"Helping duh!" Kid Flash grinned, zipping around a pair of crime lords.
Their eyes grew dizzy as they watched him blur past.
"I told you no! How'd you find us!" Moontail snarled, seeing Stellar's sheepish smile, she yelled, "You told him!"
"I did not!" Stellar defending herself, freezing a person's feet, "I only suggested he play on the laptop!"
"Where we have all our stuff!" Moontail argued.
"Not the point! We need to wrap this up!" Mistress snapped, pinning a gunman don with a knife.
"Just as Moontail opened her mouth, sure to yell at Kid Flash for something, the earth shook, breaking Stellar's ice holds and causing everyone in the alley to fall over.
"Well well, how nice of you to show up to our little meeting," ShadowMist sneered, coming out from behind Brute.
Before one of them could warn him, ShadowMist grabbed his arms and pulled him over her head, slamming him behind her on the ground. She spun kicking him deep into the earth.
He screamed in pain as she laughed cruelly.
"How quaint that you formed a little team, even bringing along your pet!" She snickered.
"Enough!" mistress snarled, flinging half a dozen knives as Risk fired two more arrows. She melted them with a fiery kiss.
She ducked into the crowd of crime lords, fighting both heroes and criminals, tossing them all aside like dirt. Pounding the earth, blowing kisses and changing her density she was no match for guns or projectiles by either side. Kid Flash saw in horror as she tore down the heroes.
She snuck around Mistress, choking her then causing the earth to roll up underneath Iris, she used the girl's lack of concentration to set a fire around her in a circle, trapping her.
She whipped around and flew upwards, knocking down Risk and Hellfire, forcing the earth to rip apart and pummel them. Snarling she returned her attention to Brute, sending a burning chunk of rock into him and causing the earth to swallow Mistress's legs trapping her.
She knocked Stella away and set a fire burning in front of her as she laid down knocked out. She turned to Moontail with a sick and twisted smile.
"Now for you," She grinned.
She proceeded to hand to claw combat with Moontail. She snaked in and out of Moontail's claws laughing sadistically before delivering a fiery uppercut.
Moontail landed on the roof of the nightclub knocked out.
"Oh I'm sorry, my manners speed boy! Allow me to give a kiss!" ShadowMist launched herself at Kid Flash actually catching him in mid run and beating him. He managed to block most of the hits, but with the earth rolling underneath him and a fire burning on his right side, he got distracted falling back.
When a crudely shaped ice hammer slammed over ShadowMist, Kid Flash sped away as Stellar whipped the water in the alley into a strong ice wall.
"Get out!" She roared, "Now!"
The others still struggling to get up or free themselves tried harder with more vigor. Kid Flash sped up the nightclub where Moontail knocked him away.
"Get everyone back to the Peak now! ShaadowMist is mine!"
"We need a plan!" Kid Flash protested.
"I have one, you leave, I get her!" She snarled, teleporting around ShadowMist delivering a flurry of punches and kicks.
"No way am I leaving you!" Brute roared, freeing himself and Mistress from the rocks that imprisoned them.
"We'll go when we stop breathing!" Mistress snarled, swinging her whip around ShadowMist.
"I got her, cover your eyes!" Iris yelled, once Kid Flash grabbed her from the circle of hell.
They turned their eyes away as Iris let lose all the light in the alley in one strong blast from her hands, blinding ShadowMist.
"Aah!" ShadowMist roared, slamming down on the earth, sending the heroes flying.
She caught an arrow in her hand, turning to Risk with fury.
"You think an arrow will stop me?" She asked incredulous, "How pathetic!"
She snapped the steel arrow in two and blew a kiss at him and Hellfire.
Before they could be burnt, Kid Flash swiped them away.
"What now?" He asked, "Since we've got no plan,"
"All of you leave, you know this is our fight!" Moontail roared, Stellar shook her head.
"We need everyone Moontail, even Kid Flash,"
"We can't-" Moontail's retort was cut short as a torrent of fire raged over their heads. The group dived off to the sides, surrounding ShadowMist in the center.
"You can't win!" Kid Flash yelled, "It's 8 of us against one of you!"
"Oh but I don't want them!" She smiled, changing her form to smoke and fog.
"Watch your backs," Mistress warned, eyeing her surroundings.
"Aah!" Kid Flash screamed as he got jerked up by the throat.
"You're right that there's 8 of you," ShadowMist's voice snaked in his ear, "But I could break all of your necks in a second!"
As she spoke, tendrils wrapped up and around everyone's neck, choking them.
"You came from another world, you traveled her between the barriers and through the Godslight," She hissed menacingly in his ear, sending shivers down his spine, "You are the only one who knows how to hold the Godslight. You have exactly 24 hours to tell me how. Once I saw you fall out of lightning and storm, I knew the stories were true to pass through realms with its power. Tell me how and I'll consider allowing your friends to be my slaves in the new world."
"And if I don't?" Kid Flash spat.
"Then I'll break their backs, rip out their throats and let their hearts bleed dry," ShadowMist's voice curled viscously, "Including your precious girlfriend Artemis and your best friend Nightwing."
The smoke choked each of the heroes one by one, each of them vulnerable to her twisted gray forms. When Kid Flash was the only one standing she growled in his ear. Her cruel slick voice fading as she choked him down to the pavement.
"You have 24 hours boy, I suggest you don't waste it. I'll be at the Hollywood Bowl. Don't be late or I'll find a way through the barriers myself and to your Team's soul!"