"Gyyaaargh!!!"

MJ opened her eyes. She had that dream again and it was really starting to annoy her. She got up, put on some baggy clothes and got ready for school. Luckely, she thought, that they weren't having physical lesson until later this week, otherwise it would have raised some uncomfortable questions.


All the school classes that morning went pretty smooth, and soon enough the lunch hour came. The lunch lady was serving tater tots and some kind of meat (No one was completly sure of what kind). MJ took three times the amount of food on her plate she would had otherwise. Peter looked pretty surprised when she walked up to his table, carrying a mountain of food.

"Hoookay. I think I've found the reason for that weight gain you talked about, MJ. You sure you're not pregnant?"

"Don't be silly, Peter. I'm just very very hungry. And besides, how could I be pregnant when we haven't even 'done it'?"

"How should I know? Maybe you took some of my DNA and are trying to snare me."

"Why would I do that? I already got you snared."

"True."

They ate in silence, Mary Jane was not really in the mood for talking.

"MJ, is everything allright?" Peter asked. "You haven't said a word all morning."

"Hm? Oh, I'm okay. I'm just... I'm just still feeling off that sickness, I guess. Is that the Bugle?"

Peter took up the newspaper he had purchased earlier today.

"Yep. Say, have you heard about that new 'superheroine' that people are talking about? This Jackpot?"

MJ looked up from her plate. "Just a little. How so?"

"Well, they got a article about her in todays Bugle."

"Really? Let me see."

Pete handed his girlfriend the paper which she looked through until she had find the right page.

"Here it is. 'New York Citys already large community of superheroes have got another'... I didn't know you guys had a community?"

"It's more like union."

"Mm-hm." She continued. "'The apparently self-made vigilante, which call herself Jackpot'... Vigilante? She dosen't comes up like a vigilante in my eyes."

Peter shrug his shoulders. "I guess Jameson have a finger in it. You know what Old Man Picklepuss thinks about us freelancing heroes."

MJ nodded. Getting a praise from Jonah Jameson was not something she strived for, she didn't even think she wanted it.

"Hey. Here is says that she saved a money transport from some hijackers yesterday."

"What? She did?"

He swallowed the bait with hook and everything. Mary Jane was hoping that she could make her boyfriend change his mind after yesterdays fiasco. She handed him the paper.

"Yeah, right there. They have pictures to prove it."

"Oh... Then I think I've made a big ass of myself."

"How so?" MJ asked, putting her right elbow on the table and leaning on her hand, really wanting to hear this.

"Well, I kinda ran into her just after she saved that truck. And I... I mistook her for robbing it."

"And you don't think that all the unconscious masked thugs laying on the street was a big give away?"

Peter started to rub his neck. "Yeah... I kinda screwed things up there. But it did look like it, and she ran away from me, of course I mistook her for a for a crook. It happend before that criminals claims to be good guys."

MJ shook her head. "Peter, I think that next time you meet this girl you should offer her an apology."

"Guess I have to."

MJ laughed on the inside, Peter was so cute when she pulled in his strings. She took another look at the pictures in the paper, it wasn't the best quality which was proberly for the best right now, with her sitting right in front of Peter. Lucky he was so gullible.

Then a evil thought came up in her head.

"Peter?" she said with a grin on her face. "Do you think she's hotter then me?"

Peter almost choked on his coke. "Wh-what?"

"Do you think she's hotter then me?" Oh, she was really gonna let him wriggle on that hook.

"Um... She... She got the same hair as you do."

"That's not an answer to my question, a lot of woman have tha same hair as I have. Is she hotter then me?"

Peter took a deep breath, this was the question that all men in a relation feared. "She's kinda good looking... but not as good looking as you are, sweetheart."

MJ's grin grow even bigger. If he only knew.

"But you do think she got a hot body, right? Hotter then mine?"

"D-d-d-d... I think... Yeah, she's hot but... I think... you... you..."

"Oh my god. I think I just broke him." MJ thought, widely amused by the scene.

"I think you're superhot, MJ. It's just... it's... Wait a minute! You're pulling my leg here, aren't you?"

"Yes I am. And you're so cute falling for it." MJ said while she leaned in and gave her boyfriend a quick peck on the cheek.

"Funny..." the young ridiculed boy said. "You would make a great supervillain, MJ."

Mary Jane patted her beloved boyfriend on his cheek. "Every woman in the world would, Tiger."


After school Peter had to head back to The Bugle to pick up his paycheck, so MJ decided to continue her hero training. She headed back to midtown, but today was a lot slower then yesterday. The only thing she found, in several hours, was a cat that was stuck in a tree. Sure she helped it get down and the little girl who owned the cat was very grateful, but it wasn't really the same.

"Strange. You think that crime would be more active on a monday then on a sunday."


Ben Urich was standing in line to his bank. He hated when they took such a time, he should been back at work by now already. Urich had a bad experience with banks, and today was unfortunately only going to make it worse.

The entrance doors blow into the air with a giant explosion, making all the people in the bank fall to the floor. As the dust settled, Urich looked up from the floor and saw a terrifying sight.

In through the hole in the wall walked a creature most intimidating. It was much taller then a normal person, and very muscular. It had long, wild red hair, evil yellow eyes and two large horns jutting out of it's forehead. It was covered in grey scute-covered skin, like the skin of an alligator only lighter color, which adding to it's swelling muscles made it look very Hulk-like. It's clothes was only a pair of ragged pants and an spiked leather belt, with several grenades hanging on to it, leaving it's broad muscular chest uncovered. And in it's right hand it carried a large silver gleaming battle axe, to large for a normal man to carry in just one hand.

Urich had one thought in his head; "Man, why does this always happen when I'm trying to cash in my paycheck?"

The creature walked past all the people lying on the floor, and stepped up to the cashier. It then throwed a large bag to the terryfied womans arms.

"Fill this up." the monster said in a raspy, dark voice. "And if I find any dye packs, you can expect THIS to happen to you."

By that, the creature swung its axe into the cashier desk, spliting it in two. The cashier, getting the point, started to fill the bag up with money bills very fast. The monster then turned around to face the banks two security guards that haved got up from the floor and was now aiming at it with their guns.

"Oh, what is this?" the giant creature chuckled. "And what do you little not-really-cops think you could do?" The monster stepped closer, and out of panic, one of the guards fired his gun. The bullet connected with the creatures grey skin and stopped there. It could't brake the creatures leathery hide more then it could pierce through a tank. The crushed piece of steel fell to the floor with a small chink.

"I guess I should thank you, I wasn't completly sure if I were bulletproof. Thank you." And by that, the frightening creature slammed both the guards, making them fly across the room. "Now, where's my money?"

"H-h-here..." the panicked cashier said as she reached out the full bag with a shaking hand.

"Thank you."

The giant creature snatched the bag and threw it over it's own shoulder, it was just about to leave when a small shadow appeared against the light in the hole in the wall.

"Wow. Sure, the light in here is great, and the air is fantastic. But it dosen't look like it's very safe to me."

The shadow moved in under the roof, revealing a young, beautiful woman in a green and white spandex costume, with a mane of red hair.

"Okay, so, can we do this quick becuase I have dinner in less then half an hour and I'm sure you... you... heh, you're kinda big, aren't you?"

The young superhero saw the giant creature standing in front of her, and she was quite startled. The monster, on the other hand, seemed more amused.

"Ha! What are you supposed to be?"

"I'm... I am Jackpot. You know, the superhero?"

"Oh yeah, I read about you." the grey monster said while putting down the bag and lifting up its axe. "I was hopping that I would run into someone like you. Well, I was really hopping that I would run into someone big and famous, like Spider-man. But you will do."

"Um... thanks..." Jackpot was not really sure how she was supposed to act in situations like this. This was a genuine supervillain, something she had absolutely no experience of.

"Let's dance, shall we?"

The giant monster throw its axe at Jackpot with incredible speed, the young heroine gave out a scream as she threw herself to the floor, jumping out of the axes way by just an inch. Before she had a chance to get up on her legs again, the monster had rushed up and kicked her hard in her stomach which made her fly out from the bank like a fired bullet. She smashed into a car that was parked on the other side of the road.

"Oh god... gnnnnnnnnn... ow..." the teenage hero whined while she writhed in pain on the ground. She rolled over on her back, her entire body was aching and all she could see was stars. "What happen'd...?"

"I happen'd!"

Jackpot shook her head, shaking of the dizziness. Then she noticed the giant creature that just had sent her flying approach from the other side of the street, axe in its hand. It stepped upon a car instead of go around it, crushing the vehicle under its weight.

"Okay, that was... ow... that was a lucky hit!" Jackpot yelled as she got up, stroking her aching body. "I'm gonna get you in round two."

"Sure you are, pipsqueak." the beast mocked her with a grin that showed a mouth full of sharp teeth. "Come on, give me your best shot."

Jackpot charged at the big monster, raising her fist to deliver a raging punch. But the giant villain grabbed her fist in the air before she could land it on the creature.

"Not particularly impressive."

Before Jackpot could react, she felt her face connect with the handle of the creatures axe, then the monster hit her hard over the chest. The girl landed on the concrete several feets behind her previous position, feeling the taste of blood in her mouth and even more pain in her body. Then she felt a immense pressure over her torso as the giant villain put its grey, clawed foot over her chest. It had a a sinister smile over its ugly, demonic face when it looked down on the young hero.

"This is going to make my name in the world." it said, raising ithe axe high in the air.