[ The aim of the game was to get herself into enough trouble that a vigilante would be alerted, but not more trouble than she could handle. That was a fine, fine, dangerous line, and Pepper wasn't quite positive that she could pull it off. The months of training that Bruce had given her felt a very, very long ways away---she was still healing from her various surgeries, and her range of motion wasn't back to full swing yet. Still, she had a lot more fire than the average office diva, so she hoped that'd be enough.

The Park Row alley was pitch black and ominous.

Yes, Pepper thought to herself. Yes, it looks like I could definitely get mugged here. ]