Manny turned at the sound of the voice behind her. The fog obscured her view so she waved a hand vaguely in front of her and it lifted a little, revealing the figure of Nullman.
"I'm going to see what can be done about this storm. I assume there are other Heroes at the scene?"
"One or two" came a deep voice from the shadows, white eyes glowing as he stepped forward from the opressive gloom, "as we have clearly seen, this is no mere storm; but I am at a loss as to its origin, or a solution. I don't deal with this mystical voodoo. You got any ideas? If so - try them. I'll try and find a way to lower the water level - at least it has stopped raining."
And then as he turned he faded back into the shadows and was gone.
"Voodoo indeed." Manny muttered at the departing figure. She addressed Nullman, "Well, you can stand around looking moody or come with me and help. If this storm isn't to be affected by magic then no doubt we will need a back-up plan, if not several."
Manny resumed her march towards the column of hissing air. Within a couple of minutes she stood a short distance away, her hair fluttering wildly in the wind. The top of the spinning column was visible, snaking through the sky and it looked far too dangerous to attempt anything from a height.
Manny set down her shoulder bag and pulled her goggles back down over her eyes to shield them from any adverse effects. She studied the immediate area and located a suitably churned section of tarmac, the earth beneath was perfect. Concentrating her mind to a point, Manny drew the rock and dirt to her and managed to build a solid-looking fort of about a metre round her, facing the static tornado.
Then she raised her arms in a dramatic gesture and began muttering under her breath. Her personal windstorm picked up in pace, seemingly feeding off the energy of the phenomenon before her and causing the fog directly in front of her to dissipate. Manny had no idea if this would actually work but it was worth a try...
The fog thinned, the pillar fully visible as a swirling mass of thick black clouds and debris. Gradually, the black clouds became clearer and a visible shape could be seen at it's base. It began to glow, the clouds darkened again as a great bolt of lightning flew towards the weather controlling hero.
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Arrow leaps upwards landing on buildings. She aims an arrow at the centre kissing the flights. "Speed and accuracy." taking a deep breath she holds it pulls back the string and releases it at the glowing thing in the heart of the storm, it seems to sing as it flies then bursts into flames resembling a phoenix. She follows it's flight as it seems to gain speed the further it goes before jumping down landing directly behind Nullman. "Hey there." taking her MP3 from a pocket she puts the ear plugs in and pulls a beanie from the back of her waistband she puts it on. Playing Death Magnetic, Cyanide...
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The Walking Shadow stepped out of the darkness in the north of the district.
"There we go" he said, as he looked at the 3 massive flood gates beneath the war wall. Sighing, he mutters "let's get this done then", and after cracking his knuckles, super speeds across the waters surface to the base of the middle gate.
As he drew near, he leapt up to the top of the gate. Putting his feet against the wall, and his hands in the gap between the wall and the gate, he pushed back hoping to force the gates open a smidge.
But they wouldn't budge. Ah well, he thought, didn't think it would be that easy.
Standing back up, he looked over the construction of the gates, and noticed the 3 large hinges on each.
"There we are, i've seen better contructed clockwork" he said to himself.
Jumping high into the air, he drew his fists above his head; wrapping them in a layer of dark energy. As he came down like a stone, he gave 3 large swings.
He landed in the water just before the hinges did, swimming forward to avoid them, but unsuccesfully - the last one hit him the back, knocking the wind out of him.
As he turned, stunned and injured, the gate began its inevitable creep forward, as it tipped away from the wall.
That would help with the water, he thought, before realising his position, inability to move, and the falling 2 tons of metal.
The arrow flew it's course strait for where the object was seen, flying strait into the abyss of the swirling cloud. It disappeared, an audible plink could be heard beneath the rushing air, it hit something hard without effect.
The pillar carried on it's destruction strait for the Vanguard depot, members of Vanguard evacuating from the inevitable disaster.
Meanwhile, water levels around the city began to lower.
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"Oh I am so going to regret this. And this'll most likely hurt like hell but hey." She jogs off towards the storm leaping and summoning her flame sword landing in the centre lost from view....
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The young boy had watched the group of heroes from a distance, he didn't know if he should go over to them or stay away.
"Mummie.. she can do tricks with the soil too.." The boy said stareing towards Manny. ".. I know.. ok."
Suddenly he ran over, noticing the the pillar sending the bot at Manny he quickly threw a few of his seeds towards the ground infront of her.
There was a rumble as a set of large vines erupted from the ground and formed a sheild like wall in the path of the lighting bolt.
Barely before she landed, a great brass arm thrust towards her. With little time to react, she plunged the sword into the arm and used it to swing onto the metal behemoth, raising the sword again to slash at the mechanical creature when another arm hit her from the side, throwing her into the maelstrom. Spinning, she lost conciousness and was flung out to a nearby building's roof.
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The bolt hit the vines, setting them ablaze. Seemingly angry, the storm started to glow, firing several bolts towards the hero and any other heroes or civilians in the area,
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Apprently undamaged she disentagles herself from the wreckage and leaps back into the storm, ebtter prepared this time letting off a flurry of arrows before she lands
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The sound of metal hitting metal could be heard inside the storm as the hero landed inside a large, shined metal platform inside the storm. On the platform stood five great brass machines, each turning towards the single hero and raising their lightning guns.
They fired..
(( Edit: this is my last for the night, current situation is that to everyone outside of the storm it looks like the storm is just firing bolts of lightning and causing fast winds. After shooting the hero, they're going back to randomly shooting out of the storm and heading towards the Vanguard depot. Nobody jump in til tommorow plesh 
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She flies backwards, again, straight into the earthen wall...apprently unconcious or dead...She eventually disentangles herself again. "Dear god they hurt."
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((Ignoring Beet so that Manny has time to react ;P))
Manny saw the arc of lightnign heading straight for her and she had no time to move out of its way. She braced herself for the impact, hoping that she could dissipate its force with her own weather magic.
She heard a slightly unpleasant noise - a wall of large vines had erupted in front of her, blocking the lightning. Then she heard the whipcrack in the air of further bolts. The goggles protected her from any flying derbis but they also prevented her from seeing who had thrown her the lifeline.
She used the short breathing space to grab her shoulder bag and retreat away from the column of storm. Her own efforts at controlling it were obviously not working, so perhaps, with a little more space and time, she could create a counter-cyclone...
Sam drops to her feet and vaults the wall casually landing just a couple of foot to the left of the goggled woman, "G'day."
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Nullman raced forward and placed himslef between the retreating goggle wearing woman ...and the incoming bolts " regroup, to the rear time i feel ...you unharmed ?"
Nullman cast a worried eye back at the glowing storm heart .........
Manny took in Nullman and the athletic girl.
"Quite unharmed. Did you make those vines appear?" She directed her question to Nullman.
"And retreating sounds like a very good idea. If I can get to higher ground I might just be able to block the path of this unholy storm. Tell me, do you fly?"
Manny jogged backwards a little distance and shouted at the young woman still in the storm's path. "I'm not sure going head to head with that thing is a highly intelligent course of action."
.." me .. vines ? no green thumb here , flying ..now that i do do .." Nullman's metalic skin glowed with a inner light and he floated slowly upward untill three feet of the ground .." say the way and ill follow .."
The young boy reeled as the bolt hit the vines, grabbing his head and falling to the floor, seemingly in pain or more to the fact of his crys pleading for his friends to be ok.
"Awha.. noo.. noo.. please don't die.. please.." he cryed as a short wall of thick grass quickly incased him for a moment before dropping back down again, showing the burnt and disappearing vines back into the ground from once they came.
"no.. Mummie please make it go away.. I don't.. don't... want to fight.. it." he sobbed looking at the vines, before sniffing and rubbing his eyes quickly.
My son, do not cry, they will grow again, remember they will alway be there. Now you must help those people defeat this foul bad thing, please my son. A ghostly wisper from a leaf on his T-shirt seem to echo out.
"Yes, Mummie I will." He wispered back before running after the others.
Spots the small kid, "Hey there." pulls her bow from her back nooking an arrow and firing it, it flies then bursts into a phoenix clearly trying to distract them. "Right, they're big, mean, hit hard have lightning cannons and hurt one hellova lot." looks about, "Any chance of a healer around here after this for it will hurt like hell for me..."
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The young boy looked at to where the voice came from, noticing the woman and the bow then the flaming arrow which made him jump back a little.
"Erm.. hello.." he said looking to the Woman "A healher? whats that?" he asked looking puzzled at the Woman again.
The storm roared upon the depot, great clashes of lightning shooting the doors down, surrounding the entrance in it's great black cloud.
The fog began to seep out around the area, thunderous foot steps could be heard but their origin could not be seen, the storm had landed.
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"Healer, someone who can heal." spots the spreading fog, "Here we go. Crunch time." turns her MP3 up and pulls from nowhere a flaming sword(again) twirling it dexteriously she places her feet in a defensive stance
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the pollished metal skined form of Nullman strode passed the parked motorcycle.. and was about to offer to take the elderly woman to safety ,, when he spotted the energy and wind effects ....
calling out .." hey there , any idea whats going down .." he move to catch up ....