[John may look stupid, but he's fully aware that Dave's mostly answering him and casually bantering with him to leave him to field Dirk. If it's on purpose or not he can't say but he also doesn't let that go unnoticed. It's something to think on later because this is more important. Also judging by the fact he's not putting the frogs down that is also debatable, sorry.]

Both of you lost your speed. [Mildly put.] I'm not creating sad mutant anythings. I still don't know if my power allows for living objects. A lot of people's powers seem limited to items only. I tried concepts once and that did not exactly stick. Crabs would be acceptable though, but with our luck they would just double the amount of legs they have.

[...he shouldn't ask, but:] What kind of research did you find?