Another Universe

Fire

-Chapter 1-

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"And this is the gym baby bro" Tadashi point to the gym behind the wide open glass doors. Hiro shrugs, not interested in a gym, but someone catches his eye. Tadashi goes to walk off but Hiro catches his cardigan.

"Who's that?" Hiro points at a blonde girl in the gym. She's punching a punching bag at a rapid pace.

"I don't know her name or anything about her. She never says anything, she spends all day in the gym. And she never shows up to lunch or classes." Hiro looks at his brother confused.

"That's strange, and her abilities don't seem very human, have you got baymax to scan her?" Hiro questions, Tadashi shakes his head no.

"Every time someone goes near her she leaves. I can't imagine how fast she left if she saw a huge walking marshmallow come near her. Wait watch this." Two people enter the gym and the girl quickly picks up her stuff before leaving the gym through the other doors.

"She's weird."
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Gwen

I leave the gym and quickly make my way out of the school before it 'ends'. I plug my headphones in and walk my way to the motel I'm currently staying in. As I reach my room I take out my key and unlock the door.

I throw my bag onto the floor before walking over to the small fridge and opening it. To reveal nothing inside it, but I see the money on the countertop beside me. I groan as I realise I have to go get food.

As I walk through town my sunglasses scan the area for a good food place. It locates me to a cafe 'Lucky Cat Cafe'. I shrug and take my glasses off and place them in my pocket. This place is really busy, I walk up to the counter and spot a boy a few years older than me taking orders. My turn arrives and the boy seems surprised to see me but I shrug it off.

"What can I get you today miss?" His cheerful tone enters my ears.

"Um what is the cheapest and healthiest thing you have please?" The boy scans the menu looking for me.

"It would be a chicken Cesar salad!"

"I'll take that then please, oh and can I get a water bottle with that." He nods and I pay before grabbing my order and quickly leaving. As I exit the door I bump into a person.

"Sorry." I apologise to the dark skinned man I front of me, he has others behind him who I guess to be his friends.

"No problem, hey you go to SFIT right? I've seen you mostly at the gym." He asks me.

"Yep, that's me. Anyway I gotta go see you soon." I quickly walk away as the group stares at me confused.

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As I am updating my sunglasses I hear a knock on my lab door. I turn around and see Callaghan at the door.

"Mr Callaghan, how can I help you?" I ask him as I stand up.

"Good to see you working so hard on this wonderful night Ms Stacy." I rub my hand on the back of my neck.

"Well you didn't give me this lab for no reason." He laughs at my statement.

"Well you do have a brilliant mind, anyway I would like to remind you that tonight is showcase night and I think you should go have a look and relax." I sigh at his request.

"I guess I should." I pack up and place my glasses in my pocket before shutting my lab and saying a quick goodbye to Callaghan. I enter the showcase and have a quick look around. I stop by a station about radioactive animal DNA.

"If we are to fuse radioactive animal or insect DNA with a human think of the possibilities!" I freeze at that statement before hurriedly walking away. I see a boy around my age doing a showcase about so called micro bots. I stay and listen in interest.

He finishes his presentation and as I am walking away I see the group from the cafe and the young boy and the other boy who served me. They wave at me and I wave back before making my way into the bathroom, I lean against the sink and stare into my reflection.

"Miss you Pete..." I whisper sadly. All of a sudden my spider senses flare, I quickly press my web shooters onto my wrists and take off my clothes, revealing my spider suit. I throw my mask in and rush over to the door, I touch the door knob but it's hot to the touch, I kick the door down and am met with a fiery ablaze building.

I run around the building looking for anyone in the building. My senses go off as I see a beam about to fall on top of me, I grab it, the beam burning the fabric of my suit. I throw it to the side and continue my way through the fire. I see a figure in the distance and I rush up to him, it's the guy from the cafe.

"Sir! What are you thinking being in here!" He stares at me with shock in his eyes.

"Professor Callaghan is still in here! I have to find him!" I shake my head at his statement as he starts to cough.

"I'll find him come on!" I grab his wrist and start to rush through the ablaze building. All of a sudden my spider senses start to alert rapidly. Before I can comprehend what is happening a explosion rings through the building knocking the boy from my hold.

"TADASHI!" I hear a voice yell through my dizziness, I jump to my feet as I hear coughing a few metres away from me. The boy is lying on the ground, covered in blood and ash. I rip my mask off and press it to his biggest gash, trying to stop his bleeding.

"You're the girl from the cafe! Your only a teenager... you have to get out of here." He coughs with pain, I shake my head.

"N-no not before I get you out of here! I can't let someone else die!" A beam falls on top of us, my body stopping it from crushing the guy.

"I'm sorry..." I feel myself get pushed away and another stack of debris falls on top of the guy.

"NO" I rush over to him and pull his body out of the debris. Checking his pulse, nothing. I let out a cry and put my blood stained mask back on and pull the guy out of the building. Another boy is standing there, micro-bit boy. I lay the lifeless boy onto the ground as the other comes rushing over and starts crying over his body.

"I-I'm so sorry." The grieving boy cries over the body and I take my leave, quickly swinging to my motel room. I open the door and rip my mask off sobbing hysterically.

"I failed again... maybe I'm not cut out for this after all..."