"That wasn't what I meant," says Lorica, shaking out her arms and legs but remaining airborne.

"I'd say I misunderstood but my powers wouldn't exactly allow that," she says, walking over to step on the fallen spider. The bug girl's posture relaxes noticeably.

"Wouldn't they?"

"Nope," she replies, popping the p sound, "I can read your mind after all."

The remainder of Lorica's drones are ambushed by swarms of bugs.

"Oh yeah? What number am I thinking of?"

"That's a boring question, much more interesting is why your old man isn't showing up to save you."

"Well, we could all wait around a while and ask him what kept him when he gets here, I suppose."

"It would be a rather long wait," she says, smirking.

She doesn't actually have Transit's new Tinker suit made yet so she can't check from here but that's obviously intended to rattle her over and above anything else. "Perhaps he is held up doing dad things. Getting me a Christmas present. Building a deck. Grilling hamburgers. The ways of dads are mysterious. What do we need to do here to get the hostages safe?"

"Hmm... your teammates outside disengage and we'll get out of your hair."

"I will propose this to them." She relays to Lucien.

"You think she'll hold up her end of the deal? Otherwise Glory Girl is heading in."

There're sounds of combat in the background.

"Of course I will, I'm very trustworthy." says Tattletale, without an apparent way of hearing what Lucien said on the private Wards channel.

It's an obvious guess, plus she's evidently some kind of Thinker. "No, I don't especially think so, but it's the offer she made," she relays; her helmet doesn't let this out.

"Tragic." Tattletale says, tilting her head towards bug girl.

A truck sized mass of bugs pushes past a ceiling tile to fall directly onto Lorica. 

And it's spinning time again! Wheeeeeee.

These guys are holding on pretty tight, and the pre-made webs they were carrying are tangled in her armor. She's not going to be able to spin them away that easily. 

Then she is going to slam into the floor and roll along it!

This kills some number of bugs on impact, but she's not enough of a cylinder to kill most of them via rolling way.

Meanwhile, the muscular guy is apparently awake and at the door, filling the room with dark smoke.

Before the smoke hits her: bot, how survivable are black widow bites? Especially if, say, you have Panacea right there?

Survivable! Pretty painful if Panacea doesn't get to you soon, but definitely survivable.

"Recommend sending Glory Girl in. About to lose comms."

Lorica hears what might be the sound of a window breaking just as the room goes dark.

The suit's going to keep flailing her around trying to kill bugs or yeet her out of the smoke. Or out of the building entirely, if it can find the window by dead reckoning. Lorica's mostly concentrating on not throwing up.

It can find the window, though she's still covered in bugs when she emerges from the smoke.