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Purple Team Finale

It has been a tough four days, constant fighting, snatching sleep when they can. But the town is still standing, albeit buried in snow.

The morning of the tenth day of Domino has been the same as the previous four, terrible weather, monsters throwing snowballs. Cold so heavy it is almost impossible to remember being warm.

But then there is a rumble, the snow itself seems to ripple. Then there is a lurch, as if the ground itself moved. It is strong enough to throw them down into the snow. The ground continues to shake, there is laughter in the storm, swirling around them.

In front of them something starts to rise from the ground, a block of ice, formless at first it rises up to tower above them. Up and up, as high as a house it rises before it seems to shake and ice falls to the ground. Shards of ice, sharp as razors fall down around them like rain.

When it is safe to look up they will see the ice block has form, a humanoid form. Fists like boulders, a giant made entirely of ice.

It steps forward, heading towards the town.

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Danny had been taking a short flight when he spotted the ice giant headed straight for the city.

"Okay? This could be a problem."

He quickly turns around and flies straight for it, shouting out a warning to anyone he passes on the way.

Luke is so tired. It's been four days of cycling in and out, fighting and fighting and just utter exhaustion. He's pretty sure the Force is the only thing keeping him upright at this point, but not by much; as it is he can barely hold onto his lightsaber, let alone process it when someone blurred past him shouting about the ice giant.

Like it was hard to miss.

He let out a breath, staring at it in utter exasperation, before he dropped to the ground.

"Cover me," he says to whomever is close, crossing his legs as he closed his eyes and reached out to the Force, trying to hold the giant in place.

Even when she was 'resting' it had been to check on Blue-team once (and teleporting in these conditions wasn't easy). Or in and out, like the others. About the only good thing was it kept her too focused to do more than absently notice anything beyond surface-emotions with her Empathy. The Ice Giant was...hard to miss, and so was Danny as he streaked by.

A moment to take in the situation, before Raven made a decision--yelling "On my way!" Heading for Luke, and hoping Danny had some idea of what he was doing and wouldn't need the support. She wasn't sure what Luke was doing, but she could definitely provide them both cover.

Moving over by him, but while he sat cross-legged on the ground, Raven takes a similar position hovering at his side. Hands against her knees, and murmuring her mantra softly as a dome of dark-energy encircles them both, chipping in to the ice below to shield them along the ground and under the surface too. "Either of you have have a plan?"

Danny had a plan.

Maybe not a great plan, but hey, if it worked on the Lunch Lady that time she turned into a sixty foot meat monster, it should work on a huge ice monster. Probably.

He speeds up as he flies, pouring all the energy he had left into speed. And aims all of that built up momentum into a punch aimed squarely at the ice giant's face.

If nothing else, this was going to be a awesome distraction.

Thea signals she's heading for a nearby ledge. With her jury rigged fire arrows the higher up the better. But she will need the backup if anyone wants to offer aid?

The ice giant sees the small creature flying towards it and moves to knock it out of the air but before it can swing its fist it grinds to a halt.

For a moment it stands perfectly still. Luke will be able to feel something fighting him. A force that is not the force fighting back against him.

Danny's punch lands square on, chipping off a piece of the giant's nose and sending it hurtling down to earth where it bounces off Raven's shields and falls harmlessly to the side.

As the punch lands Luke will feel his control of the creature slip slightly, the magic in the storm pushing back. The creature turns, reaching out to grab Danny.

It is slow though, still shaking off the effects of the force hold and its movements are very obvious.

Cue a flying Molotov cocktail right into the ice giant.

Jessie is hidden in a nearby tree and sends the cocktail flying. But she's only got a couple pf more in reserve, hopefully this bus the others some time?

Luke can't answer Raven or anyone else. It's taking all his willpower just to maintain his concentration thanks to his exhaustion, not to mention with an opposing force fighting his power. For a moment, he dares to hope he bested it, but no such luck.

He grit his teeth, exhaustion fueling anger and frustration as the thing refuses to bend to his will, and with it, the Dark rises within him. He flung a hand out, eyes squeezed shut in determination, and thereby missing the crackle of energy between his fingertips.

"Stop...!" he growled out, as if that would help.

DaDanny turns intangible long enough to slip through it's fingers, then turns and pelts it with small blasts of bright green energy.

Raven could feel the increase in anger and frustration from Luke, although the growl wasn't really reassuring. Danny's hit did something, but not yet enough. Eyes narrowed under her hood, Raven took a moment to be sure that her circular shield around herself and Luke was strong before closing her eyes.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." Intoned softly and evenly. Then a shadowy form was rising from her, seeming from within. Seemingly-made of her dark-energy the figure wasn't solid, as Raven sought to astral-project. Her Soul-Self was humanoid this time, as opposed to the more common corvid-form she'd used occasionally while others were sick and she was healing.

The astral-form flew straight towards the Ice Giant, seeking information. Was there a consciousness or mind she could disrupt? Was the Giant made of magic, and if so could she disrupt it? Could she somehow stun or make the monster pause in it's halt without grabbing it with her energy?

It's fists closed over thin air as Danny zipped through them. It began to turn but the fire thrown by Jesse hit it's side and it stumbled. Water dripped down it from the hole that had been melted in the side of it's torso, freezing again as in rivulets down it's leg.

It stumbles backwards as the green energy pelts it and turns towards Danny, fist raised just to be held in place once more. Luke will again feel the magic of the storm fighting him, the air around him seems to grow colder but this time the hold stays.

So the ice giant makes no move towards Raven as her soul form flies towards it. Though it has no consciousness which to hold Raven will see that the whole giant is held together by magic. Ice, of course but a network of magic that held the whole thing together.

It is not moving, due to Luke's force hold but the magic inside is pulsing, fighting back. The magic flows around the whole of it but there are areas where it is concentrated. The head, the chest, shoulders, knees and Raven get the feeling that attacking those will be more effective than attacking the creature as a whole.

With the return of her soul-self, and the new knowledge, Raven's eyes opened. No consciousness--or at least nothing like it enough to attack directly. But the magic holding it...

She also had an idea of what Luke was doing now, since the magic was fighting him keeping the giant in place.

"It's not 'alive'--aim for the head or chest, shoulders or knees!" Raven said in a firm and loud voice. Meant to be heard and used to shouting to coordinate with team-mates. Taking another second to ensure her sphere of dark-energy was 'secure' enough around she and Luke.

Before again quietly intoning her mantra and letting dark energy form in the shape of a giant talon-bird-claw and wrap around the Giant's torso. Helping Luke hold it in place--and he might feel her own fatigue and frustration, albeit held in check for now.

And Spider-Man finally makes his grand appearance. He got caught doing some stuff in the houses like cleaning and clearing tables. Also fighting the giant's mini-mes. That took some time. Never mind that now though as Peter rolls on to the scene near Raven and Luke quite literally, getting up and squatting down in his usual Spider-like crouch.

"I'm not late. I meant to arrive at whatever o'clock it is." He says cheerly, teeth chattering a little because wow is it cold. He shoots a web off and jumps up to join the fray.

"Hey buddy, I hate to have to tell you this, but the town had a meeting-giant ice monster's aren't allowed to live there. I know, it's totally unfair, I'd throw a fit too. It's discrimination and you know, Ice giant rights and stuff." He rambles off, preparing a nice solid kick at the knees.

"Man, I'm so gonna regret this-but man, I think you mighta shattered your kneecap! You should get that looked at!"

Danny is highly disappointed that he is too high up and too busy to participate in a pun off. (Get it? Highly disappointed. Because he's up high.... and maybe he should be focusing on punching the ice giant some more.)

The energy blasts don't seem to be doing much. He backs up and starts circling the giant to pick up some speed. Hitting it with speed behind him had worked before.

The giant was still, both Raven and Luke would find that it took all their concentration to keep it so. A battle in their minds, magic pushing back against Luke's force and Raven's dark energy trying to fight it off and worse trying to turn it back on them, to hold them still and helpless in the snow.

Meanwhile in the physical fight there was a satisfying crunch as Peter's foot hit the knee. The creature buckled some but did not fall.

Three snowmen have formed nearby, two begin throwing snowballs at Peter and Danny, trying to knock them down. The other makes it's way towards Raven and Luke.

Sizhui unsheathes his sword and heads for the snowmen, cutting into them and their projectiles. He reasons that if his team-mates are able to continue attacking, their foes will be vanquished sooner.

"Leave these to me!"

Bucky had been preoccupied by a few snow beasts, so he's a little late to the party. He's seen the ice giant from afar, and brought a ladder over, propping it against a house and climbing up.

He heads to the peak of the roof, then promptly runs down the slope of it, throwing himself at the ice giant -- aiming for the knee Peter damaged, to see if he can't make a bigger dent in it with his metal fist. He doesn't let himself think about all the ways this could go incredibly wrong.

Luke was so, so mentally exhausted from all this. He dimly knew that Raven had asked him a question, but he couldn't divide his attention well enough to really comprehend what she said, let alone respond. Her help eased his frustration, the sparks between his fingers easing back, leaving only the tips of his fingers burned from the effort.

Lan Sizhui cut down the snowmen with relative ease. More sprung up but with him drawing them to himself it bought those fighting the ice giant time.

Bucky lept at the damaged knee and as his fist hit it the ice shattered, the creature buckled, dropping. Raven and Luke would feel a push in their mind as the magic lashed out at them, the creatures hand came down to steady itself on one knee. The second hand moved towards Bucky, to crush him into the snow below.

It is still slow, Luke and Raven are still fighting it.

Danny drops down from the sky and slams into the hand at an angle, trying to drive it away from Bucky.

The hand cracks, splinters of ice falling away before it can get to Bucky to crush him. The giant wavers, assaulted by the magic of Raven and Luke and the physical blows from those fighting.

It looks like it is trying to get back up, despite only having one working leg.

Peter swings himself out of harms way and lands nearby, he fires his webs off again-aiming for the remaining leg and gives a might pull to try and force it on its back.

"Oh man, buddy. you're gonna have to get that looked at. Don't try to tell me that it's just flesh wound-you're definitely gonna have to favor the other leg for awhile." He says conversationally.

"Now isn't the time to tease it!" Sizhui pulls out his guqin to make quicker work of his foes, plucking the strings with icy fingers. He can't use this weapon with gloves, unfortunately.

"Finish it." his Lan teachings are about getting the job done cleaning. Despite the giant being wounded, it still had strength to do ill.

The web tangled round the giant's leg and the momentum sent it falling backwards. It crashed to the ground hard, enough that a wave of snow erupted around it, pushing outwards and threatening to knock anyone close off their feet and bury them in snow.

More snowmen sprang up, surrounding it in protection.

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