9598/Getting that bite

Getting that bite
Date of Scene:	12 January 2022
Location:	Brooklyn
Synopsis:	Turns out Gwen and MJ don't get a bite because they are accosted by thugs. Yet they try to chew on more than what they can take when John Stewart, the Green Lantern, intervenes and stops the robbery in progress. To prison with ye!
Cast of Characters:	Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, John Stewart

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Mary Jane Watson has posed:
With Manhattan under threat from celestial beings, so many people were pushed out of downtown to other boroughs or evacuated entirely. There were some in the business of spending their entire lives trying to solve the problem, but not everyone, even those with powers, was responsible for saving the world 24/7.

Among those currently avoiding the chaos was Mary Jane Watson, the redhead currently dressed casually in a Spider-Man t-shirt and ripped jeans with a slouchy tote slung over her shoulder. She'd texted Gwen earlier and arranged to meet at Angelo's Pizza for dinner, but she was still a few blocks away when trouble found her, first. Apparently, with more people came more crime.

Three men stepped out of a darkened alley directly into Mary Jane's path, one of them holding a pistol at waist level that was already trained directly at her chest. "Hey'ya sweet-heart. Into the alley. Move," the man with the gun orders, the other two already moving to surround her.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
Gwen Stacy says, "I am telling you..." Gwen is walking alongside MJ, gesturing with her hands, ".. the city has gone full crazy with all that's going on." an understatement perhaps, what with a meteor on it's way! (So the news say) "But my father is still staying in the city so ..., I won't leave until he does.." Captain Stacy, of the NYPD. Not that she is telling the whole truth, she has a responsibility to be here too, as Ghost Spider. Helping people evacuate, or protecting it from....

.... People like these. Her danger sense flares up when she senses they will be getting approached but nothing she can do just now without blowing her cover so she lifts her arms in surrender. Guns. She hates them.

"Now, let's not do something we will regret..." The blonde woman says with a sigh. A glance to MJ. "See what I meant about the city going crazy?" She starts to walk towards that alley.

She is dressed in jeans and sweater, along with a pink hoodie to top it off. But now she really wishes she was dressed as Ghost Spider! Darn it.

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
"Oh, it's not just the city. Everyone's feeling it. I was on patrol on Coney Island, and a guy from the Genosha Embassy was handing out cards, offering refuge," MJ was explaining. It was no secret that she'd been trying to balance her life as a SHIELD agent and a student at Juilliard. Of course, with classes suspended due to the potential end of the world, her time off from SHIELD was her own, for the moment.

And then there are the three men, and Mary Jane draws up short. Her eyes widen, and one hand instinctively goes to her bag-- until the gun comes up.

"Yeah, I see what you mean," she mutters, emerald eyes shifting briefly over to her friend as her hands come up. "Take it easy. We're moving."

There's a pause. "No-- stop it. I'm not bullet-proof. Neither are you," the redhead mutters, more to herself than anyone else.

"Hey, Joey, it looks like you caught ya'self a crazy one," one of the men chuckles as they follow the girls into the alley, keeping them surrounded.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
The blue-eyed college student looks between the surrounding men, noting the guns, the positioning. Could she take them out? Maybe. But it would be dangerous for the two of them. Because indeed, none of them are bullet-proof. And when she notices MJ reaching for her bag? One of her hands rests on her arm, gently. "This isn't the time for heroics.." she murmurs to her best friend.

Gwen follows the gang into that alley, a mix of anger but also fear on her expression. It *has* been a while since she has been on this end of being robbed. She's usually the one coming in to *stop* these.

"We don't have much money so ..., I think you picked up the wrong gals. Barely enough to even get a pizza at Angelo's.." It's true too. Being a college student that works on a corner store isn't glamorous living!

John Stewart has posed:
Then, there's a sudden green wall that lands between the women and the three men, out of the sky.

Up in the sky, a black man aims his fisted right hand down at the wall, a ring on that hand glowing brightly green. He's in a green and black uniform of some kind (an obvious Green Lantern uniform, if either one of the women knows them) with glowing green in his eyes.

"Yeah yeah, looters and shit. You had to start doing this when /angels/ start making trouble in the city?" John grouches at the men.

Then, John looks to Mary Jane and Gwen with a casual inquiry written all over his face, "You two need any help? I can just handle these morons otherwise."

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
MJ takes a sudden step backwards when the green wall appears, and her arm instinctively reaches out to hook into Gwen's, drawing the other girl back with her. Her chin lifts as she looks up into the sky, smiling a little at the green-suited man that was hovering up there.

"I think we're doing better, now. Thanks!" the redhead calls up to him, smiling gratefully. "..Who are you?"

"Whad'ya mean?! It's like pigs ta' slaughta'!" one of the men yell back at the Lantern, raising his gun to fire off a couple of shots even as his two buddies, instead, turn to run off in opposite directions.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
They seem to move in unison, Gwen also stepping back with MJ, even lowering their posture some just in case bullets are incoming. Her body is *real* tense though, ready to spring. Very different from the fearful coed MJ knows. It only lasts until she notices the green uniform.

A freakin' Green Lantern!

That has Gwen's eyes widen, "Holy..., never saw one up close." she gives him a thumbs up in thanks about the intervention. "I had no idea you guys had come to New York now.." even if it's logical some of the top heroes in the planet will be around. That does warm her inside!

And again Gwen seems to recoil and react before the gangster even fires that first shot. Reaching protectively for MJ. Maybe she just has fast reflexes? "Oh man, you really should learn from your buddies behind you ..."

There's always one thug that never gets the memo.

John Stewart has posed:
The shots bounce off what was originally an invisible shield around John and into the nearly alleyway. The light greem glow around him shimmers before disappearing again. Then, John suddenly 'whips' his arm, and that wall goes crashing down the alleyway towards the man who shot. a 'dome' constructs over him in real time when the wall hits, trapping him inside.

The other two? John glances to Mary Jane and Gwen, nodding to them briefly, before he aims his ring, and yet another wall construct appears right in front of one of the men.

That trapped man? the dome prison snaps onto the ground for now.

"I go where I'm needed. Right now, that's helping with the evacuation." John casually mentions above.

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
MJ's eyes shift to Gwen when she's tugged protectively-- and /then/ the gun fires. Good instincts. Or maybe MJ was just too busy trying to quiet the blood lust that raged in her mind. As pleasant as she might sound, there was a certain tension in her features. The grip on her bag tightened as she muttered, beneath her breath, "He's got it. /Let/ him do it."

Of course, the Lantern technically only had one of the other men trapped behind that newly constructed wall, at the moment. The other was still running.

Glancing off to the side, MJ stoops to pick up a random iron pipe laying on the ground. She flips it once in her hand before over-hand hurling it at the remaining guy before he can turn the corner with a surprising force for a girl her size. It flips, end over end, before catching the guy in the back of the head and sending him sprawling. The pipe clatters to the ground.

"Happy?" she mutters, once more to herself. "I'll call it in," she finally announces, reaching into her bag to pull out a phone.

Gwen Stacy has posed:
There's a moment in which Gwen thinks that MJ is talking to her. About not intervening. "Yea, I --" but then she remembers. Red Sonja. Right. And why would MJ even think Gwen would *want* to face off against gun-using thugs? She doesn't know her secret, right? Right?!

And with the thugs now having been managed into small little domes, or piped to the ground it means that Gwen can relax a touch. "That's what you get for trying to rob defenseless young women in the street. Pipe to the head." defenseless. Right. "Have you tried football, MJ?" she teases her friend about that throw, hands resting on her hips.

A look up to Green Lantern and she nods a touch more seriously. "Your help is .., very welcome in the city. We have been doing what we can too. Is it going well?" A beat, "I mean, besides the occasional dead beat trying to take advantage of the chaos?"

John Stewart has posed:
As Mary Jane was about to throw that pipe, a green construct sniper rifle of human design appears in John's hands and he aims...

...just as the pipe lands true.

Taking his eye out of the scope, he gives a low whisle of appreciation, "nice throw." He side glances Mary Jane, before he aims his ring at the man who Mary Jane took down, grabbing him with a constructed fist, and drags him over to the dome, then the other.

Within moments, all three men are under a green dome, their weapons tossed to the side. Then, John lands in a graceful down motion, and looks at the two. This close, the two can see that that green glow in his eyes fills the entire socket of both eyes. As he lands, the sniper rifle disappears as if to dust. "It's going as well as can be expected." John tells them both, that green glow from his ring ever present, now that he's maintaining a dome prison behind himself. "John Stewart, Green Lantern Corps and officer for this sector." John introduces himself, "Normally I'm the one handling off-world matters, but as you can imagine, this invasion takes a bit of priority." John notes, dryly. "Do you two have somewhere to be? I can drop you off during my patrol."

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
"...it's a sport," MJ answers a question that wasn't asked. Not out loud, anyway, as her eyes shift back over to Gwen. "I feel like I'm being pulled enough directions, already, don't you? I'll stick with acting." She smiles ruefully at her friend and dips her hand into her purse to pull a phone out.

"Thanks," the redhead responds to John when he lands, smiling a little sheepishly. "Mary Jane Watson. SHIELD Agent. Off duty, at the moment. Or, I was supposed to be. We were on our way to grab a bite for dinner, but we can stick around."

With that, she presses a button on her phone and takes a step back from the pair of them so they can talk. "It's Agent Watson," she speaks into it. "I need NYPD dispatched to my location. Attempted armed robbery. Three perps... detained. One may need medical attention."