Rift Storm's assault on the bunker begins as tremendously powerful winds blow across the area. Any armed soldier still left after the initial blast of lightning is swiftly swept up into the sky by the storm. Rift Storm uses his finesse in controlling the wind to hurdle the remainder of the soldiers into a more focused spot in the air, lifting his arm in their direction with his hand open. Rift Storm's hand crackles with lightning as he prepares to char the rest with his lightning when suddenly his body begins to feel heavy. Even the air around him becomes heavy as he plummets to the ground.
Rift Storm lands on his hands and knees, struggling to keep his head and having a grin on his face. "Gravity manipulation… Here you are, Zero." He looks up enough to see Zero hovering in the air just a few yards away, black lightning sparking around him. "Osiris, I have a visual on Zero. Proceed with the plan."
Zero uses his gravity power to lower the other soldiers far away from them. The young hero looks around at the devastation wrought by Rift Storm, in just a short moment so much destruction was made. Rage overcomes Zero as the black lightning intensifies. "You're going to pay for this." Before Rift Storm could make a reply The Phonz teleports to the left of him with his right fist back and ready to strike.
Phonz tries to punch Rift Storm but his fist is met by a wall of air that easily stops him. "What's going on!? Why can't I hit you!?" Phonz's struggle to press forward falls in vain as the wall of pressurized air explodes in force causing a blast of air to repel the hero away. "Oh, that's how you want to play it, ok then." The Phonz teleports mid-push, appearing above the villain ready to end the fight. Before he could get closer a portal opens up beneath Rift Storm, swallowing him whole as it moves up. Phonz lands on the ground having lost sight of him and quickly scans the area for any sign. Zero flies towards Phonz to aid in the search when Phonz sees another portal opening above Zero. "Watch out kid!"
Zero looks up in time to see Rift Storm coming out of a portal with a torrent of wind engulfing his left fist. The hero extends his hand out to create a gravitational force field around him as Rift Storm punches down with extreme hostility. The resulting force of condensed wind and gravity was to cause a shockwave of equal power to five TNT. Zero is blown back straight into the ground, creating a bus-sized crater upon impact. "You managed to stop my attack, not bad. Looks like Transmuter was right; You are a challenge for me." Rift Storm's other fist becomes engulfed in his lightning. "Entertain me some more." He says as he flies straight down towards Zero but The Phonz teleports in grabbing Zero and teleporting away. Bolts of lightning fill the crater as Rift Storm crashes into it with his fist.
The two heroes appear a couple of feet away from the crater. "Thanks for the save." Zero stands to his feet, his body still shaken from the blow from before. "He hits like a truck, just who is this guy?"
"I had my guesses when I saw the lightning and storm winds but after seeing you use the portals it only confirmed my suspicions. You're Rift Storm, Transmuters first right-hand man, and the meta that nearly destroyed Miami with that storm." Zero looks at Phonz in shock at this revelation. The man responsible for the Miami storm and almost killing his parents stood before him.
Rift Storm smiles to himself. "I see my reputation still precedes me. Glad to know I wasn't forgotten in my absence. Now if you're done talking about me how about we continue." He says, bringing his left across the chest as the wind furiously picks up again. With a wave of his arm Rift Storm let's loose a powerful wave of wind strong enough that the discarded charred remains and the destroyed vehicles are swept away.
The Phonz teleports out of the way of the wave of wind as Zero uses his gravity abilities to fly up into the air. Once high enough Zero looks down to see the massive amount of damage he caused just by waving his arm. "So much power and he isn't even trying."
Back in the bunker, Alpha Moon is trying to keep the family calm while the rest of the bunker is in an uproar. Electrified peers into the hallway to see the rest of the personnel running around frantically, all armed to the teeth with weaponry.
Electrified steps back into the room with the others. "Looks like our location has been made. Most likely that explosion was caused by a super villain."
"If that's the case then we let Zero and Phonz handle them. Our Job is to protect the family at all costs." Alpha Moon says.
"We should still provide back-up. If they are taking on the enemy we should help too." Electrified states as he makes his way to the door.
"Wait!" Alpha Moon yells out grabbing Electrifieds shoulder. "Didn't you hear me? We must stay here and protect the family. We're the last line of defense if things go sideways." Just then the bunker shakes again as booming thunder echoes from outside. "Was that thunder?"
"Sorry, but I'm going." Electrifieds body crackles with yellow lightning and before Alpha Moon could stop him, he blitz away in a second.
Back outside the fight continues as The Phonz teleports repeatedly to dodge the multiple bolts of lightning thrown at him from above. Zero flies around countering the bolts of lightning with his own trying to get closer to Rift Storm who is surrounded by a swirling vortex of wind and lightning. Getting fed up with being on the defensive, Zero manipulates the gravity around Rift Storm and forcibly pulls him closer, giving the sensation of falling sideways through the air as the raging Vortex follows suit. Just when Zero thinks he has him, Rift Storm opens a portal in front of him, falling through it and escaping the clutches of gravity. A second goes by when Rift Storm appears out of the portal behind Zero and wraps his arm around the neck. Before Zero could react the villain hits him with a surge of lightning. Stunned by the fact that he is actually being hurt by lightning, lets out a small cry of pain.
The Phonz teleports up to them in midst of the electric quarrel and plants a punch to the right of Rifts face, ending up getting shocked in the process. Rift Storm let's go of Zero and is knocked down to the ground as Phonz grabs hold of Zero and teleports back to the ground safely.
"Thanks for the assist." Zero takes a moment to take in the fact that he was hurt by the same element he commands. "I have felt other sources of electricity before, enough to kill a full grown man ten times over, but it never harmed me. His lightning… it isn't normal."
"You don't say…" The Phonz replies while holding his left arm, that part of his hero suit almost completely burnt off as his arm twitches.
Zero sees the extensive damage to the arm. "Oh my… can you still move your arm?"
"Barely, all I feel is pain and a tingly sensation. Got one good arm left though." The Phonz makes a fist with his right hand. Zero looks over to Rift Storm who is getting up from the ground sooner than expected. "How is he getting up, I hit him with a super strength punch to the face."
Zero stands up and steps in front of The Phonz. "Let me handle this guy." Phonz just looks at him confused. "You can't touch him or you'll lose another arm."
"You can't be serious. You must've lost some brain cells when he shocked you because he can damage you as well. Not to mention he can escape your gravity traps as well when he opens a portal. What do you plan to do?"
"I'll think of something." As the two converse with each other over the current situation Rift Storm channels the wind around him and flies towards then at a tremendous speed. "Here he comes!" Zero begins charging up his black lightning when he and Rift Storm look to the bunker simultaneously after feeling a surge of electricity coming their way.
In a flash of yellow lightning, Electrified appears out of thin air with his fist cocked back. Rift Storm reacts quickly to turn his body around and meet the attack head on as the two fists of lightning collide in a powerful explosion of electricity. Electrified is pushed back significantly while Rift Storm appears to have not moved from the initial spot.
Electrified comes to a sliding stop just a yard away from Rift Storm. "Looks like I was right to provide back-up." Looking down at his hand to see it tremble from the blow, he smiles. "To think his lightning could affect me, this got me fired up now."
"You all are like rats that keep coming. Oh well, more fun for me I gue-" before he could finish the sentence the weight of gravity around him increases drastically, instantly bringing him down to his knees. Even the ground under him gives way to make a crater five in diameter.
The Phonz makes his way over to Electrified while Zero is holding Rift Storm in place. "What are you doing? You're supposed to be with Alpha Moon and The family."
"I came because I thought you and the new kid couldn't handle the situation by yourselves. I was right, of course." Electrified slams his fists together as his whole body becomes cloaked by his lightning aura. "Go cover the family with Alpha Moon. I'll handle this guy." The Phonz quickly realize that they're right and takes off into the bunker to where the family is.
"He's too much for you to take on by yourself. We're going to have to work together." Zero states while trying to hold Rift Storm down.
"Bullshit! I don't need help, especially from you! Just stay out of my way!"
"Don't be an idiot, we need to work as a team to stop him!" Just then Zero felt a resistance I'm gravity coming from Rift Storm. When Zero looks over he can see a strange silver and yellow aura coming from Rift Storm. "What the hell?"
In the crater Rift Storm's body is extruding the strange aura, his eyes glowing the same colors coming off his body; the left eye glowing yellow and the right glowing silver. Rift Storm struggles against the opposing gravitational force pressing down on him, slowly but surely he begins rising up from the ground. Massive amount of strong winds begin to revolve around the perimeter of the crater as well as multiple strikes of lightning strike down onto Rift Storm continuously.
"That's impossible, even The Phonz with his super strength would find it incredibly difficult to move with the amount of weight pressing down on him." The gravity increases on Rift Storm as Zero tightens his grip. The more he increased the gravity the more Rift Storm fought against it in turn increasing the veracity of the growing storm of wind and lightning. "If you're going to do something then do it quickly, I can't hold on much longer!" Zero says putting as much effort as he can into maintaining the down force of gravity.
"I'm ending it now!" Electrified charges up a copious amount of lightning in his hands, much so that excess lightning jets off from him in multiple directions. "Eat this and die!" Electrified lets loose a concentrated blast of lightning at Rift Storm.
An enormously powerful explosion of lightning and wind erupts from the impact of Electrifieds attack. Zero and Electrified quickly rush back to escape the reach of the blast only to be blown back by the extreme force given off by it. Once settled the two pick themselves off the ground and look back to see a cloud of smoke covering the area where Rift Storm should be.
"Ha! See that! He wasn't so tough. I probably would have taken him myself." Electrified says dusting himself off.
Zero just rolls his eyes dusting himself off as well. "I'm not so sure you could've. If I wasn't holding him down then your shot would have missed."
"What did you say? Don't think you're better than me! If he was still alive I definitely could beat him by myself without your help!" As if it was an act of fate the wind picks up again instantly. The two look back at the cloud of smoke that is now whirling around in the shape of a Tornado. Multiple flashes of yellow lightning can be seen within the tornado.
With every flash the two can make out Rift Storms silhouette from inside the Tornado, his glowing eyes piercing the veil of the wind. Zero looks at Electrified with a straight face. "Still think you can take him alone?"
"Shut up and get ready." Electrified says as they both let there lightning auras surge.