14763/Ancient Art and Ancient Mysteries

Ancient Art and Ancient Mysteries
Date of Scene:	24 April 2023
Location:	The Thrones Art Complex
Synopsis:	Miles stops a theft of an ancient spear, only to find the reason for wanting it. It seems to enhance a person's abilities!
Cast of Characters:	Shredder, Miles Morales

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Shredder has posed:
    The Thrones Art Complex is an art center for the people. Mostly it hosts local art, or local art classes. Ever so often someone is able to get a good connection for a nice display, though. This week? They got a tribute to some ancient Japanese artifacts. A samurai armor suit. A set of 16th century farming equipment. A very well preserved rug.

    And a very bizarre spearhead.

    The spearhead wasn't at the center of the exibit, it was more of a secondary attraction. It's a curiosity, and the reason is that while it has Japanese markings, it also has a failure to fit within the traditional style of the period. The barbs are far longer than other spearheads from thie srea, and the slope of the edge seems not to fit a Japanese style at all. No one is really sure why this is, it is just like that. It's kept under glass, though not with any particular security that would follow a famous item like the Mona Lisa. No lasers or anything like that. After all, this is just the Thrones Art Complex.

    Outside, three figures in charcoal gray, the optimal camoflague for a city stealth operation, move quietly across the grounds in the shadows.

Miles Morales has posed:
    If there's one thing that Spider-Man (The Remix) is good at, it's patrolling. Swinging through Brooklyn without missing a beat, Spider-Man (II) makes sure to hit the rooftops he needs to in order to launch himself back up into a stylish somersault or twisting motion for the added style points that comes from traversing an urban landscape in such a manner.

It also gives the people clocking him an opportunity to see that he's on the job and having fun with it. That should keep people from feeling too worried or down. Spider-Man's around and keeping an eye on things.

    Another swinging around a building brings Spider-Miles to the top of the building across the street from the Thrones Art Complex. He touches down with a quiet ease and merely takes a few moments to get his relaxation on. He even grabs at his phone to change up his music so his swing around the neighborhood has a nice little soundtrack to it.

    Miles bops his head to the sounds of the various songs he's cycling through to start his last patrol run. Wale. Jaden. Kriss Kross. This might take a minute...

Shredder has posed:
    New ninjas are often a little too eager to fight. One of these three looks up as his two allies make their way to the front of the art center and use climbing claws to start scalint the brick wall toward the third floor. He, however, pulls a shuriken, perhaps expecting that he's been seen prematurely. As the first ninja goes through the window, he takes aim, and the little blade goes flinging through the air toward Miles and his bopping of the songs. That's what he gets for listening to Kriss Kross.

Miles Morales has posed:
    Spider-Miles is starting to feel the groove and is in the middle of tucking his phone away when his Spider-Sense goes off and his body is reacting before he even knows what's going on. His body bends backward and the shuriken passes harmlessly past him as if he weren't just here relaxing and preparing for his last patrol.

    "Hey!" Spider-Miles is already up and over the side of the roof, sailing down towards the Ninja Trifecta that are doing things they shouldn't be doing. "I thought all Ninjas were supposed to be in Paris!"

    The (purposefully?) bad one-liner leads the way as Spider-Miles starts flinging globs of webbing in the general direction of the Ninja Trifecta. If there's anything that will slow them down or keep them busy it's super adhesive web fluid!

Shredder has posed:
    The distance gives the unwise ninja the ability to dodge before the web gets to him, and the first gets inside. However, the second, who was still on the wall has little place to go before being struck.

    The first ninja looks up to see the problem he's caused, and pulls his climing claws out, scrambling up onto the wall not unlike the Spider-man himself, only through help of metal hooked claws as he makes his way to the webbed ally to try to cut free the webbing.

Miles Morales has posed:
    "No comeback? Seriously?" Spider-Miles smacks into the wall with the boots of his costume and takes off in a run as if he's running on the street. Balance is his thang and the whole sticking to walls things helps quite a bit as well. "I've been waiting to banter with some losers all night and nothing?!" Sigh. "S'fine. I get it. Saving it for the OG." Spider-Miles hopes his elongated quipping gives him enough time to web that one stuck ninja more firmly to the wall as he extends another web-line to yank himself towards the other climbing ninja for some web-kicking action.

    "This is really gonna' hurt my brand, guys!"

Shredder has posed:
    "Maybe your brand shouldn't be crawling around like a bug then!" Aww, there we go, dumb ninja obliged. He slashes through part of the webbing only for it to be more firmly applied, and he brings his second claw up to block the kick. Of course, blocking it doesn't mean he can keep his grip and he goes sailing off the side of the building. Fortunately for him, there was enough distance for him to flip around and land on his feet. He decides to favor his claws still, holding them at the ready. What he lacks in brains he does seem to make up for in his own agility.

    Inside, the third ninja makes his way to the display, pulling his shot sword out to pop the display cover up.

Miles Morales has posed:
    "Thank you! Finally! I know ninjas are supposed to be silent but... come on!"

    Spider-Miles flashes a big grin beneath that mask as he sticks close to the window and aims a pair of web-lines at the claw ninja down below. His head peeks into the window for a moment. "I'll be in to kick your butt momentarily! One sec!" is the playful warning that Spider-Man gives but also takes the moment to survey the interior.

With his attention brought back out to the outisde, Spider-Man yanks on those twin web-lines to try and pull the claw ninja up towards him to sling through the window and in the direction of the display cover popper ninja! That's the plan anyway. It's good to have a plan.

Shredder has posed:
     The claw ninja doesn't have quite the distance advantage that he did the first time to avoid the strike, and finds both claws caught. he goes soaring up through the window, it's good for him that it's open at this point, and finds himself dropping toward the display case.

    The ninja inside spots his incoming ally, and sidesteps the impact and throws the display glass up at the window. The theft is discovered, who cares if they set off alarms now? He grabs the spearhead and starts making a sprint for the opposite door.

    The one who was thrown grunts, "Ow, you broke my...all of me I think," he complains, though despite that claim, he's trying to get back up, pulling a kama from his hip. As if somehow he could still fight. He definitely can't.

Miles Morales has posed:
    "My bad! Bill me!"

    Spider-Man quips as he flips into the place and levels his masked gaze at the ninja by the display case. With no Spider-Sense lines over his head, the kama wielding ninja must no longer be a threat. So Spider-Man's focus locks onto the most prominent thief in the building.

    "I thought I told you to stick around!" Spider-Man's web-lines are fired in the direction of that ninjas fleeing feet to try and trip him up while he launches into a target spider powered leap to clear some of that distance between them!

    "Don't you know you're supposed to wait fifteen meetings before running away after stealing?"

Shredder has posed:
    "You need that much of a head start?" The last ninja decides to quip back, he sounds a bit younger than the others. Maybe a teen.

    He seems to have his own special reflexes, and he leaps without looking back at the web lines to evade them. He spins in the air, and his free hand, the left one, throws a flash pellet on the ground, a bright light sparking from the source to bathe the area in a blinding light for a quick moment. Not very good for night vision.

Miles Morales has posed:
    'Okay, you see that, Miles? That's what you get for thinking this would be a walk in the park. First of all, you're not even in the park. And secondly, look out, flashbang!'

    Spider-Man's Inner Monologue seems to be related to his Spider-Sense because the only reason he's yanked out of his flabbergasted staring from behind his mask is the fact that homeninja just dodged his web-lines. Now he's overshot his leap and is in the middle of turning around into flash pellet explosion. Spider-Man covers up briefly with one arm to protect his vision while his other wrist is used to fling a web-line at the display case, yank it and send it sailing after the ninja thief!

    "No fair! Your friends didn't have enhanced reflexes, flash pellets OR wit!"

Shredder has posed:
    "Or maybe I'm just good!" The ill-timed declaration comes just before he has to brace for impact as the display case smashes into him, cutting him badly and slamming him face first into the wall where he drops the spearhead. He tries to recover, moving a little slower this time as he glances around for his lost target, and spots it on the ground. He glances at Miles, and then tries to make a mad dive to recover the spearhead.

Miles Morales has posed:
    "GET OVER HERE!"

    Spider-Miles' Scorpion yell is not that great but it gets the point across. And that point being that web-lines are being shot to snatch up that spearhead so that he can keep it out of enemy hands. Which is the actual reason he's involved in this whole debacle in the first place.

    Whooping them is just bonus.

    "You go crashing into a wall, you lose!" While that one liner doesn't actually have the same ring as 'you snooze, you lose', Miles is certainly trying to make it work while taunting thief about the spearhead.

Shredder has posed:
    As soon as the spearhead hits Miles' hand, it seems to have some kind of energy about it. The whole world becomes a little sharper, it's easier to focus. There's definitely something about this spear. Not a lot of change, just a certain edge that seems to be gained. Perhaps it explains the third ninja's ability to dodge and react so quickly. Look out behind you, Miles.

    The initial knucklehead ninja throws his kama, spinning end over end as it whistles through the air toward the hero while the ninja who held the spear previously simply lands face first onto the floor, a certain resignation of realizing that he is NOT leaving with what he is supposed to leave with.

Miles Morales has posed:
    Is there such a thing as Enhanced Spider-Sense because that's what Miles seems to be experiencing right now. He can feel The Edge rushing through him and his MORE precise movements happen at a pace that can't even be explained by his spider bite. There's a spin and a twirling of the spearhead which is used to smack the kama out of air and away from where it could potentially harm him or anyone else.

"So I guess that's a wrap?" Miles quips as he flings some webbing to lock down Kama Chameleon and the Resigned Wonder Ninja to the floor. Might as well keep them from getting away from the police because that's crime must pay.

    "Any chance you losers feel like telling me who hired you? Maybe I can nip this in the bud for all of us?"

Shredder has posed:
    "Your mom," the first knucklehead ninja answers, and tries to limp off. As if he could outrun Miles. The other doesn't feel the need to make quips anymore, and tries to take the opportunity to run the other way and cut his losses. Of course, there is also one outside webbed to the wall, probably not going anywhere.

Miles Morales has posed:
    Spider-Man makes sure to leave enough webbing attached to those ninja that can't go anywhere for the police to deal with before leaping up to the window that caused all this in the first place. Time to make a hasty exit.

"Really? My mom's a supervillain?" Spider-Man shakes his head. "She's totally gonna' have to raise my allowance!"

    Spider-Man leaps with the mighty swinging so that he can get back to his place and Ganke can get a look at this dang spear. And how AWESOME it is.

    Did Miles Morales just hit the jackpot?