Joe's own ability to casually leap gaps between buildings may or may not have come with the mutant powers of hostage taking and dressing like Hamburgler.  "The urge to pistol whip someone with their own pistol is an understandable urge.  I wish I could say I totally wouldn't do it when their on a building ledge but that wouldn't be completely honest."

  Joe waves hi to the most recent arrivals, and comments "It's starting to get a bit crowded up there, but I think I can manage the fire escape aid thing."  That said, he heads over to the previously mentioned Eastern side fire escape, intent on lowering the ladder for Liberty after he just hops up there himself.

A room full of preschool children gasp at the sudden arrival of giant tigerhorse!  Haalima's just discovered that the building this is all happening at has the Little Angel Day Care Center on the first floor!

"What's that?" one of the little boys asks, finger pointed at Haalima.

"The Citizen Patrol are superheroes," one of the adults answers, "Thank you for the warning, miss.  What's going on out there?"

Meanwhile, on the roof of the neighboring building, the two police officers are shocked by the sudden arrival of Michael and draw their weapons on him!

"FREEZE!" they command!

They begin to circle around to the north so the hostage won't in the line of fire.  Obviously, these two are from a different precinct than the one that would recognize Michael or they wouldn't have mistaken him as an accomplice to the bank robber.

Meanwhile, said bank robber gets a confused look at the fox's suggesting that now is a good time for a sing-along.  "Of all the..."

"Hahah!" Jonny answers Emerald, "Singing fox!  Woooah!  Hahah!  Hahahah!  Hah!  Uh....  Hahah...  What song?  Uh...  I dunno...  Uh..."

Just then, there's a terrible twisted metal sound familiar to the first members of the Citizen Patrol...

"TAKE COVER!" Mittens screams, fur standing on end.

Sure enough, a huge house sized fireball erupts right outside the daycare, sending a pair of parked cars airborne!  At first one might guess a gas line burst, but the fireball takes on a dragon shape, lands on four feet, and roars!  ( http://www.ravenmedium.com/firedragon.jpg )  Like last time, there's a pair of magical looking armbands.  Both the bank robber and the hostage are startled by the explosion and teeter dangerously at the edge, about to fall over!  Inside the daycare and among the crowd of onlookers outside, children and adults scream in terror as they scatter in panic!
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"Yes, Sarah!" Mittens answers as she begins to rush toward the dragon!  "I'll keep it distracted!  Diren!  Open hydrant!  Emerald!  Tell those cops Mike is on their side!"

Mike, Joe, Liberty, and Haalima are left to assume no change in their plans....

Drien takes a look at the hydrant, then at the beast, then back to the hydrant.  He is trying to figure out the correct angle to be able to hit it.  Yep, that'll do it he thinks, opening the fire hydrant and sending the water directly at the things chest.(Hopefully!)  After he figured out the angle, he was using his powers while looking at the beast.  He was searching for possible weak spots, and had found a possibility:  The armbands.  By this time the water had probably hit it, even if it hadn't he would say "Go for the armbands!  It looks like they are holding it together!"

Michael puts his hands up in the normal 'take it easy' fashion then says,"I'm on your side. I'm with the Citizen Patrol and hopefully I'm going to get you guys across the buildings to defuse the situation."

And then cars exploded! Shaking the buildings with the eruption, Michael looked slightly nervous at the police, hoping they didn't have itchy trigger fingers.

Haalima let out a shout as the building rumbled. She nearly fell, but managed to keep her footing. That was good, because suddenly the children were all screaming. She stared for a moment before deciding that someone had to take control, and darn it, wasn't that what the Citizen Patrol was for?

"Calm down! Everything's going to be alright! Listen to me!" she shouted, hoping to be heard over the screaming and to get everyone's attention.

Despite Mittens warning the sudden explosion still came as a surprise to Sarah. “What the hell…” Sarah States ducking away to avoid getting hit by a random flying object.

Because of the interruption from an exploding fire dragon she didn’t have much time to pinpoint the position of the two people on the roof before having to dodge, so she decided to spend all her sticky power to be on the safe side. Now all she could do was hope they hadn’t fallen off before she did her sticky trick.

She hears Diren say something about armbands holding it together but is too busy to take much notice to it.

  Joe has had a certain fact confirmed today. "Elemental entities really hate cars."  Important fact, that one.  "Right, I know you were flame retardant our last go Liberty but that wasn't exactly on purpose on your part.  You should probably stay away from fire draoh god damnit."  This last outburst of course at seeing the less than fireproof kitty running towards a Fire Dragon.

  "Right, so. Hostage thing.  You wanna deal with Hamburgler while I deal with the kid or the other way around?  I don't know how long we have to deal with them until our stupid consciences make us head for the more personally dangerous stuff."

  It's less Joe not wanting to deal with responsibilities of cook catching, its more that setting Liberty lose on a robber seems like the better (worse for the robber) plan than setting Joe on them.

Liberty says, "But... fire dragon hurting people?" she notices Diren handling things and huhs. Then says, "Right. Hamburgler... but he's all the way up there! How am I supposed to get there fast enough? Oh well... nothing ventured..." she hurries on over to follow Joe up the fire escape...?

Unaware of Sarah's plan or that the cops are from another precinct, Timothius dives down from the sky to do as planned and charges at the crook and suicidal teen. Unfortunately, this means his intent to ram them TOWARDS the roof could mean one of two things:

1) Sarah's sticky power worked! So Tim will bounce off of them and go spiraling to the ground.

2) Sarah's sticky power didn't work? So his charge literally knocks the two out of their shoes.

Up to the narration department.

Emerald takes the megaphone to her mouth and yells to the police, "That man is with the Citizen Patrol! We work WITH the police! He'll work with you to capture the crook so we can deal with the fire dragon!" she really wasn't looking forward to yet another game of "distract the elemental", but decides to address the dragon. "Hey there, Big Buddy! PLEASE calm down?" That last guy lost his temper and look where it got him. Emerald hopes this one can talk too... even if all it did was make the water elemental give more complex versions of "roar".

For a moment the dragon is focused on the crazy cat girl heading in it's direction, but it shrieks when suddenly hit by a blast of water!  Huge clouds of steam billow from the beast as water is instantly vaporized on contact!  It thrashes about, sending it's blazing tail crashing through the window of the day care center, setting the curtains on fire which quickly spreads to the ceiling!

"We're listening!" one of the day care ladies answers Haalima over the screams of the children, "I think there's a back door.  Is it safe to go that way?"

Meanwhile, the officers on the roof cringe from the explosion, but don't fire at Michael.  "What the hell?!"  When they hear Michael's explanation and Emerald vouching for him, they holster their guns.  "Fire dragon?!"  They rush over to Michael and look over the edge.  "Holy crap!  Alright, buddy.  So you're going to teleport us?"

Timothius and Sarah both were successful in a way.  Just as Timothius body tackled the teenager away from the edge, Sara's sticky power hit!  Timothius' momentum was enough to knock the soccer kid out of his shoes and onto the roof, the both of them stuck to each other and the roof.  The bank robber lost his balance and fell face forward over the edge!  But since his shoes were stuck to the roof, he swung back toward the side of the building and hit with a THUMP!  Now he's hanging over the edge, with only Sarah's power keeping him from falling to the sidewalk.  He screams in terror, faced with a fiery dragon even if he should somehow survive the head-first fall!

About then the two cars come crashing down at opposite sides of the road, blocking off any easy access the emergency vehicles might have had.  The dragon thrashes about in a rage from the hydrant geyser.

"I'm not your buddy!" it shouts, "And nobody tells me what to do!"

It grabs hold of the front door of the day care, breaths fire at the frame to weaken it, and rips it right off it's hinges!  It then uses the door to shield itself from the water.
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She hears the screams of the robber as she looks up. ‘that didn’t go exactly as planned.’ She thinks to herself as she looks at the man hanging from the roof. Than she realises that there used to be two people on that spot. Franticly she looks around but can’t see the soccer kid. ‘no time to worry about that now. As long as there’s no a puddle of blood on the sidewalk he’ll probably be ok. First things first.’ “Good job Diren, keep him busy.” Sarah shouts turning to Emerald who’s holding the megaphone.

“M, tell someone to get that guy back on the roof. Can’t keep him hanging there forever.” Sarah says her while turning her attention back to the roof. “Kinda got a plan but were gonna need the fire departments help, as well as Joe or Tim. Anyone who’s  able to get a fire hose past the road block, and who can assault the dragon without getting burned to a crisp” While explaining this she tries to make the sticky area on the roof a little smaller. Since she can look at her target again this will be a bit easier than before. “Ow and M, you seen what happened to the soccer kid? I got a little distracted by the whole exploding fire dragon thing.”

The reason why Sarah mentions Tim and Joe is because Tim can fly and Joe can jump great distances. Both would be able to assault the dragon from different spots while Diren can keep shooting a water beam from where he is now without drawing all the dragons’ attention to him. The dragon’s shield would also become useless once they get to shoot at him from multiple angles.

  "Emo Elementals, it is now official."  Joe mutters as the previously mentioned Fire Escape Ladder is ready and waiting for Liberty.  "I think Tim's got the kid but they will probably blame us if the other guy gets torched... like this building is getting."   Of all the buildings to be climbing to the top of, it had to be one that could burn down didn't it?

  Anyways, Joe gets to the roof and heads for the robber in order to try and prolong their life expectancy while saying "Please don't shoot us while we keep this guy from dieing."

Haalima was about to say that she would go check that the back was safe, but then there was fire and a door being ripped off its hinges behind her! She turned and backed away from the door, holding her arm in front of her face to protect her eyes until the fire dragon had turned its attention away. Then she looked back at the adults.

"Get the kids out of here! Quickly!" Unless there was another fire dragon in the back, it had to be safer than burning death here at the front, right?

Michael looks across the gap and sees Tim get the boy as well as the robber go head first over the edge. He saw that he was still attached somehow, quickly assuming it was Sarah using her power. He looked back to the officers and said,"Ok new plan. The situation over there looks to be safe for now. The fire creature down there is the new big threat. We need to get fire trucks through." He looked over the edge at the cars blocking the road. "Can you guys get down there and try to get one of those cars out of the way? I'll make sure the criminal over there doesn't fall then make my way down with him. Sounds good?"

Liberty runs in front of Joe when they reach the roof. That way, IF Joe is shot at for some reason, Liberty can be his shield. Sort of. She's still shorter than Joe. >.>

Liberty runs past the suicidal teen to the crook and reaches down. She notices she is way out of reach of the guy's hands, so she grabs his ankles and says, "Um, Joe?! I could use some help!" she's strong as an adult man. But even a man would have trouble pulling a man up over the edge of a building and at this angle...

......more complex version of roar it is. Again. "Right. Well, Puff. That's your name, right? Puff? Right. Well Puff! Your momma's so fat, other fat women orbit around her! And by the way. I only asked before. Now, I'm telling you. Kneel!" she spanks her butt at the dragon and scurries off in the opposite direction of the blocked traffic.

Meanwhile, Timothius just grunts trying to break free. And fails. "....well on the bright side, you're OK now." he says with a nervous smile to the teen while healing him with his touch.

Hothothothothot!  Oooooh water!  The intense heat of the dragon was just about to spontaneously combust Mittens when the torrent of water cooled both her and the dragon off a bit.  When the dragon grabs a door to shield against water, Mittens lightbulbs.

Duh!  You need a sword and shield to fight a dragon!  Suit of armor would be nice too, but wet cloth will have to do.

She spins around and looks for... AHA!  Across the street she spots a landscaping truck with a couple of large metal trash cans in it.  She rushes for the truck, planning to use a lid as a shield.

"Zing!" she says when Emerald insults the dragon, "Nice one there, Emerald!"

She arrives at the truck and finds an array of weapons along with the shield she was looking for.  Loppers, shears, shovels, axe, and machete.  She puts a machete between her teeth, grabs the axe and a trashcan lid, then rushes back toward the dragon!

About then the emergency vehicles arrive from both the east and the west and begin setting up as close as the flaming cars blocking the way will allow.  The police on the roof nod to Michael.

"Take these with you!" one suggests, tossing him a pair of handcuffs, "But be careful!  The guy could have a hidden knife or something.  Consider him extremely dangerous!"

They then rush back toward the fire escape used to get up there.  Meanwhile, Sarah's power becomes focused on the robber hanging over the side of the roof, so Timothius and the soccer guy are unglued from the roof.  The athlete looks up at Timothius in bewilderment.

"Woooahoh...." he says, "Talking cat with wings!  Far out hahah!"

When Liberty grabs hold of the robber's ankle, she gets a very strange sensation.  The kind of sensation you might get when you grab the sweat drenched sock of some guy hanging over the edge of a building, but in spite of all the wetness your hands stick to him like glue.  Yeah.  Weird.  The guy is in complete panic, screaming and thrashing about, making any attempts at rescue all the more difficult.  Yet in spite of his panic, he still has a death grip on the bag of cash in his hand.

Inside the building below, the fire is spreading quickly across the ceiling.  The sprinklers activate, but the water pressure seems very low, so it's only slowing the spread of the flames a little.  On Haalima's orders, the other adults are able to herd the crying children to the back door which has one of those "fire exit only, alarms will sound!" signs on it, but something's wrong.  The door is jammed!  The teachers look around for something to break down the door with, but find only dusty tubs full of broken toys.  "Hero!" one calls out, "You any good at busting down jammed doors?!"

Outside, the dragon is enraged by Emerald's taunts!  It hurls the door at the fire hydrant, which breaks into pieces as it bends the hydrant just enough to angle the geyser of water over the dragon's head rather than directly at it.

"DIE IN A FIRE!" it roars at Emerald before it blasts whats looks like a chunk of burning pavement directly at her at tennis ball speeds!  ( http://www.inewscatcher.com/ti...ab5daad790a303d9.jpg )
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Emerald replies to Mittens, "Thanks!" before she scurries off and manages to barely dodge the wake of the impact. But she keeps her cool enough to act natural and acts as though she dodged it effortlessly. She even has the wherewithal to pinch her nose and say in a mock tone, "Nobody tells me what to do!" in reply to him saying die in a fire. She lets go of her nose. "See how stupid you sounded when you said that?"

Haalima stared at the teacher for a moment with a confused look on her face. Then she looked up at the fire licking away at the ceiling and decided, hey, what good was it being a 7 foot tall tiger-horse if you couldn't break some stuff?

"Out of the way!" She shouted as she stamped a hoof. Once the way was clear she ran headlong for the door, aiming to ram it with her shoulder.

  Joe, being the moderately moral person that he is resists the urge to steal the Bank Robber's wallet while they are upside down.  Besides, Liberty might shove him off the roof if he tried that anyway.  "You know your odds of falling unhurt, how much do you think your odds will drop if you drag a girl down on top of you."  He says as he starts to help Liberty drag the guy back up.

  Unless the roof gives out under him, he should have adequate traction for that.  "Do you have the slightest clue what to do about Burning Fire if the trucks can't get close enough?"  This is a more generally directed question, because an answer from anyone that works would be good.

As Liberty and Joe try to pull the burglar back on the roof Sarah waves. She’s rather glad to see them. It would have taken her some time to climb up there and rescue the man. “Just shout and I’ll unglue the area.” she yells, thinking it would be best to keep the burglar glued until he’s safe on the roof.

She wanted to ask Joe for help once they were done up there, but she got interrupter by the fiery piece of pavement that thumps to the ground. Sarah is lucky enough not to be in its path.  Surprised she looks at the great ball of fire that smashed its way into the pavement. ‘Great’ she thinks ‘got to do something about the overgrown lizards fire breath before my furry friends catch fire.’ Seeing the dragon get angrier she thinks it wont be long before he’ll randomly start spitting fire in a blind rage.

Hoping that the creature’s main flame attack is with his mouth she tries to glue his mouth shut with the sticky-stuff she got left. “Eat glue lizard-breath.” she shouts at the monstrosity while targeting her powers on the dragons yaws. What she doesn’t realise is that most dragons can breathe fire trough their nose too, but if her sticky-attack works there will be less worrying about anyone getting their head bitten off.

Liberty shouts, "Stop squirming or we'll let you fall, ya big dummy!!" she reaches down to smack his balls to catch his attention if he still seems to ignore her. Her arms aren't super long, but she really bent forward to do that. "Now let us save you for crying out loud!!!"

Liberty isn't fond of the idea of falling. Normally, it's a fun pass-time to jump off her roof at home, but today it means time wasted and every second counts.

She calls out to Sarah, "Don't yet! Hold on!"