Honey-Bee's Early Era

The Early Era is a time period in Bee-verse that runs between Honey-Bee's time starting from the beginning of her journey, to her early days in college. In this time, Honey-Bee meets her supporting cast, namely the Frenemies (MJ, Gwen, Liz, Maddie, Doe, Dazzla, and Toxic), but also rogues, like Quake, Centipede, Purple Pixie, Black Swan, Radia, Clawdia, Dragonfly, and Miss Positive/Mistress Negative. The Early Era runs between her origin story, when she gets stung, to the Kidnapping of Gwen Stacy. Note that, currently, all the stories in between the Origin and the End of the Era are in no particular order, and stories may be added or moved to different eras.

## Honey-Bee's Origins

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High school nerd and professional wallflower Petra Parker gets stung by a radioactive honey bee during a school tour of Oscorp offices, and develops the ability to climb walls, see ultraviolet light, create a honey that heals all wounds, and track people via their emotions, along with stingers on her wrists. Originally planning to use her newfound powers to make money as an underground wrestler, she saves her Uncle Ben from a mugger, and inspired to become a superhero, because as her uncle puts it, "With great power comes great responsibility". After some negative press from the Daily Bugle, Uncle Ben drags Petra to the Bugle offices and confronts the editor, J. Jonah Jameson, who reluctantly agrees to sponsor Honey-Bee as the Bugle's mascot, and assigns her a publicist, Betty Brant, and a fashion advisor, Petra's childhood friend and Daily Bugle intern, Mary Jane Watson.

## Meeting Toxic

Petra starts her first patrol, when she comes a cross a masked girl robbing a convenience store, holding the cashier at gunpoint. Petra tries to intervene, but between her inexperience at heroics and the masked girl, who refers to herself as Toxic, being surprisingly agile and jumping higher than expected, Toxic manages to escape. Petra gives chase, when she realizes that Toxic is livestreaming herself on the run with her phone. Petra manages to subdue Toxic and return her to the scene of the crime, where the store owner was giving a report to the police. Toxic manages to slip away, while Captain Stacy warns Honey-Bee to stay out of trouble and leave the criminal catching to the professionals. Toxic returns home to read the comments on her stream and on her social media, only to find most of the comments were cheering for and swooning over Honey-Bee while also being appalled that Toxic would stoop so low as to fake a robbery for views. Toxic then swears to win her fans back over by any means necessary.

## Meeting Dazzla

Petra is sent out by the Daily Bugle to write a fluff piece about the local pier and the entertainment offerings, and comes across a street magician going by the name Dazzla. Unlike other street magicians, Dazzla actually practices magic, and often uses spells and such to enhance her shows, though most people in the crowd, Petra included, write them off as ordinary pyrotechnics. On this particular day, Dazzla decides to unveil a new spell, creating a miniature scale model of the Solar System from thin air. Many people are shocked and awed, until the miniature sun begins to grow in size, its gravitational pull beginning to affect everything around it. Petra jumps into action, puts on her costume, and uses her book smarts to get the miniature sun to go supernova a safe distance away from the crowd. Although people are safe, Dazzla is written off as an incompetent fraud, while Honey-Bee gets mocked for staging this entire event to drive sales for the Bugle. Dazzla swears to prove herself to be a genuine witch, at all costs.

## Meeting Quake

Petra, as Honey-Bee, is flying around the city, when she comes across a bank robber wearing shockwave inducing boots and harness, calling herself Quake. During the battle, Petra's new honey bombs soaks into the electronics in the harness and boots, causing them to malfunction, sending shockwaves through Quake's body, causing her to convulse wildly and embarrassingly. Though Petra's write up of the event overlooks the embarrassing ending, Quake, humiliated, swears revenge on Honey-Bee.

## Meeting Black Swan

Petra, and another reporter from the Daily Bugle, are sent to cover a charity gala hosted by socialite and former ballerina Adrianna Toomes. At the gala, an expensive piece of jewelry is being auctioned, to raise fund for charity. However, part way through the night, Toomes disappears, and the thief Black Swan appears, to steal the jewelry. Petra ducks out to change into her Honey-Bee outfit, and the two clash, scaring the visitors. Petra manages to reclaim the jewelry and return it to its rightful place, but Black Swan vanishes after their confrontation. Toomes reappears shortly after, and downplays Honey-Bee's efforts as just a marketing stunt for the Bugle, implying that Black Swan was also a hired actor to play the villain in order to prop up Honey-Bee. Despite Petra and the Bugle's best efforts, most people at the event buy Toomes's explanation, forcing the Bugle on the defensive.

## Meeting Maddie Raxton

Petra, MJ, and Gwen are having lunch at school, when Petra suddenly gets a call from JJJ yelling about a freak blizzard and that he wants Honey-Bee on the scene right away. Petra complies and runs off, charging MJ and Gwen to come up with a cover story in case she isn't able to get back in time for class. Most people buy MJ and Gwen's explanations, except for Liz Allen, who is suspicious when MJ and Gwen's stories begin to diverge. Petra finds the source of the freak blizzard, the school delinquent, Maddie Raxton. Petra tries to calm her down, and suppress her, but due to bees being slower and more lethargic in cold weather, Petra finds herself incapable of reaching Maddie. Suddenly, Liz appears, and calls out to Maddie, telling her that their stepmother would be angry if she found out Maddie was cutting class again. This somehow frightens Maddie, and she sulks back to school, ending the blizzard. Petra, as Honey-Bee, tries to thank Liz for her assistance, but Liz tells Petra to cut the act, and that she figured out Honey-Bee's secret identity thanks to the discrepancies in MJ's and Gwen's stories. She playfully teases Petra, before officially joining the group to keep her stepsister, Maddie, in check. Later, Maddie is chastised by her stepmother, who saw the blizzard on the news, before it's revealed that her stepmother is Adrianna Toomes.

## Centipede's Alliance of Villains

At some point after meeting most of the villains, Centipede, wanting Honey-Bee out of the picture, gets in contact with Dazzla, Quake, Toxic, Maddie, and Doe, and somehow gets them to agree to take out Honey-Bee. While the team up of six of Honey-Bee's rogues goes well at first, the team's dysfunction (with most of them being egotistical teens) allows Honey-Bee to take them out and reprimand them while dissolving the alliance. Despite this, Dazzla, Toxic, Doe, and Maddie stay in contact, as friends.

## Dazzla's Depression

After a string of failures, climaxing with the dissolving of Centipede's alliance, Dazzla falls in to depression. She laments her inability to control her magic, which causes misfortune, from the expanding mini-sun to all the other failures that led to her constant fines and imprisonment, and resigns herself to making money by drawing for commissions instead of doing magic and bringing joy to people as she originally wanted. Petra, upon learning about this, is initially happy, since it means one less rogue to worry about, but due to her heightened empathy, decides to help Dazzla get out of her slump. At the end, Dazzla becomes an ally to Honey-Bee, and the Daily Bugle, often being commissioned to draw up merchandise designs.

## The Kidnapping of Gwen Stacy

This story only has some story beats lined up, and is not fully written. Plot points include:

* Oscorp tries to argue publicly that Honey-Bee, as a result from being stung by Oscorp's radioactive bee, is Oscorp Property, and sues the Daily Bugle
* The judge and jury recognize Honey-Bee as a human, and notes that Petra did not sign any contract, and is therefore not beholden to Oscorp
* Gwen Stacy is kidnapped by Purple Pixie, in order to blackmail Petra into giving herself up to Oscorp
* Honey-Bee saves Gwen from falling off the bridge, but Pixie's glider malfunctions, due to the synthetic honey seeping in to the electronics, causing Pixie to crash in to the Hudson Bay
* Purple Pixie, at some point, is unmasked to the public to be Norma Osborn
* This is the turning point for Honey-Bee's public reputation, where people, including Gwen's father, Captain Stacy, begins to see Honey-Bee as a legit hero, although many still see her as just a mascot

## Characters Still Missing an Introduction Story

The following characters are still missing an introduction:

* Doe
* Gwen Stacy
* Purple Pixie
* Centipede
* Radia
* Clawdia/Crustaccia
* Dragonfly
* Miss Positive and Mistress Negative