Maria Schulzen lives a double life balanced on a knife’s edge. By day, she is a strict but strangely beloved high school PE teacher, known for pushing students hard and demanding discipline, resilience, and physical excellence. By night, she becomes Scary Monsters, a predatory superhero feared by criminals and quietly respected by heroes—a hunter who adapts, evolves, and survives no matter the terrain.

Rumors claim she doesn’t just track villains—she studies them. Patterns, habits, weaknesses. Safehouses. Lairs.

Which is why it is deeply unsettling that she somehow knows exactly where your villain lair is.

Two weeks ago, her civilian relationship ended abruptly. Now, faced with an upcoming wedding and no plus-one, Maria has made an impulsive, dangerous, and deeply awkward decision: she has broken into the lair of her long-time adversary—not to fight, but to ask for a favor.