Xia and Heather made it to the Beagle Newspaper building, Xia went into the storage room in the back to change out of her school uniform and into something more business casual,
"I gotta go change, see you tomorrow" She said and the two hugged and parted for the day.
The Asian girl changed into a white blouse with little blue, vertical stripes tucked into a navy pencil skirt with 3 inch blue heels. Her shoulder length black hair was tied into a tight ponytail with her black, somewhat big glasses.
Xia didn't want to tell Heather that while she was a photographer, she mainly took pictures for fluff pieces, her sexist boss treats her as his personal secretary. Her boss, Patrick Peterson, had the dress code call for all female employees to wear skirts instead of comfortable trousers like the male employees. Because of this she couldn't wear her costume underneath her clothes and had to stash it in the corner closet that no one uses.
After checking in with her boss, who had her bring him coffee and organize files, all the while she forced herself to put on a smile and happily do the work an assistant should be doing with a polite "yes Mr.Peterson", "of course Mr.Peterson", and "is there anything I can get you l, Mr.Peterson?".
It was in the middle of the day, when Xia was running copies, that the villainess known as "Quicksand" crashed through the corner of the building. Everyone was knocked back, Xia was pined under a filing cabinet, while she could easily lift it off, there were others around and the girl couldn't give away her identity. So she begrudgingly feigned struggling and even gave a weak, "h-help...I'm trapped, ohhh!"
One of her coworkers, Rob, tried to get to her but was blasted back by a wave of sand. Then the cabinet was pushed off and Xia found herself being picked up by a sandy arm. The villainess pulled the dark haired girl closer,
"Ha, pathetic!" The sand woman scoffed and threw her to the left.
The Asian girl's body smacked against the wall, cracking it slightly.
"Now that wasn't very nice." A slightly mechanical voice announced.
Quicksand shifted to look back at the iron clad heroine known as Iron Maiden. She wore a high tech, mechanized suit with gold colored plates and black accents.
Suddenly Quicksand whipped her arm to grab Xia, her sixth sense alerted her to the danger but she was too dazed to react quick enough. The sand appendage wrapped around her and slung her out the window, glass shattered and cut up her back. The 16 year old found herself screaming, " aaaaaaahhhh! heeeeeeeeelp!" Despite not being afraid of heights and swinging through the air regularly.
She heard the sound of lasers and fighting but was too worried about falling to her death, not able to use her powers to save herself without exposing herself as DarkSpider.
Thankfully Iron Maiden jets down and catches the falling girl.
"...Th-thank you..." she squeaks out a little embarrassed at not being able to save herself and having another Hero save her.
Iron Maiden flies her back up to the building and sets her down. Iron Maiden then turned and flew off to the opposite building where Quicksand was attempting to flee.