<div class="floatleft">(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18j0gusctzfhdjpg/ku-large.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fe/28/b2/fe28b2428bba1131a0d7dc7275f37762.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Soldiers and Shield<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Unknown, Daniel Stark<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>0142 6 Apr, 2102<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Scav Mart<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Everyone<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>Scav Mart<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong><br/><hr/><br/>For having merely meet no more than a few minutes, this gathering of enhanced beings that rain down upon these murderous reavers like righteous vengeance, they act and move together as if they had been working together for years.  Astrid and Venom both strike first, and the intense wave of pure cold washes over the men at the same time tendrils of inky blackness, the barbed tips of such gleam like razor sharp obsidian.  The cold made the composite material of the armor stiff and brittle, causing more than a few of them to spark as the complex circuitry inside the armor shorted.  Then the armor splintered and shattered as Venom's tentacles sliced through them on their way to grab at the weapons.  The symbiotic team pulled two of them right out of the hands of the men as arcs of arterial spray hit the wave of cold, steaming instantly and then falling to the ground like ruby grains of sand, shattering upon impact.<br/><br/>Venom was not the only one to benefit from the beyond arctic cold of Astrid's attack.  The wake of of frigid energy slashed into eight of the twelve man fire team.  Mere hundredths of a second after Astrid's attack hit them, three of the eight men effected were in the process of firing their weapons.  The hoarfrost that formed caused the weapons to misfire, exploding in their faces, killing the three of them instantly.  The resulting explosion also wounded the two men that stood to each side of the three now dead mercenaries.  These two men staggered, and were then cuts down to pieces by the fire from Moon Knight's airship, the armor compromised by the cold and no longer able to withstand weapons fire that it could previously turn aside, and in less time than it takes for a person to blink twice, seven of the twelve man team are down.<br/><br/>Then Kaia brings the Bloodaxe into play, and before the remaining five men can shift their fire, or even break for cover themselves, they are tugged towards the Asgardian princess, the Bloodaxe drawing upon the ferrous cores of the projectiles being used in their weapons.  The hoarfrost that would be cold even in the realm of Jotumheim did not merely coat armor or weapons, but also left ice several inches thick upon the ground, too thick for the treading upon the men's armored boots to compensate for and they went down upon the ground, loosing their grip upon the weapons as they did.  The complex and deadly even to Kaia weapons streaked end over end and shatter upon the near indestructible surface of the Bloodaxe, showering Kaia in a rain of composite materials and circuitry.  The action did take no small amount of concentration on Kaia's part, and one of the snipers from Echo team had Kaia's golden hair in his cross hairs.The sniper fired a hair of a second after Daredevil cried out her warning.   It was not even enough time for one to turn their head at the report of the weapon.   The projectile rocketed through the air, straight on to its target.<br/><br/>To shatter upon impact of the energy shield that snapped into place in less than a blink of an eye about Kaia.<br/><br/>Crouched down at the Princess' side is Shield, his right arm extended above his head as it projected about both himself and Kaia the energy field from his armor's namesake, putting up a barrier that could and had before turned away anti-tank weaponry.  Even then, Shield saw the flare of feedback across his systems and whoever the hell these men were, their weapons far surpassed that of even the military.   Shield let the energy field collapse and reform about his right arm into the three foot diameter semi-reflective energy disk, the structure of it now more dense and compact and of such strength Daniel doubted even Kaia with her axe could damage or compromise it.  Like Daredevil, Daniel turned up the audio gain of his armor so everyone could hear.<br/><br/><strong><em>"Daredevil, get clear!  Moonknight, cover fire and extraction for Daredevil.  Venom, you and yours take down the rest of them.  Thordottir, those men in that building that just trid to kill you are yours.  Let them know what it means to incur the full wrath of the Princess of Asgard!"</em></strong>