Ambition {𝟙𝟛} | Marvel √

chapter eighteen

After shop class, Emma and Allie snuck around the hallways after putting their things up, trying to find Peter and Ned. But as they did, Allie kept whining that Emma was walking so fast. "You have a superhuman serum in your veins and you're complaining that I'm walking too fast?" Emma whispered.

"I don't even want to be doing this," Allie whispered.

"Then why are you?" Emma asked.

"Just to make sure it isn't what I think it is," Allie told her, "After that... I'm leaving it up to you and Spiderling."

"Why don't you want to help us?" Emma asked, "Don't you think it would be, I don't know, badass? Miss Steel and Miss America? Fighting side by side? Empowering girls around the world?"

Allie couldn't help but smile as they continued down the hall. That did sound nice. But she knew it was a bad idea. She couldn't be running around as Miss America anymore. She had to stay hidden. But... Emma would probably get into massive trouble if she didn't.

"I'll... think about it," Allie said and Emma grinned happily.

They then turned the corner where they saw Peter and Ned walking in the distance. "Hey!" Emma quietly called and they both quickly turned back, only to relax when they realized it was only the girls.

"Hey," Peter softly said as the girls walked up to them.

"Looks like you are helping us," Ned said.

"Only for now," Allie said.

"First, I say we put the glowy thingy in the mass spectrometer," Ned said.

"First, we gotta come up with a better name than glowy thingy," Peter said.

"Exactly," Emma said.

"You're right," Ned agreed.

Suddenly, Emma and Peter came to an abrupt stop when they saw Schultz and Randy turn the corner into the hallway they were in. Ned and Allie stopped with them, staring at them confused.

"Crap," Peter murmured.

"Oh, no," Emma murmured.

Peter quickly grabbed Emma's hand and threw them behind a wall, all the while Ned and Allie just stared at them confused. "What are you doing?" Allie asked.

"Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on," both Peter and Emma urgently whispered.

Allie just eyed them oddly before walking behind the wall they went behind. Ned looked around confused before shuffling across the corridor the three were hiding behind.

Emma and Peter carefully peered around the corner while Allie leaned her back against the wall, listening carefully to the men coming down the hall;

"High schools creep me out."

Ned slowly peered around the corner as well as the men continued,

"They got this funny smell, you know?"

Hearing them get closer, Allie reached over and pulled all three of them back behind the wall. The boys were surprised how strong she was but Emma merely held in a grunt when she hit the wall.

"That's one of the guys that tried to kill us," Peter whispered.

"What?" Ned asked.

"Yeah," Peter murmured.

"We gotta get out of here," Ned whispered.

"No duh," Allie whispered.

"No, no, no, no, no," Peter quickly said and all three of them looked at him, "I gotta follow them. Maybe they can lead me to the guy that dropped me in the lake."