Ross yelled, "You two be ready to fight. Spiders are coming toward us!" They turned around and approached them where two gigantic black widows blocked the way they came from.
Smaller spiders, still larger than humans but not as large as the two massive black widows, were also advancing toward the room. The medium bugs approached the Man in White, who ran away.
"Get back... Get back!"
The man tried his best to escape from the spiders advancing toward him, but his bad luck struck when three smaller black widows bit his shoulder. He yelled in pain as the venom flowed into his skin and spread into his whole body from the spider's fangs.
He was unlucky that smaller spiders attacked him instead of the giant black widow. He would die immediately from getting bitten rather than slowly dying from the venom.
The Man in White could only scream, "No, No, No."
The venom slowly dried the man's body until it left only a skeleton. After finishing, they moved again.
James saw what happened and said, "Everyone careful not to get bitten."
Junon replied, "I understand."
Tim and Samuel fought medium spiders, while Junon and James battled the same-sized ones as the other two. One of the giant bugs shot webs from its abdomen.
"Tim dodge!"
Samuel warned Tim about webs coming toward him. Tim is facing the other big widow and doesn't know he is a target until he hears Samuel.
Skyfather ducked out of the way a second before the projectile was about to hit. The web landed on the ground, melting the floor and supersizing Tim, "Oh, good lord," after seeing the ground liquidating from the webs, killing a few medium-sized arachnids.
He warned, "James and Junon, be careful about the spiderwebs. They are very dangerous."
Ross fired lava and other lasers from his Model XI0 arm, muffling Tim's words with the loud beams. Junon blocked a massive spider's leg with her lollipop.
After realizing that most of the projectiles he fired failed to damage the
big spider before him, he noticed his Flow rapidly decrease. When his energy falls, he must wait for it to recharge, but he can't afford to wait when his life is at risk.
'Fuck!' James thought.
Junon saw Ross's attacks not working. She said, "James, do you have anything else in your arsenal?"
Ross was thinking about what to use that doesn't use his arm.
'Would my revolver work?' he asked, removing the gun from his pockets. 'Why do I think a normal firearm would work when a special arm couldn't?'
But he had no choice. A giant spider leg was about to crash him, "Fuck it," he fired all the six bullets at the legs.
He signed, "Great!" after seeing the bullets were not powerful enough to destroy it.
The spider fired its venomous spider web at them, but Junon blocked it with her giant lollipop. However, it melted into pieces and would drop on Acadia's face if she didn't bite on a different sweet. Time stopped!
"That was close. I would be dead if I didn't bite the lollipop."
"How much Flow did I waste?"
"I will check later; I have no time." Junon ran and unwrapped another lollipop. She approached Ross and said, "James, throw me."
Without saying a word, Ross ran toward Acadia, throwing her at the spider. Time resumed.
A medium-sized spider tried to block the woman with its legs. Tim flew in, smashing through it. Junon looked at Skyfather and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome!" Tim replied.
A black widow Samuel was fighting ran toward the Lollipop Girl to stop her, but Cliffhanger stopped it.
"Buddy, where are you going?"
He irritated the black widow with all its legs and attempted to stab Samuel. However, none of its limbs struck him as he dodged everything, like playing wack a mole. The spider then turned around and shot venomous spiderweb.
Samuel ducks and says, "Oh, sorry. You almost—?! Watch out, James." He saw another spiderweb going toward Ross. It was quick.
Samuel was so focused on the spiderweb that he forgot the thing fired the web. It was standing next to him. With a slight, quick motion, the black widow slashed Cilffhanger's arm off completely.
The beast looked at the ranker with shock, hearing no noise from him when his arm cut off, not a single scream.
He smiled, "What?! Do you want me to cry or scream?" He continued, "That's not happening. Because..."
Black lighting emanated from his body, wrapped around his arm and regrowing it to its normal state. The lighting vanished after its healing was complete. Nobody, except the spider, witnessed what had happened.
"...it can grow back!"
***
James Ross saw Junon dropping to the ground, so he ran, helping Acadia step on his hand and flung herself into the air, "Yoho!" She articulated.
She bites on a sweet, making her fly a longer distance. Junon landed on its back. Then, she got another lollipop out and pressed a red button, turning it bigger.
After it got bigger, she unwrapped it and stabbed it straight through the red hourglass mark, killing the spider and leaving only one giant black widow and two medium bugs. After doing that, Junon found the insect's weak point and explained why everything Ross tried to do with it wasn't working.
"Samuel, watch out, falling giant bug!"
Cliffhanger was finished killing the medium arachnids and watching Junon. After seeing the falling spider and hearing Acadia, he moved out of the way so as not to get crushed. She jumped off the spider's back after it landed on the floor.
"Guys, Tim needs our help." She said to James and Samuel.
Tim was struggling to fight a giant widow. He kept avoiding the attacks, but his Flow was completely drained to the ground after helping Junon pass through. Tim's bouncing ability needs fifty percent of his ebb to activate, so waiting to recharge will take longer. Even if it meets the precedence, he has to wait for his skin to turn pink to become bouncy, smooth, and soft.
'Why do I have less Flow than normal? It could take forever to increase to the perfect percentage by using it. I wish my Flow would grow faster like some people who can eat or drink something to raise it without waiting.'
He is thinking and avoiding the black widow's attacks, but Cliffhanger yells, distracting him by saying, "Make the floor bouncy? Like you did when we came here."
He continued, "It will not cost you more to do it on the ground than to turn your body pink."
Skyfather got distracted. That medium-sized four-legged beast bit his arm, and Tim crushed it with his hands. He was lucky that only one small spider attacked him; he would have died if more had. The mother spider, the massive one, would dry Tim in seconds.
"Are you all right? Do you need to go to the hospital, Tim?" Samuel asked, looking concerned.
"No need only got itchy nose." They talked while killing the smaller ones and dodging attacks from the giant.
"Samuel, get ready to jump," Tim said while watching the spider's front limbs move separately.
"I know what will happen, but thank you for reminding me about this attack again, Tim."
Samuel and Tim were waiting to jump when the spider smashed its two front limbs into the ground, creating a massive shock wave that killed the baby spiders. Samuel and Tim hopped right after the ripple came close to them.
The move weakened the giant black widow, and they took the opportunity to kill it. Samuel finally fired an explosion at the beast, which was severely damaged. This black widow was weaker than one Ross and Acadia battle angst.
Tim put his hand on the ground and said, "In the name of holy Creation, God give me strength to make the hard land soft and bouncy!" When he finished, the floor underneath him turned bouncy like a trampoline.
Tim can turn solid objects into bouncy things, but unlike his body, it doesn't decrease ebb as much. However, he always needs to say the sentence above to transform the thing he touched into a bouncy, smooth, soft object.
"Samuel, I did thing you said." Tim continued, "What are you planning?"
Cliffhanger glimpsed at Skyfather, ignoring Tim's question, and dashed toward the arachnid. He leaped onto the transformed ground, propelling him into the air. While airborne, he shaped his finger like a pistol, aiming at the black widow's weak spot—the red hourglass mark.
"Night Demon Bomb Shot!" He yelled.
A big, glowing red bullet emerged from his finger, targeting Samuel's aim. When it was moving, it attacked Tim, and he was avoiding slashes. The shell was following it.
After firing the projectile, Samuel looked down, scanning where to land. He moved himself to the spot where the floor was transformed into a soft, bouncy, and smooth, landing on it without any trouble.
Tim Skyfather saw the bullet flying down, so he flung his body out of the way when the strike hit the mark and demolished the spider.
To be continued.