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Elli smiled at Officer Gonzales as he yammered on to her left, talking about this that and the other, giving her helpful comments and amusing anecdotes from his meagre two years on the force. Though he kept himself facing forward, watching the road, there was a bit of uneasiness on Gregor's face that Elli could see even at an angle. He was nervous at being assigned as Elli's observation/mentor, rather than one of the few female officers, and it showed in the way he had a constant stream of nonsense coming from his mouth. He was nervous because Elli and him were only a year or two apart, and he had never been so smooth with the ladies. Not that he had any deigns on Elli, but having a pretty blonde female sitting next to him for the rest of the day certainly constituted a distraction.

Still, Elli was very excited about the day to come. It was a patrol observation day, when the students went out with an assigned Police Officer and saw what they did on a day to day basis. It was a voluntary thing, and a waiver had to be signed beforehand releasing NYPD in the event of any injuries caused. This had not dissuaded Elli, and she had gone ahead and signed up. Most of the time, she had heard from others in the department, it was just a routine day, mostly made up of traffic stops. She had also, however, heard stories of more serious stops, and even of a few injuries to the students. But these were partly gossip, partly exaggeration. She had already observed three traffic stops in the hour they had been out, and was hungry to see more.

That was when the call came over the radio, calling them to investigate a domestic dispute a few blocks over that had got the neighbors worried. So they drove to the adress, and Gonzales and Elli made their way up to the door. Gonzales knocked, noticing the raised voices inside, and then shouted "NYPD open up! We just want to make sure everything is okay!"

After a few moments, a voice shouted out "GO AWAY!!!", and a whirring noise entered Elli's ears. The door in front of them splintered, and dozens of whirring coins sped out at them. Elli ducked, getting only a quarter in the face, but Gonzales felt the brunt of the attack, with about twenty coins smacking him in the chest hard enough to send him back down the stairs. The man of the house pushed the rest of the door away from it's frame, and launched a kick at Elli, who deftly jumped from the stairs to avoid it. THere was a swarm of coins swirling about the man, hundreds of dimes, nickels, pennies and quarters providing a sheild.

"Officer Gonzales!" Elli cried, and put an arm around him to help him up, and taking him to cover behind their squad car. It was obvious that Gonzales had a twisted ankle, or worse, and was in no condition for any sort of fight, especially against a mutant.

"Dispatch, we have a problem at 43124 East Makeover drive. Mutant agressor has attacked me and is causing mayhem and destruction of private property. Backup is needed!" Gonzales shouted into his police radio, hoping they would send help.

"Roger that, a team is on the way."

Sitting on the steps of a bank with a hotdog and water in hand Sam eyed the people walking by not paying any particular attention to any one or anything in specific. He was technically supposed to be on patrol of some kind but seeing as he didn’t have a badge or a NYPD suit he didn’t really see the need to.

Patrol officers were supposed to go on routine traffic stops, conversing and handle the problems of everyday people. The only problem was he wasn’t asked, or offered to help with everyday people, sure he would help out if it was needed but seeing that despite all the hard work him and his team had done, didn’t change the fact that most of the officers didn’t want to work alongside mutants seeing as for the longest time the NYPD had suffered countless casualties to members of the order and other mutants who deemed that human life was beneath them.

Unlike most humans and mutants Sam didn’t really care if they didn’t like him, he was on a mission, one that would hopefully strike a cord with everyone. His dream was to one-day stop the ridiculous fighting between human and mutant, it was stupid that to beings although separated by a single gene had to be so separated. Segregation wasn’t the answer and he wanted to help prove that mutants and humans could coexist.

As he took another bite of his hotdog while he was deep in thought Sam nearly choked on the bite as his ear let out a small beeping static sound. Clicking it once as he coughed down his food Sam listened to the distress call hoping he wouldn’t have to be called on duty. He disliked the fact that things had come to this, the fact that the police couldn’t handle things anymore and need him and his teams help.

Sighing as he listened to the call Sam stood up picked up his water and tossed his hotdog to some lurking pigeons and took a step forward on the steps, however instead of lowering and going down on the steps Sam remained stationary as he formed a bridge of ice in front of his feet as he break out into a run as ice started to form around his feet.

Turning a few street corners and sliding down some back alleys Sam made it to the location where the distress call was put out. His elevation lowering as he approached the scene Sam eyed two people pinned behind a car as a man who had coins floating around him started t approach the car. ”I wouldn’t do that…” Sam said as ice formed under his shirt and pants covering his skin just incase the coin manipulator decided to attack Sam. ”Assault on an officer is bad enough, I don’t think you want anything more than that do you?” Sam asked as he landed on the ground and slid on the concrete a foot before walking.

Feet from the man with the floating coins Sam eyed the man the said, ”What’s wrong?” he was after all in a way a mediator, and he was damn good at mediating.

Elli winced at the sound of impacts against the side of the squad car, hoping that the car would hold firm and not penetrate to their place of sanctuary. Then she turned to look at Officer Gonzales, and asked him "How does it feel?"

He chuckled a bit. "Of all the stupid questions... It hurts, of course! I've probably also got a cracked rib or two, and my ankle feels like it's sprained, maybe even broken. All in all, I'm in a bad way, no shape for a fight." He paused and then reached to his hip and pulled his gun out from it's holster, holding it barrel first, then extending it to Elli. "Elli, listen, I want you to take this... With my injuries I am really more of a liability. I know you spend a ton of time in the range, probably a better shot than I am. If it comes down to it, and it doesn't look like the squad is going to come in time, you have to take him down." Gonzales was so serious about it, and his gaze was so penetrating that Elli didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of refusing, though she wasn't so sure she could actually shoot the man.

So she just nodded, and held the gun in her right hand, making sure that the safety was still on. "What are we going to do once the backup arrives?" She asked, concerned that even another cop might not be able to handle the mutant.

"Well, we-" Gonzales was interrupted by the arrival of backup, surprisingly, in the form of an ice-slide traveling mutant.

Fight fire with fire... or rather, I suppose, with ice... Elli wasn't even aware that the Police were working with any mutants. Maybe this mutant was a vigilante crime-fighter. Who knew, at least he was there to help.

”I wouldn’t do that. Assault on an officer is bad enough, I don’t think you want anything more than that do you? What’s wrong?” The mutant had covered his skin in a sheen of ice, and stopped a few feet from the attacker.

"WHAT'S WRONG!! THAT f***ING WHORE IN THERE TRIED TO TAKE MY CAR AND MY CASH AND LEAVE ME FOR DEAD, THAT'S WHAT!! And then these jokers try to mess with my shit! How's your day been?!?!" So saying, he launched a volley of quarters and dimes at the mutant, hoping that the heavier quarters or thinner dimes could punch through his ice armor. The man was pissed, sure enough, and hated law enforcement with an irrational rage.

Elli was in complete shock. Mutants, they were so powerful. They had the ability to bring the NYPD to it's knees, and that would just be warmups. Obviously there were those with the correct ideals of right and wrong, but Elli had heard the murmur's of the human-hating bigot mutants growing louder and more forceful, and had seen the results of their efforts in the shattered bodies of police officers.

yeing the man Sam sighed slightly as he dropped the F-bomb along with a whole mess of problems, ”Well my da---“ before he could answer the man sarcastically Sam was pelted with a few coins. A dime broke though his ice as a few quarters forced him to take a few steps back. Looking down at the punctured shirt Sam sighed again and looked up to the man as the ice that was covering his skin started to give a blue tint as they consumed the coins and then forced them out of the shell that was protecting Sam.

This was obviously one of those over aggressive mutants the kind Sam wasn’t a big fan f seeing as reasoning with them was nigh impossible. Taking a step forward Sam cleared his throat and spoke clearly, ”Regardless how your day was, you need to relax, or it’s gonna get a lot colder and I can’t guarantee you’ll enjoy the temperature change!” issuing the warning was merely a formality in his opinion as the air around him started to freeze and become brittle.

Ice started to form around his feet as he spoke again, ”Now I ask you again, if you calm down I’ll do what I can to help you out, there isn’t any reason why you have to do time…” that last bit was a lie but he wasn’t going to tell him that assault on an officer was potentially a few years in prison, Sam wanted to calm him down not upset him more.

Out of the corner of his eye he say a blond head poking up from the other side of the cop car, stepping forward toward the aggressor Sam raised a hand hoping he was the only one that could see the woman, if the upset mutant did indeed have an anger problem the last thing he wanted was someone getting hurt in his presence, if he had to stand out as a threat and a target then so be it, he was confident enough in his abilities to detain or at the very least defend if necessary.

[OOC: CS, please don't incapacitate the guy on your next post... *has plan for awesome* Sorry about the length...]

Elli had no clue what to expect of mutants at that point, for she had two extremely conflicting examples. On the one hand, there was the insane, almost mentally retarded agression of the agressor, and then on the other there was the calm, law-abiding rightousness of the backup. Elli guessed that there was as much diversity among mutants as their was among people. She certainly knew people as crazy as the man, or as nice as she was sure the backup had to be. The world is going insane, and only the mutants seemed to be able to do anything about the other mutants...

”Regardless how your day was, you need to relax, or it’s gonna get a lot colder and I can’t guarantee you’ll enjoy the temperature change! Now I ask you again, if you calm down I’ll do what I can to help you out, there isn’t any reason why you have to do time…” Well, that mutant was certainly lying. Elli didn't blame him, though, trying to get this guy to calm down.

"BS, DUDE!! YOU FEDS ARE ALL THE SAME!!!" With that exclamation, the guy sent a renewed, faster, stronger volley at both the cop car and the mutant, creating baseball-sized dents in the car and slamming coins into the mutant with the force of baseballs. The car began to tear and warp under the assault, and wouldn't take too much more.

Gonzales heard the tearing sounds, and knew that, unless he did something, it was likely they would soon be bleeding on the ground. He pulled his taser out and, noticing that the guy had stepped into range, aimed carefully for his torso...

Clearly he wasn’t as good as a mediator he thought because the fact that the mutant wasn’t cooling down one bit, even with Sam altering the temperature in the air. ”I’m not a fed…” Sam said simply as he eyed the man who was clearly getting his panties all bunched up. Why couldn’t anyone calm down when he asked them to, things always go over smoothly when people try to be reasonable?

A blink and he felt the impact and heard a few dings, two from his body and a few off in the distance. One quarter smacked against his chest, while another coin found it’s way over to his eye. Both impacts seemed not only to dent the ice armor but seemed to force it to shatter. His left eye snapped shut like a steel trap as he felt the ice cave in on him. Getting knocked back a few feet and losing his balance Sam fell over and rolled once before catching himself on all fours.

Sprawled out and coughing trying to catch his breath Sam let out a loud gasp fallowed by a few coughs, feeling the areas that were hit his eye swelled shut instantly as he felt his chest swell. Sighing slightly Sam focused on increasing the ice and the density of it making it more compact and more resistant to attacks.

Getting up slowly still coughing Sam fell to his knees still in the process of catching his breath, it felt like taking a hammer to the chest and walking right after. Taking a few minutes Sam looked up with his right eye to watch the scene ensue. The man still controlling the coins around him and the police cruiser and the blonde behind it were in his blind spot.

Elli saw the mutant agressor get even more angry at the backup's words, and he launched a series of blindingly fast attacks with his coins, both against the cruiser and the backup. The backup was hit so hard that he was knocked to the ground, and appeared to be getting a shiner for his trouble. The cruiser, on the other hand, had coins ripping up the entirier, destroying components and making it unusable.

During the entire affair, Officer Gonzales was taking careful aim with the taser. After a few more moments of adjusting for the mutants movement, he fired. Normally the swirling sheild of coins around the mutant would defeat any attack like that, but the sheild had been depleted by his attacks, so it made through his defenses and struck the agressor in the thigh. Though it stunned him for a few seconds, his drug-induced rage was so great that the effect of the usually successful taser was limited to that. He then sint a flurry of coins at Officer Gonzales, and they hit his right arm so fast that the crackle of shattered bone could be heard, even from as far away as the backup's position. Gonzales cried out and fell into the open, away from the cover of the car and too far from Elli for her to drag him back in time before the incoming hail of coins hit his head and most definitely dealt him a fatal blow. There was no way that he could dodge it, with his ankle and rib injuries, and the pain from the shattered arm was intense, so intense that he couldn't move at all.

BLAM BLAM BLAM!!!

Three gun retorts blazed out across the parking lot, scaring the living daylights out of Gonzales, and causing the mutant to crumple to the ground in a splatter of blood. Elli stood behind the squad car, pistol clenched tightly in both hands, hands shaking horribly. The sheild of coins around the mutant prevented the first shot from hitting him, but the second and third penetrated, driving home into his chest. Elli stood there, unmoving except for the uncontrollable shaking of her hands, and tears started to roll down her face as a spreading pool of blood coalesced around the dead man...

Looking out from his good eye Sam gasped his chest still throbbing as he fought against the urge to fall to the ground till he caught his breath. Running to the man who was just shot Sam looked up to the woman with a gun and yelled, ”Call a medic! NOW!” his tone cold and his voice stern Sam did what little he could to try and save him. One eye made things far harder than they should have been. Skimming up and down the area’s where the bullets went in Sam focused his mutation on his the holes.

The armor that covered his body shifted and formed through his hands onto the area’s where the bullets impacted the body. The holes were small but still bullet holes, if he was going to save him Sam needed to prolong the bleeding. Sighing heavily his heart racing franticly as his body was covering in blood from the mutant laying motionless on the ground Sam shook his hands angrily as he realized that it was to late.

One bullet must have nicked the heart while the other was somewhere a bit lower possibly the lung but when he leaned over to check for breathing and finding nothing Sam’s mind raced. Looking up to the woman holding the gun shaking in her hands Sam sighed again as he stood up.

It was clear that she had never wielded a gun to kill before; it was there in her eyes, her hands shaking still in disbelief that she took someone’s life. Standing up from the lifeless body Sam shook his head and looked to the woman, ”Put the gun down…” his voice now calm and collected he started to walk towards the woman his hands raised as a sympathetic look on his face looked from her to her partner who was lying out on the ground, in pain due to the coins that had hit him.

"Call a medic! NOW!" The backup shouted out, and though it went in one of Elli's ears and out the other, Gonzales was already on it, gritting his teeth through the pain and spitting out instructions into his radio.

Elli was much less active, being paralyzed in the same position she had been in when she shot the man. In her mind she was rationalizing it to herself, and she knew that she had done what she had to do to save Officer Gonzales, for those coins were going fast enough to punch through hardened steel. Still, no matter how much sense she made, she could not get the damn sound out of her head. She had just killed someone, and no matter how righteous the cause, even though it was in self defence, that would never change. Her hands would be eternally stained with the blood of another human being.

And, to her shame, one person that she did look up to had been there to see her horrible, necessary act. What would Gonzales think of her now? Would he see her the same, now that she had the death of another on her hands? How would it change her? All those questions ran through her head as the backup checked the dead man's pulse and shook his head sadly.

”Put the gun down…” Now the guy was walking towards Elli, his hands raised in a placating gesture.

At the word 'gun', the full weight of what she had just done hit Elli physically. She turned her head slightly to look the guy in the face, and a noiseless sobbing sent her shoulders shaking. The gun slipped from her limp grasp and hit the pavement next to her feet, and she only managed to stay on her feet long enough for the guy to get within a few feet of her before her legs gave out.

Hearing the injured officer call the medics Sam had time to approach the woman who now looked on the verge of a breakdown. Sighing as his hands lowered as she dropped the gun Sam quickened his pace to the woman just as her legs started to give way. Hands outstretched with one eye swelled shut Sam managed to catch the woman and help her down gently. Sitting her upright against the car Sam looked to the woman and checked her expression before turning to the injured officer, ”You two alright?” Sam asked curiously as he knew the answer but hopped that his answer would be wrong.

Eyeing the gun that the woman had used to killed the mutant Sam reached over to it still feeling the heat from the barrel of the gun and shook his head. ”I hate guns…” he muttered to himself as he flipped the safety on and nudged away from him and the woman so she wouldn’t have to look at it any more.

Crouching down now eyes locked on the woman Sam sighed and then turned and leaned up against the police cruiser next to the woman. ”What’s your name?” he asked curiously his tone a kind and sympathetic one.

”Was that your first time?” he continued on hoping that eventually she would be able to focus on him long enough to forget she had just taken a life. If he could he was going to do what ever he could to help the woman get through this, it was never easy taking a life, and the first one was always the hardest to cope with.

”You two alright?"

Officer Gonzales nodded wearily, glad that the ordeal was over and worried about Elli, but unable to move without excruciating pain in several places. "We'll be fine. Lucky for us you came along when you did, though."
”What’s your name?” The man asked, his tone seeming like an attempt to calm Elli down.

"E-El-Elli... Elli F- Fletcher..." Elli was shaking horribly, and unable to put two and two together.

”Was that your first time?”

Elli just nodded, unable to force herself to speak again. She was in shock, almost not hearing the slowly more piercing sound of the sirens as they began to get closer. In a few minutes they would be there, and they would take away the b-.... the bo-..... the man...

he officer was weak this much was clear, how much damage he had taken Sam wasn’t exactly sure but he could tell it was enough to prevent him from moving about much. The woman to Sam’s other side seemed more shaken up about the situation, which made sense seeing as she ended a life with the encounter today. ”Didn’t come soon enough it seems…” Sam sighed as he tilted his head to look over through the car window to see the body still sprawled out while blood stopped oozing from the body.

Feeling that the body would cause a scene Sam focused his mutation around the body using some of the blood in as a catalyst for his mutation. A dome of ice shot up around the body and in closed itself. Turning his attention back to the woman who was having trouble verbalizing her name Sam nodded slightly as he rested his head back on the vehicle behind him.

Through one eye Sam looked to the woman a said, ”Well, Elli Fletcher, you did what you had to do, I don’t think this situation could have turned out well no mater what we tried to do…” Sam said trying to comfort the woman, ”I know it’s hard to believe but you did the right thing, you saved my life and this officer’s life…”

Hearing the sirens get closer Sam patted Elli on the shoulder once and said, ”I wouldn’t wish what you had to go through on my worst enemy, the fact that it upsets you this much proves your a good a person…” he pattered her once again this time his hand rubbed up and down before he removed his hand from Elli, ”This world needs more people like you Elli, I know a lot about what your going through so if you ever want to talk…” Sam removed his card from his back pocket and handed it to her, ”I might be able to give you some perspective, or talk t a few of your officers, pretty sure they’d know about as much as I do.”

The siren’s rounded the corner as Sam pushed off the car and stood his eyes trailing from Elli and over to the dome of ice then to the officer, ”Think they are going to want to help you first… can you stand?” Sam asked as he took a step towards the man his hand reaching out to his shattered arm to try and take a look at the damage.