The Bite

"These are some words I never thought I'ld say," Carol said as she looked at the white ceiling above her. "That's definitely not my ceiling." She observed the ceiling a little more before looking to her side.

"This is definitely not my room," she added as she looked at the room painted white filled with hospital equipments. She then looked at the needle connected to the IV drip and slowly pulled it out.

"What's happening? I was just sleeping in my room, I don't think anything would have warrant a trip to the hospital," she told herself before getting to her feet.

"Wait, am I taller?" she asked herself before looking down. "Hold the fuck up, I have a flat tummy!"

As an office worker, exercising was the last thing in her mind, ever! If she was not in her office, she was in an elevator, her car or on a couch eating starch rich food. So, she was quite a thick girl, a thing that put off many of her suitors. The depression got so hard she had actually became a lesbian. But, this was not the moment to speak about it for she was prodding her slightly visible and with shock.

"Something is wrong!" she said in a panic then went to the window and looked at her reflection. "Uhmm...This...What!?"

She could barely utter a word because of what she was seeing. Somehow, she had changed from an ebony haired African American woman to a half Asian half caucasian teenage girl that one would definitely call cute. She touched her eyes in shock then prodded her cheeks before punching them, the pain bringing her back from her shock.

"I'm almost white!" she exclaimed in shock and strangely, joy. Her previous life was one where a lot of disadvantages were already in her way due to being an African American and a woman. If she did not have her self drive and self esteem, she was sure she would be just a number on a statistic of gang members the FBI had in their system. Been part white was like winning a genetic lottery for her. She went to touch the window but it suddenly broke at her touch making her flinch back and watch as the glass sailed down to the street with slight fear.

"I didn't do anything to it!" she said as she turned around, only to frown for she didn't see anyone behind her. "Wait, what? I swear I heard someone enter!" Just as she said that, the door opened and in came a female nurse looking flustered.

"What happened?" she asked then saw Carol was not in her bed. "Ms Jun Hoo, you need to be in bed, the spider that bit you had not yet been identified, its venom might be still be active!" She sounded panicked as she quickly took her by hand and led her back to the bed. Once she was on, the nurse tucked her in before looking at the broken window.

"I'll see to it you are transfered to a different room, it's not good to breath in the Gotham air at your condition," the nurse said and then walked out. When she did, Carol felt a migraine suddenly befall her, making her clutch her head in pain but just as sudden as it appeared, it was gone.

"What the hell? A spider bit me giving me the powers of Silk, Spiderman Miles Morales and the photographic reflexes of Task Master!" she exclaimed in shock. "What kind of bullshit coincidence is this? The original owner of this body must have died and I took over her body just as it got the powers of three Marvel characters! I smell a plot by an all powerful being, a plot I refuse to be a part of!"

Quickly, she got out of bed and went to the broken window then looked down. She was currently on the third floor and she could see a hospital sign that read 'Martha Wayne Memorial Hospital's making her think back to what the nurse had just told her.

"So this is Gotham, as in DC universe Gotham! And I got Spider based powers, fuck! I wish the spider would have given me Thor's powers, even if they are MCU nerfed, that would have put me slightly at ease! Haaah, I can't cry over spilt milk."

She then turned to the outer walls of the hospital and carefully put her right hand palm onto it. She willed for herself to stick onto it and when she tried to pull on it, she realized it was impossible. A grin dorned her face as she followed up with her left hand, her entire body now been suspended on the side of the building by her two arms.

"I can't even feel my weight!" she noticed just how light she felt with disbelief.

Quickly coming back to her senses, she started crawling upwards slowly and fearfully before she truly became sure she could not fall. That realization made all the thoughts of height phobia just vanish. She did not register that she could fall, something every living being her size would be thinking at her place. Slowly, she let go of the wall with her hands and stood on it, letting her legs do all the work.

"Oh my God!" she exclaimed in disbelief and joy as she stood vertically upright on an upright wall, something she couldn't even dream of doing in her previous life.

"Silk could produce organic web from her fingers," she recalled before looking at her fingers. She willed for webs to come out and her face was sprayed by them, coming out of all ten fingertips, making her groan in frustration as she ripped them off her.

"Good thing I'm not in an erotic movie or something," she said gratefully as she ripped off the last of the webs. "Alright, here goes."

She pushed off the wall, doing a back flip thanks to her superhuman balance and dexterity she now had and then she started free falling. Strangely, she couldn't feel fear as the ground sped towards her, somehow feeling excited. When she was about twenty feet away, she shot a web line from her right hand second finger, the web latched onto a building and her momentum changed, making her swing forward!

"This is amazing!" she screamt in joy.