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The incident that was taking place at the mall was not unknown to the three politicians holding public conference mere streets away. Road blocks had been set up, with security intended on keeping the crowd safe…The speakers had refused to back down, or reschedule. Nevermind, that their stubbornness split police task forces in half…This was what allowed the chaos in the mall to continue, far longer than it should have. They believed that to give in to the mutant related riot and show fear would damage their constituency. The scene that was slowly unfolding at the nearby courthouse, was just as striking—Just as important, just as damaging to the mutant population.

If not more so.

On the courthouse steps, Senator Robert Kelly, the last republican vying for votes, was holding his regal court slash anti-mutant rally in an effort to drum up support for legislation to support the removal of all mutants civil rights…Not just some of them… All, of them.

His goal was not to make them second class citizens…But to remove citizenship entirely.

“My fellow Americans. We face a situation that is dire at best, grave at worst.” The Senator seemed to come to life when the cameras were pointed directly at him. “We as normal, human citizens of this nation have come under fire from a menace, a threat to our very existence!”

A few random people began shouting anti-mutant rhetoric while Senator Kelly paused in his speech…His head hanging low, with something that was meant to represent humility… Which caused more and more people to begin chiming in… The masses surged, and mutants that hid in the shadows shrank further away… The police, fully plated in riot gear shifted nervously…This crowd was just as ready, just as blood thirsty as the reports from the mall…

The senator merely smiled, and simply raised his hands to quell the rising volume of voices.

“These mutants have infiltrated our very infrastructure! They could be anyone …. People that you know. People that you trust with your children! Your local postman. Your neighborhood paperboy. Your local convenience store clerk. They are everywhere!” Senator Kelly pointed at a middle-aged woman in the crowd, who immediately looked wide eyed—Appalled. “You could be one of them for all I know.“

“And so could you sir—Yes, you!” The senator pointed at a man no older than twenty-five. The eyes of the crowd seemed to shift to the two citizens pointed out warily, but with the police and Secret Service standing so close and alert….The distaste and intent in the crowd remained a simmering boil.

No one seemed willing to start anything truly damaging…Yet.

“It shames me to say…Mutants have been running rampant amongst our society, free from the scrutiny of the law… Free from the scrutiny of the government of the United States of America.” Then, Kelly seemed to be beaming with pride with what he had to say next.

“I have drafted a legislation, on my own, to put an end to the mutant menace,” he stated, “This legislation, if enacted, will force any and all mutants out in the open…It will force any mutant to register with a special bureau to be instituted upon passage of this bill. It will round up any and all mutants into specially cordoned areas, designed to separate them from normal humans…There is also a special provision written into the bill that will force any and all male mutants to be chemically castrated...And the same chemical sterilization for female mutants. This will, most assuredly, halt the mutant menace at the source.”

The crowd roared in approval; approval of Kelly’s stance against those born differently and approval of all things mentioned in the announced legislation. The people surged back and forth…The voices growing louder and louder. The mob seemed to undulate like one massive unit and Kelly, being the narcissist he was, was enjoying every last second of it. That was until something…Unsavory, happened. “As it stands, we already have incarcerated twelve mutants for their crimes… For being mutants, for being a menace!”

Just then, the sounds of sheering and twisted metal began to permeate the air…It was loud, so piercing and shrill that the voices in the crowd fell silent as their hands covered their ears. The once moving crowd now rest at a stand still. Kelly himself and his personal bodyguards were also frozen in place, looking for the source… A murmur of fear and panic came over the crowd while they were stationary… Whispers, and theories…

That was when he appeared.

There was no mistaking who it was that had decided to show his face. There, in all his majesty, like the king and spokesperson for the entire mutant population, floating effortlessly…Arms crossed, expression nigh murderous. On the ground below marched part of his personal army, his Brotherhood. The Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Sauron, Pyro, and Avalanche all moved forward like good little soldiers.

With so many police and secret service in the area….One would have thought they would have moved to act. There were so few mutants, and so many of them. But Magneto inspired fear and dread in the hearts of New York citizens like a force of nature… It was as if September 11th took place all over again, right in front of their eyes—In the very moment his voice echoed them all.

He was responsible for the senseless deaths of millions. He was a mass murderer, and a psychopath. He was to be regarded only with fear. Utter, terror.

“Senator Robert Kelly,” the master of Magnetism boomed over the dying fervor of the frozen crowd, “I come here today to demand the release of all of my mutant brethren that are unjustly imprisoned by you…Both the twelve you have in captivity… And the hundreds you have imprisoned in your testing facility…I come to demand that you revoke this so-called legislation that you have drafted.”

Even though the good Senator was frozen in place, he could still speak… He stuttered once, looking at the men beside him—Before snarling at the maroon clad man… “The United States government does NOT negotiated with terrorists!”

“TERRORISTS!?!?,” Magneto yelled at the top of his lungs, causing the crowd to flinch…They split like the red sea to allow him passage…“Terrorists?”

He moved himself lower to the ground, to look directly into the panic stricken Senator’s eyes. “We are terrorists because we are fighting and clawing for a piece of ground to stand on as a people? As legal citizens of the United States? As citizens of the world?”

While he levitated in mid-air, he turned to face the once cheering and roaring crowd of people. The calculating eyes set inside his skull scanned over them, all scared little sheep waiting to be culled and slaughtered.

“Years ago, when I was a boy,” Magneto said, continuing his diatribe, “Similar acts, similar legislation was performed. Legislation that enabled the Holocaust… And the subsequent slaughter of six million Jews. Six million people who were deemed 'not normal' by government officials not unlike yourself, Senator Kelly… Back then, I did not have the power to fight against such cruel, blind depravity. I wasn’t able to stop what was happening. Now, I stand firm against these actions that are once again leveled towards my people, my mutant brethren.”

Still with his back to the Senator, Magneto turned his head slightly and coldly stated, “Again Senator, I demand the release of any and all of my mutant brethren in custody. If you refuse, then every five minutes either or any of my Brotherhood of Mutants will take a flatscan into OUR custody.” As he continued speaking, the sounds of sirens began reverberating throughout the cityscape, all focused on getting to the courthouse. There was a mutant terrorist, who was at large, making himself extremely visible to the American public.

Senator Kelly, though shaking in his boots stood firm—Whipping off his reading glasses to stare defiantly at Magneto. “THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS!”

The look in Magneto’s eyes grew from one of menace to one of apathy…This was, perhaps more worrisome than the first. He had every intention of following through with his word, however, he had hoped it would be avoided entirely.

“Very well, Senator. Pietro, if you would please?” Adhering to the order, Quicksilver darted into the crowd and darted back in a split-second… a child no more than twelve tucked underneath his arm.

“This is to prove that my words are not just idle threats. Every five minutes that comes by, we will take another… And another. It does not matter if they are equivalent to how many mutants you have incarcerated, but their safety and well being is in your hands, dear Senator.” The sirens began to get closer and closer until the entire area was swarming with members of not only the reserve police force, but SHIELD. As impressive as they were…Guns leveled…It wasn’t as if Magneto couldn’t freeze them in place as well, it was that he didn’t want to. So he remained. Officers swarmed out of their cars, each with a firearm at the ready, all aimed at Magneto and his acolytes.

“Don’t shoot until I say so! Not until we clear the area of civilians!,” the acting Chief of Police ordered, standing by a far-off squad car, a bullhorn in hand.

“You dare to threaten the Master of Magnetism with bullets?,” Magneto scoffed, “You threaten me period while I hold my brothers and sister at bay, keeping them from shedding YOUR blood?” Just when he said that, there was a massive crack in the air; a shot fired from a VERY nervous rookie.

The bullet sailed until it was within two inches from Magneto’s face… and it slowly came to a stop… Yet it hovered there, frozen in mid air, fully under Magneto’s command. It was then that his look of apathy changed again…Returning to turned to one of complete and utter malice. Yes, he had acted first by ordering the capture of a human child, but he'd remained unharmed.

“Just remember humans, that violence will always beget violence... Your civilian supporters can flee now. I have…An entire mall full of human hostages that will do just as well. Don’t you agree, Senator?” Finally, Magneto let his feet touch the ground and finally he let go of his control of the assembled crowd of people, the Senator and his security detail the only exceptions. The crowd immediately started to stampede away--People scrambling in sheer panic to get away from him. He landed directly behind the assembled ranks of the Brotherhood and started stalking up the courthouse steps, Senator Kelly in his sights.

“Pyro! Alert Mystique that…Excessive force, is now required. The rest of you...,” Magneto again said quite cruelly, “Have fun…And show these creatures no mercy.”

Name: Leonardo "Renaissance Man" Rossi
Team: Alphas
Location: Mall
Well… We’re Dead. Well… Hopefully Not.

As Aurelie asked if Leo was alright when he was tossed by the large mutant, Leo winced slightly before nodding, fishing his comm out of his pocket to respond. “Yeah, I’m alright, thanks.”

The others started arriving where he and Bella were, near the fountain, a lot of them the newbies who he had spoken with this afternoon, such as Lexi and Reggie… who he still needed to tell that he wasn’t out to get her. Aurelie returned with a small mutant child in her arms, explaining that they should take her back to the Institute. Leo agreed… but then again, they couldn’t take every mutant that screamed for help… you’d think the X-Mansion would get crowded after awhile. There were also faces that he recognized; Eli and Tara… the latter of whom looked much different (and better) by not being in zombie form. Even lone wolf Gideon had shown up, trying to help with crowd control and helping some little kids. And then there was a blond girl he hadn’t recognized… even newer than the other newbies? How was that even possible? Whatever the case, there was a pretty full assembled team here now… only a few others were missing.

Bella gave her orders, sending Reggie… uh… Flintlock, on her way, and then she told the rest of them to help get down the others. Leonardo nodded, spotting a man who seemed to be in his mid to late twenties who had been knocked to the floor and then spun, struggling to break free from the webbing. As he reached over to forcibly rip him from the webbing, he made sure to not get so much on himself. Spider webs, however small they naturally occur, were some of the hardest substances known to man. Eventually with some creative working he was able to free the man from the clutches of the web. As he helped the man on his feet… the man did something unexpected. He actually uttered a ‘thank you’ before running off towards the exit. Maybe not all humans were racist against mutants, even in the middle of a riot in these hard times.

Leonardo noticed the look of shock on Bella’s face… and then her subsequent order to all Alphas to meet at the fountain. She had heard something that froze her to the core… but what was it?

“Bella? Bella, what’s wrong?” Leonardo asked, but his leader seemed too spaced out to notice him, or maybe she just couldn’t hear him over the roar of the crowd. So Leo tried to repeat himself; “Bella, what’s wro–”

He couldn’t get the words out fast enough as the explosion burst from Abercrombie and Fitch, and then strangely took form, turning into a giant, great dragon. Oh great… they had a fire manipulator around here somewhere. Looking back over to see that his leader was alright, she noticed that she was helping up the Aquatic Mutant that he had helped what seemed like forever ago. In all of the confusion, he had actually forgotten about him for a time. But then suddenly the Aquatic Mutant did something very uncharacteristic of him. He suddenly twisted Bella around, probably bringing pain to the Alpha leader. “Hey!” Leo shouted, not exactly sure what to do. Then he transformed… transformed into the blue-skinned assassin Mystique… whom he knew all too well from reading the SHIELD files on dangerous mutants. Instinctively Leo reached for the gun that he had placed in his pocket… only to find that it was gone. Dammit… Leo cursed to himself; it must’ve fallen out of his pocket as he was thrown in the McDonald’s. Then Pyro emerged, along with Toad… this was getting worse by the minute. He had read the files on all of them… and knew that there was one person that tied them all together… Magneto. Just thinking the name made Leo shudder. So where was the master of magnetism? He was probably them master behind all of this mess. Leonardo slowly backed up towards the group of Alphas by the fountain… unaware of what to do about his leader. Leo was good at hand-to-hand, sure… but not enough to go toe-to-toe with Mystique. If the Alphas stood united though… they might have a chance.

“You even try to come near them and I’ll rip your throat out,” Leonardo said in response to Toad’s comment, raising a protective arm out in front of the group. His eyes shifted from the frog mutant to the pyrokinetic to Mystique, his mind working at triple time in order to come up with a tactical solution to this mess.. Then he had to try and remember the people in his group and what powers they had. His mind instantly went to Eli and his magnetokinetic abilities… if Pyro’s canister on his back was metal… Eli could either remove it or destroy it all together. There were enough of them there to go two-on-one with them until the others arrived… if that would even help. Where was the first priority, though? Their leader was captured… that was probably first. Pyro was harassing the humans in the mall… second. Toad hadn’t done anything yet, so third. He could direct… wait, did he have the power to direct his teammates? Leo had to constantly remind himself that he wasn’t a leader anymore… but he did know how to act in these situations. Without much movement he tapped Tara and Lexi’s arms, nodding his head in the direction of Toad, mouthing the words, Keep an eye on him. Their wind and earth based attacks should be enough to keep the normally short-ranged Toad out of reach… hopefully. Then he stepped over to Eli, placing a hand on his shoulder and whispering in his ear, “Try and see if flame-boy’s backpack is metal… and see if you can get a fix on it. Don’t go until we’ve got Bella safe, though.” As for Mystique… that was up to him and Aurelie… and the blond chick (Alex) he didn’t know. Gideon was more than likely to come over once seeing his girlfriend with a gun pressed to her head… so luckily they had the Wolverine clone’s support as well.

Stepping forward slightly to get Mystique’s attention, Leo said, “Alright, you’ve got our attention. What do you want?” Leo could only hope that they could get Bella and get out of this mess… the situation was becoming more of a war zone. Having the Omegas as back-up would do nicely right about now… especially if Cissa was leading the pack.

Eli listened to the com. Magneto, a magnokinect, like himself, but far more superior than him in that department. He listened intently to the orders. At first he prepped for Bella's command, until Leo pointed out a good point. "I'll meet up with you guys when I've done all that I can, let's just hope that pack is metal." He said. Turning in his needed direction, Eli rushed as fast as he could to his target.

Eli scanned around the mall as he moved to the source of fire. The few remaining looters inside scattered in panic from the explosions and flames. Fire vs Magnetokinesis. "For the love of God," Eli muttered to himself. "I really hope that pack of his is metal."

Finally, the pyromancer was found. Eli tried finding any metal on him. But every time he tried to just do a mass pull, nothing happened. -GOD DAMNIT!- was what Eli wanted to yell at the top of his lungs. But, alas, he still held the element of surprise. He looked around to see what he had. The iron grates that pulled down at stores entrances when they closed, various metal nick nacks, steel girders, and a couple of chairs and a trash can. Oh, and of course his BBs. If he could, he'd aim to rupture the tank somehow. if not, force him to use up everything he had, before Eli reached his limits. He pulled out his bag of BBs and kept a handful.

Okay so maybe she bit off a bit more than she could chew. Megan thought with a glance over her shoulder as she scrambled towards the alley. She wanted maybe three or four. She got seven...seriously who sends seven people to deal with a single person? Someone who was overcompensating that’s who. So Megan swapped the gun to her other hand and took a few shots as she hit the alley not stopping to see if she even hit anything. Kerrigan coming out of a door and firing over her shoulder had Megan dropping her head on instinct, not that she thought that the red haired Omega would hit her but it was that knee jerk reaction. ”I’m going I’m going...” She skidded to a halt making it past Kerrigan who had taken a hit and turned and took a few shots down the alley and pegged an attacker. About the only saving grace for Megan was that the alley was narrow so all she needed to do was spray a few shots and she was almost certain to hit something. She really needed lessons but then she wasn’t much of a ranged attacker.

Her comm. beeped at her telling her that she had been hit. Megan couldn’t recall getting shot and looked at the back of her hand to see a scorch mark from where a shot had dinged her. Had this been live ammo that would have hurt...a lot and it probably would have gone through her hand...bullets sucked like that. Taking the hint Megan scrambled for cover as shots riddled the ground where she had been sitting. ”Lesson learned...don’t get any more bright ideas.” Or at least don’t act on them until you run them through a filter first to check if they were indeed a good idea. She swung her weapon up and sprayed a few more rounds down the alleyway nicking one attacker and sending the rest scrambling themselves. So that at least meant that they weren’t shooting at her and Kerrigan for a moment or two. So that was a few down and a few left to go and one was wounded. Great odds...maybe. "Sorry about this...it sounded like a good idea at the time..." She said waiting to see where they were going to move next.

The ball of lightning in her hand flickered slightly, looking as if it might dissolve when she heard her name called out over the crowd, Varis sprinting towards her, waving an ice covered hand. Her eyes widened slightly at the fact that he'd called out her real name, closing her hand into a fist as he jumped in front of her such that the ball of electricity was reabsorbed, dissipating after flowing across her skin. His accent appeared to add to the intimidation, the group of boys looking back and forth to each other before looking back to the boy in front of them. They were then shoved around a bit as Tsukino, enclosed in a barrier, pushed her way through them. The girl then formed a orange, triangular barrier in front of them, calling out that she would protect the two of them - and using their real names in the process. One of boys raised their hands into the air, backing off, while the others followed suit. However, before they ran off, one of them looked past the ice-covered Irishman, giving her a slightly menacing wink.

"See ya, Raine," he spoke simply before the group took off running, shoving a woman running away with her child. The Alpha firefly thought of throwing an arc of lightning after them, but stopped, instead turning her head as she heard Tara call out to them that they should remain outside and keep the situation under control. Waving one arm into the air to signify that she understood, her hazel eyes rounded over to the two newbies now in her charge, face setting into a semi-uncharacteristic scowl.

"Listen to me, this is very important. Anytime we are in the field, it's Glitter. And you're Winter Wolf and you're Moonlight. These people hate us enough without knowing who we really are." She was careful to keep her voice steady, not wanting to sound like she was yelling at them, but at the same time wanting to make sure that she got her point across. It was something that should have been explained to them when they were part of the smaller teams - they couldn't afford mistakes at a time like this.

Of course, little did they know, things were just going to get worse inside. The sounds of what she could only think was an explosion from inside rattled the area, Raine's expression changing to one of concern as she grabbed her comm device, whipping it up to her lips.

"Guys, was that an explosion? Is everyone alright?" Her eyes were wide, quickly scanning the area as some people that had previously been causing havoc started running when the explosion occurred from inside. Another fight started out just a bit to the side of them as two women accidentally ran into each other while trying to escape. The brunette quickly made her way over to them, grabbing one of the woman by the back of the shirt and physically hauling her away from the other one.

"Winter Wolf, make sure that the other one gets-" just then, the woman's elbow caught Raine in the side of the face, knocking the brunette to the side as her hands released the woman and cupped over her cheek and eye.

"Son of a b***h," she exclaimed, the woman lunging towards the other woman once more. Electricity glided fluidly across her exposed skin, glittering softly as she blinked back involuntary tears. Out of a blurry corner of her eyes she saw the two go at it once more, the brunette not wanting to touch them for fear of causing more damage than they were supposed to. The last thing she wanted was to get in trouble.

"Someone get those crazy chicks out of here," she called to her two associates, still waiting for a call back from someone inside to let her know if they were ok, or if the three of them were needed. They were instructed, by Siren herself to re-group by the fountain if they were able, Raine simply calling out a "roger that" and hoping that their leader would pick it up.

"Hurry up so we can re-group with the others," she called to the other two, hoping they were dealing with the two quarreling women better than she was able to. Her cheek was already sporting a soft bruise - it hurt to the touch. But it sounded like they were needed indoors far more than lingering in the parking lot to take care of people's inability to get along in the midst of chaos.

Out of the corner of her eye, Tara saw Lexi compensating for the lack of wind indoors by using her own breath - that was something she certainly hadn't been expecting. But all things considered, it made sense for the moment - if she'd thought things through more clearly outside, she might have yelled for Raine to come inside with her and left Lexi with the others to make sure that she was comfortable with her powers. It was something she could apologize later for. Right now, they had bigger problems on their hands. Flintlock looked like she was ready to run the gauntlet to get the little girl out of harm's way, Tara impressed with the level of concern she showed the girl despite all else that was going on. As she felt Siren's eyes turn to her, however, all her attention swept onto her leader, following the woman's motions to the humans trapped to the walls in some sort of sticky netting. What the heck had she missed in her dawdling outside? She looked at the woman ranting and raving, having some inkling that the sticky nets holding these people were her doing - that was not a mutation she would want to have, that's for sure.

"On it," she said simply, looking around for anything she could use in conjunction with her ability to free those people. It was hard not to get distracted from this goal when one of the storefronts burst into flame, and Siren's impressive use of her abilities to keep glass and other debris from raining down on her and causing some severe damage. Of, course, the sight of a flaming dragon rising from the lingering flames and smoke from the fire suppression system had to tear her attention away from the task at hand. That was just not something she saw on a daily basis…not something she'd ever seen as a matter of fact.

The sound of Siren asking someone to let her go caught her attention, the brunette earth-mover's eyes widening as a boy holding Bella's hand morphed into a blue-skinned woman with red hair. Out of the burning storefront came a blonde-haired mutant with some sort of tank system on his back, sending flames towards families huddled under tables for some sense of noon-existent protection. If she had been outdoors, she could have used soil from the ground to suffocate the fires, but as it were, she'd have to rip through at least one layer of concrete, maybe more depending on how many unseen lower levels to the building there were. Of course, none of this mattered when her attention was torn away a third time by a green-skinned mutant, cat-calling at the group as Tara dropped back a step or two from him. Her features set into a scowl as he particularly seemed interested in Aurelie and Alex, rolling her eyes a bit. She'd never understand why men went after the blondes first. It was so cliche.

Leonardo stepped in front of them, ever the protector, clearly trying to work out a plan that would keep all of them from getting toasted, slobbered on, or shot. Reggie was just as adamant in vocalizing that the slime-ball wasn't going to get anyone from the group She felt a tap on her arm, looking to her fellow teammate as he motioned towards Toad, mouthing for her to keep an eye on him.

"Oh, I'll do more than that," she muttered, brushing past him to take her target so the rest of them could do what they needed to do. She heard Leo calling for Mystique to state her purpose there, Tara already having a hunch that they were a distraction to keep the X-Men from raining on their plans elsewhere, but until the blue woman spoke, she'd not say anything. Her brown eyes never left Toad, head tilting to the side ever so slightly as a few tendrils of hair fell into her face. A grin tugged at the corners of her lips as she felt the ground beneath the buy's feet, cracks in the concrete slowly starting to spread, forming a ring around him. With everything else going on, she hoped he was too dense to notice. When the s**t it the fan, Tara wanted to make sure she could act as quickly as possible. As a bit of an isnurance policy, the brunette hissed towards him, trying to make sure she at least got his attention on her.

"Psst. Hey...I was wondering. What's with the blondes? I mean...they don't really have more fun, you know." Her voice was soft, not wanting to distract the others dealing with other members of the Brotherhood. But she had a feeling she could figure Toad out pretty quickly - they guy had green-toned skin and ate bugs. Surely he wasn't that complicated of a character...

Lexi stood close to the group of Alphas, just waiting with baited breath over what to do. It seemed the window for extraction was closing just a tiny bit more with each passing second. Still, she stood there, an orb of air just spinning slowly in the palm of her hand, unsure of what next she should or could do. That was when Isabella gave the order to try and begin releasing some of the humans that were stuck upon the various walls. Seemed simple enough, right?

The very moment she was getting poised to follow orders was when it hit the fan. It seemed the spider-mutant was spouting off even more invective that before and suddenly, there was an explosion that rocked the vicinity. “Crap!,” Lexi exclaimed as she ducked, feeling an immense heat coming from behind her. By the time she had stood back to her feet, she’d lost a bit of her makeshift ‘weapon’ and was completely taken aback by what she saw. There was a giant, fire dragon that was flying well overhead, setting things ablaze intermittently. Gunshots rang out, and she looked around fervently, noting that there was a blue-skinned woman basically holding the Alpha’s leader hostage. Not only that, a vicious smell hit her nostrils and Lexi could only wrinkle her nose in disgust; it seemed the shorter of the villainous trio was setting his sights on Aurelie and Alex.

Leo was the first to step up, threatening Toad with a grand ripping out of his throat, followed by Reggie putting herself in between the rather noxious amphibious mutant and the Alpha girls. To say what Lexi heard from Toad’s mouth pissed her off would have been an understatement; not only was he ugly and smelly but lecherous? It made her grin slightly when Leo tapped her on the arm, mouthing the order for her and Tara to keep an eye on the guy.

“With pleasure,” Lexi muttered as she took a few paces forwards, putting herself alongside both Reggie and Tara in between the others and Toad. From her position, she could hear Alex asking Reggie to watch the smaller blonde’s back. If it wasn’t Reg, it’d be Lexi. If it wasn’t Lexi, it’d be someone else … and so on and so forth. She at least hoped that was how this team worked, if not they’d be up the creek. There were more Alpha’s buzzing and mulling around the scene of general chaos, but Lexi was too focused on her task at hand to really take note of who they were.

“She’s right,” Lexi said, letting the smallish orb of air dissipate then slowly wrap itself around her body. Without a second thought, she willed it to come back to her hand, though this time a bit more compact. How she longed for just a decent gust of wind or maybe someone or something to just… open a few doors. “Though something tells me you’d need a decade of reform school, a good bath, and a stroke of luck to get a date with a dead dog,” she said to Toad, plainly stating the obvious. While she stood there, waiting for the lout to make the first move, she began tossing the ball of wind between her hands, in an effort to at least try and intimidate.
Little did anyone realize, Lexi was nervous as all getout. Her first real mission was here, trying to quell a riot and now this. She was trying not to let it be visible, but with her tossing the orb of wind around would only be construed by anyone as an act of nervousness. With a harsh glare at Toad, she mentally swore at her mother for making her leave home for this.