CHAPTER 2: VENOM WITHIN
Few years ago in New York City
The black-suited Spider-Man sits atop a building, looking down at the city to spot any sign of trouble, but all seems to be quite. The full moon shines with a distinctive aura. A sudden, fierce explosion below disturbs the harmony of the night. Spider-Man quickly sets his gaze upon a burning building, a bank and an unmistakable figure of the Hobgoblin flying out of the blown up portion of the wall. Without wasting time, Spider-Man shoots a web-line and quickly swings through the air after his adversary.
Hobgoblin looks back to find Spider-Man following him and quickly gaining distance. "Give it up Goblin," Spider-Man calls after him, as he shoots another web-line. "Woo Spider-Man, you know that line never works," Hobgoblin says, showing that ugly smile through his green mask. "I don't know why I bother saying that either," Spider-Man says to himself. Hobgoblin laughs and cackles as he removes a small, pumpkin shaped bomb from his glider. Speeding up and quickly making a U-turn, Hobgoblin thrusts the bomb straight towards Spider-Man. Spider-Man while swinging, quickly shoots a web-line towards the bomb with his left hand, and swinging it in a full, horizontal, 360 degrees angle, thrusts it back towards the flying menace. Hobgoblin dives out of bomb's path, the bomb explodes upon contact with a building, part of which goes up in flames. Spider-Man ignores the flaming building and continues his pursuit.
"Muwahahahaha! Catch me if you can bug boy," Hobgoblin says as he accelerates his glider even more. "Here, I created something new just for you." The Hobgoblin takes out another pumpkin bomb and throws it towards Spider-Man. As soon as it comes close, Spider-Man shoots another web-line but this time he misses, because the bomb had opened up to reveal some sort of a net. It envelopes itself around Spider-Man as he falls through the air. The net appears to be made of hard metal and seems to be shrinking itself as Spider-Man struggles.
Spider-Man falls towards the ground and lies there for few seconds, trying to recover from a spinning vision. He tries to get free but the net shrinks even more. Hobgoblin hovers above him and continues to laugh menacingly. "So, did you like my new toy? I had it made just for you. It squeezes its victims as they struggles to get free," he explains. "But that's not all, the wires are very sharp, I wouldn't struggle too much if I were you." Hobgoblin cackles even more. Spider-Man continues to struggle and realizes that the wires really are very sharp, as they had just cut through his suit, by few a millimeters. But thanks to the alien symbiote, that constituted his costume, the wires did not get through to his skin. "You haven't seen what this new Spider-Man is capable of you sorry excuse for a Goblin," Spider-Man shouts at him as he begins to exert more force, which ultimately breaks the net. Hobgoblin, not laughing anymore, quickly accelerates out of Spider-Man's reach. "Hey, where are you goin'? I thought we were gonna play a lil' while longer." Spider-Man follows the Hobgoblin through the city.
Hobgoblin reaches for his last bomb in his stack and hurls it at Spider-Man, which not his surprise, misses him again. "Leave me alone!" Hobgoblin shouts at Spider-Man. Ignoring what he had just said, Spider-Man continues to pursue him. Realizing that it is starting to get boring, Spider-Man shoots two impact webbing at the thruster's exhaust. "What the.." Hobgoblin mutters out as his glider begins to fly in an awkward manner. "Damn you wall crawler, I just had it repaired." The glider begins to loose its altitude, and Spider-Man gains more distance. Hobgoblin steers the glider at the closest building, an old church. The glider crashes at the bell tower and sends its rider flying through the air. Hobgoblin hits the huge bell with a great force which causes the bell to go off with a loud clang. Spider-Man, as he gets nearer, begins to feel dizzy but struggles to reach the bell tower. As he lands on the edge of the tower, he begins to scream and covers his ears as if the sound was like a sword being poked through his head. Hobgoblin looks at the screaming figure of Spider-Man and soon realizes what's going on. "Oh, so the sound hurts your ears," he says with excitement, while also sneering at him. "Well lets bring on more of it." As Hobgoblin reaches for the church bell, Spider-Man gathering his strength, shoots a web- line at him and pulls him back. That action alone sucks a lot of juice out of him, Spider-Man collapses on the floor. Hobgoblin without wasting any more time, again rushes towards the bell, which had stopped clanging. As Hobgoblin reaches for the bell, something wraps itself around both of his hands. He looks at what it is.
A large black entity stands tall over him, holding his hands with some sort of appendages projected from its body, its hideous face smiling at him. The surprised Goblin looks at the man lying on the floor beside the creature, to which it is partially attached. The creature recedes back towards its host, appendages still at their place, holding the Hobgoblin. Reformed figure of Spider-Man jerks his head and slowly gets up. "Trying to kill someone are we," said Spider-Man with a sinister tone. "Well, rest assured, someone will die tonight and it won't be me." Hobgoblin, shivering with fear from what he have just observed, stands still in his place, the alien suit reverts the appendages that were holding him down. "What the hell are you?" he asked as he gasps. Spider-Man takes few steps closer to him. "Death personified," Spider-Man replied, in an almost hissing sound. "You see, I'm tired of cleaning this city with low-life, scum-bags like yourself. I think it's about time I clean this city up, my way." Hobgoblin walks away slowly as Spider-Man gets nearer. But there is no more room to move about, Hobgoblin is cornered.
Before he even realized, Spider-Man was squeezing the life out of Hobgoblin, both his hands tightly clutched around his throat. Hobgoblin mutters a few words but Spider-Man is only interested in squeezing the hell out of him. "You...can't...ugh...uh...do...this," Hobgoblin manages to say. Spider-Man gazes at his victim, tightening his grip even more. "Watch me," Spider-Man hisses, his voice filled with hatred. The wiggling figure of Hobgoblin tries to push off its attacker, but the attacker is far too strong for him. "Die like the worm you are!" Hobgoblin stops moving. Spider-Man still continues to squeeze the idle body. Realizing that the man is dead, Spider-Man quickly pulls back and watches the body fall to the wooden floor. He then looks at his hands. What have I done, he thinks, what have I done? The feeling of guilt and horror crosses his mind all at once. "No, nooooo!" he shouts out, banging his hands on the walls of the bell tower. "It's about time I got rid of you," he says to the suit he is wearing. Spider-Man struggles to pull off the costume but has no luck, the suit is stuck to his body like his own skin. "Get off you alien monstrosity," he shouts as he pulls the suit from around his arm. It stretches out like a rubber but collapses back onto his arm. "No, please. Get off!" Without warning, the alien projects appendages from various parts of the suit and wraps them around the portion of the mask, and the mask itself tightens around Spider-Man's face. He is being suffocated by the suit. Spider-Man continues to struggle to get free but it all starts to go black, and soon he falls to the ground, drowned in complete darkness.