Mission #2: Kill Spiderman
Before Christie started working as an assassin, Ra's Al Ghul had once procured a file from Batman's computer which carried detailed instructions on how to disable or destroy any member of the JLA, in case they were possessed or turned evil, as they happened to do on multiple occasions. Ghul had once been able to nearly destroy the JLA with this information, and only by Batman's intervention was he stopped. The threat of possession was gone now, of course, with so many powerful psychics on Earth and in the different teams, the X-Men especially, but the event led Christie to believe one thing: that every hero had his weakness. This encouraged her not to try to overpower her enemies as others had done, but to find their weaknesses and strike them hard and fast like Ra's Al Ghul had done, but to come up with the solutions herself so her enemies couldn't anticipate them. This was why, when the Kingpin offered her 200 million to kidnap Spiderman, she refused on the grounds that she only killed her targets. And that was how she got her current job for the Kingpin. Apparently he admired such 'sadistic bravado' as he called it and promised her 300 million if she could kill the wallcrawler. Her decision had nothing to do with sadism or bravado, but she didn't feel like arguing with the man: if her logical perceptions gained her another 100 million, she would take it. Besides, she had more things to do with her time and energy that argue with the Kingpin over semantics: she had to find a way to kill Spiderman.
She found her way in a glass container contained in the Fantastic Four's headquarters. Using a handy mind-wave frequency nullifier that the Kingpin gave her to protect her from being sensed by the Invisible Woman, the Four's team psychic extraordinaire, she penetrated their headquarters through a skylight entrance above their lavatories. Using a precise map of the place, she found her way into the scientific labratories, not met by any of the Fantastic Four, who were out of the building at a Science Expo that Professor Reeds was heading up. Christie found what she was looking for unguarded, with only an electronic sensor serving as a warning for her activities. She quickly disabled the security protocols and reached her hand into the open container, towards the black ooze that lay within. Venom. The Fantastic Four had been commisioned to hold it in stasis under a barrage of radiation, extreme cold, and sound to keep it submissive. Once she touched it, though, it sprung into action, literally sliding over her suit, and into her skin, in a matter of seconds. Christie knew she had little time: it wouldn't take long before Venom recovered from its weakness and started trying to possess her like it and its brother, Carnage, tried to do to all of its targets, and her healthy body would certainly recover it quicker. However, she wasn't able to get out quite so soon.
"Hello little one."
Christie spun around in an instant to face her possible enemy only to see a man in a red suit with a devil spandex mask that covered his nose and eyes and red, fake horns. Across his chest was blazoned the infamous insignia of the double D's. Daredevil. She knew who he was, and that he had probably identified some kind of information about her from the sounds she made in her skintight suit, but she couldn't afford to speak, which would reveal herself as a female… if he didn't already know.
"Come now, my little kunoichi. You didn't expect to waltz into the headquarters of the Fantastic Four without someone here to meet you."
He knew she was female, then. 'Kunoichi' was the term for a female ninja in Japanese. She disquised her already muffled voice (muffled by the suit), when she spoke to him.
"So you're the welcoming committee? I'm not impressed."
"Oh, stop trying to hide your voice. The added stressors in your voice, although difficult to perceive through spandex, make it obvious that that's not the voice you're comfortable in."
She had heard he was perceptive… but that perceptive? Oh well. It didn't matter. Already she could feel Venom starting to form a consciousness. It would take it at least a day to be fully functioning, and a week longer to even threaten control, but she didn't have the time to be messing with this superhero punk.
"Get out of my way."
Normally, Daredevil could have stopped her with his staff. He was, after all, as strong as her physically and better trained in the martial arts (including the use of that staff). However, this wasn't a normal situation. Although Venom was weak, it was already augmenting her abilities, and she still hadn't tapped into her adrenaline. It was a handy trick she'd learned, the ability to tap into adrenaline at will. Her body, having the adrenal glands but no fear to stimulate them, learned to control them at will, a compensation for her extreme endeavors. Daredevil's strike to the side of her head barely made her flinch, and her responding quick-jab to the face knocked him back into the wall. He wasn't done from the fight, still having plenty of 'umph' in that frame of his, but she didn't bother sticking around. She ran back to the lavatories and climbed up the walls, an interesting little trick that having Venom gave her along with her own webslingers, stealth suit, and a few other knicknacks. Once she was over the top and into the open, she went directly to Peter Parker's house.
As Venom's consciousness starting coming into existence, a few memories that Venom held close to heart came into Christie's mind. Memories of hate. Memories of Peter Parker and Spiderman. Christie knew from a few video clips of the webslinger's duels with Venom that unlike all other enemies, Venom could surprise Spiderman, knew Spiderman's moves, and (most importantly), knew his identity. Although Venom's knickknacks were a cool throwback, she really needed nothing more than the suprise factor and the information contained in Venom's psyche. Once she arrived at Peter's house, she climbed down its side, opened his window, and stepped in to see his sleeping form. Oddly, an old childhood poem came to mind and she took the gun with the silencer and removed Spiderman from the world.
'Come into my parlor, said the Spider to the fly.'
The Kingpin came through on his promise, mostly. A third of the bills were counterfeit, so he only actually paid what he said he'd originally pay, but Christie expected that. Now, all she had to do was deal with Venom and she'd be on with the next mission. She was a little disappointed, of course, that this mission had brought with it no fear, but she figured that the fact that it was so easy meant she was getting better, and she could go after more difficult, more frightening targets.
Mission Accomplished #2: An Epilogue
When Peter Parker was found dead, it wasn't a big-news event, although two people were left saddened afterwards: Peter's aunt and girlfriend. Without any pictures of Spiderman, which Peter Parker alone provided, and with no further 'Spiderman sightings' to pin up, the Daily Bugle started resorting back to normal news, only every once in a while posting an 'Is The Menace Really Gone?' article. In order to pick up the heroism slack Spiderman's disappearance caused, the Daredevil took on a blind disciple, much in the same way as 'The Stick' took him on. This discipline, Blindside, became an awesome fighter/analyzer in the vain of his teacher rather quickly, forced to become extremely good extremely fast by the missions Daredevil put him on: beating muggers and such. In under two years, he had virtually replaced Spiderman on the crimefighting scene. The knowledge that Venom was unleashed was kept silent, a blob of black ink placed in the blace of Venom in the container until it could be found. Daredevil consulted the one person who could help him, Batman, giving him the description of the girl that he could get: that she was about 5'6", was female, was possessed of an ancient alien symbiote, and had a taste for Chinese food. Although Batman was unable to answer who it was, he decided on his criminal intuition to visit the Scarecrow in Arkham Asylum and learned that this attacker as well had no fear. She was the same one who killed Superman, and now they had a lead.
Christie found an interesting side-effect to the neural wave-link blocker… and that's that it blocked Venom's more controlling thoughts from reaching her. Even if it's symbiotic nature managed to consume her skin, it couldn't control her… but she could use it. So she kept it as a side trinket in the case that she would need it on later assignments, and need it she would. Before she knew what was going on, she was flinging through the universes to another to meet the enemies of the Green Lantern, the Quarrians. And they had the yellow ring. They said they would give her the ring, no strings attached, if she killed Green Lantern with it. She grinned, accepted the ring, and found herself on the bench in downtown New York that she had made her home while she was stationed there. As she lied, a thought came to her:
'Why don't I start collecting superpowers? I have fearlessness, adrenaline, Venom, and now the yellow ring…'
It was an interesting thought that she'd have to contemplate for the future.
Before Christie started working as an assassin, Ra's Al Ghul had once procured a file from Batman's computer which carried detailed instructions on how to disable or destroy any member of the JLA, in case they were possessed or turned evil, as they happened to do on multiple occasions. Ghul had once been able to nearly destroy the JLA with this information, and only by Batman's intervention was he stopped. The threat of possession was gone now, of course, with so many powerful psychics on Earth and in the different teams, the X-Men especially, but the event led Christie to believe one thing: that every hero had his weakness. This encouraged her not to try to overpower her enemies as others had done, but to find their weaknesses and strike them hard and fast like Ra's Al Ghul had done, but to come up with the solutions herself so her enemies couldn't anticipate them. This was why, when the Kingpin offered her 200 million to kidnap Spiderman, she refused on the grounds that she only killed her targets. And that was how she got her current job for the Kingpin. Apparently he admired such 'sadistic bravado' as he called it and promised her 300 million if she could kill the wallcrawler. Her decision had nothing to do with sadism or bravado, but she didn't feel like arguing with the man: if her logical perceptions gained her another 100 million, she would take it. Besides, she had more things to do with her time and energy that argue with the Kingpin over semantics: she had to find a way to kill Spiderman.
She found her way in a glass container contained in the Fantastic Four's headquarters. Using a handy mind-wave frequency nullifier that the Kingpin gave her to protect her from being sensed by the Invisible Woman, the Four's team psychic extraordinaire, she penetrated their headquarters through a skylight entrance above their lavatories. Using a precise map of the place, she found her way into the scientific labratories, not met by any of the Fantastic Four, who were out of the building at a Science Expo that Professor Reeds was heading up. Christie found what she was looking for unguarded, with only an electronic sensor serving as a warning for her activities. She quickly disabled the security protocols and reached her hand into the open container, towards the black ooze that lay within. Venom. The Fantastic Four had been commisioned to hold it in stasis under a barrage of radiation, extreme cold, and sound to keep it submissive. Once she touched it, though, it sprung into action, literally sliding over her suit, and into her skin, in a matter of seconds. Christie knew she had little time: it wouldn't take long before Venom recovered from its weakness and started trying to possess her like it and its brother, Carnage, tried to do to all of its targets, and her healthy body would certainly recover it quicker. However, she wasn't able to get out quite so soon.
"Hello little one."
Christie spun around in an instant to face her possible enemy only to see a man in a red suit with a devil spandex mask that covered his nose and eyes and red, fake horns. Across his chest was blazoned the infamous insignia of the double D's. Daredevil. She knew who he was, and that he had probably identified some kind of information about her from the sounds she made in her skintight suit, but she couldn't afford to speak, which would reveal herself as a female… if he didn't already know.
"Come now, my little kunoichi. You didn't expect to waltz into the headquarters of the Fantastic Four without someone here to meet you."
He knew she was female, then. 'Kunoichi' was the term for a female ninja in Japanese. She disquised her already muffled voice (muffled by the suit), when she spoke to him.
"So you're the welcoming committee? I'm not impressed."
"Oh, stop trying to hide your voice. The added stressors in your voice, although difficult to perceive through spandex, make it obvious that that's not the voice you're comfortable in."
She had heard he was perceptive… but that perceptive? Oh well. It didn't matter. Already she could feel Venom starting to form a consciousness. It would take it at least a day to be fully functioning, and a week longer to even threaten control, but she didn't have the time to be messing with this superhero punk.
"Get out of my way."
Normally, Daredevil could have stopped her with his staff. He was, after all, as strong as her physically and better trained in the martial arts (including the use of that staff). However, this wasn't a normal situation. Although Venom was weak, it was already augmenting her abilities, and she still hadn't tapped into her adrenaline. It was a handy trick she'd learned, the ability to tap into adrenaline at will. Her body, having the adrenal glands but no fear to stimulate them, learned to control them at will, a compensation for her extreme endeavors. Daredevil's strike to the side of her head barely made her flinch, and her responding quick-jab to the face knocked him back into the wall. He wasn't done from the fight, still having plenty of 'umph' in that frame of his, but she didn't bother sticking around. She ran back to the lavatories and climbed up the walls, an interesting little trick that having Venom gave her along with her own webslingers, stealth suit, and a few other knicknacks. Once she was over the top and into the open, she went directly to Peter Parker's house.
As Venom's consciousness starting coming into existence, a few memories that Venom held close to heart came into Christie's mind. Memories of hate. Memories of Peter Parker and Spiderman. Christie knew from a few video clips of the webslinger's duels with Venom that unlike all other enemies, Venom could surprise Spiderman, knew Spiderman's moves, and (most importantly), knew his identity. Although Venom's knickknacks were a cool throwback, she really needed nothing more than the suprise factor and the information contained in Venom's psyche. Once she arrived at Peter's house, she climbed down its side, opened his window, and stepped in to see his sleeping form. Oddly, an old childhood poem came to mind and she took the gun with the silencer and removed Spiderman from the world.
'Come into my parlor, said the Spider to the fly.'
The Kingpin came through on his promise, mostly. A third of the bills were counterfeit, so he only actually paid what he said he'd originally pay, but Christie expected that. Now, all she had to do was deal with Venom and she'd be on with the next mission. She was a little disappointed, of course, that this mission had brought with it no fear, but she figured that the fact that it was so easy meant she was getting better, and she could go after more difficult, more frightening targets.
Mission Accomplished #2: An Epilogue
When Peter Parker was found dead, it wasn't a big-news event, although two people were left saddened afterwards: Peter's aunt and girlfriend. Without any pictures of Spiderman, which Peter Parker alone provided, and with no further 'Spiderman sightings' to pin up, the Daily Bugle started resorting back to normal news, only every once in a while posting an 'Is The Menace Really Gone?' article. In order to pick up the heroism slack Spiderman's disappearance caused, the Daredevil took on a blind disciple, much in the same way as 'The Stick' took him on. This discipline, Blindside, became an awesome fighter/analyzer in the vain of his teacher rather quickly, forced to become extremely good extremely fast by the missions Daredevil put him on: beating muggers and such. In under two years, he had virtually replaced Spiderman on the crimefighting scene. The knowledge that Venom was unleashed was kept silent, a blob of black ink placed in the blace of Venom in the container until it could be found. Daredevil consulted the one person who could help him, Batman, giving him the description of the girl that he could get: that she was about 5'6", was female, was possessed of an ancient alien symbiote, and had a taste for Chinese food. Although Batman was unable to answer who it was, he decided on his criminal intuition to visit the Scarecrow in Arkham Asylum and learned that this attacker as well had no fear. She was the same one who killed Superman, and now they had a lead.
Christie found an interesting side-effect to the neural wave-link blocker… and that's that it blocked Venom's more controlling thoughts from reaching her. Even if it's symbiotic nature managed to consume her skin, it couldn't control her… but she could use it. So she kept it as a side trinket in the case that she would need it on later assignments, and need it she would. Before she knew what was going on, she was flinging through the universes to another to meet the enemies of the Green Lantern, the Quarrians. And they had the yellow ring. They said they would give her the ring, no strings attached, if she killed Green Lantern with it. She grinned, accepted the ring, and found herself on the bench in downtown New York that she had made her home while she was stationed there. As she lied, a thought came to her:
'Why don't I start collecting superpowers? I have fearlessness, adrenaline, Venom, and now the yellow ring…'
It was an interesting thought that she'd have to contemplate for the future.
