In this chapter, our heroine is going to take on her first supervillain...not one that's particular threatening to her, mind you...but a threat nonetheless.
Anyways, I figured it was about time to give her a superhero nemesis...that's what Spiderman has, right? The Green Goblin's always fighting Spiderman...though it's not necessarily the same person every time.
You're going to find out who it is soon enough.
Chapter 5: The Giant
The next day Mary Jane decided to do something heroic, she noticed that there appeared to be people screaming. It appeared that it was more than an ordinary criminal this time.
"What's going on here?" asked the teenage girl.
As it turned out, there was apparently a supervillain on the loose. People were running around like chickens without their heads. She in fact had heard a newspaper story on that once.
"What's frightened them so badly?" inquired Honeybee.
As it turned out, the city was under attack by a supervillain...in this case, it was an insectoid supervillain. Personally Honeybee thought that it was somehow appropriate.
"Tremble before the Giant!" bellowed the supervillain, flexing his muscles. Sure enough, people seemed to be intimidated. He wasn't someone to be trifled with, to say the very least. He was going to be a front page story on the Daily Bugle.
As it turned out, this particular supervillain appeared to be a man wearing an ant costume...he also appeared to be quite muscular and was rather tall, as well. She was starting to see why he was calling himself the Giant...even if buildings were still much bigger than he was.
"The Giant? It looks like he was bitten by a radioactive ant..." acknowledged Honeybee. It appeared that they were plenty more radioactive insects in New York City where that came from.
Immediately, she realized that she was going to have to do something about him. If she allowed him to continue, New York City might become New Ant City...or something like that. He didn't appear to be creating any anthills...but he did appear to be causing trouble regardless.
Suddenly, she got the pun in his name.
"The Giant...very funny..." thought the bee girl. Somebody liked puns, it seemed.
"Buzz buzz!" exclaimed the bee.
"You think we can take him? He has the strength of an ant..and ants can lift up to 50 times their own weight..." stated Honeybee. They could probably make a bodybuilder jealous.
"Buzz buzz!" bellowed one of the bees.
"Oh that's right...bees can lift up to 122 times their own weight...I guess we can take him." noted the teenage girl. By that same logic, she was over twice as strong as he was.
Besides, to her knowledge ants were not capable of flight and did not possess a stinger like she did. She did wonder if he had an anthill somewhere however that he could use to retreat.
Shrugging, she decided to confront him. She doubted the authorities could handle him by themselves. It appeared that several cars had been tipped over in The Giant's rampage.
As it turned out, he was currently helping himself to some cash.
"I'm rich!" bellowed The Giant.
"Hey, buddy! You can't just steal from others just because you feel like it!" exclaimed Honeybee.
"But it's fun! Besides, my exoskeleton makes me bulletproof!" answered the ant man. Personally he thought that bullets tickled him now...though now he wondered if people were going to start tickling him now that they knew that he was ticklish.
"That's good for you...but I'm more than your typical police officer..." pointed out the teenage girl. In fact, the police officers were starting to wish that they could be like Honeybee. Honeybee reassured them having powers might mean more responsibility that they could handle, but some wanted the power anyway.
"Since I don't feel like hitting a girl...I'd advise you to just let me be...I'm almost done looting the city anyway..." pointed out The Giant.
"I can't let you do that..." answered Honeybee.
"Alright then...I didn't want to do this...but I guess I'll just have to knock you out cold and make off with the cash..." stated the ant.
"That seems fair..." noted the teenage girl. Personally she was under the impression that he was going to regret holding back against her pretty soon.
Immediately, the Giant attempted to punch Honeybee.
However, as it turned out, though the Giant was capable of lifting 5 tons, his speed hadn't drastically increased and he wasn't much faster than a regular human. Honeybee was able to avoid it.
"Hold still!" demanded the villain. How was she so fast?
"Sorry, no." answered Honeybee. Wouldn't want to get punched in the face, now.
In retaliation, she stung the Giant in the arm, causing him to clutch it in pain.
"Ouch! That really hurt!" bellowed the Giant. This reminded him of the time where he decided to work at a bee farm...and had forgotten to put on his uniform so that he didn't get stung.
"Yeah...bee venom isn't exactly painless. To be fair, I've never used it to kill anyone...I'm kind of a pacifist..." noted Honeybee. She didn't want to have blood on her hands and make people think that she was a criminal. Besides, she wanted to be popular with the Daily Bugle if Spiderman couldn't...though perhaps it was simply because she looked attractive and Spiderman did not.
However, it appeared that she needed to sting him more than once to make him go down, as he was still on his feet.
"Take this!" bellowed the Giant, tossing a motorcycle towards Honeybee. Though she avoided it, the motorcycle was totaled.
"That reminds me...my ex-boyfriend drives one of these..." noted Honeybee.
Suddenly, she noticed that her ex-boyfriend appeared to be crying out in the distance.
"Oh..." said the teenage girl. Personally this reminded her of the incident when Spiderman lifted J. Jonah Jameson's car and got him mad.
"Did he now?" asked the Giant as he got ready to attack once more.
In retaliation, Honeybee ordered her bees to attack the Giant, who frantically tried to shake the bees off.
"Get them off me! Get them off me!" exclaimed the man.
Quickly, he noticed that there was a fountain nearby, and dove into it to try to escape the stings.
"Yes!" cheered the ant man.
Honeybee faintly smiled upon realizing what The Giant had tried to do.
"About that...I'm afraid that it doesn't work that way..." answered Honeybee.
"Huh?" inquired the Giant.
"You see, the bees simply wait for you to resurface...particularly killer bees." explained the teenage girl.
"What?!" bellowed the ant man.
As it turned out, the bees were currently playing poker, waiting for the Giant to do just that.
"Yes! Royal flush!" bellowed one of the bees.
"Oh c'mon!" exclaimed another bee. Why did she keep winning? Maybe she was cheating?
"Hey, fellas! He resurfaced!" exclaimed the Honeybee.
Sure enough, the bees noticed their opportunity, and began to fly towards the Giant to sting him once more.
This time, he could not tolerate all the venom and he passed out.
"Ugh..." murmured the Giant as he passed out. How could he lose to a little girl?
Well, technically she was a teenage girl rather than a little girl...but he was still much older than she was. About twice as old in fact.
Shortly afterwards, he found himself being arrested by the police, who were none too happy for him to trying to steal valuable money for others.
"Maybe if I gave him some honey maybe he'll be nicer..." questioned the Honeybee. She heard that ants were fond of honey just like bees.
Suddenly, she noticed what appeared to be a green goblin up in the sky.
"Huh? I don't think it's Halloween yet...why is he dressed up like that?" asked the teenage girl.
Curious, she noticed that Spiderman appeared to be fighting him.
"Oh...I guess he's a supervillain..." acknowledged Honeybee.
Personally, she wondered if she should give Green Goblin a hand. Though admittedly Spiderman was stronger and faster, Green Goblin did have a set of gadgets to compensate.
Sure enough, he was tossing pumpkin bombs at him...pumpkin bombs that ignited on impact.
"Do you think we should help?" asked the teenage girl.
"Buzz buzz buzz!" exclaimed one of the bees.
"I suppose we'll rescue him if he loses...or if he asks. It seems fair to let him fight this man one by one..." acknowledged Honeybee.
Eventually, Spiderman managed to defeat the Green Goblin by trapping him with his spider web. Specifically, he crashed into it headlong with his hang glider.
"Oh dear...it looks like you've been clumsy..." noted the teenage superhero.
"Curse you, Spiderman! I'm going to get out of this!" bellowed the Green Goblin.
Suddenly, Spiderman heard applauding.
"Congratulations, Spiderman...it looks like you've managed to catch a bad guy..." answered the teenage girl.
"Not just any bad guy...it's the Green Goblin, my nemesis..." stated Spiderman.
"Your nemesis?" asked Honeybee.
Spiderman nodded.
"He's been pestering me almost as soon as I became a superhero...he's definitely been my most persistent foe. Personally I would appreciate it if we could make peace...but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. He's stubborn." noted the teenage boy.
"I'll say." answered the teenage girl. As it turned out, the Green Goblin was still trying to escape from the web. It was pretty sticky.
Suddenly, she noticed one of the bees had gotten caught in the web.
"Oh dear...it looks like he's been clumsy too..." acknowledged Honeybee. Sometimes insects did not watch where they were going...and in her bee's case, they suffered for t.
Fortunately, she was able to pull it out of the web...pulling out some of it in the process. As usual, she had been taking her vitamins.
"Wait...does this mean I can break free from your webs if I ever got caught in them?" asked the teenage girl. Personally she thought that Spiderman could use them to restrain anyone...but apparently not her.
"I suppose you can...once again, you're starting to make me feel like Wimpyman..." noted Spiderman.
Honeybee began to chuckle.
"I don't think you're Wimpyman..." said the teenage girl.
"I noticed that you managed to catch your first supervillain...I know how that felt..." acknowledged the teenage boy. It felt good to get to take one down since they were more dangerous than ordinary criminals.
"Yeah...though now that you mentioned it, I wonder if I'm going to get a nemesis too...it seems inevitable that super villains are going to build a grudge against me before too long..." answered Honeybee.
Perhaps it would be The Giant? Then again, he didn't seem to be big of a threat to her.
Deciding that it was time to revert to her Mary Jane persona (much like Green Goblin did when his body decided to be Norman Osborn again), Honeybee decided to fly back home.
"I took on a supervillain...and yet, it was still a bit too easy..." noted Mary Jane.
To be fair, it appeared that the police were impressed with her even though she didn't think The Giant was too dangerous of a supervillain. Granted, he was definitely a threat to the public at large...but compared to Honeybee he wasn't so tough. He was weaker than Spiderman, it seemed.
Still, she wondered if not everyone would be happy with her heroics. She knew that J. Jonah Jameson did not approve of Spiderman...though admittedly he did seem to be on good terms with his alter ego Peter Parker. At least that was something.
If so, she wondered who that person could possibly be.
Meanwhile...
Kylie Carrie frowned as she looked at the newspaper. People couldn't stop talking about the new superheroine, and it was making her sick. Why wouldn't they shut up already?
Personally she wished that people would stop this already. Even her parents were talking about her. Why should she be more popular than she was? She deserved to be popular more than anyone else in the world, she thought.
If anyone was a superhero, it was her. And if anyone asked her, someone should whack Honeybee with a flyswatter and be on with it.
On the other hand, she was sure that her fifteen minutes of fame would run out eventually. Nobody stayed famous forever...not even superheroes.
Then again, J. Jonah Jameson simply wouldn't stop talking about Spiderman these days, even if it was mostly negative comments about him. Personally she thought those entries to be hilarious. Clearly he was lying through his teeth...though sometimes she wished that she could actually do the things that Spiderman had allegedly done. They actually sounded kind of fun.
Shrugging, she decided to look on the newspaper to see if there was anything else on the news that she should take a look at.
Suddenly, she noticed a job position at Oscorp. Apparently, they wanted to test out a new formula...and they would give a million dollars to those that tried it out.
She was rather excited at the opportunity, though she was already rather wealthy. There was always the possibility that her parents would disinherit her. She did tend to spend quite a bit of money.
She was tempted to turn to a life of crime if that ever happened...but she worried that the police would catch her...or worse, the Honeybee.
"I hate that honeysucker..." remarked Kylie Carrie. In fact, that was what she was going to call her for now on.
Well, she would probably come up with other less-than-flattering nicknames for her later. But for now, she decided that would do.
Shrugging, she decided to drive over to Oscorp to see if the formula hadn't been tested yet. If so, she was going to be really mad.
But as it turned out, people seemed to be frightened of it...hence the reason nobody else seemed to be there. The parking lot was vacant...much to her delight. She hated having to find a parking space. In fact, she had contemplated wrecking a car simply to spite the owner.
As it turned out, it was a remake of the previous chemical that was rumored to have created the Green Goblin. Though it made whoever consumed it stronger and smarter, it also made them rather violent.
So, they decided to make the chemical designed to solely increase one's brainpower instead. That way they would not go insane. However, it made someone twice as intelligent as the original formula did to compensate for the lack of strength.
"Are you here to try out our new formula? Mind you, you don't have to do it if you don't want too...I'd be willing to give you 500 dollars if you don't..." stated Dr. Curt Connors kindly. He in fact was feeling rather generous.
"Just give me the formula already." stated Kylie.
"Yes, of course." nodded the man.
Immediately, Kylie happily consumed it. It tasted rather...wicked.
And yet, she enjoyed it.
"Now give me the million bucks!" demanded Kylie.
"Yes, of course!" exclaimed Dr. Curt Connors, who was now rather frightened.
Kylie Carrie happily accepted her check. She was filthy rich...well, technically she was already filthy rich, but not as rich as Mary Jane. She hated her almost as much as she hated the new Honeybee superheroine.
It was as if they somehow related.
"Meh, it's probably nothing." thought the teenage girl. For now, she wanted to enjoy her newfound intelligence. She felt smarter already. And to think that her parents had complained to her about her grade report card too.
But for now, she needed to get ready for school tomorrow. Somehow, she got the feeling that it was going to be fun.
"Heh heh heh..." thought Kylie.
It looks like Mary Jane's defeated her first supervillain...who admittedly didn't put that much of a fight regardless. However, as I said, we're going to be meeting her archnemesis soon...you should probably know who their secret identity is by now. I already know what I'm going to call her and what powers she will have...I figured they would somehow be related to bees since goblins and spiders are both associated with Halloween, heh heh.