Clash of the Masses

[Typhoid]

"Kyra!" Ty saw the young girl get involved in a fight and ran after her, pushing people aside and finally turning to ash and materializing beside the group. She went into a flurry of random punches and kicks, trying to drive one of the humans off the woman, and at the same time get to Kyra.

[Strype]

The mutant woman was looking battered and coughing up blood; Kyra had scratched several of the men, getting them off of her, even if they were howling in pain. "Are you okay?" She asked the woman, her voice low and raspy from the change. The woman looked up to her, just as terrified as the humans, and fled. The humans were still coming, pressing on all of them, like an angry hive, looking to hurt anything.

One surged forward, holding something heavy. She didn't see it too clearly, from the corner of her eye. It came down with a crack on the side of her skull, and she dropped like a stone, bleeding.

[Typhoid]

"Dammit!" Ty swore, and knocked the man who'd thrown the brick backwards into the crowd, knocking some of them down like bowling pins, and made her way to Kyra's side. The others had fled once she went down.

[Odin]

::The sirens grew louder, and the chaos was exploding. To Odin's left, mutants were being attack, to Odin's right, a telekinetic had just sent a reverend through a tree head-first. The police would be here any minute, and although in the long-term, it would solve the problem, the immediate chaos would increase with riot-control measures.

He decided to take his own advice, and cupped his hands around his mouth. He shouted, his voice ill-suited to loud cries, but sufficed in this case. He knew what to expect, had seen more than his share of the mob mentality in Chicago.:: "POLICE!!!"

[Strype]

The blood was sluggish, but stopped just as soon as it had started. Kyra's eyes snapped open, and the fur that had begun to recede with her knock out came back. Her limbs becan to lengthen, clothing began to burst...she was becoming the tiger, but it was like Kyra wasn't even there. Clothing ripped to shreds, a large tiger sprang to it's feet, roaring. It was as if it were a being composed entirely of rage.

[monet]

Monet watched Ty run, then disappear, then appear and run again toward a furry mutant who had been hit on the head and was bleeding. Odin was yelling at the crowd and Monet was at a loss. Her senses were overloaded and she was angry.

Then the furry mutant opened her eyes and Monet felt a brand new emotion. Fear. She reached over and tugged at Odin's sleeve. "Um. Odin?"

[Typhoid]

Ty backed away, turning transparent in defense, as she'd done once before on a battle field. "Sh!t." She left, had to leave, else she couldn't get help. She made her way back to the group. "New problem. Strype's gone nuts. We need Kurt."

[Strype]

Kyra roared, and the humans drew back in fear, trying to get away from her. But she wouldn't have any of it; this was what they had wrought upon themselves. Bounding forward with the lithe agility of a great cat, she jumped them and began to maul them with her claws.

[Odin]

::As expected, several members of the crowd began to run in various directions upon mention of the police, and the sirens verifying the claim. Few people *wanted* to be arrested, and those still fighting were caught up in the task beyond reason. However, the crowds did thin, and the streets around the park became a sea of people running to hide, several of them with newly and illegally acquired property.

Odin felt a tug at his sleeve, and turned to Monet, a hand touched his throat which would be hoarse if he had to shout again. The masses clouded his already poor vision.:: "Yes?"

[monet]

Monet pointed at the tiger. "I think we should go." She looked warily at Ty, then back to the tiger, not wanting to let the animal out of her sight.

[Husk]

Paige had been off, away from the rest of them, trying to break up fights, and prevent new ones. Doing a roundhouse kick to a man's head when he tried to grab a hold of her she then punched someone else square in the jaw. She noticed her skin was beginning to shed, and the last punch hurt quite a bit. Hissing in pain she shook her hand, as if it would stop the pain. Turning around when she heard a loud rawr her eyes widened in shock. Quickly shedding her skin again to metal she then ran forward. She would have to stop her before she really did some damage. Readying herself she then sprang in the air, moving to land on top of the mutant.

[Strype]

Kyra had leapt seconds before, jumping on a beefier human, who screamed in terror as one would when a giant cat attacks. Paige had missed her, and the tiger paid her no attention as Kyra ripped and shredded with tooth and claw--anything that was in reach was in danger.

[Nightcrawler]

Three, four more mutants, mostly young ones but there had been a rather aged woman among them, too, had been brought out of harms way. One of them, a teenager with green hair, he had taken several teleporting jumps away from Central Park since he ha been unwilling to stay away from the fights despite the fact that there was already a bleeding bruise on his forehead.

Returning from that last series of jumps, Nightcrawler appeared next to the others again. The crowd, by the looks of it, was partly dissolving, but there was something wrong. "Grundgütiger..." he gasped, instictively using German, when seeing the tiger wreak havoc among the bystanders and protster.

[Typhoid]

"Kurt, we need to get as many people out of here as we can!" Ty yelled to him.

[monet]

Monet had had about enough of shouted orders, violence, danger, and noise. Her head was aching with the overload of stimuli and the stress of the situation. The others seemed to be counting on the blue teleporter as their exit strategy, and were all distracted, so Monet muttered, "F*ck it." And lifted off, out of the range of the tiger, the fires, and the attitudes. She flew as fast as she possibly could, wanting nothing more than a long bubble bath and a stiff drink. She never claimed to be a hero and now knew that it definitely wasn't her cup of tea. She would be sure to talk to both Ty and Odin about all of it later.