A needle full of Alice

While Chesire entered the building, a certain young Neo was hidden away in a nearby alley, psyching himself up to begin his own assault on the club. 'Ok,Imp,it's been...a long time since you've pulled a heist, let alone one on a building full of scumbags and all alone, but you've been preparing and watching for at least a week now. Besides, you've handled worst. And there's no way that they're expecting what you can do.So...Let's do this!' Giving himself a firm nod, Imp walked out of the alley and moved towards the club. 'Ok, there's no way the bouncers will let me in, so I'm going to have to circle around ba-'

However, that thought was canceled as he noticed said door guardians' states. "...Huh." 'Maybe not...Right then.' Stepping past the slumped adults, he headed inside. Nose wrinkling as he's greeted with a awful stench,Imp pulled his bandanna mask up, the big, messily painted grin stretching wide across his now hidden face. Though it didn't completely mask the scent, it at least helped a little. Besides, the earlier his identity was hidden, the better. Carefully skirting around dazed patrons, the lad made his way deeper into the club. However, his steps paused, eyes widening as the fire alarm started ringing and he was greeted with a stampede of panicked clubgoers. 'Aw crud!!' Pressing himself against a wall, he slid past the herd and found himself in the same room as Jade.

Seeing the battle between the green clad antihero and the club's goons begin, the boy's eyes widened again. 'There was someone already taking them on?! Well, that explains why the two meatheads were napping outside.' As the mysterious lady directed a teasing comment at him, he gave her a indignant look, about to make a comment of his own. However, he was distracted by needing to dodge a grab attempt by a thug, and quickly formed a bat of purple and gold flames. Slamming it against the goon's shin and causing him to hop in place and curse, Imp danced back away from a furious swipe from a large hand and bowled him over with a blow to the chest. Turning his attention back to the lady, he fired back. "There's a all night martial arts movie marathon at the theater a few blocks over. Shouldn't you be there, Ms. Ninja Leprechaun? You're gonna get fired for not being on the big screen in time." Turning his attention to a thug a few feet away from him, the kid formed a few orbs of the same stuff as his bat and 'fired' them at him. As the orbs slammed into the thug, he'd grunt, body rocking back before slowly toppling over and giving a pained groan.

Imp gave a snort at her teasing response to his own comment. As another thug approached him, lashing out with a vicious haymaker, the young Neo ducked before sharply jamming his bat handle deep into the man's solar plexus. As the poor mook toppled over with a pained gasp, another thug approached him with a table leg held behind his head. Imp quickly swung his bat down at the man's foot, following up with another quick strike to the liver as the gangster instinctively took a step back. That hit connects, and the thug slowly teeters over with a wheeze of pain and choked gurgle. Scoffing as the mysterious ninja woman teased him about his mask, the lad snarked back at her. "You wish, lady."

Blinking as she complimented his abilities and demonstrated a trick of her own, Imp responded."Heh,thanks,Scary Cat Lady. You've got a few neat tricks yourself." As one of the thugs he'd just knocked down attempted to climb back to their feet, the boy knocked them back down with a bonk to the back of the head. Giving a laugh at the woman's mockingly easy success at locking the reinforcements out, Imp nodded as she asked after him, casually laying his bat against his shoulder. "Yep. These guys are pushovers!" However, loud thumping indicates a hurried stride, and as Imp glanced to his side his eyes would rapidly widen. The first thug he'd knocked down had gotten up and was charging at him, a rapidly darkening eye making his angry glare seem even more manic. "I'm gonna make you suffer, you little freak!!" Grimacing beneath his mask, the boy suddenly disappeared, only to reappear beside Cheshire's side as the musclehead charged right through where he'd been standing. "Jeez...You missed, Ugly!!" Glancing up at Chesire in a distinctly sheepish manner, he shrugged. "...Ok, so maybe he's a little tough."

Imp tilted his head a bit to the side upon Chesire introducing herself. "Cheshire, huh?" A mischievous gleam entering his eyes as he looked up at her mask, the young will-be hero responded dryly. "You know, I never would've guessed. Well, I guess it's nice to meet'cha, Chesire. Especially considering...this." He swept his free arm outward, indicating the large amount of guards laid out around them. "And the name's Imp." After 'convincing' the thug that'd tried to get back up to continue his nap, Imp gave a cheeky clap at his accomplice's agile dodge under a couple of punches, giving a quick, light laugh as the two thugs pulled a page straight out of the Three Stooges' playbook and knocked each other out. The humor is sat aside when she delivered a rather nasty jump attack to another mook's back, though. He gave a visible wince, regarding the thug with some concern despite himself. 'Jeez...That really had to hurt. Hopefully he'll still be able to walk.'

However, he's soon distracted by needing to dodge a large, angry battering ram. As Chesire commented on his abilities again, Imp shrugged and snorted,teasing her back. "I gotta be, if I want to keep my head on my shoulders.And no way. That's been in my book since I was a little kid. You're just jealous cause I can do it without the fancy smoke." Brows raising as she slung a few beddy-bye laced shurikens at the big guy, Imp gaved a slightly vindicated nod as said goon screamed before falling over. 'That's what you get, trying to tackle me like that. And for calling me a freak, you jerk.' The kid didn't think he'd ever quit hating that word in particular. Though, granted, he wasn't exactly happy about what else people called...people like him.

Disturbed from his thoughts as Chesire spoke up, he glanced up at her, a brow rising quizzically. "Oh yeah?" Following her as she strode across the club, he regarded her particularly mean 'nap' reinforcements with a slightly furrowed brow. 'Hmm...Well, they do have it coming. And it's not like she's maiming them, just leaving a mark. So long as she doesn't do stuff like that to innocents, there's no reason to worry about it.' Blinking as the woman revealed a hidden safe, he tilted his head slightly. "Huh." 'Gotta admit, that would have took trouble to find.' Glancing up at her, he gave a thoughtful hum, before nodding. "You oughta. I could get through, probably, but I'm betting you can do it in a way that won't activate any...tricks they might have hidden in there."

Cheshire