The smoke stung Kaydi's eyes deeply, and she could barely breathe through the clouds of black billowing into the the distracting pain of sitting amongst shoes and umbrellas and hanging clothes her seven year old eyes could spot the orange glow flickering through the spaces of the closet doors. This light was scary instead of comforting, as light should be; light never burned up her room or the hallways of the apartment. Light didn't choke her and blind her every so often. Except, maybe now.

It was getting close to where she was, in that cramped closet. Kaydi huddled back a bit more into the corner of the room and frantically pushed a few pairs of shoes in front of her, hoping that just maybe it would keep the fires back. The sound of crackling flames was loud, but not enough to mask the sounds of the floor making awful moaning sounds. She even felt everything shift to the right a little bit in a sudden snap, and that's when she shut her eyes tightly. Kaydi curled herself into a sobbing ball, shuddering in pure fear while the flames only got closer and closer to the closet doors. She shrieked when the doors suddenly swung open, thinking that the fire was about to swallow her whole.

"Woah! Hey! Hey! It's okay!"

Kaydi frowned; fire doesn't talk. The little girl looked up towards the source of the voice and gasped.

"Yeah. I look funny. I know...C'mon. Whaddaya say we get outta here, huh?"

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"I have to go in there- My Daughter's still inside!" The woman frantically shoved herself against the fire fighter in a desperate attempt to get past him. Even if weren't for him being clearly stronger, there were still four other fire fighters nearby that would notice the commotion.

"I understand that!" He responded gently. The man knew that, with the rate the building was burning at, the little girl had to get out of there fast. "But the building's already crumbling from the base, the whole thing will come down on top of you!"

The mother tried again from a different angle, narrowing her eyes intensely at him. "I DON'T CARE! I have to get her out!"

"Ma'am! We'll get her out!" The fire fighter struggled; geez, she was actually stronger than she looked. "We're working on getting the ladder close enough for us to get in!"

"Move back! Move back! Everybody, go go!" A police officer abruptly bellowed from their side, followed by the loudest crackling sounds ever heard in that night. The west side of the apartment some sixty feet away from the crumbled downwards to the concrete soil. The firefighter was broken out of his startled stupor by the screams of citizens and shouts of parademics fleeing the area, picking up the struggling woman sadly.

The rest of the building fell in a domino-like fashion, each section that hit the ground affected the next section. The whole thing collapsed when the last part of the building gave out, but a tiny blur swung out of the window just before it was smashed. The blur went unnoticed by the watchers below until a wet slapping sound was detected at the the corner of a nearby lamp post, and then the sound of feet thudding on a car roof.

To the left, a figure was crouched almost majestically upon the roof of an ambulance van. The figure, aside from soot, was dressed in dark blue spandex pants below a red long-sleeved spandex shirt that appeared tight against the figure's body and outlined obvious feminine curves, along with the black Web pattern. While toeless socks adorned the small feet of the figure, fingerless gloves attended to the hands and outlined two distinctively built watches with tiny nozzles. A huge red fabric was pulled over the figure's entire head like some kind of mask, and tinted lenses sat where the eyes would be. The chest of the shirt had the symbol of a spider, but it was blocked by the body of a little girl.

"Kaydi!" The woman cried suddenly, rushing towards the vehicle while anyone nearby simply watched in surprise.

"Mommy! " The little girl squirmed happily. The figure leaned forward and held out the girl with a hidden smirk.

"Yeah see?" The vigilante's voice was unmistakably female, albeit slightly muffled."I told you I'd get you back to your Mom!"

The mother tearfully took hold of her child and hugged her about as tightly as one could imagine, and the girl did the same as best as she could. "...Oh, I-I'm sorry, Honey...I should have taken you w-with me..."

The little girl managed to grin at her. "It's okay! She saved me! She's really cool!"

"...th...thank you..." Was the sniffling show of gratitude towards the vigilante, who was watching them in silence for the moment.

"Uh...Any-Any time..." The figure stuttered, nodded curtly and leaped to her feet in a nonchalant movement, as if getting ready to leave. Although it was hard to be certain, the figure looked at Kaydi with a soft chuckle. "Er, Great daughter you have! Bravest girl I've met in a while. And that's coming from me."


"Thank you, Spider-man!" The little girl beamed in a sing song tone while her mother smiled. Piper didn't seem to notice this, as she was more focused on being confused for Spider-man himself. She didn't really know what to think of that, or how to think of it. For now she'd take it as a compliment, she guessed.

Wolf Spider gave another nod and leaped away from the recovering masses, air rippling her otherwise tight costume and making her thankful for the wind resistant lenses. Her signature hand movement occurred and a thin Web line smacked onto the corner of a roof, allowing her to swing around using momentum move down that block a little bit faster.

A strange rumble vibrated her entire body, and she looked down at her flat stomach in disapproval. Fighting hunger had been fun for a while, but now she was in desperate of a fast burger...or a taco. Something that was undeniably cheap at least. New York wasn't known for that, but as soon as she made her way back to her dorm and changed into more civilian attire , Piper would do a little patrolling for a decent bite.

Dante and Lady Death Wail had been simply enjoying the night on the town. They could usually be found roaming the streets at night anyways, likely part of his natural feline mannerisms. He was a bit of a stray cat, showing up when he wanted to. He was a part time student at Jean Grey's and a part time Teen Titan. In the mean time he was just roaming, a bit of a gypsy really. He could smell the fire on the air and was about to head that way when he heard the building collapse. Yes he thought of himself as a hero, just not a particularly good or useful hero. So there he sat, feet dangling from a gargoyle and Lady Death Wail the Magnificent curled up on his lap, purring as he pet her. As usual he as simply wearing a pair of shorts but had a bag with him that had the rest of his clothes. He hated wearing clothes and usually stuck to just shorts or occasionally pants in the colder months. Hell the top of his combat uniform was only there because it had body armor and while he could duck, he just rarely managed to.

As always the image inducer on his wrist was on hiding his true feline humanoid form, a form almost no one had actually seen. Sure a lot of people suspected something, but he kept his disguise up. It wasn't a great disguise since it was only visual and touching him would just bring about the feel of fur. But as he sat there he suddenly realized he was hungry.

"What are you in the mood for Lady Death Wail?.........No, I don't want seafood again...........Yeah tacos sound good. I think I saw a truck about a block or two from here."

He set Lady Death Wail down and proceeded to climb down the side of the building. With his claws and free climbing skills that was rather simple. But this building was rather simple. He ran across the ledge and jumped to the next roof before climbing down the rest of the way to the street. He knew he didn't need to look to make sure Lady Death Wail was coming. She was always close behind anyways. He ignored the odd looks he got for being barefoot and in only shorts in September. Yes it was somewhat chilly but he was fine. Sure enough Lady Death Wail came strolling out of an alley and ended up beside him.

"You know I can carry you."

Lady Death Wail made a sound that seemed to the vocal equivalent of rolling her eyes. He heard the 'thwip' of a spider's web nearby and shrugged. So far he'd heard about three different ones roaming around the city. He'd only seen Spider-Girl, mostly because she was also a teacher at Jean Grey's. He'd wondered if they were related or not, but also likely would never ask. As he neared the taco truck he heard some yelling and saw a man running from the truck with a cask box.

"Hey!"

Dante yelled before taking off after the man. The guy was quick, but not enough. Dante dropped to all fours which more than doubled his speed and allowed him to catch up. Dante jumped, pouncing on the man only to be deflected by some sort of force field the guy had forcing Dante to bounce off the hood of a parked car. Dante looked down and saw Lady Death Wail looking up at him.

"Not a word...."

He said with a groan before getting up and taking off after the man again.

She hadn't even gotten to swing that far away from the burning building when a yell caused her to look down; a guy was being chased by another guy on all fours...strange but not enough to actually frighten her. The young woman shot back to the taco cart to check on the owner of the truck, while briefly scanning the menu. "You're okay right? What'd he take?"

"The cash reigister! Ripped it straight outta here!" The owner pointed to an empty space next to him, where torn cable lay.

"Oh. That's unfortunate. I'll go get it back." She responded briskly, firing two weblines that sped forward past the fleeing men and splattered against the corner of a street wetly. She tugged back on the lines as far as she could be fore jumping up and letting her body be pulled by the stretchy cables, zooming ahead of the strangely running guy...and a cat,before making a grab for the man in front. A force field met her bare fingers, which somehow managed to stick to the invisible surface after slipping a bit. Never gripped a force field before... She thought to herself, and hoisted her body on top of the unseen circle. She sat down on the surface as if she were riding on a horse, making the man look up in shock.

"Keep going, Bucko! We'll catch up to 'em!" Piper joked, pretending to crack a whip in the air.

(Sorry about the short length)

Dante pulled himself to his feet, his back was killing him. Lady Death Wail hopped up on the hood of the car and simply stared at Dante as a woman in red and blue shot past him. Some Spider woman seemed to be after the same guy.

"No, there's no way she noticed me. Please I'm only a small time member of the Titans. Hell most don't even realize that I'm a member."

He said getting to his feet and taking off after them. It was impressive the way she could cling to the forcefield. He wasn't even sure it was possible really. Then again he had no idea about her powers so he'd cross that bridge when he came to it. He got down to all fours which helped him catch up.

"Hang on Spider-chick!"

He yelled as he copied the man's forcefield power and jumped, slamming into the man, knocking everyone into a dumpster. The man had turned down an alley trying to get away. That or her was going to try and run Piper into a low hanging fire escape. Dante using the force field allowed him to not bounce off so hard like last time. He turned off the force field and slid to a stop.

"I don't suppose you have hand cuffs on you."

He asked with a shrug. Lady Death Wail jumped on top of the cash register and sat there calmly. She hissed as the man looked towards it. He held the guy down and looked towards Piper looking for some sort of help. He had no way of actually restraining the guy, let alone also signaling the police. But catching thieves was more of a Spier thing than X-Man or Teen TItan thing. He really needed to work on that.