Ziva moved quickly, her illusion couldn't hold for too long. This is a school funded trip, no murder. For now. She used her staff, knocking another man's legs out from under him and hitting him on the head hard enough to knock him out.
Rio used a couple more whips to immobilize a few more of the guys as they fell, but he ran out of water at four people. "I can't keep any more of them down guys!" he said to the others.
A water bottle hit him in the side, just before Ziva suddenly appeared, looking paler than normal. "Use that. I'll knock 'em out."
Arabella grinned and kept shooting small balls at people, knocking them backwards
Ziva, despite her obvious exhaustion, was grinning wildly as she spun, swinging her staff and catching one of the men right in the head. "Whoo!"
(Sorry, I'm back. What happened?)
Rio used as much of the water he could get his hands on, and managed to bind up 6 more before running out again. "I've run out of water!" his voice was a bit strained as each of the men he held bound, struggled against the restraints.
"Give me a second!" We're right next to a convenience store, if I could just get in there… "If I incapacitate them, do you think you can make it into the convenience store?"
"There's no way you can do that to all of them, and take out the others!" said Rio, gesturing to the other half dozen that were hanging around.
"Maybe not, but it's worth a shot!" Ziva replied, already working on the ones tied up, holding off the others. "What's life without a little risk?"
(Well, I missed most of the fun stuff and I don't know how to put Sage into the middle of this.)
((she could have been hiding?
(Just have Sage jump into battle!!)
Arabella joined her palms and extended them. A black staff with silver details appeared and she grinned "boy you are dead." Xavier laughed loudly and grinned evilly "well, i must admit this was unexpected, however I have you surrounded! It was fun while it lasted lass." He said and did a two- finger salute. Arabella appeared near Ziva and Rio "we need a plan, where are the others?"
(Hiding is no fun. I'll just have her in the bus still super obvious to what's going on. That sounds like it would be funny. Then I'll have her come out at some point.)
"If I had my sword I could help you…" said Rio most of his attention focused on keeping those binds tight.
"I have an idea!" Ziva said excitedly.
Sage bounced her foot to the beat of her music. She noticed the bus stopped but didn't really need anything, although everyone was taking a while to buy stuff. Sage shrugged it off, that was until she got a little voice in her head. It was Rio saying something about a sword. Taking her headphones off she looked out the window and saw a lot of fun was going on without her. "To bad I can only read minds and not talk back." On her hands and knees she crawled over to where the bags were looking through all of them. "I apologize everyone." It was close to the bottom but she felt it, the sword. Quickly she dashed to the door and yelled for Rio. "Catch!" And threw it with all her might.
Arabella heard a voice and looked back just in time to see a sword flying through the air.
Rio turned, just barely managing to grab his blade out of the air. With his concentration broken Xavier was able to warp to his feet behind Ziva, rushing towards her. Rio went for the guy that had been watching him from the beginning.
Ziva threw a punch, catching Xavier by surprise and in the jaw.
"Nice throw Sage." Sage gave herself a high five. "Now let's go help." As she got out of the bus a hang grabbed her horn and pulled her to the ground. "Ow!" She looked over and saw a man holding her down. "I heard if you grab a bull by the horn it will move the way you want." A smirk crossed his face. *Well, damn!" Thinking fast she pulled his shadow and threw him across the way, giving her time to stand back up.
"Guys we should have a plan of attack!" Arabella yelled and kicked a man down
"I'm open to suggestions!" Ziva shouted, just before being kicked in the chest and thrown back by Xavier.
"I need to make a force field." She mumbled to herself. Crackling sounds were heard and soon a small shield covered the 4 students
Azalea saw some commotion going on with Sage and things happening out side the bus and took her earbuds out and paused her movie. She looked over to the right of the bus and saw everyone fighting in some way. "Finally, something fun to do." She exclaimed quietly, walking out the bus. She did three physical duplication of herself before using super speed on each to take out some of the bad guys. "Well, don't we need to take the Headmistress to safety before worrying about these guys." She yelled out, bringing all versions of herself back to one.
She wheezed, attempting to stand and instead coughing. She spat something definitely red, and her grin seemed to grow. "Now we're getting somewhere!"
"I made a force field! We are safe here whole we think of a plan."
"So, is the plan about flight or fight?" She asked, breathing a bit since using her powers took some energy out of her.
Rio nodded, watching the men warily. "Well for starters I need water to be able to do much else other than take people out with this." he said.
There was a ringing in Sage's ear. He pulled her down pretty hard and hit her head on the concrete. Her vision blurred. Stumbling she accidentally bumped into Rio. "Sorry."