Frost had escaped.

Not that this was an entirely new event, but usually the foxsquirrel's 'escape' only took her into the kitchen where she raided a box of cereal or a fruit bowl. Escape didn't usually take her down the hallways, carrying off peoples belongings like a scavengers. Today, Frost managed to snag Evelyn's cell phone, and then decided the cell phone needed to go somewhere else.

Somewhere else was halfway around the mansion by the time Evelyn scrambled after the little critter.

"Frost! Get back here with that!" Evelyn hissed, trying not to alert half the mansion there was a rodent on the loose. While the little animal had lived her for a good month or so, the screams of one of two students had made her cautious enough about where her pet went. Kids were fine, but the last thing she wanted is one of the dogs to think the foxsquirrel was a new pet.

Speaking of dogs...Evelyn's echoes started buzzing as they neared Maya's room, and Evelyn realized Angua had never officially met the rodent... Hopefully the door was shut. Right?

Angua was usually a very obedient dog. So much so, in fact, that Mirror had been considering officially adding her to the training roster. The X-team could definitely use a highly trained canine of massive proportions.
(Another one besides Emmy, that is.)

But even very well trained two-year-old hell hounds have their limits.

Maya was on her way back to her room when the flash of white zipped past her, preceded by some student's yelp, and followed by Evelyn jogging down the hallway. The mirrorwalker merely turned around in confusion, but Angua's ears instantly snapped to attention. A split second later, the wolfhoud took off down the corridor at full speed, pursuing the critter and creating significantly more chaos and confusion than the minuscule white...

"What the **** was that?!" Maya blinked, turning on her heel to follow Angua.

"Angua! HEEL!"

Nope.

Of course, Maya would be wandering the hallways with her dog. And of course Angua would think the tiny rodent was something to be chased. Evelyn was knocked sideways as the dog rushed past, then Maya took after her dog. The white haired girl did her best to keep up, but she was loosing momentum. The Danger Room didn't include chasing animals all over the mansion.

"Ugh, this is....hopeless..." She muttered, gasping for air. She wasn't too worried about the fox squirrel at least. Frost was quick enough to get away, and keeping the chaos at a minimum looked out of the question now. But somehow they managed to drag Maya into things...

Pets.

Angua, and whatever moving object she was chasing, soon disappeared around the corner, and Maya slowed down to let Evelyn catch up.

"Hey there" she grinned at her girlfriend "Angua is chasing... something. Heck if I know what it is, but we'd better catch it before they break something expensive."

She started jogging again in the general direction of screams and crashes. It was hard to miss Angua at full speed.

"So, how have you been?..."

>>"Angua is chasing...something..."

"Oh, that's just Frost. She's a foxsquirrel." Evelyn said, pink tinting her face as she kept moving towards the noise. The crashes didn't sound promising... "And I've been good, you know. Busy." Apparently, too busy to tell her girlfriend about the pet fox squirrel she bought... opps.

"Frooooossttt..." Evelyn called, turning one of the corners and drawing closer to the barking. A faint hissing noise sounded distantly. It seems Frost was getting tired of the chase and had found somewhere to perch instead.

>>"Oh, that's just Frost. She's a foxsquirrel. And I've been good, you know. Busy."

"A whut now?"

No kidding, busy. Apparently Eve had a pet she forgot to mention. Maya was not entirely sure what a foxsquirrel was, but it sounded tiny and furry, just like Angua liked them. Damn.
That critter better find a place very high up if it wanted to be out of Angua's reach.

>>"Frooooossttt..."

"You think it's gonna answer?" Maya chuckled, turning a corner. The sounds were leading them...

"Oh ****."

... to the Infirmary.

The echoes were calculating. Voice echoes, distance, mansion blueprint, all of equaled--

"DocProf is going to kill me!" Evelyn hissed, panic causing a second wind to hit as she raced faster. As she skidded into the room, her face turned pure red as she looked at the chaos the animals had caused. DocProf was backed into a corner, and the fox squirrel was hiding up on one of the cabinets next to his head. Angua was circling and barking with obvious excitement.

"What the hell is that!" The doctor yelled over the noise, and Evelyn scrambled up onto the counters after the little creature.

"It's Frost, she's my--owe! I mean she's an---owe!!! Foxsquirrel!" Frost apparently did not want to be rescued, and a few scratches and bites later Evelyn had the terrified animal tangled in her hair.

>>"What the hell is that!"

"It's her fault!" Maya volunteered promptly. Abandoning her loyalty to her significant other for imminent self-preservation might come back to bite her in the ass later on, but right now DocProf and the critter were both cornered, and the guy looked definitely more dangerous.

Angua rose to her hind legs and followed Eve up the counter, reaching up to her knees as she stood there. She would have been happy to get the intriguing little ball of fur out of the tangle of white hair. Maya pounced on the dog and pulled her back by her collar.

"Angua! No! Down! BAD DOG!"

>>"It's her fault!"

Evelyn shot Maya a glare as the fox squirrels back claws dug into her cheek bone. A pair of eyes peered out from on top of her head, and another hiss echoed in response to Angua's barking. DocProf spat profanities as the mirror-walker tried to drag her pet back, and Evelyn sighed, waiting for an opening to get to the ground. A few moments later there was a slight clearing, and she wiggled to the ground. The little animal was almost indistinguishable from her white locks.

"I expect you'll be back later to clean up everything they knocked over." DocProf grumbled, and Evelyn flushed deeper.

"Right, I'll just get her back to the room first..." Evelyn muttered sheepisly and made for the exit. The claws were still digging into her skin.

>>"I expect you'll be back later to clean up everything they knocked over."

"Sure" Maya muttered while she practically sat on Angua's back to keep her from rearing up again. If she did, she would easily tower over Evelyn and the squirrel alike. Practically straddling the hellhound, she managed to shuffle out of the Infirmary and close the door.

>>"Right, I'll just get her back to the room first..."

"Angua. No. Down. Heel."

So, apparently, the combat training had to be postponed. Or she would just have to take the dog on missions where squirrels were not a liability.

Once Angua was back in her room, Maya hopped over to Evelyn's.

"Hey, do you, um, need help getting that thing out of your hair?..."

Once the path was clear, Evelyn went back to her room to deal with her rather distressed pet. She half hoped Frost would just find a new perch and sulk there, but the claws just keep digging in deeper, and her hands were covered with bite marks by the time Maya reappeared.

"I probably oweee wouldn't try right now. She's just a little oweee! upset." Some unladylike words and a bit of scrambling later, Evelyn managed to free herself and the little squirrel ran over to the dresser where it sat, hissing. "So, uh, not the best way to introduce you two, but Maya, this is Frost...Frost, Maya." Evelyn motioned from one of them to the other, and Frost just sat and licked her tail, smoothing the fur.

"She was sleeping last time you were here... Sorry I didn't get a chance to introduce you sooner. I figured bringer her by your room could be trouble..." Evelyn remarked.

>>"I probably oweee wouldn't try right now. She's just a little oweee! upset."

Maya stood back and watches as Eve untangled white fur from white hair, until the critter was free to perch and hiss.

>>"So, uh, not the best way to introduce you two, but Maya, this is Frost...Frost, Maya. She was sleeping last time you were here... Sorry I didn't get a chance to introduce you sooner. I figured bringer her by your room could be trouble..."

"Um." was what the young mirrorwalker said, eyeing Frost, hoping it was not going to start talking. That would be way too weird. "Is that even... what exactly is that?..."

She turned back to Eve, who looked exactly like someone who just had a rodent in her hair, and noted the scratches.

"Whatever it is, I hope it has its shots..."

Evelyn tried her best to smooth her hair, the blush still on her face. It was accompanied by the blood from the scratches, so there was a general red hue around her. "It's a foxsquirrel. Last year I found an add this guy had and he was selling them. His powers were to turn other animals into them I guess. Frost was probably a squirrel of some sort to start with..." Evelyn mused, looking at it. She fished for a hairbrush on her dresser then attacked the snarls again.

"Anyway, I forgot I ordered one, then he showed up the other day with it and it sort of attached to me. She's usually more well behaved..."

>>"I hope it has its shots..."

"I'm not sure they make shots for foxsquirrels..." Evelyn admitted with a frown.

>>"It's a foxsquirrel. Last year I found an add this guy had and he was selling them. His powers were to turn other animals into them I guess. Frost was probably a squirrel of some sort to start with... Anyway, I forgot I ordered one, then he showed up the other day with it and it sort of attached to me. She's usually more well behaved..."

Maya blinked. Someone out there had the mutant power to create cute anime animals in real life. Some people were just more fortunate that way.
She glanced at Frost again. She was adorable, in a cartoon-ish fluffy way. Maya had gotten used to the inland whale that was Angua for a pet, but she could see the allure of the foxsquirrel.

>>"I'm not sure they make shots for foxsquirrels..."

"Well..." Maya sighed "I'd say you should go back to DocProf, but I guess we'll have to go back there anyway. And sorry about Angua. Rodents are kind of a trigger. She is trained, but she is not that trained."

Maya seemed relatively okay with Frost. Well, as okay as you could be with a pet that was just attacking your significant other's face. After ridding herself of the snarls in her hair she sighed and moved over to the desk. She offered a hand to Frost as a gesture of peace, and after a moment of consideration the little creature butted its head against her fingers and licked one of the scratched in apology. "Yeah, you better be sorry you little imp." Evelyn muttered, then smoothed out her hair once more before facing the door.

"It's fine, I didn't figure they would get along super well. I just hope long term Angua will realize Frost is not for chasing...Otherwise anytime she gets loose it'll be interesting..." Evelyn muttered. She groaned at the thought of going back to see DocProf. "He's going to have our hides... You sure you want to go back in there?" She shot Maya a rueful expression, already drained at the thought.

"I don't mind cleaning, I just don't want him hovering over my shoulder grumbling the whole time..." Her knack of causing trouble was slowly loosing the old man's patience with her. Everytime she came back bruised and bloodied he just looked less amused....