Clarissa grinned, and said "Maaaaaaybe."

  The sound of glass and metal breaking made them all jump a bit, and the screams of some of the kids in the gym were a clarion call, as terrified cheerleaders began to run past, the big glass walls of the cafeteria letting them see it as a white, bony thing slammed into her back, and she screamed even louder as she morphed, growing ten more appendages as her neck lengthened, her skin turning hard and chitinous as she mutated.

Ozzy grinned and said, "We ran into the Norse pantheon on our honeymoon. Let's just say that Loki tried to pull some shit, and ended up teaching her magic as part of it. If you're particularly fond of the Norse gods, Odin may come to visit sometime. He's apparently psyched that there are still mages in the world who use his runes to cast with."

And then chaos struck. He turned to see what the commotion was, and when he saw that it was some kind of mutated monster attacking and mutating others, he grimaced.

"Well, looks like it's morphin' time. Clarissa, help get the others to safety. Bill, let's see if we can't calm those things down, eh?" he said, before shifting into his massive green monster form, his Asgardian armor taking the place of his school clothes.

  She nodded, and left her books and her backpack sitting on the table where the rest of the Driver's Education students were sitting, looking horrified by the mutants in the halls, and looked at them (the other Driver's Ed students) as she said "Guys, MOVE it!!  Big glass walls and power-mad mutants that are attracted to movement, BAD combination!  Get in the teacher's lounge over there or something, and tell the teacher, if they get here before I get back, that I'll be back soon!  I'm immune to that crap!"

  Bill nodded, shifting in a blur of red and gold to be Excelsior, and said "I can get this one if you see what's going on further down the hall?"  And then he zipped to be in front of the ex-cheerleader who had mutated, and caught her attention, getting her to chase HIM out the door, and away from the cafeteria.

Ozzy nodded, and set off in search of whatever it was that had caused this ruckus in the first place.

  Further down the hall was a big, bony-and-neon-blue mutant that was after all the kids in the gym, and he had those bone-tentacles that could shoot the mutagen darts.  Half a dozen cheerleaders were hiding under the bleachers there, and they kept squealing and screaming every time the mutant tried to grab them, and he was too enraged to try going after them from the end.  Of course, Ozzy heard the sound of wood preparing to give way as he got to the Gym too.

Iris was on the debate team; she was their secret weapon. They had her in the back corner studying while the teacher walked around offering suggestions and help to anybody who needed some additional pointers. She was typing away on her new laptop - the school requested she use one because of how fast she went through pencils - when she heard a creak. She looked up sharply and glanced out the window, which overlooked the gym.

The teacher stopped talking when the ever-present muffled clattering stopped and focused on Iris, "Is there a problem, Ms. Shenandoah?"

Iris ran to the window and pressed her nose against the glass, then looked back at the teacher, "Yep. There is. Ummmmmm... No, there's not. I should really go... not... see... to... the monster in the gym. The monster that's not in the gym. I gotta go!" Iris fled from the room far too fast for a hall monitor to catch her and ask for a hall pass (Chuck had pointed out this particular power exploit).

She stopped just short of the gym doors to check out the situation, then rushed in at super-speed, aiming to pick flying darts out of the air.
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Chuck was on the Wrestling team. He was very good at wrestling, although he was in a lower weight class than most of the boys. He was fast and good at learning holds. He also had a good sense of rhythm, hence his participation on the drum-line, but needless to say, he was in the gym when the mutant charged in. And soon found himself under the bleachers with a bunch of cheerleaders.

"Hi?" he offered, "Um, um, um, I'll try to help. Does anyone have a lipstick I can use?"

Awkward as always, the lanky red-head looked expectantly at the cheerleaders.

  One of the cheerleaders promptly handed him a tube of cherry Chapstick and said "Like, I don't care if you KEEP it, as long as you keep us alive!!"

Chuck asked the others to huddle up and drew - approximately - an ellipsoid around them. He paused at four places apparently at random and his lips moved as he muttered over some hurried magical symbols which began to crackle with eldrich energy.

He was good at this spell. Moderately good. Okay, so there were some issues. But he could get a force-field up around everyone who was huddled under the bleachers. And then the darts wouldn't be able to get in. Nothing would be able to get in.

Faux lightning eeked out of the magical symbols and outlined a bubble around Chuck and the others under the bleachers. "I did it!" he said, throwing his hands up. When he hit the invisible bubble, his hand crackled with energy and he pulled it back into the bubble, hissing, "Ow! I... did it backwards? How did I do it backwards?"

He turned to the cheerleaders, "I think we'll be protected from the darts and the monster and any collapsing bleachers. Also, we're stuck in here until I can figure out how I made it double-sided so that I can take it down."
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  There were now three mutants in the gym, as the original mutant had hit two of the basketball players who were practicing before the rest had all run like demons from Hell were on their asses.

Iris pulled her ribbon dancer and stopped short, the glowing sizzle of the ribbon floating out around her dramatically, "This is dangerous. Seriously, guys. It cuts people. And nobody likes seeing me run around with sharp things."

She had noticed the boys in the hallway and was hoping to keep the mutant's attention long enough for them to get in the room and surprise them from behind. She prepared to dodge any attack they might throw at her. After all, she was pretty fast.

  One of the mutants that looked like a deranged werewolf leaped for her, fangs dripping with pink foam spread wide.

Before the sizzling ribbon could settle around her, Iris jumped back away from the slathering jaws of the werewolf and, with a flick of her wrist, sent the ribbon on a smooth swirl that would make a rhythmic gymnastics coach go into conniptions. It spiraled itself around the wolf's arm and caught him around the waist, searing the flesh with the smell of burnt hair. The ribbon pulled loose, leaving cauterized cuts along his wolflike body.

Ozzy, meanwhile, went for the big, bony mutant, hoping to keep anyone who wasn't in Chuck's shield from getting shot and mutated. He went straight for the tentacles, hoping to tear them off, or at least keep it from taking aim properly.

  The big bony one howled as he grabbed it, and it tried to smash him between it and the floor.  It was NOT as strong as he was, however.

  Clarissa still hadn't swapped forms, but she came in around the corner as she smacked one of the (frozen in fear) basketball players on the shoulder, and told the boy "MOVE your ass!  GO!"  Which got HIM moving, and she moved to the next one, smacking him to get him moving too.  She wasn't worried about the darts that were flying wild, at least, not about them moving HER.

In reply to Iris (msg # 157):

The Wolf snarled as the ribbon burned its flesh. The creature slowly backed away before it dropped to all fours and tensed its limbs pouncing right at Iris, jaws snapping and claws slashing.

Iris pirouetted backwards, the ribbon swirling around her like a shield, licking at the wolf's claws and teeth as he swatted towards her. On her final swirl, she bowed out of sparking coil, letting the ribbon float towards the ground. It danced on the ground like a cat teaser before she whipped it upwards in an arc, leaving a stripe up the monster's front. Iris swirled, trying to get tease the mutants into a closer circle.

As the big monster tried to body-slam into him, Ozzy fell backwards with the movement, lifting it up and over himself, using its own momentum to suplex it.

  He roared in anger as he got suplexed face-down on the floor, and all those bony tentacles shot those nasty bone darts every which way.  Shooting them in about six directions, and four of those darts hit Ozzy in the armor (not that they'd have been more than annoying for him anyway).

  Iris' playmate howled, and everyone able to hear within ten feet of it cried out in pain as the sound assaulted their ears on a scale normally only available RIGHT under a jumbo jet's engines.

  Clarissa put herself between the darts and another one of the darts, swearing when it hit her and her form shifted in a fast blur.  Then she gave the idiot jock another shove, before turning to face the third mutant to enter the Gym.  This one was vaguely scorpionlike, and looked a LITTLE like Ozzy, but it had neon orange skin and pincers instead of hands.  Clarissa looked at it, and said "Just SO NOT."  Her wings snapped into motion as it tried to strike her, and she snapped back with a spell.  She'd learned the old-fashioned fireball spell . . . and it was the first thing that leaped to mind!

Ozzy grinned, getting up after suplexing the bony mutant he was fighting, and looked towards the area Clarissa was fireballing. He called over, "That's pretty hot, babe! You may wanna cool it, though. Don't want to burn the school down, as much as the thought appeals to me."

He then threw a vicious kick towards the bony beast, hoping to keep it focused on him, and stop it from spraying any more darts.