Honey-Bee's Established Era

The Established Era is a time period of the Bee-verse that runs during Honey-Bee's college days, where she's known as the Bugle's mascot, but there is still some skepticism regarding her place among the heroes. Here, the crime lords, Empress, Cheshire, and Sculpture start keeping tabs on Honey-Bee, and are more willing to staff up on enforcers like Leopard Seal and villains for hire like Flamme Fatale. Likewise, more heroes start pouring into the city, either for work, like Guard Dog, or in search of a specific target, like Bronze Bear. This era would see the introduction of a majority of the cast listed above. The Established Era begins with the Toxic Race, following the Kidnapping of Gwen Stacy and Purple Pixie's disappearance, and runs until the next big event that catapults Honey-Bee into the superhero mainstream. The stories following Toxic Race are not in any particular order, and can be changed around at any notice.

## Toxic Race

*Main Article: Toxic Race*

Toxic steals an unspecified object belonging to the crime lord Empress, for social media clout. Empress puts a bounty on Toxic's head, which causes villains from all around to chase after Toxic, causing a mass panic. Honey-Bee arrives on the scene, only to get propositioned by Empress. Honey-Bee has 24 hours to retrieve and return the object Toxic stole before the bounty currently on Toxic gets extended to Honey-Bee as well.

## Toxic's True Lineage

At some point following the Toxic Race, Dr. Doom arrives in New York, in order to speak at the United Nations, on behalf of Latveria. Toxic somehow gets the bright idea to try and take a selfie with Dr. Doom, again, for clout. What follows is a three-way (possibly four-way) battle between Honey-Bee, Toxic, Dr. Doom (and maybe even the Fantastic Four), which leads to Dr. Doom recognizing Toxic as his daughter, Jeanne von Doom, and taking her back to Latveria in order to instruct her on how to be a proper leader and not an attention seeking social media addict.

## The Society of Humans Achieving Perfect Evolution

Petra is sent out to cover the opening of a massive bio-medical laboratory in the middle of Manhattan, sponsored by SHAPE, the Society of Humans Achieving Perfect Evolution, and the ensuing protest against animal experimentation outside the laboratory. While investigating the building, and its connection to the recent disappearances of homeless men and women in the area, Petra comes face-to-face with an armor clad man calling himself Bronze Bear, who, after a minor misunderstanding, reveals SHAPE's connections with HYDRA and the Nazis, as well as his own backstory, getting experimented on by SHAPE and vowing to take out the organization and its head, Pteryx. The two decide to join forces to take out the SHAPE laboratory, forcing Pteryx on the run, while Petra's expose leads to public decrying of SHAPE and the immediate closure of the laboratory.

## Discovery of the Hornet Symbiote

*Main Article: Hornet*

Clawdia Connors contacts Petra, asking her to come help investigate a strange new orange slime mold Clawdia had discovered. The mold jumps to life at Petra's presence, latching on to her, and slowly manipulating Petra's personality, making her more aggressive and temperamental, as well as causing her to start seeing herself as a queen that would rule her own hive. This change in behavior concerns her friends and some of her enemies, as well as Uncle Ben, who ultimately talks Petra down from her lofty ambitions, reminding her that her powers and responsibility are to protect people, not to rule over them. Eventually, Petra breaks free and rids herself of the Hornet symbiote, who finds a new host in former Daily Bugle journalist, Edith Brock. The group of friends and enemies who helped Petra break free from the symbiote begin calling themselves Petra's "Frenemies".

## Other Unwritten Stories

For posterity, these characters are said to be introduced in the Established Era, but we currently do not have stories for them yet:

* Guard Dog
* Redcap
* Spring-Heeled Jill
* Drone
* Mantis
* Blitzer
* Nectar