Volume 1, Issue 2, Post 3

Intro: Two very different heroes, born from a single mysterious accident.  Chris "Caz" Greenbaum battles the forces of evil as Cazmonster, an 8' cyborg werewolf.  Tim O'Malley uses his powers of telekinesis to fend of crime as The Wrecking Ball.  

Rick got a line of Dragonfly's semi-conscious body while White Diamond shot blast after blast at the tentacled monster in front of them.  All the while, the two others closed in on them from the sides.  Once he was sure where Dragonfly was, he opened a portal right under him, with another just a couple feet off the ground behind White Diamond.  Dragonfly fell through, his sword dropping through the portal beside him.  

One of the creatures reached out a tentacle to engulf White Diamond, but it sparked and hissed as it hit against her heat shield.  Diamond gave Adept a startled look sideways.  

The Adept noticed the creature's tentacle wasn't burning or melting against Diamond's heat shield, but shimmering and sparking, as if it were made of some form of coherent energy rather than flesh.  Interesting.  

Not that the knowledge would help them much if all three of them were killed here and now. 

With Dragonfly out of the picture and Diamond occupied, The Adept had very little in the way of attack power.

Suddenly, a loud scream filled the Quad.  It wasn't human sounding, but it wasn't completely animal, either.  And it was amplified.  Without warning, a large, furry meteor slamming into one of the creatures.  Claws and teeth rended and ripped while the tentacled beast screamed in false agony.  Finally, the werewolf-like form lifted the creature and threw it across the Quad and into the gazebo.  A loud whistling sound could be heard, and suddenly, a metal object the size of a bowling ball, but with considerably more density, 
slammed into the creature to the left.  It was rent in two by the force of the metal object, and the image of the creature shimmered and disbursed.  

"Hey, guys!" Cazmonster shouted in his animal-like amplified growl.  "Looks like you could use a power-up!"

"Much obliged, stranger!" The Adept answered.  White Diamond's blasts were starting to have an effect.  She held off for a few seconds, letting the light coalesce around her until it was painful to view.  Then she fired all the energy at once into the lead creature.  It, too, disappeared in a shimmer.  

Dragonfly struggled to retain consciousness.  His entire body hurt from the force with 

which he'd hit, but it didn't feel like anything was broken.  Taking wing, he flew toward Cazmonster, who had leapt onto the shattered remains of the gazebo to assault the final creature.  Holding it in the air, Cazmonster slammed it backward with a powerful fist.  Dragonfly ducked low in flight, and held his blade aloft.  The sharp ninja-to sundered the beast in two, and it flickered out of existence.  

After confirming all the bystanders were safe, the heroes gathered in the remains of the gazebo.  

"Great timing, gentle...men?" Dragonfly said, looking at Cazmonster questioningly.

"Most definitely!" the werewolf-cyborg answered.  Looking at him closely for the first time, The Adept could see the creature had a computer screen embedded in its chest, antenna behind it's canine ears, and several other areas of exposed metal.  

Wrecking Ball's costume was construction-sign themed, with shining yellow and black strips leading into black pants and boots.  He wore a matching yellow mask, but did not cover his long, dark brown hair.  

"Guys," White Diamond spoke up as the boys congratulated each other.  "We should get somewhere under cover.  We're starting to draw a crowd, and cell phones are coming out."

"Well said," The Adept agreed.  He opened a portal, and soon, the entire group traversed into the "secret headquarters", with Cazmonster uttering a "far out!"