[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/krev7SC.png[/img][/center][center][b]Aubrey Adkins[/b][/center]
	Well, I’ve gotten myself into quite the precarious situation. That’s what I get for assuming that a bad guy with a gun could not possibly have superpowers, too. I mean, why would you need a firearm when you yourself are a living weapon? I guess the element of surprise would explain it. And because of this error on my part, I’m now holding onto this webline for my dear life or else I’m going to be stuck on the ceiling like the other cops and security crew. Why can’t the bad guys just surrender when the heroes ask politely? Jerks.

	My hands began to slip as the lack of gravity’s effect on my body continued to pull me up towards the ceiling. Thank God there is a ceiling or there would be quite a few dead people in space right about now. I tried to tighten my grip on the silk rope, but the webline continued to slip ever so slowly through my hands. I only had a little more than a foot of spider silk left to hold onto. I have even tried to make new weblines that were longer. However, unless its length could reach the top of the ceiling, this strategy would not solve my problem, but only delay it.

	“Let go, child.” Athena suddenly appeared before me. I assumed she was invisible to everyone else in the room, since that was her style. Let go? Is she [b]crazy[/b]? What would be the point of that? I would be stuck on the roof and that Newton guy would be unopposed on the ground. Sure, Chris was down there, but he was unarmed. What good could he do? However, I was not sure whether to express my disbelief in her advice. If Athena was invisible, would it look like I’m talking to myself? I obviously don’t want to make myself look insane. Well, more insane than I already do by running around in this skin-tight costume while playing superhero.

	“Newton’s gravity manipulation powers might be temporary and may rely on him remaining in the immediate proximity. If he escapes, then those men and women stuck on the ceiling will fall to their deaths.” Well, if she puts it that way, I guess my talents would be better utilized helping those stranded officers and guards than holding onto this silk rope.

	Therefore, I took a deep breath and released my grip on the silk rope, causing me to float up towards the ceiling. It kind of felt like what you would think that one scene from the old Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie where the boy and his grandfather were floating after drinking from that bottle in the final room. Minus the burping, of course. And the killer ceiling fan. I would still be holding onto that webline for my dear life if that was the case.

	Once I felt my back hit up against the ceiling, I used my ability to cling to almost any surface to flip myself over so that I could crawl around the ceiling. Now that I was safely on the ceiling, I turned my attention to the people whom I was supposed to be rescuing. The first person I came upon was the rookie who took the premature shot at Newton. He was shaking all over, probably terrified that at any moment he might be plunged to his death.

	[color=b22222]“Don’t worry. I gotcha.”[/color] I tried to console the man while I tethered him to the ceiling with silk produced from the spinnerets in my wrists. It took me a few minutes to secure everyone, since there were quite a few people stranded up here by Newton’s powers. About a baker’s dozen or so.

	However, before I could get to the last person, the laws of gravity were restored. Since I was using my powers to cling to the ceiling, my body did not notice the difference, but I knew it was back when the last officer began to fall. Instinctively, one of my hind spider legs pulled some silk from the spinnerets on my spider abdomen and attached it to the ceiling before I leaped after the women. I pushed off from the ceiling towards the woman, aiming to catch her before she went splat on the floor. Once she was safely in my arms, I tried to use my hind spider legs to slow our descent. However, I also could not abruptly stop our descent, since the change in momentum would probably break the officer’s neck. The floor appeared to rush closer and closer to us (although I know that it was obviously the reverse: the ground was not moving). When we finally came to a complete stop, our heads were only inches from the floor.

	[color=b22222]“Well, that was close.[/color] I told the female officer who I had just rescued from falling to her death. I then helped her to her feet, turning her right-side up. Once she was safely earthbound, and after my [i]spider-sense[/i] reassured me that I would not squash anyone (Hey! If Marvel can make Spider-Gwen look like me, then I can call my sixth sense a spider-sense.), I released the webline that I had just created and jumped down onto the floor back onto all eight of my legs.

	Now that I had averted one crisis, I found another starting on the ground floor.  I saw that Chris was sitting on the floor with his hand grasping his forehead. A paramedic was crotched down in front of Chris, tending to a cut on his face.

	[color=C0C0C0]“That jackass pistol-whipped me.”[/color] Chris complained as he winced at the burning sensation of the rubbing alcohol that the paramedic was applying to the location where Newton hit him. [color=C0C0C0]“Once my armor arrives, he’s not going to know what hit him.”[/color]

	[color=b22222]“Well, assuming we get the rest of the people off the roof, at least nobody got hurt.”[/color] Chris gave me a sour look after I said that nobody got hurt, despite that fact that he got pistol-whipped to the face. I could have relished his expression if it were not what he said next.

	[color=C0C0C0]“He took Maya.”[/color] After he spoke, I turned around and saw that his red-headed date was in fact missing. My cloud clone…thing was still standing there, so that’s a relief. It kind of would have been a little awkward if I had to go rescue myself. But on the other hand, that would give me some deniability that I’m not Arachne, even though I am.

	[color=b22222]“You know what. Why don’t you stay here and get those people off the roof while I go save your girlfriend.”[/color]