"A tale of car chases and new friendships"

With her main girl out on a date, and Mia a good enough wing woman not to interrupt that even for a car chase like this, Mia had to think on the fly which of her contacts would be able to catch up with the situation and lend a helping hand. Kirk was a solid choice as a sidekick. He had a personality not far from hers, a bombastic style like hers, loud and proud but hardly a show stealer. Good head on his shoulders too. Downside was he moved a lot like her too. Quick, but not quick enough to catch up when she was already moving at top speeds. Feng came to her mind as another solid choice. She was fast, agile, definitely quick enough to catch up. Downside, from what she’d heard of her she wasn’t even close to the city and without an urban jungle to jump through she likely wouldn’t be able to catch up either, even with her speed she’d effectively just be running through streets till she made it to the city…

Another came to mind… she briefly sighed through her nose, even mid chase. Her last attempt to connect with that kid hadn’t gone well but… well. She didn’t want this situation to get out of hand. Without much more thought she put in a call to Angel, told them to suit up and meet her at a portion of the city that should be a good distance ahead of the chase. Least that’s what Redhorn was hoping. Was hard to tell how these things could go.

As she made her way to the scene, a series of questions from the eager young heroine met her ear. Mia was kinda focusing on vaulting over buildings, picking strong rooftops so she didn’t end up dropping through one into some poor sap’s apartment or something, buuuut she could at least give the kid something to work with.

“Stolen! Technically it’s about a dozen cars. Even more technically? Two transport trucks. Ya know those things that stack cars for like, repair transport? Year, those fucking things! So far we got no casualties but those cars are lookin’ wobbly from all the hard corners they’re makin’! Wouldn’t be surprised if a few are about to come loose!”

Hopefully that was gonna be enough for the kid to go on. Harder than anyone could thing to try and communicate while also exerting enough force to leap over about 3 buildings at a time.

As the chase closed in nearer to the scene, her red gaze locked onto one of the passing street names. Shit, they’d gone a fair bit off the course she was expecting. Angel was probably waiting for them elsewhere and she had no idea if the kid was gonna be able to hear them from over there. She chimed in on her earpiece and simply gave out-

“RedHorn chiming in! I’m gonna keep my jumps high! We went off the expected track when one of them charged through a police barricade but you should be able to see the giant jumping Oni no problem!”

Bit of humor to keep the mood light, and the moment Mia spotted a feathered young heroine rushing through the air towards them she dripped back down to street level. “You keep high I’ll stick low to the street, eyes on ‘em! Try and predict their turns!”

Charging like a rhino through the cleared streets, Mia saw the frightened civilans they managed to pass by and a few cars that harshly swerved off the road who hadn’t managed to be cleared out in advance. Only so many cops could devote themselves to a task at once afterall and they hadn’t expected the two stolen transports to swerve this way to begin with. Thankfully for Mia, a bull rush like this was able to keep up with the tricks, devastatingly strong in crashing through the police cars trying to stop them, but weighed down by cars they were carrying.

“Civilian’s take top priority as always kid! We-GAGH!” Her message was cut short as one of the trucks swerved just enough to crash through a lamppost, Mia gritting her teeth as she watched it fall towards a woman who’d collapsed in her attempts to dodge the truck itself. Mia leapt up, grabbing the head of the lamppost and tossed it harmlessly onto one of the nearby rooftops. It’d be a pain for someone to get down later, but at least it wasn’t hurting anyone. Mia, focusing on the chase, just shot the woman a quick glance to make sure she was okay before focusing ahead again. “We can afford the property damage, we can’t afford the casualties. Capiche?” She knew of course no student of UA would need reminding of that, but she’d be failing her duty as a mentor for her impromptu apprentice if she didn’t chime in.

Watching Angel fly onto the scene Mia wasn't too surprised to see her not only catch up but start to soar ahead of the chase scene itself, or at the very least, ahead of the Oni heroine herself. The girl was fast and it was easily one of her biggest boons as an apprentice for backup in a situation like this. While previous experiences with the kid hadn't left Mia with the strongest impression, she was eager to give her a shot here if it meant her skill set could come to use. What Mia wasn't too eager for... was the orders coming from her.

"No offense kid-" Mia charged up behind her as she caught that car, falling into a skid to flow under the edge of the lifted vehicle while Angel set it aside and still keeping her momentum, a hand still to the earpiece. "Nice work by the way! Anyway-! No offense but I mostly got the initial plan covered! Police are already on the scene, we just didn't expect them to take this route. They're already playing catch up! Definitely not good to let these things tip but you've been watching too many action movies if you think these things are gonna explode from a crash! And-!"

Mia cut herself short, kicking hard off the ground and bursting forward, more in a display of strength than speed as she practically launched herself like a rocket. She put herself up on the side of one of the trucks, shouldering it as it tried to take a hard corner. Effectively stopping it from tilting and crashing through one of the buildings on that street. Maintaining her momentum while supporting that weight certainly hadn't been an easy feat, even for her.

"I don't think you can stop one of these things with your bare hands! Rule of thumb, if you can't lift it, you definitely can't stop it while it's going 40 odd miles an hour!"

She didn't mean to be harsh, but she'd tried to treat the kid like a partner on a previous excursion and... well she didn't remember how that ended but she didn't recall it being a pleasant experience. With how bullheaded the kid could be, she wasn't changing that impression of her on her opening lines. "Focus on keeping up, keeping civilians out of harm's way, and wait for an opportunity! I can't get ahead of these things unless they're cornering, and that's when we need to focus on making sure they stay upright!"

She thought for a moment, Angel had managed to at least lift one of the cars so... "Focus on unlatching and lifting off the cars on the top levels! Put those wings to use! They'll get faster as they get lighter, but they'll be easier to stop once they got less weight behind 'em!"

It was a rough gambit but it was a start, and the less 'ammo' these things were packing the less risk there was gonna be of damage when one of them flung off not on the heroes terms.

(Just to be clear the idea was Mia did the skid while Angel was still holding the car up a bit xD just so you don’t think she suddenly got super skinny)

"To be fair, this is my very first car chase! Usually when i'm out in the field it's to beat up bad guys. This is a first!"

“Hey no worries kid we all have a first time for these sort of things. That’s pretty much why you should remember who’s in charge though!” She made sure to respond with a lighter tone than a harsh one, at the end of the day she understood Angel’s eagerness, her want to help, but as much as Mia wanted to show these kids some real experience, some real action, she knew it was her head on the line if something went wrong. She may be irresponsible for herself, but she wasn’t gonna be irresponsible as far as these kids were concerned.

Glancing back after her display of keeping one of the trucks on the right track rather than letting it crash through a building, Mia had to say she was kinda impressed by how swiftly the kid was working. She was keeping on her toes well enough, reacting sharply at high speeds and with some accuracy to boot with how she tossed that car aside into a parking spot. Mia let out an impressed little scoff but kept her eyes on the game going forward. As much as she loved to see the kids work, they still had a job to do afterall and this one was requiring a chunk of their attention.

Following the confirmation of her initial plan, Angel came up with a healthy addition of her own. Focusing on keeping up it took her a moment to process it before a hearty grin formed on the demonic titan’s maw, nodding along clearly enough even with the bobbing motions of her charge through the streets. “Ya know that ain’t bad kid! Without tires they’re gonna fuck up the street but nothing they can’t fix! Gotta give the labourers some work through the holidays I guess!” She teased playfully, definitely on board with the idea. “Okay! Focus on emptying the top end of the left car for me! I’ll tell the cops to focus on the one on the right and I’ll keep the left one on track while you unload it! Deal!?”

She didn’t mean to yell but mid chase it was hard to speak any other way. With confirmation on the plan they were making, Mia shoved hard off the ground again. As the truck on the right made a corner, Mia rammed the passanger door of the one on the left, forcing it to keep driving straight rather than taking another corner. Another one of the cars came loose up top, but she was trusting Angel to catch it, calling back. “Focus on the top layer! Once it’s clear let me know and I’ll unlock the bottom layer!”

She let Angel focus on her work with the top layer, wanting that entirely cleared before they did any more work. With the young woman swiped aside safely into some nervous looking fella’s arms, Mia gave a two fingered salute to the two of them as they ran past. “Stay safe!” Called out as she continued her charge like a decently speeding car for a busy area like this. Apparently there were 3 cars left on top. Damn these trucks were huge to carry so many of these things. “Cops say the other truck’s being diverted to less populated district so that’s good news and we’re keeping this thing on a long straight stretch so there should be no danger of turning. They notice we’re stealing the cars back though they might get reckless so keep an eye out!”

Only able to glance back in passing as she focused on keeping up with the truck and not crashing face first into a lamppost or a passing car they hadn’t managed to clear out of the streets ahead, Mia still managed to catch a glimpse of the impressive acrobatic and physical display from the kid behind her catching the cars. She couldn’t imagine how much effort it took to manage two extra limbs, and not only that but maintain flight with them while not knocking into anything, but the girl was certainly pulling it off she could give her that. As the top layer of the truck seemed to empty out, and police barricades were becoming more common in closing off the side roads they didn’t want the truck to take, Mia reckoned they were ready to finish off this half of the job.

“Take a rest for a second! I got this! I’m gonna need you to make sure you got the energy to catch up with this thing once it loses the last of the weight!”

Wiith that, Mia pushed herself harder to try and break into the pace of the truck itself. It was a hard effort, leaving cracks in the tarmac from the weight of each of her forceful steps. She couldn’t break ahead of it easily but she at least managed to get a hand on it’s back end, hoisting herself up onto the framework and taking a deep breath to catch herself, letting the truck carry her along for a block or so as she caught her breath before starting to clamber along the outside towards the front end of the truck. She didn’t trust her odds in stopping this thing by getting infront and digging in her heels… but she could get rid of the last of the spare weight. She shifted herself between the truck and the cargo, and started to slam her heel into the connecting joint between the two sections. It took a few hefty blows before the metal began to splinter and crack, before finally sparks began to fly as the back end came free, lacking front wheels without the truck, and sparking against the tarmac.

“Alright kid pop the wheels!”

Mia, finishing her own end of the job, kicked off the truck and from the tarmac she landed into, bounding towards the cargo it had dropped and placing herself behind it. A good number of cars and the framework weigh a good bit, but with the brakes it had put on itself by dragging against the tarmac made it easy enough for Mia to put a stop to. She didn’t have anywhere to safely put the thing, but with the street having been cordoned off anyway she didn’t have much worry in leaving it, giving he police a quick alert as to where she was leaving it before moving to catch up with Angel. Hopefully the kid had done her end of the deal by now, and it wouldn’t be too hard to catch up with the thing.

“Eh I go for more of a stiff drink myself, but why not? If I’m in the mood after this I’ll let ya know, but I ain’t makin’ any hard promises!” She called across their coms with a cheeky smile resting on her tone, focusing on the efforts of stopping the cargo of the truck from doing too much damage to the road. Really it wasn’t too bad, a deep scratch through the tarmac, but nothing a fine layer couldn’t fix. Wasn’t like they’d have to dig the whole thing up or anything. “And I dunno about the gift baskets… as much as I keep them in business I don’t think any of them are the kind to be happy about it! Heheheh!~”

Even on a negative note like that, it was always more than easy for Mia to have a laugh about her situation. It’s what kept her going half the time afterall.

Catching up to the scene just in time to hear the harsh sound of spinning metal grinding against the tarmac, Mia bounded back to the truck, dugging her fingers into the metal base at the back that the car carrier would have hooked onto, the metal warping around her strong hands, and trying to dig in her heels, but at this speed it was nearly impossible. Even with Angel’s help up top she could feel her veins bulging up along her skin, a hint of red flowing up her hands and the dry skin at the bottom of her feet scraped off by the extreme friction between herself and the road. Lucky for her it basically just chipped off that hard layer of dead skin. For any average joe it’d probably have ground their heel down to the bone and then some.

Before long, the vehicle, started to slow, Mia not acting on any expectation that this was a job well done though. “Angel, no time to lose. I got these guys! Take to the sky, tap into the police channels, get eyes on that second truck. Got it?” There was some urgency in her voice but only because she had to focus on the job at hand. With Angel likely taking to the sky Mia moved forward to the driver. Grabbing his chest as he tried to hop out, she slammed him back into his seat with enough force to wind him, grasping the edges of the door frame and dragging them together, warping and disfiguring the metal so it was no longer an exit. And, just incase he thought about climbing through the broken windshield, she did the same to the front of the truck too, effectively making him a metal cage.

“You stay in there till some cops come… and until they figure out how to get you out.~” She added with a cheeky smile, keeping close to the scene for safety until she saw some of the cop cars starting to catch up. A hand shading her eyes as she tried to spot Angel against the bright midday skyline, tapping into the coms. “Got anythin’ kid?”

“Heh, yeah, I guess so. Just make sure that ain’t where you’re getting your information from all the time. I mean, hopefully we should never rely on a car crashing, but if we have to ya don’t have to worry about it exploding is all I was trying to say before.”

As much as she was happy to joke with Angel she wanted to at least make her point from earlier clear between them so the young heroine in training took something away from what Mia was trying to convey rather than accidentally brushing it off as a joke between them. With the goon locked up in the warped metal of the car and Angel soon bursting off to take control of the scene ahead of them, it didn’t take long for Mia herself to spot a few cop cars catching up to their position. It was just when one of them was telling them off for wrapping him in the car that she heard the sound of Angel trying to link her up to the conversation, giving her an easy get out of jail free card for the conversation. “Ah, sorry, apprentice is handling the situation elsewhere. Gotta take this.~” She shot off with a cheeky grin as she pulled away from the conversation, easing off to the side and adjusting her comms to get a better listen.

“I can do without being called Ms but good move keeping me in the loop. You got a good lead on me but I’m gonna work on catching up asap. Just handed off the first guy to the cops. Focus on the situation at hand, I’ll tap into the police and fill myself in along the way.” She didn’t know if she’d manage to catch sight of the kid before they dove out of her view but at the very least she could get some clear directions off the cops. She’d jumped around this city so much she knew the street names like the back of her hand, so even as Angel dove out of sight into a building, it was easy enough for Mia to find the scene. She had to say, with how the cops were acting they were probably showing the kid more respect than they would her… not that she was surprised, but still, the kid was handling this well. Quick clean orders and a good head on her shoulders, for the most part. She could maybe chastise the kid for going in solo like she did, but knowing herself, she woulda done the same thing in the kid’s position.

With a mighty leap from one of the nearby buildings, Mia skipped over the police entirely, having been asking them for updates through the coms on the way over and landing on the roof of the chop shop itself, spotting a skylight and assuming the sound of any fighting within was gonna make it easy enough for her landing to go unnoticed, peeling open one of the skylights and peering down inside…

All in all, the kid seemed to have this. As a mentor she should probably drop in and take a hold of things, but Mia always liked to give the kids working with her some time to shine if she felt they could handle it, and Angel was definitely giving Mia the impression she earned a bit of time to herself with these guys. Things got hairy? She’d hop in and make sure she made her presence known. For now though? She definitely wanted to see what Angel was made of when she was holding her own, half hoping the kid didn’t realize she was watching so she could see what Angel would do when there weren’t eyes on her. She always came off like she was a little too eager to impress afterall.

Mia watched from the skylight as Angel seemed to have a handle on at least the basic goons. Most of them looked like they didn’t have a quirk, or if they did, it was nothing that was gonna help them in a fight against someone more trained like Angel. Heck if she dropped in she could probably throw a punch and have the lot of them thrown against the walls in a single blow, the idea making her chuckle a little, especially since it was probably true. Still, Angel seemed to have a hand on things and she let the kid have her moment. Even when the bigger guy came into the fight and seemed to land a good blow, the most that came from Mia was an empathetic hiss at the pain that likely caused, keeping her eyes on the fight all the while though, pretty sure the kid still had a handle on things.

When the fight got a little more tense she shifted, ready to drop in through the ceiling, but watching Angel dig her hands into an engine and use it like boxing gloves? Hey, the kid could definitely improvise she’d give ‘em that. Probably was gonna fuck up their hands enough for Nimue to give her a talking to once they got back, but it definitely gave her a fun fight to watch as Angel delivered the finishing blows.

For the most part she let Angel handle the wrap up too, it wasn’t like it was hard and she didn’t wanna come in and steal the glory so to speak. Waiting entirely for Angel to come back out and address the officers… Mia debated briefly if she should pretend she was just late to the show, give Angel the impression she HAD to handle that on her own but…heh. She knew the kid. As much as she may try to pretend otherwise she pretty much lived for praise and acceptance from people around her. Wouldn’t be good to lie to her like that.

Dropping down from the rooftop to the outside of the building, Mia made no effort to hide that she’d been watching from the skylight, giving a light clap to Angel’s efforts, a chuckle escaping her throat. “Nice work kid. I didn’t even need to step in!~ Though er…” Noticing the damage done to her hands, Mia paused briefly to note them, starting to work the bandages off her forearms. “C’mere… my first aid training ain’t the best but don’t worry, these things are designed to stay clean. Costume and first aid rolled into one. Clever eh?”

Kneeling down to get more to Angel’s height, she took one of the girl’s wrists as gently as a titan like her could and started to bandage up her hand, pulling out a disinfectant spray from a Velcro pocket of her costume to make sure she did this right. It wasn’t the best first aid work, but it did the job. “Nice work with the engine block by the way. Metal boxing gloves? Niiiiice…~”