[center][h3][color=crimson][u]Marcus // ???[/u][/color][/h3][/center]

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[h2]* z w i n g *[/h2]

[color=crimson]Gah, what the--?![/color]

[i]That constant buzzing suddenly turned razor-sharp, practically tugging Marcus backwards as he swung. He twisted in midair, expecting... what, an ambush? A stray pigeon? Strand?

What he got was a rapidly-approaching shock of pink.[/i]

[color=crimson]Um??[/color]

[i]Before he had a chance to course correct, the pink blur did it for him, firing out a[/i] web--

[color=crimson][b]UM??[/b][/color]

[i]--and trying to swing around him... clipping a fire escape, spinning through the air, and crashing back-first, upside-down, onto the adjoining building. Marcus had slowed his own swing using the very same fire escape, and was now wall-crawling toward the unfortunate masked fellow as he babbled about... something. Marcus blinked, raising the visor on his helmet to stare down the interloper.

His eyes went from the...[/i] abundance [i]of pink, to the medically-masked face, to the weird, complex gadgets on the man's wrists. They[/i] did [i]match the descriptions of something he'd heard of Strand having, but... no. Not like this. Not pasted to a wall, upside-down. That's definitely not Strand.[/i]

[color=crimson]"...Should I be insulted that you thought my first instinct would be to punch you?"[/color]

[i]And then the[/i] third [i]voice cropped up out of nowhere, and Marcus turned toward the fire escape to see[/i] yet another [i]masked figure. It was like a convention for weirdos.

So, a convention.

Marcus glanced between Upside-Down and Right-Side-Up, back and forth, before speaking again.[/i]

[color=crimson]"...Well [i]one[/i] of us is gonna have to change."[/color]

[i]Lame joke deployed, Marcus lowered his visor once again, looking to the third swinger of the night, so far.[/i]

[color=crimson]"So, uh... I don't suppose you've also got the, uh... 'skin condition' thing we've got going on?"[/color] [i]said Marcus, motioning between himself and P!nk with his thumb.[/i] [color=crimson]"'Cause this seems like the kind of night for weird coincidences like that."[/color]

[@Azure Bubbles][@soren]