The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
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The day had started out so well. Amber had woken up around noon, not having to worry about being awake early for school, and the cooks in the Sanctuary kitchen had made her some of the most delightful waffles she had ever tasted. After a very satisfying breakfast she had retreated to her room for some violin practice, something she had been sadly neglectful of since coming to Sanctuary and meeting her new family, but she figured it was forgivable given all the recent excitement of her life. Still, now that she was finally starting to feel comfortable she could no longer accept ignoring the beautiful instrument and vowed to return to her regime of an hour a day of practice.
It was after practice that things started to go bad, although Amber didn't realize it at the time. It was one of those lovely cloudy days outside, threatening rain but not quite there and those days were particularly lovely for Amber because it meant she could go outside. So, after deciding that today would be a lovely day to go see some dinosaur exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History and plotting her transit route with the help of her new laptop, she put on her cloak and veil and stepped outside for what she hoped would be a productive afternoon of looking at dinosaurs and if she was really lucky, maybe even getting herself a new form. Well, if how she thought it worked actually worked like it did, but either way she had to figure that out for herself, right?
Almost as soon as she stepped outside Amber should have realized just what a bad idea it was to go out all by herself during the day. First, because of how accepting everyone was at Sanctuary about her eyes, she had almost forgotten that the outside world was not nearly so ok with the fact that they made her look like a freak and a scary freak at that. Being the only one standing outside waiting for a bus, the first bus that passed her didn't bother to stop to pick her up, nor did the second. Only when someone else stopped to wait for the bus also did the third bus stop and then the driver had to let her on.
The bus ride itself was one of the most stressful and nerve wracking that Amber could remember and it was all she could do to keep her eyes downcast so no one could see them. It was, perhaps, because of her nerves that she ended up missing her stop entirely got off several stops too late. That was when things went from bad to a whole lot worse.
Looking around, Amber didn't have the slightest clue where in the city she was or how she might get herself home again. To make matters even worse (as if they could really get any worse) the sun was starting to peek through the clouds and even with her layers of protection, the sun was just about the last thing that Amber wanted to see. In that moment she went from barely controlling her nerves to outright panic and panic, unfortunately, seemed to be the one emotion that triggered her mutation.
Pain suddenly shot through Amber's, starting in her hands and feet and moving up her arms and legs. Dull brown and black feathers sprouted, covering every inch of skin underneath of her robes. Claws forced their way out of her fingers and toes, shredding her shows. A emerged, causing an agony unlike anything she could even begin to describe. Her face and mouth elongated and her teeth became needle sharp and doubled in number. Her entire form shifted and contorted into something vaguely birdlike in nature, but much larger than any bird. Amber's robes fell away to reveal an unliving and perfectly preserved Deinonychus.
Amber tried to speak but all that came out was a sort of screeching chirping noise. People were starting to stare and Amber started to run, wobbly and uncertain on her feet.
Tea. It wasn't often that Sara went out and bought herself a good cup of tea. She normally brewed her own but it had been a long time since she let herself sit still long enough at the mansion to make a cup of water hot enough. She'd grown impatient. Not with anything or anyone in particular, just it felt better to not sit still.
That's when she found herself on the city. She'd become more bold as time had gone by. She no longer completely hid herself in the crowds but she did walk around with her hood up and made no big movements to draw extra attention to herself. Most people in the city, went about their daily lives and didn't look up from what ever they were doing while they were walking. A fact that Sara learned when she was pick pocketing.
Her chosen tea was purchased from a take out window of one of the big cafes. Earl grey was served to her in a tea bag that was made of cloth and shaped like a triangle. No taste of the bag but no mess of a tea ball. Sara was just looking to see what brand of tea it was that she had, when something could be heard running down the street from behind her. Sara's ear flicked back listening to it's movement and the voices of people reacting, but she refused to be distracted from her tea bag investigation until a man behind her, pointing and gawking as the dino ran by, backed into her.
The cup was jostled and half of the tea, and scalding hot water, ended up soaking Sara's sleeve. Sara sighed flicking the water away with her nose wrinkled at the heat. Her fur kept much of the heat out, but once the water soaked in it also kept the temp near her skin high. Wonderful.
Sara looked up, in time to see the dino's back side. Ok that's interesting. It looked like a predator type dino as well. Sara had no idea what was really going on. Only that the person right behind her had just dialed 911. Actually a lot of people were dialing the cops, and animal control. The nerve
Sara thought about just going back and ordering more hot water but animal control. Really. What an offensive thought. So her cup was discarded at a out door table and she began to jog after the thing with no idea what she was about to throw herself in the middle of.
Sara first assessed the Dino's movement. the hunter in her told her that the creature was off balance. Not injured but like a new born in it's movement and control of it's limbs. ok so just created or just shifted. Sara remembered her own coordination when she had first turned feline. Sara also couldn't sense aggression. So she speed up leaning into the momentum to try to try to pull up next to the dino. If the speed of the chase increased, then Sara was going to have to resort to running on all fours, but that was going to make it harder to talk. "Hey!" Sara felt stupid. "Do you understand English!?"
Accidentally changing into a deinonychus did not help Amber's mental state at all. Sure, there was the fact that her skin was not burning and cracking as it most certainly would have been were she still human and not covered by her protective cloak, but that was about the only good thing she could say about her present state.
First there was the fact that Amber was having difficulty actually remaining on her feet as she ran down the sidewalk. It was better than the first time she had changed since she actually could run, but her balance was all off and she felt like at any moment she might fall over. Second, and far more serious, was that people around her were yelling and panicking. She didn't want to frighten anyone, honestly she didn't, but she didn't know how to turn back to normal. The more stressful the situation became the less likely it was that she could figure out how to turn back. All she really wanted to do was find Sanctuary again where she might be able to find some sort of help, but she was completely and hopelessly lost. Add to the fact that she couldn't quite see properly and her situation seemed hopeless. It wasn't that her vision was worse, not exactly, it was just that it was different and that difference, especially when combined with her shaky balance, was more than a little disorienting.
Because she was so concerned with her own myriad of problems, Amber didn't imminently notice that she was being followed. After all, with all the yelling and panicking around her, how was one little dinosaur girl supposed to notice a cat woman trailing behind her. As such, she almost jumped right out of her skin when the cat lady tried to talk to her. When she tried to answer the question about speaking English, however, all that came out was a keening chirp. She remembered that from last time this had happened, that she didn't have the vocal chords to speak, so instead she nodded her long neck.
Amber stopped running, not even thinking that the cat lady might be dangerous and might try to hurt her. All she wanted was to go home, the question was how to get across that desire to the newcomer. She tried speaking again but, like last time, all that came out was a keening chirp. How ever was she going to let her know what she wanted? She lowered her long neck in defeat, cradling her head in her little taloned arms.
The dinosaur opened it's mouth in response to Sara though Sara wasn't fully sure if it was a yes or no at first. The sound made her ears flick and twitch. The head bob. Ok. A yes. and the dinosaur stopped running. so that was a good thing. Right? In the back of her mind she was silently redying herself to react should the dino try to eat her, but this dino wasn't acting wild.
she skidded to a stop a few feet a head and turned back on her heal walking back. Her amber eyes darted back and forth at the crowd that was gathering. Soon animal control and the cops would get here. Not exactly Sara's favorite people but as long as the situation was contained, they weren't going to be her enemy. It would be the rest of the people.
The dinosaur's noise pulled Sara's glare away from the norms. So Sara strolled back next to her while she cradled her head. Some sympathy in her gaze. "A mutant?" Sara asked. as she put herself protectively between this dino who the crowd clearly would not understand. "Are you a mutant?" Sara repeated herself making the question more clear.
The kitty lady stopped and didn't seem to be afraid of her. In Amber's mind that had to be a marked improvement. Everyone else was still running around and yelling all panicked at the sight of the dinosaur and, maybe the kitty lady too, but at least someone was here to help her. Maybe she could mime out the letters of Sanctuary and the kitty lady would lead her back to it? Good plan, not if only she could figure out how...
The furred mutant asked if she herself was a mutant and Amber bobbed her head up and down excitedly. Now they were getting somewhere, definately an improvement from a few moments before. Now, how to let her know that she had gotten stuck in her dinosaur form. Why were people so panicked anyway? It wasn't like deinonychus' were partiuclarly scary dinosaurs as such things went. It might be a little strange to see a living breathing dinosaur in the middle of the city, but surely she wasn't all that frightening.
Amber started chirping at the cat mutant, trying to get across purely by inflection, that she was lost and stuck as a dinosaur. The emotion, she thought rather proudly, she managed to create quite successfully. Unfortunately she had no idea if mere emotion would be enough. She looked hopefully over to the cat mutant, praying that she somehow understood what she was trying to say.
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((OOC: I changed my mind. I'm tossing Shin in here. It's the 29th of May for him, and he got no sleep. He'll think he's seein things.))
A yawn escaped Shin, and he smacked his lips groggily, then took a sip of his tea. Around him, people were screaming. They were so serious. Why so serious, he wondered. Ah well, none of his concern... he was exhausted. He'd let someone else handle it. ... And the mint tea was good.
Shin took another sip, and his mind trailed back to earlier that morning.
He remembered Kealey's story about her life before New York. He remembered the fire... the look in her eyes as she told him about it. He took another sip, mind waking up just a bit more from the caffeine. They'd talked about her family, and then they'd gone to walk Thor.
She'd been so worked up, so emotional... but the walking helped, as had the talking. Slowly, Kealey had calmed down. He'd asked her a bit more about the hard details... he'd been curious. He figured it might help him understand her a bit more. And so, as they walked Thor, they talked. Eventually, he'd walked her back to her room, and gone out for tea. He'd needed to digest everything she'd said.
Shin's eyes ran over the tea cup in his hands as he pondered it all. The cup was detailed with a lavender floral design along the rim. It was beautiful. So beautiful. The cafe he was at had the best tea cups. Triangular eyes focused on the design for a moment, then rose to notice the cat-woman and the dinosaur.
The lavender floral design along the rim shattered as the tea cup hit the concrete below his chair. Shin blinked, and took the entire scenario in.
The morning after Shin had spent the night up with Kealey talking, and walking Thor, he saw a dinosaur and a cat-woman shooting the breeze.
True story.
Just a day in the life of Shin.
He rose from his chair, and slipped further down the street, towards them. Triangular pupils darted to look at the gathering crowds, took note of the pandemonium, and focused on the dino and cat-lady in-question.
A name came to him. Sara.
His eyes swung to the crowd again as someone shouted something exceedingly rude against mutants. This was no good. An anti-mutant furor was brewing. The crowd's chanting was increasing in volume and fervor.
He bridged the final few feet between himself, Sara, and the dinosaur.
"Sara. What's going on? Why is there a dinosaur...?" He didn't finish the thought. Another pretty tea cup crashed on the ground nearby.
Ok. The energetic chirping thing did nothing more than irritate Sara's sensitive ears, and convey to Sara what she already knew. That this mutant, (it nodded it's head on mutant, it understood English,) was in trouble. Looking by the crowd, a lot of trouble. It was one thing to walk calmly around New York City when you looked different. This mutant had ran. Not well either. Running was a reason to make people be stupid and that's exactly what was starting to happen.
"Sara. What's going on? Why is there a dinosaur...?"
Sara's ears flicked back in the voices direction before her head turned. "Shin?" a shattering cup cut them both off. Things were getting worst very quickly for the three of them. It's sad when Dinosaur mutants cant even go for a panicked morning jog without attracting an angry mob.
"We need to get this thing somewhere safe."
oh that hurt. Sara knew Shin was being helpful but thing? He really couldn't come up with a better turn right now? Sara had been called a thing all her life. "That thing is a mutant. It-...." Sara glanced at the dinosaur for a minute realizing that she didn't know if it was female or male there for really didn't know what to call it propperly. ...."There's just some communication issues right now."
More objects were starting to follow that one brave kamikaze tea cup. Humans... They were brave as long as they had things to throw.... Hot dogs, loose stones from the concrete sidewalks, fast food wrappers, shakes, ice, and other things picked up from the ground that Sara didn't really want to think about.
Ok. Plan time. "Shin, how did you get here? Please say that you have a car." Adrenalin was starting to pump through Sara's system and she wasn't too proud of the fact that she could feel the hair that ran along the back of her neck starting to stand on end.
Just at the end of Amber's rather energetic but probably completely incomprehensible description to the cat lady about her current problem, someone else appeared on the scene. That someone else, it seemed, knew the cat lady, who was apparently called Sara, but he also chose to call her a thing. A thing. The nerve of some people. She glared at him and trilled her dislike at the comment. Just because she currently looked like a dinosaur did not mean that she was a thing. She was still a human being or at least a mutant, thank you very much. At least the Sara cat lady was defending her, however. Whenever she regained the use of her mouth and vocal chords she would definitely have to thank her.
That, however, was unfortunately when things started to be thrown in her direction. A cup was the first thing aimed in their direction, a cup which thankfully missed and shattered on the ground in a loud crash. Amber shrilled her unhappiness, panic beginning to rise in her again. Even in her worst days at the orphanage no one had ever thrown stuff at her before and it wasn't a situation that she ever wanted to repeat again. Oh, why couldn't' she just change back into a proper human and have all of this madness go right back to normal again? What was wrong with her?
More things began to be thrown, sometimes of the most random nature. What made people think that throwing stuff was a good thing today? Amber had never done anything to anyone, and so far neither Sara nor the newcomer had either so why did they feel so threatened? Was it just that they were feeling uniquely cruel today and the dinosaur and the cat lady were good targets for their aggression? A small rock hit her side and she trilled unhappy, looking forlornly at the man talking to the cat lady. Please please have car. If only she could mentally implant her thoughts into his head or something and get across her feelings that way.
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Sara fought him on a triviality. Thing, he, she, it. "I don't know what to call the dinosaur," He muttered, stress seeping through. "I'm not an expert on determining dinosaur gender." Too bad the dinosaur couldn't tell them what gender it was. According to Sara, there were... communication issues.
Just great. Shin turned his body to shield the dinosaur from the crowd's view. "I'm sorry. We don't have time to split hairs over titles."
He took a milkshake to the back as Sara asked him a question.
Did he have a...
"I walked," Shin replied, "And took the bus. Is there some place safe we could take her... I don't think I can carry you all if we went for the aerial retreat..." His brow crinkled. This was a difficult situation to be in. An unruly mob, and... a shrieking dinosaur. A rock hit him in the small of his back, and Shin turned. "Okay. That's it." He snapped, bringing up a wall of triangles between them and the crowd. The triangles hovered disjointed in the air for a moment, then arranged them into a 7' x 7' transparent blue wall.
"Everybody, calm down!" A hand went to his pants pocket, and pulled out a brown leather wallet. Shin flipped it open, and held it up for the crowd, flashing a badge. "I'm with the X-men, and with the police. Nobody needs to turn this into a riot. If everyone would just..."
Some people in the crowd seemed to stop at the sight of the badge. A few relaxed their throwing arms. Whether they'd stopped throwing when the blue wall sprang up, or stopped once he flashed the badge, was unclear. A bit of egg dribbled down the side of the transparent blue, blotting out a portion of the mob.
For a second, Shin thought it would all stop. Things might cool down. In the street, a pair of white and black vehicles pulled up to the curb, sirens wailing. Four officers stepped out of the cars, eyes on his group. That thought quickly evaporated as the officers misunderstood the situation.
"Everybody, hands above your heads." An officer with blond hair spoke.
Another moved to calm the crowd. He was joined by his partner. Together, they slowly pushed the unruly group back.
Shin stared at the barrel of a handgun on the other side of his barrier, hands in the air. The badge was visible, over his head. A brown-haired officer eyed him, then pointed the gun downwards, and muttered something that sounded vaguely similar to 'get on the ground...'
"Drop this wall," he followed up with unneeded force. "Tear it down."
Sara caught a half eaten hot dog that had been flung by one of the people in the crowd. It's topping splashed up her hand, on her sleeve, and across her top. She flicked the thing towards the ground, disgusted that she couldn't chuck it right back at people. Then flicking relish and onions off her cloths. "Trivial things...." Sara muttered something under her breath.
Ok so cars and driving away was out of the question
"I walked too." Sara admitted as she tilted her head just in time to avoid a stone that someone had thrown. "There is a vacant apartment complex three blocks away. There's a subway tunnel that is five blocks away to the East. If we can make it 1/3 of a mile away, there is a run down Warehouse building." All places that Sara used to stay before she moved into the mansion. "If a retreat is needed, do you think that you can pick Dino, and just yourself up? If needed, I'm fairly certain that I can get myself out." Sara said as another rock came in just out of her reach hitting Shin in the back. Shin turned around putting up a translucent wall as a shield. Sara had never seen his mutation in action before. "Nifty."
Shin turned to address the crowd flashing a badge and his police credentials. It seemed to be doing some good. Sara noted as some people were backing down. her ears flicked as she listened as the sirens finished their approach.
And big surprise a misunderstanding...
Sara purposefully slid two steps forward and to the side making herself more of a target before orders were shouted to raise their hands above their heads. Sara obediently did so. Doing her best to tilt her palms up as best to hide her claw tips. "My name is Sara." Sara announced projecting her voice. "There are records of me working with Wraith, the x-men, the police and fire department before. Shin here has a badge." Come on. Sara thought. It's not like Sara was that hard to recognize. She was a walking cat for crying out loud.
This seemed to have some effect but not enough. The officers looked baffled chancing glances at each other. The one that seemed to be in command motioned for the ground again. "There are also records of you fighting at old Sanctuary. Now kiss the dirt." Sara had nearly forgotten about back then. she'd never spent a lot of time around the order, but she had faught by their sides and been captured with them before the registration camps.
Sara was hesitating to get on the ground. she was fighting two instincts. caught between two mental arguments. One to obey. The other to resist and either fight or go for a get away. The hair on the back of her neck and spine was fully standing on end.
Although Amber understood the difficulty in communicating with a dinosaur who couldn't presently speak, she also knew that now was not the time to quibble over her name or her gender. She trilled at the pair with her again, imploring them to drop her identity until they were someplace safe, preferably someplace where people were not throwing rocks and other projectiles at them.
Apparently the male agreed because that's when a bunch of blue triangles appeared out of thin air to form themselves into a blue wall between the three of them and a blue mob. Amber nodded her long neck in approval. Maybe it wouldn't keep the mob out forever, but it was a good improvement to their previous situation of having to dodge flying objects every few seconds. A moment later she realized she really must be getting used to the mutants around Sanctuary because she really should have been more startled to see a magical blue triangle wall simply appear out of thin air.
The badge that the man flashed also seemed to calm the crowd down further much to Amber's relief. She wasn't about to question where he got the badge of if he was actually some kind of officer. All that mattered was that he was swiftly becoming her hero and once they were out of this mess and she could actually talk again, she would have to be sure to thank him and the cat lady. Of course, no mere words would ever do for the saving of her life and she had no idea what a proper thank you might be in this sort of situation, but she would figure that out later.
Unfortunately the officers that arrived at the scene a moment later did not seem the type to merely accept the presence of the badge and Amber stood confusedly wondering if she should just attempt to obey or if she should remain on her feet. On her feet she at least had a chance to flee, on the ground she could be anyone's victim. She looked from the cat lady to the triangle man, wondering what in the world she should do next.
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Sara had a lot of good ideas, but Shin was wiggling his badge hopefully. If all things went according to his rapidly-generated plan, they wouldn't need that escape route. Nobody had to run away from this. Peace could be made.
Shin nodded his head as Sara explained herself. She made good points. Shin hadn't known about most of Sara's work with 'Wraith', or the fire and police departments. He also hadn't been aware of her police record. He didn't look at her. The officers were pretty adamant about the ground. That wasn't a good sign. They'd shot down her points as if they didn't exist. Shin didn't frown, but inwardly, he was a bit miffed.
He gave it one more college try, for good measure.
"Check with your supervisors. The X-men are working with the police. I serve right under Cold Steel." Mutant Playboy, first class. "Neither Sara, nor I, nor the dinosaur mutant want any trouble. This doesn't have to end negatively." This late statement, he made for all parties involved. He knew he was getting a little heated.
"If you don't want trouble, why are you using your mutation?" One asked.
Another chimed in. "And why is That?" He gestured to Amber.
Stupid... Shin mentally cursed them. "As far as I'm aware, the dinosaur didn't do this on purpose. She can't speak to explain herself," He took a wild guess on gender. Hopefully, Mr. Dinosaur wouldn't mind if he wasn't a Missus. "But I'm certain they don't want any trouble. As for my own mutation... the crowd was throwing things. I only raised the barrier as a line of defense. I can," with a slacking of his mind, the blue wall vanished. All the things sticking to its surface sloshed to the ground, making various degrees of mess. "Take it away. Please understand. I'm doing my best to keep the peace here. We can take the dinosaur some place safe. She didn't break any laws."
"Wouldn't you call 'disturbing the peace' a crime?" One officer looked to his partner. His partner gave the slightest of nods.
Ugh. Did he have to explain everything. "The only thing she did was surprise others with her appearance. Please." He went down on his knees, linking his hands behind his head. Shin hoped the others would follow suit. "We just want to get out of this situation as peacably as we can."
The police still wanted to accuse them of using their powers to disturb the piece and Sara did her best to keep her voice level. "What you're accusing her of," Sara also hoped Mr. Dino didn't mind being called a her. "Is nothing more than learning. It's the same as a child learning how to get around and be clumsy."
The barrier had disappeared as easily as Shin had put it up, and Sara felt her shoulders stiffen with anticipation. Though it seemed that the crowd was less willing to throw rocks at them in the presents of the police. That was good. Until they change their minds that is.
Shin got on his knees with his hands behind his head. Sara held her hands up in front of her, laced her empty fingers for the cops and the crowd to see as she slowly put them behind her head. Sara glanced behind her to see what the dino was going to do. If She ran, Sara was probably going to try to do the same to either provide a distractions, to guide her, or to make her stop. It depended on how fast the cops were going to react. If the cops reacted too fast, it was going to be better for Sara to knock the dinosaur mutant to the ground rather than what the cops would use.
Sara got down on her knees obediently. However the angle wasn't going to be difficult for her to jump right back up.
No one else seemed to be fleeing for their lives and the police were at least listening to the one who made blue walls. That was a good sign right? In fact, blue wall man, not only was trying to explain things, but he was even obeying the orders of the cops. Maybe it would be best for her to do the same thing. If nothing else, she'd never made a habit of getting in the way of the law in the past. She was always the good kid, doing her school work on time and not getting into any trouble.
The problem, as it turned out, was that Amber wasn't entirely sure that she even could lie down in her current form. Hands behind the head was simple enough and she complied to that without complaint. Well, mostly simple so long as she lowered her head enough for her hands to reach. When she tried to lie down, however, she came to the realization that such an act wasn't exactly possible. Instead, she ended up in a sort of crouched position, much like that of birds when they were at rest. Well, that would just have to do since she didn't think it was possible to do any better.
"What you're accusing her of, is nothing more than learning. It's the same as a child learning how to get around and be clumsy."
Amber nodded at the smart cat lady. See, now she seemed to know what she was talking about. If only the cops could see the wisdom of the furred feline then things might actually turn out all right.
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Maybe they were touched by Sara's words, maybe Shin had made sense... maybe they didn't want to cause a blood bath? The cops eyed the trio, and for whatever reason, their guns slowly lowered.
"Alright." One of them muttered.
The other turned towards the crowd. "Break it up. Nothing to see here. Move along."
The first one turned to his partner, speaking inaudibly into his ear. Shin wondered what they were saying. Their lips moved, and he watched closely. For a second, he thought he caught something that looked suspiciously like the words 'fingerprinting' and 'no good'.
"You're free to go," the first police officer said, as the crowd dispersed. He held up an admonishing finger at the dinosaur. "But don't let it happen again. And you." He turned to Shin, glaring. "You really need to work on your cop act, kid."
"..."
The cop turned, and joined his partner back at the squad car. As he left, he muttered something about 'newbies' and 'let anyone in these days'. 'Honorary, at best.'
Shin didn't hear it. He turned towards Sara and the dinosaur. "Are you two okay?" He asked. His focus shifted to the dinosaur. "Can you shift back?"
