After Sophia sends her messages, Officer Cooper gives us a ride in his squad car. I always wanted to sit in one of these, preferably with Maddy in the driver's seat, and me in the passenger seat. But Cooper is driving, and Sophia called shotgun.

So I'm sitting in the back. Behind the locked bars.

"Dang Nazis all 'round my route," complains Cooper as he drives over another soldier. While the undead may have the bodies and slight memories of their lives, they do not seem to possess their reflexes. Every wandering soldier we've come across is shocked at our appearance and takes so long to react.

However, they also have unlimited stamina as can be seen with the two soldiers running after us.

"Hey. Officer, can you speed up? They're gaining on us," I comment on the Nazis chasing us.

Cooper turns to me with a wild look in his eye. "What?! We're going 90 righ' now." He glances to the Nazis behind us and accelerates even more. The Nazis gain a blue, glowing aura and their speed increases even further.

Then they remember they have guns.

They shoot at the car. Thankfully, due to our speeds they have a hard time of hitting us and instead blast apart their fellow soldiers.

"Space Weaver, these ones are different. I think they can use skills." She looks in the mirror to see the blue spheres slowly catching up to us at our steadily increasing speed.

"…Cooper, keep us going straight. I'll be back in a second." Cooper nods to her command and puts his full attention on the driving. I'm amazed at how well he's ignoring to gunshots.

Sophia climbs out of the window; showcasing her spider abilities as she effortlessly sticks to the side of the car. She climbs on top of the car and swings a lasso made of white silk at the two Nazis.

They dodge the center of the lasso, but get stuck to the rope itself. "Cooper, round a corner. NOW!" Cooper frantically spins the wheel, floors the brake, and accelerates around the turn. His drifting skills are top notch because Sophia takes all of the momentum and swings the two in her rope into a building; creating meat paste.

Sophia climbs back in and we sit in silence. It's not like we can do much as we drive. Cooper's occupied with the road, and Sophia's occupied with the Nazis. I'm locked in the back, so I can't do much.

Maybe practice some skills? Yeah, let's practice our skills in the middle of a war zone. What a good idea me! It's not like I can be targeted at any time!

It's not as though I can do anything else though.

I practice turning my mana to water and back again. The process seems much easier after being thrown in Thomas's gauntlet. Mana Circulation is working perfectly.

[ Through repeated actions skill: Mana Manipulation(Minimum, Active) has ranked up to Mana Manipulation(Minor, Active) ]

I- Uh, alright. I wasn't practicing you, but I won't turn down a free rank. Let's…just…move on from that.

Is there anything I can do with Water Magic? Well, there's water in our bodies, but something tells me that falls under two different classes of magic. Body Magic and probably Blood Magic. Hmm, there is water in the air, but that might fall under Steam Magic.

Even if it's under a different skill, it shouldn't take too much effect since it's just a combination away. I'm just going to hope I don't need Fire if I'm going to under the vapor.

If I remember my science classes correctly, only about 2% of the atmosphere is water vapor. Since the atmosphere is so large though, it should allow…

"Huh," Officer Cooper remarks, "the air feels dry." I don't think he knows what's causing it, but Sophia's eye peeked at me for a split second.

[ Through repeated actions skill: Water Magic I(Minimum, Base) has ranked up to Water Magic I(Minor, Base) ]

[ Through possession of skill: Summon Water Sphere(Minimum, Active) and repeated actions you have unlocked the skill: Create Water Sphere(Minimum, Active) ]

[ Create Water Sphere - Allows the user to use surrounding sources of water to form a sphere of water. Consumption is questionable based on source. Concentration differs based on state of source though at a decreased mana cost. Cost: 2mp per cast ]

A minuscule ball of water. As the description says, it only cost two mana points, as opposed to the ten for summoning, but this thing is tiny! While the summoned water is akin to a basketball, this thing is a marble.

I get the decreased mana cost and the fact that this came from the air, but this is really…not worth it. Actually, I get I could use this near the ocean since I live on a freaking island, or the sewer. Ooh, if I use this near the sewer and attack someone, then I could do a lot of mental damage to them.

I wonder how many different types of System Messages there are, though it seems like it just makes them up as it goes.

"Uhh, ma'am? What should I do about…those?" Officer Cooper points to the myriad of golden statues depicting frightened Nazis running away from the direction we're driving. Wait…I know where we're going.

"Just drive around them. Can't risk ruining the engine." She waves him off. He begins swerving around the statues that just grow in number as we drive closer to our destination.

The Heroes' Guild.

We arrive at the front with a screeching halt. The only people outside and actually fighting the onslaught would be Scarlet Sword and Midas. Any other heroes seem to be absent.

The three of us step out of the vehicle, with Sophia helping me, and stare at the absence of help.

"Where's everyone else? I called ahead," Sophia waves her hands in frustration. She growls before punching a Nazi.

Another one tries to sneak up to me, but I punch him in the ribs, and Cooper shoots him through the heart. The Nazi staggers before looking down. He smiles since he obviously isn't dead. Well, dang. I guess we need to shoot the head. Cooper understands this as well and quickly shoots him in the head.

"Hey," I say with realization, "why didn't that gunshot hurt my ears?" I mean, my Enhanced Senses should be giving me a massive headache with how loud guns are.

Aria's voice perks up in my mask. "I'm muffling it for you." Huh. Alright then. I'll accept that.

Rose slices a soldier in two before turning to Sophia. "They're in a meeting."

Sophia stares blankly. "A meeting."

Midas freezes some more soldiers. "Yeah, they decided to have a meeting when you called. Something about following protocol to the letter. They immediately recalled all heroes and police, so, other than the Nazis, I expect crime to increase exponentially for a while. And…the city's under attack."

Sophia groans, "So they're doing nothing."

"Yep," Midas and Rose say in unison.