It Came From Outer-space!?!

It was night time in Steel City, which was the usual time that the freaks, hoodlums, and gangsters came out to play. However, the queen of the playground was without a doubt a young girl by the name of Lizandra Webster, known to most if not all by Spider-Girl. A physically gifted, mentally strong, morally sound and uniquely endowed individual who takes up arms against any and all villainous acts against the occupants of Steel City. But tonight, things were going to change in the young super-hero's life...forever. For up above the clouds, just outside the planets atmosphere a meteorite was heading towards Earth. Upon it was a material like no man or living thing in this galaxy had ever witnessed or seen before.


(Earth-Sector 2814)

NASA having seen the large chunk of space rock coming weeks earlier with the Hubble Telescope made provisions to intercept it and blocked off a quarter block of the city with what looked like an open construction site's worth of workers and high-tech equipment. The impact zone was at least two to three city blocks wide, but the scientist and faculty themselves kept back at a distance of about a mile or more to stay safe. Pedestrians and news crews were blocked off by a chain link fence and security that ran around the perimeter NASA equipment and workers occupied. If all went as planned, they would intercept the oldest space rock to ever land on Earth in recorded history since the meteor shower of kryptonite almost thirty something odd years ago in Smallville. None of the astronomers at the site or NASA employees had any clue as to what was about to come with the ancient rock, however, and neither did any of them know who was watching them amongst the bunches of people crowded around the facility.

'The One Man Army'

An army vet and coincidentally a Meta-Human by the name of Platoon stood in the continuously gathering crowds of people. Although to him these weren't people, they were rather insurgents. You see his mind suffered from extreme post stress disorder from the many wars he had been in, which only got worse over time. As it stood now, he thought everyone in the United States was a terrorist/communist and he was the only one left who stood for freedom. The mentally ill and maybe a bit insane man was currently undercover, scoping out the project the hostiles had going on. It would seem they were planning to receive an object from outerspace, most likely a power source for a weapon they planned to use to wipe out the rest of the resistance to their territories. Terry couldn't allow this item to get into their hands, if he did, it could mean the end of the fight for democracy. Luckily, he had already divised a plan on how to stop their operation before he had actually arrived. The man was currently dressed in what he considered to be civvies, and was also doing a some make up that was the same complection of his skin. The idea was to cover up the number markings on his face which stated the number clone he was. The marking was zero one. The original clone, however, zero two and zero three were already in position and also donned civvis, but they didn't hide their facepaint with make up.

It was time to begin the infiltration of enemy ranks, in front of one of the permitier entrances zero three and zero two began to fight.

"Hand over the doe punk!"

"No, Stop it!

Making it seem like one clone was being mugged by the other one, when in reality they were just trying to draw security away from the gate. A technique of distraction that seemed to be working very well. For security immediately took notice to what was going on and attempted to break up the fight. People in the area moved away as about four officers, subdued the two clones and were shocked after pulling them apart to see they looked excactly alike, but had two different numbers on their faces.

"What the hel--Ahh!!"

At that same time, the two officers would receive an even bigger surprise when the clones appeared to just spilt in half, turning two to four and tackling down the Officers. Relieiving them of their firearms and beating them senseless, while the original Terry approached and removed the keys to the chain link fence from one of the injured authorities. Some people who witnessed all this ran to get help, but many just screamed retreated in terror. Platoon didn't care however; all five clones were determined to get inside the site and abort this heinous operation. Using the stolen keys Platoon opened the door to the chain link fence and then dented in the lock with a pistol whip so no one could enter. From there the five man unit proceeded to move through the faciltiy and take out anything they saw moving. Taking only the scientist as hostages, while they quickly opened fire on any unsuspecting security.



Elsewhere, Spider-Girl could be seen up on the roof a building near the site. She had been making sure to take out as many thugs and gangsters as she could. This event needed to go down without a hitch. As a young scientist and technician herself, Liz could see the importance or retrieiving a speciman of meteor that was approaching Earth. Who knows what secrets and propeties it could reveal. This fact alone already made it a priceless artifact and the perfect target for any scumbag trying to score big in place like Steel City. She had already taken down at least twelve attempts to breach the perimeter, one of them being pretty serious; the men packing multiple firearms and a Humvee, but the rest were just petty thugs and Skull Saders. Although, her efforts seemed to have all been for nothing, for soon her PDA would alert her to a police report stating that someone had indeed broken perimeter and was having a shoot out with gaurds closest to the drop zone.

(Mind)
"Just great, I bust my butt all evening trying to keep freakzoids out of there and within a matter of seconds the Gov's crack security detail manage to let five thieves in? It's like they're not even trying to make this easy on me."

As Liz thought all this she would already be on her way to the site. Running along rooftops until finally getting just oustide the crowd filled boundry and leaping over the chain link fence inside in a single bound.

"HEY!!"

The officer's stationed just outside seeing this would try to follow after her, but of course Spider-Girl had jumped inside the perimiter by the entrance that Platoon had jammed; trapping the boys in blue outside. Once inside the facility Liz would move stealthy, broken machines and unconscious workers as well as a few bodies would lay about. Whoever this squad was, they were trained highly well. NASA's gaurds were no walk in the aprk and for this small tacticle unit to run through them are in only a matter of minutes...Liz would suddenly come to the realization that she may be dealing with Meta-humans.

"Ok, no need to panic. I just need to take out all five of them before impact. Which will be in like under fourteen minutes...No biggie, right?"

Having stupidly gave away her position by talking to herself, Liz's Spider-Sense would suddenly go off just as the barrel of a gun was pointed at the back of her head. One of the clones could be seen approaching her slowly from behind while speaking to the girl.

"Come ere darlin, I don't wanna have to hurt you. But, if you give me reaoson to I will use force."

"That's funny, I was a bout to say the same thing."

A split second later, Liz would perform what most would consider an acrobatic impossible. Flipping forward, she would land in the same spot; but during her rotation mule kicked the man in his chest, sending him sailing back at least ten feet. Making it obvious to everyone in view of the feat that this was no ordinary girl.

"She's a super soldier, frag her boys!"

Suddenly clones four and two would rise from broken machinery that Liz had assumed to be just rubble and opened fire on her using the firearms that had taken from security.

Liz thinking fast would take cover, leaping up into the air in the blink of an eye with her powerful leg muscles and firing back with web-bullets from her gauntlets as she dove down behind a large seismic monitor; which had been damaged during an earlier shoot out. The web-bullets themselves sprayed down on the clones and trapped them in place while they're shots missed completely. Afterwards, Spider-Girl would unsheathe her grappling hook and fired it at one of the two men from behind her cover. It hooked on and then whiplashed him into the other with a tug from her enahnced strength, causing the clones to collide and knock eachother out.

(Mind)
"Whoa this is weird, is it me or did all those guys look completely identical?"

"Halt, that's more than enough. Who sent you girl, Wilson? Cadmus? CIA? No doubt they think I've gone rouge."

Suddenly yet another identical man would appear, his accomplice behind him. He didn't have a gun and was one of the clone duplicates. His final accomplice stood behind him with a group of scientist and hostages. It would appear they had gone through precautions of knocking each one of them out. The man with the helpless scientists appeared to be the original Platoon.

"Hey, General Einstein, I have no clue what you're talking about? But, give it up already; you're going to get innocent people hurt or killed over a misunderstanding."

"No, there's no misunderstanding here m'am. It's obvious, the goverment's now been taken over completely and those in power are using our resources againt us. I remember when Wilson was given the super soldier serum and now they're testing it on children. It's even more clear to me now than ever, I cannot let the Axis powers get their hands on this new power source. Keep her busy while I intercept whatever they're waiting on."

"Hey, hold on a sec you're not going anywhere."

"Stop, or I will kill all these hostages."

"What kind of soldier are you!? Taking innocent lives in the pursuit of what, money, position, power?"

"No ma'm, self-preservation of the American way. Were not going to let you damn commies extinguish Democracy. No way, no how, and we will defend Patriotic values till the very end."

Liz could see there was no longer any point in arguing with Psycho Bill's brother and decided to attempt taking him out before he even got a chance to hurt anyone. From her position, she would suddenly lunge her web-net capsule at the man, but before it enclosed around him he would make two more duplicates out of no where. This act made Liz's jaw drop, she'd seen some freaks and weirdos before, but this was kinda new. The two new clones donned a black square across one of their faces and another had a triangle. Luckily, they didn't have any weapons on them except combat knives.

"For Freedom!"

"Take her down!"

As both of them came in and their partner attempted to escape the netting. Liz would ready herself for their charge, smacking away one of their knife strokes with a parrying blow from her forearm and then toe kicking that one away from her with tremendous leg strength, but afterwards would receive a leg sweep from his accomplice that took her down. However, as soon as Spider-Girl went down she immediately kipped back up and decked the surprised clone, knocking him out as well. Then finally ending the skirmish by somersaulting onto the third clone just as he had finished cutting through her webbing.

"Phew, well that settles that. Only one more to go...I hope."

Just then an alarm would blare, signaling that the meteorite had entered Earth's atmosphere and would be only a matter of moments until it crash landed. In desperation Liz hurriedly ran towards the impact zone. Hoping to stop the final clone befre it was too late, but as she arrived found him assembling a rocket launcher. The obvious intent was to blow the meteorite to smithereens before it could even crash land. Liz had to stop him, as the space rock came into firing range she would shoot her grappling hook towards the man, but as if he had a danger sense of his own he avoided the the attempt by side stepping away from the hook! Luckily he didn't foresee plan B; for after the web-line missed Spider-Girl retracted it and zipped towards the duplicate just in time to shoulder tackle him out of the way and cause the missile fired from the rocket launcher to miss by at least a whole three feet. A good and bad thing in a way, the rock was saved, but the meteor itself still crash landed and the impact from it not only created a twenty foot crater, but also sent a shock wave barreling on for about half a mile! Sending both Spider-Girl, Platoon, and a whole bunch of debris flying like paper in the wind.

.....

"Ugh..Ohhhh, my head."

Is all Spider-Girl would say minutes later as she pushed a large piece of rock off her and looked about. No sign of the Corporal, but she did see the meteor. It had landed safely, but she still wanted to make sure it was intact. After dusting off her tarnished suit, Spider-Girl would approach the meteor and inspect it thoroughly. From all she could tell it seemed to be fine for the most part. She couldn't take picture or anything due to her goggles being trashed, not only were the functions broken, but she was missing a lens.

"Good, now all I have to do is find Sergeant Dimwit."

Suddenly her Spider-Sense would seem to go haywire, and as Liz turned to see what the source of the danger was something from the meteor would seem to seep off, unbenounced to her and latched onto the sole of her shoe. She might've noticed this if there had not been an army of at least eighteen duplicates starring her down. Each combat trained and some were weilding weapons; also they were all sporting different numbers and shapes for face paint.

"Sorry local, but were procuring that artifact. Now move aside or lethal force will be engaged."

Liz was tired, beaten up, and her gadgets were on the fritz from the impact explosion. But again, this discovery was way too important to let this multiple man just take it.

".....Sorry Seargent, but you're going to have to make me."

"Platoon, arm yourselves and show no mercy. The target is stronger than us, and agile. Aim for the eyes and joints. Madame Liberty told me to bring her that specimen back and we will NOT let her down!!"

After the brief command from the original Terry, the entire squad would ascend upon Spider-Girl. A struggle would soon manifest itself for a few moments as Liz put up a fight; punching, kicking, maneuvering, and retaliating against the various trained versions of Platoon. But, eventually the clones would over run her and begin to gang up on the young female hero. Stomping away at her already bruised body with their combat boots. All Liz could do at this point was try to block the few knife blows that came at her as she lay helpless on the floor. However, unnanounced to the clones or Liz herself; the organism that had leeched onto her was growing more and more by the moment. Oddly enough, she felt herself getting stronger, angrier, more powerful by the second until finally she broke free from the hill of Terry's. Sending them all flying just as a few of them were about to reach the meteor. The one's closest to it were immediately apprehended by what appears to be two black web-lines that would swatted them away like flies.



(Mind)
"What's happening to me. I-I-I feel so empowered. I feel so mad, so ready to just let loose!"

As she thought this, Liz would continue to run a 'beat down' clinic on the remaining concious clones. Ten of them were already down and more and more were piling up by the second and then constantly just disappearing until finally only four were left. As one of them threw their knife at her a tendril would spring forward from her waist out of no where and swatted it out of the way.

"Whoa, since when could we, I mean, I do that? I sensed it coming, but--ARGH!!!"

As Spider-Girl paused to contemplate what had just happened a knife would dig into her shoulder from one of the remaining clones. A risky attack, rewarded by having his face turned into a pie as Spider-Girl flipped him forward and stomped him hard right in between the eyes. Then as another two came in she jumped up and shot two web-lines from her wrists at each one and yanked them together with almost no effort. Causing them to come soaring into eachother and smash heads; knocking them each out instanty, but just to add insult to injury Spider-Girl decided to land on top of them. Her shoulder wound no longer even visible, as it would seem the new suit had taken care of it for her.

"Now you have a choice, you can give up or you can just make more punching bags for me to..."

Liz would dust her hands together as she turned around and spoke to the final Platoon clone only to find him...well....gone. He had escaped, seeing he was outmatched by Spider-Girl currently but, she knew he'd be back.

(Mind)
"Great, what do they call it a tacticle retreat?"

In the distance sirens could be heard fast approaching, as could dogs, and squad cars. It would seem that the calvary had finally arrived to try and retrieve the ancient mineral rock and take down the hostiles.

"And that's my cue to leave."

Although as Liz said this she wondered excactly how she was going to do that, she didn't excactly have any gadgets on her at the moment and that included her grappling hook. Which, by the way, was her main mode of transportation. Then like it was one with her mind, the new suit she donned seemed to randomly take control of her arm and shoot out a long strand of tendril webbing that caught onto the side of a building and then swung her away. It was at this time she would finally really take notice of her new diggs. Earlier she had been too busy fighting to notice, but she seemed to be wearing a completely new outfit made of a polymorphing substance that seemed to be a-a-alive?

TBC Via roleplay.