Back at the café:
As Irina was brooding over Glitch's goatee, Adictivas sensed a possibly evil presence, and felt himself drawn to it. He made sure to turn Irina's attention towards it as well.
"Hey, you! Who's that guy, next to metal girl? He seems delightfully evil..."
"Who? Oh, that's just Blimp Man. He's not evil. Just one of the local supervillains. I guess they have a meeting here too. It's a small town after all, not many places to choose from." Her reply was very matter-of-factly. It didn't feel to her weird to have an inner dialogue with this other being anymore. Part of it was due to Adictivas' own influence over her organism, but mostly it was because nothing really surprised her anymore. Her life had become a lot stranger ever since she met the Infinites.
"Ooooh! Supervillains! Can we sit with them instead?"
"No! You can't sit with them!" Irina had never seen "Mean Girls", but she unknowingly said it the same way Gretchen did to Regina during one of the lunch scenes in that film. Adictivas initially felt a bit pouty about it, but when he saw that she went back to ogling Glitch' unkept goatee, he felt some sinister satisfaction.
"Good... Everything goes according to plan..." Well, if it was his plan to make it look as if the world-famous tennis player Anna Kournikova, the wife of the equally world-famous singer Enrique Iglesias, suddenly was falling in love with Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, he was kinda succeeding, if you looked from afar and only with the corner of your eye. Unfortunately for Adictivas, no paparazzi had been in Orient formore than ten years...
Some time later, Town Hall:
"That's very interesting, tell me more", Irina said to Glitch, and her smile was completely without irony. Her eyes however, were not up there with his, she (or rather Adictivas) had made her choice and kept them glued to the small brown bush just below his mouth. As a result, she didn't see the villains either, but Adictivas did, and reacted quickly.
"Hey! Wait for me!" It was his words, but they came out of the mouth of his host, and the space parasite made Space Bear run up to the villains and catch up with them just before the door slammed shut behind them.
"Phew! That was close. So, what's the plan? Are we mugging someone?" Adictivas was in full control, and even though Irina was as shocked as the villains probably were, she could do nothing about it. #@%¤!!!