Hi guys! Not getting the villains in yet, but I will in the next chapter. You know what's annoying? This is the second time I've had to write this chapter. My computer freaked out and got rid of all my windows and I hadn't saved so...yeah. I just saw The Dark Knight, and one of my many thoughts was: "Why won't they bring Robin into the mix?" Well, that's off the subject. I changed the rating to K+. ON WITH THE STORY!

TTNG: New Team

Chapter 8: Penny Parker: Part Three

"So this is how the other half lives." someone said behind her. Arachne looked behind her and saw someone she didn't know. He wore a white T-Shirt with a leather jacket, and regular jeans. He had jet black hair, and bright blue eyes. She stood up from the bench, and shook his hand.

"Penny Parker. And you are?" she asked. He laughed a familiar laugh.

"Percy Jacob Bauer." he said. Arachne's eyes widened.

"Percy?! What are you doing in street clothes?" she asked.

"Hey! You do it all the time." Percy exclaimed.

"What are you doing here? Sunny sent you didn't she." Ari muttered the last part. Percy scratched the back of his neck.

"Kinda. I also wanted to see you skate again. And I have to say, you've got some talent. Why'd you quit? You're really good!" he asked. Ari sighed.

"You said I didn't have to tell about my past." she said. Percy gave her a warm smile.

"I know. But you want to. I can tell. But once you tell me, you've got to tell the others." he said.

"Alright I give!" she said sitting on the bench again.

"Spill." Percy laughed. She smiled at him.

"OK. I've been skating since I was four years old. I fell in love with it instantly. I loved it so much, I begged my parents to let me compete. It took a few days, but they gave in. I was the best in my class. And that made me very unpopular. Skating is a very competitive sport. I still loved it. That bugged the other girls allot, because I was good, and I was having more fun than them. My life was great those first two years of skating. But on my sixth birthday, my powers showed up.

"We were all eating cake and my dad teased me and took my slice. I was just a kid, so I thought he was serious. I instinctively put my wrist in position, and I sprayed a web and got my cake back. I was so excited to have my powers, but my dad explained to me that I couldn't tell anyone about my power just like I couldn't tell about his. That bugged me, because I had this rival, Roxy Carmical. I wanted desperately to tie her up with my web. My dad started training me the next day. And by the time I was eight, I was ready to start fighting crime with my dad. My dad didn't want me to, but I went without his consent. I put on my uniform, and caught a bank robber by myself. He was so proud. He started taking me with him during my free time. Which was only on the weekends, but that was OK.

"I began to have trouble with the two identitys. I hated being two people at once. I'm Arachne! I'm Penny! Arachne, Penny, Arachne, Penny! It was horrible! Then word got out that Roxy and I hated each other.

"These two fans were pretty die-hard and drastic. Which was weird since we weren't very advanced. They were brothers who hated each other. One hated Roxy, and the other hated me. They harassed us all the time. It didn't bother me all that much because I knew I could take him. But Roxy was defenseless.

"Last year, they threatened each other, and us. One night, one of them came into the locker room and tried to beat me up. Of course, it was the other way around once I went behind the lockers and changed into Arachne. I beat him up, then changed back to Penny when the cops came. I told them that Arachne came out of nowhere and saved me. One of them said "I only wish Roxy Carmical had been that lucky." It turned out, the other brother went in and broke her leg. I felt terrible. Sure she was a superficial cretin who cared for no one but herself, but I didn't want her to get hurt.

"Then once I was careless. The Green Goblin was attacking the same hospital that Roxy was in. I was fighting him in her room, and when he flew out the window, my mask fell off. I didn't know, so I looked straight at her. Then she said my name, and I saw my mask on the floor. She didn't tell anyone, but when she got out, she forced her mad scientist father into giving her powers. Ice powers. She became a horrible villain. We battled allot, but then she went after my family. That was the last straw. The guilt of Roxy getting hurt, the anger of her attacking my family, and the stress of my two identities lead me to quit competitive Figure Skating. I joined the team about two months later." her story ended there.

"Wow Ari. I don't know what to say. You're so giggly I didn't think anything like that happened to you." Percy said in awe. Arachne smiled.

"I know. Some of that was an act. Those days when I'm completely annoying, I was just putting on an act to hide how upset I really was." she explained. Then she giggled.

"That's the Ari I know. Why are you still laughing?" Percy asked. She smiled.

"I just realised something. You're not such a jerk after all." she smiled. He smiled back.

"Well you're not as much of a ditz as I thought. Come on. Lets go back to the TRower." he said pulling her up from the bench.

"I'll tell them." she declared.

"Good. Because I didn't want to" he answered. That's how Percy and Arachne became best freinds.

0.0 didn't expect it to turn out like that. Since when is this angst? Now you can see why I raised the rating.

(pulls out a pocket watch and swings it back and forth)

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