"Superheroes, already? Who are you guys?" the police lieutenant who looked to be in charge asked, "well, I'm not going to turn down help! Stop smashing up police property and go in there and give that woman what-for!"<br/><br/>The inside of the gallery was a mess and a half - the elegant display cases were upturned with their some of their contents still present, some smashed with jewels still in them, although Silver Spider's "gang" (hangers-on might have been a better term) were already quite busy looting the place. The sticky webbing that the supervillainess herself used was immediately obvious (even if she herself was not); the employees of the gallery were quite neatly and tidily webbed to the walls, spider-silk gags keeping them from calling out. Ace and the others could pick out five hostages, left alone by a mob of individuals ranging from the respectable to the utterly disreputable united in... well, whatever they happened to see in spider-people.<br/><br/>"Hey, you think she'll mind if we keep some of these?"<br/><br/>"Of course! With enough wealth we can finally buy her love!"<br/><br/>"We should take them and fund this romantic cru-"<br/><br/>The conversation was interrupted by Ace bursting through the door.<br/><br/>"-sade where we immediately put these back," the one said (he was one of the respectable ones).<br/><br/>"What? Who's stopping us from stealing these precious valuables? Who are you supposed to be?" One of the mob nearest the door stood in Ace's way (although probably not for more than a few seconds). She could bowl them out of the way or just fly over them in search of bigger and better villains.<br/><br/>"I think that's Ace, Joe."<br/><br/>"How can you tell?"<br/><br/>"Says it on her helmet."<br/><br/>"Oh. So it does."<br/><br/><hr/>Scene Distinctions:<br/><strong>It's a Trap!</strong><br/><strong>And Now For Something Completely Different</strong><br/><strong>Pretty, Pretty Gems</strong><br/><br/>XP Awards:<br/>1 XP to everyone using the event milestone for teaming up!<br/>1 XP to Ace for inventing Super-Speed-Reading<br/>1 XP to Darclight for identifying the Silver Spider as a former enemy of Stormwatch<br/>1 XP to Kitt for self-deprecation on Morlock-level usefulness<br/>1 XP to Kanina for unsuccessfully attempting to flirt with Darclight<br/>3 XP to Doc Tabs for using trashy romance novels to experiment on herself