Log:When Big Kitten Plays

The_Big_Time|The Big Time 2013/04/24 	 Ghost-2 Scrapper Sukeban Titan Anthony Quinn|Quinn Riptide Bulldozer 1

Champions Mush - Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 11:33 AM

Sandy Bottoms Island ''Sandy Bottoms Island sits within the broad curve of Colonial Bay itself. The south of the island is composed of craggy rocks, and here the large historic lighthouse stands; the bridge too ends its great arch on this firmer ground, close by the Oceanarium. On the eastern side of the island, at the end of the rocky outcropping, is the old prison. The majority of the island, to the leeward, is a broad sweep of softer ground, coarse sand and small pebbles. The more secluded of Colonial Bay's beaches are here, as are the ruins of an old fishing village. Sparse sea grass sprouts here and there and many seabirds frequent the island as both nesting grounds and a place to rest between searches for food. ''

Suddenly a warning horn sounds out from one of the towers of the aforementioned embassy.

Quinn laughs a bit at that. "Yeah, well, when I do get the chance to do that and help you out then the scales will be balance..." He cuts off as the warning horn is suddenly sounded.

Ghost says, "Oh-oh."

Sukeban was flying enroute anyway. She frowns when she hears the siren.

 Sukeban says, "Uh, yo. What's up at the embassy?"

Scrapper says, "Ghost, scout and report. Where's the royals and who is with them?"

Ghost blinks out of existence as she returns to her physical body in the embassy.

 Scrapper says, "Princess?"

 Lorelei says, "Nothing wrong here that I know about. The lookout must have spotted something,."

Riptide winces at the sound of the horn, and instead looks out towards the water, as if expecting it to be something seawards... perhaps that's to be expected of him though. "Royalty... such an archaic concept." He muses to himself though.

Lia turns towards the Embassy, and notes, "Looks like that was perfect timing for me to get up and head out..." Lia starts heading for the Embassy, fading into that weird green blob thing again, stretching across the island, and reforming in what seems to be only a few seconds time.

Scrapper pays no further attention to Riptide and Quinn when the alarm goes off, her entire attention focused on where to be next. She steps closer to Cecila.

Cecila stands up and rolls her eyes "Damn... well sorry to cut this short but that seems to be my cue to go find out what the heck is going on" and with that the leisurely pace she's been taking when wandering the island turns into breakneck speed as the ground itself seems to propel her forward toward the Embassy.

 Scrapper says, "Cecila, I'll port you where we need to be once we find out where that is."

 Scrapper says, "or not"

The figure with the horn atop the tower is pointing roughly toward the centre of Colonial Bay,

Ghost rushes out of the Guard quarters with force armor activated. She calls to the first Fae guardsman she sees, "What's the alarm being given for?

 Lia says, "I figured that since the warning was sounded, we should probably head to the Embassy?"

"A huge monster has been spotted in the city!" says the guard.

Lia stops, and realizes that might not be the place they're to be going. That said, she can just teleport above the city, then down towards whatever part she needs to arrive at.

The faceplate of Quinn's helmet drops back into place with a hiss of escaping gases as the suit pressurizes. He turns to look in the direction indicated by the guard, bootjets flaring as he lifts into the air.

 Ghost says, "The guardsmen in the embassy say a huge monster has been seen in the city."

 Scrapper says, "Lets find its intentions before picking a fight."

Scrapper says to Riptide, "Friend of yours?"

The air around Lia seems to start to warp, becoming distorted as warp magic is summoned around her. She looks towards the city, seeing if she can spot the aforementioned monster.

As people turn there attention toward the city, a large head pokes itself up from the Upper East Side. A cat's head. To be visible at this distance - well, the cat must be BIG.

 Ghost says, "Can someone give me a lift? I'm not a fast mover, remember."

"No." Riptide answers Scrapper. "We have no felines in Atlantis. Not even in the zoo. They do not adapt well to pressurized submersion."

 Bulldozer says, "Wait we aren't going to the embassy... damn well if you want I can carry you with me I'm almost there"

"A giant cat?" Quinn says quizzically, his armor now adding an artificial metallic quality to his voice. "I've really got to build that Titan suit one of these days. Oh well. At least it's not zombies."

 Scrapper says, "Meet me on the beach and I'll port you both. Titan and Sukeban can get there on their own, right?"

 Scrapper says, "Lia, say hi, while the rest of us catch up."

 Lia says, "Got it."

Lia tries to figure out her distance from her and the monster.

Sukeban turns in mid-air and looks back over the city.

 Sukeban says, "Eh!? A monster? Where?"

<Guard> Ghost says, "On my way, Scrapper."

Lia looks up the sky, and suddenly disappears in a flash of her signature green magic from her current location and re-appears /way/ up high in the sky. Then, using flight to stablize herself, she warps back down, prefering to end up close to the monster's face.

The cat sits upright, giving a better sense of scale - it must be going on 100 feet in length, not counting tail. And more strikingly, it's evidently not a cat but, from its proportions, a kitten - the head is large for the body. It looks every part the classic Egyptian cat; it's fur is black. It lick its lips and looks about.

With everyone else waiting and trying to make decisions Quinn fires up his jets, rapidly accelerating to transonic velocities as he flies toward the beast. He's not planning on engaging it just yet. Just wants to get closer to see what's going on.

As Quinn approaches the giant kitten crouches down again, in a stalking position.

Sukeban stops and stares, "A... A Kaiju-Koneko!?"

Titan comes out of the embassy, and looks in the direction everyone else seems to be looking. "Huh."

Ghost runs out of the embassy and over to Scrapper, "That thing must be huge if I can see the head above the buildings. Any idea what it is?"

<Guard> Sukeban says, "Uh... I know I'm workin' against my hot-headed image here, but, uh, I don't want to hurt a kitten!"

Lia looks to the massive cat, hovering near it, "Um... Hi. What's up?" Lia smiles, and giggles. She's at a loss of what else to say. She's tiny, that cat is...huge.

Riptide stops trying to figure out what it is, what is clear, is that it's not supposed to be there. Since he's not the fastest, it's time to get a leg on, literally and the Atlantean jumps into the water, to start swimming towards the closest shore at speed. Launching out of the water he hits the ground at a run and by the time he arrives on the scene, the air has dried out his hair and skin leaving him, well, not dripping wet.

As Quinn approaches he sees the enormous feline getting prepared to pounce on a car. Guess that old tradition of Truly Nolen's to make it's cars look like mice has backfired. He dives down at combat speed with jets thrusting full as he attempts to hoist the car out of the way before the cat can leap.

The cat pounces upon the small yellow vehicle even as Quinn goes into his dive. For a moment it seems as though the armored figure will be too late but at the very last instant he puts on a sudden burst of speed, snatching the car away a fraction of a second before the gigantic cat lands.

The kitten is fascinated by the flying car! It stands on its hide legs to try to swat at it as Quinn flies it away, then sits watching as it gets further out of reach.....

Sukeban continues to fly toward the kitten.

Scrapper teleports Cecila across the water, then comes back for Ghost.

Titan starts leaping in the direction of the giant cat, trying to keep up with the others.

<Guard> Lia says, "I'm not sure what's going on here...But the creature doesn't seem to understand english. It isn't magic, I can say this much."

<Guard> Sukeban says, "Oh, hey. I remember somethin'. There was an thing a few months ago. Some professor at CBSU made an enlargin' device, and it went out of control, makin' hislab assistant into a giant. Ya think that idiot did it again?"

Lia just kind of hovers there, and hmms...

<Guard> Lia says, "It's not actively trying to hurt anyone. It seems...curious, if anything."

<Guard> Ghost says, "What is it? I'm a stranger here. I've not heard of such a creature as a kitten. Is it usually hostile?"

<Guard> Sukeban says, "They're pets. Uh, baby cats basically."

Riptide's idea of 'cute' is probably a lot different than everyone else's, to him a baby morray eel might be cute, who can say. Either way as the Atlantean comes to a stop on the road and then leaps to a rooftop nearby to get a better view of the 'monster kitten' he looks around for others to see what they might do. This isn't his city, his world, not his place to just do what he'd do.

<Guard> Lia says, "What is a 'cat', exactly? I haven't heard of such a creature either."

<Guard> Sukeban says, "Somethin' like that! Only, like, a lot smaller, smaller than a dog."

Quickly Quinn sets the car down. "We've got to get it out of the city," he says to no one in particular since they are all too far away but it's a superhero's job to state the obvious even when there's no one around. He takes back to the air above the cat, sizing the beast up with nervous trepidation. "I've only got one shot at this," he says. Hovering in the air he pulls himself into a ball, the very air around him crackling with power. The lines upon his suit glow brighter and brighter as they channels the strange energies and the Q-Drive flares like a blazing star. At last when the energy has built to a peak Quinn throws his arms wide and his head back as a blazing bolt erupts from the center of his chest. Down, down the bolt flies until it strikes the street in front of the beast

Where it turns into a little red dot that dances back and forth.

The kitten, which had just started to stalk other cars again, is suddenly distracted by the dot! It pounces on it! Oh, it got away! It pounces again!

Again the kitten pounces! Crushing a parked car this time.

Scrapper finishes porting over anybody that needs help getting across the bay and takes a moment to see if Quin needs help.

Lia follows the kitten, unsure of just what else to do. She seems intriged by the kitten's curiousity.

<Guard> Scrapper says, "I can make a collar, but I don't know how strong that thing is."

Sukeban follows along through the air, trailing a bright line of flame behind her

Quinn begins to work the glowing point of light on the street back and forth, taking care to keep it as for from cars and people as he can manage as he tries to manuever the oversized kitten to some place where less property damage will be inflicted.

As the 'kitten' appears to be being handled, if somewhat haphazardly, Riptide looks down to the street blow looking to see if he can see where the feline originated from and perhaps spot the source of the giant kitten epidemic (Yes, just one is an epidemic in his book). After all, the last thing the city needs is 'more' giant kittens.

Ghost thinks. o O (Why don't we just shoot it down?)

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Ghost. Can you calculate how much it weighs? Can we pick it up and take it to an island?"

Lia thinks. o O (I should've learned how to use the creation aspect of Conjurations...could've been useful for this.)

<Guard> Ghost says, "Given time, access to a reference for the average density weight of a kitten, and a scanner to determine the volume of the creature, no problem. I'll get back to you in a few minutes."

Quinn has the kitten *almost* to Lowtown when it decides it's tired of that game. Besides, the delivery van that smells of fish seems much more interesting! She takes a swipe at it with her paw....

Lia takes note of the action of the van-swiping, and decides she doesn't like that idea. From her hands, a flaming substance is conjured, then thrown at the cat, exploding on contact. Fireball!

Sukeban says, "Ahhhh! Don't hurt the kitty!"

The kitten mrrows in pain and jumps into the air, twisting about and looking for what it hurt it. The street cracks beneath it an a lamppost is knocked down as is lands again.

Sukeban spits fire (literally) in frustration, "Ah!!! Damn it!" Flames swirl around her and down her arms as she fires a bolt of flame at the kitten, "Come get me ya furball!"

The kitten fails to leap aside from the scorching flames. It doesn't seem to like that either...

Riptide watches as fireballs light up the sky and the cat reacts by destroying more property. Considering it was about to hit a vehicle with non-combatants in it his mind is made up for him. Stopping his search for the origin point of the giant cat and what might have caused this Riptide starts to ready a leap of epic proportions! Well not really, but it is a good leap and one that will close the distance between himself and the giant furball in short order! As he leaps through the air the purple skinned atlantean's hands go into firsts and out in front of him as he 'superman' leap/punches for the cat!

Ghost is perfectly happy to shoot at the giant kitten. However as there was voiced concern abotu not hurting, prior to trying to fry it in fire, she switches her Spetsdod to Sleepers. Then she tries to lock on, and her smartlink bulks unable to cope with the sheer size of the target. Never mind, she can hardly miss.

Riptide slams into the feline, who isn't as soft and cuddly as appearances would dictate. And though it's a hard hit, it's not enough and Riptide crumples when he hits the cat and then falls to the ground where he lands with a grunt, flat on his back. "That... did not... go as planned." He says to nobody in particular, trying to get his bearings.

The heroes have the kitten's attention now, despite the fish smell. But of the little moving things that hurt it, one stands out - the one that's right next to it. It pounces on Riptide!

Ghost sees the kitten; not react. A quick check of her Spetdod diagnostics, huh, the clip is past the best-by date. Well, she hasn't been using the weapon much the last few years.

<Guard> Lia says, "...I probably should have announced my intentions before blasting: To get the kitten's attention, not to knock it out. Though, as long as we still have a way to move it, it'd probably be easiest just to take down, and move it later."

<Guard> Bulldozer Cecila says, "You said take it down.. you got it!"

WHAM! Riptide is pounded on by the giant cat and the ground crumples beneath him. Still stunned from the first hit, self inflicted, he is seeing stars now, almost literally. Even as he is still trying to pick himself up after that hit he is shaking his head, not all there at the moment but still conscious!

Yay! Pounce on the baby mouse or whatever it is. Is it dead? The kitten sniffs at it.

Riptide is alas, clearly not dead.

That's ok. Food is more fun alive.

Titan doesn't really know how strong the kitten is yet, so he decides to go the route of trying to restrain it. He leaps in close, and tries to grab onto it.

Titan manages to grab one of it's front paws, since his armspan isn't really wide enough to grab two of them.

Scrapper flies down, interposing herself between the kitty and Riptide. Columns of force fly from her body to the ground as she moves giving her a vaguely spider-like appearance.

With combat well and truly started the red light winks out of existence as Quinn redirects the energy from his holographic systems to other systems. Not wanting to hurt the cat any more than necessary he unload a neural blast on it.

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Suke, Lia. Can you two coordinate your attacks to give it heat stroke or something instead of frying it?"

<Guard> Sukeban says, "Eh. Sorry, I don't have much control with my flames. Haven't figured out how to do subtle crap like that yet."

Another mrrow shows the kitten felt that...

Cecila having heard the call to take it down over the communicators she smiles a bit and cracks her knuckles "Alright, since noone has a giant water gun this will just have to do" she comments as the road and sidewalk rip up and fly around her giving her a protective barrier. She then stomps on the ground and produces a boulder of giant proportions suitable for throwing at a giant cat! "Hey Kitty, that's not food!"

The boulder more *pushes* than knocks the kitten northwards down the street. It seems quite surprised by this...

... and is so low to the ground (relatively speaking) it doesn't even land on its feet, a greater surprise.

The kitten still isn't budged, between it's bulk and it being held by the anchor that is Titan....

<Guard> Lia says, "...I'm not too good with coordinating with others..."

Lia hmms at the kitten, and at everyone else shooting at it. Lia herself seems...displaced, as if she's unsure of herself. Regardless, she conjures up her green mystic blast this time.

The kitten registers its annoyance as another one of these little creatures hurts it!

Ghost switches her Spetdod to Stinger ammo and fires again.

Riptide shakes his head and gathers his senses completely, looking up at Scrapper he can't help but smile, "I am fine little one." He says simply as he regains his mobility. "I am not used to moving so slowly. I am faster in the water and have more momentum." He explains.

Ghost fires at the kitten, a small needle that splits into a cloud of thin flechettes before hitting the kitten.

Sukeban shrugs and fires (literally!) again. "Man, Su-chan is goin' to yell at me."

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Ghost. Analysis. Are we accomplishing anything besides angering it? I think we might need to change tactics."

<Guard> Lia says, "I'd argue we should continue trying to lure the beast away. This isn't the best place to deal with giant creatures."

The kitten tries to swat Titan of its paw with its other front paw. And to its surprise fails.

<Guard> Ghost says, "Scrapper, I haven't got a clue. Sorry. It's an alien creature. I have nothing to judge it by. Best I can offer: if it falls over and stops moving we've succeeded."

<Guard> Titan says, "You can sometimes get a cat to relax by grabbing the scruff of its neck. I can try to move up that way, but I think I'm getting lucky holding onto it. It's quite strong."

Scrapper flies up in the kitty's face then backs away toward the park. "Hey big fella. How about I get all these pesky people to stop stinging you, huh? Sleep."

The kitten does magically look just a bit more tired....

Titan squeezes, rather than try to shift his grip. "C'mon kitty...just give up."

The kitten shakes its aching paw.

Quinn lets loose with another neural blast <*ZCHROW*> "Maybe if we had a giant ball of yarn," he muses.

The kitten no longer looks like it's having fun. This is starting to hurt!

<Guard> Scrapper says, "My sleep spell should put it down, but it will take all day. Anything else we can do to restrain it and calm it down?"

<Guard> Lia says, "Here's a question: Can anyone here move this kitten once it's down?"

Scrapper yells, "Riptide, you feeling good enough to help Titan hold this thing?"

"As soon as I can get to my feet." Riptide says without hesitation.

<Guard> Ghost says, "If you want it to calm down stop shooting at it. But calm doesn't mean harmless with a creature that size. Let's take it down as soon as possible."

<Guard> Titan says, "Someone should look for the culprit, by the way. They'll be the scientist standing by with a massive grin on his or her face because his experiment worked."

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Suke, you have my permission to find that guy and ... convey my displeasure."

<Guard> Sukeban says, "Tsk. Like I'd need your permission, O-Chibi-chan."

Lia just hovers there, not attacking. She's not sure if she wants to continue attacking at this rate.

<Guard> Lia's tone implies she doesn't want to continue fighting, "Let's not just solve this problem by shooting at them until it stop being a problem. This creature will be pretty harmless if we get it away from here-which was the plan originally. I don't want to imagine the damage this thing'll cause if we knock it out here and now in this area with all of the buildings."

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Agreed. Lia, help Suke find our villain. I think the rest of us have the kitty."

Riptide flips up to his feet showing remarkable balance and alacrity after just getting flattened, almost literally, by the giant feline. Once he's on his feet he moves quickly, especially since Scrapper is no longer hovering over him like a protective octopus with force arms. Reaching out he tries to grab hold of the felines other forepaw and yank it down, trying to help Titan immobilize the giant animal!

The kitten is alarmed to find both its forepaws pinned!

Lia seems relieved as she's told to go look for the one responsible for this. And promptly, she teleports down towards the ground-ends a few meters above the ground, and looks around the area, searching for anyone looking suspicious.

Ghost fires again, continuing to target the giant alien creature.

The cat meowls and tries to tug its paws free to get away!

The kitten has given up trying to pull its paws free. So it goes for plan B - try to bite the little critters to pieces. It tries to make a chew toy of Titan....

<Guard> Lia says, "I see our scientist, video taping."

The kitten is disappointed. Too tough! Funny, it *smells* like food.

Titan is chewed on a bit, but the kitten doesn't break his skin.

Well, if at first you don't succeed, you probably shouldn't try sky diving. Be that as it may Quinn readies himself to let loose with another neural blast. This time, however, he takes a moment, the emitters for the blast whining as Quinn allows them to build to full intensity before cutting loose.

Titan continues to maintain his hold, hoping that with Riptide's help, they'll be able to hold it still enough for the others

Scrapper keeps her sleep spell running, concentrating on it instead of flashier powers.

The kitten now looks very woozy indeed.....

The emitters on his gauntlets build to a high-pitched whine until at last Quinn lets loose with both barrels. The cat gives a loud mrowl of complaint as the energy arcs along it's body and then collapses into an unconscious heap.

Lia travels closer to the man with the PDAs he spotted, looking /straight/ at him. However, she just flies closer for the moment.

A cheer goes up from some onlooker. Others seem rather shocked at what happened to the poor kitten.

Scrapper keeps her sleep spell running until she is certain the kitty will not be waking up any time soon.

The man Lia has spotted hurriedly makes a few taps on his PDA.

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Lia, I believe the relevant line is 'Miscreant, you are under arrest'."

Titan pets the kitty's paw lightly after it falls over. "Sorry about that."

Riptide doesn't let go of the feline, after all it could wake up at any moment. "So what is done with this creature now?" Riptide asks of anyone who happens to be around, probably Titan, since he's likely to be closest all said and done. "I assume we remove it to another location."

"Hey there, you wouldn't know anything about how that kitten got to be so huge, do you?" Lia asks, as she moves in front of them, looking to make eye contact.

Titan nods. "Yeah, most likely. We'll have to find an open place. Perhaps SGG will have to get involved. They might have the means to keep it sedated for the time being until they can figure out how to get it back down to a normal size."

The man shakes his head. "How would I know something like that?"

Scrapper says, "Worst case, it gets taken to Monster Island off the coat of Japan."

"Oh, I don't know, maybe because you were standing there filming it, looking calm and not fearful of it?" Lia offers, in response.

The man shrugs. "I've got nothing to tell you."

Scrapper flies over and slugs him.

"I see." Riptide says seriously and looks over the animal again then dusts himself off. Getting planted into the concrete and asphalt of the road will do that to a guy. "I am glad I was able to help, from how hard it hit it could have killed normal surfacers I think." Then Scrapper is flying off to beat on someone and he cocks his head to the side, "Is it normal to assault bystanders?" He asks Titan.

The guy screams in pain as bones break and collapses on the ground in a heap.

Titan turns, noticing the bystander that Scrapper just hit. "Uh...no, that's not normal. But then again, he might have been the person who made this kitty large. I can't hear what they're saying over there. At least...I hope that was the culprit, and not a random guy."

His PDA falls from his hand as he falls. Luckily, it's tougher than he seems to be.

Lia seems...surprised my Scrapper's actions. "...That wasn't exactly what I was going for, but I guess that works..." Lia flies down and collects the PDA. She seems unsettled by Scrapper just punching the guy like that, though, she speaks nothing else of it. Lia blinks at the PDA though, and quickly offers it to Scrapper.

Titan offers his hand to Riptide, "Thanks for the help, by the way. My name's Johnathan, but I go by 'Titan'."

Other people are taking pictures of Scrapper and the downed man. "Monster, why did you do that?" yells one.

Riptide looks at the hand curiously and notes: "You are not wearing a dive suit to be examined. I take it then that this is a manner of greeting on the surface?" He holds out his hand to Titan, mimic'ing the gesture precisely but not reaching to take the other man's hand. "I am known as Riptide, Kyor to my people." Then there's the yells and whatnot starting on and

- and Riptide looks over towards Scrapper and the downed man, as well as Lia. "There looks to be another incident forming."

Titan raises a brow, and takes Riptide's hand, shaking it firmly, but not overly hard. "There's the gesture of greeting." He looks over toward Scrapper and the man she assaulted, "Yesh, I guess I should try to defuse that."

Scrapper takes a deep breath, and yells, pointing to the cat. "He did that!"

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Um, we have diplomatic immunity, right?"

<Guard> Titan says, "Who's 'we', kemosabe?"

it does take the wind out of the sails of the yelling woman anyway. "....oh....."

"Oh! A hand clasp!" Riptide says with a smile, "We grasp the forearms, I did not wish to presume..." Then there's more yelling and whatnot and Riptide nods, "Yes, lets." Of course, how Riptide defuses something is... probably not going to go well. Still he is heading over in that direction. Someone else for the bystanders to gawk at atleast.

Lia mutters, "I really hope that's who I think it was, and not some guy who was just...unafraid and fascinated by the creature..."

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Lia, what kind of leader would I be if I didn't trust my people's instincts?"

<Guard> Titan says, "Do we have any proof it was him?"

Scrapper thinks .oO (please let her be right)

Titan pats the cat lightly once, and then walks over toward the current altercation, dusting himself off a little bit as he walks.

<Guard> Scrapper says, "Lets see what Q can pull off that PDA."

<Guard> Titan says, "If he was making notes, it might be right on the screen."

<Guard> Lia says, "He was standing there, watching and video taping the scene, looking rather unafraid and interested in the entire event. I assumed that he was probably at least in touch with the one responsible."

Lia thinks. o O (Please let me be right...)

Scrapper says, "Quinn, think you can find something incriminating on here?" Pointing to the PDA in Lia's grasp. If so, make a copy for the police. These things have a bad habit of getting lost lately."

There's no immediate *proof* of the guy's involvement. But it seems he videoed the cat in action and when spotted sending a copy of the video to someone was his immediate reaction.

Riptide makes sure someone calls medical professionals for the injured possible suspect at the very least. Surfacers are fragile afterall!

Scrapper says to Riptide, "I'm not always the best at following my own advice."

Riptide crouches down over the injured man, "Be still, if you have any serious damage thrashing and screaming will only kill you faster." No, he does not have the best bedside manner it seems. "I cannot tell, he is not leaking blood from major orifices. I would assume he will survive." He then looks at Scrapper, "Why did you hit him?" His tone is curious, not accusatory.

Scrapper taps her wrist communicator. "Sorry, I forgot you can't hear when the team talks to each other. He'll live, but I think I broke his jaw." Then she flies away without further explanation.

Riptide frowns, "That did not answer my question." He notes and then shakes his head, turning and making his way back to the ocean at a more casual pace than the one he arrived at. Thoughtful, and concerned.

<Guard> Scrapper says, "I pulled the punch, but I'll keep that in mind."

Lia blinks as Scrapper just...leaves. Lia shakes her head, and looks to Riptide, "We thought that he was the one behind the giant kitten. I was trying to question him, and, right as I was going to ask if anyone on the communicator was adept at getting people to talk, she flies over and clobbers him. I'm not too sure what on earth she was thinking..."

Titan nods in agreement with Lia, "Well...good job spotting him. It remains to be seen if he's the one in question. But he might be working for someone else who set this up."

Riptide stops and looks over at Lia and then Titan. "So then she had no reason other than a guess. I do not know this worlds rules well, but in mine, that would be cause for incarceration and reparations." This seems to disturb him even more, "I was hoping that there was an actual reason..."

Lia nods to Riptide, "It bothers me as well...That's not like her, to the best of my knowledge. Though, I could be wrong...I can only hope that there's more to this than her just..." Lia glances to the man on the ground, "...just attacking a suspect..." Lia seems pretty unsettled by the whole turn of events herself.

Riptide nods, "I must think on this. I am beginning to think she is not the best person to learn this worlds rules from." He heads off to the ocean, and into it, so he can think where it's nice and wet.