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"I been giving myself some alone time, Spidey," commented Elisabeth as she helped the young girl to her feet.

"Hey, are you okay? It's alright, I won't hurt you."
Elisabeth made sure her voice was as serene as raindrops falling into an open lake. She glanced at the girl a bit, making sure no serious injuries took place. She saw nothing as far as the eyes could see. The small silence told Elisabeth that the girl was either too scared to talk or too worried over what to say. What can you say in a situation like this? I am fine, goodbye?

"I saw you the other day; someone was following you." No response at that moment. "I am sorry, where are my manners. My name is Elisabeth Braddock, but my friends call me 'Betsy'. What's your name?"

"Traci, that's a nice name."

Elisabeth smiled at the girl. It was sincere. No strings attached, just a simple genuine smile. Elisabeth remembered Spiderman still standing there. She smiled at him as well. She was pretty sure he would say something witty about her lack of proper communication or something. She couldn't help but giggle a bit at that thought.

“It’s okay, your safe, Traci.”

Zero saw Spidey swing quickly out of sight as he left the laundry place. He threw his bag over his shoulder and stepped around the side of the building, into a tightt, dimly lit alley, there wasn't a big enough shadow nearby to 'port from.

He jogged to the other end and ran across the open street, turing his eyes skyward every now and then trying to spot Spider-man. He found another small alley across the street, it was occupied, he couldn't risk being spotted.

As he turned the next corner he bent light around himself and became invisible, he doubled back and headed directly for a dark corner, as he stepped into the shadows he saw the darkness rise around him. He stopped briefly to put his costume on, and started looking for a rooftop exit.

"Damndamndamndamndamndamn..." he chanted as he streaked between shadowy portals, and then he saw one, he ran back to it and ran straight through, still invisible and intangible to boot.

Which was a good thing, the Green Goblin stood only a few feet from him. He'd never really tried this before, but he'd seen this Vision do it in a news report once, and he had pretty good control over his density.

He picked one of his test bombs from their canister and smashed it, with a barely tangible hand, against the wall. Thankfully the bang didn't really affect his ghostly ear drums, and the lenses of his mask drained most of the flash, he became solid as he shoved his body towards teh Goblin, slamming him against the wall, turning back to intangibility as the Goblin swung a clawed hand behind him, Zero reached into his chest, and let his fingertips regain some of their form. The Goblin tensed up, and then went limp, dropping to the floor at Zero's feet.

Zero, along with Spidey, was slammed back by the mini-splosion.

"Awwww, crapola!" the big daddy bomb had started ticking... "The mini explosion was probably a way of making sure it went boom, maybe the shockwave from it set off some kind of trigger?" "We gotta get it out of here." said Spidey, taking it in his arms and rising to his feet.

Zero swiped it from his grasp, "I can turn intangible, it won't touch me, you'll die." He lifted off and flew in a tight arc over the city, keeping his eye on the timer, he had less than 8 seconds...

He rose above the skyline and further, he started to feel the cold of the high altitude, his nose started to bleed, he was accelerating far too quickly.

5 seconds...

His vision started to blur, mostly because of the speed. He had passed into nigh unbreatheable air. He turned semi-incorporeal, still keeping his hands solid, to hold the bomb, and kept rising.

Then he stopped, very suddenly, in a way that made him see stars. He hadn't been as intangible as he'd thought. He dropped from the sky, surrounded by flames. He was still dazed from the fast flying, he was lucky he still had a head after that boom, he'd normally be freaking out, what with all the fire, but he was more concerned with the approaching ground.

He was nearing the water, his flight hadn't been directly upwards, he was over the river. He reined in his emotions and tugged on his mental flight switch, he didn't exactly fly, but he stopped, cushioned by the air beneath him. He tried to stand as best he could but he rolled backwards and began to glide towards the water. As he reached the water, his semi-intangibility allowed him to remain afloat, he drifted like a raft for a while, until he could think straight and grumbled "Owie... next time I let Spidey take it..." He managed to hover above the water and flew, a bit haphazardly towards the shore.

Spiderman just flew off like dried up leaves against the wind current. Elisabeth wondered why at first, but figured he had someone else to go save. She looked back at the girl. She seemed a bit confused, maybe even scared. Sometimes it's hard to actually read people and know exactly what they are feeling. She smiled again.

"Do you like latte? My treat."

Elisabeth felt oddly friendly today. Maybe it was the image of the girl running away from that guy the other day. People can be so cruel. Elisabeth started to talk in the direction of a nearby coffeeshop. She turned around to face Traci again.

"Well, you coming or not?"

Zero sat up, his head felt like it had blown up.

He looked around, Peter was sat at a table nearby with a red head.

"Peter, you can't just keep bringing super people here we'll..."

"MJ, the guy just got blowed up. What was I supposed to do?"

Zero leaned back again and gave himself up by groaning in pain. Peter and MJ looked round at him.

"Hi folks..." he sat up again and twisted his feet off the sofa.

"Hey, you feeling okay?"

"Yeah, a little rough, but I'll be fine."

((Sorry for my absence. Busy work week. And if I wasn't working, I was with my boyfriend. I'm back though xD))

"You don't have to treat me like a child..." Traci snapped, not meaning to sound very rude, but succeeding anyways. She paused after thinking what she was saying. "Sorry." She looked around at the coffee shop. She was never really a big fan of coffee. But she did like the chocolate chip cookies they served here.

"I'll just have one of those...if you don't mind..." Traci mentioned, pointing to a big fresh one over by the counter. She looked back at the woman, her lips curling into a small grin. "I'm a sucker for chocolate..."

Why didn't I try stealing something simple...like candy? She thought to herself. But noooo, I had to steal fresh meat to cook later...nice try, Trace, you ********>

"Good, my claws do need a little sharpening," said Logan, grabbing his leather jacket on the way to the jet. "Storm, you know what to do before we storm in, right?"