4848/Coney Island People Watching

Coney Island People Watching
Date of Scene:	07 July 2018
Location:	New York City
Synopsis:	Brooke takes Carrie Kelley to Coney Island to give her practice studying how people move. They encounter Kate Bishop and the team of pickpockets hunting her.
Cast of Characters:	Yin, Carrie Kelley, Hawkeye (Bishop), Scarlet Spider

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Yin has posed:
Brooke is in a dress and leggings, just another dark skinned middle class girl out with a friend. There was none of the torturous running to get here. She wants Carrie here without sweat.

The entire distance, she has been quizzing her on anatomy and dance theory. Blocking. Stage movement. And now we are at Coney Island on a Saturday, surrounded by people milling around and enjoying themselves. Carrie has a list of things to find. First, 'Find someone with one leg at least an inch longer than the other. Copy their walk.'

She smiles, "We're here. Where do you want to go first?"

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley was feeling remarkably better after a bit of rest from the constant training she'd been put under by Yin. For now she was enjoying the day out. She was wearing shorts herself, but with a white lace flowing shirt, and a longer lacework 'jacket' overtop. It wasn't hot with the amount of airflow in it, but it was at least going to keep her pale skin from getting burnt. The strappy heels she wears finishes it off.

Carrie looks to Yin seeming just a bit uncertain about it. "Not that I don't get the point of learning to mimic how othes move, but... It seems kind of like it'd be making fun of someone," she points out even as her eyes scan the crowd looking for someone to meet the requirement set for her.

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
Kate Bishop is here at Coney Island to enjoy a fun afternoon, then evening, then night. She is not having the fun that she had planned on having, because she's here alone, which was not the plan. Dressed for potentially humid summer weather in denim shorts and a tank top, and equipped with a handbag instead of a quiver, the archer stands by the cotton candy kiosk. Currently, she's trying to resist the temptation to text the guy who stood her up on this Tinder date that actually, she's got more than just an INTEREST in archery, and actually, she's fought HYDRA, and actually, maybe he should think twice about who he's screwing with here because actually, it's really easy to discreetly flatten someone's tires from a distance with arrows, and so on. She doesn't send these messages, mostly because she's not sure if he actually has a car. When she looks over and overhears two people passing by talking about 'mimicking how others move,' her face is probably more sour than she intended it to be.

Scarlet Spider has posed:
     Bored, webbing along on a quiet day, Ben decides to give his favorite relief for bordome a text "Hey ya red, able to walk yet? Made it back home?" he asks as he slips down an alley a few blocks from Coney Island to slip into his civvies...

Yin has posed:
Brooke raises an eyebrow. "Not if you do it right. Caricature is doing it wrong for a reason. You study theater. This part should be right down your alley." She acquires popcorn, plain and unsalted, and munches.

After a few seconds, she adds, "I'll find some more interesting things to look for soon anyways, I'm sure." She looks over the teeming masses with her eyes unfocused. "Oh good, we are in luck. Can you find who is picking pockets? Take your time to figure out how they are doing it." She idly pops some popcorn in her mouth, walking quietly without wasted energy.

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley rolls her neck to the side to work out a kink as she takes a deep breath, and sighs. "Oh, no, this is something I teach my own students, just... Usually not in public," she admits with a small grin of amusement. The buzz in her pocket has her hesitate before pulling her phone out to read her text. "Oh, Ben. Sorry, Brooke, just a second." A quick text is shot off.

<Spending some time at Coney Island with a friend.>

Carrie lowers the phone again with another purse of her lips as she looks up to scan around--Catching sight of the sourpuss looking Kate only to blink at finding her looking back. "Welp, so much for not looking suspicious," she mumbles.

Scarlet Spider has posed:
     "Ahh, what's his name?" comes the cheeky reply before he adds "Have fun, I'll not make you stare at your cell phone screen all the time." he says as he hears an alert in his ear piece of a car jacking a few blocks away. Duty calls and a few seconds later The Scarlet Spider is webbing away..

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
Kate and Carrie share a look for exactly one second. Then Kate looks away. She is probably feeling pretty aware of how weird it looks to be the only person not having fun at Coney Island. She is so lost in thought that someone bumps into her from behind and actually makes her stumble forward a step. "Ow! Hey! I mean, sorry. I mean, HEY! Get, GET BACK HERE!" The man who bumped into Kate from behind is now holding Kate's handbag, and is running toward as dense a crowd as he can see. Kate loudly gives chase.

Yin has posed:
Brooke huhs. "They don't make pickpockets like they used to." She tsks a bit, then joins the chase. She's sprinter fast. Kate is no doubt very fast too. Carrie is rested up and has been training for marathons and wind sprints, though her footwear choice might be a problem. The pickpocket is probably just a bit better than a couch potato. And Brooke has his biometrics memorized. This won't take long.

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley had begun to turn away from Kate when the bump occured, followed by the purse snatching. A step is taken intending to run as well when the weight of her footfall reminds her what she's wearing. Mentally cursing herself, but well aware that she wasn't expecting to go chasing down theives today, she hesitates. While Brooke and Kate start to give chase she bends her knee up to grab her heel pulling it off in a smooth motion. Barefoot on the warm concrete the motion is finished with her weight shifting forward to throw her heel at the fleeing man like a boomerang aiming for the back of his head.

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
The crook in question is probably more ready and able to evade pursuit than any hero present expected. There are two honest reasons to grab a person's purse in broad daylight: one is genuine stupidity, but two is confidence that you can get away with it. This man seems to fit into the latter category, as he weaves into a crowd to maximum efficiency.

Case in point: Kate's pursuit is blocked when the man cuts behind a woman pushing a stroller. Kate has to stop herself short to avoid running into the stroller headlong and possibly ending up headbutting a baby. He seems less aware of Brooke's pursuit, and even less aware of Carrie's, which plays out when a shoe strikes him directly in the ear. It's a spectacular, one in a billion throw, as the heel of the shoe actually hooks the entrance to his ear, like a brutal, awful Wet Willy. The man goes down.

Yin has posed:
Brooke races over, slipping between people and running up on the pickpocket. She takes a moment to kick her foot out, hooking the front wheel of the baby carriage and sending it flying, not even slowing down.

Because... There is no baby in it.

She pounces on the pickpocket, putting him in a wrist lock. "Hmmm, that was either stupid or targeted. The baby carriage wasn't stupid. I think we get to wait here and have a talk."

Carrie Kelley has posed:
The problem with losing one heel is that you're left with one leg longer than the other... Just like her original 'challenge'. Rather than risk breaking her ankle though she pulls off the other heel as she jogs along after them barefoot. Quietly, she's glad that one of the things she'd been learning was how to run barefoot because it made things so much easier with the hot concrete out currently. As she approaches the kicked aside stroller her attention shifts to the woman who had been pushing it with eyes narrowed suspiciously. Ah ha. "Looks like a pair working together, maybe more. Pickpocket ring?" She hazards as she approaches Brooke and the felled theif. Glancing at Kate she asks, "You okay?"

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
The purse-snatcher who personally snatched the purse is down for the count. Like many people who have a shoe thrown into their ear, he is unconscious. Bystanders are already doing what it is they do in these situations, looking for security or police, or just uploading a video of what just happened and themselves saying WORLD STAR! over it.

Kate approaches, looking even more sour than she did before. "I'm okay," she grumbles, and grabs her purse from the unconscious man. "I'm fine. Thanks for the assist. You should try out for the majors with that arm."

Yin has posed:
Brooke mmms. "Somebody should probably grab his partner before she gets away.." She frowns at him. "Stop struggling or you are going to end up having a hard time breathing. I don't want to have to resuscitate you on top of this."

She looks up at Kate brightly, giving her a brief once over with her eyes. "I'm sure I have seen you before.." Her eyes momentarily bounce over her arms and shoulders, before she glances back to see what her student is doing now.

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley hobbles closer to the pair, flashing a grin at Kate's remark. "I've been into that axe throwing fad that's been going on. I didn't realize I'd gotten strong enough to put so much 'oomph' behind my throw, though," she adds looking down toward the man Brooke was dealing with. Mention of the partner causes her to hmm? Quietly. "Oh, don't worry, she won't get far," she assures as she lifts up a blue snap wallet. "I got HER wallet off of her when she ran by me."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
Brooke is having an extremely easy time subduing this guy, because he has offered no resistance yet, other than bleeding from his ear. It's possible he will wake up into his current wrist lock, but he hasn't yet.

The partner has run off, but the wallet is in hand, and that makes Kate laugh. "Lemme see," she says, motioning that she'd like to check out the wallet. "I kinda do this for a living, usually. Maybe that's why I look familiar." She pauses for a moment, then asks Brooke, "Did you ever do a Youtube of you punching through an entire fridge?"

Yin has posed:
Brooke raises an eyebrow, just casually holding the guy waiting for security to bring cuffs. "So, what, are you just not reading the numbers on the weights when you lift them or something? Or is it more of an abstract thing?"

She shakes her head, "Oh, I don't do things like that. I'm just a practitioner that flails a little bit less than most people." And gets sent by ancient masters to check up on their students to make sure they aren't slipping or in trouble.

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley hands the wallet over to Kate without hesitation at the request. After all, she was the one getting robbed. Giving info to her might help the police assist later... But then she says she does this for a living. "Really? Are you a police officer?" Looking back to Brooke she answers super seriously by sticking her tongue out at her. "It's one thing to lift weights and another to throw something... Besides, shoes weigh a lot less." Lightly clearing her throat she shrugs. "I probably couldn't do it a second time."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
The wallet has the usual wallet things in it, mostly. "Private investigator," Kate replies, looking at Carrie. "And I'm between cases right now, so I have plenty of time to why is my photo in here?" Kate takes a little mini-polaroid photograph out of the wallet. It's of her, in the exact outfit she's wearing today. The picture must have been taken somewhere else, and without Kate being aware. "This wasn't just some random... oh. OH."

Kate reaches behind herself and pats her butt. That's what it looks like when she checks to see if her phone is still in her back pocket. It is not. "They weren't after my purse at all," she exhales. "Dammit. DAMMIT. Look, I'm a better P.I. than this whole situation kinda seems to show, really. Also, you look a lot like the woman who punched through a fridge, and I'd look it up and show you, except whoever these goony goons are, they organized a plan to take my phone." Kate rubs her sinuses like she's trying to quell a migraine.

Yin has posed:
Brooke nods, watching Kate, and then casually shrugs, unlocks her phone and hands it to her. "I'm sure you can trace your phone or something. Go ahead and do your investigator magic if you can, I think I can leave this guy for security now."

She rises, glances down, "Don't bother running, I turned your legs off for a few minutes." Smiles to the two of you, "Shall we? Maybe you can give her a few tips."

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley looks toward the picture procured from the wallet with a frown of concern. "That's pretty precise right there. Your phone?" Either it was a super fancy, expensive phone, or her contact list was impeccable. "What, do you have Tony Stark's home phone number in there or something?" When Brooke offers her own phone over she gives a nod of agreement. "Yeah, hopefully they didn't turn it off. You should be able to track it. I hope."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
Kate doesn't answer the question about whether or not she has Tony Stark's home phone number. She's busy, using one of those Find My Phone apps to try and Find Her Phone. "They turned it off," Kate grumbles after a minute or two. "Pinged around here and then nothing. I... yeah, they probably want my contacts. Or my messaging logs. Or my nudes. Or all of them, I don't know. Hey, can I keep this?" She holds the wallet. "I appreciate the help, and I should probably ask your names at some point, but I also want to go home and use whatever info I can get out of this wallet to absolutely crush these people like a boulder hitting a Pepsi can."

Yin has posed:
Brooke nods and hands over her business card for her acupressure massage and t'ai chi/hsing-i/bagua instruction services in Starling, Canada. "Well, this is me, and I get around. And this is my student. She's more local." She takes the phone and nods. "Sometimes I hit things too. Not a refrigerator though."

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley nods solemnly at the request to keep the wallet. "Of course. Not mine anyway, and if you're a PI you'll get more use out of it. Good luck getting your phone back." This is offered sincerely in spite of how it may sound; losing a phone did suck after all. "I'm Carrie," is offered simply with a little finger-waggling wave before she turns to scoop up her lost heel to start pulling them back on. "Don't have a card, but yeah you can probably find me through Brooke. And I'm totally going to look for that video now."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
Kate takes the card and tucks it into her safely recovered purse. "I'm Kate," she says. "Hawkeye Investigations in Brooklyn, if you ever need a hand with anything. Look, it's been fun, but I wanna get on this, fast. And the video is called something like 'woman punches through entire fridge' on Youtube. I mean, if you know what you're looking for, it's really easy to find. She looks just like your teacher. It's crazy. I'll see you guys sometime, probably, maybe."

Yin has posed:
Brooke waves. "I understand, go." No more words, just a smile and a dismissing 'Go, kick ass' shoo-ing gesture.

To Carrie, "And you get tell me what you saw about everybody's posture and muscle development. Then there's lots more people to check out.."

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley groans a little bit at that though she nods in agreement. She would have a lot to go over in her head, really. "Fine, fine. But can we grab a candy apple while here? I haven't had one in ages."

Yin has posed:
Brooke mmhs. "Of course you can grab a candy apple. Let me know if it's as awesome as you remember." They roam off to continue studying all the people they see..