Note to self: Find a better name for this fic.

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Chapter 2

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" screamed the students, hotfooting and hop-hopping it away as quickly their two hundred and something teenage legs could carry them (they weren't exactly big schools).

Luz was in a bit of of a Dilemma. On the one hand, these kids needed help and these dogs (which were pitbulls with fur as black and glossy as the night, by the way) needed stopping and then pet therapy. On the other, she couldn't afford exposing her powers in the open like that...

She needed to get out of sight.

While hopping, she looked at the trees. There was a small downwards slope that might just conceal her while she changed into her suit...

Grabbing Marcy's arm, Luz speed-hopped over to the slope and dived in, dragging Marcy with her.

As the hounds of heck raced past, Luz and Marcy paused to catch their breath while Luz took the rope off their ankles.

"Uhhhh... Owwww!" Luz fake-groaned in a particularly unconvincing way "I think I hurt my ankle!"

Marcy gasped "Oh no! I'll-" she looked around "I'll just- go get some medics for you!" with that, she ran off, quick as a flash.

Luz waited about three seconds before taking off her long-sleeved T-shirt to reveal her costume underneath. Taking her gloves and mask out of her sweatpants pockets (she had edited the costume to make it more portable in public areas), she hoped her friends wouldn't get hurt.

...

Swinging from tree to tree, it didn't take long for Luz to find her classmates, who surprisingly still seemed rather together in terms of a group.

They had all abandoned the rope and were currently running for their lives, because what do you expect them to do? Fortunately, this is one of those situations where adrenaline makes you exceed what you thought were your limits, so the dogs hadn't caught up. Yet. However, that changed when a purple-haired figure tripped over-

Amity.

"Bad dogs!" yelled Luz, swinging over them and slinging a web shot at one of them, pinning the animal's legs to the ground.

As she landed in front of them, she turned to face Amity, who stared at her with a sense of awe like that of one seeing a goddess.

Making sure to deepen her voice, she yelled "Run! I'll deal with them!"

Amity stared for a moment, her face red, before running off.

Her Spider-sense going off like someone a heartbeat mixed with a quick drumbeat, she prepared to fight.

"Sorry!" she yelled as she sent a hound flying with a single kick "I'm not enjoying this!"

As she webbed up the mouth and front legs of another dog, she glimpsed something in the corner of her eye.

A figure in green and black, running about four metres in the air, the soles of her shoes glowing turquoise as they took out a tiny... something.

"Get back!" they yelled, drawing their arm back.

Luz's spider-sense went off like an explosion. Quick as a flash, she leaped back, and as a tiny object hit the ground in the middle of the dogs.

POOF!

Instantly, a cloud of black, choking smoke enveloped the animals, making them cough, splutter and whine as they stumbled out. On instinct, Luz shot web after web at them-

THWIPP!

THWIPP!

THWIPP!

THWIPP!

Within seconds, three of the dogs were unable to move.

The figure leapt down, extending both their hands in midair and-

PWOW!

Two green energy blasts shot out of them, hitting the two remaining hounds and sending them sprawling, out cold. With a flourish, they rolled over the second they hit the ground, doing a heroic pose that many would go green with envy at.

Luz stared, her eyes widening as they stood up, the glowing sun sending it's rays on them

It couldn't be...

"Star Mage?"

"Star Inventor. Did Jameson get my name wrong on purpose?" the voice was feminine, and despite what sounded like a voice modulator told Luz that Star Mage- I mean Star Inventor was pretty young, maybe her age. Just like in the photo, everything above the mouth was concealed by in the darkness of the hood except for two important features; her eyes, which were a dark brown.

"Ohmygosh, that. Was. So. COOL!" Luz half-squealed, jumping up and down like the bouncy rubber ball of fangirling that she was "Are you calling yourself Star Inventor after the Creatures and Caverns class? Do you use advanced tech or magical artefacts? Also, how does your hood conceal so much of your face even though it's like, really bright daylight?""

Star Inventor looked very pleased with these questions "Yes (I'm trying out the name so far), Advanced tech, and this cloak's made from advanced tech too!" she held up the hem of her cloak "Can I ask some questions now?"

"Go for it!"

Star Inventor took a deep breath "How can you shoot webs? How strong are you? Also, how do the eyes on your mask move?"

"It's one of my powers, pretty strong, and I have no idea."

"That is so cool!"

"You're even cooler!"

"No, you are!"

As the pair of them argued with one another that the other was more amazing, something very odd happened.

If you scroll up, you shall see that Luz punched one dog and kicked another. Luz had not seen any need to web them up, them being unconscious.

Now something odd happened.

The hounds began to convulse, their legs glowing green as they began to swell. Bones cracked. Legs grew to the thickness of a brick. Bodies to tree trunks. Heads to even bigger heads.

The two superheroes slowly turned their heads to see these terrible beasts.

"Okay..." Whispered Luz "I wasn't expecting that. What do we do?"

"Dang it, I need to work on that scanning gear... try knocking them out again."

Luz nodded. taking a deep breath, she leapt up towards the one on the left, moved past the dog's snapping jaws and karate-chopped it on the head, rolling over as she landed.

For a brief moment, nothing happened.

Then the dog began to glow again.

"Uh-oh."

...

Amity ran, and ran, and ran until she was at a safe distance from the fight.

She looked towards the fight. Spider-girl and another person seemed to have defeated them-

Wait, were two of them growing?

Her mind raced. How did Snapdragon-

A thought struck her. A terrible thought that made her blood freeze.

Frantically, she took out her phone and called her dad.

After a moment, he answered "Amity! Now's not a good time-"

"Dad, what did you do?"

"...What?"

"Dad, there are giant dogs that just attacked the students over here and I heard you and mom talking earlier. People almost got hurt. I almost got hurt. What did you do?"

For a few seconds, there was silence.

"I can't tell you that."

"How do I beat them, then?"

Another pause.

"Are there any heroes near?"

...

By now, both dogs were as high as a double-decker bus and as wide as an average road. As they bared their swordlike teeth, Star Inventor grimaced "My energy blasts aren't working!"

"Got anything that can beat them?" asked Luz "I can't web their legs fast enough to tie them up!"

"Not on me! These are my backup gloves! My normal ones are getting fixed at home!"

"Okay, that sounds like either bad luck or a lazily written episode!"

Suddenly, Amity arrived.

"Run A- I mean, run citizen!" yelled Luz.

"I know how to beat them!" she replied, pointing to the creatures "Don't use physical force, it'll only make them grow! They're being pumped with a kind of serum from the inside! You need to take out the pumps and get them out of the body to make them small again!"

"How do we- oh, ****." Luz groaned, saying a word I won't type but I think you lot can guess.

"But what do we store the serum in?" asked Star Inventor, firing another energy blast at the dogs to no avail.

"Ummmm..." Amity looked around, then noticed something very plot-convenient indeed.

Two large water barrels that someone had dumped there. It looked like for once, disrespect towards mother nature had come in handy.

The two heroes looked at one another.

"Well, Good luck." grinned Star Inventor.

"Buena Suerte."

Luz looked at Amity "Get to safety!" and with that, they both rushed up to a dog of doom each and swung/stepped into their gaping mouths.

...

The creature was big enough to swallow Luz whole, and boy was going down not pleasant, like going down a huge, dark, slimy slide at high speed.

In short, it was revolting.

WARNING! LUZ IS A TRAINED SUPERHERO! DO NOT TRY BEING SWALLOWED BY A GIANT DOG AT HOME!

After a few seconds, her spider-sense detected something up ahead.

Slinging a web line at a wall, she took a minute to catch her breath. She couldn't see a thing, but if she could use her Spider-sense to get around, she could-

Suddenly, there was a screaming, and she sensed a human figure coming her way from the mouth.

Amity!

Thinking quickly, Luz clenched her legs on the web line, shoved the barrel into her right arm and shot a web line at Amity with her left wrist, catching her dead on and leaving her dangling slightly below her.

For a brief moment, there was silence.

Then Amity choked out "This is gross."

Then Luz laughed, not because Amity said was funny but because she was glad that her friend wasn't panicking.

"Okay." whispered Luz "What'll happen when I get rid of the pumps?"

"It'll take about five minutes before the dogs start shrinking." replied Amity "How are we gonna find them?"

"Let me worry about that."

Luz then held Amity's line to the wall, webbing it up to keep her secure.

"Wait here a second, m'kay?." she instructed, making sure to deepen her voice. She shot another line and slowly travelled down, down, down the gullet. Then her spider-sense pointed directly below her.

As she lowered herself below, she faced the pump. From what her spider-sense was telling her, the pump and serum tank were almost flat, and about the width of a ruler. Perfectly designed to fit into an average dog's gullet, whatever the reason you would put it there specifically.

She then had a thought "Hey, miss...?"

"Amity. Amity Blight." was the call down.

"Yeah, hi. If I destroy the tank, won't all the serum make the dogs grow a lot?"

There was a pause "Well, it's more to do with the bloodstream, but I don't want to see what happens if it mixes with stomach acid."

"Good point."

With that, Luz focused on the bottom of the storage tank, tucking the barrel between her legs and pulling back her fist.

She sent it towards the tank...

Before stopping and giving it a flick.

TINKLE!

Careful to catch both the serum and the glass in the barrel, Luz waited for it all to trickle into the barrel.

Pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter!

This took a while.

During this extended period of waiting, Luz began wonder why the dogs hadn't really moved and rocked everything about.

To pass the time, Luz decided to have a chat with Amity "Soooo... how'd you know about the pumps?"

There was a short silence.

Then a voice rung through the darkness "I... I know someone at Blight Industries who was involved."

"Who?"

No answer.

Luz sighed, focusing on catching the serum. Maybe she could ask her as Luz, someone she cared about and trusted.

Eventually, the dripping sound stopped. The serum was completely drained.

"Let's get out of this horrible, horrible, horrible place and never come back." said Luz, shooting a web line and launching herself up, grabbing Amity as she shot another through the darkness and onto the wall of the gullet.

...

A minute or so later, Luz and Amity landed on the forest path, covered in saliva and phlegm and having a deep desire to forget about the experience that had just happened.

But there was no time for that. After all, the dogs had to shrink first. And they would likely bite and tear and poo on them before that happened.

However, none of that came. No Biting, no tearing and no pooping.

The Dogs. Didn't. Move. They just stood completely still, their jaws hanging open.

After a couple of minutes, Star Inventor came air-stepping out of the other dog's mouth, somehow completely dry.

"Oh, come on! How does that work!?" complained Luz, wiping some of the gunk off her arm.

Before Star Inventor could answer, the dogs began to convulse.

They hacked, whined and groaned in pain as their bodies began to slowly, ever so slowly grow smaller.

And smaller...

And smaller...

Until they were the size of normal dogs again, at which point they keeled over, unconscious yet alive (thank goodness, the poor animals!).

After Luz checked that the dogs were okay, Star Inventor turned to Spider-girl "Okay... I gotta go. Hope to team up with you again sometime!"

"You too!" Luz grinned under her mask, waving as Star Inventor air-stepped away as fast as she could.

"Well... I gotta go tell the students everything's okay now, Ms Blight!" said Luz in her deep voice "Sorry you got involved in this."

Amity blushed "It's okay. I chose to do it."

And with that, Luz swung away, inwardly saying Well, this was a weird adventure, even for me.

...

Half an hour later, Luz had gotten changed out of her spider-suit and found Marcy with the other students, who had all gone back to the finish line.

"Hey!" panted Luz "You okay?"

"Yeah!" Marcy nodded "I thought you hurt your leg?"

Luz inwardly said a word that children and teens are not meant to say but do anyway. She had forgotten all about that.

"Uhhh... it... wasn't as bad as I thought?" she replied, hoping Marcy would believe her.

Fortunately, she did. "Thank gosh!"

Amity came up "Hey, Luz. Are you gonna take me up on the Pizza place offer?"

"Sure! When?"

"Um... is tomorrow good?" she asked, twirling her hair.

"I'll ask Eda."

"She says yes." came a voice behind her.

Luz turned to see Eda right behind her "Hey, Eda!"

"Hey kid. Sorry I didn't help, but Miss Terror over there kept me busy." she gesture to Snapdragon, who was being put in the back of a police van, laughing maniacally.

"Anyway kid, I'm taking you home. We can get Pizza on the way."

"Okay, Eda." smiled Luz, turning to Amity and Marcy "Wanna come?"

"If that's okay with Eda." said Marcy.

"Fine by me. How about you, boots?"

Amity shook her head "My dad's coming to pick me up. Have fun, though. See you tomorrow."

"Sure thing, Amity!"

Eda smiled "How about we bring your other friends... what are they called, Gary and William?"

"Gus and Willow. Come to think of it, where are they?"

Willow ran up "Guys! I can't find Gus!"

...

Some time later...

Gus woke up. Groaning, he cracked open an eyelid to see shadowy figures around him.

They were talking... he was on a table... there was a pricking sensation on his arm...

Then he knew no more...

...

I bet none of you saw that ending coming. I didn't initially plan the 'giant dogs' idea, then I realised a bunch of dogs wasn't exactly a huge threat. I can understand if some of you found that a bit too Bizarre for your liking.

Anyway, I initially was actually gonna call Star Mage 'Star Mage'. but I decided to look up DnD classes that suit her gadgetry use and found 'Inventor'. Like Marcy said, the name is still in the works. I'm happy to hear your ideas! How does 'Green Sparrow' sound?

Anyway, any ideas, advice or ways I can improve are welcome.

Anyway, favourite, review, blah blah blah.