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Peter Parker or Gela Romanoff as she preferred now, didn't remember her time before becoming the Red Spider...

Her first memory was of the injection that made her who she was...

She was small then...

But she remembered the pain...

The massive fever...

The dizziness...

The sensory overload...

But once everything ended...

Things were better...

That was when she met the others...

The Black Widows.

She was in awe as she saw them move...

Especially their instructor...

Natalia or Natasha as most people know her now.

She was the best of the best in the Red Room...

Gela was special...

She would be trained personally by the best of what they had to offer...

They had been surprised by what had happened to her when they injected that venom...

They were expecting her to develop spider-like abilities...

But not the other intricacies...

She was intersex now...

Visibly if a scientist or doctor were to look and they did...

Gela remembered the humiliation...

She didn't really remember what it was like to be who she used to be anymore...

That little boy Peter Parker who was taken by Hydra no longer existed...

No one even made any connection in Queens after they moved there except for one couple...

"You just... Remind us of someone... Our nephew went missing not long after his parents' death when he was a little boy...

Does the name Peter Parker mean anything to you? 

Like he was your cousin or something?"

How could she tell them that their nephew was gone forever?

How could she tell her aunt and uncle that due to what happened to her, she was no longer the nephew they knew? 

Benjamin was a cop and May was a nurse...

If they ever got access to her DNA, they would find a very close match to their missing nephew...

Close enough that it was in the margin of error of a DNA match...

No matter how much she wished that she could get to know them, she couldn't risk getting too close.

It broke Gela's heart that she could never tell them...

Her mom called her a big softie...

Nat was the best mom.

She was walking home when she heard it...

A gunshot rang through the air...

She ran towards the sound and used her training to sneak up behind the attacker, and knocked them out cold...

The man that was shot...

The police officer...

It was her uncle!

She crouched down in front of him and quickly put pressure on the wound...

Her Spidey senses were telling her that he was fading...

She...

"Gela? Is that you?"

"It is."

Despite her training, she was still a child... It was everything that she could do not to break down in sobs...

"I need to tell you something...

I was once Peter, but I was taken by...

By horrible people and I became who I am today..."

She spoke as quickly as she could...

She wanted him to have closure before he went...

"I... I knew you looked too familiar, dear... Nat takes care of you well...

Please...

Tell May the truth...

We only ever wanted you safe...

I have always loved you, cuddle bug."

A flash of a memory long forgotten...

Of a family cuddling by a fire and opening presents...

Of laughter and hope...

When the reinforcements came, it was already too late for Ben...

But they took his killer and locked him up...

May asked her what his last words were...

"You should come to dinner tonight May, with my mom and I, there's something I need to talk to you about."

Gela told her mom what her uncle said...

And that flash of memory...

"I don't remember much before the Red Room either...

You're a lucky one, kid.

My birth family is completely dead.

If you truly want to tell May, you should do it."

May came to dinner as they agreed upon. 

"Th-thank you for inviting me..."

Gela's aunt sniffled.

"Loss is a difficult thing...

I haven't seen my sister or parents in a long time..."

"Mom.

I need to tell her."

Natasha nodded and gave her a small smile. 

"You...

You asked me about Peter Parker when we first met...

There's a reason why I dodged the question because it's awkward...

Embarrassing...

And I was scared what you would think of me."

May just look confused. 

Gela continued. 

"I don't remember being him...

More than a flash of memory now and then. 

I was kidnapped as a child...

This was a normal thing that happened...

The people that took me...

They were Hydra, have you heard of them?"

May nodded in confusion.

"I thought they were gone at the end of WW2 with the Nazis."

Both mother and daughter shook their heads. 

Gela continued, "They went into hiding, abducted people, and experimented on them...

They especially targeted children...

Mostly girls.

But Peter Parker was one of the few boys.

I used to be one of the few boys. 

But what they did to me...

I'm both a boy and a girl in a way.

I live as a girl though. 

I was called the Red Spider in the Red Room.

The only Black Widow born a boy.

But it wasn't just that...

I have spider-like abilities...

I can stick to things and produce my own spider webs...

I can also sense danger...

And that's why I called you here.... I'm so sorry, May...

I felt a spike of danger, but that happens all the time in the city...

I should have gone after it this afternoon, but I ignored it...

That's when I heard that gunshot...

If I had just gone towards where I sensed that danger I could have stopped that robber before that gunshot ever went off."

Gela was in tears...

"I was too scared that you would hate me... That you and Ben would hate me... For no longer being Peter.

The little boy I barely remember being.

But I told him at the end...

He smiled at me and-and told me that he just wanted me to be safe and that he loved me and called me cuddle bug, that was his last word."

Gela finally broke down from the emotional trauma of the evening.

Natasha and May hugged the traumatized girl.

All three of them were crying.

When they had calmed down, May told her...

"I won't hate you for something you couldn't control... Are you happy as a girl?"

"Yes."

"If you could go back and not have been taken, would you?

If you never got to meet who you did and become who you are now? 

Would you go back and live as Peter?"

Gela thought about it and shook her head.

"I couldn't imagine not being with Mom or having never met Auntie Yelena."

"Yelena?"

May asked Natasha. 

"My baby sister. We may not be related by blood, but we mean everything to each other.

She absolutely dotes on her niece whenever she sees her."

"So, you have two aunts then, Sweetheart?"

Gela laughed as she wiped away her tears. 

"I guess I do now."

So much changed after that...

Ben's funeral was hard for all of them...

But as the little broken family spent so much more time together, Gela saw the sparks flying between her aunt and her mom...

Gela wondered if she would ever have a love like that...

One that just came naturally.

The marriage ceremony was a small intimate thing...

May Parker became May Romanoff. 

Through some legal shenanigans Gela became legally a Romanoff too... Finally...

Peter Parker quietly was no longer a missing person...

But no one knew except for May, Natasha, Gela herself, and a particularly nice superhero lawyer named Matt.

"I've dealt with weirder things, kid."

He had told her in confidence.

"I'm dating an assassin too.

Don't worry about it."

Gela was looking forward to high school now.

She had been working with private tutors since they got to NYC but being around normal kids her age...

Natasha and May agreed that it would be good for her.

Gela aced the exams at Midtown Institute...

Unlike others, she didn't pay her way in. 

She did it on her own merits...

It took time to learn to be herself, but she learned she really liked science and such...

That Star Wars Legends novel meant so much to her...

Whenever she was in a larger town on her missions, she would look for more of the books...

She had a decent collection by the time her and her mom left the Red Room...

She had been really excited when May and Ben had finally convinced her and Natasha to watch Star Wars for the first time...

It was bittersweet but one of her happiest memories after coming to NYC.

If she could change one thing in her life, Gela would have told Ben and May who she was sooner...

It didn't matter now...

She smiled at the custom Star Wars patches she had sewed herself on her book bag in the car...

She was ready for her first day of school.

May would be the one dropping her off today...

Tomorrow would be Natasha...

With their busy jobs they would flip who dropped off and picked Gela up from school.

"You can do it, Sweetie! Go make your family proud."

"Okay, Ma."

Gela had started calling May that after her and Natasha got married...

It just felt right...

She put on a pleasant smile that only people who truly knew her would be able to tell was fake...

There was a certain neutrality in her eyes that despite all her years of training, she couldn't shake off...

"I know you fool most people with that smile, but I hope you find people at school who can really make you smile, Sweetie...

Go on now."

A real smile lit up Gela's face for a moment, but it disappeared by the time she had left the car.

She couldn't let anyone know that she wasn't a normal teenager...

That she wasn't one of the best trained assassins in the world...

That she wasn't a superhuman...

That she couldn't charm the richest man on Earth to buy a frankly ridiculous amount of Girl Scout Cookies... (Her mom was still making fun of Tony for that incident.)

Gela went in and met up with the rest of the Freshman Orientation group.

They were guided around the school...

Given their class schedules and were told about the electives...

She had to take World Language...

Spanish was an easy A for her, being already fluent...

But she wanted to actually learn something...

Japanese? 

Nope, already fluent. 

German? 

One of her best languages... And again, fluent. 

Italian? 

She wasn't fluent in that...

But considering the Italian population in NYC, it was embarrassing.

She was supposed to be able to understand every conversation around her...

But she could only understand bits and pieces of Italian...

She would actually need to study to learn that one and that's what she wanted! 

She signed up for Italian. 

She was going to be taking AP Biology as well...

It was her favorite subject...

When she became a civilian, her dream was to go into genetics and finally fully understand her body and what happened to her...

With a focus in Anthropology and Arachnology...

The study of humans and arachnids respectively...

Damn, she was a nerd!

Two of her classmates looked over her shoulder...

One of them asked, "Italian huh? Why would you do something like that?"

"I'm multilingual already but I'm not fluent in Italian and I want to learn..."

She looked at the girl who commented on her World Language elective...

She was pretty but seemed to be a no nonsense type. 

Gela could respect it, but she wasn't into girls.

But this girl could be a good friend or potential ally if she played her cards right.

"Are those Star Wars patches?

I don't recognize them."

Gela blushed as she looked at the nerdy Asian boy with a Death Star patch on his book bag...

It looked like one of the ones Disney made.

"I made them myself."

His eyes grew wide, "Is that a spider emblem on the Millennium Falcon?"

"Yeah, I really like spiders."

A real smile lit up her eyes as she mentioned her favorite subject.

A different guy came up to them with...

Were those bloody Ray-Bans? Seriously?

It was everything Gela could do to not roll her eyes at the rich kid.

The guy gave her what was supposed to be a charming smile, but instead it made her want to gag, "What's a sweet thing like you doing at our school? Did your mom suck off the dean or something?"

"Fuck off, Flash. Gela here got the highest grade on the entrance exams. 

I wouldn't recommend saying shit like that about her mom either...

Madame Romanoff is not someone you should mess with. She's saved New York multiple times over for goodness sake!"

The girl did not seem pleased with the guy, apparently Flash was his name?

Also, she recognized Gela's last name apparently...

Con of being a superhero's kid she guessed.

Flash's eyes grew wide...

"Y-your mom is the Black Widow!?!"

"Yeah, got a problem? She's taught me a thing or two and I have no compunction of knocking you out if you don't butt off."

He grew pale and quickly made his way to the other side of the orientation group.

"She has?"

The cute Asian boy's eyes sparkled. 

"She's taught me everything I know... Well...

It wasn't just her...

I've been tutored by my mom, my family, and family friends since I was little. This is my first time at a proper school..."

"Family friends? Like the Avengers?"

Oh dear...

Was the cutie a superhero fanboy?

Once she talked to him more, she would figure out if that was an actual problem...

Please don't be a Coulson! Please don't be a Coulson!

Echoed through her head...

He was a sweet man but was a pain in the ass for all the Avengers...

She thinks he's the only person in the world to have her autograph.

Gela really thought about it...

Yeah...

At one point or another, every member had tutored her in different things...

Even Tony's girlfriend Pepper had taught her what it was like to be a CEO.

"Now that I'm thinking about it, yes. They all have at one point or another...

But not just the primary Avengers...

Their civilian members too...

Like Pepper Potts...

The CEO of Stark Industries."

"That's really cool, have you gotten their autographs?"

She laughed as she remembered that birthday card. 

"Technically, yes. It was a group birthday card."

The girl asked, "Any funny stories to tell?"

"My mom still makes fun of Tony for this one, I'm a Juliet Girl Scout and for the restoration efforts, I was selling cookies...

And I got everyone in the tower that I know to buy boxes...

But Tony he...

He may have bought a total of 500 boxes..."

Gela's eyes sparkled with laughter.

The three of them laughed at the thought of Tony Stark with what would essentially be a mountain of Girl Scout cookies...

"Has he eaten them all?"

After the boy finally calmed down enough to talk. 

"Yes, they were all eaten eventually...

One of the charity galas had a decent amount of them for people to eat...

He hasn't bought that many again in one year but he's always a decent chunk of my sales every year."

"My name is Michelle by the way, but I prefer MJ."

MJ tells her. 

"And I'm Ned."

Ned's voice unfortunately cracks...

That's one reason why Gela was happy that she was mostly physically a girl.

Her voice would never be super deep and she was thankful for that...

"I'm Gela, I'm glad to meet you both."

She had a feeling that they would be great friends.

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After the orientation was lunch. For cafeteria food, it was decent. 

She was used to cafeteria food at SHIELD sometimes and...

She had a similar opinion about it...

She would never go out of her way to eat it but if it's there she'll eat it.

She sat with her new friends...

Ned and MJ.

Gela purposely had them sit close to the emergency exit just in case...

If she could get them into that habit, it would be better in case something happens while they're at school...

What if another alien invasion happened in New York and they needed to get out of the collapsing building? 

Gela wanted her friends to be safe...

Her mom was right; she really was a big softie.

She surveyed her fellow freshman and the clicks that were already forming...

It seemed like a lot of them knew each other from Junior High...

There were a few awkward loners...

Probably kids who passed the exams but weren't in the lower school originally...

Like her...

But she was lucky...

The nerdy daughter of a superhero...

Thinking of being a superhero...

She thought about Ben again...

She...

She had these powers but didn't use them...

She could help people!

Then why wasn't she?

When she was younger it was the fact that she was too young to be on the streets on her own...

But now? 

There were teenage superheroes, right?

Like Robin and the Teen Titans!

But now that she thought about it, for the life of her, she couldn't think of a teenage superhero IRL... 

Was it because of a legal thing? 

Was it because they were more discreet?

No...

That was probably not it...

She was the youngest Black Widow to escape the Red Room, wasn't she?

It was so weird to think that she might be the youngest possible superhero close to the action...

Maybe there was...

No...

She had never heard of any agents who were anywhere close to her age...

At the very least they were college students...

But...

If she could help, she would do it! 

The next time she felt her Spidey senses reacting, she would act on them. 

She promised herself she would.

It was the end of the day and waiting in the parking lot was her mom's car. 

She quickly went to the car and casually tapped a pattern into the door...

In their family, they would sometimes use Morse Code...

On the other side of the door, she heard responding tapping...

They would be shopping for her books for her classes this afternoon...

Along with supplies for each class...

People recognized her mom sometimes but they both knew how to be discreet...

When Gela got into the car, she used the tinted windows to her full advantage and changed into an outfit to blend in...

Her mom was wearing similar things to hide her identity...

Today they would look like a blonde haired and blue-eyed mother and daughter school shopping...

It was a perfect disguise...

The start of the different high schools in the area were staggered and so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see someone school shopping at the moment...

At the end of their shopping, they picked up takeaway for dinner...

Her Ma May would love it...

It was a local Chinese place near the Romanoff family apartment.

When they got into the place she went and organized everything for school...

Since it was Friday, she made things easy for herself and put all her things she would need for Monday in her book bag and was about to go downstairs for dinner when...

She felt it...

She frantically opened her closet to see what she had...

She quickly grabbed her old Black Widow uniform...

It was like her mom’s but distinctly had more red on it and...

As she pulled it on, she realized it was too small on her.

Puberty was properly kicking in for her now and the uniform was tight especially around her chest...

It was also short around her wrists and ankles...

She quickly pulled on a hoodie to cover her face and discreetly opened the window to her bedroom...

She swung out of the room on her own spider webs and went towards where she felt the danger...

She eventually saw it, two burly men sneaking up behind an unsuspecting young woman...

She looked like she was in her early twenties.

Gela wouldn't let this slide! 

She quickly webbed both men up and slammed them into the ground...

They were knocked out cold...

She smiled underneath her hood...

The woman looked like she jumped out of her skin as she turned around...

"Th-thank you! 

I don't know what I would have done if those two..."

"Do you have pepper spray on you? I'm not sure if they were planning to rob you or something worse, but..."

Oh, that's pleasant...

Gela smelled alcohol on the men...

"They were drunk."

Gela told her matter of factly.

"So, it was probably assault. Yeah, get yourself some pepper spray and pay more attention to your spatial awareness...

I won't be able to catch everyone who does horrible things in this borough...

But I'll do my best to clean up the neighborhood to make things a little bit safer for everyone."

"Th-thank you for stopping them.

Should I call the NYPD about this?"

"Yes, tell them that two guys were planning on assaulting you and that one of the local vigilantes stop them, take care of yourself ma'am."

"Thank you again, Miss!"

"Of course."

Gela told the young woman respectfully.

And she swung away in a different direction to her house until she was out of sight and turned directions towards home.

Just in case, she stopped swinging about a block away from her apartment and climbed up to her window...

She closed it behind her and locked it...

Taking off the hoodie was easy...

But when she tried to unzip her old Red Spider uniform, she heard a distinct rip and winced. 

It had been too much pressure on her breasts anyways and she was happy to get out of the compression.

However, if she wanted to do more for her community, she needed a new suit of some sort...

She put on purposely baggy clothes and went into her arts and crafts room.

She grabbed a brand new sketchbook and started sketching out the human body first...

Her body specifically...

She took her own measurements, so she knew what she was getting into...

She made hats and scarves and the little patches for her Girl Scout vest before...

But nothing this elaborate in the past...

She needed something sturdy that would serve for good protection...

She looked around at the swatches she had...

Then she looked at something she had made a few months ago...

The swatch was made from her own spider webs...

She had tested its strength out of curiosity and found out that with the thread count as high as that swatch was, it could handle being hit by high caliber guns.

You would need a good few minutes of cutting to even get through the webs if they were that thick...

It was perfect!

She thought of what features would be good for the uniform...

Extra protection just in case...

She looked at the other materials she had...

Then she found something! 

A spool of what looked like gold thread but connected to it was an old letter from Prince Thor of Asgard. 

Thank you, Shield Daughter, for the beautiful scarf you made me for the Midgardian Winter celebrations!

For the day of your birth, I have given you a spool of uru thread in hopes that it will help you sometime in your future...

I know that you are a warrior despite your mother's claim that you are but only a civilian...

If you choose to return to battle, I hope you consider using this Asgardian gift to help you! 

-Prince Thor of Asgard

He is such an exuberant person, Gela thought to herself as she looked around to see if there was anything else that she wanted to use...

Then she found a box with a different old letter on top...

Dear Gela,

I've seen the way that you admire my suits and despite Nat telling me that you don't intend on crime fighting now due to your age, I know that you always want to help and so for the future, I will give you a box of synthesized Starkanium for superhero suit use only. Also, if you ever make one for someone that isn't yourself, truly make sure they won't use it for evil...

Like I did with Rhodey.

I trust you to be responsible with it, kid, just use it and be safe if you're going to be out there. 

-Tony

She knew Tony worried about her...

That if something ever happened to Natasha and May, he would take her in right away...

That was the kind of man he was.

The Avengers had found out Uru and Starkanium was compatible a few years ago so the modern Iron Man suits used both...

However, Gela would use it in a much more subtle way...

Like being able to open the mask part without having to take off the mask or something...

She didn't want someone to be able to just pull it off her...

Defeats the purpose of hiding her identity...

Which she wanted to do until she was at least an adult. 

Once she was 18, she would think about revealing the fact she was the Red Spider.

There was also being able to use the bathroom or eat without having to take off the uniform...

The eating part wasn't an issue with her old Red Spider uniform for obvious reasons but being able to use the bathroom was annoying! 

Having to pull down the entire leotard every single time was the worst!

She sketched out everything that she wanted in her suit...

The mechanisms for the mechanical parts of the suit, starting to plan out how much of each type of material she would need, realizing that she would also need non-toxic, black and red dye for the colors, and oh! She would need lenses for the eyes as well...

So, she can open and close them when she opens and closes her eyes. 

That would also be a mechanical part of the suit. 

There would also be a mechanism to reveal her eyes if she wanted to...

This would be so much more work than she thought...

But it would be worth it! 

She was about to start spinning thread for her suit when her mom called upstairs, "Gela, May is home, time to come down for dinner!"

Gela sighed and went downstairs...

Her project had just started and there was so much to do but for everyone she cared about, she would do it!

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The next morning, Gela finally got to work weaving her suit with her spider silk...

She was already needing to snack within 30 minutes of starting...

This would be a truly exhausting project...

~

Elsewhere in Queens: 

A young woman a year out of high school was writing a new Tumblr blog...

Well...

She had her personal one of course but this one...

This one would be special! 

About The Vigilante Who Saved My Life was what it was going to be called for now...

Gwen thought to herself as she typed...

She wrote down everything about that day...

From who she was to the appearance of her hero.

Some background about myself for those who haven't read my personal blog:

I'm Gwen Stacy, I'm 19 and have recently graduated from Middletown High School here in Queens. 

At this point in time, I'm not really sure what I want to do with my life, but I have applied to multiple internships at the tech giants here in NYC...

I also enjoy creative writing, and I have thought about reporting now and then due to being part of my high school's newspaper but figuring out your niche is difficult when it comes to writing so I'm still figuring things out about myself.

Now we get to the reason why what happened to me yesterday was so upsetting...

I am a sexual assault survivor so two huge drunk dudes planning on attacking me was extremely uncomfortable...

I was walking home from an internship interview when I was almost attacked...

Imagine my shock when instead of getting grabbed, I hear a set of slams into concrete behind me.

I turned and saw her...

She was shorter than me...

With a baggie black hoodie and a skin tight outfit under it...

I couldn't fully see it due to the hoodie, but she was wearing black military boots, and a black and red skin tight suit...

The two men who she had slammed into the ground were unconscious and wrapped tightly with what looked and what I found out later was spider silk...

I think she had super strength, and it was like she was a human spider...

It was the only explanation that made sense...

But I've never heard of a person who could spin her own spider webs, have any of you out there?

Her voice was kind and polite...

She first asked if I had pepper spray...

She was adamant about me getting some for myself after I told her I didn't have any...

I think that somehow, she was able to tell they were drunk...

Like smelling it on them or something...

Their clothes didn't smell like it but according to the police's breathalyzers, they were well over the legal intoxication threshold.

She might also have a stronger sense of smell...

It sounded like she knew what she was doing and told me about spatial awareness as well...

She promised to protect our borough of Queens and to clean up the neighborhood to protect everyone...

She told me to tell them that a local vigilante stopped them...

And to take care of myself...

It was weird to be called ma'am...

I'm only 19! 

That makes me feel like an old lady! 

Then she swung away on those spider webs of hers...

It was amazing to see, they're strong enough to lift a full-grown person and let them swing from place to place...

She was elegant about it too...

Like a dancer...

I'm curious if I can find out something about her or if she's truly a new superhero!

This blog will be me figuring out who she is and who she's going to be as a hero!

It was time to start researching, she first looked up vigilantes from NYC, but only two came up...

Elektra & Jessica Jones but neither of them had spider webs as part of their abilities, and the two of them tended to stay in Hell's Kitchen so it was a dead end...

Her next search was spider themed superheroes...

That came up with Black Widow...

The girl was too short to be Black Widow, and the woman wouldn’t have hidden her identity...

Where did she even live?

Did she stay at Stark Tower?

She had a guest room there, but it wasn't her home base...

She was part of Shield, right? 

But Shield was in Manhattan...

No one knew where her private residence was, and it was disrespectful to butt into people's business if they wanted to keep their private life private. 

But it wasn't her...

But then...

Gwen thought back to that skin tight uniform her hero was wearing...

It was...

It looked familiar...

The colors were the same as Black Widow's suit but there was clearly more red on the girl's...

Now it was time to research more about Black Widow's history.

Black Widow's origin was what she looked up...

This was her first time hearing about this but apparently the title of Black Widow was actually an organization, but Black Widow herself was just one of the members...

The most famous one but yeah...

This girl could have been one of the other Black Widows maybe?

Gwen looked up, Black Widow with spider web powers.

Images popped up...

Of a little girl alongside Black Widow herself...

Beautiful long curly brown hair...

Shining brown eyes...

And spider web abilities...

She was an assassin just like the rest of the Black Widows...

They referred to her as The Red Spider.

One of the youngest Black Widows to be put on field missions due to her special abilities...

Heightened senses, Self-Produced spider webs, super strength, super speed, super agility, and she was trained alongside the rest of the Black Widows...

Gwen then looked up The Red Spider's last sighting.

A date popped up after a little bit of searching...

She thought she saw a similar date earlier...

But where?

She quickly found the date Black Widow defected from the Black Widow organization...

Maybe they defected together?

No one truly knew why Black Widow left the organization but...

How old The Red Spider looked in her last sighting...

Maybe she was Black Widow's daughter?

Did Gwen just find out a hidden piece of history?

The Red Spider footage was her next topic...

She watched and listened to the girl in the footage she found...

She was murdering people but...

How she moved...

Her voice...

It was her!

The next search she made was...

The Red Spider name.

True name unknown.

Was what the internet said...

It was being kept private...

Maybe, it was better that way...

Their estimated age and pulling the numbers forward to now...

She would be somewhere around 12 to 15 years old.

Due to her height and her voice...

Gwen would expect closer to the ladder.

That explained the 'ma'am'.

Still embarrassing!

She wrote down more about what she knew now in the blog and changed the blog’s name to

Gwen Stacy’s Investigation Into The Red Spider.

I've done some research about my initial insights and have found out that my hero is not a new vigilante but a new hero! 

She's known as The Red Spider! 

From cross-referencing dates, my hypothesis is that she is the daughter of Natasha Romanoff, The Black Widow!

She may just be the reason why the Black Widow left her former organization in the first place!

From photos of her younger self, the uniform that I saw her wearing last night was likely her old Black Widow uniform, but it is known that those uniforms do not have masks and according to my personal estimations she is somewhere between 13 and 15 years old...

Making her one of the youngest if not the youngest active superheroes in New York City!

It makes complete sense that she would want to cover her face while fighting crime, but I am personally curious about what kind of hero she will be...

She has the skills to be like The Punisher, but she may follow in the footsteps of her mother and shy away from killing people unless if it's necessary.

I wish her luck protecting Queens!

Along with her post, Gwen added a cropped still of The Red Spider from the footage she found...

The Red Spider in her old uniform and her beautiful curly brown hair barely showing one of her beautiful brown eyes...

It looked shadowed like she was a girl of mystery.

She was about to do more research when she got a phone call. 

She picked it up. 

"Is this Gwen Stacy?"

"Yes, who is this?"

I am Mr. Osborn's personal assistant. 

Congratulations, Miss Stacy!

You have been accepted to the genetic research internship!"

It wasn't her first choice but being accepted at Oscorp at all was amazing! 

"That's wonderful! When do I need to come in to fill out paperwork?"

"Monday morning, you will be sent an email by then to show to the front secretary, and they'll send you to where you need to go. 

Good luck and have a good weekend!"

The personal assistant hung up.

She checked her email and sure enough, there was an acceptance email from Oscorp in her inbox! 

Gwen mentally thanked The Red Spider for saving her on her way back from the Oscorp interview...

She went and checked the website again to see what she would be doing in the genetic research internship...

Oh right, she would be an assistant to the head of the genetic research department...

Keeping things clean and lots of petri dishes were in her future...

What fun!

Biology in school was okay but it wasn't her favorite science class...

She was hoping for the sports medicine research program...

But nope, they must have chosen someone else...

Like...

Oh, she forgot about that...

Harry would get whatever internship he wanted, wouldn't he?

The creepy douchebag who said that he would 'turn her straight' which is just not how it works...

She was about as straight as a limp noodle.

Now getting a girlfriend is the problem...

In all 4 years of school, she never met someone who kept her interest more than a glance...

That were gay anyways...

Or bi, she wasn't picky when she came to women...

As long as she was attracted to the other person and the other person was attracted to her, she didn't care...

It sucked being gay sometimes...

Straight guys who didn't understand the word no were the worst though...

That was how she was a survivor in the first place...

She regretted getting drunk at that pool party and not having enough hand-eye coordination to fight the dude off...

As soon as she got away, she called her dad and got her attacker arrested...

One quick checkup and swab and they were able to prove who hurt her...

She was just starting to feel better but then...

Those two guys...

If The Red Spider hadn't been there...

It probably would have been worse than last time...

Gwen had taken The Red Spider's advice and gotten a pepper spray to keep in her purse just in case...

Because she was most definitely a trouble magnet...

~

It had taken two all-nighters, copious cups of coffee, and a lot of snacks, but Gela was finally done! 

She pulled on her suit for the first time and started checking all the mechanisms...

She first checked to see if her entire mask closed and opened properly...

As long as she kept her hair in a traditional tight braid, nothing would get stuck. 

Then she checked the mouth part, worked well. 

Then she checked the eye mechanisms...

This was what she was worried about the most...

It worked perfectly! 

She was so happy with it! 

Now for the last part...

She checked the mechanisms that allowed her to use the restroom if needed...

Oh, thank goodness!

It all worked!

She really needed to get some sleep before the morning; she did not want to be grumpy on her first day of classes.