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You nodded to yourself, having understood Joy’s message from the spider in your suit. Abe had likely gotten the very same message, so there was no need for any verbal correspondence.
<span class="mu-r">“I hear you’ve got unbreakable skin.”</span> you said to the broad man standing in front of you.
<span class="mu-s">“Yeah? What about it?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Let’s see if you’ve got unbreakable ankles!”</span>
You exploded into motion, crossing up Luke so hard that he didn’t even have time to turn around before you were rushing past him. Danny started heading towards you, and you had a feeling that he was anticipating a pass to Abe. You took advantage of that misconception and pump faked towards your clone.
Danny took the bait, and Luke was charging straight for you with impressive speed for a guy his size. But both of them were too late to stop you from passing the ball to your other teammate. You even did it without looking!
Joy flipped right over Misty’s head, caught the ball, bounced it under Misty’s legs in mid-air, landed, and then scrambled over on all fours to grab it before anyone knew what she was doing. It was an unorthodox play, but you couldn’t doubt its effectiveness.
You and Abe started blocking Danny and Luke, trusting Joy to run circles around Misty Knight. You knew your faith was well-placed when Joy drove it home with a slam dunk on their side of the court.
<span class="mu-b">“That’s our girl!”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“You go, Joy!”</span>
You and Abe shouted her praises as she celebrated her first point for the team. The Heroes For Hire seemed bewildered by what had just happened. They couldn’t have known how you were all communicating so effectively, and they likely never would unless you bothered to tell them.
Danny rubbed his chin in confusion.
<span class="mu-g">“Hm. Perhaps they’re <span class="mu-i">all</span> siblings.”</span> he concluded.
<span class="mu-s">“You’ve gotta be kidding me, man…”</span> Luke sighed.
So began the biggest blow-out of the season.
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It wasn’t a <span class="mu-i">huge</span> upset when you beat the Heroes For Hire. It was just no one expected you to beat them by such a large margin!
Joy’s strategy of using her countless “spy-ders”, as she called them, to view the court from multiple angles and report back to her went off without a hitch. There were, of course, times when you and Abe got your signals mixed up and made a misplay, but you quickly recovered after about a minute or two.
Luke and Misty looked like they couldn’t believe what just happened. You were pretty sure you’d heard Power Man mutter something about him losing street cred after this match.
Even Callisto seemed impressed by what she’d just seen. It was Joy’s first time playing the sport, after all.
Matt was giving you a knowing smile, but…there was no way that he could sense the spiders under your suit, right…?
<span class="mu-s">“You’ve seen it here first, folks! The Heroes For Hire just got trashed by the Huntsman, Spider-Man, and some random blonde girl!”</span> Screwball reported, pointing her camera at you from atop the branch of a nearby tree.
