A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 39: Painful Secrets Revealed

The echoing of the fresh cut diamonds hitting the metal of Counterstrike's (Tonya) arm cuffs filled the warehouse amongst the rest of the cacophony of the battle. Counterstrike absorbed every hit that Diamond (Karen) throw at her, and she played the defensive side of the battle.

Finally, Counterstrike pushed back against Diamond to gain her footing. "My turn," Counterstrike smirked in her thick British accent before taking off running towards Diamond, who had found new diamonds to fight with. Counterstrike threw her forearm across to shatter Diamond's diamonds and then threw a punch straight across Diamond's face with all her absorbed energy. She watched as Diamond fell to the ground and stalked over her.

Diamond used her feet to push Counterstrike back and away from her as she jumped up onto her feet as quick as possible. She took tiny pieces of ice from Frostbite's (Seth) shattered blast and transformed them into multiple tiny diamond daggers. She quickly threw them towards Counterstrike.

Counterstrike balled her fists up as she prepared herself for the impact. She skillfully blocked the diamonds with her arm cuffs, but two got by her and cut her cheek. She stood there staring at Diamond as the blood slowly rolled down her cheek.

"Did that hurt?" Diamond asked sarcastically in her French accent.

Counterstrike calmly wiped the blood from her cheek with the back of her blue glove, "Not at all." She smirked as she felt her body absorb the hit from the diamonds.

Frostbite shot a slide of ice in front of him as he rode towards Shocker (Lucas). He graceful followed the slide from side to side as he came closer and closer to Shocker.

"You never learn do you?" Shocker laughed in his thick Scottish accent as he rubbed his gloved hands together. He turned his hands out towards the slide and sent out a large ball of electricity that hit the slide. The entire slide shattered in the air.

Perfect. Frostbite thought as he pushed off the slide and flipped in the air above Shocker. He held his hands out straight and shot a blast of ice directly down on Shocker.

Shocker looked above him and dove out of the way, but the edge of his black trench coat froze over and shattered as it hit the ground. His brown eyes with gold flecks looked over at his trench coat and then back over at Frostbite. "That was my favorite jacket."

"My bad," Frostbite said sarcastically with a nonchalant shrug as he prepared to shot again.

"You're damn right your bad," Shocker grunted as he shot a bolt of electricity out at Frostbite.

Clutch (Noah) dove down from the air and scooped Frostbite up by the biceps just in time to miss the lightening bolt. "Thanks," Frostbite sighed as he looked up at Clutch.

"No problem," Clutch nodded as he dropped Frostbite on the ground carefully and then landed next to him. His large grey gargoyle wings folded behind his back as he stood next to Frostbite staring at Shocker.

Clutch leaned over and picked up a large scientific equipment that looked much like a strange kaleidoscope and lifted it above his head. For any other person, they wouldn't have been able to lift it, let alone lift it above his or her head. If they had, it would have squashed and killed them easily, but Clutch held it above his head easily. He took a deep breath in and then threw the large equipment at Shocker with a loud grunt.

Shocker's brown eyes grew large as he watched the flying equipment fly towards him. He rubbed his hands together and then laid them on the ground softly. Please let this work. He prayed and soon a shower of lightening bolts broke through the ceiling and shattered the large equipment with blast after blast.

Clutch and Frostbite covered their eyes with their forearms as the bright explosion echoed throughout the warehouse.

Sam's bike flew through the debris of the warehouse gates and came to a skidding halt outside of the warehouse. She violently removed her black motorcycle helmet to let her auburn hair fall freely. She stalked up to the warehouse in her uniform, which was a black one shoulder strap shirt with a red X on the strap and black pants that laced up with a red string.

She walked through the gaping hole in the warehouse and glanced at the debris of the guards laying around the hole with her hazel-green eyes. Her eyes glanced from side to side as she searched desperately amongst the carnage for the reason she was there. She wasn't there for her team, for the battle, she was there for revenge.

Clutch hovered in the air and his grey-blue eyes caught sight of Rage (Sam) and gasped. Sam… "Frostbite, take over!" He shouted down as he quickly flew over to her.

He softly landed next to her, "Sam," he gasped, "I- I thought you weren't coming back." He waited a couple of seconds and saw that she was in some strange trance as she scanned over the fighting mutants as if looking for something, or someone.

Rage's hazel-green eyes fell upon Caution (Lyndsey) and in an instant her body turned into it's half-cat form. Her fingertips grew into long claws, and her hazel-green eyes flashed into a deep yellow with slit irises. "CAUTION!" She screamed out across the warehouse, which echoed amongst everyone.

Clutch looked over at Caution and then saw the pure hatred in Rage's eyes as if she was going to kill Caution. "Rage calm down. That's our teammate." He reminded her.

She turned sharply and looked at Clutch in fury, "She is no teammate of mine."

"Rage calm down." He tried to say sternly.

"She killed Ghost! I will not be calm!" She screamed and then turned back to look at Caution, "Not until she's dead."

Clutch felt his heart sink as he looked at the anger in Rage's eyes and realized that it was more pain than anything. He looked at Caution, who didn't seemed offended or afraid of Rage. That would explain everything…