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Mathis Mathews

"We go, you attack from the front and I will come in through the back. You are more than suited to handle them until I can attack." Mathis responded as he walked out the front door. He assumed that Lexi was following him. He would lead her down to the street where the same taxi and driver would be waiting for them. "I think Concussion is with Legion, do you think that you will be able to hold them both off for a short time?" Mathis asked. He wasn't going to send Lexi to do something she didn't think she could do. But if she thought she could, he would send her in.

Date: February 3, 2013 | Alias: Frost

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"As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books.Someone who fought for what was right and protect people who couldn't protect themselves."

Lexi Darksilver

Halo

“Define a short time.” Lexi answered as she followed Mathis. “I can likely buy you a few minutes, but it won't take Concussion very long to burn through my shields.” She had never gone up against Concussion directly, but she had fought other Deviants with concussion beams and other similar energy focused beams, like Lionel's light beams. Usually in such situations she would use other tactics rather than the direct approach, however Legion would complicate that a bit, as would playing distraction while Mathis went around back.

✬Feb 3 2013✬

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Mathis Mathews

"Five to ten minutes. I need five to get in and ten to be sure I can get the drop on Concussion. Hold out for that long and it will be worth it." Mathis replied. He had done the math in his head and was almost certain he would be able to get in in that amount of time. Legion really was the variable though. Mathis knew how to get the drop on Concussion, you just had to get Concussion focused on someone else and he left himself open as long as he didn't know there was another opponent. Legion though... Mathis didn't know enough about Legion to be certain of how he would react.

Date: February 3, 2013 | Alias: Frost

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"As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books.Someone who fought for what was right and protect people who couldn't protect themselves."

Lexi Darksilver

Halo

Ten minutes. That was a long time in combat. Especially combat against Concussion. The only person she would have more problems against was someone like Shimmer. However taking out a founder wasn't an opportunity Lexi was willing to give up, even at risk to herself. “I will do my best.” She told Mathis simply before getting into the back of the taxi that was waiting for them.

✬Feb 3 2013✬

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Mathis Mathews

Mathis did not verbally respond, he simply nodded to her and then the taxi came to a stop. "Be careful in there." He said as he looked out at the building where it was expected Concussion would be. There were no exterior guards but that may have been intentional to hide that Concussion was here. It did seem a little odd for the founder to be here and not running a very brunt operation but Mathis wasn't going to split hairs over that. They had an opening and he wanted to use it. He leaned forward and whispered something to the driver then Mathis got out and walked away from the car. He needed to get into position now.

Date: February 3, 2013 | Alias: Frost

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"As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books.Someone who fought for what was right and protect people who couldn't protect themselves."

Lexi Darksilver

Halo

Lexi smiled slightly at that. “Careful. Someone might think you care.” She teased lightly. She wasn't sure what Mathis would think if things went badly wrong, but she didn't think he would be horribly broken up about it. Likely he'd be more upset at losing his shot at Concussion, or maybe some of the Providence connections Lexi had though he'd gotten them here easily enough on his own. In any event what she was about to do was the very opposite of careful. She was meant to be the distraction, but if she too obvious a distraction she figured they would know something was up. Hopefully Mathis would give her time to make her move. Lexi paused outside the front door, reaching out with her aura to feel if anyone was on the other side. When she was certain there was no one immediately waiting to jump her on the other side, she quietly entered through the front door. As she moved stealthily down the hall, making as little noise as possible, she could hear two male voices which she could only assume belonged to Concussion and Legion based on Mathis's intel. She paused slightly at the corner. Now or never. Hopefully she didn't get herself killed. Lexi charged up a fairly sizable energy ball, stepped around the corner and flung it at Concussion.

✬Feb 3 2013✬

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Concussion

Whatever the two were talking about, it was safe to say the conversation was over. Concussion was standing facing towards Lexi while Legion was standing with his back towards Lexi so Concussion saw the attack coming for him. He pushed Legion aside and extended his left arm outwards. Once it was fully extended a beam of energy burst forth from it, quickly engulfing and destroying the ball that Lexi had made. However it was then that numbers became clear as Legion punched the air in front of him and a stream of fire leapt from his fist towards Lexi. Once the fire was sailing towards her and Concussion had neutralized her attack he fired a beam of energy to the right of her so she would be forced to retreat back around the corner to avoid Legion's flames and his energy. "How did she find us?" Concussion shouted to Legion who had no answer. Concussion hated being found. He hated that he was surprised. He came here with only Legion and a small team to execute some more precise but brutal attacks against any Providence holdouts but now found himself fighting one who had breached his temporary home.

Day: February 3, 2013 | Company: Legion, Lexi, and Mathis somewhere | Name: Deckard Sangram

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"As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books.Someone who fought for what was right and protect people who couldn't protect themselves."

Lexi Darksilver

Halo

Lexi didn't wait to see if her attack hit, but ducked behind the wall once more. She could have absorbed both attacks with her shield and gone on the offensive, but her goal was the draw out the fight long enough for Mathis to make his move. She needed to conserve energy as much as possible. “You've gotten sloppy Concussion.” She taunted from behind the wall. “I was on my way to pay Inertia a visit when I got a tip about you. The opportunity was too good to pass up.” Anyone who knew Lexi well would know she wasn't the type to blurt out plans like that, but neither of these men knew her well. On the off chance one or both of them managed to escape hopefully the statement would cause Snow some grief. Snow took away her lover, it would make a lot of sense for Lexi to target Snow's. Lexi made it this far into Dominion territory. How certain was she that they were really safe in Nova? This time when she popped around the corner it was to throw and energy ball at Legion. If Concussion went to destroy it, she'd quickly throw a second one at him, but if he went to aim at her she'd have to duck behind the wall again.

✬Feb 3 2013✬

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Concussion

Concussion made no move to defend Legion who had dove out of the way of the ball. It was like dodge ball really. Once Legion hit the floor he rolled back onto his feet again and sent another stream of fire towards the corner Lexi had been standing at. Concussion, he made a move that was less measured. While Legion looked to keep Lexi behind the cover, Concussion would do away with the cover completely. He shifted his hand just slightly and sent a beam of energy into the wall that Lexi was standing behind. The wall would break away at the force of the blast but what happened to Lexi depended entirely on if she got out of the way fast enough. Concussion seemed to pay no mind to the words she spoke because in his thoughts, she would be dead so so it did not matter.

Day: February 3, 2013 | Company: Legion, Lexi, and Mathis somewhere | Name: Deckard Sangram

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"As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books.Someone who fought for what was right and protect people who couldn't protect themselves."

Lexi Darksilver

Halo

Damn, she had been hoping for more of a reaction than that. Nothing like mid combat banter to drag out a fight, but it seemed these two had more discipline than that. Concussion's beam came through the wall mere centimetres from her face and she wasn't foolish enough to stick around. Lexi quickly dropped to one knee while the beam cut through the wall above, then she dived forward into Legions flames. For a moment she was blinded by the torrent of flames. Lexi returned fire with another energy ball, hoping the flames would cover up the attack long enough to hit Legion. She landed into a forward roll and came out the other side of the fire. All in all she was only in the flames for a couple of seconds, Legion interrupted by her counter attack, but already she could feel the heat seeping through her aura. She kept running, Concussion's beam blasting the wall where she had been fractions of a second ago.

With a flick of her left hand, Legion found himself trapped in one of Lexi's bubbles. Either Concussion would turn to free his comrade, giving her an opening to strike, or, more likely, he would focus on her and she wouldn't need to worry about dealing with Legion's fire for as long as she managed to maintain the bubble. She ducked under one chest high beam sweeping towards her, but she was running out of room to manoeuvre. Why did it need to be an open floor plan? Coming up the kitchen area. Lexi planted her left hand on the table used it to lift her lower body up and slid across the table without slowing down, while Concussion blasted away the legs of the table. Two more strides and she vaulted over the island counter. She put her back to the counter after making sure to move over a few feet from where she had hopped over so Concussion wouldn't know where behind the counter she was. Maintaining two shields while dodging Concussion certainly wasn't easy, but at least all those years of free running were finally paying off.

Lexi didn't have long to wait before the increasingly familiar beam swept sideways, much lower than she had anticipated. It was all she could do to dive forward onto her stomach while wood splintered and debris and water rained down on her.

✬Feb 3 2013✬

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Concussion

With the table splintered Concussion opted for a different beam. What had been simply a line like beam widened and expanded until the beam came from Concussion's hand in a cone like shape towards Lexi. It would obliterate the majority of the ground in front of her and expand to fill out that side of the room but Concussion started with the ground in front of him. He would slowly raise the blast toward her. Not slow enough to make it easy to dodge, not when it was as widespread a blast as this. He wanted her to know the inevitable end was coming for her and he wanted to see her fear. His arm raised out in front of him and power arching out from his hand. Legion noticed before Concussion, but Lexi had him trapped. Legion tried to burn the walls of his prison away but he could not. He screamed but Concussion was too focused on killing the Providence agent. He wasn't looking at his arm, he was looking at Lexi. He didn't feel the cold hand grip him until it was too late. A sudden sharp pain began to spread, it started down at his elbow where the hand touched him and then spread both to his fingers and to his shoulder. His flesh blackened with the pain as the pain spread and when it reached his shoulder it stopped. His eyes had been blinded by the pain and his blast had stopped. When he could see again, Mathis had been the one who grabbed his arm, which was now black with frostbite, the flesh dead. Mathis stood with a panicked look over his face, he had been afraid of something and acted too quickly. Concussion paused for only a moment in shock before the rage returned and he let his power continue coursing through his blackened arm. The beam burst forth from his palm again and Mathis, in his panic did the only thing he could think to do. His grip tightened the the black flesh beneath his hand began turning white and it froze through into ice. The ice began to tremble but Concussion's blast continued and the man's screams of pain began. They were not screams of surrender, just pain. The ice spread half way up to his bicep and half way down his forearm before the force to the arm caused by the beam was too much. A crack broke above the tremendous sound in the room and silence replaced it. The beam had stopped and Mathis held the bottom half of Concussion's arm in his hand. The flesh of Concussion's right arm was untouched at the hand, but the wrist was black with frostbite and the elbow connected to it was frozen to ice. Mathis dropped it, realizing now was his moment to strike. He had to end Concussion. Lexi had bought him this chance. He dropped the half of Concussion's arm as the man himself stumbled away, terrified by his half, and conjured and spike of ice. He thrust forward at Concussion's heart but before the spike could pierce the man a thin but strong wall of rock shot up between the two. Mathis' spike shattered on the rock and his body slammed against it do to the force he attempted to stab Concussion with. Meanwhile Concussion fell backwards onto the floor, robbed of one arm but not his will to survive. Concussion rolled upon his landing and began to run. Legion now sat, free of the bubble due to his tapping of his other powers and a little more aggressive fore than fire. He wore a conflicted look and his head twitched a little as thoughts bounded in his brain but ultimately the look of malice and cruelty returned. Salazar maintained control and he, like Concussion, began to run from the building. He conjured a mass wall of flame between the attackers and the runners to cover their escape.

Day: February 3, 2013 | Company: Legion, Lexi, and Mathis somewhere | Name: Deckard Sangram

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"As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books.Someone who fought for what was right and protect people who couldn't protect themselves."

Lexi Darksilver

Halo

Lexi slowly got up, bits of wood falling to the side as she did so. It wasn't fear that she looked at Concussion with, but grim determination. She would find a way to escape his beam, and even if she couldn't, she wouldn't give him the stratification of seeing her afraid. However, before she could act she saw Mathis. At first she was careful not to look at him directly as to tip Concussion off about the impending death coming up behind him, but it soon became clear that it wouldn't have matter even if she had. Legion tried desperately to warn him, only for Concussion to ignore him. Trapped, she watched in shock as everything unfolded in front of her. She had never seen Mathis panic before. Lexi had expected Concussion to turn on Mathis, but instead he fired his beam at her once more with the singular focus of taking her out. She quickly thrust out a hand in front of her, her shield absorbing the blast. She wouldn't last long though. She dropped the shield holding Legion back to focus on the one protecting her from Consussion. Luckily she didn't have to last long. A large crack, the beam stopped and Lexi looked up to see Mathis holding the bottom half of Concussion's arm. Mathis tried to go for the kill, but it was too late. Their chance was over and she couldn't afford to take another hit from Concussion.

With the pair gone Lexi made her way through the destruction and over to Mathis. “Mathis, are you okay?” She expected him to state he was fine, and move on to whatever plan B he had, but she asked anyway. Though she didn't bring it up directly, she was concerned for him. For his earlier panic and what effect breaking off someone's arm like that might have on him. He could likely put the fire out, but pressing the two out on the streets of Dominion territory would end badly.

✬Feb 3 2013✬

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Mathis Mathews

"I'm fine," Mathis stood and looked at the half of Concussion's arm that he had. "s**t. s**t!" He yelled the word the second time and tossed the arm to Lexi while he ran towards the fire. With a wave of his hand frost covered the flame and it was put out. Mathis jumped through the smoke that resulted and ran right out of the door but by the time he got outside, Concussion and Legion were gone. On the road a bit away from the warehouse sat the taxi he had instructed to wait for him there. Without any logic or reason Mathis ran over to the taxi and began talking to the driver. "Where is he? Where did they go?" The driver fumbled over his response which Mathis didn't seem to take well. Mathis slammed his fist down on the top of the car, denting it slightly. "You were sitting right here! How did you miss him?" If Lexi read his aura, she would know Mathis was about to do something bad.

Date: February 3, 2013 | Alias: Frost

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"As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books.Someone who fought for what was right and protect people who couldn't protect themselves."

Lexi Darksilver

Halo

Lexi caught the arm more out of reflex than anything. She held the severed limb for a second, more stunned at his outburst than anything, before quickly dropping it and taking off after Mathis. She was about halfway to the taxi when he slammed his fist down on the roof. She didn't hesitate. With an outreached hand, a barrier formed between Mathis and the car. She didn't want to physically stop him like this. She doubted he would take it well, but he wasn't leaving her much of a choice. She needed to stop him from doing something he would regret. “Mathis stop.” Unlike the usual soft tone she'd used to address him since his return, this was forceful. Not a request, but a command. The kind of tone she would use when ordering a lower ranked agent at Providence. She slowed to a walk, a little uncertain of how he would react in his present mood, but kept moving forward with the intent to close the distance between them. “We'll find another way. It's not his fault.”

✬Feb 3 2013✬

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Mathis Mathews

Mathis did not react well to the barrier. His face tightened and he slammed his fists against it trying to break it. Then, when he realized it wasn't going to break he turned to the person who had made the barrier. There was a moment, only a moment, when he was looking at her that he thought to do what he had done to her the last time she put a barrier around him. That intent was clear in his eyes but he didn't. Not yet. "Drop the barrier or I will hurt you." He threatened. He was beyond angry. He had spent a lot of time and effort to get them here and one bad lookout cost him the entire opportunity.

Date: February 3, 2013 | Alias: Frost

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