Shadow Boy
Chapter 1 – The Mysterious Savior
During Evening time, the busy streets of New York began to become less crowded then it was on rush hour. From one building to another, Peter Parker swings along a line of web from his arm as the heroic Spiderman. He looks around to make sure that no more crime is about. He lands on the side of one building and crawls upward, as he reaches the roof he heard something bizarre. A deep laugh echoed from the West. Spiderman decides that it was probably his imaginations as he jumps to the next building, flipping and perform acrobatic tricks that not even an Olympic gymnast could ever accomplish.
Spiderman looks around the landscape of the city. Nothing seems out of the ordinary, and the sun was beginning to set. 'I better not be late to Mary Jane's birthday party, but I still don't have a present,' he thought. He swings away, heading to the jewelry store to find a present for his girlfriend.
As he gets close to the jewelry store, he noticed something moving fast from the corner of his eye. He stops and looks around, seeing that there's nothing there. Then all of a sudden, he felt a powerful force on his chest as a black figure tackles him from his web. Spiderman and his attacker land on the roof of a building below. As he tries to get his vision straight after the impact, he was kicked in the head. His skull was vibrating from the shockwave. His vision became even more blurry and he was struggling to get up. He could only make out the color of the attackers hand, which was black, before that hand griped his neck. Spiderman was choking and his vision dimmed even more. He was just about to go unconscious before the grip of the hand lessened.
Once again, he hears that same deep laugh as his vision started to clear up until he was able to see who his attacker was. "Venom!" he shouted. "How are you still alive? I thought you were killed after that fire that was caused by Doc Ock's nuclear accident."
The notorious alien symbiote laughed, "You actually think that I was dead. I'm not stupid, spider. I can escape that slow moving fire without even trying. You may have thought that nuclear fire was fast, but remember, I am much, much faster than you will ever be. What you think is fast like a cheetah is what I think is slow as a snail."
Spiderman tried to struggle from Venom's grasp, punching and kicking; but nothing was working. Venom's goop like skin is very difficult to inflict damage on. Spiderman was beginning to sense a feeling of hopelessness now that Venom has him right where he wants him. Venom opens his wide mouth, his long tongue moved left and right in a mocking way. He then raised one hand, and his retractable claws extend, preparing to slash Spiderman.
Just when he was going to rip Spiderman's face an object is thrown at his face. Venom makes an annoyed screech as he looks around to see who was interrupting him. There was no one in sight. As Venom was going getting back to ending the life of greatest adversary, some other object was thrown at him. He was getting angry and shouts, "Who thinks that they could stop us my throwing random things at my face. Whoever you are, you better run away if you know what's good for you."
Just then, he and Spiderman see that from a large recycling bin that was on the same building, pieces of recyclable objects are floating out of the bin. Spiderman couldn't understand how they are floating in midair like that. As these objects collected more and more in numbers, Venom threw Spiderman off to the side. He walks towards the objects, and raises his arm towards them. Black webs fly from his arm and net the objects. Once he was satisfied with his work, Venom turns back to the barely conscious Spiderman. After he took one step closer, Spiderman could see that the net of black webs was being ripped off by an unknown force. Then one of the objects shots through the air and strikes Venom with much more force than before. Venom turns around just in time to see a chain of recycled material coming towards him. They came so fast that even Venom wasn't quick enough to dodge them.
Venom was being bombarded by different things from cardboard boxes to glass bottles. All of the objects are going at speeds higher than a machine gun and the force behind them was enough to break through a thick metal wall. After that, Venom was hurt but has suffered no serious injury. He glares at the emptied recycle bin, which was twice his size. "Whoever has done that will pay, you cannot take us down by such childish methods. Even if you throw this recycling bin at me, I will not be defeated," he said. Then the recycling bin began to vibrate, and then it slowly was being raised by itself.
The metal bin slowly came close to Venom, who was just standing there, laughing. "You're actually going to do that. Don't make me laugh. If you're trying to save Spiderman, you might as well just leave." The metal bin hovered near a large, metallic air conditioner. Venom wonders what Spiderman's mysterious savior is planning to do. Then, he realizes what's about to happen, and leaps forward to stop it. "No! Stop!"
Before he could do anything, the recycling bin is slam down onto the air conditioner, creating a loud metallic sound wave. The sound wave ripples through the symbiote's skin, causing Venom to collapse to his knees, screeching in pain. He tries to get up, but the recycling bin rises again and slams into the air conditioner, once more causing a loud metallic sound. Venom fell back down in agony, realizing that there is nothing he can do. He crawls backwards, giving the savior the signal that he gives up. He back flips off the building and swings to another building that was a three buildings away. He turns back around towards the building Spiderman and the floating metallic bin is on. "You may have survive today, Spider; but mark my words. Your day of reckoning will soon come." With that, Venom swings away.
Spiderman is now fully conscious, getting up to see that the bin is slowly going back to the ground. 'How in the world did that happened,' he thought. Just then, he noticed a small figure near a door that leads into the building. Spiderman couldn't see the figure clearly, for it was hiding in the shadows. He walks towards the figure, "Hey. Thanks for uh…whatever you did. You really saved my life just now." But the figure ran away, running into the building.
Spiderman raced after the small figure, "Hey, wait. I just want to talk." The figure ran down the stairs into the top floor, with Spiderman following it. It first started at a normal pace, but it suddenly sped at super human speed. Spiderman has to jump from one end of the hallway to the other, just to keep up with this figure's speed. 'Whoa, how is he running so fast?' he thought. As the small figure runs towards a dead end where there were no windows, he became completely shrouded in the darkness. As Spiderman jumped from the wall parallel to the dead end, the figure's barely visible silhouette disappears into the shadows. Spiderman reaches the dead end and feels his way through the darkness. 'There's no where he could go. No doors, no windows, even no trapdoors. It's as if he just vanished into the dark.'
