Chapter 9: Chapter 09 - The Accidental Refuge
Luke remained unconscious in his apartment, the atmosphere in the place was silent. In this silence, three figures were also unconscious on the floor of the small space.
These three figures were the same three Spider-Women who had escaped injured from the brutal clash with the Mutant Gang in the abandoned warehouse in Hell's Kitchen.
A few hours earlier...
The Spider-Woman in red, feeling the weight of the psychic and physical wounds inflicted by Anna Marie and Psylocke, still carried the Spider-Woman in white on her back. The three Spider-Women had made a desperate escape, escaping the clutches of the Mutant Gang, but now they were on the verge of exhaustion.
"I won't be able to fly much longer... we need a safe place," said the Spider-Woman in black, panting and with her body shaking in pain. Her belly was still throbbing from the attacks that Laura, the Claw, had delivered, and Firestar's microwave energy seemed to have burned deeply into her skin.
"There!" Spider-Woman in red, her senses overwhelmed by pain, pointed to an open window in one of the Queens buildings. Without a second thought, the three of them released their webs and launched themselves inside, falling straight into what appeared to be a small apartment of an ordinary resident.
Without strength, the three women immediately collapsed to the ground.
Back to the present...
The room was silent. The three Spider-Women had been unconscious for almost half an hour. Slowly, Spider-Woman in white began to regain consciousness. Her body ached, and there were still small residual shocks of energy running through her skin, like a memory of the lightning that had struck her during the fight with Ororo, the Storm.
She opened her eyes slowly, feeling the cold ground beneath her body.
"What... where am I?" Spider-Woman in white murmured, still dazed.
Spider-Woman in black also began to wake up. She looked around, confused, and noticed Luke unconscious not far from them.
"What is this place? Do you know what happened?" Spider-Woman in white asked with her hand on her head. She had fallen unconscious very quickly in the fight with Ororo who had not seen anything that happened.
"We were completely destroyed by the Mutant Gang, they were very strong and we couldn't take many hits before being defeated." Spider-Woman in black replied, she recalled what had happened when they were escaping and continued: "When Mary found an open window, we went in and fell right here."
Finally, Spider-Woman in red opened her eyes with a groan of pain. Her body was covered in cuts and her mind was still processing the harsh defeat they had suffered at the hands of the Mutant Gang.
"I... I know him." Spider-Woman in red muttered, struggling to get up.
"We need to get out of here before he wakes up." Spider-Woman in red said, wanting to leave.
Spider-Woman in white, who was already standing, shook her head. "I don't think he's a threat, Mary. Look at him... he looks like he's suffering as much as we are."
Spider-Woman in black walked over to Luke, watching him lying unconscious on the floor. She ran her hand through his hair, trying to reason: "Maybe he's sick, I don't think he'll wake up any time soon... let's at least put him to bed."
Spider-Woman in red interrupted Spider-Woman in black: "Don't touch him! Let me get him..."
The two Spider-Women looked strangely at Spider-Woman in red, but decided not to say what they were thinking.
Spider-Woman in red gently picked up Luke, went to his bed and carefully placed him on the bed.
He opened his eyes slowly, blinking as he tried to understand what was happening. First, he saw the ceiling, and then he felt the pain in his body, the result of the effort his ability had caused. As he tried to get up, his eyes met those of the three women who were watching him.
"Who... who are you?" Luke asked, confused and without the strength to move quickly.
The Spider-Woman in white stepped forward, raising her hands in a peace sign. "We're not enemies, we just need help."
Luke blinked a few times, still dazed. "You... how did you get here?"
The Spider-Woman in black, with her hardest expression, took the floor. "We were running away from a fight. We ended up here by accident." She looked around, trying to better understand the situation. "But it seems like you're going through something complicated too, right?"
Luke stood up slowly, feeling his body heavy, despite the brief moment he had floated.
Looking once more, Luke realized that there were three different Spider-Women. Noticing this strange combination, he looked at the Spider-Woman in white, she was wearing a very familiar uniform from his life that was worn by Spider-Gwen.
With this observation, the Spider-Woman in white is most likely Gwen Stacy.
But the other two Spider-Women, Luke has no idea who they are.
While Luke was thinking, there was someone who was irritated. Spider-Woman in red walked over and stood in front of Luke, she shouted, "Stop looking at her with those eyes!"
"Huh?" x3
The two Spider-Women and Luke were surprised by the Spider-Woman in red. But after a short amount of time, Luke realized the only person who would say something like that to him.
Mary Jane.
"Are you Mary Jane?" Luke asked.
Mary Jane took off her mask and shook her head slightly to get the red hair out of her face. "Yes, Luke. It's me, can we stay for a while?"
"Of course you can, but why don't you go to your house? You live next door." Luke asked doubtfully.
"Are you kicking me out? And if you want to know, I'm doing this for you! Why were you unconscious? What happened?" Mary Jane peppered Luke with questions.
"You can stay, okay? I think you better wash those wounds and the one in black over there stinks of vomit!" Luke changed the subject.
"Good point, that smell..." the Spider-Woman in black took off her mask that was disgusting and threw it in the trash.
She revealed herself to be a young woman with white hair. Luke didn't know her, but he guessed from her white hair and the context that she was Felicia Hardy.
Which surprised him anyway, Luke didn't expect that the original Black Cat would be a Spider-Woman in this world. Just having 3 Spider-Women is already something out of the ordinary.
"I need to take a shower urgently, I also need bandages for my arm, that crazy woman almost ripped my arm off." Felicia said and didn't wait, she went into the bathroom without a towel and locked the door to take a shower.
"That idiot forgot her towel and clothes." The Spider-Woman in white saw that her two partners revealed their identities and not the reason for remaining anonymous, took off her mask and revealed herself as Gwen Stacy.
Again, Luke didn't know Gwen Stacy in this life, but her appearance was an older version of the Gwen that appeared in the SpiderVerse animated films. So there was no way not to recognize her.
Mary Jane sighed: "I'll get some clothes and bandages for us." Mary Jane looked at Luke and pointed to the bed. "While you go rest, I don't know what happened, but you were unconscious and that's not normal."
The redhead put the mask back on and jumped out the window, sneaking outside the building until she reached her apartment.
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