I'm nearly human look at me

[unobtainableredemption]

Characters: Kaine and OPEN
Date: Sometime after the bottle event
Location: Various
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: PG-13 to be safe (for Kaine's mouth)


Option 1 - Fire Sector
[Kaine’s standing in front of a storefront, looking through the window at the mantle displayed on the other side and debating whether or not he wants to buy one. Not for the fashion, mind you, but for something he could temporarily wear to cover his face and conceal the giant shiner surrounding his left eye. It’s a cliché, but you should really see the other guy.]


Option 2 - Water Sector
[He had intended to go right home, but now that his face was concealed by the hood of his newly bought mantle, Kaine finds himself walking right past the door to his suite, eventually winding up in a park in the water sector. It's clear by the path of destruction as he enters that one of the baby turtles had been through recently--the rubble had not yet been pushed to the side. He found himself smiling despite himself. When were they going to learn that they couldn't destroy everything?

Kaine sits on one of the benches and pulls the hood low as to cover his black eye, and just stares out at the mess. He could head home some other time.]


Option 3 - Metal Sector (Wearing this costume, though he still has short hair)
[He had forgotten how heavy the outfit was. It was the complete opposite of his Scarlet Spider costume—bulky with ridges and angles that have angles. Then there was the cape. What was he thinking when he added a cape to this thing? There was no reason for it whatsoever. Not like the raised “veins” of the costume, which had once pressed upon the scars of his degeneration to slow its progress, but now just serve to remind him of where the scars used to be. It was perfect.

He couldn't be the Scarlet Spider anymore. Not after what had happened in the bottle. It only served to remind him just how different he was from the others, and just how far he had fallen from what he could have been. And then he found this, his old outfit that once kept him alive, the outfit he wore during the year he spent terrorizing both Reilly and Parker, as well as anyone they might have cared about… and if that wasn't divine intervention, he didn't know what was.

Kaine leaps to the next building, never losing a stride in his step. He’s trying to get used to the suit’s bulk by doing something he’d done hundreds of times in it before... but if he bothered to stop and think about it, he’d realize just how suspicious he looks dressed like that leaping across rooftops at a sprint.]

OOC: If you want to roll with something other than those, feel free to either PM me, reach out to me at redconfession, or just start a thread, your choice.

Comments

[spiderkid]

No, I can do it whe-- [Okay SPIDER-SENSE! He looks up, sees the sword coming and flips sideways to dodge it.]

Dude, what was that for?

[unobtainableredemption]

[He just shrugs. You're the one trusting the formerly crazy former supervillain, kid.]

The invisibility and zap thing is new to me. Wait... no. Spider-Woman can do something I think like that. The Avenger one. [Why were there so many?]

[spiderkid]

My Spider-Woman can't. Not that I know of, anyway.

[He goes and picks up the sword Kaine threw at him, swinging it around a few times in the way a person does when he has ABSOLUTELY NO sword training.]

[unobtainableredemption]

[Finally looks at Miles out of the corner of his eye, rather than continue looking at him through the mirror.] You know your Spider-Woman? ...Well?

[Absently, he adds:] Stop that, you're only embarrassing yourself.

[spiderkid]

[Miles stops and lowers the sword shamefully.]

Well what? She works for SHIELD, she gave me my suit. I don't think she likes me very much.

[unobtainableredemption]

I meant do you know her well. [As in who she is.

He pulls out a real sword, which he had hid (from Peter, mainly) behind the gap between the mirror and the wall and holds it out the proper way, though the sword is still in its sheath.]

This is how you don't stab yourself with your own sword.

[spiderkid]

Not really. [Not yet.

Miles copies his stance with the wooden sword, a little confused. He didn't think he came here to learn swordfighting.]

[unobtainableredemption]

So you don't know who she is. [Isn't sure if that makes him relieved or not. Knowing about Parker's clone(s) would help explain who he is a lot better.]

Better. So what did you want to do? [Because he's not really that great of a teacher. As evidenced by hurling wooden swords at your head.]

[spiderkid]

Dude, I don't even know her name.

[Miles lowers the sword again and shrugs.]

I dunno, train? Learn to fight or whatever.

[unobtainableredemption]

[He puts the sword back in its hiding spot, then turns on his heel and lunges at Miles.

Why? Because the (decent) bad guys don't announce themselves before attacking.]

[spiderkid]

[Miles drops the sword entirely and jumps out of the way, fast enough so he's not hit, but not fast enough to look smooth.

Apparently they're starting.]

[unobtainableredemption]

[Stops himself by sticking his feet to the floor, quickly releasing his hold so he can spin and attempt to kick him in the face.]

[spiderkid]

[Bends over backwards to dodge the kick, then jumps up to cling to the ceiling, out of Kaine's reach.]

[unobtainableredemption]

[Silly Miles, did you forget he was a Spider too?

Kaine fires strands of webbing from both of his wrists, attempting to grab a hold of Miles with at least one of them and pry him off his ceiling.]

[spiderkid]

[One of the strands hits Miles' arm and pulls him crashing down to the gym floor.]

Owww! Hey, that's not fair. I don't have my web shooters!

[unobtainableredemption]

Do you think anyone fighting you in the real world gives a flying fuck if you're not ready? [To prove his point he closes the gap between them and throws a punch he holds just above Miles' face.]

You use what you have, don't whine over what you don't. You fight like your life is on the line, because it is. Don't get wrapped up in "not fighting dirty" or being honorable. You can bet your ass the other side isn't. You spend too much time trying to make up your mind about your next move, your opponent's already made it for you.

[spiderkid]

[Miles totally flinches from the punch. He listens to what Kaine says, and while it's scary, it makes some sense. He nods.] Okay. I think I get it.

[He's going to try and be sneaky about his plan to drop low and kick Kaine's legs out from under him, but he's probably not that sneaky about it.]

[unobtainableredemption]

[Kaine sees the attack coming, but let's him have it anyway... at least partially. After the kid sweeps his one leg out, he sticks his other foot to the floor just to remind Miles yet again that he's part-spider too. Only that wasn't the best of plans as he twists his knee as he falls. Not enough to injure, just enough to sting.

He releases his foot and lands like a cat on his hands and feet. He may be built like a mountain, but he's just as agile as the rest of them. Noticing his towel on the ground next to him, he picks it up and throws it Miles' face.]

[spiderkid]

[Miles catches the towel easily, throwing it back at Kaine as he springs up and over him, touching his back and letting loose a venom blast. Kaine said to fight like his life was on the line, and this is how he'd do it. The blast ought to sting Kaine and either knock him out or paralyze him for a while.]

[unobtainableredemption]

[That actually takes Kaine by surprise. He expects Miles to be fast, but not that fast. Chalk it up to his small size, he figures. The venom blast sends him crashing back to the ground as he fights to regain his motor skills.

As he can at least partially move his hands, he sprays a web cocoon around himself for protection until the effects wear off.]

[spiderkid]

[Miles just... stands there and looks at the coccooned Kaine.] Uh... You okay there?

[unobtainableredemption]

[After a moment, he breaks free using his stingers. It's clear from his expression he didn't expect Miles to stop there.]

That trick has saved my life more than once.

[spiderkid]

[What was he supposed to do? Kick a guy while he's down?]

Good to know. So, uh, that's the venom blast. By the way.

[unobtainableredemption]

[Yes!]

I figured. Packs a punch.

[spiderkid]

[Sorry, not his style.]

Yeah. You good now?