Issue 13: Shock Tactics

Rooftop of Kingpin's Tower

"Kingpin." Spider-Man meets with the criminal overlord, Wilson Fisk, outside on the top of Fisk Tower. Peter was intending to swing outside and perform some more rescue missions after the meeting, until he sees jolly ol' Kingpin standing in the center after exiting the door.

The Kingpin turns around to meet his mortal nuisance, not deeply amused to see him standing before him like they are friends, much less allies, but to save the city he genuinely does care about, he tries his best to stomach this temporary partnership, "Ahhh, Spider-Man. How…wonderful."

"I can be nice if you can be nice." Spider-Man said to Fisk.

"One does not get where I am in life by being…nice." Kingpin replied.

"One doesn't get where you are in life without eating a few hundred doughnuts a week." Spidey insulted.

"In the interest of personal GAIN, I can easily ignore your childish jokes." Fisk said, turning his face away from the Spider with his arms crossed.

"It's quite obvious to everyone that you are indeed a master of personal gain. A waist line like yours is quite an achievement." Spidey touched the fatty's waist line while talking, but then Kingpin slaps his hand away.

"Quite the hero, aren't you? Our city is being destroyed and YOU save the day by INSULTING me. Very nice. Even after you came to me for help." Fisk responded.

"Hey, I'm here because the Tinkerer stopped cooperating! For all I know, you put him up to it." Spidey retorted.

"For all I know, YOU and your Black Suit are part of this alien invasion!" Kingpin angrily retorted back, accusing Spider-Man of being part of this plague in the first place.

Both he and Spidey lock heads with each other, desperately wanting to choke the life out of the other, but then someone speaks up and catches their attention, "That's enough, Laurel and Hardy!"

The webhead and the criminal mastermind see Cinder walk out of the rooftop door to find out what's causing all the commotion. "Oh great," Kingpin said sarcastically, "Somebody's taking a page from the bug's book of lame fat jokes. And a hopelessly dated one at that!"

"You got it, and that's all that matters." Cinder smiled.

"And here I thought you were the more mature one out of you two, but you're just as childish as the boy." Kingpin said to Cinder, comparing her and Spidey side-by-side and seeing how the two like to act very similarly sometimes.

Cinder's face then goes from a mocking smile to a serious leer to ignore his previous statement, "So what's the deal, Tubby. Why are you all 'humanitarian' now? I've been on this world and stopped your operations for a few months, never known you to lend anyone a helping hand unless you were gaining something from it." She asked the Kingpin.

"When this is said and done, who will the people remember as their savior?" He asked Spider-Man and Cinder together.

"Me?" Spidey carefully answered, with Kingpin quietly shaking his head, saying no to his answer. "Her?" He points to Cinder, but the Kingpin gives the same denying expression. "Us?" Referring to both himself and Cinder.

"No, fool. Me. Wilson Fisk." Kingpin gave them his egotistical, yet menacing sounding answer.

"That's not a surprise." Cinder said nonchalantly, expecting that arrogant response.

"When people remember me standing tall against the coming apocalypse, my tower being a beacon of safety and hope in this chaos, I will be the most admired man in New York," Fisk gives a short, ominous chuckle, "I am at the very center of what will save this city."

Spidey scoffs, "Pfft. I don't believe that. Everybody knows you're a crime boss."

"People love a story of redemption, boy. Maybe I'll run for mayor!" Kingpin responded.

"You are so full of it. Really, really full." Spidey joked.

"This city is going to owe me. And I always collect on my debts. Speaking of, my peons, I have the perfect job for you two to complete," Kingpin said to his new pawns, which does anger them to a certain extent, mostly Cinder, "My associates are under attack by creatures possessing electrical powers, and I don't want to risk anyone valuable."

"So you want us, the expendables, to do your dirty work?" Cinder asked while giving McFatty the mean eye.

"Exactly, my useless underling," Kingpin insulted her with a smile, earning a growl from the red dressed woman, "Get there quickly, or else they will be turned into more of these hideous things."

"Okay. Anything else? Thirty or forty burgers to go?" Spidey joked to ease the heated up tension he's in the middle of.

BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Spirit

High above the skyscrapers of the infested Manhattan, Spidey and Cinder are seen standing on top of one of the few S.H.I.E.L.D. hovercrafts that's taking them to their destination, where they must face off against some new Symbiotes called "Electrolings" that are demolishing Kingpin's forces.

"Ugh. Look at this place," Spidey looks down from the aircraft, disgusted to see his beloved city turning into a symbiotic version of hell, with parts of the city crawling with those white Symbiote Zombies, slowly converting the town to an alien forest filled with symbiotic plant life and enormous purple crystals sprouting from the ground, and the atmosphere getting a nasty looking orange/purple makeover with every second, almost turning the place into an alien city, "What's become of my city. It's like everything is getting one, monstrous-sized makeover. Into what, I don't know. Probably a carnival?"

"If I were to guess, this place is looking like a horrid fusion of the wasteland Salem stays back on Remnant, and I believe the environment from the Symbiote's home world." Cinder gave her two-cents on what New York City is turning into.

"The Planet of the Symbiotes? What was it called? Klyntar or something like that? If this is what their home world looks like, then forget about taking a vacation there. I rather visit the Skrulls' home world. I'm sure that place won't have the very plants try to kill you." Spidey joked

"Don't be too certain. This universe. Any universe even, is quite mysterious." Cinder said.

"True, true." Spidey stands up from his crouching position. He then turns to Cinder, "Hey, Cinder, I have to ask, why do you work with Salem, well, before she gotten possessed by a crazy symbiote that wants to consume mankind and all?"

"I have many reasons for joining her. One reason was that she was the only one who could help me become stronger. I help her plans to take over the world, and in exchange, she would guide and grant me access to unspeakable power to fulfill my dreams." Cinder answered the Spider's question.

"You do realize that Salem was only using you, right?" Spider-Man asked her if she knew this, "She's the type of villain who uses others to further her selfish goals, and once they've fulfill those goals, she'll throw them away like common trash on the streets, not giving a damn about what happens to them next unless she finishes them off personally."

"Deep down, I probably knew I was being used, but at the same time, I couldn't care at the time. I was just blindlessly obsessed in becoming stronger, strong enough until I was the most fearsome mortal on the planet," Cinder said before her face became all somber like, "But with recent events involving Goblin and this alien invasion, you could say my eyes have truly been open for the first time in years. I've learned there are more, proficient ways in gaining strength, and that my heart has more than one goal it wants to achieve. Now I just want to get stronger to learn more about myself and test my limits, and to protect those closes to me," She tightly clenches on her right fist, "Too bad I failed on that last part. Now the three I consider my friends are gone because I was powerless to save them."

"What are you talking about? I'm still here." Spidey said, seeing himself as one of Cinder's friends.

The crimson woman scoffs as if he's joking, "Oh please. You only qualify as a respectable rival and an acceptable ally when the situation calls for it. Stop acting like we are, or will, be friends."

"Eh, fine, fine," Peter said with a laid-back shrug, not buying her words for a second, as he could tell she's bluffing, "So when this is all over, once we beat Salem and save the city, are you gonna go back and work for her again?" He asked.

His Remnant rival raises an intrigued eyebrow while looking at him in the face, "You make it sound like she's gonna live through this. Are you seriously planning on sparing her life, assuming you win at the end of your next encounter?"

"Even if she's the ultimate destroyer of worlds and donut factories, it's not in me to take another person's life, whether they're man or some ugly demon like her." Spidey replied, still committing to his 'No-Kill' rule.

Cinder sighed, "Showing mercy to even the worthless of your foes will only grant them to come back stronger," Shen then lets out a small smile, "But I'm beating a dead horse here. This is YOU we're talking about here. After all, you did save my life despite us being enemies and could possibly betray you at any time. Honestly, thinking about it now, I'm not sure if I'll go back to Salem's side once this is over. We'll just have to wait and see."

"Hey, just know that whatever path you chose at the end, I won't judge. You, alone, determine your own destiny. Remember that." Spidey gave some sound advice to Cindy.

She smiled, "Yeah. Thank you, Peter."

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BGM-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows OST-Symbiote Invasion (Alt. Ver.)

After a few minutes of following the aircrafts, the two heroes have arrived at their destination point on top of a rooftop, where they find some of Kingpin's tech goons fighting off against the Electrolings, with some assistance coming from Black Cat.

"Cat!" Spidey shouted to his on-and-off partner in crime. He and Cinder leap from the rooftop to assist Felicia taking down the symbiotes.

"Glad to see ya, Spidey. How about you and I team up for old's sake and take down these creatures?" Felicia asked the webhead.

"Sure thing, Cat." He replied, with all three heroes working together to take down the electric symbiotes. The arachnid hero finds himself surrounded by a couple of Electrolings, who begin to turn into pure energy and zip pass the webhead, hoping to painfully electrify him if he didn't keep jumping and ducking. "These things move as fast as lightning bolts," He said before shooting a web line at one of the purple creatures, reeling it in for a hard fist to its one eye, smacking it straight down to the ground. He then continues to dodge more purple blast from the symbiotes before counterattacking with a couple of web shots that blinds their faces, leaving them open for a few gut punches to the chest.

Cinder finds herself narrowly dodging purple blasts from her own batch of symbiotes, roundhouse kicking the ones that are left wide open after their attack. Her mysterious senses from before triggers her to danger from the back, and without turning around, she begins to back flip away from the blinding blast coming from one Electroling and stabs it in the chest, killing it and then the others with a huge fire blasts.

Lastly, Black Cat is engaged with three symbiotes in front of her, using her claws to swipe away their skin before using her whip to smack them off the edge of the platform. She also would've been knocked off the rooftop by the sneak attack from a stealthy symbiote, but as their bad luck would have it, it is smashed into the ground by Spider-Man before it could blind sight Black Cat.

"Always remember: Never cross the Black Cat's path or else you'll start kissing the path yourself." Spidey quipped before he and Cinder turn to Cat after finishing off the symbiotes on the roof.

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"Nice work, knocking out these crazy things. But this isn't over…" Felicia said to the two.

"You mean there are more of these guys?" Spidey asked the Cat.

"That's right. You better hit as many as you can." Cat responded.

"Hitting as many as we can won't stop these creatures from spawning. We need to destroy the source of these electricity beasts if we want to reduce their numbers." Cinder suggested a more useful alternative.

"She's got a point." Spidey agreed.

"Alright, we'll do that. I'll try to drive off as many of these things as I can while you two find the source. We'll meet up back here when we're done." Felicia said.

"Okay. Be careful, Felicia." Spidey said, concerned for her safety.

"You too, Spider." She replied with genuine concern, still feeling a bit sore and guilty of their previous fight from last time. The heroes then proceed to split up to take care of their respective objectives.

Almost an hour later after splitting up, taking care of more Electrolings spawning from electric Symbiote pods along the way, the Spidey-Cinder duo found a small team of three Electrolings messing around at the symbiotic version of Central Park.

"There. Let's take out two of them, and hopefully the last one will retreat back to its base." Cinder briefed Spidey on their plan that'll lead them to the source of these creatures.

"Right." Spidey nodded, firing a web line at one of the unexpecting Electrolings, pulling himself in for a double-axe kick to the face, "You're not quite as much fun to beat on as the real Electro, but you'll do." The second symbiote was left confused for a brief moment, only to lose its train of thought after being stabbed in the chest by a thrown flame spear coming from Cinder.

Scared and alone, the last remaining Electroling begins to retreat back to its main hive hideout by flying through the numerous lamp posts in the park at lightning-pace speeds. "Follow it!" Cinder shouted, with her and Spidey giving great chase after the bolting symbiote through the park, avoiding the dangerous wild life from the symbiotic plants and goop plastered all over the grass until they successfully escaped from the park while still on that symbiote's non-existent tail.

The duo chased the symbiote into an open area in the middle of this part of the city before they lose sight of it, but that doesn't matter anymore as they have managed to find the source of the Electrolings, "Whoa…," Cinder and Spidey stand in awe as they standing outside of what appears to be some kind of outside temple, with the only thing they see are five massive, almost arc-shaped-like symbiote purple glowsticks built in a circle, powered by numerous Electro-pods and those purple crystals from before that's giving them power, hovering over the center of the plaza, where a grotesque-looking hive is placed there and pulsing like mad.

"What do you think this place is for?" Cinder asked Peter, still looking at the gigantic glowsticks in awe.

Before he could answer, Peter notices some symbiotes standing next to one of the pods, "Look," He points Cinder to where those symbiotes are standing, two of them are Electrolings, one of them are the Snatchers, and the last one is a Symbiote Beowolf. The 'normal' symbiotes creepily approach the Electro-pod, and when they are in close vicinity they start to change into Electrolings versions of themselves and start to bow and worship the pod as if it's some god, "Those pods are more trouble than they're worth."

Cindy draws out her dual-wield flame blades, "Then let's take them out before they cause even more trouble." The marvelous duo head towards the group of pods placed under one of the purple glowsticks, taking out their protectors in great fashion before destroying their makers.

BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-Suitable Opponent

The duo is a little exhausted from all the fighting, but knowing they still have more work to be done, they won't rest until all of these pods are destroyed, but it would seem they might have some trouble with that, as a new foe is about to make his grand entrance and 'reunite' with his friends, "Well, well, well. What do we have here?" A mysterious, monstrous, not to mention groggy sounding voice from somewhere close by the heroes captures their attention. Popping out from inside the gooey glow stick by kicking himself out, this new enemy lands a couple of feet across the heroes and slowly stands up and shows his entire figure to them, "If it isn't my old pals, Spidey and Cindy. Feels like a…family reunion, if, you know, you two were part of the family."

"Uh, dude, should we know you, because I don't think we've ever met." Spidey said to his new enemy in front of him, not recognizing his appearance at all.

"Aww, really, because I'm certain we have, especially you, Cinder." The silvery-gray haired kid possessed by a symbiote turns to Cinder, staring her down with his non-existent eyes.

"That voice, it couldn't be…Mercury?" Cinder asked him, sounding a little shock when speaking since she thought he was dead after Venom ate him and Emerald before the invasion.

"So she does remember us. We're touched." Symbiote Mercury replied.

"Wait! This guy in front of us was one of your dead teammates?!" Spidey asked Cinder.

"Y-Yeah, but I thought he died when Venom devoured him a while ago, along with Emerald." Cinder told him.

"Venom most likely didn't ate them. Just kept them in his bottomless stomach to mess with your head, then spit them out as symbiotes to serve under him. He likes to do that." Spidey guessed to the best of his abilities on how Mercury, and possibly Emerald, are still alive.

Cinder growled and slowly powered up her flaming aura from her ISO-8, hating being tricked to think her teammates were killed off, "He's gonna pay."

"I still see you have quite the temper," Mercury stretches his legs and cracks his knuckles, "Guess I should cool it down, permantely." He said with a menacing voice from his groggy monster voice.

"Is there any way we can free him?" Cinder asked the Spider for some advice on how to separate the symbiote from Mercury.

"From what I could tell, yes. He doesn't seem to have fully bonded with the symbiote yet. If we could weaken the suit enough, it should give your pal, Merc, a window of opportunity to free himself from its control," Spidey gave his best plan on how to save Mercury to Cinder, "Shouldn't be too hard with the two of us, right?"

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And as if the Gods of the universe heard him, Peter's best friend, the Parker Luck, decided it's time to mess with him once again with lowly growls and loud thunder storms. The heroes and the Symbiote Mercury turn to where the source of the sounds are coming from, where they spot dozens of the Electrolings moving closer and closer to dark hive in the middle of the plaza, bowing down as the electricity from the arc glow sticks starts to pour into the hive. With enough energy absorbed from the temple, a symbiote glowing an eerily blue rises from the hive, that creature being that of Symbiote Electro, showing his tremendous powers to his cult.

"You had to ask." Cinder gave Spidey a plain look of not closing his mouth, because as usual, him talking leads them into more trouble. She sighed, "Look. Go take care of thunder boy there. I can take care of Mercury."

"You sure you could beat him?" Spidey asked her.

"Pfft. Of course. Even with all that goop granting him more power, I can take him, no sweat." Cinder replied, feeling very confident she could beat a symbiote-enhanced Mercury.

"Alright. Be careful." Spidey said before swinging away to take on Electro.

BGM-Spider-Man 3 Game OST-Lizard Tension (Part 1)

"Oh, I've been looking forward to this for a long time." Possessed Mercury said, cracking his neck left and right repeatedly, which starts to disgust Cinder. The two former teammates then proceed to immediately charge at each other, with Mercury letting out a monstrous roar and collides his kick with Cinder's dual blades, who quickly uses them to block his attack. Seeing how he couldn't break through her defenses, Mercury starts to clash with Cinder, countering all of her sword swings and slashes with just his foot. They both clash at incredible high speeds all across the giant plaza, with none of them giving the other breathing room. Cinder changes tactics and jumps straight into the air, firing a fire blast down below to Mercury, but he dodges it by simply jumping much higher than Cinder, spinning in the air a couple of times before launching down with a dominating axe kick, crashing down onto Cinder's blades as they land and create a wide crater from the impact.

Cinder struggles to break free from Mercury's axe kick for a bit until she found the strength within her to do so. "Mercury, I'm only going to say this once if you know what's good for you: Break free from that symbiote, otherwise I have no choice but to go all out. Don't blame me if you actually die during this." She menacingly threatened him with the evil glare.

Symbiote Mercury starts laughing, "You ain't our boss, no more! We could do whatever we want without YOU holding us down, making us work like your puppets!"

"Well you seem to be enjoying being the puppet of that alien possessing you, gray-haired moron." Cinder calmly retorted, getting Mercury all the more fired up to kick her head clean off.

Using his symbiote, Mercury stretches his leg long enough to start combating Cinder from the distance, rapid-firing his kicks to attack her from all fronts and sides, keeping her distracted long enough for a giant, symbiotic foot to meet with her face, sending her crashing to a nearby wall and leaving her stuck there so her possessed friend could start choking the life out of her. "C'mon, Cindy. At least make a fight out of it." He taunted her, getting her angry enough to burst in flames and setting herself free from the dude's icky grasp.

"Y'know, I've never liked that big mouth of yours." Cinder said while tending to her neck.

"And yet you hang out with the bug. What's up with that?" Mercury questioned. He starts shooting out venomous spikes from his feet at Cinder, who begins to start running away from the first sight of those spiky looking things. She circles around Mercury as he continues shooting, leaving herself to uses her ISO teleportation to warp right in front of him and cut off his two legs, causing him to roar out in pain."

"Oh get up and stop acting like a crybaby. That symbiote of yours could regenerate those missing limbs in an instant." Cinder said crossed armed, knowing he's most likely faking.

"You know us too well." Mercury hops right back up while simultaneously regenerating his missing legs in a quick instant. "Ah. Good as new." He said before turning his vicious attention back to his crimson opponent.

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BGM-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows OST-Symbiote Boss

Back with our favorite wall-crawler, the ever-joking hero is currently doing battle with the symbiote-possessed Electro, who is hell bent on taking his mortal foe down with all he's got, shooting numerous electric bolts and thunder waves at that goody-two shoes, but he keeps on missing thanks to Peter's quick wit and agility. Gaining enough distance, Spider-Man proceeds to slaughter Electro with a cluster of web barrages, dazing him for a few webbing punches and kicks to the jaw and chest.

Thinking he's not strong enough, Electro tries out a new tactic, hovering above the central hive he created and commanding his minions to transfer their power to him, "More. Need more. I NEED MORRRRREE!"

"More what? More words? To make sense. Yeah." Spidey joked. He notices the Electrolings sharing their power to their boss, making him stronger. To prevent him from becoming a bigger problem than he is, Spidey starts to take down each Electroling one-by-one, but reinforcements show up to distract him, "Oh goody, company. I was beginning to there wasn't enough living goop to beat on." He starts to fight off the other symbiotes as fast as he could so he could focus on the ones that matter and are making Electro stronger.

Unfortunately, even after destroying the last living icky, he was too late to stop Electro from reaching maximum power. The Symbiote Super Villain hops up in the air before coming down and smacking his fist straight into his hive, using his power to charge up his glowstick-shaped temple, reviving his Electro-pods, "Move, my legions. CREATE MORE POWERRRRR!"

"You just said 'my legions' with a straight face. Oh you must be stopped." Spidey joked again.

"Keep those pods working. KEEP MAKING MORE POWERRRR!" Symby Electro blurted out, giving Spidey an obvious idea.

"You're giving away your whole evil scheme!" Spidey said as he starts destroying the symbiote pods, which starts to have a negative effect on Electro.

"The pods are the key! Protect them at all cost!" Electro orders his servants to attack the wall-crawler as he continues to demolish more and more of those pods.

Even with his legion backing him up, it doesn't take long until Spidey destroys them and the pods, weakening Electro back to his normal power. "Now I'm coming for you, Electro! Your electric bill is way overdue!" He web zips straight towards Electro and commences hand-to-hand combat with the freak. As the starfish face symbiote and the Spider are battling each other, Electro's Recharger symbiotes are revived again, transferring their power to their master once again, slowly giving him the edge in his battle without Spider-Man noticing.

BGM End

Thinking he has this battle in the bag, Peter temporarily puts on his black suit to give him that extra "Oomph" in his last attack, "Say goodbye, E. It's been nice knowing ya." Just as Spidey fires his right fist to Electro's face, the symbiote villain teleports away from plain sight just as Spidey's fist was about to connect, "Hey! Where did he go?" Spidey looks, turns and twirls around to find out where Electro just vanished to, not sensing his presence until it was too late, spotting his controlled nemesis floating directly above him. Electro quickly fires a huge, terrifying looking thunder storm attack right onto Spidey, causing him and his symbiote to scream out in pain as he's forced to lay on his belly, struggling to stand right up with all that electricity painfully pouring down on him.

"Ahahahaha! Remember my Ionic Storm that I used on you back at that other world? Now here it is again, 10x more powerful and deadlier than it was before! Say goodbye, Spider-Man!" Electro said to the wall-crawler, slowly killing him with his Ionic Storm technique.

BGM-Dragon Ball Z Kai OST-The Clouds of War Spread

Peter is performing his best to ignore the awful pain he's feeling now, but it would seem his symbiote is having a much harder time performing the same. Since he's wearing a G-Symbiote, electric-based attacks cause it more harm than any other weapon or special attack, causing it to cry in pain and trying to spread itself apart. "I have to…get away…now…before…," Just then, at that very moment, a dark shiver courses through Peter's veins, with his symbiote deciding to change plans. Instead of continuously crying in pain, it decides to continue its plan to consume Peter's body and mind by using it and his host's combined rage to perform the process. White, thin stripes that look like veins start to pop up on his suit's black arms and legs, while also granting him pointy, monster like claws, as well as slightly making his white, eye lenses bigger. "Oh, man, I knew this would happen! It's this SUIT! Gotta get it off me before I-," But it was too late, as the Black Suited Spider-Man breaks free from Electro's Ionic Storm with a monstrous roar, powerful enough to create massive shockwaves that breaks all nearby windows.

This sudden commotion catches the attention of Cinder and Mercury as they were fighting. "What the hell?!" Mercury said while turning to the spot where Spider-Man was almost fried to death.

"Spider-Man?" Cinder looks over to Peter, who looks a little different and more menacing than he was before with his black suit.

Main Symbiote Hive

This sudden burst of symbiote power catches the attention of Venom while hanging around back at the main hive of operations. "What in the…Where is this sudden eruption of power coming from?! It could be coming from…Parker, could it?" He asked, stunned.

Somewhere at the North Pole

Salem also senses the sudden spike of power coming from Spider-Man's symbiote after she has collected the third ISO Emerald. This massive spike of energy has left even Salem as little stunned at what she's sensing, "Incredible. We never knew the child possessed such raw power of negative emotions. It is no wonder the symbiote bonded with him. He's like a bottomless well of rage and hatred that could feed thousands of Symbiotes and Grimm for years."

Back at Manhattan

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"What in the…," Is all what Electro could say while hovering in the air, in awe and terrified of whatever transformation happened to Spider-Man and his symbiote.

This transformed Spider-Man slowly stands up from the ground with his back turned to his enemy, already recovered from the thunderstorm attack he had to endure. "You shouldn't have done that…," Spidey started speaking with his new, venomous sounding voice that could scare even the fearless of people. A small X-like shaped tentacle starts to form on his back and continuously moving around until Spidey slowly starts to turn and face Electro to show off his complete appearance, now sporting a mouth from his mask. Heck, his entire new design looks an awful lot like the time his clone, Ben Reilly, got possessed by the Carnage Symbiote, turning him into Spider-Carnage, but this time with the black suit and Peter somewhat in control over his dark self, but slowly losing himself in the process, "You really shouldn't had done that." He said, sounding a lot more menacing this time.

BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST- Jiren Humiliates Goku

Electro puts up little to no fight at all as the rage form of Black Spidey instantly appears in front of him and devastatingly kicks him to a crowd of his Electrolings. He crashes down and in an instant destroys those symbiotes before smacking Electro through his giant glow sticks with a transformed punch. With his unrivalled speed, Spider-Man starts pounding onto Electro with numerous punches and tendril attacks in the air, almost destroying the entire plaza and the nearby buildings from his quick and brutal assault alone.

"Take this!" Electro fires a beam of dense electricity onto Spidey, but he just takes it headfirst, coming out completely unscathed.

"It'll take a lot more than that to beat us." Rage Spidey said, appearing before Electro again, reeling his cupped hands back and smacking Electro straight down to the ground, brutality stomping on his chest a second after. He wraps his tentacle around the villain's neck and repeatedly smacks him across the ground while laughing manically before throwing him to a nearby building. Symbiote Spidey opens his mouth and charges a ball comprised of dark, negative energy and shoots a barrage at the defenseless Electro. For his final attack, he collects a mass of dark, purple energy in each hand then forcing them together while getting in stance to perform a move he learned from one of his inter-dimensional friends, Ryu, but only the dark variant of it. "Metsu! HADOKEN!" He fires the dark purple ball of hatred at Electro, destroying the building and nearly killing Electro himself if he didn't block with an energy field in time, but that was the last of his energy and proceeds to collapse on the ground unconscious and weakened.

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"Now to finish you off for good." The seemingly possessed Spider-Man proceeds to walk over to the defeated Electro, transforming his right hand into a dark sword, intending to stab and kill the defeated menace once and for all.

"Spider-Man!"

Spidey stops and turns to where the voice is coming from, which so happens to belong to Cinder, as she's still in lock and clashing with the Symbiote Mercury in battle, "What the hell do you think you're doing, you idiot?! That symbiote has managed to combine with the darkness within your heart! I know you're not stupid enough to let it fully control you! Fight it now! You're not that weak yet for it to completely consume you!"

"Shut it!" The possessed Spidey angrily points his sword at Cinder, intending to kill her, maybe Mercury, and then Electro.

"Yeah, Cindy, shut it!" Mercury said, about to overtake this long, drawn out clash between him and his former boss.

Determined not to lose or give up, Cinder is granted extra strength from whatever change that's happening within her own body as well, slowly overtaking the clash between Mercury and winning. "Don't worry. Let me help with this one." That same voice that's inside Cinder's head starts talking again, with it and her power combined to unleashes a giant, red shockwave that encompasses the big plaza, effecting all three possessed symbiotes at the same time, causing them to shake their heads in pain.

"What the?! Where did that power come from?!" Mercury asked while trying to assess his painful predicament with his symbiote going haywire. With him left wide open, Cinder surrounds her right fist in flames and gets off a direct hit onto Mercury's chest, sending him flying right next to Electro unconscious and beaten.

"Ah! How could-?!" Symbiote Spidey is also going through great pain as he could feel his other half trying to retake control over the body. "No! Damn! Parker and his bug god friend is trying to…suppress me again…" The body falls flat onto the ground, with Spidey back into his classic red suit again and full control over himself, but for how long?

"Spider-Man!" Cinder runs up to check if Peter is okay, helping him up to his feet as he regains consciousness.

"Uh, ow. Damn symbiote. Trying to hijack my body to avoid getting zapped. I could feel it's influence over me getting stronger and stronger. I should probably lay off the black suit for a while." Spidey said, standing on his two feet by himself.

"Yeah. It won't be long until that suit takes control over your light side, then we'll all be in trouble." Cinder said to him.

The duo's little chat has to be cut off as they hear both Electro and Mercury scream in absolute pain while trying to take off their weakened symbiote. "Electro!" Spidey shouted.

"Mercury!" Cinder also shouted, with the two of them running up to attend to the victims.

"Come on, Electro! Fight it off! You can do it!" Spidey encourages the villain to use all his willpower to get rid of his symbiote for good.

"Same to you, Mercury! I know you're too stubborn to be controlled like this! Get that thing off you right this instant!" Cinder commanded her teammate, as both he and Electro give it everything they've got against their respective symbiote.

After a lengthy, excruciating battle from within, Electro and Mercury finally managed to get rid of their symbiote, turning themselves back to normal, though Mercury is still missing one mechanical leg now that he's without a symbiote.

"Electro…Max…" Spidey helps Max off from the ground, but the deranged villain just pushes him aside.

"Get away from me! She's gone…My sister…She's" Electro slowly walks away, still weakened from the fight and the separation to continue walking anymore before collapsing to the ground unconscious. Free from the symbiote, but unconscious.

"You're not going to brush me off too?" Cinder helps the freed Mercury up to his one foot, "Cause if you do, you'll be sorry."

"I'm not that dumb to do that…Thanks…" Mercury said to his boss, or I guess friend in this case before falling unconscious as well.

Cinder smiled before turning to Peter, "I guess if Mercury's alive, that means Emerald's somewhere in the city under the symbiote's control."

Peter puts his hand onto her shoulder, "Don't worry, we'll find her. It's only a matter of time," He lets go of Cinder's shoulder, "I need to go meet up with Black Cat. Call in S.H.I.E.L.D. to pick you and these two up back to Stark Industries."

Cinder nodded, "Right. See ya there." She said before Spidey swings off to meet up with Black Cat.

Swinging from building to building, Spider-Man arrives back to the rooftop where he and Cat agreed to meet up after their respective missions. "You did it, Spider-Man. This area is clear." Felicia said to her friend.

"No. This is a long way from over. I better head back to S.H.I.E.L.D. You get back to Kingpin. And be careful." Spider-Man told her.

"I can take care of myself." Black Cat replied.

As Spider-Man heads back to the Resistance Base over at Battery Park, Black Cat heads back to Kingpin's Tower. As she does, she senses that something ominous is following her but couldn't determine the source. She continues swinging and swinging through the city until she notices strange, black tentacles forming all across the city and catching up to her even through the air, "What in the…? Is this real?" The tentacles start to get closer and closer to her, coming from all around the city, leaving her no place to escape their wrath.

Then, out of nowhere, a terrifying presence with creepy white, pale-green skin, no eyes, and a terrifying looking giant mouth appears right behind her, surprising and terrifying Felicia, "Hello, Felicia. Ready for that heist now?" The creature asked with its big grin, showing its many teeth all across the mouth as the city-wide tentacles form a mouth and devour Felicia a whole as the creature manically laugh with a familiar, but monstrous sounding voice.

BGM- Spider-Man: The Animated Series OST (1994)- Ending Theme

Carnage: Ahahaha, it is I, the Great Carnage, ready to commit man-slaughter through the city! Or I guess in this case, symbiote-slaughter! AHAHAHAHA!

Venom: Ugh, Carnage, didn't I get rid of you?

Carnage: You should know by now, DAD, I'm extremely hard to get rid of, just like how my child is still alive.

Salem: What?! The Pure Symbiote?! The Symbiote God is still alive?! I thought you said it was dead?!

Venom: You act like I'm the Symbiote expert when it comes to everything related to Symbiotes! How should we know the thing was still alive?!

Next time on Spider-Man and Cinder: Flaming Web of Light and Shadow-

Minimum Carnage

Carnage: After I'm done slicing up my spawn into tiny pieces, I'm coming for you and the wicked witchy next, daddy!

KFX here: Mercury's back, but so is Carnage. Oh this isn't gonna be good. Anyways, Spider-Man new "Rage Mode" will show up a few more times during important parts in the story, only activated through extreme stress and anger, or if Peter willingly puts it on. His design in Rage Mode is basically Spider-Carnage but with the black suit, imagine or draw that ("Wink" "Wink"). And finally, we're getting closer and closer to the reveal of Cinder's Symbiote form, so get ready for that in Issue 15. Stick around.