Here it is! The Spider-Luz AU origin Story! Enjoy!

Disclaimers: I own neither the owl house nor Spider-man. Also, i don't have ADHD, though i am neurodivergent. please forgive me if I misrepresent it.

Chapter One: Bitten

Gravesfield City went by many less-than-pleasant nicknames.

'Conneticut's Gotham', 'Lesser Chicago', 'The Kingdom of Crime' and 'The Roost of Robberies'.

You've probably guessed that the crime rate was pretty high. You'd be right. Like many cities, this was mainly caused by mass poverty, corrupt officials, and power-hungry kingpins. However, it was a lot worse than your average city. The average graduating high school student there often chose between going to university, getting an honest job, or partaking in a life of crime. Politicians often boasted to each other how big their bribes were (not in City Hall or Public Spaces, of course. In private spaces like their houses).

It did have some good points, however.

Like the food stands. And most of the people there were decent. And there wasn't much littering.

There was one part of the city, however, that was good or bad depending entirely on who you asked.

Blight industries.

The Multinational billion-dollar company that specialised in military science and technology research and production. Founded two hundred years ago by one George C. Blight, it started out making simple guns and shells, and had begun military research after the first world war. Turns out finding new ways to kill people was extremely profitable. Since then, it had expanded like a balloon on an air hose.

Some said they were patriots. Others said they were war profiteers.

Many said they were a legitimate business. Others said they had black market dealings.

Much of the working class (especially those that worked for them) said they payed terribly and didn't care about the employees. Most people who worked on the board, in CEO Odalia Blight's office and Odalia Blight herself all said this was nonsense.

No matter what you thought of them, there was one thing that was common in it that everyone could agree on.

There was a lot of field trips there.

...

"Hey, Luz-er!"

Just ignore her...

"You bring any of those dumb Azura books with you?"

Just ignore her...

"Hey! I'm talking to you, Noceda!"

"Back off!" snapped Amity, who was sat down next to Luz.

"Awww... is the traitor defending her girlfriend?" asked Boscha, with a ****-eating grin on her face.

"She's not my girlfriend!" growled Amity, turning red.

"Leave them alone, Boscha!" Willow called from a few seats back.

"Yeah! We'll tell a teacher!" added Gus with a passionate glare.

Boscha rolled her eyes, feigning disinterest "Fine. I have better things to do, anyway."

Luz bit back an angry retort and turned to her friend "Just ignore her, Amity."

The green-haired girl sighed "Was I really like that?"

"Wellll..."

"Luz."

"Only a little."

With an embarrassed groan, Amity buried her face in her hands.

Luz then remembered something "Hey, I gotcha something, Ams."

Amity looked up to see Luz holding...

"The good witch Azura vs the IRS!" cried Amity, suppresing a squeal of joy as Luz passed it to her "The latest novel! I love you, Luz!"

It took her a second to realise what she just said. Fortunately for her (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) Luz answered her before she could say anything.

"Aw, thanks Amity! I love you too! You're one of my best friends!"

Amity then proceeded to die inside.

...

The Blight Industries building was enormous to say the least.

It was a particularly tall skyscraper that was built in a kind of huge upturned cone; it's walls leaned away from it's centre. It was an impressive feat of engineering and had gained plenty of publicity (which was probably the point).

The students were all given I.D. badges as they were let in. There had probably been a mistake somewhere along the line, as Luz's badge said 'Lus Nosaidah'.

Great. Just great.

As they stepped onto the escalator, they all stared the giant golden statue of Odalia Blight in the middle of the Building's floor and either wondered how they could get one or whispered to each other with mutters of 'Seriously?' or 'Now that's just self-indulgent'.

Amity just stared at it, her expression unreadable.

Luz put an arm on her shoulder "You okay?"

While having a gay panic, Amity muttered a little too quickly "I'm fine! Don't worry about me, Luz! I'm completely, one-hundred per cent okey-day!"

Before Luz could reply, they reached the top of the escalator and were greeted by a scientist wearing a generic labcoat.

"Good morning, everyone!" he grinned "My name is Doctor S. Character, and today I shall be your guide! If you'll walk this way, I shall give you a look at some of our projects!"

He cheerfully nattered on about heavy ion fusion or something like that, leading them into a room full of Hazmat suits, where he instructed everyone to put one on.

He then led the class into another room, a testing area the size of the average lunch hall where a giant cannon operated by scientists wearing Hazmats sat. Its overly large muzzle was pointed in the general direction of some crash test dummies on the other side of the room.

"This is the latest in military technology, the radiation cannon." Pronounced Doctor S. Character, who made Luz think of the words 'Side Character'.

"Using a recently discovered form of radiation called Odalia Radiation, we can put this to good use in the military." he explained "We are here to see a little demonstration of it."

"Can we go home instead?" someone heckled.

"I'd let you, but I don't want to see another lizard monster created. Now, on with the demonstration!"

What no-one noticed, however, was a tiny creature slowly travelling down to the floor by it's web. Unbeknownst to anyone, it would meet the floor sooner than it intended.

The radiation cannon fired, shooting a ray of green energy that annihilated the dummies it hit as the scientists slowly turned the cannon to hit them, leaving a smoking pile of ash.

The Spider dropped to the floor, twitching slightly.

Immediately, all the students began asking questions;

"How does it work?"

"What's the biggest thing it can blast?"

"Can I borrow it?"

Dr. Character put his hands up to quiet them "Let me tell you a little bit about it. Blight radiation was discovered last year by Alador Bllight, the head of scientific research at Blight Industries when he was making himself a chicken sandwich..."

Luz however, had stopped paying attention and begun to imagine herself using that cannon against the giant weasel-bird monster that was an antagonist in the book she gave Amity earlier.

"...Luz!"

"Huh!?" Luz jumped as Amity put a hand on her shoulder "We're moving on to the next thing."

"Oh, right. Thanks, Amity." Luz replied, realising that they were the only ones still in the room.

As they exited the testing area, neither of them noticed a little passenger on the back of Luz's hazmat suit...

...

As Luz was taking the suit off, she noticed something on her now ungloved hand.

A spider. It looked pretty average, except for the fact it was shaking for some reason. Weird.

"Hey little guy." She smiled "How are you?"

The Spider politely responded by chomping down on her hand.

Luz let out a yelp of pain, instinctively swinging her hand and throwing the Spider off. Wincing, she took a look at her hand. Two tiny red bite marks could be seen, a parting gift from the Spider.

Shrugging it off, Luz continued taking the Hazmat suit off, accidentally falling over and crashing into Gus, and then they both crashed into Willow and you can guess what happened from there.

"Sorry, everyone." Groaned Luz, standing and helping up Willow as the class all began to grumble "I should have been more careful."

"It's okay, Luz." Gus told her, getting up "C'mon, we got lunch in half an hour."

...

After the tour was over, Luz talked to Her friends on thee bus ride.

"It's Saturday tomorrow. Looking forward to the sleepover?" asked Willow.

"You bet I am!" grinned Luz "Anyone think of what movie they want to watch?"

"RDJ's Sherlock Homes!"

"Curse of the Black Pearl!"

"Hamilton!"

Eventually, they decided on watching The Great escape.

As they explained to Gus what it was about, Luz suddenly felt all woozy. Then her head started to feel like an elephant wearing metal boots was break-dancing inside.

"...Huh?" she muttered, letting out a groan as she clutched her head.

"Are you okay, Luz?" asked Amity, concerned.

"Y-Y-yeah..." groaned Luz, weakly slumping in her chair. Her muscles felt as if they weren't there at all.

Willow leaned over the back of Luz's chair and felt her forehead "Okay, you're definitely nOt AlRiGhT. wE sHoUlD tElL a TeAcHeR..."

Luz's eyes drooped as sound began constantly shifting from loud to quiet. As if she wasn't concerned enough, she was starting to see double.

Amity was saying something to her... but she couldn't make it out.

She felt her body falling to the side... hitting the floor... then nothing.

...

"Is she okay?"

"OH NO SHE'S DEAD!"

"STAND BACK! I'M GONNA GIVE HER THE KISS OF LIFE!"

"I'M OKAY! I'M OKAY!" Yelled Luz, quickly sitting up.

In front of her was Willow, Gus, and a blushing Amity. All of them had concerned look on their faces. Why did they-

Oh yeah. Luz had just passed out.

"Luz... are you okay?" asked Willow, helping her up.

Luz winced as a tidal wave of pain exploded through her skull. She suddenly felt all woozy again.

"If I'm honest? No." She groaned, as Willow supported her body. She was feeling weak again, like a mere gust of wind could knock her over.

"The school's just round the corner. We'll get you to the Nurse's office there, okay?" Amity told her in what she imagined to be a soothing voice but was actually a panicky voice "Gus, Willow, help me carry her to the school."

As Luz was hoisted up by her friends, she had only one thought on her mind:

What is happening?

...

There you have it! The first chapter!

In this AU, I decided to go with the 'Radioactive Spider' route, rather than the 'Mutated Spider' route. Why a radiation cannon? Take a look at the original comic strip from 1962 where Peter gets bitten. You'll understand. I also put in a new kind of radiation because Radiation Poisoning and I decided to be a little bit realistic.

Hope you enjoyed! Ideas, advice and questions are welcome!

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