13895/Just don't call me late for Breakfast

Just don't call me late for Breakfast
Date of Scene:	19 January 2023
Location:	Harlem
Synopsis:	What do you get when you make plans with friends from High School? Ghost-Spider and Silk fighting Rhino, that's what.
Cast of Characters:	Cindy Moon, Gwen Stacy

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Cindy Moon has posed:
An old friend from school sends a text wanting to meet up for breakfast and it would make Cindy's therapist very uppity if she'd refused. So plans were made, clothes were donned, and webs were thwipped to get her from her apartment in Harlem to the little bristol where they'll be engaging in one of the best breakfast chicken sandwich this side of the central park north.

The last two blocks she takes on foot, jamming to her tunes playing on her phone into little earbuds. She's got a Pokemon backpack on, Jigglypuff for the nerds in the audience. It's mid January, so she's sporting a hoodie, warm pants, and earmuffs with a black/silver scarf tucking out from beneath the fuzzy collar.

With boots crunching in the snow.

She does a little spin two step, hopping back onto her left foot and stepping forward into a goofy dance move. Right about the time the alarm bells of her Silk Senses go off... With her brow furrowed she turns just in time to see the car flipping off the street towards her and giving her only enough time to fire off a webline and drag herself through the snow out of the way. It slides against a light-pole and comes to a stop meer inches from hitting anyone braving the winter cold for their morning commute..

Guess it's time to suit up!

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Quiz Time!

What do you do when you have a day off from your Oscorp internship and have a full day aalllll for yourself? You get to stalk old friends in social media, of course! Yet Gwen is no lurker and when she finds a face (and name) she hasn't seen in a while an idea comes to mind.

< Hey, it's Gwen. Breakfast! 9am tomorrow? >

Right outta nowhere. But that's how Gwen rolls. And close to the hour she is making her way over to the place. She is walking as well. Dressed up in a nice spotted purple and black blouse. Purple skirt. Stockings covering her legs because it's heck cold and a small backpack. Because you never leave home without your Janet Van Dyne outfit, that's why. Scarf and a beanie hat along with a nice warm coat finish the emsemble. Earbuds are also on, listening to her favorite band, Garbage, humming to the tune until...

There goes the danger sense. Someone in trouble. And reaaaal close. The crash of the car tells her the direction and she starts dashing that way!

And changing in the way. Good thing there's always a convenient alley to do that on the run. And oh god, why did she decide it was a good day for skirt and stockings?

Cindy Moon has posed:
Alleys were specifically placed in New York to allow the spiders to change, prove her wrong.

Silk slides into one and starts pulling off clothes, "Oh god, it's cold.." As soon as she yanks her jacket open to awkwardly pull her costume on. Lastly wrapping her face in the crimson red scarf.

As she leaps, her bag is thrown against the wall about thirteen feet up and webbed, then she too is swinging out after the rampaging Rhino being trailed by several police cars desperately trying to cat him and keep from catching one of the vehicles he's knocking out of his way on their hoods.

Thwip twhip, yank.

It doesn't take much to keep up, he's not incredibly fast, just hard as heck to hurt!

Though her primary concern is the direction he's going. 110th street, which will basically be a parking lot at this hour, full of people... So obviously redirecting him is going to be top priority!

Right after she keeps those vehicles he's flinging out of his way from crashing into one of the shops along the sidewalk!

She swings after him, webbing a vehicle that he'd just up-ended with a backhand at the backtire. Teethering it to the street to keep it from toppling over on its side where it can become more of a traffic hazzard or turn over onto the pedestrians who are diving out of the way! "Come on, Rhino! It's too early and too cold for this! I haven't even had coffee yet!"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
One GOOD thing that Spiders learned to do is multitasking while changing. Even if it's way too cold to get changed in the snow. But .., at least they have the constitution of a horse, they can take that. But anyway! Multitasking. Voice message on the go. Which is sent to Cindy right at the same time she is changing.

< Might be a little late, traffic.

There are cars flying around! So it's a plausible excuse .., maybe.

Soon enough she is inside her suit. The WINTER version. All nice and warm. A web is shot up from the alley and she is airborne, flipping in the air before another web pulls her towards the trouble brewing ahead.

And oh look. It's RHINO, urgh ... And .., is that Silk?

"Coming in hot, six o' clock." She tells the other Spider as she 'flies' past, feet first right against Rhino. Which really doesn't accomplish much besides making the large supervillain briefly lose balance. But more importantly?

It makes him look at the two spiders instead of the pedestrians.

"Are you violating parole again, horny?" Sure Gwen. Poke the beast.

Cindy Moon has posed:
Silk runs along a building adjacent to RHino, side flips off, and is swinging in at him just as Ghost-Spider's feet connect with the large supervillains back, "Why you want to ruin such a beautiful morning?" She chides him. Using the momentum of her swing and the awesome power of her genetically modified spider-body to crack a haymaker that literally comes in from directly out of center-field.

With Gwen's kick knocking him off balance, the combination 1-2 of both of their attacks 'almost' topples him over. And by almost, it just really pisses hi off a lot. Enough that he spews something at them in Russian? Was that Russian? Then tears the door off a parked van to send at Ghost like a frizbee. It is at this point that he ducks and tries to gore Cindy with one big horn. "I don't think like likes that name, Ghost..."

The supremely quick and agile Silk twists over the top of the flailing big mans horn, but she has to create some space, flipping backwards and to one side where she slides towards the sidewalk in the snowbank. "You should really consider chapstick. Your lips have GOT to be killing you."

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Can you say that again?" Gwen asks of Rhino when he starts talking to them in Russian. "But this time to the mic here..?" she extends out a phone to him, google translator is great! But then she is having to dodge a frisbee the size of a van thrown her way. Some people just can't take a good joke! She jumps up, long legs pulled together as she pushes herself off the thrown van door and propels her body up into the air...

"He's just a hater..., it's a good name.." It really isn't. She shoots some more webs against Rhino while she is up in the air, slowing him a touch while he's trying to gore Cindy but it doesn't keep him for long, soon enough the bindings breaking.

"Also, great right hook." She says of Silk's haymaker, "I have been trying to learn how to throw a good punch..." this while they are dodging and poking and prodding the large beast. Not that Rhino appears to be tiring...

"If we get him more in the open maybe we can combine our webs and make a good cocoon of him.." she suggests. That's one big fly they will have to capture in their web though!

Cindy Moon has posed:
Silk snickers at the phone held out in Rhino's direction, "He probably said 'pesky moose and squirrel.'" She provides helpfully, which is not at all helpful and is kind of insensitive. The big beast of a man growls and kicks a whole bank of snow at Gwen, a white wave that won't hurt, but will be difficult to see through for a couple of seconds. In those seconds he grabs for the other door on the van and tries to bash Silk with it, swinging it wildly only to miss her when she leaps up into the air like advanced level whack-a-mole. "Nope-"

Another swing, "Close-"

And another, "Come on, are you even trying?"

She's angling him around with her bouncing side-flips and twirls. Keeping just out of reach so he has to work his way towards her to keep swinging. "There's a construction zone about a block East of here, we just have to get him mad enough to charge us.. without, you know, destroying everything in his way."

SPLAT!

She leaps backwards, one leg curled down, the other straight out ahead, and both wrists extended bent downwards to fire two web balls right into his face. "Follow my vooooice... woooo... thiiis waaay."

Gwen Stacy has posed:
All the snow coming her way makes Gwen lose sight of Cindy for a few. Perhaps a good thing that the next swings don't come her way. So she steps back, cleaning snow from her mask. "Now you are just throwing a tantrum..." she chides Rhino about the snow kicking.
Hersnd then it's time to give new meaning to the 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee'. Where the spiders are the butterflies and the stings..? Well, they are the web balls being shot at Rhino's face as Gwen joins in with the peppering.

Which is pretty much what it is right now. Peppering. Because rhino is just bashing past those balls, roaring as he gets more and more mad. Just as they wanted.... Or did they?

"Ok, think he's only seeing red now." A beat, "Or in this case black and white." because it's the colors of their suits!

"Come on, ghost of christmas past, let's go!" And she starts running off towards the construction zone pointed out by her.

Cindy Moon has posed:
Silk tries not to yelp when the swings being thrown her way get progressively more erratic and, by contrast, far more dangerous. He might not be very quick, that Rhino, but all he has to do is hit her one good time and it'll be one to remember. Thankfully, Ghost is there to help get him good and angry.

Which probably is a good thing for their plan, but maybe not so much for them if he ever gets his hands on one of them.

So the best course of action is to not let him! "Stop missing, forehead." She chides him, pulling herself along a webline to run in the direction of the construction zone while he's yanking webbing off his face and horn. Still yelling at them in what might be jibberish, but might also be Russian.

And it really isn't that far to the zone. Nor is it massive... just a clearing where they've put up stakes to start building a new tennat building. It'll work though! Silk swings in and lands atop one of those rebar spikes, peering back at the Rhino smashing through the chainlink fence and stacks of pipes like a bull (rhino) in a china (pipe) shop. "Alright, we've got some room... Start binding up his legs and bring him down?"

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"Oh, I got some of the translation ..." Ghost says over to Silk. Is she getting it translated on her phone? Not that she reveals the words. Got to keep it PG-13! "You aren't gonna like it.."

This all done as they continue to run, swing, dodge and roll away from Rhino as he runs at them. Yea, wouldn't be good to be caught. His hugs can be a killer. They are getting to the construction area now. And it's perhaps a good thing no workers are around just yet so they are free to let loose. Because they really will have to in order to take down this rhino!

"Yea, we gotta stop his momentum. He won't be able to break free once we do..." And sometimes it's all about the right moment. She waits until he's slowing to rip something off to throw at them and then she shoots.

"Now!" webbings starting to wrap around his legs!

Cindy Moon has posed:
Silk tsks at Rhino, perhaps a little at Ghost too, but mostly at Rhino. "Whoa! You kiss your mother with that mouth?" She no more knows what he said than she knows how to build a rocket ship, but it sounds good. Sometimes quips are less about what you know and more about what you can prove.

It's still an hour or so early for the construction crew, which is definitely a good thing when the large pipes start flying. Rhino stops his running to rip one of the rebar out of the ground and hurl it at Ghost like a javilin which opens him up for Silk to leap in and start her own side of webbing.

Several rapid thwips have multiple contact points around his ankles, held in her left hand, which she drags in a wide circle as she swings down and runs in the oposite direction. "Don't hit me, don't hit me, don't-"

He tries to hit her. With a pipe. Which she ducks beneath and rolls.. "Rude."

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Pipes. Why did it have to be pipes?!

With the webbing Gwen is shooting non-stop at those massive ankles it also means she is a bit more vulnerable to air-borne menaces. Like flying pipes. She dodges one. Two. Three. But the fourth? It spins her back and onto the floor a moment. Yet a lot of her objective is already accomplished with Rhino barely able to move. And with Cindy moving in? It won't take long until he's down for the count!

Right now though? She's seeing stars. She shakes her head as it to recover her bearings. "Ergh, did you take the license plate of that truck...?" But then ..., spidey sense again! She jumps to the side as another pipe impales the ground where she was a moment ago.

It also leaves Rhino open for Silk to finish the job. "Now Silk! Take him down!"

Is it Timber time?

Cindy Moon has posed:
Silk is side flipping, and she's side flipping.

Rhino has an near endless stream of projectiles to hurl at them in the form of pipes and rebar and he's making good use of them... well bad use, anyways. One stabs into a bit of concrete that she'd just flipped behind for cover. It sends plaster and bits of concrete into the air as she rolls back out into the open and resumes shooting webs at his legs to get him good and off balanced.

Between them, he's no longer moving for weapons and is trying to tear at the webbing on his legs to get himself free. Right as Ghost informs her of the clobber clock striking one.

Two webs, one to either metal beam beside her, and Cindy leans back into the tension, then lets physics do the work of slingshotting her right at the off balanced big guy! Another one of those out of nowhere haymakers catches him just beneath his chin with the kind concussive force that could shatter concrete.

Silk slides in a three point on the opposite side of the big super-hino, who is swatting at the air with increasingly disoriented waves of his hands. Like he's trying to catch bugs buzzing around his face, but then he's going down. He hits the dirt with a grunt and Silk is already starting to web him down to the ground with the sounds of sirens rapidly approaching now that the coast is, mostly, clear.

"You okay over there? Do you know what day it is?" She shouts over to Gwen, peering over her shoulder while making sure he's good and secured.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
"It's the day of I wish stayed home reading a good book kinda day..." That's what Gwen says back at Cindy as she springs herself back up to her feet. Well, seems she isn't -too- bad at least. With Rhino now down for the count Gwen joins in getting him all rolled up like he was a piece of sushi. The better to be taken by the police!

"Urgh, my shoulder is going to be kiling me tomorrow.." She admits, rubbing at it once they are done taking out Rhino. She rubs at it, then rolls it. "Ufff... But nice going, Silk." she grinning under the mask at the other Spider-y one.

"I need to learn that. How do you do it...? The...." And she mimics the haymaker punching which ..., really isn't that great at all. Yes, Ghost Spider can't punch.

Great legs though!

"I am late...!" She seeming to remember something, "We will have to catch up later, yea?" she thumbs up at Silk then getting all ready to spring out of there.

Cindy Moon has posed:
"oh, it's pretty simple... I pull myself at them very quickly and then I swing my fist from over there-" Silk points where she would be before pulling herself on a web, "-to over there." Where Rhino is laying on his face all bundled up like a burrito. "The harder the better... and then you ice your fist.. and hope you don't break your knuckles."

There truly is an artform to throwing a good punch, though.

"Yeah.. yeah I need to get going myself. Hey, good to see you though! Next time let's just have coffee or something.." Shrugging, motioning around at the destruction and webbed up Rhinos, "This is just awkward for social media."

Then she, too, is ready to spring out of there and get back to her backpack. "Next time I'll bring soup." No idea why she's bringing soup. Rather than try to clarify what she means, since she doesn't know, Silk springs up and webs out of there. Once cops are on scene to take over Rhino handling duties!

Fiddling with her phone as she lands.

> Just got ur text. Traffic is a nightmare, be there soon.

It is way too cold for all these bruises.