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fardell24SpiderGirl thought about what the administrator had said as she made her way towards the wing she and Joey had been in earlier. She hadn’t heard about an Oakwood vigilante, but then she was focused on Lawndale.
She arrived at the corridor and heard one of the team interrogating the professor.
“…Osborn wants your cooperation. That is why we’re here.”
‘Is that for the PR?’ SpiderGirl wondered. She quickly checked her phone.
Talon: On my way, Spidey.
‘Sent a minute ago. I can’t wait.,’ SpiderGirl decided. She then shot a web up to the ceiling so as crawl into the room along there.
She quickly found that there were four of them there; two less than there were at the mound. ‘Probably waiting outside or on the roof,’ she thought. She then shot webs at two of them.
They quickly reacted.
“SpiderGirl! Stay out of this!”
“No! He doesn’t want you here, nor to work for Osborn!” SpiderGirl quipped as she webbed a third. However, one of the two she had already webbed managed to escape via some kind of liquid. ‘Something to dissolve the webs? What else has Osborn been working on?’ The two free agents grabbed the professor and ducked behind some equipment.
“You can’t stop us!” The first agent said, as he smashed the window.
SpiderGirl webbed the equipment out of the way, but the two were joined by the other two, and escaped with the professor. ‘They know my tactics,’ SpiderGirl realised as she went to the window.
But when she got to the window, there was a SpiderSense tingle! She jumped, and webbed herself to the ceilings. A figure in a cloak entered the room and looked around.
‘That must be the Oakwood Vigilante,’ SpiderGirl thought as she remained still. ‘But they are getting away with the professor!’
At the Story Oak, Larissa went over to where Joey was having his desert. “Where’s Quinn?” she asked.
“She went up for fresh air,” Joey answered.
“Up on the roof?”
“Yes. Often goes up to look over town from the Historia.”
“Sounds restful,” Larissa commented. “I’ll go up.”
“Go ahead.”
SpiderGirl carefully swung down to where the Oakwood vigilante was looking around the room after having looked at the webbed up agents.
The vigilante put herself (as SpiderGirl could tell she was a female) in a defensive stance.
“I’m SpiderGirl. I’m here to help.”
The vigilante remained silent and gestured to the agents.
“Yes. I webbed them up, but I couldn’t stop the other agents from taking the professor.””
The vigilante remained silent and pointed at SpiderGirl.
“What are you getting at? I tried. I don’t just say ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ as a motto. It is something I strive for and live by as I do what I do and say what I say! Osborn and those under him have been watching me and adapting to my tactics.”
The other vigilante was then in thought. She took out a pen and notepad.
‘Do you trust me?’
“I guess I’ll have to,” SpiderGirl answered. “Because the agents are getting away.”
‘Let’s go.’
“But why aren’t you talking?”
The other vigilante remained silent as she led the way out through the window.
Larissa emerged onto the Story Oak’s roof. Quinn wasn’t there. ‘Where did she go?’ she asked herself as she looked around. She noticed the flashing lights near the hospital.
‘I hope she hasn’t gone off over there, but there isn’t much I can do about that, but what to say to Joey?”
Joey had finished when he saw Larissa re-enter the café. “She wasn’t there?” he asked.
“No. She might have gone to the hospital, but that’s unlikely.”
“I’d agree if it was the old Quinn, but this new Quinn…”
“What do you mean?” Larissa asked.
“I’m sure you heard that Quinn and Daria lost their father late last year.”
“Yes. Quinn told me a few weeks ago.”
“The grief affected Quinn more than it has Daria. She actually saw what happened,” Joey explained.
“Oh! She didn’t say that.”
“Like, as you can imagine, it’s not something she likes to talk about. But it has changed her. More driven.”
Larissa then thought about that.
SpiderGirl and the silent vigilante followed the agents and the professor to an Oscorp office near the eastern edge of Oakwood. The lights were off.
‘Of course they are,’ SpiderGirl thought as she texted the location to Ninja Talon.
The other vigilante signed Was is that Ninja Talon you’re talking to?
SpiderGirl nodded and signed Yes. She was thankful that her limited studies of ASL so far allowed her to understand.
We’ll wait for her.
It wasn’t long before Ninja Talon arrived. “It’s just as well Lawndale’s quiet tonight,” she said to SpiderGirl. “Who’s this?” she added when she noticed the other vigilante.
“She’s Oakwood’s first hero,” SpiderGirl answered. “She may have been inspired by us.”
“But what is happening so far?” Ninja Talon asked in a focused tone.
SpiderGirl then quickly filled her in.
Ninja Talon thought about the situation. It seemed that they were in over their heads. ‘Kinda like when we were in Middlebury.’ But the situation was different. ‘What about the Shadow?’ she asked.
“I have no idea how to contact her,” SpiderGirl responded.
“Neither do I.”
SpiderGirl wrote something quickly and gave it to Ninja Talon.
Ninja Talon read it quickly.
I talked to Daria, so possibly Dafoanairi and the Enigma as well.
Ninja Talon nodded as she put it in a pocket.
The third vigilante then signed something.
“She’s asking if you know ASL,” SpiderGirl interpreted.
“I have started, but I didn’t catch anything, sorry,” Ninja Talon answered.
The third vigilante wrote something. ‘Ready to go in?’
SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon both nodded.
They quickly found their way to the roof.
‘This is going to be similar to the place between Lawndale and Middlebury,’ SpiderGirl though as the silent vigilante opened an HVAC vent.
The Oscorp facility was similar to the facilities in Lawndale that SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon had infiltrated before, much like an ordinary office. SpiderGirl listened as they crawled through the air vents. But the echoes in the vents confused her enhanced hearing, such that she couldn’t get much of a sense of the building. ‘I need to be out of the vents,’ she thought.
Soon, they dropped down in a deserted corner office.
“Any idea?” Ninja Talon asked.
“Not yet,” SpiderGirl said.
What? The silent vigilante signed.
“My powers include enhanced hearing,” SpiderGirl explained quietly.
I hadn’t heard about that.
“It’s not something that’s obvious compared to my other powers.”
Makes sense.
“He’s here, on this floor…” SpiderGirl said after half a minute.
“What else?” Ninja Talon asked.
“Oh, no!” SpiderGirl said. “Osborn is on a video connection. He’s deep into this.”
Then we need to intervene, the silent vigilante signed as she led point.
“Lead the way,” SpiderGirl said, sure that Ninja Talon understood.
“The First Nations people don’t understand what is there,” Osborn said, after he refused yet again.
“You won’t get away with this!”
“I have got away with plenty. I’m sure you’ve followed the news coming out of Lawndale over the past few weeks.”
“I have, but SpiderGirl and the others are onto you.”
“SpiderGirl will be dealt with in time, as will the others…”
Suddenly, there was an interruption, in the form of a tell-tale thwip! SpiderGirl swung in front of the video set up, followed by Ninja Talon on one of her grappling lines.
“SpiderGirl!” Osborn hissed. “I don’t know why you were at the mound, but this is too far!””
“You know that I have intervened as far as Middlebury,” SpiderGirl retorted.
Ninja Talon cut the professor free while SpiderGirl had Osborn distracted.
“Thanks,” he said.
“We have to go now,” Ninja Talon said.
SpiderGirl turned from where Osborn was still on the television. “You’ve got him?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“You won’t get a way with this!” Osborn said.
“We have a person you haven’t been spying on with us. That gives us an advantage we wouldn’t otherwise have,” SpiderGirl said before shooting a web over the camera lens and turning the TV off.
The silent vigilante rolled her eyes at SpiderGirl’s taunting of Osborn. Did you have to say that? she signed.
“That’s what I do,” SpiderGirl responded. “I quip at my opponents.”
“Yeah,” Ninja Talon agreed.
I’m sure you just riled Osborn up, the silent vigilante signed.
SpiderGirl shrugged. “It’s not like he’s going to change his mind if I’m nicer. I save the niceties for those I rescue.” She paused and looked towards Ninja Talon. “And my friends of course.”
‘That makes sense,’ the silent vigilante thought. ‘They are definitely friends.’
“But now we need to make ourselves scarce,” SpiderGirl said.
The professor had been waiting as the heroes talked. He couldn’t understand the silent vigilante’s ASL but he knew that she was impatient to get away.
SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon looked around. “We may need to use the vents again, but the coast is clear for now,” SpiderGirl said.
Ninja Talon nodded in agreement.
“Lead the way,” the professor said.
SpiderGirl knew that Osborn would have immediately directed security to apprehend them, but they had more than a chance. She and Talon quickly led the silent vigilante and the professor out into the open plan part of the office.
She arrived at the corridor and heard one of the team interrogating the professor.
“…Osborn wants your cooperation. That is why we’re here.”
‘Is that for the PR?’ SpiderGirl wondered. She quickly checked her phone.
Talon: On my way, Spidey.
‘Sent a minute ago. I can’t wait.,’ SpiderGirl decided. She then shot a web up to the ceiling so as crawl into the room along there.
She quickly found that there were four of them there; two less than there were at the mound. ‘Probably waiting outside or on the roof,’ she thought. She then shot webs at two of them.
They quickly reacted.
“SpiderGirl! Stay out of this!”
“No! He doesn’t want you here, nor to work for Osborn!” SpiderGirl quipped as she webbed a third. However, one of the two she had already webbed managed to escape via some kind of liquid. ‘Something to dissolve the webs? What else has Osborn been working on?’ The two free agents grabbed the professor and ducked behind some equipment.
“You can’t stop us!” The first agent said, as he smashed the window.
SpiderGirl webbed the equipment out of the way, but the two were joined by the other two, and escaped with the professor. ‘They know my tactics,’ SpiderGirl realised as she went to the window.
But when she got to the window, there was a SpiderSense tingle! She jumped, and webbed herself to the ceilings. A figure in a cloak entered the room and looked around.
‘That must be the Oakwood Vigilante,’ SpiderGirl thought as she remained still. ‘But they are getting away with the professor!’
At the Story Oak, Larissa went over to where Joey was having his desert. “Where’s Quinn?” she asked.
“She went up for fresh air,” Joey answered.
“Up on the roof?”
“Yes. Often goes up to look over town from the Historia.”
“Sounds restful,” Larissa commented. “I’ll go up.”
“Go ahead.”
SpiderGirl carefully swung down to where the Oakwood vigilante was looking around the room after having looked at the webbed up agents.
The vigilante put herself (as SpiderGirl could tell she was a female) in a defensive stance.
“I’m SpiderGirl. I’m here to help.”
The vigilante remained silent and gestured to the agents.
“Yes. I webbed them up, but I couldn’t stop the other agents from taking the professor.””
The vigilante remained silent and pointed at SpiderGirl.
“What are you getting at? I tried. I don’t just say ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ as a motto. It is something I strive for and live by as I do what I do and say what I say! Osborn and those under him have been watching me and adapting to my tactics.”
The other vigilante was then in thought. She took out a pen and notepad.
‘Do you trust me?’
“I guess I’ll have to,” SpiderGirl answered. “Because the agents are getting away.”
‘Let’s go.’
“But why aren’t you talking?”
The other vigilante remained silent as she led the way out through the window.
Larissa emerged onto the Story Oak’s roof. Quinn wasn’t there. ‘Where did she go?’ she asked herself as she looked around. She noticed the flashing lights near the hospital.
‘I hope she hasn’t gone off over there, but there isn’t much I can do about that, but what to say to Joey?”
Joey had finished when he saw Larissa re-enter the café. “She wasn’t there?” he asked.
“No. She might have gone to the hospital, but that’s unlikely.”
“I’d agree if it was the old Quinn, but this new Quinn…”
“What do you mean?” Larissa asked.
“I’m sure you heard that Quinn and Daria lost their father late last year.”
“Yes. Quinn told me a few weeks ago.”
“The grief affected Quinn more than it has Daria. She actually saw what happened,” Joey explained.
“Oh! She didn’t say that.”
“Like, as you can imagine, it’s not something she likes to talk about. But it has changed her. More driven.”
Larissa then thought about that.
SpiderGirl and the silent vigilante followed the agents and the professor to an Oscorp office near the eastern edge of Oakwood. The lights were off.
‘Of course they are,’ SpiderGirl thought as she texted the location to Ninja Talon.
The other vigilante signed Was is that Ninja Talon you’re talking to?
SpiderGirl nodded and signed Yes. She was thankful that her limited studies of ASL so far allowed her to understand.
We’ll wait for her.
It wasn’t long before Ninja Talon arrived. “It’s just as well Lawndale’s quiet tonight,” she said to SpiderGirl. “Who’s this?” she added when she noticed the other vigilante.
“She’s Oakwood’s first hero,” SpiderGirl answered. “She may have been inspired by us.”
“But what is happening so far?” Ninja Talon asked in a focused tone.
SpiderGirl then quickly filled her in.
Ninja Talon thought about the situation. It seemed that they were in over their heads. ‘Kinda like when we were in Middlebury.’ But the situation was different. ‘What about the Shadow?’ she asked.
“I have no idea how to contact her,” SpiderGirl responded.
“Neither do I.”
SpiderGirl wrote something quickly and gave it to Ninja Talon.
Ninja Talon read it quickly.
I talked to Daria, so possibly Dafoanairi and the Enigma as well.
Ninja Talon nodded as she put it in a pocket.
The third vigilante then signed something.
“She’s asking if you know ASL,” SpiderGirl interpreted.
“I have started, but I didn’t catch anything, sorry,” Ninja Talon answered.
The third vigilante wrote something. ‘Ready to go in?’
SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon both nodded.
They quickly found their way to the roof.
‘This is going to be similar to the place between Lawndale and Middlebury,’ SpiderGirl though as the silent vigilante opened an HVAC vent.
The Oscorp facility was similar to the facilities in Lawndale that SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon had infiltrated before, much like an ordinary office. SpiderGirl listened as they crawled through the air vents. But the echoes in the vents confused her enhanced hearing, such that she couldn’t get much of a sense of the building. ‘I need to be out of the vents,’ she thought.
Soon, they dropped down in a deserted corner office.
“Any idea?” Ninja Talon asked.
“Not yet,” SpiderGirl said.
What? The silent vigilante signed.
“My powers include enhanced hearing,” SpiderGirl explained quietly.
I hadn’t heard about that.
“It’s not something that’s obvious compared to my other powers.”
Makes sense.
“He’s here, on this floor…” SpiderGirl said after half a minute.
“What else?” Ninja Talon asked.
“Oh, no!” SpiderGirl said. “Osborn is on a video connection. He’s deep into this.”
Then we need to intervene, the silent vigilante signed as she led point.
“Lead the way,” SpiderGirl said, sure that Ninja Talon understood.
“The First Nations people don’t understand what is there,” Osborn said, after he refused yet again.
“You won’t get away with this!”
“I have got away with plenty. I’m sure you’ve followed the news coming out of Lawndale over the past few weeks.”
“I have, but SpiderGirl and the others are onto you.”
“SpiderGirl will be dealt with in time, as will the others…”
Suddenly, there was an interruption, in the form of a tell-tale thwip! SpiderGirl swung in front of the video set up, followed by Ninja Talon on one of her grappling lines.
“SpiderGirl!” Osborn hissed. “I don’t know why you were at the mound, but this is too far!””
“You know that I have intervened as far as Middlebury,” SpiderGirl retorted.
Ninja Talon cut the professor free while SpiderGirl had Osborn distracted.
“Thanks,” he said.
“We have to go now,” Ninja Talon said.
SpiderGirl turned from where Osborn was still on the television. “You’ve got him?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“You won’t get a way with this!” Osborn said.
“We have a person you haven’t been spying on with us. That gives us an advantage we wouldn’t otherwise have,” SpiderGirl said before shooting a web over the camera lens and turning the TV off.
The silent vigilante rolled her eyes at SpiderGirl’s taunting of Osborn. Did you have to say that? she signed.
“That’s what I do,” SpiderGirl responded. “I quip at my opponents.”
“Yeah,” Ninja Talon agreed.
I’m sure you just riled Osborn up, the silent vigilante signed.
SpiderGirl shrugged. “It’s not like he’s going to change his mind if I’m nicer. I save the niceties for those I rescue.” She paused and looked towards Ninja Talon. “And my friends of course.”
‘That makes sense,’ the silent vigilante thought. ‘They are definitely friends.’
“But now we need to make ourselves scarce,” SpiderGirl said.
The professor had been waiting as the heroes talked. He couldn’t understand the silent vigilante’s ASL but he knew that she was impatient to get away.
SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon looked around. “We may need to use the vents again, but the coast is clear for now,” SpiderGirl said.
Ninja Talon nodded in agreement.
“Lead the way,” the professor said.
SpiderGirl knew that Osborn would have immediately directed security to apprehend them, but they had more than a chance. She and Talon quickly led the silent vigilante and the professor out into the open plan part of the office.
