<blockquote><div><cite>Akashi wrote:</cite><span style="color: #FF0000">"I will warn you, only once, Metal man. If you seek to combat me, you will receive far more than you gambled for. And will lose far more than some road, or vehicles. You will lose entire city blocks."</span></div></blockquote><br/><br/>The omnipresent voice wasn't that hard to figure out. There were only four metahumans registering in the area, and three of them weren't talking at the moment (heck, one wasn't even conscious), so that left the guy on top of the bank whose mouth was, oddly enough, moving to the same cadence as the words. "Uh huh. Couple points you should understand kiddo. One..." He held up a finger "...not metal. Two..." Another finger. "...I don't gamble. And three..." A third finger. "...why the frak would I care about some city I don't even live in?"<br/><br/>"Now as for you..." He turned his attention, and a pointed finger, to the girl floating on her snowboard with swords drawn. "...you're right about the violence thing. It'll definitely be more fun if you resist, but I'm not a liar. If I say I won't hurt you if you surrender, then I won't hurt you if you surrender. Mind-over-matter over there didn't get that offer, you did. Though clearly you're not going to take it. That said, time's up." First things first then. Deal with the immediate threat. The goon on top of the bank can wait.<br/><br/>Bloodshot's right arm blurred, moving too fast for any human eye to follow, and the pistol on his right hip was clear of the holster and aimed at metallica's head, right between the eyes, in the space of an instant. Then in that same instant, he squeezed the trigger and sent the bullet on its way. Being made of rubber and only half-powered, it wouldn't be able to pierce her skull (the most it could do is break the skin), but with the amount of force behind it no human would be able to remain conscious if struck. If he got lucky, there was an outside chance it could cause whiplash and snap her neck to kill her that way, but that had only happened once and the guy was some kind of a science geek. Not exactly the picture of physical fitness.