<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: franklin gothic demi;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Ares: Immersed in Battle</span></span></div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;">I'll show you nothing!</span></div><br/><div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/HlySd/Aresherc-1.png)</div>Ares was ignoring the fact that the Absorbing Man was twirling his ball and chain. What mortal weapon could possibly harm—the ball was launched and it came at the god so fast that he hesitated in startle. The ball struck his chest with enough force to lift him off his feet.<br/><br/>“Oof!” he grunted.<br/><br/>The chain rattled in his ears and the wind whipped against his back until he met a lamp post. If that post did anything, it stopped him. Ares’s left hand snagged the chain before the convict could retract the ball. He rose off the bent pole as a malicious grin parted his lips.<br/><br/>“Nothing?” Ares questioned. He jerked on the chain with enough strength to tug Creel toward him as he seemed to keep a tight grip on his precious weapon. The god’s massive fist was there to meet with the criminal’s metal face as the convict’s head rocked back with the resonation of a church bell. Ares then looped the chain about Creel’s throat and with both hands now gripping it, he began swinging the convict about and slamming him into the street, into cars parallel parked near him, and into the lamp post he had recently crippled.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>I APOLOGIZE MORTAL, BUT I THOUGHT IT BEST TO RID YOUR MIND OF YOUR  IDIOT DELUSIONS WITH WALL-TO-WALL COUNSELING!</em></span></span></div><br/><br/>Ares continued to bash the convict about the block as he pondered his resilience. He just wouldn’t die! For a second he suspected the mythical collar about his throat but that couldn’t have been it—at least not yet. The mortal had some sort of trick…what was it?