"We can discuss a team name if we decide to be one. For now we just need to decide if we're letting Edgy come with to the Bird Nest."

Looks around the group

"Which my vote is whatever, I don't care."

[i]They're going to keep using that term, 'bird nest', aren't they...[/i]

"Sure, let's get going. I bet this will be the start of something good." Sparrow said.

Sparrow continued his way to the base, and soon enough they would arrive. It was once an abandoned candy factory, roughly medium size. There was enough room for everyone, and Maria Page's resources cleaned everything up. While the outdoor part looked rather drab, it was the perfect cover. The inside of the space had an armory filled with his gadgets and weapons, a computer monitor on the wall, and a kitchen and living room. Of course, there were also video games and Netflix in case entertainment was needed. While the base itself was still a work in progress, it was eons better than what it was originally.

"Well, it may not be a fancy tower or a mansion, but that comes in the future, right? Welcome to my base."

The lights flicker and Hauntress is leaning on a wall. She looks around, hands in her pockets.

"Alright... The Bird Nest is pretty cool. Everyone get your dumb jokes out of the way early. Don't worry, I'll start. If you brought a special someone here it'd be a love nest. Cashed in your nest egg to build this? Getting a team together will be a real feather in your cap. Did you have a plan for this place or did you just wing it. It couldn't have been cheep to build this place... I think that's all I got right now."

"I survive mainly on brooding. And are you cooking now? I haven't eaten in..."

Hauntress does some mental calculations

"...A while. And all the talk about food has made me hungry."

She pulls down her hood revealing her mid-length hair, it's purple, dye probably, and she wears dark makeup around her eyes.

All those lame jokes made Sparrow role his eyes. When will the bird jokes end? It's not like he was the first superhero themed on an animal. Then he heard Nagual asking him some questions.

"Of course I stay healthy. Anything unhealthy I eat is immediately countered by the good food and water as well as my exercise regimen I have to maintain balance. I don't stay in peak physical condition by eating pizza and watching Netflix all day. Anyways, there's no traps to worry about..." He said, and then quickly thought of something. "...other than the cat cage...."

If people were going to make bird jokes, he would retort with some of his own whenever he got the chance.

Kate explored the base thoroughly, her blindsight allowing to plumb every single nook and cranny of the hideout. One of the areas she took special interest in was the armory, especially any melee weapons that were available, whether they be for practice or display.

After her onceover, she walked back over to where people were loitering and sought out Sparrow. "Impressive facility. I just hope nothing goes wrong with the security doors as it does so often in comic books. There's no telling how long we'd be... cooped up."

"Don't worry about me with regard to food and water. I'm solar powered, and water... is not good for me. I can resist it for a time so I can be in the rain but long-term exposure or digestion will kill me." She shrugs "I'm working on that."

"Anyway we told each other's names but what about abilities, what do we really bring to this and if things go bad can we fight? Like I said before I'm Empathic and telepathic. Combined with my cosmic energy I can heal others, it's easier to heal someone with a touch, but I can heal at a distance as well. It's a bit more draining that way but possible. I might be able to affect your bodies in other ways, trigger some Adredilin, clear your minds or such things. Just... um, I haven't had much practice doing more than basic healing and taking people's pain into myself."

"No I really can't read your minds but I hear them. Think of it as trying to follow a conversation in another language in a crowd and only catching half of what being said. At most I can tell if someone is focused on me. Now I can send my thoughts to someone else and affect how they think. I did it with some stray dogs and a car thief. Haven't had a chance to really see how much I can do with my telepathy. Causing harm even if it's in someone's mind I feel with my empathic sense."

Scarlet Striker, still hanging out in the living room, chimes in next with a rundown of what he can do.

"Well I haven't had my abilities for too long, but what I can do is create a red-colored, energy-enhanced punch within one or both my hands. The power behind it is pretty tremendous so I try not to use on non-powered people too much. Hence my namesake, 'Scarlet Striker'. Other than that I have exceptional levels of speed, strength, agility, and reflexes. I also have some degree of enhanced senses. Specifically when it comes to my vision. I can see a lot of fast-moving objects at a slower pace, allowing me to opportunity to dodge them and remain out of reach. And I think thats it. Oh and I also have mechanical know-how thanks to my dad. Its nothing like I can help repair a super-computer, but simple things like repairing a car maybe."

She smiles at Sparrow "Good thing you do have that training. Because I think the first thing we need to do is figure out if all these missing person cases are related. Like my m... Uncle tells me a predator hunts in its territory. So how about you get all the ongoing missing person cases involving teens on the computer. Then we can see if they follow a pattern. I would also like to know if Uber had really picked up... What was his name at the club?"

Then she looks at Nagual "There might be something to that shape changing. I don't know if anyone else noticed but your eyes do change from time to time."

Sticks out her tongue to Hauntress "You really make sure to get as much out of a joke even past it death don't you?"

"I'd be careful with all that talk on shape-shifting, Cat-Guy. I mean even if it is the slightest possibility of being a thing you can do, what if you succumb to some sort of unhinged, feral side that may come with your abilities?"

"Garfield here will be chasing laser pointers and sitting in boxes."

Hauntress Puls herself up to sit on a countertop.

"Hanging with you dorks is a lot more fun than I thought it'd be."

"And hey, can't complain about free food... Unless it sucks, I guess."

Takes the plate and digs in. Seems normal enough, food doesn't fall through her or any such thing.

"Hm. Not bad. Thanks, Garfield."

"Almost wish I could taste it. The lights here is enough of a snack till sunrise for me though." She finds a seat and settles down.

"You are right Hauntress this does beat a boring dead night."

"Sorry, Ghost-with-the-Most. I can't help myself sometimes, being all jumpy and stuff is kinda my thing. I'll also try to pretend that I didn't see you not be impressed by my amazing acrobatics. But any who, yes schools and hangouts would be a good jumping on point."

Scarlet takes the plate that was slid over to him and would lift his mask up just enough past his mouth and nose to where he can eat.

"Granted though, given the city we live in we shouldn't be afraid to assume these kidnappings can or could be completely random. But that's bridge we'll burn once we get to it. Also Cat-Guy, this breakfast scramble is dah bomb. I think you'd make my mom jealous."

"Anybody good at hacking? Short of a court order, I can't think of any other way to find out if the uber pickup was legit or even if it happened or if any of the others were picked up by uber or lyft before they disappeared... Unless there was a camera in the right place... Can you pass that Tabasco?"

Scarlet adds on to the conversation with a mouthful of food.

"Mm, don't look at me. I barely know how to operate an IPad...*lip smack*...Shocking I know, but Birdbrain has all the fancy equipment here. And we could contact the Aurora Police Station, however I imagine that would be at the expense of them finding something before us."

He continues his popping and smacking of food and nommy goodness.

Kate approached the group and sat quietly, taking in everything that was being discussed and contemplating it, trying to put the important clues together while discarding the chaff. "Thank you for the food, Nagual."

She grabbed a fork and took a bite, then shook her head and put the utensil down. She got up and headed to the fridge. "You're from New York, bird boy, so I KNOW you've got some Frank's stashed around here. Don't make me sniff it out." she said, her tone full of teasing.

"Lets sure as hell hope they're not being killed and then dumped somewhere. I had thought on the idea of going undercover, but alas there's the risk of someone being detected as having powers."

"You could just invest in contact lenses."

Hauntress finishes up the last of the food on her plate which floats itself over to the sink

"In my person's case the cops already know they're missing but are turning up blank. Which is why someone was dumb enough to try to summon me Bloody Mary style. I don't think an undercover opp will work as we don't know why they're targeting who they are, if it's random or some sort of connecting factor we yet don't know. Also runs the risk of adding another to the needs finding pile... But just cause it's a bad idea doesn't mean we'll have many other options."

"You are really forthcoming with information about yourself. I'm right there with you on the money front, for other reasons... Obviously. Needless to say I have none, but I have my ways of getting what I need."

Hauntress pockets her hands once again.

"And, of course, Sparrow doesn't have any powers to detect or sap. Although you might want to limit your gear to stuff that looks harmless and won't scare them off if they search you. And, do you have any communication or tracking gear that won't get taken away? If we can find out where they're holding the kids, and if they don't have any teleport jammers..."

"Whoever you want to be, I guess. Some of us don't have that luxury."

Hauntress adjusts her hair slightly after seeing her reflection in Starlight.

"Well what else is there that we can possibly do? I'm pretty certain that most of us are not going to be open to the idea of putting a big sign on someone's back saying, 'Please kidnap me'."

"That doesn't fill me with confidence with regards to the whole 'Blind superhero' thing."

Hauntress shrugs

"I wasn't aware costume equaled competence. Though I had wondered where you guys got your tights."

Edit: fixed a typo

Broach nodded at both Hauntress' and the Striker's comments. "So unless someone figures out a way to find the kidnappers, or to make ourselves better bait, we're stuck with Uber. If we try the local offices, we can get a three hour head start on trying the 'Frisco offices." She set her empty plate in the sink and ran hot water over it. Then she put a card under a magnet on the fridge. "If anyone needs me before seven, the number's on the fridge. Catch you guys later!" She went out the exit before opening a portal elsewhere.

"Indeed. Why don't we split up tomorrow and investigate? You guys check out the kidnapping sights, I'll go ask Uber to see if they ever picked Immanuel up. I'm sure they'll answer a crimefighter. Speaking of which, what other kidnappings do you think are linked to the same person? I'm kind of new in town, so I'm not yet adjusted to how everything has been going here."

“I’m not skilled in the crime fighting arts. Guess I’m more supportive in nature. So I might need to be with someone who been trained in detective work”. she taps her chin with her finger “One more thing how would we communicate with each other?”

"Yeah, I think we should have nothing to worry about. I doubt we'll really run into any trouble while investigating these locations, but it would best if we had some kind of communication system"

Scarlet places a hand on his chin, thinking for a brief minute.

"Hm, I'm not the greatest when it comes to decision making, but I think two to a location should work just fine. More importantly I think those who's missing person...well went missing in somewhat close proximity to another district one of us may patrol should pair up."

"In other words, lets say Cat-Guy's missing person went missing in between Aurora and Highpoint. I regularly patrol Aurora and Cat-Guy regularly patrols Highpoint. Then we would pair up and scout those districts."

“That sounds good and I figure we can meet up after school. If we do discover something what should we do?” She stood up and stretched a bit. “It be smart to get together before splitting up to search “

"I think meeting up somewhere could work, it can act as a better way to actually exchange any gathered information. A coffee shop wouldn't be a bad place to meet up at, or we could even hit up Victory Beach. I hear that place can actually be quite the getaway."

"Hey! That is...only partially true...somewhat...shut up..."

"It'd probably be a better idea to just not meet at that specific coffee shop then. No chance for her to overhear anything that'd make her think you're crime fighting if she's nowhere near to hear."

Hauntress slides herself off the countertop she was sitting on

Nods to BE as she takes her bow and then looks to remaining residents of Sparrow's Bird Nest.

"I guess this is where we all go our separate ways until we meet again? It is getting late and I'm sure most of have places to be. Like me for instance, I think my bed is calling my name and I owe a friend a phone call."

Scarlet walks over to the window Nagual opened being that it was going to be his way of exiting as well, doors are for squares.

"Definitely, the sooner the better. Last thing we need is for any possibly trail left behind to go cold."

"Sounds like a plan. We'll find these kids and bring their kidnapper to justice...or whatever generic superhero thing I'm supposed to say during moments like this."

Hauntress left the meeting of heroes without a word. She was there one moment and gone the next. Though the chill of her presence remained.

Hauntress fades into sight in a nearby alley, becoming fully solid before stepping out into the plaza. She wears the same clothes as yesterday. With hood up, and hands in pockets as she makes her way towards her heroic acquaintance.

Upon stepping in front of Crystal she looks her over.

"You have good taste in ponies, at least... Also hello. I thought about sneaking up behind you but..."

Hauntress shrugs.