The Streets of Baltimore, Late Late Laaaate Friday Night

[beautifulsenshi]

Minako had had a rough few weeks. Someone had thought it was a good idea to make a circus - a place of joy and dreams! - evil, and killed a lot of her friends along with their fiendish plot. Then raised them from the dead and turned them Evil with a capital E. For some reason, she was having a bit of a problem dealing with that. Not to mention

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[gunslingerpose]

It was a good night to be Gorgon, thanks. He'd already busted a couple of muggings, read the muggers the riot act, stole their licences and whatever cash they had on them just so that they'd know it would be a generally stupid move to do something like, oh, mug people again, and was working on his third mugger of the night.

"See this?" he growled, holding up the guy's ID, freshly fished from his wallet. "I know who you are now. I know your name. I know where you live. In an hour I'll know your family, your dog, your girlfriend. What I've done to you, I can do to all of them. And worse."

He tucked the licence into a pouch on his belt, and then checked to make sure the zip-tie holding the mugger to the post was tight enough that he wasn't going to wiggle away.

Did he look too particularly concerned that he'd stolen the whole spiel from a movie? No, not really. It got his point across, after all.

The man zip-tied to the sign post whimpered a little, clearly exhausted. Gorgon, meanwhile, was feeling pretty damn good.

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[beautifulsenshi]

"Isn't that from a movie?" a voice called down from above, and Venus jumped from the roof overhead on to the streetlight, executing a neat pirouette and balancing perfectly on the narrow perch. "I mean, at this point, you could just call the cops and let them do their job instead of threatening him with a recycled speech."

MINAKO YOU OF ALL PEOPLE DON'T GET TO TALK ABOUT RECYCLED SPEECHES, OKAY?

[gunslingerpose]

"It gets my point across," Gorgon shot back, glancing up at the girl nearby.

... Was every female superhero in Baltimore a bouncy teenage acrobat? Or was that just him?

"I've got a secret identity to worry about, and payphones aren't really a thing these days in case you haven't noticed," he added, making his way to a motorbike parked on the curb and pulling a road flare from one of the saddlebags. "But people will always call the cops if there's one of these in the street. I just want to make sure he's got something to think about while he waits to be picked up."

Even if that thing he was thinking about was 'Didn't some of that get ripped off from Battle Group?'

[beautifulsenshi]

Venus rolled her eyes behind her mask. "Or you could go return whatever you caught him stealing and get the grateful citizen to call the cops for you," she pointed out, still looking down at (on) him. "But I'll save you the cost of the flare, it you want."