---January...---

Kitty was reading a magazine and listening to her iPod with the headphones driven into her ears. I, on the other hand was studying for a test I had the next day. "Kitty," I motioned to her.
"Yeah?" Kitty pulled the headphones out of her ears.
"Aren't you taking the test tommorow?" I asked.
"Yeah, I studied earlier while you were at work," Kitty put her headphones back in her ears.
"Kitty," I tried to get her attention again.
"What?" she stopped dancing again.
"I'm going out in like an hour and won't be back until late. You're okay if we spend our time together doing this?" I asked.
"I'm not complaining. Plus there's no rule that we need to be all lovey-dovey whenever we're together. Doing this is just fine. Plus I'm not really in the mood anyway," Kitty explained.
"If you say so," I replied before returning to my book as Kity replaced her headphones.

---That night...---

I swung through the city and everything seemed to be normal. Stopped a few regular crimes, nothing too special. Then I noticed what appeared to be a shooting star(could it be the same one Kitty and I saw on Christmas?) heading towards Central Park. When I got a better look I saw it was actually a small space ship. Instinctively I investigated the crash and ship. The ship itself was interesting, I couldn't find any form of a door. It was extremely streamlined, almost like a giant bullet. Suddenly a hatch inside did open and two aliens emerged. One was female from the looks of it, green skin and blue hair with one eye that was orange and a lot of weapons. The other resembled a tiger and was green with a human shaped head, pointed ears, and 3 blood demonic eyes, it also had tentacles growing out of its back.
"Oh crap," I froze on the spot when they grinned evily at me.
"Hmmm... I thought you mutants would look different from the humans, no matter," the female said after surveying over me several times.
"Let's just finish this up and get back to Reshef," the tiger-creature suggested.
My heart sank, I knew I had to stop these two before they did any serious damage. The female(Ruin) pulled out an axe from a clip on her belt and lunged at me with the green guy(Demise). I jumped back, narrowly avoiding their attacks.
The instant after my dodge they attacked me again, this time I ducked but Ruin's axe nearly swiped my head off and I felt Demise's tentacles brush across my arm. After ducking I shot 2 weblines at the aliens. I punched Ruin in the face and kicked Demise when I found myself in a frenzy trying to attack and defend myself against the aliens. Finally I got a break and managed to grab Ruin then I threw her into Demise, they knocked over a tree. I used this opportunity to leave Central Park and get into my concrete park where I could ambush the aliens if I were lucky. I just had to make sure no one got hurt in the process.
I had just turned the corner of an alley when Demise and Ruin were speeding towards me. I grabbed a garbage can and tossed it at the duo then kicked Ruin(who was now using a laser gun of some sort) into the air but Demise whipped me into the streets. Luckily I could avoid incoming cars with my spider sense. I shot a webline and started swinging above the streets.
Demise grabbed with his tentacles and threw me towards a nearby building. I spun around and bounced off the building instead of smashing threw it, however this was in vein because Ruin threw some sort of bomb at me. When it made contact it exploded into a gas and a razor blade, the gas smelled fowl and made me dizzy, the razor started chasing after me while I fell. I started swinging away from the duo. I had no idea on what to do to handle these two, they always seemed to have a plan.
I got onto a rooftop and turned to shoot a webline at Demise in attempt to anchor him down to something. It worked! Demise struggled to free himself, I used this opportunity to attack, I ducked under Ruin who swung her axe at me and I tackled Demise off of the building and practiclly road him to the ground like a skateboard. We landed on the sidewalk, luckily not on top of anyone. I started pounding on the alien until my spider sense warned that Ruin was coming at me, I flipped onto the ground and used Demise as a shield against the attack.
"I guess we'll have to step up our game too," Ruin said as Demise scurried to her side. I growled. Ruin ran at me, no weapons drawn and started punching at me. I punched her back. She smartly wrapped her legs around my waist and didn't let go, I tried pulling her off of me but her legs were incredibly strong. Demise tackled me to the ground. I punched Demise's face and forced him off of me. Then I felt a sting in my shoulder and saw that Ruin injected me with something.
Slowly I felt myself weaken. The duo ran away at an incredibly fast speed. I get up and merely stared. "What just happened?" I asked myself. I tried to shoot a webline to go home but nothing happened. No web came out. Then I realized to my horror that I was powerless. They drained my powers. I couldn't believe it. I sprinted down the nearyby alley to escape the view of anyone who saw what just happened. A few blocks over I started to walk towards the nearest bus stop searching the ground for loose change. I managed to find enough for bus fair.
"You coming from a costume party or something?" the bus driver asked me.
"Yeah," I lied.
"Where'd you get the costume?" he asked.
"Ebay," I lied again. I felt relieved that he was clueless that I was really Aracnor. He probrably figured Aracnor would just websling. And he would, I would, I would if I had my powers.

---The next morning...---

"So you're powerless?" Kitty asked. I told her what happened last night and she sounded just as surprised as I was.
"Yeah, that's what Beast told me," I replied weakly.
"So... what? Are you just gonna stop being Aracnor now?" Kitty asked.
"I guess. Do really have much of a choice now?" I answered. "This sucks."
"Come on Jase, cheer up. I still love you," Kitty lifted my chin and looked into my eyes then smiled.
"I guess so," I replied trying to smile.
Over the next 2 weeks things seemed to get better: my grades improved(I used to struggle to get a B but now I was getting an A with no problem), Kitty and I were able to spend a lot more time together, but part of me felt weird living like this: normal. Especially considering I lived in the X-Mansion. I felt so out of place. I was like an apple in the cookie jar.
"Bye," I kissed Kitty as I stepped out the door to go to work.
"Bye," Kitty kissed me back.
"Bye," I kissed Kitty, longer.
This went on for about a minute before I actually did leave for work. Okay maybe there were a few ups about being normal. Kitty and I seemed to have less to bicker about so our relationship seemed like it was back on track.