7313/Put a Ring On It

Put a Ring On It
Date of Scene:	24 April 2019
Location:	Midtown Manhattan
Synopsis:	Nadia, Rift, and Gwen foil THE RINGER. It was more impressive than it sounds.
Cast of Characters:	Ghost Spider, Wasp (Pym), Rift

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Ghost Spider has posed:
New York City, New York.

Mid-Town to be specific.

The late afternoon / early evening rush as everyone gets out of work has begun.

Many stores closing with the offices they cater to. Other businesses opening for the night and evening activities.

Gwen is tired. Very tired. She has been juggling a whole lot of stuff in her life for the last couple months. Work. Her Drumming. Some side gigs modeling. Getting bitten by a radioactive spider at work and getting crazy spider powers like Spider-man.

Yup. Crazy Spider Powers.

Deciding to become a superhero and help the people of New York like he does.

Making a costume and her own web shooters.

So yeah Gwen is tired. Which is why she is in a Starkbucks getting a large coffee and a snack. Minding her own business really when two things happen. Her spider-sense tingles which causes her to drop her coffee spilling it everywhere and then there is an explosion out front on the street that shatters the coffee establishments front window. "Crap." and Gwen looks out the window.

Out on the street is an armored car, there picking up the nightly deposits from some of those closing businesses. The front engine block has been blown up and it has been disabled by a guy in a green and red suit who totally just chucked what looked like a hula hoop at the armored car and blew up the engine block.

Yeah it is The Ringer. Definitely not A-List Villainy but Villainy all the same.

This is enough to cause Gwen to run admist the chaos out the back of the coffee shop and try to find a place to change. Crap Crap. Never done this outside practice.

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
It's only been a short time since Nadia Pym turned up in America and most of her time in country so far has been endless Government offices and tedious paperwork. While her one little sightseeing expedition ended up with an unexpected run into the Joker while being followed by low level Red Room agents.

Perhaps it's to be expected that this time, despite just being out to explore and perhaps find some exciting new foods to experience, she's brought her costume along with her.

And while she might not have a clue who The Ringer is, Secret Siberian bunker facilities not being the sort of places known for being up-to-date on current events, she's alert enough to already be shrinking to microscopic size as the armoured car explodes.

When she seemingly re-appears moments later it's in full costume. Her insect styled mechanical wings flaring into life to lift her a few feet above the crowd.

Rift has posed:
High up on one of the skyscrapers (around the 10th floor), a red flare of light can be seen - a portal is there, oriented against the wall aimed down toward street level. If one would look through it, grass and the edge of a forest can be seen. A young woman walks out of it, walking down the wall of the skyscraper like it's the ground - glowing with an eerie and menacing red light. She hmmmms softly as she looks around as she descends towards the ground, the portal closing behind her. She starts looking around, seeing if anyone's watching, before she quickly drops to the ground.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen does not have the whole costume change down flawlessly yet. She burst from the back of the coffee shop, more agile and faster than anyone else headed that way. There is a quick look to make sure no one is in the alley yet and then she leaps up and scales the building really fast, already pulling her costumes hood over her head.

Yes she is a giant dork who wore it under her work clothes.

She finishes the change now running across the roof and stuffs her light jacket, top, pants and shows into her bag and tosses it onto a corner of the roof before hopping up for an aerial view now.

"There has to be a better way to do this.... they make it look so easy..." and she hops down onto a street light, her white black and pinkish red costume standing out.

Not that the Ringer has noticed yet.

Down below the guy in the suit flings rings from both hands at the armored truck guards trying to pull out their guns. They actually expand and then snap to contract around both the guards binding hem up right even as The Ringer heads back now towards the armored car doors in the back.

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
From her vantage point in the air Nadia doesn't have to look hard to see the robbery in progress. Or indeed the arrival of another costumed figure hopping around. She flitters forward at a sprinting pace, trying to get between the crowd and the unfolding battle.

"Excuse me!" She shouts over the noise of the crowd with a hint of a Russian accent. "But I am going to have to ask you to please stop robbing that truck. It is putting people in danger."

One of her arms is raised and a blast of laser energy is fired into the ground between the back of the truck and The Ringer. The warning shot sends up a little cloud of smoke and a scatter of smoldering hot road surface.

"Otherwise I shall be forced to... what is the phrase.. Oh! I shall beat you up."

Rift has posed:
Rift hears a commotion. Oh great. A robbery. Bad luck that Rift is there. She kicks off the building and floats there. And then stays floating twenty feet in midair - apparently upside-down - her head aimed at the ground, feet straight toward the sky, looking 'up' at the truck. (Though her long hair is staying on her shoulders, as if it's defying gravity.) A red circle of light forms around the truck, the would-be robber inside it. "Okay. Enough." The circle of light suddenly flares brightly with light, as the truck would audibly groan as it's suddenly very heavy. Everything inside that circle of light would be experiencing heavy gravity - five g's. She slowly ascends (down) toward the ground - hoping that in her focus to stop the violence she didn't snare any heroes in her field.

Ghost Spider has posed:
"Uh.. shoot." when Nadia just takes control of the situation. I mean Gwen was up on that lightpole trying to psyche herself up into saying something quippy and basically doing exactly what Nadia just did. Definitely must be more experienced, look at her giving warnings and telling The Ringer to stop.

The Ringer starts to turn and there is a ring in both of his hands, they just sort of fold off his suit as he moves. One of them manages to be hurled at Nadia with pretty precise aim...

The second ring though never makes it out of the radius of Rifts power even as it is started to be thrown. The Ringer, the Truck, and his ring end up on the pavement, which is when the ring goes off and coats the ground everywhere in ice around the truck.

Which yes the ring flying at Nadia will freeze her or whatever it hits done good.

"Oh snap..." is what comes out Gwen's mouth and then she realizes that the two guards are also being crushed between 5Gs and the pavement as they are caught in the rings still.

THWWWWIP from both her web shooters and she ice skates them out of the radius of the gravity effect there. "Are you both good guys and not with him?" pause "I hope you are both good guys."

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Thanks to the nature inspired insect wing design Nadia is remarkably agile in the air. Fast too. And worst of all? Even as The Ringer is releasing the ice ring from his hand she's shrinking down to insect size and darting out the way. So the ring sails through the air and smashes into the side of the coffee shop. Freezing a person sized patch of wall.

The tiny size Nadia loops and twirls through the air, taking evasing maneuvers to make it harder to aim further attacks her way, and staying well away from that increased gravity circle.

All the while unleashing a barrage of stinging laser blasts. At her diminutive size they're far too weak to cause lasting damage to a grown adult. But that doesn't mean they aren't painful and /extremely/ annoying.

"I am not with him!" She helpfully shouts. Although it's hard to get her voice to carry far at this size. "My name is Nadia, it's very nice to meet you!" There is a moments pause and then she adds "And to witness this /fascinating/ gravity phenomenon."

Rift has posed:
Rift just watches as she remains in her current position, staring 'up' at the grouind. She gestures, as the circle of light collapses on the Ringer, only trapping him in gravity. "No. I don't like robbers. I want to be a hero." She smiles widely. "You can call me Rift." She descends all the way to the ground, until the crown of her head is an inch above, then gracefully inverts herself and finally steps down, right-side-up (to everyone else's orientation) again. At close range, she looks particularly eerie - glowing dull red, partially translucent, with bright glowing red lights visible inside her arms, legs, chest, and head. "What is your name, and why are you doing this?" she asks, talking to the Ringer who woudl find gravity even STRONGER now that the field is smaller. "Trying to do a robbery in a city of superheroes is probably a bad idea." She glances at Gwen, eyes wide. "Oooo, one of the Spiders." She hmmmms softly as she glances at the guards. "Sorry, guys - I cast a wide net at first to control the situation." She returns her focus on the bad guy who's probably strugglign just to stand.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Relief. That is what Gwen feels when the other two young women confirm that they aren't with the guy robbing the armored car. "Great, I have no idea how you." snap points at Rift "Are doing the gravity thing aand you" points at Nadia "Look kind of like the Wasp but new costume maybe.. so yeah glad we aren't going to mix it up."

With that Gwen leaps down to land by the guards and crouches trying to get her hand under the ring on the first one and she manages to pop it breaking it, considerable strength, and then she moves to free the second one.

The Ringer yelps and can't get away from Nadia's much more mild blasts when she is shrunk and then the gravity shrinks and he cries out in alarm. "I .. I'm doing a job.. my name is the .. Ringer..." god he has a bad costume, trick, and name. "Just.. arrest me stop.. crushing me!"

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Reverting to normal size in a blink of the eye it seems Nadia Pym is far too young to be the actual Wasp. Although her costume has obviously taken design influences from those worn by well known size changing Avengers. She also stops shooting the moment it's clear The Ringer is no longer a threat to anyone and indeed may need some medical attention of his own.

"And I have far /too many/ ideas about what she might be doing. I wonder if I have any gravitational scanning equipment in my pockets..." She flashes an earnest smile at Rift. "I would love to run some non-invasive tests on you some time. If you would be willing." And then she spots the weird spider silk that Gwen had been shooting. "And can I take some samples of that adhesive? Is it organic? How are you applying it?" She pauses long enough to take a breath. "Is everywhere in this country always this exciting?"

At some point in her stream of questions she's dig around in her pockets and produced a full set of police grade restraints and a first aid kit. Neither of which should have been able to fit inside the pockets they came out of.

Rift has posed:
Rift nods as she takes the cuffs from Nadia. She then cuffs the Ringer and steps back. And then - the aura disappears, as for a moment, no gravity powers are being used. "Phew - haven't used that ability in a while. Hard to find use for that in college." She hmmmms softly. "So... the situation is contained, right? I'm famished." An audible gurgle comes from Rift's stomach. "And... maybe? I do enjoy researching my own abilities. I even became a physics major."

Ghost Spider has posed:
The Ringer gulps several lungs full of air and a sigh of relief. "Thanks" for being arrested, nah probably for the crushing gravity to finally stop. Also not being shot at right now.

"I um..." the question about her webbing. "That seems awfully personal. But yes it is organic. Also I don't think we should have this conversation next to the villain." with that Gwen lifts a hand and thwwwwips the Ringer to the cement, webbing him down even if he is cuffed.

The Ringer "AWwww come on!"

Gwen .. may or may not be appologetic, the mask makes it impossible to read her expression really. "Maybe carry on the conversation up there?" and with that she points up and thwips and tugs leaping up to the nearby building and scaling to the roof where her bag is.

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
"Oh you do? That /is/ interesting. I am a theoretical physics student myself," Nadia replies eagerly, also digging in her pockets and pulling out a box of Russian military issue ration bars that may well date from the Cold War. "If you're hungry these have a very high calorie content. Although they are not the best tasting."

Now that she's standing still and not tiny size it's pretty clear Nadia is a little young to be in college. And from her accent new enough in the country she probably shouldn't be wandering the city by herself at this time of night.

"If you require first Aid Mister The Ringer I will..." And then he gets glued to the floor and earnestly she adds "Be unable to provide it. Sorry."

Her wings fire back into life and she flits up to the rooftop. "I did not mean take a sample of it directly /from you/. Just some that was attached to one of the guards and was no longer required. I haven't been able to do any proper science in weeks!"

Rift has posed:
Rift ponders as she simply kicks up off the floor and 'falls' up towards the roof, stopping when she gets there and mostly gracefully lands there. "So - now that the combat's over - re-introductions? I go by Rift." She smiles as she sits crosslegged, floatnig a foot off the ground.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen is grabbing her backpack and slings it over one shoulder, it looks fairly expensive, designer even.

"I .. I don't make it like out of my .." she stops a moment and looks to Rift. "Spider.." trailing off and letting it hang for a very long moment. "Ghost Spider." she finally says, it is better than Spider Woman seeing how there is already a Spider Woman, isn't she an Avenger or something. Sigh.

"Ghost spider." she repeats and then looks to Nadia. "I don't spin webs out of ny hands from body fluid or anything.. gross." peeling back a glove she reveals a wrist device. "It uses organic compounds though, and breaks down harmlessly after a while."

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Nadia Pym doesn't seem to be able to decide which of the two wonderous people to focus her attention on. Her eyes darting around as if she's trying to commit every detail to memory for later contemplation. "My name is Nadia. Nadia Pym. I uhm. Don't really have a codename. I'm not even really supposed to be fighting crime really," she admits. "But I couldn't let people get hurt. Even if it does mean I might get in trouble."

She leaves one of the ration bars down on the roof infront of Rift. On the off chance she decides she wants one. And if not? Well it's no great loss if it stays up here.

"I wouldn't have found it unpleasant if you /did/ generate them naturally. The biological changes you would need to make for such a power would be ground breaking. And genetic engineering is... sort of my dual major. Except I do not actually go to any schools and... I do not mean to be rude. It's just this is all so very exciting! My first time speaking to actual superheroes."

Rift has posed:
Rift just blinks. "Pym?" she asks, staring. "As in... Hank Pym?" She widens her eyes. "Are you... his daughter or something? That's SO COOL! I think he wrote like two of my textbooks and I'm just in the first year." She nods slowly. "Well... I had my fun today. I want to show the X-Men that I can do good." She sighs. "I... I know I look kinda creepy like this. But... it serves very well as my costume, my aura of power."

Ghost Spider has posed:
"This is ..well okay not true I have talked to Spider-man before but not really went I was fighting crime. This is my second time also talking to superheros." she rolls a shrug and hops up to perch on the HVAC unit, crouching and watching you both.

""BioChemesty and Genetics .. Masters." pauses a moment "Working on my PHD actually, well I will be working on my PHD once my life is less crazy. Which honestly the way things are going I don't know when that might happen you know... and now I am rambling. It was great meeting you both." she salutes somewhat glibly.

"Your gear looks cool." to both of them.

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Nadia Pym shakes her head emphatically. "You don't look creepy at all," she assures with the confidence of a dedicated optimist. "Besides it's what is in here and here that matters." She gestures to her head and her heart in turn. "Yes, well. I am but.." She frowns. "I didn't grow up with him. It is very... complicated? That is the word yes?"

She almost hops with delight at hearing Ghost Spider is also a science student. "I would love to learn more about your research sometime! If that would be okay. I.. would give you my cellphone number but I do not know if that is... wise. As you have a mask on."

The younger teen takes a moment to peer over the edge of the roof. Making sure no-one else is taking advantage of the confusion to do bad things. "At some point I will need to tinker with my genetic code again.. But first I will need to find a place to build myself a laboratory." She sighs. "But for now I should probably go. They will probably have identified me from the police radio broadcasts." A brief flash of annoyance crosses her expression. "If either of you see any suspicious Russians who might be spies you didn't see me. Okay?"

And with that rather odd comment hanging in the air she offers a friendly wave and then her wings flare into life and she flits away.

Rift has posed:
Rift nods. "Well - I should get home. They might start worrying about me." She then smiles as a portal tears open in front of her. It seems to lead into a forest - as if she doesn't want anyone looking through and seeing where she's going. "See you later, Ghost Spider and Ms. Pym." She then waves and steps through, the portal closing behind her.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Which leaves Gwen alone on the roof. Well she figures she is alone, Nadia has already demonstrated getting really, really small.

"I am going to chalk this up in the win category though. Bad guy subdued. Good superheros met. Didn't fall flat on my face or hurt anyone. Definitely a home team win fist time out in the field .. I should stop before I really mix up some metaphors." hopping down from the HVAC and jogs along towards the opposite way Nadia went and THWIP... is swinging away from the rooftop into the night.