Heroes of Silvatica City

"A-alright," Jin said, rubbing her hands together and covering Mia's feet in bubble booties. Lola could get really hurt with this. Tarana took the hit and smashed into a nearby lamppost. Groaning, she stopped attacking for a moment and glared at Jr, a trickle of blood springing from her mouth. Now that she had been slowed down, her brain could catch up with her parasite and she could think of more complex attacks. "Uh, you might wanna hold off on that plan for a sec," Amber cautioned of the others, pointing to Tarana. She had put her hands in a position of Hindu prayer, and from behind her six additional arms sprouted, all made from golden energy. It seemed she was building to something. "That resembles Brahma," Lloyd said, finally finding a use for her encyclopedic brain. "The Hindu Creator God."

Jr's vision had returned fully a long time ago, as Cha was no longer focusing on keeping him blind. With her real arms, Tarana held onto the lamppost behind her, as her Brahma arms gestured and swirled hypnotically around her body. They were each creating arcing trails of light that were very entrancing to behold. Until they all became razor sharp, and blasted at Jr in a frightening barrage of bone-crunching speed. Those that missed him shot into the building behind him, and it began to crumble and fall.

"Ah, we should get her back or there might be collateral," Olivia cautioned, but Tarana was really going for it now. Her arms had multiplied and lengthened, and were whipping Jr repeatedly. The ground shook and rumbled with each impact. Lloyd covered her ears and closed her eyes, it was too loud and bright for her.

As Alistar shot forward, so did Tarana. She appeared like a bullet of light, rocketing right towards Jr and hoping to smash into him with enough force to crack his armour and seriously wound him.

Tarana thrashed about and snarled, trying to break free but not succeeding. She coated her body in a layer of golden protection, while her Brahma arms punched, sliced, and pushed him, trying to break free but again it didn't seem to be working. She even went for the eyes, trying to scratch them out. She still had more tricks up her sleeve, but was finding it hard to concentrate as her body distorted and her breathing became difficult from the pressure on her ribs. She took hold of Jr's head with two of her extra hands and began to squeeze him as well. "Forget this, we gotta help her," Cha said, her hands and eyes going dark. Jin agreed - if they stayed back, Tarana might be crushed. The pair of them rushed forward to lay the pressure on Jr some more and try to distract him from crushing their friend.

Tarana looked really confused, and lashed out at Lola though her hand went straight through. And then the singing began. Ugh, Tarana struggled and weakly covered her ears. No, she needed to fight more! Their foe wasn't bested and she was their best hope at beating him, she'd been giving it a good go too! "Get 'im good, Mii," Cha encouraged her friend, as she ran around behind the beast and pinned him down with shadow strands. Amber stayed back with the others, not able to do anything especially with her injured arm. At that point, Milo's parents arrived in their car. "Milo!" Caoimhe shouted, leaping out of the car to find her son in the fray with a huge individual. As she got out, a little redhead girl leapt out with her. She saw the big guy getting attacked and started wailing.

Tarana's snarling became whimpering, and then she fell silent as she lay down on the concrete, facing down into the ground. She looked a lot smaller and oddly crooked suddenly. "Mia!" Jin yelped, seeing her friends fists going bloody. She raised her hands and generated bubbles around Mia's hands, protecting her knuckles as well as packing extra punch. When they were all thrown back, Jin shielded as many of them as she could with more bubbles, but in so doing she forgot to protect herself and landed hard on the concrete. Her skimpy clothes did nothing to protect her skin from road-rash. "Oh dear," Caoimhe responded to her son, before everyone was blasted back and the girl had run from the car. Still not knowing who she was, Caoimhe bundled the girl back into the car. "Honey, take the girl away from here," she instructed Will. "And, uh, take those two," she added, looking at Chloe and Lloyd who were cowering.

"Mia, you alright?!" Cha demanded, getting out of her protective bubble and going over to Mia. Of course, the big girl was healing herself just fine. Cha smiled in relief, not bothered by the big bad leaping over their heads or by anything other than the fact that Mia was unharmed. She was brought back to the present by hearing Olivia speaking frantically nearby. She and Lola had avoided the blast because they were standing back, so they'd both seen Jin get flung across the tarmac like a rag doll. Olivia was helping Jin sit up, with her right arm and leg rubbed raw and bleeding from the impact. Amber and DJ had been watching too, but then saw the baddie go after the car and get shot down. "Uh, what was that?" Amber asked. Caoimhe had stayed behind with Milo while Will and the girls drove off. She was relieved that Will wasn't about to get crushed by a flying alien. But that rock skin really reminded her of someone...

"I don't know," Cha said, looking around. "Oh shit!" She finally saw her sister all torn up further down the road, and got up to run over to her. Jin whimpered and instinctively grabbed her arm, but then winced in pain. "I-it's just road rash," she mumbled. She awkwardly stood up but her right leg hurt too much to put any weight on it so she had to hop. "Girl, c'mon," Olivia chastised, putting her arm around Jin's waist to support her. "Excuse me, Mrs Milo's mum?" she called out to Caoimhe, who she knew could heal things. Meanwhile in the car, the little girl was still crying. Lloyd was covering her ears, she hated toddler screams, but she was also looking closely at the girl. "This girl is not human," she shouted over the screaming to no one in particular. She looked human but different - her eyes were further apart, she couldn't have been older than a year from all the shrieking but she was longer limbed than usual babies, and also her ears were pointed. Either she was an enhanced human, or there was some link between her and the alien invader.

Jin whined a complaint, but then Cha pushed her from behind so that she stumbled against Drago. "Please and thanks," Cha said to him. Jin blushed like mad but didn't otherwise complain. "Oh, right," Caoimhe said in response to her son. She whipped around and went back to the others, seeing that Jin was all torn up. "Lemme take a look at that, honey," she said, kneeling down in front of her. "Yes," Lloyd said to William, getting out her phone and sending a message to the group chat. "The little girl is related to the big guy somehow. We can use this information to stop him." DJ and Amber got the message, and Amber looked at DJ with furrowed brows. "Uh, Deej. I've just had a terrible idea." "Who's this guy?" a voice said from beside Daniel. Aaliyah had heard there was an attacker and came to defend, but she found Daniel here first. Naturally. So she squatted on the building beside him in her upgraded outfit, but rather than looking down at Jr she was giving Daniel a look.

"Hmm, ya need to get this cleaned," Caoimhe advised. "If I heal ya skin, there'd just be gunk left underneath 'n it won't be disinfected. Sorry chick." "I-it's okay," Jin said, laying stiffly in Drago's arms. This would feel really nice if her limbs weren't stinging like hell and she wasn't super embarrassed. The little girl stopped crying when Will comforted her. It was odd, this man was comparatively much smaller and softer, but he reminded her of... "Dada," she whimpered, crawling into his lap and hugging him. Lloyd gave Will a look. "Dada?" Amber rubbed the back of her head. "Well, if the girl's connected to this guy then he might not attack if he sees her so... I-I could go to him as her. Y-you know?" Aaliyah saw Daniel looking starstruck and rolled her eyes, looking down towards this Golem-like being. "You're right," she said. "I'll ask him if they know each other." Without another word, she leapt gracefully from the building and plummeted towards the ground.

Jin smiled weakly but thankfully up at Drago. Cha looked torn, wanting to go with both her sister and Mia. Jin said something to her in Korean, and Cha snorted. They had a brief conversation, then Cha patted Drago's forearm. "Vamoose, big guy," she said. Then she and Mia went off to face the invader. "Right, all o' ya, get to SHADE," Caoimhe said to the rest of the teens. The ones left behind, including her son, were less combat capable. Sakura, however, was no where to be seen. She had wanted to be useful, so she'd already went to try and find Jr. Amber raised an eyebrow. "Uh, I'm not gonna ask," she said, before getting out her phone and texting Lloyd. She needed a picture of the girl to make sure she got it right, only having a glimpse earlier. Lloyd obliged with a small album of photos of the girl clinging to Milo's dad. Huh, weird... Anyway, Amber took off her arm-cast and slowly began to transform. Her clothes didn't change with her so when she became the little girl, she was swamped in big clothes. "This'll have to do," said the little girl in Amber's big girl voice, that was a little unnerving. Daniel really didn't have the right to tell Aaliyah what to do right about now. Aaliyah produced her metal staff and used it like a walking stick as she strode towards the alien. "Just concerned locals," she said nonchalantly. "Who're you?"

Caoimhe accompanied all the other teens who stayed. They were plenty capable on her own but Caoimhe's experience was needed in case things got out of hand. Besides, Olivia and DJ didn't have combat powers but they were staying, so someone had to protect them. "Oh, how did you get back here?" Caoimhe squawked in surprise when she saw the little baby girl from before. She scooped her up and went to turn away, to take the baby out of a potential combat zone. When Jr turned around, he found another pair of humans behind him, watching him cautiously. Tenpo and Zeke had arrived, fully suited and booted, having received the comms from SHADE. "We got all the time in the world for you, though," Aaliyah said from behind Jr, still walking towards him. "So how 'bout we chat, huh?"