Arachne | Icon | Pendragon | Raptor | Vigilante | Wasp
“Beyond your ridiculous ‘counter-weights’, this form is pretty much identical to Black Widow’s” Effigy spoke, even though it sounded like Arachne’s voice was saying those words, “Far easier to train with than that stupid mercenary’s form.”
“Icon,” Kelly whispered to the blue marvel while Effigy boasted about his training with Black Widow’s form would translate into Arachne’s, “Although you’re our biggest piece here, it might be wise to keep your distance from him.”
The black garbed vigilante seconded the young wasp's sentiments somewhat more abruptly.
"Sky. Now." as he stepped forward, a dark glower on his face. He didn't turn to see where the blue and silver hero went - he didn't want to draw more attention to him - but he assumed he'd keep himself hidden, as he looked to put himself at the fore of his young team.
Kelly then paused for a moment when she realized that she might not have used the proper pronoun for Effigy. “Wait, what pronoun are we supposed to be using? ‘She’?”
“How about ‘it’?” Raptor interjected. However, this momentarily distracted ‘their’ Arachne, turning back towards the others as if they had also called her an ‘it’. “Don’t worry. It’s blatantly obvious that you’re a ‘she’.” Although he could not see Arachne’s expression under her mask, Raptor knew that she was giving him a death glare at the moment.
While she was distracted, Effigy took this opportunity to lunge forward at Arachne, tackling her to the ground. After a short scuffle on the floor, one of the Arachnes pushed the other off of herself.
“Um, guys.” Raptor scratched his head, “Did anyone keep track of which Arachne was ours?”
“I’m the real one!” Both of the Arachnes claimed in unison, “She’s the imposter!”
Isaac racked his brain. He'd wanted this one. He had a plan in his mind before it all changed, and maybe even he could find a way to use it. But not like this. Not in a crowd. And while this was a foreseeable possibility, that this Effigy would take the form of one of his teammates he'd need to run his mind back. Think of everything he knew about this spider-girl he barely knew and find a way to distinguish Arachne from imposter.
Any way. What do you know about her? What can you do?
He strode forward, his head cocked to one side looking for something. Anything. And then...
A dark smile penetrated through the black mask as his leer focused on the spidergirl on the left, he kept walking forward.
"You!" he growled. He raised his grapple gun and fired a concussive bolt into the left spidergirl's legs.
"Ow! Wait! No!" The accused spidergirl stepped back in retreat, trying to cover up from more of the Vigilante's blunt bolts. Isaac relentlessly kept firing at her lower quarters (or eighths...) advancing all the while. He walked past the other spidergirl dropping some kind of object as he passed.
It all happened fast.
BANG!
A flashbang grenade went off at the second unsuspecting spidergirl's feet. The Vigilante turned on a dime and threw a heavy right hand...
But despite being blinded by the grenade she jumped back and out of the way of it, as if she knew the punch was coming from another sense.
Isaac cursed himself quietly, as he obviously must have telegraphed his play somehow...
But he'd flushed out the imposter. That was half of the job.
"Get the real Arachne clear!" he barked at Raptor, pointing at the spidergirl confusedly rubbing her legs.
"That won't work twice."
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