[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/iyJuAe0.png[/img][/center][center][b]This is an elsewhere story and does not affect canon...yet[/b][/center]
[center][b]“90’s” Aubrey Adkins[/b][/center][center][b]A suburb of Columbus, OH, Earth-99[/b][/center][center][b]late April 2010[/b][/center]
	Butterflies fluttered in my chest as the hottest songs of the past four years blared through the building. I draped my arms around my prom date’s shoulders while he had his hands resting on my waist. If you would have told me four years ago who my prom date would be, I probably have rolled my eyes at you. During our sophomore year, Will asked me to the homecoming dance and I could have easily brushed him off by making an excuse that I was not going to the dance. However, even though we traveled in different circles, I rolled the dice and it resulted in a 3-year long relationship that was still going strong. Sure, everyone has their ups and downs, but no one said relationships were a cakewalk.

	For the senior class, this was one final hurrah before we would forever part ways for new adventures, whether at the university level or in the workforce. For the juniors, it was the milestone that marked the time when it was their turn to start counting the days down until they too could graduate. However, before this could happen, the Juniors had to organize this dance. This year, they picked a superhero theme, not only because of the handful of movies from the genre released during our time in high school, but also because of the real ‘caped crusaders’ of our world, the likes of Icon and Iron Knight. Since this is a formal dance, no one could dress for the theme except for guys wearing undershirts with superhero logos on them, but the juniors tried to pull it off in any way possible.

	The stars sparkled in the night sky, or at least as many as there could be with the lights of Columbus shining in the distance, while the hundreds of juniors and seniors (and the few sophomores and even freshmen who somehow got invited) enjoyed the temperate night of dancing and music. As it was long past midnight, some of the attendees had already decided to take off and enjoy their post-prom parties. 

	However, as the remaining lingerers continued the party, over the horizon, what looked like green aurora borealis were sweeping across the sky. We watched in awe as the lights billowed past us above our heads. The lights gave off an eerie atmosphere while they were still within our view. However, since nothing immediately happened as these nighttime lights appeared, we, as the teenagers that we were, placed it out of our mind, especially since the next song began to play.

[center][i]I’ve had a little too much[/i]
[i]All the people start to rush[/i][/center]
	[color=b22222]“One more song before we go?”[/color] I asked Will. Although he nodded in agreement, I had already grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him to the dance floor long before he could give answer.
[center][i]How does he twist and dance?[/i]
[i]Can't find my drink or man.
Where are my keys?
I lost my phone.[/i][/center]
	We weaved through the mass of stragglers who had not yet called it a night until we finally found some space for us.  As the lyrics blared through the air and as I moved with the beat of the music, I felt my vision become blurred. At first, I just thought that I was just drowsy from the fatigue of the past day’s festivities. I would have continued on like this. However, Will intervened.

	“Are you alright?” He asked me, concerned from seeing me stumble since I was having a difficult time with my vision.

	[color=b22222]“Maybe we should go.”[/color] I admitted to my date. At that moment, we heard a sudden commotion erupt from our surrounding.

[center][i]What’s goin' on the floor?
I love this record baby but I can't see straight anymore. 
Keep it cool. What's the name of this club?
I can't remember but it’s alright, I'm alright. [/i][/center]
	All around us, a portion of the prom crowd began to exhibit metahuman powers. Some were lucky enough that to have developed only innate abilities while leaving their physical appearance more or less unchanged. Others, however, were not so lucky. While no one had the misfortune of being transformed into literal abominations, some now had appearances less human than others.

	I then felt an intense pain in my legs. Even before I turned my eyes down towards my legs, fear already struck my heart, filling my head with what was about to happen to me. Before my eyes, what I used to be able to call my legs began to grow thin until they resembled the forelimbs of a spider. My heels slipped off the claws where my toes had a few seconds ago had been located. But this was not the end, as six more legs, near identical to the two that protruded in front of me, grew from underneath my prom dress, tearing the bottom of the fabric as they stretched out on both sides of me.

	Tears began to pour down my cheeks once I had realized that my entire lower body had been replaced in a single instance by a giant spider, minus its face. How could something like this happen? This sort of tragedy only happened in fiction, right? Yet now I probably am almost more arachnid than human, even though the rest of seems to have been unchanged. What have I done to deserve this? Sure, I was a cheerleader since middle school and I was crowned Homecoming queen this year, but I was by no means like any of the antagonists from [i]Mean Girls[/i]. Why was this happening to me?

	However, while I was attending my own pity party, I felt a warm embrace wrapped around my body, or at least what remained of my human half. Once I wiped the tears from my eyes, I saw Will there, trying to comfort me. Part of me was infuriated that he somehow was unaffected by what had caused my transformation, even though there were many others who seemed to have remained normal. However, at the same time, I also was relieved that he had not ditched me once he had seen his girlfriend become a human spider. I don’t know what I was going to do now. None of us did.

[center][i]Just dance! It’s
Gonna be okay
Just dance!
Spin that record babe.
Just dance! It’s
Gonna be okay
D-d-d dance, dance, dance, just
J-J-Just dance![/i][/center]
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Lady Gaga: [i]Just Dance[/i] 2008