FF: The Black Widow Chronicles: Prolugue: Once Bitten Twice Shy

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Chronicles: The Black Widow 
Title: Once Bitten Twice Shy 
Chapter: Prologue 
Rating: R 
Spoilers: The Gift and beyond. 
Pairing: Willow/Buffy eventually 
Crossover: Spiderman/Buffy 
Beta Reader: Scotty Welles 
Shadow Mage 

Note: This is Alt 

Disclaimer: Not mine, not now, not ever. 

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Season One 
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The lab was empty, the students of Sunnydale High School running from the school the minute the last 
bell rang. It didn't matter though, she loved school, and she loved science. The idea of discovering some 
new mineral or new chemical or even a new type of energy. Even as the school genius she wasn't that 
far a head in her studies, but she was looking forward to when she was. 

She double checked the latch on the aquarium holding the black widow spider safely inside, and 
removed her gloves. While the bite of the spider wasn't deadly, it was very painful and it not something 
she wanted to risk experiencing. The female spider sat close to the glass wall staring at her as she 
reached over for the beaker of the chemical she'd spent most of the week working on. 

The light blue liquid seemed to glow eerily in the dim room. She used the eye dropper to carefully drip 
several drops into the cage, and onto the black spider. The female ran around the cage making a painful 
high hissing noise, it's body shaking violently. The spider convulsed violently then flipped onto it's 
back. 

She frowned at the unmoving spider with tearful eyes. She hadn't meant to kill it, she was only trying to 
find a way to improve the spider's defenses. Blinking away the quantity of tears she opened the lid and 
reached in, gently cupping the spider in her hand. 

" Ouch..." She yanked her hand back and stared at the angry swollen bite on her finger. The red bite 
throbbed noticeably, growing bigger before her eyes. A shock of heat engulfed her body, forcing her onto 
her knees, gasping for breath as her lungs began to squeeze closed. Her eyes blurred with pain making it 
impossible to see. 

All her senses felt overly sensitive and over loaded. The slightest movement making the blinding pain 
mind numbly intense until she was on the edge of passing out. Her gums pounded against her teeth, the 
throbbing increasing until she felt blood flowing from her mouth, the thin sounds of her teeth hitting the 
floor making her over tuned ear drums sting. 

She screamed at the top of her lungs as the muscles in her body bunched and rearranged, new teeth 
pushing their way into her mouth. Her body collapsed onto the floor as the pain faded into a dull 
throbbing, leaving her laying on the school room floor in exhaustion. 

Slowly, she opened her eyes and gasped. Everything seemed different to her. Every sense in her body 
was reaching out, embracing her surroundings, making them part of her. On shaky legs, she stumbled 
towards the door, gaining strength with every step. 

The dark halls were illuminated in her eyes, allowing her to see with ease. The doors out into the night 
flew open slamming into the brick wall, shattering the glass under her gentle push. She gulped in fear and 
stepped back. 

" Oh goddess, what's happening to me?" 

" You've been chosen." 

A young man stepped out of the shadows. " The current black widows life is growing to an end. In 
the next few years she will retire, and you will take her place." 

" I think you have the wrong person. Buffy's the one you want, not me. Yep, that's Buffy, she's the 
chosen one, the slayer. Fighting for the good of the world, to protect it from...." 

" No, you're the one." The young man stepped closer to her, " You must begin training immediately, in 
order to prepare you." 

" B-b-but I don't know anything about.....about....well about whatever it is I'm supposed to know about 
and don't. So how am I supposed to know how to prepare if I don't know how?" 

" That's my job." 

A muscular woman wearing a skin tight black body suit with a red spider on it's chest jumped down from 
the side of the building. She reached up to the black mask and peeled it off. 

" Oh." 

The gorgeous black haired woman smiled at her with worn lines of having seen too much in her day. Her 
Asian features were exotic and tired, making the blunt short hair cut stand out even more. 

" We should get started, you have much to learn before you can take my place." 

She numbly let the woman guide her, her mind having shut down at go. 

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Four Years Later 
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The battle raged around her. Glory's rage crackled around them, turning it onto Buffy as she stepped 
forward. She took a nervous breath from her place on the top of the tower. The hell god was fighting her 
way to the stairs, leaving her little time. 

" WILLOW!!!" 

She slowly walked toward Dawn, drawing a small knife from underneath the yellow plaid shirt she wore. 
The blade easily slide through the leather binding the teenager to the two poles. She quickly pulled the 
young girl into her arms, hugging her tightly. 

" Go down the shaft and get to Buffy." 

" Wh-what about you?" 

Willow smiled sadly, and pushed her towards the stairs. " I'll be right behind you, there's something I 
need to do first." 

Dawn looked unsure but nodded slowly, " I'll see you down there." 

" Be careful Dawnie." 

Willow watched the young girl run over to the half built shaft and crawl inside. She slammed her hands 
together, palm to palm. White lightening danced around her hands, building around her until a strong 
wind wrapped around the tower. Her blackened eyes stared at the top of the stairs waiting. 

The blonde god stepped onto the walkway, glaring at her angrily. 

" Where is she?! Where's the key?!" 

She closed her darkened eyes and threw her head back, the white glow becoming a growing globe that 
engulfed them. The power flowed through her, building until she was at the end. 

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" Where's Willow?!" 

Dawn spun around to the shaft with wide eyes. " She said she was behind me." 

Buffy ran towards the stairs as the white glow engulfed the building. There was screaming in the 
distance as two pairs of arms grabbed her and threw her to the ground. The deafening explosion littering 
the ground around them. 

She pushed Spike off her and got to her feet staring at the rumble around them. " Willow?" 

" Bloody hell what is that?" 

Her blue eyes looked up at the black clad woman swing away from the rumble onto the tenth story metal 
beam of the unfinished building. A small red spider was painted on her chest. The black form held it's 
right arm up and a thick string of web shot out. The figure swung out and disappeared into the shadows. 

She turned to the rumble where her friend had been, and walked slowly towards it. Her eyes locked onto 
the spider web clinging to one of the twisted platforms. 

" She was here." 

Giles stood beside her, " We don't know that...." 

" She was here. She could've saved her." Buffy clenched her hands in rage. " But she didn't, and she will 
pay for that." 






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- Charles Angels.

Odo: Madam Ambassodor, I'm not like you.
Every sixteen hours I revert to a liqiud.

Lwaxana Troi: I can swim.

- DS9: The Forsaken.

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