Jack quickly went into supervision mode. So far, the trio were behaving themselves, but he knew their body language well enough to see the gears turning in their heads and the urges they held back for the moment.

"Damn right I will," Shock muttered.

She looked where Carver pointed and picked up the vial.

"This one?"

A devious grin crawled over her face. Jack did a double-take at Carver.

"He [i]paralyzed[/i] you?" He turned his gaze to the doctor's currently lifeless body, then moved a hand to his skull. "Carver, I...I'm sorry. I didn't realize..."

Lock moved away from the Tesla coils and to another one of the doctor's strange devices. He found a wrench that had been too big for Carver to swallow and tapped it in his hand as he calculated how much force he'd need to truly wreck the machine. His tail flicked behind him.

"You see the best in every monster, Jack," Lock said reassuringly. "It's one of the things that makes you the Pumpkin King."

Jack just nodded. He felt a little better, but it still didn't assuage the guilt. Shock went to the cabinet that Jewel pointed to and looked for the similar vials of blue liquid. Oh, she was going to have [i]fun[/i]. She was already calculating how to best utilize this opportunity. Loki chittered with glee.

At Jewel's implications of her own personal projects, the trio looked over at the desk in question.

"Noted," Lock said cheerfully.

"We wouldn't want to--" Barrel started.

"--Ruin your hard work," Shock finished.

She casually tossed the vial in her hand and caught it a few times.

"This, on the other hand..."

Barrel grinned as he tapped his fingers with gleeful anticipation over the switch.

"This time, it's gonna be for [i]all[/i] of us!"

"Hooligan squad!" the trio cheered. "Hooligan squad! Hooligan squad!"

They all settled down as Jewel finished her preparations. Their fun wouldn't [i]truly[/i] begin until Finklestein was aware of it.