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[center][b]Zac Wilson[/b] | [b]Kelly Brown[/b] | [b]Aubrey Adkins[/b] | [b]Veronica Arthur[/b][/center]
Kelly rose up towards the ceiling, where whoever was drawing in Aubrey lurked. She hovered below the opening in the ceiling, from where the web-line was suspended.

“Come out, who or whatever you are” Kelly said, plucking the web-line in order to send a vibration back to whoever was on the other end of the web. However, once she touched the web, Kelly discovered that she could not pull her hand away. The spider-silk that stuck to her hand held fast. No matter how hard she tried, Kelly could not release herself from the silk.

Nevertheless, Kelly struggled in vain, causing her to become entangled in the spider-silk. As she struggled to free herself from the sticky trap, Kelly felt a vibration pulse through the web, as if something, or someone, was coming. A humanoid upper body appeared from the whole in the ceiling. What followed, however, was anything but human. A giant, black spider body seemed to have been infused with the woman’s torso.

The woman descended on a dragline, until she reached Kelly. At that moment, the woman immediately started to wrap Kelly in a thick web cocoon. No matter how much she struggled, Kelly couldn’t move. Eventually, only Kelly’s head was visible. Suddenly, the woman popped her face in front of Kelly’s head. To Kelly’s surprise, she recognized the face of the woman. It was the girl at the hospital, who had hit on Zac.

“You bitch! Why I ought a...” Kelly began, but before she could finish, there was a vibration from below her. The woman progressed down the dragline, passing her spider abdomen over Kelly’s face, revealing a red hourglass. Sweat started to pour down Kelly’s forehead. A Black Widow spider could hospitalize a normal human. What could a giant one do? But before she could contemplate that idea, Kelly felt the webline jolt upwards and then fall back down.

“What did you do?” Kelly asked.

“Just released some dead weight” she replied. Once Kelly heard this, chills radiated through her body, knowing that this woman had just released Aubrey from the web, causing her to fall several feet to the ground. After a few seconds, Kelly heard something snap, along with a small splash.

“You’re a monster!”

“Takes one to know one,” the woman replied to Kelly’s insult.

The woman prepared to drop Kelly too, ascending the dragline so that she too would not fall with Kelly. Kelly knew that if she was going to act, now was the time. Kelly exerted all her energy into breaking out of the silk cocoon. Once she forced herself out, Kelly concentrated on her wings, preparing for flight. She swooped around and latched onto the woman’s spider abdomen, piercing it several times with the wasp barb.

Once Kelly’s wasp venom infiltrated the woman’s bloodstream, she began to go into a daze, resulting in her tumbling from the dragline. Kelly leaped off the woman’s spider abdomen, hovering in midair. However, Kelly had exerted so much energy in her escape and in incapacitating of the woman that she was starting to blackout too. Kelly attempted to fly down to where Zac was and she almost succeeded in it too, but once she started to slow her descent as she approached the floor, Kelly completely blacked out.

Zac lunged forward, catching Kelly’s hand at the last moment. Zac began to pull her out of the pit, but he suddenly remembered something. Something that the “dreamverse” Aubrey had told him. If Zac would just let go of Kelly’s hand and let her plunge into the dark green liquid, Kelly’s problem would be gone. Kelly’s wasp-like appearance would transfer over to Aubrey. Zac’s grip began to loosen, knowing that it would be the best for the both of them.

But another thought entered Zac’s head. That girl from the hospital had also fallen into the pool of the serum. Zac had no idea whether Kelly would inherit that woman’s spideresque appearance. Was that a risk Zac was willing to take in to even have the slightest possibility to have Kelly look normal again? Or would he rather take the devil he already knew rather than the one he did not?

Therefore, Zac immediately tightened his grip on Kelly’s hand and pulled her up. She was still unconscious from the energy she had just exerted. She was breathing, but still unconscious. Zac just laid her head in his lap, running his fingers through her hair. Would Kelly ever forgive him for even considering letting her fall into the liquid serum? Was he even thinking about her own wellbeing, or was he just selfishly thinking about his own needs and fears?

“Will she be alright?” Veronica asked, squatting down next to Zac. Zac looked over toward Veronica, only to see her drenched in sweat. Zac saw that there was a bandage wrapped around Veronica’s arm, something he did not notice until that time. Had their captors already injected her with the serum too?

“She’ll be fine,” Zac lied, truly unsure of Kelly’s true condition, “but what about you? You look like a mess.”

“I’ll be fine,” Veronica said with a fake smile, revealing that she was indeed in pain.

Suddenly, something emerged from the pool of liquid, frightening both Zac and Veronica. However, once they saw it was a blonde-haired girl, both Zac and Veronica could rest easily. Aubrey was desperately drawing in deep breaths in an attempt to catch her breath. Once she pulled herself out of the green liquid, Zac was surprised that Aubrey did not have the woman’s spider-like features. By no means did he wish that upon her, but expected to see eight legs crawl out of that pool, not just two.

“Aubrey? You’re, um, you’re alive,” Veronica said, her wavering voice clearing showing that she was in pain.

Aubrey looked down at the floor, attempting to steady her breathing by taking longer, deeper breaths. “I only remember everything going black before I hit the floor. The next thing I knew was I was submerged into some kind of liquid. I have no idea what happened.”

When Aubrey looked back up towards Veronica and Zac, she was only greeted with blank stares.

“What is it?” Aubrey asked, wondering what was happening.

“Aubrey,” Zac began, “the gash on your forehead. It, well, spontaneously healed.” Aubrey immediately rubbed her hand against her forehead, discovering to her surprise that there was not a single injury on her head, not even a scar.

However, their moment of bewilderment was interrupted when Aubrey bent over, grasping her head with both of her hands.

“What’s wrong now, Aubrey?” Zac asked.

“It feels like an anvil was just dropped on my head.” Aubrey replied. She looked up toward the door on the opposite side of the room. “It’s almost as if it’s trying to say something is coming from that direction”.

And just as Aubrey finished speaking, a sword jutted through the wall, cutting through it as if it was made out of butter. Whoever was behind the door kicked down that section of the wall, including the door, out from its former place, causing it to slide across the floor and stopping directly in front of the four captives.

A giant suit of armor emerged from the new opening in the wall. The Iron Knight slashed his sword through the air, making an “x” motion in the air. Then he suddenly sheathed his sword on his back. The Corinthian helmet that rested on the head of whoever was inside the suit turned its gaze toward the four individuals on the floor.

“I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum.” The man in the mechanical armor said in a robotic voice. Immediately he stuck out his closed fist, as if he intended to show the four of them something. Once the Iron Knight opened his stretched out fist, several wrappers of bubblegum fell to the floor.

“And I’m all out of bubble gum.”