End of an Era [Training] wip

What a failure. Even with all that finesse, high rise swinging, and wannabe heroics, the failure of a Spiderman couldn't stop the New Jersey bombing. That was typical. You flip the page to see a group of villains making a house call, taking the life of a young female and destroying a neighborhood. Isn't that more lovely? Hanging upside down in an old warehouse, a woman dressed in a full body costume would be flipping through various articles pertaining to the last year of crimes and failures. Like a spider, she rested in her self-made webbing without any worry of falling. To truly become "Superior" when compared to the other heroes of the modern world, she'd need to learn from their mistakes. Not only learn from them, but overcome them completely. With her unrivaled intellect, she would surely find ways to accomplish what previous had failed to do. Eradicate criminals altogether. Spider was not a stranger to suffering, pain, and death. She had taken plenty lives before coming to her current situation. It was about time she started taking the lives of those who deserved to lose it. Only someone with a superior train of thought could come to such a conclusion. Through all the research and future planning, the Superior Spider was making a database on all the public appearances of Super Heroes and Villains. Why super heroes, you ask? Simple. Eliminate the competition. To truly be superior you needed to stand above the rest of the world. In short, become the prime of existence amongst your piers. Unlike the previous heroes she had been reading about, she had the ambition and drive to become the strongest of them all. Everything about her was superior to their very being. She was no stranger to arrogance now was she? Crawling down from her web, the Superior Spider would flip down to her feet and land with grace. The costume vigilante would make a powerful stride towards a desk being illuminated by the only light source available in the room. On this desk were various vials holding traces of her organic webbing. She was attempting to make a compound to mimic such webbing, just incase she came across a situation where she couldn't access her abilities. To be superior, you needed to expect the unexpected, after all. And the combinations she could create with four areas to fire webbing easily outweighed the poor leverage you obtained with just two appendages. It was only in a prototype stage, meaning it would take a bit more work before she could bring the web shooters out onto the battlefield. There were other things she could be working on in the meantime either way. For one, her wall crawling could use some work. Her powers had been shaky recently, but now she understood what the main problem was. It came down to the thought process of her mind, and the development of her body. She was more than just a clone when compared to the other spiders that had been swinging around the world recently. Because she was a close, her DNA was similar, which gave her the advantage of having their strengths. With her own superior evolution she gained more than they'd ever accomplish in their lives. Every day she gave herself reasons why she was far more superior than the others, but it wasn't sure if it was because of her upbringing or just being self conscious. Shooting a web line towards the window sill, the Superior Spider would yank the line and sip herself through the window. Bursting through and shattering the glass, the female would fire a series of web lines to swing through the forest surrounded the abandoned warehouse. Swinging around the forest, the woman started to make her way towards a specific location she had had on her sights for awhile now. Earlier in the year she had been contacted by a professor to attend a school to help ease the pain of working alone, and help her develop her powers. She cared for neither working with mutants, or taking their help with any such things. Instead, she planned on breaking into the school to find the professor and snap his neck in more than two places. It was her programming to eradicate all mutants, and to prove she was the most superior. Taking this silent vow to end the life of the man who offered his hand to assist her, the Superior Spider would launch herself out the forest and high into the air. With one last iconic acrobatic twirl, the Spider would shoot off into the skies almost as though she was flying to the sun.

779 words - Wall Crawling

Sticking to the backside of a small boat coming to the coast of the island the cool would be located on, the Superior Spider would be sure to stay out of site from the potential threat of the mutants on the island. It would be much easier to sneak in when the sun finally was swallowed by darkness. The Superior Spider did her best work in the dark, and walking onto such grounds in broad daylight would be hindering to her operation. Remaining pasted to the back of the boat, the female would await for the darkness to rise before making her move. Flipping up and over the edge of the ship, the spider would land on all fours and begin to crawl upon the upper deck of the ship. Getting towards the front of the boat, she'd fire a web line to a tree branch in the distance. With one powerful tug, she'd zip over to the branch and grab it with her right hand. Using her momentum, she'd swing off the branch and flip through the air. Spreading out her arms and legs, the Superior Spider would fire another web towards the actual school building this time around. The web hit a window, and the Superior Spider would once again zip line towards its origin. Zipping onto the wall, the woman would use her wall crawling ability to stick in place. Like some kind of half breed spider, she'd begin to wall crawl up the wall towards the top floor window. Once reaching the window, the woman would attempt to open it, find it to be locked. She wouldn't allow this to stop her, as she forcefully ripped it open using her enhanced strength. The moment this happened, a number of alarms started to ring within the school building, and the Superior Spider would fling herself through the opening immediately. Flipping up to the ceiling, the vigilante would being to wall crawl upon the ceiling, heading into the hallway where a number of students were panicking. Luckily thanks to the darkness, a number of them passed right under her without even knowing of her presence. Maybe they were going to a danger room of some kind? That was a possibility, but it didn't matter. They weren't the Superior Spider's prey..as of yet. Continuing her silent progression through the school, there would be a door that would take her attention. Two large double doors that screamed "The Professor's Office" basically. The Superior Spider's eyes would narrow as she flipped off the ceiling and landed on her feet infront of the office doors. Bringing back her fist, she'd throw a powerful punch, breaking the doors off the hinges and sending splinters of wood flying throughout the man's office. Only the two white eye holes of the Superior Spider's mask could be seen through the shadow of the doorway, as the predator stared at the prey sitting in the chair. The Professor didn't seem to flinch at the woman's arrival, almost as if he was awaiting it. Slowly walking into the room, the Superior Spider would slowly bend down and grab a plank of wood from the broken door. Its end was sharp, and could possibly be used as a makeshift stake. It was a possibility that she planned on shoving it straight through his chest to pierce his heart like Van Helsing did to Dracula in the old tales. As the Superior Spider closed the distance, the Professor simply crossed his arms upon the desk infront of him. "Did you come here to kill me?" The man asked the blunt question to the woman, and she simply stood on the other side of the desk without saying a word. "Is it really you that wants to kill me, or the man within your mind?" This like statement caused the Superior Spider to suddenly flinch, as if the man hit a nerve. However, she was still silent. "And how long do you plan on using her like a puppet, Dr. Strong? Was your body so frail that you'd steal another chance of life at this poor girl's disposal? It's pathetic and sad. Such a brilliant man succumbing to the fear of losing his own life and taking his legacies life in the face of his own." The Superior Spider was frozen before she lifted a hand and slammed it down onto the desk, breaking it in half. The man didn't flinch at this act, as he simply stared at the woman infront of him. "Are we done here, Doctor?" A simple phrase. The young woman would clench her teeth beneath the mask and slowly back away into the shadows, disappearing and making her way out of the school and off the island.

791 - Spider Reflexes

It had been some time since she had visited the mutant school and the Professor had his way with words on her ears. Sitting in a broken warehouse, the young female would kneel against a wall and place her head against the cold surface. After that meeting, her subconscious had been going through a number of shifts and turns, as if something was scratching at the edge of her brain for quite some time. The man knew too much about her, and what had happened within her skull. How could he have known of Daniel Strong's experimentation when it had happened so recently? Either he had a leak in his business or the man was a physic. And with the information Strong had gathered on the mutant Professor, he was surely no psychic. The best option here was to get rid of any loose ends that may have been the cause of this, even though it was a possibility the mutant could invade minds. Being superior meant all options needed to be considered and dealt with. So then it was settled. The Superior Spider would continue to wipe the scientist that created her off the map, and create a trail of blood to the leak of information. The moment she came to this revelation, a cellphone placed on a desk within the warehouse began to vibrate. It was weird, seeing how she hadn't taken the time to get a cell phone or anything of that kind. Walking over to the desk, the young costumed vigilante would grab the phone off the desk and pull it to her ear. She said nothing at all, but apparently the person on the other side of the phone knew of her presence. "You're a hard girl to track. You do prefer to be called a girl, correct?" The Superior Spider didn't flinch at the words, but telling from the white eye sockets on her mask, she was narrowing her eyes. "Yeouch, no words for me? Well, that's understandable. Anyway, I have a proposition for you. I've seen some recordings of your attacks on Strong labs in the pass few months, and you seem more than formidable in destroying research data and scientist. I want you to continue doing that, and I will assist you with anything you may need. You see, I used to be a scientist for Strong labs until my lab mates decided to cut me off from the research. I wasn't there to create you, but I knew about you when you were simply a blue print. I want you to help me serve terrible vengeance to those scientist, and in turn, I will help you become even more..'Superior.' That's what you're calling yourself these days, right? The Superior hero? A bold claim, but I'll be sure to back you up. What do you say?" The Superior Spider held the phone on the other end, not saying a word. Ever since the transfer, and becoming Superior, the vigilante hadn't said a word to anyone. She was completely silent. Slowly lowering the phone from her ear, she'd use her superior strength to break the phone and crumble it into nothing but circuits. Throwing it down into the ground, the Superior Spider would put a hand on her hip and begin to walk away from the desk. She suddenly stopped, however, when she heard the voice once again. "I had a feeling you would do something like that. If you're wondering how I can see you, look up." The voice came from a small rubber receiver on the ground, and like told, the Superior Spider would look up to see a camera looking down at her. "I am here to assist you, there's no need to be so scathing, Mr. Strong. You ARE Mr. Strong, correct? A doctor Daniel Strong? Lead scientist on the X gene project?" The Superior Spider narrowed her eyes behind her mask and shot a web up to cover the camera's view. "Oh woop. I should have expected that, huh? Haha!" What the Prophet believed was funny, the stone faced Spider didn't even chuckle at. Instead, she ranked the webbing and pulled the camera right out of its socket, causing it to slam and shatter against the cold ground.

710 words - Accelerated Vision of the Jumping Spider

A Daniel Strong lab off the coast of California. This would be an interesting location to trash next on the Superior Spider's list of hot spots. Little did she know this was the very lab used to create the black abomination by the name of Dark Flash. Daniel Strong had nothing to do with its direct creation, but did supply his lab with information and subjects to bring about the creatures creation. Little did he know it would break loose and begin to feed on the kinetic energy the world supplied in such abundance, making everything come to a still. Of course it was stopped thanks to the device he created, but the fact his scientist had been so careless meant they needed to be dealt with. The Superior Spider didn't play the stealth game this time around. No, instead she walked up the front steps and tore down the steel gates with her bare hands. The defenses of the lab were inadequate when compared to the body of the Superior Spider. She flipped, twisted, rolled, and dodged all the fire power being thrown at her. The moment the first guard ran out of bullets in his clip, she launched out like a madman looking for blood. Flipping in the air and coming down with two feet, the Spider woman would literally land on the man's face and continuously stomp it down into the pavement. Without hesitation, she grabbed the man's body and used it as a human shield against the other guards that decided to take this time to fire upon her. Once she heard the clips come to an end, the Superior Spider would lift the bullet riddled body over her head with impressive strength. Throwing it at the two remaining guards, it would down them and allow her to continue her progress. Walking to the front door of the laboratory, she'd begin to send a flurry of punches into its frame before ripping it off with pure strength. Tossing it aside like it was nothing to her, the woman would proceed within the lab where the scientist were huddled by their desks, protecting their research. "That's them. Destroy their supplies infront of their eyes so they understand how futile their attempt at work is without me. Do this, and I promise to assist you from now on!" A woman spoke from the other side of a transceiver in the Super Spider's ear. The woman didn't really care for the voice on the end of the connection, and instead wished to do this for hidden reasons. These scientist were loose ends on a recent experiment that was successful. It'd be too risky to allow them to live with the knowledge they had. Prophet watched the scene unfold from the safety of a undisclosed location, watching the blood splatter across the walls and the corrupted, crooked scientist get beat to the brink of death. For some reason, however, the Superior Spider didn't take their lives. Instead, after beating them to a pulp, the spider began to gather the research in a web made bag, as if she wished to keep it for herself for the future. Walking over to a computer, the Superior Spider would pull back the chair and take a seat. Fidgeting with the computer, she'd insert the correct admin password and begin to scan through files. Prophet watched from behind the camera with an interested gaze. "You really are Daniel Strong, aren't you? No one else knows that admin password. But how are you him? How'd you do such a mind heist?" The woman spoke with interest, but the Superior Spider never said a word back. One would believe the female was mute, as she never spoke and never wished to say anything to anyone. Maybe she believed everyone was too inferior for her to acknowledge with words? Conceited, it surely was, but for someone like her it was probably the norm. Once she finally gathered all the information she needed, the young Spider Woman would stand from her chair and push it in. Walking over the beaten corpses of the various scientists, she walk out the door as if nothing happened. Before she would leave, however, the computer would being to wail about a countdown being initiated. She had activated a self destruct sequence. Leaving the scene of the crime, an explosion would be left in her wake.

733 words - Camo girl

Sitting back in the warehouse she had basically made her own, Superior Spider would be standing upside down on the ceiling while fidgeting with the prototype web shooters in her hands. They were almost ready to be used in actual combat, but they needed abit more work. Unlike the other spiders, the Superior Spider was determined to make these shooters into much more than just basic web fluid. It would take some time, but it was possible to enhance the liquid, and thus give it different properties than her own organic webbing. The spiders before her were never ambitious enough to try such a thing. Before her mask, the young female gave a sinister smirk. However, her research and development would be cut short at a screeching in her ear. "Superior, it seems like there's something happening downtown. Looks like the authorities could use the assistance of a Superior specimen to back them up." The masked vigilante would drop the prototype web shooters onto the desk before walking across the ceiling and leaving the warehouse through a window. Climbing up the side of the building, the Superior Spider would make her way to the top of the warehouse where'd she be able to get a good luck at the city in the distance. Her work had her located in New Orleans this time around, which was an interesting area. The smell of food in the air, and the overall atmosphere of jazz was inviting to the ears of the young "heroine." Crossing her arms, the Spider would use her accelerated vision to scan the area for any abnormalities. The receiver in her ear would being to ring as Prophet began to speak to her once again. "Looks like you're too late. Two others have already taken down the abomination. Some suits are coming in to pick up the unconscious super villains now. This is interesting. Seems like you're not the only heroine in these parts, huh?" Prophet seemed amused at the fact, but the Superior Spider was more interested on the suits that came and picked up the super villains once they were downed. "Need more details on the two that arrived? Well they were both blonde, one was a female and the other a male. The female was absurdly quick on her feet and.." The moment Superior heard of the "absurdly fast" part, she knew exactly who she was talking about. Her name was Miss Flash. She was recently well known in California for her deeds, but the Superior Spider couldn't help but be interested in the female, seeing how they had a connection. Daniel Strong had never met his niece yet, but he knew who Miss Flash really was. The daughter of his brother, Tara Strong. The reason he never confronted the girl was because he couldn't locate where she was staying, and pinpointing someone who could run faster than sound was almost impossible. Daniel knew the young girl would seek him out the moment she learned the truth about her connection to him. That wasn't the Superior Spider's problem. The old frail body of Daniel Strong would need to handle the speedstress himself, as the younger, more nimble body, of the Superior Spider had better things to do than play footsies with an absurdly fast super heroine. Infact, the Superior Spider didn't wish to waste her time on such a person, as she was far more superior than someone who could only run alittle faster. She was far more intelligent, competent, and ambitious than the blonde heroine anyway. The two of them were practically cousins, in a looser sense, but the Superior Spider would never openly admit her connection to the inferior specimen. She would be a better heroine than she ever was. Daniel Strong's legacy would surpass his brother's with ease. It was simply genetics, and future planning, that would make this possible. Little did Daniel know, his thoughts would be a harsh reality in the future. He would be the end of Miss Flash, or Pulse in that time line, and would bring about the End of an Era of heroes. And, on the other side of the coin, he would also be the cause of a new platinum era of heroics led solely by the Superior Spider. Her heroics would be labeled as harsh and cruel, but in her eyes they would be superior than the rest. With the will to be able to take a life to save the lives of others, that's what would be the main difference between the previous era and the new era of heroes. The Superior Spider would simply be ahead of the curve.

776 words - Pheromone Manipulation

The rain fell and the lightning crackled as the Superior Spider stood upon a ledge over looking the destroyed city streets below. Laying down on the ground were two bodies. One was a large red husk of a beast that looked like it was spawned and created in hell. Little did anyone know this was Daniel Strong, the doctor that was seen as one of the most ambitious minds in the world. Once being confronted by his niece, who had dawned the costume of a heroine and called herself Pulse, he fell into desperation and injected himself with an untested formula similar to the one that gave Tara her powers. The result of this injection was the massive beast that rampaged through the young female's home town. The body opposite of the red monstrosity would be the small body of Miss Flash, also known as Pulse. She had won the fight against her deranged uncle, but the stress was too much and caused her to collapse. Looking at the two bodies from above, the Superior Spider would narrow her eyes and jumped down to the destroyed streets below. Landing with a thud, she walked over to the red monstrosity first. The beast slowly began to shrink in size and return back to his human form. The monster was now back to his basic "Daniel Strong" form. His right eye slowly opened as he tried to push himself to his feet, but couldn't move an inch. All he could see was the costume vigilante standing over him, and a beaten smile came across his face. "There you are. Finish her while she's down. I've done all the work for you. For us." The man coughed up blood as his eye turned to look at the sky. The Superior Spider simply stood there for a few seconds before looking over to Tara and then back to the man. The sight of his broken body made her sick. He was weak. Inferior. Instead of following orders, the Superior Spider would simply shake her head. This caused a hidden rage to burst from the downed man. "I created you! I am you! My mind and yours are the same..You..are me. Do what I ask! Do what we want!" The sudden outburst caused the man to cough on his own blood. The sound of sirens began to start blaring in the distance, and instead of sticking around talking to a broken corpse, the Superior Spider made her way over to Tara's downed corpse. The heroines costume was torn, but somehow she was still conscious through it all. Laying there not being able to move. "Who..are you?" The heroine asked in a weak voice as she tried to push herself up, but tumbled back towards the ground. Before she could fall hard on her face, the Superior Spider would grab the back of her neck and forcefully lift her up with one hand. Tilting her head, she'd hold the weak heroine in her arms. The vigilante had half a mind to leave her there to be brought in by the cops, or worst. But she didn't. To prove how above she was than the inferior broken body of Daniel Strong, she would instead save Tara's life, only for the heroine to know she would be nothing without the Superior Spider's assistance. The costumed woman would carry Tara to the rooftops as the cops came to apprehend Daniel Strong, who was far too weak to defend himself at this time. Once they reached the rooftop, the Superior Spider would toss Tara onto the ground and would turn to prepare to leave the scene. "W-wait! Thank you." Pulse thanked the Spider, not knowing that the Superior one only saved her, to only crush her in the future to come. Turning back to look at her, the Superior Spider could already tell that Pulse's injuries were beginning to heal. That was interesting, and was to be noted. Mutants could have accelerated healing. Tapping her chin, the Superior Spider wouldn't say a word. "I'm glad to see heroes doing the right thing. I would have been a goner if you didn't show up when you did. Thank you. So what's your name? How long have you been doing this hero gig?" Pulse gave a smile as she held her ribs. Apparently some were broken. She seemed to be fighting back emotions from just fighting her last remaining connection to her strong name, which Superior thought was quite humorous. The Spider Woman would turn around, and shoot a web to swing away. She couldn't help but think how she could have lost to such a female. That was okay though. With this body, and the strength it held, she'd be the best heroine the world had ever seen. With her unparalleled ambition, she'd be a better heroine than Pulse ever was. Little did she know, in the coming year, Pulse would disappear, leaving the world's heroics in superior hands.

All remaining words equal up to 1117 - Taking five hundred for new C rank skill and 600 hundred for detective goggles