4052/Eagle, Meet Spider

Eagle, Meet Spider
Date of Scene:	06 November 2020
Location:	Harlem
Synopsis:	No description
Cast of Characters:	Peter Parker, Yaretzi Acama, Cassie Sandsmark

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Peter Parker has posed:
An old song from the 1980's had a line that went, "I said it's just a boy's game...but girls play, too."

And on a cold Friday afternoon, the Munequitas, a girl gang who dealt with protection, prostitution, and a small-but-growing heroin business, were about to induct one of their newest members.
Sonia Vasquez, a new arrival to Spanish Harlem, had left the apartment she shared with her grandmother to run errands when Maria, someone who hung around the area, approached her, complimenting her on her looks and how she needed people to help her and her family.

A little coercion and a veiled threat later, Sonia agreed to meet Maria and her friends in a local "park" (really, a small patch of land between apartment buildings, but it had grass, so it counted) to discuss how she could become part of something greater.

Maria, of course, had given the usual rules. Nothing that won't clear up in a few days, no scratching, and anyone who marked Sonia above the neck would get TRIPLE. They needed her for her looks after all...

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Yaretzi's just gotten out of school for the day, happy to be about to have a weekend to enjoy. Stepping up out of the subway tunnel a few stops from home, she makes her way towards one of her favorite places: the local comic book shop. Maybe she won't be buying anything today ('cause her allowance is already stretched thin as it is!), but she can still enjoy the place, maybe find a good conversation about the heroes in the comics, maybe even about the actual real-life heroes in the city. She giggles, too, as she realizes that she -is- one of those 'real-life' heroes now, too!

Of course, her route to the comic shop, she spots the group of girls going into the 'park'... and one of them sticks out -- the one who isn't dressed like a ganger-girl. Yaretzi frowns as she wonders about what she's seeing, then pouts as she realizes she'd going to have to put off her visit Los Comix for another time, because she has to follow the other girls in there to make sure there isn't something bad about to happen. With her decision made, she hurries to the crosswalk, then across the street towards the 'park' where Maria the her ganger-gals are setting up Sonia for a fall.

Peter Parker has posed:
Sonia doesn't have a Spider-Sense, but she has a feeling she is walking into a world of hurt.
Maria had two friends with her. And they were smiling and looking at her and nodding to each other. One of them had called her a "tasty bit" and that was the time to turn around...only when she turned around, a fourth girl was blocking the way she came in.
Mousetrapped.
"Maria, what's going on?"
Maria smiled. "If you're going to be one of us, we have to know how tough you are. That you won't scream or run or do anything STUPID."
"Just...let me go..." Sonia pleaded as she backed up.

"It's too late for that, little bird. Far too late." She looked to the others. "Do it."
The other three girls approached Sonia, hands curling into fists...

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Yaretzi comes up short behind some scraggly bushes that pass for the hedge around the perimeter of the park, crouching as she peeks through a gap, to see what's going on. "Oh, dito!", she says to herself, before glancing about, seeking a place she can quickly and easily get completely out of view. She spots a likely-looking place -- a nearby sunken stairwell, just inside a nearby alley. She gets up from her hiding place and darts over into the alley and down the stairs, finding herself against a sturdy-looking metal door that looks like it hasn't been opened in years. "Perfect!", Yaretzi thinks to herself before saying, "Cuatli!"

Smokey haze fills the area at the bottom of the sunken stairwell, tendrils forming as if the 'fog' is actually an electrical burst -- and it completely obscures Yaretzi from sight for a moment. There's no sound to it, though, and no marks of any kind left in its wake as it fades away as if it were nothing more than fog in a breeze... and a much taller woman, dressed in a white and gold leotard, stands in place of the teen: Golden Eagle!

Peter Parker has posed:
Sonia turns, and the first kick hits her in the back of the knee, and she goes down to her hands and knees. A well-placed kick lifts her, spinning her to land on her back, and the brings up her hands to shield her face and upper body.
The girls begin to hit her, in the arms, the sides, the lege, kicking and beating her. This is how it goes. You have to show that you can take a beating.
Maria stands back and watches. This is twofold in nature - she can watch her girls work, and if they get pinched, she can say she never laid a hand on her, and no Mnuequita who wanted to live to see the month out would turn on her.

So far, they were doing a thorough job...

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle moves in, to normal people's eyes, a blur of motion into the group, to snatch up Sonia and carry her away from the other four girls. She gets hit a couple of times as she goes in and out, but she knew that'd happen and didn't let it stop her -- she took three bullets just last night, after all, and found out she really -is- bulletproof, so the thought of being punched and kicked didn't scare her a bit; and she barely felt the blows as they landed, too, bolstering her confidence. Laying Sonia down, she stands and turns to face the gangers. "Hey, nenas... leave the gatita alone, hey?", she says, putting her hands on her hips. "What she ever done to you?", she adds from where she's between the gangers and their victim.

Peter Parker has posed:
Okay...who screwed with the script?!

The three gang-girls suddenly realized that, after the delicate Sonia, they suddenly were punching something that felt like packed sand...and then nothing at all. They stopped, looking around, then spotted Golden Eagle.

All four Munequitas stared at her. Who the Hell invited THIS puta?
Maria was always the first to go full-tilt when the situation demanded it, so she was the first to pull her piece, a pearl-handled Colt .45 and aimed it at Golden Eagle. The firearm was the envy of every girl of the gang, but to have it, you'd have to kill her for it. And many had tried.

"Step off, whoever you are! This is PRIVATE BUSINESS!"

"...It's too LOUD to be PRIVATE!"
A new voice. A new MALE voice. A new male voice from ABOVE.
Talia looked up and her dusky skin went pale. "ARANA...!"
Although Maria didn't look up, the other two did.

Perched on the side of the apartment building wall overlooking the park, sitting in his haunches at a 90-degree angle and looking down at them...was Spider-Man.
In his spiffy new suit.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle also glances up to where the new voice came from, taking her eyes of the firearm that'd just gotten her full attention -- classic 'rookie' mistake, there! Her eyes widen a bit as she, too, clearly recognizes the local hero. "Ay caray! You and your corillo should leave, home-girl. This revolu's too big for y'all, now!", she says to Maria, even as she's turning her gaze back to the girl with the gun.

Peter Parker has posed:
Maria was suddenly torn. The girl in the white-and-gold was an unknown, but she KNEW who Spider-Man was.

So, she decided to capitalize on his known weakness...oter people.

She grinned, focused on Golden Eagle, and fired a shot meant right for her belly. While Spider-Man would be busy trying to get the girl help, they could bounce.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Having taken her eyes off Maria at just the right time for the girl with the gun, Golden Eagle wasn't ready for the shot -- and it hits her right where Maria'd aimed for it to hit. The bullet falls to the ground after flattening against the heroine's stomach. Grinning, Golden Eagle says, "I'm bulletproof, putita!", before she's a blur of motion towards Maria, grabbing at the gun to point its muzzle up into the air even as she gives the Muneqita leader an open-palmed slap on the chest, trying to separate the girl from the gun.

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man blinked and missed the whole thing.

In one moment, Maria was firing the pistol. It had shocked him. His Spider-Sense hadn't warned him at all, so the shot caught him off-guard.

And in the next instant, he found out WHY. It's because no one was in any danger, and that was the trigger for the Spider-Sense.
Then the girl in gold and silver is gone...only she's not gone, she's grappling with Maria, knocking the pistol to the grass, revealing the tiny engraving of the Catholic Mary on the side of the pearl handle.

The mother of Jesus would NOT approve.

The other three, in a rare show of common sense, decide to pull a Jesus and try to get the righteous flock outta there, but the trio gets webbed to the ground before they make it.

Maria STARES into the face of the inhuman woman holding her if she had all the strength of a toddler.

"Who ARE you??"

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
"Mira, chula. Listen good, 'cause I gonna say this ONE time. I'm Golden Eagle. This is -my- turf, comprende? You get your perritas out of here and leave gatitas like her (with a headnod in Sonia's direction) alone from now on, or next time I come to you all pompeada. Me oyes?", is the reply given to Maria before the heroine lifts one hand to lightly (at least it looks that way) thunk the ganger on the head -- and Maria's knocked flat out cold. Glancing, then, at the pearl-handled gun, she gets it into both hands... and squeezes. There's cracking and snapping sounds, and when Golden Eagle drops it by Maria, the barrel's been squeezed and twisted up to the point that the weapon will never be able to be again fired.

The white-and-gold clad superheroine then glances up at Spider-Man, then down to Sonia... and the woman gets her attention, first. Walking back over, she places a hand on Sonia's arm and asks, "You okay?"

Peter Parker has posed:
Sonia is shocked and relieved and amazed, and it is simply overwhelming to her after the beating that she got off lightly with.

After a few moments, she nearly falls against Golden Eagle, sobbing with relief and emotion.

Spider-Man chuckles. Being a distraction isn't so bad. What's important is that the girl is safe, and the other four are...well, in no condition to cause any more trouble.
Spidey sends an alert over the Spider-Comm system to 911, describing the situation and requesting a patrol car to come by and pick up the Munequitas, especially Maria...who has a couple of warrants out, by the look of it.

He tries not to intrude on what is obviously an emotional scene. This "Golden Eagle" seems to be handling it just fine.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle lets Sonia 'vent' against her for a bit, then helps the woman to her feet. After the woman seems ready and willing to be on her own two feet again, the heroine looks back up and the web-slinger... and simply floats up through the air til her head's even with his. "I din know you was around, Spider-Man", she says, still affecting her somewhat heavy 'latina' accent, even as she puts her hands on her hips as if she were standing on solid ground -- although she -is- just floating there. "Thanks for the help, too. I dunno if I coulda caught them all so quick and easy-like."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man chuckles. "Couldn't tell by looking. You were quick, decisive, and acted with a clear goal. The one needing help got helped, all the bad ones are caught so law and order can deal with them, and no one got killed." His voice has a warm sound to it. "As far as I can tell, you didn't miss a trick."

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle should -never- play poker, not with how she reacts instantly to praise from Spidey, smiling proudly at being told she did good. She looks down at the three webbed girls, and the KO'd one, and the small crowd coming from nearby buildings to gawk at the superheroes, mostly, though some are seeing to helping Sonia, the victim, as well. "This is the part I'm not so sure about... do I just fly away or something?", she wonders aloud. Her 'latina girl accent' has slipped, too -- it seems that it was more of an act, the accent... or she didn't mean to say those words aloud.

Peter Parker has posed:
She is new. But everyone is new. He was, too...and he screwed up a LOT, in very bad ways.
So, if someone else can learn from his mistakes...

"Usually, you give people a little send-off. Nothing too fancy...but if you'd like, I could say something on your behalf?"

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
The look of surprise on Golden Eagle's face makes it clear she didn't mean to actually -say- what she just said. (She definitely shouldn't play poker with those kinda easy tells.) Instead of speaking, again, she simply nods her head and floats a bit off to the side, so that she's not blocking anyone's view of Spider-Man.

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man nods, then whispers, "Meet me on top of the Conservatory Garden in Central Park in five minutes, if you want to talk."

Then he waves to everyone. "Greetings, Spanish Harlem!"
More than a few are looking up by now, and a young man points. "Hey! Arana-Muchacho!"
"Hey there, amigo. This performance has been brought to you by Spanish Harlem's Own GOLDEN EAGLE! I...was merely a spectator this time." He shrugs. "It happens. Anyway, how about a hand for Eagle, here?"

There actually was scattered applause, light, but gaining strength. Nothing like a show of support for one of their own.

"We gotta go. Lots of trouble out there. But you may see me again, and I am definitely sure you'll be seeing Golden Eagle around!"

He waves, then fires a webline as the local NYPD patrol cops enter the area. "TTFN, ta ta for now!"

And with that, he swings off.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle, lifts a hand to wave as the small gathering below applauds, then Spidey's swinging away. She hesitates a moment, then calls out, "Up, up... and away!" as she soars up into the sky. Not but a couple of minutes later, she's flying over Central Park... and it's clear she's -looking- for Conservatory Garden, but probably hasn't ever been to Central Park while airborne, from how she's ranging about in what's obviously an attempt to find the place.

Peter Parker has posed:
The garden is a quiet, picturesque place in the northeast corner of Central Park, right across the street from El Museo del Barrio, which is devoted to Latina culture.

Spider-Man is standing near a hot dog cart with BIG JAKE'S written on the umbrella over the cart. It is parked near Untermeyer Fountain, the one with the three dancers around the top tier.

Well, if Eagle shows up, then they can have a nice chat. If not...well, still, free chili dog.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle finally comes down for a landing, a couple of minutes past the five-minute mark. "Sorry, Spidey", she says as she lands lightly, without even much of a rush of displaced air. "... I never thought I'd hafta find this place from above, I guess. I flew past it a couple of times, even though I knew it was in this part of the park."

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man gives a "What-Can-You-Do" shrug. "No worries. I hung out for awhile longer, just in case. I like it here..." He looks at the fountain. "My uncle used to take me here. Said he proposed to my aunt in the Park."

He points to the hot dog cart. "Want something to eat? Big Jake makes the best street meat in town. His wife makes the chili fresh every night."

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
"Yeah... I've had Jake's, before", Golden Eagle says; yep, she's definitely a local girl -- odd that she's so clearly NOT wearing a mask of any sort. "I kinda left my money in my other pants, though", she adds, gesturing at her legs, left bare by the leotard-style costume she wears, even as she grins a little bit. "Anyway... what's up?", she asks.

Peter Parker has posed:
Spidey holds up a finger. "First, food." He winks (yes, the eye-lens winks) and walks over to the cart, ordering two chili dogs and paying with a thin money clip in the backpack he wears.

Spider-Man strolls back and hands one foil-wrapped chili dog to Eagle and sits down on one of the park benches.

"Well...I take it you're a little new at this crimefiighting thing, even though you're going like gangbusters."

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle stays where she is while Spidey acquires the pair of hot dogs. When he sits down on the bench, she sits, too... but not on the bench. She just 'sits' in mid-air, floating next to the bench. "I didn't really ask for one", she says, about the hot dog she's been given. "Thanks, though!", she adds, as she unwraps the foil to take her first bite. She smiles as she chews, clearly enjoying the treat.

When her mouth is clear of that first bite of food, probably taken right away to give her time to think, Golden Eagle says, "... is it that obvious I'm new at this? Even that one guy I ran into the other night picked up on it right away." She sounds... disappointed?... in herself, maybe.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
Cassie is not actually on 'Super Duty' precisely. But? Cassie is kind of in a lazy mood, and so she is not taking the subway back from her classes. She is flying! In doing so, she angles to cross over the picturesque length of the park rather than the expensive apartments, stores, and museums that flank it. Its a little more scenic!

En route, she sees something (moderately) unusual, in the form of someone -else- flying over the park. It would be a little hypocritical to consider this a huge emergency or problem, really - maybe it's some Avenger she's never seen before? they live up here too - but nonetheless she's curious, and decides the more heroically correct thing to do is to check it out. So, she angles downward to intercept! Or at least, to land nearby.

She looks around a little and-

-well there's Spider-Man. And someone is with him! Good odds. The two of them, of course, will also see a girl just drop out of the sky to join them, so that's a bit of a thing.

She's not really in costume, but then again, she doesn't really do costumes, and her normal clothes always come with a bit of Wonder Woman merch or branding in the mix. Today, it's a black tee with the gold 'WW' under her short brown jacket, a skirt and tights. "Uh hey!"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man lifts up the mask up to his nose, because of course he has to, and...nope. No mandibles, or fangs. Sees his dentist, and he's clearly Anglo, but otherwise...not much from the nose down.

"Relax. EVERYONE is new at this whole thing at some point. No one jumps into this kind of thing knowing everything they have to know." He pondered. "Except maybe Thor. But he's a burp in the universe."
He takes a bite, munches, then swallows. "So, I was going to ask..."

He looks up as someone calls to them. No Spider-Sense, so didn't really notice. And he was a bit distracted, because Big Jake's. So he didn't see her fly in.

He raises a hand, expecting her to be in the category of Regular New Yorker when...hey, he knows that emblem. That's Wonder Woman. Wonder if she's a fan. Well, Diana is pretty awesome.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
As Spidey pulls up his mask to also start on his food, Golden Eagle pulls up her feet so that she's sitting cross-legged... while floating in the air next to the bench Spidey's sitting on. Wonder Woman fan that she is, she recognizes Cassie for who she is almost immediately. "Hi, Wonder Girl", she says, lifting a hand to in greeting. She also didn't look up to see Cassie's arrival, looking over only when the latter called out. Before taking another bite of her hot dog, she adds, "Good idea on the tights for flying around while wearing a skirt!"

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
Cassie definitely looks stoked that someone knows who she is, grinning at Golden Eagle's greeting immediately. "Hey! Uh-" She looks a little sheepish that she does not, in fact, know who she's talking to in turn, but smiles all the same. "I don't think I've seen you before. New Avenger?" That's clearly just a guess, premised on the fact that their mansion is a few blocks south.

As for her outfit, she looks down, like she hadn't completely considered it, but then back up and grins. "Yeah, I guess it's a good idea. Actually I wasn't really planning to fly back, but it's been cold recently, even if today is kind of nice." And then, glancing past, she waves a hand to wave at Spidey. "Yo, Spider-Dude. So what's up, you guys like, out busting badguys? Park muggers? Mob-affiliated food cart extortion?"

Well, probably not, since it looks like they're just eating them and not webbing anyone. She turns around. "I'll have one too. Mustard and relish."

Peter Parker has posed:
Wait...there's a Wonder GIRL? Jeez, the things you miss when you spend your days in a textbook and your nights fighting street crime. You miss stuff like this.

Jeez, a guy could get a complex.
"Golden Eagle here stopped a quartet of the local girl gang from 'jumping in' some girl. She did almost all the work. I kibitzed a little." He takes another bite.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
"... and I'm not an Avenger", Golden Eagle adds. "I, like, just started this a couple days ago. I'm new to this", she explains, her tone of voice speaking volumes about how she's given up on trying to act like she really does know what she's doing. "...and Spidey helped a lot, actually. If he hadn't webbed three of the girls down, I'd have hadda hit 'em, and that would've risked me accidentally hurting them."

Golden Eagle's a new superhero, by her own words and according to Web-Head, but she recognized Cassie right away, called Spider-Man 'Spidey', wasn't at all surprised about the Avengers being referenced... that she's a local is patently obvious, at this point.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
"Nice!" Cassie echoes excidedly, as she gets the deets from Spider-Man. Also, she hands the vendor some WonderBucks for her dog. Well, OK, it' just normal American money.

"Oh you're new? Thath coo-" The second half of her reaction is somewhat obstructed by a mouth full of compressed animal byproducts. Chew, chew, swallow. "Hmm, actually, lemme get a soda too." More monies get exchanged. "Sounds like you're having a great start, though? Like, already caught some people, and didn't majorly screw anything up along the way? That's already, like, new hero top percentile. I was a total disaster when I started."

"So you doing the friendly neighborhood animal-themed crimefighter thing too?" she wonders, given, well, both her costume and their company. "Or got bigger plans? Thinking about a team? Got a mentor?"

She does sound awfully into the hero 'biz' stuff.

Peter Parker has posed:
Spidey swallows, the chili dog already half-gone as he turnes to face Golden Eagle. "Well, I was going to ask you if you would be open to some help. I'm pretty sure I'm not in your weight class, power-level speaking...but if you want to talk, or need advice, even from a blue-collar working-class 'menace' like me...I'm willing to help."

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle looks a bit proud of herself at Cassie's comments, then somewhat surprised at the questions. "Uhm... I haven't thought that far ahead, I guess?", she replies after a few moments. "I don't have a team or a mentor", she adds, before stuffing the last of her own hot dog into her mouth to chew upon.

When Spidey offers help, she nods her head, and hurriedly chews and swallows to clear her mouth. "I'd love to have some help, but I doubt I'm really all that, like you're saying it! I guess I just gotta figure things out on my own, and get what advice I can get along the way, really.", she says, then pauses. "There was that one guy... Albert... Albert Roth-something", she adds, lifting a fingertip to sorta bounce it forward and back as she thinks. "Anyway, he said to get in touch with him so he could teach me stuff, too. I have his card back at home. I didn't bring it with me, 'cause, well... I kinda don't have pockets in this getup."

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
Cassie can't help but laugh at the 'menace' bit, as presumably she's seen some of the news stories. "Oh those things are hilarious. What's up that dude's butt, anyway? You web his dog or something?" Spidey's remarks also have her glancing back at the other yuong woman, doing a bit of a thoughtful up-down look as he mentions her 'weight class.' "How much you lift?"

Curiousity! Just curiousity!

That aside, she grins as Golden Eagle shows her uncertainty about all her blitz of questions, and shakes her head like it wasn't really important in the first place. "It's no big deal if you don't have it figured out yet! But like, it's cool having people to train with, team up for missions, all that kind of stuff. And if you just got your powers outta nowhere or whatever, having some more experienced people to talk about, teach you to use them, all of that. I -stopped- being a wreck after doing Amazon boot camp, y'know? Gave me some skills, you know? To go with the raw boom-pow!" The last is accompanied by an over-energetic upercut into the air with her non-dog hand.

"Dunno that one," she also has to admit, for the name Golden Eagle does offer. So instead: "Ugh, isn't it just the worst finding stuff with pockets?" That might be more of a 'women's clothes' in general complaint than a costume specific one!

Peter Parker has posed:
Amazon Boot Camp? That's...a thing, apparently. He might have to ask Kara or Diana about that.

"Having these gifts...well, there is an inherent responsibility to use them in the right way for the right reasons, Eagle. And sometimes, it's the advice of your friends, mentors, advisors...those will protect you from making the wrong choice." He takes a deep breath. "...because I made some very bad ones, once upon a time."
He glances to Cassie, then looks back to Eagle. "I'm sure she's more your speed than I am, but still...if you want to talk, or you have questions, I can send you a link to the private network I have with some similarly-minded individuals. I call it Spider-Comm."

He pauses, then adds, "I went with a backpack...but considering your needs, a belt might also do the job."

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
"I can lift about fifty tons or so, maybe more if I really strain myself, I guess", Golden Eagle replies, in answer to Cassie's question. "I know all about my powers and how to use 'em, actually. I just... hadn't ever used 'em til a couple of days ago... and I didn't choose the outfit. It came with the powers, actually. It -does- kinda suck to not have pockets, though! And... if I add stuff to it, it doesn't -stay- part of the costume."

At Spidey's talk about responsibility of power, she nods. "I made a promise that I'd do my best to use my powers right", she says, quietly. Again, her facial expressions are a total lack of a 'poker face'. She's dead serious about that promise she made, whoever she made it to notwithstanding.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
"Oh yeah, absolutely," Cassie agrees with Spider-Man's whole mini-lecture. "Diana's taught me a lot. And everyone on the Titans, too, the other Amazons... it takes a village, y'know?"

"Noice," is then Cassie's more enthusiastic evaluation of the new hero's ability, and the bit about how Golden Eagle's costume comes with the whole thing seems to make her think of something more. "Oh, like Dove. I gotcha." Who? Some other costume included bird person, from the sound of it! "Some kind of mystic avatar thing, maybe? That's what she is, I think."

Speaking of pockets... Her jacket buzzes, since it has a few even if the skirt and tights might not. She reaches in, pulls out a very normal phone, checks a few things and then laughs. "Nice pictures, Spidey! Lemme get one." And without much pause, she turns around and holds her phone up at an angle to to snap a quick selfie, aimed to include the pair of them behind her. "Anyway, you'll figure it out, I'm sure. DM me if you wanna talk about any of it, alright?" Because obviously this will be posted swiftly, as well!

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man pulls the mask down before the selfie is taken, then sighs. He balls up the foil wrapping and tosses it towards a trash can twenty feet away, sinking it cleanly.

"Listen, I should get going. I have a few hours to go before I finish Patrol Route 3." He takes a slip of paper out of one of the backpack's smaller pockets, handing it to Golden Eagle. "That is a link to the system. Use a computer or a phone you trust. Or, if you qualify for Amazon Boot Camp and get all the help you need, toss it. The one-time passcode is 'teddybear.'"

He reaches up and fires a webline. "Back to the street-crime grind. And Eagle?"
He smiles wryly. "You do good work. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise."

He winks, waves to Wonder Girl, and then he is slingshotted up and towards the buildings across the street, swinging around and south.

Being able to fly must make a lot of things easier...but gravity is pretty fun, too.

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle lifts her empty hands, having been resting her forearms on her knees as he sits cross-legged in the air. "Costume don't come with a phone, either", she says, with a shrug of her shoulders. "Who's Dove, though?", she then asks -- her knowledge about superheroes isn't ecylopaedic, after all!

To Spidey's offer, she shakes her head. "I can't trust -any- phone... it'd give too much away.", she says, holding up a hand in a 'stop' sort of gesture, instead of taking what he's offering her way. She ends up with it in her hand, anyway, as he swings away, and she purses her lips a bit. "... I -can't- call this or log into it. I just -can't-", she reiterates.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
"So you transform completely, and it takes all your old stuff and puts you in that?" Cassie wonders, turning around to give Golden Eagle's outfit a bit more of a serious looking-over now that it's become a serious item of conversation rather than just a bit of goofy costume chat. "So Dove, uh, well there's both Hawk and Dove, they're a pair? Though Hawk's been AWOL I guess. They're avatars of like war and peace, chaos and order, something like that- and birds. Well, not actual birds, but the costumes kind of have that theme going, like yours, and they transform by saying their names then they get smome mystic powers from their patrons."

Cassie gives a shrug, after all that, and puts away her phone. "They work with the Titans. Dove's real nice."

Then, curiously, "What's the deal with the phone, exactly?"

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle extends her legs so that her feet touch the ground she just 'stands up' like that, putting her hands on her hips as she walks over to toss her wadded-up hot dog foil into the trash as she thinks; she is hanging onto the paper Spidey gave her, tucking it under the back edge of one of her gloves. "Yeah... I guess it's like that. I don't know about where my powers actually come from though. They're just -there-, is all", she confides, as she goes back over next to Cassie. "... and... well, if I use... if I use the phone I -could- use, it'd be giving away my secret identity."

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
"Oh huh. Did you -always- have them, or like, did they start at puberty-" What?! It's super common! For whatever reason. "-or was there some other thing when it started? Sorry if any of this is like, too personal or prying or whatever, just figure it might help to have a good grip on the 'rules' of what you can do." And perhaps, so that it doesn't feel like a one-way grilling, Cassie explains: "I started out just kind of fangirling after Diana, cuz my mom knew her when she was still in secret identity, and then like, woah, she fought Doomsday, and I realized who she was, so I 'borrowed' some artifacts I knew she had..."

Big, sheepish grin. Yes, her career started a little impishly. "Buuuut then later, they took me to Olympus for my birthday and I found out I was another one of Zeus's kids, and he granted me my full abilities." Now they're even!

"Oh, for the phone, why not just get a second one, like an account just for hero-stuff? I think most of the secret id people do that."

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
"I... well, the Golden Eagle who had them before me gave me the powers", admits the new heroine. "And... well, it's like you said. If I have something on me when I change, what I had goes away, and comes back when I change back. If I have it on me now, when I change back, it'll stay with me. I'd have to carry something with me, put it completely down, then change, then pick it back up to have it with me as Golden Eagle. It's too much of a hassle, and I can't take that kinda time every time I want to change." She paces back and forth a little bit, gesticulating with her right hand as she speaks, her left hand on her hip.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
"Yeah that's a pain," Cassie agrees, a little more bluntly, giving the whole thing a thoughtful ponder, her expression turned toward deep consideration. "If you end up going to patrol, and stuff, you could have stuff ready, change, grab it all, then go, but yeah for the day-to-day quick-change thing it's not great."

Eventually, she shrugs, as if she can't really come up with a useful solution. "Still might want to hang on to Spidey's info, though. Even if you couldn't use his network actively when you were out and about, you could still, like, check in on it at home, use it for info or whatever, the day-to-day communication versus stuff just in the moment?"

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
"It's that day to day stuff that's the issue. Isn't, like, everything traceable? I'd be putting other people in danger if I used my regular cell, or even if I used one I got just for the purpose", Golden Eagle says, shrugging. "I'll hang onto the info, but I dunno if I'll ever be able to use it, is all", she concludes. "Anyway... I guess I oughta get going. Got things to do", she says.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
"Mmm. Normal stuff is pretty easy to trace, yeah..." Cassie agrees. Keyword: normal. "But that's another reason it's good to meet folks, maybe hook-up with a team. Like, for instance, to get cool Batman gear or whatever. No one's tracing that shit!" This may, to a newbie, be something that needs to be explained a little more thoroughly...

But for the moment?

"Yeah, I gotcha. Well like I said, you can hit up my account if you want, that I posted the pics from, if you need help with anything. Promise I won't rat you out. And maybe later I can introduce you to some folks, face-to-face even, if all the phone-stuff is too tricky." She lifts her hand to give a friendly wave. Then she turns, and lifts off back toward her original course:

"Welcome to heroin'!"

Yaretzi Acama has posed:
Golden Eagle waves and flies up and away. It's when she's nearly to where she's planning to change back into Yaretzi that the thought hits her: "... pics? What pics...?"