Here it is, sorry for the delay been away for several weeks, so enjoy!
Chapter 14: Tarantula's web part 4
May left the bad guys hanging from a lamppost as she raced to the location of where the other hostage was being held as she had already contacted Normin and told him of the situation as he and the Warriors would meet her at Liberty Island.
If this Dark Reaper is as terrifying as he said she was then we're in for a fight, hope E-man's doing ok.
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The clock was against him as Jack did whatever he could to try and disarm the explosives attached to the shackles that held the kingpin of crime prisoner.
The sensors were sensitive to movement if he even tried to move the explosives in any form it would set them off killing them both instantly.
He began to look closer at the device and realised he had seen this before and knew what he had to do as he used the knowledge stored in his enhanced brain to cautiously and carefully disarm these bombs.
"I know you wish me dead." Fabien said as Jack was busy defusing the first bomb.
"Do I? He didn't deserve to die…HE WAS JUST A KID!" Eclipse shouted as that broke his concentration.
"It was your henchman that pulled the trigger!" Eclipse said as he began to re-wire the circuitry.
"No…he wasn't one of mine, he was a corrupt police officer who was working for the Russian mafia, he was instructed to kill me and any other witnesses and the boy was collateral, an innocent bystander." Tarantula explained.
Jack listened as he was not fully convinced that he was telling the truth but he was knocking at death's door right now and at his mercy…Why would he lie?
As his conflicted thoughts were on that fateful night he just crossed the last wire and disarmed the first of four bombs and went on to the second one.
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May met up with The New Warriors and explained the situation to them.
"Ok we've got it, a platoon of mercenaries and a psychotic bitch with Black Tarantula's powers and a hostage as her insurance." Normin said knowing the details of the entire thing.
"And he's trying to disarm some bombs?" Buzz said.
"That's about it." Spider-Girl said.
"What's the plan?" the Hawks asked.
"These mercs are professionals, use stealth attacks to beat them don't take them on, head on." May said.
"What about the amateur?" DarkDevil said mocking Eclipse.
"He said he'll meet us there once he's freed Fabien." May answered.
"If he stops the bombs…can he?" DarkDevil asked in his usual mocking tone of voice.
"I trust him…so DarkDork shuttie." May said in response to his insult as he did.
They all heard that and made their way to Liberty Island as DarkDevil was being carried by Buzz, Spider-Girl hitched a ride with Goblin on his glider and with the LadyHawks following them.
"Are you sure your friend is going to be okay, we could go back and help him with the bombs?" Normin asked May.
"He told me to stop her and save her hostage, not a request a favour." May said as he nodded his head in agreement.
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While the other heroes went to save the day Eclipse was still disarming the bombs as he managed to get the second and third one but he only had one more to go.
"When did you decide to retire from the game? Not like you to just give up?" Eclipse asked his arch nemesis.
"I…did not want to continue this life…I wanted peace, I did not wish to follow the path of my ancestors, Arana is my life, I love her I left it all behind for her, but my question to you is…why continue this life of yours?" Tarantula asked him.
A question he asks himself everyday as he answered him. "Because someone has to." he bluntly answered.
"It does not answer my question, why are you a hero? Why meddle in the affairs of others when you could just simply walk away?" the former villain asked him.
Again he asked him in another sense. "Because I just can't "walk away" it's not who I am, when the law cannot do anything I know I am the one to stop men like you from committing acts of evil, it's my curse." Eclipse explained as the ex-con understood.
He was nearing disarming the final bomb with just a few wires and…
"WHAT THE-OH COME ON!" Eclipse said in disbelief.
"What?" Tarantula said. Eclipse looked to him. "They made a fail safe in case this happened we have to move…NOW!" Eclipse said as they only had seconds before the back-up bomb went off and ended their lives.
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Spider-Girl and The New Warriors were on Liberty Island and already they were in combat with the Black Thorn commandos.
They opened fire on the heroes within moments of their arrival and the dodging of bullets began with Green Goblin sending his bats to distract and confuse them but of course they were aware of the plan and began to ignore them even though they were stinging the hell out of them.
But DarkDevil using his teleportation skills was taking their weapons from them but even without their weapons they were hand to hand specialists and could match them all move for move but with Buzz and the LadyHawk twins providing air support they could beat them at their own game and catch them off by surprise.
"We've got them keep it up!" Normin shouted to his comrades.
A huge dark purple shockwave hit them all as it just grounded everyone in the battle, dazing them as they all tried to regain themselves from that attack.
"HA-HA-HA-HA!" A loud feminine laugh was heard.
They all looked up to see the source of laughing as a woman approached them, she was six foot one, jet black hair, blood red eyes, wearing red lipstick and wearing a red and black bustier with black leather pants and knee high boots.
She was wielding a scythe which was glowing a dark purple as she swung it around like a toy as they guessed it was Dark Reaper.
"Finally…I have someone to play with…you must be The New Warriors and the infamous Spider-Girl…I've waited to meet you all…and spill your blood all over this city!" Dark Reaper maliciously said to them.
"I am the new Kingpin of this city! I am your Mistress! I AM DARK REAPER!" she shouted in a rage as her power amplified with more dark shockwaves hitting them all.
But they managed to avoid the full force as Spider-Girl and Green Goblin were still up and DarkDevil decided to go all lone wolf and take her head on as he teleported behind her for a surprise attack.
He went for her weapon but she knew he was coming as he grabbed her scythe as it seemed she was unarmed.
"Got you." DarkDevil said.
"No…got you!" Dark Reaper said as a formation of dark energy came out from her hand as it just blasted the red clad hero backwards catching him off guard and taking him out of commission.
She walked over to him and grabbed her scythe as she turned to see both Spider-Girl and Green Goblin waiting to attack her.
"So you to are all that's left? I was expecting another dark hero to make his appearance." she said as they knew who she meant.
"He's coming, just a little tied up at the moment, you got us to play with until then." Spider-Girl said as she cackled at that.
"What's so funny might I ask?" Goblin asked.
She stopped laughing and looked at a device in her hand. "That trap I set…he won't be coming to the rescue, that place will be his tomb!" Reaper said laughing her head off maniacally.
No…he can't be…
May mentally said to herself as the villainess continued laughing she was shut up by webbing sealing her mouth as they both went to attack her.
She ripped the webbing off her mouth and bashed her scythe on the ground creating a shockwave which brought them to the ground. "Ah-Ah-Ah not a step closer or…she gets it!" she said pointing to the top of the Statue of Liberty and hanging off the torch they saw a young girl hanging off it is bottom part as she was just too terrified to scream.
"Let her go!" Goblin said.
"Make me." Reaper said as she swung the scythe and a swipe of dark energy came at them.
They quickly dodged it barely as it just left a huge tear in the ground. "Gobbie go get the girl I'll distract her." Spidey said as he nodded to her and went to save her.
The two females battled it out as the web slinger used her acrobatics to dodge her scythe slashes but the psycho used Tarantula's energy blasts to try and ground her but they seemed to miss and without warning she dropped her weapon.
"I give up." Dark Reaper just put her hands up in defeat.
The web slinger was a bit astonished and shocked by the villainesses sudden surrender as her senses were not going off and she just jumped up in the air and landed directly behind her and started to web up her wrists.
But her spider-sense just went off and turned around to see her scythe flying towards her as she backflipped out of it's path and landed on her feet as she turned to face the palm of Reaper and a blast of dark energy hit her right in the chest sending her down to the ground in a slump.
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Normin flew up to the captive young woman who was hanging on for her life as he slowly approached her.
"Don't worry I'll have you down in a second, just hold still." he tried to calm her as he brought his glider to give her a vertical base to stand on as he untied her.
He looked to her, she was a young brown haired, brown eyed girl of sixteen and was wearing a white but tattered dress and was barefoot as her shoes were on the ground below and she was looking around frantically.
"Are you ok? Are you hurt?" Normin asked the distressed girl.
"Y-Y-Yes…who is there?" she asked as he looked directly into her eyes and realised she was blind.
"I'm a friend, I came to stop Dark Reaper…Eclipse told us you were here." Normin said as she lifted her head up.
"Eclipse?…is he here?" she asked.
"Uh…no he said he'd be here after he freed another hostage." Normin explained.
"Can we get down please…I hate heights." she asked.
"Yeah I'll take you to a safe spot." Normin said as he flew her to across to shore.
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Spider-Girl was just blasted to the ground again as Dark Reaper was now just toying with her but keeping the web slinger grounded as she laughed each blast she hit her with.
"Oh did that hurt little girl?" Reaper taunted as she blasted her again.
"Did that hurt princess?" she taunted yet again as another blast hit her.
Oh man this really hurts! Where's everyone?
Out of nowhere Reaper was hit with a barrage of aerial attacks as her thoughts were answered by the LadyHawk twins flying to her rescue.
Launching several winged razor attacks both of them were throwing the psycho off her game as then she was hit from the air again with a fist by the Buzz as now most of the Warriors were back in the fight.
Reaper knew she her situation could not get worse as then behind her in a cloud of red smoke was the man she not long ago took out and she was surrounded.
"Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide…surrender." Goblin said flying in from the air as Spider-Girl got up slowly and joined her allies.
She looked up to him and smiled. "I think not." she said as all of a sudden they were surrounded by more regime commandos.
"Uh I think we're the ones who're surrounded." May pointed out as the commandos armed their guns and now the tables had been turned on the heroes.
"As you just said…Surrender…or die! Either way would suit me but having some new playthings would be fun!" Reaper maliciously told the heroes what her plans were for them.
"Take them!" Dark Reaper ordered as they did so advancing towards them as they got ready to fight.
BOOM!
An explosion was heard and a cloud of smoke engulfed the entire lower part of the island.
Appearing through the smoke were…Tarantula's men and Tarantula himself!
They arrived on boats and stormed the island and they were in combat with the regime as now the heroes joined by Tarantula were ready to take on Dark Reaper.
"Aren't you supposed to be dead?" May asked the ex-con.
"Yes but we escaped in time…and I got my men and came here to extract revenge on this puta!" Fabien said.
"Where's E-man?" she asked.
"I don't know…he was with me a second ago." he said.
As then out of nowhere Reaper was swing kicked from the back and fell to the ground and landing where she originally stood was, Eclipse.
"After a whole year I can still get you with that move…every freakin time!" Eclipse joked as the insane villainess got back up after being humiliated by the dark hero.
The regime came at them all as they fought them off as Eclipse used all of his martial arts knowledge to counter their offensive style as he ducked a punch and flipped one to the ground as another went for his gun but he fired out his disc and took the gun right out of his hand and rushed up to him and knocked him out with a wicked uppercut to the jaw.
Spider-Girl and the Warriors were fairing good with Tarantula's men helping them as the odds were now even.
However as Eclipse jumped in to give Spidey a hand with some mercs…
He just got blasted with dark energy and thrown back a few feet as he saw it was Dark Reaper and she was pissed off as he tried to get up he got blasted again as that one winded him but the next one came for his head but he dodged it narrowly as he rolled out of the way.
"I will defeat you and this time…I'll hang you by your scrotum!" Reaper said as every male in hearing proximity shuddered at that thought.
"Talk about going below the belt I mean-" he got cut off as an energy surge came at him.
He quickly backflipped over the surge but as he landed on both feet it came back at him and just hit him in the back throwing him to the ground face first.
However as he tried to get back up he was put back into the ground with a boot from Reaper as she was enjoying seeing her enemy at her boot and she used her foot to roll him over on his back as the boot was now crushing his throat as she lowered herself down to his level.
"Now what was it you said about "Getting me with the same old moves…every freakin time?" I just pulled out something new just for you my little lamb." Reaper said as she put more pressure on his throat as he struggled to get free.
"Oh I'm…flattered but…so did I." Eclipse said in between breaths as he used his legs and wrapped them around the leg that held him down and used her own momentum against her as that took her to the ground as he got back to his feet getting some air back.
But she did not let up as he had no time to react when anther surge just blasted him right in the chest. The shot winded him but he stood defiantly as she threw the scythe at him and was looking to slash him open but he ducked the fatal blow and got hold of her weapon.
He tried to disarm her from the scythe but she shocked him with a surge of dark energy from it but he kept a hold of it until she just delivered a wicked boot to his nads!
"OOOOHHH!" Eclipse screamed as the shot penetrated his most protected area but he still held on to her weapon tightly. "You evil witch…you don't go kicking a guy in the jewels!" he said as she just cackled at that.
"So sorry precious…did mistress break her favourite toy?" Reaper mocked him.
"No but I'm gonna break yours again!" Eclipse said as he got one leg on top of the scythe and used his momentum to flip himself over her head and that took her with him as she let her weapon slip out of her hands he now had her weapon as she was on the ground and looked up to the sight of him with her scythe.
He had the weapon in his hands and knew this was over. "Looks like your plans have been broken." Eclipse said as he took the scythe and just broke it in half over his knee as the loud snap was heard echoing across the island.
As that was done the Black Thorne Regime had been defeated and Spider-Girl, Black Tarantula, his men and the Warriors were victorious as they saw Eclipse had beaten the villainess.
"I guess we won." Goblin said surveying the amount of chaos around them all.
As then both Tarantula and Eclipse were face to face. "Are your powers returning?" Eclipse asked.
"No…they have not." Tarantula said.
Eclipse was puzzled at that but that mystery was just solved with the sound of cackling coming from behind them and saw Dark Reaper was back on her feet and her eyes were glowing an eerie dark purple.
"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"
"Fool…the weapon was never the source of my new power…arrogant child." Reaper said.
Her aura began to glow a dark purple as the ground began to shake violently and it felt like that the entire island was being lifted?
"WHAT THE-" Eclipse said seeing the extent of her new power they were all now going up and up in the air.
All the heroes were now at her mercy as she had suspended the island in the air and began to lash out with lightning attacks as everyone began to dodge each strike.
Eclipse tried to get closer to try and stop her but he was met with a huge bolt of dark magic sending him flying backwards as he fell next to DarkDevil.
"Before you say anything…I did not see that coming." Eclipse came in before he answered.
DarkDevil mentally smirked. "You have a plan of sorts or are you going to let the real heroes do the work?" he asked.
"Well if you all insist I'll just sit this one out then? No? okay well I do have a plan, but I'm gonna need a distraction…Butterfly!" Eclipse shouted to Spider-Girl.
She looked over to him as she dodged a bolt of magic. "Yeah?" she answered.
"Can you look for a weak spot on her?" Eclipse shouted as he and DarkDevil dodged another bolt.
"Give me a sec while I dodge these shots!" she said as she dodged another one.
She began to look using her power and something was showing out of place as she spotted it.
"There's something around her neck, it's giving off some bad vibes." she said detecting the source.
"I have….a cunning plan." Eclipse said as he quickly explained to DarkDevil what it was.
As the plan was set Eclipse and Spider-Girl began to distract the villainess for some reason as insult after insult was thrown at her.
"Man and I thought I seen ugly but now…damn girl!" Eclipse said as dark energy bolts came flying at him.
"You think that's bad you need to see her butt…it's like Mount Rushmore!" Spider-Girl said as more bolts were directed at her.
The insults kept on coming as she got madder and madder with bolts just lashing out at her targets.
But her temper would be her downfall when DarkDevil teleported behind her and quickly went for her and grabbed her from behind as he had her in a chokehold but used that to grab the item that was around her neck.
She began to break free but Spider-Girl and Eclipse came to his aid and restrained her as they removed what was around her neck and as DarkDevil ripped whatever it was from her neck as her power was fading and the wild dark magic stopped but they then realised if her power was gone…
"Oh crap…
As the entire of Liberty Island began to fall from it's orbit and hit hard into the water but the force grounded and brought them all to a halt, the thundering crash was heard throughout the city as a small tidal wave hit the shores of New York.
"We got her…is everyone ok?" Eclipse asked as he got to his feet.
"Yeah but my butt isn't…stupid dark powers making everything levitate." Spidey said in frustration of her pain.
"I have her source it's a medallion and I'm not sure how it-" DarkDevil was cut off as Tarantula took it off him as a dark glow was emanating from him and the item as it seemed he got his powers back that were stolen from him.
"Much better, I am myself once more." Tarantula said.
"Oh good." Eclipse said as he saw Dark Reaper trying to crawl away. "Hold it!" he said to her.
He approached her as she realised without her powers she was outmatched. "WAIT! You can't hit me…I'm a woman!" she pleaded to him.
He knew she was right as it frustrated him, but then again…
"Oh darn it, she's got us there…Ladies!" he called.
The Hawks and the wall crawler came forward and decided to deal with her as she knew she was screwed.
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After a bit of girl on girl action, they all left Liberty Island with the mercenaries and a subdued Reaper as the authorities were awaiting them.
They took them all away including a webbed up Dark Reaper who was screaming at the top of her lungs but was muffled by the webbing wrapped around her body.
"Well we saved the day…again." Spider-Girl said.
"Just barely but we have our dark friend to thank." Goblin said.
They then saw Nika safe as Eclipse approached her.
"Nika…are you alright?" he asked her.
She put her hands to his face and felt him.
"It's you isn't it…Jack?" she asked.
"You never needed eyes to know that, I'm so glad you're ok." he said expressing his relief for her safety as they hugged one another.
"Where is papa?" she asked.
He then saw Alascano approaching from a police car. "He's here I'll take you to him." he said leading her over to him.
"Papa!" she said as he ran towards her and both embraced one another.
"Thank you…we owe you once again." Alascano said.
"I had help this time, you should thank them." he said pointing towards he group of heroes as they went to do so.
They began to thank them and did their usual "It's what we do." speech and both Alscano and Nika left with the police as Nika knew that Jack was looking towards them and blew him a kiss as he smiled.
He watched them leave and once again he saved the day…barely but he couldn't have done it without the Warriors, Sipder-Girl and…
"Salvador oscuro!" (Dark saviour) he turned to the voice of Black Tarantula in his native tounge.
"This will be our last encounter with one another, I would like to make a request as you've saved my life." he asked.
"Ok if you want to reveal your plan on how you're going to destroy me then just get it over with so I can overcome incredible odds and end up kicking your ass…again." Eclipse said hearing him out.
"Not that…my last request before I leave here and never return is that you and I battle, one last time." he requested.
Eclipse looked to the ex-crime boss and knew he was being honest and got into a stance.
"Bring it…mi rival." (my rival.) Eclipse said in Spanish.
As he also got into a stance and was happy he obliged to the request and both men just went at it.
"Should we stop them?" Buzz asked.
"You wanna try?" Spider-Girl said as both men fought fist for fist.
No one seemed to want to as they continued to watch the battle between rivals.
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After the clean up and the battle stopped both men were exhausted and without any notice Eclipse vanished as always.
Fabien said his farewell and with his men and Chesbro they left never to return.
The Warriors also left as did May and she also needed to check if Jack was ok as she swung off to home.
I didn't see Jack in the crowd…I hope they haven't…NO! he's not…I gotta get home…he's okay, I just know it!
She mentally said to herself as she arrived home and swung to a nearby tree and saw Jack himself walking towards their neighbourhood, unharmed and looking tired.
He's okay…I guess he's tougher than he looks, better get home, mom's probably wondering how it took me this long to beat the bad guys.
She swung off to home as Jack noticed in the air was the web slinger.
Either that's a coincidence or…do I know her?
Okay Jack now you're jumping to conclusions, just get home, take lecture from mom and go to bed it's been a long night…even heroes need their sleep.
So our heroes save the day once more, but now what else lies ahead for ou hero?
What you think? Reviews please!