The sound of sirens quickly got the attention of the Jokerz.
"Dicks!" the self-proclaimed leader of the hooligans exclaimed. "Cops are here!"
"Aw man, we were having a schway time!" one of the Jokerz, a teenaged girl dressed in the grotesque patchwork outfit of a clown, exclaimed with a mock pout. She activated her firebomb and threw it into a health food store. Judging from the banners in its windows, it had apparently made a deal with some of the competitors to sell healthy ready to eat meals.
"So was I but what is most definitely not schway is going to jail!"
That did it; the hooligans quickly fled every which way, through alleyways, main roads and in some cases, even using piton guns to cross the chasms between Neo Gotham's elevated highways.
Unfortunately, they had failed to notice Captain Fairchild flying overhead. While he couldn't intervene (due to his 30 mm rotary cannon, rockets, missiles and bombs being as or even more destructive than the hand thrown incendiary bombs), he could easily see through the smoke.
"Stripetail! The Jokerz just burnt down about a third of the shopping district! They're currently fleeing in every direct--wait, one of them just jumped over the side...and he's flying. Wait, he's got a jet pack, the flame shows up real hot on my infrared."
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Inque had taken the form of a man dressed in a loose fitting jacket and was watching one of the games. As it was a relatively small game pitting Hamilton High School's zero G hockey team against some of the lower ranked away team competitors, security was minimal. She knew that Stripetail would show up at any of the games involving his teams.