It seemed that "Ground Zero: Paris" was the place to be on this rainy night, as one super-charged gym-rat after another showed up on the scene. Tyler was glad to see each of them, though apparently the French couldn't defend a blockade for shit. There was the dark haired girl who looked like she thought this was a rave, and then provided her own laser light show. Then some guy who looked like he sang in a boy band, wearing the shoulder pads from Power Rangers showed up with some kind of flashlight gun, but didn't seem to know where exactly it was he arrived to.<br/><br/>"This is hell! And we're all about to get fucked by the big iron devil!" Tyler shouted from behind the large chunk of concrete he was hiding behi- using for cover.<br/><br/>All of these people seemed to be a lot more powerful than Ty, not to mention better equipped to fight the Iron General, yet none of them seemed to be making any progress at all. When the Iron General told them to run, Tyler did exactly that. Running across the battlefield in a dead sprint to pick up Coach, who whimpered when he was lifted. A good sign that the dog had survived, at least for now.<br/><br/>Tyler didn't want to be here in the first place.<em>I mean, shit! I gave it the good old college try, right?</em>He thought to himself as he hurdled back over the barrier into the military position. Jim was waiting to take the dog out of Tyler's arms, but the look on his soaking wet face was thoroughly less than pleased.<br/><br/>When Jim opened his mouth to scream at Tyler, no voice came out. Instead, Ty only heard squealing tires and the crunching of metal parts. More bending metal, shattering glass then an explosion! Truth fell backward, covering his ears as the percussive sound left them ringing as cells died off inside his inner ear.<br/><br/>"Don't be so fucking dramatic, Truth!" Jim shouted as the ringing slowly eased up. "I'm telling you, I'll take care of the dog, get back in there and fight!"<br/><br/>"Yeah... yeah, I think I will." Truth muttered faintly, rising back up to his feet. "I've been going about this all wrong... to beat a machine, you need to USE a machine!"<br/><br/>Before Jim could even ask what he was talking about, Truth was leaping over the side of a military Humvee and searching for a key. The nearest French officer rushed over, grabbing at Tyler's arms and shouting in French. The man was obviously quite adamant about something, he didn't need superhuman foresight to know that he didn't want Ty driving off in his truck, but by now the dash had already been cracked and wires stripped to copper. This wasn't the first vehicle Tyler had hotwired in a hurry.<br/><br/>As the wires sparked and the motor hummed, Truth gave the soldier a solid but not brutal face palm, imagining the Heismann Trophy. As the guard stumbled back for a moment, Tyler threw the Hummer into first and gave the French Officer the international sign language for<em>Fuck You!</em><br/><br/>The tires squealed for a long moment before Tyler and his new machine tore off into the mud and debris of the battlefield. It was tough to get enough traction to navigate around the overturned cars and pieces of rubble, but Truth moved quickly through the gears and settled for aiming the vehicle rather than steering.<br/><br/>"Get out of the fucking way!" Truth shouted as he skidded through the ranks of the other heroes who had joined the fight. "Take this you big, metal fucking bitch!"<br/><br/>When the hood of the truck crumpled against the hull of The Iron General's power suit- engine parts ground together, the windshield shattered and Truth smashed the bridge of his nose on the steering wheel. In a bright flash, Ty saw no visions, this flash wasn't related to his powers, it was related to a concussion.<br/><br/>While Tyler had heard the sounds of a car crash moments ago, in this moment of chaos and pain, Tyler didn't hear a wreck. Instead he heard Jim's voice, firm but supportive in his head.<br/><br/><em>"You can't run away from this Truth. You've got to fight, because it's your life too that you're fighting for. You're the only one who can save it!"</em>