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Moment of Awesome - Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman: During the Battle of DX, Sue and Madin join forces against Clan Akkaba. The blonde watched Madin racing into cover before she calmly stepped out behind him, completely ignoring the angry magicians running rampant before her as she ambled after him checking her nails. Everything about her motion, about her attitude was designed to aggravate and annoy them, not even looking up till she heard their attacks racing towards her, a forcefield snapping up between them. Blue eyes finally glanced up, waving a finger at them as she grinned. "Naughty naughty." slowly she reached up the brush imaginary dust off her top as she took a step forward, her voice a whisper only her comm could pick up. "I'll distract them and hold them off you, you pick them off." She was insane, Madin thought, absolutely stunned. Completely shit nuts insane. "Kettle them. We need to limit their ability to retreat and take the next block over," Madin said. "Can you block the road behind them?" The blonde grinned, two fingers coming up in a jaunty salute before she vanished, the magicians' bolts burning through the air where she'd once stood. It was an easy mistake to make, staying in the same spot once you turned invisible and one that Sue had made before when she was much younger, almost getting caught by bullet fire when she'd tried to vanish. The blonde might have been cocky, but she had learned a few tricks. Ducking behind the car she held out a hand, brow furrowing in concentration as her invisibility flickered, a forcefield swirling to life around the magicians, its slowly thinning field pressing them together. A pair of civilians came around the corner, at the far end of the street. Madin swore and hurled plasma at the road in front of them. "Get out of here!" They ran, thankfully. On that, their cover blown, Madin stepped out from behind the dumpster, running at the magicians, plasma knives arcing out of each hand. The fight close up was a brawl, plasma knives versus magic and physical weapons. Where they had numbers - Madin fell to their knees as something hit them in the back and they stabbed up and back, getting a scream in response - Madin and Sue had power on their side. The blonde was happy to let Madin act as the hammer, her slowly pressing forcefield acting as an anvil, constantly pressing forward, the pressure from the invisible wall constantly keeping the magicians off balance as Madin tore through their ranks.She tried to watch Madin's back where possible, smaller buckler-like forcefield flaring to life for a moment in intercept a bolt of magic or a weapon's strike where she could see them, the melee was just too chaotic for her to provide more cover and maintaining the wall plus covering her partner was almost too much as she sank to her knees, barely able to focus on the world around her as she tried to maintain multiple fields and stop them from just fizzling out.