Spider Quinn 18 A Birthday and Stormy Sonnets Part 6

 

Down in the kitchen, Sandi grabbed an energy drink out of the fridge. She then saw that Sam was there. “Oh.”

 

“I know about it, Sandi,” he said.

 

“Know about what?” Sandi asked.

 

“That you and Mother have powers.”

 

“Really?” Daria asked.

 

“And that you know about it,” Sam added.

 

“And what are they?” Sandi asked in annoyance.

 

“And that you’re the fourth vigilante, using telekinesis, energy blasts and some kind of ESP.”

 

“Have you been eavesdropping?” Daria asked.

 

Sam sighed. “Yes. I want in to what you are up to.”

 

 

Daria glared at Sam. “We’re wasting time here. Search and I’ll tell him about William.”

 

Sandi downed the energy drink. “Findu mann sem heiter: William Morris!”

 

As Sandi used her powers to find William, Daria told Sam what she and Jane had heard from Jennifer.

 

 

Sandi found William and marked his location on the map, then waited as Daria finished explaining the situation to Sam.

 

“So, where is he?” Daria asked as she looked at the map.

 

“On Eichler Street, less than a block from Stacy and Anna’s places,” Sandi answered. “But it looks like he just went past there.”

 

“He has a destination in mind,” Daria surmised as she scrutinized the map.

 

“It could be the hospital,” Sam said, as he looked over Daria’s shoulder.

 

“Or any of the subdivisions or warehouses beyond it. Some of latter belong to Oscorp,” Daria responded.

 

“Right, we’re on it,” Sandi said.

 

“I just have to drop the car home first. Then we can intercept,” Daria said.

 

“You could leave it here,” Sandi said. “Grandstaff Drive is closer than Glen Oaks Lane.”

 

Daria looked at the map again. “You’re right. Let’s go then.”

 

“What about me?” Sam asked.

 

“You will stay here,” Sandi said. “Tell Mother that I have gone out and that I’m with Daria. She’ll know what that means.”

 

Sam sighed. “Fine! But what if she asks about the car?”

 

“Just say that I’ll be back for it.”

 

 

The Enigma and Dafoanairi then left the Griffin’s via the roof and headed southwards towards where the former located William.

 

 

Helen and Quinn arrived back at Vitale et al. “Now I have to get back to work,” Helen said. “I want you and Daria to be safe. Stay either at home, at the Historia or at a friend’s place. Go to the Historia and find out where Daria is.”

 

Quinn sighed. “I will, Mom.”

 

“Good.”

 

 

It wasn’t far from Vitale at al to the Historia, so Quinn just jogged down the street. She didn’t see Daria there.

 

“Quinn?” Mrs. Rowe asked.

 

“Is Daria here?”

 

“I saw her earlier with Jane and Jennifer. I think they left.”

 

“I’ll see if they’re she’s still here,” Quinn decided.

 

 

She searched the bookstore and theater before going to the roof and changing to SpiderGirl. She then swung off in the direction of Casa Lane.

 

 

It wasn’t long before the Enigma and Dafoanairi saw William in the distance. “So, what’s the plan?” the former asked.

 

“You can go ahead and try to head him off while I come up from behind.”

 

“Seems, like, a bit dangerous, but I don’t have any better ideas.”

 

“Neither do I,” Dafoanairi said.

 

 

The Enigma then crept along the side of the street. ‘He definitely doesn’t look like a normal human, and also is determined,’ she thought as she passed him.

 

 

William suddenly saw someone ahead of him. A girl clad in purple wearing a mask. “Are you another of the vigilantes?” he asked.

 

“Yes, the Enigma, the fourth vigilante,” she answered as her hands glowed with a strange purple light.

 

“That’s different to SpiderGirl,” William murmured, “but I’m still dangerous! Out of my way!”

 

“No! I can’t let you do what you are going to do!”

 

“I have no choice! Oscorp did this to me!”

 

 

Dafoanairi carefully crept up with her quarterstaff at the ready. ‘I knew Oscorp had something to do with this,’ she thought as she remembered what Ted had said earlier.

 

“Out of my way, Enigma!” William said.

 

“No!” the Enigma said. “We need to get you out of the daylight.”

 

 

William lunged and the Enigma rose a forcefield, with him crashing against it. It sparkled but held. ‘But would it have a deleterious effect on him?’ the Enigma wondered. Her mother wasn’t that specific when saying that the energy powers could cause temporary paralysis.

 

“Figures!” William said.

 

“Now!” the Enigma said.

 

“What?” William asked before he turned and then saw Dafoanairi holding her quarterstarff at the ready.

 

“I’m willing to use this,” she said. “Just as the Enigma is willing to do anything to stop you.”

 

“Then try to stop me!”

 

 

William then ran off to the side. As he did so, the Enigma dropped the forcefield and sent some projections in front of him. Dafoanairi also reacted, moved in the same direction and tried to use the quarterstaff to trip him. However, he avoided both the projections and the quarterstaff. He then turned on Dafoanariri. “You’re just like, Ninja Talon aren’t you? A normal human with training.”

 

“I’m not answering that,” Dafoanairi snarked.

 

“You sound kind of familiar,” William said.

 

“I might, or I might not,” Dafoanairi said.

 

“One of the Morgendorffers,” William mused. “I don’t want to hurt you!”

 

“Then allow us to take you somewhere, like the Historia, to get you out of the sunlight,” Dafoanairi said.

 

“No!” William said as he lashed out again.

 

 

William hit Dafoanairi on her arm, causing her to let go of the quarterstaff and fall over. He then ran, as the Enigma stayed to see if her friend was OK.

 

“Dafoanairi?”

 

Dafoanairi groaned. She rubbed her arm. “I’ll be fine, other than a bruise, but he’s getting away,” she said as she grabbed the quarterstaff and allowed the Enigma to pull her to her feet.

 

“We have to just keep up and stop him hurting someone until nightfall.”

 

“It might not be as simple as that, but it’s a better plan than having none.”

 

“True,” the Enigma said as she turned and began following William again.

 

 

Trent opened the door to find Quinn at the door. “Hey, Quinn, Daria’s not here.”

 

“She isn’t?”

 

“No, she just dropped Janie off, apparently.”

 

“Oh, she’s looking for the fourth vigilante,” Quinn said.

 

“That’s what Janie said.”

 

“Can I talk to Jane, then?”

 

“She has gone out again,” Trent answered.

 

“Oh, I’ll be off then.”

 

 

After Trent closed the door, Quinn ran across the road to the woods and then changed to SpiderGirl. She then took out her portable radio.

 

“…Reports are coming in of the fourth vigilante and Dafoanairi chasing some bestial looking man to the south of Eichler Street, heading towards the hospital.”

 

“The hospital,” SpiderGirl murmured. “Why would he go there?” She had some idea. ‘Is it because Osborn is there?’ She then started swinging in that direction.

 

 

The Enigma and Dafoanairi ran up to the main entrance of the hospital. “There are too many entrances to cover,” Dafoanairi pointed out.

 

“True, but I know where he is and can move to block. We could delay him long enough.”

 

“I hope that will work out.”

 

“Probably won’t,” the Enigma responded. “But I will try.”

 

 

SpiderGirl arrived at the hospital and saw William approaching and the Enigma and Dafoanairi waiting at the main entrance. ‘I know Harry is here with his father. I’ll warn him as the usual Quinn first,’ she decided. She swung to the roof where she changed and then headed down.

 

 

Harry was aware that the Hospital staff were anxious about something and he had heard about a dangerous person loose in Lawndale from the radio. He then saw Quinn enter the room. “Quinn? What are you doing here?”

 

“Hi, Harry,” Quinn said. “Daria told you about the boy who’s been writing those poems, right?”

 

“She did,” Harry confirmed.

 

“Well, it turns out that his parents were keeping him locked up because of something Oscorp did to him.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“There was some sort of drug trial and somehow it caused him and others to transform when they were exposed to sunlight,” Quinn answered. She walked over next to his father. “He may be on his way here.”

 

“Oh,” Harry said. “I promise, I’ll look into who may be responsible.”

 

“But he believes that your father is responsible.”

 

“You mean, he’s coming here now?”

 

“Yes,” Quinn answered. “And some of the vigilantes are in action in the hospital trying to stop him.”

 

“Which ones?”

 

“The fourth vigilante and Dafoanairi, and SpiderGirl not long after them.”

 

“Great, the fourth vigilante and SpiderGirl could fight,” Harry groused.

 

“Stay here, watch your father. I’ll be back.”

 

“Wait!”

 

“I won’t be in danger,” Quinn said as she dashed off.

 

“I’ll try to protect you, Father.”

 

 

Meanwhile, Peterson pulled up outside the Hospital, near the Emergency Room. ‘Yet another thing going down in Lawndale, and it seems SpiderGirl, Dafoanairi and the Enigma are already responding.’ She hoped that the Enigma had given thought to what she had talked to her the previous night and wasn’t intending to confront SpiderGirl in the hospital. She got out of the car and headed inside.

 

 

William came up to one of the hospital’s side doors and found the fourth vigilante waiting. “You couldn’t stop me before,” he said.

 

“No, but I can delay you.”

 

“Until nightfall? I doubt it.”

 

“Like, we’ll see,” the fourth vigilante said.

 

He looked around and saw a window open on a higher floor. ‘There!’ he thought. He turned around.

 

 

‘What is he doing?’ the Enigma asked herself. She was tiring but still quite alert.

 

She the saw William running up. ‘Two can do that!’ she thought as she lowered her forcefield and pointed her hands down, ready to jump up.

 

William then jumped up towards the open window, but the Enigma also jumped as she pushed downwards telekinetically and fired projections.

 

William collided with the Enigma and she found herself pushed through the open window.

 

 

“I’m in!” William said as he clambered off of the Enigma and ran out of the room.

 

“Come back here!” the Enigma called out as she clambered up. ‘Dafoanairi and I need some walkie talkies!’ she thought.

 

 

At the same time, Quinn entered the Emergency Room, where Brittany was still waiting for her X-Ray.

 

“Quinn?” Brittany asked when she came up to her and Ashley-Amber.

 

“There’s something I need to talk to you about,” she said in a serious tone.

 

“Sure,” Brittany said.

 

“Right now?” Ashley-Amber said.

 

“It’s to do with school,” Quinn dissembled.

 

Brittany raised an eyebrow at that, and smirked a little.

 

 

“What is it?” Brittany asked once she and Quinn were out of earshot of Ashley-Amber and the other people in the waiting room.

 

“William is here, at the hospital,” Quinn said quietly.

 

“How did that happen?”

 

“She’s after Osborn because of what was done to him.”

 

“That’s not good!” Brittany said in concern.

 

“And the Enigma and Dafoanairi are also here.”

 

“And you’re concerned about that too?”

 

“Yes,” Quinn answered. “I thought I would let you know.”

 

“Thanks.”

 

 

Quinn was about leave the Emergency Room when Peterson appeared. “Quinn?” she asked. “I’m sure you know about William being here.”

 

Quinn nodded.

 

“I’m about to put the Hospital on lockdown, so if you’re going to do something, you need to be quick about it.”

 

‘She definitely still suspects,’ Quinn thought. “I’m just me,” she said.

 

Peterson sighed. “You can trust me, Quinn. I know you are more than who you appear to be. But, go, help the other two who are here.”

 

“I’m going,” Quinn said as she dashed off.

 

 

Brittany had seen Quinn and Peterson talking. ‘She’s more suspicious. She probably does know Quinn’s Spidey! But there’s not much I can do about it at the moment.’

 

“Brit?” Ashley-Amber asked.

 

“Just something Quinn said.”

 

“Something else happening?”

 

“You could say that.”

 

 

“Attention, the Hospital is now under lockdown due to a deranged person.”

 

“Oh, that is going to rile him up,” Dafoanairi commented as she ran through the corridors. She then heard an elevator ding. She turned and put herself in a defensive stand, with her staff at the ready. The door opened and the Enigma exited.

 

“He’s on an upper floor,” she said.

 

“But we don’t know where Osborn is.”

 

“Harry told me. He’s in a different wing,” the Enigma said.

 

“Good. Then we need to make sure he doesn’t make his way there.”

 

 

The Shadow arrived outside the Hospital.

 

“…Cedars of Lawndale has gone into a lockdown due to the presence of an unknown metahuman assailant. Police as well as SpiderGirl, the fourth vigilante and Dafoanairi have responded.”

 

“And the Shadow,” the Shadow added as she switched off the portable radio.

 

The Shadow approached one of the Hospital’s buildings and fired her grapple gun to get onto the roof. ‘Now, I need to use non destructive gadgets…’

 

 

SpiderGirl returned to where Osborn was. She squinted at the bright lights in the corridor. ‘I saw that the basement was dark, and we didn’t turn on most of the lights in the café last night,’ she thought. ‘Thus the lights need to be turned off. But how am I going to turn off enough lights to make a difference?’

 

She found an office where Doctor Phillips was.

 

“SpiderGirl?” he asked.

 

“Doctor Phillips, I have an idea how to stop the assailant.”

 

“And that is?”

 

“We’ll turn off the lights in the corridors and he’ll revert to his usual human self,” SpiderGirl explained.

 

“That would be difficult, given the lockdown.”

 

“Can I call the lobby?”

 

“Sure.”

 

 

Doctor Lisa Cuddy was having a bad day. Especially when Officer Peterson had commandeered her office. Thus she was in the lobby when the internal phone rang. She picked it up. “Lobby.”

 

“SpiderGirl here, I have an idea to stop this rampage.”

 

“What is that?” she asked.

 

“He is the way he is because he is being exposed to strong light, like sunlight or the fluorescent lights in the corridors. So, if we turn them off…”

 

“It sounds like a good idea, but I’ll put Peterson on.”

 

“Thanks.”

 

 

Peterson saw Cuddy enter the office. “Yes?”

 

“SpiderGirl has an idea. She’s on the phone.”

 

“I knew she would,” Peterson said as she reached for it.