SPIDERMAN'S VIEW

Spiderman stood on a rooftop, with his cell phone in hand. Mary Jane was on the other end of the line.

"MJ, I just ran into a symbiote tonight."

"Oh, Jeez, Tiger! Are you all right? Who was it? Carnage? I thought he was still locked up."

"He is. I swung by there afterwards, and he's still there. Nobody's escaped from there, either."

"Venom? Isn't he in San Francisco?"

"Yeah, he is. It wasn't either of them. This was somebody new. He isn't one of the one's from the Life Foundation, either. This guy's even younger than I am. If I hadn't been looking right at him when he ran across my field of vision, I wouldn't have even known he was there. He was running across the rooftops when I found him."

"Did he hurt you?"

Peter colored a little under his mask. Okay, Parker, explain this little goof-up without sounding like a total creep.

"Um, actually, no. He didn't. He didn't even swing on me, and he had good reason to do just that."

"What? What do you mean?"

"Well, I sort of jumped him. It was dark, and I couldn't see very well. I just saw a shadow running across, and when the shadow started growing tentacles, I attacked him. I thought it was Carnage."

"And he didn't hit you back?"

"Nope. Not even a thump on the nose."

"Wow. I wish all your enemies were that forgiving. You could retire."

"You said it. He said he was being chased, though, and by people that know a lot more about the symbiotes than I do. That means either the Life Foundation, or the government. Neither of those choices is very appealing. One the one hand, you've got a bunch of well funded psychos with big guns, and on the other, you've got a bunch of even better funded psychos with even bigger guns."

"You just be careful, Peter. I remember how badly you get beaten up whenever you deal with those things. I like my husband coming home in one piece."

"That makes two of us, sweetheart. I'm gonna make one more circuit of the neighborhood, and then I'm coming home. I don't think this guy is in any mood to fight me, or anyone else for that matter. Otherwise, he would have tried to take a bite out of me."

"Okay, Tiger. See you soon."