dizzy_land | Somewhere in Toon Town

"Well, there's those two, and then there's Elle; she can do things with electricity, and she's not too shy about showing it off. And then there's—" Cayce's jaw dropped, and, if there'd been any light, Katou and Jenny would have seen her go dead pale.

"Did—did you say there—that you heard a man and a woman yelling?"

"Yeah," Jenny replied, frowning. "Wasn't necessarily a physical fight, though, just exchanging words. Why, do you know something?" She could recognize that expression Cayce had.

"This ... could be bad." She took a step vaguely in the direction of the castle moat before remembering that such a move would be very, very stupid. At least without some kind of backup.

"There's a guy who's got it in for Elle, I think," Cayce said. "And since she does stuff with electricity, she might—oh shit. Oh shit. I hope she's okay."

Katou sighed, then rubbed the side of his head. "I guess if it wasn't Virgil, that's okay," he said.

Still, Cayce looked worried. And Katou had been itching for a fight. Maybe he could have one. "Want me to come with you?"

"Hold on. What sort of abilities does this bloke have, and why's he have it in for the girl?" Jenny asked, narrowing her eyes. She would certainly want to deal with anyone who was causing trouble, but she also knew enough not to go into a fight without knowing what she was up against. Not to mention that although she kept a pistol on her person as backup, she was not incredibly useful if there was no electricity to draw upon. She obviously wouldn't let a girl get hurt even if it was dangerous, but it would be good to know how much.

"Telekinesis. Freezing shit. He referred to her as an 'upgrade', which makes me think he can grab people's powers, and she thinks she knows him, and what she said backs that up." Cayce sighed, danced a little from one foot to the other out of nervousness. "We should check it out. Just in case something—"

Just then, with a flicker and a low hum that seemed to come from everywhere, the park lights came back on.

Cayce blinked.

((I figure it's been about 10-15 minutes by now...))

Jenny didn't smile when the power came on, but she did become visibly less tense. "Good, that makes things easier, at least," she said.

"Right then. We find the girl, make sure she's all right, and if she's not, then there'll be trouble." She gave both of them a glance over. "Cards on the table. What do you two do? I assume you fly, anything else?" she asked Katou. "And you, just human?"

"Plain old human," Cayce said with a wry smile. "And the name's Cayce, by the way. Just in case you need to yell it."

There was a ripple in Katou's skin, and then Jenny was staring at a reflection of herself. "It might seem harmless, but it's really not." He paused, then flashed his claw, all the claws sticking out. "This comes in handy too. And I'm hand with a sword. If I had one."

"Got it," she said told Katou. "Don't have any swords, though, so you'll need to improvise. My powers are electricity based, too."

She then turned to Cayce, her lips quirking into a small smile. "Jenny Sparks." The prospect of a fight had brought back old habits more quickly than she would have expected, considering where she was and the fact that she'd thought she was more than ready to turn her metaphorical badge in by the time of her death. "I don't like the idea of bringing civilians to what could get messy. Does this bloke have a name and a face?"

"Calls himself Zane. Elle thought he might be someone named ... Peter, I think it was? Anyway, Zane Taylor is what he's calling himself now. And ... I know from personal experience that I am seriously outmatched by this guy, so, um." Cayce looked a bit disgruntled. "I don't like to run, but I also do not need to have my ass handed to me on a platter again."

Katou laughed. "Probably best if you don't get involved anyway, Caycey," he said. "I got involved in things that were above me, and I got killed." He paused. "Not saying that you would be, since I'm pretty sure people don't get killed here. Just saying though."

"That so?" Jenny asked, frowning again. "I'm really not fond of superpowered bastards who cause problems for everyone else." Which was an understatement. It had sounded to Jenny like this Zane was the bad news here even when they were talking about him targeting a girl with abilities like hers, but even in the (seemingly unlikely, from Jenny's vantage point) event that Cayce had provoked the fight, it was still not at all right for him to overpower a normal woman.

"I wouldn't think of it as running," she told Cayce instead. "Common bloody sense, you don't go up against something you can't handle. But I'll see to Zane." Turning to Katou, she added "What's this about people not getting killed?"

"I should go with you to give you an ID on the guy," Cayce pointed out. "And then get out of the way, yeah. But I know what he looks like, and Elle too."

"Elle's cute and blonde, isn't she?" asked Katou. He had met her when she had first arrived.

He turned to Jenny and frowned thoughtfully. "Huh. I guess V's the only non-cute blonde electricity user in the park."

"If you think it makes sense to do so," Jenny told Cayce. "Dunno how unstable he is. I can find him on my own if I need to, but if the girl's in trouble, the faster we find them the better."

She raised an eyebrow at Katou's comment, but seemed neither offended nor particularly phased. "Bloody teenagers in this park need to learn to watch the cheek. Who's V?"

"Watch the cheek? Katou made an exaggerated attempt to look at his own cheek, before he settled on quite obviously looking at a pair of cheeks on Jenny that were somewhat lower down. Oh, he was asking for an asskicking, and he knew it.

"V's this big black man," he said. "I mean, huge. Like the Hulk. Only bigger. And less green."

Ahaha, Katou really couldn't picture Virgil as a 'big black man' but, well, a little white lie would never hurt anyone.

"And he does the electric thing too. Good. Now answer my question about the killing," she instructed, ignoring his gaze. Honestly, Jenny didn't really care if he looked as long as he understood that touching was invitation only.

"Basically the park won't let people die," Cayce put in. "Fall off a high place, and you'll float to the ground. And if you try to kill someone, you get chucked into a fountain. I know of at least one case with an actual witness."

"Huh. Any idea how close to fatal you can get before the defense system kicks in?"

After all, there was a lot of damage a person could do without killing them. Not to mention, Jenny needed to know for her own purposes if she even got in a fight.

"Close enough to cripple," Cayce said. "Although how I know that isn't really my story to tell."

"So enough that the wrong person can get up to plenty," Jenny said darkly. "Right. Obviously Zane's left the moat area. Any idea where he lives, or where he'd be headed?"

Cayce shook her head. "No idea, unfortunately. He seems to drift around."

"Well, it should be easy enough to find him," Katou said. "Wh -" and then he realized that neither Cayce nor Jenny would know what he feels like, so it wasn't going to be that easy.

"Well, shit," he muttered. "Scratch that."

"Well bugger," Jenny replied to Cayce. "Katou, how's your night vision? Can you take to the air, see if you can find the girl? She has a man with her, don't move in, get me first. It sounds like two against one is a better bet."

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