Rainbow's First Supervillain
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Rainbow's First Supervillain
Swinging high and low from one part of the city to the next...was none other than Canterlot's newest superhero: the Awesome Spider-Girl!
Ever since she saved Thorax from Garble and his little street gang, Rainbow Dash had been all too eager to jump back into the fray and be a hero again. She had decided that she was going to fight crime, save people in need, be a symbol of justice and all that stuff. Probably even save a few cats from trees on the side as well.
She was going to be a superhero.
It would be the least she could do after what happened with Firefly.
The problem was...well, where to start?
After having spent the last three hours aimlessly swinging around town looking for 'hero opportunities', so to speak, Rainbow soon came to realise that just going around looking for crimes to fight wasn't all that easy when it really came down to it.
Even with her spider-sense on full alert for anything suspicious, it didn't seem like all that many people actually committed felonies in broad daylight for her to conveniently swoop in and put an end to.
So now she really had nothing better to do than find a good spot on the roof of a small building to perch down on while trying to come up with a new idea on what to do with herself.
'Well...this sucks,' Rainbow noted to herself, now sitting on the building's ledge with her legs dangling down below. However, before she got there, she did buy a tomato sandwich on the way...so she could at least eat that while being bored.
After having taken off her mask for the moment, she took a bite of it...then immediately spat it out once the taste hit her.
"EWW! Who checks the expiration date on this thing?!" she complained to no one in particular.
'That's great, just great. Three hours swinging around and no crimes, no people in danger, heck, not even a kitten stuck in a tree...and the tomatoes in my sandwich are practically rotten. Man, this superhero thing sure isn't what it cracks up to be.'
With a sigh, she slumped over a bit and decided, 'I guess I better just go home and try again later or something...'
Before she had a chance to go ahead and do that though, her spider-sense picked something up, making her hair stand on end and her eyes widening suddenly.
'Wait...what's that?' she wondered as soon as she picked up the peculiar movements of some kind of unidentified flying object...a 'UFO' if you will.
Having had a vested interest in aerial vehicles for most of her life, Rainbow Dash could immediately tell that the object was too small to be a plane or a helicopter, yet at the same time way too big to be a bird. It also seemed to be flying between the buildings on its way through the city...which was not something that was strictly legal for most aircraft to do.
'Hey...that technically is a crime, right?' Rainbow realised, brightening up her spirit a bit. '...just like vigilantism is too, I guess...but whatever. That law is dumb anyway.'
When the object then passed through an opening between two nearby buildings for a second, she briefly caught a small glimpse of it.
'Hey, isn't that one of those glider-thingies they had at CelestiaCorp? And what's up with the wacko flying it? Is there a festival in town nobody told me about or is someone just really excited for Halloween...even though it's not even close to October yet? Well, no use sitting here thinking about it, anyhow!'
Now with finally something to do, Rainbow slipped on her mask and began to chase after the mysterious flyer.
Not too far away on one of the streets below, a truck carrying the distinctive insignia of the Storm Tech corporation (basically, CelestiaCorp's greatest competitor in the science and technology development business) was driving through the city, looking to deliver something in its cargo over to one of their facilities in Canterlot.
While CelestiaCorp got the headlines more often than not, Storm Tech was still nothing to underestimate, and had only grown bigger and bigger the last couple of years, thanks in no small part to the ruthlessness and deviousness of its eccentric founder, Rex Storm...who also happened to be the fourth richest man in Canterlot. And while he came pretty much out of nowhere, and hasn't been much of a big deal until recently, his influence was felt far and wide.
His greatest attribute by far however would have to be his eye for talent, as well as his ability to sweet talk people into starting to work for him. By doing so, he easily got many of the best talents in the industry wrapped around his fingers.
Evidently, though...not all people working for him were all that impressive...as the driver of this particular truck could attest to.
He was a vertically challenged and slightly over-weight little man with a white Mohawk who seemed to spend as much time driving as he spent eating doughnuts and listening to Songbird Serenade's latest hit over the radio, even bobbing his head to the slow beat of the music. Probably the only thing that could convince anyone that he was anything resembling a professional would be the fact that he had a Storm Tech employee tag on his shirt with his name, 'Grubber', printed on it.
And despite the immense value of the cargo he was transporting, he didn't really seem all that concerned about anything happening to it, and focused far more on the lyrics of the song he was listening to...even going so far as trying to sing along to it.
"...through the storm...through the clouds...the rain...hmmm, hmmm, hmm, hmm..."
All in all, Grubber was a pretty carefree young man who usually didn't let anything bother him if he could help it. He did his job with a minimum of effort required, but also never complained about doing repetitive or menial tasks. Hell, he barely even knew what his company was doing most of the time.
...Which was probably also why he didn't notice the sharp object flying straight at his truck with alarming speed before it was too late.
The object in this instance just so happened to be a bat-shaped razor-boomerang that hit the truck straight in the tires, slashing the rubber to ribbons in the process.
With Grubber completely unprepared for such a thing happening, he didn't have a chance of making the truck stop in an orderly fashion, and it quickly spun out of control and crashed front first into a closed store on the side of the road.
Miraculously, the little guy survived the crash mostly unscathed, proving that he was a bit tougher than he looked. But even so, he was very much in shock and could only sit where he was while his brain was desperately trying to process what on earth just happened.
When he heard something approach him on his left though, he slowly turned his head to see what it was.
Swooping down from above was none other than the masked homicidal maniac known only as the Nightmare Goblin flying around on her demonic-looking attack glider. A devilish grin forever plastered on her menacing black mask and glowing blue eyes simply oozing of sadism and savagery.
"Hmemhhehehehe-hahahah-HAHA! Didn't see that coming, did you?" she taunted once she had descended enough to look at the slightly trembling Grubber through the now broken door window.
"Wha-what do-do y-you want from me?" he asked, his voice wavering in fear.
"Oh, heheheh, I don't want anything from you," the Goblin clarified, sounding needlessly condescending while she did so. "What you have in the back however...well, that's something I could kill for...literally even."
She hovered a bit closer and leaned in so she could look him straight in the eye, "I appreciate that you went all this way to deliver my Christmas gift for me though."
"Um...you're welcome," Grubber stuttered with a very forced smile.
With a face of mock compassion on her expressive mask, she put her hands on her heart and complimented, "Aww...thank you so much! That is so thoughtful! Although..." she then reached under her cloak and pulled out one of her pumpkin-shaped explosive devices. "...it's only fair if I give you a gift too now, don't you think?"
"Ehhh...I'm okay, you don't need to do that!"
"Oh no, I insist! After all, it would be just rude to-"
Thwip!
Her monologue got rather abruptly interrupted however when a sling of webbing latched on to the bomb and quickly yanked it out of her hand.
"You know, lady, with the way you're dressing up, I was thinking more 'Halloween' rather than 'Christmas'," a voice commented, drawing the Goblin's attention to the, also masked, superhero standing on top of a small building on the other end of the street with one hand heroically on her hip with the other holding onto the pumpkin.
"Though...come to think of it, aren't you a little early for either of those things?" Spider-Girl finished off on.
The Nightmare Goblin honestly did not expect this...at all...and she ended up spending a moment just staring at this rival freak in a mask, contemplating potential weaknesses and even motives. Knowledge truly is power, no matter how you slice it, and right now she knew absolutely nothing about this interloper...which was definitively not acceptable.
"I can say the same about you," Goblin replied, now slowly elevating her glider to Spider-Girl's level, no longer paying the terrified truckdriver any mind. "Seems I'm not the only one in town playing dress-up."
"Yeah, I guess it's a new trend or something," Spider-Girl suggested while juggling around with the bomb a little bit. "Name's Spider-Girl. Superhero extraordinaire and the one who's gonna kick your butt and throw you in a nice cosy jail cell where you belong!"
Nightmare Goblin blinked a few times, simply staring at the so called superhero in bewilderment...then, all of a sudden, she exploded into fits of uncontrollable laughter.
"Hmm-mmahahaha-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAA-HAHAHAAAAHAAA! You're kidding...you're kidding, right?" she soon asked incredulously, her bemused expression making it perfectly clear that she wasn't taking Spider-Girl very seriously.
In an attempt to keep her dignity, Rainbow took on a martial arts stance...albeit not a too professional one, and responded with a cocky, "You wish I was!"
Now, there were many things Spider-Girl were not considering at this particular moment...that, with the benefit of hindsight...she definitively should have. Firstly, she really had no idea what exactly she was getting herself into by openly antagonising someone as dangerous as the Nightmare Goblin...and secondly, that she was still firmly holding onto an actual explosive with little to no knowledge on what could set it off.
With a smirk, the Goblin said, "Very well, then. Have it your way!" then pressed a button on a small device strapped to her wrist.
Rainbow Dash's spider-sense immediately warned her of the danger posed by the pumpkin bomb as soon as it was pressed. Thinking inhumanly quickly, she threw the bomb straight up into the air just as it received the signal to detonate.
However, even with her superhuman speed and reaction time, she had no hope of getting the bomb far enough away from herself in time to stay clear of the resulting explosion. And while the fiery blast itself didn't hit her, the immense shockwave caused by it certainly did...and with tremendous force at that.
As a result, Spider-Girl was violently launched off the roof she was on and straight onto the hard concrete ground of the street below, hitting it with her spine head on with no chance of bracing herself before impact.
Needless to say, it was anything but a soft landing.
Rainbow's entire body was screaming out in searing pain, making her groan and wriggle in agony. Her vision was blurred and unfocused, and she had completely lost track of what was going on. She tried to get back up, but it was futile. Her arms and legs barely responded to her commands, and her attempts to stand up only led to her falling down on the ground again.
The Nightmare Goblin paid her no mind, and descended down to the ground next to the crashed truck to retrieve what she came for.
With a perfectly aimed plasma bolt out of her gloved finger, she easily blasted the lock to the car's trunk into smithereens, then savagely threw open the back doors with one hand, exposing the truckload inside.
"Ah...there you are," she noted with satisfied glee when she spotted a sealed metal box with the words 'Project Obsidian' printed on it.
While Nightmare reached into the truck to retrieve it, Rainbow Dash was meanwhile starting to eventually get her bearings together enough to make a slightly more successful attempt to get back up. Though she was still hunched over and limping, it was a bit more than what she showed a moment ago.
And when she saw the Goblin pull out the peculiar box out of the truck compartment, her stubborn never-give-up attitude and act-before-you-think mindset kicked in, prompting her to make a near suicidal attempt to stop Nightmare by shooting a sling of webbing at the box and try to pull it out of her hands.
With an irritable growl, the Nightmare Goblin simply grabbed the string with her free hand and used it to harshly pull Spider-Girl towards her in order to knock her back down to the ground with a powerful kick to the gut.
As if she wasn't in enough pain already, Rainbow was now clenching her belly while quivering for air.
"Okay...that was...so not cool..." she moaned deliriously.
Seeing the cocky self-proclaimed superhero like this however gave the Goblin a moment of pause. Despite herself, she couldn't help but take pity on the girl.
With a sigh, she put down the box and bent down to grab Spider-Girl by the throat and lift her up to her own level. The height difference between the two now became obvious as Dash's legs didn't even reach the ground after she was lifted.
Once she had taken a moment to look her fellow costumed circus freak mask to mask, Nightmare curiously asked, "Now be honest with me...Spider-Girl, was it? Do you have a death wish?"
Even with her throat firmly held in a tight choke-hold, Rainbow still managed to breathe out, "No...just...not a fan of bullies..."
"And you thought that dressing up in a mask and picking up a few toys would mean you're suddenly strong enough to take on the world, did you?"
"Heh...seemed to work for you," Spider-Girl snarked against her better judgement.
A flash of anger crossed the Goblin's face, and her grip on Rainbow's neck briefly tightened, "Don't assume you know me, child! I spent twenty long years preparing for this! Twenty years of bottling up my anger...twenty years of meticulous planning...twenty years of vigorous training in both body and mind...twenty years to truly become...the Nightmare Goblin! You may be strong and full of energy...but you have a lot to learn if you can even think of calling yourself my equal!"
She pulled Spider-Girl even closer so that the girl could see deeper into the demonic eyes of the Goblin. "Granted, you seem to have some skill, and an attitude to match, even. But you're also playing with fire. So go on then, be a hero, be whatever childish fantasy you want to be...get in my way again though, and all you'll be...is a corpse!"
And with that said, Nightmare threw Rainbow back on the ground and promised, "That is the only warning you'll ever get from me. I'd heed it if I were you."
Then, without so much as a sideways glance, she picked up the box and got back up on her glider, using it to elevate herself a few metres off the ground.
However, before she left, she idly pulled out another pumpkin bomb from her cloak, activated it with a quick press of a button, and tossed it on the ground next to Spider-Girl and the truck. Only once she had dropped off her little parting gift did she crank the glider's boosters up to maximum and fly away from the crime scene, leaving Spider-Girl to deal with it alone.
After having experienced one of those things exploding in her face once already, Rainbow Dash was in no mood to go through that again, and immediately tried to crawl away from the flashing and beeping pumpkin sitting on the ground just two metres in front of her.
However, due to all the abuse she had just received by the Goblin's hands, she could barely move her own limbs, let alone force them to get her within a safe distance of the approaching blast. At best, she managed to get herself back on her feet, and through the constant pain in her muscles, she slowly but surely limped away from the bomb...but she was not fast enough, and the bomb's beeping only got louder and louder.
Then, when all hope seemed lost...Grubber, the truckdriver, ran up to her side and grabbed her by the arm, then with surprising strength and energy from such a small guy, he dragged her away from the blast range just in time before it exploded.
The two of them ended up close enough to the bomb to get knocked off their feet by the shockwave, but luckily, they also managed to get far enough away from it that it didn't cause either of them any lasting injuries.
With her face now slammed into the hard concrete though, a part of Rainbow was beginning to reconsider the whole super-hero thing a bit.
With a pained groan, Dash rolled over on her back and groggily stared at the pillar of smoke rising up into the sky. The overpowering smell of burning metal and rubber hit her next. Even her spider-sense was a bit wonky, as she got a lot of signals in her head that were only really comparable to static.
However, at the very least she could take comfort in the fact that, as far as she knew, she was still alive.
"Hey, crazy superhero person? You okay?" she heard Grubber ask, his face now coming into her line of sight as he ran over to her side.
"Uhh...just...peachy..." she moaned out in a strained voice.
With a great bit of effort, Rainbow forced her body to sit up straight, then clench a hand over her head to stop another headache from coming on. The ringing in her ears was annoying enough as it was.
Grubber let out a breath he seemed to had been holding. "Good, because for a second there I thought you were dead, but then you were moving and I figure you weren't. You can't blame me though, right? I mean, your costume leaves a lot to the imagination."
He then looked her over a bit. "Hmm...on second thought...actually it doesn't."
It took her a second to realise exactly what he meant by that. As soon as she did though, she pointed at her face and reminded, "My eyes are up here, thanks."
"Oh, uh...sorry," he said with a blush.
The two of them then ended up with nothing better to do than staring at what was left of the truck in awkward silence.
As one might expect was the vehicle little more than a smoking pile of ash and scrap metal by now, the exploding pumpkin having effectively blown it to smithereens, leaving the only part of it or its cargo that was still intact in the hands of a masked terrorist who got away scot-free to terrorise someone else in the future.
'First day on the job and I almost died. Great work, Spider-Girl! But seriously, who the hell throws around exploding pumpkins? That's just lame.
And seriously, that was totally a cheap shot! If she'd played fair I would kick her ass easily...I think. Guess it's too much to ask that costumed nutcases play by the rules, right? But at least I saved this guy...well, sort of, he kinda saved me come to think of it. No offence to him, but that's just embarrassing.'
"Man, now I'm in trouble," Grubber said gloomily. "I mean, that Goblin woman got away with a prototype for a project so top secret not even I was told what it was, probably to commit some evil scheme...then we almost died to an exploding pumpkin...and then my truck got blown up, which probably means the boss's gonna fire me..."
Then he gave her a happy smile while holding up a brown paper bag,"...but I saved the donuts! Want some!?"
Dash thought about it for a second...then shrugged and conceded, "Eh...sure, why not?"
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Was wondering if you play that game. And good chapter, Shows Dash needs to get some training and help with ehr new job.
Are you planning to use some of the tech devices from the game into this story?
That be awesome!
Also yeah on borrowing the Playstation four or as Angry Joe suggested steal one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ooo3MwUFnA
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Yeah, Rainbow do still have a long way to go before she can handle the more dangerous villains in town.
Also, ever since Homecoming I've been thinking about potential spider-gadgets Dash could use in this story and...well, why not? It'd be easy for Twilight to make them, and they might even be essential for taking down particularly difficult opponents Spider-Girl will have to face in the future.
Now, if anyone is going to steal a PS4 to play the new Spider-Man game, then please don't tell the police I somehow encouraged you to do that.
Yay two new chapters! You've officially made me happy for the rest of the day
Also I was wondering if you've seen the new Venom movie. I saw it yesterday but don't want to spoil it
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Glad to know I'm making people happy.
Also...yes, I have seen the Venom movie. In fact, I saw it yesterday too. Heck, I even uploaded this chapter just before going to the cinema. And well...I enjoyed it. Venom himself looked awesome in all his creepy fanged glory, I had a lot of fun with Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, and the movie itself made me laugh way more times than I thought it would. The only criticism I could make would probably be that the pacing felt a little off by the end of the movie, but that's just my personal opinion.
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Okay, I just watched the episode. I can see your reasoning and it works.