Nova appears perplexed at the questions. "Distance is irrelevant since you are not even in the same dimension, and I am unable to comprehend danger as you mortals do. Before I send you away I must know who will undertake this journey and face even greater wrath from the Black Knights. Who will not journey for the item?"

At Nova's request many of the nearly all of the Icebox inhabitant, raise their hands. WIth a snap of Nova's fingers they vanish back to where they came from. "THe rest of you are going to endure more hardships that you can imagine, but at the very least you will have a fighting chance should you succeed."

Nova snaps his fingers one last time and the various heroes and villains vanish from Nova's dimension. In a flash of light they appear, and fall down on a very hard ground. Immediatly their nostrils are treated to the disgusting smell of brimstone, and they have a pristine view of a darkened room.

Alexis sighed as she got to her feet. "Well, that was certainly interesting. Looks like we're in for another small adventure here."

Leslie covered her nose. "Ugh... that smell is awful. Why can't the weapon-thing be somewhere well-lit and clean?"

((Well, here goes nothing...))

The door wouldn't budge.
Selena had been trying for two days to break through the oranate, carved stone door before her, but it had resisted everything she had thrown at it. Her excavating tools and the small sticks of explosives had been rendered useless, and her attempts to speed up the door's natural decay using her "talent" had failed. Selena had never encountered a barrier that she couldn't break through before, and she knew that this would be no different...but still, the door stood there, mocking her. The greatest find of her career was potentially 10 feet away, and she was stuck behing a wall of rock. She gave it one last glare (as though it would do anything), then turned away and sat down by her laptop a few feet away. The screen glowed brightly as she turned it on, adding its light to the small pile of flashlights struggling to illuminate the chamber.

Selena started to type, recording the day's events in her log as she had ever since entering the ruin a week ago. The place was completely pitch-black, riddled with maze-like hallways and filled to the brim with booby traps. She had managed to evade all the ones set up along her route without too much difficulty, making sure to mark their spots with her time spheres in case someone happened to wander by. Selena's ability to evade certain death during excavations had caused her collegues to joke that she was living on borrowed time. The researcher smiled to herself. "If only they knew..."

((lol))
Nitrox's hands glowed to life, giving a blue hue to the room. "Before we do anything, I want to know. We are on the same side for now. Right? I don't need certain people dragging me around, or bossing me around for that fact." He glared at MoA and Eclipse, each in turn.

((Well done))

MoA looks at Nitrox. "If you were not totally helpless you wouldn't need orders." MoA then checks his various equipment. "No signal from cell or satellite phone. We're stuck." He looks at Malistyrax. "Truce?"
[hr]
Malistyrax merely nods.

"Hey I got my gear back!" Chimera says realizing he has his syringes back."

Bone checks a large slab. "Hey boss we got light coming from under the slab, but it ain't gonna budge."

Malistyrax approaches the slab, and taps it with his kuckles a few times. "Hmm, its damaged, but not seriously." Malistyrax draws back and punches the wall. His hand breaks through, and the wall crumbles making an unimaginable amount of noise, as well as filling the room and the opposing corridor with dust.

"Come my Shadow Alliance, lets find whatever we are supposed to be looking for."

Alexis grinned. "This is gonna be fun..." She created a glowing orb of energy to help light the way before approaching the hole in the wall. "So, what kind of weapon are we thinking this is gonna be?"

"its got to be something that nullifies white knight's... sorry black knight's powers, and hopefully those of his traitorous minions" charge replies, following close behind.

revan seeps into the shadows, closely stalking everyone from the darkness

Nitrox watched Malistyrax with a little bit of awe. So this is Malistyrax... He seems... familiar...
Nitrox ran up to MoA, slapped him, and said, "Now let's not go and insult people. It could hurt you later."
He then ran to Malystyrax and said, "So you're the legendary metahuman I've heard so much about in the news. Sorry if I am interrupting, but you seem... familiar. Would you have any idea why?" Nitrox's tail twitched in thought.

MoA nods at Charge. "It has to be something important at the very least."
[hr]
Malistyrax's red reptilian eye turns to Nitrox. It narrows slightly and Malistyrax shrugs. "Nitrox," he says not really paying attention. "Nitrox is the name of a dragon, he was weak from already passing his power, but I still assimilated what he had left to offer." Malsityrax pauses at a broken trap. A broken spear is sticking out of the wall, and nearby is a small clock sitting on the floor.

Bone steps forward and reaches down to grab the clock.

((DF the time sphere's effect is yours))

As soon as Bone's hand came close enough, a sensor light on the clock's crystal back panel lit up and a faint haze appeared in the air around him. Bone's outline began to shimmer like a mirage, and his movements became slow and heavy, as if he were underwater.
[hr]
Selena's typing was interrupted by a window popping up on her laptop, displaying the charge level and readouts of the clock traps she placed. A light was blinking next to the first trap's status. "Something set it off..." Selena said to herself. "It could be a malfunction or a wild animal, though. No need to panic just yet." "Heaven knows there are plenty more to be triggered...let's wait and see."

Nitrox stopped cold.
He knows my name? More than that, I'm named after a dragon? And he passed on his powers... to me? His head was spinning with many possibilities and questions, but now was not the time.
He watched Bone as he was laid victim to the trap. "Interesting. This trap is unique. Either the temple holds interesting powers, or someone is messing with us. Most likely the latter, as the clock looks out of place from the scenery around us..."

Alexis moved over in front of Bone and waved her hand in front of his face. "Bone? You okay?"

Leslie was struggling not to laugh at Bone's predicament. That so looks like some bad movie special effect...

Icarus stood to the side of the group watching them all ponder or laugh at Bone's predictament. He shakes his head at them and steps forward to examine the clock that set off the trap.

((Sorry if I'm moving a bit quick here, but I got good stuff coming))

Although it takes quite some time, because of the field, but Bone impales the clock on a spike extended from the tip of his finger. Upon the clock's destruction time around Bone returns to normal. He looks at the group and shrugs. "What?"
[hr]
MoA takes the wreckage of the clock, and pulls out a damaged crystal. "Modern mechanical design, with an added bonus. Someone else has been prowling around here." MoA hands the crystal to Nitrox. "Can you program you do-dad to scan for more of these?"
[hr]
Malistyrax motions to Eclipse, and she turns to mist, and drifts up and down the hallway. She reforms. "THere are two more clocks in this hallway, both next to disabled traps." SHe points at the location of the two clocks.

Lycan steps forward and transforms into her werewolf form. Lycan uses her sonic howl to destroy both clocks.

Malistyrax looks ahead. "Alexis take point, your shields should be more than enough to deflect any traps." Malsityrax looks at Icarus. "Why don't you join her since you can fly?"

With a nod Icarus' wings appear and he takes to the air hovering above the froup waiting for Alexis To start leading the group through the tunnels. Hovering close tot he celing he watching little glowworm-like bugs crawl and touchs a couple before grabbing a handful and stuffing them in a pouch at his hip, just in case they hit an unlit area.