The building erupted into chaos in a matter of seconds. Mick turned swiftly, yanking his heat gun from his belt, firing it at the terrorists surrounding the team. Carter and Kendra swooped in, fists first. The pair flew around the building, kicking and punching the baddies in the face.

Leonard and Mick stood at the center of the room, firing heat and cold rays. They never fired at the same time, though. Deserey made a note to ask them why later. She tossed her handful of sand in the air, waving her hands to control it. Dez did her best to avoid her team mates, as she blinded the baddies with the miniature sandstorm.

Sara charged by her, smacking a man in the back with her weapon, knocking him to the ground, unconscious. Deserey thrust her hand out, as a large man charged towards her, splattering sand all over his face. He screamed, stumbling back with his hands over his eyes, as they watered terribly.

Before he could recover, a beam of blue hit him, and he fell. Only his body didn't hit the floor. Instead, shards of ice shattered, scattering everywhere. Deserey looked at Leonard with wide eyes. "You just killed a guy!"

He shrugged like it was no big deal, before running off to slap someone with the butt of his gun.

Dez rolled her eyes, chasing after Sara. She figured it was safest to stick with the assassin...as long as she didn't get in her way.

Grabbing another handful of sand and tossing it into the air, she captured a group of men in another miniature sandstorm. She felt a little useless, compared to the others, who were actually fighting properly, but this was all she knew how to do.

Sara closed her eyes and charged into the sandstorm, metal staff raised high in the air. (At some point she had traded her knife in favor of the staff, but Deserey couldn't remember when it had happened.) She swung the weapon around, slapping one man in the gut, knocking him to the floor. The assassin turned swiftly, breaking the staff over her knee, forming two batons; she ran forward, smacking the rest of the men in their heads, slamming her weapons against their kneecaps. She had taken them down in seconds. (All while keeping her eyes closed to avoid getting sand in them, mind you.)

Deserey let the sandstorm fall, grains of sand littering the floor and the assassin's hair. Sara grinned, as she opened her eyes and brushed some sand from her shoulder. "We make a pretty good team, Dez."

Deserey grinned back. "I guess, as long as you don't mind doing all the actual fighting." She shrugged.

A few feet away, Stein was being roughly man handled by one of the terrorists.

"Now would be a good time!" the professor yelled. Deserey looked at Sara. She didn't seem to notice the professor. Instead, she was glancing around at all the chaos around them, taking it all in. Some of the terrorists had began fighting each other, punching and kicking, even shooting one another, desperate to be the first to bring the team in. Deserey shook her head. She was about to suggest they help Stein, when she remembered Ray was in his pocket.

"Yeah," the man attacking Stein snickered, "to kill you!"

The professor rolled his eyes. "I wasn't talking to you!"

Ray flew from his pocket, growing back into his normal size and blasting the attacker into the wall with a blue energy beam. He flew off, leaving Stein to go meet Jax at the door. The two argued about something for a second, but now they were too far away for Dez to hear what they were saying.

"Come on!" Sara said. She took off at a sprint, as Stein and Jax merged into Firestorm. Deserey ran after her, taking another handful of sand in her hand.

Leonard and Mick were surrounded by men. They stood back to back, firing their guns at once; they spun in a small circle, as the fire and ice streams came in to contact with their enemies, turning them into frozen statues or burning corpses respectively.

Carter flapped his wings, grabbing a man by the shoulders and flying him high into the air before dropping him again. The man had time to let out a startled yelp, before slamming into the ground roughly.

Kendra flew around, swiping people off their feet as she went; Ray was on the ground, punching people out. Meanwhile, Firestorm flew around, blasting their nuclear energy at anything that moved. (Which made it kind of difficult for their team to, you know, not die.)

Sara and Deserey tag teamed the baddies together, Deserey forming a storm around them, Sara taking them out with her bad ass assassin skills. At some point Ray joined them. (He had a visor covering his eyes, so he was well protected against the sand.)

Someone yanked Deserey back by the shoulder. She yelped, but Sara and Ray were too far away to help. Firestorm was too busy, wildly blasting, to even notice she needed assistance. Mick and Leonard were still surrounded themselves; and Carter and Kendra were landing on the stage, where they would meet Vandal Savage. She was on her own.

Dez turned to meet her attacker. He was a big burly man with rigged yellow teeth and a big, uncombed beard. The man was wearing a cheap suit that would have made Darryl lose his mind. (He hated those crap things. If you were going to buy a suit, he reasoned, you ought to buy a good one.) She hesitated, not really sure how to defend herself. In high school she had taken self defense classes, but that had been ages ago. She was out of practice, and she couldn't remember any of the moves.

The man was gripping her arm so tightly it stung. Deserey flinched, and the man smirked deviously, thinking he had won. With her free hand, Dez dug into her sand bag, hoping the sting of the dirt would make him let go. She raised her hand to her mouth, a small pile of sand in her palm. On a whim, Deserey blew the sand in his face with a puff of air.

Thankfully, the man's iron grip released, though not in the way she expected it to. He fell to the ground, sand covering his face. But he wasn't screaming, like the others had, when they got it in their eyes. Instead, his chest moved up and down slowly, and his breathing became steady as a slumbering cats.

Sara punched a man in the face, knocking him out. She managed to make her way over to Dez, frowning at the man who had attacked her friend. "Is he...sleeping?"

"Yeah," Deserey nodded, as the Atom came over too. "Didn't know I could do that."

"That's cool," Ray said. "Might come in handy later."

She nodded again, glancing at the hawks and Savage. "That won't end well. We should help them."

"Agreed," Sara said. The three made their way over, the assassin and Atom punching whoever stood in their way.

"Prince Khufu," Savage was saying, glaring at Carter. "It's always the fashion plate." He tossed a silver throwing star at the Egyptian prince. Carter just barely managed to dodge the attack. Savage grinned at Kendra, making her squirm a little. "And your better half..."

"This ends here and now, Savage," Kendra said, sounding a lot braver than she looked. "You're coming with us!"

Savage scoffed. "I doubt you can apprehend me..." He turned to the bomb, which was still laying ever so innocently out on the stage. "And stop a nuclear explosion." He slammed his hand on the detonation button, causing the bomb to start counting down, before running off. (They had two minutes before everything went boom.)

Men jumped up on the stage. Ray nodded to the others. "You take care of them I've got this!" He shrank down, before flying into the bomb to work his nerdy magic.

Deserey turned, putting one of the men to sleep with her new found ability. Sara and the hawks went after the rest; the assassin sent a high kick, sending one man tumbling to the floor below with a bloody nose. Carter gave another man a black eye with the help of his mace, and Kendra swung another man around, throwing him to the floor.

Mick charged at another man, who was running to help his fellow baddies. The arsonist slammed into him, sending him toppling to the ground. Sara moved to the floor again, expertly swinging her weapons around in swift, well timed motions. It almost looked as though she were dancing, the way her body moved with such grace.

Firestorm sent a blast of nuclear energy down at a group of terrorists surrounding Leonard, very nearly hitting the thief also in the process.

Fortunately, Len rolled out of the way. He glared up at the burning man. (Men?) "Watch it!" he yelled.

Deserey was about to join the others again, when she heard a quiet beep come from the bomb. She glanced at the red numbers counting down, and her heart nearly stopped. They were now moving much faster, only giving them a mere thirty seconds now.

"Ray!" she yelled.

The Atom flew out of the bomb, growing back to normal size again. He looked panicked too. "I didn't do anything!" he promised. "It must have a fail safe..."

Sara ran back over after punching a man in the face. She groaned, when she saw the bomb's state. "Professor," she called over the coms, "Jax! We need you!"

The burning man flew over, almost throwing Ray off the stage, when they landed. They grabbed the bomb, bursting through the roof like someone from a cliche super hero movie. (Dez was kind of relieved to see that she wasn't the only one who didn't have a good handle on her powers.)

Sara scoffed at their lack of skill, before charging back into battle. Ray followed shortly after, when one of the baddies attempted to punch him in the face. He managed to block the hit with his forearm, leaving Deserey to wonder how even the most innocent one on the team could be more bad ass than she was.

The two grappled with each other for a moment, until Ray finally managed to punch the other guy out. As he did so, though, Dez thought she heard something snap. She glanced at the ground quickly to make sure, but she didn't see anything. Shrugging it off, she ran back into the battle behind the Atom.

Leonard kicked one of their attackers, as Mick fired his heat gun around the room. When the gun lost charge, he decked another baddie, and Leonard fired a stream of ice from his gun.

Kendra and Carter fought side by side, punching and kicking the attackers together. (It sort of looked like they were lining up to get their asses kicked.)

Sara moved like a wild animal, taking down the men at an alarmingly fast pace. She was unstoppable. Ray occasionally shrank down, disorientating his attackers, before blasting them with the blue energy from his suit.

Desserey did her best to be useful in the fight. She tossed a handful of sand in the air again, blinding their enemies with her little storm.  And when she could think to do it, she put them to sleep, blowing some sand into their faces.

From over the coms, she heard Jax yelling. She glanced outside the window to see a mushroom cloud erupt from a distance and gasped. For a second, she thought they were all screwed, but then the mushroom cloud disappeared again, shrinking down, as though the explosion were being sucked right back into the bomb.

"We did it!" Jax cheered over the coms.

"Did what?" Carter asked. He kicked an attacker in the ribs, sending him stumbling right into Mick's fist.

"Oh yeah," Jax muttered. "I forgot you guys can't hear Gray when we're merged." He paused for a second, before explaining, "Well I don't understand the science or anything behind it, but basically we absorbed the energy from the explosion to make it not, you know, explode and kill everyone."

"How considerate of you," Leonard said, shooting yet another man down. "Let's get back to the ship, before any more trouble hits."

Deserey tossed another handful of sand in the air, causing it to swirl around the remainder of their attackers. The men stumbled around, cursing when they pumped into each other. While they were distracted, the team fled the scene. From across the water, Deserey spotted Firestorm flying away from a little island, hurrying to catch up with them, a trail of orange flames behind them.

The team was reunited a few feet from the auction building. Firestorm landed in front of the others, and flames twirled around them, as they de-merged. When they flames went out, there was once again two people -- Jax and Professor Stein. The professor looked a little exasperated, while Jax looked a little bit too high and mighty.

"Well, I'm glad you were the one calling the shots," Ray jabbed at Leonard.

The thief rolled his eyes. "I had it under control, until the Professor started picking fights with the PLO."

Carter nodded in agreement. "You let your ego endanger our entire mission!" he told Stein.

"No," Stein shook his head. "Mr. Rory's temper was completely out of control!"

"Whoa!" Mick scoffed. "I thought we were friends, Professor!" He glanced at Deserey. "Besides, what about her? She's the one who started talking about stupid SciFi shows!"

"Oh that's nice," Dez huffed. "Blame the new chick."

"Hey," Kendra said, trying to be positive. "At least there's one less nuclear bomb on the planet."

Stein sighed, nodding slowly. "I suppose you're right, Miss Saunders."

Sara shrugged. "We're all screw ups," she said. "Now, let's get back to the ship, where Rip no doubt is planning to tear us all a new one."

"Joy," Deserey muttered sarcastically.

I did most of this chapter from memory. All except the dialogue with Savage, I think. So, sorry if not all of it is completely accurate...except not really all that sorry, because things can change in things like this. Plus I already told you there would be changes, so you shouldn't be surprised.

And while these changes that may or may not exist are accidental and small...at least I delivered.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I don't think I'm the best at writing fight scenes, but I hope it was good enough for you guys.

Let me know you're thoughts in the comments, and as usual let me know if you see any major grammar errors so I can fix them later!