Hello readers!

So here's to the Thanksgiving season! I'm hungry just thinking about it! And here's the newest chapter up and ready for you! Time to pull out those tissues and get ready to feel for our main character. Also enjoy her new form! Anyways, enjoy the show!

Rejection of the Heart

Pain...

All I felt was pain, unbearable pain that pierced every inch of my body. Whatever this crazed doctor injected into my body was surely making me suffer. I could see numbers and symbols flashing around my mind, my DNA changing, and a warm red mass covering my body. My head started to throb as a sharp, prickly feeling consumed it. Then all I saw was white.

"Tell me, do you trust this team of yours?"

Groaning, my eyes opened slowly to see Scarlet and Spider-Man confronting that horrid doctor. I tried to crack a smile at Scarlet, but it pained me to do so. I realized he was looking at me, his hands shaking in anger. I placed my red hand on the glass of the tube and pulled myself up.

Wait a minute...red?

Gasping, I looked down at myself. I was in a deep red spider suit with a ruby red spider on my chest. I touched my face, which was covered with the red mass. Looking down, I realized I had spider webs coming from under my arms and wrapped around my legs. My whole body was covered in silky white webs! To be honest, I kinda liked my new look. Then I was reminded how I turned into this.

"Of course, I'd trust any of them with my life." I blinked, standing up fully to see Spidey talking down the ugly octopus himself. I started to pound on the tube frantically.

Scarlet turned back to Ock. "Why is that girl here?" He was trying to cover up that he knew me. Smart move Scarlet!

The slimy doctor smiled at him. "Why my dear Scarlet, you should know her. In fact, you two are well acquainted with each other as it were." One of his tentacle pushed a button on the keyboard and brought up different pictures of...us! I saw myself picking him up out of the alley, I saw him and I in the living room after our fight. He even caught our first date! "You see, Valencia has now aligned herself with me to become another part of the spider slayers, designed to defeat my mortal enemy!"

"Wait...that's Val?" Spider-Man looked in my direction as I waved at him. "What have you done to her?"

"I merely injected her with some spider DNA and a little bit of extra data from the whole "Anti-Venom" incident." He walked over near me and smiled. "I call her Crimson Spider."

"Crimson Spider? Yeah that actually sounds pretty cool!" I said, placing one of my fingers on my chin. "But I shouldn't be geeking out about the name! Change me back now!"

"I'm afraid it's irreversible my dear. Once injected, I can't undo the effects." He turned back over to Spider-Man. "Let's stop playing with our prey and finish this game."

I didn't understand what he was talking about until I saw Scarlet turn to Spider-Man and punch him. "Scarlet what are you doing!" I exclaimed, confused at his sudden heel turn.

"Ben?" Spidey's eyes widen. "What? No!"

"That's right punk, Rhino was never the spy in the first place." Scarlet said, aiming his stinger at him.

"No! Scarlet we trusted you!" Spider-Man backed against the wall, surprised as I was.

"Ben don't hurt him! What's going on with you?" I screamed, pounding harder on the tube.

"I ain't gonna hurt him, but I am going to finish what I started." He pressed the stinger at Spider-Man's throat.

"We were never going to be the new Sinister Six." Doc Ock walked over towards Scarlet. "No, we were always going to be more. The Sinister Seven!"

"Wait...you mean..." Tears threatened to fall from my eyeholes. "Scarlet...Ben...please don't..."

"Ben we were friends!" Spider-Man said.

"I told you when we first met, I don't have friends." I could hear the glare coming off from Scarlet. "Saving you from drowning, my sob story, pretending to join your rag-tag team."

"WHAT ABOUT ME THEN, HUH SCARLET?" I shouted, getting his attention. "WHAT ABOUT SAVING YOU FROM THE STREETS IN THE RAIN? OR OUR TALKS AT NIGHT? OR EVEN OUR DATE?" My face was wet from the constant tears falling from them. "I want you to look me in the eyes and tell me that was all a ruse."

He didn't reply, just kept looking at me. My fist clenched a bit, looking him in the eyes with intense sadness. Had it all been a lie? Did Scarlet even care about me enough to tell the truth? After all me and mamma did for him, was he going to tell us that he faked the whole thing? The webs that surrounded my body started to float up, my emotions flaring up.

"Interesting...those webs are triggered by her emotions..." Doc observed, rubbing his chin. "That must be her new ability."

"Scarlet answer me! I need to know if you really loved me like you said."

Scarlet looked at her, his face seemed to scrunch up in guilt. "Sorry Valencia, but I was just using you to keep them from figuring out I was the spy. The truth is, I never felt any feelings towards you in the first place."

Using you...

Never felt any feelings...

My heart just broke...I felt it stop for a moment. I couldn't talk, couldn't move, or even breathe. All this time, he used us, he played with my emotions, even convinced me that there was something humane about him. But now, I don't know what to think. I feel so betrayed right now.

The webs around me turned into spikes as I unleashed a heart wrecking scream. The sound of glass breaking and Spider-Man's yell filled my ears. All I could remember is the way that Scarlet's words pierced my now shattered heart.

Ouch...there's actually nothing left to say today. *Sniff*

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