Spyder Bytes
Chapter Two
By Unseen Spyder.
Hi, second chapter time. The response to reviews is at the end. Sorry this is rather short but I didn't have time to type up more.
Word count: 1509
Susan woke up in the morning and found that she had fallen out of bed during the night and was using the quilt as pillow. She sat up and looked around at the dark, it was only five in the morning...ugh...she stood and dumped her quilt back on the bed and went to make some breakfast.
The penthouse was clean, a woman came twice a week and tidied up. She poured herself some juice and turned on the TV. She channel surfed for a few minutes and found nothing so she turned it back off.
It was then that she noticed her hand, it was resting on the white couch cushion and it was noticeably paler than her other one.
No...
It had to be the early morning light that was making it look that way. She lifted it up and it returned to normal.
Now it was getting strange.
She grabbed a red pillow from the other end of the couch and placed her hand on it. Nothing happened.
Ok...so maybe it had been a trick of the light.
But she wasn't ready to give it up just yet in case with was something more than an illusion. "Red..." she muttered and concentrated on the color of the cushion. "Red."
And her hand turned red.
It was more apparent then when it had been white. Her whole hand had changed color to match that of the cushion. She wasn't scared, a little freaked to be sure, but nothing more than that. Maybe she was a mutant and this was her power manifesting itself.
She had never imagined herself - though she thought it would be cool - as a mutant, and being able to change the color of her hand wasn't that brilliant of a power. But maybe it was just the beginning.
Hopefully it was.
Newton would have to hear about this. Like most people in the world, he fully accepted that there were mutants, in point of fact it was a rare person that denied the existence of mutants. There were enough news reports and articles to feed any curious mind.
It was just sickening to think that people were prejudiced against mutants just because they were different. People just feared what they didn't understand. And that prejudice wasn't a distant thing now, not just a thing on the news, she was part of the world now.
She grinned.
She tell Newton as soon as she could. They had been friends for practically forever. They could, and did, tell each other everything (with the slight exception of dropping heavy books onto skulls in order to gain powers) no matter what it was. They would complain to each other about the state of the world, their teachers, the food from the cafeteria, life and geekdom.
She knew things wouldn't be different now that she was a mutant, he would always accept her no matter what she was. Gideon on the other hand...
Gideon.
What about Gideon? They were a trio but she and Newton were much closer than they were to Gideon. He was an outcast but it wouldn't take much for the cool kids to accept him. He wasn't cut from the same cloth as they were.
And she liked him.
He was a brilliant friend but she liked him. It hadn't been love at first sight or anything and she'd only been able to admit it to herself in the last couple of months...
But that had nothing to do with her mutation. She would figure out what to tell Gideon later, she wanted to know what else she was capable of. Was she telekinetic? That was one power that she had always wanted. She looked over at a sheet of paper and tried for a full minute to make it move, after it failed to move even an inch, she gave up.
One of the things that had always astounded her about mutants was that they knew exactly what powers they had. It was probably because their powers manifested themselves uncontrollably at first, but there could be hundreds of people out their that had powers and just didn't know how to turn them on.
But that kind of thinking went against what was known about the X-gene, which was generally the cause of mutations. She only knew what Newton had told her about it, and because most of the research was classified he only knew what he had found out from mutant groups on the internet.
Now that she had these...somewhat...fantastically awesome powers (even if they hadn't fully manifested themselves yet) what was she going to do with them?
Every kid wants to grow up and be a superhero. They want to be one of the greats, Captain America, one of the Fantastic Four, Thor or anyone of the heroes.
That, however, was just a childish fantasy that often dwindled away as they grew up and learned that they were mutants. But for some that made it all the more exciting, because mutations don't usually happen until adolescence and some held out hope that they could become a hero.
She went back to her room and dialed her computer up the internet, there was a good chance that Newt would be online this early.
Newton, Newton was easy, Gideon was another matter. It wasn't as though he was about to go and sign up to the FoH but it wasn't going to be easy to tell him. As she connected, she decided against telling Gideon for a while, at least until she learned the extent of her powers.
As she reached across to grab her headphones an messaging window popped up. The beep startled her and her hand jerked in reflex.
{IIIrd Law: Hey Su, why u up this early?}
He wasn't going to get a response too quickly as she had just discovered another power. Her hand had jerked backward and two of her fingers were resting on her palm and there was a sticky strand of webbing coming out her wrist.
Webbing?!?
It was covering her tower, and it looked just like spider's silk. She tried to pull it away but it wouldn't budge. She relaxed and realized that it was probably a mental thing. Mentally, she told it to let go and the strand cut loose and fell to her desk.
{IIIrd Law: Yo? You there?}
She turned around in her chair and pointed her hand at the other side of the room, and bent her wrist back and let another strand of silk fly.
How very, very cool.
{IIIrd Law: Are U online or is this thing stuffing up on me?}
{Broken Reunion: I have some news.}
{IIIrd Law: You developed insomnia like a normal geek?}
{Broken Reunion: Something of quite a bit more importence than a bad sleeping habit.}
{IIIrd Law: You grow extra arms or something?}
No, just web spinners, but he was close.
[Broken Reunion has changed her name to Bytten.]
{Bytten: Newt, can I trust you?}
{IIIrd Law: With your life Susan, you know that.}
{Bytten: Well, when I woke up this morning...}
She paused and tried to decide on a more tactful wording than 'guess what? I'm a mutant.'
{IIIrd Law: Are you ok?}
{Bytten: You're sapien, I'm superior.}
{IIIrd Law: You don't mean...}
{Bytten: Well, what do you think Newton? One of us finally became a mutant.}
{IIIrd Law: I was about to ask you if you were joking but I know that you wouldn't joke about something this important.}
{Bytten: Are you ok with this?}
{IIIrd Law: Of course I am} There was a pause. {IIIrd Law: So tell me about your powers}
{Bytten: I didn't think it was anything important to begin with, my hand became the same color as the cushion on my couch}
{IIIrd Law: chameleon powers, COOL!!!!!!!}
{Bytten: That's not all, about two minutes I found out that I can make webs shoot out of my wrists.}
{IIIrd Law: Like a spider? Now I get the name change, what else?}
{Bytten: I'm not sure}
{IIIrd Law: I want to see you, can I come over?}
{Bytten: You know where you live. Are you going to ride? If you catch a cab I'll pay for the fare}
{IIIrd Law: I'll ride, it only takes me about fifteen minutes. And I'll bring my bag and we can catch the bus from your stop}
{Bytten: oh man! I've become a mutant and I still have to go to school? That is so NOT fair dude}
{IIIrd Law: some of the most famous mutants in history are intellectuals, you can't let your brain go to waste}
{Bytten: so is your friend wire a mutant?}
{IIIrd Law: actually, he's a dropout who works down on the docks. I'm going to leave now so don't tell anyone else until I get there}
{Bytten: no? But I was planning on ringing JJ Jameson down at the Bugle and giving him an exclusive story}
{IIIrd Law: Su...}
{Bytten: j/k C U soon}
[IIIrd Law is now offline.]
By Unseen Spyder.
Hi, second chapter time. The response to reviews is at the end. Sorry this is rather short but I didn't have time to type up more.
Word count: 1509
Susan woke up in the morning and found that she had fallen out of bed during the night and was using the quilt as pillow. She sat up and looked around at the dark, it was only five in the morning...ugh...she stood and dumped her quilt back on the bed and went to make some breakfast.
The penthouse was clean, a woman came twice a week and tidied up. She poured herself some juice and turned on the TV. She channel surfed for a few minutes and found nothing so she turned it back off.
It was then that she noticed her hand, it was resting on the white couch cushion and it was noticeably paler than her other one.
No...
It had to be the early morning light that was making it look that way. She lifted it up and it returned to normal.
Now it was getting strange.
She grabbed a red pillow from the other end of the couch and placed her hand on it. Nothing happened.
Ok...so maybe it had been a trick of the light.
But she wasn't ready to give it up just yet in case with was something more than an illusion. "Red..." she muttered and concentrated on the color of the cushion. "Red."
And her hand turned red.
It was more apparent then when it had been white. Her whole hand had changed color to match that of the cushion. She wasn't scared, a little freaked to be sure, but nothing more than that. Maybe she was a mutant and this was her power manifesting itself.
She had never imagined herself - though she thought it would be cool - as a mutant, and being able to change the color of her hand wasn't that brilliant of a power. But maybe it was just the beginning.
Hopefully it was.
Newton would have to hear about this. Like most people in the world, he fully accepted that there were mutants, in point of fact it was a rare person that denied the existence of mutants. There were enough news reports and articles to feed any curious mind.
It was just sickening to think that people were prejudiced against mutants just because they were different. People just feared what they didn't understand. And that prejudice wasn't a distant thing now, not just a thing on the news, she was part of the world now.
She grinned.
She tell Newton as soon as she could. They had been friends for practically forever. They could, and did, tell each other everything (with the slight exception of dropping heavy books onto skulls in order to gain powers) no matter what it was. They would complain to each other about the state of the world, their teachers, the food from the cafeteria, life and geekdom.
She knew things wouldn't be different now that she was a mutant, he would always accept her no matter what she was. Gideon on the other hand...
Gideon.
What about Gideon? They were a trio but she and Newton were much closer than they were to Gideon. He was an outcast but it wouldn't take much for the cool kids to accept him. He wasn't cut from the same cloth as they were.
And she liked him.
He was a brilliant friend but she liked him. It hadn't been love at first sight or anything and she'd only been able to admit it to herself in the last couple of months...
But that had nothing to do with her mutation. She would figure out what to tell Gideon later, she wanted to know what else she was capable of. Was she telekinetic? That was one power that she had always wanted. She looked over at a sheet of paper and tried for a full minute to make it move, after it failed to move even an inch, she gave up.
One of the things that had always astounded her about mutants was that they knew exactly what powers they had. It was probably because their powers manifested themselves uncontrollably at first, but there could be hundreds of people out their that had powers and just didn't know how to turn them on.
But that kind of thinking went against what was known about the X-gene, which was generally the cause of mutations. She only knew what Newton had told her about it, and because most of the research was classified he only knew what he had found out from mutant groups on the internet.
Now that she had these...somewhat...fantastically awesome powers (even if they hadn't fully manifested themselves yet) what was she going to do with them?
Every kid wants to grow up and be a superhero. They want to be one of the greats, Captain America, one of the Fantastic Four, Thor or anyone of the heroes.
That, however, was just a childish fantasy that often dwindled away as they grew up and learned that they were mutants. But for some that made it all the more exciting, because mutations don't usually happen until adolescence and some held out hope that they could become a hero.
She went back to her room and dialed her computer up the internet, there was a good chance that Newt would be online this early.
Newton, Newton was easy, Gideon was another matter. It wasn't as though he was about to go and sign up to the FoH but it wasn't going to be easy to tell him. As she connected, she decided against telling Gideon for a while, at least until she learned the extent of her powers.
As she reached across to grab her headphones an messaging window popped up. The beep startled her and her hand jerked in reflex.
{IIIrd Law: Hey Su, why u up this early?}
He wasn't going to get a response too quickly as she had just discovered another power. Her hand had jerked backward and two of her fingers were resting on her palm and there was a sticky strand of webbing coming out her wrist.
Webbing?!?
It was covering her tower, and it looked just like spider's silk. She tried to pull it away but it wouldn't budge. She relaxed and realized that it was probably a mental thing. Mentally, she told it to let go and the strand cut loose and fell to her desk.
{IIIrd Law: Yo? You there?}
She turned around in her chair and pointed her hand at the other side of the room, and bent her wrist back and let another strand of silk fly.
How very, very cool.
{IIIrd Law: Are U online or is this thing stuffing up on me?}
{Broken Reunion: I have some news.}
{IIIrd Law: You developed insomnia like a normal geek?}
{Broken Reunion: Something of quite a bit more importence than a bad sleeping habit.}
{IIIrd Law: You grow extra arms or something?}
No, just web spinners, but he was close.
[Broken Reunion has changed her name to Bytten.]
{Bytten: Newt, can I trust you?}
{IIIrd Law: With your life Susan, you know that.}
{Bytten: Well, when I woke up this morning...}
She paused and tried to decide on a more tactful wording than 'guess what? I'm a mutant.'
{IIIrd Law: Are you ok?}
{Bytten: You're sapien, I'm superior.}
{IIIrd Law: You don't mean...}
{Bytten: Well, what do you think Newton? One of us finally became a mutant.}
{IIIrd Law: I was about to ask you if you were joking but I know that you wouldn't joke about something this important.}
{Bytten: Are you ok with this?}
{IIIrd Law: Of course I am} There was a pause. {IIIrd Law: So tell me about your powers}
{Bytten: I didn't think it was anything important to begin with, my hand became the same color as the cushion on my couch}
{IIIrd Law: chameleon powers, COOL!!!!!!!}
{Bytten: That's not all, about two minutes I found out that I can make webs shoot out of my wrists.}
{IIIrd Law: Like a spider? Now I get the name change, what else?}
{Bytten: I'm not sure}
{IIIrd Law: I want to see you, can I come over?}
{Bytten: You know where you live. Are you going to ride? If you catch a cab I'll pay for the fare}
{IIIrd Law: I'll ride, it only takes me about fifteen minutes. And I'll bring my bag and we can catch the bus from your stop}
{Bytten: oh man! I've become a mutant and I still have to go to school? That is so NOT fair dude}
{IIIrd Law: some of the most famous mutants in history are intellectuals, you can't let your brain go to waste}
{Bytten: so is your friend wire a mutant?}
{IIIrd Law: actually, he's a dropout who works down on the docks. I'm going to leave now so don't tell anyone else until I get there}
{Bytten: no? But I was planning on ringing JJ Jameson down at the Bugle and giving him an exclusive story}
{IIIrd Law: Su...}
{Bytten: j/k C U soon}
[IIIrd Law is now offline.]