“Where am I?”
Applejack came out of her deep sleep, and when her eyes opened, she got a real shock. She could feel the blood rushing to her head, indicating she was upside-down; she looked at her hands and saw she was holding onto a rope of some kind, she thought it was wise not to let go of it.
But when she turned her head, she was right beside a building with reflective windows; giving her a good look at herself.
She couldn’t believe her eyes, Applejack was wearing a full on spider-suit, black and red, with a large red spider emblem on its chest. “What happened to me?” Seeing what she was holding onto, and what she was wearing; Applejack decided to tempt fate a little.
The farm girl let go of the rope and dropped down to the side of the building, without even thinking, she pressed her hands and feet against the glass; and to her surprise, she was sticking to the building.
Applejack looked at her reflection, “What is this?” she took her hands of the glass, she was now just holding on with her feet. Applejack clenched her fists, she muttered, “Wow, this feels good.” A thought then came to her; ever since she learned that spider-people could do stuff like this, there was something she always wanted to try.
The new spider-hero crawled up the wall, before spring-flipping forward and pushing herself away from the wall, throwing herself off the building. She cheered like crazy as she fell towards the streets of Canterlot; she then knew what she had to do next, and it worked. Applejack aimed her hand and shot a red-web-line from her wrist; allowing her to swing through the buildings.
Applejack let go of the web she was winging on and landed on the side of a tower; she latched onto its wall and took a moment to get her breath back. She took off the mask she was wearing; while holding it in her hands, she muttered, “Where have ya been all my life?”
Meanwhile, in an alleyway, somewhere in the city; something horrible had just happened.
Lying on the ground was a body, a headless body; standing next to what used to be a teenage girl, was Babs Seed. She had killed someone and stolen her clothes; a pair of black boots, ripped jeans, yellow crop-top and black leather jacket.
Babs’ old outfit was covering the stump that used to be a head, and slithering its way back to Babs was a yellow symbiote tentacle. As the yellow slime went back into the Babs Seed, she looked down at the body, “Thanks for the new look.” She muttered.
She then walked out to the streets; as she walked down the road, she spotted something. It was a car, a roofless car that she had seen in magazines, she asked herself, “Am I old enough to drive.” She was almost seventeen. “Don’t care, got to have it.”
She jumped into the driver’s seat, she pointed her finger at the ignition key slot; and yellow symbiote claw grew from her pointing finger. Working as a makeshift key, Babs started the car and drove off; as she did this, the owner of the car saw his car getting stolen, he chased them down the street until she got away.
Whilst driving, Babs looked in the mirror, instead of her reflection, she saw Scream instead. “Oh, I’ve missed you.” She muttered.
The symbiote replied, “I missed you too; and once we kill the one who imprisoned us, we’ll be unstoppable.”
“I here that, and I think I know just how to draw our little spider-friend out.” Babs Seed replied.
Suddenly, without warning, a giant yellow tentacle grew out of Babs’ back; the tentacle grabbed hold of a car that was driving next to them and threw it at the coffee shop they were driving past. Both the symbiote and its host laughed at the destruction they were causing.
Applejack was having some much fun with her new superpowers, she spent the whole evening swinging around the city; right up until she landed on a roof top. “Wow.” She muttered. “No wonder Adam and Twilight do this so much.”
Without warning, a strange tingling feeling was felt in her head, she looked around to find out what was causing it; then she noticed something.
Four masked men, with guns, were seen walking into a small bank on the side of the street; Applejack knew what she had to do, so she jumped off the roof and swung down after them.
One of the masked men was attaching something to one of the ATMs, he turned to the guy next to him and said, “Okay, blow it.” The guy pushed a button and there was a tiny explosion, the ATMs slid out of the wall; this gave the crooks access to the money behind them.
“We can hit like five more places tonight; what with the spiders distracted by this Underground group, guys like us have nothing to worry about.” One of the criminals said.
None of them noticed Applejack walk into the room; she thought about it and said to herself, “What would Adam or Twilight do?” She then thought of something, she leaned against the side of the door and tried to look cool; then in a disguised voice, she said, “Howdy guys, did you forget your pin number?”
The four masked men stopped stuffing their bags with money and looked at the spider-hero standing by the door. The crook that seemed like the leader said to his men, “There’s a third one?”
The crook holding the shot-gun replied, “Not for much longer.” He pumped the gun and aimed it at Applejack.
Just before the gunman could shoot her, Applejack jumped up and stuck to the ceiling; she grabbed the gun and hit the crook in the side of head with it. This knocked him to floor and caused his fellow criminals to get up and try and get her themselves.
While Applejack was sticking to the ceiling, one of the other crooks tried punching her; but she just moved her head out of the way of his punches. She then shot a web into his face, causing him to stumble back; he tripped over the money backs and fell to the ground.
AJ jumped back down to the floor and was confronted by the other two crooks; she made short work of them, jumped between them, hitting one with her foot and the other with her fist. The both fell to the floor, however, the first guy got back up; he pulled one of the explosives out of his pocket and lit it.
The crook threw the little bomb at the spider-hero; but she simply kicked the item away. It was flung threw the window, but it was a powerful kick; the explosive went all the way across the street to the corner store on the other side of the road.
When the bomb went through the window of the store, it exploded; Applejack saw this happen and was shocked at what she had done. “Oh no.” she muttered. Forgetting about the bank robbers, she left the bank and ran across the street.
Once she made it to the store, she went inside and called out, “Hello, anybody in here.” Not long after saying that, she found the store owner and helped him outside. Luckily for her, there was no one else in there; but she then looked across the street and saw the bank robbers had gotten away.
With nothing left for her to do here, she shot a web to the rooftops and began swinging away.
Applejack was just sitting on the roof of an apartment building, thinking about what she had done; sure no one was hurt, but that guy lost his business and the four criminals got away. “All these years, Adam and Twilight made it look so easy.” AJ muttered.
Suddenly, something caught her attention; a police car was parked below her. The police officer wasn’t around, but the radio in the car was making noises; Applejack jumped down and listening to what it was saying.
“Attention all units, police pursuit in progress on Walter Street; suspect is male, blonde hair at shoulder length and sunglasses.” Applejack then reached into her pocket under her suit and pulled out the photo of the man that killed her parents, the description of the suspect match the photograph one-hundred percent. This was confirmed when the radio continued, “Suspect is believed to be known fugitive, Switch Blade.”
Applejack muttered, “Switch Blade.” She scrunched up the photo and began swinging away, she made her way to where the police chase was happening.
At the location of the police pursuit, the car that was being chased was driving all over the road; it was crashing past other cars in order to keep a distance between him and the police. The criminal rolled the window down and threw something out at the police cars; it was a mini-grenade, it exploded and popped the tires, causing the cop cars to stop.
The crook laughed at his victory, only for the laughing to stop when he heard something land on his roof; thinking it could only be the Spiderman, he picked up his pistol and began shooting through the roof of his car.
However, it wasn’t Spiderman; Applejack avoided the gun shots and jumped onto the car’s hood, before the criminal could shoot at her, AJ punched through the windshield and grabbed his arm. Trying to knock her off, the crook steered his car to the left and crashed it into some trash cans; Applejack was thrown off the car, allowing the crook to escape and run into the abandoned building beside them.
As the police stopped their cars and formed a barricade around the building, Applejack snuck inside, through the air vents.
Inside, the crook held his gun in his hand; he felt like he was being watched by someone, little did he know, he was right.
Applejack had made it inside, she was hiding in the dark and crawling around the ceiling; after she made sudden movement, the criminal noticed her presence. “Who’s there?!” he shouted. He saw AJ’s shadow and began firing at her.
The thug ran for the door, he figured he’d take his chances with the cops; but he was stopped at the door when someone grabbed him by the back of his shirt and slammed him against the window in the door, smashing the glass.
He cried out in pain, only for Applejack to show no mercy and smash him against the other door; she then threw him away. This allowed the crook to pull out a pocket knife, he tried to slice at Applejack; but she was quick, she kicked the knife out of his hand and kicked him away.
He was right next to the window, Applejack could get a good look at him; this confirmed it, it was him, Switch Blade. AJ did the unthinkable, she took off her mask and threw it to the side; Switch Blade was backed against the large window.
“Don’t hurt me, just give me a chance. Just give me a chance!” he pleaded.
Applejack said back, “What about my parents, did you give them a chance? Did you?!”
The spider-hero grabbed him by the neck, she was about to do something unthinkable; when something flew through her mind.
It was a memory of her when she was a child, back when her parents were still alive; she was playing in the park with her brother, she remembered at that time, her mother was pregnant with Applebloom. Applejack thought to herself, ‘Is this what they would have wanted?’
AJ let go of him and backed away, but Switch Blade caught her attention when her pointed his gun at her forehead; he chuckled slightly before saying, “See ya.”
But he never got the chance to fire, Applejack grabbed his wrist and twisted it, causing him to drop the gun; Switch Blade was scared for his life now, he back away from her. But the crook wasn’t watching his footing; he tripped on a pipe and smashed through the old window, he then fell to the ground, no chance of surviving the fall.
The police watched their suspect fall to his demise, he landed right in front of them; they pointed a spotlight at the window he fell from, there they saw Applejack, luckily the light masked who she was. “Freeze! We’ve got the building completely surrounded!” an officer said into a megaphone.
The police got inside and ran up to where Switch Blade fell from, only to find that Applejack had already got her mask back and escaped.
Applejack sat on top of a roof somewhere, she was thinking about what had just happened; she had mixed feelings about this.
She was happy that man couldn’t hurt anyone else, or their family; but AJ felt just that little bit guilty, he fell because of her, because he was scared of her. Applejack put her mask back on and decided to go home.
The farm girl was ready to call it a night, she’d had enough of this for now.
Not far away, on a bridge that cross a river that ran through the city an out to the bay; a family sized car was stuck in traffic. Inside that car, was father and his daughter; the little girl was sat in the back of the car, reading her book.
The father looked in the mirror and asked his daughter, “Are you okay back there, sweetie?”
“Yes, daddy.” She replied.
Suddenly, one of the cars behind them slightly rammed into them, causing the father to say, “What the heck…” he undid his seat belt and opened his door. “Stay here, I’m just going to see what’s going on.”
The little girl nodded, obeying what her father said.
At the other end of the bridge, people were getting out of their cars and running away; this was because of the person who had just got out of her car and threw it into the water. Babs Seed chuckled as she watched the scared people run for their lives.
One person didn’t run however, this person was a police officer; he took his gun out of his pocket and pointed it at Babs’. He ordered, “Put your hands and on your head and get down on the ground!”
But Babs’ acted like she was confused, “Um, which hands?” she asked. Suddenly, yellow slime began to consume her body, right up until the slime formed a body, Scream.
Once the symbiote monster had been formed, the officer started shooting her; but the bullets were bounce off her like nothing. The monster’s hand morphed into a blade and she sliced the cop out of her way; once he was out of the way, she began running in-between the cars, scaring all the people away.
Swinging close by, Applejack noticed the commotion on the bridge; she couldn’t just leave and do nothing, so she jumped off her web and landed on one of the cars.
Applejack saw the monster that was attacking the people, she recognised it to the letter, “Babs Seed?” she said to herself. Scream was picking up empty cars and throwing them into the water; right up until she reached a car that wasn’t empty.
Babs’ picked up the family sized vehicle, and threw it away; the strange tingling feeling came back, warning Applejack that she needed to stop that car from falling. The spider-hero jumped after it, shooting a web-line and sticking it to the bridge; once it was holding, she ran for the one that threw it.
Scream roared at the people who were running away, no noticing Applejack run up behind her; the symbiote turned around at the last minute and received a powerful kick to the stomach, causing her to stumble back. Applejack then delivered a powerful upper-cut, knocking the monster away.
Just as AJ was about to go after her, she heard someone calling out for help. “Help! Someone help! My daughter, she’s trapped down there!” he was gesturing to the car Applejack had dangled over the side of the bridge.
AJ watched as Scream crawled away, but she had other things to worry about; Applejack jumped off the bridge and tried to gently land on the dangling car. She ripped the trunk door open with her strength and saw the little girl in her seat.
“Help me!” she screamed.
The spider-hero said to her, “It’s okay, I’m here to help you.”
But the little girl didn’t recognise this spider like the others, she was scared this one wasn’t friendly; so once again, Applejack did something she probably shouldn’t have done. She took off her mask and showed her face to the little girl.
“It’s okay, Sugarcube. I a normal person, just like you.” When the girl saw AJ’s face, she began to calm down. “You wanna hold my mask, go on take it.” Applejack gave the little girl the mask. The hero crawled through the car to the little girl, she began to undo he seat belt and gently lit her out of the car; however, Applejack didn’t notice the car’s fuel leaking down the side of the vehicle; one spark from the damaged engine caused the fuel to ignite.
The car was set ablaze, the little girl fell out of Applejack’s arms and landing in the front of the car; the vehicle broke free from the web, but Applejack was able to catch it and shoot another web to the bridge. AJ was now using all of her strength to hold up the car; she looked at the scared girl, she needed to get her out of there.
“What’s your name?” the spider-hero asked.
The little girl replied, “Lily Bell.”
“Okay Lily Bell, I need you to climb out of there.” Applejack explained.
“I can’t.” Lily Bell replied.
“Yes you can.”
She wanted to try, but Lily Bell was too scared to move; so Applejack told her, “The mask, put on it on. Put on my mask, it’ll make you strong.” Not seeing anything else she could do, Lily Bell took the mask and put it on. “That’s good, now climb.”
Lily Bell began climbing up through the car, but she had to hurry, Applejack was losing her grip.
Just as the little girl was about to make it, the piece AJ was holding onto broke off, causing her to drop the car; just before the girl and the car could drop into the river, Applejack shot a quick web at Lily Bell and pulled her up into her arms, she was safe.
After AJ had gotten her mask back, she lifted Lily Bell up onto the bridge and put her in the arms of her father; the crying dad hugged his daughter with all the love he could give her. The father muttered, “Oh my daughter, thank goodness you’re alright.”
Whilst still hugging his daughter, the father turned to the one who saved her; he said to AJ, “Thank you; who are you?”
Applejack just thought of the first thing that came into her head, “I’m Spider-Woman.”
Police cars were rolling up to the bridge, AJ decided to get out of here before they put her under arrest for something she didn’t do. So she waved goodbye to the father and daughter and jumped off the bridge she began swinging home.
That night, she made a promise to herself; the next time they all gathered, Applejack would tell her friends everything.
Meanwhile, down in the sewers; Babs Seed was reverting back to normal.
The teenage girl began giving out to her symbiote, “That wasn’t Spiderman; it wasn’t even Spider-Girl, that was someone new.” Suddenly, a tentacle grew out of Babs’ back, this one had Scream’s face on the end of it.
“Relax, we can use this to our advantage.”
Babs Seed asked her, “What are you talking about?”
Scream explained, “Whilst on that bridge with that knew spider, I sensed something; something familiar. She’s one of us; she has a symbiote.” Scream slithered back into Babs’ body, then came out completely, consuming the girl’s body in yellow slime.
“I sensed the presence of one of my brothers.” The symbiote stated.
The monster smashed through a man hole in the street and crawled up to a building; she quickly crawled up the wall to the highest point she could, once she had reached the top, she said something to the city.
“Soon Canterlot City; he will return, and when he does….” All Scream could do was laugh before she said the next bit, “Let…. There…. Be….. CARNAGE!!!”
