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Blackstone looked back to Ivy and couldn't help but give her one of his grinns. "Alright." he replied. He still hadn't decided on a story, but since Gossamer wanted something that she could bring up later, he might have one. He heard Joker say something after Gossamer had spoken, but didn't catch it. Though the way he was looking at Gossamer, it wasn't hard to guess that it was related to her.
"If you're wanting something you could use to get under Sapphire's skin, then my last attempt to kill Arachnis may be the best story, since she had a big hand in it." he said, taking a quick drink from his glass. "It happened after I had 'recruited' Sapphire to work for me. I won't go into too much detail on history, that would take far too long. But to summarize, she has this power that makes it impossible for me to know Arachnis's real identety. The special connection they have thanks to their powers." he said. He wouldn't go into detail on his universe's powers either, as that would take quite a while to explain. "I did finally find out who she was and after a while of planing, managed to force her to work for me or turn him in. Needless to say she chose the later. As I said before, everyone eventually turned on her. Both from being an apparent traitor, and the amount of blood that stained her hands over time. I did finally get her to tell me who he really was, and you can imagine how well he took to that news." he said with a slight grin.
"Well, he and the group decided to make one more attempt at bringing me down, which I was expecting. They attacked, my men met them, and destroyed a good portion of my building. I had Sapphire lead Arachnis away from the others, as if she were trying to escape. He followed her into an empty room where she used her powers to render him unconcious." Another bit about thier powers that he didn't really want to get into because he'd still have to explain thier powers. But Sapphire did have power over Arachnis, thus she could do quite a bit if she really wanted. "He awoke restraint in the basement of my building with only Sapphire and I in the room with him."

Having been intent on catching anything she could, Gossamer's focus was on listening before Blackstone even began to speak. Thus she caught what Joker had said. Her grin grew slightly and she glanced back at Joker, giving him a smile. Ok, so maybe it was him rather than her current mood. To be honest, she didn't mind one bit.
She glanced back at Blackstone as he began to tell his story. The smile on her face twisted a bit. "Well, wait a sec, blood on her hands? We are talking about the same little miss goodey two shoes, lover of children and animals, right?" It wasn't impossible she supposed. Considering she did toss her out the window before, and if she was being forced to kill...
But given her personality and morals and ethics and such...well that seemed fairly out of character for the Spider. Not that she was complaining or anything of course. Now she had traitor and murderer to go on. Actually a bit better than she was expecting to hear.

Gossamer's smile grew. She started to enjoy it, did she? Oh were she and the bug going to have a nice little talk when they met again. Little miss goodey-two-shoes was actually little miss hypocrite.
"But let me guess, she decided to help him out anyway? Right?"

Blackstone grinned a bit. "In a way. She knew I wouldn't have allowed her to interfear, but she also knew that didn't mean that the others weren't allowed. I had every floor leading to the basement locked, but she apparently decided to use her strands to unlock certain doors, opening the way for the rest of her old team to reach us. It wasn't the first time she'd twisted things to try and help her old team, knowing that I wouldn't have allowed it. There were always consequenses for her actions of course, but since she technically hadn't done anything, the punishment wasn't as severe as if she had. She'd recieve whatever punishment was reserved for her family...or whatever I thought appropriate.
Anyway, the rest of the team arrived and I had to turn my attention to them instead of Arachnis. The rest of my men finally arrived, and I found that both Sapphire and Arachnis were gone." he said.
He scoffed a bit and a faint smile curled around his mouth. "She'd taken him away to another room to heal, and allow him the ability to use his powers again. I didn't know that at the time, as she found me holding a bloodied knife and clearly distraught. She claimed that he hated her even more, and used what strength he had to attack her, so she lost it herself and killed him. I approached her to calm her down, and take the knife from her. She used the opportunity to relieve me of the one ability I had to control her powers. Since she could fully use them around me, she used her powers to try and clear my memory of Arachnis and herself. It worked as far as Arachnis, then I'd managed to get my hands on her. She did manage to get away though, but not easily.
Arachnis caught up with her on their way out...and trapped her in the hallway so she couldn't escape." he said with a twisted smile.
"One of the other people I had working for me, unknown to anyone, could manipulate other's emotions. She'd found Arachnis and brought out every bit of hatered and loathing he had. When he found Sapphire, he dissregarded the fact that she did save him in the end and trapped her where she was. Told her that she refused to return to them when they begged her to, seemed only fitting to refuse her return now that she wanted. Knowing what would happen when I found her, she begged for them to help her. Arachnis and the others responded by walking away and out the exit." he said, taking another sip of his drink.
"By the time they gained their sences back, and seen the news report about the explosions and massacres in a few locations that would only be of importance to a few of them, they rushed back, unable to find her.
Unfortunately two of the members had returned much earlier that the others. They apparently hadn't been effected like the others and had returned for her. They found her broken and bled out....but, of cource, managed to bring her back." he said, then chuckled a bit. "She was not pleased with any of them...and given the chance, probably would have killed them all on her own."