"You're a creep, Kid Omega," say all five. "Leave it."

"All of you will be stopping it."

The voice is Professor Maximoff's.

She doesn't sound at all amused, nor particularly friendly.

"And you'll be explaining what happened in my office. Anyone injured?"

"We lifted the mental block on Loki before any damage was done," the girls say. "Kid Omega is unharmed, despite his whining."

"She was trying to banish me, or send me flying - that's assault, and I was just defending myself."

"So are mind reading and control. My office. Now."

Her tone allows no arguments.

Loki follows.

Though she keeps away from Kid Omega.

And Mal stays between her and the others.

Kid Omega stalks ahead of them, clearly angry.

And the five identical girls trail along behind.

"I want a step by step," Professor Maximoff says once they're all in her office and the door is shut. "Loki first. No one else interrupt."

"I was coming to meet with Mal and Raine for lunch 'cause we're doing the magic project together," Loki starts. "And then I saw this guy I didn't know crowding Mal and sounding angry. She looked upset, so I got between them and shoved him a bit so he'd get away from her. He started insulting us and calling her a human and telling me I shouldn't hang out with her, and started crowding me. I got angry and upset and was thinking about how to get him to back off, when my mind just - froze - like I couldn't even think or do stuff, and I stopped breathing even though I still needed air. And then he and Mal started shouting at each other and then those girls stepped up and I think made him stop keeping me from breathing, and I tried to throw him away from me so he couldn't do that again."

"Alright. Now you, Quintavius."

"I was just talking to Mal," he says, voice still angry. "Not threatening her. Nothing like that. And then this kid came up and attacked me, and yeah I caught a few stray thoughts from her planning to do worse - and she was about to do it, so I stopped her. It was just a temporary hold, and was just on voluntary actions, so she must've just been holding her breath to get me in trouble. Then Sophie and her sisters walked up and freed her, and she attacked me like she had been planning all along."

"And Mallory."

"Quentin was threatening me, pretty obviously even if mostly indirectly. And he does this pretty often, and he likes to make it clear he's more powerful than people, so I was trying not to provoke him. Loki hadn't done much more than would be normal in a schoolyard scuffle when he locked her. Especially since I know she can hit harder than she shoved him."

"And the Cuckoo sisters?"

"We observed the beginning of the fight when Loki began yelling at Quentin to leave Mallory alone. That was, notably, long enough before she shoved him that he could have stepped back on his own. He did not. He then reached out to Loki psychically, shortly before attacking her mentally. We approached to intervene, and acted only to lift his hold."

"Alright. I want all of you except Quentavius to step outside and wait for me to call you back."

Loki frowns, but heads out with the other girls, flinging herself dramatically into a seated position against one wall.

"He was the one doing something wrong," she grouches.

"Loki, I really appreciate you sticking up for me, but - I don't want to see you hurt, okay? And picking fights with people whose powers you don't know, over a couple of words, is going to get you hurt."

"Captain America didn't even have powers when he started standing up to bullies. People like that shouldn't be able to just be mean. It's bad."

"You're a good kid," says the leader of the five sisters - and not the other four. She's the one Quentin had addressed as Sophie. "And we can help make sure Quentin doesn't retaliate. We're his equals, at least."

"Thanks. But I should learn how to throw people like him off."

"We might be able to help with that, then," the five say as a collective.

She gives them a small smile.