Issue 19: Trap Phantasm
Remnant, Beacon Academy
BGM-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows OST-Track 23
Team RWBY, Team JNPR, Ozpin, Glynda, Ironwood, and Madame Web are all standing eagerly inside the quiet room of Ozpin's tower, watching the giant projection Madame Web manifested in the middle of the room to look at the new developments happening on Earth. The clock is ticking as New York City has been almost fully corrupted into a utopia for the mindless and uncontrollable alien symbiotes. Over 3 billion residents from the once beautiful city has already been transformed into G-Symbiotes, and the only way to save all of them is by activating the new super weapon the Tinkerer has created to wipe them all out without hurting their hosts.
"This is it. Our last chance." Madame Web said, watching with the rest of her Remnant allies as a S.H.I.E.L.D. hovercraft is carrying the giant device to the Trask Building as they speak.
"It's now or never," Ozpin said, sitting on his chair behind his desk, cupping his hands together while they watch. "Because if this fails, Earth is finished, and then our world will be next."
"Schnee, status report!" Ironwood talks to his Atlas Specialist when the floating screen switches to the office of Wilson Fisk at Fisk Tower.
Earth, Fisk Tower
Inside the tower, Winter is standing beside her fellow Resistance squadron with her, Black Widow, Kingpin, and the Tinkerer waiting for the call for action. "We're just about done, General," The Elder Schnee replied to her boss that's talking in her head. She then turns to Natasha who is currently talking to the Tinkerer, "Natasha, are we ready?"
"Yes, your money has been wired, the device is in place, now begin the denotation sequence!" the Russian agent said to the Tinkerer.
Watching from their own live TV screen, the Resistance observe the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents guarding the tower, with the hovercraft from before placing the mega shockwave weapon right and tight on the very top of the Trask Building.
'This is it! You have to activate it NOW!' Ruby telepathically talked to the Earth Resistance.
A second later, the Amazing Spider-Man and the Symbiote God Toxin arrive inside the office, hanging upside down from their sticky webbing. "You heard Riding Hood! What're we waiting for?! Set this off!" Spidey commanded.
"Status report: Are we at go?!" Black Widow asked her agents guarding the tower through her ear comm.
"Damn you, Toomes!" Kingpin cursed when he and the others see something very ugly happening through the television.
"Oh no." Black Widow and the others look in horror when they stunningly realize the tower is getting attacked by a massive army of flying symbiotes, both the Vulturelings and flying Grimm alike like Nevermores, Lancers, Griffon, a whole swarm decimating the S.H.I.E.L.D. resistance.
'It's a giant swarm of symbiotes!' Pyrrha said.
'And they're attacking the tower.' Blake chimed in.
Try as they might, S.H.I.E.L.D. is getting utterly pounded and crushed by the terrifying might of these airborne symbiotes, losing their soldiers one-by-one until almost all resisting humans have been either killed or transformed and converted into the hive-mind.
"Lieutenant Millar, come in!" Black Widow contacted her fellow agent through the TV in hopes he's still alive.
The heroes all see Millar hanging on the edge of the building, gagging and gasping for air as a familiar, but transformed bird brain chokes him to death. 'You will leave,'The now, transformed Symbiote Vulture takes control of the camera that Millar was using to contact the rest of the Resistance. 'I'm sure all of you can see or hear me, especially those watching from that other world they call Remnant. I've easily defeated your pathetic forces and have cut the data link to the Tinkerer's little 'toy'.'
"Mr. Toomes, what do you want?" Winter glared through the screen.
'We are so much MORE than Adrian Toomes, and we have but ONE demand: SPIDER-MAN, and he knows why, he carries part of us with him. In fact, he's the reason we are here at all. Ahh, this one's no longer useful. Kmph. Good day.' Symbiote Toomes let's go of LT. Millar while flying high in the sky, watching in sick delight on how far and far the scared agent is falling until a moment later he splats on the ground like a messy pancake.
'Agent Romanoff. Schnee. I am authorizing an all-out air strike to wipe out those symbiotes immediately.' General Ironwood ordered the two agents watching from his dimension.
"Understood, General." Winter agreed with to the plan along with Black Widow.
"No, you fool! We need that building INTACT!" Tinkerer counterattacked, as the air strike will most surely destroy the device, the thing they've been working so hard for to save Manhattan.
"What choice do we have?!" Natasha argued angrily with Tinkerer.
At that moment, Spider-Man and Toxin land on the floor and stand up straight to their allies. "Hey, he's right," Spider-Man gets the attention from everyone, both from in the office and those from Remnant, apparently agreeing with what the Vulture said about him. "This is about me. It started with me, and now I'm gonna end it." He declared, wanting to take this fight and finish it by himself.
"Not by yourself, you're not," Cinder said to the Spider with her arms crossed. "Remember, I was the one who angered the symbiote and gave it to Salem in the first place. I, too, have my own sins to atone by ending this fight once and for all."
"Alright, if we're all in agreement, let's get you two up there, and good luck." Black Widow said to the two web warriors. They both nod in agreement and walk with the special agent outside the office so they could get prepared for the endgames.
BGM End
Somewhere at the outskirts of Philadelphia
BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Prologue
"Uhhhh…" Shadow groaned while lying flat front on top of an abandoned rooftop somewhere in the state. He slowly holds onto his pained head as he gets up. He shakes his head with another groan, "What happened? Where am I?" He looks around his environment to quickly notice he's not on Mobius anymore. "It would seem I'm back on Earth, but why?"
Before he could ponder and brood about this situation, he spots the green chaos emerald that teleported him here in the first place. "The chaos emerald must've sensed something wrong and teleported me here using Chaos Control. I guess what Sonic said about the emeralds possessing a degree of sentience is true," Shadow said to himself, remembering one time after Sonic and Tails traveled to Blaze the Cat's dimension that the blue hedgehog told him the emeralds from both worlds have a mind of their own. "Perhaps the ISO Emeralds called me to help, but with what?"
Suddenly, Shadow sensed a huge power coming far from his north, "What's that?!" He was able to catch a small glimpse of what appears to be a giant dome surrounding the city of New York from miles away. "The city's contained within that dimensional barrier. And from what I can sense, the ISO Emeralds are inside there as well, along with a disturbing presence that reminds me a lot of the Black Arms. I don't know much about what's going on, but if those images from before were real, then Spider-Man is caught in the middle of this disaster, just like with me. I should begin heading out to lend some assistance," He smiled. "Hmph. It's about time I had a little fun by myself." He said before skating as fast as he could towards New York so he could help Spider-Man and the people of New York.
BGM End
Manhattan
BGM-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows OST-Symbiote Boss (Intense)
Back in the infested city, Spider-Man, Toxin, and a small army of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have headed off to the Trask Building via hovercraft transport to stop the Vulture and his flock of flying symbiotes from completely destroying the tower and the shockwave device.
As they approach the building, they notice a giant, disturbing-looking hive that's been nested right next to the device with a lot of black webbing attached to other, lower-level buildings that have created a couple of black platforms that host pods for more bad news for the heroes. 'What in the world is that thing?' Glynda asked with a disturbed face.
'It looks like to be some sort of nest.' Ozpin answered her.
"Whatever it is, I'm not getting a good vibe from it." Toxin said, thinking there's more to that nest than what appears.
They all stop talking when they have arrived at their destination and has spotted the transformed Vulture and his dark-winged soldiers. "This is close enough." Spider-Man told the drivers piloting the hovercraft.
"Take him, my children!" Symbiote Toomes commanded his black troops to charge at the Spider and his army.
"Activate Web Wings!" Spidey shouted, commanding his suit to web up his armpits so he could safely glide.
After Toxin Symbiote Changed into her Cygnus form, she and Spidey fly towards the Vulture, fighting a number of deadly winged symbiotes that are out for their blood but successfully beat them before they could even land a scratch. "You'll be like me soon enough, Spider-Man." Vulture said when the web warriors got close to his vicinity.
"Like you how? Old? Smelly? Crazy?" Spidey joked, shooting basic web balls that blind the Vulture's vision so he wouldn't see the smack down he's receiving from the Spider's axe and vertical kicks to the jaw and chest.
The old symbiote quickly recovers, using his wings to slap Spider-Man away so he could turn his attention to Toxin. "Give it up, old man! You've already lost!" Toxin taunted the old coot, clashing her claws with his vicious, arch-shaped talons.
"On the contrary, our young goddess, we've already won," Vulture replied, uppercutting Toxin from the bottom jaw. "Soon, Earth, Remnant, Mobius, all worlds will be consumed by the eternal darkness once the Ritual of Prosperity commences," He said, drop-kicking Toxin as he continues talking. "All pathetic life in the cosmos will be forced to kneel before our beloved Symbiote Queen, the universe's new Lord and Goddess!"
Tired of his idle talk, Toxin transforms her right arm into a bow and fires a barrage of flaming arrows at the flying pigeon, "Salem's being controlled just like you, Vulture!"
"She's right, Toomes," Spidey said from the side, gliding towards Vulture and kicks him in the face. "C'mon, you can fight that suit! You don't have to-!"
"You don't understand the POWER I have!" Vulture retaliated by flying straight at Peter, but the amazing teenager quickly vault over and bounced on his head.
"And you don't understand what a crazy, old fool you're sounding like," Spidey retorted before swing kicking Vulture in the face. "Hey, look at me! I'm a big, scary, old guy in a bird suit!" He quipped.
"I am more than just a costumed fool! I am the Vulture!" Toomes angrily retorted by delivering a huge slash with his white talons onto Peter's chest, knocking him all the way to one of the black platforms that's circling the Trask building. The symbiote senior citizen takes a look back at the battle between his children and the S.H.I.E.L.D. flunkies duking it out in an all-out war above the city. "Your friends will be of no help to you!" He said, darting at full speed towards the hovercrafts along with his children so they could destroy them.
Toxin flies right next to a S.H.I.E.L.D. jet that's dropping bombs on the black platforms so they won't have to worry about more symbiotes hatching from their nesting pods. As they fly, she notices Spider-Man standing on the next platform that's about to be blown to smithereens. "Spidey, grab on!" She calls out to the teenage webhead.
Spidey shoots out a strand of his signature webbing at Cinder, who easily catches it with a single hand while flying. "YEEEE-HAW!" The boy shouted as he's dragged through the air just before the platform he was standing on blew up. After gaining enough speed and momentum, Spidey lets go of the strand so he could nose-dive straight at Vulture, curling himself in a ball and cannon ball's straight at his face. "AH-HA! That was awesome! Now I know why Sonic likes doing that a lot!" He said before swinging from a hovercraft to re-fight the old man.
"You are part of us, both you and the Spider!" Vulture said while clashing talons and blades with Toxin's.
"No, we're on the other team. They at least have a decent catering that doesn't include brains or flesh." She retorted along with a stab in his shoulder, but that doesn't faze him that much and is knocked off balance for a bit.
"You cannot deny who you are!" Vulture told them.
"Uh, yes we can! Watch!" Spidey ensnared Vulture in a giant web ball and starts spinning faster and faster in the air. "Ultimate…Web...Throw!" He pitches the cocooned Vulture to Cinder, who responds with a massive symbiote punch that breaks him free, hurt, but free.
He and Toxin zip to the old coot and starts clashing fists and kicks with the flying man, getting him more and more agitated with every blow he receives until he's reached his breaking point. With a loud roar, he creates a giant wind vortex using his wings that sucks up the web-slingers to the highest point of the city.
'Spider-Man! Toxin!' Jaune shouted while he and his friends watch the fight from Remnant, but become relived when they see them alright, with Toxin holding onto Spider-Man by his arm.
"Attack them! KNOCK THEM OUT OF THE SKY!" Symbiote Bird-Man commanded his armada to destroy the rest of the human agents that dare attack his legion.
'Losing control!' A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent flying in a high-tech flight suit said, before getting knocked down by a Vultureling and then eaten by a Symbiote Nevermore. Some of the symbiotes are even crazy enough to commit suicide by dive-bombing to an aircraft, causing the entire ship to blow up and kill a number of humans in the process.
"Toxin! You've got to help them!" Spider-Man said after having enough of this senseless slaughter.
"Wha-?!"
"I can handle Vulture! Once I'm done with him, I'll activate the device to destroy the symbiotes! You concentrate in holding off his pets until then!" Spidey said to her.
"Alright! Just hurry!" She said.
Cinder spins as fast as she could while in place, gaining enough speed and momentum during the cycle. Once that's been done, she throws Spider-Man as hard as she could straight at Vulture, knocking both him and the madman out of airborne and falling about 1000 feet or more from the tower and to the streets below. As they fall separately from each other, Spider-Man closes the gap between them by web zipping, grabbing a hold of one of Toomes' magnetic wings and slashes at him. Vulture fires another wing blade at the bug, but Spidey easily dodged and grabbed it back with his webbing. With two wing blades at his disposal, Peter slashes at Toomes again while they're still falling. When they approach the ground, Peter throws a wing blade at one of Toomes' wings to pin him down, using the other one to pin down the other side of his wings. Now that the Vulture's been defeated, Spidey lifts up the blades holding him down as they are no longer needed.
BGM End
5 minutes later…
At the top of the device tower, Spider-Man is seen re-establishing the data link that Vulture disengaged before inputting the final codes to activate the device, with the now, normal, but very weak, Toomes lying beside him while he's about to end this horrid nightmare once and for all.
'There you go, Spider-Man. Now end this nightmare for good.' Ozpin said in his head, along with Team RWBY and Team JNPR cheering inside there as well, happy that soon everything will be back to normal.
"You think this will really stop them…?" The weakened Vulture starts talking, getting Peter's attention away from the device so he could hear what he has to say. "She is FAR too powerful for Tinkerer's little toy to hurt her," He starts to get up from the floor. "Set it off, and your power will be GONE. Gone forever."
'Don't listen to him, Spider-Man!' Madame Web said to convince him to activate the device.
'Activate the device NOW!' Weiss said.
Peter turns back to the device, but Vulture gets his attention back again with more of his convincing conversion, "Remove the detonator. EMBRACE the power of the dark one gives you."
Gradually, the corruption of his black suit has almost fully taken over Peter's mind and starts to manifest his costume into a completely bonded symbiote suit, and Peter doesn't seem to show any restraints in stopping it.
'Oh no! We're losing him!' Madame Web said.
'Peter! NOOOOO!' Ruby shouted as the black suit finished manifesting on his body, right to where his lenses are.
Peter's Voided Mindscape
BGM-Spider-Man 3 Game OST-Black Tension
"Where…Where am I…" Spider-Man wakes up to find himself in his own mind, which is entirely composed of an eternal darkness and icky looking white webbing that has no end in sight. "Am I in my mind…? Wait! The symbiote!"
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Spidey turns to the direction of where that cry came from and starts running towards it, where out of nowhere, his Other, his REAL Other, the Spider-Totem God Ero, falls right next to him, looking extremely beaten and tired.
"ERO! ERO," Peter quickly crouches down to check on his Other/partner. "Ero, partner, are you alright?!"
Ero coughed very weakly before speaking, "…I'm sorry…I can't hold it back…much longer…The symbiote…it has grown…too powerful…It has taken control…of BOTH our dark souls…making it invincible…"
"And right you are, 'old friend'."
Spider-Man turns around to his corrupted dark half, Symbiote Dark Spider-Man, now in full beast mode like he was before, and standing beside him is HIS Spider-Totem God. The dark half of Ero, now under the control of the symbiote, transformed into Symbiote Dark Ero in it's full, monstrous Man-Spider form.
"You!" Spider-Man glared at his dark self.
"Hello, me. It's about time you've finally joined us." Symbiote Spidey said with a calm, collected demeanor.
"No! I'll never join you! Not now! Not ever!" Spidey said, pointing angrily at his dark self.
"That's not your choice to make, boy. Not anymore." Symbiote Ero said to his light host.
"We have full control over you and your weakling Other's dark half and have almost complete control of your light as well. Soon we will be complete. We will need nobody but ourselves." Symbiote Spidey said.
BGM End
"No! I'll never abandon my friends and family! You hear me, you parasite?! I'm gonna destroy you here and now!" Spidey shouted, leaping towards his dark, symbiotic self for a fight, but to his surprise, his dark half is unbelievably strong and got pushed back by a simple punch to the chest.
"Friends? You mean the same friends who either betrayed us, ridiculed us, kill us multiple times in the past," Symbiote Spidey asked, instantly teleporting to Peter's stead and lightly kicks him in the shoulder, but to Peter, those kicks had the force of the Mighty Thor, sending him flying across his mind once more. "Our best friend, Harry, tried to kill us when he found out we accidently killed his dad," Dark Spidey said, using his multiple arms to gut punch Peter multiple times. "Our first love, Gwen, hated us when she thought we killed her dad," He grabs Peter's arm and throws him across the mindscape again. "Or how about earlier, when MJ, the one girl in our lives that was always with us, walked away from us because we broke a petty promise," He said, kicking Peter's body multiple times across the ground.
"Even deep within their hearts, those friends of yours from Remnant started to hate you when they saw you repeatedly use our power for the forces of good." Symbiote Ero spoke up while watching Symbiote Spidey absolutely man-handling Peter.
"It's because…you two are monsters…" Peter said while weakly getting up from the floor, refusing to give up.
"WE are monsters. Don't count yourself out of this little group, Peter," Symbiote Spidey webbed up Peter and throws him to a giant web net. "We are your true selves. The side of you that's been growing since birth, but only much more powerful thanks to the wonders of the symbiote. All your rage. Your anger. The guilt that's been growing inside you for all these years have gave form to us. We tried to make contact with you, multiple times, but you kept ignoring us, the dark power that dwells inside your heart. This all could've been avoided if you just NOTICED us! Stopped being AFRAID of us!"
Symbiote Spidey drags Peter back to the ground with a black tentacle. "You are no hero, Peter. You are an agent of darkness. You've always have been. How many times have this city, this world, seen you as a menace despite our constant heroics? How many people have suffered and died because of our actions, both directly and indirectly, ever since we got those powers three years ago? We can name a few: Gwen Stacy and her father, Harry Osborn, Sally Avril, Frederick Foswell, our clone brothers, Ben Reilly and Kaine, and a million others during the Goblin War. Heck, you could say our very existence before our powers have caused others to suffer like our parents and this invasion happening right now."
"U-Uncle Ben…" Peter speaks very lowly and weakly.
"Oh right. Can't forget about our original sin. The one thing we couldn't forgive ourselves for, no matter how hard we try," Symbiote Spidey said, crouching down to continue talking to his light half. "But there's no reason to blame ourselves for that. It's the world we live in. It's the world that has taken our Uncle Ben away from us, just like it took away whatever normal life and sanity we could ever hope to have. We are above humanity, Peter Parker. We are better than them in every way. There's no reason to continue sticking with a pathetic species when we have evolved beyond their comprehension."
The floor below Peter slowly starts to swallow him up, along with his light Other. "You can never escape the past, Peter. What's done is done. Now it is time for you to join us once and for all. Embrace the darkness you've kept locked forever. Bond with us completely so we can become the ULTIMATE power, that way no one will hurt us ever again." The symbiote said as Peter and Ero are just about swallowed up by the dark ooze, seemingly for good.
BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Never Turn Back (Piano Ver.)
The beaten, light version of Peter Parker, with no power and no will to keep on fighting, sinks through the endless ocean of darkness, not moving a single finger at all as is he's dead. From the far corners of the ocean, dark tentacles slowly approach Peter so they could finally assimilate him to the dark force of the symbiote, thus making the bond permanent.
While he sinks to the bottomless ocean pit, the unconscious Peter starts to experience multiple visions, both of his past and future. Past events such as Uncle Ben's death still haunts him even now, a death he feels responsible for and could never forgive himself. And in the future, he receives three visions of what would happen if his guilt wasn't in control: One future where a wife of J Jonah Jameson was killed and Peter made an impossible vow that "No one dies". Another future where his Aunt May was mortally wounded and would go as far as making a deal with the devil to bring her back, but at the cost of his marriage with Mary Jane. And the last potential future took place in 2099, where an aged Peter, overwhelmed with guilt over failing his loved ones and not letting go of the past, risked to change all of reality to create a perfect world.
BGM End
These images hurts Peter to the core as the black tentacles slowly catch him during his descent into the darkness. Just when you think it's all over for Peter, when the darkness is about to consume him, a bright ball of light shines above him, and floating next to that light are the four relics of Remnant, the same relics that has taken refuge in Peter's body after defeating Goblin because they saw him as their perfect guardian.
All four relics, and the ball of light, emanates a powerful, golden glow that encompass the entire ocean of darkness, destroying the dark tentacles that was about to overtake the hero of New York.
BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST-Crushing Defeat
Deep within his mind, Peter receives a flashback to his past, one where he was a scared and a big crybaby of 5 having a hard time sleeping in the darkness of his bedroom. He then hears someone enter through his doors and turn on the light, revealing to be his Uncle Ben.
"What's wrong, Peter? Why are you crying?" Uncle Ben asked his young nephew.
"I'm afraid of the dark, Uncle Ben. It's evil. I can't sleep in the dark." The young Peter said in-between sniffs.
Uncle Ben chuckled, "There's no reason to be afraid of the dark, my boy." Ben walks up and sit on Peter's bed so he could continue talking to him. "The darkness isn't evil. It's because of the darkness is what helps us sleep and rest. Without it, we're powerless." He puts his warm, comforting arm behind Peter's neck. "Light and Darkness are a part of our world, Peter. It's neither good or bad. It all depends on how YOU use it. You've got to learn to be strong. Accept both aspects of their nature. Find balance and harmony between yourself and them. Forgive yourself for any past mistakes, no matter how hard it is to do. If you do that, you'll be a whole different person, but still have that same resolve from before because you didn't get corrupted by either of them. You get what I'm saying?" He asked his nephew.
The young Peter nodded, "Y-Yeah, I think so."
Ben smiled and ruffled the young Peter's hair, getting him to laugh, "Good boy." He said before standing up from the bed and starts to walk out the door. "Good night, Peter. I'll always love you."
"You too, Uncle Ben." Peter said, now finally feeling tired and can sleep peacefully. Even after his uncle turned off the lights, Peter was able to sleep soundly and peacefully, making his uncle really proud of him.
Outside of that hidden flashback, it would seem that Peter now understands the truth about the light and darkness. Neither is completely good or evil. It all depends on who uses both. And as long their resolve doesn't get corrupted, both the light and darkness could be used gently and freely.
Behind that mask, Peter smiles, as if most of the guilt he's kept inside his heart has completely vanished. Responding to his heart's response and the calm, pure mind, the four relics of Remnant glow a bright light and focus their energy to that ball of light that helped Peter control his light and darkness. The ball of light, after absorbing a lot of light energy, transforms into a golden A-ISO crystal, the same one that glowed at Avengers Tower when Peter went there earlier for a mission.
This golden crystal, which is actually called the, "Limitless Radiance A-ISO", has the white yang symbol painted on the bright stone. It and the relics phase back inside Peter's body, granting him extra power, complete control over the light side of his powers. His body starts to twitch, surrounding himself in his godly red-and-blue double aura once more. Slowly but surely his body starts to move, and as it does Peter's eye lenses open widely, glowing with a red color on one eye and a blue color on the other.
BGM End
BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST-Unbreakable Determination
The symbiote versions of Spider-Man and Ero's dark half were at a moment, standing in place, until they sense a massive earthquake shaking the entire dark mindscape. They have no idea what is going on until a bright, red-and-blue light smashes through the dark grounds from the ocean of darkness and lands back on the surface. And once the light start to dimmer down, they are shocked to see Spider-Man back again at maximum light power.
"What the?! What's going on?! How are you not swallowed up and consumed by the darkness?!" Symbiote Spidey asked bewildered on how Peter is still himself and free from the dark clutches of the symbiote.
"I have been swallowed up by the darkness and learned to accept it. Isn't that what you've always wanted?" Spidey asked with a calm, collected demeanor.
"Impossible! That light proves you're still as naïve and afraid of it as you were before!" Symbiote Spidey said with a menacing glare.
"Just because I've accepted the darkness doesn't mean I should throw away my light. Both are needed to find balance and harmony of one's soul. One cannot exist without the other." Spidey calmly responded as if he's been enlightened.
"I've had enough of this!" The Dark Man-Spider Ero roars and lunges at Peter, who doesn't bother making a move as he's not in danger whatsoever.
"Not so fast!" Jumping from the dark abyss below, the light version of Ero tackles his dark, corrupted self in his own Man-Spider. "We have some unfinished business, ol' buddy of mine!"
The Symbiote Dark Spider-Man goes on the offensive against his calm, light self, but finds that none of his attacks are connecting at all, with Spider-Man barely moving a finger to dodge all of his attacks, "This is impossible. You've seen the benefits. The POWER the darkness holds."
"Yes, I enjoyed that. I loved it. But that doesn't mean I should let it control me." Spider-Man said, firing a massive barrage of web bullets at his dark self. "Neither the positive nor negative aspects of my own energy holds the answer to unlocking one's full potential and ultimate power. In balancing them, we exceed them both."
Spidey throws powerful kicks to the chest, using his mastered version of his aura spider arms to knock his dark self across the darkness, which gets weaker and weaker overtime. "It's like what Moon Knight said, 'Do not accept or reject one or the other. Allow both to find equilibrium with each other, then rise above them. Be as the sun and the moon'."
"But what about our Uncle Ben?! The people that have died in our life?! Our anger and guilt?!" Symbiote Spidey said while being tossed around by a web.
"Have all been forgiven and controlled. If I want to move on with my life, I have to put the past behind me to find total balance and peace. And that includes YOU getting off MY dark half! He used to look very handsome before you got your slime all over him, and I know the perfect stain remover!" Spidey dashes towards his Symbiote half and holds his shoulders tightly. "Shun Goku Satsu!" Using one of Akuma's most dangerous moves, Spider-Man destroys the symbiote controlling his dark half in a flashing instant, with the kanji of the spider glowing on his back. "So that's what it feels like? Nifty."
BGM End
Dark Spider-Man (with his black suit looking more like the Spider-Man 3 suit), now freed from the corrupted influence of the symbiote, lies weak on the ground, that is, until his light half helps him up to the ground. "Thanks." Dark Spidey said.
"No problem. Sorry I've ignored you all this time." Light Spidey said to his dark self.
"Well you've always been ignorant, so that's expected. Then again, I AM you, so I guess that's me ignorant thinking the light side's been always weak and pathetic. So I'm sorry about that." Dark Spidey apologized.
"Awww, look who became quick friends after five seconds."
Distracted on where that familiar voice came from, both Light and Dark Spidey are tangled up from all limbs by black tentacles, lifting them up to the air where they see the malevolent face of the Symbiote Spider-Man still alive and kicking. "Did you really think you could get rid of us so easily? We have taken root in Peter Parker: Mind, body, and soul," He said, dragging the two halves of Spider-Man to the symbiotic ooze below so he could assimilate both for good. No matter how much they struggle, they can't seem to break free from the dark webbing. "Why bother struggling? There's no place you can hide."
The two halves of Spider-Man are almost consumed by the symbiote ooze, leaving only their hands still sticking out before they are too eaten up, but the hands of a familiar-looking old man grabs both and drags them out back to the surface, and that man, is their Uncle Ben.
"Boy's got no need to hide." Uncle Ben said to the G-Symbiote.
"I'm stronger than you think." The light and dark Spider-Man, as well as Uncle Ben simultaneously said that same line. As Uncle Ben disappears into the two halves of Spider-Man, they both back flip to a hidden web net, where the images of their friends and family from all dimensions are seen being absorbed into their own souls.
"Now, mud-stain..." Dark Spidey started talking to the G-Symbiote.
"Shall we dance?" Light Spidey finished for him. The two Spideys jump from tentacle to tentacle, destroying each limb with a simple punch, all while making their way towards the face of the Symbiote Spider-Man and punching it, blinding him in a web net.
It quickly reforms back in it's normal, symbiote beast form and animalistically lunge at the web they're sticking onto, but they quickly jump away to another web. The light, red-and-blue Spider-Man shoots a web ball, blinding the symbiote, leaving the dark, normal black-and-white Spidey to kick him in the side. The two Spideys then work together to demolish and wreck the symbiote, slowing destroying the eternal void that has darken the mindscape, slowly revealing its real location as a red-and-blue colored land with webbing splattered all around the mindscape. With an aura-powered fist, the Spideys punch the symbiote to this invisible wall, ending its reign with one last swing kick to the chest as it screams in pain before finally blowing up itself and the dark mindscape it has created.
The two Spideys take off their mask and look to the sky above them to see their beloved Uncle looking down on them. "Thanks, Uncle Ben." They both said to their uncle.
"Anytime, kiddo. I'm always here." He said. With one last smile of a proud uncle, he leaves in a flash of light.
"Well, well, well. It would seem you two finally done it, haven't you?"
Both Spideys turn around to see both versions of Ero, the light and the dark, walk towards them in their more humanoid form that's made up of millions of spiders. "Yeah, I guess we did." Light Spidey said, giving his dark half a high-five.
"Hmph. We knew you would finally control and accept the darkness as a force for good," Light Ero said. He then turns to his dark half and the two exchange looks, "Although, I wasn't expecting MYSELF to do the same thing."
"Certainly, hanging out with the boy have made us complete a goal we never thought was possible for ourselves." Dark Ero said to his light other.
"Indeed."
"Okay, So what now?" Dark Spidey asked his others. Suddenly, the dark hero gets a weird stomach cramp and pops out the 'relics' of Remnant, but these ones are colored and glows black unlike the others. "What the?! The relics?! What's going on?! And why are they glowing a creepy black color like that?"
"It would seem, when the G-Symbiote tried to take control over us, it also somehow split the relics into two halves: One set composed of light, and the other set composed of darkness." Light Ero guessed.
"That's weird." Light Spidey said.
The dark relics floating in mid-air circle around at astonishing speeds, focusing all their power into the center of the circle to form a black E-ISO crystal with a lighter shade of a black yin symbol painted on its center.
"An E-ISO crystal?" Dark Spidey questioned its sudden appearance from the relics.
"The Gentle Darkness E-ISO. Grants you the full power of darkness without losing your way." Dark Ero said to the dark Spider-Man.
"Just like how the A-ISO I have grants me the full power of light." Light Spidey said, revealing his light ISO-8 crystal to the others. Right then and there, the light versions of the relics suddenly pop out of the light Spider-Man, joining the other powerful objects in the air and fuse together into a single ISO-8 relic that resembles a spider emblem, constantly glowing and switching between the light and darkness, creating a twilighted color.
"Uhhh, what just happened?" Light Spidey asked as the Spider Crest floats back down from the air.
"Remarkable…The relics and the ISO-8 fused together into a new type of ISO-8: The Peerless Twilight ISO-8 Emblem. The Crest of the Spider. A symbol of one achieving Perfect Synchronization. Who knows what sort of power this new relic contains?" Light Ero explained to the webheads.
"We can figure that out AFTER we destroy the symbiotes." Dark Ero said to remind them of their current mission.
"Your right. Spider-Man! You know what to do." Light Ero said to the light and dark wall-crawlers.
"Alright! Ready to do this, partner?" Light Spidey asked his dark counterpart.
"Let's save New York!" Dark Spidey shakes his other's hand as they exit the mindscape as one.
Back in Manhattan
BGM-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows OST-Track 23
Barely a second has passed in the real world while Spider-Man was dealing with his inner struggle. Now with his symbiote weakened and suppressed for just a short while, Peter rejects the black suit one more time so he could fully re-focus on turning on the device.
'He's okay!' Yang said, noticing how Peter's back in his red-and-blue costume.
'Aw yeah!' Nora fist pump.
After inputting the final commands, Spidey web swings out of the device chamber, leaving a very confused Vulture on how he was able to conquer his darkness so quick and swift.
"Spidey!" Toxin calls out to Peter on top of a rooftop. The amazing web-slinger lands right beside her, "Did you activate it?"
"Yeah! It should initiate at any moment!" Spidey said.
'Then let's hope this work.' Ozpin said in their thoughts.
They all notice a bright blue glow coming from the device and the tower itself, releasing a massive electromagnetic shockwave that encompasses the entire city.
'Peter, any changes?' Ruby asked her friend. The force of the shockwave finally hits where Spidey and Toxin are standing and starts to painfully rip the G-Symbiote beast from Peter's body and screeches in agony and pain, while Cinder just gets a painful headache since her symbiote has completely bonded down to the cellular level.
'C'mon, Peter! You can do it!' Blake encouraged Spidey to not give up.
'You've got this!' Weiss chimed in.
'Almost there!' Yang spoke up.
'Just a little more! Just a little more!' Ruby said.
The super weapon has now reached full power, releasing an even more powerful shockwave that finally destroyed Peter's evil symbiote for good, as well as destroying all the billions of symbiotes that have taken over their hosts and released them from their captivity. Once they've realized they've been freed thanks to the efforts of Spider-Man, the entire city of New York cheers for their amazing hero.
'Spider-Man! You did it! You actually did it! You've saved New York!' Ruby and the others on Remnant cheered for Spider-Man for a job well done.
BGM End
As Peter starts to get up from the floor, he realized his suit has gotten a slight makeover, looking more refined, more mature, more amazing than ever before as a result of mastering his light and darkness (It's basically Insomniac Game's "Marvel's Spider-Man" suit he's now wearing. Giant white spider symbol and everything, with the addition of the yin and yang symbol painted on the top of each knuckle and the white spider symbol glowing a calm, gentle dark color as its outline).
'It would seem that a certain child has finally mastered his light and darkness.' Madame Web said with a proud smile watching.
"Yeah. Looks better than the last one." Toxin commented on his new costume while helping him up from the ground.
"Thanks. And I see you're still bonded, huh?" Spidey said to her about her symbiote.
"You make it sound like it's a bad thing." She teased him as they watch from above the city they saved together as a team, watching S.H.I.E.L.D. helping the civilians up their feet and taking them to a place to recover and relax after the day they've been through.
Peter then gets a call coming from Black Widow through his earpiece. 'Spider-Man, the device appears to have work. We are-.' The congratulations are cut-short when the alarms start beeping about a danger happening somewhere in the city. Spidey hears the running footsteps of Winter Schnee entering the office where Natasha is in.
'Emergency! Sightings reporting that of Venom, Carnage, Salem, and a huge number of symbiotes are attacking the Helicarrier!' Winter informed everyone, shocking them to the core that there are still some symbiotes left to be destroyed.
'Oh no! This is bad! Crew compromised!' Black Widow said in a panic.
"What would Salem want with the Helicarrier?" Toxin wonders.
'Oh no! The Dimensional Drive!' Ironwood horridly realized what they might be after.
"The what?" Spidey asked the General on what the hell he's talking about.
'A special engine powered by the ISO-8 that allows the Helicarrier to access ANY dimension! It's how it traveled to Remnant, remember?' Ironwood explained to them.
'If Salem gains control over the Helicarrier, the entire multiverse is at risk of turning into symbiotes! You two HAVE to stop her!' Ozpin said.
"How?" Toxin asked, wondering how they'll be able to get to the Helicarrier.
Thankfully, a familiar crescent moon looking ship flies over to where Spider-Man and Toxin are standing. "The situation is dire, Spider-Man! I'll transport you and Toxin to the Helicarrier at once!" Moon Knight said to the web team from his ship.
"Thanks! It's a little out of web range!" Spidey joked. Knowing the end of the multiverse is approaching if they don't do something about it, Spider-Man and his trusty rival companion, Toxin, quickly hop on top of Moon Knight's ship. "Alright! This is it! It's now or never! Let's go save the multiverse! Again!" He said pointing straight forward as Moon Knight acts as their transport toward the Helicarrier, toward the final battle that will decide the fate of their worlds.
BGM- Spider-Man: The Animated Series OST (1994)- Ending Theme
Shadow: My name is Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog. It would seem that the ones they call Salem and Venom are the ones behind this alien invasion. Somehow, Salem was able to use the ISO Emeralds to activate Chaos Control and teleport the planet of the symbiotes in all three of our dimensions at the same time, using a special gas that paralyze everyone on each planet. Getting them ready to be infected by a planet-sized population of symbiotes. Spider-Man and that Cinder woman are our last defense in stopping those two from taking over our worlds. It's up to you, Spider-Man. It is time to put your past behind you if you want to save everyone. It's now or never!
Next time on Spider-Man and Cinder: Flaming Web of Light and Shadow-
The Final Haunt
Spider-Man: After I've beaten you, then I can finally put the past behind me.
KFX here: We're approaching endgame, folks. Two more chapters to go along with an epilogue. Spider-Man vs. Salem Round 2 is coming, along with Toxin vs. Venom and Carnage. Shadow will finally get involved in the action next chapter. But first, let's go over Spider-Man's new powers and forms after mastering Perfect Synchro:
Abilities:
All of Peter's strength, speed, agility, mystic elements of his power, etc. have been increased by 10 as if he's wearing the black suit while still in his red costume
Can now use the powers of positive and negative energy thanks to his aura
His stingers have been upgraded to be highly effective against magic-based opponents
Similar to the Grimm, Peter's Spider-Sense have been upgraded to sense positive and negative emotions of any person or beast
Can summon spider-variants of the Grimm to battle he calls "Arachnoids"
His mastery over his aura has improved and can manipulate his aura to create arms and spider legs at a greater extent than before
He can harden his body and limbs with a black, thick harden web silk to perform additional damage or defense
Peter can exert his own willpower to dominate the wills of other like a shockwave, rendering those too weak to handle it unconscious
Moveset:
The special attacks he used when he was Symbiote Dark Spider-Man can now be available to him at any moment, along with new other moves
Super Arachnid Fist: Upgraded version of his Arachnid Fist attack that takes the shape of an enormous red-and-blue colored spider dragon that resembles Shenron from DBZ but with the eyes and characteristics of a spider. It can also be used to unleash a flurry of devastating punches
Ultra Kumo Hadoken: Combine the light and dark to unleash a devastating energy beam that could potentially destroy the world
Transformation (Perfect Finalization):
While wearing his Iron Spider Armor and using the power of ISO-Spider Emblem, Spider-Man can activate Perfect Finalization for his Black Ace and Red Joker forms, looking like a cross of their regular forms with that of Symbiote Dark Spider-Man, giving them a more beast-like appearance while still remaining in complete control.
Shin Black Ace: That abilities of Black Ace Spider-Man has been multiplied by who knows what limit. He can easily surpass the speed of light in this form, demolishing his enemies in a blink of an eye and can suck them in multiple, unescapable black holes and has a new special move called "Shadow Destroyer Galaxy".
Shin Red Joker: This walking tank is back possessing increase in its already monstrous offensive and defensive capabilities that could mow down anything its path and survive nuclear-scale explosions. Even with its low mobility, it can still jump very high in the sky and can give the Hulk a run in pure brute strength. Truly the powers of a Spider-God. And its new move "Crimson Solar Breaker" has the power of at least 10 nukes.
Truly the powers of a Perfect Synchronized Spider-God Avatar. While not on the same level as Sacred Spider King, the Shin forms of these already destructive transformations are not to be messed with, god or not.