The fact that Luke awoke with a defensive reflex that was a little aggressive startled the nurse. She turned away from the student she was treating and approached Luke. "Are you okay?" Her voice was filled with much concern. When Luke removed his protective barrier of sorts, the nurse placed a hand on his shoulder. "You are okay. You knocked yourself out... Do you remember anything?" She was trying to go her standard procedure with people that normally appear unconscious on campus. Some were just unfortunate about their events of the day and night, but those usually don't appear in the middle of the day in the middle of a busy area such as the entrance. Before she could ask anything else to Luke, her office phone rang. She sighed and answered it. Another sigh passed her lips as she hung up and rubbed her eyes as if she was tired. "Protestors...", she hushed for a moment and sank down in her seat, watching Luke for a moment. "What's your name? You are a student, I assume." ---------- Victoria chuckled at Daisy a moment. "Well, at least one that listened to the speech then. Speech goal reached", she joked and made a clicking sound while making a checkmark with her index finger in mid-air. Another student joined in on the small-talk by telling Victoria how grateful she was to be able to attend this college. "It's alright. All of us deserve a chance to be a part of our society. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." And as if it were on command, the sound of the commotion reached them. With rolling eyes, the Vice Headmistress followed Artemis on the way to the entrance, where she already saw the protest. ---------- The protest evolved into a skirmish the moment the first hits threw. With Alex making the opening punch, the other protestors were getting furious in seconds. If it weren't for Leopold, this would have turned into a massive brawl. The protestors did stop a moment at the intimidating sounds of the roaring beast, but once Leopold approached them and explained the rights, some already threw insults at him. "Look at this. His mother must have f*cked a zoo to get something like this." "God, we allow this to walk the streets?" "This belongs in a cage with the rest of the animals." Once the situation started to escalate again, Trey's ability froze the protestors easily. Those that weren't affected either stood in place or were in such a rage already that they could not be stopped in their tracks. Fortunately, people like Sumat showed them the way to cool off. Just when most protestors stopped or were frozen, a voice barked over the area. [b]"What is this ruckus?"[/b] The voice of the Headmaster was clear as day, unobstructed by the talking of the students or the mutterings and mumblings of the unfrozen protestors. He causally made his way through the crowd of students that were gathered at the entrance, shortly followed by Victoria and a person that was definitely a lawyer of sorts; expensive suit, even more expensive shoes and accessories and a black leather suitcase. "Unfreeze these people, for goodness sake. What do you think you are doing?", Nicolaas spoke into the gathered mutants, unable to pinpoint who was in control of the timefreeze. Only when the people were relieved of their inability to move did the Headmaster direct the protestors. "You should be ashamed of yourselves. You call yourself the more social being and then you show up like savages and disrupt this peaceful institution?", he yelled at the protestors, who were more than taken back by the loudness of his voice. The lawyer person adjusted his tie a moment and then whispered something to Mister Maikel, who then shook the man's hand and waved him off. "Well I hope you are glad to know that this was Chairman Lewis to propose a new Mutant Registration Act. This man is doing the right thing for you people to sleep better at night. He is going the right way for us to work together. Perhaps one day we will agree on one thing, but not this day." These words clung in the air like cobwebs. It stuck to the people and those that care enough for the topic. The Headmaster walked off, to which Victoria only smiled. She turned to the group of protestors and simply said in a commanding tone: "You should go home now. Your family must be worried about you." Her powers were influential enough towards the people that they nodded and walked off. "Thanks for holding the front, Leopold", Victoria added as she passed the feline professor. She pointed at Alex and told him "In my office in ten minutes", the tone of her voice not harsh, but for Alex it felt like disobeying would end up in big trouble. Despite the fact that the student is new here and inexperienced about the layout of the building, a faint gut feeling told him that he should go to the east-side of the main building for the offices. What was mostly unseen until the engine roared up was a van of a local news team and a rather armored vehicle a little further off to the side. They drove past the dissipating crowd of rednecks. One or two students whispered to those nearby whether the van was one of the Mutant Tranquilizer Squad, one of those notorious mercenary troops that get paid to take down powerful mutants or bring them "safely" into custody. The word safely more in connotation to "safe for those that have to take care of the prisoner mutant". One of the big rumors around the Mutant Registration Act is that these mercenary troops would become a government unit like the police to be able to act against criminal mutants, but of course only when the MutRegAct would go through.