Author's Note: So many questions from the people. I love you guys but you'll just have to read to find out. I am mixing up the timeline a bit to make it fit my world a bit better since Doc Connors needs a bit more time. Also in case you couldn't tell Piper has a slightly different power set than Peter. I own nothing!

7. The Call Of The Wild

Spidergirl flipped over Thundra. These four never really learned their lesson. Danny and Sam were handling crowd control. Ava had already cut Trapsters glue line, leaving him stuck to the deck of the yacht. Piper mused as she fought, perhaps not the best time for such thoughts but well she had always been good at multitasking.

It had been about three months since the world had discovered Piper Parker was the daughter of Tony Stark, and her life had still managed to remain relatively quiet through a series of clever misdirection and Pepper being an absolute godsend. But she wasn't going to be able to avoid the press forever. Soon she would have to at least give a statement. She made a mental note to talk to Eddie and see when MJ started at the Bugle. She had an idea. It didn't take them long to take down the frightful four, they'd certainly had enough practice. It wasn't until they were back on solid land that things got a bit weird.

For the first ten minutes Piper was sure she was hearing things. As they patrolled around Queens a pounding drum beat seemed to follow them. She kept them moving but the beat never seemed to come to a stop. It made her twitchy. Something felt off about her mouth too, like she had something stuck between her top lip and her front lip. She called a halt on a flat rooftop and pulled her mask up halfway, scrubbing at her lip. She swore, it was starting to hurt, but there was nothing there. Nothing she could find anyway. White Tiger stepped up to her. She looked like she was having problems standing still too.

"Spidey, we should keep moving." Piper held up her hand as a warm liquid filled her mouth and a sharp pain blasted through her head. She spat, blood coating the rocky rooftop. But there was something else there too, a nearly clear viscous liquid. Piper shook her head and spat again as the pain spiked again.

Sam honestly wasn't sure what was going on. One minute they'd been doing a normal patrol route, talking about how cool it was that they got to train with Hawkeye next week then Piper was calling them to a stop and clutching her head. When she started spitting blood he knew something was off and hit the call button Tony Stark had shown him in the cuff of his right sleeve. The others didn't know it was there, that's what Tony had said anyway. But if anything major went down he or at least one of his suits could be there in minutes. Sam glanced around them as Ava took a step back from the bloody puddle Spidey had managed to spit up. Then he heard a growl. He whirled searching for the threat. It wasn't until Ava lunged at Piper that he realized the threat was standing right in front of them.

Piper would admit that without her spidey sense she would be dead many times over. She'd long ago lost count though she wouldn't put it past her father to have hacked every database that existed to find every misstep she'd made and keep a log of them. Not to hold over her, he would probably never even admit it would exist. But her spidey sense always warned her before anything life threatening could come within a foot of her. So when it told her to move she listened. It was a hard learned lesson but right now it saved her from having her throat torn open by a suddenly and illogically irate White Tiger. The pain in her head spiked one more time as she skittered backwards out of the Tigers reach. Then she felt the skin above her gums and at the back of her top lip split and two hard sharp, serrated somethings dropped down. Tiger lunged again, and Piper hissed. Fight or flight had kicked in, a white mist edging at her mind.

Threat, but not an insurmountable one. Running was an option. Injured, slightly, already healing. No, don't run fight. She leapt forwards meeting the threat. Grappling, trying to get at skin, to bite. Rolling, kicked off, skittering backwards, something wasn't right but the mist made it so hard to think. Sounds echoing around her, the drums pounding in her ears.

Luke raced forwards as Ava leapt at Piper again. Neither girl seemed to be able to hear them. Ava took a few swipes at him but she couldn't break his skin. Danny was trying to talk Piper down but she hissed at him, skittering backwards up the metal strut of a water tower. Something was wrong with her mouth, Luke couldn't make it out from where he stood trying to keep a grip on Ava. Sam hovered forwards.

"Ok you do a mean impression of the girl from the Grudge, Spidey we get it. Chill." Apparently that was the wrong thing to say.

Sam would never admit that he screamed like a girl when she leapt at him like those videos of jumping spiders leaping at their prey. Luke would have laughed if Ava hadn't gotten her feet under her and managed to slam back into him hard enough to force him to let go. Sam screamed again as a set of serrated curved fangs that he most certainly didn't remember ever being in her mouth before sank into his shoulder. He managed to swat her off as the Nova Force began to heal him, but his suit was sizzling slightly where she'd bitten him.

A loud sonic screech had Tiger howling and Spidey retreating to the space under the water tower, the white lenses of her mask reflecting just enough light that she was still visible. Iron Man landed on the roof, one hand pointed at Ava the other at the darkness under the water tower. Sam wiggled his fingers. The Nova Force was quick at healing, almost as fast as whatever had been on those fangs. The tips of his fingers were tingling.

"Somebody want to explain what just happened?" Ava howled and raced forwards, low to the ground using her arms to launch her forwards faster, almost like she was running on all fours. A white web was becoming visible under the water tower, intricately woven. Then Ava wobbled and almost dropped to the roof. Danny raced forwards to steady her. Nova shone a light under the water tower and saw Piper sitting in the center of a half constructed web looking distinctly confused as to how she'd gotten there.

"I think we would all love to know what just happened. I don't recall you ever having that bad a bite Spidey." Sam said ducking under the web as Piper lowered herself to the ground.

"What are you talking about, what bite?" She was lisping slightly and her hands leapt to her mouth feeling along the front of her teeth. The part of her face he could see had gone as white as snow. She pulled a hand away from her mouth and spotted the blood there. She was silent for a moment.

"That's not all mine is it?" Sam shook his head. Before he could say more she turned away from him and vomited onto the rocky roof. Tony stepped under the web.

"I think we need to get both of you girls back to Stark tower." Piper nodded looking absolutely miserable. Ava didn't look much better, she was slightly hunched in on herself on arm wrapped around her torso.