Lara darted ahead of Alan nimbly leaping from side to side avoiding his bullet fire as Alan cursed his luck "How the hell did I manage to let her escape!" "At this rate I'll never manage to catch her unless I try something to slow her down" Alan glanced down at his tonfa as he pressed down hard on the trigger a clicking noise being heard before he stopped running and looked around at his surroundings. "If I throw it here then she'll be forced to take a detour, while that happens I'll move in unseen".
With his plan laid out Alan hurled his tonfa through the air as it swirled around like a boomerang arcing through the air all the while bullets being fired from the end of the tonfa. Vanishing from sight he continued to run forward as he watched Lara stop moving suddenly as an erratic hail of bullets came from every direction forcing her to stop running forward as the tonfa whirled in front of her and continued to spin around. "What the hell?" Lara thought wondering how Alan managed to keep his tonfa firing without a finger to click on the trigger, "Wait if I've stopped moving then he's closing the gap between us" whirling around she raised her bow up only to find no one was behind her. "That trick won't work on me Alan" she grinned pointing the bow up as a barrage of arrows were unleashed into the air and came whistling down piercing the earth and yet not one single arrow landed a hit on him.
"How the hell didn't he get hit?" Lara thought to herself and then the realization hit her quiet literally as a force from behind crash tackled her to the ground causing the flag to fly from her grip and land onto the ground. Alan materialised his entire body wrapped around her in a tackle as he quickly jumped up and rolled forward grabbing the flag in swift motion before standing up. "I'll be taking this back thank you" as he turned to race back and place the flag down he felt an arrow whistle past his neck as he slowly turned back around to find Lara already on her feet bow in hand "Yeah that isn't going to happen".
"Perhaps here" Tom thought ducking to the side of Erika and lunging in hacking at her shield only for the blades to bounce off as she counter attacked swiping her fan as Tom leapt back. "I told you it's pointless to try and break through" Erika started laughing "Hmmm I'm thinking about this the wrong way, while she has strengthened the barrier the weakness is still there, she just must have shifted it to another spot". "The two most logical choices would be beneath or above her" trying with the top idea Tom's boots began to glow white as he leapt high into the air floating in the sky high above as he fired two mines onto the top of Erika's shield.
Detonating them he saw a tiny crack forming in the shield "So it isn't in one specific spot then" landing on the ground he ran straight at Erika dodging her blades that were being hurled directly at him. Sliding right underneath her he fired another two mines and after rolling out the opposite side detonated them as the cracks slowly began to appear more prominently on her shield "I don't see why you think that'll work" Erika chuckled oblivious to the fact her shield was indeed cracking around her.
Elsewhere across from Tom the fight between Ania and Tina had finished as while Tina was laying on the ground wind knocked from her Ania had acted quickly encasing 95% of her body in ice making sure her legs and feet were firmly frozen to the floor. "Now with you busy trying to break free of that I can grab the flag" she turned back around as a pink glow surrounded her body "With my super speed finding the flag should be simple" kicking from the ground she raced through the tree's eyes scanning the field for any sign of where their flag might be.
She darted directly through the fight between Tom and Erika as both had stopped fighting just in time to watch a pink streak fly past them. "Probably could've helped Tom by firing a spear head into that crack forming on Erika's shield but I'm sure he'd prefer to win the fight unhelped" she thought to herself before flying past straight out into an open field and sure enough directly in front of her was their flag "Bingo".
Meanwhile Tina had only just woken up from being knocked out and went to stand up only to feel slightly colder than normal and unable to move. Her eyes trailed down as she spotted the layers of ice encasing her to the ground before she somehow managed to smile "So she thinks this'll hold me long enough for her to grab the flag well think again". Tensing her entire body parts of the ice began to chip away as she strained to stand up causing more fractures to appear as her right arm was slightly freed with enough room for her to shatter the remaining ice encasing it with a solid smack. "Alright now with my main arm free it shouldn't take to long for the remainder of this to be shattered" with a swift punch she freed her left arm before a lightning bolt crackled in the sky from another direction "Seems like Erza is taking her fight rather seriously I bet she's up against Mitch pity I wanted to face him" Tina said a smirk appearing.
Mitch dodged past multiple lightning bolts as Erza continually moved around the battlefield sending them down giving Mitch no chance of closing the distance between them to move in for sword combat. Every now and then he'd try to match the bolts with fireballs but she'd switch her blades form to that of water and dissolve the fireballs into mist and then return to lightning. "How the hell can I close this gap and use it to my advantage if she has multiple elements and skills instilled into that blade of hers" Mitch thought to himself before realizing he was trying to plan a battle strategy "Good god I've hung around Alan and Tom to much".
"On second thought maybe the easiest way is the most simple solution and more suited to my style" he then thought to himself as a grin spread across his face before he turned to face Erza completely unmoved and unguarded. As the bolts of lightning came directly towards him Mitch carefully watched Erza plan her next movement and just as she veered off to the left instead of dodging the bolts he ran directly towards them. "What the hell is he doing that'll hurt" Erza thought to herself expecting a bluff but he continued charging forward as the lightning bolts struck him directly in the torso as he grit his teeth together pushing through the pain breaking past them and was directly in front of Erza as his blade came arcing down across her chest plate she was wearing.
The metal sword bounced off with a metallic ring but Mitch wasn't done as his left hand reached forward watching her trying to leap back and grabbed a hold of her thigh slamming her straight into the ground before offloading a fireball at point blank range. Stepping back he watched Erza slowly pick herself up from the dirt the back of her armour left with a black charred mark and smoke wafting off while Mitch wasn't the best for wear his shirt had been torn to shreds by the lightning and there were black scorch marks all over. "I didn't expect you to take my attack head on" "Well I figured if I couldn't outsmart you I'd do the only other thing I'm good at doing being unpredictable and catching my opponents off guard" "That certainly worked alright but it left you rather injured". Mitch looked down and laughed "What these? Trust me I've been in far worse condition before" he placed Ashura over his shoulder and grinned "So shall we resume then?" "With pleasure".