Dre looks down onto the little emo looking boy, he  gets a smirks on his face and runs his fingers through his sexy super hero blue and green haircut that he just got the other day to match his very sexy blue and green spandex that his grandmother made for him so he could one day find him a wifey that he promised to her before she passed away. "Hello there" Dre says as he reaches his hand down to the small boy.

"Skulls... egg they are pathetic scum of the universe..." Dre looks at the small boy and then raises his mighty fist to the sky "BY THE POWER OF PARGON, I HAVE THE POWER!!!" Dre says this as he pulls his hero license from the middle of his spandex pants "to whoops some evil doers butt" he looks down to the small boy to make sure he was still there and paying close to his witty antics.

Dre suddenly begins to get a telepathic message from a hero name mittens calling for help on a talos island?.... dre gets a puzzling look... "Is it just me or do I hear voices in my head?... I'm confused".

Dre stands there for a minute looking at maverick then pulls out his boom box and starts to play I'm to sexy song and dances around like a idiot in front of everybody in the surrounding area waiting to get a response from him.
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Maverick was certainly... impacted by Dretastic as he just kinda looks up at him with an helpless expression that shows he's trying not to laugh. At the sight of Dre's hero license, Maverick silently wonders what kind of name Dretastic is. But to the comment of voices in his head, Maverick ohs and replies, "Not just you... I heard the request also. C'mon... I'll show you the way to Talos."

With that, Maverick heads towards the train station, making sure Dretastic follows him. On the way, he uses the tell system right back to Mittens. "On my way. Bringing a guy named Dretastic with me. May take a while... I'm in Atlas Park."

He also wonders what kind of name Mittens is for a Superhero, but figures he'll probably see weirder if the past minute was any indication.

Timothius shrugs to Mittens' question. "You know me. In this duo, since we can pull such weight it barely matters how badly the other heroes perform, I don't mind. But thanks for asking... find anyone?" after all... Timothius knows Mittens well and figured she was already on the lookout before he even answered.

The skulls are numerous. Not overwhelming, but at this rate, Timothius and Mittens would take a long time to achieve the goal. So it's probably just as well more heroes were coming. To the one already there, Timothius said "Welcome to the team, fellow hero!" with a broad smile and a casual salute.

  “Thanks.  Was there anyone you wanted dealt with through violence more than otherow.  I saw that.  Hiding the shotgun behind your back won’t help.”  Clearly, circumstances had answered his interrupted question for him.

  The thought had occurred to Joe that all it would take would be one yoinked Skulls mask to look just like them.  But he doubted that would work out so well due to A) spooky voodoorwhatever mask thing.  B) The fact that probably only heroes would fall for it knowing his luck.

  “Was it just convincing them to stop being jerks with the exact same methods they use, or was there a more specific goal like preventing freaked out innocents from running into cave walls in their aimless panic?”

Dre follows the young boy moving and bopping his head as he moves to a tune is his head. He looks at his surroundings as the two of them travel to the station making sure to check out all the other n00b super hero's customs out as he passes by them, giving cat calls to all the good looking super-chicks and grabbing as many cell phone numbers as he can. Smiling and laughing he pulls out his cell phone and looks at his list of numbers he got today.

"Soooooooooooooooooo Mavvy" How much further to the station-wation my feet are killing me and I'm kind of bored"

Dre stops in his tracks as a super-fine-feline walks past him he watches her pass and and gives her a shrill whistle. "YOOOOOOOO hey there girl!" The Super-Chick gives Dre a disgusted look and keeps walking past. Dre doesn't mind as he watches the females nice booty move side to side as she walks away. Once the super-chick is out of sight Dre looks down to Mavrick to see if he was still alive and kicking, as he waits for Mavrick to respond he pulls a map of atlas park out of his pants trying to read it upside down dre finally got the bright idea of flipping the map right side up as he trys to find their location on the map
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Mittens greets the heroes as they arrive with her typical happy wave.  ^.^/

Once again through the magic of her standard issue PHUD, she offers to Joe that he become her sidekick for the duration of the team (so that through the miracle of science he'll be able to not miss point-blank range Skulls that would have otherwise been far too evasive for him to hit.)  Why the hero licensing department doesn't bother teaching new heroes how to use this amazing nano-tech device is in the same category of face-palm facts of life as the fact that the user's manual doesn't cover how to use it well either.  One might think that Arachnos is somehow responsible for this clearly insidious evil, except that new villains suffer from the same handicap.  At least the mysteries of the universe don't favor evil over good.

She then requests what seems obvious to her.  "Timothius, SK Mav when he shows up.  Someone SK Dretastic when he shows up."

The latter request directed to two heroes who are in the team but haven't arrived on the scene yet.  Finding that 8th member always seems to elude Mittens, but why the PHUD can't handle a 9th is an even deeper mystery.
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  How does one tell someone is the sidekick to someone?

  Joe didn’t have a cape at all, so there wasn’t the ‘they have a shorter cape’ situation.
  He also had pants while the one he was working with lacked them most of the time.
  Bright colors compared to dark colors?  No, red shirt and blue jeans were still darker than white and gold.
  The Batman and Robin comparison for Hero and Sidekick easy identification had failed...  Wait, wasn’t there another thing?

  Joe pulled a small black eyemask out of his pocket. “...Nah.”  On second thought, who cares?  It was time to go all Jack Torrance on the Skulls.  Only he wouldn’t get lost and freeze to death in a hedge maze.

Maverick points to the train station. Seeing Dre get distracted by some pretty girl, and what Dre says, Maverick turns red with embarrassment, knowing that girl is probably thinking Dre is Maverick's dad. He manages to calm himself down some, though, and remembers Dre is just a guy with a sense of humor. At least, so it seems.

Only minutes later, Maverick and Dre arrive in Talos island and in the mission. Though by the time they get there, the mission gets complete just as they enter the door. Thankfully, both Maverick and Dre were SKed before they arrived, so they get the XP from the completed mission. Maverick blinks... well on the bright side, now they are with their new party. Right?

Timothius, Joe, Mittens and a couple others named KomBat Girl and Supercalifragilistic complete the mission, the path now paved with Skulls that have X's for eyes and birds flying in circles around their heads. Some of them are slunched over in ways that just plain look funny.

Timothius exits the mission with the others to find Maverick and Dretastic. "Ah. Looks like you guys made it just in time! Well it just so happens I found a lead while we were fighting... care to help us take down the main HQ for this branch of the Skulls?"

Dretastic sits (Well... stands) there for a moment, not responding. Suddenly, the letters A, F and K appear over his head. The guy eventually vanishes.

Mittens updates the team's PHUD's with the location and other details of the next mission and heads off in that direction at break-neck speeds, ignoring every purse snatcher and gangster along the way out of habit.

"Meet y'all there," she announces cheerfully in the team's com link.  :)
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  “As usual, critical existence failure isn’t even comment worthy in this town.”  Alas poor Dre.  He didn’t know him at all.

  Joe looked to the other recent arrival who was still around,  “Hey there.  I’m assuming you’ve been at this longer than I have, unless you just started less than thirty minutes ago.”

  So, was it still having confidence in people despite their age when 'you're more experience than me' was shorter than an Inspector Gadget episode's worth of time?

Maverick huhs at the disappearing Dretastic. "Right... this way." he says as he leads the way to where Mittens indicated. He can't help but feel important and lightly complimented that a grown up gave him the opportunity to teach said grown up something.

  Joe followed along after Maverick, figuring there wasn’t much point to rushing off to the conveniently map indicated area ahead of others as they’d all enter around the same time anyway.

  “It occurs to me, when was the last time you saw anyone actually, well, finish stealing a purse?”

When Mittens arrives at the mission entrance, she pulls a laptop out of nowhere and begins browsing the internet while checking emails, IM chatting, posting on rp forums.  Oooh so thaat's how you make paper figs for DnD!  Muuch better than fighting glass beads with an ewok fig!  (Though admittedly, not quite as humorous.)  LMAO!  Gotta show this one to Tim!  XD

(OOC: http://notalwaysright.com/than...-apocalypsemart/1191 )

Timothius shows up soon after Mittens and sits with her until the others show up.

Maverick ponders Joe's statement for a moment. "I always thought that was because heroes stopped them. It *is* the City of Heroes, after all..." He arrives and enters the building to see... two cat people. He isn't sure what people would consider weirder: A pair of twin cat people who happen to be adults fighting crime with their super powers? Or a child fighting crime with his super powers?

  Joe might possibly consider the more 'normal' option stranger.  As what seems an easier fit for crime fighting?  Magically inclined feline person smiting enemies with magic, or some guy that just picked up the nearest sharp object?

  "We must need more practice then, cause we all walked right by them quite a lot."  He commented as they arrived near Tim and Mittens.
  "Would I be wrong in assuming that we won't be dealing with problems through violence this time around?  Cause I can live with being wrong sometimes if the results keep me alive."

"Lets find out!" Mittens answers Joe with a chuckle.  She steps out where the villains can see her and without any threatening gestures cheerfully announces, "You're all under arrest on multiple charges.  Come along quietly."  ^.^

"DIE!" they answer with a barrage of gunfire.

Mittens laughs, charges in sword drawn, and applies the expected violence.

"I just knew you'd say that!"  XD
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Timothius gives Mittens a sideways glance. "It's not funny, Mittens.." he starts, "Don't go laughing that way... you sound like a villain."

That said, Timothius draws his sword and with precision timing, pulls the exact same move as Mittens at the exact same time! He follows up with answering Joe, "If it makes you feel better, I could always keep score of how often you are right as opposed to how often you are wrong..."

The child charges in alongside the two scrappers and starts tearing into the enemy with incredibly fast punches as though he was pumped up on too many Jackie Chan elevator-fighting scenes. He makes no comment to Joe's commentary, though he was clearly annoyed earlier about ignoring the criminals on the way here. Some criminals are more important to take down, after all, and Maverick knows this. Not that he cares to explain his actions to anyone. Not yet anyway.

  It wasn't like Joe had stopped to help those people either, was it?  "Villains sound like they enjoy their work?...  Wait, a lot of them do.  And you can skip keeping track of whichever, as they tend to blur together anyways."

  If it made Tim feel any better, he refrained from gleeful giggling as he forcefully returned a Skulls knife to its rightful owners, and reminded them that his axe was bigger than theirs...  Though come to think of it, people with bigger axe's hadn't done much better either.

It doesn't take too long to find the big room in this warehouse-turned-hideout where the boss is.  Mittens pauses briefly to contemplate the colored candy she'd collected off her fallen foes.

"One side makes you smaller," she muses to herself, "the other makes you tall... no wait... wrong instructions.  Red for strength, yellow for accuracy...  You guys ready to take the big guy?"
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Timothius notices his health bar is still at max. "Sure. The only question now is whether we just charge in now or pick off the minions before we charge in." he smiles at Mittens. "My only concern is the kid here... yeah, he's proving quite the... powerful little guy. But..."

Maverick says nothing, but he decides the best way to prove himself is to charge in. Judging from how well the team did till now, he figures the boss might be challenging, but certainly not what he would call dangerous. He takes the power-ups to damage and accuracy, then tears into the guy with his best attack first and starts doing what he can to disable the guy.