<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><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;">Trapped in a bubble</span></div><br/>Ares yanked Colossus back so that her back met his chest plate like a hammer and she could safely set her feet upon the ground. He grinned when he saw how far Creel had flown. It was sweet vengeance, and the convict had gotten a taste of his own medicine. Just as the god thought the battle was over, a nearby fire hydrant exploded, and a gush of water spouted out of it. The odd thing was, it was all moving, rolling like a wave toward him.<br/><br/>Defensively, Ares stepped back the closer the rushing water came, but it soon found his legs and began to stack up, rising into a watery orb. Just before it enveloped his head, the god took a deep breath and then gazed through the rippling world around him.<br/><br/><strong>Hehe... looks like you could use some help, Creel.  The kind of help that only HYDRO MAN can give!  I wonder if gods still need to breathe... let's find out!</strong><br/><br/>The voice echoed and was watery to his ears, but he knew that this bubble was actually another foe. A foe made of water…it sounded harmless, but the god knew that if he managed to get inside his body, he probably wouldn’t be. Irritably, he threw a few punches into the water to no avail. How was he going to defeat this thing?<br/><br/>For the moment, Ares felt like a sitting duck, and he hated that feeling. He had to think…and fast.<br/><br/><strong>I'm the Absorbing Man... that means I can absorb -anything-!</strong><br/><br/>Ares’s brows rose with his epiphany. What happens when the Absorbing Man absorbs water? The war god looked to Colossus and pointed towards the destructive path Creel had traveled. He then pointed down to the floor in the stern gesture: Bring him here! Hopefully, she understood.<br/><br/>The war god then turned to the two blondes. He first glanced to Carol, finding it embarrassing for her to see him like this (having briefly forgot that Colossus was also Caroline), but then she didn’t know that he was John, so that was okay. He then gazed to the man with the red, white, and blue shield. He hadn’t seen him before, but he had one of the villains in his clutches. It didn’t look like Speed Demon was planning to go down so easily. Ares waved his arms as he tried to get the two blondes’ attention.<br/><br/>If he got it, he would point to Speed Demon, and then beckon with his hands towards himself. Ares wanted them to give him the villain. He was confident that he could hold his breath longer than any human, which would mean, Speed Demon would be out of luck.