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[center][b]Aubrey Adkins[/b][/center]
I laid in my bed, staring at my bedroom’s ceiling.  When something bad was imminent, you sometimes just cannot muster any motivation to do anything.  That sick feeling in your stomach that makes you feel uneasy.  That is how I felt, since I knew my roommates would be home any minute now and they were about to get a rude awakening, that their metahuman roommate happens also to be an eight-legged freak.  What was I supposed to do?  I didn’t have my power nullifier, so I can’t just hide it.  Also, even if I would run away, my friends would just look for me anyways.  No way out of this one.

“That’s quite a piece of work, considering you do not have the weaving capabilities that I do.  I guess I could give you an honorable mention.”  God darn it.  Not [i]her[/i] again.  And what the heck was Athena mumbling about this time?

When I looked down towards the Greek ‘goddess’, I realized what she was talking about when she mentioned the ‘piece of work’.  While I had been idly staring up at the ceiling, my spider legs instinctively wove a web.  And it wasn’t a cobweb either, but rather one of those neat (I’m talking about orderly, not cool) webs that some spiders make.  But at the same time, it’s gross, if you would think about it.  I mean, it was created from a substance secreted from my own body.  Thank God that metahuman that helped me back in Lost Haven cannot see me now.  He probably wouldn’t let me hear the end of it.

Immediately, I ripped the spider-web apart with my legs.  Then I flipped myself over, reorienting my body so that I would be laying down on my stomach and facing Athena face-first.

“Didn’t I tell you to not come back?”  I crossed my arms underneath myself, propping up my upper body, as I questioned the Greek ‘goddess’ of Wisdom.

“Didn’t I say I would be back?”  She said with a coil smile.  “I thought you might need some help readjusting to your, well, new form.”

“Why would I want you…”  I began to say, but I stopped myself when I realized something.  After I made the realization, I started questioning her again.  “Did you know that this was going to happen?”

“Why, of course I did.  Didn’t you?”  It almost seemed like she was surprised that I didn’t know that I would eventually turn this spider-centaur thing.

“Of course I didn’t know!  How the hell was I supposed to know that I would devolve into this, this monstrosity?”

“Well you did get your powers from a metahuman who had a drideresque appearance.”  Athena now crossed her arms, almost as if she was scolding a child for doing something that she should have known better to have done.  “Isn’t it obvious that eventually you would take on a similar form?”  Now she’s starting to sound like one of those all-A’s know-it-alls who believe that they are on a level of intelligence far beyond that of a ‘normal’ person.  Figures from someone who supposed to be the Greek ‘goddess’ of Wisdom.

“Okay, it doesn’t matter whether I should have anticipated this happening.  What does matter is do you know how to fix it?”  What I just said made a giant grin appear across Athena’s face.

“Oh, I thought you were the bold young lady who didn’t want my help?”  Athena then pulled something out from a hidden pocket or pouch.  She extended her hand out straight, dangling the device before my face, just as one would entice a mule with a carrot.

“Did you have that this whole time?  Hand it over!”

“Oh, I thought you didn’t want to ‘play superhero’ anymore?”

“Just hand it over!”  I have reached my limit on my patience several hours ago.  I had zero intent on playing any games.  It wasn’t that I wanted to ‘play superhero’ anymore.  I wanted to be able to actually interact with the outside world without being labeled some kind of monstrosity or mutant or something along those lines.

“Fine.”  She tossed the watch-sized device toward me, causing it to land right in front of me.  However, even as I had just placed the power-nullifier around my wrist, the freaking ‘goddess’ of Wisdom was at it again.

“But before I leave you alone, let’s just test out your costume.”  Before I could make any kind of protest against it, Athena had already pressed the button on the device that automatically switches me into my superhero costume.  While the upper body portion of the costume had not been altered at all, Athena obviously put some effort into making my costume fit my spideresque physique.  Beyond the section of my spider abdomen which contained my spinnerets, I was still covered head to toe in my costume.

“Well, it looks like you put in a lot of...”  Wait, something was wrong.  Something did not sound right.  My voice sounded, well, different.  “What did you do to my voice?”

“Now you don’t have to worry about people figuring out your identity from listening to you speak.  And don’t worry about it being permanent.  It’s the mask that causing it.”

I pulled off my mask.  God, that was such an aberrant experience.  I know that I was speaking because I could feel my jaw moving, but hearing a different voice come out is quite, well, nerve-racking.  It’s going to take some time for me to get used to hearing a different voice coming from my mouth whenever I’m donning my superhero costume, if I ever do that, might I add.

Then my spider-sense began to buzz.  Even before I heard my roommates enter into the apartment and made their presence known by calling out my name, that little buzz inside my held alerted me to it.  Once my roommates had entered into the apartment, Athena immediately disappeared.  Not really surprising, though.  She seems to pick and choose when she likes to be around.  Figures.

Well, now that I had the power-nullifier, I could now just return aback to normal so that I wouldn’t freak out my roommates.  However, right before I pressed the button that would make me look “normal”, I just realized something else.  Obviously in my ‘drider’ form (as Athena called it) I could only wear my regular clothes on my upper body.  I don’t really think I need to spell it out for you what would happen if I changed back right now.

I could have just picked up my pajama pants next to my bed, but I thought it would look kind of suspicious and out of place if I was found wearing a nice top with pajama pants.  Therefore, I used the wristband to switch back into what I was wearing before Athena showed me how my costume now fit my transformed physique and then I rushed over to my closet, searching for a pair of jeans and such before my roommates entered my room.  After I found a pair that looked nice with my top, I began trying to slip them (at least partially) over my front pair of spider legs, hoping that I would just slip into them when I turned on the nullifier.

However, before I could even get a chance to revert back to my normal appearance, my roommates had already entered into my room.

“Aubrey, I hope you are feeling better.  I know that last night was…”  Felecia stopped herself in mid-sentence when she saw my upper body attached to what seemed like a giant, almost horse-sized spider.  “What the hell happened to you?”

When I looked back over my shoulder, I saw that Ashley had already fainted from the sight.  I guess being afraid of spiders and seeing a giant one would do that to her.  Kristin was there to catch her so that she wouldn’t tumble to the ground.  Both Kristin and Felecia had looks of shock on their faces.

“Does it look like I feel any better?”  I responded, placing my hands on my hips (or what were supposed to be my hips.  That’s kind of where I transition from human to spider).