Issue 10: Living Ghost
Unknown location. Manhatten, New York 7:26 p.m.
In an abandoned office building, were the villains of the late Peter Parker known as the Sinister Six. Mysterio, the same that fought both Terry Komori and the other dimensional Peter Parker. He was designing another invention bitterly, waiting to excite revenge. He wasn't in the same costume he wore when he fought the Spider-Men, instead it was a purple cloaked tunic showing a tinted fishbowl. The tunic had a larger M on the costume, that now revealed green arms and gaunlets. Herman Schultz wearing a red and yellow bodysuit with vibro-shock gauntlets, with the exception of not wearing a mask. Blackie Drago aka the Vulture was sitting around impatiently, while Sandman and Electro were playing pool. Alex O'Hirn known as only R.H.I.N.O wasn't accounted for.
"I'm done sitting around here Mysterio! When do we get to finish off that punk Spider-Man?" Vulture yelled annoyed at the illusionist
"I gotta agree with Vulture on this one. We can take the spider out." said Schultz as Mysterio slammed his fist on the table
"Are you both forgetting the rest of his allies!?" Mysterio said glaring at both Herman Schultz the original Shocker, and Vulture aka Blackie Drago. "Bombshell? Cloak and Dagger? The American Gargoyle?! Tarantula?! Do any of those names ring a bell to you, retards?"
"So what? We can take him down and his so-called amazing friends." Electro replied showing a six off the pool
"Yeah, what's gonna happen?" Sandman scoffed, only for Alex O'Hirn to crash into the pool table bloodied, bruised, and unconscious. The sudden surprise shocked the Sinister Six in fear
"You had to jinx it, didn't you?" Electro growled with his hands sparking electricity. "Come on out, spider schmuck! Nowhere to hide!" he yelled as the sparkling to the fire alarm suddenly came on. "Agh! You think a little-"
WHACK
ZZAAAAAAZZZTTTT
Electro was cut off by a quick jab across the jab. Sending him flying at Sandman as his sand covered form turned to nothing but mud. Both of them screaming in agony while Mysterio and Vulture stood ready. However, Herman Schultz the first Shocker was nowhere to be found with the two remaining members of the Sinister Six. Mysterio and Vulture stood stand-by-stand together until they heard a deafening scream from behind, with the scream originating from Herman Schultz. Both of them rushed to the direction of Schultz' voice, only for their eyes to go wide in horror as they saw Herman Schultz arms ripped off among the shadows while they stared at his armless and lifeless form
"What the hell, man? Did Spider-Man do this?" Vulture said in a terrofied voice, having a nausea feeling inside as he threw up away from the corpse of now dead Herman Schultz
"No, Vulture. This is..." Mysterio crouched down at Herman Schultz dead corpse. "This is something. Familiar, but more lethal and deadly. Drago we need to watch our backs. Understand Drago?" Mysterio turned around to find Blackie Drago the Vulture missing. "Vulture?" Mysterio replied as Vulture was now thrown into a wall face first
"Ugghhh..." Vulture groaned, completely unconscious
"Whoever you are, show yourself!" Mysterio demanded, shouting for whoever responsible defeated his fellow Sinister Six members when...
THWIP
A shot of web impacted on Mysterio's fishbowl dome, sending him crashing left and right as he scream in fear and pain. He was slammed toward the R.H.I.N.O suit, then several of his inventions, and finally through a wall. Parts of rubble covered the supervillian illusionist, with his fishbowl helmet off as a shadowed figure stood in front of Mysterio. Mysterio eyed the figure as whoever it was crouched in front of him with Mysterio's eyes going widened with shock, even horror and fear
"I-I-It can't be." he said in a shaky voice
"It is." the mysterious figure said punching Mysterio in the face
St. George Hospital. Queens, New York 8:01 p.m.
Outside the St. George Hospital, six SHIELD agents stood guard with orders from Nick Fury himself. While outside, Kimberly Ann Komori laid rest on a hospital bed with Joseph Cole and his wife Sarah Thornweb-Cole stood watching her. They heard a knock on the door as Sarah opened the door to reveal Gwen Stacy showing a sympathetic look on her face. Behind her was Harry Osborn paying a visit as well, placing a banquet of roses on the table
"Mr. and Mrs. Cole. How's Kim?" Gwen said gazing straight at them
"Doctor said she has a concussion, with a couple of laceration on her arms." Joseph Cole said staring at his unconscious niece. "Have either of you seen Terry?"
Gwen and Harry didn't know what to say about Terry. He denied Fury's orders to search for Carnage and Toxin in vengeance, where harming Terry's sister Kim had crossed the path. Harry had called Terry five times and there still wasn't an answer, Gwen on the other hand called him almost seven times. They called Jess earlier to see if she's seen Terry lately, but unfortunately she hasn't. She's even called him herself, but she still got the same answer just like Harry and Gwen. No one still had no clue on where Terry went or what was going on with him
"No sir. We haven't seen him lately." Harry then gazed at the beside Kim. "Did you and Mrs. Cole leave that for Kim? The orchards?"
"No, we didn't. I guess Terry came here earlier." Sarah replied. "Orchards are one of her favorites."
"Harry, could I talk to you?" Gwen asked Harry who nodded in reply
"Yeah, sure." Harry responded with him and Gwen left the hospital room where Kim slept, closing the door on their way out. "What is it?"
"Harry, I'm worried about Terry. He's been acting strange lately." she said
"How so?" he asked her, wondering where was she going with this
"MJ said she saw something in his suit, tendrils on his back. What if that symboite in him wasn't destroyed?" Harry then glanced at Gwen with a straight face. "What if it stayed in him the whole time until it got into his Equip-bracer?"
"So you're saying that the symboite's still in contact with Terry?" he asked Gwen who shared a troubled expression on her face
"I think so. If it's Terry, then what happened last time might-"
BOOOOMM
A booming sound was heard inside the hospital floor as three symboites burst out of nowhere, killing a few SHIELD agents that stood watch over Terry Komori's sister. Their corpses laid to waste, bloodied and bodies drained to husks. Gwen noticed a SHIELD assault rifle on the ground as she sprinted ahead to grab it, only for one of the symboite grabbed her by the throat. While one of the symboites held Gwen in its grasp, the other two made their way to the hospital room where Kim laid after throwing Harry straight toward a wall. But instead, white tendrils spread out from the room impaling themselves on the symboites. What happened next, shocked Gwen and Harry with wide eyes. The tendrils were consuming the symboites, separating them from their hosts as three human beings now laid naked covered in ooze. Gwen and Harry glanced at each other for a mere second before rushing toward the room, only to find Terry's aunt and uncle unconscious but Kim was nowhere to be seen. Harry went to make sure Terry's aunt and uncle were alright while Gwen left the damaged and destroyed hospital room, bringing her phone out of her pocket
"Pick up, Terry. Pick up!"
Manhatten, New York 8:05 p.m.
In the city of Manhatten Terry Komori swung through building to building, desperately continuing his search for Carnage and Toxin. He was having mixed feelings of anger and guilt. Contempt soon buried within him, still worried about his sister Kim after the attack at the Parker residence in Queens. 'Damn it! Where the hell could they be!? Carnage and Toxin couldn't have gone that far! Why is it that whenever there's danger, the people I care about will always get hurt? First my parents, then Laurie dies, and even Kim's gets hurt! Why can't protect those I-' Terry thought until the ringing of his phone interrupted his thinking. He landed near a rooftop, bringing his phone and saw that it was Gwen calling him. The mask removed itself revealing Terry's whole face as he kneed down on the hedge
"Gwen..." Terry trailed off before Gwen cutted him off
"Terry, your sister gone!" she said in a panicked tone which gave Terry an expression of anger and shock
"What?! Gwen, what happened to her?"
"I don't know! Three symboites just came and attacked the hospital!"
"Was it Carnage and that other symboite?"
"No, it wasn't them. They were different, but Terry you need to know something. When those three symboite tried to take your sister, something was in there and consumed the ones from the hospital. They were turned back to normal. They reverted to human, Terry. But when me and Harry went to see what was inside the room with her, she was already gone."
"I don't understand. How is that possible?" Terry said as his mask reappeared, now swinging away in the city
"We don't know. Harry's telling Jess now, she might have a lead on this."
"I hope so. You and Harry watch yourselves, tell Mary Jane and May to do the same thing. They might come after them again."
"You got it..." said Gwen who trailed off for a second. "Terry, I know the symboite's still inside of you."
"How did you-"
"MJ saw it inside you. Terry, you need to get rid of that thing! You know what that thing does to you! You know how it can change you!"
"Yeah, but Gwen, this time it's... I don't know. Different. But I think there's more to this, like something bad is coming. You gotta believe me, Gwen."
"I... I can't. Not now that you have that thing on you. Call me back when you don't the suit on you." she said as the line went out, with Terry putting his phone back in his pocket
'What is she talking about? It's not like the symboite is taking control of me.' he thought doing a hang glide down, zip lining to a wall as he wall ran before leaping toward the next building. He continued on until a noise that came from the alleyway. 'What was that?' he jumped down straight at the alleyway, walking to where the noise was coming from. His answer was found as an object hurtled toward him, managing to create a web net surrounding it which lead it to be a figure. The figure was someone his age brown hair, wearing a blue hoodie with a red tee shirt underneath and brown cargo pants. Terry narrowed his eyes closely at the mysterious person in front of him, until he heard footsteps coming from behind him. His spider senses blared in his head while he got into a defensive fighting stance, narrowing his eyes under his mask at what danger was ahead of him. But eyes suddenly went wide with shock, his expression was like he saw a ghost. Someone that was thought to be dead. What was approaching Terry was a eighteen year old with brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a red and blue jumpsuit, with black web patterns covering the outfit. It was Peter Parker, the first and original Spider-Man. "Parker? Peter Parker? Peter, is that you?" Terry asked slowly approaching Peter Parker. "What happened? How are you-" Terry is cut off when Peter sent a strong hook across Terry's face, sending him flying back to a wall unconscious. While Terry and the mysterious person were unconscious, a red ooze started covering Peter's chest and arms along with his head. He left the alleyway, while the mysterious person got out of Terry's web net as he heard a police siren flaring close by. He grabbed Terry before the police arrived, on top of a roof while the mysterious stranger laid Terry on the floor. The police got out of their cruiser and picked up a naked man with red hair with scars on his chest, his face included
"Cletus Cassidy, you're under arrest." the police officer said, pushing Cletus Cassidy to the back of the police cruiser. "Time to put you behind bars, psycho."
"My suit! My suit! It's gone! He took my suit! That bastard took my suit!" Cletus screamed out, already panicking insanely
"Hey! Shut the hell up!" one of the cops yelled out, driving away after they took Cassidy while the mysterious stranger removed his hood revealing to be the scorpion clone of Peter Parker
"Damn it! He already took the symboite." he said hearing a groan from the new Spider-Man Terry Komori. "And look whose up. Hey. Hey, you. Whoever you are, wait, I already know who you are. Hey, wake up." the clone seeing Terry at him with wide eyes, pointing at him along the way
"You, you look like-"
"I know. Listen very closely to me." the clone said kneeling down in front of Terry. "I am Peter's Parker's clone. And the person you encountered was actually Peter Parker himself. And now he has the symboite of Cletus Cassidy, the one you know as Carnage inside of him now. There's a storm coming in this city, so watch your ass Komori."
"Wait. How do you know who I am?" Terry asked the clone of Peter Parker
"Doesn't matter. Prepare yourself for what's next to come. Don't tell anyone especially Mary Jane Watson, May Parker, and Jessica Drew that Peter Parker is still alive. As a matter of fact, don't even mention that you saw me. And by the way..." he trailed off standing on the end of the roof. "The name's Cole now." he finished, suddenly web slinging away from Terry
"What the hell is going on? What's coming?" Terry asked himself, wondering what Cole the clone of Peter Parker meant