"Yeah....guess I shoulda been a little easier back there...if I knew this is where we'd end up.." Maria sighed deeply in response to Leela. True...the girl went overkill with her power back there and poor Leela was the victim of Maria's blind brutality, taking every voltage Maria could throw at her, all of which put Leela in her now weakened state. She cocked an eyebrow though when Leela stood up, shakily of course, but there was the strangest of grins to her face. "What's up?" Maria asked, but before too long Leela had the door pried open behind them and was descending sluggishly the stairs into the darkness. What was she looking for in the basement, Maria wondered, but too soon did that answer come to pass with almost every light in the abandoned school building flickering on, dimly of course, but Maria caught the hint quite easily. [i]Heh....I guess I should be glad I have her around.[/i] A bit of a smile formed under her mask as she stuck her hand to a nearby outlet when Leela fell next to her. "More than enough." She answered the girl and soon went to work absorbing as much raw energy into her body as possible, the lights flickering and some of the ancient bulbs busting with a loud pop, but there was still enough electricity to sustain the place.....except...they might need to be leaving now. From the corner of her eye, Maria noticed....quite the familiar [i]bug[/i] scurrying around on the floor just mere inches from the girls.... "We might have to get water for you elsewhere... They're here..."