He really wished that he had his telekinesis at the moment. Vance didn't have to concentrate nearly as much to keep them shielded as he did while fighting like this.

Because it was difficult as anything to keep doing this while hearing about the way that one of his best and oldest friends had died. Especially as Vance was very aware of the fact that so few of his friends were still around. Enough to pull together a new New Warriors team, but only himself and Robbie left of the original group. (He totally didn't blame Angelica for not wanting to come back. And Namorita had her own things to deal with.)

Finally, after a few minutes of silence, Vance sighed and shook his head, turning away to deal with some pirate coming up on his side. And not so that he didn't have to look at Rich. "Either it has something really big planned for you guys...or there's something seriously massive out there that it's gathering opponents for."

In all honesty, he wasn't sure which he would prefer. Neither one of them seemed to be very appetizing. Which didn't mean that they weren't both very possible.

"You just gotta go dragging me into these things behind you, don't you, Rich?"