Appearing in "Season of the Serpent:Part 3 of 6: Three Minutes!"
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- Brad Miller (Cameo)
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Synopsis for "Season of the Serpent:Part 3 of 6: Three Minutes!"
Spider-Girl is restrained to an anchor by welded metal bands, airbubbles eminating from her masked face, and realizes she has about three minutes to live before she drowns in the freezing river. She tries to shake herself mentally to fight this death trap the leader of the Soldiers of the Serpent has set her in.
Her initial struggles against the metal bands prove fruitless, and she has to remind herself to focus. She thinks of Green Goblin - Phil Urich - whom last she saw, had been blasted by the Serpent leader, who could still be alive, and might need her.
Cut to Green Goblin, glider destroyed, costume shredded, emerging from the wreckage of some crates dockside. His arm is broken or dislocated, but he presses on, realizing Spider-Girl is still in danger.
Spider-Girl grows frustrated that she can't break free, and she's using up her air. Time is running out. Her thoughts go to Normie, and how she midjuged her feelings for him, and to Brad and JJ, feeling she has generally been a screw-up with boys. She thinks on how she is a disappointment to her father... and becomes re-energized, now thinking about what she has to prove to her dad. May remembers that her mother needs the medicine, and would be crushed if May died. Spider-Girl finds a wellspring of inner strength as she thinks about being around to guide her baby brother, and the metal bands start to give. She breaks her hands and arms free first, then tears her leg bands off, and swims to the surface.
Exhausted once she reaches surface level, and freezing, Spider-Girl makes a raft with her webbing. She considers curling up in a ball to rest, but jolts up, remembering she is not done yet.
Green Goblin calls Normie and asks for the New Warriors to be summoned. Normie asks if Spider-Girl is all right, but Phil grimly tells him her best chance at survival depends on Normie sending help. Normie snaps to it.
The Serpent leader, topside on the ship, has to discount concerns from an underling that someone might have seen them attempt to execute Spider-Girl and alerted the coast guard. Even as the leader proclaims no power can stop him, Spider-Girl emeges to tell him: "Wanna bet?" The leader pulls off his mask to reveal that he is Seth, the Serpent God of Death. Spider-Girl mocks his name and face, and emphasizes her ignorance of who he is. Seth takes this as an insult.
The New Warriors arrive, however, and Seth takes his underling's urging to flee the scene, claiming there's too much at stake to risk his plans now. Spider-Girl gives chase and tries to fight him through her fatigue, buoyed by her willpower to find a way no matter what. Nevertheless, despite her efforts, Seth is unharmed, and she succumbs to exhaustion. Seth leaves, promising her she will beg him to kill her next time they meet. The New Warriors dispense with the Soldiers of the Serpent aboard the ship, and Green Goblin reunites with Spider-Girl, both of them relieved to find the other alive.
As the heroes conference together, Spider-Girl admits failure to stop Seth. Buzz crticizes her inability to stop one bad guy, and chides her: "You sure you're in the right biz?", but Spider-Girl has no time to get into an argument, and departs. Buzz says he was only joking, but is silenced when DarkDevil tells him to shut up.
Spider-Girl heads to Five Freedoms Plaza and commiserates with Franklin Richards as she picks up the medicine for her mother. Franklin finds common ground with her in suiting up every time they are needed, despite often being surprised they survived the last adventure. May narrates her realization that despite her past attraction to Franklin, he really is better to her as a big brother type - same for Normie, she realizes, and wishes she he figured that out before trying to kiss him.
At home, MJ gets the medicine, but is wrankled by the Hudson river stench coming off of May. MJ counsels May to change out of her costume before her dad gets home, so as not to worry him. May has insight that despite the costs to her and her father for getting into costume, it might be MJ who pays the highest price of all for worrying about them.
May stumbles into her bedroom, pulls her mask off and stands in front of the mirror, thinking about what she survived. She chides herself for being reckless, careless, incompetent, and dumb - but referencing Buzz's criticism earlier, resolves that she is in the right business, smiling at her ruffled appearance in the mirror.