Welcome back True Believers... Just as promised, here's chapter three... and the new costume. Hope you all enjoy and can't wait for the reviews.

Adrena Lynn stood in one of the hidden areas of the arena. Her close cropped blonde hair spiked to give her a wild look. She wore a bright red body suit and soft shoes with grip tape on the bottom instead of regular shoes to provide her with the most traction and dexterity possible. Her gloved hands also had grip tape palms.

She looked out at the crowd, her eyes roaming over the fevered pitch at which they were screaming and cheering the stunt crews. The blonde smiled as she turned to her producer. Her smile told him everything he needed to know. It was almost show time, and that meant he needed to double check the stunt course. As he ran off, Adrena double checked microphone setup she wore on her ear and walked out to the center of the stadium.

"Are you ready to get FREEEEEAAAAAAAKKKKKYYYYY!" Adrena's catch phrase caused the crowd to become even louder. "It's that time again my Adrena Freaks! Get ready for the one! The only! The Adrena Lynn Rush!"

The crowd erupted into a screaming, applauding, wave of chaos. There were people shoving for better seat, screaming to be chosen, begging to step into the ring with Adrena Lynn. She couldn't get enough of it.

"That's right my Freaky friends… this is the chance for some up and coming local stunt man or stunt girl to join the ranks of the great Adrena Lynn in a challenge to test your skill at the EXXXXXXTREAM!" Adrena screamed to the crowd.

"Ladies and gentlemen I present our latest challenge!" Adrena Lynn threw her hands into the air as the arena began to shift around her. The domes of the bikers and the climbing walls vanishing into the sides of the stadium, and the Adrena Lynn Rush challenge course coming into existence. Hidden gears and machinery bringing the multi level obstacle course up.

"Tonight's course will start thirty feet above my head. You'll notice the over all shape of the course is a horseshoe. We begin on the inside of the shoe, and as always it starts easy. A balance run along, not a beam, but a wedge ramp. The edge of the ramp is sharper and the slopes on either side make it a much trickier run. At the end of the run you come to a platform, centered in the gap between that platform and the next are two pillars. One for me, the other for my opponent. The object is to traverse the gap by using the pillar. Once on the next platform, we come to a suspended wall, we jump from the platform to grab the next higher wall and climb over, repeating this not once, not twice, but for five walls. The fifth wall is the base of the next platform and leads to a pedestal run that slopes up and around the leg of the shoe to a row of flying trapeze at almost fifty feet above the ground. The trapeze will take us down the leg of the shoe. Each trapeze swings to just out of reach of the next so we must jump from one to the other, and from the final trapeze to a zip line to complete the first leg of the shoe. The zip line terminates and launches us directly into a running track. The shape of the track, a slanted half pipe. This is designed to catch the runner or supply the ability to roll into the run. From there we move along the base of the shoe into a common military log course. Not very demanding, but this is for style points. At the end of the log course each of us will be handed a balance deck to grind down the rail leading from that platform to the next at the base of the shoes second leg. From there we move into the uneven bars. Suspended once again at thirty stories, we swing, jump, vault and turn between bars of varying heights to the next platform. We leap from that platform to a lower platform directly into the gauntlet. And in this gauntlet, we have spinning barriers and swinging bags designed to knock us to the floor below. At the end of the gauntlet we must make a leap to a rock wall, catching the wall and climbing to the top and to a ring course. On the course, my challenger and I can attempt to disengage each other from fray and therefore the competition completely… no one has ever succeeded in knocking me off. At the end of the course we come to the final leg at over fifty feet. There are two long platforms that we may traverse however we wish followed by a running platform, with a long suspended platform over the gap that leads to the final platform. The first person to land on the final platform is the winner. Now, since this is my course, there has to be a prize. Finish the course within five seconds of me… it's one hundred dollars! Beat me, and the prize is five hundred and a chance to work in the show!" She looked over the silenced crowd as they all looked upon the structure suspended over their heads.

Adrena gave them all time to take in everything she'd said. Everything she'd shown them. Every dangerous twist and turn the course could take. Let them see every single place where a runner could fall. Then she gave the clincher.

"And all of this shall be done, without a harness, without any suspension on our bodies whatsoever. All that will keep us from falling is our skill. Now don't worry ladies and gentlemen… I may risk my life for the rush… but I'd never ask a fan to. There will be a net beneath the course to catch the challenger if they slip up." She smiled as the net was raised beneath the course.

"Now… since I do seem to have everyone's attention…my scouts are moving through the crowd… I know there's an aspiring extremist in the midst… show yourself!" Adrena smiled. "Step right up! I can take on anyone willing to run my course! Come on! Any takers?" She looked over to her right, seeing a commotion as one of the attendees stepped out into the aisle.
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Kim smiled to herself as she listened to Adrena Lynn's speech. The course was intense, that was true, but with her powers it should be easy enough to navigate. She figured the only thing she'd have trouble with is how much of her powers she used. She could climb the wall without touching the hand holds, but that would give her away. So would multi level leaps on the walls. The balance run would be a cake walk. The logs, uneven bars, and ring course would be as well. It was the swinging and jumping that was going to be the issue, because she couldn't let them know it was anything more than skill and training.

"Well," She said to herself, "Best get this over with." Kim stood and walked between the crowds toward the center aisle.

The onlookers saw her getting up and some snickered and laughed at the person she appeared to be. Wearing track pants and a large hooded sweatshirt. When she stepped into the aisle though, she pulled the shirt up and over her head, then ripped away the buttoned pants to reveal the true spectacle.

Bright red sneakers covered her feet, the laces hidden under Velcro straps. Her toned legs were encased in blue skin tight leather hip huggers that shone in the arena lights. A red belt studded with small spider designs hung loosely around her waist. Her top was a bright red sleeveless mid riff shirt with a high turtle neck collar, a huge black spider design stretching over her chest. A half mask covered her mouth and nose in bright red, her eyes hidden behind bug eyed reflective goggles. She wore a pair of gloves with kevlar pads as a knuckle guards. A ring of eight snapped pouches ran around each of her forearms. Behind her, long auburn hair hung flowing in her wake as she walked forward.

One of the scouts stopped her as she reached the barrier, and looked at her. His eyes ran over her a few quick times before he smiled. "What's your name?"

"Spider-Girl!" She said before bounding over the barrier and into the center ring.

The scout grabbed his walkie talkie and relayed it to Lynn, and soon the star's voice came over the speakers, "Ladies and gentlemen, today's challenger! Spider-Girl!"

Kim smiled at Adrena from behind the mask, and bowed slightly before speaking, "After today, it'll be 'The Spectacular Spider-Girl' ".

"Big words challenger…" Adrena said as she walked over to one of the ropes that was lowering, "Grab hold to your rope and we'll make our way to the top."

Kim tilted her head as she watched Adrena Lynn place her foot into the loop on the rope and hold tight as it started to pull her up. Kim did the same as she looked up to the course, in her mind this was the moment. As they both ascended to the beginning platform, Spider-Girl went over the best way to accomplish this little race. Once they reached it though, everything began to hyper focus in her mind so that only the race itself was important.

The drone of the crowd seemed to buzz in the back of her mind as she eyed the inclined ramp in front of her, the razors edge she'd need to run over was more than wide enough for her new balance. She waited for the signal then realized Lynn was talking to her.

"Huh?" Spider-Girl turned to the stunt woman.

"Spaced on me huh? No worries, it happens from time to time. Just letting you know what's what. Don't feel bad if you fall off, or can't keep up. This is a tough course and it took me lots of practice to perfect running it…" Lynn held her hand out, "Good luck."

"Thanks," The masked teen reached to shake her opponent's hand, but the blaring of her spider sense stopped her and she grabbed Lynn's wrist, holding her palm up. She saw a small barbed needle poking out from between the stunt girl's fingers. "What's that?"

"Smart girl.." Lynn's demeanor turned cold as quick as a shot. "But you still won't beat me." Lynn ripped her hand back and turned toward the course.

Spider-Girl eyed Lynn for a second then turned to the course, her mind on the stunt specialist's apparent deceit. Then on the course as the starting gun fired and they both were off like a shot.

Kim didn't bother taking her time with the ramp, she shut off all conscious thought and ran on pure instinct, letting her powers and determination make the inclined balance run seem as simple as a walk to the mail box. She was amazed when she noticed that Adrena managed to show the same level of ability on the ramp. Spider-Girl spared a slight glance at her opponent's path, cursing as she noticed it wasn't the sharp edge hers was. Kim came to the flat plane of the first platform and let the blonde stunt girl pull ahead.

She watched as Adrena did a leap frog style jump over the pillar in the center of the gap. Kim decided she'd just keep up and one up the cheating blonde. She leapt at the pillar hands first and her spider sense went off again. Figuring on a rigged pillar she used her powers to grab the pillar and flip into a head stand before leaping off of it and to the next platform, noticing the slight sheen of oil as she went over it.

She landed to see Adrena pulling herself up onto the first wall, and cursed again. Foot holds. Spider-Girl leapt at the wall and grabbed the top, kicking off the side to launch herself to the top of the first wall. She couldn't believe it. The damn thing sloped away, not enough to cause anyone to fall out right, but enough that you'd slip if you weren't careful of it. She leapt to the next wall, repeating the kick leap to take her over the top and catch up with the star of the show.

"You're a cheat Lynn, but you still won't beat me!" Spider-Girl shot over at her as they leapt to the next wall together.

The super powered teen was pissed, and she decided to stop playing nice. She jumped from the top of her current wall and did a flip in the air as she landed firmly on top of the next. She looked back at Adrena Lynn's shocked face and waved before starting to run along the pedestals toward the trapeze row. She wasn't at all shocked as she discovered a few of the pedestals were loose. She grinned beneath her mask, glad her superior balance kept her on the course. She stopped at trapeze and looked back, seeing Lynn on the pedestals as well, headed straight for her. Lynn's face was enraged as she watched the teen leap and grab the first trapeze.

"I can't believe she faked all this stuff." Kim growled as she discovered the trapeze was going to fall a little short. She leapt into a back flip, catching the next trapeze with her legs.

As she looked back, she saw Lynn right behind her, grabbing a trapeze with one arm and swinging to the next, the grab almost perfectly in line with the swing of the trapeze. Kim's grim determination hissed in the back of her mind. She'd only intended to win, now she wanted to humiliate the stunt girl. She continued to flip and turn, using the extra momentum it gave to double her jump length so she could catch the next trapeze. She groaned as she came up to the last trapeze before the zip line, catching it with her hands. She'd have to make an impossible jump, catch the zip line in her legs, or do a complete three hundred and sixty degree flip.

She smiled as she decided to catch the zip line in her legs. Leaping off the trapeze just as easily as all the others, she aimed in mid air catching the grip of the zip line in her knees. She spared a glance back again and growled as she saw Lynn right on her heels. The stunt girl was on the zip line and coming on fast. Too fast.

"Grrr… she must have slowed this one some how…" Kim grinned and grabbed her belt, pulling it off and swinging it around the cable in front of her as she released the swing she was on from her knees. Suddenly she was moving down much faster than Lynn.

When she pulled ahead of Lynn again, she heard the stunt woman yell out a curse. Spider-Girl smirked under her mask as she released one side of the belt, landing on the platform in front of her and rolling into a quick run as she swung the belt around her waist. She heard Lynn hit the platform behind her as she entered the curving half pipe and began to run.

At the end of the half pipe, the stunt woman had caught up with her again and leapt at the log run together. Kim hit the first log with her right arm, using her momentum to carry her over it as she watched Lynn swing under it. Kim's higher jump let her land on the next log and leap into another hand stand flip as Lynn did a two handed version of Kim's first jump. The next log was high and again Lynn swung under it while Spider-Girl back flipped off of it to land on the next. She could tell the crowd was eating it up from the screams that came every time she pulled a flip or out jumped the cheating star.

They reached the end of the logs together and Spider-Girl watched as the scouts at the end threw the balance sticks to them. Adrena caught the gentle lob that was tossed her way easily, but only the super teen's spider sense and new reflexes allowed her to catch the spinning toss that the scout aimed at her. The both hit the grind rails at once, sparks flying behind them as the metal of the sticks ran against the pole.

"You've rigged everything Lynn? What's the matter? Can't win a fair competition?" She yelled over.

"Go to hell Spider-Bitch!" Adrena Lynn yelled, her frustration obviously getting to her and messing with her concentration. Unfortunately it wasn't slowing down her abilities.

The leapt from the grind poles to the uneven bars. Both caught the first bar easily and used the momentum from the leap to guide their jump to the next bar below them. Then as Adrena tried to increase her speed for a higher jump, Spider-Girl climbed to stand on bar, leaping to the next easily. As Lynn made the second jump the challenging hero was leaping into her third. She looked back only a second, wondering how Lynn would cheat at this one. Kim climbed onto this bar as well, then back flipped onto the top of the next. She turned and drop jumped to the next bar, spinning into a final leap onto the platform.

She didn't bother looking back as she ran into the gauntlet. The swinging bags and spinning walls were easy enough to avoid. Her spider sense warning her in plenty of time to sides step or duck them. The trick had come when the floor of the platform slid away, only her spider sense and enhanced agility letting her leap to the wall in time to avoid falling. She leapt off the wall and ducked the last bag as she leapt to the rock wall.

Expecting loose hand grips, she scaled the wall with her powers, pretending that she searched for the grips. She was halfway up the wall before she even felt the stunt woman hit it behind her. She looked down and toward Adrena's track, and smiled. The star's hand grips and foot holds where so close she might as well have been climbing a ladder. Spider-girl leapt from her position to a higher point on the wall, using her powers to hold on to the loose grip she found before finishing the climb and leaping into the rings.

The race was hers, and both she and Lynn knew it at this point. Spider-Girl started to swing from one ring to another. She smiled at the ease with which her hands found purchase on the rings, not even bothering to look. It was like she instinctively knew the fastest path to the final platforms. She landed on it with Lynn still halfway back on the rings. She took one final look back and ran for the finish line, leaping into a vertical corkscrew over the last barrier. One hand hit the barrier as she leapt spinning her body, then her other hand caught her at the end of the jump and broke the spin as she landed.

She stood on the last platform and looked back as Adrena Lynn came to the one before it. The star's face was enraged as she walked to the barrier and then over it to the last platform on her track. She looked at the teenager and sneered.

"Hope you like the praise kid… you'll pay for this." The star walked to the rope and they both descended to the floor.
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"What do you mean you're not paying me?" The masked teen screamed at the manager as they stood back stage.

"Here, take fifty bucks, and consider yourself lucky. Lousy mutey, that's the only way you could have pulled those stunts and it's probably why you're wearing the mask. Thanks to you the show is ruined. Adrena's appeal was that she was unbeatable… now I have to fire her. But I damn sure can't hire no mutant kid to replace her. Now get out." The manager went back to counting the box office receipts.

"Hey, I need this job, my family has bills…" She slammed her fist down into the desk, cracking it.

"Tough shit…" The manager said, looking at the spider web cracks in the oak desk.

Kim growled and turned to the door, slamming it behind her. She bumped past a skinny guy with slicked back black hair and an obviously fake mustache. She grunted at the 'showman' and continued down the hall as he walked into the manager's office. She got to the end of the hall and picked up the phone calling Wade.

"Hey bro…" She said as he picked up, "What? No, I won, but they stiffed me. Called me a mutey and refused to pay me. On top of that, the show was rigged to help Adrena Lynn. Yea, I know… I'm on my way home. See ya when I get there." She hung up and started back down the hall as a loud crash came from behind her.

Kim looked back and saw the man in the fake mustache running at her with the cash box in his hands. The manager stepped out of the office yelling for someone to stop the thief. In Kim's mind it was poetic. The thieves were being robbed. She looked toward the hallway and saw nothing but empty space between the thief and the exit. Kim stepped back out of his way, waving as he ran by.

"Hey, ya lousy mutey, what's the deal you could have stopped him easy. He just stole the entire take for the night." The manager looked at her.

"Oh really?" She turned her reflective gaze on him. "Tough shit? Isn't that what you said to me?" Kim turned and walked away, smiling beneath her mask. "Doesn't pay to cheat people, you may need their help some day."

She walked out of the staging area and back into the arena, she picked up her clothes from where they'd been put by a scout. As she slipped the hoodie and pants back on, she took the goggles and mask off before walking out the exit and into late afternoon air. She smiled as she saw the sun setting and started the long walk home.

Kim made her way through the back alley's till she made it to the residential area of Go City's Middleton Borough. She looked back at the larger office buildings and shops, then forward toward the smaller brown stones and homes. The sun was setting fast and street lights were coming on bit by bit, but Kim barely noticed. Something about that spider bite must have enhanced her tolerance to chill as well because she barely felt the cooling air.

As she turned the corner to her street though, her eyes widened in fear. Blue lights and yellow tape were everywhere. Her entire house was surrounded by cops and paramedics. Kim broke into a run, making it past three uniformed officers before one finally stopped her.

"Hey, kid! Behind the line…" He tried to hold her back, grunting at the effort it took.

"This is my house, my home… That's my family in there…" Kim shouted, shoving past him and running in, "Mom! Dad! Wade!" She shouted as she ran into the living room.

"Kim!" Her mom said from the couch as she looked up, "Oh Kim!"

Both Wade and his mother got up from the couch, wrapping their arms around the red head. While her mother was hysterical, Wade's face showed a grim determination. Kim looked at him, her eyes asking the question.

"Dad… Dad was shot… the guy broke in…Dad tried to calm him down and then… he just shot him." Wade's face never changed, but you could see the pain he was in.

Kim hugged her mom tightly and set her down, she turned to Wade. "Stay with her… I'll be back…" She whispered.

Kim got up and walked toward the basement. As she walked into the kitchen, she saw a paramedic zipping up a long black back and the white outline on the kitchen floor. Her heart fluttered at the sight, but she tightened her fist and continued on her way to the basement. A detective stopped her as she reached for the door.

"You're Miss Possible?" He asked.

"Yes…" Kim said, "But right now, I just want to be alone… "

"I can understand that… but don't worry Ma'am, we'll catch this scum bag." The detective said.

Kim's eyes shot wide and she looked at him, "WHAT!" Her voice was out raged. "You don't have him? You didn't catch him?"

"Ma'am, you have to understand…" The detective started, but a radio interrupted him.

"Suspect is cornered in a warehouse on the outskirts of Middleton and The Center. We have him pinned down, awaiting S.W.A.T." The radio buzzed before going silent again.

Kim turned back to the basement and slammed the door as she went down stairs.
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Spider-Girl looked at the warehouse from a nearby roof top. She could see most of the face from the bright lights the police had trained on it, but there were always shadowed parts as they searched for the burglar, the spot lights not large enough to encompass it all. As she watched though, she caught something they didn't, a slight movement as the lights slid over one area. She looked to another nearby roof and tracked the path to the warehouse.

Timing it would be the issue, but she was going to get to him first. She ran toward the next roof, leaping as far as she could to land on it, rolling and coming up running. Another leap took her to the warehouse roof, and she ducked behind an air conditioner unit to keep the lights from spotting her. She slipped into a crouch, crawling across the roof until she found a way in through one of the side windows.

She crawled through the dark rafters of the warehouse as she made her way to the barricaded thief. Her reflective gaze trained on him as she clung to the ceiling. Once she got over him she dropped down, her spider sense blaring as the startled criminal turned to fire. Without thinking she grabbed the gun and threw it out a window before he could even finish aiming.

"You killed my dad!" She grabbed him, her enhanced strength making holding him easy.

"Please! No! Don't hurt me!" He screamed, terror making his face white as a sheet.

"You killed him! Shot him!" She shook him, screaming into his face.

"Who the fuck are you?" He cried.

The commotion in the window finally drew the attention of the police outside and the spotlights centered on the window. As they reflected off her goggles they illuminated the thief's face, his fake mustache barely hanging on.

In that instance, the teen's world was shattered, "You? The arena thief?" She dropped him and screamed.

The thief stumbled back, trying to escape the savage fury of the insane young girl in front of him. As he did he tripped over a loose board and fell back out of the window, arms flailing in the air. Spider-Girl rushed forward, fingertips brushing over the thief's before he was gone.
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Wade listened to the officer's talking to his mom. They told her that the thief had fallen from the window of a warehouse. That he was dead. Someone said there were reports of a costumed vigilante as well and Wade's eyes bugged at that, but he didn't say anything. Once everyone left, he walked down the stairs to the basement. He found Kim kneeling on the floor.

"What happened?" He asked, putting a hand on her back.

"I could have stopped him Wade… it's my fault…" Kim cried as she wrapped her arms around her brother.

"What do you mean Kim? You couldn't have known he was going to rob us, and even if you were here…" He started, trying to think logically.

"No… at the arena, after I hung up… he robbed the manager… it was the same thief. If I'd stopped him then, instead of… instead of…" She broke down, crying as she held onto her brother.

"Kim, come on… calm down…calm down…" Wade hugged her tight.

"I get it now Wade… what dad told me the other night… With great power… comes great responsibility. I should have stopped that thief in the arena… now, now I know what I have to do… I screwed up this time, but I won't screw up again. I've got these powers… I'm gonna use them. I'll be Spider-Girl alright, but I'll use it to take down every criminal in this city… What happened to us won't happen to anyone else if I can help it…" As she spoke, Kim's eyes dried and her face turned grim with determination.

"You're going to do this… then you're going to need help. Let's get to work." Wade hugged her. "It wasn't your fault Kim.." A tear slid down Wade's cheek as he thought of his father, "But we'll do this for him."

Ok, a few things here at the end. You may have noticed, or may not and you should have, that I referred to Middleton as a Borough of Go City, and a reference to The Center. I decided to Fuse the KP world with The Spider world as best I could and figured why not. So, to avoid confusion later, I'll just explain the Boroughs now. There are five in Go City, just like there are five in New York. They are Middleton, Upperton, Lowerton, The Center, and Wannaweep Island. These will play varying degrees of importance throughout the series, be it just a reference to a place or something more major.

The origin arc has at least one more chapter before we get into longer and more in depth arcs. Next chapter I'll finally be answering a question everyone has been asking... that's right everyone... RON will be showing up! Bonus points for anyone who can guess what character I turned him into. Kellendros, Twilight, you two don't get to guess since you helped me put this together and already know. Oh, and if you do guess, PM ME, don't put it in a review... review to... but just put your guess in a PM. See ya next chapter.

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