Michel Therrien jumps up to his feet and steps forward, raising his hands up. He controls the bench to fly at Zvezda and Arrow Hawk. It hits them both, sending them flying backward. Therrien causes the bench to pin them to the other side wall. Zvezda is furious. She attempts to blast the bench off of her with her powers, but the metallic object doesn't budge.

Therrien continues to pad forward, eyeing all the heroes. "Well, well, well...isn't this precious, Jamie, Evelyn and Val have come to rescue their teammate! And look, the precious superdog, Nikita is here too!" Therrien snarls, all pretense of calmness and control gone. Now, the Canadien's coach is allowing the sneering, cold, calculating madman underneath to surface in his entirety.

"Screw you Therrien!" Zvezda snaps.

The villain ignores her outburst and continues on in his speech. "I'm afraid I had to cut your celebrations short. You see, I'm trying to take over the world, and I'm also the one with the super badass powers. As long as that is the case, you cannot win." Grinning pure evil from ear to ear, he raises his hands up before him. "And now, I will kill you all, and remove the last fragments of your pathetic opposition from existence. You see, in the end, there will always be one outcome. No matter how hard you try, no matter how much damage you cause, I will always come back...I will always win, in the end...and you will always lose!"

With that declaration, Michel Therrien releases a stream of evil, maniacal cackling; the deranged laugh of a man who is completely and utterly insane. He controls the bench to drop and then he pulls Arrow Hawk toward him. He drops him at his feet and flicks his hand, which allows the metal restraints to be removed.

Arrow Hawk looks up at Therrien with a hard glare.

"It's no point in restraining you, Russian. You're no match for me anyway. Jamie and the redhead however..." He trails off and looks at Jamie, who is still squirming in the goal post wrapped around him. Evelyn is on the ground, on all fours. "And the dog's no match either. Some superdog you got there, Seggy, he doesn't even attack me or do anything!" Therrien breaks out in the maniacal cackling once more.

As all this is happening, Nikita's dog mind is in overdrive. He is not going to let Therrien best them...not here, not now, not after everything. And he won't get away with kidnapping his owner. His initial instinct is to just blast the man, use his Flight and Super Senses or even his special "Super Bark" to send the man to the next life in an instant.

But something tells him that it is not the answer...at the moment.

He has to play things cool and attack at the right moment.

Therrien continues to cackle evilly. "I know Nikita's a superdog...but man does he look like a normal dog. I'd love to hear that precious super bark, however I don't think there is such a thing."

Jamie looks at Nikita, who drops low and flashes his canines at the evil man. It is taking all of his efforts not to release his super bark or attack. Arrow Hawk snatches up the end of the leash and gets a hold of him, keeping him in place.

"No Nikita," the Russian growls. "Not good time."

"And now, my little puppy dog, if you don't mind," Therrien says, his hands flex and he draws the benches, which he'd used to block the entrance to the stadium, toward him. He sends one across the field, halting Zvezda and steadies the other one in front of the helpless Tyler's heart. "I think you will be the first to..."

Therrien actually lowers his hands slightly as Nikita steps forward, placing himself directly in front of Tyler, as far as his leash and Arrow Hawk will allow him too. The bench lowers as well. He is almost daring the coach to take him first. He draws upon his powers, trying to work as fast as he can while Therrien is still dumbstruck.

With his keen hearing, Nikita can hear the staggered breathing coming from Tyler, behind him. He has been trained to protect Tyler with all of his life and he'd gladly give his life to save his owners. It was a dog's instinct. It was his duty, to serve and protect and rescue his owner in Tyler Seguin.

"Nikita, no!" Arrow Hawk tries to yank the leash attached to the golden retriever's collar and pull him aside, but his low, warning growl stops him.

"Nikita, what are you doing?" Zvezda asks, taking a cautious step forward, before Therrien controls the bench to block her. Her wings flap in frustration and fury behind her.

At the voices, Nikita turns his head around. "Ruff," was all he says. He turns back, continuing to draw on his powers. The idea he has in his doggy mind will need a large portion of them, but he will need even more to make sure that he is not affected by the serious display of power.

Nikita wishes that he can communicate with the humans and tell them, but he has to do this and he can't communicate with them. He can feel the Russian still tugging at the leash, trying to pull him toward him.

As Nikita focuses every bit of power he can find, tinkering with it as he gauges the amounts he will need, he hears the Canadiens' coach cackling once more. "What's this? The dog wishes to sacrifice himself for you, Tyler?" The cackling intensifies. "Oh, this is just so adorable! A dog, sacrificing itself for his master!" He continues laughing for a few more moments, before he abruptly stops himself. "Well, if he has a death wish, who am I to deny it?"

"Nikita, no!" Arrow Hawk, Zvezda and Star Vision scream.

"Mmmmmmm!!" Tyler cries, from behind them.

But just as the villain brings the benches up once more, Nikita is ready. He has his power, drawn and focused, and now he steps forward, splaying his legs for balance. He puts his right foreleg forward and his right hind leg back, spreading his body mass over the largest area he can.

Then, before Therrien can figure out what is happening, the dog takes a deep breath...and unleashes a single, savage bark, throwing all the power he has drawn up into it.

Unknown to anyone at the time, Therrien has actually managed to send the bench flying forward at the animal, just as Nikita has barked. Nikita's bark, enhanced by his power, which creates a massive pulse wave of sound, causes the bench to simply stall in mid-air and drop to the field before him. It is unable to resist the massive, devastating power of Nikita's super power...the Super-Bark.

The pulse wave shoots across the field at incredible speed. As it crosses the stadium, it actually produces a massive wave of grass and debris that travel well behind the pulse. When the sound wave reaches Therrien, he is blasted clean off his feet and thrown back over ten yards before crashing heavily to the torn up ground.

The pulse reverberates off the stadium walls, causing his bark to echo loudly as the last effect of it comes down in all its glittering glory...the wave. It gathers intensity, roaring over the rim of the ledge, holding it on course and washes all over the ground on both sides of the football stadium.

"What a bark!" Star Vision gasps.

Therrien sits up, finding Zvezda standing with her arms folded over her chest. She is shaking her head. He makes a move and the redhead stops him, moving quicker.

"You just can't seem to get on my good side and leave my Val and his friends alone, can you, Therrien?" Zvezda growls, yanking the guy up by his wrist.

"You don't understand, Evelyn O'Reilly. You never will. Tyler's the villain, not me."

Nikita pads forward, growling at Therrien. Arrow Hawk lets him pull against the leash, coming with the canine.

Zvezda snorts. "I agree with the goldie, Tyler's a hero, a spy, a talented hockey player and you're just jealous of his scoring ability. I know for a fact you forced him to tweet out that tweet he had and that's just...pathetic. You're pathetic Therrien and you're going to jail, where bulldogs like yourself belong!"

"The hell I'll go to jail! That son of a bitch Seguin is mine!" Therrien roars, tearing free from her hold. He darts forward.

Zvezda quickly whips up a black hole and throws it out. Then she zooms after him, before he can reach or do anything to Tyler. She grabs him and lifts him into the air. "Oh, and I learned a new power too! I've been saving trying it out...but you're pissing me off too much!" With that, she throws Therrien at the black hole and he is sucked in.

However, she hears a splash behind her. She closes the black hole creation with a wave of her hand and spins around. She spots the familiar blond head of her Russian floating in the water. She spots sharks coming toward him. She zooms down to the water. She blasts the sharks heading for the helpless winger and then snatches him and pulls him from the cold liquid. The metal falls off of Star Vision, no longer controlled by Therrien and soon they are joined by him, who is slightly rattled still from being held captive by the goal post.

Zvezda air-dries Arrow Hawk with her wings and kisses him endlessly. "Oh, baby," the heroine says between kisses. "I'm so happy you're okay."

"Звезда, пожалуйста ... остановить его. (Zvezda, please...stop it.)"

"Zvezda, Tyler," Star Vision reminds the love-struck redhead. "You're the only one who can get to Tyler and free him, since you have the wings."

Zvezda turns from Arrow Hawk, who is blushing deeply and grinning largely. He snatches up his bow and his quiver and puts them back into place on his body. Then he grabs a hold of the dog's leash once more. She nods and flies over the pool to Tyler. She rapidly frees him and carries him over to Jamie.

"Thanks, Evs," Tyler gasps, weakly wrapping his arms around Star Vision, who has instantly thrown his arms around his teammate.

"Anytime, Scorpion. But please stay out of trouble. What did you do to Therrien anyway?" Zvezda asks, folding her arms.

"I kinda...sorta...uh...tweeted something about him."

Zvezda shakes her head. "What did you tweet?"

Tyler takes in a deep breath and then says, "I just said something like, '@CanadiensMTL When the Habs lose, will Head Coach Michel Therrien take a job with Disney On Ice?' But I wasn't meaning for it to come across as a diss, I was being playful...besides, Jamie told me to tweet it!"

Zvezda turns to look at Star Vision, who removes his goggles. "Is that true?"

"Yes." Jamie hangs his head, slowly bobbing it up and down. "I'm so sorry Tyler, I didn't think it through...I take the blame for that tweet buddy. I'm just glad you're okay."

"It's okay, Jamie, I forgive you. Besides, I knew you wouldn't let Therrien kill me. You love me too much. For that I am thankful, no sarcasm buddy. In a completely platonic way, you're the Toews to my Kane."

Jamie smiles at Tyler, who puts an arm around his friend. "In a completely platonic way, you're the Kane to my Toews."

"And, I Nichy!" Val exclaims with a big smile.

Everyone laughs and Nikita barks, before Jamie pipes up. "Wait, what about the other tweet that Kaner had shown us in the penthouse and surely there's more...Tyler, please tell us, whatever it is that you aren't telling us about your past."

Nikita wanders over to his owner and Val passes him the leash. Tyler grabs it and loops it around his hand. He pats his dog, who is happy once more, and sighs. "You're right, its bound to come out soon anyway, I might as well tell you. But I'm going to need everyone of the Hockey Avengers present. It's not light material, so I only want to say it once."

"Of course, let's get back to Boston. It's been a long night."

"Yes," Tyler chuckles, before he frowns and looks back at the goal post where he'd been tied to. He gulps nervously. He isn't sure how any of them will take his past...after all, it had been because of his father...