On the Road Again... Well, sorta

After re-assembling the holo-map, Spider-woman and I put it firmly down on the sidewalk away from where most of the bustle was. Luckily, through all the trouble, she remembered where the "on" button was, and soon, miniature, glowing blue buildings filled the air between us.

Surprisingly, no one was blinded this time...

"Now, which one's the Senate Building?" I asked, arms crossed in confusion.

Spider-woman leaned over the control panel and pushed a few buttons. Before I could stop her, one of the semi-transparent buildings glowed yellow. In the glow of the holo-map, I noticed a prominent smirk on her face.

"I-I would've figured it out eventually..."

"Sure you would've," she replied, and I think I heard a trace of sarcasm somewhere... "Actually, I was the one briefed on how to use it, so I think I had an advantage."

"S-sure, I mean, no one bothered to tell me anything about it. And anyways, how do we know how to get there," I poked a finger in the glowing building, "When we don't even know where we ARE?"

"Simple," she said, leaning back over the console. Suddenly a blinking light burst to life, and within seconds, a big yellow dot began glowing by one of the blue buildings.

Oh.

I studied the map for a few minutes, and when I was fairly sure which way to go, I had Spider-woman pack it up. Soon, we were flying through the air again.

Well, I'm Back!!

The title says it all; I'm back! I think if I had time to check my comments before my relatives got here, I might've taken Cat up on her offer... Yes, it was horrible, as all visits are, but I'm here, and I survived! There'll be a new post up tomorrow, right now, I'm beat...

Laying Low

I've got unexpected relatives coming up... *groan* This means there will be no room in my house without a ton of people in them at any given time...

ANYWAYS... What I'm basically saying, is that I'm going to bey laying low for awhile,... just a few days at the most. ;)

This is Why I Work Alone.

Making sure Spider-woman was holding on tight (but not too tight) I took a running start towards the edge of the platform and leaped. I knew this would be a long trip, because she kept saying, "Are you sure you should be swinging into traffic? I don't think you have the right license to do that! Turn there! Watch out for that ship!"

Nag. Nag. Nag.

"Listen, I know what I'm doing. I swing around all the time in New York," I said, trying to be calm.

"Does New York have flying cars?"

She had a point. Unfortunately, I was distracted from any witty comebacks because she decided to start up the "holo-map" or whatever they sent us through that wormhole. At first she couldn't get it working, turning it over in her hands, looking for a button. And guess what, she found the button. Just my luck that it was pointed straight at me when the lights flared to life. If I could see, I would notice the little glowing routes zigzagging through the transparent blue buildings, but it was so bright, I swear I was temporarily blinded.

"Point that thing away from me!" I shouted, trying to push it away, now swinging blindly through traffic with one hand as the other fought with the holo-map.

"What are you doing?" she shouted right back, "I got it working!" Ripping my hand away, she held it up, now once again shining in my eyes, to show me.

As if I didn't believer her before...

"I can't see!" I yelled, but the horns blaring at us and the roar of engines kept her from getting the message. Worked into a state of near-panic, I tried once again to push the map so that it would point downwards. What happened next was truly a mystery. We both can climb straight up a vertical wall using only our fingertips, but for some reason, we couldn't hold on to the map.

Great.

I landed us onto one of the sidewalk platforms and told her to wait there. Before she could nag-- I mean protest, I dived headfirst after it. Using my webshooters, I latched onto what I thought was a landing platform, and pulled myself down for extra speed. Again, it was just my luck that that so called platform was really of those air trucks.

Oops.

It quickly accelerated, yanking me into an uncontrollable head-over-feet fall, slamming into and bouncing off passing ships. As soon as I was fairly sure which way was up and which way was down, I shot a web at the alien letters of a neon sign. Realizing that the heat of the lights was melting the web, I shot another straight down and latched onto the lens part of the holo-map. Nothing seemed to go right, because, guess what? The lens popped off.

Again, oops.

Using a now-stationary car as leverage, I shot straight down at where the lens was hurtling back up, and grabbed it. Keeping a firm grip on it, I determinedly shot another web out and this time, got the whole holo-map to bungee back towards me. But, just as things felt like they were going right, they fell apart again. Before I could grab it, it rocketed straight past my head, and onto the sidewalk platforms up above.

Need I say it again?

Swallowing my pride, I made my way back up to the sidewalk where I left Spider-woman. Reaching my hand onto her shoulder to get her attention, I took a deep breath.

"You'll never guess what happened--"

Just then, she turned around holding the holo-map. A smirk touched her lips. "I think I can guess what happened." She ignored my stammering by continuing, "I caught this, but I lost the lens. Did you see what happened to it?"

Silently and ashamed, I held out the web-covered lens.

"Well," she started, picking the web off, "At least it's not cracked..."

Here We Go...

Shortly after Spider-woman and I got the orders, I began running towards the edge of the landing platform. A shout stopped me in my tracks.

"Wait!" Spider-woman called frantically.

"What?" I shot back, a tad bit annoyed. Swinging around this city... planet... thing... was something I was starting to look forward to.

"Umm..." she started, rubbing her arms and looking down at her feet, "I can't exactly.. um... swing like you can."

OOPS.

"Should I just stay beh--"

"You can stick to walls, right? 'Cause if you can't why are you called SPIDER-Woman?" I asked, fighting the urge to laugh.

"Of course!"

I could feel her anger seeping out from behind her mask. Maybe I should learn to keep my mouth shut...

"Nevermind, I'll just stay behind." she turned in a huff and started stomping back towards the group.

"Wait," what was I saying?! "Come here, I need help navigating this city... or planet or whatever. I've swung around carrying someone before. It should be even better this time because you can stick to things, and I won't have to hold you?"

"Right," she nodded, smiling while walking back towards where I had stopped before.

"Now don't get any ideas... I'm a taken man..."

"Right," she said again. Somehow I knew there was a wink involved somewhere.

I swear, I get no respect from these guys...

And I thought the journey was over...

"So..." I asked the rest of the group, "When are we leaving?"

"We just got here!" Wolverine snarled in annoyance.

"I know that,what I meant was, when do we head to that meeting?" it was a good thing I was wearing a mask, because I rolled my eyes knowing full well ol' Wolfie wouldn't appreciate it. BEsides, I'm glad he couldn't see it, cause frankly, I'm scared to death of him.

Anyways, Cage set us straight that we had to appear before this "Galactic Senate" the sooner the better. After a few unsuccessful attempts to hail a cab, (They float! Isn't it awesome?) we decided to make our way as best as we could with the odd three-dimensional map they sent us. It would've been faster if I could've just swung on ahead, but apparently we're a 'unified team...' Last time I even mentioned anything like that, I got an hour lecture on how we superheroes have to stick together, and some of us aren't gifted with super travelling ablities, and yada yada yada... After three hours of backtracking and travelling up and down turbolifts, Cage finally agreed that Spider-Woman and I should swing ahead and send a cab back. This should be fun...