So I didn't have much ideas for this chapter...But since Glass Joe is my favorite character, I thought I would give some thoughts on what his feelings were during this crisis, also with the new Goldfish Mutant Shirley, imagining what role she is to play I imagine her basically if Fluttershy was a Mutant Goldfish, like her dorsal fin is shaped liked Fluttershy's mane and I imagine she has the psychic power of biokinetic soothing making her a mystic al healer different from Stripes who is mostly a more conventional nurse

Then Bacon Bit said something that surprised even herself!

"What about you Glass Joe?" The Mutant Piglet asked "You've been really quiet so far...What would you have thought back then if someone told you you were going to marry one of those...Creatures?"

No one knew how Glass Joe would react, but the Frenchman suddenly burst into jolly laughter!

"Oh my dear Truie!" Joe said as he wiped away a tear "I honestly thought I would never marry at all...I had such low self-esteem at the time! I might have just told them to pull my other leg, it has bells on it!"

Glass Joe looked at Dana...His strong beautiful Mutant Doberman Wife...If one only looked at her torso you would see a very well built human female-like physique...That just happened to be covered in fur. Glass Joe knew the things people whispered about, they knew if Dana had been a human they would have never believed she legitimately fell for Glass Joe! But since he had gotten married a great leap forward in human/mutant animal relations the things he heard were 'It figures Joe would have to look outside his species to find a wife' that 'Obviously because she doesn't have a good sense of human beauty' (Wasn't that something the main dog character said in that 101 Dalmatians movie?) Joe was content to let them talk, they had no idea of the magical fairy tale-like adventure he had with Dana which had finally got him to stop wallowing in self pity and realize even if he wasn't the best boxer he still could be a hero because his kind and gentle heart!

Crossing one leg over the other as he thought back to that terrible time, Joe said "Honestly I gave very little thought to myself during that time...Though in truth I also could have done more to help...Really my greatest worry was for my closest friend Viktor Von Kaiser...He had gone through a traumatic phase because of his experiences in wartime...I feared most of all if he had to battle against the creatures that things might get far worse for him...And the worst thing I felt was that I would be able to nothing to help him...I was weak...The joke of the WVBA...What possible use could I be against these...Monstrosities?"

FLASHBACK

The next morning it seemed the storm had passed and the sky was clear again...That was a relief for the humans including Joe...He yawned and slowly and gracefully stretched on the mat he had been sleeping on in the warehouse...And then he saw Don Flamenco and Carmen were awake to...And greeting each other with a slow and sensual kiss...Joe quickly turned over to avert his gaze...Paris may be known as the City of Love but he couldn't help thinking this really wasn't the time or the place for such...Gratuitous displays!

Joe also placed a hand over his ear so he wouldn't hear what they were saying, he assumed they were just romantic sweet nothings, no Carmen was quietly asking Don if he thought this might genuinely be the apocalypse and if these creatures were demons!

Joe quietly thought about the fact about how he dreamed as a teenager that when he became a world champion boxer that the ladies would swoon and flock to him...What a complete and utter fantasy that seemed to him now!

But then the sounds of screams interrupted the early morning quiet!

They exited the warehouse and saw a middle aged man, who ran one of the nearby fruit stands come running with a bleeding arm!

"Those freaks!" He gasped "The land creatures, they've made it to Manhattan! One of them just now...A Black Cat attacked me and nearly clawed my arm off!

So this is a short chapter but setting up how the Mutant Hunting Militias got started