You may have noticed this chapter is now only 6 chapters long, well it's still the same info and story, just longer chapters! Which makes it better!
Thanks to my friends, Molly and Lauren for reviewing! Oh, yeah disclaimer....
Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-man though I wish to draw it someday sigh. Spider-man rocks though! evil glare from Saroarie(fake name) for use of words she is sick and tired of hearing me say
Okay then, this chapter will be long, but that means it took more time, so sorry for the wait. You'll notice mor detail too, I actually like it with more detail, plus it's getting to a point where it needs it hint, wink
Chapter 11:
When they got outside, Ala, Clover, and Jane walked casually away from the building. Ala was deep in thought though, trying to think of a way to find her mom or her dad. Hopefully they were both okay, but then again she didn't have to worry about dad now did she?
They were just walking now, no idea where to go. People were staring at them as they passed, most of them pointing at Ala, who they recognized from the Daily Bugle from her wall climbing adventure. Clover pointed to an alleyway, Jane and Ala followed her in to the darkness to escape the leering eyes of the New Yorkers.
"What's wrong with people there days!" exclaimed Clover shaking her head and sadly looking downward as she took off her eye mask, they were to far back in the alley for anyone to see her clearly though. "People in costume should be no surprise to them" Ala laughed a little but immediately restarted trying to think of where her mom could be.
"Where to now?" asked Jane, Clover shrugged her shoulders in defeat. Both of them turned toward Ala.
"I don't know." said Ala shaking her head in vain. "Maybe we should just leave this up to Spider-man." She folded her arms across her chest protectively. Clover looked stricken while Jane just looked at Ala confused and not knowing what to say.
"Your not just going to give up!?" asked Clover surprised. Her blond hair caught in the wind and fluttered behind her lightly. Ala sighed and uncrossed her arms to let them swing limply by her side. "Lets just search. Maybe we'll find something, we could even stop by your house just to make sure your mom's not already back." Ala nodded and pulled off her gloves and mask. Her blue eyes sparkled with hope.
"Okay, we'll do that, If she's not back we'll search in every deserted building." said Ala. After pulling on their regular clothes, they walked out of the dank and smelly alley on the opposite side which they had come in at. Ala led the way to her house hoping beyond hope that her mom was back at home safe and sound.
AN: Did I steal that line? It sounds familiar... "hoping beyond hope.." all well, disclaimer for that too. Lol.
When Ala and her friends got to her house they were shocked to see the place in a total mess. The couch had been flipped over and the tube of clear liquid was smashed and had seeped into the rug, Ala made a mental note never to go near that piece of rug for fear of getting some of it on her, pots and pans were thrown all over the room as if her mom had been throwing them at someone or something, and their tv set was knocked over, broken what looked like beyond repair.
"Uh!" exclaimed Jane, she was shocked at seeing Ala's normally spotless house in ruins, it was almost surreal. Ala looked around the room as her nightmare became a reality to her. Her mom was no where to be found, Ala even looked in the closets to make sure she hadn't hidden in there to be safe from the madman.
"That answers that question." said Clover sadly looking at her friends house totally torn apart, she felt her heart break at the thought of how Ala most be feeling right now. Ala nodded and gave Clover a thank you glance for how sad she had sounded for her.
"Well, I guess we should go find where that green goblin is." said Ala. Jane gave her a questioning look.
"How do you know what that villains name is?" asked Jane confused, had he told them?
"Stories from my dad, it could be the Hob Goblin, but I seriously doubt that, besides he had a green outfit on." explained Ala, still looked like she was far away. She couldn't stop thinking about all the bad things that could be happening to her mom right now.
"Oh." said Jane and Clover at the same time.
"Well what now?" asked Clover still looking at all the rubble. She picked up a picture frame from the floor, it was a picture of Ala, her mom, and her dad all smiling at the camera standing in front of their house. In the corner of the frame was a picture that Jane, Clover, and Ala had got taken in a photo booth. Jane was yelling at the camera, Clover was giving her rabbit ears over Jane's head, and Ala was laughing uncontrollably in the far left.
"Well where would evil bad dudes who capture the damsel in distress be hiding at?" asked Jane like it should be as clear as crystal for all of them.
"Deserted buildings." Ala replied, the thought had already been floating around in her head. Ala
watched as Clover set the picture frame she was holding on the coffee table she had just righted. Ala stared at the picture of her parents and then at the funny one in the bottom right hand corner. She laughed a little at the looks on her friends faces in the photo. Ala stared at the picture remembering that day, it had been so much fun.
Flashback:
"Hey Ala! Look a photo booth!" shouted Clover tugging Jane and Ala over to it.
"Cool, sounds like fun." said Ala, Jane looked a little agitated at the idea. Clover started to fish for money that was in the corners of her pockets. A couple behind them waited patiently as they put the money in the machine after climbing in.
"Yep, so, do we want the blue or gray background?" asked Clover. The machine made a weird noise and spat out the five dollar bill. Clover growled at it evilly and pushed the money back in, it came chucking back out again. Growing inpatient, Clover stuffed the dollar back into the slot angrily. This time the photo booth made click noises and the screen came up to choose colors.
"Blue!" shouted Ala straight in Clover's ear causing her to put her hands up at the loudness right in her ear.
"No! Grey!" shouted Jane even louder in Clover's ear from the right.
"Ow! You broke my ear drum!" she shouted angrily at both of them and pressed the screen to select green as the background.
"Hey!" pouted Ala and Jane seeing Clover pick a different color than they wanted. The couple standing outside the booth angrily had yelled something mean at them for taking so long to take a picture.
"Put a sock in it!" yelled Clover at them as the screen started to count down from ten.
"Who me?" yelled Jane angrily with her mouth open, Ala started laughing. Clover whirled around.
"No." she said putting rabbit ears over Jane's head.
"Hey!" yelled Jane looking up word at the rabbit ears her mouth open. She looked back at the camera. "Don't do that!" she shouted, the camera clicked, Ala was still laughing hard and nearly rolled out of the booth.
"Finally!" said a guy who was waiting behind the couple when Ala, Clover, and Jane, all laughing loudly, came out of the booth with the picture in Ala's grasp.
"Let me see!" said Jane. "Hey, my mouth was open!" she said trying to tear the picture.
"No! That cost five dollars!" said Clover snatching it out of her hands, there were three pictures of the same thing vertically down the sheet of cheap photo paper. "We each get one, you can destroy yours but not ours." she tore the pictures apart from each other and handed Ala and Jane one.
"Thanks." said Ala clutching the photo happily. She looked at her friends, Jane was still trying to rip the picture Clover had given her in two, and Clover was trying to convince Jane not to.
"Hey! Lets go to the candy store!" shouted Ala. Clover's eyes lit up and Jane stopped trying to tear the photo.
"Sounds great!" said Clover happily "Last one there's a rotten egg!" Clover took off running with Jane and Ala trying to catch up to no avail. Ala huffed to catch her breath standing outside the door.
"Haha! Ala's the rotten egg!" said Jane who had been only gotten to the store a few seconds before Ala. Ala laughed.
"Yeah, but your something worse." she said giggling. Jane slapped her playfully and laughed Clover joined in so they were all laughing as they went into the store.
End Flashback.
Ala shook her head to clear her thoughts.
"Yeah, that's what I was hinting at." said Jane slightly giving Clover a look that said you are so stupid.
Ala knew of a couple of deserted buildings. Leading the way to the first building on her list, which was a long list, it was a old warehouse on the outskirts of the city.
"So, how do we get in?" asked Clover turning to Ala.
"Come on you guys! You can't just leave everything up to me all the time!" said Ala defiantly.
"Yeah, your right, lets see me or Jane come up with something smart enough." said Clover sarcastically.
"Hey!" said Jane, clearly upset that Clover didn't think she could come up with something smart enough. Ignoring Jane's comment, Clover continued. Ala was looking down at her feet still defiant to listen to anything Clover could say, but what she said struck home plate.
"Besides, you're the one who's mom's just been kidnaped." said Clover angrily folding her arms and sulking a little. Ala looked up, her eyes were filled with tears.
"Yeah, I know, I have an idea." she said sighing from the weight on her back (Metaphorically). "Jane, can you hold on to my back if I climb this wall?" asked Ala turning to look at her. Jane nodded.
"Yeah, I might choke you though, I hate heights." said Jane looking up at the warehouse, it was only a story tall. Ala kind of laughed, web slinging would not be fun for Jane then. Ala went to send a strand of web to the top of the building.
"Ah, Ala, shouldn't we put our costumes on first?." asked Clover laughing a little at Ala's mistake. "It isn't actually smart to fly or climb walls in front of evil villains now is it?" she stifled a laugh at Ala's expense.
"Yeah, that..."said Ala putting her hand behind her head. She was embarrassed for not thinking about that part of the whole deal with hiding your face or get in the newspaper with your whole life ruined thing.
"Yeah, that." said Clover a little embarrassed to for making Ala feel bad, she could tell by the look on Ala's face, she looked like a puppy who had just been kicked. Clover looked around them, no one was in sight so they took off their normal clothes to reveal their costumes.
"You know Ala, if your dad already found your mom this is a big waste of time." said Jane, still holding on to the hope that Ala's mom was being swung home right at that moment.
"Not so, we'll still get some practice won't we?" asked Ala, even though it was more of a statement then a question. She turned towards the building her arm outstretched to the sky. She flipped out a strand of web, it stuck somewhere at the top. "All aboard." Jane grabbed and Ala's waist.
"Just don't go to fast." said Jane squeezing Ala a little tighter. Ala smiled beneath her mask.
"Ah, man, I seriously wanted to make you lose your grip." said Ala laughing at her joke. Jane glared at her. Clover easily flew over the building and watched from above as Ala climbed up the wall slowly with Jane who was struggling to maintain a grip on Ala's waist without squishing Ala with her strength, which was hard to not do.
"Ow, your hurting me." said Ala holding on to the web with both hands, she started nearing the top of the building much to her relieve.
"Sorry." said Jane, Ala laughed.
"I was just kidding." said Ala. Jane looked like she was going to really hurt Ala for that one. She hoisted Jane up and over the edge of the warehouse. She stood up straight and stretched, she had climbed the wall with not as much as a bead of sweat.
"Took you long enough." said Clover smiling. She was sitting cross legged on the roof looking up at them when they emerged over the side.
"Oh, shut up." said Jane letting go of Ala when she felt something beneath her feet again. Clover tuck out her tongue. Jane walked over to where Clover was sitting and poked her shoulder.
"Ow! You killed it!" shouted Clover clutching her shoulder in fake pain. Jane laughed and poked the middle of Clover's forehead. "No! You killed my brain!"
"Yes, yes I did." said Jane laughing at Clover's fake expression of anguish and pain. Ala chuckled to herself, but her thoughts snapped back to how her mom could be anywhere and in serious danger that she might not be able to get out of alone.