AN: Woohoo. Another chapter up. So I was going to give a originally put a little bit of dialogue to give myself a break from the action chapters, but I decided to challenge myself again and try to improve my descriptions of dynamic movement. So I wrote this little bit, and dialogue will be in the next chapter...maybe. The more I practice writing action, the better I get, and the more I like doing it.
Chapter 8
Spider-Man found himself on top of the American Museum of Natural History. A quick look around the sky above him and he saw his target. Mysterio was flying away…on a cloud. An actual formation of condensed water vapor supported the weight of the wacky wizard as it went westward toward Broadway. Black Cat came up out onto the roof and immediately started chasing after the villain.
"Cat. Wait. We need a plan!" Spider-Man shouted.
"I do have a plan!" Black Cat shouted back.
Spider-Man jumped off and began to swing after the pair ahead of him. "What would that be?"
"Catch him." Black Cat said plainly without looking back.
'That's not much of a plan' Spider-Man thought to himself. Still he wasn't going to let Mysterio get away, so he would concede that he plan was…a good start. So he continued to swing after.
"Mysterio. Give up peacefully." Spider-Man demanded.
Mysterio turned around and started to flay backwards on his cloud. "Here you go." He said and started to throw fire at the people pursuing him.
The two hero's easily dodged the pyrotechnic projectiles. "Any ideas on how to explain that?" Black Cat asked, trying to be snarky.
Spider-Man laughed. His knowledge as a mild mannered scientist was still relevant. "Similar to before. Except instead of sprayed as an aerosol, the fuel is mixed as a fluid with oil and either Lye or Sodium Hydroxide. That'll turn it into a crude napalm. High enough of a ratio of the last two chemicals, and it will go from being a gel two a soap like consistency. Then all you have to do is throw the stuff at us." He explained with smug self-satisfaction. He knew that he was a know-it-all. He didn't always feel the need to show it, but when someone challenged him, he couldn't help it.
Mysterio laughed. "You're pitiful attempts to explain that which you don't understand are most humorous. Now face the power of the mystic arts!" He bellowed throwing more fire and brimstone.
"Coming from a guy on top of a goblin glider with a fog machine!" Spider-Man retorted.
Mysterio reached Broadway and started sail north. Black Cat followed with Spider-Man quickly behind her. The three were only a few stories above the ground, and there was still plenty of people on the street to see the spectacle of a super powered showdown. Cell phones below flashed as people took pictures and video.
"Looks like we're gonna' make the internet headlines tonight." Spider-Man said.
"Great. People will talk about us for a few minutes before moving on." Black Cat said.
"Let's make sure they mention me." Mysterio laughed.
The man with the green suit and the glass helmet started to throw fire down into the traffic below. Fire began to saturate the street below and people scattered for safety. Not everyone was able to escape the pandemonium and were trapped in the flames, in their vehicles, and in the chaos. Spider-Man saw them in trouble and reacted.
"Cat. Keep on him. I'll save them." He commanded.
"Got it Spider." The black clad Cat said.
Spider-Man dropped down to the ground and began to run through the street. The first thing he saw was a car on fire with a young woman trapped inside. The hero ran over to the vehicle and its prisoner. He grabbed the handle and tried to pull the door open, but the object gave no sway. So he punched out the window and used the opening to get a better grip before pulling the whole door off. Now that he knew the woman could escape, Spider-Man went to the next person that could be saved.
Spider-Man saw a boy trapped in an overturned car. He quickly shot a web line into the inside and yanked him out.
"Thanks Spider-Man." The boy said in awe.
"Stay safe in the streets next time if you can." Spider-Man said and kept moving.
His spider sense flared and he saw Black Cat dodging more flames from Mysterio. The fireballs passed by and started to rain onto the ground. Spider-Man jumped around and shoved paralyzed people out of the way of danger. The fires would have to wait for professional firefighters, or a superhero like Storm or Iceman, as Spider-Man didn't carry any kind of flame suppression agent.
After his scramble to save the most recent group of people, Spider-Man looked around and noticed that people had been getting out of the way. 'Good. Now I can get back to chasing Mysterio.' He thought relieved.
He jumped back into the air and stuck himself to the wall and began to run up it. When he reached the roof, he began to run. Yanking off the door, pulling out the kid, and saving the others had left his arms too tired to swing. So he ran along the roof tops and jumped from one to another. The only time that he used his arms was when he had to shoot a web line to pull himself over a side street he couldn't jump over.
The time lost in saving the other people put Black Cat and Mysterio about a block and a half ahead, and he was going to have to work to catch up. He had faith that his girlfriend could handle herself in the meantime.
Black Cat swung behind Mysterio. The grapples in the wrists of her gloves serving as her method of mobility. The strain in her arms was taking its toll, and she could begin to feel herself slowing down. Normally she didn't have to chase a bad guy, she and Spider-Man just caught them in a trap.
'Chalk this up as another new experience I've had with this creep.' Black Cat thought.
"Getting tired Kitty?" Myterio taunted.
"Didn't you know? Cats are predators, and we play with our food." She taunted back.
"Ha. Your verbal riposte needs some work. I'm sure the hero could have done better."
"And what am I then?" Black Cat asked angrily gritting her teeth.
Mysterio did a one-eighty mid-air. "You're the side kick." He taunted.
"GIRL FRIDAY." Black Cat yelled back.
"That's just a female side kick."
"Geez. First the Goblin in the orange cape, now the mystic in the purple cape. That's like all of the baddies standard response to that." Black Cat muttered to herself. "That's just gonna make the beating you're gonna receive all the more embarrassing." She then shouted.
Mysterio laughed and threw another fireball at her. He then turned around and began to speed away. The vapor trail from his cloud leaving an elongated tail behind him. In typical villain fashion he was cackling.
Black Cat took a deep breath and pushed herself hard, refusing to let the menace get away. She knew that she couldn't go much faster, but all she needed to do was keep the villain in sight. If she did that, then she could catch him when he stopped.
Then she had an epiphany. Maybe instead of thinking like a hero right now, she could think like a side-kick. Instead of chasing down the bad guy like Spider-Man, she should help him catch Mysterio. From a pouch on her belt, she pulled out a GPS tracker. She launched herself off her grapple onto a nearby roof, and loaded the GPS into the launcher onto her wrist launcher that normally launched her grapple.
The heroine carefully took aim at Mysterio. She smirked, and fired. She didn't see the tracker land but, she pulled out her phone, and turned on the GPS application.
"Yessssss." Black Cat hissed victoriously. As she watched Mysterio turn the corner, a red dot on the screen of her phone also turned the corner. "Score one for Girl Friday."
Spider-Man then landed beside her on the roof. "What's wrong? Are you okay?" He asked in a panic.
"Yeah. We don't need to rush now." Black Cat said holding up the phone.
"Oh." Spider-Man said. "Well, that means we can track him without seeing him…nice work." He finished smiling under his mask.
Black Cat smiled back.
"What's your plan now?"
"Same as before. Catch him." Black Car said and jumped off and started to swing away.
Spider-Man followed. "Sounds like a plan."
AN: So how did you all like the chase scene? I am personally pleased with how it came out, but I have a very clear bias. Anyway, look forward to my next update a few weeks from now, I'm still working on my Agent Venom story, and I want to make some more headway on that. Anyway, thanks as always to NeoTyson, Celgress, Highlander, and kobevilla. Oh, and good news, seeing as you were all concerned, after the appointment I had, turns out I don't need the surgery. The surgery was for for my eyes, and it turns out that I would just need reading glasses in about a decade anyway, so it's really not worth it. Anyway, thanks for all the love guys.
