Try me (Gravity Man, Apex.)

Lucius eventually got close to the fight, where he watched everything that was happening, calculating it. There was some trash talk, which was rather amusing. And Gravity Man made several impressive attacks. Lucius truly marveled at the males powers, their possibilities seemed to be endless. But despite his power, Gravitas was a good man, he really only had good intentions in the end, that and revenge. Lucius could respect him for that. Apex was a tricky opponent to deal with, very versatile. Lucius didn't know exactly how the males powers worked, but he guessed it was some form of adaption. Whenever Lucius threw something at Sean in their last fight, it seemed to have no effect. Only when he mixed and matched multiple at a time did he leave a scratch. To reinforce this, there was that blue energy Apex created, which was a perfect match against Lucius' Red Energy.

So, with all that information, Lucius came to the conclusion that yes, Apex had some form of adaptive power. That would make this tricky really, would he lead with his energy like before? Would he be able to adapt if he was also being hit by Gravity Man? Lucius didn't quite know, but he knew he had to be extremely unorthodox. Lucius found it funny Gravity Man was calling Apex short, which reminded him of Sean's rather violent outburst toward Daniel in their last encounter. Apex seemed to forget all about the hostages, which was interesting. Lucius wouldn't draw attention to it though. He wasn't worried Sean could stop what was happening, but he wasn't going to draw the focus back to them.

"Bold of you, Sean. Diving head first into a situation you know so little about. But don't worry, I'll be finished here shortly." Lucius commented as he approached the pair from the right. He was about twenty yards away, so he needed to make a plan of action. Apex was trying to use his speed, which was a mistake. Against Gravity Man and Lucius, speed was rather useless. Red's gear was fitted to fight enemies with insane speed. Lucius wasn't worried about his defense, just his offense. These three were very difficult to damage, so this theoretically could go on for a long, long time. He continued to make his way toward Apex, and once he got close he would draw his sword and use a bit of the blades energy to turn on its vibration function. This would hopefully do some damage, even if Apex was durable on an ungodly level.

This was a true test to see the level of Apex's adaption, because adapting is the only way someone would be able to resist it really. Using his speed assisters, Lucius swung his sword, his limb becoming a blur as it slashed at Apex. He wasn't just flinging steel around either, these were actual sword techniques. He was using precision and skill to feint and jab at his opponent, focusing less on power and more on just touching Sean with it because that was all that was needed. He was fencing with his left hand, and his right was folded behind him. It looked like a classical stance, but there was another purpose for it. Lucius was using his right hand to unclasp a very powerful bomb and activate it. With a sudden shift of his stance, Lucius would throw this at Apex, then activate his teleporter to get out of the explosives blast range. He was confident Gravity Man would be able to get out of there as well, that or just tank it. The bomb would explode violently, large and hot but luckily out of the range of any bystanders. That whole attack was pretty much just information gathering, and wasn't really meant to hurt, though it would be nice if it did.

"Finished." Gravitas said as he caught Apex trying to move behind Lucius. With a smile he brought his hands forward and clasped his hands together before grunting, pure force as the debris from the building came to collide with the area around Lucius. The area just beneath Lucius had a disruption in it's gravitational pull, forcing Lucius into the air most likely, leaving Apex all alone to suffer the damages. The collision of the debris would all have their own gravitational fluxations, which would cause a horrifically destabilized reaction, generating a percussive explosion as the entire area was equalized, and all gravitational effects he had initially instituted were null and void.

  "Adaptive capabilities?" Gravity man asked before suddenly realizing the gravity of the situation. He growled as he realized he was fighting some form of Gizmo. He hadn't had the pleasure of encountering the Agency lapdog yet, but now he was getting a strike at it. If the son of a bitch wanted to adapt to his gravity effect he could do so all he wanted. Getting hit by debris and then an explosive force was nothing to sneeze at, regardless of your adaptive ability. Of course these adaptive types were all the same, and they could all be dealt with in a similar fashion. They all had a limit, somehow, somewhere. Didn't they? Damnit Atterrius you son of a bitch! How far are you willing to push this?! He wondered as he prepared himself for an attack from behind.

  This battle was going to be difficult. It was a slugging fest between three brawlers with intellectual prowess and moderate skill at worst. He'd be lying to say that he wasn't worried a little, however it was to be cautious. The soul of caution would be what saved the day for him. Closing his eyes and focusing his Gyro sense he concentrated to a more immediate area, heightening his reactive ability within that zone. A trade off to be sure, however when this battle boiled down... it was a process of adaptation and survival.

It seemed before Lucius could detonate his bomb and teleport away, Apex did something, turning to dust which caused Lucius to stop what he was doing. From the point of view of anyone else, Lucius' action was a complete failure. But in Lucius' eyes, it was the exact opposite. Everything he did no matter how odd was to gain something or give his opponent the wrong impression. It was physical chess really, that was the only thing fighting Lucius could be compared to. He wasn't just swinging a sword at you, he was setting up a fork. He wasn't just defending himself, while doing that he was moving in for the checkmate. Apex wasn't taking him seriously, which is what Lucius wanted. Apex evaded Lucius' attacks in a strange way, giving Lucius information. There was really no doubt about it now, Apex clearly had adaptive capabilities, the most powerful Lucius had ever seen in fact. That made this battle annoying if they really wanted to beat him, which they did, but then again that wasn't really the main goal here.

When Apex turned to dust Lucius immediately knew what was going to happen next. He had trained teleporters, people with scattering abilities, and invisibility users. Guess what they did as their first form of attack? That's right, they moved behind their target. So unbearably predictable, and this was no different. In one fluid motion Lucius sheathed his sword and somersaulted forward, moving away from Apex's kick milliseconds before it would have landed. After that he spun around, prepared to test this opponent a little more. Oh how it was fun to play with this guy. Though, before he could do anything he was launched into the air, most likely by Gravity Man though it could have been the other guy too. He flew upwards, remaining calm, as if he wasn't flying through the air right now, then activated his thrusters momentarily. He used the rockets to give himself a gentle push toward the ground, masterfully moving through the air and into a three point landing.

At this point he watched an explosion of some kind unfold, would be interesting to see how Apex did against it. Adaptive types were pretty easy to handle once you got a grip on their limits, but this one seemed to have a very high limit. Multiple forms of attack were key, because usually the adaptive being had to allocate a certain amount of power to each to defend themselves. If there was to many types, especelly opposites, then the being would experience an overload or just die. That's what needed to happen here, and luckily between Lucius and Gravity Man they had plenty of different types of damage. Lucius stood up and waited for the whole explosion thing to end, and as soon as he had Apex in sight he locked his scanners onto him. This insured that Lucius wouldn't lose track of him, unless somehow Apex became completely imperceptible in every way imaginable. It would help with reacting to him, allowing Lucius to keep him in sight without actually looking at him.

From there Lucius would step forward, preparing for a rather odd attack. He would get within range and then activate his sonic wave emitter, which would at the very least take up some adaptive power or cause annoyance, though at the top end it would have caused bleeding from all orifices, but Lucius had a feeling it wouldn't effect Sean in the same way it would a normal human. After that he unclasped two of his powerful bombs and four of the six shock modules he had. Then he let out some energy, an aura pretty much, it was in its normal acidic state except for the energy around his bombs and shock modules, which was solidified and allowed them to just sort of float in the aura of energy. Hoping the sonic emitter and the aftermath of that explosion Gravity Man unleashed would keep Apex from running off, Lucius sent the energy around him outward, along with the objects floating in it.

Just as he did this, he unsheathed his sword and charged it with energy from Hectors core, then shot a blast toward Apex with it. Now, the red energy attack was very wide and tall, running around it would have been impractical, especelly with the objects inside, which would activate when they got close to Sean. All together, Lucius was shooting red energy at Apex, followed by an explosion of fire and electricity, enough to power a skyscrapper, and then a blast of the brilliant blue and white energy from Lucius' sword. Lucius was confident the varying forms of attack along with Gravity Mans own actions would cause a lot of damage.