Mom

When she was about 8 years old there was an incident, involving her older brother, his best friend, and three older boys. Now these three older boys had hurt her big brother and did something he and his best friend would coin as activating her 'Beast Mode'. Now this only happened when someone she loved or cared deeply about was hurt or in danger. She never remembered what happened in Beast Mode but from the stories she was told after the fact, that might be a good thing.

Spring

I wasn't sure what had just happened or what was still happening. He and Sprocket had just been following Fox's orders, bringing those two 'Hattanas to him, the kid had resisted and started fighting so I had backhanded him to make him stop. The kid had cried out and when his face came back up there was blood coming out of his nose, all of a sudden, he hears this inhuman roar! The next thing he knows he's blasted to the ground by a train and someone is grabbing his face between their hands, lifting it and smashing it down on the ground till he's knocked unconscious. When I wake up I sees the girl Manhattans Sprocket was trying to drag, M-something, she's fighting Fox and she's winning! I'd never seen anyone, much less a girl, take on Fox and beat him but that's what was happening right before my eyes! That's when he notices that he's not the only one on the ground in pain, everyone but Fox and the girl were too, Sprocket and he looked to be the only conscious ones though. When he manages to make eye contact with Sprocket he asks in a whisper what had happened, Sprocket just points over to the Fox and the girl and whispers one word as Fox is finally beat down and knocked out. "Mom."

Sprocket

It all happened so fast that at first, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, but I will never forget that day, I will never forget what I saw there. Spring had hit the kid, Racetrack his name was, not to hard just enough that he'd stop struggling, but when he the kid pulled his head back his nose was bloody and that's when it happened. The girl sees that the kid is bleeding and before I can act she's...not screaming or yelling, it's more like roaring, yeah, she was roaring and then she pounced! Just jumps up on Springs, knocks him to the ground and bashes his head against it until he's out cold! When I move to hold her down she turns on me, punching and kicking and hitting faster than I can block or even see! She knocks me to the ground and I'm smart enough to not get up, I can see three more guys coming up on her, they tackle her to the ground but it doesn't stop her in the slightest, she just keeps going and going until the only one left is Fox. I can see Springs starting to wake up out of the corner of my eye but I can't look away from Mom and Fox's fight. Springs is trying to get my attention, when I finally look over at him he whisper-asks me what happened all I can do is point over to where Fox has finally lost his fight, to the only person in this room left standing and whisper back her name "Mom."

Fox

When I wake up Springs and Sprocket are standing over me. The Manhattan Newsies, Mom and Racetrack Sprocket informs me, are gone. I don't know what to think, if what I saw just really happened but Sprocket and the dozen knocked out newsies layin all over the floor tells me it did. I decide to wait a few days before doing anything, just patch up my guys, although a few of them will be singing soprano for a while. When I finally get the courage to head on over to 'Hattan there's no need cause standing there in front of me is Sprint, Mom, Racetrack, and Jack Kelley with a few other Manhattan newsies scuffling around in the back, holding sacks of...something, he can't tell what. Before I can ask what's going on Sprint starts talking "Race and Mom have told me what happened here and Mom has something she wants to say to you." He steps to the side to let her talk and never in my life could I have guessed what was gonna come out of her mouth. "I'm so sorry! I never meant to hurt anyone, I swear, it was just an accident!" I musta looked very confused because Sprint speaks up saying "Mom has what we like to call her Beast Mode. It only comes out when someone she loves or cares about is hurt or in danger. During this time, she blacks out, can't remember a thing about what happens, and unfortunately when one of your boys hit Racetrack and made him bleed, Beast Mode was activated." Mom jumped right back in with "I really am sorry, I don't like hurting people. I even brought some supplies so I can help heal the boys I hurt, and we brought fixens so after word I can make all of us dinner. If that's ok with you sir!" I sat there for a bit trying to let my brain catch up to the words that were coming out of her mouth and once that happened I couldn't help but burst out laughing! I couldn't help it, this girl who couldn't have been older than 15, maybe 16, had taken out half of my guys without blinking and she couldn't even remember it! On top of all that here she was offering to help mend what she broke and fix us dinner afterword, it was just to funny! Once I calmed down I got up to stand in front of her and with a smile on my face I told her "Dahlin, you've just managed to do what nobody except the newsie leaders has...you've earned my respect. You are welcome in Queens anytime you want!" And I meant it, hell if she did a decent job on patchen up the boys then we may call for Mom every time wes in need of a nurse!