A/N: I own nothing.

Chapter 7: Blow You Away

Perenna would be lying if she said that the last two days hadn't been good, her friends were supporting-even Eddie, who had come back from his mysterious disappearance on Monday-but right now as she stared down into the ground where her aunt and uncle's coffins were, she felt the despair she'd been trying to push back came back.

She'd absently replied to the condolences with blank gratitude that friends of her uncle and aunt knew, and she was only brought out of her trance when a woman walked over to her. "Hello Miss Parker, could I have a moment?"

Perenna blinked and glancing over at her small group of friends and Anna were talking, she looked back at the woman in front of her. "Sure…" she trailed.

"I'm Karen Page, your aunt worked as my secretary and had entrusted me as her and your uncle's lawyer." The woman explained. "If you're feeling well enough, we could head over the law firm and proceed with the reading of your guardian's will."

Perenna thought it over for a moment before nodding. "Sure, that sounds fine…"

Windfall floated across the ground, the lab workers around her having had their airwaves constricted enough to render them all unconscious. While she wasn't particularly bloodthirsty like her sister and killed willy-nilly, she did however find certain extremes necessary to complete her objective.

And destroying the generator that was polluting the air was worth suffocating a few corporate sheep's.

She channeled her wind power into what she had dubbed 'razor wind' and 'threw' it at the generator and after it began sparking, she floated out of the building, not bothering to look back as the whole building went up in flames from the explosion.

She had another stop to make after all.

"…and we are receiving verification that indeed the whole building was destroyed and the identities of the scientists caught in the explosion have not been released yet…"

"Oh, those poor people." Anna said shaking her head.

Perenna stared blankly at the television for a moment and quietly asked to be excused. She walked back up to the guest room that was now hers until the courts decided otherwise. Her mind was still reeling from the fact her aunt and uncle had left everything to her, but what really threw her was the fact they had both gotten life insurance.

She was still wondering why they hadn't told her, at least then she wouldn't have made a fool of herself in front of Miss Page. She hadn't cared about how much money she got, and was more than willing to let it build in the bank until she was 16 to be allowed to use it.

Still, she needed a job to pay off that hospital bill and the money she won at the wrestling tournament wasn't going to cut it. She had seen the newspaper that was lying on the table downstairs and her thoughts went back to her costume. Maybe she could kill two birds with one stone, as she needed the money, but she could also sell pictures of herself if she went out and fought crime like she originally planned.

Perenna stood from the edge of the guest room bed and headed over to MJ's room, where she found the redhead listening to her music and the bopping her head to the music under her headphones. "MJ?" she called out loud enough for the other girl to hear her and the girl looked at her, taking the listening devices off in the process.

"Yeah Perry?"

"Uh, mind if I use your computer, I…um, can't go get mine just yet." Perenna answered quietly.

Mary Jane looked at her sympathetically. "Uh, sure then."

"Thanks." Perenna replied with a slight smile and sat at the computer and started to look up on the lab that was destroyed and found that it was one of two only two labs that used a nuclear generator and she also read that the waste was being transferred to the pier in the warehouse district. She tried not to think too much about how these things were all owned by OsCorp and instead focused on the task at hand. "Thanks for letting me use your computer." She said logging off and getting out of the seat.

"You're welcome." Mary Jane replied, but she sat up straight and grabbed a hold of Perenna's arm before the girl could leave. "Wait a minute."

Perenna looked at the redhead strangely. "Yes?"

"Did you hear about the Superwoman sighting yesterday?" Mary Jane asked brightly.

Perenna frowned to herself as she thought about the mysterious 'urban legend' that mad made its way around the city. She was a little skeptical herself about this person really existing, but if she did, then she was sure a lot of papers would want to get a picture of her.

The thought made Perenna feel like smacking herself. That was how she was gonna earn her money, but she also didn't lose sight of her current lead. "No, MJ, I didn't hear about the sighting."

Mary Jane shook her head with a sigh. "Too bad no one can ever get a picture of her."

Perenna smiled slowly as she walked out of the room. 'Who knows, maybe someone will.'

Windfall entered the building, her floating above the ground like before and floated to where the generator was, fully prepared to take out anyone standing in her way. She asphyxiated the scientists in the room as she found this too be a much merciful end than to let them burn to death in the ensuing explosion that would follow after the generator was destroyed.

Her concentration was cut off and the scientist dropped the ground unconscious rather than dead when a glob of white goop hit her in the face and stuck there. She hastily manipulated the wind and blew the goop off her face, only to get kicked in the face and knocked out of the air by a blue ballet-like slipper.

Windfall glared up at the one who dared to interfere and had to restrain her outrage at the petite form that landed in front of her. The adversary was little more than a girl in a form-fitting outfit that left her shoulders bare, one sleeve red and the other blue but both were detailed in black web-lines to the thumb and the fingers were left exposed. There was a spider logo on her chest that several other black web-lines spread from, the patterns of colors alternating in a display of red and blue while there was a diamond pattern running up her throat from the spider logo and her red mask wrapped around her eyes and detailed in black spider cracks while the eyes were large and a blank white.

"You dare attack me, child?" Windfall spat.

The girl smirked. "Oh, I dare." She retorted. "Especially if it means stopping you from hurting more innocent people."

Windfall sneered. "These people aren't innocent, they are willingly helping that tyrant Osborn destroy the environment!" she snapped. "Now stand aside or you will be removed."

The girl shook her head. "Not gonna happen."

"Don't say I didn't give you a chance." Windfall muttered before spreading out her arms and several of her 'razor winds' were thrown at the girl, who dodged each one gracefully and the girl struck out one hand and strands of webbing came from her fingertips, the action being so sudden that it made Windfall falter and her arms were webbed to her sides.

"And don't say I didn't give you a chance." The girl parroted and Windfall scowled at her.

"Impudent child." She retorted and worked on trying to cut through the webbing but she failed to notice the spider-themed girl swooped up and grabbed her, pulling her back away from the scientists and by extension the generator she had been going to destroy.

Now though she wasn't so worried about her mission than getting away to meet up with the rest of her team for the big mission.

The girl put her down before unceremoniously leaning forward and placed a mocking kiss on her cheek.

The action had stunned Windfall, but she noticed at the last moment the girl's fist about to come down on her head and she cushioned the blow enough to leave her conscious and she once again used her 'razor wind' to cut through the webbing and followed up making a blast of air send the girl flying into the wall, leaving her dazed enough for Windfall to make her escape through the skylight.

The spider-themed girl got up as she heard the sirens and also made her exit through the skylight, 'cause even if she was down for the moment, she was not out.

She still had the harbor lead to follow up on.

The following day at school, Perenna did maintenance on an old camera that Anna let her keep. She sat in the Science room as the class didn't start for another 10 minutes and she wanted to get this done in time. While she was a genius, she was not a mechanic and had a hard time in figuring out if she had gotten it right.

She heard the door open and looked up, expecting to see Mr. Potter-Mason, but instead a blond, lanky, teenage boy came in with a bag slung over his shoulder. "Oh, hi, Max." she said as she looked back down at the camera.

The blond paused in the door before he walked over to sit beside her. "Hi, Perenna." He said awkwardly. "I, um, heard about what happened to your aunt and uncle and…"

Perenna felt an ache in her chest before brushing it aside as she held up her hand. "It's okay; you don't need to say anything." She replied. "Though, do you know how anything about mechanics?"

Max blinked at her in surprise. "Uh, yeah, why?"

"Can you take a look at this to check if I got anything messed up?" Perenna asked pushing the camera towards him.

The blond looked at her earnest expression before nodding and reached for the camera, his fingers brushing against her hand made his cheeks flush a light red as he quickly looked away to avoid letting the brunette see it as he looked over the camera. "Hmm…everything looks in check. You sure you've never done this before?"

Perenna nodded. "Positive." She replied as the teenage boy gave the camera back to her and she put the device back into her pack as she noticed Max glancing at her again. "Yes?"

The blonde's face flushed but before he could say anything, two redheads came through the door and the female one wrapped an arm around Perenna' shoulder. "Hi, Perry."

Perenna smiled at the girl as she let the redheaded girl lead her away to the table wear the other redhead was sitting. "Hi, MJ, Harry."

"Perry." The redheaded boy said nodding back as students began to enter the room and take their seats at the tables.

Spider-Girl swung from building to building, the wind blowing in her hair as she decided to check out the harbour lead she had and hoped that this was the place where that woman was going to strike next. She hoped she wasn't wrong. Her attention was diverted by the sound of doors being blasted off its hinges and she swung in closer to the direction it came from to see a man in a yellow and brown quilted suit with two silver gauntlets on his wrists running away from a bank with two bags of money in both hands.

Spider-Girl landed on the building wall and webbed one of the bags and drew it in, making the man look up at her. "Don't you know stealing's wrong?" she questioned in a sing-song voice.

The man raised one gauntlet at her and her spider-sense went off and she saw the way the air was vibrated and shot at her. She moved up and the fabric of his mask moved in a way to indicate that he was scowling at her. "And don't you know how to mind your own business?" he shot back in a southern accent and aimed another blast at her.

Spider-Girl was momentarily stunned by the voice and so she didn't react fast enough to dodge the blast that hit the wall she was on and she fell onto the ground, the bag of cash falling in front of her. 'Of all times for my weakness of southern accents to make me freeze up.' She thought gloomily as a blush crept onto her face and she saw the man about to fire another blast at her, but she quickly raised one hand and let the webbing fly, the goop proceeding to muck up the man's vision as he tried to pull the webbing off.

This gave Spider-Girl time to get back onto her feet and web the other bag of cash out of the man's hand and swung over him just as the man ripped the webbing off his mask. "Before I take you out, got a name?"

The man whirled around and aimed both gauntlets at her. "You can call me Shocker." He said as he fired a blast at her.

Spider-Girl dodged the attack and looked at him with a smirk. "Gee, that must have taken a while to think up." She said sarcastically.

The man seemed to sneer at her. "Says the Spider-Woman knock off."

Spider-Girl bristled as she shot out her webbing and it hit the man in the chest, her using her super strength to pull the man in and reared back her fist before letting it connect with his jaw. "I…am…not…a…knock off!" she hissed at the downed man before webbing him up and taking off his gauntlets so he couldn't blast his way out.

Spider-Girl swung off just as she heard the sirens coming in and disappeared from sight as they arrived to find the criminal dazed and all webbed up.

Spider-Girl arrived at the harbour and followed the sounds of cackling and destruction as she found three figures all tormenting the dock workers, the woman in the yellow costume being the more pressing threat of the three as she was trying to suffocate the workers, she swung out and jumped the woman after webbing her camera to a nearby building.

Spider-Girl heard a laugh and dodged a blast of water from a woman in a blue outfit and a blue visored mask. "What is this, you think one little girl can stop us?" The woman sneered behind her blue mask.

Spider-Girl dodged the jet of water sent at her and she tried to web the blue outfitted woman, only to have her webbing blasting away by the woman in the yellow outfit.

"You're outnumbered; it's three against one this time." The yellow outfitted woman snarled. "Your dirty tricks won't be saving you snarky ass this time."

Spider-Girl smirked as she gained an inkling of why this woman was so angry at her. "It seemed to do the trick last time." She quipped.

The woman in the yellow costume turned an interesting shade of red. "One of these days, you're going to do that to the wrong person and you're gonna end up paying for it." She hissed. "After all, there are much worse things that can be done to you instead of just kill you for kissing them." She added darkly.

"She did what?" The woman in blue questioned angrily. "Oh, you're dead now, Spidey." She snarled and shot another stream of water at her.

Spider-Girl dodged and swung over them, but a shot of silvery wind cut the web line and she began to free fall. She knew that trying to shoot out a web line wouldn't work as the ground was already so close and just as she closed her eyes behind her mask, she felt herself get lurched to a stop, the sudden impact sending a small jolt through her.

Spider-Girl girl looked up and felt her heart beat in her ears as she stared into the face of a beautiful woman with long flowing black hair and the prettiest pair of blue eyes she'd ever seen. The outfit was red and blue like her own, but had a S symbol in a stylized shield design on her blue body suit and a cape attached at the shoulders.

"Looks like you could use a hand." The not-so-nonexistent Superwoman said, her voice making Spider-Girl's legs feel weak, and she wasn't even on the ground!

'Speak you fool! Don't just stare!' she chastised herself and made herself speak. "Uh, uh, y-yeah." She stuttered and had to force herself to remember to stand once she was placed on the ground. "You okay with handling these two while I deal with Shakey over there?" Superwoman nodded and the brunette nodded back. "Great.

Spider-Girl managed to lead the bald man away and tried to web him up, only to have the webbing ripped off. "Well this isn't good." She mused aloud.

"Give up, Coldsnap and Heatstroke have probably already planted the bombs inside the warehouse, this whole district is gonna blow!" The bald man retorted and stomped on the ground, causing ground to shake beneath Spider-Girl's feet.

The brunette leaped onto the side of the nearest warehouse and she pursed her lips. She thought fast about what to do, stop this man or the two planting the bomb. She decided eventually to take a third option and do both.

Spider-Girl feinted at the man with trying to web him with one hand and used her other hand to web a pipe behind him and it collided solidly with the man's head as she pulled it in. It didn't knock him out like she'd hoped, but it did disorient him enough to leave him out of commission and she webbed him several extra layers to be on the safe side.

'Now how do I find these two bombers?' she thought and figured that if her spider sense warned her of danger, then this hopefully meant she could find the two as they were still a danger to her while she was in the area. She focused and the 360 slow motion kicked in before zeroing in a building that was behind her and inside it showed a man and woman dressed in red, orange, and blue, white.

Spider-Girl's vision went back to normal and she swung off to surprise them from above. She landed onto the roof and punched through the metal before pulling it back and dove in, surprising them both before knocking back the man and gave him a kick to the jaw that sent him flying back into the far side of the building, slumping down the wall out cold.

The red and orange clothed woman, who Spider-Girl guessed was Heatstroke, snarled and fired a blast of red flames at her, the girl dodging gracefully. She fired another shot of webbing at the woman and after Heatstroke burned through it, she jumped over the woman and grabbed the fired extinguisher she'd found and promptly coated the woman in the mist.

Spider-Girl quickly dashed in and kicked the woman in the jaw and she was also sent flying toward the wall before slumping over the man she thought was Coldsnap. The brunette turned her attention back to the bombs and found that they weren't even started. 'Huh, it seems that they must not have figured out how to start these, lucky for me then.' She thought and picked both bombs up and tied both Coldsnap and Heatstroke up several layers of webbing before dragging them out and dropping them to watch the fight between Superwoman and the lady in blue as she called the police.

"Now it's just you and me." Superwoman said and the crazy lady began cackling, causing the dark-haired woman to frown. "What's so funny?"

"Any minute now this whole district is gonna go up in flames; you can either stop the explosion, but that means you'd have to let me go." The blue costumed woman said giddily.

Superwoman's frown lightened into a smirk as she saw the brunette. "I think not."

The woman in blue looked behind her and Spider-Girl smirked cockily as she saw the woman's face turn to horror and disbelief. "Yeah, I'm just that awesome."

Spider-Girl saw Superwoman move incredibly fast and flicked the blue clothed woman and sent her flying back onto the ground unconscious. "Hmm, I don't remember calling the police." Superwoman mused as she tilted her head in one direction.

Spider-Girl bashfully held up her cell phone. "Yeah, I did that once I took out Hot and Cold here." She said nodding at the duo at her feet and she felt a blush cross her face as she shuffled her feet. "I…I just can't believe you're real." She said awed.

The woman raised a brow in amusement. "You think I didn't exist?"

Spider-Girl's blush deepened. "It's just that, before now I only heard rumors, but brushed them off because I didn't think someone so…cool could be real."

"I suppose it's nice to have a fan." Superwoman said gently as she smiled softly.

Spider-Girl rubbed her arm in embarrassment as the sirens grew close enough for her to hear them. "Thanks. Why don't we head out now?" she suggested and Superwoman flew into the air.

"Nice working with you." She said genially before speeding out of sight.

Spider-Girl stared off into the direction the woman left in. "Wow." She murmured before snapping out of it and swung off, but not before grabbing her camera.

Perenna looked over the photos she'd taken and wondered if she should try and sell them, but as she was looking at the icon that said send, she took a deep breath and pressed send. She saw Mary Jane come into the room and looked over her shoulder at the photos, her green eyes widening upon seeing the last shot.

"Whoa, that woman is gorgeous." She said awed.

"Oh, that's what I thought when I saw Superwoman for the first time too." Perenna replied.

Mary Jane looked down at the brunette oddly. "Superwoman's very pretty I'll admit, but I was talking about the cutie she's holding."

Perenna blushed and turned away to hide it. "Really?" she asked raising her brow.

"Uh-huh." Mary Jane replied nodding as she put on hand on Perenna's shoulder. "How much do you think you'll get for them?"

The brunette shrugged. "Depends on if they use any of them or not, but Aun-" she tripped over the word-"Aunt May always told me to keep transactions I made in copies to show that I did it and use my name."

"Smart woman." MJ said quietly before awkwardly moving her hand away and rubbing the back of her neck. "Uh, from the angle it looks like you were high up to get these."

Perenna shrugged one shoulder slightly. "Yeah, I, uh, climbed up a ladder to get these." She answered evasively.

Perenna smiled, and when the paper came out the next day, she fought to keep the blush off her face as she saw that the picture chosen had been the one of her being held by Superwoman, the blush on her face was bright for the entire city to see.

The brunette's face was red for entire trip to school and even Mary Jane couldn't get her to tell her why.