Editing Emma Barnes (section)

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
In July Emma returns to Brockton Bay, and at her first day at Arcadia tries to bully Taylor. After everything she went through, including fighting the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] and [[Coil]], Taylor is able to ignore and resist Emma's taunts and instead manages to rile Emma up, to the point where Emma lashes out with physical violence. In the Principal's office, Emma is forced to contend with a principal who was already in [[Tattletale]]'s pocket (though she and Taylor were both unaware), and Principal Howell looked through the records and discovered text messages [[Regent]] had forced Sophia to send, which outlined the years of bullying that Taylor had undergone. Howell decided to expel Emma from the Summer classes, and when Emma protested by saying that her dad was a lawyer, Howell simply responded that they would have many conversations. When the [[Wards]] led by [[Dragon]] and [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] attacked the school, Emma was in the cafeteria when Dragon [[Incident at Arcadia High|revealed Taylor's identity as Skitter]]. She became shocked upon hearing Taylor's confirmation, and afterwards when Taylor demonstrated her powers by making a centipede crawl on Emma's hand. When over 100 students sided with Taylor and tried to help her flee, Emma stood with her fists clenched muttering under her breath. Taylor couldn't waste effort to find out what she was saying, uncaring.

At some point, [[Director Tagg]] interviewed her and tried to persuade her to file charges against Taylor for an incident in which Taylor had punched her. While Emma's name was kept out of the media, word still got out of her involvement.