10626/Menacing Flatbush with the Rhino

Menacing Flatbush with the Rhino
Date of Scene:	03 January 2020
Location:	Flatbush, Brooklyn
Synopsis:	Pete and Gwen ramble on about heroing, villains, feeling old, and weddings. Oh and they destroyed part of flatbush fighting the Rhino.
Cast of Characters:	Ghost Spider, Spider-Man

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Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen is perched on the top of the Fisk Foundation Centre looking down at the devastation below.

Fire hydrants trampled and shooting water high into the air. Vehicles tossed around like matchbox cars. Asphalt gouged and torn up. Storefronts shattered. Thankfully no pedestrations trampled this time. Spider Webs god damned everywhere.

Nowhere more so than the pile holding down, hopefully, a currently unconcious Rhino in the middle of an intersection while the crew from The Raft start to work to detain and take his idiot self into custody.

Also a bunch of media crews already filming and reporting.

Gwen's costume looks damaged, ripped despite being reinforced and resistant to knives. She has her mask rolled up and is carefully checking a tooth to make sure it isn't loose getting blood on her fingers from a bloody lip. "You know the worst part is .. somehow Rhino trying too roph.. " pause "Rob... that convey of trucks shipping god knows what was hith.." pause "His target... is going to be our fault...."

"Wait... is that plumbing shop named Mario Brothers?" way to stay focused Gwen.

Spider-Man has posed:
Spider-Man is perched beside Gwen, knees bent, costume torn nearly to shreads across his chest and the dangling portion of his mask where he's nearly caught a horn to the throat.. He's got his hands down on the railing upon which he's perched, surveying the damage of their impromptu battle with the Rhino...

"You get use to it..." He says matter of factly. Nine years into this career and he's just about accepted the fact that no matter how good he does, JJJ is going to bend him over hte coals for it.

Pointing out the plumbing shop, Spidey scans down across the store fronts, "Whi- well look't that..." He murmurs amusedly, settling back until his butt is almost touching the trailing with his knees still bent and arched backed, "Imma sorry, but your villian issa in another castle!"

Ghost Spider has posed:
Isn't that Rake.... then again with JJJ and the Bugle maybe it is bending over the coals.

"Your victory is in another castle... your good press is in another castle..." she is just quietly musing as she aches everywhere.

Still they should stick around now to make sure that Rhino doesn't wake up, get free of the webs, and the RAFT crew and rampage more.

"I really hate that guy." she pauses and clarifies spitting some blood onto the roof top. "I really hate Jameson... though I am still at a loss why he hates you and therefore us other spiders so much. Did you kick his dog .. or web it to a bus out of town or something?"

Spider-Man has posed:
Maybe it's rake, who knows. Spidey Doesn't. He probably should though, literary stuff being the majority of his free time, but whatever, bend... rake.. roll.. the jist is covered.

"I'd say princess, but I don't know that Peach ever spit a mouthful of blood on a roof... she may have though, 2027 ... wait is it 2028 now?" Definitely something he should know. The future is weird.

"Nevermind." Shrugging, settling down a little lower as they wait out to make sure Rhino is properly taken into custody, "I legit have no idea... I was just a kid when he started busting my ass all over the bugle... Probably figured that when I showed up, so did all these super villains, which was entirely a coincidence because I don't have a super villain research lab where we churn out crappy villains with equally cliche animal themed monikers hidden under my aunts house."

Ghost Spider has posed:
"We are three days into the wonderful year 2028... which is probably why I feel so old right now. I mean it is that or the fact an asshole in a Rhino suit head butted me through a minivan ...." she wobbles her hand "Honestly really hard to say for sure..."

"Though really you do have to wonder.... did the villains up their game and enhance themselves or get enhancements..or tech... because superheroes popped up.. or the other way around..."

"I mean really... did Batman come first or that psychoclown and crew of Gotham rejects... which frankly I will take our animal themed menagerie any day over those psychos in Gotham..."

Spider-Man has posed:
"Being rhino-butted through a minivan definitely has a way of putting things into perspective." Spidey agrees, he manages his own injuries with a grain of salt.. it's part of the big show. It hurts, sure, he'll deal with it when he gets home and his ribs don't set right which means rebreaking them, and Kitty giving him that stare she gives him when he leave bloody bandages in the bathroom trashcan, but...

It's life in the spideyverse.

"I've considered that.. about villains enhancing themselves, not Gotham. Gotham is special. It was always a big bowl of shit crackers, Silk moved out there..." Shaking his head slowly, arms dangling now across his bent knees, "I would never move to Jersey."

That's the worst part.

"But to answer your question, I think it's a classic case of escalation. Good guys get a dude with webslingers, badguys need a seventy five year old cancer patient wearing mechanical vulture wings..." Hands up like scales, teetering up and down into balance.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen slumps back to sit, still keeping half an eye on the Raft crew using a crane truck to pivot Rhino into a containment truck.

"Hit him in the head a few times helping him into the truck!" she calls mildly, not realy loud enough to be heard down there but it makes her feel better.

"You really think the Vulture is a sign of classic escalation.. I mean.. I was more thinging the Goblins.. Hob and Green.. Scorpian.. Rhino... I mean Vulture seems like such a flukee... who does that... I'ma coming out of villain retirement and going to make myself wings and fly around like an idiot..."

She shakes her head.

"So how is Kitty and your pet dragon?"

Spider-Man has posed:
"Vulture did it." Spidey says with a bouncing shoulder shrug, "But I'll admit I picked one of the more absurd rogues from the gallery." Grinning, visible through the tattered bottom of his mask when he looks over towards Gwen.

"Goblins.. I haven't seen them around for a while, if I'm being honest. Neither of them... curious." Looking back down towards the Raft agents working Rhino into containment. "I wonder if they've finally caught on?" Doubtfuuuuul...

"Good.. really good. She moved in. We got a dog? Jester... Golden Retriever." Nodding, fingers wiggling, it almost seems odd to talk to casually about normal life while still in costume, "We're probably going to get married... I kind of, maybe, asked her."

Ghost Spider has posed:
"Well at least one of us is having luck on that front I suppose." she stares down at the scene. "I'm happy for you." she sounds like she means it though. "How does the dragon deal with the dog... do they get along.. does he ride the dog around likee that fox in that old movie..."

She fishes a bit "The Henson one... with the goblins..." squint "Labrynthe?"

Spider-Man has posed:
"You're talking about Ambrosias and Sir Ditimus and that was Labrynthe yes." Peter says with a smirk, side glancing at Gwen. "You'll find someone.. You'd be an amazing catch, Gwen." Reaching over to squeeze her shoulder.

"Obviously, you've got to be my best lady?"

Ghost Spider has posed:
"Obviously.. I mean what.. me or Harry and I haven't seen him around in a while." she smirks though, blood on her chin and all.

"Okay the RAFT stooges have him in the transport.. I'ma swing home and get a shower and a drink. We should get together next week for lunch sometime and talk about normal stuff like weddings and life and all... maybe a man dressed as a cat or a badger won't leap through the restaraunt window at us even..."

She stands and stretches popping her back. "God damnit...."