Kids were the cutest of all Gods creations, Surely they were. They beat snuggly kittens by one gurgling, drool filled giggle, and had puppies beaten at their own game of Pathetic puppy eyed expressions. Andrea smiled, and stuck her tongue out at the group of kids that had gathered before her on the other side of a store window. There was much pointing and 'ooh's' and 'Aww's' from inside, followed by lots of wiggling of arms and giggles. She stuck her tongue out at them, and wiggled her hands above her head like she had seen so many youth's before her do. The resounding laughter from within the store made her giggle as well...

~~~
Doug had been having poor luck the last few days. Never mind that the last woman he had tried to mug had been rather fond of pepper spray. He grumbled lowly to himself, stalking down the sidewalk as various people wandered past- all potential victims. Women were of course the easiest, all they ever really did was scream and flail their arms about, hoping that someone close would go recover their items for them. Of course, every now and then he happened onto some butch chick who could sprint like a quarter back and hit five times as hard... those days sucked. Another grumble left him and he kicked an empty soda can out of his path, watching as it bounced and skittered a good ways in front of him to roll to a stop at some girls feet. His eyes followed it, locked on the feet and traveled all the way up to spy a nice juicy looking purse hanging limply at some chicks side. Then, he noticed she was green...and he hesitated. Muties made for bad marks. They could melt you, or levitate you, and then you'd either be dead, or a sitting duck for when the cops arrived...

A glance down at his watch told him he had a few minutes to spare before he was supposed to meet up with his buddies in a back alley around the corner, he eyed the purse again, licking his lips as temptation fully set in. She looked distracted, making stupid faces into the window of a store, and it seemed that most people walking past were perfectly fine with ignoring the mutant. His fingers twitched, he moved onward. His mind was made up. As soon as he was within reach, he slipped his switch blade out of his pocket, pushed her into the window roughly, and sliced clean through her purse strap. He was sprinting away before she could un-suction herself from the glass...

~~

Andrea had been pulling faces at the kids when someone shoved into her hard, and he found herself smooshed into the window with her glasses pressing painfully into her eyes and her lips parted to reveal her frightening chompers. She heard many childlike shrieks of terror, and caught a few glimpses of the kiddos inside running off in search of their mothers, before the weight was off of her and she was able to remove herself from the window. She huffed, sputtered, and turned to spot the form of someone darting off down the sidewalk, with something black and red in his hands. Then, she realized the weight of her purse was missing, and darted off after him with a shout.

"Thief!!"

Koga had nothing to do that day and well He had taken notice to a certain green girl…She was Pretty and she seemed, genuinely happy. Carefree and so like the silly fool he was he decided to see where today’s adventure took her. More than likely he’d take the bus to the city with her and split off from there. Yeah he wouldn’t follow her more than that, nope he was definitely splitting off on his own way now that she made it into the store…except that she was now in the store making faces at kids. No, he definitely wasn’t being awkward.

He stood on the Side walk leaning on a newspaper stand his flesh was a standard peach and the spikes blended in when he got the coloring just right, it was odd to have to deal with the new bits of mutant flair his body had given him. but he was getting there. He caught him self grinning as Andrea’s cheeks poofed up to make a blowfish face, and then the smile was gone as she tilted forward into the glass. The look on her face said that it wasn’t planned. She stood and yelled “Thief!” and the next thin he knew some kid in a green sweater vest, Khaki shorts and red converse was Tearing by with a big fat purse.

Koga had already been walking toward the door the second she tumbled forward thinking some racist parent was going to show that no good mutant what for, for making faces at good human kids. But that wasn’t the case.

Koga spun around and sprinted after the od kid and wouldn’t be too shocked to find Andrea chasing as well. The funnie kid was making good time, a cutpurse probably knew what it was to be caught in the city. But that wasn’t a match for Koga’s training under Sam’s task master training. Or at least Koga liked to think He kept pace but was having trouble gaining on the young man. The kid dived into an alley way and Koga followed along.

Andrea found her path blocked as a couple exited a store in front of her, she haulted as fast as she could to avoid running straight into them, and cause the woman to jump back and latch onto the mans arm. He simply stared at her, blinked, and the two moved around without so much as word. The Greek didn't pause to apologize or wonder about the odd reaction; instead she leapt into action once more and rushed after the quickly departing form. It looked different once her eyes caught sight of it again, and it ducked into an alley off to the side. Her feet slapped across the pavement as fast as her legs would permit, until at last she rounded the corner of the alley, and skidded to a halt- out of breath and fairly tired.

~~~

Doug had just managed to slip around the corner and into the alley, before he heard another pair of foot steps echoing his own. Cept' they were faster. He turned, peering over his should, expecting to see a demonic green woman on his heels, and instead found an unknown man... who was quickly approaching. "Oh shi-" As quickly as he could, he hawked up as much green mucus as he could, and spat it over his shoulder at the guy. From the corner of his eyes, he saw the green woman dart into the alley as well, and cursed under his breath. He wouldn't be able to take both of them on... It was time to call in the rest o the gang. Pausing momentarily, he ducked down and picked up a piece of metal, before turning to a dumpster on his right. With all of his might, he wailed on the thing, sending loud echoing 'twangs' into the back of the alley. Shouts from further back rang out, and the sound of multiple footsteps came clattering forward.

~~~

She caught her breath, half bent over as her second wind came ebbing in, and stood up straight. She could see the guy in front of her, but was oblivious to the guy in front of him. "Hey! Stop running or so help me I'll-..." Before she could finish her sentence, she spotted the guy up ahead of the other. He had a rather round shaped head, beady eyes, a bulbous nose... and was holding her purse. It was almost enough to make her giggle a little... She shook the feeling off and continued after him, watching in slight disgust as he spat a large green mass back at the guy in front of her. When he stopped, turned and started banging on the dumpster, Andrea stopped completely. She could head the faint sounds of others heading their way.

Koga shook his head as the punk spit some nasty gak looking phlegm at him. He dove off to the side not knowing if the phlegm would hurt him or not. His hands fond purchase on the wall and he shifted to them and pressed his legs off of it once he settled to leap past the puddle of goop, he didn’t even want to know. Koga took the opportunity to pick up the brick red color from the wall nearby.

He landed a bit awkwardly as he still had his shoes on and didn’t have the advantage of his feet cling to things for this fight it seemed. He ran as hard as he could as the kid attacked the dumpster closing on him with quickness, if he got the purse before others could arrive, they could just hall their butts out of there.

Koga slowed as the young man held up the piece of metal toward Koga. Koga’s hand slapped forward landing on the pipe and taking a firm grip as only he could, but he didn’t have time to mess around. His other hand grabbed at the purse which doug tried to wedge behind him but Koga was again close enough to get his hand on it.

Doug started making the hacking sound again.

“Don’t do it!” Koga Exclaimed.

Andrea edged forward as much as she dared, watching as three bodies hurried into sight at the end of the alley. She shifted her attention from the skirmish between the two men, to the new faces, and frowned. Two of them were male... and oddly colored at that. One was blue... and was wearing rather brightly colored orange and yellow clothing. She had never seen the style before... The other was...well, green...and had bright orange hair... It was a much lighter shade of green than she herself sported, mind you, and he was dressed in what she could only assume was a 'punk' clothing style. The other with them was a girl, a blond who seemed fond of polka dots and blue jeans.

"What an odd bunch..."

~~

Calling forth as much phlegm as possible, Doug readied himself, aimed, and- *Eh! Doug, you got a problem here?* Roger waltzes closer, his hands stuffed in his pants pockets as he surveyed the situation. *What, a chick and some dude giving you trouble?* Doug spat his mouthful at Koga, lurched himself away with an steel grasp on the purse. "Yeah I got a problem, what does it- *Tug Tug*- Look like?!"

Roger laughed, and withdrew his hands from his pockets to cross his arms over his chest. Patty and Skeeter moved up to stand beside him, watching the tug o' war with smirks and giggles.

~~~

Back at her end of the alleyway, Andrea's frown deepened. They were outnumbered, and one of them was quite obviously a mutant. She edged forward some more, careful not to draw to much attention to herself. She could see the four odd looking people clearly, and finally got a good chance to glimpse the other who had happened into the alley way with her... She squinted. He looked familiar...very...familiar. The sound of paws clacking quickly from the same direction the others had some escaped her, she was too caught up trying to figure out where she had seen the brick red boy before. It wasn't until the clacking got louder, and a medium sized dog burst onto the scene, that she remembered and slapped a fist into her palm. She had seen him in the park! When the-

The sight of a blue, pudgy looking dog flying her way effectively stopped her thought's in their tracked and she screeched and clambered onto the ladder of a fire escape attached to the side of the building. The Pooch yapped at her, dancing around on its hind legs like it could walk upright, and growled like a demon. "Bad dog! Very Bad!"

~~~

Skeeter sized up the two, girl first, color changing boy second. The green girl seemed like an easy target, and was probably the owner of the purse Doug was clinging to. She seemed rather preoccupied by the mutt however, so they wouldn't have to worry about her much.
^Good Porkchop! Good boy!^ With a chuckle, he turned his attention to the other, the male. He seemed to be the problem, and was obviously a mutant like the girl.... but he was fighting more, and would have to be taken seriously.

^Eh, Patty, Roger, what say we give Good Ol' Doug a hand here?^ The blonde grinned and cracked her knuckles menacingly...

Koga turned his head and closed his left eye as Doug spat a soft ball sized bundle of goo on the side of his face..a second seemed to last a million as the ball of goo sludge slide down his face. But it wasn’t burning his flesh or anything. Koga tugged, Doug tugged Koga tugged ,Doug tugged. Koga wanted nothing more than a free hand to get the majority of the nastiness off his face. His ears were paying attention to what the thugs were talking about only half aware of how they looked. But as his father said.

When things got tough, the tough got going.

And he was tough. Koga let doug pull hard and then jumped putting both feet in the air and planting them on the other boy’s chest. As he did so extending his legs both items were won from the vest boys hands. Koga extended his jump and preformed a solid backflip.

^Eh, Patty, Roger, what say we give Good Ol' Doug a hand here?^

Koga rose his right arm with the pipe in hand and smeared the goo from his face with his sleeve. He stood at the ready facing the three, in a last ditch effort he turned his skin black and his hair and spikes a fiery orange. Colors often intimidated in nature.

A glance of his non gooped eye saw that Andy had made it to the fire escape and with that a new stratergy was open to them. run. There was no reason to hurt them just yet. Sure they were scum, but keeping andy Safe was the priority.

“Climb! I’ll catch up.” Koga called over his shoulder as he whipped the pipe at the trio and stuffed the purse in the front of his hoodie. He didn’t bother making way for the fire escape, he simply ran toward the wall flicking his feet to loosen his fat skater shoes, he kept them loose in case things got serious. He liked this pair but not more than he liked the Idea of regrouping on the fire escape. One shoe came off mid stride and the other got flung toward the fat log of a dog. And from there he was running up the wall.

The trio ran in pursuit of him but came to a pause, as Koga went Vertical. Doug wheezed, to get the air back in his lungs. And the trio Ran for the hanging later.

All she needed to hear was the word "climb" shouted at her before she started to pull herself up the ladder. The dog below quieted, and sat, before a slow, eerie laughing started up below her. The gorgon paused, half way in the process of pulling herself up one more bar, and glanced back down the animal. It was staring at her, dog like lips parted as it grinned and chuckled, and its hands and feet were slowly shifting to that of a humans. With renewed determination, Andrea hurriedly pulled herself up the ladder, just as the dog-thing was starting to climb. The other four took off, knowing various ways to get to the top of the building just about as fast as it would take the Greek to climb. "Oh Dear lord there is a dog Laughing at me!!" Her voice squeaked as she threw herself over the top bar of the ladder and landed soundly on the roof. She proceeded to scuttle back as fast as she could until she made it to her feet, and looked about for Koga.

~~~

Patty was the first to make it to the roof, followed shortly by Porkchop on the ladder, and the three boys at her heels on the stairs. The blond cranked back her arm and sent a mighty swing at the locked door that barred her way onto the roof. The painted iron door caved in, but refused to budge. She pulled her arm back once more, and prepared to sent another powerful punch into the metal, before Doug pushed himself up to the front past Skeeter and Roger, still rubbing his sore chest. "You sure they're still up here?" He asked, wincing as Patty dented the door further. Skeeter spoke up from behind, ^Where else would they go? This building isn't connected to the others...^ Doug paused, then smacked himself on the forehead, "Duh." Patty sent one last heavy hit the door's way, and it collapsed. The hunk of bent metal skidded across the roof, before coming to a rest near the far side of the building.

~~~

Porkchop reached the end of the ladder and peeked up over the rim. His canine lips curled back further in a grin, and he licked his lips before mounting the ledge and squatting. Looking very much like an overweight, fuzzy gargoyle, he eyed the two, before shifting himself into a more comfortable form. Longer legs, and longer arms. A longer torso to match, and a little bit longer muzzle- which meant longer teeth. His grin widened. The prey was where they wanted it, both escape routs were covered. <Just give up already, this is all rather pointless, wouldn't you say?> His voice was odd, kind of gurgling with a hint of chain smoker... but it was all due to the different set of vocal cords he possessed.
~~

Andrea, eyes fluttering between the threat before her and the threat behind them, shifted on her feet and tried to calm her rapidly beating heart. "...What do we do now?" The question, though spoken softly, was blurted out just loud enough for Koga to hear...

Noting that Andy didn’t hesitate Koga kept running up the wall once he reached the top Koga flung him self over the ledge of the building, making his way from wall to roof, It was nice being a wall crawler sometimes. HE still held the bag and at this point was wondering how much andy had on her and if it was worth fighting five thugs off over. No forget that, this fight was over Justice over what was right and what was crappy to do to someone. He owed that first kid more of a beating. Who pushes someone into a window?

~~~

>>Just give up already, this is all rather pointless, wouldn't you say? ~~

Koga put himself in between Andy and the dog mutant but it wasn’t long at all before it was more like he put her between him and the other four.

~~"...What do we do now?"

Koga backed up toward Andrea, “ I can fight, but she can tear down a door, we got goo boy and Fido, who knows what the other two can do, You got anything up your sleeve?”

“looksss like it isss fight or flight, the easssiest way to run isss over a wall, I can carry you down if we jussst want to run.” Koga said with confidence, she couldn’t have been over 130 pounds and while he’d been mutating his body had been growing normally as well, so she wouldn’t be too heavy to handle.

“we need to decide Quick.” Koga said hanging on to the purse incase she wanted to run, if not he was going to drop it behind him and fight.

>>“ I can fight, but she can tear down a door, we got goo boy and Fido, who knows what the other two can do, You got anything up your sleeve?”

"Me?" Had her voice just pitched? Why yes it had. With a gulp, she turned and eyeballed the slowly advancing gang, and chewed on her borrom lip in despair. "I can fight... But I can't vouch for what good I will be when it comes down to fists." A wiggle of her frail wrists confirned her own words. She'd be lucky to land a hit without fracturing all of the bones in her arm... "I should be able to hold them off though... if you can manage the wee canine one over there..." Her fingers wound their way up to her cheek, where she fiddled with her glasses nervously. In all her years, she never would have guess she'd be caught up in a situation like this... five against one- when counting the dog- They were not very good odds...

>>“we need to decide Quick.”

Quick. Right. Either stay and fight... or hop on his back and run with their metephorical tails between their legs. Tails being tucked sound much, much nicer in her opinion. She opened her mouth to shout 'I choose run', but managed to lock eyes with one Doug across the rooftop. Just as a sticky green ball of slime came flying her way. The end result, was a mouth full of ick, and a panicking Andrea coughing it all back up while she floundered about on her backside behind Koga.

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^Haha! Good shot Buddy! Honk honk!^ Skeeter patted the prematurally balding male on his back soundly. Doug grinned, wiping the extra green still clinging to his lips off onto the back of his hand. "Yeah, ten extra points, right?"

Patty, who was idly tapping her foot up towards the front, rolled her eyes and groaned in a disgusted manner. *You two are just so... Blegh. I'll show you how a Woman handles this...* Turning, she picked up an old rusty barrel from beside the door and hefted it up into the air, before she tossed it will all her might at the two. Rodger, who had been rather quiet while he observed, decided now was the best time to leap into action and joined the fight by spreading his arms wide to the sky and conentrating really really hard. From his body, a thick green stink emerged, and the stench wafted towards the two trapped mutants. Skeeter watched with mild amusement, his arms clasped across his chest as he inwardly prepared himself for his own attack after the fog dissapated.

~~~~

Porkchop readied himself, lips drawn back in a feral growl. He pawed at the rooftop, claws eager to dive in and shread something to pieces, and lurched forward on his canine legs- straight for Koga. His intentions were clear; he wanted to lunge, bite and shake like all animal instincts were telling him to do... For a moment, an unfortunate yet fortunate moment, he lapsed into instinct, and all human thoughts fled his mind.

<...Bite...Rip...Shred...Tear!>

~~~~

..Spotting the barrel coming their way, Andrea gasped and tugged on Koga's leg- her way of warning him. She could see the cloud of green rolling in from behind, but had no time to stare as the threatening object was closing in... Fast.

"Duck!!"

Koga took a step forward to fight the dog as she instructed, She could handle four while he fought one! Heck yes! She was awesome, he half wanted to turn and watch what she did. but he had other things to handle. such as dog boy. that was when she started gagging on. ugh that nasty green goo. He leaned over protectively. It looked like the dog was getting riled up to move, but he wouldn't leave Andy on her own, unprotected.

Koga hit the ground as Andy called ~~"Duck!" not even hesitating, a barrel flew over head but that mutt was charging. "I'll try to take him out as quick as I can." Koga charged the galloping dgo boy. Koga moved with the quickness across the tar like paper that protected the roof. Koga jumped as they almost collided. His fist flew into the dogs overly sensitive nose with as much force as he could muster. Dog boy yelped and and spun like a dog fiding out what a cat can do for the first time. Koga was ready to pounce on fido when He charged him again this time he was tackled.

It was that Koga could do for a long moment to keep the canine mouth away from his own face. this kid was viscous! but koga kept thinking, he slowly but surely got his hands around the throat of dog boy and once they were in place he started to constrict his fingers closed his wind tunnel and the dog was becoming less and less aware of the fight he was in. Koga rolled ontop ofthe dog and continued to choke the dog. he spared half a glance for Andy before he started in on a coughing fit of his own. it smelt like he had been shoved in the armpit of a rotting skunk.

it wasn't enough for him to release doggy but it was enough to make him wonder where they went wrong.

As soon as the Stink hit her, Andrea's eyes started to water and she coughed roughly. It did indeed smell horrible... Like bad mayo on moldy rye bread with gooey, past its time ham-...Oh... she was going to lose her lunch if she continued that thought. Spitting what was left of the disgusting goo from her mouth, she got quickly to her feet and started forward. She needed to be out of that horrid cloud, and quickly!

~~~~

From just beyond the parameter Doug, skeeter, Rodger and Patty all watched in tense silence. They could hear a scuffle, someone gagging, and whimpering... and then-... Silence. Porkchop had failed, letting his instincts over take him too quickly. The dog...Mutant...man? lay under Koga deep within the cloud, his leg twitching as lack of proper oxygen fully set in. He was in a better place now... a place between breathing and slowly being suffocated to death at the hands of a chameleon.

"I don't like this... It's...too quiet." Muttered Doug, as he shifted nervously on his feet and began to gurgle up another prime sludge ball. "I'm going in after Porkchop..." He started forward, before Skeeter put his arm out and stopped him. ^No... You stay here with Patty, I'll go find Porkers and give him a hand with the guy...^ He received a nod from the big nosed boy, and started into the fog. ^phew...Rodger, you need to lay off the garlic...^ That said, he moved along quickly, off to find Koga and Porkchop.

Patty watched him leave, cracking her knuckles as the sound of footsteps approached her and the remaining guys. *I'll handle which ever one pops outta there... you guys keep a look out for cops or sumthin'...* Rodger sneered at the back of her head, and shot Doug a knowing nod. The two proceeded to wiggle about silently and make faces at her while she was so intently staring forward...

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The edge of the cloud became clearer, and with just a few more hurried steps, she found herself out of the green, stinky fog. Coughing, she flung herself into fresh air, and stumbled to a stop before the blond girl, who wore a smirk that reminded the Greek a lot of a serpent. She shuddered inwardly, but stood up straighter anyway. She could see two other smirks, attached to faces of course, behind the girl. She grimaced, and made to move backwards, before Patty came barreling at her. Andrea spared but a few precious seconds to reach up and tilt her glasses up, locking eyes with the girl as a fist closed it, then froze. An orange eye twitched, and the Gorgon backed away quickly from the ball of knuckled fury that had been scant inches from hitting her square in the nose.

She heard the awful phlegmulating sound of Doug scraping together another foul tasting ball of goo, and frowned deeply. "I do not think so!" Her feet brought her quickly towards him, and as she neared, she slipped a glove off. Her time spent watching baseball games with Saph came in handy when the boy literally hawked the ball at her, which she caught in her bare hand, and upon closing in on him, smooshed the mess back into his face. Being made of mostly organic material, the goo solidified on contact. He staggered back, but she held fast and scooted closer until it was a hard mask of stone over his lips, stuck fast by his own flesh beginning to turn underneath. Andrea, who found it rather revolting to be so close to the boy, planted her foot in his stomach and pried her hand from his face. A few layers of missing skin later, she stumbled back, leaving a very distressed Doug to flounder about and claw at his mouth.

"I would very much like to see you try and spit at me now!" Sticking her tongue out at him, she turned on her heel to face silent Rodger, who looked about to burst a blood vessel in his forehead. Andrea stepped around Still frozen patty warily, before moving into range to 'freeze' the green boy as well. About ten steps away, the stinkmancer groaned loudly, and another(much bigger) wave of foul fog exploded from him. She had barely a few moments to try and hold her breath before it hit her, darn near burning her eyebrows off with its toxicity.

"Oh dear lord!!" Somewhere, behind her watering eyes and seizing lungs, she could hear the sound of footsteps lurking around her. Rodger was on the move.. but she couldn't see where...

Koga was having a hard time judging the dog features, He didn’t want to kill the idiotic beast after all but he had to get out of this rank dead burrito smelling cloud. He rolled off of Porkchop and was relieved to hear the dog man start coughing on the terrible smell even from unconsciousness. Koga went the three feet and retrieved the purse once more. He was rushing to get out of the cloud when he ran into the chest of a blue skinned young man. Even has Koga Was raring back to punch him in his smug blue face. The boy opened his mouth and let out the roar of a semi truck, only louder.

>>> “ BARRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK”

“___ _______!” He wailed with no real effect in the ongoing blast of sound in his face. It was likely that he was going to hear ringing for hours on end after this. The vibrations of sound he could feel actually shaking his cheeks.

Koga dropped the bag again and covered his ears. That done, and a bit of the sound out of his already aching brain. He threw his shoulder into the other boys gut, like hitting an off switch on the sun it was suddenly dark and the silence was a starless night. It was magnificent. He looked up at the sound mutant and Koga laughed internally. It looked like the solution again was to suffocate his problems. Koga lunged forward this time looping his arm around the other boys neck. Skeeter unlike Prokchop had much more prescence of mind with on arm he tried to get a grip under the arm and the other wailed mercilessly on Kogas left cheek. Koga tightened his grip more, invoking the right of the constrictor snake, for whatever reason his muscles developed that so long as he was pulling in ward his strength was increased several fold. It wasn’t long before Skeet was out on the ground.


~~"I would very much like to see you try and spit at me now!"


Koga bent to grab the purse on more time; He really hoped there was nothing breakable in there because it was more than likely damaged. He finally emerged out of the cloud of smoke to breathe in another breath god awful air. He stumble out toward a fronzepatty and a rolling Doug. For a moment he considered kicking him. Mansioners: 4 them: 0


He couldn’t see the other guy. He stumbled forward showing andy the purse. “Letsss go!” not even punching the stinky kid was worth staying in his stench. at least to Koga any how."

He couldn't believe it... He just couldn't. Five against two had been such good odd, and now they were two against one. He didn't even know what the fellow had done to Skeeter and Porkchop... All he knew was Doug was struggling to gain the use of his mouth again, and patty might as well have been a plastic mannequin. He shuddered, grabbing the stiffened girl as he tried to group all of his friends together again. The resounding grunts that came from his as he pulled the blond along with him echoed across the silent roof top. Doug sent him yet another panicked look, still clawing at the gray cement that held fast to them, and Rodger sighed. His nerves were on fire, his friends taken out... he was all by himself, and not even all the money in the world was going to get him to take one step towards those... those two... Monsters....

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>>“Letsss go!”

She agreed, tenfold. Problem was, she couldn't get a breath of air into her lungs to reply, without choking on it first. She slipped her glove back on quickly, shooting a glance around her in case the smelly one decided to attack while her back was turned, and reached out to grab onto his arm- or hand... or shoulder. Whatever she found first though her semi blindness. Then- she started to run. While her sense of direction was off, she still managed to make it out of the cloud and back to the side of the building rather quickly. The dark haired woman sucked in a lung full of fresh air, coughed violently and rubbed at her still watering eyes as she leaned against the ledge.

"That was... the most awful thing... I have ever... had the displeasure... of enduring." She managed to mutter, though her coughing. She squinted over the ledge of the building, not seeing the ladder down anywhere insight, and frowned. "Do you have any tricks up Your sleeves? A way to get us out of here perhaps, before that bully blots out the sun again and finished his assault on our senses?" Her eyes returned to him, landing on the purse he still held and she smiled inwardly. How he had managed to hold onto it the whole time, she did not know. But she was thankful none the less.

Behind her, she could hear Rodger grunting again- whether it was from dragging up a whole new cloud of noxious gases... or perhaps he was struggling with the other funny looking fellow. She didn't want to be around to find out. "Let's get out of here before they all wake up again..." Her eyes dropped from Koga to spot the stirring form of the dog mutant and...was that an orange pant leg twitching about over there? With a shrug, she turned once again to eyeballing the distance down from the roof...

~~"That was... the most awful thing... I have ever... had the displeasure... of enduring." "Do you have any tricks up Your sleeves? A way to get us out of here perhaps, before that bully blots out the sun again and finished his assault on our senses?"


“You know, there are very few mutation I have ssseen before today that I wouldn’t want, I’ve added at leassst two to the lissst.” He handed Andy the purse and nodded. “You’ll have to trussst me though.” Koga said as he found what he was looking for It was a rain gutter that helped to keep all of the rain from standing on the roof and stagnating.”

~~"Let's get out of here before they all wake up again..."

“Okie dok.” Koga said casually as he bent a bit and Picked Andy up, placing her stomach toward his right shoulder. “Mind the Spikes”

He hoped up on the ledge and hoped off casually. His Left arm kept a tight grip on her, not as tight as he had used to suffocate his foes from earlier but enough so that she wasn’t going to go any where. It was as he had suspected, she wasn’t heavy at all. His right hand and feet all made contact with the rain gutter , he quickly held and released with his finger grips and foot pads and the descended with the help of gravity and the resistance that his pads had offered. The feeling was very much like that of an elevator. Koga had done this before just not with an actual person on his shoulder it had always been some hologram in the danger room, he first thought of it when evacuating people from a burning building.

As they neared the ground Koga couldn’t help but notice the older female he was holding onto, but then He was but only a teenage male. They made the ground quicker than anyone else could have managed stairs or ladders, so unless that kid was jumping off the building they were in the clear. He wondered Idly if he had time to grab his shoes. He set Andy back on her feet on the side walk and smirked as a crowd was staring at the odd arrival of the pitch black kid carrying a Green Woman.

>>“Okie dok.” She turned back just as he was bending to pick her up, and tried not to flop around to much as she was gently slung over his shoulder. Inwardly, she was rather happy that she was a fan of pants, and not skirts- else wise everyone who happened to be down on the street below would have gotten a nice little peek at her unmentionables.

>>“Mind the Spikes”

Mind them she did, after noticing them for the first time. Andrea clung to her purse, intent on squeezing it to death as she was carted up onto the ledge and eventually over it. At first, she had been rather frightened that both of them were going to fall any moment, hit the ground and end up with both legs and arms broken (or land in a dumpster, Blech..). Instead, she found herself being gradually taken down the side of the building, with hardly a bump or jolt at all. It was quite amazing. "...This... is a pretty useful talent you own..." While they descended, she got busy tying her bag's straps together, so she would be able to wear it again, and thought about her fellow mutant. He was an interesting fellow... of course she didn't know his name yet, but that would be remedied soon if she had her way. His skin, which had started off rather light- was darker now than it had been before... nearly black it seemed. Her nose wrinkled and she cursed her inability to see color...

Before she knew it, they were on the ground, and she was being set down. "Thank you." Her purse found itself slung once again around her slim body, and after a little adjusting she had her coat on properly as well. The stares and whispering of folks as they passed, she was oblivious to. There were other matters at hand that she found far more important. "You know... I've seen you before... but i've never been formally introduced. Seeing as you just saved my purse, I feel that now is a better time than ever." She held out her hand, grinning at him happily, and used her other hand to tuck her hair behind her ears.

"I am Andrea Gordon, It's a pleasure to meet you." She paused. Introducing herself was fine and dandy... but she kind of felt like she needed to do more for the guy who had just risked his life (or at least his hygiene) to help out a Gorgon in distress. "Is there anything I can do to thank you properly?" She blinked, tilting her head as she foucused on his eyes and silently tried to decipher their color.