Earlier Ward's room.

"Well normally we'd wait for everyone to get here but Dean is out and Stalker is a bitch." Clockblocker shrugged. "Though this is the point where we all do a happy little trust exercise and unmask to each other, and share our power list, not like we won't see each other in school any way."

"You don't have to if you don't want to however." Aegis offered.

"Nah it's fine." Druid offered leaning over the back of the couch that was taken up fully by Apocalypse Meow, and a very squished Vista who had the massive cat's head in her lap petting her.

Druid reached down pulling the mask back up off Apocalypse Meow's head , her fingers brushing the feline's ears and shifting her back into the full green tiger kitty she normally was as she pulled off the mask.

"Okay that was cool." Clockblocker offered as the feline changed before them.

"Yep this is Pocky. She's a mid tier brute and is far smarter than she lets on, so don't be fooled by her act." Druid stated only for the great green cat to huff.

"Seriously that's her costume? A mask and a little more lizardy?" Vista asked.

"Unwritten rules. She has a mask and powers, with no mask she's not messed with." Druid offered.

"Fair enough." Clock offered pulling his mask up off his face. The red headed boy underneath had a wide grin on his face as he did so. "Sir Blocker of the Clocks, also known as Dennis Stillbrook, powers of time stoppage and quickness of wit."

"Lack of wit maybe." Vista offered before pulling her mask up. "Missy Biron, powers of making the universe my bitch."

"Carlos Burgos, powers of flight and brute rating." Aegis stated pulling down his mask with a small smirk.

"Powers of redundancy you mean." Dennis smirked.

"Well ... " Carlos sighed. "He's not wrong. And yet... he's still Dennis."

Druid shook her head pushing back her hood to let her curly hair fall free to bounce lightly against her shoulders before she pulled down her mask. "Amy Piggot, bio tinker, primarily a healer."

"Biotinker?" Carlos questioned before he glanced to Pocky." Shoulda known that."

"I don't think I've ever heard of a friendly Bio tinker." Dennis shrugged. "Blasto is the closest any one has to a 'kid friendly' one, and the reports have him as a drugged out nut job."

"You're the Director's daughter." Missy pointed out.

The boys stopped speculating and looked to the youngest Ward on the couch then back up to the freckled girl behind it.

"Your mom is Director Piggot?" Carlos asked.

"Yup." Amy shrugged. "It's currently set up that Assistant Director Renick is dealing with any issues with me to avoid any sort of shown favoritism from mom. Not like she would do that, but the I's need to be dotted and the T's crossed."

"You have a pet, big green cat." Dennis stated. "How is this hidden from anyone?"

"Have you heard mention of her anywhere yet? We've been here nearly two weeks now. Pocky goes out jogging with us and I've not even seen a post about her online or in the news yet." Amy shrugged.

"I am so going to troll the PHO boards with this information later." Dennis considered, a grin starting to split his face. "I can even set her up a PHO account and get it verified by the mods even if all the posts are just Meow."

"Umm" Amy questioned.

"Nah it's brilliant, if Apocalypse Meow, the cape comes first and is all over PHO, everyone will think Pocky the normal if large cat is just a copy of some sort." Dennis cackled. "It's perfect. I'll need to get Aegis or Vista to help me verify her though, no one will believe it if I do it."

"People are not that stupid Dennis." Carlos sighed.

"Ahh, but that my friend is where you are very very wrong. A single person is smart, clever even, but the more people who gather to deal with something, the faster the IQ drops. and if i get the masses of PHO seeing them as separate kitties, then they shall always be known as separate kitties and any of the witless masses who disagrees will be banned by Tin Mother, or considered a tinfoil hatter... MUH WAH HA HA HA, mine is an evil laugh."

"Dennis half of those witless masses on PHO are your alts." Missy sighed.

"Oh ye of little faith. Need I remind you about 'Pokey Puppy?" Dennis grinned more, Amy was certain his head was going to unhinge and fall back like a pez dispenser if it got any wider.

"Please don't bring that up again." Carlos groaned.

"What?" Amy questioned, completely lost in this conversation.

"Dennis took that Pokey Little Puppy children's book and superimposed Hook Wolf onto the puppy with photo shop and rewrote the book a little to be more PG-13 rated. It became a massive meme where people online started calling Hook Wolf, Pokey Puppy." Vista sighed. "Dennis wouldn't shut up about the up votes and views, and Hook Wolf lost his damn mind when he heard about it,even more than usual. He took that frustration out on everyone and was offering a bounty on information on who started the meme. Director Meadows banned Dennis from the internet for a month and told him under no uncertain terms was he to let anyone know he came up with the meme."

"Then Mouse Protector stole my shtick and Pokey Puppy thinks she started it." Dennis huffed.

"It's safer that way." Carlos sighed." Mouse Protector can avoid Hook Wolf on her own, you can't."

Later, still Tuesday

"So I'm just supposed to wait here?" Druid asked with a small frown.

"Well somewhere on site." Miss Militia offered. "Seems your talents may be pulled into use even before you premier tomorrow."

"Ehh it's only seven, and it's not like you even have to go to school the rest of the week." Clockblocker offered.

"Fair enough." Druid shrugged.

"So have you met all the other Wards yet?" Miss Militia asked.

"No, not yet. Shadow Stalker only showed up just in time for her patrol with Vista, and Aegis is on console duty. I think Clock here is the only one left." Druid offered.

"I wasn't supposed to be here today either really, but I could use the OT, and I certainly didn't want to miss meeting the new Ward." Clockblocker offered.

"Harass the new Ward you mean." Miss Militia corrected, though she was likely hiding a smile.

"Ehhh potaaaatoe, tomaaato." Clockblocker offered. "Sides the girls should be back soon and I wanna see Stalker's reaction to Apocalypse Meow. Let's see her try that stupid Animal Planet bullshit on her."

"I have been saying this a lot today with you Clock. What?" Druid questioned.

Clockblocker looked to Miss Militia who simply shrugged.

"Keep in mind I agree with you on her mental state. While I don't want you turning someone new against her before Druid can form her own opinion, a warning of sorts shouldn't be a issue." Miss Militia stated. "Though keep it civil."

"Right, okay full disclosure I can't stand the girl, she's abrasive, rude, dismissive, violent and thinks only in terms of what I call the Animal Planet mentality. She assigns everyone an animal that she thinks they fit with, and whether they are predator or prey." Clockblocker explained.

"Just predator and prey? What about parasitical creatures, or scavengers, or omnivores?" Druid questioned.

"Dunno, and I don't know what her reasoning is sometimes. But she gets in depth. Mouse Protector is considered a Honey Badger, because nothing any one does seems to bother her, but Mouse can and will fuck you up if she wants. She was calling me a rat, and that was explained as that I don't do anything but hide behind others, I think she thought I was prey by her mindset until the whole Noodle Incident where I had to stop her from being stupid."

"Noodle incident?" Druid asked and Clockblocker grumbled.

"Classified, but it was enough to show everyone that Clockblocker here is a bit more dangerous than he lets on." Miss Militia offered, her eyes showing that she had to be smiling.

"It should have been enough for her to be dropped in Juvie, but she's been getting too many 'get out of jail free' cards on chance."Clockblocker grumbled.

"Keep in mind, most of the damage in the Noodle Incident was caused by you." Miss Militia warned as Clockblocker grumbled something about pasta before taking a breath.

"Anyway, She calls Aegis a Bald Eagle, which sounds bad ass with his flight and so forth, but then she reveals that she considers Bald Eagles little more than angry seagulls. Vista had the honor of being called a Rabbit. Which we all thought was an insult, until we learned that Shadow Stalker very much knows about Watership Down, and considers Vista small, cute, and utterly horrifying." Clockblocker continued.

"The only ones I know about are Armsmaster whom she considers a lion. Content to let the females around him do all the work, though a terror when he gets going." Miss Militia chuckled. " And she considers Moon Dog a Panther, though he feels that's a cop out."

"No idea about Assault or Battery, but she has some respect for them, and Velocity transferred out west before she met him." Clockblocker offered. "Most of the rest of those in the building she ignores, though Vista said she called the head of the troopers a T-rex before and she actively avoids him."

" Great...this sounds less Animal Planet and more Disney's Wild Kingdom, horrible inaccuracies and all." Druid sighed." Not even sure I wanna know how I'd rate."

"Probably as nothing, maybe one of those parasites you were talking about mooching off your mother's position."

Clockblocker sighed at the new voice and Miss Militia looked up. Druid turned and raised an eyebrow at the girl leaning against the wall behind them. Full covering body suit with what looked like metal armor plates. She had a folded crossbow hanging from her belt under a black hooded cloak that seemed to turn purple as she shifted under it like felt with an under color, her face was covered by a metallic looking mask that looked like it was designed to mimic a statue, the recesses of the eyes were open but the eyes were hidden behind some sort of black lenses.

"I take you're Shadow Stalker." Druid offered sparing a glance to Apocalypse Meow who was watching the newcomer with interest. "Like the cloak."

"Whatever, PR forced it on me to become, more approachable." Shadow Stalker snapped. "This your thing rat, talking shit about some one behind their backs?"

"You weren't here Stalker." Clockblocker offered." I'll happily talk shit to your face too."

"Clockblocker, Shadow Stalker stand down." Miss Militia snapped.

"Whatever. So who are you supposed to be?" Shadow Stalker questioned staring at Druid.

"If you had shown up on time to the meeting you would know." Miss Militia stated flatly.

"I'm Druid. The new Ward." Druid offered offering a hand which Shadow Stalker ignored.

"Great another one. So what's your stupid power, making plants grow?" Shadow Stalker questioned.

"Well I could do that, I'm mostly a healer." Druid offered.

"Great you're a glorified band aid." Shadow Stalker huffed, Druid frowned.

"A good bit more than that. Granted I have to be able to do more as I can't simply turn to smoke to run away if things get dicey." Druid stated.

"What did you say bitch!?" Shadow Stalker rushed forward getting in Druid's face.

Druid didn't flinch having expected this, though she did hold up a hand to keep Apocalypse Meow from pouncing on the other Ward. Something Miss Militia did not miss.

"Enough." The worlds most famous gun bunny ordered. "All three of you stand down."

Shadow Stalker snorted before blinking in confusion at why there were three told to stand down.

Apocalypse Meow growled drawing Shadow Stalker's attention, making the girl flinch as she noticed the massive dragon cat staring at her.

"That means you too." Miss Militia snapped pointing at Apocalypse Meow, the great feline beast offering a huff before flopping back down on the couch. "Druid I know you are new but I also know you were told not to encourage Shadow Stalker. And Shadow Stalker you're already in hot water and it's never a good idea to piss off the person who is going to patch you up if you get hurt."

"I'm not going to withhold healing just because someone's pissed me off." Druid huffed as if insulted by the implication.

"Whatever. You've got a big mouth girl, but you're writing checks your ass can't cash." Shadow Stalker growled.

"If you want to think that, by all means." Druid offered a smile under her mask.

"What part of stand down do you two not recognize." Miss Militia huffed.

"Fine lets find out, you me training room for a spar." Shadow Stalker snapped.

" That's not a good idea. Stalker is one of the best unpowered hand to hand fighters in the Wards." Clockblocker offered. "Vista claims the top spot on powered, but she cheats."

"Alright." Druid nodded. "No powers, just skill."

"Or lack of it girl." Shadow Stalker chuckled.

"Where the hell is Mouse, nobody fucking listens to me." Miss Militia growled as Apocalypse Meow perked her ears. "Okay the cat listened."

Apocalypse Meow offered a small yawn in response.