Was the figure still on fire? Was there a safe place she could grab him? Is the car now on fire?

Luckily, neither the car nor the figure were on fire now.

"What's the status on everything?" Mingmei asked her support team.

Treyvon had a solid place for her to go for the tournament; Leann had a costume finished.

"What about the fire department and the reporter?" Mingmei asked.

The sirens approaching answered the first question.  Apparently not much news about the second one.

Mingmei stuck around to make sure the firebug didn't cause any problems.

The situation appeared to be under control.

Was there any sign of that reporter?

...yep, there was Fred, now recording the fire department dealing with burning cars.

Mingmei teleported over to him.

"Hi!"

"Woah!" said Fred, jumping.

"Oh, it's you," he said, catching his breath.  "Sorry, you startled me.  So what's going on?"

"Oh. just some crazy pyro with fire powers and thought you might like the chance to get the scoop on it," Mingmei said.

"I am so there for that!" said Fred.  "There's been a bunch of these, too... do you know anything that you can tell me about them?"

"Not too much. I was just patrolling and found this guy setting cars on fire," Mingmei said.

"Is this one the first firebug you've met?" Fred asked.  "There have been others recently."

"Yeah, he was," Mingmei said. "That's pretty weird. I wonder why there's so many of them?"

"I don't know," said Fred.  "It's a real thing, though.  Also a bunch of people popping up with powers out of nowhere at a crazy rate."

"I have an investigation going that I'll let you know about when it's done," Mingmei said. "Look forward to that."

"I, and all my readers, will," said Fred.  "Keep us posted!"

"Anything else I can help you with?" Mingmei asked.

Fred started to say something and then apparently thought better of it.

"You're already amazing," he said.  "Keep that up."

"I'm going to head off, do you need a ride back home?" Mingmei asked.

"Well, sure!" said Fred.  "Thanks!"

Mingmei grabbed hold of him and began making a bunch of jumps back to Fred's apartment.