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Moment of Awesome - Callisto: During Fear in the Dark, Callisto and X-Factor encounter the Juggernaut, who has undergone an upgrade.


"Okay, I get why you said the billy club would be useless now," Alex said in what would have been a conversational tone if red energy wasn't already warping around his arms. "Sue, can you set up a force field or something around here? Try and keep gawkers and idiots out of the way?"

The blonde glanced back at the crowd gathering in the street before looking back at Alex with a shake of her head, "Something that big, it'd fall apart if you hit so much as a tennis ball at it. Best I can do is try to block individuals trying to get past, or anything flying back at them."

"So that's what we do then." Callisto slipped her hands into her jacket pockets and withdrew them wearing rather battered, very functional-looking knuckle dusters. "We'll take point, no one in, no one out. Who's gonna try to slow down the big guy? I'd say I'll go toe to toe with him but that miiiight come under the heading of 'unnecessary escalation'. Possibly containment of some kind is a better plan?"

"I've seen him fight when I was a little girl. He charges and once he does - there is little to stop him. I would say we would have to play tag with him. Keep him from going after one single target." Lorna looked at him but she didn't want to say that this did not look like the Juggernaut her father would brag about or that she had seen training with other rookies back in the day. He was dressed differently and whatever he was carrying in his hand, that was also new. "Alex go left. Callisto go right. I'll take point." Mostly because she could fly up and out of his reach. "Sue, leaving the force field to you."

The blonde pulled a face, her hands slipping out of her pockets as she pulled on a pair of gloves, lagging behind so she fell behind the others, glancing along the street as white teeth bit into her lower lip. It was a lot of space to cover, but she'd be more if a liability in the actual fight, especially against someone like the Juggernaut, that level of power was more than she could handle, for now at least. Working on her powers was something she'd let fall by the wayside, but that was something to worry about later. "Yeah, I'll see what I can do about limiting the collateral, just drop him fast."

Callisto broke into a light trot to head around the right flank, eyes darting from side to side as she assessed the situation. Small-scale tactics, this she could do. Though open spaces like this one, that she was less fond of. So much potential collateral. No firm barrier. From what Sue had said, whatever energy barrier they had was going to slow things at best, not stop them.

"Get the fuck out of here!" she yelled at some people who were, inexplicably, still milling around, possibly near their own cars given what looked like a slow collision from vehicles all trying to turn and flee at the same time. For now, the big guy didn't seem to be looking her way. Calliso grabbed a piece of building debris - a large concrete block with a handy iron bar sticking out of it - and took up position at a minimum distance, dropping down low.