That night at the Xavier School for Gifted Mutants things were pretty much business as usual for the home of the X-Men as Professor X accessed Cerebro.

"Any sign of the mutants we detected last week?" Jean Gray asked as she watch the professor scan the area with the helmet. "I know we were busy since then, but they must've resurfaced by now."

"There's actually been a few sightings of the two of them, they've been busy." Professor X responded as he removed his helmet and turned to Jean Gray. "Both out of costume and in their new identities as Mental Boy and Dragon Girl, real names Marco Gordano and Katrina Sheng Leo respectively."

"The kids from the hostage situation at Mid-Town High." Jean nodded in response once she recognized the names. "Which means Captain America beat us to them."

"Not quite, it appears that Katrina was dropped from the internship." Professor X responded with a frown before turning his wheelchair around. "Have Colossus, Beast and Havoc pay them a visit at the earliest convenience, I have an offer for them." Professor X added and Jean nodded before walking off.

*the next day*

It had been a day since the fire at the high rise and the fire itself had been put out long before, thankfully the flames hadn't spread to the other buildings nearby nor had they claimed any lives thanks in no part to Katrina's efforts.

That didn't mean that the NYPD wasn't busy.

"So, you've disguised yourself as one of Squid's Henchmen, a Bank Teller, a Maintenance Worker and as of last night a fireman." Reynolds said as he paced around the interrogation room across from the Scourge of the Underworld agent that Kat had captured, a young man in his early twenties with medium length black hair and blue eyes who had several tattoos and piercings on him. "You have pretty lofty aspirations, don't you Jason?"

"I already told you, I'm not saying anything until my lawyer gets here." Jason responded as he folded his arms with a scoff. "So, I'll just go back to my cell and enjoy the free hospitality, not to mention the free healthcare for my jaw after Dragon Girl knocked me out."

"You really think a lawyer will make a difference?" Reynolds asked as he leaned forward. "The Squid, Commanda, Crossbow, that's three counts of murder one right there and more than enough to put you away for life without parole but here's what I don't understand, you tried to kill Dragon Girl, a hero, as she was carrying several young children to safety, in fact if she hadn't carried your sorry ass out of that high rise CSU would be picking up chunks of you off the ground and yet your not sorry that you tried to kill a hero?"

"What kind of hero saves a criminal like Chemistro?" Jason asserted as he stood up. "Dragon Girl may smile for the cameras but as far as my boss is concerned she's no better than the criminals I've killed and the ones my associates have killed." Jason added before grinning as he sat back down. "If you think these so called heroes are a benefit to society then you are as foolish as she is, the heroes think that they can reform their villains, give them a second chance, you'd have thought they'd have learned after the fiftieth time someone like the Shocker has escaped for jail but no, they continue to fail to see that the only remedy for the criminal element is death!"

"Well, in my book, killing those Supervillains makes you a criminal." Reynolds responded as he stood up. "You're going to be really popular in prison, little pretty boy like you, but if you testify against your fellow Scourge agents then maybe, just maybe, you'll get a reduced sentence."

"I don't have anything more to say to you, I want my lawyer, now!" Jason responded, and Reynolds frowned as he stood up.

"Detective." The captain said as he entered the interrogation room alongside a bald man with glasses in a nice suit. "This is Jason's attorney."

"This interrogation is over, I need a word with my client." The attorney said simply, and Reynolds frowned before leaving the interrogation room.

"He wouldn't tell on his associates, just kept going on and on about how people like Dragon Girl aren't heroes." Reynolds said as he left the interrogation room with the captain who closed the door behind him. "I don't know about you captain but risking life and limb to save five children and that scumbag? Sounds pretty heroic to me."

"I'm not going to argue with that, her father might but as far as I'm concerned? Kat's a damn hero." The captain nodded in agreement as he approached Reynold's desk. "With any luck, his attorney will persuade him to flip on his associates and we can bring them down. Shaun Gibson's location would be a good start."

"Err, excuse me." A female voice awkwardly spoke up and the two cops turned to see a young, blonde female attorney carrying a briefcase. "I'm Emily Watson, I'm the Public Defense Attorney assigned to Jason Hackman?"

"Wait, what?" Reynolds asked as he did a double take. "But we just saw his attorney and he looks nothing like you."

"I wasn't aware that another lawyer had been sent for him…" Emily trailed off before a loud gunshot came from the interrogation room and the cops jumped to their feet.

"Stay here, it's not safe!" Reynolds told Emily who readily nodded in agreement as Reynolds drew his gun and approached the interrogation room, however by the time he got there Jason was dead from a single gunshot wound to the head with the "attorney" holding the smoking gun. "Put the gun down now!" Reynolds shouted at the attorney who turned to him.

"Justice is served." The attorney said simply before pointing his own gun to his head. "Scourge!" The attorney added and before Reynolds could respond he pulled the trigger blowing his brains out as he fell dead at the African American cop's feet.

*meanwhile*

"Seriously dad, I sneak out without telling you once and you ground me for the rest of the week?" Kat thought as she sat on the edge of her bed, sleeping with her wings folded had taken some getting used to but she had managed to get a decent night's sleep all things considered. "Okay yeah, I scared them half to death when I flew into that burning building last night, but I was trying to save lives! At least the weekend's starting tomorrow so it should go by quickly." Kat thought before she heard knocking at her window and looked up seeing Marco at her window in the Mental Boy costume, shaking her head Kat stood up and opened the window. "You ever heard of texting?"

"You ever heard the phrase "phone is charging"?" Marco asked with a frown and Kat shook her head. "So, what's it like being a big hero whilst being imprisoned?"

"Feels like I'm going to die of boredom." Kat sighed as she leaned forward on the window still whilst playing with her hair. "Hell, I still remember how minor my last grounding was compared to this."

"I never thought you'd consider getting grounded for two weeks because you snuck out to attend a friend's party with me and you ended up drinking so much that by the time your parents arrived you were dancing to Asian Hooker by Steel Panther in your underwear and with a lampshade on your head." Marco responded with a laugh and Kat shook her head. "Then again, the fact that you were fifteen at the time didn't help."

"Yeah and it's not like I had been dancing to that damn song all night, it just so happened to be the song the DJ was playing when my parents arrived." Kat responded before shaking her head. "Let's be honest, you and other guys at that party were lucky that you were underaged as well, pretty sure I don't have to point out why." Kat responded, and Marco nodded with a shudder once he understood what she meant. "It also didn't help that that was my first-time drinking alcohol."

"Which led to that weird wet dream you had." Marco added, and Kat frowned. "Don't worry, I haven't told Cap or Iron Man, if I did I would've texted you afterwards." Marco added, and Kat shook her head. "But your right, this is minor compared to that incident."

"Yep, and dad still made me swear off alcohol until I'm twenty-one because of that incident." Kat responded before sighing. "Mom on the other hand was just mad that I degraded myself by dancing to that disgraceful song, her words, not mine, anyway you didn't just come here to check on me, didn't you?"

"Never could get anything past you." Marco admitted with a nod before frowning. "The Scourge agent you captured last night was killed by another Scourge agent disguised as his attorney."

"You're kidding?" Kat asked, and Marco shook his head. "What about the other Scourge agent?"

"Killed himself before he could get captured, needless to say there's a shitstorm going on at NYPD and your dad's going to be busy for most of the day." Marco responded with a shrug and Kat frowned as she stood up. "So, you want to sneak out?"

"You really want me to get in more trouble with my parents?" Kat asked with a frown on her face. "I know dad's not going to be back home for a few hours but grounding me was mom's idea, the moment she finds out is the moment that my grounding gets extended by a week."

"Like that ever stopped you." Marco responded with a grin and Kat frowned. "I mean, back in Woodstock you would sneak out all the time whether you were grounded or not."

"Yeah but Woodstock's a lot smaller than New York and only has one News Station, I'm still counting the number of news stations that have been covering our misadventures since we got our powers, and do I really need to remind you how quickly we got busted as mutants?" Kat asked with a frown before she heard her mom's footsteps coming up the stairs. "I'll text you later when dad lets me out to do patrol, until then you'd better get out of here before mom comes in."

"Sure, see you later." Marco responded before zooming off on his glider and Kat quickly closed the window before sitting back on her bed just in time for three knocks to ring out.

"I'm decent mom." Kat added, and the door opened.

"Kat were you just talking with Marco?" Lin asked as she entered the room and Kat looked up.

"Yeah, he came by to see how I was doing with this bull…." Kat almost cussed but her mother gave her a disapproving glare. "This grounding, and to tell me about what happened at the police station."

"Yes, I just saw that on the news, your father will likely be working overtime on that case now." Lin nodded in response before she opened the door fully. "But there is someone here to see you." Lin added, and Kat looked up.

"I've heard a lot about you Katrina." The man said as he entered the room, the first thing she picked up on was his Russian accent, the other thing being the fact that he was easily the tallest person in the room towering over her mother and Kat was sure that she didn't come up to the guy's chest either. "Or do you prefer Dragon Girl?"

"Yeah, I get it, I haven't exactly done a good job of hiding my Superhero identity." Kat sighed as she glanced over to her costume which was hanging over the back of the computer chair. "Then again keeping that hidden was a lot easier before I got my wings." Kat added before turning to the man. "Who are you exactly?"

"My apologies." The Russian man apologized before closing his eyes and to Kat's surprise his skin became encased in metal, however Lin didn't seem fazed. "I am Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin, or Peter if you prefer, I am a member of the X-Men."

"Otherwise known as Colossus?" Kat asked as she stood up and walked over to him, whilst the Russian mutant nodded in response she looked him up and down. "Yep, definitely don't come up to his chest." Kat thought before raising an eyebrow. "Surprised you guys didn't come around sooner."

"We had business to deal with." Colossus responded, and Kat nodded accepting his response. "May I see them?"

"You do mean my wings, right?" Kat asked with a raised eyebrow and once Colossus nodded Kat complied. "Extract." Kat commanded her wings and sure enough both wings spread out from her body. "Still not used to these things."

"Could've fooled me based on your actions last night." Colossus responded as he turned off his mutant ability. "I come bearing an offer."

"If it's training with the X-Men I'm not sure." Kat responded as she folded her arms. "Got burned on that front by the Avengers, granted it was my fault entirely but still."

"Yes, your mother mentioned something about that, she didn't go into details however." Colossus responded before stepping forward. "The Avengers project is still in it's infancy, the X-Men has been training young mutants like you for years and with all due respect to Captain America we are a lot better suited to handling such cases."

"I don't know, I've liked handling things on my own up to this point, with Marco's help off course." Kat added before she realized something. "Will Marco get a similar offer? I was the only one booted from the internship, as far as I know he's still getting training."

"He will be, it is off course entirely up to you and Marco if you accept." Colossus responded before he went to leave. "It has been a pleasure to meet you Kat."

"Likewise." Kat responded before Colossus left with her mother. "First I'm trying to get back on the Internship and now the X-Men are approaching me, maybe I should listen to some music to pass the time and think things over." Kat thought before grabbing her iPhone and plugging her earphones in.

*across town*

Whilst that was going on Marco was flying across town on his glider to get something to eat from a shop before he went back home.

"Okay, so what do I want to get? Something cooked or something cold." Marco thought as he flew on his glider. "I'll figure that out when I get there, may as well have a look around whilst I am on my way, might even stop a crime in progress." Marco thought before glancing around. "Same old traffic, and dad wonders why I don't use my new car as much since I got the glider, same old commuters, a big, blue hairy beast guy is watching me from that rooftop…..." Marco's train of thought stopped before he did a double take. "You'd think I'd be used to the weird shit by now, especially after Kat grew wings overnight." Marco thought before raising his glider and landing on the roof across from the man who was watching him. "You know, if you wanted me attention, there are less creepy ways than watching me from a rooftop."

"Well young man, I'd argue that you are not that hard to miss." The being, who Marco quickly identified as the X-Men member Beast, said as he turned around. "So, do you prefer Mental Boy or Marco Gordano?"

"Man, I really did drop the ball when it came to me keeping my identity a secret huh?" Marco asked as he removed his helmet and folded his arms. "If you know who I am, and I'm guessing you guys know about Kat as well, then I have one question, what took you so long?"

"Other business, being a Superhero I'm sure you understand." Marco looked up when he realized that they weren't alone on the rooftop as he saw another X-Men member, the mutant known as Havoc. "And yeah, we know about your girlfriend, though really, we've known about you two since your powers awakened."

"And if they had approached us days ago, I'd be saying that Kat's not my girlfriend." Marco thought before folding his arms. "If you want to offer me training, I'm already getting it."

"You mean that new program Captain America's started?" Havoc asked as he stood up and walked over to Marco who nodded. "Wasn't your girlfriend getting the same training until they dropped her?"

"That's a long story, one that she's been kicking herself over ever since." Marco responded before frowning. "And how'd you know about that anyway? We were on top of a high rise when me and Kat talked it out?"

"Well, it's apparent that Kat didn't check to see if she was alone on that rooftop before you arrived." Beast responded as he approached the young mutant. "You don't have to accept right away bit the offer still stands."

"I'll think about it." Marco responded before putting his helmet back on and hopping on his glider before taking off. "Man, can this week get any weirder?"

*latter back at NYPD HQ*

"I want to make things absolutely clear." The captain said to the gathered officers as they gathered around his desk in the office. "From now on, no civilian gets in this building without getting searched for weapons first and any attorneys that show up must prove that they are actually attorneys." The captain added before folding his arms. "I don't care if its Steele's little sister, Lao's daughter or any other family members, we already had one Scourge agent infiltrate this building and I'll be damned if I let it happen again! We pledged to protect this city from scumbags like the Scourge organization and help the superheroes with their cases when possible, if we can't even protect a suspect that we had in custody then it makes all look bad! Do I make myself clear?" The captain asked, and the officers nodded before there was a knock at the door. "If it's coffee and donuts, leave them in the main room."

"No sir, I have a match on the fingerprints scan you ordered." The voice of one of the lab technicians responded and the captain nodded to one of the officers who let him in. "At least Reynolds will have some good news coming out of this." The technician added before handing over the sheet to the captain.

"The Scourge agent who infiltrated the precinct was the same guy who killed Blindside, huh?" The captain asked as he looked at the report and the technician nodded. "Reynolds, that's four Scourge murders you can officially declare closed, get to work on the others as soon as possible."

"Will do chief." Reynolds responded with a nod as he looked at the report. "So far, the only ones left to solve are the hits on Styx and Stone, White Rabbit, Mr. Fish, Blare, Blowtorch and the attempted hit on Chemistro though considering that we've only seen one female Scourge agent so far and the gunmen at both the scenes of Blare and Chemistro hits I think its safe to say we're dealing with the same person on that front."

"If we are dealing with the same person then bring her in as soon as possible, I will not rest until these vigilante killings are put to an end and if we can flip her before the Scourges get to her then all the better." The captain responded, and the officers nodded. "In the meantime, I want everyone working overtime until the Scourges are stopped, they continue to make a mockery of us by committing these murders right under our noses and I don't need to remind you of how bad this makes us look in the press, am I understood?"

"Yes sir!" The officers said simultaneously before leaving the office with the lab technician, the captain sat back down at his desk to go over paperwork whilst the officers talked among themselves.

"If I had known she'd be waiting this long for me to return home, I would've been against grounding Kat." Howard admitted as he sat down at his desk opposite Jenny who frowned. "She gets bored so easily that I'd be surprised if she doesn't sneak out before I get home."

"True but I doubt even Kat would want to incur her mother's wrath like that." Jenny nodded in agreement as she took a sip of her coffee. "Besides, maybe its just me but grounding Kat for sneaking out seems a little excessive."

"Just you wait until you have a son/daughter Kat's age, I suppose I was lucky that my firm yet loving approach to parenting worked so well on her." Howard responded before shaking his head. "Not counting the time, I caught her drinking alcohol at fifteen off course, but she learned from that mistake."

"Considering she got booted off that internship I think she's still got a lot of learning to do." Jenny responded with a frown and Howard nodded in agreement. "Especially given why she was booted."

"It's as I said to her on the day that it happened, she's lucky that we didn't get around to installing CCTV in that side alley until today." Howard nodded in agreement before sighing. "I'm going to send Kat a text, tell her that she's being let out early due to me working late."

"You are going to forward that text to Lin, right?" Jenny asked with a raised eyebrow and Howard nodded.

"I don't want a repeat of last night so off course I will." Howard responded as he got his phone out.

*back at Kat's home*

"And that's the fiftieth time I've listened to that album since Colossus left." Kat thought as she lay back on her bed and looked at her iPod which had just played "The Wicked Symphony" by Avantasia. "If I don't get let out soon then I'm going to start hearing things…..." Kat's train of thought was interrupted when she got Howard's text and once she read it she grinned broadly. "Never thought I'd be so happy about my dad working late! I'd better text Marco!"

"Kat are you still decent?" Lin's voice rang out and Kat looked up as she got out of bed. Kat went over to her bedroom door and opened it slightly. "Your father's letting you go out on patrol early."

"Yeah, I know, I got the same text." Kat responded as she held up her phone. "About to get changed into the Dragon Girl costume now."

"Just remember what I said last night Katrina." Lin responded, and Kat looked up. "Don't give me a scare like that again, I don't think my heart could take it."

"Easier said than done in my line of work." Kat responded with a yawn before going over to grab her mask and costume. "But I'll try." Kat added before she started braiding her hair and Lin nodded before closing the door as she left her daughter alone, once that was done she picked up the one to text Marco. "Marco, dad let me out early due to the incident at NYPD, meet me at Times Square for patrol?" Kat read the text aloud and sent it before she started putting on the costume.

*later at Time's Square*

"TV definitely doesn't do this place justice." Kat thought as she parked herself on a rooftop on Time's Square, it was the middle of the day, so it wasn't as bright as it looked on TV and that was something Kat was thankful for. "Still amusing to me that, after a week of being able to fly around New York I haven't visited places like this and the Statue of Liberty for free, then again abusing my powers for my own amusement would definitely set me back as far as my attempts to get back on the internship."

"It isn't as bring as it looks on TV, isn't it?" Kat looked up and saw Marco hop off his glider and she grinned. "Then again, it is the middle of the day."

"I think we have a new Superhero name for you, Captain Obvious." Kat responded with a grin as she stood up and walked over to her boyfriend. "Since Dad let me off early because he's working overtime at the precinct I don't know if the two-hour time limit is still in effect, but we'll see."

"Yeah well, hopefully we won't get a call for help that directs us to a place that's two hours away from here, otherwise you'd get nothing done." Marco responded, and Kat nodded in agreement. "So, did you get a visit from one of the X-Men as well?"

"How'd you guess? Not everyday a Russian guy comes into my room who towers over my mother and can make his skin metal." Kat responded with a nod and Marco laughed. "Who did you get?"

"Beast and Havoc, kinda surprised that they tried to recruit me knowing that I was still on the internship but what can you do?" Marco asked before noticing the annoyed look his comments had earned him. "Oh, right, the fact that they booted you off is still a sore point, sorry."

"No, no, keep rubbing it in that my fuck-up cost me an opportunity that most heroes my age would kill for." Kat responded with a ton of sarcasm in her voice and Marco winced at her tone. "Besides, its as you said last night, saving those kids from that fire was a step in the right direction, I just have to make sure that I don't take ten steps back today."

"Short of building a mini torture chamber in your backyard I don't see you taking ten steps back, then again it wouldn't exactly be long until your parents figure out what your doing and put a stop to it." Marco responded getting a laugh out of Kat.

"Never mind the fact that I don't know where I'd find the equipment for such a thing, not to mention the money to build it because I don't imagine it being cheap." Kat responded with a smirk before shaking her head. "What the hell happened to this conversation exactly? We started off talking about the X-Men and now we're talking about the logistics of a torture chamber in my back garden!"

"You got me, I lost track of it after you started being sarcastic." Marco responded getting a laugh out of Kat, however before either teen could say anything else they heard the sound of the alarm from a nearby bank and looked up. "More common criminals?" Marco asked Kat as she went to get a closer look.

"Do you know any common criminals who fly?" Kat asked as she spotted a figure flying out of the bank carrying several money bags, as the figure flew over them Kat frowned. "Vulture, well, at least he's a step up from the Supervillains we've faced up to this point."

"Kat, so far the only Supervillains we've dealt with since donning our costumes as Chemistro and that incident on Sunday where The Walrus teamed up with Grizzly and The Gibbon to ruin a dog fighting ring and they nearly escaped because we fell over laughing at The Walrus's claim of having the proportionate strength, speed and agility of a walrus." Marco responded as he hopped on the glider and Kat started to fly. "Thank god that little old lady and her Great Dane was there to stop them."

"Yeah, never thought I'd feel sorry for a trio of Supervillains, even ones as lame as those three, but they are never living that down." Kat responded as she shook her head before she started flying. "We've wasted enough time as it is, I'm using my wings to catch up with Vulture, you see if you can cut him off!"

"You got it!" Marco responded before the two teens went their separate ways.

"Extract!" Kat commanded her wings and once they had spread out Kat flew off to catch up with the Supervillain.

*meanwhile*

In a seedier part of town two Supervillains were meeting up but not for a heist or anything like that, instead they were meeting to discuss a problem that the Supervillain community had been facing.

"I'm telling you Blue Streak, unless we do something soon we'll be next on the Scourge's hitlist!" The villain known as Blackout said as the other villain skated up to him. "I know a guy who's putting a meeting together to discuss what to do with the Scourge of the Underworld threat, if we meet up with him at the Bar with No Name in Woodstock, we can plan and strategize."

"Gee, where have I heard that before?" Blue Streak responded as he folded his arms. "My predecessor was invited to a similar meeting in the 1980s, you want to know what happened? Not only was he killed before the meeting, but the original Scourge infiltrated the bar and killed all the villains who did turn up! I'm telling ya Blackout, it's a deathtrap!"

"This time it'll be different, for one thing we know there's more than one Scourge active at the moment but if we don't do something then we won't live long." Blackout asserted, and Blue Streak frowned under his mask. "We also know that unlike the original Scourge, these guys are sticking to New York City, not the small towns surrounding it."

"We're talking about a town that's a two-hour drive by car from New York, if the Scourge is dedicated enough to eliminating the criminal element then that two-hour drive will be nothing!" Blue Streak responded with a frown. "Who else does this guy have attending the meeting anyway?"

"Daddy Long-Legs, Gypsy Moth, Diamondback, one of the Eels, Joystick, that's just the guys he was able to contact so far." Blackout responded as he leaned back against the wall. "They'll be others and the Scourges won't know what hit them!"

"Or we won't know what hit us when the Scourge opens fire on us in the middle of the meeting." Blue Streak responded before he started to move. "You can tell this friend of yours that if he was smart, he'd call off the meeting or at the very least, host it in a place that isn't so obvious! I value my life too much to go out the same way as the first Blue Streak did!"

"Suit yourself but if the meeting fails because you chickened out don't act surprised when the Scourge comes after you next!" Blackout called out to Blue Streak but by then he was long gone. "The Scourge won't be dumb enough to pull the exact same trick as the original did back in the 1980s, Blue Streak's just being a coward!" Blackout thought before walking off.

*back at the fight*

Kat flew as fast as she could after Vulture and she eventually caught up with the elderly Supervillain as he flew above the skies of New York.

"Of course if he was just a regular old man who felt like robbing a store I would've had a much easier time catching him without my powers." Kat thought before sighing. "And that's made me depressed over the fact that my athletics skills won't progress beyond high school level, oh well, I've got an old man to beat up…. thank god there aren't any telepaths nearby." Kat thought before picking up speed with a flap of her wings and pulling out in front of Vulture. "Hey old man, what kind of example does this set for your grandkids?"

"Out of my way Dragon Girl!" The Vulture snarled as he stopped in front of the much younger hero. "I have to get out of town before…."

"Let me guess, Scourge?" Kat asked as she folded her arms. "I'm going to say the same thing to you as I said to Chemistro, there are easier ways of making money, less painful…..." Kat never finished her sentence as Vulture rammed into her knocking Kat off balance as the villain flew off. "Hey!"

"I don't have time to waste on a millennial like you!" Vulture scowled at Kat as he flew off. "Why don't you go Tweet "Not My President" instead of wasting my time!"

"I don't even have a Twitter account!" Kat yelled back before face-palming. "Great comeback Kat! How does Spider-Man make this look so easy?"

"Err, Kat, Vulture's getting away!" Marco's voice rang out from her earpiece and Kat shook her head before flying after Vulture. "I'll join you at the corner of 47th, hopefully we can corner him."

"Corner a flying villain, yeah, that'll be easy." Kat muttered sarcastically before she resumed her pursuit of Vulture and sure enough she reached the corner that she had agreed to meet Marco to try to catch up with her. "Seriously? Millennial? I may be the legal age to vote now but I wasn't during the last election! And unlike most people my age I don't get easily offended…." Kat's train of thought was interrupted when the Vulture took a sudden left turn causing her to crash into the side of the building because she wasn't paying attention. "Ow."

"So, Kat." Marco's clearly amused voice rang out as he caught up with his friend. "How goes for the Vulture chase?"

"Well, let's see." Kat said as she peeled herself off the wall with an extremely annoyed look on her face. "Pretty sure my nose is broken, I'm going to be a viral sensation for all the wrong reasons and oh yeah, THE VULTURE'S GETTING AWAY!" Kat snapped at him with an annoyed look on her face before she picked up where she left off, namely by giving chase to the Vulture.

"Kat, I'm just saying that your probably not going to find Vulture on the walls of the city." Marco said into his earpiece as the two teens took off in separate directions and the Chinese girl growled.

"Hey, is that your new car down there?" Kat asked as she spotted the car in question. "Wonder how much of a distraction it would be to take it to the nearest junkyard?"

"Shutting up!" Marco quickly responded as they resumed their chase.

*meanwhile bellow the heroes*

"Never thought I'd get out of the station." Howard admitted to Jenny as he sat inside the cop car directly bellow where Kat and Marco were giving chase to the Vulture, not that they knew it at the time as they were eating some donuts they had gotten from a donut shop. "At least we're getting some fresh air."

"And after everything that happened this morning, I could use some fresh air." Jenny nodded in agreement as she finished her last donut.

"All units be on the lookout for the Spider-Man villain known as the Vulture." The dispatcher's voice rang out over the radio and Howard quickly finished his last donut. "Last seen over Queens, the superheroes known as Dragon Girl and Mental Boy are giving chase over."

"Well, that didn't take long." Howard thought with a frown before picking up the radio. "Roger that dispatch, we are in the Queens area as we speak, should get a visual on the three of them soon."

"I see them." Jenny commented as she saw Kat give chase to Vulture and subsequently crash into a wall. "Ouch, she's going to feel that one in the morning."

"Indeed." Howard nodded in agreement with a wince before sighing. "I told her to call me if she was going to get into any Supervillain fights."

"Probably didn't want to bother you at work, besides you know about it now." Jenny responded as they watched Marco and Kat's brief argument before they picked up the slack. "We had better give chase and provide them with ground support."

"Agreed." Howard said before Jenny drove off after the heroes as he got his phone out.

*back with Kat and Marco*

"Seriously? What now?" Kat muttered under her breath as she heard her ringtone and grabbed her phone. "Dad, great, he's probably seen the chase on TV." Kat sighed before answering. "Hey dad, kind of in the middle of something."

"I know, look bellow you." Howard responded, and Kat looked down seeing the cop car. "How are you feeling after that crash?"

"You saw that huh?" Kat sighed whilst feeling glad that her mask last most of her head covered, otherwise the world would see her blushing from embarrassment. "Pretty sure I broke my nose on impact but other than that I'm fine, and yeah I know I should've called you, but you do tend to leave your phone off whilst on duty."

"Fair point and don't worry about the call, just worry about capturing Vulture and we'll provide ground support." Howard admitted, and Kat nodded. "And try not to crash into another building."

"I'm never living that down, aren't I?" Kat sighed as she continued to give chase. "Pretty sure Vulture's planning to skip town because of the Scourge hits so if we can stop him before he reaches the city limits that would be ideal."

"I'll let the captain know, as for your nose, I'll have a look at it once Vulture is captured." Howard responded before hanging up and Kat pocketed her phone before putting a hand to her earpiece.

"Marco, good news, dad and Jenny are providing ground support." Kat started as she weaved in and out of the buildings. "Should be easy enough to capture Vulture now."

"Yeah, as long as he doesn't go above the buildings we should be fine." Marco responded, and Kat frowned. "Otherwise you'll be saving two criminals from certain death in the span of two days!"

"Let's not give the Vulture ideas!" Kat responded as she picked up speed to catch up with the Vulture. "Give it up Vulture, your flying days are numbered."

"Oh please, I've been flying since your parents were babies!" Vulture responded as he span around to face Kat. "Now why don't you go sign an online petition and stop wasting my time! If I don't leave New York soon I'll be permanently grounded by the Scourge!"

"The police put Chemistro in protective custody, they can do the same for…." Kat never finished her sentence as Vulture lunged forward with some surprisingly powerful blows to her midsection.

"Don't you EVER compare me to the likes of Chemistro! That joke is not worth shining my boots!" Vulture responded before landing a blow that sent Kat flying into a building through an open window. "And this time stay down!"

"Hey old man, I thought you came from a time when women were respected or something, I don't know, I lose track of my dad's back in my day ramblings after a while." Marco chimed in he caught up to Vulture who span around. "Point is, we're about to pluck your feathers!"

"You can certainly try!" The Vulture responded before lunging at Marco who quickly got his forcefields up to repel the blows from the airborne villain. "Those fields of yours can't last forever!"

"Who said that they needed too?" Kat's voice rang out as she emerged from the building and charged at Vulture, Vulture for his part span around and lunged at Kat only for her to duck at the last second and send him crashing into the side of the building. "Mental Boy restrain him!"

"What do I look like? A Pokémon?" Marco asked as he quickly levitated several metal bars just as Vulture span around. "Don't answer that." Marco added before he launched the bars at Vulture holding him in place, the Supervillain struggled for a few minutes until eventually giving up. "There, now as long as nothing happens to break my concentration you can stay there until the police arrest you!"

"Guess again Mental Boy." The Vulture responded before breaking free of the hold and flying at them. "This suit gives me more than enough strength to break free!"

"I am so tempted to make a Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged series reference." Kat thought before shaking her head and lunging at the villain, Kat and the Vulture exchanged blows in mid-air, but it was a headbutt from Vulture that knocked Kat off balance long enough to turn the tide in Vulture's favor. "Well, if my nose wasn't broken before, it definitely is now!"

"Why don't you kids just admit that you've met your match?" The Vulture asked as Kat recovered from the surprise headbutt. "You've thrown everything you've got at me…..."

"Not everything!" Marco interrupted him as he sent the glider charging into Vulture knocking him off balance. "Dragon Girl finish him!"

"You complained about me treating you like a Pokémon and now you treat me like a Mortal Kombat character?" Kat asked before shaking her head and launching herself at Vulture, however around halfway through she folded the wings around her body and started spinning at high speeds whilst heading straight to Vulture delivering a powerful blow to the villain which knocked him to the ground bellow and finally knocked him unconscious.

"It worked, didn't it?" Marco asked as he approached Kat who had clearly caused herself to be dizzy with the move but was otherwise fine. "Where did you come up with that?"

"Came to me in a dream last night." Kat shrugged as she regained her composure. "Still have some kinks to work out but it did the job." Kat added before they landed next to Jenny and Howard who had just arrested Vulture. "I'm guessing you need our statements?"

"Sure, and after that I'll need to look at your nose." Howard responded, and Kat nodded before relaying what had happened alongside Marco, once that was done Howard led her into an alley. "First major Supervillain bust, he didn't rough you up to badly, did he Kat?"

"I've had worse." Kat admitted before removing her mask. "You wanted to look at my nose, right?"

"Hold still, this should just take a second." Howard responded before looking at the clearly damaged nose. "Does it feel broken?"

"Now that I've had time to process it, not really, if anything my ego took a bigger hit when I crashed into that building." Kat shrugged as Howard examined it.

"It doesn't look broken, its more likely you just damaged it with the crash and the headbutt from Vulture." Howard responded, and Kat nodded before putting her mask back on, once she did Kat let out an annoyed sigh.

"So, I'm guessing I'm still grounded?" Kat asked, and Howard nodded.

"Only for the rest of the weekend, given the circumstances I will let this slide." Howard responded and Kat grinned. "Still, you did great and don't you forget that."

"Thanks dad." Kat responded with a grin before following her dad out of the alley.

*meanwhile*

Whilst that was happening across town a different scene was unfolding at Scourge HQ.

"You wanted to see me?" Shaun asked as he entered Target's office and the masked Supervillain turned to him as he read a newspaper.

"You know Shaun, I just received word of a high-rise fire last night." Target stated as he put down a copy of the Daily Bugle which had a picture of the High-Rise Fire on its front page. "No one was hurt thanks to the heroic efforts of our old friend Dragon Girl but there seems to be a problem."

"What kind of problem?" Shaun asked, and Target suddenly pulled a gun on him.

"The problem is you." Target responded as he kept his gun trained on Shaun. "I sent Kara to kill Blowtorch after it was confirmed that he was behind the fire so imagine my surprise when I learnt that he was already dead and based on the words of my spies you paid him to set the fire and sent Jason into the building to wait for Dragon Girl." Target added as his eyes narrowed. "Now I'm down two agents as I had sent Donovan into the NYPD with instructions to kill Jason and then himself if he was discovered and don't be surprised if I decide to trim more fat."

"Target just give me another chance." Shaun responded as he put his hands up. "I've heard that a group of Supervillains will gather at the Bar with No Name at Woodstock to discuss what to do with the threat of the Scourge."

"I know." Target responded as got ready to fire.

"Okay, how about this?" Shaun asked before looking at the pictures of the villains with hits on them that Target had on his desk. "Shocker, you said that he was planning a break out, right? Just give me a chance to put that bastard down for good." Shaun added, and Target paused before pocketing the gun.

"Understand this, if you fail to kill Shocker then you will be out of chances." Target warned him as his eyes narrowed. "And you will join Jason and Donovan in the morgue." Target added and Shaun gulped before leaving the office.