Web of the Spider Woman
"THOUGHTS" !SOUND EFFECTS!
Chapter Ten
"How was school today, Harriet?" Norman Osborne asked his daughter.
Harriet turned back towards her father in shock and surprise, him normally not paying a whole lot of attention to her if at all. "Um, it was fine, Daddy."
"I've been thinking. Maybe I should go to more of your cheerleading competitions."
"Oh, really?!"
"Yes. We're family, you and I. We should stick together, watch each other's backs."
"There's a football game on Saturday; will you be there?!" Harriet asked enthusiastically.
"Yes, Harriet. I'll be there. I'm sure you'll make me proud." Then the young girl's father rubbed the back of his head tiredly.
"What's wrong, Daddy? Are you feeling OK? You're still going to watch me cheer at the next big game, aren't you?"
"Oh, yes, of course. I'll be there; I'm all right. It's just that my major business competitor, Molotov Industries, has been a big thorn in my side. They're really getting on my nerves. That's why I couldn't make the cheerleading competition you had last time. But I'll be sure to make the next football game. It would really make me happy if something horrible would happen to them." After smiling at his daughter Norman Osborne walked off to his main office.
"So that's why Daddy couldn't make it to my last cheerleading competition. I'll show Molotov Industries not to mess with my daddy!" With that Harriet stormed off with a new sense of determination.
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"I thought this was a bad idea. It was ridiculous to expect that Spider Woman would read the paper and show up anywhere near the Daily Globe. Well, I've waited long enough. Time to..."
Then Felix heard a rapping on his window and turned to see, "Spider Woman!"
Spidey deftly leaped inside after Felix had opened the window for her.
"Hey, there. I heard you wanted an interview. Well, here I am. What's a hot guy like you doing working as a reporter? You could probably be a model if you wanted to be."
"Um, yes, being a reporter has always been my dream. Why don't you sit down?" Felix said nervously, not being able to take his eyes of the drop dead gorgeous Spider Woman.
"All right."
Spider Woman sat down on the chair opposing Felix while he sat down on the chair behind his desk but as soon as the young man had sat down the sexy redhead skillfully leaped over the desk and planted herself gently on Felix's lap and put her arms around him affectionately.
"This is so much better. Now I'm really comfortable. So, what did you want to ask me?"
After finally getting his composure Felix finally spoke. "Why do you feel the need to be a vigilante? Shouldn't the police handle everything?"
"The police can't handle everything, Felix. There are a whole lot of people with superpowers who only want to cause harm and destruction in addition to the people who cause harm without any special powers. And since I have powers I believe with great power comes great responsibility."
"Since you're so responsible, why do you feel the need to go around dressed the way you do?"
"I like to show off while I'm fighting for truth and justice. There's no reason I can't look good while I'm fighting crime is there? Besides, I'm not particularly shy anyway."
"I noticed you don't wear a mask. How do you keep your identity secret?"
Spidey stopped for a moment. "That will have to remain my secret. But you surely don't want me to wear a mask when I look this good. Know what I mean?"
"Yes. I see. All right. So I'm guessing you're not married to anyone. Do you have a boyfriend?"
"Well, If I did you'd be the first to know," the sparkling redhead said with a wink.
"How old are you?"
"Under Forty."
"Oh, I see. You don't want anyone to know how old you are."
"You're a nice guy so I'll go as far as saying I'm under thirty, OK?"
"OK. So where do you hail from?"
"I'm not from outer space if that's what you're asking."
"Here's the big question. Are you a mutant?"
Spider Woman paused for a moment, pretending to be stumped by the question. "What is a mutant? Giggle!"
"A mutant is someone whose powers are inborn much like the X-Men. An altered human is someone who got their powers by accident or chance much like the Fantastic Four.
"Oh, that." Felix regarded her while Spidey was poised in thought. "I wasn't born with my powers. I got them rather recently."
"Are you just saying that so as not to be characterized as a mutant or are you actually telling the truth?" Felix queried seriously.
"I am telling the truth! I got my super abilities recently. Of course, I've been training in martial arts for a long time."
"So that's it. Your 'powers' are the results of training much like Captain America. But how did you get so much power from only martial arts training?"
"My powers would be here with or without any training but the years of training I've done make me a much better superheroine," Spider said with a cute sweet smile as she looked at him eye to eye.
"I see. Here's the next question," Felix asked taking another admiring glance at Spider Woman's exposed midriff.
"What's that?"
"So how big are you?"
"Hmmm?"
"I mean how tall are you and how much do you weigh?"
"Ooh. Getting personal, are we?" Spidey asked, leaning closer to Felix's face while still sitting in his lap.
"Enquiring minds want to know and all that. Heh, heh," Felix said nervously.
"Well, here are my statistics. I'm five feet ten inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. And my measurements are a forty-inch triple D bustline, a twenty-six-inch waistline, and thirty-eight-inch hips. As you can see everything stands at attention like military men standing in line for inspection. Anything else you need to know?" the young superheroine said, slowly moving her assets in her interviewer's direction.
"Besides walking up walls and spinning web lines, what else can you do?"
"I can pretty much do whatever a spider can. That includes superhuman speed and agility. I'm fairly strong too. Here let me show you."
At that moment Spider Woman got up from Felix's lap and picked up him and the chair on which he was sitting with a phenomenal sense of balance and shameless ease, using only one hand.
"Wow! All right. You can put me down now." As soon as Felix and his chair were back on the ground, Spider Woman was standing over him, leaning down towards him.
"Any more questions?"
It took no amount of willpower for Felix to tear his eyes from the young woman's exposed midriff. However, the interview had to go on.
"When you're swinging through town how fast do you go?"
"I don't know. I've never timed myself. Why don't we find out?"
"How do we find that out?"
"I'll take you swinging with me."
"I don't know about..."
"Oh come on. Don't you want to go swinging with me?"
"Um. All right. I... Whoa!" Spider Woman immediately picked up the handsome reporter, opened the window and leaped out of it with her passenger in tow.
"Weee!" Spidey yelled as Felix held on for dear life, grasping her stomach and ribs, his hands creeping upwards within her uniform.
"Hehehehehehehehehehehe! Watch the hands I'm ticklish! Can't keep your hands off me, can you? Watch where you touch me, OK?" the web-slinger said as she swung through town faster than a slingshot, spinning webs as was needed.
"I've never quite been swept off of my feet in this manner," Felix gasped as the wind tugged his hair back.
"Oh. I thought you liked me. Anyway, I'm really happy to be giving you your first time. Giggle!"
"Heh, heh. Well. You are really attractive and all."
"Ooh! I'm so flattered!" Spidey exclaimed, faking a deep blush. As the buxom superheroine swung through town with Felix Hardy in tow, people on the street looked up and pointed.
"Well, you sure know how to draw a crowd. What do you plan to do from here?"
"I'm going to Disneyland!"
"Huh?"
"Just kidding. I've always wanted to say that. Anyway, I've noticed there are a lot of young girls being forced into prostitution and pornography by the criminal gangs of this city. Well, I won't tolerate that anymore!" Spidey stated hotly.
"So you're opposed to that sort of thing?"
"Not really. What I hate is the idea of someone being forced into something like that against her will. I believe a woman should have a choice in such things. I've busted up a few sex slavery rings already," Spider Woman said triumphantly.
"If you went after the crime families' other operations you could probably hurt them a whole lot more. The skin trade is only a small part of what they do," Felix explained.
"Hmm. Really?"
"Yes. There's a reporter at our newspaper named Bill Marlowe who's an expert on the subject of gangs and organized crime. He's written a lot of articles on them. I'm sure if you were to google his name you'd get to read up on what he's written."
"You're right, Felix. Thanks for the heads up. You've been very helpful to me." Before the handsome reporter knew it, Spider Woman had swung through the window of the Daily Globe they had departed just moments before.
"If you want another good story you can tell everyone I'm going to look into that Bill Marlowe guy you told me about and wage a one-woman war on the gangs of this city. They've had it too good for too long. Gotta go now. Bye bye!" With that Spidey shot out the window.
"Wow!" Felix gasped as he saw the superheroine swing away through the city.
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"Good work, Melosh. In a few minutes, we will have created our own super-powered muscle." Alexei Sytsevich was a poor immigrant from Russia whose family had immigrated when he was ten years old. He had volunteered to participate in an experiment that would bond a super-strong polymer to his skin and give him enhanced strength, speed, and stamina for a huge bonus. He was one of Russian mafia crime boss, Sergei Molotov's less intelligent but more loyal hired muscle who had worked for Sergei for a few months when the money he was able to make in America wasn't enough for his liking.
Taking out the local Russian mafia and anyone else who had stood in the way was fairly easy since for Sergei and his men since they had brand new experimental Soviet weaponry that the best Soviet scientists had made for the Russian army before the Cold War had ended a few years back. Due to the ending of the Cold War, these weapons were still unused until Sergei had managed to get his hands on them. Right now he was running the area of Brighton Beach, otherwise known as Little Odessa in New York City where mostly Russian immigrants and their descendants lived.
"He's almost ready, Sergei. I was amazed at how you were able to get everything I needed for this so quickly," the scientist said.
"You shouldn't have been amazed. I can get you anything including that Swedish blond you've been bedding down for the last few months. I even brought all that advanced equipment that you upgraded from Mother Russia. You have been very useful to me so far, Melosh. Thus it would be best for you to keep things that way. But keep in mind that I can do anything and will do anything to become the king of New York City."
"Of course. The advanced weaponry I'll keep making for you will ensure that," Melosh answered.
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Kingpin is still reputed to be the most powerful crime lord in all of New York while I'm only crime lord of Brighton Beach. But when the Kingpin doesn't expect it I will destroy him and take over. But for now, let's see our newest super soldier."
!SMASH! "What is that?!" Everyone turned to see what looked like a green-skinned witch wearing black come flying through a broken window on a broom.
"It's the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz!" one of the gunmen called out as he tried to shoot the flying witch down.
"It's time for mayhem and destruction!" the green-skinned witch screamed as she blasted the place with the energy that came from her hands, shattering valuable equipment.
"Melosh!"
"We're done! Arise, Alexei!" Alexei's armor had turned rock solid with a small horn coming out of it near the top of his head at the scientist's word. The rhino looking man broke his restraints with ease.
"It's as I made you. You are a living rhino!"
"All right. Now it's time to deal with this interloper," the Rhino said as he ran towards the girl flying on a broomstick.
"Oh, no you don't! Watch this! Abra Kadabra!" the young girl waved her hands and pointed at the Rhino, blasting him with some kind of energy but nothing happened as he kept running towards her. "What the?!"
"You can't stop a rhino with parlor tricks, little girl!"
"Oh, yeah?"
"It's obvious I can't transform everything and everyone. I found that out earlier, but there're still things I can do, like the floor!" The quasi-witch waved her hands again, causing the floor under the Rhino to dematerialize into paper which sent the big man through the floor down into some other floors.
"Aaaaagh!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" cackled the Wicked Witch of the West as she flew around on her broom over the hole she had created for the Rhino to fall through.
"Who are you, girl?!" Molotov asked, looking over the damage of his prize, 40 story building.
"What?! You don't know? I'm Serena Jade, the Wicked Witch of the West! And now. Bubble, bubble, toil in trouble!" Serena waved a wand that she materialized out of thin air and pointed it at Sergei Molotov, turning him into a body of glass. Then she flew over to him and knocked him through the hole the Rhino had fallen through earlier, causing him to smash into a million pieces when he hit the floor.
"Goodbye, Comrade Molotov. I did not know him well."
Then Serena looked around the building. "Serena smash!" The wicked witch began to alternately blast the area with her energy attacks and transform equipment and parts of the building with her transmutation powers. Eventually, a flammable part of a power generator ignited, causing an explosion.
"The building's on fire! Everybody get out!" As the fire increased, water from the ceiling began to shower everyone and everything including Serena.
"Aaarrgh! I'm meeeltiiiiing!" Serena moaned as she collapsed to the ground while several mob enforcers stood over her triumphantly.
"Goodbye, little witch. You are now..." !ZAP! "Ouch!"
"Psych!" the green-hued witch said as she got up onto her broom and blasted the men who had surrounded her before any of them knew what hit them.
"You guys have been watching too many golden age movies."
"She's still alive! Gun her down!" As the bullets whizzed by her, Serena pointed and turned the guns into rubber snakes which caused the gunmen to drop their former weapons.
"My work is done here. Ta ta!" With that Serena flew off on her broom, leaving the damaged, collapsing building on its death throes.
"That was close! I got out of there just in time," Melosh said as he carried all of his paperwork with him, running from the exploding building.
"I'll just find another employer who pays good money. There are all sorts of big money people who want super-powered muscle working for them. Heh, heh."
But as Melosh Markasev ran over to his car in haste he found himself taken up into the air. "Whup!"
"Weeee! You didn't think I had forgotten about you, did you, Melosh? Now, what am I going to do with you?"
"Hup! Slow down! It's getting hard for me to breathe," the scientist complained as he gasped for air.
"Shut your trap! I'll decide how fast I'm going to fly. Wa ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Please! Cough! I can't breathe." In time they went so high into the air that they were dozens of stories up.
"OK. OK. Settle down. You know what? I'm tired of carrying you. I think I'll let you off right here."
"Nooo!" Melosh screamed as he fell to where he thought would be the ground below. He was pleasantly surprised when he landed on top of a stationary fireman's net on the top of a building as the witch girl flew off seemingly into the crescent moon in the sky, cackling like a mad woman.
"Where am I?"
As soon as he found that nothing was broken he got up from the net and looked around.
"This is Norman Osborne's building! What are the chances of me landing here?"
"Good evening, Mr. Melosh Markasev. You kept me waiting just so you could bounce around on a net on top of my building."
"Uh, yes," the scientist said nervously.
"You might as well come inside. It's rather chilly out."
Melosh quickly took note of Norman Osborne standing with several armed agents watching him warily. "Uh, well. Sure."
"Would you like a job or would you like to meet up with an unpleasant accident?"
"I'll take the job," Melosh answered as the hi-tech guns poised to shoot in his direction.
"Then, by all means, come inside."
"It was child's play for me to put those hypnotic suggestions into Harriet's sub-conscious while she slept. Her strength of will has become a little stronger but she was so eager to please it wasn't too difficult to get her to not only destroy Molotov and his operation, getting rid of my strongest competitor but to also bring his best scientist here. Who'd have thought my little girl would have proven to be so useful?"
"However, I now have to make time to see my daughter as she does her cheers at some accursed football game! Oh, well. Maybe I can make some kind of picture moment out of it. I'll be running for mayor one day so I can use all the good press I can get," Norman thought as he followed his henchmen who had guns drawn on Melosh as they directed him inside.
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"Good work, Carolyn. You've done well on my experiment even though the metallic arms I built for you have fastened to your spine on a permanent basis," Otto Octavius commented.
Professor Otto Octavius stood at 5ft. 10 inches tall weighing 200 pounds, being a somewhat hefty and muscular middle-aged man with glasses and a sugar bowl-shaped haircut much like Moe Howard from the Three Stooges. He was neither handsome nor ugly, being about average in the looks department.
"That's all right. I rather like the power, strength, and speed of having four extra adamantine steel arms give me. My original limbs and body are stronger as well. Besides, if these arms get in the way..." In the blink of an eye, she retracted the metallic arms into her back, making them vanish without a trace.
Carolyn Trainer was a technological genius but despite this she was a very attractive woman with long auburn hair, standing at 5ft. 6 inches tall, weighing a shapely, busty 120 pounds.
"Hmm. That's very impressive. I'm surprised you were able to do that. But then I knew you were possessed of great intelligence when I met you and you recognized my genius which is even greater now."
"The electric shock we went through was very painful but it was worth it. Was it good for you too?" the attractive woman asked with a sly wink.
"It was," Otto said, returning the smile. "It was necessary to get as much power as possible. While you are now very powerful in your own right, I have superhuman intelligence along with mental powers, making me a mastermind!"
"That sounds like a good name for you, Otto."
"Yes. I rather like that name. And have you decided what to call yourself?"
"Yes. I'll call myself, Dr. Octopus. Now, where do we go from here?"
"My plans include eventually taking over the New York criminal underworld."
"The criminal underworld? That would mean going head to head against the Kingpin and some of the other gang leaders. Are we so powerful as to be able to take on all those gangsters?"
"Not quite. But my genius and cunning are far greater than any of these gang leaders including the Kingpin. You know how I'm a Russian immigrant, don't you?"
"Yes."
"Well, I have contacts in the Russian Mafia. Many of the capos are fed up with the leadership. It's time for me to make my move. Are you with me, my dear?"
"Yes, Otto. I'll always be with you."
"Good. I knew you were loyal to me but I had to be sure," Mastermind said to his assistant telepathically.
"You knew what I was thinking?!" Dr. Octopus gasped.
"Of course, my dear."
"Then you know what I would like to do with you right now," the attractive woman said with a slight purr.
"I do know. And as fetching as you are, I will accommodate you." With that Mastermind used his telekinesis to bring the beautiful woman to himself and carried her into another room.
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And here are the stats and abilities of the Doctor Octopus/Carolyn Trainer
DOCTOR OCTOPUS (Carolyn Trainer)
FIGHTING: AMAZING (50) This means ultimate human fighting machine.
AGILITY: REMARKABLE (30) This level of agility and reflexes means on par with superior Olympic athletics.
STRENGTH: INCREDIBLE (40) This level of strength means the ability to lift/press 20 of tons with or without the use of her metallic arms.
ENDURANCE: INCREDIBLE (40) This level of endurance is one level above the human limit, never tiring.
REASON: REMARKABLE (30) This means near genius level intelligence.
INTUITION: EXCELLENT (20) This means in the business of noticing things with an eye for detail and odd events.
PSYCHE: REMARKABLE (30) This is means a well-focused will.
HEALTH: 160
KARMA: 80
RESOURCES: EXCELLENT (20), Small business
POPULARITY: -10, Despised by the general public
APPEARANCE: EXCELLENT, Carolyn has an unusually attractive appearance.
POWERS
The Doctor Octopus' primary weapons are her four robotic tentacles, which are attached to the special harness that has melded into her torso. The tentacles are composed of pure adamantium, a Class 1,000 material(i.e indestructible) strength. Each telescoping tentacle can reach up to 110 yards away and terminates with a set of three single-jointed pincers, which are extensions of Carolyn's body thus they can exert as much strength as she has each. The tentacles can rotate in either direction like a screwdriver; the pincers are capable of performing very delicate tasks, such as holding a cigar, typing, and even thumbing through sheets of paper. The tentacles provide the Doctor Octopus with the following powers:
Attack: a tentacle can cause as much damage as her strength in a blunt attack and Excellent damage in an edged attack (her choice) up to 110 yards away. Edged attacks by the tentacles shift an opponents' body armor/defenses 4 levels down, enabling them to easily tear through even Iron Man's armor.
Block: a tentacle can block an opponent's attack. On a successful block, the tentacle takes the damage instead of Doctor Octopus. Due to the speed of the tentacles, blunt or edged attacks are blocked at +2CS. Blunt throwing or edged throwing attacks are blocked with no modifiers. Shooting, energy and force attacks, however, are blocked without any pluses. In order to get +2CS to these kinds of attacks, Doctor Octopus will usually grab something or someone with one or more of her tentacles to use as a shield.
Transport: Using two tentacles, Doctor Octopus can travel up to 40 miles per hour. Using three tentacles, she can travel up to 60 miles per hour. Using all four tentacles, she can travel up to about 80 mph. In either event, she can walk right over any obstacle less than two stories high. She's also capable of climbing surfaces and walls with Unearthly (100) ability.
Wind Generation: Doctor Octopus can use one or more tentacles like a giant fan, creating winds of up to 500 mph. Small thrown weapons (such as knives or Captain America's shield) hit at -5CS in the face of such winds. The wind is also effective for dispersing gases.
Resistance: Remarkable (being able to withstand 2 tons worth of force whether physical or energy, bashing or killing)
TALENTS/SKILLS
Ambidexterity(this includes her mechanical limbs), Climbing, Cybernetics, First Aid, Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Mathematics, Mechanics, Pilot Vehicles: All, Navigation, Biology, Robotics, Computers, Electronics, Engineering, Repair/Tinkering,
Contacts: Mastermind(Otto Octavius)