1322/Spider/Ninja!

Spider/Ninja!
Date of Scene:	23 April 2020
Location:	Chelsea
Synopsis:	Chizue and Peter go out for a bout of heroing!
Cast of Characters:	Chizue Nakamura, Peter Parker

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Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    It had been years, which was a funny thing to think about for as young as she. Not that she'd ever stopped thinking of it as an essential element of her person, or stopped updating the gear and training for her eventual return to the great game. She'd expected it would be years more before she'd get the chance, but well charity is a worthy excuse and her masters had all but ordered her anyway. So she sent out the text with a geotag, and waited.

    Standing upon the rooftop of a corner market there she is, an altogether different animal from the Ninja known as "The End". A neat black skirt terminating just above her knees, and touched with no amount of stark white lace. Black leggings, yellow sneakers and chunky knee pads. Then comes the neat white apron, complete with it's elaborate embroidered Tanukis armed with feather dusters and edged in yet more lace. Long sleeved blouse cut from familiar black, cuffs terminating in yet more white lace backed by sturdy bright yellow mma gloves. Theres a neat white tie tucked around that sharp upright collar, contrasted with that long brilliant almost glow in the dark yellow scarf wound round her neck so as to obscure her face. Hair pulled into a tight professional bun and topped with a plain black kerchief. In all it's not entirely removed from the sort've thing a swanky maid might actually wear yaknow?

    She glances casually down at her phone as she crosses her arms and peers out down the street, striking quite the pose as that scarf whips and billows about behind her. The Yellow Scarf Buster, has arrived in New York!

Peter Parker has posed:
A minute or so later, there is a quiet "Thwipp!" and a Spider-Man appears!

Well, he actually swings up from a lower point, vaulting up to land on the edge of the roof. He looks at Chizue, then cannot suppress a chuckle. "Well, well, well...and what are you calling yourself? Combat Maid?"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Do I need to clean your clock, spider guy?"A half turn to look over her shoulder, and a wink. "I am the Maiden of sacred justice, the will of heaven known as the Yellow Scarf Buster. Tokyo's most popular heroine four years in a row, I'll have you know."Casually she steps back, dismounting to hit the ground with a bit of a bounce as she straightens out her apron. Hell she even makes noise when she does so!"I sort've expected there to be some crazy bank robbery or something straight away."

    Finally giving a little half shrug as she peers back towards the street "Never an armed robbery about when you're actually fighting crime, right?"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man chuckles. "This is New York, YSB. Best way to handle slow nights is patrols. But..." He holds up his phone, a Samsung Android phone that was in style ten years ago. "WE have an appointment. Someone from the Silvermanes is getting the heck outta Dodge, and I am pretty sure he's taking all the cash and swag with him. They are packing up, Bestie Buster. And there is a yacht near Chelsea that is fueled up and ready to head to international waters. Tickling your Justice Sense?"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "I dunno I was hoping for something more colorful, like an entire army of zombie Nazis or mutant lizardmen from the fourth dimension but in a pinch?"She gives a shrug, peering off in the direction of Chelsea "I suppose I have room on my dance card to handle such trivial concerns, lead on and I shall follow."Gently tugging down her left sleeve to reveal, oh hey that low profile web shooter rig she cooked up! "Back in Tokyo I had somebody on hand to teleport me, but I suppose when in Rome?"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man smiled wryly. "Will that get me a nod in the latest issue of Ninjutsu Weekly?"

He backed up, fell off the edge of the roof, and then there is another THWIPP! and he is heading, not to Chelsea, but towards the lower East Side.

"C'mon, Buster! We're going to a CAR CHASE!"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Damn, should have brought my bike."That said she takes a running start and dives off the edge of that roof, waiting perhaps a little longer to throw that line out to build up a head of speed. Then again she's only got one slinger, but she seems to be able to keep up well enough.

    "Oh hey before I forget, don't let me forget to take a selfie or whatever once we're done. It's for charity so, I sort've have to."And another thwip, as she chances a wave to the folks down on the street. "Oh yeah you'll make Hero magazine, they still print that thing can you believe it?"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man turns around to face her as he leaves one webline and rises in an arc. "Haven't made that since Spider-Fail.Com."
And then he turns and is swinging through the buildings. He is not at cruising speed, though, giving YSB enough opportunity and leeway to stay with him. "Now, we're looking for a convoy of Escalades. All of them have the El Jefe package - bulletproof plexiglass, steel door inserts, that sort of thing. The first and last vehicles are going to be filled with gunmen. There's going to be at least two vehicles between them, with no indicator of which one our guy, Johann Heinrich, is going to be in..."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Sounds charming, if you can stop the convoy I'll be just fine taking the goons down. I don't know about two full cars right out of the gate, I haven't done the hero gig for years remember."And a pause as she throws out another line, getting the hang of this quite quickly really. "No shape charge, but I know a trick for armored glass so that should be no big deal."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man looks thoughtful, then tosses YSB a small red object that looks like a fat spider. "Press the button on it after you stick it to the second-to-last car. It's a cellphone jammer. I figure I can take the rear car while you shut everyone up in that car and whichever car is in front of it. That way you can keep them from warning anyone. I'll run a signal search, and then I'll be able to figure out where Heinrich is."

Someone's been reading his Sun Tzu.

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Roger, I've got some trick grenades and some other hidden tricks but.."She snags that spider thing and puzzles for a moment as she swings up behind Spidey. "How long did you spend making it look "on-band", I mean I appreciate the level of detail here but.."Says the maid, who is also a god damned Ninja of course. "Spider on second to last car, then breach and beat. Good plan, actually."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spidey chuckles. "My Uncle ran a machine shop in the 1970's, and I was able to pull a 3-D resin printer from Engineer Row. It helps when you can write your own code, too. He..."

Then he stopped and pointed. Below and one block over, four Escalades were rolling west towards Chelsea. "Oh, look, a parade. Shall we check it out?"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "On it!"She calls out, and well she just gets immediately right after it. Swinging high, before latching onto the second to last car directly and down she goes in an accelerated arc. Touch down is pretty hard, smashing into the roof just behind the sunroof with an audible clatter, before she slaps that Spider-jammer down and immediately races foreward. Zipping foreward to the lead car, as she gives her right arm a -snap- and produces a sturdy knife that comes to a simple square tip, less a weapon and more a tool it seems. Left hand digging into her apron for those grenades as she slides down the lead car's front windshield and flashes a peace sign to the doomed occupants. "Hello!"

Peter Parker has posed:
She does make for one HELL of a distraction, leaping from car to car. And in a skirt, no less. Spidey has the good grace not to look as he fills the exhaust pipe of the rear vehicle, then drops down as the window unrolls to let a hand with a pistol poke out and shoot at him. From his vantage point of the rear bumper, he shoots enough webbing to furnish a haunted house. As the vehicle slows dramatically, he pops up and jumps from the former last-vehicle to the current last-vehicle.

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    She leans in against that front windshield, And immediately she gets right to work. She scores that glass In a coarse triangle, before jamming that blade into an edge and it -sticks-. This of course is followed up immediately by a KICK and that knife is driven through that armored windshield. Then a moment spent working that knife furiously back and fourth, before she's able to get both hands behind it and put her body into it. Opening a gap juust big enough.

    She produces a pair of teeny little grenades from her apron, pins coming free before dumping them through that hole. Duty done, she retreats back up to the roof with her knife to wait. Those two would be, yellow smoke and tear gas. A lovely combination.

Peter Parker has posed:
One thing about Spider-Powers, they can certainly help you multi-task.

Spider-Man jumped forward on the SUV to land on the hood, looking into the front windshield and...no Johann.
He saw them glaring at him, then back-flipped, moving from the last vehicle to the second one, which was fast becoming the ONLY one. The lead vehicle looking like someone inside was hot-boxing it with mustard gas. It swerved into a mailbox, slowing it down to the point that it crashed into a brick wall without crashing THROUGH it, the occupants spilling out, faces red, gasping for air.

He looked down through the sunroof and there he was, Mr. Heinrich.

"Greetings! Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior the Flying Spaghetti Monster?"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    She dives off that car, One roll and a trio of rotations before she sticks the landing "Kick them in the teeth, -then- trash talk them!" she hollars out over the din of chaos, before turning to regard her prey cooly.

    She lifts a hand to the heavens, fingers splayed. "This fist of mine is burning red!"And with a snap of the fingers her hand erupts into brilliant flame. "It's loud roar tells me to defeat you!"Nobody ever said she wasn't theatrical of course. That hand curls into a fist as she breaks off running towards the poor fools coughing and hacking. She takes a running leap, that burning fist pulling back for one hell of a flying haymaker. The hit lands, and immediately that yellow smoke catches and -FWOOSH-.

    Lots of light and sound, but not a lot of heat. Still it's enough to singe the eyebrows of the unwary, and one hell of a flashy move of course. Slowly she turns back towards Spidey, as she casually shakes the flames on her fist out. "The flames of justice burn higher! How you doing back there!"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man heard her shouted line about trash-talking. Wow. She REALLY didn't understand his process.

The men inside were wondering what to do when the driver reaches down to yank the hood release. In a cartoon, or a movie, it would fly up and catapult Spidey over the roof of the SUV.
However, that model of SUV is made VERY well, and the secondary latch holds.
"REALLY?"
In the next moment, the SUV's windshield is COVERED with webbing. This makes it VERY hard to navigate, and his Spider-Sense suddenly flares.

Spidey doesn't look to where the danger is coming from, he just jumps free as the SUV careens into the divider, beaching itself upon the hill, then being driven farther up by the SUV behind them, locking them together.

Spider-Man lands on the road ten feet from Heinrich's car. "Just overseeing an experiment in MISapplied physics. I made two SUVs occupy the same space at the same time."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    More grenades are procured from her apron, and one by one tossed and webbed against the rear driver side door of Heinrich's car. She tosses the pins aside casually as the little grenades pop in succession, before the last one finally hits the mark and with an audible -clatter- it destroys the window regulator and lets the window drop down inside the door before crunching into place.

    The Yellow Scarf does not delay, rushing in the moment that window pops, Grabbing after heinrich by the Collar before pulling. She's not a big gal, but with both shoes braced on the side of that car she should be able to drag his ass out onto the street right?

Peter Parker has posed:
Johann Heinrich is not a muscular guy. He doesn't do the physical stuff. Thatis what bodyguards are for. But when most of them are stunned, weeping like children meeting Jason Vorhees, or jus unconscious, he doesn't have a lot to work with.

"There's 20 million in diamonds...in the trunk. Get me to my boat, and you can HAVE them!"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    A blink, as she lifts one leg and then the other. "You're skipping straight to bribery, are you kidding me? We're supposed to scuffle and trade hard boiled catch phrases before the bribery phase, you're completely out of order dude."She waves dismissively, before taking a few steps back.

    "Look I get it, there's a lot to process. Take a moment there and find your center, then we'll get to the fighting and I'll just forget you lost your nerve."Casually straightening that apron out for a moment. "It happens to everyone, don't worry about it. Just, go ahead and I'll let you have first swing."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man walked over to the rear of the SUV, pulling open the rear door. He found rthe briefcase, then opened it on gemstones worth more mony than he'll ever see in his life.

Then he looks closer.
"Even if we WERE bribable, these are CONFLICT diamonds." He closed the case again, leaving it where it was. "I think you may need clean the inside of that case...I can SMELL the blood from those diamonds."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Woah woah man, you were gonna try and bribe me with Blood diamonds? Didn't Leonardo Dicaprio teach you -anything- at all?"She sweeps foreward in the blink of an eye. She leaps into him pressing one foot against a knee and the other against his belt buckle as she all but climbs over him. Delivering a -savage- knee to the face. She lands back on her toes with a bounce, casually shaking out her gloves. "Damnit to hell, Commence to fighting or get out the way. Ain't you got any sand, boy?"

    Thats two Cowboy movie references for the record, a combo reference if you will. "You wanna web him up, I mean we usually just go til knock out but if he's not even going to fight I feel kinda bad just beating the tar out've the coward."Theres a little shrug there, as she peers back at Spidey.

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man smiles under the mask. "Ah, I'm just going to web up the poor guy. He's not worth the bruised knuckles."

He aims a web-shooter at him, and then he's webbed to the SUV.

"Welp, time to call the cops. If they aren't on the way already." He looked around. "We left kind of a mess. Which happens."

He takes out his phone, then taps a few buttons. He is about to press the SEND button when the sound of sirens is suddenly carrying through the streets. "Guess we woke the neighbors."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Yes I'd stay, but this maid is on her smoke break now."Casually digging out her cellphone as she strolls over closer to the webbed up doofus. "Hey Spider-guy, get in here." She pops that thing into Selfie mode and holds it up as she flashes a peace sign. "What you don't stop and talk to the cops? Most of the coppers back home wanted autographs."Theres a roll of the shoulders there. "Hell most of the bad guys too, I mean you should see my autograph book."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man shrugs. "It would be nice to have my picture on the Internet without it being featured on Spider-Fail." He moves over for Buster to get his masked face in the shot, tilting his head so the busted-and-repaired seam won't show. "Smile and say 'rekt,' Johann!"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    *beep!*

    She humms at the image for awhile, before sending it out. "There we go, folks paid eighty grand for that. Is that nuts or what?"That phone is tucked away, before she lifts a hand and -fwip-. Off to the roof tops! "Feels bizarre not to stop and chat with the cops, but if thats the way things go here?" She hits the rooftop, and immediately lets her shoulders down. One armored fist extended, for that silly American thing. "You work very quick, I'm very impressed Spidey."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spidey follows the ninja-heroine up to the roof, landing lightly on his feet. "Stuff like this, you have to work quick. The longer a fight goes, the bigger chance of someone getting caught in the crossfire. I have to work fast to make sure *I'm* the only one risking his neck in these altercations."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Very different approach, but it works."She gives a shrug. "Usually I'd have hit them at their destination, but I mean Yakuza and stuff in Japan aren't like they are here. They'll fight you, but if their boss is a wuss they'll bail on him right there. Everyone fights or nobody does, you know?"She digs about in her apron, before grabbing a fistfull of grenades and handing them over. "I'll teach you how to make flat breaching charges another time, these should get you by until you figure out how to make them yourself yeah? And no they're not lethal, unless you feed one to somebody or something twisted. Just be mindful of the color coding."Not that she explains what that color coding is, but it's a veritable box of crayolas. All in like golfball sized format, topped with a single pin and a pair of triggers.

Peter Parker has posed:
Spidey looks doubtful. "I may save these for emergencies, but I am leery of explosives. Explosives have a limited amount of control, if any control at all. But they may come in handy." He packs them carefully in his backpack, then says, "I've begun work on creating the Spider-Comm system. When I get it up and running...would you like to be a member?"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Explosives are good for the element of surprise, and surprise wins fights. Especially when you can't put them to the sword."Showing both hands, before with a snap of the wrist she produces A dark red minigrenade, a pair of needle like shuriken and a piece of hard candy. "You need to control the battle tempo, then you can worry about everything else. Disrupt the drums of war, make them play your song. "And another snap of the wrist and they're gone.

    "Oh sure wire me in, I didn't know you had a whole little network brewing. I thought it was just You, and the other one in black?"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man nodded. "No, but I have met a few others since then. The system is upwards-scaleable, so I can add more people to it." He looks around, then leans closer. "Augmented-reality interface, independent criminal database...and no one other than the members will use it because to hack it, you have to know if EXISTS first."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Well I don't need the AR stuff or the database, but I'll patch the network in for sure."She scrambles up an AC unit, before plopping down to survey the city. "I prefer being a hero, but I'm on assignment Spidey. Ninjas are not crime fighters, you don't want me doing that stuff anyway. I mean look I'll step in if a hero is in trouble, obviously. You don't want me putting Muggers to the sword though, they don't deserve that sort've stuff."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man sighs. "If you ever want to be a Spider-Ninja, I can see about providing you with other ideas of non-lethal weaponry. It also results in the bad guys taking it a little easier on me because they know I wouldn't kill them." He leans against the A/C unit. "Three months ago, my web-shooters broke during an altercation with Shocker. I was pretty banged up, absorbed a lot of voltage, so I took the subway home. While I was riding, seven of the 54th Street Eagles showed up. A few of them saw me and said I was due a beat-down. The one in charge told them not to touch me. Why? Because I saved his kid brother from a pedo six months before." He looks up to her. "...Sometimes what I do protects me in ways I never expected."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "I have two parts of my life, and I have to be very careful not to let them mix. Ninjas are not crime fighters, they're killers. My quality as a ninja is directly related to how many people got a fair fight out of me, and how quickly I kill. I slay foes without hesitation, no quarter. If I'm captured I die, If I'm defeated I die. I make war upon the enemies of my clan, my government and my home. I lie, I cheat, I steal, I do all manner of dirty nasty things and that's what being a Ninja is. I do terrible shit, so other people do not have to."Legs crossing at the ankle as she slowly works her knuckles.

    "As a hero I must be inspirational, I need to project safety and control. I need to display a mastery of using exactly the correct amount of force, to never wound a criminal any more than strictly necessary. I wear bright colors because I -want- them to focus on me alone, I make it all a grand spectacle."And finally a little shrug."I don't have an inbetween, because thats what villiany looks like. I start straying from the path, I'm gonna end up sliding into villiany without knowing I've done it."

    And a sigh as she ponders "Did you ever hear of Dr.Fugue over here in America?"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man shakes his head. "The name doesn't ring any bells. Is this someone from Japan, or someone you know of that's here in town?" He REALLY need to get his database working.

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "American Ex-pat, was a GI who fell in love with Japan so he stayed. Originally from NYC though, though I don't know where."A humm. "Tophat, tuxedo, cane and crazy psychic powers. He'd make bad guys forget what they were doing, tell them they dropped their handcuffs. So the crooks would thank him, and cuff themselves up and wait for the police. He was the first non Japanese to join the Tokyo justice society, did like fifteen years as a really exceptional hero. He'd just -stop- fights, and quietly ask the bad guys to cuff themselves up. Sounds totally radical right?"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spidey looked thoughtful. "Sounds like someone I think I would like to meet. A person stopping crimes and fights POLITELY. Sounds more impressive than sticking to walls, honestly."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "He went a long time beyond question, and if he ever did anything nasty nobody could remember. Thats his power right? Well he got interested in this Geisha, but she wasn't interested. Turns out he didn't like being told no, so he tried to make her forget. Turns out he'd run into the sort've bitch you don't screw around with, probably my arch nemesis. Lady Centipede, and his juju didn't work on her. When she killed him for putting his hands on her? Well the spell broke, and folks started remembering all sorts of stuff."Casually she plucks those gloves free, before rolling up a sleeve. Oh yeah incidentally, she's inked.

    "See ultimate power like that, without a narrow road and strict rules? It gets too easy to do bad things, if you can get away with it. Humans are excuse making machines, Fugue had nobody to keep him straight. Most of us have very strict rules or little socieities to make sure we don't stray."A bruise is inspected on her forearm, and rubbed until it vanishes beneath that bright inkwork. "So I Hero like a Hero, and I ninja like a Ninja. I don't mix and match, because I get out of control. I don't trust myself with that sort've authority."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man nods. "Who watches the watchmen, indeed." He sighs. "We trust each other, right? Because I think we do...and since the night I saw your face, I thought it might be a little unfair." He looks around. Nope. No peering eyes, no Spider-Sense. "I think I should return the favor. So you can see the face behind the mask."

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "The face doesn't matter, you gave me a phone number remember? Did you think I wouldn't drill deep, and see who it was?"Not that she lifts a hand to stop him, of course. "I don't need to see your face to know you, you're friend shaped either way. Show me or don't, but you don't have to earn anything with me. Trust isn't currency my student, it's a river."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spidey looks down at his phone as an alert comes up. He smiles. "Maybe another night. Looks like something else is going on. I'm all warmed up and I've got plenty of web-fluid left. Want to come with, or do you have to head back?"

Chizue Nakamura has posed:
    "Take off you brightly colored scamp, I'm gonna go bust some more petty stuff and call it a night. I've got to be in my cubicle in like five hours as it stands."She hops down, before giving a stretch. "Call me, we'll go have sushi or something as -friends- rather than allies alright? My treat."