his sword towards a nearby vehicle. Feeling that is inevitable that whatever she was planning would work, he figured he would try to cause it to backfire. Instead of trying to thrust the sword downwards, he instead tried to swing it right where she was trying to send it to try and regain control of it. The blade hit the car and tore through it. It then flew upwards before he assumed control over it once again. Now in control of his weapon again, Deathbringer began to attack again. His blade would fly down just as Bliss was about to counterattack. He felt her place her hand on his stomach and quickly activated the barrier effect of his sword. The barrier wasn't fully in place before her attack went off and struck him. As a result the attack was weakened slightly, but not enough to push him backwards. He could feel the pain going through him. This battle may be reaching its conclusion in a manner that he was opposed to. The barrier had gone down and was temporarily unusable.

A gap of about five feet now existed between him and his target. He could see how desperately she wanted to live. "How long do you think you have left?" He asked before swinging the sword just to kill a random bystander just for the sake of doing so. "You've just been delaying me this entire time. I attack and you push me back to protect yourself, but you can't keep me down. That's the name of the game." and with that the sword was suddenly engulfed in flames. Deathbringer was being deceptive to mess with her mind and cause her confidence to waver. "Let's see how you do this round." he said and quickly walked forward to try and hit her with a blade covered in flames.

The first part of her plan worked, but Deathbringer didn't fall on his sword. Bliss put no effort into planning for that other than blind wishing, but she wished pretty hard for something to come her way. The smell of cinder rose from the blade, filling Bliss with enough of an idea to hopefully save herself from an untimely death. The car behind her would begin to lift, hopefully with a full tank of gasoline. The Bringer of Death would cut down an innocent person, giving Bliss enough time to hurl the vehicle towards Deathbringer, hoping to put the fuel tank right on his blade.

In an effort to shield herself from everything that would happen when the vehicle erupted, her telekinesis all went into keeping the shrapnel and flames from burning her to death. Given how most of her plans played out, this one would probably keep her half alive, and since she was only about sicxty percent alive, she would hope to be about thirty percent alive. Bliss hoped her number would outweigh how alive her opponent still looked after everything happened.