I12DT: Hey, I Saw You On the News!

[Nick Varkan]

"Ooh, did I finally hurt you?" Nick grinned, dodging aside and blasting it harder.

[Will Stanton]

"What the hell is this thing, Nick?"

[Narrator]

It moves fluidly to one side of the blast, dodging it and surging towards Nick. One tentacle wraps itself around a trashcan and throws itself at Will.

[Will Stanton]

Will expanded, rubberizing -- allowing the trashcan to hit him, and rebound off like a slingshot.

[Nick Varkan]

"I'll explain later!" Nick answered as he took evasive action, sending more riotous blasts at the monstrosity as me moved.

[Narrator]

The trashcan hit the center of its mass and sank into the goo, disappearing. Nick's blasts were keeping it at bay, but didn't seem to be permanently causing any damage.

"Electricity!" the bank robber shouted, "You have to zap the thing!"

Hearing the criminal's voice, the goo seemed to remember its original target. It shot several tentacles towards the bank robber.

[Nick Varkan]

Wow. He's actually still here.

"You heard the man! Find something zappy!"

Nick lifted the robber to the roof and flew to cut off the blob with a few blasts.

"Thanks," he said, "Sorry about letting your pet out and all, but dude? What the fuck is that?"

[Narrator]

"I don't know!" the bank robber says, "I was just a security guard at the lab. I thought it was just some sort of goo, like that Paste Pot Pete guy uses."

[Nick Varkan]

"And you thought 'Hey, why not...' Nevermind. What lab?"

[Narrator]

"Moloch Pharmaceuticals!" the man says, "That's all I know, honest!"

[Nick Varkan]

"Well that certainly doesn't sound ominous at all."

He looked for nearby power lines.

[Will Stanton]

"Can you cut the lines, Nick? Using your telekenesis?"

[Narrator]

A tentacle catches the bank robber across the wrist and he screams like a five year old.

[Nick Varkan]

Nick cursed and brutally blasted the tentacle.

"Take cover people!" he shouted before pulling a power line free and sending the sparking cable straight at the blob.

[Narrator]

The line managed to hit it dead center and the blob screamed as the electricity coursed through it. It boiled and smoked for a moment, right before exploding, leaving little more than a charred black mark on the ground behind.

[Nick Varkan]

Nick threw up a shield to block the splattering goo from hitting him or the robber.

"That... was disgusting..."

[Melody Martens]

Melody kept busy with one tentacle, her bomb blast buying her time to escape it's grab, but it kept after her as she peppered it with smaller bombs. It finally snapped back into its body just before it was electrocuted.

She sighed, looking down at her partially-shredded uniform. While she wasn't affected by her blasts her uniform wasn't quite as immune.

"I guess I should start carrying a taser with me," she smirked. "Nice shooting. The creep need an ambulance before we haul his sorry ass to the lockup?"

[Narrator]

"This wasn't my fault!" the bank robber protests, obviously fine.

[Nick Varkan]

"Well, it was a little, you did take a dangerous substance out of a laboratory... but... well... you did kinda rob a bank. So... I can't just let you go."

"I'll go on record that you stuck around to help instead of running when you could though. That's bound to look good."

[Melody Martens]

"Pretty sure this entire situation is your fault, dude." Melody smirked as she pulled out a pair of zip-tie-like hand restraints and nodded at Nick to hold the guy in place so she could secure his hands behind his back.

[Will Stanton]

"We'll sort all this out down at the station.

And by station, I mean university. And by down, I mean up."

[Narrator]

The guy just sighed heavily and went along with the group as they took him into custody.

[Nick Varkan]

"Okay I gotta ask. Why only take four figures? I mean... if I was gonna to bother rob a fuckin' bank I'd take more than a few thousand. Hell, you could've sold that creature for more."

[Narrator]

"I ain't saying nothing without a lawyer," the robber says.

[Nick Varkan]

"Do I look like a cop?" Nick asked.

[Narrator]

The bank robber remained silent.

[Will Stanton]

"He wants a lawyer, he gets a lawyer, Nick. We're the good guys, remember?"