The battle between Gravity and Hardball has created a
seismic shockwave in Las Vegas. Cloud 9 and Thor Girl, along with others try to
rescue the endangered. They are helping evacuate a hotel when the building collapses
around them, trapping them in the rubble. Thor Girl holds up the upper floors
to keep everyone safe….
Prodigy and Firestar arrive on the scene. Prodigy puts
Telemetry in charge, having her create a force platform to descend into the
Earth to stabilize the fault lines, Gravity and Hardball, partly recovered from
their injuries, board the platform for its descent. Firestar and Telemetry go
under their own power. Reaching the fault matrix, Gravity and Hardball must
hold hands to generate an electro-gravitational field…
Cloud 9 starts to panic from claustrophobia; Thor Girl
wonders if it is her fate to die that day; breaking down, Prodigy heads to a
liquor store and picks up a bottle of whiskey; the heroes underground bend
under the pressure….
Cloud 9 pulls it together and tells Thor Girl she can save
them all if she doesn’t give in to notions of “fate.” TG lifts the upper part
of the building. Prodigy pulls it together and pours the whiskey on the ground
and contacts Telemetry for an update. The quake stops. Komodo and Cloud 9 find
each other safe and head into the building via the tunnel created by Thor Girl
to rescue those trapped inside. Prodigy comes face-to-face with Thor Girl who
denounces him over her legal ordeal; he responds that he is the one holding everything
together while she agonizes over her own problems—so he hits him with her
hammer….