So here is a hodgepodge chapter of little scenes as we get to more meaty plot points
In the face of such uncertain terror not knowing what the heck this Cor was capable of as his smug smirk really made Bill fear that this nerd with physics defying hair had some devastating power...The Bull-Boy dropped to all fours and turned and ran out the bar door...Not a good sign...When a Humanimal runs away on all fours...Reverting to animal instinct...It is a sure sign they have succumbed to the fear as Ichabod knew his Father would put it.
"Bill! Wait!" Ichabod called to his friend as he was about to follow him out the door but before he did he turned and glared at Cor…
"I warn you Cor…" Ichabod said "...You better not try anything funny with Samantha...If she didn't choose you it's simply because she didn't love you and that's it! Respect her wishes!"
"Big talk for a man who feels he has to change himself to be worthy of the female he loves!"
Ichabod gasped! This stranger knew about that?!
"Oh please!" Cor sneered "It has been clear to everyone ever since the nearly botched Viola Strierra Mission you haven't been the same since you were nearly burnt at the stake only to be saved because your girlfriend is the Mage Monarch! Not only was it written all over your face but you practically became a shut-in afterward!"
Ichabod felt his face become hot with shame while his Herd did their best to shield him from the likes of the Paparazzi the fact remained he was a famous hero and realizing just how everyone knew of his self-pity funk he had been in for nearly two months filled him with shame and embarrassment!
And then...Cor became...Almost sympathetic...And said the thing Ichabod least wanted to hear.
"You and I are actually very much alike Ichabod...Sometimes a man does have to change for the woman he loves…"
Ichabod felt his breath hitch...Despite everything he thought before...He knew this Cor was not someone he wanted to be like...Because he could just sense this Cor wasn't a good and honorable man! The fact he had mutated many people already against their wishes showed that!
"You do realize you confessed to us you caused all these mutations…" Ichabod said more to change the subject than to refute what Cor had said
Cor just shrugged "Go ahead...The the police...Tell the entire Earth Government! They won't do anything to me! I've got friends and high places!"
"Maybe you also shouldn't have confessed that either..." Ichabod muttered as he walked out with Marzipan.
Ichabod dialed on his Dimensional Jumper "Captain?" He wanted to of course report to his team leader but she wasn't answering for some reason so he went to the next best person.
"Donatello?" Ichabod said
"Yeah?" Don said
"I believe we found the person responsible for these mutations, not too difficult since he basically bragged about doing it…"
"Ooh...That's never a good sign…" Don sighed "...If they're that cocky it's usually because they've got something to back it up."
"He calls himself Cor...Don't know if has any last name...He claims to be the result of experiments on humans…"
"Shell!" Don exclaimed "That's the kind of stuff Bishop was doing! That could have been extremely dangerous!"
"He says he's an old...Acquaintance of Samantha...And basically he admitted to doing all this because he got a bad case of Puppy Love and he's doing it to win her over…"
"That still doesn't make him any less dangerous regardless of stupid motivation or stupid way of going about it!" Don said firmly "Hang tight...I'll pick you up I'm with Minsk and Edward at the Automat."
Shortly after his mutation Edward Green realized he had developed a mustelid's insanely fast metabolism when he grabbed a fish out of a fish tank in the hospital and was about to swallow it whole when a human nurse screamed at the sight and Edward realizing what he was about to do apologized profusely and put the fish back in the tank realizing he needed food...Minsk took him to the Automat...Gotham in becoming so Retro 50s had rebuilt the Automat after they became extinct in the 21st Century.
Edward devoured macaroni and cheese, casserole, baked beans and coffee and Minsk watched with sympathy seeing he was not accustomed to the depth of mustelid hunger!
As he devoured the last of the baked beans Edward asked his wife "...How come I've never seen you eat this much?" As he felt incredibly embarrassed about his lapse in table manners
"Two things…" Minsk said "...First as a female mink I'm smaller and thus don't need the same amount of food as a male and the other thing...I actually do eat a lot you just don't notice at meal times but I always serve myself and extra large portion at meal times so I'm not as hungry between meals."
Cor...Is an interesting character because in this day an age it would be very easy just to write him as a 'creep' who won't take no for an answer but I didn't want to do that I really wanted to make him more of a tragic figure and actually more comical than predatory kind of like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain in love for pathetic than actually threatening he's similar to Bushroot from Darkwing Duck as he simply a lonely man who seeks companionship he's simply going about finding it in an unhealthy way because he doesn't know how for reasons related to his upbringing