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So this part of Kloe's story is set during the Start of the movie Into The Spider-Verse, but the two stories do not overlap at all. I just needed something to explain her suddenly appearing on Earth-616. I promise not all of her story is this traumatic, but I didn't exactly know how else to write it. And before you ask, "Won't she die if she stays on Earth-616 for too long?". I'm getting to that in another chapter. This is also pre-Civil War, by a couple months
So Hang tight, and enjoy!
Series Masterlist
Word count: 1.5k
TW: Fire, Murder, mention of guns, death, use of another Marvel OC of mine (Evelyn)
[Brooklyn New York, Earth-3185, 2016]
Kloe stood on the top edge of one of the tallest buildings in Brooklyn. It was a windy day, her three flat, kitsune tails that were a part of her suit were whipping all over the place. She tried to get the train of fabric to stay in place, but to no avail. She took in the sights of the city, reveling in the beautiful lights for just a moment, before she focused back on her mission. It was a simple mission, that she had of course given herself, to take down some of the weapons dealers in town. She knew she shouldn’t be putting herself in such dangerous situations at such a young age. She hadn’t even finished her sophomore year of highschool yet!
But she knew that with the abilities she had received a year ago, she had to do something. Something to help the people who were being affected by these people, these villains who plagued their society. Her world didn’t have the Avengers. Or, at least not yet. The Avengers wouldn’t form for at least another 25 years there.
So she glanced into the lenses of her mask, the hightech mask showing her the suspicious heat signatures popping up around the city. She groaned at the sigh of a group of guys standing in an enclosed alleyway. She tapped her comms, hoping her best friend, Kiran, was on the other side. Kiran had unofficially dubbed himself “Kloe’s guy in the chair”, after she’d confessed that she was The Spider-Fox. She tried to talk him out of it, but he’d shaken his head and been super pouty about it, and after all, how could she say no to that?
“Yeah yeah yeah, you’ve reached Kiran Hollower how may I help you?” Kiran says dramatically over the comms. Kloe laughed and shook her head.
“Fox reporting here, what do you see?” Kloe says with a small giggle.
“I’m picking up weapons and tracking signatures from.. Fifth Avenue.” He replied cautiously, entering this dangerous territory with Kloe carefully. “Klo, I know you want to do this, I really do. But you’ve gotta be careful”
“I’ll be fine!” Kloe says with a grin, and even though he can’t see it, just for dramatic effect she falls backwards off the edge of the building, and catches herself with a web, slinging herself to the next building. Kloe snickered, and Kiran sighed over the comms.
“I assume you just did something I would disagree about, but won’t when I see it because its cool as hell?” He says with an exasperated tone.
Kloe’s silence tells him enough.
“Seriously Klo, be careful. I can’t have you dying on me now.”
“Alright alright yeah yeah. Don’t die. Got it.” She says, swinging from building to building, before stopping on top of a building just above 5th Avenue. She perches on the edge, looking for the heat signatures Kiran had picked up. She spotted them almost immediately. They had chosen their truck very poorly, making it a bright blue moving company truck. She cocked her head to the side, wondering why they had done that.
She crouches behind the ledge, trying to overhear what they are saying. She picks up bits and pieces.
“Do you have the package..”
“She’s gonna find us out..”
“Kill the woman.”
“Rayguns go to the buyer in…”
“Lure her out of hiding..”
“Let’s move”
It doesn’t take a detective to find out who the thugs are talking about. They were talking about her. But she wasn’t a woman, that was clear enough, even though her identity was secret. So who were they going to kill? She shuddered. But she didn’t have much more time before she heard them pile into the truck and pull out of the alley.
She glanced over the edge, trying not to catch their attention.
She waited for them to pull out before moving. She jumped from building to building, being very agile and stealthy in her movements. She bounced from the buildings, trying to avoid being in the light.
They stop at an intersection, getting out of the truck holding guns. Shoot. Kloe moved to perch on the ledge right above them. Cars were crashing, and they shot down the stoplights to cause more chaos. Great. One of the thugs yelled out something she could hear clearly and perfectly from her perch.
“You all better hope your mighty Spider-Fox comes and saves you now!” The first thug says in a thick Russian accent. Kloe’s eyes widen under her mask. That was her. This was a setup. They knew she would come, and they wanted her too. But as she heard the screams below her on the street, she couldn’t just walk away. She had to take them down, as she had planned.
Then they did something that shocked her, and made her seeth in anger. They brought out her parents, tied up against a wooden board. In the street! No presentation, nothing fancy, just fear. They, of course, did not know that that couple was her parents. They were just using them as throwaway bait to lure her there. They didn’t know that she actually had personal attachment to these people.
And of course they’d know who her parents were. They weren’t exactly unknown around New York, as her father was a famous artist who would do interpretive art pieces around town, and her mother was his wife, so they knew her because of her father. And they knew about her. Not her being Spider-Fox, but her being their daughter. They thought that that 15 year old daughter was safe and sound in her house, watching the TV in horror. Kloe snorted at the thought.
She swung down into the intersection, keeping her distance from the goons. She couldn’t lose her parents. Not after losing her girlfriend a couple weeks earlier. No, she couldn’t let that happen.
“Ahh Spider-Fox. Finally decided to show up.” A female goon said with a shit-eating grin. Kloe gave her a death glare, and even though the lady couldn’t see it, she knew Kloe was upset.
“Hurting innocent people as a play to get me to show up and fight you guys? Real mature” Kloe quipped at them.
Three of the male goons approached her, closing in on her. But she simply just shot a web at one of them, and did a spin around them to tie all three of them up. She kicked them to the side and dusted off her hands.
“Let them go,” She spat. She was pissed off.
“We came here today to make sure you couldn’t save them. To make the whole city know that their so-called hero has failed.” The first goon growls out with a nasty smile.
“You have been summoned here to watch them die.” The female goon says coldly.
Kloe watches in horror as one of the goons standing next to her parents brings out a matchbox from his pockets, lighting the match on fire. Kloe stops standing there. She advances, and takes down the goons that get in her way. But she notices her body doesn’t feel right. It feels… misplaced. She gets that feeling even more when her vision starts to glitch.
She seems to freeze. But she hasn’t actually stopped moving.
It’s like she was stopped at the one moment in time, in slow motion, when they lit the ropes on fire. She watched as her parents screamed through the tape covering their mouths, her heightened hearing picking up on the muffled sounds. And then she was back in action, throwing punches and webbing up the goons like it was nothing.
But her body was glitching.
It would glitch through the goons in a weird way, and her limbs were all distorted.
And then her vision fuzzes, glitching even more.
The last thing she sees is her parent’s screaming faces.
Before she glitches out of the universe.
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[Brooklyn, New York, Earth-616, 2016]
She feels like she is floating through nothing.
Until she is catapulted forward, and her body hits a hard surface.
She gets up from the cold, hard ground, and she’s in that same intersection. But… it's not the same.
She hears cars honking at her and she scrambles to cross the street. Once she reaches the sidewalk, she throws her hood over her shoulders and tugs her mask off of her aching head.
She didn’t even care if people saw who she was.
But as she looked around, she realized something. This wasn’t her Brooklyn. This wasn’t her New York City. Everything seemed a bit less… naturey. And there were definitely less animals roaming the streets, which was a regular occurrence in her universe.
Her mind immediately popped to the theory of the multiverse that her absolutely delusional physics teacher had ranted about in her last physics class.
Could this be another universe? No. It couldn’t possibly be.. Right?
But her thoughts are interrupted by a girl trying to get her attention. She’s got teal bangs and wavy brown hair. She’s waving at her. Kloe walks towards her, and the girl pulls her into an alleyway.
“You just materialized on that street, and you are gonna tell me how.”
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A/N: I really hope you enjoyed this! It seems a bit rushed but I was trying to fit all of that in less than 2k words to make for an easier read. There's more coming I promise!
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As celebration of my animated adaptation of "Spider Fox", I thought I'd upload my first fan-comic which my 101DS fan-animated video was based on right here on Tumblr!
And this masterpiece of a comic looks just as good as the video. Not to mention that it has aged well over the past couple of months since I first uploaded it on my other social websites!
So, here it is! Expect some antics from Dylan and Fergus in my best piece of 101DS fan-art I ever drew this year!
