[i] Screams..so many screams erupted from Eve until her vocal cords were raw and torn. The armor she wore, the very best the Watchers could muster from every period of time that had ever, or will exist, took the brunt of the beginning attacks, keeping her from becoming a charred corpse. But when her leg and arm were blasted/cut off, her chest opened in a fiery explosion, Vanish Squadron's last member showed himself..only for a mere moment. To Lucien, and everyone else there who couldn't manipulate the fabric of time and space, everything happened faster than they could even think. But for Specter, it took place in normal time. [url=https://imgur.com/a/2vL13]He[/url] teleported from his nest deep into the woods, his black and yellow cloak along with white mask showing only briefly to Lucien. In a flash, his manipulation of time sped up Eve's body's healing until the wounds that were open closed. Specter's powers didn't actually heal a target, they just sped up their own bodies abilities to instantaneous. Except, Eve's body didn't come with limb regeneration. [/i] "Specter, get her out of here! Vanish Squadron, retreat!" [i] Words Ghost had never uttered before, but it was necessary. This..demon was too powerful to take on now without the element of surprise. Especially with Eve how she was, she'd need to be taken back to The Horizon, and reconstructed..a thought that chilled Ghost to the core. The only one remotely injured besides Eve was Phantom, who had taken far too many massive rounds to still be operational. His form vanished into the waves of time, just like Banshee, Revenant, Specter, Ghost, and Wraith. It hadn't been a total failure, they'd killed the Black Ka'kari user.. those knives Ghost had stuck in his back melded with the skin of their target, making them a permanent porcupine if they still lived. Which he was almost positive Desmond hadn't. He couldn't be sure though..he was too busy seeing his subordinate turned into a blackened coal. Meanwhile, Desmond lay face down amidst the fire and flames, and ash around him. He looked pretty dead...except the slightest spasm of his body. [/i] [quote]Desmond..I can't heal you of this. These knives are stuck. All I would do would heal the skin around them and swallow the knives into your back.[/quote] "No..no.." [i] Desmond managed to breathe, the fact he was about to die and kill someone else he loved too much too bear..[/i]