//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: A conspiracy // Story: Spiders and Magic Equestria Girls Fresh Start // by Alvaxerox //------------------------------// A few days have passed, Twilight Sparkle fully embrace her new spider powers she got from her transfusion. And has fully become Spider-Girl. Thanks to Rainbow Dash's training, she's become a capable fighter, now the time has come for her patrol Canterlot city. Spider-Girl noticed some thieves robbing a jewelry store, she sprung into action. "Stop right there, criminal scum." Spider-Girl exclaimed. "I will ask you to put everything you stole back where it came from... Or else." "A pink Spider-Man knock off?" The robber said. "Since when does Spider-Man became one of them viruses to create more spiders like him?" The other robber asked. "It doesn't matter. She's just a girl." The first robber said. "There's no way she can take us down." Spider-Girl feels insulted. "I may be inspired by Spider-Man, but I do have super powers just like him." She said. "Watch." She shoots her midnight webbing at the second robber and threw the first robber to the trash bin. "Now, will you cooperate?" "No way. You may have weird looking powers. But you will not stop us from taking these jewles." The second thug said. Spider-Girl sighs. "Alright, but just say I did try to reason with you." She said as she earns at the thug and kicks him in the face and then in the stomach. She snagged the jewels back from the thug and webs up both the criminals. "Next time, when I say give them back, you do give them back." Spider-Girl leaves the webbed up robbers for the police to find them. She then returns the jewels back to the store. Twilight took off her mask to catch her breath. "Man, that was a thrill." She said. "But I think that's it for now. Maybe I'll go get ready for school." Later... Twilight was putting her backpack away. She then sees Rainbow Dash walking towards. "Hey Twilight." She said. "Oh, hi Rainbow Dash." Twilight said. "So, how was it being a superhero." Rainbow Dash said. Twilight shushed Rainbow Dash. "Shhhh! Don't say it out loud, no one knows that." She whispered. "But I will say, it was awesome. I stopped some robbers who were trying to steal some jewelery." "Well, I got to say, that is a nice start." Rainbow Dash said. "Indeed. Though, it does make me a little scared to use my midnight magic to create webs." Twilight said. "Really?" Rainbow Dash said. "Yeah." Twilight said. "But I don't wanna get into that. Not yet at least." "Okay, if you say so." Rainbow Dash said. "We better get into class." "Your right." Twilight said. "Let's go." After class was done, Twilight was going outside to the field to relax. Although she seemed okay, she's still haunted by her traumatic experience as Midnight Sparkle. Just then, Sunset Shimmer joined her. "Hey Twilight. Is something wrong?" She asked. "Not much. It's just..." Twilight sighed. She can tell Sunset about her experience cause it's something Sunset can relate to. "How long did it take for everyone to forgive you when you demolish the school and tried to mind control everyone?" "Well, it was very tough, nobody treated me like a pariah." Sunset said. "Only Princess Twilight and the girls were able to forgive me. Though everyone thinks it's pity." Sunset remembers it all so clearly. She took over CHS so she can get Princess Twilight's element of harmony and enslave everyone into her own army to take over Equestria. "When the girls keep reminding, I sometimes think they really don't wanna forgive me cause what I did cannot be forgiven." "Yeah. Well, some people mainly take pity on me cause... I'm not my pony princess counterpart." Twilight said. "I've almost destroyed both Equestria and our world just so I can understand magic." "You have to know Twilight, it wasn't your fault. It's Cinch's. She manipulated into using all that magic you kept stealing from my friends." Sunset said. "Yeah, and you hurt my feelings." Twilight added. "My device acted like it had a will of its own." "That's because I didn't know you. You were not my Twilight Sparkle." Sunset said. "And what Cinch did to you, I was lucky to get you back into the light." "One thing you should know Sunset, when I became Midnight Sparkle, I reveled in it. My emotions, my desire to understand magic... It corrupted my mind and I embraced it." Twilight said. "Sometimes I believe Midnight Sparkle is like a separate being then me." "Like... Another person hiding inside you?" Sunset assumed. "Exactly. You see, I had a nightmare 4 days ago, I saw Midnight Sparkle trying to force me to become her." Twilight explained. "But I was stopped by... Well, a different aspect of me." "I... Don't understand." Sunset said. "Come with me." Twilight said as she holds Sunset's hand and took her to back wall of the school. "My friends were talking about superheroes the other day, and... Well... You heard of the superhero called Spider-Man?" Sunset thought about it. "I think I do, he's the wall crawling menace that wears a full mask and red and blue spandex?" "Yeah that one." Twilight said. "You see, there's something that happened after my dream, I woke up and... Well..." Twilight rolled up her right sleeve of her sweater. Showing Sunset that she has some muscle on it. "It's all over my body." "Twilight, did you work out?" Sunset asked. "Not really." Twilight replied. "Watch this." Twilight then jumps on the school wall, and she didn't slide down and fell off. To Sunset's surprise, Twilight was sticking on the wall. Her hands and feet where touching the wall and she was not coming down. "Twilight... What happened to you? Your sticking onto walls like Spider-Man? Did this happened during the Friendship games?" She asked. "No, not really. It happened after my incident.at the friendship games." Twilight added. "The magic I developed awakened my spider powers." Sunset was then confused. "But you did get bitten by a spider. Before and after we met you." She pointed out. "That's because my power didn't come from a spider bite." Twilight said. "My powers come from... Spider-Man." "What?" Sunset asked in confusion. "How? You never went to New York." "Actually I did. You see, a year ago after the friendship games, I went to New York for the student exchange program. I met some new friends. Met a really sweet guy, and I got to meet Spider-Man." Twilight said. Trying to reveal Spider-Man's secret identity. "Then how did you get his powers?" Sunset asked. "Well, that's a bit complicated." Twilight said. "Uh... Spider-Man was fighting a supervillain called the Lizard, and I wanted to help him. But I got hurt really bad. Spider-Man rushed me to the hospital. But because I was losing a lot of blood... He did a transfusion and sent some of his blood to me." "Oh my god, you have Spider-Man's blood?" Sunset asked. Twilight nodded. "It saved my life, since Spider-Man has the fast healing of a spider after all." "That makes sense. So after I saved you from being Midnight Sparkle, it awakened the rest of your powers?" Sunset asked. "Yes. Wall crawling, the strength of a spider. And my midnight magic mix with my spider blood gave me magical webs that are the same as my magic." Twilight said. "Wow. That is fascinating." Sunset said. "Wait, so your that Spider-Girl I've heard about on the news?" "Yes." Twilight reached into her backpack. Showing the pink costume. "I thought it would be spandex, now a baggy body stocking." Sunset pointed out. "I like to be comfortable when I fight crime." Twilight said. "Who else knows about your secret?" Sunset asked her friend. "Just Rainbow Dash." Twilight replied. "She's been training me to fight and use my powers." "That explains a lot." Sunset said. "Well, we better get back to class." "You're right." Twilight said. As they walk to the door to go inside. "I'm glad I told you my secret." "Me too, and don't worry. It safe with me." Sunset said. She gave Twilight a hug for trust. Later... School was out. Spider-Girl was patrolling the city. And she noticed something... It looked like a guy trying to rob a spa resort? 'That's weird?' Spider-Girl thought to herself. 'Why would he want to rob a place of relaxation? Well, I guess I better go stop him.' Spider-Girl jumped from a rooftop building and landed a few inches from the robber. The robber was already inside so she followed him. "Hey, what's the big idea?" The robber looks at Spider-Girl but he didn't looked right. He growls... Not saying a word, his body looks like it was covered in vines. "What... Are you?" "I don't know." One of the spa employees said. "But if he can break tables walls, then he's dangerous." The vine covered robber growls as he goes after the employees. But Spider-Girl webs him up. "Come on, let's get you out of here." She said. She grabs the employees and swings them outside. "You better get out of here, I'll take care of this guy." "Thank you Spider-Girl." The other employee said. As they ran, Spider-Girl goes back inside. "Okay, I don't know what happened to you, but I hope you have a good explanation." Spider-Girl said. The robber growled. "Something tells me, your not listening. Or... Your a zombie?" The vine covered robber goes after Spider-Girl, moving and running like a zombie. Spider-Girl tries shooting some webs, and then kicks the robber unconscious. She then carefully uses her midnight magic to burn off the vines. "Glad that's over." The robber then woke up. "Where... Am I?" "That's what I want to know." Spider-Girl asked. "Why were you attack that spa resort?" "Hey, your that girl spider right?" The robber asked. "Wait, spa resort?" The robber looks like the building behind the pink Spider-Girl. "Why would I rob a spa? They don't have that much money." Spider-Girl then sighed. She then thwips the robber. "Well, explain that to the police." "Hey, get this crud off of me!" The robber demanded. "Yeah no." Spider-Girl said as she swings away. "This is so weird, that guy was covered in vines, and he was acting like... He was under some sort of mind control." She then lands on a rooftop. "I'll have to do some investigating. Maybe find out where those vines came from." She then decided to swing back home. She'll have to tell Sunset and Rainbow Dash about what just happened. Unbeknownst to her, someone was watching her swing away. "So, she's took out that guy. Doesn't matter, she'll probably forget about it and so go on with her life. I got nothing to worry about." To be continued...