Mara Lee is just your regular teenage girl living a double life as New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Woman. Until one fateful day when she's thrown through a strange orange portal and everything she's ever known changes drastically. Trapped in...
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A person can only handle so much shit before they eventually explode.
That's the reality I was facing as I lunged for the wide-eyed thugs, slicing my stingers across their chests, watching as they slowly froze up, paralyzed by my venom.
Large doses could cause death.
I was hitting them with just enough to stop their movement.
The third criminal eyed his two fallen comrades and promptly turned on his heels, darting for the doorway, but I was soon after him, wrapping him in a net of webs, and puncturing his arm until he went limp.
I felt my mind slowly ease into clarity, lulled by the physicality of my motion, my focus centering on the threat before me.
I wasn't in my room.
They weren't coming for me again.
I wasn't suffocating.
I was in control.
I was safe.
I took a deep breath, feeling my spider senses relax; the excruciating buzzing softening into a quiet hum of security.
My stingers slid back into place and I wiped my hands on my costume.
When I turned around, both Bakugo and Kirishima were staring at me, eyes wide, faces painted in confusion.
"Respectfully," the redhead ventured after a moment of calming his shock. "What the fuck."
Bakugo's reaction was much quieter.
He didn't say anything; he just looked at me like he was gauging something, his eyes sliding down to my arms, observing the hole from which my stingers had emerged. His eyebrows pinched together slightly before he realized I was watching him. He met my stare, clearing his throat.
"Paralysis?" he asked, voice level.
I nodded. "Poisonous in larger doses."
He tapped his foot absentmindedly on the ground. "Hm."
Kirishima's eyes darted between us, obviously confused. "How am I the only shocked one!? She had stingers this whole time and didn't use them until now!"
Bakugo ignored him, turning to look at the fallen villains. "These guys are a bunch of weaklings. They must be random hires."
"You're right," I said. "They're probably just to keep us busy while those main guys go after All Might."
Kirishima scratched his head, glancing around hazily before facing us again. "We should hurry up and find the rest of our classmates. If we're still in USJ that means they probably are too. And not all of them have the offensive skills we do. We gotta make sure they're safe, especially since we screwed things up when we got in the way earlier. If Thirteen had been able to suck up that villain, then we never would've been separated like this. We have to make it up to the others."
