Author's Note: I finally freaking saw The Amazing Spiderman. I still prefer the new one but Andrew Garfield wasn't bad and I got a few ideas. We'll start with that after this 'episode' is done. Again, like A Flash In The Dark I'm assuming that if you're reading this you've seen the show and have at least an idea of what happens cause I skip scenes here and there. Also yes I made up this power for Iron Fist but I feel it's something he would have. I own nothing.
26. Fight or Flight
Spidey let go of her webline as the gun in Taskmaster's hand blew letting herself fall to the floor three stories below. She cried out as she felt her shoulder pop out of its socket. Nova swooped in snatching her off the ground and flying a few hallways away before he set her down.
"Hold on Bug Brain, I need to reset your shoulder." Piper nodded.
"Just do it." Nova pushed hard and Piper stifled a scream as her bone slid back into place. Nova was breathing hard too, he stepped back and slammed his fist into the wall.
"Shit, what do we do? Danny's down for the count, Ava and MJ are still trapped in that net and freaking Liz Allen is stuck in your locker! All the training and equipment from SHIELD, useless." Piper glanced around taking note that they were in the gym where the obstacle course was still set up. Everything hurt, her shoulder was throbbing and so was her head. But she was still thinking, she had a lot of experience thinking on her feet. She grabbed a ball off the rack of dodge balls and spun it in her hands.
"He can mimic what we do, so lets do what we don't." Nova frowned.
"That wont work webs, even if we're not doing what we normally do he'll see it and be able to do it too." Piper grinned under her mask.
"What if he doesn't see it?" She held up her hands, now empty of the ball she'd been holding moments before. She looked down, Nova followed her example and saw the dodge ball between his team leaders legs. He snorted a laugh.
"That's crazy webs. Also I glow! How are you gonna get around that?" She thought for a minute.
"What if we both glowed? In the dark a dim glow isn't gonna help identify who it is doing what." Nova nodded.
"Ok but how are you gonna glow?" Piper grinned and they crept to the school lab. With a simple yank she broke the lock on the chemical cabinet and grabbed a few different beakers. She mixed them and held it up to Nova. It was a little dimmer than him but she was short on time. She held her breath and dumped the contents of the mixture over her head. She spread it all over her suit until she had a dim glow just like Nova. He frowned.
"Isn't that dangerous?" Piper shrugged.
"I mean it's basically just luminescent phosphorus. As long as I stay away from open flames I should be fine." Nova shook his head.
"We'll need something out of my locker too if this is gonna work since I'm assuming you can't see well in the dark." Nova nodded.
"Alright." They crept through the halls and Piper popped open her locker. Liz Allen almost fell out sobbing.
"It's ok! You're gonna be ok miss. Listen I need you to stay here, you'll be safer. We'll come get you when we've taken down the bad guy, ok?" Liz nodded and hugged her before slipping back into the locker.
"It's gonna be ok. I promise." Piper snatched something out of the locker and gently closed the door again. They carefully ran back to the gym. Nova shook his head.
"How do you do that?" Piper handed him one of her web shooters and showed him how to use it before she answered.
"Do what?" Nova shook his head.
"Be so nice to someone who is literally one of the worst people I've ever met." Piper sighed.
"She's pretty horrible. She's literally put my bra in the freezer three times, at school, I didn't think it was possible. But she's still a person, no matter how much she bullies me. Everybody deserves to feel safe." Nova nodded and Piper straightened.
"Alright let's set this plan in motion. I'll lure him into the gym. You hit the lights ok." Nova grabbed her hand as she made to leave.
"Be safe Spidey." She nodded and he let go. She raced off and Nova began rearranging things in the gym. Spidey figured if he could memorize moves he could memorize other things too. He just hoped she was right and this would work.
Danny groaned and pulled himself off the floor. The man in the mask had been able to mimic his moves. He needed to get the students out and find Nova and Spider-girl. He heard a familiar voice calling for help and took off down the hallway. He found Ava and Mary Jane trapped in a net hanging from the ceiling. He carefully cut them down and caught both girls. MJ wrapped her arms around him and tried not to cry. Iron fist set Ava down.
"What's happening here?" He asked and MJ shook her head. Ava took a deep breath and explained that their new gym teacher was in fact the supervillain known as Taskmaster.
"He's looking for Spider-girl. He thought it was one of us. Or Liz. She took off running. We don't know where she is." Danny nodded. He'd been taught to sense life energy as part of his training in Kun Lun, he could sense everyone in the high school, there were seven people in the school. Three of them were in the gym, one was in Principle Coulson's office and the other was a few hallways away. That had to be Liz, Coulson was likely in his office and the one's in the gym had the brighter aura's of people with enhanced abilities. One of them was brighter than the others and a slightly different color but he didn't have time to think about it.
"Come with me." The girls nodded and followed Danny down the halls. He reached the locker and realized that it was Piper's. MJ realized this at the same time.
"Hang on I know her combination." She stepped in front of the locker and undid the lock. Liz fell out hugging the closest person to her which happened to be MJ. MJ patted her awkwardly on the back.
"It's ok Liz." Liz finally looked up and frowned.
"You're not Spider-girl." MJ shook her head.
"It looks like none of us were Spider-girl." Liz nodded.
"Of course not, Spidey's way too cool to go to school in this dump. But she's here fighting that horrible gym teacher. Also she was glowing which was new." MJ grinned still looking slightly shaken up smiled slightly and pulled her phone out of her pocket.
"Spidey here at Midtown High, again? Once in this town is coincidence twice is a pattern! Come on!" There was a large crash from the nearby gym and MJ took off in that direction. Liz followed her and Ava shook her head at Iron Fist before taking off after them.
They reached the gym in time to hear Nova laugh and speak.
"Now I know why you use these, this is fun!" There was the sound of Spider-girl's webbing shooting and a feminine laugh. Iron Fist hit the lights. Spider-girl and Nova were standing in front of a crater in the bleachers that was covered in webbing holding down Taskmaster.
"It's not too late Spider-girl, you could still join me." Spider-girl put her hand on her hip.
"You might think I'm a loser Tasky but I don't." He growled then laughed.
"Then I'll just reveal your identity to the world Liz Allen!" Spider-girl raised an eyebrow and stepped aside as she spoke.
"What Liz Allen, that Liz Allen?" Liz waved.
"The name might be Spider-GIRL Jaeger but I'm older than I look. And this school is under my protection just like the rest of the city." Then she knelt down so she was a bit closer to him and couldn't be heard as easily by the civilians behind Nova but Nova heard her clearly.
"And you can tell your employer I'm coming for him next. He messed with the wrong Spider, so now I'm gonna find him and I'm gonna take him down." Nova felt a shudder run down his spine at her words. She was serious, and sounded calm and collected instead of intensely angry. Taskmaster laughed.
"It's a shame you refused to join me Spider-girl. You'd have made an excellent assassin." He dropped a smoke bomb and everyone in the room coughed and swatted at the smoke. It cleared and there was a mask remaining in the spot Taskmaster had been. It was Mr. Jaeger's face. Piper frowned and picked it up. Nova stepped forwards and for the first time Iron Fist noticed that he was wearing one of Spider-girls masks.
"How many masks can one guy wear?" Spidey glanced over her shoulder and laughed.
"Yeah glow stick, I wonder." Sam blushed under his helmet and pulled off the spare mask handing it back to Spider-girl.
"Do you think he'll be back with another face?" Danny asked moving forwards. Spider-girl shook her head.
"No. He knows what would be waiting for him."