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[center][b]Kelly Brown[/b] | [b]Jeanette Forestier[/b] | [b]Samantha Kadowsky[/b] | [b]Darren Norton[/b] | [b]Taylor Parks[/b] | [b]Zac Wilson[/b][/center]
	“We’re going to have to smoke these furries out,” one of the Hounds of Humanity who were besieging Jefferson Hall shouted to his compatriots. Since they knew that the Albany police and their S.W.A.T. team would be responding to their assault on the local college campus, the Hounds made sure to bring along their own vehicles to give them cover against the imminent counterattack by the authorities. They had several black SUVs that were equipped with bullet-proof glass and reinforced frames.
 
	“We’re not furries!” One of the girls on the roof shouted down to the Hounds. The man who had spoken first raised his rifle and fired a warning shot into the air above the roof. Although he did not hit anyone, it did cause the girl to let out a scream.
 
	“That’s what I thou—” The man began to gloat until he felt a sharp pain originate from his ankles, as if something had bitten him. He brushed at his legs until he discovered that an ant was the culprit. After he had flicked the insect off himself, he crushed it under his boot. Almost as soon as he terminated that insect, a swarm of ants appeared out of nowhere, darting towards the man. Even though he got a few rounds off at this army of ants, the mass of insects engulfed him in a matter of seconds.
 
	“HOLY SHIT!” Another of the Hounds of Humanity yelled while watching in horror as his comrade screaming from the pain of hundreds of insect bites. He hesitated from shooting at the army of ants, since one of his allies were hidden under that mass. This gave the ants an opportunity to turn their attention from the first man to the second, engulfing him, too.
 
	Once these two men had been taken out by the army of ants, the swarm began to collate together until they created a humanoid frame, made entirely out of live ants. This figure’s only discernible feature was its glowing red eyes. Otherwise, its entire body looked like a general human, as long as you ignored the fact that it was composed of thousands of living ants. The other Hounds had by now realized that they were being flanked by what they assumed was a metahuman. They began to unload their weapons at the unknown combatant. However, even though their slugs would blast off some ants from this individual, there were plenty of replacements standing by to take the dead insect’s place.
 
	Unlike what most people would do in this situation, the ant-composed metahuman rushed forward the soldiers who were shooting return fire at her. The bullets did not slow her down, although she did appear to wince with the death of each ant. Then, she dove towards the ground, as if there were a deep swimming pool in front of her. However, instead of faceplanting into the dirt, her body separated out into the individual ants that she was composed of. This swarm of ants darted forward, intent on taking out these men just like the first two.
 
	“We need the flamethrower!” One of the Hounds shouted while/ being engulfed by the swarm of ants. One of his comrades dashed over to a nearby SUV and scrambled to pull out a flamethrower, if they had one in it. However, the man paused when the he heard a heavy thump land beside the SUV. He peered past the side of the truck, where he saw a giant of a man with the musculature of a weightlifter. His muscular body was covered by a black, insect exoskeleton. If this was not bizarre enough, the giant man also had a second pair of arms, which were just as muscular as his first pair, halfway between his shoulders and hips. Although his human head was covered by a mask that matched the black hue of his exoskeleton, three horns protruded from his head, arranged like those of an Atlas beetle. Two of them jutted out of the man’s temples, like giant devil horns, while the third crested his nose.
 
	The giant of a man lifted the SUV over his head and tossed it aside as if it were a little toy car. The Hound goon did not have enough time to grab the flamethrower and therefore was empty handed. The giant of a man stomped forward, each footstep causing a small rumble. The Hound goon tried to back away from the new hostile, but the giant snatched him up by his legs and tossed him at the other Hounds, knocking them down like pins at a bowling alley.
 
	While the Hounds were distracted by these two new challengers, a third figure rushed towards Jefferson Hall and scaled up its side. This woman had a drider-like physique, while she wore a skin-tight costume that matched her black-hued spider half. Her black hair was styled in a short pixie cut and her skin was a pale white color.
 
	“You know what they say. The enemy of [i]my[/i] enemy is my friend,” Black Widow told the six metahumans who were trapped on the roof.
 
	[color=peru]“Quite the coincidence that Diplodoc’s goons would show up when the Hounds attack, which begs a question. Which of us is your enemy and which is your so-called [i]friend[/i]?”[/color] Zac gestured between the Raptor Pack standing behind him and the Hounds below when he asked his question.

	“Don’t be silly,” Black Widow answered. “We have as much to lose as you do if those human extremists succeed. Maybe even more since you heroes could probably rely on public support. Villains can’t.”

	“Wait, when did that spider-girl turn evil?” Jeanette whispered to Kelly while Black Widow and Zac were holding a conversation.

	“And I thought she was recently sighted in California in the last two or so months?” Darren butted into Kelly and Jeanette’s conversation. Black Widow, on the other hand, was trying her best to restrain herself from lashing out at the people she was trying to save because they were confusing her with Arachne. Although they both did have a driderlike physique and her heroic lookalike did acquire her powers from falling into a pool of Doctor Diplodoc’s serum at the same time as Black Widow did, she expected that their costumes’ color schemes and hairstyles would at least make the two of them discernable.

	“Don’t confuse me with that blonde bimbo,” Black Widow cursed.

	“As the resident blonde,” Taylor suddenly spoke from the trashcan that Sammy had sat down on the rooftop after Jeanette had flown them over from Adams Hall. Her voice almost sounded like she was talking in a liquid medium. “I take offense to that comment.”

	[color=khaki]“‘Scarlett Johansson’ called you a blonde bimbo,”[/color] Kelly read aloud the text that she was sending to Arachne via her cell phone, which she had just pulled out of her jeans’ back pocket.

	[color=peru]“When did you get her number?”[/color]

	[color=khaki]“She finally accepted my friend request on Facebook,”[/color] Kelly replied. When her phone buzzed, signaling that Arachne had sent a response to Kelly message, Kelly peered down at her phone again. [color=khaki]“She said ‘that female dog.’ I’m obviously paraphrasing that, of course.”[/color]

	“Why do I even try?” Black Widow mused, facepalming as the metahumans whom she was trying to rescue from the terrorists who were trying to kill them continued cracking jokes.


	“You know what? I think she had one thing on Arachne. I think her spider abdomen is a little bigger than hers. I think that’s a sign in spiders when they’re pregnant. Could you google that for us, Kelly?” Sammy chimed in, ignoring the death glare that Black Widow was giving her due to her comment.

	[color=khaki]“Let’s see, do spider’s abdomen expand when they’re pregnant.”[/color] Kelly pulled out her phone to research Sammy’s question. However, before she typed anything into her internet browser, Kelly paused. [color=khaki]“On second thought, maybe those aren’t the safest search terms.”[/color]

	Meanwhile, a fourth insect-themed metahuman climbed up the side of Jefferson Hall. She was wearing a green-colored costume with a mask of the same color that covered her entire face. Her body had a second pair of arms attached to her hips, just like Kelly, while the woman’s top pair of arms had scythelike appendages instead of hands.

	“Time to go,” the green-clad woman told Black Widow once she reached the roof. “The police are beginning to show up, now that we’ve neutralized the Hound threat.”

	“I’m done with these ungratefuls, Mantess,” Black Widow grumbled, throwing up a middle finger at the six metahumans who had been trapped on the roof before turning to scale down the side of Jefferson Hall, with Mantess following shortly behind.

	[color=khaki]“Thank you!”[/color] Kelly yelled back to Black Widow and Mantess so that they could hear her.