Throughout the night, Ira continued to try to socialize with the bar keep. She wasn't sure what she was, but she could at least recognize that she was an alien of some kind. It was strange seeing how she seemed to be invisible, like no one else cared that she existed. It made her feel sick to her stomach. It was like looking in a mirror and seeing the person she was on the surface. She wanted, no. She needed to befriend this girl. To do at least a little bit of good while she was down here.
Near the end of her shift, coming up on noon, the young woman was exhausted. She hadn't anticipated such a long shift. She came to sit at the bar as things were winding down. She was about to turn to talk to the alien bar keep when the gunshot rang out. She stood up quickly turning to face the intruders. "What the fuck is going on!?" The large men who entered terrified her. She was stiff with fear. Still, she knew that she had to do something. She glanced back over at the bar keep seeing her fear. She didn't know, of course, that she was afraid for her. Only that she was frightened. She looked to where her coat was hanging, her gun was there, but she couldn't reach it. She growled lowly as she flashed her fangs. She was a weapon now. She was stronger, faster. She had claws, tentacles, horns, fangs... If she didn't do something those women could die and it didn't look like the owner of the club was about to do anything. She was certain that the club owner had attracted these enemies on her own, and deserved whatever they wanted to do to her, but not the girls who worked here. She couldn't just sit around and do nothing. She glanced towards the barkeep, counting on her ability to read thoughts. "Get under the bar, I'll come back for you."
She stepped forward slowly with her hands raised in case anyone looked her way. As she thought about what to do, she flashed back to when the club owner had attacked her in V's lab. Insisting that she hurt her. That first taste she had of primal rage. Moving away from the bar so that the attention she drew would not negatively affect the barkeep. Her tentacles slithered over the ground as she eyed a couple of the militiamen before lashing her tentacles out quickly, two of them coiling around their necks and dragging them over as shields. Holding them up off the ground so that they would be choking. The other two ripped their guns away, dropping them in her hands. She held both out as her other hands cocked the weapons. "That's enough!" She roared, her fangs still bared. "Defend your turf coward, or do you only attack those who can't shoot you?" She hissed at the club owner. It was strange, almost like potentially violent scenarios brought out a predatory instinct in the young woman.