Reticence Saga

Severed Web

Chapter 18: Cat's Eye Moon

"Nothing like a trip abroad to make you really appreciate home. K'un-L'un was nice, but it's nice to be back in the ol' US of A. Sure, K'un-L'un may have beautiful clean mountaintops, quiet valleys, and peaceful, but underneath New York's air pollution-choked buildings, loud streets, and rude civilians...where was I going with this?"

The far door opened and Matt walked in. "Oh...warmth. No sudden polar bears or Hulks," said Matt happily before spotting Spider-Man. "Hey, man," he said cheerfully.

"So...you went up north?" asked Spider-Man.

"Yeah, and you were having fun in Asia," said Matt. "Not quite as much fun as you might think," said Spider-Man.

"Oh yeah? Angry Hulks, giant werewolf, angry werewolf spirits," said Matt, counting off his fingers.

"Kraven, Scorpion, tiger god, evil dragons, good dragons," countered Spider-Man.

"Yeah...about that, where's Silvana?" asked Matt, before adding, "Oh and one of my crew members ate something called the Tesseract."

"She stayed in K'un-L'un for mystic training so- Did you say the Tesseract?" asked Spider-Man.

"Yeah, looked like a giant glowing paperweight," said Matt conversationally, as Chloe walked in, grumbling and, to Spider-Man's surprise, human again.

"Wait, when did Chloe turn back?" asked Spider-Man.

"Hmm? Oh, after we discovered she was slowly dying from manticore venom so we had to give her gamma radiation therapy," said Matt casually. Spider-Man paused at that, Matt saying, "So what's the big deal about the Tesseract?"

"Uh...cosmic energy source, Red Skull nearly used it to take over the world," said Spider-Man, not sure if he had a grasp on the situation.

"Oh, doomsday weapon...doomsday weapon?" said Matt.

"Did I hear you say 'gamma radiation'?" asked Spider-Man.

"Yeah, she's fine now. Though we had to tame the raging beast inside her first," said Matt, "So...Tesseract...horrifying doomsday weapon? Can warp time and space?"

"Has certain reality-warping properties if what I hear is right," said Spider-Man.

"Oh dear God help us all," said Matt with worry, before he snapped, "Do...not...tell...Chloe."

"Uh..." started Spider-Man. But Chloe mouthed at him, 'Don't say anything'. She didn't seem as perturbed as Matt was.

"She'll Hulk out and KILL US ALL!" snapped Matt.

"Literally Hulk out?" asked Spider-Man. Chloe had raised her hands and was counting down her fingers.

Matt twitched before screaming, "YES! SHE'LL BECOME MINDLESS! TRY TO PUNCH ME!" Chloe paused at that and frowning, her eyes starting to glow green. "Maybe you should calm down," said Spider-Man.

"YOU DIDN'T SEE IT!" snapped Matt, Chloe starting to twitch.

"Not yet," said Spider-Man.

"What are you talking ab-urk." said Matt, a furred fist grabbing him by the neck.

"Matthew, don't you know it's not polite to gossip behind people's back?" asked Chloe, now in the form of a She-Hulk-sized, golden-furred werewolf.

"I have now learnt that," said Matt nervously, adding, "Please don't hurt me."

"Later," said Chloe before tucking Matt under her arm, "So, Peter, how was Nepal?"

"We were closer to, uh... I suppose I shouldn't really tell too much about where K'un-L'un is," said Spider-Man.

"Oh, that place Iron Fist's from?" said Chloe conversationally.

"Yeah, we learned a lot about where Ava's amulet had came from," said Spider-Man.

"Cool," said Chloe cheerfully, dropping Matt 'accidentally' who said in a grumble "So..where's it from?"

"Well, it used to be the prison for one of the guardian spirits that protected Asia until an evil dragon sealed him into the amulet," said Spider-Man.

"Used to be?" said Chloe carefully.

"Yeah, we freed him and the other three," said Spider-Man, "But he gave Ava a new amulet, one that should allow her to ease up on herself."

"Oh that's nice. Tell me, how calm would you be if a moron with infinite imagination and no self-control swallowed a reality-altering super weapon?" said Chloe, her smile a little strained.

"Uh, that wouldn't be that moron, would it?" asked Spider-Man, pointing at a figure that came around the corner. It was wearing a black trench coat and a matching wide-brimmed fedora. He was considerably shorter than Spider-Man and it seemed to radiate malignance.

"No, that's NegaMorph. He has a brain," said Chloe.

A white blob waddled past after Nega, before seeing them, "Oh...hey there."

"That's the moron," said Matt dully.

"NegaMorph?" asked Spider-Man with worry.

"Yes, that's Megan's uncle. Say hello, NegaMorph," said Chloe.

The creature tilted its head, allowing Spider-Man to see the six eyes under the hat's brim. Then a surprisingly large mouth opened up and roared, extending several monstrous tongues as it did so.

"NegaMorph, stop terrifying the newbie," snapped Chloe.

"I'm not terrified," said Spider-Man, though that sounded rather weak when he was literally clinging to the ceiling.

"You never let me have any fun," said NegaMorph with a grin.

"So... You're, er, Megan's uncle?" asked Spider-Man.

"Adoptive uncle," said NegaMorph, "Though she did mutate herself with my DNA."

"Yeah...and we're being very careful to keep him calm over her current situation," said Matt.

"You wouldn't have anything to do with that, would you?" asked NegaMorph, smiling less to show happiness and more to show how many teeth he had.

"Uh, no, not at all," said Spider-Man, "She was like that when I met her."

"Good for you," said NegaMorph, "I guess I won't have to take it out of your hide."

"NegaMorph?" said Chloe sweetly, NegaMorph turning to glare before being hammered over the head, Chloe using her punches to emphasise her words "NO...EATING...HEROES!"

"Ok, you all have some anger to work out, so I think I'll talk with you later," said Spider-Man, wall-crawling away from them.

Matt looked at Morph, "Morph, just spit up the killer cube...NOW!" Morph looked blank before coughing, hacking, and finally spitting up a Rubik's Cube. "The other cube?" said Matt. Morph's attention seemed to be drifting...and so was he. "Erm...Morph? You're floating," said Matt carefully, grabbing Morph.

"You wanna float too?" asked Morph.

"I do not...and neither do you. The laws of physics are there for a reason," snapped Matt.

"Like gravity?" asked Morph. Suddenly, everyone flew straight up and hit the ceiling. Or more accurately, they fell straight up.

"MORPH, YOU MORON!" snapped NegaMorph.

"At least the ceiling is solid," said Chloe. Just then, the ceiling she was standing on gave a small groan and buckled a little.

"MORPH, GRAVITY THE RIGHT WAY NOW!" snapped Matt. Then everyone fell back to the floor, except Morph. He flew off down the hallway. "Oh God, a moron with the powers of Betrayl," muttered Matt, before snapping, "GRAB THE IDIOT!"


When it comes to shopping, there are few cities which are better suited than New York City. If it can be found anywhere, it can be found here. But looking for magical items required considerable more effort than other things.

That said, the shops that covered that did have one bonus that only the truly stupid tried to rob them. As a result, the shopkeeper wasn't that surprised when a cat woman walked into his shop. "You supervillains know the rules. Make trouble and I curse you," he said in a calm tone.

"'Villain' is such a subjective word," said the cat woman, lowering her hood. She had brown fur, brilliant yellow eyes, and short black hair.

"Ok, anti-hero. You pay like anyone else. Now then, what can I get you?" said the shopkeeper calmly.

"I have you have something from a certain Temple of the Moon," said the cat woman.

"You'll need to narrow it down. Lots of moon temples," said the shopkeeper.

"Urgh...Hircine?" said the cat woman calmly.

The shopkeeper opening a grimoire. "Erm...nope, not on here," he said.

"Uh...let's see...what's the moon god for this realm?" muttered the cat woman to herself.

"There are various moon gods," said the shopkeeper, "There's Artemis, Selene, Metzli, Khonshu..."

"Khonshu? That one will do," said Bahfeliz, the shopkeeper raising an eyebrow.

"Makes sense I suppose," he muttered.

"Now, I'll also need an energy source of great power," said the cat woman.

"We don't carry anything like that. Not after the last time," said the shopkeeper calmly.

"Then where can I get one?" asked the cat woman.

"I don't even know what you wanna do. Depends on the spell," said the shopkeeper, pulling a small gem out. "This thing? Good for one spell," he said, tossing it over to the customer, "That thing's good for one-shot curses. It's just an example anyway so I'm gonna need it back."

"Example? Good idea," said the cat woman.

"Hey, I got more than enough hexes against any spell on Ear-" began the shopkeeper before a red blast knocked him down.

"I'm not from this world," said the cat woman. She grabbed the book from the prone shopkeeper, flipping through the pages before finding something. "Oh...oh this is perfect," she said evilly, "I just need to pick up a few more things. You wouldn't happen to know where this 'Sanctum Sanctorium' is, would you?"

"If I tell, will you call 911 before you go?" groaned the shopkeeper.

The cat woman thought it over before saying "Deal." The shopkeeper pointed to a set of maps. The cat woman looked over the maps for a while. "I should have studied maps more," she muttered to herself.

"33rd Street, you jerk," groaned the shopkeeper.

"Fine...now how do you use these phone things?" said the cat woman.


Morph had turned out to be slightly harder to catch than expected and, after a small incident where the Triskelion's vending machines all started dispensing coconut cake, had been removed to the coffee shop, under threat of a sock puppet.

Fortunately, Morph could be convinced to hold still with television. That is if he could find a channel he would watch.

Matt walked in to find he'd paused on the Bugle News network. "Hey, why are you watching that bigot?" asked Matt.

"I was expecting him to say something funny," said Morph, "But all I hear from this is 'Spider-Man's fault this' and 'Spider-Man's fault that'. Really, it's all yakkity-yakkity-yak."

Matt nodded before jumping back as there was a flash of light on the screen and a yak had replaced Jameson. "Erm...Morph?" he said shakily, pointing.

"Ooh, new show?" asked Morph.

"No, Morph. You just MUTATED A NEWS ANCHOR INTO A YAK!" snapped Matt.

"Really? Seems like an improvement," said Morph.

Matt looked at the screen, nodding a little before shaking his head. "That's not the point. Turn him back," he snapped.

"Ok, fine," said Morph.

There was another flash of light on the screen and JJJ was back, looking rather bewildered. "Ahem, while I'm certain Spider-Man was somehow responsible for that, I would rather we just forget about that little incident," said JJJ.

"Computer?" said Matt.

The AI said, "Already posted to Youtube as a permanent addition, and emailed worldwide, sir." Matt grinned evilly.

Just then, NegaMorph and Kala wheeled in a large transparent cube. "Ok, I think we've got something to contain Morph's cosmic powers," said Kala.

"Or at least contain Morph," said NegaMorph.

"I don't wanna get in there," said Morph defensively.

"Matt?" asked Kala.

"On it," said Matt before grabbing Morph with his plasma control. Morph looked at Matt before zooming off, Matt trying rather futility to hold still, only to be pulled along.

"This is gonna be a hoot," said NegaMorph, pulling out a video camera.


The cat woman was checking off her list as she walked. "Ok, that should just about be everything. All I need is a cosmic power source. But where I am supposed to find one that's easy to get?" she asked herself.

She paused as a white slug appeared in a flash of light, a human hanging onto it and screaming abuse. "Howdy do," the slug said cheerfully before vanishing again.

The cat woman blinked before gesturing. A wispy blue line appeared before her, leading in a particular direction. She watched as the line shot off towards a building before it stopped halfway and headed for the river, doing a right angle turn again before shooting skywards.

The cat woman stared in confusion. "It must be Sheogorath Day," she muttered to herself.

The beam shot down before into a street a few streets over and remained. "Ok..." she said, looking at the line and snapping "Are we sure?" before she muttered and headed off.


"Took...to moon..." said Matt, shaking with frost on him, Morph crammed into the cube, which NegaMorph had slapped a 'Do not open till Xmas...in 3300AD'.

"You sure this will hold him?" asked Chloe.

"Apparently this wasn't the first time the team stationed at this bunker had to deal with a cosmic energy source," said NegaMorph.

"Good...till the ship arrives and we can get that thing out of him. NegaMorph, how far away is the Bladestorm?" snapped Matt.

"How should I know?" asked NegaMorph.

Matt turned, the frost on him melting before he snapped, "YOU CAME WITHOUT THE SHIP?"

NegaMorph managing a 'Uh oh' before he popped.

"NegaMorph took one of the smaller ships to get here," said Morph, "It got shot down."

NegaMorph, who was reforming, managed a "DAMMIT MOR-" before Matt exploded him again.

"Well, that's annoying," said Chloe, sitting on the cube.

"Chloe, don't sit on that," said Matt.

"Don't worry," said NegaMorph, "It's designed to be indestructible from the outside and inside."

Morph said, "Your butt's gotten really big."

Matt wincing, "That's why."

Chloe slowly stood up and said, "Morph can't get out, right?"

"Well, yes," said NegaMorph.

"Good," said Chloe before she picked up the cube and shook it really hard.

She finally put it down, Morph saying cheerfully, "I feel like butter." splattered over the cube before the computer said "Sir...ma'am...you may want to see this."


The door to the coffee shop opened, the cat woman walking in, causing alot of the customers to look at her. Of course, since the people who own the place have had a waitress who's dressed up as an anthro dragoness (who wasn't here today), they didn't think much of the cat girl. If anything, they thought she may be a new employee.

She looked around before gravitating over to someone's drink, heavy on the cream. "Hey!" snapped the drink's owner, grabbing her arm.

"Oh please. Just try to stop me," said the cat woman.

The customer glared, before trying to take the drink, only for her to throw him into the wall. Needless to say this caused a panic. "Why do I keep coming back here?" asked one customer as he fled the coffee house.

As the last one ran out, two laser turrets folded down. "Cease your actions," said the computer.

"Just like the Dwemer ruins," said the cat woman. The turrets opened fire at that, the woman dodging them easily before pulling out a blade and slashing through the turrets. The turrets fell in half at that. "Their metal is even softer than I expected," she said.

"Intruder alert...locking down," said the computer's voice before someone said "You know...you're not helping our business."

The cat woman turned to see the human from earlier. "I'll be out of your hair soon enough," said the cat woman.

"Sorry, no pets," said the human, a blue fireball appearing in his hand before he threw it. The cat woman held up a hand, a ward appearing and blocking the attack. "Hey..." snapped the human, igniting a blade.

"Oh please, nobody can cut through-oh," sneered the cat woman, drawing her blade before the human cut the blade off her sword.

"You were saying something about soft metals?" asked the human smugly.

"Do you know who I am?" snapped the cat woman.

The human saying, "An alley cat who delved into mutagen?" only to be blasted back.

The human grabbed a coffee mug and threw it at the cat woman. She smacked the mug aside, but that gave the human the opening to charge in with his blade. But before he could strike, a purple glowing sword appeared in her hand and she blocked him. "Wait, that's a summoned sword," said the human before looking the cat woman straight in the eye, "You're a Khajiit."

"Top marks," sneered the Khajiit before kicking him back and throwing a dagger that pinned him by the sleeve.

"What's a Khajiit doing in this universe?" asked the human.

"You'll find out later, if you live long enough," said the Khajiit.

"Matt, what the hell is the al-" began a second female voice, the Khajiit turning to see a rather large royal werewolf, far larger than normal. "Oh you have got to be kidding," it said with an evil grin, cracking its knuckles.

The Khajiit's eyes narrowed. "You..." she said with a growl.

"You know her?" gibbered Matt.

"Uh...no," said the werewolf, "Have we met?"

"Only once, when you fumbled my father's plan," said the Khajiit.

The Khajiit paused at that, turning slowly to look at Matt. "Oh...shit...I just punched a prince's son," she muttered.

"Sorry, I'm not next in line for the throne," said Matt in a dazed voice.

The Khajiit turned to look at the werewolf. "You made me commit treason! I'LL KILL YOU!" before lunging.

The werewolf just grabbed the Khajiit out of the air by the scruff of her neck. "Settle down, kitty," said the werewolf, "Matt is about as royal as the loo."

"Heeeey..." moaned Matt, the Khajiit glaring before blowing dust in the wolf's face.

The werewolf sniffed and said, "Garlic? That only works on vampires. For me, it just stings my nose...a lot."

The Khajiit grinned as the wolf dropped her, scrabbling at her snout before heading for the door she'd come out of. "Ok...if I was a cosmic power source..." muttered the Khajiit, heading down some stairs and into a high tech corridor. "Ok...maybe not Dwemer," she muttered.

Just then, a nearby wall turned black as something start emerging from it. "What sort of daedra is this?" asked the Khajiit.

"I'm not a daedra!" snapped NegaMorph before blasting at her.

The Khajiit yowled in surprise, dodging around the blasts as NegaMorph snapped, "I am SICK of being called a demon! I'M A GENETIC EXPERIMENT!"

"An experiment made by a maddened alchemist, no doubt," said the Khajiit.

NegaMorph paused before snapping "CLOSE ENOUGH!" sending out shadow spikes to try and impale the cat.

"You have great fury," said the Khajiit, "But I bet you also have great fear." With that, she sent a greenish-yellow blast into NegaMorph's face.

The glow hit him before seemingly being absorbed. "Sorry...little too high level for that," he sneered.

"Rats," grumbled the Khajiit.

"Let me show you how I do it." sneered NegaMorph. With that, he opened his mouths wide, letting out a blood-chilling screech as many tongues lashed out.

The Khajiit actually laughed at that. "Oh please, that's just cute," she managed.

"Cute?" asked NegaMorph, baffled.

"I've hunted monsters from many realms of Oblivion," said the Khajiit, "You are merely a comic imitation."

"Oh?" said NegaMorph "And where did you hunt them?" he sneered.

"See for yourself," said the Khajiit before throwing another yellow-green spell.

This blast knocked NegaMorph off his feet, pinning him against the wall. "You already tried that. And it still didn't..." NegaMorph's voice trailed off as everything seemed to become a swirling vortex.

"The spell before was just so you would lower your guard," said the cat's voice from somewhere. "Now then," she said, her voice getting deeper and darker, "Lets see what scares you."

"This is all a mind trick," said NegaMorph, "Illusions are only strong if you believe in them." But he was not feeling well. Looking at his hand, he could see it becoming stiffer, like he was turning to glass.

"Oooooh...someone's afraid of being weak and brittle?" she sneered.

"This isn't real," said NegaMorph through gritted teeth.

"Oh...but it...IS!" sneered the Khajiit, smashing the glass hand with a blow. NegaMorph cried out in pain. For an illusion, it actually hurt. And he could feel the fragmenting going up his arm. "Aw...you're all going to pieces," sneered the Khajiit.

"This won't keep me trapped forever," snarled NegaMorph.

"It doesn't have to. I've already moved on," said the Khajiit's voice.


The Khajiit smirked as she followed the last of the spell line round a corner to see the slug in a clear cube. "Hello," said Morph in the cube.

"I was expecting more defenses," said the Khajiit.

"Chris and Kala went out for pizza," said Morph, "Kira's doing some kinda lab stuff at SHIELD. And Snowbell's gonna give you a hug."

"I'm sorry wh-?" said the Khajiit before a large sabretooth tiger tackled her and started pummeling her.

"Yay, catfight," said Morph happily.

Morph watched happily, clapping whenever the Khajiit tried to claw her way back into the room only for a paw to drag her back, before she finally ran in, covered in scratches and used a spell to seal the door, leaning against it. "That kid has issues," she said panting.

"Chloe says she's going through stuff because of rapid maturity. Whatever that means," said Morph.

"She's insane," snapped the Khajiit before snapping, "You're coming with me."

"Oh, you can't take me," said Morph.

"Oh yes I can" snarled the Khajiit, grabbing the cube. The cube immediately let out a surge of energy that threw her back. "Told ya," said Morph.

The Khajiit walked around the cube and said, "That energy didn't come from this box." She looked at the machine the cube was on top of. "I just have to remove the box from this machine," she said.

"Oh please, Matt made that. Unless you have clearance, you'd have to drag the entire thing," said Morph cheerfully.

"So be it," growled the Khajiit, her voice getting deeper.

Morph's eyes bulged as her shadow over him grew, along with the sounds of muscles stretching and bones popping. "Oh, wow," he said.


Matt and Chloe ran round the corner, blaster rifles at the ready. "I swear I'm gonna skin that kitty!" snapped Matt, the two turning the corner to see NegaMorph. NegaMorph seemed to be in pretty bad pain. He was also in several pieces. "What the hell?" said Matt in shock.

Chloe sniffed and said, "I don't smell any poisons. But I think I smell a little magic."

"I didn't know you can sniff magic," said Matt.

"Since I got that gamma dose, I can smell different energies," said Chloe.

Matt rolled his eyes. "Ok, let's snap him out of it. NEGAMOOOOORPH!" said Matt, picking up one of the ears and yelling into it.

NegaMorph yelped, seeming to snap out of the spell. "Ugh, that was one nasty illusion," said NegaMorph, "Wait, why am I in pieces?"

"Mind over matter," said Matt, "Sometimes you can make your body believe what your mind perceives."

NegaMorph flowed back together at that. "Ok, I'm gonna turn her into a fur coat," he snarled, a flash of light seen down the hall.

"Please tell me she didn't," said Chloe.

The two ran round the corner to see Snowbell trying to headbutt her way through the door. "SHE'S STEALING MORPH!" the sabertooth roared angrily.

"Under other circumstances, I'd let her and have him drive her nuts. But considering what Morph's carrying..." said Matt before blasting the door.

A second later, he was pulled in and slammed into the wall. "Wha-" started Matt before something heavy was slammed on him. Chloe ran in to be blinded by the flash of a spell, before seeing Matt on the ground, dazed. "I think she got away," he managed.

Chloe looked around, seeing a lack of Khajiit and a lack of Morph. "Oh, this is bad," she said.

"More than you know," said Matt with concern.


Quite naturally, losing something as important and dangerous as the Tesseract warranted a thorough chewing-out by Nick Fury. "YOU LOST THE TESSERACT?" snapped Fury over the phone, Matt holding it at arm's length.

"Well, to be specific, Morph was kidnapped. He just hasn't spat the Tesseract out yet," said Matt.

"I'm sending a team. You're gonna work with them to find the Tesseract then I'll decide what to do with you," snapped Fury, hanging up.

"I hope it's a team we can work with," said Chloe.

"And ones that won't cause us a big headache," said NegaMorph, "My head's still pounding."

"We don't wait," said Matt, NegaMorph nodding, before pausing, his eye twitching before he looked a bit ill.

"You ok?" asked Chloe.

"You ever have a headache so bad it makes you sick to your stomach?" asked NegaMorph.

"Yeah...why?" asked Matt, before NegaMorph clutched his head.

"Argh...it feels like I'm gonna explode," he snapped.

"Explode as in-" started Matt before NegaMorph's chest bulged out.

"CHESTBUSTER!" snapped Matt, running for cover before NegaMorph managed "This didn't happen before I met you." and he indeed exploded, a shape covered in his goo crouched and groaning in the goop.

Chloe poked at it with her foot before saying sarcastically, "Congratulations, it's a girl."

"Shut...up..." groaned the shape in a familiar female tone.

"Oh come on," groaned Matt, "This is all I need right now."

The shape shook the goop off to reveal Taelina who shot forward, grabbing Matt. "WHERE IS SHE? WHERE'S MY SISTER?!"

"Haven't seen her," said Matt, "I think I would have recognized her."

"I traced her here as soon as Father told me some idiot opened a rift. Color me surprised when it leads me to you," snarled Taelina.

"Er, that rift was a few hundred miles north of here," said Chloe, a little sheepishly.

"Silence! You have no idea how dangerous she is. Father locked her away!" snapped Taelina before a webshot hit her snout.

"You know, when you steal something super-powerful and dangerous, you usually leave the scene of the crime," said Spider-Man as he walked over.

Taelina turned to glare, before her eyes glowed red and the webbing actually combusted. "I...AM...NOT...IN THE MOOD!" she howled.

"Spider-Man, I don't think she's someone you're equipped for," called Matt.

"I'd listen if I were you," snarled Taelina.

"Well, I didn't just come alone," said Spider-Man.

White Tiger walked in behind him. "Been wanting to test my new amulet," said White Tiger.

"Really, don't," began Chloe with worry, as Taelina looked at White Tiger and began laughing.

"Ok, no wonder Bahfeliz came here. If you had anyone knew her, you'd have sent an army for her," she said.

"Am I missing something?" asked White Tiger.

"Well, apparently there's another werewolf that's escaped from another dimension," said Matt.

"She's not a werewolf," said Taelina darkly.

"But you said she was your sister," said Matt.

"Half-sister," said Taelina, "My mother wasn't a flea-bitten wildcat."

"Enough! How dangerous is she?" snapped Matt, before the lights turned red.

"Code 12 emergency...commencing Bunker protocol," the computer said.

"That's bad, right?" asked Spider-Man.

"More than you know." said Taelina


Something has been stirring tonight. Lady NegaMorph could something has been building up and getting ready to be released. As such, she was busy setting up wards.

Falcore walked in at that. "My Lady, your followers are getting twitchy. Is there a reason the doors and windows are sealed?" he asked, yawning.

"It's a bad moon out tonight," said Lady Nega, "Everyone needs to stay inside."

Falcore raised an eyebrow. "It's a doomsday villain again, isn't it? I remember Lesog telling me how you locked you and him in your flat when Doctor Doom rewrote history for several days," he said in a matter-of-fact voice.

"I'm not sure if I would say 'doomsday', but it's going to be really inconvenient if we got caught up in it," said Lady Nega.

"Fine...go fish tournament?" said Falcore, adding, "I get the feeling we're not gonna be busy today."

"I suppose so. Say, Manticora's not still in heat, is she?" asked Lady Nega.

"I wouldn't know and I'm not asking," said Falcore flatly.

"I mean, if she were, she'd be the least likely to just sit around for a whole night," said Lady Nega.

There was a yell of "LEMME OUT OF THIS DAMN PLACE!" before there was a crash, the two walking and peering through a doorway to see a wall repairing itself.

"Urgh...should I go get her?" asked Falcore.

"I wouldn't bother," said Lady Nega, "You'll just end up caught in the madness."

"Urgh..." muttered Falcore.

"Chances are, some heroes will stop whatever's happening and everything will go back to normal," said Lady Nega.

Falcore paused before he said, "We could help. Why not?"

"Not our problem," said Lady Nega.

"But you said it would rewrite reality," said Falcore.

"It won't destroy the world," said Lady Nega, "Unless it's that scale of a threat, I'm not gonna bother. Just wait it out."

"Aren't we in this reality?" pointed out Falcore.

"That's why I'm putting up wards," said Lady Nega.

"And if they break?" pointed out Falcore.

Lady Nega glared. "I don't...care. We aren't heroes. We're villains for God's sake. Now get out."

Falcore just glared and walked away. She was becoming less tolerable company by the day.


The computers 'bunker protocol' was quite effective, practical looking blastdoors having sealed the doors out into the street as well as the windows...and the walls. There was also someone there already. "Ok, Spidey, which unauthorized person did you bring with you?" asked Matt with annoyance.

A young looking teenage girl with a squirrel tail was standing among the tables. "You're almost out of hazelnut blend," she said cheerfully.

"Who...is...that?" asked Matt flatly.

The girl spun around, swishing her tail, before saying, "Meet the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and her unstoppable squirrel army."

Matt paused. "What squirrels?" he asked, before pausing and hitting the light switch, to show there was alot of squirrels...everywhere. "Oh God, it's Alfred Hitchcock," he muttered in a small voice.

"You've got to be joking," said NegaMorph flatly.

"On the bright side, these will make a good pre-battle snack," said Taelina, grabbing one squirrel.

Matt winced as every squirrel dogpiled her. "Oh God, organic spiderbots," he whimpered, Chloe on reflex grabbing her blaster.

"These wouldn't happen to be genetically-enhanced squirrels, would they?" asked NegaMorph.

"I don't care. Computer, open the damn shutters," snapped Matt, as Taelina started fighting back, and still losing.

"Access denied. Class 18 reality event in progress...lockdown will not rescind," replied the computer.

"Say what now?" asked Spider-Man, "Is this coffee house travelling to another dimension?"

There was a boom at that, the room shaking for a second. "Shockwave has passed...lowering event to class 4...hazmat recommended," said the computer.

"What just happened out there?" asked White Tiger.

"And what happened to Chris and Kala?" asked Chloe with concern.

"Captain Anderson and Lt Triseptus are not on the premises," said the computer

"I know that!" snapped Chloe, "Where are they now?"

"Pinpointing: Targets located...severe DNA alteration detected. Background reality charge now at safe levels. Rescinding Bunker protocol," said the computer, shutters beginning to rise.

"Oh great, what kind of nightmare world have we landed in?" asked Matt, looking out the window.

"How bad is it?" asked Chloe.

Matt said, "Absolutely nothing. I think the computer needs debugging." in a dull voice, the view outside apparently unchanged.

"Get off of me!" yelled Taelina, throwing a squirrel at the door.

"Tippy Toe!" cried Squirrel Girl.

Matt yelped, opening the door and yelping again at the air rippled when the squirrel shot through the doorway, purple lightning crackling round the squirrel before a confused kitten landed in the street.

"Ok, on one hand, cute. On the other hand, what the heck just happened?" asked Spider-Man.

"Unknown rewrite of reality...Unable to contact Search and rescue. Recommend use of reality field generators and planetary evacuation. Reality field classed as hostile," said the computer.

Chloe ran over to a first aid kit, opening the cover then opening the back to show a row of bracelets. "Put em on right now!" she yelped in terror.

"But Tippy Toe," protested Squirrel Girl.

"Uh, he seems to be alright," said White Tiger. The kitten outside was calmly washing his face.

"There's not enough," said Chloe in panic, tossing three over to the heroes.

"Fortunately, there's one way to avoid being transformed," said Taelina, "I know my sister well enough. Her spell is meant to make everyone cats. But she can't change dogs. She's not strong enough for that."

"Wait...your nutcase sister just altered an entire dimension's reality?" said Matt in a 'shortening fuse' tone of voice, his eye twitching.

"Not the entire dimension. Just this planet and only the side that the moon is over," said Taelina, pointing out the window. Everyone looked to see a full moon in the sky, though it was glowing yellow and had a catlike pupil on it.

"Ok...that's gonna be in my top 7 of weirdness," said Spider-Man.

"Could be worse. Could be a talking Dorito," muttered NegaMorph.

"Hmm...need to check something. I got the perfect test," said Matt, picking up NegaMorph in his plasma control and throwing him at the doorway.

Nega hit the street and got up unsteadily. "I think I'm o-" he began before he was fried by the same electricity and fired back into the cafe, spatting against the far wall. "I...I hate you, Lynch," he rasped, smoking before coughing up a hairball which caught fire from the static.

"What the heck did that prove?" asked Squirrel Girl.

"That NegaMorph's flammable," said Matt with an evil cackle.

"Uh-huh, well unless you want to wear NegaMorph like a suit, it looks you're short one reality field generator," said Chloe.

"I got one somewhere," said Matt with concern, opening his wrist comp and throwing out various things. "DAMMIT, I know I had one!" he snapped.

"There is another way, you know," said Taelina.

Matt paused, but Chloe got there first, slamming Taelina against the wall, her eyes glowing green. "I know what you're thinking and the answer is NO!" she snarled.

"We cannot afford to be compromised," said Taelina, "We already lost one to the curse."

"Oh please, one kitten does not a Darkrift assault team make," said NegaMorph with a laugh before turning to see the kitten in front of him before it facehuggered him.

"This night isn't so bad so far," Matt commented.

"Pizza's here." called a familiar voice, Chris walking into view, the others noticing he seemed fine. "Hey, I think something's a little off with the city," he said, sounding a little drunk.

"Like what? Scratching posts on every corner?" asked Spider-Man.

Just then, Kala walked in and asked, "Who wants anchovies?" The others stared at her. "What? Something on my face?" asked Kala, apparently oblivious of her whiskers, cat ears, and tail.

"You got a little...something," said Matt slowly, Kala twitching before claws sprouted from her hands.

"So, you just put these on, right?" asked Spider-Man, putting the bracelet on his hand. The bracelet lit up, the air around Spider-Man rippling for a second.

"Hey...why you putting those on?" said Chris.

Kala, now looking even more catlike, shrugged, "I dunno."

Chris turning to nod at her, turning back, before pausing. "Annnd there it is," said Chloe.

"So, I'm gonna eat now, that's ok?" asked Kala, opening the pizza box, revealing a pizza that was pretty thick with anchovies.

"So, that idea you had, Taelina." said Matt in a desperately cheerful voice.

"As I said, she cannot change canines, particularly werewolves," said Taelina, "Father made sure of that."

"Oh no," said Matt, saying, "Chloe, get the sedatives for Kala. We both remember what she said she'd do to Taelina if she tried what she's planning."

"Er, Kala..." started Chloe.

Kala hissed at Chloe and snapped, "My fishies!"

"Kala's not home," said Chloe.

Taelina nodded before grabbing Matt by the throat. "Now, I'm afraid this might sting a little. I knocked you out the first time," she said cheerfully, her eyes glowing.

"I want a second opinion," said Matt.

"Tough," said Taelina before putting her hand on his chest.

A silvery light shone where Taelina's hand touched Matt's chest. It seemed really uncomfortable for Matt, particularly when his eyes started glowing as well. Matt yelped as he began to change, silvery fur sprouting as Taelina took a step back in surprise. There were a few unpleasant cracks as Matt's legs elongated, his shoes torn apart by his lupine paws.

"That's...not right," said Taelina with small concern.

"How is any of this supposed to be right?" asked White Tiger dryly.

"He used to have black fur," snapped Taelina as Matt staggered back before looking around with a growl, and fixing his gaze on Taelina.

"What did you do with his tail?" asked Chloe.

"What tail?" asked Squirrel Girl.

"Exactly," said Chloe.

Taelina stepped forward at that. "Bow before the daughter of-" she began only for everyone to jump as Matt punched her.

"Not that I'm opposed, but was that warranted right now?" asked NegaMorph.

Matt turned to glare at them at that, before rather pointedly, flicking his claws out.

"Ok, time out, mister," said Chloe. Matt's eyes narrowed at that. Chloe loomed over him, her eyes glowing green. "I said time out," she growled.

Matt's response was to lunge at her like he was about to maul her, only to duck under the slash and kick her off her feet.

"Ok, I don't think we have time for this," said Spider-Man before webbing Matt's feet to the floor.

Matt turned at that, Taelina drawing her blade. "This shouldn't be happening. I've used this spell a million times," she snapped.

"Ever been in a different reality before?" asked NegaMorph.

"A few times," said Spider-Man.

"Wasn't talking to you," said NegaMorph.

"I've been following you fools, haven't I?" said Taelina darkly, before charging Matt, who grabbed her sword wrist, pulling her forward so they were nose to nose, Matt growling angrily.

"Ok, enough," said Chloe before grabbing Matt and Taelina's heads and banging them together.

"Hey! Why in Oblivion did you do that?" snapped Taelina.

Chloe smirked, "Hardest thing I could find." as Matt staggered against a wall, muttering as he gripped his head before his eyes seemed to refocus. "Matt, you ok?" asked Chloe.

"Having a bad flashback," said Matt, looking at his hand with something approaching recognition.

"Yeah, I know you don't like being a werewolf again, but it's necessary this time," said Chloe.

"Not that," muttered Matt. Taelina glared and advanced again, only to yelp as Matt's hand shot up and grabbed her by the neck. "You are staying out of my head...at all times. If I even suspect you're messing with my head, I'll snap your neck and tell Fenris Doctor Doom vaporised you," he said in a low slightly deeper voice. "Also, this thing is only temporary. As soon as your crazy sister is stopped and everyone is back to normal, so am I."

"Of...course...I made sure...that was...included." gagged Taelina before Matt let go.

"I really hope so." before he looked at the shocked group and barked "WHAT?!"

"Er, you sure you're up for this right now?" asked Spider-Man, "We take a pizza break, if you don't mind anchovies."

"I'm...fine," said Matt in a dark voice, Taelina flinching away.

"Well, let's see if it was actually worth it," said NegaMorph walking over and picking up Matt.

Spider-Man noticed Matt's eye start to twitch before saying, "NegaMorph, I don;t think that's a good idea." before he heard a purring and turned to see Kala, now a striped red furred anthro cat purring happily as Squirrel Girl scratched her behind the ear.

Matt meanwhile had turned to glare, NegaMorph's eyes picking out the telltale signs, at least to him, of small cybernetics added by nanites. Whatever this was it was NSC...or at least Nullspace. Future thoughts were removed when Matt squished his head.

Then NegaMorph was thrown out of the coffee house again, this time flying across the street and landing among garbage cans, which caused many cats to yowl.

"Ok...NSC made werewolves...with bad tempers." muttered NegaMorph before glaring at the cats, "The hell are you all looking at?"

"Hey, I was gonna eat that," said an annoyed voice.

"Find another place to scrounge...you...alley cat..." said NegaMorph, turning to see what was clearly a homeless man, but now he was an anthro cat. "Hmm...hey man...you notice anything a little...off?" said Nega, more surprised the guy hadn't freaked out at him, doing a quick check of himself and sighing with relief to see he was still a normal eldritch blob.

"Yeah, there ain't as much food in these cans as there ought to be," said the hobo cat. "Nothing...else? Sudden sprouting of fur? Addiction to catnip and cream, that sort of thing?" said Nega carefully.

"The rats are missin'" said the hobo cat, "Too bad. I could really use somethin' to eat."

"Nothing else? No humans around?" said Nega carefully.

"Who?" asked the hobo cat.

"Thought so. You never saw me," said Nega.

The hobo said "And if I-" before Nega did the tentacle mouth trick at him. "Yes, sir," squeaked the hobo, in a shaking voice.

NegaMorph walked back to the coffee house and said, "I'm not sure if anyone really notices anything is wrong." He paused when he saw Kala playfully batting a squirrel around. "Ok, this is getting a little too cutesy," said NegaMorph.

He walked back in. "Guys, good news I don't think anyones been vaporized," he said, before noticing Matt sat at one of the tables, eyes closed and apparently ignoring him. "Do we have time for meditation?" asked NegaMorph. Matt didn't respond, Nega pausing before he snapped "MATT!"

Matt's eyes shot open, "I'm trying to control my urges to rip you apart."

"Well, we can't sit around here while everything's going catty outside," said NegaMorph.

"Because every instinct is listing all the things you did as a general and it's making me pissed," finished Matt, before closing his eyes.

Chloe pulled Nega back. "Leave it...what did you find out?" she said.

"The people out there are cats, they don't seem to think they were anything else," said NegaMorph.

"Did they say anything about what might have caused it?" asked Chloe.

"Not that I heard," said NegaMorph. "I wonder how much TV has changed," said Squirrel Girl before turning on the coffee house's TV.

The screen came to life, showing the opening titles for the Bugle News network. "Oh not this moron," muttered Matt.

JJJ was still pretty recognizable, even if he was clearly a lion. His moustache was the most identifiable marker. "This just in, a handful of people claim that something is wrong in Mew York City," said JJJ.

A second later, a table smashed the TV. "That pun is a crime against nature," snarled Matt.

"Hey, I was watching that," said Squirrel Girl.

Matt pulled out his phone, flipping through lines. "Good grief. Look, it's like history's been rewritten," he said, showing a Wikipedia page for America

"Kittucky? Maine Coon? Nyavada?" asked Spider-Man, "Ugh, taking over the world, I get. But putting puns on everything? That's pure evil."

"No sign of who did it. Just 'glorious leader' as their leader," said Matt.

"This...is not like Bahfeliz at all," said Taelina, sounding disturbed, "She wouldn't...toy with a world. She ought to be leading her pride out to conquer what she hasn't already got a hold of."

"Did you say-" started Chloe.

Everyone's phones beeped at that, Matt looking at his wristcomp feed. "Giant Goldfish monster...some things never change," he sighed.

"And there's also an army of... windup mice?" asked White Tiger in confusion.

Matt, Chloe, and NegaMorph exchanged one look and said together, "Morph."

Matt sighed, readying his com. "Morph...pick up," he snapped.

"Hey guys," said Morph's voice, "You still at the coffee house? They're getting low on cream here."

"Morph...I shall say this...only once. Where are you?" said Matt with impressive self-control, his free hand digging into the wall.

"Uh...lots of books," said Morph, "I know I'm in a basement. Oh, and the door we went in had these big scary statues on the sides."

"That sounds like Doctor Strange's place," said Spider-man.

Matt said into the comm, "Morph, this is your order: I want you to annoy your captor as much as possible."

"Can do," said Morph. There was a pause before he said, "You can't hear my salute, can you?"

"Just assuming you are," sighed Matt, adding, "And stop imagining giant killer goldfish."

"But there are so many kitties to feed," said Morph.

"MORPH!" snapped Matt.

"Ok, fine," said Morph.

There was another beep, declaring that the goldfish had vanished...and was being declared a tragedy. "I hate everything," muttered Matt, before Spider-man said "We know where he is."

"Morph's never been a great direction-giver," said Chloe with hesitation.

"Oh please, it's not like he's in the library," said Matt.


The city has not been reshaped as Bahfeliz had expected. Somehow, the blob's weirdness had twisted her vision of her new kingdom. If she didn't know better, she would have thought this was Sheogorath's work. However, there were at least a few things that were working. For one thing, she can watch from the eyes of her new subjects.

She smirked as she watched Kala's point of view,, the view a little foggy but clearing up as the spell took stronger hold. One of the problems was that she couldn't control her subjects' attention, so she'll just have to hope Kala will be looking in the right direction.

"Dammit," she snapped as he view went to a mirror, showing Kala's face as her eyes slowly shifted to feline form. "Huh, your friends are coming for you," she called over to Morph conversationally.

"Yay, I hope they're bringing chips," said Morph.

"Urgh, Princes give me strength. You do realise you're my prisoner, right?" she sighed, rubbing her forehead.

"Aren't we all prisoners?" asked Morph, "You're a prisoner of your daddy issues, right?"

Bahfeliz's eye twitched with an audible snap before she snapped, "I DO NOT HAVE DADDY ISSUES!"

"You wanna talk about your mom then?" asked Morph.

Bahfeliz paused before hanging her head. "No...no thank you," she said quietly.

"I don't have parent issues...because I don't have parents," said Morph, "I was made in a lab. I know what you need, a cream donut."

Bahfeliz absently took a plate with said donut from a white slug arm and taking a bite, before going bug-eyed and spitting it out, spinning...to see Morph in the cube still as if nothing had happened.

She looked at the donut suspiciously, as if it had been laced with a hallucinogenic poison... On the other hand, it was one of the sweetest things she ever tasted. And she normally didn't like sweets.

"Well, are you gonna eat it? You know how hard it was to get that?" said Morph.

Bahfeliz shrugged and took another bite. It didn't seem like poison, though she did feel more tingly and energetic...

"I hope you like sugar. The ingredients said to use four," said Morph.

Bahfeliz, getting a buzzing in her ears, turned to see several empty 1kg sugar bags. "Ooooooh...yoooou...jerrrrrrk..." she managed, her voice buzzing before everything went black.


Mew York City didn't look that much different from New York City, if you didn't notice the cat people or how some of the architecture has been changed to something feline favorable.

"We're lucky it's late," said Matt, sniffing the air.

"Yeah, though we might run into some cat burglars," said Squirrel Girl.

Matt paused. "And that your last pun. No more puns...please," said Matt with a twitch.

"We're in a cat world. They're kinda inevitable," said Spider-Man.

"Everyone gets one more," snapped Matt, before looking at Kala with concern, who was blinking rapidly.

"At least she's not angry about you being a werewolf again," said Chloe.

"Yeah, but she doesn't seem to be thinking about me at all," said Matt.

Chloe sighed and said, "Chris isn't much better."

The two looked at Chris, who had a distant look. He'd shifted to his own wolf form but well...it didn't seem like he was all there. "Oh, his brain's cooked," Matt said.

Chloe nodded. "You gonna explain how you got this? It's not the firm from last time...and NegaMorph told me he saw cybernetics your nanites added."

"Maybe I'm reacting to a different reality field," said Matt, "I mean, you're not the same werewolf as before either."

"Bull," said Chloe after a few seconds, slapping the back of his head before saying "And if you were normal that would have knocked your silly head off. That's NSC work," she snapped.

"You were trying to knock my head off?!" snapped Matt.

"Don't change the subject," snapped Chloe.

Matt paused, before saying, "Was the first year you vanished. I had to hook up with some...interesting people and I got exposed to a weapon program that Executive Genetics was making for the quarantine force. It's supposed to be dormant permanently," he said slowly.

Chloe took a step back in shock. "I...I had no idea," said Chloe.

"I know. I kept it buried for a reason," said Matt, "And that's not even the worst thing that happened. Though it's pretty high up."

"How bad?" asked Chloe.

Matt sighed. "Pretty bad. Let's just find morph," he said, before one of the jumbotrons came to life.

The others looked as it flickered before an image of Bahfeliz's face appeared. "Hear me, my feline friends. Your queen speaks," said Bahfeliz.

"Oh, I know I'm not going to enjoy this," groaned Taelina.

"It seems that two canines and their minions are loose in our fair city," said Bahfeliz,before she winced as a crash was heard behind her.

"Two canines? She had better be miscounting," said Taelina, "I am not a minion."

Headshots of Matt and Taelina appeared at that, Chloe snapping "WHAT?" as the cat woman continued, "I offer the highest of treasures to any who bring me their heads."

"Probably a lifetime supply of tuna cans," said NegaMorph dryly.

"It is not a lifetime supply of tuna," snapped Bahfeliz at that.

"Now that's uncanny," said Squirrel Girl.

The sound of sirens were heard at that. "Yeah, let's discuss it while we run," said Matt, as a police car skidded around the corner as several groups poured into the street.

"This is not the first time a loudmouth on a big screen has caused a mob of angry New Yorkers to come after me," said Spider-Man.

"I can believe that," said Matt.

"Run!" yelled Chloe as the first mobs got closer, Matt turning to leave only for Kala to tackle him.

"Erm, honey, not the time," he snapped, struggling.

"The queen wants you," hissed Kala.

"Honey, I like having my head," said Matt, trying to get her off without hurting her only to get scratched, his eyes going to pinpricks and him to punch Kala flying. "I'll apologize later!" called Matt before he started running again.

"Where the hell is this doctor?" yelled Taelina, sending a blast of icy wind at several cat people, blowing them off their feet.

"He's in Greenwich," called Spider-Man, "We shouldn't be that far as the spider swings."

Matt snapped, "Ok...I'll use the wings I don't have."

Chloe muttered to herself, "I really hate to do this..." before saying loudly, "Chris, get the cats!"

Chris perked up before running at their pursuers barking. Feline instinct apparently overruled promises of reward as the cat people in front screech before running away, tripping up the cats behind them.

"Good dog," called Matt, the group running for it.

"Ok, this should be it," said Spider-Man, "It tends to look different on the outside."

"I can smell them. They're getting close." said Taelina darkly, Matt looking around

"There it is!" called White Tiger, pointing.

Matt looked around, "Where?"

Taelina pointing "I see it."

To the less magical of them, it seemed like a rundown, dilapidated house. Those of them with more magic (plus Spider-Man as he had been there most often) they could see the fancy house with the distinctive large window on the roof and the gargoyles perching on either side of the stoop.

"Just point out the damn house!" snapped Matt.

"Here," said Taelina, running to the house. The two gargoyles came to life, revealing their presence to the others, knocking her back.

"I think you need to ask permission first," said Spider-Man.

"Dammit, this is an emergency," snapped Taelina.

"Hey, Doc, we've got a real problem going out here, so if you aren't too busy, please open the door!" called Spider-Man.

"I don't think that'll work..." began Matt. Just then, the door opened and what was hopefully a red carpet reached out, grabbed them all, and dragged them into the house before the door slammed.

Taelina was first up, looking around carefully. "Urgh...a mage's home. I hate mages," she muttered.

"I'm sorry for the abrupt entrance," said a voice, "As you can see, I am very busy right now." They looked up to see a man in a blue costume with a dramatically-flapping red cape, its clasp shaped like a closed eye.

"Doctor Strange, I presume," said Matt.

Strange sighed and said, "If I had a dollar for every time someone's said that..."

Taelina strode forward confidently. "You are this realm's archmage?" she said calmly.

"I am Sorcerer Supreme of this Earth," said Doctor Strange.

"I am Taelina of the Wild Realm, here to pursue my sister," said Taelina, surprising the Lynches by falling to one knee and bowing her head.

"I notice a slight resemblance," said Strange.

"Bahfeliz is only my half sister," said Taelina in a warning tone.

"I'm guessing her mother was more ambitious than yours," said Chloe.

"One of the offworlders your people dumped on Nirn," said Taelina nastily.

"Well, that would have certainly added more variety," said Matt, "Anyways, since the good doctor's here, I'm assuming that means that Bahfeliz is not using his basement."

"No...whatever magic she is using is taking all my efforts to protect the outside world from," said Strange.

"It won't hold her for long," said Taelina, "She using the moon itself as her focus. She'll use it spread her spell wherever moonlight touches."

"Which is precisely why she must pay for her misuse of the lunar satellite's power," said a deep voice.

The group turned to see a figure in white robes and armor. "Who the hell is that?" asked Matt.

"I am Moon Knight, agent of the lunar orb, seeker of justice against those who would do dark deeds beneath her light," said the figure.

"Uh, yeah, he takes orders from the moon itself," said Spider-Man flatly.

Matt and Chloe blinked, Chloe asking, "So...he's nuts?"

"I'm 90% sure," said Spider-Man.

"Oh, a lunamancer," said Taelina, apparently not listening to them, "I've never met one before."

"Yeah, he's a loony maniac," said NegaMorph.

"I said lunamancer," said Taelina, "You know what a geomancer is, right?"

"Vaguely." said Matt.

Taelina said, "Lunarmancers are just another sort of mage back-"

"Shh...I'm trying to listen," said Moon Knight, "It's hard to hear the moon's true voice through this corruptive cat magic."

"That said, it can be hard to distinguish those who truly speak to the land or moon from those who are just hearing voices in their head," said Taelina.

"He will be of help if the moon is the source of this spell," said Strange.

"Won't he just go catman on us?" asked White Tiger.

"I am the true Avatar of the Moon," said Moon Knight, "The tainted moonlight cannot harm me."

"We could throw him outside and see if he's right," suggested Matt.

"This is not a good time to be picky about allies," said Dr. Strange, "Many of New York's heroes have fallen under this spell. Only some nebulous distortion causes them to be too indifferent to heed Bahfeliz's call."

"Oh god, a cat Hulk," said Matt in terror.

"Thankfully, we think we know why Bahfeliz is having trouble motivating her kitties," said NegaMorph.

"Cause they're cats. Cats tend to have a view of the world that can't be repeated in polite company," said Chloe.

"Well, that too, though I think having to rely on Morph as a power source is giving her more complications than she anticipated," said NegaMorph.

"She's using Morph as a template?" said Matt.

"He's got the Tesseract in his stomach, Fido," said NegaMorph in annoyance.

Matt's eyes narrowed, before Strange said thoughtfully, "That would explain how such a complex spell is getting its power."

"Well, we know she's got him in New York, in a basement filled with books and two statues outside the front door..." said Spider-Man thoughtfully.

"The library!" said White Tiger, snapping her fingers.

"Wait, what? I was joking about that," said Matt.

"Well, she's not here," said Spider-Man, "I would have thought she'd choose this place."

"She would not have found this place," said Strange, confidently.

"So how far is the library from here?" asked Chloe.

"Way too far," said Spider-Man, "I'm not sure we'll be able to get there without being mobbed."

"I believe I can cast a spell to get you most of the way there," said Strange.

"That will be convenient," said Spider-Man, "You sure can you manage all 7 of us?"

"It will be more than 7," said Doctor Strange, "You need to bring all the help you can get."

"Wait, we're talking Moon Man over there?" said Matt, pointing at Moon Knight.

"And one other," said Doctor Strange.

At that, Man-Wolf walked out. "Yeah, Doc summoned me here when things started getting weird," he said, "It sounds like you need help."

Taelina paused, her eyes going wide and for some reason little birds fly out of the light behind Man-Wolf. "Hey!" snapped Chloe, tugging on Taelina's tail.

"What?" asked Taelina defensively.

"Aren't you mates with Fenris?" asked Chloe accusingly.

"An alpha can take as many mates as they want," said Taelina, "You ought to try it sometime." Taelina shot up to Man-Wolf at that. "Greetings, fellow wolf," she said happily.

Man-Wolf stepped back at that, going, "Er..."

"My name's Taelina, heir to the realm of the Wild Hunt," Taelina said goofily, Matt staring before slowly beginning to take photos.

"I can see why you dumped her," said NegaMorph.

"I had to break her brainwashing," snapped Matt as Man-Wolf tried to get Taelina to let go of his arm with mixed results.

"Well, I'm sure she won't want photographic evidence of this getting back to Fenris," said Chloe.

"I know...that's why it's called blackmail," said Matt.

NegaMorph paused before he said, "I am so proud of you..."

"It's nice seeing you again, John," said Spider-Man, "So how's that werewolf you've taken under your wing?"

"She is doing well...and she's somewhere away from this mess. Not exactly the trial by fire I wish for her," said Man-Wolf.

"She? There's another?" asked Taelina with a growl.

"Ok, time to rein it, wild dog," said Chloe before grabbing Taelina by the scruff.

A scratching was heard at that, coming from the door. "It seems time is short," said Strange.

"Urgh...I hate teleports. I always get burnt," muttered Matt before saying, "Just do it."

"Now keep in mind, I can't place right outside the library," said Doctor Strange, "There are too many of you and my resources are stretched. But you should be able to get to the library without too much trouble."

"It's a library. How dangerous can that be?" snapped Matt before pausing, as thunder was heard. "Urgh," he muttered, realising he;d just tempted fate.

"Good luck. The world is counting on you," said Doctor Strange before making arcane gestures. A magic circle appeared around the group before the floor seemed to drop out on them.


The group appeared in the middle of the road, Matt gibbering and smoking gently, the only one. "That's not even fair," he gibbered.

"Ok, I think we know where we are...or at least I'll be certain when my head stops spinning," said Spider-Man, "It shouldn't be more than two blocks from the library."

"Ok… I say we use the alleys, less chance of being spotted," said Chloe, sniffing the air.

"We don't have time for stealth," said Taelina, "We need to get to this library as fast as possible."

"Next time we won't have a hidden building to duck in," snapped Matt.

"I know Bahfeliz. She wouldn't have her main base unguarded," said Taelina, "We need to strike hard and fast."

"And we need to get to that base without attracting every person in the city," snarled Matt.

"And arguing here is just going to make that happen faster," said White Tiger.

"Fine..." snarled Taelina darkly, before giving Matt a mocking bow. "Lead the way, my alpha," she sneered.

"That's more like it," said Matt.

'Tailless twit,' thought Taelina.

'Stuck-up brat,' thought Matt at the same time.

However, as they made their way, they could feel the spell's weight increasing on them, even if they were still unaffected. White Tiger was starting to get dizzy from the pressure. Her amulet had been flashing in protest.

The reality bracelet on Spider-Man's wrist was also sparking every now and then and beeping with warning. "Yeah...we're getting closer," muttered Chloe, before hers and Matt's ears pricked, hearing what sounded like an animated argument up ahead.

"We have to heed the call? Can't you hear it? The call is everywhere," said a voice. "That doesn't mean I want to answer it," snapped an identical voice.

"Erm...guys?" said Matt carefully, drawing his blaster, the others hearing as the voice snapped "YOU DARE DISREGARD OUR MISTRESS?"

"I think I know that voice," said Chloe.

The group headed forward and peered to see Manticora yelling at a puddle, one of her eyes glowing blue while the other was her usual color.

"Well, that's unsettling," said Chloe.

"I suppose even your alternate is prone to split-personality syndrome," said NegaMorph.

Manticora turned to look at them at that. "You...YOU LOT...what did you do?" she snapped.

"He did it," said NegaMorph, pointing at the empty space besides him.

Manticors twitched before saying in a mad voice, "I KNEW IT!" With that, she lunged straight at the empty space.

NegaMorph blinked and said, "I didn't think she was that crazy."

"Manticores are part cat..." said Chloe pointedly, the group looking at Manticora who seemed to focus.

"Heeey," she snapped.

"And let's not forget even a half-crazy manticore is very dangerous," said Matt.

"I AM NOT CRAZY, Yes we are SHUT UP!" snapped Manticora.

"How about I just web her to the wall and we can move on?" asked Spider-Man before putting deed to word.

Chloe walked up to Manticora at that, looking close at her local self. "Megan's gone too far," she said finally.

"I don't think Megan's to blame for her current state," said Matt, "At least, not completely. 50 percent of that is Bahfeliz's fault."

Manticora twitched before managing to get an arm free. "I forgot how strong you get when you're mad," said Matt.

Chloe sighed before grabbing Manticora and bashing her against the wall before grinning. "Hey, Manticora. You wanna get back at who did this, right?" she asked. Manticora growled and tried to stab Chloe with her tail. But Chloe caught it and said, "Ah, ah, ah, none of that. Anyways, my irradiated blood would probably burn away your venom before it could anything."

"Let...me...GO!" roared Manticora.

"Not just yet," said Chloe, "As I was saying, don't you want to get payback?"

Manticora snapped, "OF COURSE I DO!"

"Then I suggest you direct that aggression towards the right person," said Chloe.

"You think I'd work with YOU?" laughed Manticora.

"If you listen, there's a logical reason for you to work with us," said Spider-Man.

"Logic and reason has no meaning to her," said Moon Knight, "Even those who are not blessed by the moon's all-seeing eye can see that she is an irrational beast."

"The lunatic has a point there," said Taelina.

Chloe turned to glare. "If I had my brain fighting myself, I wouldn't trust someone claiming to be me either," she snarled.

"Fortunately for me, there is only one Taelina anywhere," said Taelina.

"Which I am exceedingly grateful for," said Matt.

"When Lady NegaMorph finds out, you're all dead!" snapped Manticora before Chloe knocked her out.

"You don't think Megan's teamed up with Bahfeliz, have you?" asked Chloe.

"If Megan were involved, she wouldn't be hiding it," said NegaMorph.

"The library's the next street over," said Man-Wolf, looking at Manticora for a second.

"Then let's move," said White Tiger, "She caused enough of a ruckus to attract more cats to our position."


The library quickly came into view, and happily, to Matt's relief, there was no mob. "Ok, we go in, kick seven shades of hairball out of Bahfeliz till she reverses this then we have Taelina drag her home," he said quickly. The lion statues were making him nervous for some reason.

"Er, there's a little problem with that plan," said Taelina.

"Which is?" asked Matt.

"I can't take her back home," said Taelina.

"What?" said Chloe darkly.

"My father kicked me out, remember? I have to be with you until I can learn 'humility'," said Taelina, air-quoting the last word.

"Can't you just punt her through a portal?" said Chloe.

"Well, yes, I suppose," said Taelina, "Though making portals isn't as easy as it used to be."

"You are not going to use me for one," snapped NegaMorph.

"That was a last resort," snapped Taelina, nobody noticing one of the statues turning its head.

"Guys, I'm not sure if my spider-sense is reacting to being close to Bahfeliz or something dangerous is going to be happening soon," said Spider-Man, clutching his head.

"There's nobody here," said Chloe, sniffing the air curiously.

"That's not what my spider-sense is saying," said Spider-Man, "Pretty sure it's saying 'incoming danger' now."

Man-Wolf turned to talk before immediately going for his sword, spotting one of the lion statues getting ready to pounce on White Tiger. "Look out!" he called.

Everyone turned as the lion statue leapt, White Tiger diving out of the way as the other statue stood up. "You have got to be joking," snapped Matt.

"It does make sense, you know," said Squirrel Girl.

"How? They're statues?" snapped Matt, blasting one of the statues, only for the shot to barely crack it.

"They're lion statues," said Squirrel Girl.

"So what? She has power over all cats now?" snapped Matt.

"Most likely, she was a surprisingly skilled mage," said Taelina, her blade slicing the paw of a statue swiping at her before she nearly decapitated it.

Surprisingly, the statue immediately reappeared at its original spot, completely intact. However, it looked like it might be getting up again. "Oh, that's just cheating!" snapped Matt.

Chloe snapped, "Ok, did she cheat sheet the damn universe?" Her eyes started to glow green.

Matt noticed the glow and quickly backed up. "Now, Chloe, you should hold onto anger like that," said Matt.

"Why? My local version's a mutant brainwashed lackey. My God, so's yours. WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE ANGRY?" Chloe snapped in fury. The others were giving Chloe more space, not just because of her growing anger, but because of how electricity was starting to arc around and over her.

Taelina was the only one unconcerned, before, to at least Matt, apparently tried to commit suicide by Hulk by saying "Isn't she technically a mutate?"

"WHO...BLOODY...CARES?!" snapped Chloe.

"Taelina, I recommend aborting this train of thought?" said Matt, struggling with one of the statues, the other lunging at Chloe.

"A berserker would be useful to us now," said Taelina, "Perhaps that mutation made her part Orc."

"Really...don't," said NegaMorph, trying to distract the statue, only to be trampled by it, the statue leaping at Chloe and hitting her...like it had hit a brick wall, Chloe not even staggering, though it did draw her attention.

"I've had just about enough of these doorstops!" she snarled before grabbing the lion, lifting it over her head, and tearing it in half. However, the lion immediately returned to its original position intact. It immediately lunged again, only for Chloe, who was getting bigger, grabbed it by the head and smashed it again.

"You know...I think she has this," said Matt nervously.

"Since these statues are just going to keep respawning, maybe we should go inside the library while Chloe's dealing with them," said Spider-Man.

"Agreed," said Man-wolf, heading for the door.

"Keep up the good work, sis," called Matt as he headed for the door.

The remaining group burst into the library, weapons at the ready. "Ok, where is she?" asked Taelina.

"SHHHHHHHH!" hissed a voice. They looked to see the librarian glaring at them. "This is a library," she hissed.

"Hey...why aren't you a cat?" said Matt before flinching as the librarian hushed him again.

"Perhaps she has a natural resistance against-" started Moon Knight.

"SHHHH!" hushed the Librarian, Matt swearing her eyes glowed for a second.

"Let's try to keep it quiet," whispered Matt. Matt turned to explain to the librarian why they were here only to see the desk empty. "Ok...I vote we do this quick," he said in a weak voice.

"So which way to the basement?" asked Spider-Man.

"Shouldn't you know?" asked Matt.

"I haven't had a lot of time to hang around the library," said Spider-Man.

"There should be marked stairs," said Man-Wolf, looking around.

"I think they're over here," said Squirrel Girl, walking around a corner.

The group followed down a corridor to a door smashed off its hinges. "Gee...I wonder if she'll leave a neon sign next?" said Matt sarcastically, before smelling burning plastic. Of course, being a wolf, it was even worse than usual.

He turned, covering his snout to see a faint wisp of white smoke, barely noticeable from Squirrel Girls wrist. "Oh boy," he muttered before there was a shower of sparks from it.

Squirrel Girl paused before yawning, "I'm feeling a little sleepy."

"Erm...yeah, there's a..." said Matt, looking around desperately, before opening a door. "This nice warm closet," he said manically.

"Yeah, that does look warm," said Squirrel Girl, oblivious to how her ears were moving to the top of her head and turning pointed and furry.

"Welp that nap won't sleep itself," said Matt, pointing at the ears behind her back before making 'play along' motions.

"I mean, you've been up for hours," said Spider-Man, "You're probably overdue for a nap."

Squirrel Girl nodded, yawning and showing off some sharper teeth before yowling as Matt gave up, pushed her in and slammed the door, crushing the doorknob so it couldn't be reopened. "And that's why reality generators are your friend," he gibbered in panic.

"So, how long do we have before we go kitty?" asked Spider-Man.

"Longer than you think," said NegaMorph, "Your reality bracelets get their power from the same source. Since Squirrel Cat shorted out, you have more power."

"Closer we get though, the harder they need to work," said Matt grimly.

"In that case, maybe some of us need protection more," said White Tiger, fiddling with her bracelet.

"Wait," said Matt in horror, before she took the bracelet off.

"I have-" started White Tiger before Matt pinned her against the wall.

Matt's expression had shifted, his eyes now a blue white color and narrowed. For a second nobody moved, until Matt's eyes flickered back to their yellow color and he backed off.

It was then that the others noticed a warm, golden glow coming from the Tiger Amulet. "Like I said, I have a better connection to my tiger side," said White Tiger, "I don't think I can be taken over that easily." With that, she shifted into tigress form.

Matt paused. "Ok...new," he muttered.

"Lynch, I can understand getting worried about her going feline," said NegaMorph, "But it looked like you were about to gut her."

"NegaMorph..." said Matt in a low voice, his eyes shut, before finishing, "Please...shut up."

"Don't push him," said Man-Wolf, "He's struggling enough as it is."

NegaMorph paused, realising he could just make out Matt muttering a meditation mantra to himself before he reopened his eyes. "Let's just hurry. This magic's getting to me too," he said darkly.

"Yeah, let's get moving before the next crazy thing happens," said Spider-Man, "Like the books flying off the shelves and attacking us."

Just then, Matt spotted a book starting to move off a shelf. "Don't...even...think about it," he growled. The book immediately slid itself back into place. "Nobody talk about rabid books," he snapped out loud.

"That's more Hermaeus Mora's demesne," said Taelina.

"Just don't tempt fate!" snapped Matt, his eyes glowing the same blue for a second.

"Oh, look, the basement door," said NegaMorph, opening a door that led to a dark staircase.

The group headed into the staircase, Matt about to follow when Man-Wolf grabbed his arm, Matt turning and aiming a slash that was just stopped. "I thought so," Man-Wolf said calmly.

"Would you please stop doing that?" asked Matt, "It's the equivalent of poking a sleeping bear with a stick."

"I know what you're going through. I've been where you are," said Man-wolf calmly.

Matt glared, "You have no idea what I've been through."

"You are struggling with controlling your feral instincts while also dealing with the memories and habits of another being," said Man-Wolf.

"You don't get it. It's not some other person like you. It's a literal weapon," managed Matt.

"And you are far more than that," said Man-Wolf.

"I'm gonna kill someone. I know it and I won't be able to stop it," managed Matt.

"Only until Taelina changes you back," said Man-Wolf.

"If she will," snarled Matt, his eye twitching.

"I will make sure she will," said Man-Wolf.

"If I lose it...you knock me down and out," Matt snapped.

"I'll do my best," said Man-Wolf.

"Warwolf's a killer. Do better," said Matt darkly, heading for the stairs.


They could feel the magic in the air around them like a heavy fog. And not a San Francisco Bay fog or a London pea-soup fog. Bahfeliz was really close, but there was one last pitfall up ahead. Or more accurately, down ahead.

NegaMorph found it first...well the descending scream seemed to indicate he had. "Ok...are pits of death usual in New York libraries?" asked Matt casually, looking down.

"You'd think so, but no," said Spider-Man, "Maybe this is where they send people who are really overdo."

"NegaMorph? You ok down there?" called Matt.

"It smells down here," called NegaMorph.

"Good for you...can anyone see a way round?" asked Matt.

"Not unless you can crawl on the walls and ceiling," said Spider-Man, going up a wall as he spoke.

"Show off," said White Tiger.

"Fine...there's gotta be a secondary path," muttered Matt, leaning on a wall and soundlessly vanishing from sight as it rotated.

"Well, how many possible paths could there... Where did he go?" asked Taelina, looking around.


"Hah...and everyone asked me why I learnt a spell to make traps," laughed Bahfeliz, watching the group via a floating image.

"I didn't know the library had rotating walls," said Morph.

"It didn't," said Bahfeliz, "But the cube's energy allows me to manipulate the reality here more effectively than I thought."

Morph blinked at that before he smiled. "I wonder where it goes? Wouldn't it be weird if it led all the way to h-" he began before Bahfeliz covered his mouth before he could finish his train of thought.

"No more babble. I need to scatter the rest of them. There is one of them I'd like to see alone," said Bahfeliz.

"Which one?" asked Morph.

"Isn't it obvious?" asked Bahfeliz.

"Oh, right. You wanna see your sister again," said Morph.

"What?" began Bahfeliz in confusion. Just then, Taelina fell from the ceiling. "No, not her!" snapped Bahfeliz, Taelina managing a 'what?' before she vanished in a flash of light.

"Ooooh...you wanna see someone else," said Morph.

"Yes, the one in white," said Behfeliz.

"Got it," said Morph, Moon Knight suddenly appearing.

"You!" snapped Moon Knight, drawing his sword.

"NOT HIM!" shrieked Bahfeliz. Moon Knight vanished before he could land the blow. "I meant the one with white fur!" snapped Bahfeliz.

"Okie lokie." said Morph, Man-Wolf appearing, blinking in confusion before noticing Bahfeliz and his eyes going feral, snarling.

"Oh for Oblivion's sake, the tigress one!" Bahfeliz snapped.

"Oh, why didn't you say so?" asked Morph, Man-Wolf being replaced with White Tiger.

Bahfeliz peered out from where she'd been barricading against Man-Wolf before saying cautiously, "You sure? It's not some squid version from another realm of reality?"

"I'm not allowed to look for extradimensional cephalopods," said Morph, "Besides, they make lousy calamari."

White Tiger seemed to snap to her senses before noticing Bahfeliz. "You," she snapped.

"At ease, tigress," said Bahfeliz, "You wouldn't wish to harm a feline sister." A second later, Bahfeliz was slumped against the wall from a kick from White Tiger. "I'll take that as a yes," she said dizzily.

"You're going to turn everything back," growled White Tiger.

"And why would you want it back?" asked Bahfeliz, "In this world of cats, you could easily be a queen." Bahfeliz got up unsteadily before waving a hand, an image of Kraven appearing. "In this world, you could have your righteous revenge on him. Punish him for taking the life of your father," she said smugly.

"I've already settled that score. And I can take him down again whenever I want," said White Tiger.

"And yet he still lives. What tigress leaves her enemy alive?" said Bahfeliz, her eyes glowing.

"You know how cats like to play with their food," said White Tiger, "But I'm also much more than a cat."

"Indeed...you're better. These humans are below you," said Bahfeliz smugly.

"You think my ego's as big as that?" asked White Tiger, "I know there are heroes greater than me, villains I can't take down alone. I'm already high enough in my rank."

"And who told you that?" said Bahfeliz with a smirk, her eyes glowing yellow. White Tiger blinked as her head started to feel fuzzy. "You have power gifted from a god," said Bahfeliz, "You have barely unearthed what all you can do now."

Bahfeliz smirked at that before continuing, "They're the ones who told you that you have limits, that you have...weaknesses. What goddess has a weakness?" she sneered.

"There are still...stronger..." said White Tiger.

"Like who? The tailless wonder? You could defeat him easily. Face it, you're better than them all. They're just leftovers from a world that is far better now," said Bahfeliz smugly.

White Tiger's amulet started to glow brightly.


In Ava's mind, she found herself facing a golden tiger. "What do you think you're doing?" asked the tiger.

"Who are you? You're not Bai Hu." snapped Ava.

"Think of me as a spirit guide. Something Bai Hu put into this new amulet to guide your children and grandchildren and so on when you pass the amulet down," said the golden tiger, "Now, as I was saying, what do you think you're doing? You're not actually listening to this tabby, are you?"

"Are you joking? She's about as convincing as Doctor Doom. I'm just stalling," said Ava.

"Stalling?" asked the golden tiger.

"Down here, Bahfeliz can twist around the basement however she wants. She can keep everyone from getting near her until she's able to complete her spell," said Ava, "But if she's just focusing on me, the other can catch up."

"You underestimate her," warned the golden tiger.

"Like she said, I have the power of a god behind me," said Ava, "Why would I want to listen to her?"

"There, that is her corruption talking," snapped the golden tiger.

"Oh, come on," said Ava, "You don't feel any need to listen to her."

"I'm only a guide. I'm not trying to take control like Bai Hu. All she has to do is stoke your ego and you'll find yourself agreeing with her."

"I do not have an ego," snapped Ava.

"You know better than that," snapped the golden tiger.

"See? They all want to limit you," said Bahfeliz's voice in her ear.

"Ava, you're already falling into her trap," said the golden tiger.

"He's lying..." sneered Bahfeliz, the voice echoing.

"You're doubting me," snapped Ava.

"No, I am not. You must listen," snapped the golden tiger.

"I don't have to listen to anyone!" snapped Ava.

"No, I-" began the golden tiger before a green energy caused him to vanish.

Bahfeliz's voice said, "That's right. You don't."


"There's no way a library's basement is this extensive," said Matt as he wandered along a corridor, "Bahfeliz must be turning this place into a dungeon." He walked up to a door, opening it and having his fur blown back by a deep droning noise, a single eyeball staring before he closed it, his expression one of shellshock, before gently petting the doorknob and walking on stiffly. "Yeah...be careful with the doors," he rasped.

Then he heard something coming around the next corner. "Ok, I'm ready this time," said Matt, baring his claws.

He waited till the figure was in view before bringing his claws down, the shape falling apart. "Oh man...real adult," snapped the shape in NegaMorph's voice.

"I wanted to make sure," said Matt in a very unconvincing tone.

"Save it for later," said NegaMorph as he reformed, "We need to find that cat."

"Yeah, she's turned this place into a damn maze," said Matt, "I feel like a rat in here."

"Oh, you've met the wererats too," said NegaMorph.

"No, met a giant eyeball though...wait, wererats?" said Matt, double taking.

"Yeah, I think she's got them after most of the others," said NegaMorph.

"I didn't know there were wererats on Nirn," said Matt.

"Apparently they're some half-baked idea of Hircine's, but then he got into an argument with Peryite, Daedric Prince of diseases and pests about who the skeevers belong to."

Matt paused. "Where did you learn that?" he said suspiciously, flexing his claws again.

"Picked up some lore at the Thieves Guild," said NegaMorph, "But I got the rest from some of the wererats. They're really chatty when they're not trying to kill you."

Matt raised an eyebrow. "Rats taking order from kitties? Isn't that like coconut cake taking orders from the experiments?" he asked.

"Well, she's still a Daughter of the Hunt," said NegaMorph, "Though they'll apparently take orders from anyone who threatens to eat them. They don't have a lot of backbone."

"Maybe...look, have you seen the way out?" asked Matt.

NegaMorph shook his head, "Just the door with the giant eyeball."

"Have you at least seen the others?" asked Matt.

"No, not even the tekpack comm works down here," snapped NegaMorph, opening a door and slamming it again, just before a tentacle came out, "What is behind these damn doors?"

"I'm starting to wonder if we're even on Earth anymore," said Matt.

"Probably not...have you met the paper people yet?" asked Nega, turning a corner.

"I've barely seen anything," said Matt, "I'm just about one more eyeball encounter from just blowing up every wall in a straight line."

"That might work," said NegaMorph, a blaster unfolding from his tekpack and blasting a wall.

"Should have started this sooner," said Matt, pulling out his own blaster. The wall was blown apart to reveal a shocked Spider-Man and Man-Wolf. "Hey guys. Can you step a little bit to the left?" asked Matt.

"Where have you been? Bahfeliz launched some sort of attack. She's scattered us," snapped Man-Wolf.

"No, really?" asked Matt in mock surprise.

"White Tiger is missing," continued Man-Wolf.

"And neither Moon Nut and Taelina are here, I see," said Matt, not sounding concerned.

"No...what a shame," said Man-wolf innocently.

"Anyways, I don't think we're getting anywhere," said Spider-Man.

"Oh, I just figured if we blast a straight line through here, we'll either find Bahfeliz or the way out," said Matt, "Or at least she can't keep ignoring us."

NegaMorph nodded, "It's not like we're actually damaging the library. If we were, we'd have inconvenienced a few subway tunnels by now."

"Now, if you can just take a few steps to the left..." said Matt, aiming his blaster.

The group jerked out the way, Matt aiming before blasting the wall, to reveal White Tiger on the other side. "Oh...sorry," called Matt apologetically. However, White Tiger snarled at Matt. "I said sorry," said Matt.

"Ava?" said Spider-Man before his spider-sense went into overdrive around the same time White Tiger's eyes glowed and she lunged at Matt, tackling them both through a door.

"Matt, get back here," said NegaMorph, going to the door that had mysteriously closed behind them. He opened it, only to be greeted by a lot of bleating followed by spit hitting his face. "Stupid llamas," grumbled NegaMorph, slamming the door.


Matt skidded across the tiles, the door having taken them to some sort of indoor arena that wouldn;t have looked out of place in ancient rome. "Ok...ow..." he grumbled, getting up and shaking his head. Looking around, he said, "Ok, this had got to be breaking some dungeons rules, Tesseract or not."

"You should have left, mutt," snarled White Tiger, Matt raising an eyebrow before hearing clapping above.

Matt looked up to where the emperor's seat would be. To little surprise, Bahfeliz was sitting there, clapping. "I'm pretty sure Cyrodiil has nothing like this," called Matt.

"I'm in a library," said Bahfeliz, "I've taken the time to read."

"Where's Morph, you overgrown alley cat?" snapped Matt.

"That's for me to know and you to ponder while your head rolls across the floor," said Bahfeliz.

White Tiger lunged at that, Matt's hand shooting up and grabbing her wrist, before turning to show glowing blue eyes...as he started to grow, his shirt and boots tearing apart. "That...is the last...straw..." he snarled in a deeper voice before he threw White Tiger at the far wall with an angry howl.

"Ooh, this may be interesting yet," said Bahfeliz.

White Tiger had managed to avoid a nasty impact and was getting up, as Matt snapped "You want to see what the wolf can do?" Small cybernetics grew around one of his eyes with a crackling.

"What did Taelina put in him?" asked Bahfeliz in puzzlement.

"Who said she put any of this in me?" snarled Matt.

Bahfeliz rolled her eyes. "Ava, be a dear and rip his throat out," she said, leaning back in her chair. White Tiger let out a reverberating roar before leaping at Matt.

Matt growled coldly before dodging to the side at the last minute, his claws held out to rake, before turning and clawing her across the back. "This is not helping my self-control," he growled, backing up.

"Well, I really need to test her limits, don't I?" asked Bahfeliz.

Matt growled as White Tiger tackled him again, only for him to headbutt her, snarling loudly before aiming his wrist, a glowing red light seen. White Tiger had the presence of mind to duck as a needle-thin red beam lanced out, burning a neat pinhole in the far wall.


"These stupid doors go nowhere!" snapped NegaMorph, slamming the door on a room of dancing hamsters. They managed to find Moon Knight and Taelina, but no one else.

"Yeah, I get the feeling Morph is making most of these doors," said Spider-Man.

"Well, that would make sense. We're never going to get anywhere...purple...monkey...hairdryer..." NegaMorph trailed off as a thin red beam went through his head.

The others looked surprised before Spider-Man peered through the hole just in time for said hole to be blocked by someone hitting it. "Found them," he called.

NegaMorph said dizzily, "I can taste colours..." before he fell backwards.

"This should only take a moment," said Man-Wolf before slashing the wall with his sword.

The wall fell away into an arena, White Tiger and a rather large werewolf-like creature grappling in the middle of the room, both looking the worse for wear.

"I think we need to break them up quick," said Spider-Man.

"Start by separating them," said Taelina, "Man-Wolf, Moon Knight, hold Matt back."

Matt seemed to hear that, turning to look and snarling in a voice that definitely wasn't Matt's, "Stay out of this." before White Tiger sucker clawed him.

"Spider-Man, NegaMorph, get White Tiger out of the way," said Taelina.

"Which color is white again?" asked NegaMorph, bonking his own head.

"And what are you doing?" asked Spider-Man.

"I will have words with my sister," said Taelina.

Matt yelped as Man-Wolf grabbed him, before digging his feet in and pushing back. "GET...OFF!" he roared, slapping a device on Man-Wolf's chest armor.

"This isn't you, Matt. You have to-" started Man-Wolf before he got zapped.

"You're interfering with a military operation," snapped 'Matt', kicking Man-Wolf back before turning just in time to avoid a slash from Moon Knight

"Your mind has been corrupted like the dark spell that shrouds the moon's true light. But I shall bring clarity to both," said Moon Knight.

"Oh shut up and catch," snapped the wolf, pulling one of Matt's grenades out and tossing it at Moon Knight's feet. Moon Knight quickly kicked the grenade away, causing it to bounce around the arena. "Idiot!" snapped the wolf, punching Moon Knight before blasting the grenade.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man and NegaMorph were finding White Tiger a little hard to talk to. "I thought she said she had this tiger thing under control," snapped NegaMorph who was trying to hold her in place.

"Get out of my way, Parker!" snapped White Tiger, clawing her way free of another webbing attempt.

"Ava, this isn't you," said Spider-Man, laying down more webs, "Bahfeliz got into your head, didn't she?"

"No, she didn't! I have complete control!" snapped White Tiger.

"Yeah, and my pockets are full of sardines," said NegaMorph sarcastically.

"Ava, this isn't you," said Spider-Man, White Tiger pausing for a second before snarling. "Listen, you've been able to take out Kraven without sinking to his level. You've managed to heal Bai Hu and free him from his prison. Don't you think you can be better than this?" asked Spider-Man.

White Tiger's amulet glowed faintly at that, Bahfeliz pausing. "Hey, hey!" she snapped, getting up before jumping back as Taelina pulled herself up onto the balcony.

"Bahfeliz, this must stop," growled Taelina.

"I'm not stopping for anyone, especially you," snapped Bahfeliz.

"This is not Oblivion or Nirn. You know our father's rule," snapped Taelina.

"So I can't have a place of my own where I'm not under his thumb?" snapped Bahfeliz, "But you get to leave if you want. He always favored you more."

"He banished me, you idiot," snapped Taelina, summoning twin daggers.

"Aw, fallen out of favor like the rest of us?" asked Bahfeliz mockingly.

"Better than be banished for treason," sneered Taelina, Bahfeliz's eyes going wide in anger.

"Isn't that just like you? After all this time, you're still his prized hunting dog," snapped Bahfeliz.

"You say that like it's a dishonor," said Taelina.

"It's a mockery for you to stay at his side for more attention and scraps," snapped Bahfeliz.

"Oh, and I should be like you? Snooty and aloof? That's certainly a way to earn Father's favor. Oh, woe is me. Daddy doesn't let me go on hunts by myself," taunted Taelina in a mock high-pitched voice.

"Better than you. Daddy, Daddy, can we go for walkies now? Can we? Can we? Can we?" mocked Bahfeliz.

"At least I could find a mate," sneered Taelina.

Bahfeliz twitched before saying, "Why you little-" and lunging.

The others watched as the two demigoddesses tussled in a rather unprofessional way. "It's times like this that I'm glad I'm an only child," said Spider-Man.

"Get off..." snapped Matt, before noticing the fight. "Now that's not how soldiers should act," he commented.

The sisters heard that and both snapped at the same time "SHUT UP!" though Taelina added "Handsome." before covering her mouth and snapping "None of you heard that."

"Hey, Spidey, is White Tiger snapping out of it yet?" asked NegaMorph.

"I dunno. She's not attacking us," said Spider-Man, looking cautiously at White Tiger, taking the lack of spider-sense as a good sign

"Ok, if she's settled, then let's go find Morph while Taelina keeps her fat cat sister occupied," said NegaMorph.

There was a terrible silence before Taelina groaned, "Oh, he had to say it."

"FAT CAT?" snapped Bahfeliz, punching Taelina aside and leaping at NegaMorph who managed a scream just before impact.

When Bahfeliz lifted him up by the next, NegaMorph couldn't resist one last jab. "You know, I thought lionesses were supposed to do most of the hunting themselves. You sure you're supposed to be an actual lioness?" he asked.

"You want to see the lion?" snarled Bahfeliz, her eyes glowing gold.

There was some crackling noises before NegaMorph noticed he was further from the ground. "Ok, I don't wanna see the lionEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!" he said, screaming the last part as he was thrown across the arena to splat against the wall. "Remember kids...don't taunt half-demon lion people...someone always gets huuuurrrt..." he rasped.

One may think the differences between Khajiit and werelion would be minimal, but that was not Bahfeliz's case. She had put on at least two feet of height and at least a hundred pounds of muscle. Her lashing tail now had a tuft of dark hair at the end and, strangely enough, the black hair on her head had actually shortened, with just dark fur on the back. But her face had changed the most, as clearly distinct as the difference between housecat and lioness. And boy did she look angry. "Fat am I?" she snarled, squeezing NegaMorph.

"Rough...kittenhood...I presume..." gasped NegaMorph.

"No, she really was a fat cat," called Taelina from the balcony

Bahfeliz's roar reverberated as impressively as White Tiger's before she threw NegaMorph at her half-sister. Taelina yelped as she was knocked out of sight before Bahfeliz snapped at Ava, "You fool! You have ONE JOB!"

White Tiger glared back at Bahfeliz and said, "Like I said, I don't take orders from you."

Bahfeliz stared for a moment before snapping, "HOW DARE YOU?"

"Tigers are solitary predators, remember? And we especially don't take orders from lions," said Whiter Tiger.

Bahfeliz twitched before igniting a fireball in her hand. "You will obey me, cat!" roared Bahfeliz before throwing the fireball at White Tiger. The others scattered as White Tiger dodged the fireball and lunged

"Whoa, catfight," said Spider-Man as the two female felines grappled and clawed with each other. The others gave him a flat look. "What? Someone had to say it," said Spider-Man.

"He's not wrong," called NegaMorph.

'Matt' finally forced himself to his feet, grabbing Man-Wolf and Moon Knight before slamming their heads together. "Out of the way. Clear the target," he snarled, aiming his wrist at the two felines.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," said Spider-Man, shooting webbing over his wrist, "You're only allowed to shoot one of them."

'Matt's' eyes narrowed before he tore the webbing off, stalking forward. "Out the way, kid," he snarled.

"Not until I know your IFF is working right," said Spider-Man.

"I'm working fine," snapped 'Matt'.

"Yeah, that's not enough context to reassure me," said Spider-Man.

Matt glared, balling his fist before Man-Wolf cracked him across the back of the head. "I think this particular werewolf program is harder to talk through than your basic rampaging monster," said Man-Wolf.

Spider-Man began to web Matt up. "We'll need to deal with him later," he said.

"Yeah, Taelina is definitely switching that thing off as soon as this cat's been declawed," said NegaMorph, appearing beside Spider-Man, "And for us to do so, we need to find Morph. He has to be somewhere close."

There was a flash of light from behind Bahfeliz's balcony before what appeared to be a swarm of sandwiches with bat wings flew from behind it. "Never mind, found him," said NegaMorph darkly.

"Then how about we start getting things back to normal?" suggested Spider-Man.


Morph's trail was...easy to follow. You just had to follow the lack of logic...and boy was there alot.

"He's definitely the one behind the weird doors," said NegaMorph, pushing one such door away as it floated by.

Morph was sat in the same container, eating one of the flying sandwiches. "Oh, hey guys," he said happily as if nothing was wrong.

"Morph, have you been making any effort at all to escape?" asked NegaMorph in irritation.

"Escape?" asked Morph.

NegaMorph's eye twitched and he held up his Lockblade to stab Morph's container. "Uh, let's check if this thing has an off switch first," said Spider-Man.

"Not unless you're registered," said Morph, "That's why the kitty lady had to take the whole thing."

"Oh please, it's a big glass-" said NegaMorph, grabbing it and being blasted back out the door.

"So who's registered?" asked Spider-Man.

"Matt and Chloe," said Morph.

"I think we'd have better luck with Chloe," groaned NegaMorph as he staggered back in.

"Ok, did you tie up the angry kitty?" asked Morph, an angry shriek of 'STOP CALLING ME THAT!" heard from the arena.

"It's a work in progress," said Spider-Man.

"Ok, cause she's the one doing some of the work on this," said Morph, poking his belly.

"You don't say," said NegaMorph dryly before saying evilly, "I got an idea..."


"Do you really think you can defeat me?" snapped Bahfeliz angrily, sending another fireball out.

"Well, you didn't seem like the kind of cat that does most of her own fighting," said White Tiger.

"WAS THAT ANOTHER FAT JOKE? I WAS JUST BIG-BONED!" snapped Bahfeliz.

"I wasn't implying that all," said White Tiger. However, Bahfeliz didn't seem to care, as she sent a lightning bolt at White Tiger.

"I'll teach you to call me fat! I'll eat your soul!" she roared before some sort of container brained her from the side

"Does she ever stop caterwauling?" griped NegaMorph as he and Spider-Man walked. He turned to Spider-Man and said, "See? That's the kind of cat puns you should be using."

"Can I get out now?" asked Morph, who was inside the container.

"Just a sec. Where's Matt?" asked Spider-Man. He looked over to where Man-Wolf, Moon Knight, and Taelina were holding him down.

NegaMorph walked up before sniffing Matt. "Ooooh...I can smell the genetic modification from here. Probably didn't sense it at first cause of the hairballs," he said to himself.

"Well the container still recognize him?" asked Spider-Man.

"One way to find out," said NegaMorph, grabbing the struggling wolf's hand and shoving it against the container, which clicked open.

Morph waddled out, before looking at Matt who glowered before looking at NegaMorph, "Can we keep him?"

"You know, I've been telling myself we have more important things to deal with. But after what I've put up with today..." said NegaMorph before he delivered a hard kick to Morph's patookie. Morph didn't fly forward very much, but it caused the Tesseract to shoot out of his mouth.

Bahfeliz, who was coming round, spotted this. "MINE!" she snapped, pushing White Tiger aside.

"Wait! Don't touch!" called Spider-Man. But the werelioness had already grabbed the cube which started to crackle with energy.

"Hah! Now I'll show you all! Maybe I'll turn you into mice?" she laughed, not noticing she was starting to fade away.

"Er, that is not something to handle without proper equipment," said Spider-Man as a portal started forming over Bahfeliz's head.

"Shut up...you...you...mortal!" snapped Bahfeliz, looking at the Tesseract while giggling insanely.

Taelina tsked and said, "She never did learn when she should let something go. Say 'hi' to Father for me."

Bahfeliz actually looked confused at that before finally noticing the wind sucking her up. "No, no, no! This is my world! I am its right conqueror. This world is meant for-" It was at that point, that the Tesseract fell through her immaterial hand. "No! That's mine!" snapped Bahfeliz, before pausing, her eyes going wide with fear as an ominous howl came through the portal.

"Goodbye Bahfeliz," said Taelina, "Perhaps you'll catch Father in a merciful mood. Or he'll catch you while feeling merciful."

"No! NO!" screamed Bahfeliz before something invisible yanked her through the portal, which sealed itself.

"Ok...what was that?" said White Tiger a tad nervously.

Taelina said proudly, "That was Father." Man-Wolf stepped to the side away from her carefully.

Just then, the arena seemed to...ripple. "I think her spell is breaking," said Spider-Man.

"Indeed," said Moon Knight, "Already, I can hear the moon's true voice growing stronger. Her tainting of the lunar light is fading."

"Meaning we're in a collapsing pocket dimension," said Morph cheerfully, before frowning, "Wait, that's not good, is it?"

"Can someone make us a door out of here?" asked White Tiger nervously.

"Have you tried the fire exit?" asked Morph.

"Your doors lead nowhere, remember?" snapped NegaMorph.

"I wouldn't mess with the fire doors." said Morph pointing to a door that had definitely not been there before.

Spider-Man hurried over to the door. "Spider-sense says it's safe," said Spider-Man.

There was a small pause as everyone looked at Matt who snapped, "Do I look like the sort of idiot who fights in a burning house?"

"Debatable," said NegaMorph flatly.

"We don't have time to argue," snapped Man-Wolf.

Just then, the door turned purple before turning into a vortex. "Spider-Man, through here, quickly," called Doctor Strange's voice.

The group didn't need telling, mostly as the room was starting to rapidly shrink and being crushed into infinity could really put a crimp on your day.


The group fell out inside the Sanctum Santorium. "You have done well," said Doctor Strange, "The spell that has enshrouded Manhattan is fading. Everything will be back to normal soon enough."

"As normal as it ever gets," said White Tiger before she shrank back down to human form, "I am definitely going to feel stiff in the morning."

"Good...now where was I?" said Matt, standing up before aiming his blaster at White Tiger.

"Matt, that's enough. It's over," said Spider-Man.

"That's not your friend," said Man-Wolf, charging Matt.

"Still? I thought he snapped out of it," said Spider-Man.

"That's where I know this from. Hold him still," said NegaMorph, readying his Lockblade.

"Uh, what are you doing?" asked Spider-Man.

"Hold him very, very still..." said NegaMorph.

Man-Wolf managed to get Matt in an armlock with some help from a spell from Doctor Strange. "Ok, now hold him still. If he moves at the wrong moment, his brain will be fr...you know what, it doesn't matter," he said with a grin.

"Are you sure you know you're doing?" asked Man-Wolf.

"Well, I think I'm supposed to stab this into his heart, but that's not the part I want to change," said NegaMorph.

Matt focussed on the blade at that, growling before pulling free. "You drop that-" he began, Nega dodging and slashing through Matt's head, his blade glowing. The blade itself seemed to ghost through Matt's head, who staggered to a halt before falling backwards with a goofy grin on his face.

"This may take a little fine-tuning," said NegaMorph.

"My head hurts," grumbled Matt, his form shrinking down to his normal size.

"Never mind, I got it," said NegaMorph before pointing at Taelina, "Ok, your turn. Change him back and lock up the wolf."

Taelina looked at Matt with a gloomy look as he got up before asking "One thing first?"

"And what's that?" asked NegaMorph.

Taelina walked over to Matt before grabbing him and kissing him passionately on the snout, Matt having a dazed surprised look as she let go. "Ok..." she said happily, clicking her claws. Matt immediately started shrinking down, losing his lupine features until he was back to normal.

"Wait, that's all it took?" asked White Tiger.

"Of course. Half the fun was convincing every mage on Nirn that all that showy crap's necessary on our world," said Taelina with a grin.

"Right, well, there are a few things we need to wrap up," said Spider-Man before holding up a webbing bag that had a cube-shaped lump in it that was making the webbing smoke a little, "Hey Doc, got any room among your mystical artifacts for a cosmic-powered block?"

"Of course, Spider-Man. The Tesseract will be quite safe here," said Doctor Strange before giving Taelina a dark look.

"What? I did my part," said Taelina.

"Yes, but your presence here could still cause much trouble," said Doctor Strange, "I think it's best you go back to where you came from."

"Back to that boring old brig?" groaned Taelina.

"You are not using me as a door again," snapped NegaMorph.

"Back to your realm," said Doctor Strange pointedly.

"Can't. Dad wants me to get in touch with my mortal side," said Taelina smugly.

"That can be arranged," said Doctor Strange.

"Huh, there's gratitude. No wonder all the werewolves here hide," muttered Taelina to herself.

"We can't send her back to the brig," said Matt.

"I knew you'd warm up to me," said Taelina smugly.

"No, I mean we can't send her back because we can't reach the Bladestorm or have any idea where it is," said Matt.

"Well you're not locking me in some basement," said Taelina calmly.

"I think we can," said Matt, "Doctor Strange, I assume you have a few magical creature containment seals."

"Yes...lock me in the secret sanctorum full of magical weapons," said Taelina with a grin, before a spell hit her.

"For the record, I was referring to our basement," said Matt, "I was asking Strange if we could borrow a seal."

"Already done," said Strange, "I've sealed her magic, including her transformation power."

"So? I'm still a lycanthrope. I'm physically superior to all of you," said Taelina. She pointed at the group. "I've been a thrope for 500 years. I can...what's that noise?" she sneered.

Doctor Strange quickly gestured at the front doors before they were smashed open. Chloe stormed in. She was still looking hulked up though her clothes were looking pretty ragged. Most importantly, she still looked angry.

"I...got left...fighting...those two...stone...lions..." she said darkly.

Matt said, "We're sorry. Taelina wanted to rush." before jumping to the side.

Taelina managed to say "Oh that's a load of shi-" before Chloe tackled her.

Just then, Matt got a call on his phone. Matt answered and said, "Hey Kala, what's up? Yeah, there was some weird stuff, but it's over. Yeah, I'd get some to get the taste of anchovy out. Yes, we did take care of everything." He put a hand over the phone and asked, "We did take care of everything, right?"


Back at the library, a closet rattled a little, the handle bent out of shape. "Guys? Hello?" said Squirrel Girl's voice.


"No, I think we're good. Yeah, Taelina turned up...yeah, she helped. Did she hit on me?" said Matt, before looking at where Chloe was pounding Taelina into the ground. "Nah, she got exactly what karma wanted," he said.

"Also, get a cell prepped in the basement. We can use some of that anti-magic stuff we're preparing for Megan. Actually no, we haven't seen her tonight, but we saw Manticora. Wonder where she went."


"Can we please order pizza now?" snapped Falcore. The hideout lockdown had not gone well.

"I'd give it another hour," said Lady Nega, "These big spells tend to have residual effects."

There was a knock at the door at that, before whoever was on the other side didn't bother to wait, a hole dissolving in the door before Manticora walked in, "I...hate...you...all..." she said darkly, "I'm going to bed."

Lady Nega started to say, "You are not. I need to know wh-" before Manticora turned and shrieked in her face, her lower jaw unhinging to reveal a terrifying tooth-filled maw. "...sleep well," squeaked Lady Nega.

Manticora snorted before stomping off. "Were...those the residual effects you were talking about?" asked Falcore, unnerved.

"I don't know...I hope so. I'm going to go to my laboratory and scream until what I saw leaves my memory...you?" said Lady Nega in a distant voice.

Falcore said, "Same...we never speak of this ever again."


"Er, shouldn't we stop Chloe now?" asked Man-Wolf.

"Not now, she's establishing dominance," said Matt.

"For Oblivion's sake, I giiiive!" screamed Taelina at that, Chloe actually pausing before lifting her to eye level.

"Unless you want to be locked in our basement with as much power and movement ability as a banana, you will be nice, comprende?" she snarled.

"What?" asked Taelina.

"It means 'understand'," said NegaMorph.

"I understand," winced Taelina.

Chloe dropped her before adding, "And you earn your pay." Taelina somehow finding the smile chilling.


Silvana landed in the alley across from the coffee shop. "Man, I hope they found help that won;t be scared off," she muttered, shifting to her disguise form. "Those egg-smashing idiots always EEP!" she said, jumping aside as one of the people who usually teased her over her uniform came out the door at a flat trajectory, an anthro wolf rubbing her hands.

"Ok...and what have we learnt?" she said calmly.

"Pinches are not tips," groaned the jerk.

"Well done. So next time, I'll pinch your fingers right off, understand?" said the wolf woman, who was wearing the same shirt and short combo Silvana preferred as a uniform.

"How long have I been gone?" Silvana muttered to herself.

The wolf noticed her before grumbling, "Oh great. Miss Lyn...I mean, boss. There's a dragon at the door."

Chloe walked out and said, "Oh, Silvana, how was Asia? Are you all enlightened?"

"Yeah, I learnt some really cool magic. Shao-Lao was a true gentle-drake," said Silvana happily, before bowing to the wolf, "Who is our new friend?"

"That's Taelina, former demigoddess of the hunt," said Chloe, "She'll helping you with your shifts."

"Still a demigoddess. The hex comes off when we leave, remember?" said Taelina icily.

"Only if your dad doesn't approve," said Chloe.

"Nice to meet you," said Silvana, shaking Taelina's hand, the wolf looking confused before grabbing the dragon's wrist with both hands.

"She's half robot," said Chloe, "The line tends to blur about which half is which."

Taelina gave Silvana's happy smile a forced one. "We'll get along...fine," she said twitching

"I'm sure we will," said Silvana brightly, "Your uniform looks nice."

"I'd rather be wearing Forsworn armor," said Taelina darkly.

Chloe held up a remote and pressed a button, Taelina's fur standing up as a small collar around her neck crackled. "Mind your manners," said Chloe sweetly.

"I hate this planet already," muttered Taelina.


And there's the last chapter of this little trilogy. This idea required plenty of rewriting as we had trouble deciding about how Bahfeliz would be pulling off her scheme. This was originally going to be a lot more werewolf-themed, but we just couldn't make up our minds how to do it. We'll be having Taelina as a recurring character for the rest of the story.

Also, Matt's Warwolf is different from what has been seen of the comic character. It ties up to another Marvel fic that me and my co-author are working on but haven't published yet.

We're currently working the next chapters, so it may be a while yet before they're up. In the meantime, keep an eye out for them and please review. Happy Halloween.