1028/Thematic teamup

Thematic teamup
Date of Scene:	07 April 2020
Location:	Greenwich Village
Synopsis:	Screwball tries to play Gwen and Kate in her twisted games for viewers, but it backfires... One could say it was a HOLE IN ONE... wait, no that's not bowling...
Cast of Characters:	Gwen Stacy, Kate Bishop

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Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Come on-" Ghost Spider dives out of the way of an energy projectile fired from a pair of goons, the weapon itself big enough that two of them have to lug it around.. It makes it exceptionally difficult to aim at the far more agile heroine who leaps upon the wall, then side flips off into a roll hand spring out the window.

"HELP! THEY HAVE ENERGY WEAPONS!" Shoutted out as she turns, fires two webs (one to either side of the window) to pull herself back in feet first. To kick one of their legs out from beneath them, which tips the whole weapon assembly over on its side. "Cut it out." Web, web, web, pinning it to the floor.

The telemonitor in one corner blinks to life where there's a pig-tailed pink haired woman in weird looking goggles grinning over what is obviously a pirated YOUVIEW account, "Oh, you're good Spider-Girl! But I'm not done with you yet! You want to stop the bombs I've set and save the hostages? There's still another six levels! And I need sixty million more views! HAhahahahAHAha!"

"The hell is this suppose to be, some kind of game show? Are you Game Show Girl or something? AND my name is Ghost Spider... stop being sexist."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate was considering it a slow Monday night really. Perhaps all of the various criminals and villains with a evil doer rank above purse snatcher had a very busy weekend and just weren't out to make the Monday night News at 11 with Luke Fatale.

Slackers.

So about when she was going to give up hope and head back to the penthouse lair and pretend to be a dutiful school girl studying for her algebra test tomorrow... a savior in the form of a police band chirps and calls her attention to a nearby disturbing crime.

She is ninety nine percent sure she can get to the building where laser blasts are being reported faster than the local NYPD. Not at all certain about the whole beating another cape there, but definitely the slow ass NYPD.

Thank you for your service.

The dark purple bike is parked half a block down, tucked in one of those tiny little alleys and she hoofs it the rest of the way. She has lost way too many bikes to laser blasts (one, which is one too many) to risk just pulling up out front.

Spotting Gwen up high swinging like a Spider into the window, she draws a grapple arrow, fires, cinches it to her belt, and goes all zippy zip up. Ending up perched in the window frame watching and trying to figure out if she needs to shoot someone. "I need me some of that web stuff to slush into an arrow." she notes chipperly from behind Gwen. I mean she isn't a danger to Gwen so it may be startling.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Web, flip, web, kick, web, knuckle down punch...

Two unconscious dudes and one big ass laser gun.

And the voice of another heroine behind her...

The hooded Ghost Spider spins on her heels away from the video footage playing out on screen to wave a chipper hello to Kate when she climbs in through the open window, "Ahoy hoy." Greeting.

Currently there are no more goons to fist up, but that's subject to change... What with Screwball staring at Kate with open contempt through one of the CCTV cameras positioned around the room, "NO! This isn't a duo event! Get out of here you're going to ruin everything!" She whines in her very nasally tone.

Gwen thumbs over her shoulder at the screen, "She gets really fiesty when you interrupt her nefarious schemes... Real murderous..." Glancing back, "Come'on Screwie, what's it gonna hurt? I'm sure you've more than thought up how to keep a pair of ladies busy, right?" The longer crazy pants is talking, the less likely she is to hit the ignition switch on those bombs, afterall.

"FINE! You have three minutes to get two blocks away... but you better bring your A-GAME, I'm losing viewers by the /second/.. GO!"

"Ghost Spider." Introducing herself, "We're gonna have to swing, you ready?" There's no warning, Gwen grabs hold of Kate and leaps out the window, THWIPPING them quickly the couple blocks towards the /half dozen/ goons waiting for them on the roof of a tenament building.

Kate Bishop has posed:
"You are definitely not a Spider Man." she notes checking Gwen out from behind those dark purple sunglasses. That is before she is distracted by the laser gun "Is that a laser gu.... ooh" at the screaming from the TV.

"Huh.. wait your villain of the hour is actually taunting you via television...?" then Gwen is taunting her back and daring her to step it up to deal with two superheroines.

"Wait.. did she say ratings... oh Hawkeye." indicating herself. "Swing?" which is cut off with a surprised noise as she is grabbed and they go hurling out the window into the air "Ho...ly.....crap." she manages to squeek in startlement.

Get it together Kate. What would Clint do.

Oh.. probably the same thing..

"Lots of them..." she notes as she spots them all down there, keeping ahold of Gwen with one hand and her bow with another.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Yeah, her name's Screwball and she kind of gets her kicks off of making super heroes fight for Youview ratings." Gwen explains as she swings, adept at doing so one handed despite the added weight, which she's managing perfectly fine. "So make it good... she gets real angry when it's over quickly." It's a game. While Gwen would rather not play into it, it's the only way to get to the end and save the hostages...

So here we are.

Hawkeye is let loose as Gwen lands, springing right back up without the burden of carrying the teenaged heroine into a forward flip with her wrists firing a web from each as she goes over the tops of two goons. Yanking them down backwards by the scruff of their necks when she lands. It's not a knock out blow, but it angles one of their bats up and she hits it with a third line, pulls it towards her, and round house kicks it straight into one of their faces.

Going over into a one handed cartwheel, kicking the ricochetting bat down into the seconds gonads with surprising force given how quickly the bouncing spider is moving. The other four are turning attention in two different directions, two and two each... even split. Only one of them has a gun, which is a blessing!

"Follow the bouncing spider, it's a sing-a-long!"

Kate Bishop has posed:
This is all probably quite accurate. Kate hasn't run into this villain before though. Still there are obvious henchthugs on the roof and she is being let loose. She rolls with the momentum and comes up with one knee down on the roof, an arrow nocked in the bow which she draws back and just fires right at the guy with the gun. Being able to pick out the most obvious threat is Hawk 101.

The arrow flies from that bow, taser arrow as it strikes the guy right in the forehead and releases way too many volts to be used like that. Sure he will live but he may taste pennies forever at this rate.

"Okay so.. seriously why are we spider dancing along to Screwball's tune then?" she draws and nocks another arrow.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
One down, three to go.

Gwen spins down beneath a swung chain and hurls the owner up over her shoulder into a back kick that sends him sliding face first through the gravel with his weapon harmlessly clattering off to one side. "Because-" THWIP - Web in the eye of a second. Gwen coiling up as she jumps and mule kicking him straight in the chest to barrel him over the side of the building where she just barely manages to catch him with another line and hook it to the half-wall. He may have hit the bricks with a whole lot of force, but he'll only break a few ribs!

"Because she has hostages.. and she'll blow them up if we don't.. and usually I'd call her bluff, but I don't think she's bluffing.." She can't /prove/ she's not, but she's got enough resources to have set up these little diversionary tricks, so she must have enough gumption to set up the finale too right?

Simple math.

"You got that guy?" The final goon is rushing at Kate with his bat up in both hands like some caveman club.

"OH MY GOD! Could you two please stop talking ALREADY!? The viewers aren't worried about your /conversation/! This isn't a dramatic picture, it's an action film!" The sound coming from loud speakers all around the roof.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Oh. Hostages. Okay that is a problem.

"Well shoot." which, well she shoots the arrow in her bow at the man charging her, it is a cheap pun, but well she is playing to an internet audience evidently. The arrow flies at this one and hits him right in the knee, sticking out of it now. "Arrow in the knee." she quips as she catches the mook when he stumble, snagging his club with her bow and then twists hard. There is a crack as she breaks the poor guys arm and deposits him behind her on the ground crying.

"Listen Screwloose. The banter is a well known part of crimefighting. You can't do this without being equal doses of schadenfreude and sass... seriously is this your first hostage taking?"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"There's silence from the speakers." Gwen helpfully points out, doing a little three sixty spin to view them all.. spying cameras as well, one in particular. Which she launches a small device at while Kate is helpfully providing an antagonistic distraction. The trace begins!

"OH HO HO! So we've got a chatty Cathy huh?! Alright Bow-strings, your next challenge is right up your alley then! You have to go press the flash!.. I've got mooks hidden in the gathering of students up on sixth street three blocks south east of here... If you can't find them and take them out with your witty banter then I'mma KILL A HOSTAGE! TICK TOCK BITCHES!"

Gwen groans, steps over to Kate and offers an arm, "You ready short stuff?" Arm going around her, just like before, not waiting for an okay before swinging them up up and away towards the next challenge zone.

Only once they're in air. "I put a tracer on the camera... I should be able to get us her location... auspiciously in time with the end of this next challenge! How fortuitous!"

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate is definitely way more ready to handle being snagged by Gwen stepping into it even this time as she is swung off her feet. "Giddyup and away Spider Ghost." yeah she knows it is Ghost spider, she is actually really good with names but this is funnier.

At least in her own head right.

"That is super convenient." she notes amused as she holds on. "So next site is going to be thugs in amongst students... that seems like an odd place to try to hide thugs. Also.. how do they keep recruiting thugs for things like this." she ponders on the ride over.

"Do you think they have have an app.. Thugr?"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Thugr sounds way too convenient.. I think the steady decline in econonic stability has lead to an increase in underwhelmed, disenfranchised thugs making their way through the thug pipes chalk full of people with waaaay too much money and perposterous ideas... Such as Screwball... or those wack jobs in Gotham." Gwen says matter of factly, not even touching on her brand name being rearranged for the sake of rhyme scheme.. She gets that.

Definitely in her wheelhouse.

"Here we go, ready?" As if there's much option, amirite?

Ghost Spider brings them down amidst the students who... as students do.. all turn their phones to snap pictures of two costumed heroes sudden among'em. All of them, except three... One looks totally disinterested in everything like he's trying very hard not to look interested and another two who bring up their phones super late like bad actors reading off a cue card on SNL.

"Well, this shouldn't be hard..."

Kate Bishop has posed:
"I still say they probably have an app.. or at least a bulletin board for these sort of things. Maybe a favorite bar where they all go in and really well known villains of the d-list variety are like.. Shocker!." she pauses "Who am I kidding.. Herman never gets any love like that."

She steps away slinging the bow across her midsection over her back as she fishes out both battle batons. "It is kind of sad.... I mean...." she points one of the batons at the disinterested one. "Hello fellow youth. How do you do. Ready to get knocked out?" yeah Kate seems totally willing to lean into meme-land. Especially knowing this is being streamed to the world. "Hey Screwloose... aren't all of them streaming taking potential viewers from you?"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"You're leaning really heavily into the out smarting the steamer angle and I dig it..." Gwen says to Kate with a wink of one of her masks eyes, "Whatcha waaaaaatchin'?" Leaning over one of two slow pokes amongst the gathered students, hand on both of their shoulders. "Oh, look't that... Hey Hawkeye! They're-" An elbow narrowly misses hitting her in the gut, but her senses alert her a half second before.

Flipping backwards, web line connecting to the phone in the students hand to yank it free and right into his friends face. Again, not a knock out blow, but it's hella embarassing and probably made for good viewing! Both hands come up to defend herself, waving back and forth as the original attacker throws a sloppy haymaker she could dodge beneath without even trying.

"Not the face, not the face!" WEB, yanking his friend forward towards her to take the shot right in the kisser. "C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREEEAAKER!" Flip kick sends the original flying upwards and backwards and downwards onto his back... "Heya Screwie.. you're going to have to up your stream game if you want to out meme-game teenagers, okay? This is what we -do-..." Motioning around, spinning in a circle.

Photos being snapped by the /real/ students.

Kate Bishop has posed:
"Were they watching Screwball's stream to boost her ratings artificially?" she asks curious, then puts the baton in her hand right in the way of the nonchallant 'student's' fist which results in a very large thwack against the reinforced weapon. "Okay. That had to hurt like hell numbnutz."

She looks on at him in amazement as he holds his hand hopping for a moment. Then she steps in shoving the baton into the guy's stomach trying to get him to double over hard there. Once doubled she thunks him on the head. "Man. That makes me feel way too much like an L.A. Cop though..." she notes thoughfully. Good call back. Though she may not want to go to L.A. anytime soon with the streaming happening.

"So what now Streaming Cow?"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Fistbump for the callback." Gwen says with a nonchallent fist extending out towards Kate, which is a clever way for her to show the screen of her own phone held subtly up at an angle where a red beep indicates Screwballs relative location on a digital map of the area. "Yeah, Screw Shine, what's up where we headed now?"

Someone taps Gwen on the shoulder, but it comes with no tingle so she just turns to face the teenaged girl smiling up at her with a Ghost Spider t-shirt... "Oh hey.." "Can I have an autograph? You and Hawkeye?" Motioning between the pair of them. "HECK YEAH you can... You got a marker?"

Held out to Gwen, she signs right on the shirt, then holds it out for Kate, waiting for the signing before she steps over. "We'd love to stay and chat, but we've got a-"

"I /said/ I have set up an obstacle course through Central Park! Don't you dare miss one of the circles or BOOM..."

"Yeah, we heard you..." Gwen hadn't, but she has no intentions of following the plan anymore. It's about to be go time on putting this criminal to bed! "Like I was saying... you ready Hawkie?" Arm out.

Kate Bishop has posed:
The fistbump is obligatory now and it is returned with a careful knuckle dap. She smiles glancing at the phone and noting the location before they are both distracted with needing to give an autograph.

"Oh yeah sure thing." which to be honest she has definitely been practicing signing autographs. Seriously. She totally stayed up several nights after doing homework learning to sign Hawkeye in a distinct style with some flare that is nothng like Old Hawkeye's signature.

The marker is offered back to the teenager. "God.. she never stops.. yap yap yap.... We are coming.. hold your hamsters or whatever it is you have powering this plan."

She tucks herself into Gwen's arm. This third time she is definitely quite ready to roll, or swing as it were.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Gwen has some mad vertical leap, launching the pair of them up with her wrist throwing out a webline forward to pull the duo in the direction of ... well they're not going to Central Park that's for damn sure. "Okay, she's going to figure out we're not coming pretty quickly, so we have to make the best of it... Soon as we get there, we're going right in the window.. and I need you to stop her from letting loose with the bombs while I take out any guards she might have."

THWIP!

Following the bouncy red light on her lowtech HUD linked to her phone. They're headed specifically towards a set of warehouses ... or apartments... or some kind of brown unassuming building where villains always seem to set up their secret lairs! Except this one has a big ass satelite on top, with massive power generators to access the required juice to power so many remote cameras at once.

"Ready?" Hope so, Gwen swings them right at a window, turning backwards to take the glass against her shoulders with herself between it and Kate as they crash into the top floor amidst... "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO BE IN CENTRAL PARK!"

wait a second...

"Oh crap... GET'EM!"

There's like... I don't know... six dudes.

Kate Bishop has posed:
That is a pretty sound strategy, she considers her options and carefully draws an arrow from her quiver, trusting Gwen to not drop her while they are swinging through the air there.

Kate may be wearing those sunglasses but she definitely still closes her eyes for a moment as Gwen twists to take the glass in the back and shield Kate from any harm. Which is good she has a pretty face and doesn't have a full face mask like Gwen.

Once they are on solid ground though Kate twists away from Gwen leaving her to worry about the six thugs and keep her safe while she nocks that arrow she drew out and takes a bead on the villain. "Freeze Trapper Streamer." okay that was half okay. Of course she doesn't wait for the villain to answer and instead fires the arrow, on contact it will explode into foam that hardens ever so quickly. Nonlethal and hilarious since it is bright pink with streaks of blue.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Gen is in action immediately upon landing, launching herself backwards out of her slide to spring up against one wall, webbing two goons wrists at once to yank them off their balance. Stumbling forward and falling face first into a slide, Gwen leaps up and over, short swinging web fired upwards to arch out of her leap into a double kick THWIP against the wall to leave the unfortunate third goon attached to the wall by his left wrist.

She releases that line, twists, and fires a web right into anothers face, pulling sharply to both yank them off balance and jerk herself into a dive bomb roll through anothers legs... Agility and mobility keeping the six, seven, or whatever, goons unable to get a bead on her properly.

Screwball is flailing wildly, "NO NO NO NO NO! THIS IS GOING TO RUIN MY SUBSCRIPTION NUMBERS!" Running point blank at kate with a pair of big ass guns yanking out of her holsters as she approaches! "YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHIN-!" She ducks as another goon is thrown over her, hitting the terminal with a blast of electricity and flickering lights.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate frowns as she misses Screwball with the foam arrow. "Damn. That was a good quip too. Get it.. trapper streamer.. I... nevermind." she shakes her head as she draws another arrow while Screwball is distracted.

Honestly she really does need to deal with her before she actually manages to shoot Kate or Gwen with one of those big pistols. They look pretty dangerous, even if Kate isn't positive that the villain knows how to use them.

"AHEM..... Freeze Trapper Streamer!" she shouts again and fires another arrow right at the villains chest, aiming to cover her in quick dry foam once more and stick her to the floor. Old Hawk calls these things putty arrows and honestly they will likely never get old to Kate.

She is totally ignoring the thugs, she really feels Gwen probably has it and well worse case she gets thugged a bit from behind if she is wrong.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"AYEEEEEE! WHAT THE FRICK!" Screwball leaps up trying to get a bead on Kate, but the arrow hits her second go round that should have been first go round, but it did hit one of the goons... so now there's two foamed folk, one of whom is a struggling teenager with big pink pig-tails! "YOU RUINED IT! YOU RUINED IT ALL! THIS WAS SU-"

"Mute-mute-mute!" Gwen is actually pointing a remote at Screwball, ducking beneath a bat swung at her head, then forward when it is swung again. Then half runs up the side of a wall to flip over the third swing, grabbing the goons noodle as she comes over top of him and dropping him straight down in what would be a Wrestling finishing move when his face bounces off the wood between her spread legs.

The spider curls backwards into a low crouch, hurling the remote sidearmed at Screwball, bouncing it off her forehead, "Shhhhh... you do too much talking..." Running towards the monitor bank, looking over them trying to locate the hostages.. Bending backwards beneath a punch thrown over her shoulder, gripping the wrist, and hurling backwards to drop the goon down infront of her so she can step on the side of his head while absently staring up at the video screens as if she's got zero concerns about a bunch of hench persons.

"Uhhh... does that look like an abandoned bowling alley to you, Hawkie?"

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate cracks up there just laughing, a lot at Screwball. "God.. putty arrows are never going to get old.. they are going to need to shave your head to get it out of your hair. Which is a shame, pink is a punky look." she notes to the poor villain.

Oh right, the bat swinging over the hilarious spider's head reminds her that there may be thugs here. "Sorry.. on it..."

She fires another tazer arrow right into the back, over the spine really, of a goon trying to sneak up on Gwen while she is stepping on one of thir faces. Honestly she needs to clear enough of a path through the goons so she can look at the monitor. "Yeah.. she probably was going to do something clever like bowl them over with explosives or something... we should probably secure all these then go rescue the hostages."

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Gwen slaps her hand around, "Duck." Plenty of time for Kate to follow the instruction, catch the bat aimmed for one of the pair of them, yank it out of the thugs hand and jab him right in the face with it. "Stop't you're beat.. lay down and assume the appropriate supine position-" He does, but not under his own power.

Screwball is still whining about them ruining everything over there... "She just doesn't stop..."

But most, if not all, of the goons are down.. properly so with a few quick THWIPS from Gwen's wrists and she's stepping back up to Kate, "Alright, Hawkie?" Wrapping her up, she leaps them towards the window and sends them swinging towards the bowling alley, having basically, or round aboutly anyways, pinpointed the location through monitoring variable sand tracking software.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate ducks on cue and then stands up looking amused. "You are pretty good with those. I really do need to swipe some of that webbing for web arrows I think...." she looks over all of the handiwork in the lair. "Unless it is ... do you have spider spinners in your wrists... because that would be both very strange and not at all anatomically correct?"

Which doesn't stop Kate from stepping in again to slink an arm around Gwen and be carried off to the next location. "Wonder if there are more goons here or traps... I imagine one or the other.. since this is the finale right...?"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Neither, but I might be able to get you some web fluid." Gwen says as she swings, the costume itself looks... REALLY well made. It was redesigned by Janet Van Dyne after all... This is high end heroing apparel right here. "My webshooters draw moisture from the air and combine it with a quick replicating bacterial byproduct that indefinitely reproduces when exposed to water molecules.. but I know someone who relies on archaeic fluid products." THWIP!

Right in the front doors with booth feet slamming them open in a double kick... Depositing Kate off her back from her low crouch position. It's dark inside, but there's the sounds of some guys shouting at people crying further behind the ball return. "Okay, time to finish this! You ready?" Gwen is! Running up the middle lane, grabbing a ball from the return as she goes!

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate is many things. Talented. Athletic. Rich as hell.

She is absolutely not an engineer, biochemist, or inventor at all.

"That.. sounds both amazing and really complicated. I bet Ironheart could make something like that but man.. I have no idea. Web fluid sounds fascinating though." not even realizing what a burn that was for Parker.

"Wait.. are we bowling...?" she notes confused there. "Do we have to bowl a strike or something to disarm the bomb... what is this?" she blinks and runs after Gwen palming a ball, making sure to heft and test it quickly before continuing after her.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Just follow me!" Gwen says over her shoulder as she runs directly down the lane, dropping down into a baseball slide near the end to send pins flying everywhere as she comes out on the other side amidst a gaggle of startled Goons and Hostages alike. "STRIKE!" WHAPAM!

The ball is thrown straight forward into one of the goons gut, webbed, and thrown backwards with a jerk of her wrist into anothers nards.. Leaping up and forward, grabbing hold of the bars that rerack pins to pull herself up, then through a small bit of cross beams into a double kick on a third.

There's still plenty though! Go nuts, seriously, there can be as many as you want here! (incert boss battle music.)

The hostages are all murmuring, covered in very typical, very dynomite looking, bombs. "So cliche..."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Well Kate is being very trusting. Also she always wanted to slide along a very waxed bowling alley lane and see what was behind it all. Thankfully she manages to squeek by before the pin resetting machine mangles her. "CHRIST...." near death experience which would have been very embarassing if she were to die like that.

"Ooh I see..." she shifts rolling up to her feet and well she doesn't have super strength so she does this little spin like she is tossing the shotput... sending it sailing through the air at another one of the thugs there. "Wheee.... Strike!" yeah Kate is having way to much fun with this. "Well.. or a split.. one two.. three four... okay I am honestly disappointed that Screw Up didn't have ten thugs..." bowling reference for the win.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Gwen grabs one goon in a side leap like he's about to carry her across the threshhold, but is unable to hold her momentum or strength, so spins that her foot connects against the side of anothers head. It sends him falling over himself in a stationary flip onto his back.. Her own weight shifting to hurl the one carrying her over her hip down onto his partner laying dazed in another one of those finishing moves ala WWE..

"I'd call that a seven ten split if I've ever seen one?" There aren't ten goons though.

"That's unfortunate..." She runs a step, then slides beneath one swinging wildly, all of his strength, which has him off balance for Kate. Gwen coming up out of her slide to start working on one of the bombs while the dazed goons are busy. "One bomb down!" Unplugged, on to the next. Webbing a swung fist to the pin rack moving over head to pull the goon it belongs to backwards away from her. "Schtawp't... I'm savin' lives ovah heeeeaaaah..." Two bombs down.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate takes the setup that is given, drawing her sword from the sheath on her back she swings hard, and at the last moment twists her arm so the flat of the blade goes bouncing off the goon's temple. SMACK.

Down like a boneless sack of potatoes as someone old would say.

"Very. Unfortunate."

"Guys... come on.... you are outnumbered."

They Aren't.

"And outclasses."

They really really are.

She steps in and strikes out with the sword, slicing the calf of the guy who is now webbed to the pin rack as he slides by. Not hitting any major blood transmission mechanisms or his hamstring just giving him encouragement to give up. "Do not make me use this sword on you. You will seriously regret it. Now .. hands up. WAAAY up.. and wait for your webbing."

Gwen Stacy has posed:
The other hand goes up and Gwen immediately webs it. It's almost a lazy gesture, but clearly done in conjunction with Kate's assurance that it /was/ coming. "It's like they're not even trying..." Another hostage is freed, with Gwen diving forward to flip over into a mule kick to knock one of the goons away from a hostage who was trying to run towards the exit.

"Come on! You can't drag them back, that's cheating!"

THWIP THWIP

Webbing each eye individually as he falls, hands now stuck to his own face from trying to get the webbing off! "You big turd!" Right back over to unhooking the last bomb... Then up, fists ready to throw punches, except......

All the goons are webbed, groaning from getting sword smacked, or laying nursing their nards and/or guts from bowling balls.. "Oh.. Well..." Glancing towards Kate, "Looks like we gave'em the bitniz?"

Kate Bishop has posed:
"We racked em up and knocked them down.... oh damnit we didn't call anyone a turkey. You know. I am not as up on my bowling snark as I really need to be to have a fight in an actual bowling alley." she bends down picking up a pin and then hurls it only half looking at a guy trying to crawl out to the lanes through the pinsetup machine.

She has remarkable aim and reflexes really for a human girl.

"But yes I do think we can say mission accomplished... cinch the last few and call it all in for teh authoritahs to deal with."

She walks over "This was fun, nice punching goons with you Ghost Spider."

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Gwen turns to make sure it's all in hand, "We just bowled a ... three hundred.. no, no that's terrible." Instantly regretting it, she waves her hands in a bilateral chopping motion with her head swishing from side to side. "Forget you heard that..." Because she's pretty impressed with Kate.

Fist out for another knuckle tap, "You did pretty good yourself, there, Hawkie... You good with Hawkie? You want me to go the full Hawkeye? It's not a terrible mouthful, but Hawkie makes it feel personalized you know?" Hands up, shrug with the shoulders.

Phone suddenly in hand to dial up the authorities via the traditional 911 method, "Heeeey, we've got a bunch of Pinheads.." Covering the receiver, "Because bowling alley..." Nodding, very proud of herself. "Huh? Oh, Bowling Utopia... yeah, there's some hostages waiting out front, so might want to send some EMTs too... Why yes I am Ghost Spider.. You were watching the feed? How was the costume? nice right?"

A few seconds later, "uh huh.. yup... okay. Thanks." Hanging up, "They'll be here directly. Want to get out of here or you dig sticking around making statements? I always get bad press when I stay.. so... I'm definitely voting for the heck outta dodge."

Kate Bishop has posed:
"Honestly the rate of nicknames to encounters is like .. at least two to three per encounter with any villain or hero. It is like they have some sort of phobia against the name Hawkeye. It is just.. hard to say why really. Maybe they just can't stop picturing Old Hawkeye... I swear."

She hand wobbles. "The Titans call me Hawky a lot so I guess that works fine all said." amusement.

"Okay pinheads was good. I like that one." she smirks as she explains it to the cops.

"Did they comment on my costume or just yours.... also I dislike getting that close with the media and cops... secret identity.. no total face concealing mask... need some level of mysteriosness."

She hooks a thumb. "Give me a lift back to building 1 so I can pick up my bike?" yes she is hitchhiking with a webslinger. "Oh and we should swap numbers and fight crime again." what is she, sixteen. Hm. Yeah she looks about sixteen.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Yeah, it's two syllables, Hawkie... Like Ghost Spider, which looks great when in print, but shouting it in the middle of a hostage situation? Ehhhh..." Gwen wiggles her hand, "Ghost, Spidey, Webs... these are my go tos. That's the sweet spot." As they head out the back of the front ways through the traditional door rather than climbing back down the lane, Gwen soccer kicks a goone trying to push himself back up, almost casually knocking him back out and webbing his arm to the ground.

"Oh, hecka yeah.." To switching numbers, "And ... look't.. I'm not gonna lie, she didn't say anything about your costume, but I think that's because I'm always /bringing mine up/ ya know? Branding, it's important.. there's like thirty spider themed heroes in New York ALONE... four of us for sure... so I have to stand out /somehow/"

Her cellphone slips out, "Gimme your number." Programming it right into her phone, which might not look it, but is actually super secure. Gwen is no slouch when it comes to tech... maybe not a Peter Parker, but still!

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate pulls out the burner phone that Hawkeye gave her, turning it on and needing to wait for it to boot. Someone doesn't keep their burner phone or any phone on when heroing. Learned that the hard way since she doesn't have super high tech security or anything.

She rattles off her number and then turns off and tucks the burner back away now. "Drop me a text so I have yours." she says cheerfully.

"Also yes... there are only two archers but there does seem to be an abundance of web slinging spider themed heroes. Which is a bit odd. Are you werespiders. Spreading a viscious affliction to those you .. you know this is all going wrong. Scratch it." she makes a little DJ record scratch gesture.

"Can I still get a lift back to my bike?"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Gwen brings her phone up and snaps a selfie, one eye narrowed, one eye wide, all ways with the peace-sign, "Don't let me see this show up on a gag reel... My social media presence is getting better." She jokes after sending off the text, glancing down the street once they're outside.

"No.. I'm from a different universe. Pulled here when a dimensional warp gate generator exploded, but my girlfriend found some magical device that rewrote history and time itself to sync me up with /this/ universe, which is crazy if you think about it, but entirely too insane not to be true."

Hand out immediately after, "Hop on, we'll head back over." Because there's sirens in the background.

Kate Bishop has posed:
"You know. If I hadn't had the last month I had .. since you know starting this wholee junior Avengers kick... I would probably say that was entirely too insane to be true.." she pauses.

"But you're right that story is really exactly so crazy it is probably true..." she shakes her head and steps in again wrapping her arm around Gwen to accept the ride all the way to her bike.

Bowling for Losers accomplished.

Kate will be able to do her homework and sleep through class tomorrow feeling quite accomplished now.