head underwater where he could spit all the acid he wanted. While he flailed around and choked, the other fourteen rapidly unified against I broke their charge by tossing the one I had into them. One of the greens forgot that they were in an enclosed room and clouded me with chlorine gas, spillover hazing the room in green smog. The white and red staggered over to open the windows while I jumped spinning up out of the water to knock the green unconscious with a hoof to the side of the head. It was all he deserved for trying to poison a The melee degenerated. They slowed down to attack me in twos and threes while I'd throw one against another and land punches until another group rescued the first. The larger black gave me a little trouble, taking a pounding and forcing me to dislocate his shoulder to calm him down. The mottled white was cowering, dragging the fallen over to the side to make sure they didn't drown. The only one left was the red, stalking in towards me at the center of the pool. He was almost as fast as I was, and had a foot of reach on me. Every time he threw a punch and I blocked, it just blew right through and pounded me. I threw him twice, but he rolled lightly in the water and came to his feet unharmed, too fast for me to follow up. His
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