15318/Low Key Actually an Evaluation

Low Key Actually an Evaluation
Date of Scene:	06 July 2023
Location:	New York, near Starpower Publishing
Synopsis:	Bunny passes an unofficial but official assessment from Kate concerning how she will do with the forming team.
Cast of Characters:	Kate Bishop, Bunny Macleod

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Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate invited Bunny out for crime fighting, a classic patrol really. She said she wanted to get to know the newest Young Avengers and also get a feel for the way they fight crime so she can figure out how they will work together as a team.

    Sparring is well and good in the gym area of the base, but field work is where things can really crystalize. Since she doesn't have a danger room installed in the warehouse base like the tower has, she can't simulate field encounters. So time to do it the old fashioned way.

    She may also be trying to get Bunny's personality pinned down, the big group get together was pretty wild and chaotic after all. Bunny being a good part of the chaos as far as Kate could perceive.

    Which is why we find our heroes on a low building roof near a hot spot of potential crime, Kate keeping one ear on comms listening for something suitable for the heroes to intervene with, while she chats with Bunny.

    "So.. how did you know you wanted to be a a superhero?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny being a good part of the chaos is a pretty apt descriptor. She was colorful, cheerful, and gently witty, and down for any reason to celebrate. She even had a Daily Holiday Reminder on her phone that lets her know what holidays need celebrating that day -- of which today was Hawaii day, Bikini day, and Apple Turnover day, and she had used and abused Tommy Shepherd's kitchen to make turnovers to bring to the Publishing building.

    With ice cream, since it's hot outside.

    Bunny has her goggles pushed up to hre forehead and is wearing a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses as she tightens her skate laces and gives a smile.

    "Ah... I think since my mutant powers activated? It just seemed like natural progression to me, you know? I've got a flashy power, and I've got some talents, I could use them. And, y'know, being smack dab in the middle of eight kids I always wanted to stand out." she jokes.

    "What about you, Hawkeye?"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate nods listening. She did enjoy a turnover to back at the base, though she did give a small headshake when told it was officially Apple Turnover day. Everything has a day. Even the Avengers.

    Speaking of which. "Mutant, good to know. May someday have to deal with assholes around that. I'm sure you already have. Bigots always find something to other and bigot about." she sounds sour and resigned on that topic. "As for me... well. Avenger related unsurprising."

    She sips from a bottle of water then continues. "When Loki managed his invasion of Manhattan, I was caught in a school bus about to be dead to rights murdered by a Frost Giant... like from Jutenheim... with my classmates. Hawkeye saved us." she grins at the memory.

    "I mean hell.. if old man Hawkeye can save people and become a founding Avenger with just a bow and talent. That convinced me I could do it too. I'm talented. I don't need powers. I can be a superhero."

    She cocks her head listening to the comm a moment before dismissing that crime. "So I did. I became a super hero... started fighting crime... and Hawkeye cornered me because I made a splash.... Ironheart and I had teamed up and woof it was funny like younger female versions of Clint and Tony got presss."

    Yup. No Powers.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny pauses, and she pushes her sunglasses up.

    "... that... is super freaking cool." she whispers. "I mean, I was just a little kid. I wasn't even in New York when the Invasion happened, but that is super freaking cool." she whispers, the smaller girl drawing her knees up as she sets her chin on her knees as she smiles.

    "And yeah. To quote the great modern philosopher T-Swift, 'haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate hate'. Already got into a couple scuffles with people over mutant-ness."

    She gives another smile though "Old Hawkeye doesn't seem like he's TOO old. He was chillin' with this cool dog, and Janet van Dyne, and Captain America on Avenger Day and signed my autograph book." she gives a bright smile at that, and two thumbs up.

    "I dove in front of my siblings during some gang violence we accidentallied across. Powers activated and I got like, the WORST migrane that night."

Kate Bishop has posed:
    "I am not that old." she protests "The invasion was like five years ago..." she shakes her head. "I'm only 19... how old are you Bunny?" pivot "I started superheroing when I was sixteen."

    "Which seems crazy wild.... the amount of alien invasions I've helped thwart and other things in just three years." a headshake.

    "So natural hero instincts. Really good sign Bunny." she confirms, about when her powers went live. "So do you still get migraines?"

    Added after thought. "Also I call Clint that because it drives him nuts that I'm younger and a better shot."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "If I push myself, yeah. It can make me kinda shakey and weak if I keep a sheild active for a long time. They don't last forever." Bunny explains.

    "Heh. Yeah, Speed doesn't really like the fact that I'm heroing, but Badger, our girlfriend? She's all 'well if you're going to hero you should at least learn how to do it right' and then I've got martial arts lessons but mostly my fighting style is still 'everything goes' -- and Clint's a badass. Certified." she gives a small smile. And totally skips over the 'how old she is' because thirteen should not be 'little kid', but yes, she wasn't in NYC when stuff went down.

Kate Bishop has posed:
    "Okay. Has practicing or working the power made it easier to go harder and longer?" already wheels are turning designing drills and activities that could perhaps help strenghten her new teammate.

    "I'm with Badger. Everyone should know all sorts of self defense and fighting tricks. There are too many things that can negate powers in the world or circumvent them. Take away so many heroes weapons or powers and they find themselves helpless and defeated." she smiles a quirk to Bunny. "I'm happy to work with you on training if you want. I'm pretty decent at a lot of stuff." modest. She is a savant at lots of stuff. There is a reason she designs the Titans training simulations.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "I've gotten better just by using it more often. I used to try my best not to use it -- don't rock the boat, you know? I don't live in a real mutant-friendly area." she breezily states. And she gives a bright smile.

    "I'd like that, Kate. More people I work with, the better I get. And hey, when we learn together, we learn how to cover each other's blind spots too."

    She straightens a moment.

    "Not that I'm saying you have blind spots! Imean I'm pretty sure I only got added to the roster because Tommy is Billy's brother and I kinda showed up for the free snacks and ended up showing off!"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    "They seemed to think you should be on the team. I would be a fool to not give you a fair shake and let you join and see what you are capable of Bunny." there is a genuine smile there. "I have limitations and I am sure blind spots. The goal is to get team members and partners who can cover them like you said. Stronger a whole than individuals is a true sentiment."

    "So yeah I'll teach you hot to fight, can't hurt to have more teachers and styles. Do you like swords?" which explains the sword on her back isn't just for show. Probably not the black widow style batons either.

    She slips up to her feet. "Okay pretty standard jewlery store robbery a few blocks away. Want to show me what you can do?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "I'll take anything you can give me. Think I can start pulling off trick shots on roller skates?" Bunny gives a grin, and she shrugs. "Was kinda think tonfa, nunchucks, boomerangs --" she was joking, listing increasingly unlikely weaponry as she gives a grin, and she raises her eyebrows, brushing her hand to her ear piece as well.

    "Let's goooooo!" the pink-haired girl cheers, switching out her shades for sport goggles (gotta protect the eyes), and she practically bounces on her skates! "Lead the way!"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate pauses to tap the bracer she wears and pull up a map. Holographic. "Okay, x-marks the spot." she parkours herself down to the alley, like a gymnist really.

    "Also I think a sling shot, with different payloads, might be really good for your theme. Could get really clever with it."

    She takes off on foot, at a sprint. Leaving her block because it is only a couple of blocks off. She picked a really suitable spot for it. She doesn't say follow me. She wants to see how Bunny handles it.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    There's a shadow overhead at one moment where Bunny hops the alleyway, on her skates, and then (slightly less gracefully) hooks her gloves around a drain pipe like a fireman's pole and drops down, and it's easy to see why she jokes that she lives in the skates. She moves like they've always been on her feet, nimbly grinding a barrier, ducking beneath a tree and hopping a mailbox to catch up with Kate, and she turns, skating backwards to watch their six a moment before she turns back forward to make sure she doesn't drop in an open manhole!

    "I dunno, slingshots are kinda immature, and I'm eighteen. Just... really short."

    5'1 short.

    "What about electric escrima sticks?"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate doesn't seem to have trouble running and talking. Probably lot of practice calling out tactics or quipping while running a pitched fight. Good cardio.

    "I'm thinking of interesting ways to delivery payloads. Paintball gun would be pretty good too...." she takes a breath and rounds a corner. "I can teach those." she taps her hip where the batons are. "Mockingbird style, but electrofied like Widow uses. Very useful suckers when you just want to taze someone."

    One more corner and there is a jewelry store, a van idling out front, the front door ripped off its hinges and set to the side. Movement within and a driver there in the van.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Ooh, looks like we got someone with a little muscle behind them!" Bunny grins as she draws up one leg, skating on one foot as they make their approach. "Movement inside, do we just stop and say 'halt, theif' or something -- oooor just knock 'em upside the head for good measure?" she questions, blue eyes turning to Kate as she regards the Archer-in-Cheif with a slight grin "-- first though should rob 'em of their wheels -- is the window open?"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate skids to a stop, an arrow already in her hand with a very strange tip. "One second." she notes aside to Bunny.

    The arrow flashes across the street from the corner she stopped with Bunny on, and the driver side glass of the van shatters and moments later the tip of the arrow explodes.

    It looks like the arrow was effectively a poweful shock bang and in the enclosed space of the cab of the van it likely has the driver stunned if he is a normal human.

    A second arrow lands after the first and the whole cab fills with... Goop... some sort of Purple Goop.... hell it was hard to follow when she even fired the follow up.

    "Okay they definitely heard that, they are .. likely super enhanced in someway criminals. We knock them upside the head, tag and bag, and leave them for the cops. Show me how you would deal with it?" unspoken is she is absolutely backing Bunny up.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny gives a smile. She cracks her knuckles, even though her heart's pounding and her mouth is dry, she goes in.

    She goes fast and low, building up speed before she skids in an arc, holding onto a light pole to swing herself through the door torn off the hinge, and into the jewelery store proper, eyes going wide as she calls out:

    "Hey, who owns the van outside? You're gonna get a parking ticket leaving it idling like that!"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Three gentlemen, probably not actually very gentlemanly though, all stare at Bunny. Two of them have smashed jewelry cases in front of them and seem to be even more hurriedly stuffing jewelry into the sacks they have. Probably because of the flashbang outside.

    The third was walking towards the door when Bunny skids in. He has of all things a very sturdy crowbar in his hands. There are a couple of blinks at the quip. "It's just a kid... hey kid... get lost..." he menaces Bunny with the crowbar.

    Kate personally thought it was a good quip. She moves slower than Bunny but after her now, watching it very closely to see what Bunny does next.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Aw man, I /can't/ get lost. You're in MY city --" Bunny states, expalining it like they're five, treading back and forth on her skates as she looks, looking at the crowbar, and then at the third guy.

    "How about you get lost?" she asks, and then she goes in low, aiming to bring her skate down and crush the ankle of the crowbar-bearing aprroaching bad guy, bringing one hand up and raising a shield in case he tries to hit her!

Kate Bishop has posed:
    With a startled yelp of pain he staggers at the skate to the ankle. Then well he does indeed bring the crowbar into the shield that pops into existance.

    The crowbar thug is absolutely the one with the one that ripped the secure door off the front of the door. It hits like a truck really against the shield.

    Kate is watching critically to see what happens to that shield. Arrow knocked and ready.

    Which is made very clear as one of the bag criminals drops their bag and pulls a gun. Just to get an arrow, right on the chest, which pops off exploding into binding wires that wrap around the guy and then spark with electricity. Dropping him in a spasming heap.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny grunts under the super-strong attack, but her shield holds, even if her knees bend under the effort of catching it, the gasoline-rainbow shield not cracking, but it is taking a bit of a beating.

    Bunny turns and hips herself around, using her inertia to try and shove Strong Crowbar Guy to the side and disarm him of the crowbar as the arrow whizzes past her ear and strikes someone holding a gun!

    "Looks like you gave that guy a shock!" she grins, eyes turning to the third.

    "Give up?"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    They don't seem quite ready to to give up, despite the shocking turn of the tables. "Good one." Kate assents with a grin as she steps in, and gestures "Can you catch the bullets."

    The question is what bullets, but bag guy number two is pulling his gun out now and aiming.

    The super strength crowbar guy does bounce back several steps when stunned and drops his crowbar. That doesn't stop him from menacing with his fists.

    Kate seems to be pivoting in on him, the strike is deflected with a twist of her bow letting his hand slam into the wall and get stuck without damaging her or the bow. The arrow she was going to fire at the gunman, well it just gets stabbed right into the guys bicep where it hissessssssss like an autoinjector. Not that it doesn't bleed too, she slammed it and lodged it into his bicep after all.

    Then she dances back and nocks an arrow.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Catch no shield yes --" Bunny stands up and brings up both hands. Gasoline rainbow shield powers activate, or in other words:

    "Shields Up!"

    The see-through prismatic shield blocks the bullets as Kate takes on Big Crowbar Dude!

Kate Bishop has posed:
    There was a lot of trust there letting Bunny take the shielding of the rapid fire hail of bullets. It's a small automatic pistol really. Not super high caliber, just a lot in that spray at the heroes.

    The big guy, well he has super strength, not super endurance it seeems. He is moving a smidge slower as he yanks the arrow out of his arm and throws it hard at Kate. She dodges that easily though and the next arrow, well it slams into the muscle bound guys forehead, exploding a viscious goo that blinds him.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny knows there's a lot of trust. She keeps her sheild up, her heart pounding in her chest until the clip ran out of bullets.

    Click, click -- drop shield, and she rushes him, hopping up on the jewelery case and then front-flipping, bringing her skated feet to the guy's midsection!

    "Ladies and gentlemen we have a secondary sticky situation in the Jewlery Shop today, it looks like it's rainin' buttkickin'!"

Kate Bishop has posed:
    "I think raining men would work." as the one that Bunny kicked in the midsection goes down really hard with a deep thud behind the counter. He bounces and wheezes on the ground. Down but not out.

    The man is swiping and ripping at the goo, but it has his eyes flooded. It isn't solid enough to get or scoop easily out. "Fuck fuck fuck .. this burns..." is all the guy says swinging around with one hand wildly and blindly.

    "IF you would knock that guy out so he doesn't get brave and reload thta would be nice Bun" and Kate studies the blinded superhuman. She sighs and slides one of those batons out, it pops to life with a high pitched HUMMMMM of a lot of energy and she love taps his temple as he flails blindly. The flash of energy is severe but the guy drops like a bag of potatoes. "That was a lot more than I initially calculated to slow him down.... wonder what his whole slew of abilities is..."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Hallelujah!" Bunny chirps, and delivers a second kick to the downed guy's solar plexus. "You know, 'it's raining men' and 'let the bodies hit the floor' are basically the same song?" she calls out, and she back-skates over to the big guy, peering a little bit around Kate's elbow.

    "Well. Healing might be one of them. That ankle kick *usually* breaks it." she states, and holds up one foot. "These things are haaaaaaaard."

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate gives the downed metahuman, be it mutant or something else, it is a good blanket name, a long look.

    Then she extends one hand while looking Bunny in the eye and gives him another hard and solid ZAP ZOT from the baton. "Those do look hard." she notes nodding.

    She fishes out two zipties and gestures to the downed couple. "I'm going to call in the NY Meta response team and get them here, can you please zip of the trash?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny accepts the zipties.

    "Zipping away!" she cheerily states, and goes to bind the other two to make sure they're not going to continue to cause trouble.

    "I've gotta get me one of those batons. That's cool. Think there's ones that spew fire? OH! OH! Or maybe like ice rays like Captain Cold's Absolute Zero gun?! THAT WOULD BE ... SO COOL!" she brightly grins at her wordplay -- then coughs and goes back to making sure the NYPD have an easy time picking these guys up.

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate meanders out to check the gunked driver and make sure he is still detained in the van. She chats on a comm that is not immediately visible. Maybe it is in those purple shades. Maybe it is something else. Good questions.

    She turns back to Bunny with a smile. "One of these sure I can make that happen.. cold rays not sure. I do have ice arrows though... that is why I was thinking the sling shot really." she mmmms "We can talk to one of the hypergeniuses I know.. maybe Nadia knows something..."

    "Also good job Prisma."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "YYeeesssssssssss I did a good job!" Bunny squeaks out, hopping on her skates without losing balance, and she offers a fist dap to Kate, because that is definitely cooler than a high five!

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate will absolutely return the fist dab.

    Before too long the officers arrive and cart those bad guys away.

    All said, yes Bunny did a good job. Assessment passed.