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The Pool, Saturday Night

After Jennifer had the unfortunate incident with the gremlin and the glass of water that morning, she'd been wary about any big water source.

And then that night, she remembered there was a freaking pool under the dorms.

She had shouted a bit on her way down, hoping someone might come along for the defense.

The last thing they needed was their beloved dorm basement to turn into a spawning field. Dressed in her gym clothes and heavy boots, she was ready to stomp some little bitey-green guys.

After all, she had a perimeter to defend.

Standing by the pool, she kept her eyes open, trying to spot any of the things before they'd try to take a little dip. She wondered if she could get away with finding a couple car batteries and just electrifying the water...

[ooc: Open!]

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Tony already had scratches and minor bites from earlier ~~handwavy~~ battles with the damned things. He heard Jennifer calling and followed her down to the... holy crap, pool. Big thing full of water. And a bunch of small creatures heading toward it.

"Shit!" he yelled. He cast a Wizard's Lamp spell and a bright light flared in his hands. It burned out a moment later, but it had slowed the creatures for a moment.

"Thanks!" Jennifer said, running over to start punting gremlins. "Pretty impressive skill, actually."

"Thanks," Tony said. He grabbed the nearest likely weapon, which turned out to be a pool skimmer. "Sorry, I haven't used it much. I can do the quick flash thing or a low level one that stays going, and I don't think that one's bright enough for them to care." He swung the skimmer at a couple of gremlins. It knocked one down, but the second grabbed it and chomped the end off it.

"It's like the local boys are having a family reunion," Jennifer said, stomping one and wincing at the sickening crunch. "And they invited their evil angry cousins."

She shuddered. She decided talking about them like they had family wasn't good for her psyche if she was crushing them.

Tony focused, swung his arm and spoke the words of the Powershot spell. He'd practiced a bit since summer and he could control the spell a bit better now - not blow his wad in one shot anymore.

He sent the Powershot at the nearest creature and it disintegrated in a nasty-smelling poof, leaving a pile of sticky black goo.

Okay, good. He wasn't on the floor yet. He had to pause for a minute to catch his breath, though.

"Nice shot!" Jennifer said, reaching down to just pick one of the things up and fling it as hard as she could at the wall. She growled a little. These little things were relentless. And it wasn't like they'd even give up when dawn came.

"I don't suppose we know how to... drain the pool, do we?"

"Can you hold them while I figure it out?" Seeing as she was kicking ass and he was wiped after one shot.

"Got it!" Jennifer said. "I'll keep them off you."

But that's when the little things got the bright idea to start swarming her, and she was soon practically covered in them.

"God, hands to yourselves, you little punks!" she said, letting out a little yelp.

"Shit!" Tony set off another bright Wizard Lamp spell, hoping to dazzle the fuckers for a moment or two.

"You're a lifesaver," Jennifer said, hurling a couple of them off her. She was scratched up, her clothes a bit tattered (as was standard for just about any She-Hulk fight, True Believers), but she didn't seem too worse for wear. "Didn't even have the courtesy to buy me dinner first."

"How very rude," Tony said. The flash had given him a good view of the room. He didn't know much about pools, but he'd seen a few videos on pool-draining on YouTube. They'd generally involved shotguns or jetskis, but he had accidentally clicked serious instructions once. He hadn't paid much attention at the time, but he did remember something involving a pump.

He'd spotted a couple of pressure valves, switches and a few pipes in one section across the room. If there was a built-in pump, it'd probably be there. Across the room. With a few bazillion nasty creatures between him and it.

Tony readied another Wizard's Lamp spell. This was going to have to last him more than a flash, if he planned to survive this (and he was very in favour of surviving this.) "Okay," he said. "You ready?"

She nodded, pulling her hair back out of her face. "You ready to make MVP?"

Hey, light banter helped it seem less grim.

Tony grimaced. "I suck at sports," he said. "Except as a spectator." He cast the Wizard's Lamp spell in his hand, holding the bright light out in front of himself like, well, a lamp. The creatures snarled but they shied away from the light. He focused, pushing power into the light, and walked quickly towards the pump.

Jennifer took the chance to just start wailing on what gremlins she could, hoping to cause a big enough distraction to help out.

"Come on, get some!" she said. And instantly regretted it. It was a pretty poor line, and the gremlins actually snickered at her.

Tony pushed the light at any gremlins that got too close and he made it to the pump without any new wounds. He examined the apparatus, figured out where the pump was and threw a switch. Machinery churned and hummed. He was hoping to hear some kind of suction or maybe a *woosh* sound as all the water got sucked from the pool. Nada.

Was that a faint *glug glug* sound or was that just a gremlin chuckling?

"Um. Anything happening with the water?"

Jennifer ripped a gremlin off of her back and flung it against one of its friends. She looked over at the pool. It looked like it was draining, but very, very slowly. "Well, that's anticlimactic," she said.

Shit. Shit. "Shit!" Tony looked around the pump, hoping to see a "turbo" switch or something. He didn't find anything to speed it up, but, "Huh, this could help." He flipped the "pool cover" switch.

Jennifer just sort of stood in awe of her own foolishness.

"...there's a cover," she said, watching it spread out over the pool. It was sturdy, too. Metal. "Well, this won't look great on my transcript."

"A cover? Think it'll keep 'em out until the pool drains?" Tony asked.

"Yeah, it looks solid," Jennifer said. "They'd have to be as strong as me to get in. And I don't plan on..."

She punted another gremlin into a crowd of its comrades. "Helping them."

"Good deal," Tony said. His Wizard's Lamp finally winked out. He felt claws slice through his left thigh and he swore in pain. Another claw raked his stomach and something bit into his right calf. He gritted his teeth and focused enough to cast the Wizard's Lamp again. "Go away!" he yelled at the creatures, pushing the light in their faces. They scrambled back into the shadows. "Nothing here for you now." He concentrated on keeping the light well-lit. It seemed like some of the gremlins might be taking his advice and slipping away, but there were too many shadows to tell for sure.

He fucking hated shadows.

Jennifer dropped to her knees, panting for breath. She'd been trying to act cocky, all boisterous and attitude. But the truth was, she was exhausted and the whole ordeal had taken a lot out of her.

"You're... pretty amazing," she said, between gasping for breath and punching what gremlins dared to go near her.

Tony stared at her. "You just kicked the ass of how many of these things? I just pulled a switch!"

"Hey, that switch was a game winner," Jennifer said. "Don't count yourself too low, okay?"

She knew she'd done a lot of the work, but... she'd have lost it without his help.

Tony managed a small grin. "All right, but you kicked ass." He looked around. Definitely fewer gremlins now. "I'm just gonna keep this light going for a bit, 'kay?"

Jennifer smirked back. "I definitely did," she said. "And... more light the better. Think they don't like it too much."

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