Mall

"I can see all your secrets..." Psycho cackled...and then stopped. "What?!" he shrieked as he found himself unable to enter Romeo's mind. "You're blocking me out! How?! HOW?!" In his fury, he was unable to see Romeo's hand reach out. The blade missed, but Romeo's hand enclosed around the gas mask. A small tug, and it slipped off.

Under the gas mask was a pale, grey face, with short black hair. Psycho's eyes were black and empty; there was nothing, no life, no soul behind them. Scars were all over his face, burn marks accompanying them. His mouth was thin and his lips were as grey as the skin of his face. It was a horrible sight, but that was the least of Romeo's worries.

A raging, deranged, painful roar escaped from Psycho's mouth as the entire mall began to shake. Everything suddenly began flying around; nothing was left stationary. Pillars and other large, fixed objects were completely shattered into dust, and windows were entirely shattered into a fine grain. The lights in the mall began to flicker on and off as people smashed into the floor, heavy objects smashing into people, while in the centre of it all Psycho hung in the air, his scream echoing through the mall. It was absolute chaos; a small show of Armaggeddon in the mall.

And then, it was over. The lights stopped flickering; the objects that were left fell to the ground. It was a gruesome, horrific scene; the bodies of hundreds of people littered the mall; blood and gore was splashed against the walls and the floor. And Psycho was gone; his last, primal roar seemed to continue to echo in the mall. And in the centre of it all lay a gas mask.

The roar that came from beneath the gasmask seemed as though it would tear Romeo's mind apart. But he had no time to think, as he was suddenly tinged with a red glow that seemed to block out everything, even his own thoughts, and a second later he found himself flying backwards. Whatever he hit first broke his spine and shattered, and then something heavy crushed the armor of his right arm, as well as the bone, several such injuries occured, until finally his armor shattered away completely, and he fell to the ground several hundred yards from where he had started. Unconcious, he was helpless to anything else that might happen, and it took a moment before his body began to slow process of regenerating damaged cells, tissues, and other things.
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Hunter had started to inch forward as Romeo has seemed to undergo some monsterous transformation. It hurt his heart, somehow, to see such a thing, but then he was also assaulted by the huge wave of energy that came with the roar. Reaching down with his clawed left hand he dug in, keeping his ground and letting the area of psychic energy her had created fade away. Then, knowing that some of the others could never withstand such an attack, he reached out to their minds. First contact was made with Westlyn, then Alex, then, reluctantly, with Natasha. he wasn't able to hold them in place, however, he did manage to enclose them all in a sort of psychic bubble that would keep them from being crushed or impaled, though they would still be sent flying and be tossed around quite a bit.

(and, i'll wait for everyone else to post before i make another. sorry guys, just needed the battle to move on)

Natasha saw psycho's mask fly off and some of the rage which she had been overcome with left her if as his active influence ended along with him. As he was apparently burnt up with nothing else left behind but his gas mask the mall shook, howling and crumbled with people flying everywhere. The mass of the metal was helping her to stay in place but then it began to melt off her skin and onto the ground as a liquid momentarily before reforming as a solid chuck of metal, "Oh shi-" Was all Mimic managed to mutter before she was blast back, she felt another presence in her mind but this time it was the MTD agent called Hunter. He would see how broken her mind was, how she saw everything to be a threat and how scared she truly was before she gripped her head, screaming for him to get out, "No! No! No!" Nat babbled as she smacked into another wall and then into the wiring again, it electrocuted her and the added surge of energy changed something in her, making her body more suited to absorbing energy. When the blast from Psycho finally ceased she was convulsing on the ground, she seemed to be trying to claw something out of the skin on her arms. Sparks leapt from the openings on her hands and arms, her eyes and some of her body started to glow slightly.

When the boy had flown in front of her, Alexis covered her mouth, muffling her own yell. She couldn't handle seeing something like that so close up, she turned and vomited the contents of her stomach before her body racked with sobs, she was terrified. After a moment she took the risk of turning the corner to look at the battle, what she saw made her freeze up, she hadn't expected there to be so much carnage, so much destruction. It had been all she could do to keep from vomiting again. She quickly turned away running the few steps as fast as she could, and closed her eyes tight. She couldn't seem to make the images go away, she knew she shouldn't have looked, she would never be able to make those images go away. Alexis sunk to her knees, sobbing quietly. It was at that moment when she didn't notice anything else, she probably wouldn't have even open her eyes to see the lights flicker, had she not heard the terrible scream that erupted from Psycho's lips.

She felt something almost foreign enter her mind, but didn't have much time to think about it as she was flung off the ground. She flew a good distance before hitting something, probably a tree of some sort, breaking a few ribs in the process. She fell to the ground in what seemed to be slow-motion, almost unable to even scream. She then fell to the ground, she had remembered enough to cover her head, hoping to keep it from hitting something. Once she was sure it was over, Alexis slowly started to try and sit up, wincing at the pain, tears rolling down her cheeks. She looked around, she had no clue where she was, that wasn't good at all.

The events that followed him getting smashed into the cars had happened in the blink of an eye. Once he regained all his composer he noticed that Romeo had taken off Psycho's mask. His face was one of pain and abuse it was hard for him to look at it. Just as quick as the mask was taken off Psycho had disappeared but not without creating the most chaos Dustin had ever seen in his life. The scream that he heard from Psycho mixed with the agonizing screams of women, men, and child inside and outside of the mall. His body was impaled with glass and other debris but that was nothing that he could handle it was the screams. Because of his mutation he had extra sensitive hearing and could hear the pain in every part of the screams of the people. He could hear the fear of death and the want to continue life in the voices of the people which was causing his brain to throb. He fell to his knees in pain holding his head as the loud noise began to hurt his ears.

Just then something inside Dustin's brain had snapped and he was overcome by rage. This rage was something that he had never felt before in his life it had taken control so fast and there was nothing he could do to stop it. Letting out a roar of his own he stood and you could see the complete rage in his eyes. He was slowly losing control of himself and he knew it. He had to get out of there and quick before he did something he would regret. Looking over at his friends as they regrouped together a single tear fell from his eye. Then he ran as fast as he could until the mall was nothing but a speck in the distance.

What happened next happened rather quickly. far too quickly for any of the mutants to really understand what was going on until it was already too late to really do anything about it. Five mutants appear at the edge of the destruction, the MTD SWAT team, and another MTD agent known simply as Reaper. "Well...looks like I'll have my work cut out for me..." Reaper says, his scythe over his shoulder, and he begins to scour the area for bodies, determining which ones might still be alive, and out of those which ones might actually live. Then, swooping in, he makes his way from one to the other, and if he finds something to horrble to have once been called human, he slashes it with his scythe, and it, and all traces and memories of it, dissapear from existance.

The others begin their job as well. A woman known as Hinder claps her hands together and sets up a large barrier around the entire mall and the surrounding area. This barrier cannot be seen from the outside, and none may enter, though those inside can leave through it. From the inside it looks like a huge, bright pink dome. Hinder, along with Bind, a younger girl who looks alot like her, begin following behind Reaper, helping those he left behind, moving bodies, and other such things. Another member known as Feather begins moving debris as if they were nothing.

Soon the area has been cleared, all rubble moved aside, all bodies that still existed accounted for. Target, the last member, holds a touch screen phone with a list of pictures and names, and if he finds anyone on the list among the bodies he marks them off and continues on, but so dar, nothing. Until he comes across the gasmask. Smiling he checks off the name Psycho from the list. Once all of this is done the survivers are brought together. Most of the mutants are gone by now, but Hunter and Romeo are found and brought to the General.

"Hunter, go and have yourself checked out by the medics..." General margrave says, before looking at his son. "Romeo...what were you thinking? Running off like that, look how many people have died because of this."

"And what would you have done?" Romeo asks. "Could you have done any better? You never caught that bastard before, but I was able to destroy him...and yes, it might have taken more lives, but if it were up to you me and all my friends would be test subjects right now!"

"Romeo, that isn't true. I was trying to gather all of you up so I could recruit you and-" the General's words stop when his son spits in his face.

"Father...General, this is the last you've seen of your son. The next time you see this face, it'll be smiling as all of the MTD crumbles around it." Romeo says, turning, flipping the old man off, and then walking towards the barrier. Target walks over and asks the General if he should take care of the boy, but the General shakes his head and watches as Ronin dissapears into the desert.