AN: Sorry I didn't update last week. Unexpected troubles kept me from it. Thank the Lord God Almighty for getting me through them and letting me update this week.

Everyone started screaming, people running and pushing each other to get away. Some tried to hide under carts and stands. Someone knocked over an orange stand, sending the round fruit into the street.

Taking the opportunity Doretha ran into the riot to get away.

"No!" Charlie shouted running out of her.

Quill reached out to grab him but he was so fast her finger tips barely grazed him. "Not again." She murdered, before taking after him.

Meanwhile, Gwen had just arrived outside. "Do we know anything?" She asked walking to them, "Have they found him?"

"I don't know." Susan answered, "They haven't come out yet."

"How did this even—" Gwen began than she noticed Susan's companion, "You!"

"You!" Mateusz echoed.

"You two know each other?" Susan asked.

"I found him wondering the streets when the Lankin attacked." Gwen answered, "What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" Mateusz countered.

"Gwen, um, works with them." Susan explained, "And Mateusz is Charlie's…boyfriend apparently."

Gwen stared at him for a moment. "Oh." Then after a beat she added, "Guess it really is a small world."

That was when the screaming coming from the street.

They all turned to look in the direction the noise was coming from, then Gwen took off running. Susan took after her, and Mateusz in turn tried to take after Susan. "No," Susan told him bluntly, turning around, "You stay here." Then she took off again. The minute she was gone, Mateusz took after her.

As Quill and Jack ran through the street's things got a little odd.

"I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, hoe you loved me and followed me even though the barren wilderness." A human-shaped creature with blue skin and series of fangs jutting from his face shouted, standing on top of an over turned crate, "In those days Israel was holy to the Lord, the first of His children. All who harmed His people were declared guilty, I, Lord, have spoken!"

"What's a Stenza doing quoting Jeremiah?!" Quill commented in spite of herself.

"Ade due Damballa, give mt the power, I beg of you!" Humanoid dog creature cried out.

"What's a Nubin doing quoting Child's Play ?!" Jack pointed out.

Charlie and Doretha were getting further and further away from them. As he got closer to her, they rounded the corner.

As Susan and Gwen entered the fray, the raptor-like creature that has attacked Charlie leapt and her, sending her to the ground.

"Get off of her, you lunatic!" Gwen shouted trying to elbow the creature of Susan only to be attacked herself, claws digging into her side. It was then that blur of green jumped on the creature's back, causing it to let go and flee. Gwen helped Susan up, catching sight of Jack and Quill. "I think I see them." She told her, and they ran for it.

Meanwhile Mateusz tried to catch up with the women but kept getting cut off by bizarre creatures or items falling in the street. He barely jumped out of the way in time as a lamp post of all things well.

"I lost them!" Quill shouted, started to panic on the inside.

"They went around that corner." Jack told her, "We just have to—"

His voice trailed off as a cart came out of nowhere, hitting Quill and ramming her into the side of a building.

"Andrea!" Jack screamed, running to her aid.

Meanwhile, Charlie had somehow lost Doretha. "Show yourself!" He demanded, his whole body on a swivel.

That was when something hit him from behind. Hard. He fell to the ground, and while he couldn't see he guess by the pounding ache in his head the feel of something liquid trickling down his face, the skin had broken. He could also hear someone coming towards. Doretha Ames' shoes were the last thing he saw before he blacked out.