Wrussy

It's been a while since I've ridden on a public transit system, high out of my fucking mind. The last time I went on a trip was before I got enrolled into Kamar-Taj and the time before that was in my previous life. And nothing in all of my previous experiences had prepared me for this. Kamar-Taj kicked me in ball sacks of my very existence but I was not dying and losing my mortality. This. This isn't just another acid trip. I can feel my body slowly dying from the inside. It feels like my body is melting slowly but rapidly at the same time.

It's a good thing the acid trip is kicking in only when I'm about two stations away from my stop because I am definitely going to be a victim of something if it came in any earlier. I try to control my breathing but it feels like my entire skin is breathing along with me. No. I think this whole train is matching my breathing. Oh fuck. Oh shit. Don't freak out. Don't FREAK OUT NED!!!

Let's try and focus on the chair in front of you to calm down Ned. Yes! Remember your training. Breathe and focus. Just breathe and focu-WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT! I instinctively pull away from the walking aisle to cover my face. There's. There's someone looking at me with too many eyes. Fuck fuck fuck. If I pretend to look at the window I'll be fine. Oh no I can still see their reflection looking at me. Fuck I can't look away. Why can't I look away! Their face! The eyes are glassy black and there's eight of them. Oh fuck their mouth. Why is their jaw splitting in two?? No wait it's actually a chelicerae if this related to spiders….what the fuck am I doing man. There's nothing there. I'm just hallucinating duh. This is just my death and skull filled metamorphosis scene just like every Spider-man movie.

I turn to look towards the man that had the face of a spider. Oh thank goodness it's just a very hairy and unkempt hipster. Kinda strange that they're wearing a suit and tie with thick untamed hair and beard but hey to each their own. I breathe out a breath of relief as I turn to look at the display screen on the ceiling. Welp looks like my stop is nex-oh fuck me! Out on the platform is another spooky looking person. They're standing by the wall furthest and away from everyone but I can see them perfectly. This person is now made of shadows and everyone seems to not notice them at all. SIGH. OH fuck I think they're looking directly at me. Oh fuck oh fuck.

BING!

Fuck fuck fuck fuck. I grip on to the seat in front of me as I try to pull myself up. I can stand up but it feels like my body is heavier than ever. I know I don't have my gravity binds anymore so why am I struggling so much to get off the train? I can feel my body moving slow and sluggish like I have to manually move my legs. Oh no wait fuck I need to walk the other way. Away from the shadow person. Wait shadow person? Where? Where did they go? They were just right there. I turn to look towards the direction I last saw them and ahh fuck. They're not there anymore. Fuck I need to keep my head down and mind my business. Ignore the staring shadow woman. Ignore the staring shadow woman. IGNORE THE AH!! Fuck that's not a shadow person. Just walk Ned. Just Walk! Fuck those spider zoids. Just make it home. We need to fucking survive!

-----Ten Minutes Later-----

OH FUCK IM FINALLY HOME!!! I pull on my clothes to ripp them off as soon as I got inside my house. My insides are on fire as if they're getting roasted on the surface of the sun. I guess this is what happens when you get bitten by a venomous radioactive spider. You DIE! Oh fuck I'm not ready for this. I've worked so hard to learn magic and advance bullshit science that I can't just leave it all behind. I've made so much progress in these 13 years than I did in the 17 years of my last life. I just need. I just need more tim-ahh. I can't stop now.

I need. I need to find a way to cool myself down. My body is definitely trying to shut down to the spread of the venom. I slowly stumble my way into the bathroom as I summon some cubes of ice into the bathtub. I turn on the water and try to let the cold ice cubes melt into the rushing water. After I can't take it anymore, I turn off the water and allow my body fell head first into the ice cold bath tub. I think my body is falling into shock because I can't stop myself from twitching. Or maybe I'm drowning but I just can't flail My arms. My body is getting waves after waves of hot and cold flashes and they're both colliding with each other in the worst way possible. Wait this. This must be my muscles being torn apart and getting put back together to become stronger than before.

I roll around in the tub so my head and arms can stick out as my back lay against the bottom of the tub. I hazily stare at the bathroom door as I unsteady wave my hands in the air. "Come on. Come on I should've kept the ring of power on for this day. It's the only thing that can speed up my healing. Heh, am I really putting a reactor in water? fuck!" After hearing a few ring pings throughout my apartment a small silver color ring came floating into the bathroom. It lands in my hands just as my eyes begin to roll backwards as I start to lose consciousness. "New speedrun record." I chuckle to myself as the electricity generator slips out of my hand and into the ice cold bath water.

-----The Next Day-----

So uh I think I survived the process of becoming a spider man. Well maybe it was to become a super soldier who's theme is based on a spider because this is probably how Captain America felt when he underwent his steroid treatment. His DNA has been rewritten to build him the ultimate body that can survive in almost any conditions and it was only possible because he got exposed to a certain form of radiation at the same time. And I think I went through the same thing? I'm not quite sure but I do gotta say. It's going to be hard trying to hide my growth spurt as just a regular dose of puberty because uh...well I'm now 6 foot 3 at the ripe old age of 13 years old.

There goes the one thing that I thought I could continue to hide. My already god-like body that I've been crafting since the age of 4 is even more honed and toned. I don't really know how to describe it but they're even bigger and denser than before. I wanted to go with a Bruce Lee type of build where I can be strong, slim and fast at the same time. But now that I went through such a powerful steroid I feel like I'm just another faceless villain henchmen. There is one exterior change that I've noticed so far. The world seems like it's moving just slightly slower while I can move as if everything was normal. Maybe it's not super speed but I think I probably got a little bit of a speed boost to my body and brain processing speed, considering that's why I had the spell of gravity and deceleration on for so long for. Nice.

And then there's the tingles. It was the one power I really wanted for a long time and I can't believe I finally got it. It feels....natural? Like I have long invisible hair from the back of my neck and arms that can feel any slight changes in the air. As for how far the range is? I don't know…yet. Hopefully it's the same as the rest of the spider family but I'm not an MC so I highly doubt it would be as good as them. I do have some pretty sticky hands now. Well it's more hairy than anything but the hair is so small and microscopic that it just looks like a normal pair of hands. But I can feel the hairs tingle just ever so slightly when I use magic.

Now this is kind of embarrassing but I now have a new orifice, two as a matter of fact. I now have two brand new virgin wrussies on the underside of my wrist. I guess I'm more of a biological Maguire spider than I am a Holland or Garfield or any other iteration really. Which is pretty cool I guess, except for the fact that I'll literally be leaving behind DNA evidence every time I use my webs..... I gotta copy Peter's formula or make my own because I am not going to leave anything that can be traced back to me....unless. SPAT!

Eww this is fucking gross the spider silk is warm. Ah!!! my spine is tingling so bad because it's gross. I wanna barf-NO! I must do this. I've been waiting for this power for so long and I'm not going to throw it all away just because I feel uncomfortable. This is just puberty damnit. Every teenage web crawlers must've gone through the same thing because this is fucking gross. The human-spider anatomy is pretty disgusting and I need a way to cut off my silk because it's still sticking out of my WRUSSY.