Author's Note: Yeah next chapter. I have gotten nothing done today…. I own nothing. Please review.
4. The Frightful Four
She was rescued a few minutes later by Stan the janitor and raced off to her first period class. A few hours later she met up with Harry and MJ in the lunchroom. Harry glanced over at her, a bit of worry in his big blue eyes.
"Dude, locker knocker time again? Thompson is such a tool." Piper nodded as they sat down, Harry next to MJ and Piper across from the pair. She picked up her fork and loaded it with mashed potatoes.
"If that's the worst thing that happens to me today, I am definitely coming out ahead." The fork was halfway to her mouth when her spidey-sense went crazy. It hadn't gone off like this since the house in Malibu had been under attack by the Mandarin last year. The fork dropped out of her fingers. As the wall behind her exploded Piper leapt forward pulling Harry and MJ with her so they were out of the way of the table as it flipped over them. Three figures walked in, two male one female. Another floated in quaking in fear. Piper recognized the figures at once. Thundra a ruthless warrior woman from an alternate future timeline, Klaw a villain made of living sound, and The Wizard master of high tech gadgets. The man floating helplessly in the air was the principal, Piper realized. But it didn't make sense, why were they here?
"Students your principal has something to say." The poor man shook as he was floated in front of the students.
"Everyone the school is now under the control of… of…" Thundra finished his sentence for him.
"The frightful four!" The room was silent for a moment before MJ always the perfectionist piped up.
"There's only three of you." The principal came flying across the room, slamming into the wall above the vending machines. That was right the Trapster was supposed to be a member of the frightful four but Piper had already caught him. The Wizard floated further into the room.
"Before the Trapster was captured he learned that Spider-girl attends this school. Unless she gives herself up, we will tear this place apart brick by brick." Piper heard some idiot in the crowd cheer. Wizard frowned.
"Very well then Klaw, give them a demonstration." Klaw stepped forward and pointed his hand, the one that was actually a sonic blaster, at the roof above a large group of students. The blaster resounded and the roof trembled sending pieces of masonry raining down on the students. Piper's fists curled. She couldn't do anything, not yet. Not without putting everyone she cared about in even more danger than they were in now. Wizard floated in her direction.
"So, who is our mysterious wall crawler?" Piper glanced around, thanking all her lucky stars that no one was even glancing her way.
"A teacher? A student? A cafeteria lady? Hmmm. They seem reluctant to talk. Klaw, make them listen to reason." The sound villain activated his noise cannon again only this time it spread over most of the whole cafeteria. Piper clutched her ears trying not to scream. She had a slight healing factor, she would be fine, it was everyone else she was worried about. Klaw moved his blaster on to another section of the room and Piper couldn't take it anymore.
"Leave them alone!" MJ grabbed her arm.
"Piper, no!" Wizard smiled down at her.
"Defiantly not Spider-girl." Thundra stepped forward menacingly.
"I'll crush the runt!" MJ stepped back slightly as Wizard floated over towards Piper. Wizard shook his head.
"No, don't crush her. Make an example of her. Klaw, go ahead." Piper pushed MJ out of the way as sound slammed into her like a wall. She screamed and fell to her knees. Her ears rang and her head pounded, partially because of her spidey-sense but mostly because of the noise that was currently splitting her skull. She felt blood trickling from her ear.
"Stop! Stop, I'll talk!" She just needed the noise to stop. The sound stopped and Piper pulled herself up on one of the tables, right in front a tray. Her brain was working on overdrive despite the ringing in her ears.
"Well, you have something to say little girl?" Piper caught her breath, wiping the blood off her face with her sleeve.
"Listen up. Everyone needs to hear this!" Piper paused for effect, then snatched the tray in front of her and took aim at Wizard.
"Food Fight!" She threw the tray hard, it smacked into the Wizard sending him spinning. Everyone cheered and grabbed the nearest article of food before throwing it at a member of the frightful four. Piper rolled under the table and headed for the nearest pillar before crawling up it. She popped open one of the ceiling tiles and crawled inside.
"How the hell did they find out!?" She pulled off her blue button up and her white tank top. She glanced down at her costume and saw something sticking to her armpit. She yanked and nearly tore the costume. It was small black and green. It was a tracer.
"Fury was right, I have a lot to learn about responsibility." She whispered as she crushed the tracer between her fingers.