"Thank you!" Gris proclaims as she takes all the demon blood from them as she stores them away into boxes. She also took notice of Garrett there, and still with her signature smile on her face that never leaves, she asks, "And who would you be?" He would take a bow before introducing himself, "Mercenary Garrett, glad to be at your service." Gris puts a hand to her face and is quite amused by him.
"A mercenary? My my! What a cute, little one you are! No less one with courtesy!" She said in a joking tone, giving him a pat on the head. A look of slight frustration on his face can be seen before he gets up from the bow as Gris continues to smile at him. "Well, tis a pleasure to meet you! Now, c'mon everyone! And that includes you, Garrett! I'll take you all to my booth and we can have ourselves a grand ol' time!"
She led them to a close to the field yet boxed off area of a gladiator-like arena. And after letting them all get comfortable, they all sat down, while she ran away with the thing of demon blood. She was gone for a while, but eventually made her return to the box as she pants after running around so much. "Phew! Wow! Now, time to sit back, relax, and we can all watch the party commence!"
Her enthusiasm was at an all time high as she sat back and kicked her feet up. Yet, she only sat down there for a few seconds before jumping up out of her seat. "Oh shoot! I forgot that I'm supposed to be the one introducing all the combatants! Sorry, y'all! I just had my head up my rear! Hope you all enjoy the show nevertheless!" She grabs her top hat and scurries away and as the group sat there, they all saw her in the center of the arena as she began the show.
However, as most of them watched, Mike was more focused on his own firepower, literally. So, he asked Cassian if he could take the teleporter and take it for a spin of sorts, which Cassian allowed. And after showing him how to use it, namely by thinking of where he wants to go and then placing it down, Mike was off on his own for the first time in who knew how long.
Initially, he decides to do a small test drive before trying to go out to the open field as he chooses to go to the town that he and the others went to. And when he did, he chose to roam around for some time at first before he was stopped by someone else walking. "Oi," The man said as Mike turned around to face the man with disheveled dark hair. "Yeah?"
"Weren't you one of the guys who was with Cassian earlier?" He asked, as Mike responded with a simple, "Yeah? And you are?" He asked, as the man answered his question. "You can just call me V. And, let me guess, he took y'all by the black market and had y'all meet with Gris and all them and all that other bullshit?"
"Is that a bad thing?" Mike asks, genuinely a bit confused about what V was talking about. V gave a shrug at this, "Eh, not really. Just know that they're all a bunch of fookin' heathens." What he said surprised Mike, but as he was surprised at that, V also pulled a knife out and began to twirl it around on his finger.
"Of course, who the hell am I to judge what y'all are doin'? Just make sure to be real careful with who y'all are with. And, since you're going to be working with her, you're probably going to end up going by the Union and meeting the Admin up there. And just... I don't know, just prepare for whatever they need for you to do." V explained, but Mike wasn't entirely convinced by it, "Okay, and why should I believe anything you say to me?"
V stopped twirling the knife before holding it in his hand and pointing at Mike and said, "Good question" before shrugging. "I could be just as bad as someone like Gris and you wouldn't even know. Just... I don't know... I guess you can't really expect much from me. I mean, after all, currently, you're face t- ... Hmm, actually, nah, we don't need to get into that. But, hey, don't say I didn't warn ya. Or, at the very least, don't say that nobody didn't warn ya."
He stretches some before he seemingly gets ready to walk once more. "Welp, I'm off. Hope you have fun doing whatever the hell you're doin'. Ciao." Mike gave a slight nod at what V had said before V continued on his way, "Okay... see you around." Mike looked back at V who continued on his walk and also turned back to see Mike looking back at him before both of them turned around to face their own ways.
Mike, having initially wanted to go test out his fire, was ready to try and go to the fields now, but a sudden thought dawned on him. He took a moment to ponder to himself, even speaking out loud to himself as he continued to think. "What if I go and check the rubble?" It had dawned on him that, instead of testing his powers, he should go and check out the rubble that he, Pat, and Alex had all initially found themselves at.
However, it was taking him a moment to remember where exactly it was given; it was an empty field for the most part, so that didn't make it any easier. But after some more and more thinking, he was able to, at least, somewhat pinpoint down some type of place for him to be able to reach there. And so, once in a secluded area, he would put down the teleporter and hop through it. All while he was hoping that he'd be able to find something that'd tell him if the whole thing Gris did wasn't racking up his brain enough.