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Season Three Episode Seven: "They Call Me MISTER Tubbs" Chapter Three
Garix made the first move. While his soldiers were still struggling to remove their disguises and free their weapons from the cases, he leapt forward and grabbed Cornelia. "Let's see you mock me now!" he snarled.
Cornelia struggled, but couldn't get free. She reached down and used her powers to pull a large sharp rock from beneath the surface, ramming it into Garix at high speed. His armor held. "Didn't feel a thing." he said.
Taranee opened up with a stream of liquid fire, boiling into Garix's back side. He roared in pain but still didn't let his captive go. Elyon and Will launched a combined attack, lightning and pure focused light energy. The force of two strikes at once was enough, and Garix finally dropped Cornelia.
The Earth Guardian stood, wobbly. Irma landed next to her. "Corny are you okay?" she asked.
Anger filled Cornelia's face. "No I'm not. I. Do. Not. Like. Spiders!" She knelt and struck the floor. "Earth!" Large vines and roots erupted from the ground and entangled Garix, but it wasn't effective. He freed himself in moments.
And then the soldiers got their weapons free…
Outside the glamour zone, no one could see what was really happening. Matt decided confusion was the best way to keep people away, so he created illusions of several different dangers to frighten people away. Some heard gunshots, the rattle of semiautomatic assault rifles. Others felt vibrations suggesting an imminent roof collapse. A third group saw the crackling flames of a huge raging fire.
When the screaming started, Caleb and Miranda were trying to get Martin as far away as possible. Miranda tried to distract him with talk of the shelter, and how she could get into a regular volunteer role. Caleb suggested they get something to eat. It was all for naught. The instant Martin realized something bad was happening back at the convention floor, he also realized Irma was still there. He turned and ran towards the battle.
Caleb and Miranda tried to stop him, but his rush was so sudden and unexpected that he gained valuable time on them. As they ran, Miranda said "You certainly can't question his courage."
"Or his devotion to Irma." Caleb agreed. "She's a lucky girl, or will be if he doesn't get himself killed." Miranda didn't reply, too afraid to think of finally making a friend and then losing him.
Cornelia was out of the battle. Garix had nearly squeezed the breathe out of her and the attempt to ensnare him had taken the last of the fight out of her. Hay Lin went invisible and began trying to pick off the soldiers. She was having some success, but though they looked human they were much hardier.
Will and Elyon took positions on either side of the battlefield, protected from the soldier's energy weapons by broken piles of concrete. They were taking shots when they could, but until more of the soldiers were down they wouldn't get many chances.
Irma and Taranee combined water and fire to fill the room with steam, reducing visibility. Once this was done, Taranee retreated to the back, where she tried to help Hay Lin with the soldiers. She couldn't even be seen back there from the front, due to the steam.
This left Irma at the front, trying to keep Garix busy. This may have been the best arrangement, as it turned out the uncompressible nature of water let her get in some strikes that actually hurt him through his armor. As she dueled with the fearsome prince, she heard a phone ringing nearby.
"This is Elyon. Caleb? I'm a little busy right now, what's- Aw no! Can you stop him? Okay, we'll get ready." she hung up. Thought to the others, "Martin got away from Caleb and Miranda. He's almost inside the glamour zone."
"No!" Irma thought. "He's gonna see me, and then…" The thought didn't bear contemplating.
Martin ran towards the sound of gunfire. He was terrified, but that didn't matter. Irma was in danger, and he had to- "What the heck?" In one step, Martin went from hearing the sounds of gunfire to finding himself in a fog filled room. There was obvious damage to the structure. Flashes of light, like laser beams, streaked through the fog. A huge monster was roaring and swinging it's arms and legs at a flying being.
Martin focused on the monster's opponent. It looked like the costume Irma had been wearing in the video. In fact, he now realized, it was Irma. She was making water surge from broken pipes and strike her opponent. "This can't be special effects." he whispered. "But that means…"
As Irma tried to figure out what to do, Garix suddenly turned away from her. "He knows!" The prince shouted. "HE KNOWS!" Garix rushed away from Irma.
Irma looked in the direction Garix was running. There stood Martin. She screamed him name, "Martin! Martin RUN!" She found herself flying to intercept Garix, moving faster than she ever had before. Interposed herself between them. Garix swatted her away like it was nothing. She blacked out when she hit the wall.
Martin watched in horror as the creature swatted Irma aside. He ran to her, knelt at her side. "She's still breathing. At least there's that. I hope she doesn't have a concussion." At the sound of heavy footsteps Martin turned to face the beast. Wanted to throw up. Instead said, "Stay away from my friend you creep."
Garix laughed. "You don't understand. I don't need her anymore. It's you I'm here for." With that he grabbed Martin, knocked him unconscious, turned, and used a transit crystal to open a fold back to Varthan.
Miranda watched as Garix opened the fold. "This had better qualify for the 'life or death' exemption in my probation." she thought, "But even if it doesn't he is NOT getting a friend of mine." She turned into a spider and shot a strand of webbing across the floor between Garix and the fold. In the thick mist he didn't notice it. She then switched forms to the strongest animal in her repertoire, a Meridian Rhinox.
At just the right moment, Miranda pulled on the strand of spider web. It lifted slightly, and Garix tripped over it. As he worked to regain his footing, Miranda prepared to turn into a bird and fly in to grab Martin from his grasp.
This proved unnecessary, when Will flew in from out of the fog and grabbed Martin instead. Garix grabbed for Will's legs but missed, and before he could recover Hay Lin became visible just behind him. "Air!" she shouted, and shot a swirling stream of air that knocked the unbalanced Prince off his feet and into the fold.