Timothius is sitting with the other kids and watching. "Aren't you going to rescue your sister?" some kid teases Timothius. He looks back to them. "I can't carry someone else's weight very easily. Besides... I'm here to learn from the professionals." and he points at the firemen.

Timothius is very obviously a mutant, what with his being a cat like his sister. And the angelic wings on his back kind of give it away too. He notices Crystal being hand-held by a teacher and gives her a curious look. But without really knowing the girl, Timothius goes back to watching the firemen.

Liberty is also sitting with the others. The 12-year-old blonde girl is giggling with the rest of the kids as Mittens puts on a show. But there is no mistaking that reflective vest she is wearing; the mark of one of the Citizen's Patrol.

She watches the firefighters with anticipation, looking like she wants to jump into the action, but having to hold herself back.

A short fox anthro, standing only three feet tall is there watching the demonstration. She looks to see Crystal, who is currently the only child who is kind of apart from the others.

Emerald gives Crystal a friendly smile and wave, but does not approach just yet. She carefully gauges how shy the girl is first.

When Mittens does her thing, Emerald looks over and chuckles. She couldn't help but agree with Mitts' logic earlier when talking to the press. Emerald looks like she will gladly field the media if they want more questions answered.

There is another shy person here today. Namely Eli. The little boy is here with his parents and is, for now anyway, separated from the rest of the kids.

His parents spot Crystal, though, and ponder. Eli already knows the members of the Citizen's Patrol, he just doesn't want to be part of a crowd. But the parents are still trying to help their boy with his shy nature. So they approach the teacher that Crystal is with and smile in greeting.

The dad says, "Hi. I'm John Vogel. This is my wife Martha and my son Eli. Who are you and who's the girl here with you if you don't mind me asking."

Angel is at the event. She brought a lawn chair that has a cup holder and is wearing sunglasses while sipping lemonade. There is a butler-like man nearby, though the man is not wearing a butler's standard uniform. He's dressed casual like everyone there. But the man is clearly waiting on the lady.

She chuckles when Mittens gets stuck in a tree and says quietly, "I see what you did there, Mittens... cute." That last comment being genuine as Angel gets a satisfied smile.

  We are pretty sure that thanks to Comic Book Time, Joe is still 19.

  "Mittens, We're supposed to rescue cats from trees.  Not put them there in the first place."

  He can't blame angel for her choice in seating, though wonders why the lawn chair is causing Dejavu for his player.

  "Please do not hiss and/or scratch the nice firefighters."

All the commotion had woken a small figure that no one seemed to notice behind a tree not to far from the one Mittens had gotten stuck in. Soul opens his eyes and sits up looking out at the scrambling people trying to get the cat person out of the tree.

"And I thought I had seen everything." He stands checking to see the bandages around his face and body were still secure and pulls the hood of his cloak over his head and wanders into the crowd to see the entertainment.
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Crystal saw Emerald wave at her but she only moved closer to the teacher. She tried to hide behind the teacher when the man came over and asked about her but the teacher held tight to her hand preventing her from hiding. "I'm Joanne one of the teachers and this is Crystal, she's homeschooled but I convinced her mom to let her come with us today. Unfortunately I've been unable to get her to talk." the teacher said not knowing that Crystal was a mute. Well to most people she was a mute. She didn't really like talking to people she didn't know and she had always spoken to her mom telepathically.

Nathan is in Timothius' music/visual arts class.  He too has wings, but looks human other than that.  "Same here.  I'm no flying tow truck."

He notices Timothius glancing at the lone girl and takes note of her as well.  "Aww?  I wonder why she's not with a class.  Think maybe she has cancer or something?"

Nathan was going to try and sneak over to the lonely girl to try and cheer her up with music, but some grownups dragged their kid over to her...  He looks pretty shy.  That's probably not going to work.  Oh look at that.  Girl's trying to hide.  Already not working.  Nathan puts on a mischievous smile, but when he realizes there's no way he can leave his seat unnoticed he shrugs and goes to his teacher to ask permission to go cheer the lone girl up.  The teacher looks, thinks about it, and answers, "Not yet."

Oh well.  Nathan notices Lib's vest and smiles at the idea that a kid his age can be a superhero...  but his parents won't let him join!  ;.;  Oh well.

A jaded looking overweight man with a tablet takes a seat next to Emerald.  "Ron Malloy, Fire Protection Magazine.  Willing to answer a few questions for my article, Ma'm?"

(( Do we want to go by calender time or Comic Book Time where nobody ever ages? ))

Mits sheepishly grins, rubbing behind her head.  "I won't Joe!"

From her vantage point, Mits spots the creepy bandage guy in the crowd and quickly sends a text broadcast to the Citizen's Patrol members:  Mummy!  Lurking in crowd!  Maybe injured person?

"Oh thank you so much!" Mits says to the firefighters.

"Hang on," they answer, "We're checking the ladder for damage.  Looks ok.  Now come down carefully."

The firefighters steady the ladder and Mits climbs down, frequently glancing in the direction of the mummy.  When she shows her phone to the firefighters, they sweatdrop, look around, spot BandageFace, then start taking Mits to Bill Blazes.

"Sure is a good thing you weren't alone, Mittens," he says, "The number one most important safety lesson for kids is to never be alone when away from home.  It's best to have an adult nearby, but at least have a friend with you so they can get you help if you get hurt or stuck up in a tree like Mittens just did."

While she shows him her phone she agrees, "Yeah.  And it sure helps to have an adult make sure it's safe to lend a hand.  If they didn't check the ladder and I tried to climb down a broken one...  Ouch!"
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Michael wanders around the outside of the safety shpeel going on and chuckles as Mittens gets herself stuck in the tree. For now he is staying out of the way while the safety team gets they shindig underway.

"Our son is home schooled too." John replies with a smile.

....Technically true. Eli does his schooling at home.

Eli looks at Crystal, but doesn't look her in the eye at first. He slowly brings his eyes up to meet hers and asks, "Does learning come easy for you?"

There is a hint of hope in his voice, but more curiosity than anything.

He gets a text jingle from his phone and checks it quickly before going wide-eyed and looking around. Then turns his attention back to Crystal, figuring the grown-ups have this one handled.
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Emerald replies to Ron with a smile, "Sure! Gimme a sec..."

Emmy checks her phone for the text and glances around before spotting the "mummy". She quickly sends a text to Angel. Then turns to Ron again. "Ask away."

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(OOC: I prefer normal time, so characters can age. However, I am only 1 vote and am OK with people remaining as-is if that is what everyone else wants.)
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In reply to Eli (msg # 13):

Crystal looked at the boy Eli, the moment his eyes met hers, she looked away. When he asked about learning being easy she nodded but still said nothing. She had a scared look on her face and tried to pull her hand out of the teachers.

Angel notes Michael popping by and waves at him before getting out of her lawn chair and heading over to him. "Hey, Michael... good to see you. We're just doing a safety course for the kids here. What are you up to?"

She checks her phone, sees the text and says, "A mummy...?" before looking around and spotting Soul. She looks back at Mike. "Hmm... wanna go check out the mummy with me?"

  Joe overlooked bandages boy (note to self, don't say that out loud) because he was preoccupied with concern for hairy friends.  Totally not because of narrative timing.

  Though on that note, after a glance he decides with so many people diverting their attention, he should probably still keep an eye on Mittens for now.

  "The hardest thing about the Buddy System is how impossible it is to make it sound cool."

Eli says, "....me too." and then notices Crystal trying to disengage. "Uh-I'm a member of the Citizen's Patrol... they're really nice people and there's a bunch of 'em here. Whatever you're afraid of... the only safer place...." he looks over to see the obligatory cop car. "...would be maybe the police station itself."

It's because he's assuming she is afraid of danger or the mummy that showed up.

*Too many People, too many voices, can't think.* Crystal said telepathically. Her free hand went to her mouth, shocked at being forced to use part of her powers. She finally got her other hand free and was able to get away. She headed straight for a nearby tree and slid around to the other side.
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Eli looks shocked for a moment. He blinks and says nothing, worried about what talking about voices in his head would cause.

He quickly texts the others with "Just met another super. Her name is Crystal, she's about my age and has telepathy."
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Michael smiles and gives a nod back. "Angel, good to see you. I see the safety day is off to a nice start. Just trying to get my head back in the game here," he says while Angel looks at her phone.

"A mummy? sure let's take a look," he says with a quick look at his own phone with a frown. "Remind me to give Mittens my new number."

Though hidden behind the bandages Soul cant help but chuckle at the cat women up in the tree. It had been many years since he had seen such an entertaining site. Soul continues to look at Mittens not letting the attention he seems to have drawn go unnoticed. Hm well now, how should I handle this. He thinks as the others approach him.
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Nathan is curious when he notices the heroes checking their phones and leans to nudge Timothius.

"What's the message say?" he asks.

When he sees the lonely girl run and hide, he sighs, blowing up on his hair, exacerbated that the poor girl got frightened by overly forward adults... but it was the shy boy she ran from.  What could have happened?

Mits poses and considers Joe's point.  Is it called the buddy system in police forces?  It' can't possibly be that in the FBI or CIA.  "OK, 007.  Be sure to buddy up before you infiltrate the hostile compound..."  No wait.  It is called the buddy system in the Military now that I think of it!

"Nothing says it can't be renamed for fun," she answers over the speakers.  Lapel mic and all that.  "Let's call it the...  Designated Partner System: D.P.S.  Or...  The Way of the Many."

"Buddy System is cool enough for us firefighters," Bill interjects with a chuckle, "So we'll be sticking to that.  Let's move on to the next demonstration."

Mits smiles when she spots Michael and wiggles her fingers in greeting.  The firefighters start setting up a skit.  Mits reads the text from Eli, looks in his direction curiously, but doesn't see who he's talking about.  She shrugs and replies, "Yay!"

The reporter is eyeing all the texts going back and forth.  "Keeping the potential threat secret to prevent a panic?" he surmises, "Looks like the firefighters haven't been informed."

His tone is simply jaded.  He doesn't seem accusatory at all.  "I have their number.  I'll make the call for you if you think it'll be better coming from me."

Soul must not see a lot of pet videos then.  Those even add silly sound effects or sound tracks and everything.

"Yeah, cool sounding and effective are not the same thing... Usually."

OOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990zRxm_oj4

Timothius says to Joe, "Everything is cool when you're part of a team."

He then looks at Nathan. "Uh... just Mittens being silly by calling the guy in wrappings a mummy." He gets another text. "...and one from our latest recruit about finding another person with powers."

Meanwhile, Emerald smiles at the reporter. "Heh... well just like with the police, we look into potential threats while keeping it quiet so people don't automatically assume some innocent person is a villain. Basically, all it was was a text from Mittens pointing out someone was dressed unusual." She looks and points at Soul. "You need not worry. So... you had a question for me?"

Angel nods to Michael. "Sure thing. In the meantime, give me your new number?"

She then heads with Michael over to Soul. "Hello there. My name is Angel. This is Michael. Who are you?" The direct approach this time.

Liberty's attention is drawn to Crystal thanks to Nathan pointing it out. Liberty says, "I'm gonna find out what's going on. We can't afford to have trouble sneak up on us." She then reads Eli's text. "...OK, telepathy. But why is she running?" She starts heading towards Eli.

Eli, meanwhile, looks dejected when Crystal runs off. He looks at the ground and says, "...I wanna go home." and his parents look down at him before looking at the teacher. "I don't suppose her parents told you anything about why she might act this way? Or why one of them couldn't come with her?"

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Yes, I'm all those characters. XD I'm posting them all in one post now to help keep the post order sane (as well as the number of posts)

Soul turns to the lady surprised by her actions. Most people who met him screamed and ran or attacked him on site. With a slight nod "Hello, A pleasure." Soul holds out his bandaged hand in greeting. "It has been many years since anyone has tried to speak to me in a civilized way." Souls voice making him sound no older than twenty or so,If that were only the case, he thinks to himself waiting on the young ladies response.
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The teacher looked at Elis parents, "She was bullied in school so they began homeschooling her, as to why they didn't come, I told them there was no need for them to. I didn't know she would act like this, in fact I know nothing else about her." She explained.