2014-02-20 - Cutscene: The Death of a Dream - Along Came a Spider

Dressed simply in a black dress and matching heels, the masked woman with bright red lipstick approaches the podium with Dr. Henry McCoy standing at her side. "I... I'm not much with these speech things," Spider-Woman says with her smooth English accent, grabbing Hank's hand in the process, "so I'll keep this short and sweet. Captain America was a friend and mentor, he was the man to look at a broken thing and say, "You have what it takes to be an Avenger, kid. What do you say?" He saw the beauty in us all. The good hearts that lay under the rough exteriors, he saw to our souls."

She raises her eyes and scans those standing in the front of the crowed, to the little boy with the comic book with warn edges, and the elderly woman with a propaganda poster from when Cap used to work for the government long ago. There's a small smile that curls up at the corner of her lips before she continues. " I read once... "Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying," and I think this rings true here. I will continue to fight for what Captain America stood for, in memory of him, and for all of you. But for as long as I live, for long as I serve you all, there will always be one thing that rings in my ears whenever I take to the field..."

Spider-Woman raises a hand to her face as if wiping away a tear, then brings it back down and into her pocket, stepping off the podium with Hank in tow and down to the casket below. She removes her hand from her pocket and produces a tube of lipstick, red as the flag that drapes the casket.

Along the side of the stark white coffin, she writes in short, blocky letters, "Avengers Assemble," -- that draws a few gasps, murmurs, and some polite clapping, -- and places her lips right next to the words and leaves her mark, tears streaking down her cheeks before taking Hank's hand once more. She walks away to a waiting car without another word or glance to anyone else nearby, she has said and done what she went there to do.