Melissa Shield expected many things when she became a Hero.

She expected life-or-death situations against Villains or national disasters, the smiles on people's faces as she saved them, and the occasional commercial she had to star in.

All this and more, considering she had to work even harder than others on account of being Quirkless just a few months before and continuing her reasearch in Support items.

She didn't expect to be whisked away by a talking pig dressed in a costume claiming that, as someone who has spider-powers, she was on the menu for multiverse-hopping vampires.

That's right, the Multiverse actually existed and vampires traveled it to eat people like her.

Also, she was now amongst an army of Spider-Folk who were about to fight against the vampires and end the threat once and for all.

"I haven't even gotten my license yet…"

She wanted to be a Hero sure, but a proper one!

She didn't expect to be recruited in an army to fight a group of Villains!

That wasn't the worst of it though.

"OHMYGOSH! This is so cool!" The daughter of one of the Spider… People, Anna-May Parker, said while hopping from foot to foot, holding in a squeal of joy. "I never thought that you were actually real in a universe! This is such a shock to me! Me and daddy watched the movie you were in five times!"

"T-That's nice…" Oh yeah, Melissa learned that she was fictional in most other worlds. And that bit of information came from the Spiders that actually bothered to read or watch the series she was in. She would have an existential crisis, but all the new stuff pretty much numbed this particular reveal.

It bummed her slightly that she was basically an original character that showed up for a grand total of one movie, one tie-in episode, and an side-chapter of a manga. But the more she thought about it Izuku Midoriya did fit the bill of 'main character' for a Shonen manga.

"I saw it three times!" Anya Corazon said with a smirk. "Love the anime. Favorite character has to be Bakugou."

"What!? No way! He's mean!" Anna stuck out her tongue.

"He's funny!"

"Izuku's totally better!" Anna got stars in her eyes as she said, "Ooh! You've got to tell me what he's like! I know you've met him and I watched you meeting him, but what did you think about him!? Is he as cool as he is in the anime!? How green are his eyes?! How are…?"

"Um… I've got to go!" Melissa shouted as she did her best not to run away. She passed by other Spider-Men, women, kids, and even a Tsum-Tsum while her mind raced. "Ooh… what am I going to do!? This is all crazy! Too crazy!" Melissa went to a table that was serving coffee and a Spider-Man behind it dealing out Hostess Fruit Pies. "I just wanted to fight Villains and become a Hero like Uncle Might! I didn't want to be thrust a couple universes over to go up against vampires!"

Maybe Deku would've been able to handle this. Not her. Hell, maybe he had gone through something like this already!

"Freakin' out huh?"

Melissa turned her head to see a Spider-Man without his mask drinking his coffee, who happened to resemble Peter Parker as most of the people here did. He had a noticeable five-o-clock shadow and was graying on the sides.

Oh, and he was fatter than most.

No use lying about it." Yeah…" Melissa almost deflated as she picked up her coffee. "I haven't been doing for this long. Heck, I'm still training back in my world! I was working on my Spider-Mobile to make it fuel-efficient when Spider-Ham picked me up. I-I don't think I belong here…"

"A lot of guys like you are thinkin' the same thing." The older Peter acknowledged with a nod. "I certainly didn't expect for my life to go this way when I got bit, but what can you do? Let these vampire jerks try and kill more of us, and those who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?"

No, she couldn't let something like that happen. "If something happened to Aleksei or Max, I wouldn't be able to live with myself."

And knowing Uncle Might, if he were in her shoes he would jump into this fight in a heartbeat and a smile on his face.

"I became a Hero because of Uncle Might, didn't I?" Melissa's free hand clenched into a fist. "It doesn't matter where I am. A Hero is a Hero, no matter the situation or the stakes!"

"Besides, we wouldn't be Spider-Guys if we just looked the other way." Peter sighed. "Just wished it happened at a better time. There was this documentary about seahorses I was watching…"

"Thank you." Melissa interrupted, causing Peter to blink. "I think… I think I'll be alright."

"Oh, uh… great." Peter raised his cup. "Be seein' ya, kid." He turned to the Spider-Man behind the table and shouted, "Hit me with an apple one, man!"

Melissa walked away from the table, coffee in hand and purpose in her strength.

No matter what the future held in store for her, she would face it as Spider-Woman.

She would face it as a Hero.

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Note: Just something I thought up, since I had stated in my interlude that Melissa was Spider-Woman for a year which would put her as starting around the time of Spider-Geddon. Things just kind of went from there.

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