Chapter 7: madness at the Thai temple

Anne was in Gym with Sasha and Marcy.

"Another point for team Sasha!" The gym coach, mrs. Yunan, said, after blowing a whistle.

The other team groaned. Sasha's team had improved a lot recently. For one, Anne had suddenly become extremely athletic, not to mention she was just really good at dodging and catching.

As well as this, Sasha had been getting progressively better for some reason, despite looking more tired. Combined, the team was better than it had ever been before.

"Great job out there!" Marcy said. "You honestly carried me."

"Well, you WERE playing on the shift for the first 2 minutes."

Suddenly, the principal, miss olivia walked in.

"Hey, is Marcy Wu in here? Only the front desk wants her. She's coming out early, some Stanford Pines wants her."

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Marcy came to the front desk to be met with Stanford Pines and… Sasha's mom?

"M-mr. Pines! What do you need?" Marcy asked.

"Hello again, Miss Wu. I wish this meeting could have been under better circumstances but i'm afraid we need to ask you a few questions. You want to come outside with us?"

"Hey, Marcy," Miss waybright said. "Mr. Pines here is helping us with investigations pertaining to the masked vigilante called Spiderwoman."

"He is?" Marcy asked.

"Yes," Stanford said. "Now i trust you, marcy, but i'm afraid you match up with quite a few aspects for spiderwoman, making you the prime suspect."

Miss waybright continued. "For one, you're the right age. Around 16. Plus, your 'genius', as Pines puts it, also makes you a candidate."

"I'm not lying, she IS a genius," ford retorted, "but she's right. Take a look it this," he said, taking out a vial.

"Artificial webs. Human made. Not many 16 year olds could make a revolutionary substance, and you're one of them. Add to that your connection with spiders at the fair- what we're trying to say, marcy, is are you spiderwoman?"

Marcy looked at them calmly and said, "no."

"…you aren't?" Miss waybright questioned.

"No, I'm not spiderwoman. I may have a connection to spiders, and yes, I may have chemistry skills, but I'm not going to be a masked vigilante. I'm smart enough to know that's illegal and i'm better than that. As well as this, i can give multiple alibis of where i was in situations including Spiderwoman during the past month."

"Okay then, do you have any idea who is?"

This was what marcy was scared about. She was telling the complete truth before, but now she would have to actively lie to the police. She could get in serious trouble.

So she had to come up with a way around it.

"Well, it could be something to do with my spider. I still have them. You could check them out, as long as you return them after."

"I'm sure that would be fabulous. Thank you, marcy. You're dismissed. I'm looking forward to seeing you for your internship," Stanford said.

As they walked away with miss Waybright, he whispered to her, "I told you. It's probably somebody else."

"She could always be lying," Miss waybright said, "but after all, my daughter is friends with marcy and she's always been the most rule-abiding."

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Oliver waybright woke up in his lab.

"Wh-why am i here? Did i fall asleep again-?"

He noticed the bloody, bruised and battered body of his assistant on the floor. Combined with the blood on his hands, it didn't take long for him to figure out what happened.

"Wh-what have I done…?"

'Eh, you're no stanford pines but you'll do!'

"Wh- who was that?" Asked the traumatised scientist.

'I'm your new roommate! And by roommate I mean demon who invaded your mind! You can call me bill cipher!'

"And why are you in my head…?"

'Well, i died a few years ago. Luckily I invoked an ancient power that allowed me to one day return. Turns out, I just needed the right mind. And I may not be able to get my powers back, but i can still cause chaos!'

"…i've finally snapped."

The mind demon chuckled. 'I can assure you, waybright, you are completely sane. Think of your pathetic little brain as a computer. You needed the software to run me. You have that in your intelligence. And you needed a badly run anti-virus system. And because you were high on painkillers, that was down, allowing lil' old me, the virus, in!'

"Get out of my head! Get out of my head!"

'I ain't going nowhere, olive branch. What's so wrong? You still have control… until I say so.'

Oliver waybright looked down at the body.

"…what did you make me do?"

"Simple. Couldn't have any witnesses to my rise… and it was funny. Speaking of, unless you want your divorced butt in prison, we need to get rid of the evidence, and then we're gonna cause some chaos. You got anything?"

Oliver gulped.

"There's a pulveriser…"

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A few days eariler…

Sasha and grime were entering some sort of building.

"Now, Sasha, I've kept you seperate from the others for a few days now but I think it's time to introduce you to some other big members of the team."

They walked in to a whitewashed hallway, with doors entering different rooms. A gruff looking man walked out of one.

"Hey, Grime, is this the recruit you were talking about? You said she was young, but I wasn't expecting this," he snickered.

"Watch your tone, Bog. Sasha may be young but she's got more fire than anybody in this building, including you and I."

Grime turned back to Sasha. "This is Bog. My second in command and, honestly, the shortening of assistant being "ass" fits him well."

"Hey!" Bog grunted.

Grime led Sasha into another room.

"This is what we call 'the farm.'"

"Oh, hey there sweetie!" Said a muscular lady from across the room. "I'm braddock! I work at this fine establishment and grime here may look like a meanie but he's soft on the inside."

"HAHA!" Grime said, extremely forced, before taking Sasha out of the room.

"Braddock doesn't know this is a gang. She thinks she's working for a private pharmaceutical company still getting off the ground. We actually use her plants for different steroids and sleep inducing drugs."

"Wow, how moral," Sasha said.

"Hey, not easy to find a non-pacifist gardener."

Grime then took Sasha to a room at the end of the hallway.

"Sasha you have promise, so you'll be joining our vigilante project. And unfortunately, in these early times we're not sure who to trust. So you'll be wearing a mask in the presence of the others."

He opened a door.

"I'd like you to meet our best assassin. He joined us recently too. Still refuses to tell us his name, and I respect that. So just call him the wrecker."

It was a short man wearing a black bodysuit, with katanas on his back and purple eyes on his mask. He spoke with a slight southern accent:

"Hello there, missus."

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A plated suit was hung up, next to a blueprint for a hoverboard.

"Oh, olive branch, this is perfect! We just need a paint job and a little more style and we're ready to go!"

"Please… please don't make me…"

"Oh, but you don't have a choice, Waybright. You got a top-hat?"

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Anne, Sasha and Marcy were at the Thai temple.

"I still don't understand why you guys wanted to come with me," Anne said. "This place is boring."

Marcy looked Shocked. "Only because you've been coming here for ages! And besides, I couldn't say no to more of your mom's cooking! Also, you okay there, Sash?"

Sasha put a thumbs up. "Yeah, I'm fine!"

"You sure, dude?" Anne asked. "Those eye bags are… certainly something."

"I'm fine, Anne," she said.

"Okay, okay," Anne put her hands up defensively.

"So, girls," mrs. Boonchuy began, "what d'you want to do?"

"I don't mind," Sasha said, "what does Anne usually do?"

"Well," Anne said, "USUALLY, I'm forced to hand out samples for Thai go. I quit Thai language lessons a few years ago because i suck at it, so I usually just walk around aimlessly."

"I'm down for exploring," Marcy said. "Could find more delicious foo-"

BOOM.

"What was that-?"

The roof of one of the buildings exploded.

"OH MY HOLY MOTHER OF LASAGNE!" Marcy shouted.

"What is it?!" Asked Sasha.

"Is that a humanoid minion wearing a top hat?" Mr. Boonchuy asked.

Indeed, there was a yellow metallic figure, riding some hoverboard. He was wearing a bowtie and a top-hat, and had a visor painted to look like an eye.

"HELLO AGAIN, WORLD!" The figure shouted.

"RUN!" Someone shouted. They didn't even need to ask- people were already stampeding out.

Marcy and Anne shot a knowing look at each other, almost saying 'are you gonna do the thing?' 'Oh yeah, i'm totally doing the thing.'

They were seperated by a crowd, and Anne ran to the nearest bathroom. She took out her backpack and got dressed into her suit.

Hang on, wouldn't it be weird if spiderwoman was just AT the Thai temple?

She decided to climb one of the walls and get outside, before making an enterance by swinging in.

"WELL, WHO IS THIS NOW?" The figure said, in a tone not unlike that of a comedian. "I'VE SEEN YOU ALL OVER THE NEWS!"

"And what are you, some simpsons reject?" Anne quipped. "I think you took a wrong turn off a Hollywood set."

"WOW! YOU'RE SO FUNNY I FORGOT TO LAUGH!" The figure said, throwing something at Anne. It probably wasn't anything good, so she turned her slinger to web bomb mode and hit the projectile, causing it to explode in a burst of blue flame.

"Wow, I am HAPPY that that didn't hit me."

"Need help, Little friend?"

It was a girl, around Anne's age. She was wearing a hot pink and white bodysuit with a hot pink hoodie over it, the hood being up, and her having a pure white mask with two black circles for eyes, with tinier pink circles inside those. She had a pink sword (a genuine sword?!) with some sort of battery attached. Arcs of lightning were barely seen emanating from it.

And as well as that, she was pretty cute.

"Hoopa da boopa! Who are YOU?" Anne said.

"An admirer. Now help me take this idiot down."

"WOW! THAT'S HILARIOUS- whoah, sweetie!" The figure said, watching the sword make contact and electrocute him slightly.

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Stanford pines was back in the investigation room when someone burst in.

"Wha- STANLEY?"

"FORD! SOMETHING'S COME UP!"

"You're in the city?!"

"Have been for 2 years. But that's not the point! Check the news!"

He turned on the TV in the corner and swapped the channels:

'…and it seems that the local Thai temple is being attacked by a humanoid man using advanced technology and… wearing a top hat and bowtie?!'

And that laugh from the background… it haunted them.

'…As well as this, it now seems that the masked vigilante Spiderwoman is duelling against this agent of chaos, accompanied by yet another!'

"We need to get there," stanford said, "NOW."

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"WOW, I'VE GOT TO ADMIT, YOU TWO ARE GIVING LIL' OLD BILL A RUN FOR HIS MONEY," the figure said.

"So we have a name, mr, yellow?" Anne said.

"HANG ON KIDS, I JUST SAW SOMEONE I RECOGNISE!"

He flew towards a car outside the temple.

"WELL WELL, if it isn't the pines twins!" He said, floating above them with his hoverboard.

They looked up. "No…"

"WELL, i've had enough traumatising people for one day! I'm out!"

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The aftermath of the attack was certainly something.

Before the police could arrive, Anne checked on whoever Bill was saying hello to.

"Are you stanford pines? and that guy I got info from?" Anne asked.

"What did the weird dude want from you?"

"Nevermind that," stanford dismissed, "this is vitally important, you don't have to worry about the police for now. Because if my suspicions are correct, we're going to NEED you, spiderwoman."

He paused.

"Did the figure have a name?"

"…he called himself bill, I think?"

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Oliver landed on the top of a building and took of his helmet. He had finally been given control back.

"Why are we doing this?" He said, breaking down.

'Because it's funny, Olive branch. This is just what I enjoy.'

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Back in the whitewashed hallways, Sasha took off her disguise.

She took a deep breath, before squealing.

"Omigod i just fought alongside Spiderwoman!"

Grime chuckled. "Good work, kid. This could mean an actual alliance with her, if you're on good terms.

"Now we just need to introduce the rest of us."

Yup! So we got more Sasha, more bill, and some gravity falls stuff!

Unfortunately some stuff may be outdated due to the book of bill coming out and I don't have it yet :(

Also, the wrecker is the prowler in this. I WONDER WHO IT COULD BE?

Hope you enjoyed! Cya!