Anniabal looked around quickly.

There were a few who were obviously metas, the big man was around nine-feet-tall with bulging muscles, his biceps each bigger than her waist, he wielded a metal beam like a baseball bat. A curvy woman whose hair was made of fire, her arms were covered in flames that whipped and leaped, she would be the easiest for her to take out, plus decorum be damned, the water elemental wouldn’t mind seeing her shirt wet. Next, there was a man who looked like he was half insect, having six extra legs extending from his back and insectoid limbs and claws from the wrists and knees down, he had most likely been bitten by something radioactive, that’s how these things usually went, and a mech containing what looked like a little girl, Anniabal didn’t know if the mech was part of her or if she was just inside it, either way, she really didn’t want to punch a child. She had no way of knowing if the rest might have powers, but she assumed if they did, they were minor ones since they all had firearms (by that she meant guns, not literally like the hot girl)

She made all these assessments in about ten seconds and sprang into action.

Using her water shaping, she enlarged her fist and extended her arm, throwing a punch at the large brute. The blow sent the man stumbling backward. Ziporound ran at the bug man a car-like speed. K-9 had activated his weapon systems, canons extended from his sides, energy blasts began flying at the gun wielders, stunning each person they struck. The fire girl shot a ball of flames towards the bionic beast which Anniabal blocked with her new wave shield, water rose from seemingly nowhere cresting to block the attack, steam hissing as they collided, before crashing back to the ground. The water elemental then shaped a club trying her best to close and smack the flame wielder with it, the woman avoided every strike, but as Anniabal remembered who she was fighting she simply flexed her power to pull as much water from the air as she could, to drench the woman. While the fire user was forced to stumble back by the sudden cascade, when the steam cleared her flames were still lit, it wasn’t as if the water had missed. her clothes were soaked. (and the view was just as nice as expected) and the furious look on her face was evidence enough that she had been doused as well but her fires hadn’t even flickered, in fact, they seemed to have spread further up her arm along with a black substance Anniabal was just noticing for the first time.

“Oil fire, Damn.” she thought as she tried to figure out what to do. The fire woman sent another fireball her way, Anniabal created another shield allowing her to tank the hit and struck back with whips she formed from her own back.

These fast-moving strikes were much more effective than her club had been but still only about two out of every five lashes landed on target, the woman was agile she would give her that.

Rather than return with her fire balls, the flame wrapped meta did the unexpected, she grabbed one of the whips in her burning hand instantly bringing the living water to a boil

Anniabal hissed in pain, instinctually pulling the weapons back into her form.

“Need some help?” Ziporound asked from across the room. He was continually evading the punches and swipes of the strongman and his weapon. His speed was allowing him to get some hits in-between, but they didn’t seem to do much damage, if any at all. The big guy just shrugged them off. “Switch?”

Anniabal let her body lose cohesion as she slipped away from several more flame bolts, letting Ziporound rush her assailant, she reformed facing the big brute and fired a pressure beam directly into his stomach. He let out a cry and stumbled with the force of the attack, taking advantage of his lapse she formed the puddles from her earlier attacks into one large ball and sent it flying towards him. This time he seemed more prepared, only letting out a grunt as it struck him. He glared at Anniabal who couldn’t help but smirk.

“How’s that for slightly damp?” she quipped, taking a fighting stance.

She took a second to look around checking on her teammates

K-9 was battling the Mech which had miniguns extended from Its wrists, the bullet flew as the wolf danced around them returning fire with his energy blasts. The robotic armor was left charred and dented where the blasts landed. The child inside the mech pouted and pressed a button. One arm of the machine clicked and hissed, shifting the weapon into what looked like a laser rifle. The kid began to fire the energy beam at K-9, who jumped away, then forward. landing on top of the machine to begin ravaging the glass protecting the cockpit trying to pry his way inside.

Anniabal didn’t get to see what happened next as she found herself suddenly lifted off the ground by a crushing force. Damn, she had gotten distracted and the strongman had grabbed her and picked her up, trying to crush her to death.

While she did feel some pain from his grip, it didn’t really harm her. She let her body relax fully, becoming a shapeless mass of liquid that leaked through the villain’s hands.

“What kind of moron tries to grip water?” Anniabal asked as she took her normal shape.

This innocent question only seemed to make said moron more angry as he brought his steel beam down at her like a hammer.

“you’ll pay for making me look stupid!”

Summoning another wave shield Geyser blocked the blow. She noted that the defense was much harder to summon the third time.

“Dear, you’ve been doing a pretty good job of that by yourself.”

She was readying another pressure beam, when she heard a sound like ‘Tic Clic Tic’ from above her. She looked up. The bug guy was on the ceiling walking upside down on his back leg’s, right towards her. She had completely discounted him thinking Ziporound had taken care of him already. He was looking to ambush her. She canceled her beam. It was getting costly in energy anyway; she would have tired herself out soon is she had continued how she was going. She blocked another punch from the big man and landed one of her own in his jaw, admittedly to little result, before the half-insect-man dropped down in an attempt to land on top of her. Anniabal was expecting this and rolled out of the way, avoiding the sharp claws that would have eviscerated her liquid flesh. The multilimbed man quickly rose to his feet, the drop having barely knocked him off balance, he stepped forward with a flurry of slicing attacks from his claws and back legs trying to drive her further into the giant's range, the hulking bastard stepping forward to finish her off.

Finally, they were as close together as she needed them.

Anniabal shaped her arm into a lasso roping the bug guy and pulling him closer while at the same time charging the brute at her top speed. The mountain of a man reacted in the expected way drawing his fist back and punching the elemental full-on, her not even trying to dodge it. She took the blow, letting go of the insect man. Blue light flared around her as her mage shield trait activated at her having taken enough physical damage to warrant it. The hit still hurt, but the shield kept her from splattering at the force of the blow. It still hurt though. A lot. (maybe that wasn’t the greatest plan)

Anniabal went flying backward and into the nearest wall, glad she hadn’t smashed right through it, her mage shield broke at the second impact, it would take around thirty minutes to recharge but if things went as planned and her teammates took care of their current opponents, she wouldn’t need it. Not giving herself another second to let the pain set in Anniabal let her split-second plan culminate.

With a twist of her power, she activated her only real area of effect ability. A large chunk of her remaining energy drifted out of her as the water around the room began to evaporate and mist. It rose and condensed forming a cloud above her two targets. The clouds soon turned a dark grey.

Her opponents looked above them, but it was already too late for them to run as the sound of thunder filled their ears, with no more preamble a downpour of rain began to crash from the cloud and onto the two. It was heavy, fast and most importantly each drop was sharp like a storm of broken glass, it wasn’t as sharp as it could have been, Anniabal had general control and had set it to be more of a bludgeoning attack, she didn’t want to kill them. Still, her enemies found themselves trapped under what was practically a waterfall made pointy. This was Anniabal’s rain needles attack. One of her strongest and her favorite by far. She had had to get way out of range because it couldn’t differentiate her from its other targets, and she had tried to avoid using it because of how much of her power it required. It felt like the equivalent of taking a ten-mile run and then getting back home only to be put through a four-hour-long weight training course only to, after that, have to do an intense cardio workout. Even with those weaknesses, it was a blessing when she needed to take care of multiple enemies.

The bug guy tried to make his way out of the rain, continuously being beaten down every time he rose, he stumbled and limped along. By the time he finally made it to freedom he was covered in tiny cuts, and fell over flat on his face almost comedically, clearly unconscious.

The Giant man was still standing inside the storm even if just barely. There was a grimace of pain and effort gracing his visage as to Anniabal’s shock and horror he stepped forward, and then another step, and another. he walked on despite the torrential downpour pelting him from all sides, not missing a step as he approached Anniabal.

What rank was this guy?! The water elemental tried to form another pressure beam but she was too tired, she had expected the rain needles to take care of the two she was matched against and had accounted for herself having time to recover, she had no strength to bring to bear right now.

Ziporound was busy dealing with the fire user and K-9 had gotten inside of the mech but was now in combat against the child, who seemed to have a myriad of gadgets and weapons to counter the beast. She would be getting no help.

Anniabal used the meager power she had left to bring water from the room to her call balling it up and launching the projectiles at the giant. Only really hoping to slow him down, but the force behind the attacks were weak and the brute just walked through it. He drew his weapon back, with a malicious grin.

Anniabal tried to pull up her wave shield again but the effort needed to call the ability a fourth time was undoable. She might as well have tried to lift a car with her bare hands. Her mage shield was still down for the count…

In one last act of desperation, Anniabal tried to deform her body once again but she was a second too slow, and the metal beam came down on her with a force like being hit by a bus

First, there was pain, a pain like nothing the elemental had ever felt, pain that seemed to go on for hours in a second, and then like someone had flipped a switch the world went black.