Sunnyville, California

[planetaryguide]

  It's a gorgeous Southern California day in Sunnyville: the sun is shining, music's blaring from cars and open windows, young people are dressed for the beach, seemingly if they're just going to school.

Whitney Winters has come to hate the sun. She sees it as just a big lie glitzing over the horror that lies beneath the world's surface. And she's seen horror.  Horror that's cost her friends, family, her very innocence, 

"Yeah, yeah," she says to herself. "Pity party, table for one." She shakes it off and shuffles to class. That annoying Valentina Cazador is playing in the hallways. "That girl is the devil," she thinks, now realizing that she's late, and doesn't even have her chemistry textbook. She sighs, and doubles back to her locker. 

No sooner has she pulled the book from the locker, though, then she realizes that the hallways has been blocked by a wall of ice. 

"Miss Winters," says a pale white man with a sort of Jack Frost motif costume, "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm afraid I need you to come with us."

Comments

[planetaryguide]

Tigress eyes Jakita, and gives her a respectful nod.

"We both know I can't do that," she says, before leaping a kick that, if it connected with a normal person, would be deadly.

Zard sees Adam coming and disappears in a cloud of smoke ... replaced with what at first appears to be a hulking silhouette, but which is quickly revealed ...

"BORN ON A MONDAY!!!!"

... by Zard's magic, Grundy's back, and he leaps straight into the oncoming Adam and Sabbac.

[first_shazam]

Blinded, and sandwiched between two fighters of comparable strength to his own, the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Grundy is insensate to pain, and Sabbac seems to enjoy it.

Adam isn't sure where Jakita is at the moment, but he calls out, hoping she's close enough to hear - or far enough away that she doesn't need to.

"Run!"

It will be minutes before they can fully subdue him, but the fight is effectively over.

[jakita_wagner]

The kick staggers Jakita back a step, but that's it.

"As much as I'd like to continue to punch you until you fall down, we don't have time for this."

She reaches out with both hands to grasp the front of Tigress's costume, swivels, and tosses her in the general direction of the fight happening between Black Adam and the others. They'll sort it all out, and in the meantime Jakita needs to move Whitney away.

She picks the girl up and takes off towards the car.

[planetaryguide]

Grundy and Sabbac continue to pummel Adam, until he finally falls. Icicle watches, but instead of coming to their assistance, goes instead to see to Tigress, who seems bruised, but not seriously harmed.

"Well," says Zard, reappearing in an explosion of smoke. "Not the ideal outcome, but at least we won't return to our employer empty handed."

He conjures mystical shackles to further bind Adam.

"Yes," he says. "This one will suit the master's plans nicely."