Meeting of the horned ones (Keishicho)

The goons that had been having their fun looting weren’t oblivious to the police barricades that had been forming outside. But, of course, they weren’t too worried. They knew the police couldn’t use any quirks they may have against them without it being illegal. Sure, they were allowed to in self defense, but with officers that tended to be very strict. They could make sure they got out of a situation alive but fighting back was a big no no for the boys in blue. As such, when these goons had a quirker amongst their numbers, they felt they had nothing to worry about.

“Oy! Sal! Keep ‘em back will ya!? We almost got a way out!” One of them was messing with an old sewer grate, an odd design that was part of really old bathrooms that this establishment didn’t seem to have had the time to have bricked over. Just a bit of digging around the edge and they’d have a whole big enough to escape into the sewers!

The goon named sal himself hissed a little, his body lurching out of the store and narrow, slitted eyes atop a very long and flexible neck. The boy himself was covered in scales but seemed to have a neck and head of a snake, towering over an otherwise normally proportioned body. The police seemed to bark a general warning in his direction, but with a snap of his maw, he lurched forward, his head swinginging across the barricaded space and letting out a breath of fire, screeching across the area just to the edge of the barrier and forcing everyone to keep their distance. His snake like eyes narrowed further however as he spotted the armored minotaur taking his steps forward.

“What the hell are you suppossssed to be?” He hissed between his fangs.

Mia herself was still watching from a nearby rooftop. Now as much of an ego as she had, she wasn’t a glory hog and didn’t wanna steal someone else’s thunder, but as the snake like man reared back, something thick seeming to bulge it’s way up his throat, Mia leapt from the edge of her perch and landed between the bull and the snake man, her arm cutting across her body and taking a purple glob that had been fired by the snakely goon, smirking a little behind her arm before throwing it down to the side, mockingly looking to it with an ‘”eewwww.” Sound. The snake looked surprised to say the least.

Mia grinned over her shoulder with a wave. “Sorry, don’t mean to steal yer thunder mate!~”

“”W-what!? I just shot you with poison and you don’t and you don’t even flinch!?”

Mia herself looked back to the snake, shrugging with a smirk as she shook the slime off her arm. “Toxin resistant there mate…makes it a ballache to get drunk but it has it’s uses.~” She smirked with a cheeky grin before turning her eyes back to the bull. “Mind if I lend you a hand here mate?~”

Mia shook off her arm to get rid of the lest of the toxic slim as she took a moment to confer with Wagyu. Seemed he didn’t mind her intrusion, and as every she didn’t mean to steal the show, but she’d certainly be adding her own flair to the proceedings. With a soft crack of her neck to either side, she lowered herself into a more ready position, prepared to take on this lizard lad and whatever other tricks he may have up his sleeves…or under his scales.

“Same goes to you. Don’t want an errant elbow swinging into your jaw there mate!~” She smirked nice and wide, already eager to see what this lizard could do, but rushing in ahead of her was her partner in arms Wagyu who seemed to wanna get this over and done with, a no nonsense punch aimed right at this snake man’s head. Mia quirked her brow, trying to resist snickering when the inevitable happened and the wirey head of the snake easily dipped out of the way of the punch, the snake man rearing back, fires flickering in his maw as he prepared to let out a torrent of flame on the bull from close range. Seeing her opportunity, Mia moved in.

With a hard kick off the ground from where she stood, she leapt up into the line of action of the snake man’s head, wrapping her firm hands around his maw and forcing him to swallow his own flames as she pulled his elongated neck back over his shoulders, relying on the flexibility of a snake to make sure this didn’t cause any serious damage, and watching the snake’s eyes as not only was he forced to hold his flames in his mouth, but Wagyu got a clean punch at his gut like he’d been planning. The combo of being locked mid-breath and the hard gut punch easily took him out of action, the long neck going limp, and a final cough of flames as Mia released the head.

“Niiiice one Bull!~” She chimed with a nice wide grin, bit still a look of determination in her slightly furrowed brow. She dipped her red eyes to the store itself, the goons inside seemed to have loaded up all the swag they felt they could get away with, and one hooked a second duffle bag on their spare shoulder as they realized Sal wasn’t coming. Mia could see them all rushing into the back, though the fact they seemed to be waiting in the doorframe said to her their escape plan wasn’t ready yet.

“Looks like we still got time! Come on!” She rushed towards the store, leaping over the shattered glass in one of the windows and pushing deeper into the store to hopefully catch them before they got away. Odds where if they had some escape method in the back, it might be a very niche and secretive way that the two heroes couldn’t follow them through, so best to grab them while they can.

(feel free to control some NPCs too btw~)

With Wagyu charging in beside her and taking down a goon of his own, Mia managed to wrench one of the others away from a not so well hidden hiding place behind some of the display cases, not losing much of her momentum as she gripped the front of his hoodie and lifted him up off his feat before slamming him into the ground before her, throwing most of the air out of his lungs and leaving him a coughing, sputtering mess for at least a few seconds as he tried to catch himself.

“That all of you?” She’d ask, rather sharply compared to the banter filled personality she’d displayed outside. Her usually violet purple eyes the harsh red they became when she committed to her Oni state, and her muscular form creating no less than an imposing image as it lingered over the winded goon. No time to joke when they might be missing someone afterall.

“B-back!” He sputtered out. Mia didn’t need anything else, lifting him and slamming him back down just a little to wind him enough that he didn’t plan on getting back up anytime soon. She rushed into the back of the store, careful not to slam through the walls in her haste. By the time she got into the back, noticing the old style of the bathroom in the back, her eyes clocked onto a hole in the ground were the drainage grate may have been, cursing under her breath and throwing her arms down. She knew the hole was too small for a normal person, let alone her, so by the time Wagyu caught up all he could see was her ramming her head down the hole, trying to see if she could see where he was running, and though she could hear some wet footsteps along the sewer line, the chunk of pipe was still too small for anyone without a quick to have escaped through…that or they were a very skilled toddler. “Fuckin’…shit!”

With her head down in the sewer, she could still hear Wagyu behind her, the thuds of his heavy steps echoing through the pipe but his words a little more muffled, though she could tell he was reporting on the scene at least. She shifted to try and pull her head out of the hole that had been made into the pipe, but a soft ‘clang’ sounded out as the tip of her horn caught on the inside of the pipe, shifting herself a little and slowly dragging herself to a more upright position, unspooling some of the decorative bandages around her forearms, tearing a chunk off with her teeth, and using it to wipe her horn and face as she rose to her full height.

“No, no. No signs of it. Didn’t see anything that could help us either. I mean unless he literally turns into sewer waste, there was nothing he left behind that could hint at him turning into a slime creature or something to be able to get away…” She wiped her face a little more vigorously on her way out before tossng the raggedy bit of bandage in a trashcan they passed. “As far as getting a map off these lot…”

She looked to the goon she’d left on the ground, huffing a little through her nose, more mad at herself than anything else as he was easily knocked out. “I don’t think mine’s gonna be very talkative…what’s the state of yours? Open to a little interrogation?” She looked across to the beefy minotaur. As much as they were alike in build, she could tell he came off a lot calmer than she did personally, so the idea he hadn’t been as rough with the goons was not a farfetched one despite his impressive size and frame. “I mean either way we still got lizard neck outside so we might have a chance…”

Mia fixed up the bathroom best she could, but the damage done to make it so that punk could fit down the drain. The old grate didn't fit in place anymore but Mia could do her best to at least...scooch all the rubble into one corner so it didn't look as bad to the owner of the store once they came back. Eventually of course she'd come out to see Wagy's work on the goon he'd managed to get to wakey wakey land, smirking a little and just watching him work as she leaned agains tthe wall, folding her strong arms over one another.

"Or you could take your chances with me." She'd add in with a cheeky tone, watching the goon and catching his eye, then pointing down to the one she'd slammed so hard into the ground he'd left a small dent in the foundation. The wood hadn't just shattered, it seemed to have warped around his body at the core.

A gulp sounded through his throat, and he slowly raised his hands. "O-okay. Okay. He...he said he was gonna use the loot to post our bail but I don't trust that freak as far as I can throw 'em." He stated, the guy seeming not to have a quirk probably leading to why he called the other a freak. "He's rushing downtown. We got a hiding spot in the back of an old sushi resteraunt. You'll know it cause it's got a big warning in the window from when it was shut down."

Mia narrowed her gaze, and added in. "Wait you mean that place that got closed down cause none of the sushi was actually fish?"

"That's the one." he quickly replied, hands still raised and unsure if he should be meeting Mia's gaze or Wagyu's.

Mia made sure the goon didn't have an easy way out before she left, resting a piece of the store's furniture over him, not adding pressure to him, but limiting his movement options severely while he was already bound and made an easy grab for the police, dusting her hands off as she headed about on her heels and started towards the door. Wagyu seemed to be addressing the police, so Mia turned to the crowd that, as ever, had naturally formed around such an event, raising her hands to quiet the questions of any aspiring little journalists that had rushed to the scene.

"No questions just yet everyone. This situation ain't over yet. We've managed to contain the bulk of the forces at hand here, but we're going to be making sure the job is done right before we give you the full scope of things." She lifted a finger to try and grab some attention from the less journalistic members of the crowd. "Now everyone, the Police still got a lot of work to do here. Keep your heads down, stay out of their way, but make sure you give them a good bit of acknowledgement. We all gotta play our part here and they do it spectacularly!" She had a wide grin, but as she turned to start moving her expression shifted to one fairly more serious again, starting into a sharp run and leaping up into the air with ease, catching a lampost, throwing her momentum along the outcropping over the street, and sending herself further into the air, her forward momentum turned skyward, and letting her land on one of the rooftops to more easily traverse the streets to her target.

When on the scene, she'd do Wagyu a fairness and wait for them to arrive, spotting them as they did and carefully moving towards them so as to group up without alerting the potential criminal inside, heading that a frontal assault definitely wasn't a strong idea, a fair smirk on her lips. "Well i'd offer to break in from above but I tried to stop the whole unnescasary demolition approach once I went pro...you got any idea on a plan of attack?"