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Scarlet Spider: My name is Kaine. I'm a clone of Spider-Man that goes by the name Scarlet Spider. Me and Blake are teaming up with other clones from different realities, Ben Reilly and Jessica Drew, when we realized the Inheritors' so-called immortality came from their cloning technology. We traced the signals of an Inheritor called Jennix to the source of the Inheritor clones, a dimension where everyone is a clone. The latest clone we encountered is Johnny Storm, head of security at the Baxter Building we're infiltrating.

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Act 2 Issue 9: Clone Mission (Part 2)

Baxter Building, Earth-802

"Peter Parker! I can't believe it!" Chief of security, Johnny Storm, confronts the restrained Kaine, mistaking him for Peter Parker since he is his clone. Ben Reilly is still impersonating Iron Man as he watches Johnny rip off Kaine's shirt to reveal his costume behind it. "Jennix has you bring a spider in here and I don't even hear about it? My security team will catch the girls, but this one? He looks pretty hard-boiled. What horrible post-apocalyptic universe is he from?" Johnny asks the disgusted Ben.

"Dunno. And if Jennix wanted you out of the loop, you'll have to take it up with him. I'm on my way there right now. I'll tell him you want to talk to him." Ben replied.

"Jennix doesn't want me to know you grabbed up a spider, but you brought it through the front door? Tony, talk to me. Something isn't adding up here." Johnny says as he slowly looks through his ruse.

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Seeing their cover pretty much blown, Kaine jumps off his pants into his costume as he activates the stealth feature, turning invisible and disappearing from Johnny's sights. "Where did he go!? FLAME-!" Just as he flames on, the invisible spider kicks him straight to the face, knocking him away, "ONNNNN! HA!" Johnny stops himself and blasts Kaine with a stream of intense fire.

"ARG!" Kaine grunts, as that blast not only hurt but was enough to distort his suit for Johnny to partially see him in his invisible mode.

"I can see you coming now!" Johnny taunts him and gets ready to attack, but was suddenly punched by Iron Man.

"You see THAT coming?" Ben quips, smashing his iron fists together.

With Johnny is confused with Iron Man's betrayal, Kaine uses this chance to brutally smash him in the face right outta his fire mode, knocking the fireman out cold. "So. You smashing up a guy's face when you're invisible? It's…pretty horrible." Ben quipped.

"Maybe if you had BLASTED him it wouldn't have been necessary." Kaine retorted.

"I'm…pretty unclear on how these weapon systems work, actually." Ben said.

"Doesn't matter now. You have to take it off. I'm not going to kill him, and we can't drag him around with us. Eventually they'll find him. Guaranteed, Jennix has fail-safes on that suit. He'll probably make it fly you right to him, then he'll peel you out of it like a sardine." Kaine said, convincing his brother to take off the armor.

"I know what this is. You just want to be the only one with a cool suit." Ben quips as he starts taking off the armor piece by piece, and not fast enough as the security team arrive pointing their guns at them.

"FREEZE! Chief Storm's vitals went dark. What the HELL is going on here?" One guard asks.

"Okay. I know this looks strange." Ben quips, still wearing the helmet while taking off the leg pieces.

Kaine quickly turns invisible and attacks the guards swiftly and ruthlessly. "What the-?!" One guard stood stun as he can't see the spider.

"Let's get outta here!" Another guard said, as the remaining guards run away before they receive a brutal beating.

Kaine webs up the unconscious guards just as Ben takes off the last of the armor and returns to his costume. "Don't waste the webs. I think it's safe to say that our cover's blown." Ben said.

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The brothers hurry to a nearby elevator shaft to climb through. "Jessica and Blake was supposed to be the ones drawing attention, not us." Kaine remarked.

"They're doing their job. Jessica, Blake, are you girls doing your job?" Ben contacts the girls through their ear comms.

'We do our job like it's our job. What are YOU two doing?' Jessica responded.

"Kaine got angry and beat up a buncha guys. Now we're running interference for you." Ben quipped.

'That's an understatement. They're calling off the entire search for us so they can find you now.' Blake replied, looking at Jessica's mini holo-screen projecting from her wrist device.

Meanwhile, Ben pries open a door for the brothers to jump through and walk through a hallway. "Can you monitor the security system to help us out?" Ben asks the girls.

'Looks like they're mustering on level three of E Wing. Is that where you are?' Jess asks the brothers.

"Uh…we don't know where we are." Ben said unsurely.

"There's a skylight." Kaine said, looking at the skylight above their heads.

"YOU'RE supposed to tell us where we are!" Ben tells the girls.

'How could we know where you are? We're using a terminal I took off one of Jennix's guards. If THEY don't know where you are, we don't know.' Jessica replies.

"Can you tell us where Jennix keeps his clone bodies at least?" Ben asks for directions.

'That's easy. Central shaft of the building is tiered lab space and draws the majority of the power. That'd be my first guess. There are entryways on every other floor, but we don't know how you'll get in. They already know I'm in the system and they're trying to shut me out. There's no way I open those doors.' Jessica said.

"We'll figure it out." Ben replied confidently, as the brothers crawl on the skylight.

While upside down, they spot an unnamed scientist interacting with a terminal that leads to another room. The spiders descend from a webline, hanging upside down to casually greet and startle the scientist. "Got a favor to ask you, guy." Ben said jokingly.

"Use the code to open the door or I use your head." Kaine threatens the man.

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The scientist does what he's told and nervously inputs a code that'll give them access to the next room. "P-Please, you two don't know what you're getting into here." He said, worried for his life as they walk into the room.

"Well then, you can explain it to us." Kaine respond.

The group walks into a gigantically tall room that consist of thousands of clone bodies encased inside capsules for the Inheritors if one were to die. "Yeah…Start explaining some stuff right now, please." Ben says to the scientist, almost stun to see so many clone bodies in one room.

"Clones. How many are there?" Kaine asks, just as stunned as his brother to see so many clones.

"Gotta be a thousand." Ben guessed.

"That's close, yes." The scientist responded.

"And is this just Jennix? Or his siblings too?" Ben asks him.

"No. This is all of them. Each tier is for a different one." The scientist replies.

"We'll have to destroy the whole building." Kaine says, grimly suggesting that's the only way to destroy the clones.

"We can't do that. What about this guy and his friends?" Ben points to the scared scientist as he doesn't approve of innocent people caught in its destruction.

"Please don't kill me and my friends." The scientist shivers in fear of a possible death.

"It's no problem. We just have to figure out a way to bloodlessly dismantle a fortress designed by the greatest genius in the world." Ben quipped, having no idea how they're gonna accomplish that.

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Jennix's Computer Room

"Uh, excuse me, my king. But there's a problem only you can solve." A certain scientist wearing glasses, and a punchable face in Kaine's eyes, formally meets his lord, Jennix, in his computer room.

"Yes, Dr. Warren? What is it?" Jennix sighs as he answers his lackey, Miles Warren.

"Well…I guess there could be two problems, but it's maybe just one. Our security teams are being beat up and our security cameras aren't catching anything." Warren informs his master of their problems caused by the spiders.

"And why do you think that is?" Jennix asks his subordinate.

"Well…maybe because whoever broke in is invisible. Or is really fast." Warren replies, sheepishly playing with his fingers.

Jennix mockingly chuckles at his lackey, "Wonderful acumen as always, Dr. Warren. Tell me, do you know why I keep you around?" He asks him.

"For my acumen!" Warren replied.

"Close, but not quite. I keep you around because you were once the most brilliant mind on the planet." Jennix said.

"Oh, I don't think so, sire. I think I'd remember some of that." Warren responds.

"Oh, but sometimes you do remember, Miles. I've got business to attend to with the family right now. Let the invaders get into their fistfights with security. Let them think they can hurt me. If they make it all the way to the special projects, I'll have a talk with them personally." Jennix grins ominously, having his lackey walk out of his room.

Back with the Parker Brothers…

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Ben hops onto a pod that's holding a clone body of Morlun in stasis. He contacts the girls to give them an important update, "Jessica. Blake."

'We're here.' Blake responds, while she and Jessica are crawling through an air vent.

"These clones are just empty husks until Jennix and his siblings download their consciousness into them. But they're still being kept alive. Fresh. There's got to be a way to cut the power here so they just die on the vine." Ben tells them about the clone bodies.

'We're looking into it. The main power cells are located on the east side of the building, but getting there will be difficult.' Jessica says, looking at her portable terminal for directions.

"Like 'deadwood' difficult, or 'John from Cincinnati' difficult?" Ben quips while exploring the clone room.

'I don't get the references so I'm just going to ignore most of the things you say.' Jessica remarks.

"You need to get premium cable in your universe." Ben joked.

'The problem is that they've locked me out of the system. We're on the move, trying to find a communication array. But until then, if you guys are picked up by surveillance, I can't control the countermeasures.' Jessica warns the brothers.

"I'll take care of it." Kaine responds, planning to put down security his own way.

'Just be careful, Kaine.' Blake says, wishing him luck and hopes he doesn't do anything reckless.

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Kaine turns invisible and sticks to a wall when he spots guards investigating a section of the room. "We've got a malfunctioning door here." A guard said to his squadron. The silent spider dispatches the guards, putting them down with brutal punches and swiftly avoiding bullets thanks to his invisible suit. "Invisible assailant! Request support! Copy?!" A guard remarks, before he and another guard was kicked down.

"GET OUR TURRETS ONLINE!" Another guard shouts at someone to activate the turret robot.

The turret bot spots Kaine with its hi-tech sensors and unleashes a storm of bullets that the invisible hero easily evades with his reflexes. The brutal clone grabs its gun and forcefully twist it around to itself, causing the robot to blow itself up. All the guards and the robot are defeated, but Kaine notices a room nearby that piqued his interest. And what he saw inside horrified him.

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Meanwhile, Ben stares at a clone body of an unconscious Bora while playfully tossing up two web balls from his hand. "Oh, hey, Bora. Gotta be the most hideous family portrait day since the Kravinoffs." He quipped.

Suddenly, Kaine appears upside down from a web next to his brother as he catches his web ball. "I need you." He tells him.

"No way you're done already. The power's still on in here." Ben remarked.

"The hallway is clear and the surveillance is out. You need to come with me. You need to SEE this." Kaine said, wanting to show him something extremely important. "And we're bringing him." He said, ripping off the webbing from the nervous scientist they used earlier.

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"I don't understand. What do you need ME for?" The man asks as they walk down the hallway together.

"You're a scientist, aren't you? You work on the clones?" Kaine remarks.

"I'm just a technician. My job is to identify any possible mutations in the code." The technician replied.

Kaine touches his back, "Then by all means…" and pushes him into the secret room he discovered that contains several pods holding differently weird spider-creatures, "Identify what I'm looking at here." He says to the man, as Ben stunningly stares at a spider-creature in its pod.

"Th-These are Jennix's failures. The 'Special Projects' door has always been closed. I've heard rumors about this but I never thought it was real…" The technician answered the horrifying question.

The Scarlet Spiders stare at one pod with a disgusting, humanoid spider-creature that doesn't have flesh at all. Just spider-like eyes and fangs that would make anyone a little queasy. "Oh, god. I'm going to be sick." Ben leans on a wall, taking a quick breather from these disgusting failed experiments.

A red shadow of rage boils in Kaine's blood while staring at these failed experiments. These failed clones that reminded him of himself. The first 'son' of the Jackal. The failed clone of Peter Parker. The death self. The dark past that he fights against every single day of his painful life. "RAAAAAA!" Enraged, Kaine destroys the pod, causing the liquid to spill to the floor and disintegrating the spider-clone.

"STOP!" Ben puts his hand on Kaine's shoulder before he does something too rash. "Please. Seriously. You are making it so much worse." He said to him.

'Yes.' Suddenly, a smug projection of Jennix's face pops into the room to greet the spiders. 'Please. These are, after all, monuments to my failures. But failures can be as important as successes.' He said.

"Sire!" The technician kneels to his lord and master.

Then, Jennix shows the spiders a full holo-screen of a version of Peter Parker being killed by Morlun, then another Peter being experimented on by Jennix to create these failed spiders, 'My insatiable, short-sighted siblings can never resist hunting and gorging on their quarry immediately. But it isn't until sentient beings learn to farm, to raise livestock, that they are truly civilized. Their bodies, yes. And their minds. But their essence – the essence we need to FEED – it eludes me. I was nearly resigned to stay uncivilized forever. But now, in my very own parlor. Two spiders. And, if I may hazard a guess…CLONED spiders. With so many secrets to tease out.' He smiled, threatening to capture the brothers to perfect his cloning experiments on Spider-Totems.

"I'll admit to being something of a tease. But my friend here is real direct." Ben quips, as Kaine goes into stealth mode.

'Oh, I see that. Incidentally, tell him I can see his invisible suit too. Susan Storm is in a tank around here somewhere. Invisibility holds no secrets.' Jennix said tauntingly as he can easily see through Kaine's invisibility.

Since his invisibility is useless, Kaine unveils himself and shouts, "COWARD. Hiding in your hole. We'll tear your house down around your ears."

The scared technician is still kneeling on the purple liquid, shivering in such intense fear that he doesn't hear or feel someone walking towards his back, "Well. If that's how you're going to be about this. My faithful servant."

"Sire! I—ULK!" The technician's neck was suddenly twisted and snapped, killing him as he falls on the floor dead.

"Another disappointment. I'm certain you two will prove much more interesting." Jennix reveals himself to the Scarlet Spiders, confronting them as he is ready to beat their secrets outta their corpses.

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KFX Here: It's time for the finale of the second act of Spider-Verse as the Scarlet Spiders confront Jennix to a showdown that might cost them their lives. With the fates of the Spiders from across the multiverse in their hands, can Kaine, Jessica Drew, Ben Reilly, and Blake stop Jennix and his machinations of destruction?! One of the Scarlet Spiders will have to make the ultimate sacrifice!

Dakota Bruder: There's not gonna be a Mega Man version of Peter. If there is, he won't be important to the overall story and would get no focus.

Blood Spider: There is this thing called Google. You can use that.

Next time: Act 2 Finale! The ultimate sacrifice!

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