Well finally the moment of truth one of the scenes I had planned from the very beginning.

As Vanessa rushed down the hallway, she heard voices coming toward this end too! Beginning to panic she saw a stairway, she hurried up the flight of stairs...Where could she find a safe place from the Proteus employees? What the heck was that crow-thing? Was there a way they could save Mikey from whatever that crow-thing did to him? More and more all these questions were beginning to seem absolutely hopeless that they were all doomed that they were all going to get captured and probably dissected by the scientists here.

Upon reaching the next level, she noticed the nearest door had no sounds coming from it, and had no fresh human scents coming from it, she tested the door, it was unlocked she went in.

She found herself in a small set of bleachers, there was a barrier of clear plastic screens so people could look at the room below, on the opposite side was an identical set of bleachers.

A tall elegant window above let the moonlight flood in, Poor Vanessa because of her spider body had to sprawl herself awkwardly across the bleachers, just lay there for a few moments catching her breath...In the Spider Girl's dreamy imagination she imagined if she hung out long enough under the soft moonlight she would recover faster, she always felt more nocturnal as human preferring the mysterious darkness of the night to the harsh bright light of the day, maybe that was a sign that she was always meant to be a creature of the night, as dangerous as this whole situation was she couldn't help thinking as when her family watched that Incredible Mr. Limpet movie where Henry Limpet said at the end 'Maybe I was always meant to be a fish, maybe nature just corrected her error.'

Just then, her idle imaginings (Do you still call it 'daydreaming' if you're doing at night?) were shattered by the sound of a door opening, but it wasn't the door right behind her that she had come through...She realized it must be the room below the blechers, but she had learned because she was a black widow she was very good at blending in with the darkness, while she couldn't anything just yet, she could hear the voices perfectly because of the great acoustics in this room, so hopefully if she just stayed very still and blended in with the darkness she could learn a great deal.

"All right." Said one voice "Let's see what we can learn from these documents."

A small light came up from below, seemed whoever was down there, decided to turn on a flashlight rather than turn on the room's lights, than she realized she reconized those voices from before, it was the Riddler and the Scarecrow! Seemed they had found something in their own investigations and came here to study their findings in secret!

"Hmmm..." Edward's voice said as he studied the documents "These seem to be Dr. Noble's Experimentation Logs on the creation of those 'Bad Boy' Dog Mutants seems she insisted that they avoid hard controls like shock implants believing such things only plant seeds of future disloyalty but instead to simply kill the subjects until she found a group that was suitably loyal..."

Vanessa shuddered.

"A reasonable conclusion to come to..." Jonathan said "...But I fear Dr. Noble's idealism is blinding her to the truth, that in this world the only person you can truly trust is yourself and that's only on your better days."

Vanessa was beginning to squirm, because she was realizing there had been days when she was feeling particurally cranky that she felt sentiments similar to Professor Crane's feeling she didn't have a real friend in the world, she felt people were worthless and the world would be a better place if there were never any people only innocent animals...Now she was a betwixt-and-between she had the body of an animal but the mind of a human...

As the Riddler and the Scarecrow went on talking about the Documents, Vanessa began thinking, since she had become a spider she had been thinking about the thing Spiders are most famous for, spinning webs more than once since she had transformed, she thought about testing weather she could do so, even was just making enough webbing to play cat's cradle with, but the idea of playing cat's cradle with something that came out of her butt seemed...Unhygenic also because of the whole, the webbing-comes-out-of-the-butt thing she just didn't feel like experimenting in front of five males who were her hosts.

But here she realized it was now or never...

The two men went on and on, they were hovering over the papers...

"Seems she has some experiments with different kinds of animals..." Edward sighed "...Birds of prey, hyenas..." (Both Edwards and Jonathan briefly shuddered as the mention of hyenas reminded them of the Joker) "...Cheetahs and African wild dogs, but she has her reservations about all these comapred to domesticated dogs..."

Neither of them noticed the giant Spider slowly lowering on a thread towards them.

"So what have we learned from this?" Jonathan sighed "Other than a potential future of Mutant Dogs working with the police, if we thought Batman was a pain in the neck, now we'll have to deal with law enforcment that is both intelligent AND can track us by scent!"

Amazed on how she was now right behind them and they STILL didn't suspect a thing, Vanessa once again grinned a devilish grin, and simply poked both the Rogues at once causing both of them to nearly jump out of their skins thinking they had been caught by their emplyers, but when they turned around and saw a giant spider instead, well first they both went white as a sheet, but they were both silent at first it seemed to Vanessa she has scared them into a catatonic state...Then Edward began punching his own arm, each time with more intensity...

"Edward..." Jonathan said quietly "...You can't pinch yourself out of fear gas hallucenation."

"How quaint..." Vanessa said trying her best Dinsey villain voice to try and match the Supervillains she was dealing with "...You think I'm a fear gas hallucenation."

"Did...Did that thing just talk?" Edward squeaked

Yeah Edward is just a big fat racist towards Mutants also the room was inspired by an Athletic Club I realized with the Bad Boy Dogs and maybe certain other characters, the facility probably has a bunch of gym stuff because they can't exactly go out into the community to work out, which will come in handy later