And we resume


The Human Torch flew through New York City on the look out for any member of The Sinister Six, a look of fierce determination in his eyes.

Spider-man managed to catch up to him, "Yo Johnny, hold up!"

Johnny kept his pace, too focused to listen.

"Johnny! Come on seriously, I know you want to find the Sinister Six! I do too, but we need to come up with a plan first!"

Johnny stopped and turned to Spider-man, "And what plan might that be?"

"Well...I don't know, but it's not a good idea to just storm through this...no pun intended"

"I'm not letting these people get away with hurting my sister, either you're with me or against me"

"I'm not against you, I'm not happy with what happened to Susan either, but they have a strong weapon, suppose you get hit?"

Johnny groaned a bit, "Well what do you have in mind?"

"I say we gather some allies and then go after them, we're outnumbered and their gear seems a lot stronger this time, if we rush into this, we're gonna get our butts kicked"

"Well...who do you have in mind?"

"Let's just go around New York and see if any heroes are free, let's start with Hell's Kitchen and try to find Daredevil"

As they made their way to Hell's Kitchen, The Sinister Six had made their way back to their HQ where Doc Ock had gotten into contact with Dr. Doom.

"Doom, we have the weapon you have asked for"

"Good work, I will admit this is a pleasant surprise"

"Since we have done as you asked, what of your deal to give me access to Latverian Technology?"

"Patience good doctor, I will need more, did you recruit the symbiote creature like I had requested?"

"No...the host Eddie Brock refused to cooperate with us"

Doom clenched his fist, "No matter, just get me the symbiote, even if you have to pry it from his lifeless body"

"Already planning for that, anything else?"

"Yes...I will need some Diamonds"

"Diamonds? What for?"

"I need the material from the Diamonds, it is the hardest substance, they make great weapons and based on what I've seen from the mutant Emma Frost, they also make good armor"

"As you wish good Doom"

Once Doom broke contact, Doc Ock turned to the others, "You heard Doom, we need the Symbiote and the Diamonds"

Rhino stepped up, "Hey what do we get out of all of this?"

Doc Ock grabbed Rhino by the throat with his tentacle, "Don't try my patience, you're lucky I'm keeping you on this team, I could easily dispense of you right now!"

Rhino struggled at the tentacle claw was choking the life out of him.

"You will all be rewarded, so long as you do what I say and do a job well done", Doc Ock pulled Rhino closer to his face, "Do I make myself clear?"

With fear in his eyes, Rhino simply nodded.

"Good", Dock Ock dropped Rhino, "Now lets go"

The group left for New York.

In the city, Eddie Brock was walking down the street, on his way home when he noticed a mugger running away with a purse and a lady screaming.

"Despicable, robbing an innocent woman, I will not stand for that!" he then turned into the anti hero Venom, "We shall protect the innocent!"

Venom pursued the guy and grabbed him by his shirt and held the guy to his face, "Filthy scum! We will make you suffer!" Venom then slammed the guy into a nearby car and then to a house wall and tossed him across the block.

He as gonna get the guy some more but he heard something in a nearby ally way, "Who's there?"

He got no answer but heard more noise, "More thugs I presume? I will take you down!"

Venom went into the ally and the came face to face with Shocker.

"Hello Brock, good to see you"

"What do you want Shocker? We told you we have no interest of joining your group of thugs, even if it meant taking down that incompetent bug Spider-man"

"Come on Brock, surely you can see the point of our-"

Venom grabbed Shocker by the shirt, interrupting him, "Stop calling us Brock! You shall refer to us as Venom!"

Shocker put his hands up defensively, "Hey your call Venom, now lets take it easy"

"You will leave our presence, we have no interest of joining your group, do not waste our time!"

Doc Ock then arrived, "Venom, my friend, listen to reason, alone you have had little success against Spider-man, don't you want to have the opportunity to finish him off? After all you are no stranger to working in groups, we've worked together before"

Venom growled, "All you have done was slow us down, when we take down Spider-man, it will be from our own power, the death of Spider-man will be my honor, now leave!"

Dock Ock sighed, "I was hoping you were smarter than this Venom" Doc Ock snapped his fingers and Shocker then blasted Venom back.

Soon the rest of the group arrived and went to attack Venom.

Venom managed to recover and fight off the members of the group, punching away Mysterio, Electro and Kraven, but taking a big blow from Rhino's shoulder ram and being knocked into a parked Van.

Venom got back on his feet and engaged in a test of strength against Rhino and seemed close to taking him down but Electro electrocuted Venom while Doc Ock then whacked him with his tentacle.

Rhino then punched Venom to the wall and started wailing on him, beating Venom to near death before tossing him to Shocker who hit another blast from his gauntlets.

Venom fell, weakened from the fight while Doc Ock approached him.

"You should have chosen to join us, now you will die and we will have free reign to your symbiote", Doc Ock grabbed Venom and was ready to finish him off, but Venom in a last ditch effort blinded Doc Ock with a web like substance and then hit a hasty retreat, the others attempted to follow him but Venom opened a manhole cover and tossed it at Electro, knocking him back and Venom entered the sewers and managed to escape in the tunnels, though very injured.

"Should we head into the sewers and follow him? Kraven asked.

Doc Ock removed the substance from his eyes and noticed some symbiote on the ground near where Venom was being pounded on, "No, I could use a little left over from there, it's likely not enough but it's a decent start"

Doc Ock picked up the symbiote and put it in a small test tube that he had, "Now let's head to the museum"

Later that night, a female had arrived at a museum, "Time to get to work", she used a grapple to get to the roof and checked around for anything that would set off an alarm.

"Nothing here", she pursued through the rooftop and went to a roof window, though surprisingly it looked loose, "Wow, someone needs to do a better job with these windows"

She dropped down a rope and went down, keeping an eye out for any security or any other item that can set off an alarm.

"So far so good", she started spraying around to reveal some security lasers, though nothing so far, "Huh? That's weird", she also saw that the cameras weren't moving, no sign they were on.

"What's going on? Surely the museum people can't be that foolish, this is too easy, not much of a challenge"

She went to find some jewelry, since the security was down she figured grab it and go, she didn't like how easy this was but she figured work fast and be out of there, hopefully this isn't a trap.

She started looking around for more stuff, like diamonds, but much to her surprise, she noticed other villains near the diamond display.

"Huh? That looks like...Doctor Octopus, is that The Sinister Six? What are they up to?"

Doc Ock gave some orders, "Hurry up and grab those diamonds!"

"We're on it!" Shocker said.

They put all the diamonds in a bag and got ready to leave.

"What are they up to?" the girl asked.

"Say since we're here, lets nab some gold!" Rhino said.

Kraven picked up a scent, "Not now, we have an intruder", then pointed to where the girl was.

"Crap, they know I'm here!" she attempted to run but Mysterio teleported in front of her.

She attempted to attack him but he managed to dodge and knocked her back into Rhino's arms.

"Let me go you big brute!"

"Hold still you little-" he couldn't finish because she managed to get enough momentum to back kick his gut, though it barely phased him and he simply tossed her to the wall.

Electro approached the girl, "Hey, this is that cat burglar girl, Black Cat"

"You mean Spider-man's main squeeze?" Shocker asked.

"I'm no one's main squeeze", Black Cat said.

"Well regardless, we know Spider-man seems to care for you, you could make great bait", Doc Ock said.

Black Cat got out her whip, "Just try it!"

Kraven went to attack her but she used her whip to get a grip around his arm and pulled him in for a kick to the face.

Shocker tried to blast her but she managed to roll out the way and ran in for a jump kick and used the momentum bouncing off the kick to attack Doc Ock with a diving kick to knock him back.

Electro then Electrocuted her and Rhino rammed her to the wall.

She struggled to get up but Doc Ock managed to grab Black Cat by her throat.

"Looks like we got ourselves a lost little cat boys, lets take her back, maybe her arachnid owner will claim her, we'll have a little surprise waiting too"

"Aw how nice, but I'll take her now if you don't mind", they heard a voice said.

They looked up and saw Spider-man arrive into the museum, joined by The Human Torch.

"You're friendly neighborhood Spider-man, at your service"

"It's Spider-man & Human Torch, dispose of them!" Doc Ock commanded.

The villains attacked the duo but Spider-man evaded and shot webs in the eyes of Shocker & Kraven, allowing him to punch them both to the wall.

Rhino tried to charge at Spider-man but he jumped and landed on Rhino's head and tried steering him.

"Hey get off me creep!"

"I'm the creep? Well I am a creepy crawler but a man dressed up as a Rhino shouldn't be talking about being a creep"

"Hey! Don't diss my costume!" Rhino shouted, then grabbed Spider-man and threw him to awall but Spider-man rebounded and lunged at Rhino with a double punch to knock him back, making him stumble, then Spider-man did a jump kick to fully knock him down.

"Timber!" At that moment Spider-man had to dodge Doc Ock's tentacle.

Meanwhile Johnny is dealing with Electro and Mysterio.

Electro tried to zap Johnny but Johnyn was able to dodge and blast electro back.

Mysterio went in for a sucker punch but Johnny blocked it and did a judo toss on Mysterio.

"I'm gonna make you scumbags pay for what you did to my sister!" Johnny then threw fire at Mysterio but he used his tricks and illusions to make images of himself to distract Johnny long enough to escape from the flame.

After Johnny took out the mirages, Electro blasted him from behind.

"Take that flame boy!" he continued to shoot electricity to Johnny.

Meanwhile Spider-man is dodging Doc Ock's attacks but soon Shocker was able to sneak up on Spider-man and blast him down.

"Man I really need to focus, come on Spidey Sense, work with me!"

Spider-man stood up but had to move quickly when he saw Rhino charge at him, he got out of the way in time but couldn't dodge a kick from Kraven and then Doc Ock grabbed Spider-man and tossed him to a wall, next to Black Cat.

When he stood up he noticed her, "Sup Felicia, how are things?"

Black Cat shrugged, "Eh, could be better"

Spider-man chuckled a bit but noticed the villains come, "Watch out!"

Both of them dodged from Shocker's blast, but unfortunately for them Rhino had shoulder rammed them both to another wall.

Johnny tried fighting off Electro, however Doc Ock grabbed him with a tentacle and whacked him a bit before Rhino went to Johnny and clotheslined him to the wall where Spider-man & Black Cat were.

"Wow, this is going well", Spider-man said sarcastically.

Johnny stood up and noticed Black Cat, "Sup Felicia"

"Hey Johnny, how's the rest of the Four?"

"Could be better, especially my sister"

"I take it these creeps had something to do with that?"

Spider-man interrupted, "Um, any chance we could talk a bit later since there are 6 people try to kill us"

While Johnny and Black Cat were talking, Shocker & Electro had charged up to the point where the fired strong projectiles at them and blasted at least Spider-man & Johnny through the wall.

Black Cat went to check on them but Kraven ran in with a sword attack that barely missed her but distracted her long enough for Doc Ock to grab her with a claw and slam her down on the ground and toss her to Spider-man & Johnny.

The 3 struggled to get up, feeling overwhelmed by the Sinister Six, Mysterio took the time to kick Black Cat in the face, elbow Johnny in the face and the punch Spider-man in the gut and elbow him down.

Rhino then grabbed all 3 of them, grabbing each one by a leg and held them in the air as Kraven grabbed his sword, his regular sword.

"What are you doing? The laser sword is more effective"

"Yes, but I'm feeling old fashioned, besides they have been weakened, this should be enough"

As he went to them they heard a noise that distracted them.

"What was that?" Mysterio asked.

Kraven wanted to ignore it and go about his business but he was suddenly grabbed and tossed.

"What in the-", Rhino started but couldn't finish as he was clocked in the face, forcing him to drop the heroes.

When Spider-man looked up, he was surprised at what he saw, "Eddie?"

Upon hearing 'Eddie', Johnny also looked up, shocked at what he saw, "Holy crap it's Venom!"

Spider-man stood up a bit, "Glad you came to help"

Venom glared at Spider-man, "We didn't come to help you, we have our own agenda!"

Doc Ock looked almost pleased, "So you've decided to return for more?"

Venom pointed at Doc Ock, "We're here for your head! No one ambushes us and lives!"

"They attacked Venom too? These people have a lot of guts!" Black Cat stated.

Venom went to attack each of them, starting with a hard punch to Shocker, then whacking away Mysterio, then grabbing Electro by the throat and tossing him to a wall.

Venom went for Doc Ock but he managed to dodge and whack Venom back, then he ripped a nearby street light off the ground and whacked Venom.

Venom got up ready to fight, though still somewhat sore from the earlier encounter, but he as too driven by rage to care.

Venom went to attack again but Rhino ran in with a punch that took venom down.

Spider-man did a front dropkick to Rhino that stumbled him but Rhino still stood and then retaliated with a punch to Spider-man.

Johnny started shooting fire at the villains but Shocker got in and blasted him with his guantlets.

Black Cat also tried to attack but Electro zapped her and took her down.

"Man, these guys are still too much, they still have the numbers game!"

Rhino went to attack Spider-man but some white daggers hit him.

"Ow, what the?"

At that moment, a young girl in white arrived and attacked Rhino with more daggers, though he was barely phased.

Rhino went to attack her but she dodged and he ran into a guy in a cloak who then teleported Rhino up to the sky and dropped him from 4 stories high.

"More pests!? Kill them!" Doc Ock commanded.

The villains went to attack the two but the girl distracted them with her daggers, "Everyone go to Cloak! Quickly!"

The 4 quickly ran to Cloak as the girl, Dagger managed to hold off the villains, soon Cloak was able to teleport everyone away.

"Damn, they escaped!", Doc Ock grabbed the diamond bag, "No matter, we have what we came for, we'll deal with them later, come on boys", the Sinister Six retreated back to their HQ.

Meanwhile far off, the heroes had arrived in a discreet location as Cloak had gotten everyone to safety.

"Is everyone alright?" Cloak asked.

Everyone nodded.

"Thanks Cloak, you too Dagger, glad you two made it", Spider-man said.

"Of course, we heard about all the trouble you went through lately, so we decided to help in any way we can", Dagger said.

"Glad someone's helping, we had no luck with everyone else, Daredevil's dealing with Kingpin, The Heroes for Hire are busy helping with another issue, the X-Men are out of the question, lousy Wolverine, we had no luck lately", Johnny said.

"What about The Avengers?" Dagger asked.

"They want to spend time 'planning', no action", Johnny complained.

"Maybe they were correct, by acting you nearly got killed", Cloak added.

"Who's side are you on?" Johnny asked.

"Cloak's right Johnny, you're too impulsive, next time we need to plan things better", Spider-man said.

"Don't be lame bro, these people are ruthless, they terrorized New York City, they attacked S.H.I.E.L.D. and stole one of Fury's stupid weapons, and they hurt my sister! That's crossing a line, I'm ready to go bust some heads!"

"Dammit Johnny, can you think for once!?"

"You're such a boy scout, if you don't wanna help, fine, I'll go in there, anyone else wanna bust some heads? How about you Venom? I bet you wanna kick ass right now!"

"While that sounds fun and as much as we hate to say this, Spider-man is correct, going in outnumbered and without a plan is foolish, like it or not, a plan is needed"

Black Cat spoke up, "It could work, now there's 6 of us, we're even, we just need to figure out how to go about this"

"We will come up with something, but for now we need to rest up, I don't think the Sinister Six are gonna try anything else, so lets go an rest up, tomorrow we meet up at the Helicarrier as early as possible", Spider-man said.

The group nodded and went their separate ways, right now a plan was in dire need as The Sinister Six & Doctor Doom were closing in on victory.


The Crew has assembled, big fight coming soon.