Clarksville? Really?

It was supposed to be a routing Mission. Sure LFER has been spotted in the area, but we were a well oiled machine, we should have done better out there. But, I am getting ahead of myself.

Our mission briefing said that Clarksville, Tn was exhibiting a lot more energy production than a town of that size should. Our orders were to find the source of the power fluctuations and destroy them. We were given power to address any powered persons we found on site and 'Darken' them. I don't like that, being a person with abilities means I could suddenly be darkened myself, that would be awful.

I don't think the intel we were given was adequate. We suspected we would face some powered resistance, but not what came at us!! There were 4 para's, one went by the name Hollow Blade, Bear was the second, one was their leader, did not catch his name nor the name of the fourth one.

I was attacked by the one named Hollow Blade, I wonder if she was channeling energy from that place of the vanishings? Her weapon cut through my defenses fairly easily. The only thing that helped was my ability to go underground. I wonder if Spencer was smart enough to outthink the para, I hope so - he did just look like a business man.

Bear seems to have some deadly claws that cut through flesh & bone as if they weren't even there. He did a nasty slice & dice on Charles Broadwyn, you will be avenged my friend.

The leader (Unknown name) was a bad shot, he kept missing the intended targets. In his favour he did not seem put off by missing but took it all in stride.

The fourth one, I only had a brief glance at, he seemed to have some green energy weapon he was firing at Night Owl, kept missing so we don't know what effect that would have in the long run. He also seemed able to do fair sized leaps as he closed the distance between our team and himself fairly quickly (the green energy again?)

Final result is we lost one good man, two if Spencer couldn't talk his way out of their hands. At a last ditch effort, I telekinetically threw George up to Night Owl and she grabbed him and flew to safety.

As a side post I saw Spencer talk his way away from Hollow Blade, wish I knew what he said, maybe I should learn to read lips?