Eternity

[lord_mordru]

Even for one as powerful as he, The Dark Lord has been put to the test. The Rock of Eternity long stood as a keystone for the shifting realities of the multiverse; as stabilizing element if you will. Having been shattered, it’s orderly influence upon ‘reality’ had begun to wane. Even now, other powers vied to wrest control over the nature of

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[jla_villains]

Fate's grand entrance has everyone's attention, Sorrow not the least of them.

"Oh good, what's an Apocalypse without lambs to the slaughter?"

A half step forward toward the oncoming heroes as he reaches for his mask...

[blind_will]

This time the lantern navigates purely by sound. He invisibly navigated over to Sorrow, and then all but shut the ring off.
He's pickpocketed hundreds of people completely blind. With someone as loud-mouthed as Sorrow, this is child's play.
Focusing, he shifts into the same phase as Sorrow, and reaches out to tap him on the shoulder from behind before he gets the mask off.

[jla_villains]

The tap on the shoulder takes Sorrow completely off guard. In a moment of bewilderment, he actually turns to look. His hand inches away fro his mask.

[blind_will]

Travis uses the moment of surprise to best advantage, swinging his hand, enhanced by the ring, in a precise punch. His goal really isn't to hurt Sorrow. While highly skilled at this blind fighting thing, his real goal is to keep the villain pre-occupied with him for the moment, until he can get him to take the mask off where no one else is going to see Sorrow but him.

An odd plan, maybe, but Travis specializes in those. And yes, he really does have a plan here.

[jla_villains]

Though Travis is blind, that fact is not readily apparent to Sorrow. The young Lantern's skill and ring assisted navigation makes him appear to have a fully functioning range of senses.

"Thought I killed you kid." cracks Sorrow, as he stumbles to regain his stance. Travis' blow would have KO'd a normal human, but The King of Tears transformed Sorrow into something entirely inhuman.

"You got lucky once. They say 'third time's the charm' but with cutbacks these days? I'll settle for two."
With unnatural resliency, the one time street criminal is back on his feet with fists swinging. A decade of duking it out with the original JSA as a mortal man has provided Sorrow with his own set of competency in 'fisticuffs'.

[blind_will]

Travis doesn't need to see for the ring to provide at least minimal shielding. Fortunate, since Sorrow is certainly better than average at taking a swimg. Thankfully, he's noisy too. The first punch is sidestepped, the second just forces him back a step.
"I thought you killed me last time for a while there, but looked away at the last second. Don't expect a second chance." he replies, firing off a blast intended to miss by a little bit over Sorrow's shoulder, the effect starting to look like chains and a mask - the tactic he was told Kyle used last time. It won't work twice, but isn't supposed to, just trying to keep Sorrow's attention on Travis and goad him a little more.

[jla_villains]

It's true, Sorrow is a talker. In fact, he won't shut up.

"You missed punk!" he crows, unaware of the construct behind him.
"Playtime's over kid. This is your stop."
Squarely facing Travis, with his back to the others, he pulls off his mask.

[blind_will]

He hears the sound of the mask being removed, feigning a look of shock and horror, then clutching at his chest.
The small grin comes right before the construct wraps around Sorrow's 'headspace' from behind, covering it up completely for everyone else.
As soon as the danger is under cover, Travis makes a grab for the mask to make sure Sorrow can't shift phase and escape Sand, then the lantern heads for higher ground well out of reach, focusing only on keeping Sorrow's face wrapped up, and shifting Sand into the same phase he and Sorrow share.
Helpfully, that keeps pretty much anyone else from touching him or Sand either.

*All yours.* he sends telepathically to the JSA'er, much more capable of going toe to toe with a blinded Sorrow, skill-wise, than Travis is.

[sand_hawkins]

And then it happens. A nearby rock begins to shimmer...and sand arises from it, forming a humanoid shape.

That's 10 feet tall and full of bad intentions to a man he's had issues with for half a century.

The best part was that Sorrow literally couldn't see it coming.

A haymaker with all the strength of his silicoid form lands hard into the solarplexus of Johnny Sorrow.

[jla_villains]

Sorrow doubles over and grunts in pain. The air would rush out of his lungs from the blow, if he still had lungs.

One hand on the ground as the other struggles to undo the mask.

Sorrow gasps.
"Is that you Sandy? Feels like your gentle touch.
What's wrong Dandy-Sandy? Afraid to look old Johnny in the eye?
Old Wes woulda had more courage, but then he's worm food, isn't he?"

[sand_hawkins]

Sand then moves in a surprising way to Sorrow...he hammerlocks Sorrow's arm behind his back while stomping on the hand on the ground. He then lifts Sorrow by the hammerlocked arm and slams him on the ground, cinching the hammerlock with his left arm while bringing his right arm across the mask, then interlocking hands.

Two things strike Sorrow. One, Sand is far, FAR stronger than he was before. Two, the move combination he just experienced isn't Sand's normal fighting style. It was something, however, that the Sandman used on him when they first fought.

"I'm right here, Sorrow. And you can thank Eclipso for my increased abilities. This...ends...now."

Sand creates additional pressure across the head as he cinches up on the arm.

[jla_villains]

Sorrow gurgles, at first unable to speak, as he struggles in vain to get free.

Sand's new strength is both surprising and unsettling. Even so, Sorrow has a mouth on him.

"G..kk.gg.. hard to breath.. gg...in this mask.. chkkk. Care..care to take it off?"

[blind_will]

Not going to happen. Travis remains apart from most of the battles, much as he'd like to help elsewhere. This one cog is too critical. He keeps Sand out of phase, and keeps the green mask over Sorrow's features, locking his mask in place to keep this a purely physical conflict. In that arena, Sand has the advantage so far, meaning Travis can focus on maintaining the situation.

[sand_hawkins]

"I thought you didn't need to breathe." Sand says simply. He takes it up a notch, using the seismic vibrations he can create to shake Sorrow's body to the core with the one arm, but not vibrating the green mask area.

After severak seconds of this, he wrenches up on the arm. If there is anything to break, it is now broken. But he doesn't let go.