Forever: Spider-man

By: The Sorrow

April 1st, 2009

Issue #1

Blood on Carnage

"I wasn't in love with the job anyways, so I am glad it was just a part-time job." Peter laid in bed next to his wife talking about the little things in their pasts.

Mary Jane smiled in enjoyment towards her husband's words. "What about working for J.J.?"

Peter rolled his eyes with a smile. "Don't even get me started. I hear his voice in my nightmares. Bring me Vulure or Scorpion anytime, but not J.J."

After another smiles, Mary Jane paused to collect her mind in words. "Do you think you will ever wear the red and blues ever again?"

"To be honest I have been tempted to wear it. It was just the thrill of being something. The thrill of not just being the nerd guy I once was thirty-two years ago in high school, but something else and loved for it without knowing who was behind the mask to give you crap for throwing the super villain on your corvette."

"So you still want to?"

"There are way more stronger super heroes out there..."

"Like the Sentry?" Mary Jane interrupted.

"Like the Sentry."

"Like Black Bolt?"

"Are you trying to hurt my feeling?" Peter turned to look at Mary Jane with a smirk.

"I'm just trying to prevent you from changing your mind Peter."

"Trust me, I've made my mind. It's time for us old supes to hang the tights and retire. I need to start thinking about my family now."

"Yeah..." Mary Jane pecked her lips against Peter's. Her hands graced her belly. "I'm glad you started thinking about your life for once."

"Our life." Peter placed his hand on top of her's. Their wedding rings resting against each other. Peter then closed his eyes slowly.

"What's wrong? You look sad or stressed."

Peter shook his head and smiled. "Just a lil tired." He answered with a smile as he opened his eyes.

"All that nightly lovin' taking its toll tiger?"

"Of course not, though I am starting to crave some more."

"I was hoping you would say that."

"But before that, mind wearing that sexy black lingerie?"

"The one that resembles the Black Cat?"

"Um.. what are you talking about?" Peter looked around innocently.

"You know what I am talking about." Mary Jane slapped his chest jokingly while sighing.

Peter pouted. "Pwease?"

"You know that pouting and 'pwease' should have died the day you stopped wearing Superman tighty-wideys, but I'll do it one last time then I am never wearing it again until you buy us a house and off this apartment."

"Yay! And of course you know I will take us away from New York." Peter watched as his wife walked out of the door, checking her out of course. Once she had left Peter jumped out of bed to stretch his arms out. His back bones popped back in place from laying down in bed so long. Peter was drawn by the lights outside the large bedroom window. "By the way, I didn't stop wearing tighty-wideys, I just switched super hero. I am wearing Wolverine's face on my butt now... but mind not telling him that? I am afraid he would wear my face on his butt, and I am not sure if that guy ever takes showers..."

"Eew." Mary Jane was heard being disgusted inside the bathroom.

A sigh followed Peter's smile. Immediately something caught his eye. A figure on the building across from his. The night cloaked the figure, but it was definitely a human silhouette. As he focus more, Peter saw a grin that sent goosebumps down his spine. Something told him that the figure was staring right at him.

The figure began to write something on the window with its finger. Just as the figure finished a helicopter passed by revealing the letters on the window: "Got'cha!". But it was not the letters written on the dusty window, but it was the red-headed man with a grin behind the window that made Peter's heart skipped. "...Kasady..." Peter whispered.

"Parker!!!" The red headed man screamed before his hand was consumed by a red symbiote. The monstrous hand lunged to break the window and stretched towards Peter.

"Carnage!" Peter immediately jumped to cling himself against the ceiling. He watched as the symbiotic arm penetrated through his bedroom walls and slicing his bed in half. Immediately the arm swung up taking Peter and the ceiling away from the building onto the street underneath. Peter tried to web swing away but the debris he once called a ceiling fell to quickly for him to even aim or stretch his arm out. Peter crashed against a van with debris falling around him like a sudden hail.

Cletus Kasady jumped down from the building on the van Peter laid to recover. "I finally found ya." The red headed man picked Peter by his neck using his un-symbioted arm. "Waiting for so long inside that stupid S.H.I.E.L.D. cell can really make a man go insane ya know!? Ha! But you know what? The best part of waiting for so long to escape was the anticipation of this very moment." Cletus aimed his right index finger against Peter's eye as it began to shape into a sharp needle made of the red symbiote.

Once Peter recovered from the slight pain of falling he gripped Cletus' wrist, Peter placed his feet on the insane man's chest to free himself from the grip. Cletus was launched against a strete post. Peter landed on his feet rubbing his neck. Peter picked up a bus sign pole and charged towards Carnage. Before the enemy could pull himself from the pole Peter swung the sign across Cletus' face, then again swinging his head the opposite side, and once more in an uppercut way throwing Cletus four streets down.

Before Carnage could hit the floor Peter launched himself towards him using hi webs to strike Carnage down onto a gas truck, though the impact echoed around it only caused the truck to tip over and cars to swirl and break. Peter landed on the middle of traffic, at this point cars have either crashed against each other or stopped. Peter walked towards Cletus whom laid on top of the truck trying to recover from the impact.

"... I just got a little cocky..." Cletus whispered. "I am not gonna go back...YA HEAR!?" Cletus began to get up as he yelled at the sky.

Just then a muscular man with a flattop tackled down Cletus down to the pavement. "Stay down!"

"Eddie?" Peter's eyes widened.

Eddie Brock, or Venom, had come to Peter's aid. Eddie looked down at Cletus before commanding his black symbiote to consume him into the creature. With his tongue out Venom raised his voice to answer back at Peter. "Mary called me. She said that judging from the red symbiote left behind at your guy's messed up bedroom I should come and help you." Eddie allowed Cletus to get up as he took a step back. "I was in the area and I just knew that if this psychopath was in town I had to get a piece of him."

"You want a piece of me, Brock!?" Cletus laughed as he stretched his arms out to transformed them into sharp claws. "Then come and get some!"

"Eddie wait!" Peter called to stop him but both men were already exchanging blows. By now it would be like trying to pull away a hungry lion from feasting on a zebra. Parker looked around to defeat Carnage while Venom kept it busy. Looking at the large tipped gas truck, Peter tries to find for items that would help him.

Carnage throw Venom onto a business building finally before dashing towards Peter whom is commanding the spectators to flee as far as possible. Right when Peter turned around Carnage pierced its sharp finger through Peter's shoulder. "Scream for me..." Carnage smirked in joy of Peter trying to hold his pain in. "If there was a God I would thank it for the beauty in pain and agony that I can grant you Parker. Kyahahahaha!"

"Peter!" Venom pulled itself from the brick avalanche and ran towards the two.

"You are not allowed to interrupt my feast!" Carnage used its tentacles to draw a car launching it towards Venom. Seeing Venom evade his attempt, Carnage commanding its tentacles to take a hold of Venom and slam it on the pavement. Not to take any chances of Venom recovering too quickly he kept his hold on it and grinding him against the brick walls of a tall building then slammed him constantly until Venom reverted back to Eddie. Carnage tossed Eddie's unconscious body on a stained sidewalk. "Now back to dinner...We are going to enjoy it..."

Peter had taken a hold of a his previous bus sign and slammed it on the nearby gas truck. The slam caused an echoed that made Carnage twitch from the sound waves. "... Your no different from the rest...Kasady..."

"Grr..." Carnage twisted its claw on Peter's shoulder. "Not enough!"

"Ah!" With the sudden surge of pain, Peter slammed the pole on the truck hard enough to not just cause Carnage to ease his pain on him but to extract the gas.

"Enough!" Carnage's tentacles began to wrap themselves on Peter's body while opening its jaw preparing to consume Peter.

"Let me warm your food for you..." Peter smirked.

"What?" Carnage stopped in surprise.

Peter pulled a lighter he had asked from one of the civilians while Carnage was fighting off Venom.

Venom had gotten to his feet and limped towards the battle, but seeing Peter hold out the lighter forced him to deal with his pain and attempt to run towards them. "Peter! No!"

Immediately, before Carnage could attempt to make a move, Peter shoved the lighter into the truck. In that same instant of a split second there was an immense explosion that was heard and felt throughout New York. The explosion caused every single car that was piled to blow in a chain reaction. Such explosion left no life, but an empty crater.

Mary Jane had seen the explosions from streets away and at that instant she felt empty as if something or someone had been raped away from her. A silent tear fell down her tear. "... Peter... No..."

Author's Notes

I hope you enjoyed what I call my first issue in this series. From here on things may get different. I am a comic book fan and I am familiar with the mainstreams and histories of the marvel universe but I am changing a couple of things to fit into this story, that by now you know it is more of a tribute than a story following the 616 Universe. I promise there will be twists and more action until this story is unfolded about the aftermath of Peter Parker's death.