Post by Spider-Man Beyond on Feb 23, 2007 10:43:04 GMT -5
The Sensational Spider-Girl #4
Written by Sononsj
Edited by Daniel Dyer
But why are you even telling me this?! It’s in the past! What does it matter to you anyway?!” asks May Parker.
The Black Spider jumps down from the rafters. “Everything matters! I have to kill you for what your father did to mine!”
“Did what?! Loved him? They were brothers!”
The Black Spider starts slapping Spider-Girl furiously. “Shut up! Shut up! Don’t you dare say that! Don’t you dare! Your father was a coward! He was jealous of Daddy!” she answers.
“Is that what you think? Are you so far gone that you think he hated him? He was a brother to Uncle Ben, May! A brother!”
She slaps her again. Spider-Girl breaks the organic webbing restraining her and kicks the Black Spider through several walls of the warehouse. The Black Spider shoots a web-line onto each one of her shoulders and pulls. Spider-Girl anchors her feet to the floor. This is exactly what the Black Spider was planning. She goes flying towards Spider-Girl. However, Spider-Girl ducks, which is what the Black Spider had anticipated. She sticks her feet onto a wall and pulls. Spider-Girl is pulled free of the floor and goes flying through a 2’’ concrete wall. She falls to the ground, apparently unconscious. The Black Spider starts walking towards her. “You’re so naive. You can’t even see the truth when it’s right in front of you.” The Black Spider lifts May Parker up by the neck. “Put it on,” she says.
“What?”
“Put it on! The mask! Don’t fight me woman to woman. Fight me Spider to Spider.”
“No.”
“What?”
“No! I won’t play your sadistic little game!”
“Put it on!!!” she yells, as she throws Spider-Girl through a wall. Then she shoots a web-line at her. She pulls, hard, and lets go, throwing her through a second wall. Once again, she shoots a web-line at May Parker and pulls. This time, instead of letting go, she spins in place, using Spider-Girl’s momentum to spin her through the warehouse. She crashes through several more walls, rafters, solid wood columns, and the ceiling. Finally, after what seems to Spider-Girl to be an eternity of spinning and pain, the Black Spider lets go. Spider-Girl hits the ceiling with a sickening CRUNCH and falls down, unconscious.
When she comes to, she notices that the Black Spider has a container in her hand and is splashing some onto her costume and around her.
Spider-Girl is laying on the floor. She feels broken, mentally and physically. She gave all she had, and it wasn’t enough. She struggles to pull herself up.
She fails.
Again, and again, and again, she tries, to no avail. She’s too weak.
Is this it? Is it over? Am I going to- die? she thinks to herself.
She lifts her head up very slightly and feels the material. The consistency is slightly thicker than water, and it is then that she realizes what it is.
Oil.
She puts all her remaining strength into propping herself up on her shoulders.
Then she sees the Black Spider has something in her hand.
A lighter.
“I thought you’d be more of a challenge, May! But I barely worked up a sweat,” she says.
Then she flips the switch, and lights the lighter. (May Parker notices that the Black Spider’s costume seems to shrink away from the flame in a sort of ripple effect, like when a pebble is dropped onto a still pond).
Then the Black Spider walks away casually, and throws the lighter over her shoulder nonchalantly at May and the puddle of oil around her.
She does not miss.
May’s spider-sense rings so loudly that it is no longer a tingling in the back of her skull, it’s a five alarm warning giving her a migraine.
Her reflexes and a sudden surge of adrenaline cause her to leap up and away from the flames. The Black Spider watches. The symbiote mask shrinks away to reveal an amused smirk on her face.
Meanwhile, May has leapt up to the ceiling and is sticking to it. However, even her enhanced reflexes weren’t fast enough. The flame managed to come close enough that her foot is on fire. Alarmed, she drops to the ground, but not before the dry, old wood of the rafters managed to catch on fire. Spider-Girl manages not to land in the oil, which is now a monstrous conflagration. However, now the floor catches on fire. Spider-Girl’s world is one of pain. She comes to her senses and drops down to the floor and rolls.
Her foot is no longer on fire, but now the whole building is. She looks over at the Black Spider. The symbiote looks to be convulsing in pain, and she looks almost scared as her living mask crawls back on.
“Help me! Please! There’s not much longer for me! You got what you wanted! Just help me put out this fire before innocent bystanders get hurt!” screams Spider-Girl, desperately.
The Black Spider lifts her hands up to her face, and looks in horror. Her mask is off.
“What- what have I become?! I’m a monster! May- you were right! The symbiote- it’s weak. It can’t take this heat,” the Black Spider says.
She grabs Spider-Girl and carries her, running, to an opposite rooftop. The building is now totally in flames.
The Black Spider shoots web at the building, so that the flames die down.
“There. That will make the firefighters’ jobs easier,” she says.
“Please- please don’t go after Dad- Peter. Don’t go after him or Mom. Please,” pleads Spider-Girl.
“I won’t,” says the Black Spider, with a smile. “I won’t.” “We won’t be meeting again,” she says.
Then May realizes what she is about to do. “Don’t! Please!! Don’t do it!!!”
“Goodbye, May,” says not the Black Spider, but May Reilly-Tyne. “Goodbye.” Then she leaps into the flames.
Spider-Girl’s yell dies out as she slips into unconsciousness.
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