"The Cat and the Spider"

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Kari, Yolei and Davey were all sitting outside of the high school, all three of them eating their lunch while Hawkmon, Gatomon and Veemon rested on their laps.

Patamon and Wormmon were also with the girls, waiting on their partners to arrive to join them.

It was their second month of school and the year had started out peacefully.

Seniors had plenty of advantages that they hadn't realized at first, such as Pizza Fridays, which is something they were enjoying at that very moment.

"Where the heck are the guys? They should be here by now." Yolei frowned.

Her hair had grown out to her hips and she had put some lavender colored streaks into it to make it stand out a bit more in the sunlight.

"I think they had a meeting with the soccer and basketball clubs." Kari said.

Davey was simply eating her pizza, happy that with what she had to eat since she had woken up late and wasn't able to eat breakfast.

"Seriously? Man, I hope they don't take too long." Yolei pouted.

"Calm down, Yolei. They will be here soon enough." Hawkmon chided.

"So, guys, have you heard about the Halloween dance coming up?" Kari brought up.

She wanted to change the subject onto something else to take Yolei's mind off of the boys being late.

Perking up about this news, Yolei then started getting into the idea of the dance.

"I know I can't wait. It's supposed to be a great party. Do you think the three of us should wear matching costumes?" Yolei asked.

"Boo, that's boring." Davey jeered.

That earned her a slap on the thigh from the child of Love and Sincerity, making the cat hybrid giggle.

Picking the pepperoni slices off of his pizza, Patamon munched on them with a content smile while Veemon was simply taking a nap, having already eaten his fill.

Tail swishing around, Gatomon sensed something off and looked up, narrowing her eyes when she saw a man in a black suit making his way over to them.

"What's wrong, Gatomon?" Kari asked when she noticed her partner's tension.

"There's a strange man over there staring at us." The Champion said.

Growing tense as well, the girls and their Digimon partners all turned to see who Gatomon was glaring over at.

Spotting the man, Davey relaxed when she recognized who it was.

"Guys, it's fine. He's someone from SHIELD." Davey told them.

Hearing this, everyone calmed down and watched as Davey picked Veemon off of her lap and set him down on his feet as she moved to stand.

"Why is that man here?" Patamon asked as he walked up to Kari's side.

"I don't know. I'll check." Davey said.

Standing up, she made her way over to the agent, Phil Coulson, to speak with him.

Seeing that the girl was making her way over to him, Phil stopped walking and waited for the girl to join him, holding a folder in his hands.

"Davey, good to see you again." Phil nodded at the girl with a smile.

"Phil. Why are you here? I thought I wasn't going to be doing any missions for you guys until I was 18." Davey said lowering her voice.

"You're not, but something came up." Phil said.

He opened the folder and held it out so that the girl could look inside, reading over the information.

What she found inside was the picture of an American girl her age with long brown hair, peach toned skin and dark brown eyes.

"Who is this?" Davey asked as she took the folder.

"Her name is Penelope Bethany Parker. The public knows her as the vigilante Spider-Woman. She caught our attention a few weeks ago when she stopped a few robberies and saved a woman from a burning building." Phil explained.

Flipping through the folder, Davey found news clippings and photographs of a girl dressed in a red, white and blue spandex costume that had a black spider on the front of her chest and a mask that covered her head.

Vaguely, she wondered how the girl was able to breathe out of that mask.

"What are her abilities?" She asked.

"From what we can tell, she has enhanced strength and senses while also being able to cling to walls and ceilings like a spider. She also managed to build a device that allows her to shoot out webs to trap her enemies, so she's also intelligent. Sadly, she's reckless and impulsive. The girl has no idea how to control herself and is going to get herself killed if she keeps running around, doing things half-assed. We're already babysitting Stark; we don't need to babysit this kid, too." Phil said.

Flipping through the pages, Davey found a report on how Parker had managed to develop her powers.

Her junior class had a field trip to Osborn Labs and she had been bitten by a spider that the scientists had been experimenting on.

After she had been bitten by the spider, it had disappeared and she had later on gained her powers after her DNA had mutated from the injection of the arachnid's venom.

Her uncle, Benjamin Parker, had also been killed in a mugging recently and Parker had decided to become a vigilante, searching for the man who shot her uncle, no doubt.

"So, where do I come in?" Davey asked as she looked up at the agent.

"We managed to convince Parker to come in and get some proper training. She now has someone called the Green Goblin after her. The man is actually Norman Osborn, the man who created the serum that the spider was injected with and he wants Parker so he can drain her blood and use it to make his own army of super soldiers." Phil explained.

At the words 'super soldiers', Davey had grown silent and her eyes began to bleed red in her anger.

Over the last year, ever since she had been returned home, she had been hearing multiple stories of people who have tried to recreate the super soldier formula and how they had all ended badly.

"Why is it that everyone keeps trying to make a new super soldier serum? They can't make another Captain America. It's not possible. They're going to fail and they always will. I mean, look at our history. They tried to make a new Captain America, but all they got was-was a Deadpool, a Hulk, thirty psychopaths stuck in cryo for an indefinite time, the Winter Soldier, me and now a Spider-Woman. Why are people so stupid?" Davey ranted.

Phil had taken a step back as he watched the cat hybrid pace; looking very aggravated with the news she had heard.

Everyone knew that Davey hated the way everyone out there was still trying to create a new super soldier and she had negative emotions about this considering how she had been forced into becoming one.

After she heard the news of how Bruce Banner had become the Hulk thanks to an accident that happened in the lab from trying to make a new serum and how everyone was treating him like a monster, trying to hunt him down and kill him, she had started to hate everyone who associated themselves with the super soldier projects.

"Motomiya." Phil called softly.

He reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder, making the girl stop her pacing and she tried to calm herself down, taking in deep breaths.

When she looked to be calm, Phil decided to proceed with what he wanted to say.

"As I've said before, we managed to track down Parker and have convinced her to join the Avengers Initiative. We need someone to train her, though. Barton and Romanoff are too busy to do so and Parker doesn't feel comfortable being around any of the other agents without her mask on." Phil told her.

"You want me to train her, don't you?" Davey demanded.

"Fury does. He thinks it would make sense since you both are similar. You're both super soldiers with animal DNA. Or arachnid DNA in Parker's case. You're also both very close in age to each other. Fury thinks that you two would make a great team, just like Barton and Romanoff." Phil said.

Arms crossing under her chest, Davey thought over everything that Phil had said to her.

She knew that Parker needs some help and proper guidance, but was she really the right person for that?

Brushing her bangs back from her face, Davey looked back up at Phil and saw that he was staring at her with a serious expression, but there was hope in his blue eyes.

Sighing, she decided on what she would have to do.

"Fine, I'll train her, but it can only be on the weekends. I still have school, you know." She said.

A smile lit up the older agent's face, showing that he was pleased that the cat hybrid had agreed to help train the new recruit for the Avengers.

"Great. I'll call Fury and tell him the news. I'll be by your place tomorrow morning to pick you up." Phil smiled.

With that said and done, Phil then walked off, leaving Davey to stare off after him as Kari, Yolei and their Digimon all came up behind the girl, wondering what had happened.

Veemon jumped up onto Davey's back, wrapping his arms around her neck to hold himself up and Wormmon crawled up onto her head.

"Davey, you okay?" Veemon asked.

"What did that man want to see you about?" Wormmon asked her as well.

"Turns out, I'm not gonna be the youngest member of the Avengers." Davey said.

This made Yolei and Kari share a look, confused by what she said, but they also felt a little worried by what this meant.

(The next day...)

"It's Saturday and instead of hanging out with my friends, I have to work. This sucks." Davey muttered.

She was in a car with Phil, being driven to the SHIELD headquarters in New York which she hadn't been to in nearly a year's time.

Veemon was also with her, sitting in the back of the car with her bag that she had packed for the weekend.

Her parents had only allowed her to go as long as she stayed with Clint and Natasha, and she did her homework.

"Look on the bright side. You're in New York." Phil grinned.

"Been here, seen it before. It's not all that impressive." Davey said as she leaned her head against her seat.

"I'm excited. Maybe this time, we can actually try all of the different pizza places all over New York. I heard that there's a ton of them." Veemon said as he stared out the window.

Turning her head to look out the window, Davey's eyes grew wide when a figure dropped in the middle of the street making the cars all skid to a stop.

"What the hell?" She demanded.

Standing up, the figure revealed itself to be Spider-Woman and Phil groaned in disbelief that the girl was causing trouble so soon.

"Looks like you two get to meet earlier than anticipated." Phil commented.

Just then, Spider-Woman shot a web out and swung away from the traffic jam she created, getting away from a man in green and purple armor that was chasing after her on a glider.

"I'm guessing that's the Green Goblin." Davey narrowed her eyes.

"He's catching up to her." Veemon said.

Taking off her seat belt, Davey climbed out of the car and threw off her jacket and hat, leaving herself in her jeans, boots and black spaghetti strapped top.

Around her neck was her pink diamond necklace which she always wore after she got it from Natasha.

"Come on, Veemon, let's go help her before she gets herself killed." Davey glanced back at her partner.

"Right." Veemon nodded, determined to help the teenage web slinger.

"Wait, how are you going to catch up to them?" Phil asked as he scrambled to get out of the car fast enough.

Holding up her D-3 towards her Digimon partner, Davey watched as Veemon was covered in blue light and he started to grow even larger and wings grew out of his back while a horn made out of metal grew out of his snout.

"Veemon Digivolve too...EXVEEMON!"

With the newly evolved Digimon standing in front of her, Davey was quick to climb up onto his back, ignoring the shocked look that was on Phil's face and the ones of the civilians in the street.

"Hurry, ExVeemon!" Davey encouraged.

Nodding, ExVeemon jumped into the air and his wings started beating, flying in the direction the Green Goblin and Spider-Woman had taken off in.

When they left, Phil pulled out his cell phone and called Fury to warn him what was going on.

Flying through the air, ExVeemon was able to finally reach the two people dressed in strange costumes.

Green Goblin had managed to corner Spider-Woman on a rooftop and she looked like she had been drugged by something with the way she was swaying, and having a difficult time standing.

"There they are." ExVeemon pointed them out.

"Okay, bring us in closer. And destroy that glider. We don't want this guy making an escape." Davey ordered.

ExVeemon quietly flew down closer and they were able to hear what Green Goblin was saying to Spider-Woman.

"I don't need you to be alive just to take your blood. I can easily kill you right here and now, then take you back to my lab to drain you dry." Green Goblin sneered.

"Like I'd let that happen. You'll have to try harder than that to get me, Gobby." Spider-Woman said through the pain.

Then, Green Goblin back handed her, sending the teenage girl onto the ground.

Glaring at this, Davey jumped off of ExVeemon's back and landed on the ground, catching the attention of the Green Goblin and Spider-Woman.

"Didn't your mother ever tell ya it's not nice to hit a girl?" Davey growled as she started walking forward.

"And what are you supposed to be?" The Green Goblin sneered at her.

"The one who rips you apart." Davey said.

That caused the Green Goblin to laugh loudly and he seemed to be playing with his gauntlet, which she noticed had a remote to control the glider.

"We'll see about that, you fur ball." He taunted.

Before the glider could sail over and impale her with the spikes it had, ExVeemon released a beam of orange energy from his chest that destroyed the machine, making Spider-Woman's white eyes from her mask grow wide in shock at the sight of the creature.

"My glider! How dare you!" Green Goblin shouted.

Charging forward, Davey kicked her legs out and wrapped them around the Green Goblin's neck, then spun her body around to throw him onto the rooftop.

She then jumped off of him and stood up quickly, kicking him in the chest, sending him flying a few feet away.

Watching as he staggered to his feet, Davey didn't waste any time and ran forward, punching him in the face, then kneed him in the gut.

Slowly climbing to her feet, Spider-Woman watched as the cat hybrid beat up the Green Goblin with ease, looking like she wasn't even breaking a sweat.

Grabbing the Green Goblin's head, Davey then brought it down and slammed his face into her knee and tossed him to the side.

"Not so tough now that you've met someone who can fight back, huh?" Davey taunted.

"You little bitch! You really think you can take me on? You think you can beat me? I will destroy you!" The Green Goblin shouted.

"Stop preaching, freak show! I could have killed you the second I first hit you. Isn't it obvious? I'm going easy on you. I'm toying with you." Davey said as she began to circle him.

In that moment, she looked every bit like the lioness that was cornering her prey, giving it a false sense of hope before she attacked and killed it.

"Oh, is that so? Then what are you waiting for?" Green Goblin shouted with all of his bravado.

Just then, a jet appeared, lowering from the sky and it aimed a cannon at the Green Goblin.

"Norman Osborn, stay where you are. You are under arrest." Maria Hill said over the speakers.

"So you think. Until next time, Spider-Woman!" Green Goblin yelled as he made to jump off the roof.

Before he could, ExVeemon grabbed him and slammed him down onto the roof repeatedly, making sure he was too injured to escape as the jet landed.

"I hate it when the bad guys try to get away. It's so annoying." ExVeemon growled.

Agents then rushed out of the jet, making their way over to the dragon and they grabbed the Green Goblin, slapping a pair of handcuffs on him while they also stripped off his armor and helmet.

They wanted to make sure he didn't have any hidden weapons that he could use against them.

"You know what I hate the most? When the villain says 'I'll have my revenge!' and then they break out of jail somehow and come right back for another beating. It's ridiculous and it happens every time." Davey scoffed.

Hill then walked over to where the cat hybrid was standing, giving her a stern expression.

"Motomiya, you shouldn't have charged in like that." Hill began.

"Hey, if I didn't, then Parker over there would have been killed." Davey barred her fangs at Hill.

Hearing her name being spoken, Spider-Woman walked over, wondering who this girl was and why she was associated with SHIELD.

"If I'm going to be training this girl, then that means I'm going to protect her no matter what. She isn't dying or getting hurt under my watch. And if you have an issue on how I protect my own, then you can take it up with someone who gives a damn, 'cause I don't, Maria." Davey said.

Staring into the teen's eyes, Hill stepped back and knew that she couldn't do anything about the situation.

A dangerous villain had been captured thanks to Davey and a recruit for the Avengers Initiative had been saved thanks to her as well.

Even though she didn't like the way the situation was handled, Hill was still pleased that things hadn't ended as badly as they could have.

"You can take this up with Fury later. Speaking of which... Spider-Woman, Fury is going to want to have words with you on this matter as well. You were told not to go out anymore until you were given proper training." Hill scolded.

"I'm not Captain Eye-Patch's little lap dog. I'm not going to do everything he tells me to do. I have a mind of my own and I'll do whatever I want." Spider-Woman huffed.

Davey felt herself smirking, liking the sass the younger hybrid had, but she knew that Spider-Woman was going to need to be taught how to control her desires to go out and do things half-assed.

"Maria, why don't you take Osborn to SHIELD now? I can take Spidey here with me on ExVeemon." Davey told her.

"Fine. Just don't be late. And good luck with her." Hill said as she walked onto the jet.

Now that the two girls were left alone, Spider-Woman turned her attention onto Davey and ExVeemon, wondering who they were and why they were so important.

"Sorry, but you're not taking me anywhere." Spider-Woman said.

"Yeah, we are. I'm Davey Motomiya. I'm a super soldier and as of yesterday, I'm your new trainer." She introduced herself.

Stunned by this information, Spider-Woman stared at the girl, noticing how she was completely serious.

She had to admit, she was impressed with how easily Davey had taken on the Green Goblin and wanted to learn those moves, but was unsure if they were going to get along very well.

"Y-You're... I heard about you from Fury. He said that you were the only real success story of the recreated super soldier serum." Spider-Woman said.

This made Davey bite back a scoff of disbelief at what she had heard.

She didn't feel like much of a success.

"Well, I didn't go insane and I didn't become a modern day version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, so I guess that counts as a success. Now, come on. We need to go now. I only have two days a week to give you some training and I want to make sure you know the basics before I go back home to Japan." Davey told her.

"Okay, fine, but I think I'll swing after you guys. It's more fun that way." Spider-Woman said.

"As long as you're following." Davey shrugged.

This surprised the younger girl since she was sure that the cat hybrid would have forced her onto the dragon's back, just like how Fury and the other SHIELD agents have forced her into cars and jets to get her to headquarters.

It seemed like, with Davey, she would have more freedom with her and may be able to actually like her if she got to know the hybrid a bit better.

As Davey climbed onto her dragon's back, Spider-Woman then shot out her webbing, following after the girl as they made their way back to headquarters to start their training as soon as possible.

She also really hoped that Davey would be able to save her from getting yelled at by Fury so often.

To be continued...