<div class="floatright">(http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll37/Geesaroni/spiderchick.jpg)</div>Name: Silver Spider<br/>Where: Just Outside the Hollowed-Out Shell of a Stormwatch Base<br/>Milestones: In the Name of the Moon and Red On My Ledger<br/>0 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 18 xp<br/>Assets: None | Complications: None | Resources: None<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div><hr/><br/>If he was paying attention to her face, Darclight would notice some faint traces of relief in Silver Spider's eyes as he mentioned the jeweler's kit that they had taken at the scene of her last robbery.  That relief would then transform into concern when he mentioned that something was missing from it, however.<br/><br/>"The... equipment that you took from me back at the Moonstone Museum isn't really all that important to me,"  She responded, mostly to confirm something that she suspected he had already figured out at this point.  "It was a cover for some information that Arachnos agents went to some trouble to obtain.  There was a data crystal hidden in the handle of one of the magnifying glasses, and the basic plan was that either I would steal the case and bring it back to Arachnos, or it would wind up in a police evidence lockup, where it would have been mysteriously lost due to a processing error and still fallen into Recluse's web."<br/><br/>The crystal had also been wrapped in paper, from what she had been told.  It was an old spy trick, helped to protect against static discharge, or something like that.<br/><br/>"As for what was on that data crystal, they didn't tell me everything that was on it,"  Or at least her attention had wandered a little when they got to that part of the briefing...  "But they did fill me in on the main reason they wanted it.  You remember Ellie Tudor, aka Nephilim?  Whoever stole that data crystal has the location of the homes where witness protection services placed her children."<br/><br/>The thought of delivering that information to Arachnos hadn't really sat well with her before, back when she was still working for them, but she had forced down those feelings at the time by reminding herself of just how poorly she typically got along with Nephilim.  Minerva and Arachne wouldn't have had to fight off the killer cyborg earlier that day if Ellie had been flying to the prison to help her escape, after all.  But now that she was trying to be one of the good guys, she couldn't just ignore those sorts of feelings anymore.  She kept thinking back to some words Ace had said earlier that day, in particular...<br/><br/><em>"I've never really thought of it as having to follow a lot of rules.  For me, it's always just been the one rule: Do what you think is right."</em><br/><br/>...She still thought that stealing from corrupt politicians and malevolent megacorporations sounded like the right thing to do, but when it came to that data crystal, there was a lot less room for argument.  She couldn't let it fall into the clutches of the Children of the Spider, and whoever had their hands on it now was probably also not planning to do anything good with it, so she would have to do what she could to help track it down.<br/><br/>"Arachnos' plan was to threaten Ellie's kids, so that they could get her to cause a nice little distraction for the rest of their schemes by going on a rampage somewhere.  I'm... not proud to have been an accessory to that, but if it's been stolen, that information could wind up being used for something even worse.  So that's another potential threat to have to worry about, I'm afraid."<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/81/Superheroine-2.jpg)</div>Name: Ace the Wonder-Girl<br/>Where: The Hollowed-Out Shell of a Stormwatch Base<br/>Milestones: --<br/>0 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 18 xp<br/>Assets: None | Complications: None | Resources: None<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div><hr/><br/>"...I'm fine,"  Ace responded, once again mildly confused, this time due to being referred to as a 'suitor', though she was at least starting to get accustomed to the idea of women romancing other women, now.  And she certainly was fine, even if her costume was scuffed and her hair mussed up a little, and much of her body covered in soot.  Fangs, claws and fire breath could certainly leave a mess, but Minerva hadn't actually been able to hurt her at all. "Ah!  Kanina, Tabitha!  Great, so the teleporter took me right where I needed to go!  Is the rest of the team here?  And is there a radio I can use, or-"<br/><br/>Super-sensitive hearing answered her questions and provided her with most of the other bits of knowledge she wanted to learn when she detected the voices of Darclight, Auxilia and Silvia a short distance outside the building.  It also didn't sound like things had devolved into a shouting match, which was excellent news, as far as she was concerned.<br/><br/>"Oh, never mind, it sounds like Silvia got sent here, too.  That's really convenient!  I checked the tunneling machine with my x-ray vision before I left and saw that all the Arachnos minions managed to evacuate, did they wind up here, too?"  Of course, the answer to that one turned out to be no, and since she wasn't really all that knowledgeable in the ways of magic, she could only really chalk this situation up to a lucky coincidence.<br/><br/>The Venusian Wonder was able to pick up the tail end of Silvia's words to Darclight as she exited the building to go report in to the robot, and she didn't hesitate to call out a response and make herself known.<br/><br/>"...So that's another potential threat to have to worry about, I'm afraid."<br/><br/>"Sounds like we've got our work cut out for us, then!  But I'm sure we can handle it now that we're all back together!"