Kate and Peter were making their way to the subway after getting word the brakes have stopped working and they're unable to slow down.
"Conductor sent GCPD an SOS five minutes ago that his breaks went out." Luke told the team. "Now at his rate of speed and taking into consideration the rush hour passenger weight on a 650-volt, 3-rail system, they've got half a mile of track before they get to the end of the line."
Peter was swinging above his sister who was riding a newly finished Bat-bike.
"You didn't hear what he said, did you?" Peter asks as he races next to his sister, using a brick wall to run on.
"I love this bike!" Kate says with a smile on her face.
"Figured you would." Peter shrugs.
"But you know it's not my birthday for two days." Kate reminds him as they come up to the track with the train. "Got any ideas?"
"Yes, but it requires the train to not be running into a wall unless I wanna get crushed." Peter says but comes up with a better idea. "I'll shock the engine, you slow it down from the back."
"Got it!" Kate says as Peter swings ahead of the train and reaches the front as Kate shoots a grapple at the back of the train and another onto the tracks.
Peter punches straight through the engine and the train begins to slow down. Kate gets off the bike and watches as the train slows down, but it was too much for the hook which snapped and goes flying at her.
"Look out!" An officer shouts as he moves Kate out of the way before the hook could hit her. "I got you, Ma'am."
"Ma'am?" Kate asks and sees a flash then turning to see a bunch of people taking pictures of the two.
Peter leaps on top of the train and notices the situation. "Oh, boy."
"Good morning, Gotham. After the recent train derailing, Spider-Man and Batwoman saved the day, but it's the aftershock is what everyone's talking about. A bombshell caped crusader and a cop with Chris Evans vibes?" Vesper's talk show asks. "Talk to me, Gotham. Are we shipping these two or what?"
"Well, that mission could've gone more smoothly." Peter guesses as he looks at the paper which had the photo of Batwoman and the officer saving her. "Seems the guy who saved you is named Officer Bradley."
"Why is this guy suddenly everywhere we are?" Kate asks, looking over several dozen different articles with her and the officer.
"GCPD is probably just stepping up their game now that we cleaned up most of the Wonderland gang." Luke took a guess while still looking at more information on the Officer. "Oh, wow, he was Mr. March in the annual hunks of the GCPD calendar."
"The handcuffs are a little much." Kate comments on the photo.
"I gotta say, I can't blame people for shipping you and Captain America." Luke says.
"Have we not have this conversation?" Kate asks him, feeling like he should've realized this by now. "I'm very, very gay."
"It's better than when they were shipping Spider-Bat." Peter says as Kate looks confused.
"What?" Kate asks with a laugh.
"Let's just say; be careful where you google your superhero identity. There are people who will leave scars that cannot be healed." Peter whispers as he curls up into a ball at the memory.
"And have you not seen Batwoman?" Luke asks her. "Major straight vibes. It's not a total negative."
"That I'm apparently dating Mr. Underwear that leaves nothing to the imagination?" Kate asks.
"That Gotham's confused. It's misinformation. The less they know about you, the easier it'll be to keep you a secret." Luke explains the positives.
"A train lost its breaks, and we saved 450 people from smashing into a concrete wall, and all Gotham cares about is Batwoman's sex life." Kate recaps.
"They just want to see her happy." Luke says as Peter notices the time.
"Well, too bad because she's not." Kate says as Peter races across the room and grabs his bag.
"Well, Batwoman might not be, and Spider-Man isn't going to be if he's late for school." Peter says as he straps his bag over his shoulder. "And I need to get going, because I want to ask MJ to the Homecoming dance."
"Wait, MJ as in Michelle Jones?" Luke asks.
"Your best friend?" Kate asks.
"Yeah, I mean...we've been friends since pre-school, and I really like her. She's awesome, she's super funny...in her own kind of dark way. And sometimes I catch her looking at me, and I feel like I've stood her up a few times and wanna make up for it. Not to mention I need to get my mind off him." They look to where he's pointing and sees its a board all about the black suit Spider-Man.
"Okay, here's a question for you; is this the first time you've asked a girl out?" Kate wonders.
"You know the answer to that, K." Peter replies. "I would be helpful to some advice." He asks the two of them, wondering who's perspective would help more.
"I...'ve got nothing that would help. Kate, you have anything?" Luke says, turning to Kate.
"Look, if you both have been friends for this long, just ask her. If she wants to go as friends, she'll make it clear. If she wants it to be a date, she'll make it clear." Kate offers and Peter sees that's helpful and walks off for school.
"What are his chances?" Luke asks Kate.
"I give him a 50-50 chance. He's pretty awkward." Kate replies as they get back to figuring out what happened to the train.
Luckily, Luke was able to get them in to take a look at the train to see what went wrong.
"We're officials for the transit authority." Luke tells Kate and hands her a ID-card with her face. "Ever since the Scarecrow incident, Gotham City trains run on an independent analogue system. In theory, that should make them un-hackable."
"Suicidal conductor?" Kate guesses.
"The GCPD already released him. Black Box data showed no indication of engineer error. It was like the train's brake system got possessed or something." Luke explains as Kate looks around and sees a emergency power button and shuts it off. "Well, that makes this 100 times harder."
Kate ignores him and looks around until she finds something glowing hidden underneath one of the seats and shows it to Luke.
"This help?" Kate asks.
"That may have had something to do with it." Luke says and takes a look on it. "It's a packet analyzer. It intercepts and jumbles traffic as it passes over a digital network. The hacker probably used it to hijack the train's brakes remotely."
Peter made it to school on time and was going through his day with half of his mind focusing on how to ask out MJ.
"Yo, loser. You spacing out again?" MJ asks, breaking Peter from his trance.
"Sorry...I was just...I wanna apologize for sticking you up the other night." Peter apologizes.
"Peter, your stepmother was poisoned and almost died. I can take being stood up for that." MJ assured him.
"Well, I was thinking of maybe making it up to you?" Peter asks, getting extremely nervous.
"What do you have in mind?" MJ asks, kind of curious what he has in mind.
"Well, Homecoming is coming up...you wanna maybe, I don't know, go? You know, together?" Peter asks. "If not, I-"
"Yes." MJ interrupts him, causing Peter to freeze in shock of the answer.
"Yes as in you wanna go?" Peter asks.
"Yes." MJ replied with a smile.
"Awesome...I'll talk to you more later." Peter says.
"Meet me outside of the school at eight." MJ tells him all the details she needs ironed out and Peter can arrange that and walks off with a smile just as his phone goes off.
Looking around, it's as if everyone got the same message as they all opened the message and finds one of those human emojis using a dog face with a disfigured voice.
"I love to dig. Because when I dig, I find all the secrets you bury. If I can hack your subway, I can hack your phone, computer, home security cameras." Peter then looked and saw the face is on every screen in the school; phones, computers, televisions, everywhere. "Did I get your attention? Good. Now crowdfund my escape from Gotham. Click the link and help me raise five million by midnight on Friday, or your secrets come out. It doesn't matter if you are a porn addict, masked vigilante, or everyday Joe Schmo. Pay up, Gotham."
This was bad timing in its finest.