[SRP]NoMoreHeroes–Issue10: Mannahatta

[ZeroForever]

Ickle Harri-chan - Katherine 'Kitty' Harrison AKA The Flying Fox – Catalina Essex
Stray-chan - Lucius Banks AKA Headbanger – Bubbles
“You hit your head or something… You’re already on my buddies list on facebook.” Blossom said looking at her curiously when she used paper to request for her phone number. As she proceeded with her klutz attack ending with a spectacular collision with the table. “Damn looks like you won the bet today… given how quiet she was I thought she was definitely going to make it at least an hour before causing a scene.” Ms. Utonium said as she handed a 1000 dollar bill to Maria. “Well I did warn you she was acting strange today.” Maria rebutted before turning to help Cat. Both women surprisingly enough had somehow completely evaded the disaster zone that was Cat, neither having a drop of food of them despite being at ground zero. Blossom admired Cat’s now wet semi see through clothing only to be interrupted as Ms. Utomium grabbed her by the ear before dragging her off “Come on you two, no time for gawking we have a show to get to.” She shouted at Buttercup and Bubbles.
Maria meanwhile cleaned up the mess and Cat at the same time he hands moving faster than Cat or any normal person could follow. As Maria dried and washed the girl as she was sat down in semi shock “I thought your father already established, no genetic modifications on yourself. That’s what the slaves are for.” Maria said, clearly able to hear her plotting ideas despite the distance. Sighing she looked athe dress “Guess we’ll have to drop by the condo and get you changed before going to show, the house is to far without calling for the hover jet and even then we would be pressed for time.” She said checking the time.

[Harri-chan]

Cat's glasses had slipped during her tumble, giving her a view of how blurry the world was without them now, until she pushed them back up her nose and watched in shock as the woman in the smart suit handed the bill over to Maria. Her eyes widened at the amount, and her cheeks went red as she realised they'd been betting on wether or not this would happen, and what's worse, it was Maria that had said it would. Her cheeks went more and more red as they discussed her as if she couldn't hear what they were saying, commenting on her odd behaviour. Slowly, she climbed to her feet with Maria's help and glanced at the two women's clean clothing, her eyes shamefully level with their chests, which both looked quiet large from her perspective, making her feel so childish, and then looked down at her own clothing with a groan, "I'm fine, Bubbles, but look at my dress...". She looked up to find Blossom doing just that, admiring the way the wet dress clung to her body and was now semi-transparent from being all wet. This threw her into even more confusion as to why she'd got to hang out with the band, as up until now she'd been leaning towards a possible relation to Blossom... but that look made her think otherwise. She tugged nervously on the dress, and wrapped an arm across her chest, embarrassed at being looked at in such a way when she felt so inferior to all these other girls... the band, Ms. Utonium and Maria too. "Facebook?", she muttered and looked confused for a moment. "Oh... the thing on my phone...". In her previous adult life, Kat had been clueless when it came to the internet, as shown by her awful website, but she was picking up things quite quickly. "Huh... I could use that to make sure my colour scheme was considered cool...".

As the two girls were dragged off by Ms. Utonium, she lifted a hand from her side and wriggled her fingers in a wave. "Good luck with the show!", she called, before sighing and looking at Maria as she cleaned the dress as best she could. "You heard all that?", she asked before lowering her head a little and pushing her fingers beneath her glasses to rub at her eyes, and frowned as Maria mentioned slaves. While she was confident she could recall all her old skills with practice, and even more confident her new intelligence, she could still picture being an adult with a teenage daughter that was experimenting on herself and putting herself in danger. "Will you tell him about it?", she asked, her head tilting to one side, biting her bottom lip as she squirmed from the feel of Maria's hands rubbing back and forth against her skinny body. "What could go wrong? It would stop all these clumsy accidents... I'd do anything you wanted if you could forget to mention all this to him, Maria...", she offered, although in truth she had no idea what she had to give, nor what the maid would want. She was starting to get a feel for just how dependent Cat was on her babysitting maid, but she was actually grateful Maria was around and took such a commanding role, as she would have been lost without her guidance. What's more, unlike Yuna and Blossom, Maria always seemed to be there, which she was starting to like.

She cringed as the maid gave up on her dress with a sigh, but then a smile appeared when she heard they'd be going to the show too, "We have tickets to the show? Awesome! I can't wait to see Blossom on stage. Do you think she'll give me a shout out? The condo? Uh... sure", she murmured, wondering just how many homes the Essex family had, and there was mention of that hover jet again, she couldn't wait to see that. "Sorry for making a mess, Maria, I really appreciate everything you do for me...". It hadn't really occurred to her to try and explain what had happened. From the moment she's been transformed it had felt natural to okay along and hide the truth. After all, claims such as that could wind her up in some kind if of institution, not to mention she was still weighing up wether being a smart kid with more money than she could ever spend was better than being a mature, sexy, failure of a super hero. "Will you help me? I just need to get these costumes... you know, so people won't know it's me? Uh... and keeping it a secret from my Father of course. Although a secret hideout and a car would be cool too, but I understand that's quite over the top for someone my age. You could be like Alfred to my Batman! Or Pepper Potts to my Tony Stark! Pleeease? I know I can do a good job of this, I have it all figured out... and I won't let my school work suffer", she said, reaching her skinny arms up around the older teenager to hug her, blushing at the feel of Maria's more mature body rubbing against her own. "I promise I'll shut up about it for the rest of the evening if you help me tomorrow...".

[ZeroForever]

Maiden Miki - Michael Anderson AKA The Hub – Mimi Eoria
As they proceeded across the campus the crisp air of the night settled in as the sun set in the west, the rays painting everything in a red and orange hue.
While she wouldn’t notice it in action the suit was thermally insulating the air and wind from her, it didn’t however fix her klutziness when tied with enhanced speed/reflexes was a recipe for disaster. As such she found herself getting a piggy back ride from Hakase after she had went from being dragged to flyingpast him and crashing into a tree. Her chest beating against his back.
They would arrive back at the lab a few minutes later.

Miku-chan - Ben Reilly AKA Scarlet Spider – Gwen Watson
“Good Mistress” ‘Lilly’ responded to the inquiry head bowed, Gwen really couldn’t expect much more conversation from the girls; after all they were trained to be efficient. The meal went down quickly, delicious as normal when she finished the plates were cleaned up as Lilly handed her an iPad which had instructions typed on it before exiting the apartment.
The instructions were simple enough, ‘Meet me in the Black Room when you’re ready.’ Even with her memory issues the black room was fresh in her mind, it was where the ‘social events’ took place, and to her recollection it was never dull. The private elevator in there room had an option that led directly to it.

Knight Errant - Stan Darkwood AKA The Sentinel – Stella
Needless to say the rest of the meal finished up without to much of an issue, the group heading into one of the back rooms of the casino before entering one of the private ‘special’ employee chambers to change, the fact that it had genetic readers to pass through the first door though the 2nd scan was fairly unnoticeable at least to them.
The prep room looked like a sci-fi dressing room, ultra-sound showers, auto-closet selections, in general the works, it was one of the nicer perks of working for the powerful criminal underground.
Selma and Fei li went off to do there usually routines, before entering there private auto-closet. It was usually in there while changing, special assignments were given and even among them selves they weren’t allowed to speak of what they had to do unless it directly affected another.

Danarth - Daniel Horatio Blaidd AKA 'Lykos' – Horo Gleason
“Let’s go Horo” Kara said, at her urging they took off the group blazing across the campus landscape sunset in their eyes. As she ran the wind blew all around them as she would catch the scent of the geek boy and lady gaga’isk girl in the wind; however they weren’t in the current pathways and lost as they proceeded further away from the main campus. She wound find that she would know where to go or at least which direction, the collar acting like a gps pointing her in the correct direction her instincts doing the rest, the expo wasn’t too far away a few miles tops as the group arrived at the main entrance a few minutes later not really hitting any major roads that they couldn’t blow past. The security guards giving her a quick look muttering ‘meh another rich girl and her mutant scum’ under their breaths. Kara and Cassie disembarked as they arrived at the main gate, where as Kara tapped the commands as Horo would find herself changing back into her maid form, Cassie petting her and feeding her a beef jerky treat. “Much better then horses any day” Cassie said as she looked around impatiently for her to change back and something else, the something else apparent as with a puff Kiwi also arrived, looking slightly tired but still not complaining as she pulled VIP tags out of her cleavage.

Kaizer - Mark Habel AKA Grav – Ming Zhu
“The Mings?” The shadowed person said “Hmm… I see your transition was only the mind not the memories. Guess I’ll need to start from the top then.”
With that she could feel the information feeding into her head images vividly entering her mind as the figure spoke. “While there are multiple divergences in the time line the major one that affects you is the issue with mutants. Roughly around the time of WWII instead of scientific break through that led to Captain Freedom and the atom bomb and the like the US military had a break through regarding mutants. Mutants were the solo determining factor, and were responsible for the Nazi’s defeat and the death of over 20,000 Japanese people in 2 attacks reminiscent of nuclear weapons. The break through with mutants however had a 2ndary effect of speeding up the evolution process and resulted in sudden appearance of massive numbers of mutants instead of gradual integration. This led to wide scale panic and conflict between normal people and mutants which led into a civil war, losses on both sides staggering even considering WWII had only happened years before, humanity won this war. They had already developed a mutant fatal virus the ‘XX’ virus, which resulted in roughly a 90% fatality rate. The remaining mutants were transformed, the virus usually repressing there mental facilities and intelligence as a result, as well as replacing the Y gene with X resulting in a one gender race. After that all remaining mutants were placed into camps and various legislation came about that stripped them of their human rights. If you were born a mutant or discovered as mutant, you lost your rights and life if you rebelled. Eventually rights movements eventually came about for mutant kind and there has been a slow movement towards integrating them back into society. Needless to say while full freedom has been granted to some mutants and even portions of society now revolves around them progress has been slow. Schools like this which help integrate mutants back into society, even as servants are far better than it was even 10 years ago.”
“As for your question Ming was discovered as a mutant at a fairly young age, the legislation of slavery is still in place as such she was placed in one the mutant camps and processed, family and life stripped away. She is currently un-purchased as of this moment and placed here for education purposes. So as far as anyone knows, she has no family outside of her class mates. “
That said the figure gave her a few minutes to digest the information

[Zilla]

"Mom!" Hime shouts, seeing that family. It's triggered some primal instinct in her, and there's no way she control it. "Mom! Dad! It's me..." she says, trying to recall that name she had before... Sandy? Xandra? Sandra! "It's me... Sandra."

It seemed time hung suspended, as her brain went into overtime, scanning for any signs of recognition or reaction in her parents' faces. Did they know her? Did they remember her, all those years ago? It nearly didn't process the girl they had with them, since she had been completely floored to see her parents, and everything else faded to the background. Everything was going to be okay... They were alive, and so was she. She could be with her family once again... Somehow, they would make it work.

[ZeroForever]

Zilla - Name: Sandra Yen / Sparker – Hime
Her shouts fall on mostly deaf ears, most of the venue goers giving her odd looks including her parents. They clearly didn’t recognize her despite the attempted approach and shouted names if anything they looked spooked by the strange gyroid shouting for its parents. ’Hime stop that right now” she heard Batou’s voice popping in her head “Even if those were your parents your legally deceased and Gyrich will… ” his voice cutting off as another comm. line activated. “02 just proceed with the show normally or we’ll switch you to automatic.” She heard Gyrich say the private having contacted command fairly quickly.

[Maiden Miki]

Maiden Miki - Michael Anderson AKA The Hub – Mimi Eoria
As they proceeded across the campus the crisp air of the night settled in as the sun set in the west, the rays painting everything in a red and orange hue.
While she wouldn’t notice it in action the suit was thermally insulating the air and wind from her, it didn’t however fix her klutziness when tied with enhanced speed/reflexes was a recipe for disaster. As such she found herself getting a piggy back ride from Hakase after she had went from being dragged to flyingpast him and crashing into a tree. Her chest beating against his back.
They would arrive back at the lab a few minutes later.

"AHHHH~!" yelled Mimi as she flew in the air after being dragged and tripped due to Hakase. She was flying in the air and her hand was let go. Mimi saw that she was going to crash into a tree and at once tried to activate the the breaks that would sent air out to help balance her but it was too late. Mimi had hit the tree and left a small dent in it. Still nothing compare to what could have happen like snapping the three in half.

Mimi had 'blacken out' a bit and when she came too she saw that she was on the back of Hakase. The Micheal within Mimi was trying to focus and figure out what was going on but her heart was beating intensely as she was leaning against Hakase's back. Eventually they were back in the lab.

"What are we going to do now?" asked Mimi as she was still against Hakase's back. She had her head tilted away from Hakase as her face was red for a reason but it couldn't be because she was hot or something since the suit had a way to keep her cool. "It is getting late and I believe I have to leave for home soon."

[Danarth]

Horo was repeatedly padding one foot against the ground to get a feel for what it was like to have a body this size. She was broken from this by the urging from Kara. Nodding her large lupine head she would press her paw into the ground then bending the front legs slowly she would begin to move forward slowly at first then picking up speed as she went. She made sure not to speed up too quickly just in case Kara or Cassie couldn't hold on to the saddle. She would pick up the pace so that she was moving at a fast but comfortable pace so as not to knock Kara or Cassie about too much but so they would make reasonable progress. Even though she was not like a horse in that her feet did not have the horse shoes, so her feet would not have made the same noise when they came into contact with the ground, Horo's size and weight would mean that she would still be making noise as she moved, the noises of the paws of her powerful legs pounding against solid ground beneath them. She could feel a breeze around her face as she began to move faster, out and away from the main campus. As she ran, her tongue would drop from her jaw and would hang there to offset the heat her body would produce as she ran. On the wind that was brushing past her face, she caught the scent of the geek boy and the lady Gaga girl, she had seen earlier but the scent was lost soon after was she headed away from the main campus.

As they drew further away from the main campus, Horo realized she did not know where she was supposed to be going, though a moment later she picked up a strange noise, a signal from the collar around her neck seemed to be indicating a direction to her, while it also seemed to stir some instincts within her mind which would help assist her in finding the way. A combination of the directions given by the collar and her own instinctual awareness let her find a shortcut that would avoid any busy areas that might slow them down. Deftly she would dodge an awkwardly parked car that appeared as she moved along the shortcut she had found. Looking back quickly to check on Kara and Cassie, slowing a little in the process before speeding up again partially at the directional urging of the collar. Her thoughts went to the strange electronic collar again, it seemed to powerful some powerful functions which was surprising for a relatively small device. She imagined the inventor of these collars would likely be a very wealthy person. In the back of her mind she felt another faint stirring, another presence in her mind. It was the wolf part of her mind again, stirring up and getting frustrated. It knew as well as she did that she was trapped, not free to do as it wanted and that bothered the wolf as much as it did Daniel. She tried to soothe it, calm it down so it would not cause her any problems at the moment. She knew that she would do no harm to Kara or Cassie but she did not know if the wolf mind would be so restrained.

As they arrived at gates to, she was still trying to soothe the wolf mind. A signal from the collar brought her to a stop near the gate, slowing down to a walk then finally coming to a total halt before the gate. Noticing the the two guards at the gate, her ears perked up as she heard the muttered comments. Every so briefly the wolf would attain some dominance and Horo would take a single step towards the guards, her fangs displayed for them to see. Horo would force back the wolf, pushing it to the back of her mind before slinking backwards slightly and then lower herself closer to the ground so that Kara and Cassie would be able to dismount. She would look at Kara for a moment as the girl started to touch the collar, then at Cassie who had started petting her. Pressing her head against the petting slightly, some part of her mind rather enjoyed it. Then as she was given the beef jerky treat she would carefully take it from Cassie and chew on it. It seemed that Cassie wasn't so bad after all, just seemed to be a bit more strict and adult than Kara. Then she felt the wolf shape begin to recede and she began to return to her maid form. First she would regain the humaniod shape of her body, while still covered in wolf fur, until that too started to retract, while the maid outfit would once again cover her body. As she returned to her human form, left once against with the wolf ears, the tail and the slightly elongated canine teeth. She straighted the dress quickly then look around as she heard the noise from nearby then the smell of sulfphur, looking around to see a tired looking Kiwi, guessing the girl must have had to teleport herself all the way here. She looked about for a moment and making sure Kara and Cassie were not looking at her for the moment, she made a face at the rude guards before turning back Kara, Cassie and Kiwi. She wasn't quite sure what possessed her to make the face at the guards, maybe it was part of the wolf making her feel rebellious. Looking at Kiwi for a moment, then too the two other girls "Umm...Could we take a breather before we enter the Expo? Kiwi looks a little out of breath...Not too long of course..." she murmered just a little at that, knowing that it probably wasn't really her place to ask such things, but she was a little concerned that after Kiwi had come all that distance using the clearly tiring teleportation, walking around too much more might put a bit to much strain on her. She noticed for a moment that Kiwi seemed to be hold something else, tags it seemed. Horo got the feeling that Cassie trusted Kiwi to keep things like that. Horo looked to Kara and Cassie to see what the two girls wanted to do next.

[Stray-chan]

Bubbles blushed a bit in sympathy at the wet Cat. Ouch, you can almost see right though those clothes! Poor, wet Cat... Hehe, wet cat! She gave the flustered girl and cheery wave as Ms. Utonium, Blossom and Buttercup left. "Good luck is bad luck on stage, that's why you're supposta say 'break a leg!' Hope you enjoy the concert!" With that, she scurried after her band. "Poor Cat, she's so flustered! I guess being young is like that. She's so cute, though, I bet she'll be really sexy when she's older! And what was she talking about, anyway? She was getting really excited." Odd that someone would go on about super heroes right after I came to this place that seems to lack them outside of comics...

[Miku-chan]

Miku-chan - Ben Reilly AKA Scarlet Spider – Gwen Watson
“Good Mistress” ‘Lilly’ responded to the inquiry head bowed, Gwen really couldn’t expect much more conversation from the girls; after all they were trained to be efficient. The meal went down quickly, delicious as normal when she finished the plates were cleaned up as Lilly handed her an iPad which had instructions typed on it before exiting the apartment. 
The instructions were simple enough, ‘Meet me in the Black Room when you’re ready.’ Even with her memory issues the black room was fresh in her mind, it was where the ‘social events’ took place, and to her recollection it was never dull. The private elevator in there room had an option that led directly to it...

Gwen sighs internally. She knew better than to expect a full confession of how Lilly's day went, but just once it would be nice to hear something different from the girl, efficient as she was. Maybe the next one could have ...some... personality. That wasn't her decision to make,  it was MJ's and as much as she loved her, she could never bring herself to even suggest something like a personality be in a staff member. 
Looking down, she sees she has completed her meal without even realizing she had. Her distraction is short lived as Lilly hands her the iPad with instructions for the evening. Reading over the note fills her with both anticipation and a bit of worry, possibly from the residual bits of Ben Reilly still in her mind. Heading over to the private elevator, Gwen can't help but smile in anticipation of the events for the evening...

[Zoey]

Mark fell to his feet as she tried to catch her breathe. The imagery she saw was so horrible, it made her very startled. "Thats... terrible..." she said still on the floor. She couldn't believe thats how this worlds history had been. She slowly stood up and looked at the figure. "There has to be a way for Mutants to live freely!" she said firmly. Mark tightened her hand into a fist, this was unnaceptable. "Who's fightning for mutants rights?! This is all bullshit! What about Mings family? Where are they?" She asked back to back, the look of anger and desperation visable in her eyes. "What they did was mass murder and slavery! That isn't right!"

[Zilla]

Zilla - Name: Sandra Yen / Sparker – Hime
Her shouts fall on mostly deaf ears, most of the venue goers giving her odd looks including her parents. They clearly didn’t recognize her despite the attempted approach and shouted names if anything they looked spooked by the strange gyroid shouting for its parents. ’Hime stop that right now” she heard Batou’s voice popping in her head “Even if those were your parents your legally deceased and Gyrich will… ” his voice cutting off as another comm. line activated. “02 just proceed with the show normally or we’ll switch you to automatic.” She heard Gyrich say the private having contacted command fairly quickly.

Hime had a moment to check herself, once everything sank in. Half of her mind asked the other half if it was worth it, when these people clearly weren't acting as though they were missing a daughter, and they would likely make her a prisoner in her own body if she tried anything, while the other half protested that this was her family, and she had to do ANYTHING she could to be with them again. Her brain was frying in a monstrous struggle of conscience...

Her emotional mind protested: I can't believe this! There they are, right in front of you... The family you've lost, and thought gone forever, and now here they are. Perhaps the only chance you'll ever have at seeing them again! Go! It doesn't matter that they don't recognize you, it doesn't matter that they'll try to take control away from you!

Her rational mind answered: It's not worth it. They don't recognize you, and there's no way for you to do anything if they put you on automatic functions. Another chance will present itself, and by behaving now, that chance will be so much easier. Besides, you at least have someone you can talk to about this...

Hime steeled herself and responded back. "Put me on automatic, Gyrich. I can't handle this..." She let herself go blank, surrendering everything for now.

[ZeroForever]

Ickle Harri-chan - Katherine 'Kitty' Harrison AKA The Flying Fox – Catalina Essex
“There will be no self genetic manipulation Catalina, we already went over this last time when you wanted to be a magical girl.” Maria said sternly, while her charge being eccentric to the point of mad scientist wasn’t anything new attempting to bribe her was, Maria was not pleased especially when she was already misbehaving, though it couldn’t be seen on her face rather the aura she emitted would give anyone pause. “While I’m not well verse in your animu so I don’t know who any of those people are, but if you continue misbehaving I’ll be forced to let Mimi cook you breakfast.” She said in a indirect threat, so potent was the threat however that even not knowing who this Mimi person was Cat could feel her bodies gag and poison instincts kick up having obviously experienced it before.
“Anyways we’ll talk about costumes later, we have a concert to attend and you’re not going like that” Maria said her mood switching just as quickly as she dragged the girl with her to the helicopter, just so they could hop to the nearby buildings executive condo on the top floor. The condo was still bigger than most houses, taking up a glass paneled view of the city skyline. Cat was barely inside then the cloths stripped off her and she was literally tossed into the bathtub Jacuzzi “Quickly now, Any preference or the usual.”.

Maiden Miki - Michael Anderson AKA The Hub – Mimi Eoria
Arriving back at the science building he put her down, or more precisely she floated off his back the hover gear clearly functional “Just a few more tests with the suit and helmet!!” Hakase said “I mean did you see what you did to that tree!! I mean we clearly need to amp up the strength… seriously what kinda of mecha suit bounces off a tree, it needs to go through the tree and cause it to explode!!!” He said once again getting into the mad scientist mode.

[Maiden Miki]

Maiden Miki - Michael Anderson AKA The Hub – Mimi Eoria
Arriving back at the science building he put her down, or more precisely she floated off his back the hover gear clearly functional “Just a few more tests with the suit and helmet!!” Hakase said “I mean did you see what you did to that tree!! I mean we clearly need to amp up the strength… seriously what kinda of mecha suit bounces off a tree, it needs to go through the tree and cause it to explode!!!” He said once again getting into the mad scientist mode.

"I saw since that was me doing that to the tree," said Mimi in a soft voice. She then shook her head and looked at Hakase. She lightly giggle once she notice that he was going into mad scientist mode as she likes to call it. She then raised her hand up and then spoke, "Though I should have done that from what I can tell from the suit's specs but I had applied the breaks to slow down to minimize damage. I didn't want to cause any damage to the school. I had already gotten in trouble today."

Mimi then flashes back to earlier in the bathroom where she remember that somebody really bad happen if she did get three demerits.

[Harri-chan]

Cat was brutally reminded that being a rich teenager wasn't all good. It was difficult for her to take someone else telling her what she could or could not do, since she'd been used to living as an adult for so long, with her own independence. She blushed as Maria not only told her off, but also made a threat... and she winced as her stomach churned from the mention of Mimi, someone she didn't even know, cooking breakfast. Shame flooded through her as she was dragged through the expensive restaurant by the maid, feeling several pairs of eyes watching her before they reached the privacy of the helicopter. Her emotions were all over the place due to teenage hormones. She KNEW she was over-reacting, but couldn't keep them under control. Maria putting her foot down with regards to her genetic experiments felt like it had crushed all her dreams and ruined her life. Her cheeks were tinged red with embarrassment at how her own behaviour as she slipped into a teenage sulk while the helicopter took off and made the short crossing to another tall building. "This is so unfair... ", she muttered, and glared in Maria's direction, her skinny arms folded across her chest.

Her mood did lighten considerably however when they reached the condo. She peered down at it through the window as they approached, before stumbling out of the helicopter and onto the landing pad, following Maria down into the glass paneled abode. She started to walk towards the glass to peer at the city below when she felt something tug at her hair as Maria removed the ties to her pigtails, and as she turned, the white dress was tugged up over her head. "Maria!", she squealed as she was robbed of her shoes, tights and underwear before being tossed into the jacuzzi. Somehow, her glasses managed to stay on as she fell backwards and splashed under the water, her heart racing at suddenly being naked. Popping her head back up at the surface, she wiped the inside of her glasses with her fingers and took several deep breaths, her face bright red as she squeezed her thighs together under the water. The constant tickle of bubbles against her bare skin was rather pleasant, but it couldn't make her forgot the shame as she peered towards the maid from the tub. "Uh... ", she was a little concerned at just what the 'usual' would be. Everyone seemed to consider Cat a pretty big fan of anime and Japanese culture, but that was really Kat's thing. "Just something... normal? Like... not out of an anime or anything. I just want to look like a normal... uh... teenage girl". She sunk down a little in the bubbles and sighed. "But still something cute... ". Folding her arms across the edge of the tub, she leaned against the side and peered through the huge glass panels at the city all lit up below. It was hard to make a suggestion when she knew nothing about teenage fashion, and had no clue what would be in the closet, so figured for now the choice would be Maria's. Perhaps later, when they were at home, she could try and go through the closets and the internet to figure out how to dress properly. Beneath the water, she was gently shifting herself about, the jacuzzi tub feeling nicer and nicer the longer she stayed in, but made sure the water came up to her shoulders, so she wouldn't have to look at her more youthful figure. "This is a really great view... ", she murmured, apparently having forgiven Maria for crushing her dreams just minutes earlier. Damn teenage emotions.

[Knight Errant]

Stella looks around... blinking at the complexity of it all. Just what kind of people were they working for.

She felt a pang of guilt, thinking that she was working for the bad guys... not that she had much choice. No, choice was a luxury she hadnt had for awhile...

Silently, she goes to take a shower, clean herself up, and head into her auto closet to change. Her thoughts and worries would have to wait. She just didnt have the time to voice them. Good or bad, she had a job to do.