Pteryxx

Snake Eyes ------------- When Snake-Eyes regained consciousness, his first thought was surprise that he wasn't already dead.  The sounds of battle came to him faintly, explosions rumbling in the distance.  He remembered the battle, how he'd flung himself into it, and how the tangle of villains and invaders had vanished in a gout of sudden flame.  And the fight had been going so well.  He lay still, twisted where the blast had flung him.  Crumbling concrete beneath his cheek, the edge of a curb or step pressing into his shoulder, wedging it upward.  Below his chest... nothing, not even pain.  Maybe that was a blessing. He forced his eyelids