Unstoppable Spiderlings

Episode 1: Five Spiders

"Hurry up and load it in, lady!" The robber's fist loosens around the bag and wraps around the collar of the cashier's shirt. The light pink cloth stretches upward as he pulls her closer to his face. "I got somewhere to be, and you lollygagging isn't helping matters. In fact, it's making me rather angry."

"Uh, boss?" One of the other robbers turns back from the window he was peering out of, his eyes looking a bit worried for some reason. He points his thumb at the window and continues, "We might have a-"

"QUIET, Reggie! Can't you see I'm in the middle of something here?" The main robber fixes his ski mask by tugging on the bottom of it. He clears his throat loudly and turns back to the blonde woman. "Now, if you don't want your employees limp on the floor you're going to do exactly what I say."

The front door to the convenient store rings as it's opened, but no one sees who it is. Reggie seems to be pulled to the ceiling by a white substance, and a crazy yellow string captures the rest of the robbers like a snaky rope. A black and silver figure hops around the aisles of the convenient store, as if it was looking for something, and a bright blue one crawls upside down from the ceiling. The robber holding the woman only turns around when he says, "Reg, get the bag," and doesn't get a response.

He sees all of his men strung up by mostly yellow strings, some of them white. His eyes widen when he sees the blue figure sitting between two of them on the ceiling. She waves, her eyes smiling, as another one taps his shoulder. The robber turns around in fear to gaze upon a tall costumed man, wearing grey and dark blue with bright teal webs on his arms, legs, and face. The costumed man raises one of the long blades over his head and says, "Hasta la vista!" before sticking just the tip of it into the robber's shoulder.

The robber scrunches up in pain for just a moment and then his entire body goes limp. He falls to the floor, asleep. The cashier puts a hand over her chest as she is still short of breath and looks around the store in shock. Her eyes go from the costumed man in dark blue to the girl in brighter colors, still sticking to the ceiling.

The hood on the sweatshirt of the upside down female sways behind her head, wishing to reach the ground since she seems to be defying gravity. She pokes one of the robbers in the face and says, "And all I wanted to do was buy myself some shampoo. Shadow, got a lead on them yet?"

"No, they're harder to find than me." The shadow that the woman saw turns out to be another one of these costumed people. He sits down in the middle of an aisle, legs crossed and a small computer on his lap. It looks so old, or maybe because he most likely made it from scraps. "Aaaand their signal is gone completely. This was a bust."

"I thought you were supposed to be the tech-smart sibling." A new one dangles from the ceiling from yellow strings. He has a light grey uniform with yellow shoulder armor, boots, and a blue tank top. There is a distorted symbol of the Olympic Rings in the middle of his shirt as well. "You know, engineer, likes to build working computers out of legos sort of guy."

"All of your yapping in my ear is really helping, Olympic Spider. Why don't you go flip over and take inventory of all the guys you caught," the costumed man in black and silver says, his tone obviously annoyed.

"Boys, save it for the bad guys won't you?" Both of them turn around to see a female in a bright green costume layered in a white webbed design. She has her blonde hair up in a ponytail which is pulled through her mask. Crossing her arms, the woman turns her head so she's looking to the side and says in a louder voice, "Nitro, got everything wrapped up back there?"

"Quite literally." The tall one leans on the front desk, helping the cashier put the money back in the machine. "Hey, you think my stingers need less of a... sting?"