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Akira fended off the clones surrounding Penelope as she prepared to clear a path over to the girls. When Elora unleashed the white beam that plowed through the clones Akira gave a small approving smirk, though it faded just as quickly as it had come. He looked up at the girl and silently ushered them along as Penelope informed them to get to the infirmary. "come on, we should move on to the ne-" he was cut off suddenly as a clone slipped in behind him and chopped the back of his neck, knocking him unconcious. His body feel prone to the ground and his sword when skidding across the floor.

Basili Tenmaru

Basili took hold of Zada's hand and pulled herself into the vent behind her. A clone tried to come after them, but couldn't squeeze into the vent and gave up his pursuit fairly easily. As Zada was giving her little speech about how she had misjudged Basili she would notice that Basili was blatantly looking up her skirt as she crawled through the vent behind her. The short skirt giving her a great view of her panties, allowing her to leisurely gawk at her with a pervert look on her face. When Zada finished Basili shook her head and blinked a few times. "huh? you say something Zada?" she asked, quizzically tilting her head to the side.

Camory Cheifer

Hazard Squad

"they say an ounce of honey is worth a cup of vinegar...."

Camory nodded and went at the masked man again with renewed vigor, doing his best to keep his focus. The man was strong, and fast, and coordinated, but Camory had to believe in his own abilities if he wanted to succeed. If he couldn't match him straight up, he'd have to be smart and think of something quick. In a fit of inspiration Camory swung his kendo stick at the man's rapier as he stabbed it forward, causing the metal sword to stab straight through the wood without breaking the kendo stick. Immediately Camory sharply twisted the handle, causing the rapier to fly out of the man's hand. Camory stepped forward and gave the man a solid thwack on the forehead. Ofcourse this wouldn't have been enough to kill someone, but the man chuckled and nodded approvingly, fading out of existence.

the masked man's jab missed, knocking him off balance and sending him tumbling forward, which he quickly recovered from and rolled to his feet. When she sent the slash of wind at him he raised up his hand and it froze in place, as if that was actually possible to do to wind. "very good, keep it up like that and you'll certainly go far. Infact I really don't have anything to teach you...just make sure not to turn down good chances when they're given to you....for example I'd be happy if you reconsidered Mr. Foom's offer....just think it over a bit" he said, putting his hand down and allowing the wind blast to destroy him.

"....wait this recipe's in metric...Olivia! Heeeeeeeeelp!"

Zali' Usvine "professor Birch"

Herbology teacher

Zali nodded as he used the momentum from his sling shotting to get himself at his top running speed. "yes most races I've seen certainly don't work that way, though I wish we had a way of discerning which one was the real one" he muttered. When he asked if he had any restoratives. Zali chuckled. "as a matter of fact no, but I could grow you some real quick" he said extending a vine over to Aeon, suddenly within seconds a strange red fruit began to grow, going from bud to full fruit in only ten seconds. "go ahead, just be gentle when you pluck it off' he said with a chuckle.







the man nodded as Cherie played along, doing well to convince Kiyomi she was actually a hostage when she was by all means his accomplice. "haha you'll find that chaos is a specialty of mine. And I'll be much more than a nuisance by the time I'm finished" he said in an overly dramatic AL Capone impression. "naaa see naa!" He took hold of Cherie's hand again and was about to lead her down the hall when they were faced once again with Kiyomi. The man's head jerked back a bit and he looked around to the pile of clones, then to Kiyomi, then the pile of clones again. "but you where...the clones and..." he stuttered, letting out a frustrated sigh as he looked down at Cherie. "freakin ninja man, dirty cheaters all of em" he whispered to his young neko friend. Suddenly he snapped back to Kiyomi "not so fast anime batman!" he called out, dramatically pointing his finger at her, and in the process pricking his finger on the end of her kodachi. "ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow" he whined waving his hand as his finger started to bleed a bit. He pressed his finger to his face so he could suck on it, but only ended up jabbing his mask. "damn! forgot about the mask" he stammered. He looked around, trying to find something to wipe it up with. Then noticed Cherie and starred at her for a few seconds. After a moment he shrugged and stuck his finger in her mouth so she could lick it for him. With that settled he casually turned back to Kiyomi, his finger still in Cherie's mouth. "anyways where was I? oh yeah. NOT SO FAST ANIME BATMAN! you may have found the real me, but I will not be struck down in some cold hallway, lets finish this outside. And bring all the help you can find, you'll need it!...oh and I'm taking the girl with me so you better hurry before I do something bad" he said, placing a hand on Cherie's shoulder and teleporting them back out to the front campus of the school.

Zada Faustine - Student Council Member


Zada caught a glimpse of the face Basili was making and they direction of where she was looking
"Come on focus we have crisis on our hands" Zada stated not drawing attention to Basili's pervertedness as she didn't think this was the time and place to be arguing.
"Any ideas as to where we are going, and if you say your bed room I will kick you" Zada replied giving a less then subtle threat.

Basili Tenmaru

Basili innocently at Zada at her remark about focusing. "come now Zada, I'm allways focused" she said, after all she had been focusing pretty hard on Zada's behind a few seconds ago. When she threatened to kick her if she suggested going to her bedroom Basili chuckled. "kick me and I'll start groping up your skirt" she threatened right back with a wicked grin. "anyways on a more serious note since I'm not exactly an expert of air ducts I have no clue where we are or where we're headed. To be honest our best bet is to find another grate and hope that there are less clones whereever we happen to pop up. That or we could just snuggle up in here and wait it out, though as tempting as that is I'd rather not" she said, not minding a quick snuggle with Zada, especially when she had on such an appealing outfit. "also if we get the chance we should make a run for the outside. Even if there are clones there it will be better in a large open space then trying to fight them in a crowded tight hallway." she advised, actually thinking strategically.

Zali' Usvine "professor Birch"

Herbology teacher

Zali sighed as Aeon looked at the fruit as though it was a chunk of vomit. "trust me its fine. maybe not as sweet as its regenerative cousin, but its still palatable" he told him. "see not so bad" he said once he had finished the fruit. When he said he had no way of differentiating the clones he cursed silently. "hey its Kiyomi, maybe she had an idea" he said seeing her down the hall. "Kiyomi! any luck finding the real masked man yet?" he asked as they drew closer.







the man couldn't help but smile behind the mask watching Cherie's reactions. She certainly seemed to be enjoying herself, which honestly was all he could ask for. He noticed her surprised reaction from his oral finger jab, but had to focus on Kiyomi so he held back his laughter as he gave her his final warning and they disappeared. "very good Cherie, though you almost broke character there at the end" he told her as she grabbed his wrist and pulled his finger out of his mouth. When she stuck her tongue out at him he wiped his finger on it playfully. "well I didn't want to get blood on my good suite, that would be a real shame" he told her with a chuckle. "and don't be embarrased, I have trouble keeping my tongue in my own mouth too sometimes." he said scratching her between the ears with his none saliva covered hand.

the masked man chuckled at her sarcastic response. "hey how many suits have you seen that come in purple? not many, because you gotta get this stuff custom made" he said, smoothing out his suite in a very "smooth" fashion. He noticed her go red at his comment and flicked her ear. "not like that. Jeez you damn kids today and your hormones" he muttered, continuing to scratch between her ears. The process of her reason slipping away was played out clearly on her face, and in a few seconds she was purring and mewing like crazy. "my, you should make sure to keep your hands by your head when men with less than innocent intentions are around. Wouldn't want someone to exploit your weaknesses now" he warned her, even as he continued to do just that. This was one of the reasons the nekos never had any big empire or kingdom, because it was hard to win wars when a little scratching made you completely docile. Still it was incredibly cute, so nobody felt compelled to try to eliminate them either. Suddenly his other hand moved down behind her, towards her lower back. He kept scracthing her so she'd be distracted. Not noticing his nimble hand going lower and lower...until finally...he reached forward....and gave her tail a good tug to snap her out of her trance (perverts thought it was something else again). "snap out of it!" he shouted abruptly, before adjusting his neck tie. "sorry, as much as I'd like to shower you with attention and petting, we still have a job to do. Plus I'm a professional here, if everyone showed up and saw me petting you...well then that'd just be a little awkward for everyone" he said, trying to put the girl down gently. "plus they might accuse me of having...questionable motives" he added, as if they didn't think that allready.

Akira seemed to be out cold when Penelope called out to him. The clones continued to move in and quickly restrained the little flower creature, and then moved onto the girl. They ignored her pitiful strikes and grabbed her, easily restraining her arms. Suddenly as she called out again Akira began to stir. "penelope?" he mumbled, still disorientated. He turned his head to see Penelope restrained and now being muffled by the clones and suddenly his pupils shrunk in and something seemed to snap. "get away from her you b***h!" he shouted, suddenly in a blink of an eye Akira was right beside the man, his palm slammed into his face and slammed him down into the ground. The clones holding Penelope and Elora began to shuffle away as the others again tried to restrain Akira. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" he roared as he began ripping the clones apart with his bare hands, completely thrown into a rage. His usual calm and composed nature was gone, this was his true self. He didn't need a weapon, because he was a weapon, a weapon forged to kill, and he did so brutally. His hands seemed to sink into the clones' flesh as easily as any blades and he began mercilessly ripping off their limps and chopping them in half. Thankfully the clones just puffed into smoke when they died, or the spectacle would have been horrifyingly graphic. The whole time he was screaming like a lunatic, a living embodiment of rage. He glanced at Penelope and made a b line for her. Clones began piling up on him, trying to drag him down to the ground, but they didn't slow him at all. He began beating them off with renewed vigor, tossing them aside by the hand full until he was free. When he reached the clone holding Penelope he gripped both sides of the clones head and began head butting him until his mask cracked and eventually caved in completely. As the clone vanished Penelope fell to the ground, and the two were left alone in an empty hallway. All the clones gone or fled. Akira was left panting, his throat raspy from screaming, blood trickling down his face from smashing his head into the masked clone's helmet, his face like a crimson mask. He looked down at her as his eyes slowly turned back to normal, and he slowly reached out to touch her head. "did they hurt you?" he asked, his voice back to the his stoic tone, but he was still panting like a dog.

Basili Tenmaru

Basili chuckled again at Zada's comment. "fine, but if I win I get to pick your outfits for the week" she said, liking the idea of seeing Zada in these kind of outfits more often, or maybe making her attend classes in lingerie. She continued crawling behind her, oblivious to the fact she was able to map out the duct system...somehow. "not sure how you figured that out, but allright lets do this" she said switching her focus from Zada back to finding the masked man.

Camory Cheifer

Hazard Squad

"they say an ounce of honey is worth a cup of vinegar...."

Camory nodded to himself and smiled. The clone was right. He spent way to much time focusing on the negatives. So what if he didn't have any special powers like the others? that didn't mean he couldn't get stronger. The only thing keeping him back was the fact he had written it off as pointless to try. He looked over at Olivia as she came over and smiled. "yep, it was pretty convenient that they all merged together like that. Come on lets get going" he said, helping her lift the girl onto her back, and walking behind her to spot her. "yeah I hope so. Though I kind of doubt it. I mean it doesn't seem like that guy really wants to do anything that bad. I mean he could have stabbed me back there....but instead he gave me advice and made us redo the whole fight...it was kind of weird" he said as they made their way to the infirmary.

"....wait this recipe's in metric...Olivia! Heeeeeeeeelp!"

Zali' Usvine "professor Birch"

Herbology teacher

Zali reeled back a bit when she revealed the masked man had taken a student hostage. "smoked hickory! we better hurry then" he exclaimed, following right behind her. He reached into his satchel and sprinkled a few seeds over his arms, preparing just in case. They arrived just in time to see the man tugging on the girl's tail, a bit odd in his mind, but he wasn't a neko so he didn't know if that was particularly bad or not. Kiyomi sure seemed to think so. "hey don't look at me. I don't even take showers" he commented in response at her jab at the school's sexual harassment policy. Being a....well plant, meant that he didn't secrete odorly fluids and that being covered in dirt actively benefited him, so not much incentive to bathing which just water logged his roots, making hm disorientated. "and you say that as if he's part of the school or something" he added, wondering if she just wanted a chance to vent on that topic.







the man face palmed when Kiyomi and the others arrived. "see what I mean? immediately jumps to conclusions. I could be a weather man for how much I'm calling it today" he said to Cherie before turning to the teachers. He cleared his throat and stood with his hands held behind his back, standing very rigidly "so you have arrived. I call upon you to gather up your army and you come here with two men? I'd feel insulted if I thought you were actually competent enough to do any better than that. As it is I'm simply disappointed" he said, hooking his arm around Cherie's neck again, gently so that she wasn't actually chocked, but he made it look real. "you know the deal any sudden moves and the girl dies. So I'll start by having you drop your weapons....no no...better idea. You ninja girl, assassinate the British looking one. I really hate the British, even worse than you damn ninjas. Oh and when your done torch the plant, no....bury the plant in the yard, then torch him. Oh and see if he'll make himself into a bush and we can reenact the bible" he said sinisterly.