The Purifier's cry of pain from being splashed in the face with acid didn't last long as a pyroplasmic blade promptly cut through the man's armour, the two halves falling off of each other, cauterized by the intense heat.

And it was then that Stephanie saw Marcelo and all the colour drained from her face. Wisps of summoned pyroplasm dissipated instantly as she ran over to him.

"... don't move. The X-Men are coming. They can help. We'll get you out of here." She was amply bruised and battered around, having been shot several times by Purifiers and a significant part of her clothes had been burnt away from when a foolish neophyte had tried to use his flamethrower, but she was all right.