The next day within mcfist industries, the evil businessman was… playing with dolls of himself and the ninja. "'I'm all powerful ninja, you can't stop me!' 'You're right I'm helpless!'" He played out, and made very poor sound effects before a certain 800 year old wizard contacted him. "Mcfist!" The sorcerer yelled, mcfist flinch and put his stuff away in a vain attempt to hide it. "I WASN'T DOING ANYTHING!" He yelled before looking at the tube where the sorcerer was contacting him. "Oh uh… I mean I've got a full proof plan to destroy the ninja!" "I already know you play with silly toys!" The sorcerer commented, "but that's not important right now, it appears that the ninja is no longer working alone…." "And not even the ninja can- WHAT!?" Mcfist screamed, "VICEROY GET IN HERE!" The doors opened and McFists's assistant Willem Viceroy III. A tall and thin with dark brown hair with a gray streak, a beard, and gray eyes, dressed in a lavender lab coat over a purple shirt and lavender ascot, purple pants, glasses with purple rims, and black shoes. "Indoor voice Hannibal, please…." He said dryly. "What's with all the hullabaloo?" "The ninja has a partner now THAT'S WHAT!" Mcfist screamed, "oh great if this means I have to build twice as much ninja destroying weapons…."
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO! JUST MAKE SOMETHING TO DESTROY THE NINJA AND…" mcfist paused, "uh who's the ninja's partner?" "You'd be surprised…." The sorcerer began, "there had been rumors and reports about a vigilante named spider gal…." "Oh yeah, I know all about it!" Mcfist interrupted pulling out a box of merchandise about the webhead. "It made the perfect way for cashing her fame! Viceroy and I even made a bet as to if she's real or not!" "At first I was skeptical about them myself, that is, until this little piece of information came to mind!" He then showed the footage of spider gal defeating the monster.
"Oooh… looks like I won the bet Viceroy!" Mcfist laughed as Viceroy simply groaned and handed his boss 25 dollars. "So what does this mean?" Viceroy groaned. "It means we're gonna need something powerful enough to destroy both the ninja AND spider gal!" The sorcerer laughed.
Meanwhile, in the streets of Norrisville, in a dingy alleyway, the crooked Herman Shultz, freshly escaped from prison, had escaped from mcfist industries with a highly dangerous and explosive weapon inside a briefcase and was getting into a sedan that wasn't his. "You know, Herman, was it? Word of advice." Spider gal alerted from the back of the car, startling the thief. "If you're gonna rob high powered chemicals, at least use your own car!" "W-what are you a cop?" Herman questioned, breathing rapidly from the surprise. "Seriously? Do I look like a cop?" Spider gal groaned, "have you ever seen a cop dress in a skin tight red and blue jumpsuit with a cape?" Herman immediately began trying to make a break for it. "You know you truly are a mastermind of crime my friend!" Spider gal continued sarcastically as she shot her web to close the door again and again. Eventually Herman just busted the window with a hammer and crawled out. "Ah the window! Now you're cooking with gas!" Spider gal replied, Herman spranticly got to his feet and looked inside the car only to see it was empty.
The criminal looked around for any sign of the webhead, until, "rain check!" Spider gal commented before pouncing onto Herman and flipping around and making both tumble onto the floor, making the briefcase open and slide to the nearest wall. Herman quickly got up and pulled out a gun. "Back off you four legged insect!" He demanded. "Is that a gun?!" Spider gal yelled frightened. "Damn straight it's a real gun!" "Oh no my weakness! Small guns!" The arachnid hero got onto her knees and covered her face. "Anything but guns!" Just as Herman got close enough the spider shot her web at the crock, causing him to stick to the nearest wall. "Gets ''em every time…." The police arrived just in time as sirens screamed. "You're welcome, dear boys in blue!" Unfortunately one of the officers pulled out their guns. "Freeze! You're under arrest for unlawful vigilantism!" The officer called out. "Really? Because it looks like I helped you Rangel you little lost sheep!" Spider gal argued. "Just who are you?!" "What's the point of wearing a mask if people don't get the concept of it?" The police responded by immediately shooting her. Unfortunately one of the bullets hit the chemical, making It erupt violently. Spider gals spider sense tinged as a warning to make a break for it! She ran away but at the last second. "HERMAN!"
BOOM!
Spider gal looked around at the debris but was interrupted by sirens coming closer. She immediately jumped and ran off feeling absolutely terrible for her actions….
Herman awoke from his unconsciousness. "Ugh mom? Is that you…?" He groaned but felt fear climb up his spine, he looked down and saw to his horror, what where his lower arms supposed to be was mere stumps covered in bandages. "WHAT THE?!" "Hello Mr Shultz…." Herman looked forward only to see a familiar purple coated scientist and metal armed businessman. "Look if this is about what happened a few weeks ago—" "relax Herman, we want to help you!" Viceroy reassured. "Um… ok?" Herman replied, confused. "Listen, spider gal's the reason why you lost your arms right?" "Yeah if I still had hands I would wrap them around her neck!" Herman growled. "Well what if we told you that we can help you with that?" Mcfist began, "By giving you the deadliest prosthetic arms I have ever invented!" "Hmm… go on…."
At school Theresa had still felt incredibly guilty about what she did with Herman, she didn't mean to cause an eruption that nearly killed him! It was a total accident! And yet she just had to allow the police to open fire like she had a death wish! Herman may have been a criminal but he didn't deserve something so horrible! Her droning went on for the last three periods until she had lunch with her klub members. "So… we saw the news…." Julian began. "I know…"Theresa replied sadly, "Look Theresa we—" "Don't… I've already been through enough…." "Listen Theresa, just because it was an accident doesn't mean you're the one to blame!" "But I am! I acted like a complete shoob and because of me someone's in the hospital!" Theresa cried, "Heya Theresa!" The weeping girl turned around to see Randy leaning down to her level. "I noticed you've been feeling down lately, is everything ok?" "No… let's just say… I made a mistake I can't make up for…." Theresa replied sadly, she didn't want to mention Herman for obvious reasons. "Look sometimes I make mistakes like that too, now I don't know what exactly you did and frankly I don't want to." Randy began, "But when I feel super guilty about it, I remember what my dad told me; 'mistakes are inevitable, but they are what makes us human!'!" He placed his hand on the cheerleader's shoulder to comfort her. Making her smile slightly.
Back at mcfist industries, in viceroy's lab. Herman was observing the scenery, but noticed viceroy putting strange devices on his wrists and with one flick, he made a hammer from digital matter. "So uh viceroy…." Herman began. "W-what with the wrist toys?" "Oh these?" Viceroy asked. "Well they're my little personal inventions, the digitizers!" "The what?" "I use them to like multitasking and develop and conjure tools and weapons to develop anything I make with my mind! Hannibal even gave me the stupid nickname: 'the tinkerer!'..." The scientist then activated a switch which opened up the floor and brought up a pair of gauntlet-like robotic arms. "These are one of our prototype mining tools, I call them the S-46 but the staff are calling them 'the mcshockers'…." Herman then slipped the gauntlet arms on feeling the machinery of the fake hands. "Now before you go testing them out you should at least…" Before viceroy could finish his sentence Herman carelessly activated the gauntlets causing him to shake violently before a sonic blast made him crash through the floor, then the second floor and the third floor. "…Wear protective armor…."
After that little incident, viceroy had made a quilted costume with tactile gold armor, then put it on Herman. After a few hours of testing Herman had finally gotten control of his new arms. "Ha! Works like a charm!" He congratulated himself. "Indeed!" Mcfist yelled entering the scene. "Now with these new powers you can get back at the webhead for costing you your arms!" "Hey you right—" Herman paused. "No wait! Revenge is for losers! I don't care about spider gal!" "WHAT!" "Listen mcfist, you may want to butcher the ninja and miss eight legs, but I've just wanted to be known in this world as a master criminal! And now you guys just gave me the tools to do so!" "Now listen here you no armed loser!" Mcfist began but was interrupted by being hit by one of Shultz's arms.
"Herman Shultz was a loser! But now everyone's gonna know the name SHOCKER!" And with that Herman fired a sonic blast at the nearest wall making it explode as now the shocker dashed into the city. Leaving the two villains left alone. "Um… that's bad right?" "Well if spider gal or the ninja show up, the shocker will pummel them into dust!" Viceroy pointed out. "Ooh… TOTALLY MY AWESOME PLAN!"
At school Theresa felt slightly better but still felt guilty about the situation with Herman. It still felt like her fault for what happened to him. She was in 6th period science class when her teacher; mrs. Driscoll, a tall and skinny woman with somewhat long curly gray hair and a wrinkled face with lots of lipstick on it. She had blue eyes and very long eyelashes, she was dressed in a blue shirt and dark blue skirt under a long white labcoat with light blue sleeves and pockets and dark blue socks and brown and white shoes. Came to her with worry on her face "Is something the matter, Miss Fowler?" She asked, concerned. "Oh I've been rather down recently, I kinda made a huge mistake…." Theresa answered sadly.
Underground the sorcerer rested out of boredom, "ugh not a single sense of blunder, despair or even a tear of sadness! How disappointing…." He groaned as bounced a ball of stank up and down. Suddenly he felt Theresa's despair. "Oh… a weight of guilt brought on by blunder!" He giggled, "how exquisite!" He then sent the ball into the air and into the ducts.
Up above Theresa looked at her teacher in sadness. "Though I do know something that could help you cheer up!" Mrs. Driscoll answered. "Like what?" Theresa groaned, "remember our field trip to mcfist industries?" "Uh yes?" "Well Dr Connors said that he was willing to have three interns to shadow him!" Theresa smiled as she felt a lot better. Suddenly the funk emerged from the nearest air vent and approached the girl. "Theresa behind you!" Randy yelled as the funk surrounded the girl. She felt immense fear at first but then remembered what Randy said at lunch: 'mistakes are inevitable, but they are what makes us human!' Theresa felt a blast of confidence and looked at the stank with determination. "Listen up you, whatever you are!" She said with confidence. "I'm not the sad little girl who you can just pull my strings at will! So I don't want the likes of you around me anymore! In order words: BEAT IT!" The stank suddenly returned to the vent and back to the sorcerer.
Underground, the sorcerer was waiting for chaos to unfold but felt something he's never felt before: positive emotions, the stank had blasted back to him in a gust of gas. "What the juice?! What just happened?!" He yelled flabbergasted, the stank showed him what happened. "Impossible! No one's been able to resist my control!" He then screamed in anger before contacting mcfist. "mcfist! You better have a means of destroying spider gal and the ninja!" He roared. "Oh uh good news and bad news…." Mcfist replied hastily, "good news: we created a supervillain guaranteed to destroy them!" "And the bad news?" "He kinda went rogue on us…." The sorcerer simply yelled in anger so loud the glass started to shatter.
At the same time, back at the school, everyone was astonished by Theresa's resistance over the sorcerer's spell. "Theresa, that was amazing!" Randy said, amazed, "How did you even do that?!" "Well all I did was stand up to the stank and remember what Randy told me!" Theresa said calmly, blushing slightly. "Well that's more than enough for you to be honored to shadow Dr connors!" Mrs Driscoll announced. "Oh and take Randy and Howard with you!" "Why us? We didn't do anything!" Howard replied, confused. "The school believes that actual experience with science would actually help your grades…." Howard simply groaned.
Meanwhile Herman, now calling himself the shocker, had gone on a bank robbing rampage! He robbed Norrisville's first national bank, then the second, and the third.
Later, the three students were on their way to mcfist industries for their internship. "Can you believe this?" Theresa cheered. "We're actually gonna be interns at mcfist industries!" "Yeah especially that we're gonna experiment with animals and create frankinsines!" Howard cheered. "I'm not actually sure that we're actually gonna do that…." Randy replied. Suddenly they saw an explosion at the fourth national bank. The three looked worried about the situation. "Uh… I gotta use the bathroom!" Said Theresa as she ran into the nearest alleyway. "Uhh, us two!" Randy replied as he and Howard ran into the other direction.
In the alleyway Theresa took off her outfit where her spider gal costume was underneath. "Looks like I'm getting a pitstop for the bank!" She said putting her mask on.
In the other alleyway, Howard and Randy made sure that nobody else was looking. "You think we'll meet spider gal again?" "I hope not!" Randy replied angrily. "I don't know who she is but she needs to know that this town belongs to the ninja!" He then put on his ninja suit and made a few poses before dashing off.
In the bank, the shocker had managed to blow open the bank vault. "Hahaha, I'm on a winning streak!" He chuckled, staring down at the multiple bags of cash. "Now then, time to make my next withdrawal!" "Smoke bomb!" The ninja appeared once again behind the supervillain. "Put those cash bags down!" "Better yet, you take them!" The shocker then threw the Cash bags but they were caught mid flight and thrown back by familiar webs. "Return to sender!" they hit shocker knocking him to the ground. "What the juice?!" "Again!?" "Can't a girl join this party?" Spider gal replied, weaving down to their level. "Spider gal?!" The ninja yelled outraged, "I told you I got this!" "Can't be too careful!" Spider gal replied. "Spider gal!" The shocker yelled, "you know when you were responsible for my arms, my first move was to hunt you down and strangle you with them! But I decided to finally be known as a master criminal!" "Your arms…?" Spider gal asked, confused, she didn't know this criminal, unless… could it be? "Herman!?"
"Not anymore… Call me THE SHOCKER!" Shocker then engaged a Sonic blast in front of the two heroes, knocking them back to the farthest wall. "I'm sorry you did WHAT TO HIS ARMS!?" The ninja yelled flabbergasted. "I didn't mean to do that!" Spider gal replied, "look there was a shootout with the cops, one of them accidently shot an explosive chemical!" "Awe like an old married couple you two are!" Shocker commented, "can we please just get back to fighting you!?" The ninja then pulled out his chanicicle but was simply pulled by shocker's gauntlets and blasted at. Spider gal shot her webs at the supervillain but he managed to pull them off with ease. "Nice toys, here's mine!" Shocker then banged his fists together creating a Sonic burst, blasting the webhead to the wall. "Ugh… let me guess… you got them from the black market, or the dark web?" Spider gal asked. "Nice huh? Mcfist gave me these! To kill you two!" "Mcfist? I thought he was a good guy!" "Yeah news flash! He's like my worst enemy!" The ninja commented. "Look kids, bouncing you around's been fun but I've got money to steal!" Herman yelled before tunneling his way out of the scene using his gauntlets, leaving his money and the destruction behind. "Uh… he just…" "I KNOW!"
Back outside the ninja and spider gal returned to their civilian forms and continued to mcfist industries. "So wait, you took on an actual supervillain!?" Howard whispered. "Technically it was one spider gal created so it's kinda her fault…" Randy replied before noticing Theresa growling. "Are you ok Theresa?" "Oh uh I just had a bad stomach is all…" Theresa lied, technically she was right, the humiliating fight with shocker did get her hit in the stomach… a lot….
At mcfist industries genetics lab, the three students were experimenting with various animals, while Theresa was doing well, randy and Howard weren't doing so much… "excellent work miss Fowler!" Said Dr Connors. "Thanks Dr C!" Theresa replied, "So feeling any better from the spider bite?" Theresa flinched "uh yeah no side effects!" She lied, "are you sure Theresa? Because she's been rather in and out lately…." Randy informed.
Just before she was about to say a thing, Theresa's spider sense tingled, danger is near! She immediately ducked just as a Sonic blast beamed across the lab. Everyone turned to see the henios shocker, looking around for something. "Well well if it ain't the little creep who humiliated me last time I was here!" He greeted, "while i'd love to strangle you with my metal arms, but I've got business to take care of, see ya!" The shocker wandered away. "I'll go engage the emergency alert system!" Theresa announced before running off. She looked for the switch, activated it and put on her spider gal costume.
At the mcfist vault entrance, the shocker had stood proudly at it. "Well the old stomping ground!" He said proudly before aiming his gauntlets but they didn't fire. "Oh come on! Right now!" Suddenly both gauntlets were caught with web string. The villain looked up seeing the arachnid vigilante perching comfortingly. "Oh I caught a big one!" She quipped. Suddenly shocker's gauntlets glowed back to life and pulled spider gal to the ground before ripping the rope. "So wait Herman, you get a literal super awesome weapon that makes literal SHOCKWAVES of criminal stuff!?" Spider gal continued. "C'mon that's just cliché! You could make a fortune making milkshakes!" Shocker made another shockwave that blasted her into the vault door. "Great! Now I'm a little queasy, FYI if I hurl in my mask I am so sending you the dry cleaning bill!" Spider gal commented before jumping and swinging around as the shocker kept shooting. "Quit moving you little freak!" "Smoke bomb!" The two stopped for a moment as the ninja appeared behind the villain and wrapped his scarf around him. "Thanks for the distraction spider gal!" "Careful ninja! He may not be good at his aim…" the shocker then unleashed another shockwave, freeing him and knocking the ninja back. "But he is good at doing that!" The shocker then fired a blast at spider gal, making the vigilante swing around. "I'll bring this entire building down on your heads if I have to!" "Not much of a bad thing considering that they're trying to destroy me!" The ninja replied, "but it's built to survive a 9.5 earthquake so don't hold your breath…." Spider gal replied before noticing that Shocker's gauntlets were smoking slightly. "Talk about lazy, he stops to take a breather before blasting me!" She said to himself, "unless… it's not lazy!" She then swung at the shocker, knocking him down. Then lended the ninja's hand, "if we're gonna stop mr boom boom, then we'll need to work together!" She said, the ninja thought about it, sure this is HIS town, technically has been for 800 years and it's mostly spider gal's fault but she was right, if they were gonna beat this guy they were gonna do it together!
"Ok what's the plan?" The ninja replied, grabbing her spider comrade's hand. "I'll make a distraction, and when I give the signal, you use your hot balls on his gauntlets." Spider gal explained before zipping above to the walls. "Heya Herman, come and get me!" She yelled, waving her hands in the air. Shocker's gauntlets cooled down and started firing again, "you might need to work more on your aim Herman!" "Quit moving you little twit!" Spider gal then swung across the room, where the ninja was ready with his hot balls. "Ok now!" "Ninja hot balls!" The ninja tossed them at the shocker's gauntlets making them turn bright red. "Time to— what the?!" Shocker's gauntlets short circuited. "What did you do!?" "You see, the first thought of mine was to destroy those gauntlets of yours, but then I noticed one thing: they overheat easily!" Spider gal explained smugly while folding her arms. "Now normally that wouldn't be so bad under most conditions, but with fire balls…." The shocker's gauntlets overloaded and knocked him down, before he could get up the arachnid hero simply webbed him to the ground.
With the shocker arrested, the two heroes returned to their civilian forms and returned to the lab. "Now that was Bruce!" Randy cheered. "Hey, what did I miss?" Theresa said entering the scene. "You're not gonna believe this!" Howard cheered. "Spider gal AND the ninja teamed up to defeat shocker!" "You don't say!" "Now now, you should probably get back home while the robots repair the place. " Dr Connors announced before turning towards Theresa, "nice work with shocker's gauntlets kid…." He whispered, making the girl flinch, "relax I'm not gonna expose you, I'm not like my boss…." Dr Connors smirked.
At his house Randy and Howard played their favorite grave puncher game nonstop. "So Cunningham, I've got something Bruce to show you!" Howard started, pressing pause on the game. "And what would that be?" Randy asked smugly before his friend pulled out a video tape. "This is security cam footage I took to make sure mcfist doesn't know your you-know-who…" he then took his friend to his room where he plugged the tape in his TV, the footage showed Theresa pulling the alarm then sneaking into the nearest hall, and out came spider gal. "Do you realize what this means?!" Howard cheered. "Theresa's friends with spider gal!" "What? No! It means that she IS spider gal!" It was there that Randy realized what he just said and everything that Theresa was going through, how could he not see it?! Theresa showing up later than usual, her almost falling asleep in class one time, and the fact that she 'has to use the restroom' excuse, how could he not see it!? Theresa IS spider gal. "HOLY CHEESE, THERESA'S SPIDER GAL!"