I threw my suit on determined to destroy Cobra. I held back my tears
as I began running down the street. She has gone too far. What does she
want with me! I did nothing to her! She kidnapped two people I loved dearly
and put there lives in danger just to fight me! Peter, I shouldn't of left
him alone, but they need me! The world can not always depend on Spider-man,
or Superman, or anyone! Sometimes they just need to give others a chance.
Please don't think I'm worthless New York, I may be young, but I can do
this!
"Hey look, it's Spide- girl," one of the towns people laughed as I ran by, "maybe she's running to catch a sale at the mall."
"Nah, she broke a nail. She has to get to the parlor before it closes," another one mocked.
Many people started laughing and mocking as I ran by. I began to wonder why everyone doubted me so much. Then I stopped and looked down at my feet where a newspaper article blew on. I picked it up and looked at it. The Daily Bugle was making fun of me! There were many things in that paper that were false, and they all believed it. I put the paper down and looked around. Only groups of people were laughing at me, but it felt like the whole world was. It felt like everything was spinning as I heard the laugher grow into a roar in my mind. I covered my ears and felt like crying. I'm I really a failure? Do people doubt me so easily? Maybe I should just stay home like Peter said and let Spider-man take care of it.
Just then a little girl tapped me on my back. It was the same little girl that I saved when I became Spidey-Chick! She probably was going to mock me too. I remember how terrible I did when I rescued her.
"They're stupid, Spidey-Chick," she said looking at the crowd.
"Huh?" I said looking at her.
"Go save New York like you always do! You're my hero! You can't give up now!"
"I'm your hero?"
"The best yet!"
Even if all of New York was laughing at me, I'm still this little girl's hero. I told her thanks and said goodbye. As I started running all the kids in the neighborhood started cheering me on. Their cheering drowned out the mocking. I ran faster and faster and soon started swinging. I'm coming MJ, Josh, please don't lose hope.
I swung from building to building as my heart grew from the excitement of being a hero. I felt like music was playing for me wherever I go, like the soundtrack in the movies. All the great memories of Josh and MJ repeated in my head, which made me swing faster and faster. Finally after a long swing I landed hard in Central Park. I took a moment to catch my breath, and started to walk around.
It was quiet. A little too quiet. Where was Cobra? I looked around and saw Tina sitting on a bench.
"Tina! You have to get out of here! It's not safe!" I said grabbing her hand and starting to drag her to safety.
"What makes it not safe Jill?" she said smiling. "Nobody's here but us snakes."
"What…" I said looking at her in shock. "What, what makes you think I'm Jill?"
"I told you I know who you are, now you know who I am." She jerked her hand away from me and stood back with an evil grin on her face.
"Tina, you're not, there's no way you can be-"
"Cobra? Oh yes. The one who bite you're pal Spider-man, and who took the one's you love. The one who tried to burn the school down and the one who will DISTORY YOU!"
She pulled out a snake skin purse and held it up. An ooze shadow like costume came out and twisted around Tina, gluing itself to her like skin. It started to grow a rattlesnake tail and a snake for an arm. I watched shocked in horror as I found out the truth. Tina, she is Cobra.
"It can't be," I said in a faint voice, "why would you do this?"
"Revenge Spick," she said sitting on the top of the bench. "You take my father, I take your friends, now we are even."
"Where are they?" I said angrily balling my fists.
"What? You don't want to chat anymore? I was hoping we could be friends."
"GIVE THEM TO ME!" I said charging at her and then felt weak again. Everything started to look blurry. I started to zone out and had a flashback of when I became Spidey-Chick.
"Its only going to last a few months since it was a half spider," I remember Peter saying. It has been a few months. My powers were leaving me. But it can't, not now! I need these powers more then anything!
"What's the matter, ate something bad last night?" Cobra laughed. "Well if you want to know where your friends are…" her snake hand opened its mouth and spit out two glass balls. Inside was a small version of Josh in one, and MJ in the other.
"Let them go," I said getting some of my strength back.
"They only way to get them out is to destroy me!"
"I don't want to kill anybody Tina, not even you!"
"I know you can't beat me Jill, but there is no excuse for it."
"I can beat you! But I don't kill either."
"Not even if I do this!" She whacked me with her tail, sending me flying into a tree. I slowly got up and shook my head no.
"Maybe you just need to talk to the hand," she said shooting her snake arm at me. I started jumping on dodging every strike. I pulled myself up a tree with my web and the snake ran into the tree, knocking him out for a while.
"What's the matter?" I said out of breath, "Is this little spider too fast for the big snake?"
Cobra growled and then smiled. "I know…how about I mess with your little friends?" She said picking the two glasses up.
"Leave them out of this!" I yelled jumping out of the tree. Cobra laughed and jetted away from the park. "Ah man," I sighed starting to swing after her, "I'm getting too old for this."
She quickly slithered up the nearest and tallest building she could find. I quickly swung on top of the roof out of breath. I was getting weaker each moment. I could barely climb walls or lift more then a ton. I just hoped that Cobra doesn't find out.
"I wonder how fast these things can fall," Cobra said lifting the glasses over the edge.
"Don't do it Cobra!" I said stretching out my hand to her.
"Once these hit the ground, the force would kill them inside and not break the glass. It would just be like if they jumped off a building."
"NOOOOOOOOO!" I said as I watched her drop the two glasses. I hung over the edge of the roof and shot my web. Cobra grabbed one of my arms making me shoot one web. The web caught Josh and I quickly pulled him up. Cobra grabbed my other arm as well. I tried to fight myself free from Cobra's strong grip. But I was too weak.
"COBRA! PLEASE LET GO! I HAVE TO SAVE MJ!" I cried still fighting my way out.
"NO! You will see how it was for me! To see my father taken away, to see my boyfriend taken away! Now watch as your beloved cousin's life will be taken away!" Cobra said forcing me to watch. I heard MJ's screams as she fell closer and closer to the ground.
"NNOOOOOOOO!" I said watching her fall. Just then I saw something swing before my eyes and catch MJ.
"What was that?" Cobra said looking down, "Where'd she go?"
I looked back and smiled. "I don't know, why don't you ask him?" I pointed to the shadowy figure in the corner.
"Spider-man!" Cobra said shocked.
"Surprised to see me!" Spider-man said socking her in the face. Cobra fell down letting me free.
I ran next to Spider-man. "Spidey, your still sick. You shouldn't be fighting."
"Your weak," Spider-man said putting his hand on my shoulder, "But that didn't stop you from saving the one's you loved." He gave me a hug and laughed. "Besides, two half powerful people can make a whole right? We can beat her together." Spider-man put MJ's glass in his belt and I put Josh in mine.
Cobra got up in anger. "This wasn't supposed to happen!" she said shooting her arm at Spidey.
"Man not again," Spider-man said rolling his eyes and dodging. "Don't you have some other attacks? The same two is getting kind of boring."
"Oh you want more huh?" Cobra said laughing. She held up her hands and a huge red cloud surrounded her. When the smoke cleared Cobra turned into a cobra, I mean a huge cobra!
"I don't think this roof is big enough for the three of us," Spidey said looking up at her, "actually, I don't think this roof is big enough for her period!"
Spidey and I started swinging away as the Cobra slithered on the ground after us, spitting venom at us.
"You just had to say something!" I yelled swinging next to Spider-man.
"How should I know she would turn into a giant snake!"
"Hint: the name COBRA!"
"You would have said the same thing!"
"Would not!"
"Would too!"
"Would NOT!"
"Would TOOO!"
"WOULD NOOOT!"
"Would- never mind I'm not going to argue with a little kid."
"I'm not a little kid!" Just then I heard Cobra roaring behind me. I screamed and started to swing faster.
"Okay here's the question, how do you kill a giant snake?" Spidey said looking back.
"A giant mongoose?" I guessed.
"Is there anything else?" Spider-man sighed.
"Well when I was in girl scouts you have to hold a snake by the head to calm it."
"That's it!" Spidey grabbed me and we swung on top of a building. "When I say go, go!" He said as he swung to the building across from mine. We waited until Cobra was right in the middle of us.
"Go!" Spidey yelled as he and I swung towards Cobra's head.
"She's going to eat us!" I yelled as I swung closer to her mouth.
We swung past each other and Spidey and I flipped around and around Cobras mouth. Soon we stopped and landed on top of Cobra's head.
"Oh I get it now," I laughed looking at Spidey.
"Hang on!" Spidey yelled as Cobra took us for a wild ride. It was like we were riding a bull as we flew up and down, hanging on to Cobra. Finally she got tired and fell. She shrunk back to her original Cobra self.
"It's not over Spiders!" she said out of breath. The skin slimmed off of Tina and jumped to the top of the building, leaving Tina lying on the ground.
"Hey get back…" I started to fall to my knees.
"Spick, are you okay?" Spidey asked holding me up.
"My powers are leaving me Spidey," I sighed, "but I can fight! Let's go!"
I shot my web up the roof to pull myself up before Spidey could say a word. Spidey followed, slowly behind me.
"Cobra, if it's a fight you want you'll get it," I said out of breath.
"How can you beat me? I'm no more then a snake suit. You can't kill me. Your friends will forever remain in that glass." The suit laughed and noticed Spider-man climbing on top of the roof.
"Another symbiote," Spider-man said shaking its head. Just then we heard thunder in the sky. A storm was coming.
"I'm more then a symbiote Spidey," the suit said, "I become one with a person. I can change a person too, just like Tina down there. I got control of her anger, so her anger made her, her. I'm not like Venom."
"What do you know about Venom?"
"Venom was an idiot. He took the good side of Eddie Brock and became your friend. Unlike me, who will always be your enemy." The suit shot at Spidey, but he sensed it coming before it was too late.
Then the suit went into the ground. I started to feel weak and fell to my knees again. My spider- sense wasn't working but Spidey's was. He pushed me out the way, again and was caught in a giant glass. The glass shrunk and Spidey ended up like Josh and MJ.
"Spider-man! No!" I yelled looking at the little glass.
The suit crept behind me and grabbed me. Once again I tried to wiggle free but couldn't.
"I know you're weak!" the suit said while I wiggled. "You are one pathetic spider."
"Let go or I'll-"
"You'll what? What can you do Spick? You're a weak loser. And a bad actress."
"Don't call me Spick," I said as lighting hit a telephone wire.
"What do you want me to call you Spidey-Cheek?"
Suddenly I felt my power charging up for this one moment. People on the ground watched in shock. Little kids eyes started to water. I looked to the side and saw a loose wire sparking.
"My name is Spidey-Chick," I muttered starting to break away.
"What…" the suit said as he noticed my power returning.
"MY-NAME-IS-SPIDEY-CHICK!" I yelled as I grabbed its arm and threw it into the wire. The suit got electrocuted and burst into flames. After burning for ten minutes it turned into dust and blew away. It started to rain. MJ, Josh and Spider-man returned to normal and laughed happily. Spider-man came over and gave me a hug along with MJ. Josh looked shocked and looked around.
"That was freaky," he said looking around. "Do one of you guys mind giving me a ride down?" Everyone laughed as I took Josh down.
"Thanks for saving me again Spidey-Chick," Josh said shaking my hand, "but it's not going to make me like you. I have a girlfriend and I love her very much."
"You know," I said holding my finger up, "I…I think you should tell her that." I said. Josh smiled, nodded, and walked away. I went back on the roof with Spidey and MJ, who happened to be kissing each other. I rolled my eyes and took off my mask so the rain could run down my face to cool me off. Cobra was beaten. I did it. I smiled as I looked at the moon and heard the cheers of the crowd below.
"Hey look, it's Spide- girl," one of the towns people laughed as I ran by, "maybe she's running to catch a sale at the mall."
"Nah, she broke a nail. She has to get to the parlor before it closes," another one mocked.
Many people started laughing and mocking as I ran by. I began to wonder why everyone doubted me so much. Then I stopped and looked down at my feet where a newspaper article blew on. I picked it up and looked at it. The Daily Bugle was making fun of me! There were many things in that paper that were false, and they all believed it. I put the paper down and looked around. Only groups of people were laughing at me, but it felt like the whole world was. It felt like everything was spinning as I heard the laugher grow into a roar in my mind. I covered my ears and felt like crying. I'm I really a failure? Do people doubt me so easily? Maybe I should just stay home like Peter said and let Spider-man take care of it.
Just then a little girl tapped me on my back. It was the same little girl that I saved when I became Spidey-Chick! She probably was going to mock me too. I remember how terrible I did when I rescued her.
"They're stupid, Spidey-Chick," she said looking at the crowd.
"Huh?" I said looking at her.
"Go save New York like you always do! You're my hero! You can't give up now!"
"I'm your hero?"
"The best yet!"
Even if all of New York was laughing at me, I'm still this little girl's hero. I told her thanks and said goodbye. As I started running all the kids in the neighborhood started cheering me on. Their cheering drowned out the mocking. I ran faster and faster and soon started swinging. I'm coming MJ, Josh, please don't lose hope.
I swung from building to building as my heart grew from the excitement of being a hero. I felt like music was playing for me wherever I go, like the soundtrack in the movies. All the great memories of Josh and MJ repeated in my head, which made me swing faster and faster. Finally after a long swing I landed hard in Central Park. I took a moment to catch my breath, and started to walk around.
It was quiet. A little too quiet. Where was Cobra? I looked around and saw Tina sitting on a bench.
"Tina! You have to get out of here! It's not safe!" I said grabbing her hand and starting to drag her to safety.
"What makes it not safe Jill?" she said smiling. "Nobody's here but us snakes."
"What…" I said looking at her in shock. "What, what makes you think I'm Jill?"
"I told you I know who you are, now you know who I am." She jerked her hand away from me and stood back with an evil grin on her face.
"Tina, you're not, there's no way you can be-"
"Cobra? Oh yes. The one who bite you're pal Spider-man, and who took the one's you love. The one who tried to burn the school down and the one who will DISTORY YOU!"
She pulled out a snake skin purse and held it up. An ooze shadow like costume came out and twisted around Tina, gluing itself to her like skin. It started to grow a rattlesnake tail and a snake for an arm. I watched shocked in horror as I found out the truth. Tina, she is Cobra.
"It can't be," I said in a faint voice, "why would you do this?"
"Revenge Spick," she said sitting on the top of the bench. "You take my father, I take your friends, now we are even."
"Where are they?" I said angrily balling my fists.
"What? You don't want to chat anymore? I was hoping we could be friends."
"GIVE THEM TO ME!" I said charging at her and then felt weak again. Everything started to look blurry. I started to zone out and had a flashback of when I became Spidey-Chick.
"Its only going to last a few months since it was a half spider," I remember Peter saying. It has been a few months. My powers were leaving me. But it can't, not now! I need these powers more then anything!
"What's the matter, ate something bad last night?" Cobra laughed. "Well if you want to know where your friends are…" her snake hand opened its mouth and spit out two glass balls. Inside was a small version of Josh in one, and MJ in the other.
"Let them go," I said getting some of my strength back.
"They only way to get them out is to destroy me!"
"I don't want to kill anybody Tina, not even you!"
"I know you can't beat me Jill, but there is no excuse for it."
"I can beat you! But I don't kill either."
"Not even if I do this!" She whacked me with her tail, sending me flying into a tree. I slowly got up and shook my head no.
"Maybe you just need to talk to the hand," she said shooting her snake arm at me. I started jumping on dodging every strike. I pulled myself up a tree with my web and the snake ran into the tree, knocking him out for a while.
"What's the matter?" I said out of breath, "Is this little spider too fast for the big snake?"
Cobra growled and then smiled. "I know…how about I mess with your little friends?" She said picking the two glasses up.
"Leave them out of this!" I yelled jumping out of the tree. Cobra laughed and jetted away from the park. "Ah man," I sighed starting to swing after her, "I'm getting too old for this."
She quickly slithered up the nearest and tallest building she could find. I quickly swung on top of the roof out of breath. I was getting weaker each moment. I could barely climb walls or lift more then a ton. I just hoped that Cobra doesn't find out.
"I wonder how fast these things can fall," Cobra said lifting the glasses over the edge.
"Don't do it Cobra!" I said stretching out my hand to her.
"Once these hit the ground, the force would kill them inside and not break the glass. It would just be like if they jumped off a building."
"NOOOOOOOOO!" I said as I watched her drop the two glasses. I hung over the edge of the roof and shot my web. Cobra grabbed one of my arms making me shoot one web. The web caught Josh and I quickly pulled him up. Cobra grabbed my other arm as well. I tried to fight myself free from Cobra's strong grip. But I was too weak.
"COBRA! PLEASE LET GO! I HAVE TO SAVE MJ!" I cried still fighting my way out.
"NO! You will see how it was for me! To see my father taken away, to see my boyfriend taken away! Now watch as your beloved cousin's life will be taken away!" Cobra said forcing me to watch. I heard MJ's screams as she fell closer and closer to the ground.
"NNOOOOOOOO!" I said watching her fall. Just then I saw something swing before my eyes and catch MJ.
"What was that?" Cobra said looking down, "Where'd she go?"
I looked back and smiled. "I don't know, why don't you ask him?" I pointed to the shadowy figure in the corner.
"Spider-man!" Cobra said shocked.
"Surprised to see me!" Spider-man said socking her in the face. Cobra fell down letting me free.
I ran next to Spider-man. "Spidey, your still sick. You shouldn't be fighting."
"Your weak," Spider-man said putting his hand on my shoulder, "But that didn't stop you from saving the one's you loved." He gave me a hug and laughed. "Besides, two half powerful people can make a whole right? We can beat her together." Spider-man put MJ's glass in his belt and I put Josh in mine.
Cobra got up in anger. "This wasn't supposed to happen!" she said shooting her arm at Spidey.
"Man not again," Spider-man said rolling his eyes and dodging. "Don't you have some other attacks? The same two is getting kind of boring."
"Oh you want more huh?" Cobra said laughing. She held up her hands and a huge red cloud surrounded her. When the smoke cleared Cobra turned into a cobra, I mean a huge cobra!
"I don't think this roof is big enough for the three of us," Spidey said looking up at her, "actually, I don't think this roof is big enough for her period!"
Spidey and I started swinging away as the Cobra slithered on the ground after us, spitting venom at us.
"You just had to say something!" I yelled swinging next to Spider-man.
"How should I know she would turn into a giant snake!"
"Hint: the name COBRA!"
"You would have said the same thing!"
"Would not!"
"Would too!"
"Would NOT!"
"Would TOOO!"
"WOULD NOOOT!"
"Would- never mind I'm not going to argue with a little kid."
"I'm not a little kid!" Just then I heard Cobra roaring behind me. I screamed and started to swing faster.
"Okay here's the question, how do you kill a giant snake?" Spidey said looking back.
"A giant mongoose?" I guessed.
"Is there anything else?" Spider-man sighed.
"Well when I was in girl scouts you have to hold a snake by the head to calm it."
"That's it!" Spidey grabbed me and we swung on top of a building. "When I say go, go!" He said as he swung to the building across from mine. We waited until Cobra was right in the middle of us.
"Go!" Spidey yelled as he and I swung towards Cobra's head.
"She's going to eat us!" I yelled as I swung closer to her mouth.
We swung past each other and Spidey and I flipped around and around Cobras mouth. Soon we stopped and landed on top of Cobra's head.
"Oh I get it now," I laughed looking at Spidey.
"Hang on!" Spidey yelled as Cobra took us for a wild ride. It was like we were riding a bull as we flew up and down, hanging on to Cobra. Finally she got tired and fell. She shrunk back to her original Cobra self.
"It's not over Spiders!" she said out of breath. The skin slimmed off of Tina and jumped to the top of the building, leaving Tina lying on the ground.
"Hey get back…" I started to fall to my knees.
"Spick, are you okay?" Spidey asked holding me up.
"My powers are leaving me Spidey," I sighed, "but I can fight! Let's go!"
I shot my web up the roof to pull myself up before Spidey could say a word. Spidey followed, slowly behind me.
"Cobra, if it's a fight you want you'll get it," I said out of breath.
"How can you beat me? I'm no more then a snake suit. You can't kill me. Your friends will forever remain in that glass." The suit laughed and noticed Spider-man climbing on top of the roof.
"Another symbiote," Spider-man said shaking its head. Just then we heard thunder in the sky. A storm was coming.
"I'm more then a symbiote Spidey," the suit said, "I become one with a person. I can change a person too, just like Tina down there. I got control of her anger, so her anger made her, her. I'm not like Venom."
"What do you know about Venom?"
"Venom was an idiot. He took the good side of Eddie Brock and became your friend. Unlike me, who will always be your enemy." The suit shot at Spidey, but he sensed it coming before it was too late.
Then the suit went into the ground. I started to feel weak and fell to my knees again. My spider- sense wasn't working but Spidey's was. He pushed me out the way, again and was caught in a giant glass. The glass shrunk and Spidey ended up like Josh and MJ.
"Spider-man! No!" I yelled looking at the little glass.
The suit crept behind me and grabbed me. Once again I tried to wiggle free but couldn't.
"I know you're weak!" the suit said while I wiggled. "You are one pathetic spider."
"Let go or I'll-"
"You'll what? What can you do Spick? You're a weak loser. And a bad actress."
"Don't call me Spick," I said as lighting hit a telephone wire.
"What do you want me to call you Spidey-Cheek?"
Suddenly I felt my power charging up for this one moment. People on the ground watched in shock. Little kids eyes started to water. I looked to the side and saw a loose wire sparking.
"My name is Spidey-Chick," I muttered starting to break away.
"What…" the suit said as he noticed my power returning.
"MY-NAME-IS-SPIDEY-CHICK!" I yelled as I grabbed its arm and threw it into the wire. The suit got electrocuted and burst into flames. After burning for ten minutes it turned into dust and blew away. It started to rain. MJ, Josh and Spider-man returned to normal and laughed happily. Spider-man came over and gave me a hug along with MJ. Josh looked shocked and looked around.
"That was freaky," he said looking around. "Do one of you guys mind giving me a ride down?" Everyone laughed as I took Josh down.
"Thanks for saving me again Spidey-Chick," Josh said shaking my hand, "but it's not going to make me like you. I have a girlfriend and I love her very much."
"You know," I said holding my finger up, "I…I think you should tell her that." I said. Josh smiled, nodded, and walked away. I went back on the roof with Spidey and MJ, who happened to be kissing each other. I rolled my eyes and took off my mask so the rain could run down my face to cool me off. Cobra was beaten. I did it. I smiled as I looked at the moon and heard the cheers of the crowd below.