Zoostuck 3

You were shot. We know this.

But shot by what? It was never said that you were shot by a gun. It was never said that you were shot by a bullet. Someone could've shot a mean look at you. Someone could've shot you with a Bad Idea Ray. It would've been a good way to ruin you. Someone with your cunning and intellect could not risk having their brain scrambled by this. Yes, you planned for this in advance. In the event that the Bad Idea Ray would zap you, you coated yourself with a substance that would kill you if you were zapped by it, rather than the usual effect of being controlled by it.

Oh, but the Bad Idea Ray zaps. It doesn't shoot. Let me come up with a different theory.

Now that you're done reviewing things you know for the benefit of a purely hypothetical less-omniscient-than-it-thought-it-was narrator, you're going to enter this tournament even though you have no martial arts training at all. But you do have the power to shoot lightning, apparently.

The spider is the only one capable of shooting anybody. The spider has also evaded the awareness of the rock-narrator, and also yourself, until this moment.