Spider-Luz

Ch. 11: Test Drive

Later, when Luz thought Eda was asleep, she put on the outfit she wore when she saved Amity from those muggers, and opened the window. She climbed out of it, onto the roof, and closed the window behind her. She let out a breath and began running. She jumped off the roof and held her hand out. She fired a web and began to swing. She screamed a bit from the sudden realization that she was doing something incredibly dangerous. She let go of the web and stuck to the wall.

"Okay... I can swing from a web." Luz said, as she climbed to the roof, "This is a lot bigger than the Café, but it could be good to practice on."

Luz looked at the tall buildings in the distance and decided to jump off the roof and fire another web.

'Pretend you're Tarzan! Pretend you're Tarzan!' Luz thought as she grabbed the web line and began to swing with it, screaming all the way.

Somehow, she wasn't afraid of swinging without looking and just let her body do all the moving for her. Luz just felt it knew what to do and knew it wouldn't kill her as she swung once more and jumped off the web line. She fired a web at the roof and zipped at it, landing on the roof and looking out to the city. Luz was breathing heavily with a smile on her face, feeling so much adrenaline from swinging high above New York City!

"Yeah... I did that." Luz said.

Luz took a few deep breaths to calm down and smiled, putting her hands on her hips and nodding...before throwing them into the air.

"I JUST FUCKING DID THAT, FUCK YEAH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Luz cheered with a laugh doing a little dance on the roof top. "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! This is sooo cool!

Once she calmed down enough, Luz sat on the edge of the roof to feel the wind blow past her to cool her off.

"I have superpowers... this is so cool."

"I think we have a difference of opinion on that." A voice said, making Luz jolt in place!

'No way, she couldn't be here!' Luz thought, slowly turning around.

She turned around and saw an annoyed Aunt.

"Aunt Eda! I... I can explain." Luz said.

"I'm listening." Eda said, crossing her arms.

'When did she even follow me?!' Luz thought.

"Well?" Eda asked.

"Uhm... well..." Luz said.

"Well, what?" Eda asked, scolding Luz with a bored expression on her face.

"It all started...with that tour of Blight industries, remember?" Luz said to her aunt.

"Yes."

"Well, on the tour, Amity told us about some genetic mutation experiments." Luz said.

"Uh huh." Eda said, still looking at Luz sternly.

"And...one of them my have gotten out and MIGHT have bitten me." Luz said as she scratched her head a bit, embarrassed. "It MAY haven been the reason I came home so sick that day. It kinda gained...spider powers, ehehehehe."

Eda gave Luz an annoyed look.

"We're going home... right now." Eda said.

"What? But I'm still-"

"NOW, young lady." Eda said with a glare that made Luz shut up, "I'm supposed to take care of you, and letting you swing around the concrete jungle is not helping."

"Well, you're right but how did YOU get up here exactly? How did you even follow me without me knowing?" Luz asked.

"Keep asking questions, and I'll ground you." Eda said, "Now go."

Eda pointed to the left, right towards a maintenance door that lead downstairs.

"The stairs?" Luz asked.

"Yes, the stairs. At least until we reach an elevator but you're not swinging from this rooftops, do you understand me?" Eda said with a firm lip, "If it wouldn't result in you getting dissected, I would look for a way to reverse this."

Luz shivered a bit at the thought of being dissected and just did as her aunt wanted, walking to the roof door and broke it open.

'Note to self, DO NOT let Blight Industries know about me.' Luz thought as she and Eda walked down the stairway.

'Damn it, Kid, you're going to give me a heart attack.' Eda thought.

Elsewhere, Lilith was walking into the police station, when she was greeted by her partner.

"Glad you could make it." Steve said.

"I got the call. Is it true, is the person that kill Camila connected to Blight Industries?" Lilith asked.

"It's heavily implied, but until we can get direct evidence, there's nothing but speculation." Steve said, "We're on stakeout duty."

"Good, let me know the moment they see anything suspicious." Lilith said with a firm expression.

'Odalia, Alador, I don't care if you are old friends; I will throw you both in the deepest cell I can find if you are responsible for my little sisters death.' Lilith thought as she clenched her fists.