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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Broccli_Head" data-source="post: 1025129" data-attributes="member: 105">issu#5, part IVEven in the crisp November morning the ice dog-seal thing that called itself Frostbite steamed. Dragonfist’s teeth chattered as he looked up at the creature’s baleful frosty-blue eyes. A boom sounded above him as Slipstream hit Frostbite with a sonic attack from range.  Ice and snow rained down on the martial artist as he closed to rapid punch the beast.  In seconds Dragonfist’s hands were blue with cold and his fists bled. Punching Frostbite did not seem to have hurt him. Dragonfist wondered it that was what hitting a glacier was like.  Stiff from the cold, he was unable to dodge when one of the dog heads grabbed him in its gaping maw. The other head stared through him, boring into his psyche with a mind-numbing hum. Dragonfist felt his joints harden even more.  Slipstream heard Dragonfist scream as he attempted to twist himself free from jaws of the ice demon seal-dog. He fired another blast, but again the attack did not even seem to phase the creature.  Finally, Darkfire got the creature’s attention with a fireball. Unfortunately, only one of her balls of black arcane flame hit. Frostbite was surprisingly agile for his size…and tricky.A spiked tail struck the superheroine from her blindside sending her spinning into the air. Slipstream closed to attempt a Quicksilver Strike hoping to get past the demon’s tough defenses.  He only felt pain, as Frostbite’s supernatural cold assaulted him when he touched its slick hide. Dragonfist pushed with all his might as his will and body were being transformed to serve the Master of Cold. He cried out as he tore free and then rolled away as far as he could. “The cold…the cold…,” Slipstream heard him mutter as he tumbled by. The Speedster ducked as the giant, spiked tail whizzed by his head. Another blast of fire annoyed Frostbite and the demon roared and turned his head towards Darkfire. Then, strangely, one of the heads yawned. Slipstream turned to look for Sonmus. He saw the scintillating sphere of his companion’s force field hovering nearby, out of range of the demon seal-dog’s reach, of course, but perhaps they had found the beast’s weakness. Slipstream felt that they would loose in a battle of attrition even with Darkfire’s fire melting Frostbite’s glacial hide.  However, maybe their mentalist would turn the tide. That momentary musing cost Slipstream. He felt a sudden cold and tried to dodge at the last second, but to no avail. Frostbite had him in one of its mouths.  Slipstream shook his head violently to try to avoid the gaze of the creature, but he could not resist. You are mine….mine…mine…. he heard over and over in the depths of his brain. Slowly, he was becoming encrusted with ice. “If  your gonna do something, Somnus, dude, do it quick!” he screamed hoping anyone would hear. Slipstream attempted to speed up his molecules to slip out from the creature’s jaws, but it was those cold eyes that held him. The beast shuddered as Darkfire hit it with another volley of fireballs sending chunks of ice in all direction and creating a surreal mist throughout the square.  Finally, Frostbite gave a massive yawn and slumped to the pavement. Slipstream slid from between it’s icicle-like teeth and gave a thumbs up to the prismatic sphere that hid Somnus from the view of most mortals. Slipstream ordered, “Destroy it! Destroy it!” as he crawled away.Darkfire went at the task with a fervor, reducing the “sleeping” form of Frostbite to a corpse of molten slag. The stench was incredible, and Bostonians later claimed that the smell reached all the way across the Charles to Beacon Hill.  Somnus landed near the recovering Slipstream and Dragonfist. He made an off-hand remark, “Hmmm…didn’t know that I could affect alien minds. I guess I am even more powerful than I thought. Oh, she said her name was Ice Shadow.”Then he noticed that a nearby cyber-café had not been damaged by the fight and excused himself to log on.  They also noticed that the blonde-haired super that had joined them was gone as well. Warmed by the blazing fire, Slipstream hit on an idea. He called Darkfire over and asked her to tone down her flames a little to scorch the still frozen Valor.  As the flames singed him and his suit, the blue pallor soon disappeared.  Dragonfist informed F.B. I. Agents of their discovery once they arrived and soon, the ice zombies, though a little burned, were returned to normal. When Valor came to, he was not pleased. Cosmic Knight, who had just shaken off his second set of cobwebs that day, made a comment about Valor succumbing to the mind powers of the ice demon. In response, Valor wrapped him up with a nearby lamppost using his suit-enhanced telekinesis.  “Who are you, really, Mr. Cosmic Knight?”Valor used his own mutant mental abilities to probe the mind of the powered armor hero. Cosmic Knight received the mental image of a smile, Shouldn’t you be monitoring the lab, Theo.Theo replied with a telepathic “Doh!”  “It’s alright, fellow Legion Extremers. I know who he is now and I am sure that this information will keep him tame.”“Aww, dude. Punked twice by Cap’n Valor and on your debut!”Slipstream kept up with all the supers and had never heard of Cosmic Knight before. The Cosmic Knight tore from the lamppost entangle easily and stormed off, fuming amidst the laughter from the rest of the gang….End of Issue #5</blockquote>

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