The Price Of Heroism
By Taijutsudemonslayer
Jessica learns a hard lesson about being a heroine
Chapter One
It's a brisk Autumn morning in New York City, rain is lightly coming down on the bustling metropolis. A seven-year-old girl named Sophia Dawson, an orphan who is living at Open Doorways Orphanage has mysteriously vanished and has now been missing for a month and two days but none of the staff at Open Doorways seem to care about Sophia's safety or if she's even still alive, Lori Mitchell, the Chief Director of the orphanage went and talked to her two Security Guards, Shane Thomas and Rick Alaster about Sophia's disappearance before she called the police.
When the Police tell Lori that there's nothing that they can do as of yet she decides to take matters into her own hands,
Lori finds her way to the office of Private Investigator, Jessica Drew,
Nina, Jessica's Secretary is sitting at her desk.
"How can I help you, Miss?" Nina asked.
"I would like to see your Boss." the woman says.
Nina picks up her telephone and calls Jessica in her office.
"Send her in, Nina." Jessica says.
"You can go in now, Miss." Nina said after hanging up the phone.
Lori saunters past Nina and into Jessica's office.
"Hello Miss, what can I do for you?" Jessica asked.
"My name is Lori Mitchell and I'm the Chief Director of the Open Doorways Orphanage and I came here seeking your help,"
"Why Ms. Mitchell?" Jessica inquires,
"One of our children, a seven year-old girl named Sophia Dawson is missing and I don't know what to do,"
"Have you gone to the Police yet, Ms. Mitchell?"
"I have," Lori says as she begins to tear up,
"Are they investigating?" Jessica asks.
"No, even though Sophia has been missing for nearly a whole month now, the Police don't want to pull people off other cases to look for Sophia, I don't understand, she's a child, a sweet, innocent child." Lori says, fully in tears now,
"All right, I'll look into this, first I'm going to need the names of the two employees that you spoke with," Jessica says,
"Thank you, Ms. Drew,"
When Lori left Jessica calls Nina into her office,
"So Nina, what do you make of all this?"
"I'd be very careful about this whole case, I just have a weird feeling about that woman,"
That night, Jessica decided to look for answers as Spider-Woman, she is going to talk to any and all of her street contacts to try and uncover a clue about what happened to Sophia Dawson,
Spider-Woman met up with Richard Moss, a career criminal who has ties to the city's human trafficking network,
"Richard, who do you know that fancies little girls under the age of ten?" Spider-Woman asks as she hangs Richard up by his ankles, terrifying the man to no end,
"I-I don't do that anymore, Sp-Spider-Woman." he cried out.
"Are you sure, buddy?" Hawkeye says a moment later as he, Sif, and Thor all appear with a group of his underaged girls,
Spider-Woman looked from the frightened little girls back to Richard before raising her left hand, pointing at his face, slowly a green light began emanating from the heroine's gloved hand,
"Wha- what is she doing? What is that?" Richard asked, wetting his pants in fear,
"Venom Blast, she means it to be fatal, scum." Sif says, her words coated with malice,
"Wait, you can't kill me, heroes don't kill, right?" he asked,
"Tell me what I want to know, now,"
"I...I'll tell you, j-just don't kill me," Richards begs,
Hawkeye and Thor looked on, concerned,
Twenty-five year-old Rookie Detective Gina Miles is reading the missing persons report on Sophia Dawson, it angered her that Missing Persons or anyone else for that matter didn't even lift a finger to try and find this terrified child.
