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Sometime after you managed to get the other two to stop bickering and bantering, you formed a huddle of your own and ran them through the basic strategy you’d come up with. Neither had any complaints, aside from Boomer expressing skepticism when it came to Cyclone manipulating the winds around his projectiles, but since no one knew what would happen for sure, they decided to go along with it.
When everyone was ready for the brawl to begin, you raised a finger to the air and caused a small explosion that almost sounded like a starting pistol.
The battle began in a blur, with Speed Demon racing to engage one of you in melee range. That much was expected, so Boomer and Cyclone were both doing their part.
Boomerang stood on your left, flinging out curved projectiles as fast as his arms would allow him, displaying a surprising amount of manual dexterity, even as Speed Demon’s blurring form easily avoided them on the first pass. There was always the chance of him being hit on the returning path of each boomerang, but you didn’t want to wait for him to get much closer before that happened.
To your right, Cyclone had both arms extended, a miniature tornado twisting and slithering through the air like a snake made of highly compressed air. And while he was corralling Speed Demon and Boomer was distracting him, you carefully aimed a webline at his feet. And through some miracle, or a superb display of skill, you actually managed to catch him off guard.
When your webline began coiling around his legs, Speed Demon slowed down enough to where he was no longer a vague, colorful blur. He muttered a curse under his breath and struggled to break free. And he might've managed it to, if it weren’t for Cyclone creating a tornado under his feet, causing him to spin uncontrollably. As you continued spinning your webs, Speed Demon spun around so fast that he was almost completely enveloped in only a couple of seconds.
Meanwhile, Boomer was focusing his fire on Scorpia, who hadn’t moved very far from the starting point. Hydro-Man was using his body to tank most of Boomer’s projectiles, while the rest were being shot down by what appeared to be green lasers fired from Scorpia’s gauntlets.
While the two of them were busy in their ranged battle, you decided to engage Hydro-Man by projecting a jet of emerald flame in his direction. He tried to block at first, but he quickly realized that was getting him nowhere, so he tried to avoid the attack by collapsing his form and flowing along the ground.
As soon as that happened, you and Cyclone pretended to focus your efforts on Scorpia. Her eyes grew wide with alarm, and while she was distracted, one of Boomer’s boomerangs made through her defenses, smacking her on the side of the head. She reeled back, and a thin film of green energy seemed to flash around her silhouette, but she was relatively unharmed.
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