"Vait. Vhat??" Jötz stared at her incredulously as though she were mad. Which was the case, of course, for what were Sparks if not crazed scientists and looney inventors. It was by no accident that Sparks were often called 'mad boys.' All the same, the odds were not in what he thought were their favor. He was a Jaeger, afraid of little and enthusiastic in mayhem, yet that did not mean he was as foolish as he might sometimes seem. Whatever that thing was behind the wall, he doubted he could take it and the assorted small sized monsters about them all at the same time even with Ivy's cracker-jacks. The blue toads hadn't followed. Going back into their den seemed just a tad crazier than he could appreciate. "Chou ist joking, ja? Ist a funny, like telling zome new recruit to find a left-handed smoke shifter, ja?"

"Look, Miss Ivy, chou ist a pretty young gurl dat makes tings go boom und smells nize. Maybe not very nize, but nize. Chou don't want to end dat by becoming toad-chow, alright?"

Only as soon as the words were out of fanged mouth, the green furred soldier knew it was pointless. Ivy had that look in her eye that only meant one thing when it came to a Spark: 'Obey me now and I won't turn you into something nasty.' Granted it was hard to think of something nastier than a Jaeger, at least when it came to fighting. But she wanted to be obeyed, she would be obeyed and she would be obeyed NOW. Jötz could only shake his head. Better to humor her than try to force her; he hated to think what might happen if she tried to feed any of those cracker-jack things to him! "Alright, alright!" he finally surrendered after taking the glare for several moments longer than any sane person would. Throwing his hands up in the air in despair he added, "Not like I vast doing anyting better mit my life dan living it! Let's go!"

Jötz took point on the less hurried trudge back towards where the toads had surrounded them, muttering varies imprecations beneath his breath as to how he had found himself in this situation. He finally shut up again when he remembered how: a pretty girl. 

[i]Come to think of it, that's how most of my problems in life have started...[/i]