It was rare that she got time to play with the children at the arcade, but Maki was happily slicing up ninjas with her superhuman reflexes and agility. Some called it cheating, but Maki wasn't going easy on her opponents. The only thing that prevented her from placing wagers against challengers was the fact that the owner would probably kick her out for gambling in his establishment.

Just as she broke the high score and cleared the game level, though, a loud crash from outside got the attention of most of the patrons. Most returned to their games, not keen on finding out what the hell was going on. They probably dismissed it as a car accident or something and it would be taken care of by the appropriate authorities soon enough. Maki, however, headed outside. Her gut instinct was telling her something was going on, and she learnt to trust it. A NEST van had crashed into a chain link fence, and someone was chasing after something. "Fuck me." Maki cursed under her breath, drawing a disapproving glare from a mother who had her child beside her. The Japanese girl shrugged in apology and headed over to the van.

It was stupid, because for a meta-human like her, getting near a bunch of injured NEST agents was a very good way to get arrested for a misunderstanding. Still, she had to make sure there was nothing she could do to help them. "Eh, they'll live." She mused, noticing some people were already dialing emergency numbers. Good, it meant she could deal with the real problem - the escapee. She took off after the pair of men who had disappeared into the woods, their footprints in the snow making it easy for her to find them.

She didn't bother running straight after them, but instead took care to navigate carefully through the trees and branches where she could. No point leaving tracks if she didn't need to - NEST agents were notorious for hunting anyone near one of their own "subjects". She was sitting on a low hanging branch, just close enough to overhear the exchange with her hearing but far enough to avoid detection. It seemed like the collared one was having difficulty, while the other seemed like a Good Samaritan type. Well, she knew they weren't familiar with each other and she could tell they weren't accomplices who helped each other escaped or something like that.

NEST was a necessary evil. They weren't exactly friendly to meta-humans, but Maki knew they existed to keep the worst of her kind from endangering innocent lives. After all, a lone gunman had nothing on a walking flamethrower, or someone who could make anything a bomb with a touch. It didn't seem like the two men she was observing were in that category, and the one with the collar seemed like a classic example of creepy science test subject. So, it was her turn to make a decision. Did she want to risk pissing off NEST on the off-chance pale face wasn't a crazy serial killer, or help her own kind for once?

[i]Flip a coin? Eeny meenie miney moe?[/i] Maki considered how best to decide before sighing and dropping to the ground. She teleported herself over next to the two of them. Better they be the ones getting surprised than her. "Need some help?" She asked, raising an eyebrow now that she could get a better look at the pair of them. "NEST usually doesn't delay when one of their trucks gets wrecked. We should hurry and get that collar off before they come looking."