Bella nodded slowly before lowering her head. So she was right about what was going on. It made sense after all; who would just let someone get taken away like that, anyways? A smile crept up the hooded girl's face as she was glad at least her presence was appreciated, despite her making such a fool of herself earlier...

As Serpentine went on about what was happening, Bella could only tilt her head in confusion. It was a jumbled mess of words, no doubt about that, but for some reason Bella still managed to get some sort of gist of what was going on. The snake woman seemed to notice as well that her words were all over the place, seeing as she reiterated herself and ultimately reassured Bella that they knew what they were doing and that they needed to move.
"R-Right..." She mumbled as she also brought her attention to the tall boy. Hearing the other claim that he could take to the skies while they followed down below was a little worrying for Bella. Could she even keep up?

Not given much of a chance to voice her thoughts to the other two, Talon agreed before giving a charming smile to the two of them and jumping off the building, free falling for a bit before he began to fly. It was pretty cool if Bella did say herself. Seeing as she was a rabbit, she cold only hop and jump right? Or did she have something else up her sleeve she didn't even know about?

Looking back at Serpentine, Bella placed her hands behind her back and peeked at her from her hood.
"I-I guess we should move a bit c-closer, yes? Just in case?" Talon did say he was going to call, but that didn't mean they couldn't get prepared.

Taking a shaky breath, Bella bent her knees and jumped forward, creating a large arc before landing on the next building. This landing was a lot better as she didn't topple over and instead continued her momentum with a light job before stopping and turning to make sure Serpentine was following.

“Good luck Talon.” Serpentine managed before the winged hero took to the skies. For a few moments Serpentine sat still, staring off after Talon with a goofy grin on her face. The others were actually heeding her plan, and it was working out so far. The bad guys had taken Furitta to Luna’s Lunar Lounge where Mr. Johnso most likely deriving the bulk of his new army before spreading out further into town. All they had to do now was locate and isolate Mr. Johnson and defeat him. It should be easy, they already did it once before after all. Waiting for Talon’s call was agonizing, and as the minutes ticked away and the two girls stood awkwardly together on the top of the building Serpentine grew more agitated. Growing impatient Serpentine opened up her battle fan and fiddled about for a minute until something beeped and a screen materialized hopefully sending a call to Talon. The fan beeped for ten seconds, then twenty, then a full minute with no response. Something must be blocking her signal, and of course Serpentine didn’t know what. This was the first time she’d used the odd communication device and for the life of her she couldn’t imagine what would block a magical skype call. Folding the fan up Serpentine reattached it to her belt, only half listening to the new girl.

“Yeah, yeah we probably should… I’m not getting any response from Talon or Furitta, they could be in trouble.” Serpentine was about to suggest using the fire escape when the new girl, gifted with her power of immense leaps, bounded across the gap separating the two structures as easy as you please. Shutting her mouth Serpentine reached up and pulled her hood low over her eyes, grumbling something about flying and jumping and swinging on wires before calling across to the new girl. “You go on ahead, see if you can’t help Talon out. Remember to look out for karate kids, Talon said Mr. Johnson wouldn’t try and control them but I’m kinda skeptical. I’ll be right behind don’t worry.”

With the professor getting the attention of everyone in the city and causing quite a bit of panic, Matthew managed to excuse himself from his part-time work and nervously made the trip back home. Locking the door of his room he threw the bag of donuts that he had bought along the way on his desk and turned on his laptop. While he could see through the eyes of Mr.Johnson he still wanted to monitor how things where going, it wasn't like he would have much to do before the miraculous holder arrived. Luckily for Matthew, it didn't take long for the hero to appear... along with another hero and another one not too long after. Matthew first thought one of them was just a normal person with a really impressive costume, but his kiwami told him that all three the real deal.

Matthew bit his nails as nervously as he tried to rationalize the situation. Of all the things he expected to go wrong, three miraculous holders appearing wasn't in there. On one hand, it meant that if he defeated them he would be closer to his goal than if there was only one of them, but on the other hand more heroes meant it would be more difficult to take their miraculous and it could probably meant that the guardian had realized his plans and had prepared accordingly. Looking at Kivaat it seemed that he was in a similar thought pattern as him since he was nervously eating his donuts.

"Let's go to the scene," Matthew said after a long moment silence "Huh?! Why? isn't it better and safer for us to be here? You'll only give an idea of who you really are" Kivaat replied as he finished eating the last donut in the bag. Matthew ignored his advice and stuffed him in his pocket " one vs three isn't an easy fight to win, even with mind-controlled people so I'll go give the Instructor some support. Besides maybe they'll willingly give me their miraculouses if the hero Rouge-Bat asks them nicely?" He gave a half-hearted laugh at his own joke before realizing that Kivaat had flown out of his pocket, before noticing that the heroes had broken the whip and released the akuma into the air. Seeing as how the Akuma wasn't purified, it was only a matter of time before Mr. Johnson began his rampage again, so he used his ability to send the Instructor to the Luna's Lunar Lounge where he would be able to get more minions to control.

The situation at LLL was going smoothly, the mind controlled victims seemed to be increasing and they even had managed to grab ahold of one of the miraculous holders, he was going to reprimand the Instructor for not taking the miraculous immediately, but remembered that he didn't gave him that order so he just enjoyed the fact that he had one of the heroes trapped. This made him take the fact that a fourth hero had appeared a little better than before. "Damn that guardian, where was my superhero team when I was in my hero career," he thought to himself as he finally arrived. Already transformed he stealthily made his way into the lounge where he spotted one of the heroes, Talon, standing in one of the doors. He couldn't let this chance of capturing the other one right now Rouge-Bat mentally contacted the Instructor as he remained hidden "Know that you been doing what you want for a while, it's time you kept your end of the bargain, send your students that captured the hero earlier and have them take away their miraculous NOW" He finished the order as he sent him a mental image of their miraculous. Not long after the order was made the lounge was quickly filled with mind-controlled students to the point it would be difficult to move in. Expecting that Talon would be distracted with the sudden appeareance of the students, Rouge-Bat aimed at his legs and threw his whip at him with the intentions of pinning him down to the floor and preventing him from flying away.

Furitta's gauntlets slid out of their passive state. Multiple attempts to break down the door the normal way proved to be fruitless, as if something was propping it from the other side, and not even her enhanced strength could help her in that matter. So, she decided to just hack it down. These gauntlets were made of some form of metal that was harder than this door, that much she could guess. As she was going to begin breaking it down bit by bit, someone knocked on the door and called out a greeting. Her ears twitched as she picked up the sound. "Talon!" She shouted, going closer to the door so he could better hear her. "It's Furitta, they kind of locked me up here. Maybe they wanted to keep me out of the way considering what happened earlier." She explained, hoping that that was enough for Talon to start opening the door.

But then she heard other voices - this time of the mind controlled teenagers. Was Talon alone? She began to pound on the door. "Get out of here first Talon, I'll be fine!" She called out. So it was a trap huh? She could hear a load of students out there, and that meant Talon would have trouble. They may be uncoordinated on their feet, but their sheer number managed to overpower them repeatedly earlier. It would be way worse if the Instructor himself was there. Talon was up against a battalion of mind controlled teens, and he was alone. Still, what ran in her mind was the plead that he wasn't alone. Furitta hoped that Serpentine knew what she was doing, trusting her enough for this plan to go on.

Furitta distanced herself from the door before making a mad dash towards it, putting up the gauntlets to collide with the door and it successfully broke down - but she was sent tumbling forward because of the extra momentum she had that wasn't taken away by the door she just collided with. Tucking herself into a roll, she hit one of the teens fast enough that the teen stumbled backward. "Ugh, that hurts." Furitta muttered to herself before flipping away from the students and towards Talon, but also unaware of the whip heading for the Eagle-themed hero.

Talon was about to begin trying to unlock the door when Furitta told him to move away from the door. He backed away, only to notice he was surrounded. "This sucks." He jumped, clinging to the ceiling. Then he noticed Rouge-Bat and his whip. He had just barely managed to dodge the whip. Glaring at the older boy, "Why are you attacking me? You should help me! We're both heroes, right?"

He ignored the crash behind him. He knew Furitta had just gotten out. "Watch out. Rouge-Bat has turned evil. Call the other two and tell them what's up."

Bella could only tilt her head curiously when Serpentine didn't seem to follow after her. Did she say something wrong? Or maybe, being a snake and all, she couldn't move across large spaces at a time like she could? Before she could ask of the other needed help or some kind of assistance, the older girl wanted her to go on ahead and help Talon who might be in danger. The thought of going in to save someone was a little bit unnerving, especially since she hasn't done any of this sort of thing ever in her life, but she was entrusted to do this, and who knows, maybe she might be of some help?

Giving her best determined nod, Bella was off, hopping from building to building with the use of her momentum. So, look out for karate kids...help out Talon...look out for karate kids...help out Talon... the two phrases became more like a mantra to the rabbit girl as she hopped to and fro. She didn't want to mess this up. She had to do her best to help out, which eventually got her to thinking...shouldn't she have a weapon like everyone else? Feeling all over her body for something that could possibly be a weapon, Bella bounded forward and tumbled to a halt, seeing no sight of the karate kids as she was now crouched down on a building that was right beside the Luna's Lunar Lounge. What the heck was she suppose to do if she didn't have anything to protect herself with?

Not having the time or really the patience to be thinking about it, Bella hopped on top of the lounge building and began to crawl around the roof. Talon had to have found a way to get in without being noticed, right? Since he was flying, the roof made the most logical sense. A proud smile formed on the blue haired girl's face as she spotted one of those windows that were often used to let steam out of a kitchen or building. Immediately, the girl lowered herself in, dropping to the kitchen floor with little trouble. Good, this was good. She could work with this...

Bella cracked open the kitchen door, only to see the predicament Talon, Furitta and...Rogue-Bat? Wait, what? Too confused to really wrap her head around it at the moment, Bella reached down to pick up a round tomato, before chucking it through the small opening, hoping hitting someone and possibly getting their attention. But it wasn't like she stopped after the first tomato, Bella continued to throw condiments, snacks and even beverages out the crack in the door, hoping that it would be enough to get the teens off of Talon and to focus on her.

Taking the fire escape steps two at a time Serpentine descended the five story building as fast as she could. Each rusty step creaked and groaned and more than once Serpentine thought she’d fall straight through. The normally heavy ladders felt light in her arms thanks to her new powers and she navigated the structure with reasonable ease. Nevertheless it took her several minutes to reach the ground and run out of the ally way, scattering a small pack of cats in her mad dash around the building’s corner. A few screams sounded in the distance, and numerous car horns were blaring. Something bad must be going on up ahead. Speeding up Serpentine sprinted past a group of young pedestrians charging right up to the front steps of Luna’s Luner Lounge. Behind her glassy eyed students wandered haphazardly across the streets and roads causing a dreadful traffic jam and snatching random people off the sidewalks. The police who hadn’t been turned were completely overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the disaster, but were doing their best to regain control. A few of the zombiefied kids seemed to be standing guard at the entrance, wearing karate GIs. Uh oh Serpentine thought coming to a screeching halt. These minions seemed capable of completing individual tasks, and they were everywhere! Mr. Johnson must have gone on a rampage with his whip and collected a horde of followers to do his bidding. Somewhere along the way he must have learned to control them better too. Stepping onto the raised concrete curb Serpentine approached the GI garbed minions cautiously, watching for any sudden movements. Their stoic faces turned towards her menacingly and one raised his calloused hand, doing a mocking ‘come here’ gesture.

“Alright then.” Serpentine whipped out her battle fans going into what she hoped was a fighting stance. “Come and get it.”

The glassy eyed karate kids needed no second bidding. Leaping forward four of them surrounded Serpentine, delivering a series of kicks and jabs in rapid succession. Serpentine did her best to dodge and repost but the karate kids were too fast. Dishing out swift punishment they would flip away before she could respond in kind, allowing another karate kid to launch in and attack from her flank. Serpentine’s augmented speed and durability was the only thing keeping her in the fight. At least until one of them landed a powerful round house kick to her jaw. Tumbling backward Serpentine tripped over the concrete curb and crashed onto the asphalt. A few normal minions surged forward reaching to grab her with their grubby hands. One snatched at her miraculous and just missed, brushing the charm with his fingertips.

“Oh no you don’t!” Serpentine lashed out catching the glassy eyed teen in the throat. He reeled back, falling into the growing crowd. Rolling back onto her feet Serpentine blocked a few incoming punches before pushing off, propelling herself over the dull eyes of her assailants and preforming a spectacular backflip in midair. Landing light as a cat Serpentine scurried off smashing through the unguarded glass doors of the Lunar Lounge, and right into the waiting arms of many more minions. We need an army to fight all of these guys! Serpentine struggled to bash her way through but there were to many. Further away Talon, Furitta, and the new girl were in a similar situation fighting against Mr. Johnsen and. Rouge-Bat!? They were battling bravely, but ultimately outnumbered. We need a distraction and an army! Serpentine’s mind raced as she fought. Defeat seemed imminent. She knew about Rough-Bat from her father’s articles praising the hero, he could probably best all four of them on his own, let alone with Mr. Johnson and a horde of his mind controlled minions. What could they possible do?

And just like that an idea popped into Serpentine’s head.

Closing her eyes to concentrate Serpentine let the glassy eyed weirdos size hold of her. One tried to snatch away her miraculous but Serpentine interlocked her fingers over the charm protecting it. They tried prying her fingers open but Serpentine resisted their efforts, clenching her hands tighter, focusing, and concentrating.

“MIRAGE!”

Suddenly Serpentine was everywhere. She bounced from the walls, swung punches at Rouge-Bat, dodged away from the karate kids, and formed a protective ring around the other heroes and herself. The many Serpentines moved like greased lightning and the fought the perplexed minions by dodging and rolling and diving around them with ease. They swung their battle fans and kicked as well but no blow ever landed. They were just light and sound after all. Very convincing images, but never more than just that. Images. Serpentine laughed aloud and a hundred Serpentines laughed with her. It was very surreal and chaotic as Luna’s Luner Lounge was now packed to bursting. Throwing off the minions that held her Serpentine shouted, her voice rising from a hundred throats.

“Quick, get the whip so we can purify the akuma! This will only last five minutes!”

Furitta seemed rather shocked when she recovered thanks to the hands of the glassy eyed students attempting to grab her towards them. Quickly flipping the owner of the one hand that had grabbed her shoulder, she jumped away from the group and backed away, only to find Talon had stuck herself to the wall.

But then she heard it. "Rouge... Bat? He's here?" She couldn't help but whisper. Him? A villain? No... no there was no possible way that the same hero she looked up to and gave her the strength to fight for what was right could have turned evil. It just didn't add up! With his morals and everything he had done, why would he turn evil?

Furitta seemed to be frozen on the spot as she spotted the same hero she had admired all these years. The same hero who disappeared suddenly, leaving everyone to suffer but at least not as much as before. Furitta saw his whip heading for Talon who quickly deflected it without a problem. So he was an enemy. Her mind just couldn't process the fact that he could be evil. The moment of buckle caused her to be quickly apprehended, and that snapped her back to reality. Quickly pushing herself upwards, her head connected with the teen's own and he let her go. Gods that hurt but at least she got away.

That was when a bunch of Serpentines appeared and began attempting to attack, but nothing really hit. She caugh enough of a gist to know what was up even before she said it. Blocking the memory of the betrayal of her hero for now, she turned quickly to Talon. "Let's go!" She shouted before rushing towards the Instructor. With newfound anger at the betrayal festering up, she tried to use her full momentum to tackle the man and get the whip. Along with that, she attempted to swing a punch towards him.

Talon watched as both Serpentine and Usagi came to help. Serpentine had summoned clones? No, they weren't hitting. They were fakes, illusions, mirages.

Talon flew as fast as he could, reaching with the claws on his boots to grab the whip. He missed, however, and nearly hit the crowd of students. With a bit of minor readjustments to his flight path, he aimed for Rouge-Bat. He figured he'd keep him busy while the girls got the whip.

Storming up behind the distracted teacher Serpentine squared off against him with two of her mirages, waiting for the opening. Mr. Johnsen reared back, frustration burning in his squinty eyes as he swung, his whip cracking, the leather ends streaking through light and sound alone. Obviously torn between continuing his bout against Furitta or the Serpentines he left himself open. Darting forward Serpentine closed the short distance separating her from the teacher, effectively defusing the danger of the whip. Delivering a series of punches Serpentine grinned as Mr. Johnson staggered, his narrow face contorted in fury – no wait, that is victory! Serpentine felt the blow connect before she saw it, Mr. Johnson’s rapid backhand swing connected with her lower jaw, sending her into a literal triple spin. Vertigo washed over her and she didn’t know which way was up, and which way was down, the room became a blur of writhing human bodies. But Serpentine wasn’t done yet. Landing hard on all fours the snake-themed hero gritted her teeth taking a moment to regain orientation before extending her foot and delivering a powerful kick to Mr. Johnson’s spindly legs, just below the knee.

The man’s knee’s buckled and he fell, plummeting forward onto Serpentine like a collapsing building. Serpentine squirmed to escape, bringing her arms into play to act as shields as villain and hero continued to brawl on the ground, weapons forgotten. Serpentine struggled in desperation, trying to throw Mr. Johnson off too little avail. Her face became the target to repeated blows, and to make matters worse her miraculous was beeping away, she only had minutes to spare! This attacted his attention, and he reached for the miraculous pinning Serpentine down with his other arm.

“Furitta, get the whip!” Serpentine exclaimed, her hands closing around Mr. Johnson’s wrists, trying to control them. In response the full grown man extended his arms to full length, easily negating that plan. But also freeing Serpentine. Placing both her feet against the teacher’s waist Serpentine kicked herself clear, sliding across the lounge’s floor, reassembling an oversized shuffleboard disk. Pushing herself upright, she waited on baited breath to see if Mr. Johnson or Furitta would secure the abandoned whip first.

Everything was happening so quickly, Bella wasn't sure if her eyes were playing tricks on her or not. There were a lot of things wrong with the little picture in front of her, but probably the biggest was the multiple Serpentines trumping the amount of brainwashed teens in the room. She was so in shock at how crazy the situation was getting, that she didn't even notice the group of food covered teens approaching her until they were right in front of her.

Letting out a squeal of surprise, Bella busted through the door, unintentionally pushing on the balls of her feet, which ultimately lead to her bounding forward a lot farther then she thought she was going to. The sudden movement sent the teens in front of her tumbling to the ground like bowling pins. But she didn't stop there, unfortunately, as when she lowered one of her feet to stop herself, the momentum from the previous hop kept her going, causing her to run right into Mr.Johnson, who was scrambling for his whip.

The collision slowed the man down, which was good, until he decided to grab the young girl's arm and practically fling her to the other side of the room, Bella's body colliding with one of the table in a nasty thud. It was hard to see if she was okay or not, seeing as she had yet to get up from the whole ordeal.

Furitta pretty much got the timing correct, but Serpentine had already decided to take on the Instructor. Somehow. Talon tried to get the whip, but missed. Maybe the earlier fights had gotten them tired. Furitta admitted that she was tired, and Poyzz was running out of juice if she wasn't mistaken. Nevertheless, she soldiered on. With the momentum still there, she headed straight for the whip - rolled and grabbed it before standing upright again and bolting it out of there. She needed to break the whip.

Thankfully, she had gauntlets for weapons. The gauntlets seemed to buzz in agreement as she danced around the teenagers to avoid their grapples and then jumped up to a nearby counter. Wires shot out of her gauntlets as she got herself up on one of the signs that was hanging which surprisingly held her weight. She wasn't going to complain about this conveniently excellent workmanship.

She wrapped the one end of the whip around her gauntlet. She took the other side of the whip and simply tied behind one of the poles that held up the sign. She then began pulling back, using every bit of her strength to break it - and even placed one foot on the pole to aid her in ripping apart the whip right in the middle. Furitta didn't know when it snapped - but it did. It also sent her tumbling backwards and she fell. With a sharp gasp, she realized that she was going straight to the ground at high velocity.

She swung her arm - letting the wire hit anything and it latched onto something and she felt herself bounce just in the air. Furitta hung there for a while, the teenagers thankfully not trying to swat her away. She saw the miniature bat attempting to fly away. "The bat! The bat!" She yelled before sending another wire towards it - but she missed, likely because of her losing concentration.

Talon had managed to knock the ex-hero to the ground with a well placed kick before spinning to rush towards the whip. Furitta grabbed it first, though, and managed to break it. As he spun to aim another kick at Rouge-Bat, only foe something to wrap around his ankle. He clung to the ceiling with his clawed feet and looked towards who had him. It was Furitta, screaming about the bat. With a pull on the wire, he was face-to-face with the heroine. "Please don't do that again." he said as he aimed his power. "Eagle Charm!" he yelled, creating a wall in front of the tiny escaping flying mammal. With it trapped, he began unwrapping the wire from his foot, dropping Furitta to the ground.

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As the teacher wrestled with Serpentine, he heard his whip snap. With a sudden increase in adrenaline, he shoved her of him before running to the pieces of the whip. He ignored the yells about the bat, only trying to repair his whip.

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Rouge-Bat was knocked to the ground with the kick but was quick to return to his feet, he aimed his weapon at the eagle boy to attack. His aim was off, though, and he barely managed to miss him as it flew past his head, sticking into the stone wall he had made.

“Catch it quick!” Serpentine yelled from across the room. She was currently in the clear with Mr. Johnson’s whip broken once again by Furitta he’d left off fighting her and was frantically attempting to push the broken ends of his weapon back together. “We need to get out of here fast and purify the akuma. I’ll get the bunny.” Pushing her way through the crowd of battling mirages and teenagers Serpentine forced a path to where Bella had smashed into the wall, kneeing down beside her.

“Hey, are you alright? That looked pretty painful.” Serpentine prodded the downed girl, wishing she knew her name or alias. But now wasn’t the time for a lengthy conversation, or even a proper introduction. Serpentine only possessed precious seconds before her suit deactivated, and Rouge-Bat was still a legitimate threat. She needed to get herself and the bunny-themed hero clear before he pounced. Casting a nervous glance over her shoulder Serpentine prepared to help Bella up onto her feet. “Can you walk? I don’t think I’m gonna be able to carry you, but I can support you out. We gotta hurry about it too, I don’t fancy facing Rouge-Bat in our current conditions.”

Bella let out a faint hiss as she forced her blue eyes open, only to immediately close them since everything was still spinning. She probably would have stayed like that too, if it wasn't for Serpentine trying to get her attention.
“Hey, are you alright? That looked pretty painful.” Gee, tell her about it... Bella glanced over at the snake hero and nodded slightly. "Y-Yeah...I'm...uh, I'll be okay..." She murmured as her mind wandered to what the other girl was able to do just a few moments ago.

Was that the power that came with these weird aliens? Could Bella do something similar? If so, then how? Was it the same case with their weapons too? Did she have one of her own? Where exactly was it? Was now really the time to be thinking about this? Serpentine seemed to read her mind as she thought it.

“Can you walk? I don’t think I’m gonna be able to carry you, but I can support you out. We gotta hurry about it too, I don’t fancy facing Rouge-Bat in our current conditions.” ...Could she walk on her own? Furrowing her brows slightly, Bella nodded slightly before actually pulling herself back onto her feet. It took a moment to regain her balance, but once she was standing, Bella appeared alright despite not entirely feeling it. "Y-Yeah, I think I can walk. L-Let's go." She said, knowing full well that Serpentine was right. And with that, the two were off, hurrying to the exit as also trying to avoid those in their way.

Furitta didn't realize that her wire had found its way to Talon's leg and made him fall over. He pulled her forward and then told her in a mildly irritated way to never do that again. He then went ahead to trap the bat inside an earth wall. He finally untangled the wire and dropped her. She sat up and then shook her head before looking over to Talon.

"You might've forgotten, but I can't fly like you bird-boy." She replied, but didn't seem all too angry or annoyed. It was like she just wished to get that out. That was when Rogue Bat's whip almost hit Talon, but missed and hit the stone wall instead. "You go purify that akuma, I got this." She patted him on the shoulder, knowing that he also had to get out of there before his time ran out. Since he had used his power, he had a few minutes before his suit would go down. They wouldn't want to get their identities revealed, now would they?

She then looked back at Rogue Bat - eyes steeling and then throwing a punch and sent a wire directly towards him so the blunt force from that kind of velocity would somehow knock him over.

Talon was fast enough to catch the tiny black bat but had no real way to destroy it without landing, which he couldn't do well with something in his claws. He looked towards Furitta, flying with the bat pointed towards her. "Impale it!" he called to her. "Use that wire."

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Instructor screamed in anger and began running towards Furitta and Talon, hands reaching for each of their miraculouses. He didn't care what else was going on, he just knew he had to stop the heroes.

Letting Belle use her shoulder as a means of support Serpentine struggled for the exit using the mirages as cover to avoid any confrontation with the zombiefied kids. There weren’t as many Serpentines’ as before, they were flickering out of existence like fireflies putting out their light for the night. Her miraculous’ frantic beeping slowed as well, the individual beep coming low, irregular, and quiet as if Ossar was a dying heart. He needed to be let out badly, but Serpentine needed him to hold on for just a little while longer. More and more teens and pre-teens were moving to stop the two girls, their counter mirages having gone out. Casting about in desperation Serpentine spotted an open window nearby, changing course and leading the other hero towards it. “Look, we can escape there and get into the alley, there’s no making it to the door now, there’s too many of them.”

Serpentine began running, often checking over her shoulder to ensure Belle was keeping up. However one of the glassy eyed teens realized what they were about and moved to block the window pane, he was wearing a karate GI, and stood in a fighting pose. Uh oh, this means trouble. Serpentine thought, though not halting in her forward charge. Snatching ahold of her battle fans she leapt into action ahead of Belle diving straight for the karate teen, teeth bared in a ferocious snarl.

The Gi donned kid maintained his impassive expression, neatly dodging her attack and allowing the snake themed hero to smash bodily into the window he’d previously closed. With the sound of shattering glass and a surprised yelp Serpentine tumbled through the broken portal landing clumsily on the concrete below. Struggling to regain her footing Serpentine waited, desperately hoping the bunny-themed hero would make it through as well. Inside the karate kid squared off against Belle, wisely taking up a more solid defense of the window, not wanting to lose another opponent by mistake again.

~*~

These children were proving far more frustrating than he’d originally accounted for. Rouge-Bat swatted aside a mirage, his clawed gloves raking through the image of light and sound causing it to crumple and vanish. Catching sight of the approach wires from Furitta’s gauntlets he reached out with shocking speed, snatching them in his mighty hands as they shot towards him, holding them secure. “I’ve had enough of these childish games, give me your miraculouses or else!” Pushing aside two minions the masked menace preformed a powerful bound, complete with a half flip midair as he extended his booted legs to attach to the roof. Thus positioned Rouge-Bat strode purposely over the tumultuous battlefield that was Luna’s Lunar Lounge towards Furitta and Talon, still holding the wires in his hand.

Reaching the makeshift stone wall Rouge-Bat dropped from his upside-down position over its peak landing like a cat a few meters from the two heroes. “You have no idea what you’ve been given.” Rouge-Bat accused, his eyes flicking across the room to where Serpentine just crashed through the window. He’d have to deal with those other two later. “Listen to me, the power you now possess isn’t yours to keep, surrender it to me, and I will ensure it remains safe. Away from those who will misuse it. So don’t force my hand, I will go as far as I need too to take them.”

Remaining rather close to the actual Serpentine and connected by her holding onto her shoulder, Bella awkwardly dodged and hid behind the dark, snake themed hero. She could hear the slow, nonrhythmic beep coming from somewhere on her body, but that didn't mean much to the girl as the whole existence of Miraculouses was still a big question mark on her part. It soon became evident after Serpentine's mirages waned to zero in front of them that the two were in a tough situation. Bella was so frightened by the amount of people now blocking their way, she let out a yelp when her ally changed course and bolted for the window.

Bella followed sheepishly behind, her fingertips barely on the others shoulder at that point; it's wasn't that she needed it now, but it definitely made her feel safer.
"O-Okay!" She could only agree as she followed now closely behind the other, only freezing when she caught sight of who was blocking them from getting free. Decked out like a karate master, stood a boy in his gi, now in between them and freedom. Tears pricked the little girl's eyes as she knew they were in deep trouble once he assumed a fighting position.

Stepping back a bit when Seperntine pulled out her dual fans, Bella could only watch in awe as she dashed forward, the karate kid easily dodging and allowing the other to break through the window...literally. Bella had to visibly wince for her, but it didn't look like she could for very long as it was now her turn to get through. Balling her fists, Bella hoped and prayed that her hopping would be enough to get through this. If only it was a bit stronger...

As the thought crossed her mind, a faint glow began to form around the young girl's legs, causing her to blink in confusion for a moment. She didn't have time to just be standing around! Bounding off with both eyes closed, Bella blasted off like a rocket, pulling her feet up as they connected with the karate kid's shoulder's in mere seconds. This caused the teen to fall backward while Bella used him as a platform and jumped again, going through the opening Serpentine made and falling right in front of her.

It happened so fast that even Bella was still reeling from the movement, unable to recognize the beeping coming from one of her buttons in a similar fashion as Serpentine's beeping.

Furitta's eyes widened when Rogue Bat managed to catch the wire she shot out in surprising speed. Of course, he's been in this gig for so long; unlike herself, who just entered the hero fray just earlier this day. Of course he could do that. How stupid was she to think that she could face off with an experienced 'hero' like Rogue Bat? She heard Talon tell her to pierce the akuma, but at the same time, Rogue Bat flew upwards and hung on the bottom of the roof. This caused her to jerk forward, the wire having reached the end of the max length from where he was positioned. He then changed position and landed on the stone wall that Talon had summoned before accusing them that they didn't know what kind of power they were given.

They couldn't win this. She needed to get Talon away from this man. Furitta knew that they had to escape, and that meant she had to make an opening.

"Really now?" Furitta questioned, disbelief clear in her voice. "You want us to give it to you? Especially after everything that has happened? Look around you Rogue Bat!" She yelled out before spreading her free arm towards the side. "This destruction wasn't our fault. It's yours." She continued, anger seeping out of her voice before extending her other hand and letting another wire out at frightening speed. It pierced straight into the akuma and it retracted just as quickly back to her and a mechanism popped up from her gauntlet and the akuma was sucked inside it. But she had no time to watch what will happen.

"You used to fight crime. What exactly happened to you? You're what amounts to the villains the you fought before. Using violence and forcibly putting these people to your command is exactly what a villain would do!" Perhaps she felt a lot more about his betrayal than she let off. But really, who could blame her? She was being accused by a hero-turned-villain that she was going to give the one thing she needed to finally act against the injustice she sees nearly daily to someone who will misuse it. "I assure you, I won't let anyone take this away from me. Especially not you." She then tugged her right arm back, using the mechanism inside the gauntlet to reel the wire back to her and hopefully get Rogue Bat off balance.