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[out_of_time]

WHO: Jack Bauer and the Amazing Spider-Man
WHERE: Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan
WHEN: Backdated to Saturday night
WARNINGS: Violence and arachnid puns
SUMMARY: Man-eating spiders are on the loose in the City, and Jack's unarmed. He's not happy with this combination.
FORMAT: Quicklog

[There were times Jack absolutely loathed the conditions attached to his release from NOHoPE into D.O.I. custody. Getting back from an alternate universe and having to spend hours giving a painstaking account of his whereabouts and activities was one. Another was hearing screams from a park the next damn day, finding giant spiders spinning webs in the trees, and not having a sidearm on hand to engage them with. As a dangerous ex-fugitive, Jack was barred from access to lethal weaponry, which left him with nothing but his cell phone and his frustration.]

What do you mean the police are chasing wildebeest on Broadway? I am a federal agent and this is an emergency situation, I have reasons to believe there are civilians in jeopardy. I need immediate backup at- Hello?

[Jack scowled at the phone. Its connection had just cut out. Whatever was happening in the City was absolutely jamming the lines for emergency calls. Jack had seen some of it himself, vines slithering out of the pavement to wrap around buildings, monkeys swinging from lamp posts. Right now though, the park took priority. The park, and those damn spiders up above.]

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[incywincyhero]

From Planet of the Ape-fish straight to George of the Jungle, I swear...

[Spider-Man's early evening patrol had been quiet enough, until the vines burst out of nowhere and wrapped themselves around every building in sight. One had snagged his ill-timed web-line and he'd faceplanted straight into the nearest greenery-covered facade. Peter Parker would have some interesting facial bruises to explain tomorrow. For tonight, Spidey had shaken off his embarrassment and plunged back into the fray. So far he'd corralled a pack of hyenas in an evacuated Starbucks, helped a jogger rescue her dog from quicksand and narrowly dodged a probably poisonous flower barb aimed at a place no barb should ever be.

The same screams that attracted Jack's attention now snagged his, and he arrives in the park only moments behind the other man.]

Out of curiosity, have you never heard of a day off? What seems to be the prob -- oh. Damn.

[Why did it have to be giant spiders?]