Escape velocity.

[certaindoom]

Colonel Parker's crew of fools has been subjugated, and now Doom strides through the corridors, leading this motley assortment of fodder and strategically concealing the group from prying security eyes.

"Grimm," Doom says, in a condescending tone. "Do you have an adequate craft, or shall I summon my own?"

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[rogue_starsr]

Sarah throws Mjolnir at this Gallo person, trying to keep the heavy hitter off her group, as usual, at least until they've engaged so she can try and put her plan into action, surprised that there wasn't actually any disagreement.

[amazin_friends]

Special Agent Gallo, codenamed Ricochet, is a mutant. Highly enhanced agility and moderately enhanced strength, limited spatial awareness, and a reflexive form of precognition, identical to Parker's lot. He's a little disappointed he doesn't get a chance to go after the other spider-type, but he's already flinging himself at Dusk.

Once he sees a flying stone hammer coming at him, however, he realizes he's got other concerns. He bails off his glider, switching it to auto-pilot, bounding to the ceiling and then towards the floor again. He reaches for a disc off of each sleeve, hurling them towards Sarah. They bounce off the floor once, then explode into flashbangs, as he bounds over her. "Y'know, normally I like being the prettiest one in a fight, but I'm finding it hard to care right now."

[amazin_friends]

"You talk too much Gallo."

Special Agent Gilmore, codenamed Prodigy, is in the minority of the Excel Squadron, not having any powers without his suit, but has faced every form of unarmed combat SHIELD training can offer, which is quite a lot. And he DOES have his suit at the moment. A suit that makes him strong enough to hold up most of a collapsing building.

Glad that the shield-toter apparently mistook who the lieutenant was talking to, he seizes the opening. As the flashbangs go off, he rushes forward at top speed on his glider, swinging his fist in with a staggering hook to the gut. His strength, while high level, isn't Hulk-level, but they got the word on where their opponents were already injured.

[rogue_starsr]

Suddenly blinded, Sarah shifts back to her father's training quickly, feigning being rendered helpless, she brings the shield up to ward off immediate attack.
Spider agility... damnit.

When she feels him bounding over her, she turns, slamming a fist into the concrete ground to make his landing point uneven and harder to maneuver on, only to get hit in the back, right in the ribcage before she can make her follow up attack. She stumbles forward, then drops, raising the shield and listening for the glider engines as she shifts her thinking and tactics for a two on one.

[amazin_friends]

Gallo yelps as his footing collapses underneath him, toppling forwards and rolling onto the ground. He looks up at... the same girl? Well that's... unusual.

"Uh... hi. So... twins? You know, you two could make a killing in porn." He grins behind his mask before he hurls a disk at her and bounds backwards from his prone position.

[house_of_mystiq]

"Nah, we sell gum."

Raven flattens to the ground. The disk whirls over her head, neatly slicing through a few stray hairs. The tips of the blonde strands turn blood red for an eyeblink.

She can't fly, but she can put a little extra spring in her step. Raven runs after him, leaping hard and hoping the bit of distracting pseudo-flight flare she puts into the jump doesn't put her too far off course for slamming into his back.

[uneasy_rider]

"Yer disgust'n!!" And with that, the flames start to glow around her.

[amazin_friends]

Rather than pull away from his proximity, Gilmore grabs for a leg, trying to hurl her back towards the end of the hangar furthest from the transport.

[rogue_starsr]

He's learned everything that SHIELD could teach him, she was trained by Captain America, with a few dirty tricks from Carol Danvers.
She certainly hasn't had his breadth of experience yet, but she's no slouch, and her gifts are all her own.

She feels herself being hurled - and recalls that Pete hadn't known she could fly - maybe these jokers didn't get the memo.

She catches herself in mid-air, spinning back around and leading with the shield in a charge back to the point she was thrown from, trying to catch him off guard with sheer speed, since he's still an indistinct dark spot in her sight, with a bunch of little flashing lights in her vision.

[amazin_friends]

Prodigy grunts as the shield slams into him, barely managing to raise his arms to grip it. The angle of the impact pushes him towards the floor, and the glider shatters under the combined strength of Sarah's charge and his resistance, feeling a rattling in his arm's bones. Another ten feet, and his heels are gouging into the floor, as he tightens his grip, and swings the shield up over his head, trying to slam Sarah to the floor before she can detach herself from the shield's straps.

[rogue_starsr]

Sarah doesn't even try to detach her arm from the shield, letting herself be slammed to the floor instead. Last thing she wants is to be without her shield.
The slam hurts, but it puts her at a position under cover, particularly important when she calls Mjolnir back to her hand - except that its going to have to go through the guy holding her shield on its way.

[amazin_friends]

Let the others play their delaying tactics. Their tranquilizers and teleporting and bouncy disks and laughing and whatever the hell else. He is Prodigy, and he HITS THINGS. He brings as many punches as he can connect with at Sarah's ribs and midsection. As he pulls back for another one, the hammer catches it on it's return flight, and even with the suit's durability, bends in a way nature probably never intended.

"That's... one limb." He groans. "I've got more." He knows his only option is to deny her the use of her weapons, now that she's got one in each hand. He closes any gap she gives, grabbing for her hammer wrist with his remaining good hand, and kicking and kneeing away with force.

[rogue_starsr]

Ow....ow...ow...ow.

There's a reason she gets the bricks. She's the durable one. She can take the hits.
She's the strong one. She can, and has been trading punches and kicks, though she has less leverage to get power behind them than he does.
World after world, she's taken the hits so no one lese has to, and its catching up with her. Sure, she heals. Sure, Venom wasn't the Hulk, and neither is this guy. But it adds up, and she's slowing down.
The strain of the flurry is starting to tear the makeshift brace Mystique made, his next couple punches draw blood. Slowing down one limb helps, but not nearly as much as she'd like, and she knows this isn't going to work forever.

She rolls in the direction of that bent limb hard, trying to roll the fight over enough to let her get her feet under her, trying to get both of them airborne.
He can hang on if he wants, they're going for a flight.

[amazin_friends]

Prodigy feels every hit she manages that connects, and lets out a shout of surprise as they go airborne again. He already knows he's not likely to win this fight, but this is all he can do. In pure physicality, he's stronger than any of his teammates, even without the costume, but he's still just a person. Not superpowered, not mystical, not enhanced, not a genius. He recognizes the resolve in Sarah's face, because he understands being there himself.

"No quarter asked." He can't wisecrack like Ricochet or Urich, can't be heroic or insightful like Hornet, or give himself the luxury of remorse like Dusk, but he feels he owes it to his opponent, a good person by all accounts, to say something. And he keeps up the assault.

[rogue_starsr]

"I wish I could show mercy here." she replies, evan as she's kicking back at him, her hands mostly occupied and held. "I don't want to hurt you... just save your world. But I know you guys won't back off... so I'm sorry."

She might win a punchout, but then she'll be that much more hurt when they're on Galactus' ship... with the Cat... she knows all about the Cat. And who knows what else?
She knows she has to do this quick. So she tries to fight smart.

She keeps climbing, smashing through the cover overhead, trying to distract him while they climb, and climb, and climb... before trying to get his wrist tangled in Mjolnir's thong without him noticing, since he's trying to keep her weapons engaged.

[amazin_friends]

As the prison island recedes beneath them, Prodigy suddenly stops, as the cold upper atmospheric wind jets around them, he clutches the hammer for dear life as she holds it.

"You win." The conflict is audible in his voice and his (limited) body language. "Even if I punch you out, I'll die if I fall from here. I'm... too beaten already. I can't speak for anyone else, but just put me down and I'm finished. I'm not here to kill or be killed."

The blood from his snapped left arm has already soaked through much of that part of the costume.