Symbiosis

by levelxtremedude

Symbiosis is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, communalistic, or parasitic. What Venom wanted was mutual, so a small piece wanted to get back to its former host. Now Peter has to deal with the alien and an old flame with a secret that could potentially change his life.

28. Chapter 28

Disclaimer: Spider-Man and other Marvel-related content belong to Disney Marvel, plot and OC's belong to me.

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Chapter 28: Deranged searching and rescuing part 1

May 7th: Thursday Morning 11:00 am Undisclosed location

Lorina is numb, super numb, her mind reels from last night's forceful intimacy, taken in various lewd positions that crazy mutant could think of. All the while Moth taunted her, whipped her, choked her, she shuddered at her touch, not in pleasure but in pure disgust. She wanted to vomit from all the kisses and sucking she did on her especially what she had done to her womanhood, taking away her virginity.

Her captive did exactly the opposite of being gentle, she was rough, the strawberry blond-haired woman wanted to cry but she could not let her captive know how deeply this affected her. She crossed a line she never thought she had been in. The psychotic woman forced herself on her while she was bound and gagged with no way of fighting back and even if she could, that would not stop Moth from using her powers to subdue her. She bit back a sob her heart heavy filled with shame and dirtiness.

'No man will ever look at me the same way ever again. If they found out…'

Lorina is on the floor kneeling tied tightly to a pole allowing no room for escape or minimal wiggle room, still gagged this time with medical tape over her mouth her chances of crying out for help are slim when she is not being choked. However, that vile woman also placed two electric adult toys within her to get her ready for another round later today. A single lone tear travels down her cheek. It is hanging off her chin lagging there for a moment or two before it falls to the ground.

A blush on her face is due to being stimulated, she is trying her best to resist but great waves of pleasure are hard to resist when you feel your lower region on fire. Despite being gagged she will not give her captive the pleasure of her moans ever again. She feels the sweat of her body it also enters the wounds and scar of her open whipped flesh; it stings as the salt of her body does not help itself but pours in the wounds.

She could feel her body ache from the sting of her whip, she must survive this, she must! Her eyes are heavy she had not slept since last night. She wants to close her eyes, but she knows that she cannot if she falls asleep then who knows what Sybil will do to her while she rests. She looks over to her captives sleeping form, her eyes narrow with hatred for the woman.

Her face is smiling as if nothing happened, so carefree, so ugly behind this façade. Lorina snarls lightly 'I swear to you Sybil, you will get your dues and you…will…pay…DEARLY!' Lorina still hears the echoes of her words, "Even if I have to break you, you will call me mistress when I am done reprogramming you!"

She shudders, "Mph…" Her heavy eyelids begin to close, but she fights to keep them open. Tiredness began to claim her, she never had to deal with this type of situation. To her, it was something that has happened to other people but not to her. 'Perhaps…living the…shelter life wasn't such…a bad idea…'

Try as she might her eyelids closed, as her head dangles, she gets still feeling the vibration in her lower regions but strangely, it was luring her to sleep. The moment she closes her eyes is the moment Sybil awakens; she stretches her body feeling the afterglow of her 'passionate love making' she cannot wait for more.

She looks at her captive licking her lips, silently she creeps around her examining her. She kneels quietly behind her and latches on with her hands onto her chest.

Lorina's eyes snapped open as she felt them being groped.

"Good morning." Sybil purrs her ear

Lorina growls at her

"Still defiant?" She huffed, "Well…we'll soon fix that won't we but not right now, I must recover from last night's extraordinary love session."

Again, the strawberry blonde woman growls, Moth smells her hair still groping her. Lorina knew this is a small opportunity to even with her. Subtly she leans forward little by little to allow a false sense of security to her captor. With a sudden jerk, her head snaps back slamming the back of her head into the mutant's nose.

Sybil quickly lets go of her clutching her nose in pain, "YOU B****! HOW DARE YOU!"

A satisfied humph is heard from the blonde-haired woman, bleeding from the nose Sybil quickly grabs a handful of her hair then proceeds to slam it against the pole disorientating the strawberry blonde. She quickly dashes out of the room then turns around glaring fiercely at the woman. Outstretching her hand, she begins to choke her.

Lorina felt the constriction of her throat, she could not breathe!

"MMMM!"

Spots began to cloud her vision while her face turns blue Moth lets her go after a few more seconds after seeing her face turn purple, Lorina furiously inhales precious air through her nose, glaring back at her captor.

Sybil snarls, "A taste to what is to befall you later." She slams the door, Lorina is now alone breathing heavily.

Now alone hearing the faint footsteps she begins to weep her breathing heaving, she wanted to go home. She wants to forget everything that has happened in this place, all the touching and ugh! Was this her punishment? She wondered, for deed that she never committed, only attempted. She only hoped and prayed to any god or higher power that was listening or who cared, for her friend or someone to save her before it was too late.

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Arctic Circle 12:00 pm

Computers beep coordinated as Corey runs for the 11th time another sweep of New York City, he has been at it for an hour after the incident with Rogue. Everyone rushed to his location after she screamed bloody murder, if it wasn't for Krypto's ears perking who knows what would have happened.

Flashback

The striped mutant huffs, "Wha argh yawl men always so pigheaded? Don't shut may out Core, aren't way friends?"

Corey turns to leave but Rogue grips his shirt tighter, in response, he grabs her wrist unknowingly touching her skin which is the result of Rogue long sleeve shirt sliding back, "We are just friendly acquaintances Rogue, it going to take a while for us to establish a friendship."

"Don't do thus, don't shut may out Core, Ah know whut it's lahk tuh shut everyone out, don't go down thus path." She pleaded

"Sorry Rogue but unless you happened to be the Almighty who can take away my sorrows, I have nothing to discuss," Corey responds

Rogue is about to continue but felt a surge of power coursing through her body she looks down at her wrist, she gaps. He notes it as well that he is touching her bare skin, yet he felt fine.

Rogue is now alarmed "Yore touchin' mah skin, how izit thet yore not drained?"

He leaves with the canine following him, Rogue touches the area where his hand once occupied, "Corey!" Both he and Krypto took off at super speed, Corey didn't want to listen anymore, call him selfish right now but his burdens were his own.

He stopped his burst of speed while running into the Professor, "Ah Corey, just who I wanted to see."

"Hey, Professor…"

The bald man nods his head, "I wanted to discuss conditions about having your dog here."

He sighs, "Alright, what would like to know."

They discussed the living condition Krypto was going to be living in, Corey assured the professor that he will be living at the Fortress more times than not. But should any reason he should be there then a doghouse will be built. Krypto ears perked before anything else was said he takes off in a hurry.

"Krypto!"

Corey zooms off after him forcing Professor X to feel the brunt of the gust of wind, Logan manages to catch his friend.

"Hmm…wonder what got Starboy's attention."

That's when they heard a blood-curdling scream, everyone scrambled. Kurt, Katherine, Tabitha, Raine, and others raced up the stairs to see what was going on. Charles used his telepathy to contact Ororo and Hank while Logan with the man in the wheel rushed off to see the commotion. When they got there Corey had Rogue in his arms unconscious sweating.

"Rogue!" Kitty goes up to her, "What happened?"

Corey shrugs, "I don't know I found her like this when came looking for Krypto."

The dog whines.

Ororo came rushing in worried for her student, "What happened."

Again no one knew what had happened, Corey didn't know how to answer her when Charles came over, he orders everyone to move. Touching the crown of her head Xavier felt a surge of power like Corey, he figured out what happened to Rogue.

"Corey by any chance did you touch Rogue's skin?"

The young man pauses giving it some thought, "Now that you mention it Professor I did."

Xavier's frowns, everyone else gasps whisper among the students, if his super hearing were in check than he would have picked up on this quicker.

"Unintentionally, I might add." Corey amended quickly

Sensing his uneasiness, Charles calms the young man down, "It was an accident Corey I understand, it happens from time to time no need to be alarmed."

Corey stiffly nods

"Tell me Corey how do you feel?"

"I…feel fine, to be honest."

"What that's not possible anyone who Rogue touches always feels dizzy or nauseous." Scott says, "How are you not feeling the side effects?" Again, he looks at Scott with a blank stare, the young man rubs his head, "Unbelievable…"

"We have to take her to sickbay, Corey would…"

"No." He cuts off Ororo, "Sickbay will only worsen her condition, I'm taking her to the Fortress…with your permission professor…it's the only place I have available that is soundproof to the outside world."

Xavier rubs his chin, he remembers the conversation to how Corey's powers will manifest, he nods his head, "Very well, take Rogue with you and please keep me updated on the situation at hand."

The young man nods his head, "If you like I will include you and the other teachers here access to the Fortress. That way when you transport you get there without having to hack my security." He looks directly at Forge who finds the outside a lot more interesting.

"Please pardon the intrusion of your privacy after what happened in the Danger Room, and you not returning…it worried us."

"I understand you were just checking up on me, I don't keep much in the room anyway besides my laptop." He outstretches his hand in the upward position to allow the striped mutant's legs to be on his forearm. He calls on his AI, "Gam-Vil, prepare for permanent guest protocol."

End Flashback

The young anomaly arrived with Mr. McCoy and Rogue in his arms as Gam-Vil prepared the med bay for them as they transported. A good thing that the sentry robot was good at modifying the rooms or else it would have been a nightmare. He gave all 4 of the teachers including Scott and Jean a special pass that would allow them to go to the Fortress without any trouble. There was protest among the other mutants as he put the others down as guests.

Corey rolls his eyes, "Jealous at its finest."

However, he was going to have a little discussion with Xavier, Scott, and Jean later if he could, about upgrading them to near full clearance in all the Fortress of Solitude to all rooms available except for the main power room and the research room as a sign of good faith.

He looks to the right Krypto is on his dog bed napping. He bends over petting the dog on the head gently then there is a knock on his door, he turns his head, "Come in."

The gruff voice of Logan echoes in chambers, "I have to admit kid I'm impressed by your layout of this crystal palace."

"Thank you."

"Still wonder why you allowed me to have to yer fancy clubhouse. Not that I'm complaining or anything just wondering why." He stands next to Corey with his arms crossed

The young man looks at the fighting instructor, "Consider it a gesture of goodwill to the X-Men."

"Hmph, is that it? Just out of the kindness of your heart? Come on you can do better than that Star boy."

Corey folds his fingers sighing deeply, "Why are you so pessimistic? I have no ulterior motive, if I am going to be an X-Men then I have to show them some love."

Logan points his finger at him, "Kid, no one in their right mind would allow anyone near their fancy toys…"

"My rooms are under construction! Why do you think I have been here for the last two weeks trying to get organized! The Fortress doesn't have an armory for crying out loud Logan, I'm not keeping any alien technology lying on the ground anywhere, the only alien thing is the Kryptonian crystal tech that you are walking on! Why are you even hounding me on this?"

"Why? Because there are organizations out there who would kill for this type of tech! This is not the state-of-the-art technology where you can find in some sort of local supermarket. This is something from another dimension and I know someone who works for S.H.I.E.L.D who would love to get his hands on this." Logan stares at his student hard in the eyes, "With your heroic actions I'm surprised he hasn't shown up at the mansion to ask."

Corey's eyes dart, "Who exactly are you worried about?"

"Not worried…more concerned. I fought with him in World War II along with Captain America to end the Nazi Regime. Don't think for a moment that you haven't gotten his attention with your heroics."

"Logan just who are we talking about here?" Corey asks

"His name is Nick Fury, he's the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. The guy knows how to pull a lot of strings to be in his favor. He can be a real…how do I put this…" Logan taps his head then has an 'ah-ha', "…S. O. B, but that's putting it mildly."

Corey shrugs, "And? I had to face a similar organization called Project Cadmus, often referred to simply as Cadmus, it was a secret division of the United States government dedicated to countering the power of metahumans in the world, particularly the members of the Justice League. It's nothing new plus I think this Nick Fury would get along with Amanda Waller just fine."

Logan growls slamming his hand on the panel, Krypto awakens sensing tension he growls. Corey pets the dog as the feral mutant chides him, "Take this serious kid! It will be only a matter of time before they find you and neutralize you."

"I like to see them try." Two glares stare at each other for a moment before the former scoffed, "Now is there anything you would like to discuss with me?"

"Yeah, the training from a few days ago…" Corey heavily sighs, "Ro been on your case since that evening and trying to find out why lost your temper. To be honest I think it's good to see a darker side to you that way we know what exactly we are dealing with here."

"For what exactly?"

"You have the potential to be our greatest ally or our worst nightmare bub. When I look at you, I can see your haunting gaze over everyone at the mansion, you avoid people even though you claim to be friendly with everyone."

"What's your point? You do the same…"

Logan again scoffed, "At least I participate in activities from time to time you on the other hand don't from your time at the mansion."

Corey stands up calmly towering over the older man, "I don't owe you an explanation Logan besides I have been here for a few weeks don't expect me to be open to everyone. If I want to share what's bothering me I will. I don't know what you want from me, to be honest, so excuse me."

Logan watches his retreating back, "Do you always run away from your problems, Star boy?" Corey pauses for a slight moment then continued his way. The man grunts confirming his suspicions, maybe Ororo was on to something with this kid. Perhaps it is best if his white-haired companion does what she needs to do. He'll throw in his two cents if needed.

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Meanwhile on route to the Daily Globe 12:30 pm

Peter picks up lunch for Cindy again, to make sure she doesn't buy anything he called her. After a brief conversation, Cindy accepts his offer and told him she be waiting for him in the lobby.

Felicia leans her head on his shoulder as she briefly takes a power nap on the subway car. The young man turns to his blonde companion tucking a loose strand of hair in her beanie.

Peter's mind then drift to Sable Embassy, he wasn't too sure how he was going to say that he had been held up in not searching. 'My day just getting better and better.' He sighs heavily, 'Can't believe that I neglected to find any clues on Sable, I only did it once and that was it. Some hero I am…'

"Next stop 23rd Street."

The young brunette shakes the blonde, "Wake up."

Now awake Felicia yawns as she cracks her neck rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. They exit the subway, moving past the Daily Bugle, Felicia takes a glance behind her then forward. "So where are we headed?"

"To the Daily Globe, to drop off food for Cindy," Peter responds

"Aww, look at you, being the gentleman." Felicia teases, "Why didn't you ever bring me lunch?"

Peter looks at her with a disbelieving smirk, "We always had take-out for dinner whenever we got together! What are you complaining about?"

"Just saying…you never actually delivered to me my lunch when I was your girlfriend. It makes me feel so unappreciated."

"Is that jealousy I hear?"

"HA!"

They arrive at the front door of the Daily Globe and Cindy zooms at Peter hugging him tightly, she sends a glare at Felicia as the blonde rolls her eyes. Peter hugs her back, "Easy Cindy, it's been since this morning we saw each other."

"Doesn't mean I don't get tired of seeing my boyfriend." She smiles, they kiss briefly as the raven-haired woman takes her lunch.

Before she can leave Peter stops her, "Hold on there, Jethro."

"Peter I'm on my lunch break, I only have an hour."

"I know, I know, I only need 5 minutes." Cindy pauses inclining her ear to him, "Look, tomorrow is the World Unity fair I would like to take you out."

Cindy smiles softly, "Like on a date?"

"A precursor before our dinner date this Saturday." He smiles back, Cindy giggles hugs Peter again, "What do you say?"

She looks up at him again, "It's a date. I do hope that there won't be any more interruptions?" She stares at Felicia who sticks her tongue at her, "Or any hero business that day I hope."

"We'll see, can't promise about the hero business but I will have a handle on Felicia." She chortled; Peter playfully smacked her upside of the head. She glares playfully at him, Peter kiss Cindy's lips, "I'll see you later."

Cindy nods watching as her boyfriend drags Felicia away, despite these setbacks she is ecstatic that finally gets to go on a date with Peter. Hopefully, there will be no interference this time around and redhead symbiote training.

"'Get a handle on me' he says. HA! As if you can say no to me." She bumps him a little with her hip. "Face it Peter I have you wrapped around my fingers."

"Sure, you do." He smirks wrapping an arm around her, Felicia leans her head on his shoulder wrapping her arm around his waist.

They walk for a bit until Felicia speaks, "So how is work with Tony Stark? Hope he is not driving you too hard."

"I wish, with everything going on I barely have time to sit down and create. For now, with some of the ideas I sent to Tony, he's impressed with what I have come up with so far via email and will implant them in his Iron Man armor suit or to better society, but I have to keep showing that I am interested in still working for Stark Industries or else."

Felicia hums, "Typical Parker luck?"

"You can say that again." Peter huffs, "Look we only have three days to come up with a response to your mother what are we going to do about this?"

Felicia pauses in her step, "Well…I don't know…"

Peter blinks, "What do you mean you don't know?"

"Exactly what I mean Peter. I don't know…this was never supposed to happen, I would have never imagined being put in this type of situation. I mean I always wanted to have a family with you, Peter, after Felicity was born and I wanted to get you back…on my terms." Felicia confessed, "But now with you in a relationship with this girl, I don't know…"

'Remember what I said…' Symbian says in his head, 'Informed consent of all partners involved could benefit you in the long run~.'

Peter's lips tighten as he shudders at the mere thought of having a relationship with multiple women, he was raised to respect them not treat them as a piece of meat or just for carnal pleasure. Symbian is trying his inhibition; it's really grating him. Sure it's more than just sex involved yet to have such a state was that even allowed? He sighs, it's too bad that he can combine the three girls to mix and match them, wouldn't that be something to have one girl instead of having his attention divided by three.

The blonde woman can see conflict in his eyes, she wonders what he is thinking right now. His shudder sent an alarm to her, was he against getting back together with her, or was it something else? She is about to open her mouth when Peter says, "Felicia let me ask you something…"

"Sure…"

"Hypothetically speaking…." The brunette began as they walked in the business sidewalk of the Flat Iron district, "Um…how do I word this? What is your opinion on Polyamory?"

Felicia blinks, 'Well that was left field…' She clears her throat, "Well, I mean it has its pros and cons, I've seen that if it goes well, it can be amazing. When things go wrong, polyamory can be terrible, and I mean an absolute disaster. Why do you ask?"

Peter looks down then straight ahead, "Let's just say for example…I am speaking hypothetically here…if I were to…I don't know…enter a relationship with you, Cindy, and let's just say Mary Jane just for the heck of it what would be your opinion on that?"

Felicia does a face, she gives it some thought, 'Mary Jane, Cindy and me in a four-way relationship? Wow, hmm…the only thing all three of us have in common is our love for Peter.' She ponders for another moment, then clicks her tongue. "Well, Peter in my opinion I think you are going to have your hands full with all three of us, more with Cindy than anything else. I don't know her that well and I can't fully give an assessment of her, but I do know she is quick to jealously. However, I can assess myself and the redhead bimbo." Peter looks at her as they stop in front of the crosswalk, "You see, we can't stand or tolerate each other without almost resorting to physical violence, remember when you had Eddie rescue our child?" He nods, "Well, we had a brief discussion and it wasn't pleasant, we both have strong personalities plus much history with each other given what has happened in the past. Besides I don't think we can find anything to be friends over."

"I think you guys can but what's stopping you girls is the ego problem you two have, and you girls haven't forgiven each other for all the unnecessary attacks years prior." Peter offered while Felicia frowns, "Don't look like that Felicia you were the one who started the feud after our breakup if you really want to make amends then you have to apologize to MJ."

"Pfft…as if she is going to let me go anywhere near her." Felicia scoffed, "Besides the point, Mary Jane can be really possessive…"

"Like you…and Cindy…" Peter chides her, "I don't know you guys look like you have much in common. You three don't give up as easily either neither do you let things keep you down for long. The only difference is one loved the masked more than man and vice versa while the third is getting to know me the real me."

"Okay don't bring that up okay, please."

"Felicia, please…I think I made my point a few days ago, no? I am just saying that in a hypothetical situation do you think it could work?"

"There are too many unknowns and variables that point to a no. But is there a slim chance that it has the potential to do the opposite? Yes. That is if something grave were to happen to you then I think we can put aside our differences to settle."

Peter hums, processing what she said, now that his curiosity has been settled, he needed a way to get Lydia off his back.

This time Symbian chimed in, 'You know, something I could wipe her memory, or you know…'

'We are not going to kill her if that's what you are promoting!' Peter mentally yelled, 'Geez, what is with you and killing?'

'I am predator Parker! I need to be free!'

'What you need is to get a hold of your aggression! We agreed that you will not eat or kill!'

'Your no-kill rule is what is going to be tested, what are you going to do when a mad killer is massacring everyone? Remember Kassidy and killing an innocent child? What was your solution? You didn't have one! Who was the one who fried that Carnage-killer? Superman! Sometimes a hero has to make an exception to the rules if others are to survive.'

'There is a flaw in that logic of yours, first Lydia is a very powerful woman with loads of money at her disposal that I wish I could have, and in this world money talks. Second, she is not a supervillain like Rhino or Venom. There is no reason to take it that far.'

'Even for blackmail?'

'Especially for blackmail…'

'Your enemies would consider that weakness but hey what do I know? So, killing her is off the table. What about marrying Cindy and Felicia at the same time in secret?' Peter faltered nearly taking Felicia down with him. The blonde smacked him across the arm while he was regaining his composure.

He had one objection; 'What the actual heck!'

'Hmmm…here I thought you would have a more colorful response…' Symbian cackles

'Oh, trust me I do, but I don't know what I need to do to get it through your big gooey head, both polygamy and bigamy are illegal in every state! You can't bring your stuff from space and try to inflict it here, you got it. Why are you so bent on getting me with multiple partners?'

'I am just saying. Sheesh, you Earthlings and your laws…that's off the table as well…how about erasing her memories?'

Peter is about to respond when something fast and what sounded like a twin-engine of a jet flew overhead. His head snapped upward, eyes widened in shock, face paling "I must be seeing things…it can't be…"

"Peter, what's wrong?"

Flashes of Harry being the Green Goblin race through his eyes, he remembers the day like it was yesterday, the agonizing death of his first love Gwen. Electro caused a blackout the first time and Peter headed off to battle him. Gwen followed him despite his warning not to, and together, they restore power, and overload Electro's body, rendering him unconscious. They were at the OSCORP power plant and then Harry arrives equipped with prototype armor and weaponry.

Upon seeing Gwen, he deduces Spider-Man's secret identity and, swore revenge for being refused the blood transfusion to save his life from a disease that killed his mother. Peter tried to explain why but instead of listening Harry kidnaps and takes Gwen to the top of a clock tower. Peter managed to subdue Harry after a brief fight, but Gwen falls down the tower after a glider tore through the gears of the clocktower. In trying to save her, Peter catches her with a web. But he was too late; Gwen's head hits the floor, killing her instantly. Guilt-ridden Peter grew depressed neglecting his duties as Spider-Man for a time.

Felicia shakes Peter brings him back, "Hey…are you alright."

Peter swallows, "I think I'm going to be sick…is what."

"Peter you were visibly shaking. I can feel the tremor, why did you have that reaction?" Felicia is now concerned.

Peter looks around pulling Felicia along to an alleyway away from prying ears, he looks around making sure the coast was clear. He takes a shaky breath, pinning Felicia to the wall, his gaze downcast, "Before I dated you or MJ…" He pauses swallowing.

Felicia cups both sides of his face, looking very worried for him, "Talk to me…"

The brunette sighs sadly, "I was in a relationship with Gwen Stacy, we bonded over our for science back in the day. She was the one who taught me to be sensitive. It's brought out a hidden desire to protect her. It made me realize how much I want to be with someone I can take care of." Felicia continues to listen to him, "Her sense of self-worth, made her stand out like no other girl, and her love for the family drew me in. Despite her flaws and capability of hurting me. Like when she used other men to make me jealous after I'd turned her down the first time, only to realize how spiteful she'd been and apologized to me."

"That doesn't explain your reaction."

"Please…be quiet and let me continue to explain." Peter says quietly the blonde nods dropping her hands to her side, "I didn't know it at the time, after being surrounded with much violence of being Spider-Man that I needed an emotional crutch and Gwen provided this for me. On her own, too, Gwen was known to be a feisty yet sensitive person who was in touch with her emotions. Unlike you or Mary Jane, who kept their emotions buried, Gwen let them be known to me. This allowed us to be honest with one another, and Gwen's openness with her happiness or sadness meant that I didn't have to bottle my feelings up either. Which lead me to reveal my identity to her about being Spider-Man."

Peter pauses, "It had its up and down, but there was mutual trust between us, I hid nothing from her, and she loved both sides of me, unlike you or MJ who only like a part of me."

Felicia cringed.

"Fast forward on that fateful day, Gwen helped me with Electro despite my best efforts to stop her, but she can be stubborn and wouldn't take no for an answer. To her we were a team, the dynamic duo that was until…my former friend Harry…got to Gwen first."

"What do you mean? Who's Harry?"

"You never met him; he is the son of the CEO of OSCORP Norman Osborn. I want to explain that Harry wanted an audience with Spider-Man, you see he was terminally ill, it was a disease that he inherited from his mother it is called Retroviral Hypodysplasia… a genetic disorder that first starts showing in people at the age of 20. The disease spans over a time of up to 40 years causing internal pain and changing the appearance of its victims. It gives them features such as scaly skin, rashes that cause the skin to shed, and patches to appear on the skin in certain places with a green and scaly texture to them. Harry's first symptoms of the illness showed, and he uses a device his father gives him to deduce that Spider-Man's blood could help 'save' him. He asks me since at that time I was selling photos of Spider-Man to the Daily Bugle, to aid him in finding Spider-Man. I refused, unsure of what effects the transfusion would have, and the possibility of Harry suffering a mutation like Dr. Curt Connors two years prior."

"You refused him," Felicia stated

"I did it for his safety after I did some research on the disease. I even went to his home as my alter ego to refuse him a second time, he did not take well. Can you imagine what it could have done to him? If gave him my blood who knows what could have happened. Anyway, to make a long story short; Electro was up to his power-hunger vices again and Gwen and I stopped him however I was not anticipating Harry who at this point mutated into the Green Goblin after taking some experimental green formula to come to duke it out with me."

Felicia's eye furrows she caresses his cheek as he pauses, tears well up in his eyes as he remembers the fall of Gwen.

"He should have never gotten her involved; my first love taken so soon. I never got a chance to go with her to London for her Oxford scholarship. I promised her father…t-that I would…p-pr-pro…"

"Shh…Peter…" Felica envelopes him in a hug, he hugs her tightly but not too tight. He weeps burying his head into her hair. It was then Felicia finally realized what was missing in Peter's life stability…a chance that she never truly gave him. A missed opportunity by her and Mary Jane, something that a rebound girl like Cindy could never understand unless time passed.

Felicia then thinks, 'Unfortunately, you have two ends of the spectrums one who loves the man more than the spider. I only loved the concept of the mask instead of the man. And finally, the middle ground who is starting to understand and trying to love both sides of the same person. Damn! This is a messed-up situation even for me, it's too bad we can't mix & match.'

Peter finally regains his composure, "I'm sorry about that…"

"No Peter don't be bottling up your emotions not this time." Felicia rubs his cheek with her thumb, "Peter, I-I…I'm truly sorry."

"For?" He wipes his eyes

"Not giving you what you wanted in the first place. I finally realize what you wanted was someone to share your life not just in the mask but outside of it too in other words stability." Felicia's shoulders slump, "I'm such a screw-up and Mary Jane royally screwed up but now you have to deal with a rebound girl…"

"Cindy is not a rebound."

"Whatever flips your boat, she's the rebound girl. You should have waited a while before getting involved again especially at the level you were at with red." Felicia takes him out of the alley

"We are taking things slow Felicia if this doesn't work out then it doesn't, we'll be friends."

"Is that what you truly want?" Peter shrugs, "I mean this could be a good thing, that she's on the rebound. Maybe this rebounds relationship could help you or her with high attachment anxiety to server their emotional attachment to the ex-partners and maybe helps you get over the anger at the ex and move on with their lives." Felicia slams her hand over her mouth in the realization of what she said, 'WHAT AM I DOING?!'

"It could be…"

They are silent for several minutes then Felicia speaks, "Marry me."

"WHAT!" People jumped at Peter's exclamation before minding their own business again.

"Peter, I see no alternatives."

"Felicia I can't do that; you know how I feel about this whole blackmail thing and…hmmph"

Felicia places a finger on his lips, "Stop living in the past, stop bringing that up. I already apologized, what's done is done. I know you are with another woman Peter let it go! I'm not doing this for my sake (*cough* Yes she is *cough*) but for our daughters."

"There is always an alternative."

"Really?" She challenged, "Then I'm all ears in what genius plan you have to stop this blackmail from ensuring."

"…" Peter rapidly thinks. Felicia looks at him sternly, 'Shoot, she got me there, or does she?' Peter clears his throat, "Well we can always use the symbiote to wipe her memories away."

"Hmph, oh? With memories gaps? Peter please the moment you try something like that she is going to investigate why she has memory loss. You don't know my mother as I do."

"Well then use your resources! I mean you have lawyers…"

"My mother has connections in the higher seat of power I would only dream of having. That also includes the FBI in her back pocket. I hate to break it to you Peter but if think you are going to outsource my mother you have another thing coming."

Before he could reply his phone begins to ring effectively shutting down his response as he looks at the unknown caller id. He picks it up, "Hello?"

The voice of Taskmaster sounds, "Hello Spider-Man, miss me yet?"

"Taskmaster…" Peter growled; Felicia's eyes narrow "How the heck do you getting my number?"

"Your frequency isn't well guarded it's easy to pick up on you."

"What do you want?"

"Just to give you an anonymous tip, King Pin plans on robbing or destroying the Daily Bugle. I'm pretty sure your familiar with that place giving it has your reputation on the line."

"Dude, nobody reads the newspaper anymore."

"Better hurry, lives are at stake."

The call ends, Peter grits his teeth once again going back into an alleyway making sure there is no one there. He morphs into his high-tech costume then looks at Felicia, "Please tell me you got your costume."

"Sadly, no not this time. But I will try to be incognito as much as possible and take a cab to the penthouse."

Spidey nods spin a web but is stopped by the blonde. He looks at her, she then plants a kiss on his lips, he responds. When they break apart, she softly says "Please think about what I said and be careful."

He nods then swings away. As he swings, he thinks out loud, "I need to make sure that Harry's not back."

It didn't take long for him to land on top of the Bugle, one problem there is no attack. Spidey looked around nothing is unusual, that's when he heard the rushing sirens speeding by, he goes to the edge cat stance looking down at NYPD's finest racing by.

'Something tells me that the Bugle is not the intended target.'

Spidey optic narrow, "I got a bad feeling about this."

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Daily Globe 12:50 pm

Cindy enjoyed her time alone away from eyes and ears, after being alone for long with minimal talk with the outside world she feared her co-workers apart from a few people which included her boyfriend, Teresa, April, and her boss, she couldn't handle being judged by others or being watched. She knew that cannot handle larger groups of people; the cubicle gave her some comfort knowing that she didn't need to talk with anyone else.

She enjoyed her sandwich immensely, but her peace was about to get a reality check. She could hear April's voice, but the others were unfamiliar, she swallowed dryly. She had no time to pack up her stuff when…

"Cindy!"

"Eep!"

"Just the girl I wanted to introduce," April said with glee.

Now standing before her were about 6 people, one she already knew and the other 5 she did not. She begins to blush as perspiration begins to appear on her forehead, 'Crap, they are staring at me, what do I do, what do I do?'

April doesn't take note of the panic attack Cindy is having. She introduces her colleagues, "Cindy I would like to introduce you to some of the staff here, this Rachel Christopher, we call her 'Rafferty'." The white young blonde woman says hello, she has on a light blue button shirt with white pants and white and blue sneakers, she wears glasses.

Cindy stiffly nods not trusting her voice.

"Then we have Natalie Long, she's another news reporter for The Fact Channel News." The Asian woman stares at another young woman, she notes that she is strawberry blonde and a bit tan wearing a plaid shirt with jeans. April continues, "Then we have Charlie, our technical support whenever our equipment is failing."

He is a man around his 30's he gives a polite smile and waves at the girl, she responds with an awkward wave of her own. He is tall and a bit buff-toned, the man knows how to keep himself in shape from what she could tell as Cindy swallows. He wears a black shirt with cargo pants and black shoes.

"Last but not least Lola Peterson she's our makeup director for the Fact News Channel," April says pointing to the pink-haired woman. She wears a yellow blouse and tight jeans, Cindy notes that she is dark-skinned with bright pink lipstick.

"H-h-hi…g-g-guys…" She responds, 'That was lame!' She mentality chided herself

"Hey, nice to meet you," Rachel says coming up to Cindy and embracing her

Cindy is so stiff that she felt her mind going blank. She didn't know what to do in this situation luckily Lola came to her rescue.

"Rachel lay off her! Can't you see you are making her uncomfortable?"

The blonde girl with glasses separates quickly, "I'm so sorry I didn't mean it I swear!"

"It…f-f-f-fine."

Charlie then speaks up noticing the sweat dripping down her forehead, "Are you alright Cindy? You look pale."

April notices this as well, "Are you okay, did you have a bad lunch?"

"N-n-no…" She tries to reassure, "I-I-I-I-I…" The raven-haired beauty feels nauseous in her stomach and the bile rising in her throat, "PLEASE EXCUSE ME!"

She dashes out of the lunchroom quickly puzzling the 6 Globe employees, April is stunned at the reaction, she clicks her tongue, "I wasn't expecting that."

"Give her time maybe she's a bit shy," Charlie says

"I think she's kind of cute." All eyes turn to Lola, she looks back at them puzzled then she gets offended, "What, I can't make an observation?"

In the lady's room, Cindy washes her face, her whole body was trembling, and her hands couldn't stop shaking violently. She needed to go home; she can't stand it! If she must interact with someone else, it would be too soon.

Shakily she goes to Mr. Buskins' office knocking on it while his sectary tried to tell her that he was on a phone call. Noting the shakiness of Cindy, she goes in and talks to him. A few moments later the sectary comes out, "He will see briefly make it quick."

Cindy nods.

"Cindy come in, please. Make it qu-are you alright?" The man asks concerned, "You're shaking like a rattle-snakes tail."

"C-c-can I-I…g-g-go h-h-home? I'll w-w-wo-work…fr-fr-from…th-th-there." Cindy stammers uncontrollably.

"Sure, sure just take the laptop and go, you don't look too good kid."

Cindy quickly nods and leaves frantically to her desk, gathers her stuff, and leaves the building by taking the stairs. Once she is out avoiding people, she makes a dash to the nearest alleyway to get into her costume. When she is done, she takes off with her bag at her side but that's when she hears the sirens.

"R-r-really?"

She groans and decides to investigate what the commotion is all about, she lands on a nearby building when she arrives. She sees that police are pinned down by heavily armed men in tech suits, again she groans. Webbing her bag on the floor she makes sure that nothing would touch it and goes on the offensive. She swings down with a swing kick knocking out one of the goons.

One of the goons radioed in, "Spider-girl sighted get her!"

They began to fire rapidly despite her anxiety at its peak she tries to remain calm, "T-t-th-the is S-s-silk!"

She dodges another blast of laser fire as she web yanks the gun away then proceeds to hold it down to the ground. Her spider senses go haywire as clutches her head in pain, 'Not now!'

A mech suit flies down to her location then smacks her away, Silk rolls to a stop not too far from a police car. Shakily, she gets up as her body was continuing to shake uncontrollably. The mech stomps got louder and louder until finally, it stopped she turns around with the gun pointing at her face.

The shaking did not stop, as she saw the glow of the gun of the mech, before it fired the blast it was dislodged from its mechanical arm by a black blur. A feral scream echoed as the mech suit began to stutter and shut down.

Spider-Man made his presence known when he scoped up Silk in his arms bridal and bounced away, when they reached a building Spider-Man can feel her tremors. He held her tightly, "Silk talk to me, I can feel your anxiety, and aren't you supposed to be at work?"

"S-s-s-sorry…t-t-too m-much s-s-soicli-z-z-zing…c-c-ca-can't stop…sh-sh-sha-k-k-king or st-st-am-mer-r-ring."

Spider-Man hears more gunshots, he knew he had to get back into the fight, but the first thing was first, he intertwines his fingers with Silk, "Take a deep a breath and listen to the sound of my voice…"

She nods stiffly.

"Focus on my voice close your eyes and take a deep breath…"

She does it.

"Now exhale…" Spider-Man watches as she does, "Now inhale…then exhale…"

Silk calms down for a bit as Spider-Man leaves her sitting on the rooftop as he goes back to take care of King Pin's high-tech goons and not the Green Goblin ariel flyers. Silk closes her eyes and takes a deep breath then she exhales slowly. She begins to experience some calmness, but she wasn't quite there.

The trembling hasn't stopped but now she is feeling a bit better not to stammer a lot, she goes down to the street where police are still scrambling to repel this assault on…on…where was this place anyway? Silk approaches the officer shouting commands as Spider-Man jumps from the sky.

"Return fire keep them busy!"

"Hey, officer what would you like me to do?" Spider-Man asks

"Do what you have to Spider-Man, but we don't have enough firepower to repel them." The officer then looks overhead, "What are they doing now?!"

Both Silk and Spidey watch as on the glider flyers lands a high-tech grunt with a bomb attached to his back. This alarms the three, and Silk is having a flashback to what Luke Carlyle did to the helicopter.

"Get to the bombs! They are trying to blow up the courthouse!"

Just then another web-slinger joins the battle, Spinneret lands on the police car face looking determined, "Hey guys what goes on." Silk recognizes Mary Jane's voice, "What can I do to help?"

"Spinneret! Glad you're here, we need to take out those bombs, Silk you are on cleanup duty can you, do it?" The Asian girl nods, "Well let's get to work, take care of the bombers."

It was hard work between the three of them, they managed to do it. Silk despite her conditions, managed to stop 3 bombers from planting them on the courthouse while taking care of ground troops.

Silk spins a web to the back of a high-tech goon to fly as she punches him in the face, the man grunts but unleashes a wave of power pushing her back. Skidding across the pavement, the hero in training pants heavily.

She gave a hard 'tsk', then she takes off and slammed into the tech man with her feet who staggers and throws the bomb into the air. Silk catches it with webbing before calling out for the bomb squad to dispose of it.

Meanwhile Spinneret and Spider-Man race around the courthouse checking every possible small area to find any bombs to give to the bomb squad. Some of the glider flyers gave some trouble, Spidey took care of them while MJ did her job.

Spidey spots another goon trying to launch a bomb, he intersects the man with a tendril attack flying towards him before doing a punch, roundhouse kick then mule kick to the face finishing him off with a jump roundhouse kick knocking him out cold. A total of 30 minutes passed and all that was left were discarded mech pieces and unconscious goons' litter throughout the place.

The officer took off his hat wiping the sweat from his brow, "I don't care what the Bugle says about you Spider-Man, the city needs you whether they know it or not, so thank you."

Spider-Man nods his head and the trio met on another building surveying the scene, Silk is still trembling which doesn't go unnoticed by MJ. The young woman places her hand on her shoulder, "You, okay?"

"Sorry, just not used to being around a lot of people at my job." She speaks lowly clearly embarrassed

Spinneret hugs the Asian girl cooing and speaking softly to her, Cindy places her head on her shoulder. MJ then asks, "How come you're comfortable speaking to us then?"

"It's different when you are out in the open versus being inside a small office space especially a small lunchroom. I sort of panicked…" Silk responds truthfully

Spinneret hums as she continues to pass her hand through her hair, it calms her down. Spider-Man on the other hand is puzzled by the gliders. "Okay, so neither the Hobgoblin nor the Green Goblin then how did Fisk replicate the technology? I need a sample." He spots a discarded glider and jumps to get it, he snuck by NYPD finest and took a sample of the glider tech before returning to Silk and Spinneret.

"So, MJ how did you know that Flat Iron was the target?"

"Well, a funny thing you should ask, I was watching TV with Gayle and then breaking news came on that the Flat Iron district is being attacked. I've been practicing with Scream to morph my costume but the moment I did that, Gayle…got weird…"

"What do you mean by 'weird'?" Spider-Man asks

"I can't explain it, but I thought I saw something black crawling up her neck." This alarms Spider-Man, "I figured I was hallucinating because when I rubbed my eyes it was gone or it was never really there."

'Do you know what this means? Can you tell me what Venom is up to?'

'I haven't got the foggiest idea what this could mean.' Symbian replies truthfully, 'I'll check with the other and see if I can pull something pull something up.' As Symbian tries to get the link up with the main Venom suit Spider-Man duality sense tingles

'Duality sense is tingling!'

He dodges another incoming electric band wrap as does Silk and Spinneret, smoke fills the area, and out of it comes Taskmaster, "Hello Spider, ready for round two?"

From his position, Peter, growls, "If you know my every move, then you know how this is going to go down!"

Taskmaster twirls his blade onto his shoulders, "Surprise me if you can."

Spider-Man begins the fight by webbing a nearby sandbag and hurling it at Taskmaster the man is blind for the moment allowing Spider-Man to go on the offensive, he punches Taskmaster then follows it with a roundhouse kick to the face with a mule kick then flip kick.

But the assassin pushes him back and does his own version of 'webbing' and twirls a cinder block at Spidey who dodges it, "HEY! I'm going to sue you for copying my moves! That's a Spider-Man original!"

He spins a web to fly but Taskmaster anticipates this and headbutts Spider-Man in the face. It causes the web-slinger to stagger for the moment, "Watching you fight those men taught me all your moves." He demonstrates as he flips kicks Spider-Man into the air and does a spinning midair kick one of Spidey finishers. He grunts as he falters back landing on his back, "You can either take this seriously or you can die."

'Damn that was one of my finishers, so that what is it feels like.' Spinneret and Silk come to his aid standing before Taskmaster.

"More playthings? You shouldn't have."

He gets up and places both his hands on their shoulders, "Don't fight him, he can copy your move sets let me handle him. You guys are still in training so please."

"Spider-Man that is a bad idea." Spinneret speaks annoyed, "We can help you, three of us against him is like a cakewalk."

"No!" Spidey puts his foot down, "You'll only get in my way, this is between me and him. He's after Black Cat and I'm ending this fight right here!"

Both female arachnids-themed heroines look at each other than back the skull masked man, then at Spider-Man. He nods to them; Spinneret grits her teeth she hated being useless, but she'll trust Peter's judgment.

'The other is not letting me know what is happening, it's like he's trying to block me out from seeing despite our connection.'

'Worry about that later, the kiddie gloves are coming off.' Spider-Man cracks his knuckles

Symbian cackles, 'Finally taking this seriously Parker? About time. No more holding back finish him off!'

Spider-Man spins a web to another cinderblock disorientating Taskmaster however he spins another web propelling him forward with a left punch ready to hit. It lands on the assassin as Spidey gets a few good hits.

The skull masked man counters with a spinning kick and tries to double kick Spider-Man away, the wallcrawler dodges the attack by flipping backward.

"You favor your right leg. I noticed when you were taking down King Pin's armed forces."

"You'll notice it again when I kick you in the face!" He webs yanks the mercenary causing him to lose his footing he comes again with a web strike, but this time Taskmaster is prepared and unleashes his sword striking the air.

Spidey dodges back as the man taunts him, "Come on that's pathetic." He charges up a punch and slams it to the ground creating an explosion wave of energy to hit Spider-Man knocking out C.O.D.E.C.

He handsprings backward landing on the water tank, he gazes at Taskmaster as Symbian chides, 'So is this the kiddie gloves coming off?'

'Oh, oh, ha, ha, oh no, not even close. I have been developing this special move for the last 9 years ever since I met Shang Chi back in high school when he was doing a demonstration for the entire Midtown High School, and it was during that fight with Midnight. I asked him if he could teach me some Kung Fu, after that, I spent the next week and a half training with him to develop my own style combining that of my spider-sense with my freestyle brawl, it's not perfect but it gets the job done.' Spider-Man mentally replied with pride

'Interesting and what exactly is this move called?'

He says nothing as he smirks, now the symbiote was very intrigued, but then Taskmaster taunts him again, "What's the matter scared to fight me?"

Spinneret and Silk grit their teeth, they wanted to help Spider-Man, but he told them to stay out of this fight as this villain in front of them can copy their moves. Judging from the fight they knew they were in over their heads with this one. MJ looks at Peter unsure what he was planning then she notices him tense up.

"You can copy my moves, right?"

"Yeah? What about it?"

"Let's see you copy this copycat. Get ready! MAXIMUM SPIDER!" It happened so fast that the girls couldn't keep up with Peter not even Taskmaster was ready for the attack. Spider-Man vaults forward and performs a flying kick through his opponent launching him into the air and following it up with a flying punch to the stomach he uses the water tank and an AC unit as springboards for his attack.

Spidey follows through for another flying kick ensnaring him in a series of webs before finishing him off with a powerful foot-stomp to send his opponent crashing down onto the rooftop. Taskmaster groans in pain, he couldn't keep pace with Spider-Man, he webbed down to the floor, "School out Taskmaster I'll let the authorities know you are here and maybe this will teach you not to mess with my allies. Stay away from Black Cat!"

As Spider-Man leaves Taskmaster speaks, "You're wasting your time helping these ungrateful people, you know." Spidey pauses, "I been reading all the articles I can on you since our encounter, you're wasting your talent. I know of an organization that could use a set of your skills."

Spidey shot back, "I'd rather be J. Jonah Jameson foot masseur than work for an organization that hires you."

The man laughs, "Your loss. They pay six figures, but I guess some people deserve to be poor. About Black Cat...I'll leave her alone for now…I will be back." He rips through the webbing and unleashes a smoke bomb by the time Spinneret and Silk try to subdue him he is gone.

"Six figures…"

'Tempting…'

"Spider-Man you are not really thinking about that are you?" Silk asks concerned

"Nah."

"What about Felicia? He'll come for her eventually."

"Let him come, I'll tear him apart."

Just then a red Tandem rotor helicopter flies around overhead, a few high-tech goons are picked up and flown out of the Flat Iron district. Spider-Man watches as glider flyer catches up to the copter and is about to give chase when suddenly C.O.D.E.C speaks, "Incoming call Spider-Man."

"Ugh, who is it this time?"

"From Superman."

Peter did a double-take placing a hand to his ear, "How did he crack my frequency."

"Well, if you're wondering about that then get a better security system. And remember I had to modify your suit to keep up with the wind resistance of the speed that I was going to find the art piece."

"Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that." The girls are curious about who Peter is talking to, they lean in as they listen to the conversation, "So what do I owe the pleasure?"

"Our person of interest Sybil Dvorak made the foolish mistake in using a credit card to buy medical supplies, but not only medical supplies shady stuff as well and purchases of illegal narcotics and…"Superman sounded uncomfortable about saying something else, "I also want to point out that she umm…also umm…how do I say this?"

"Come on man spit it out!" Superman clears his throat whispering something Spider-Man couldn't understand, "Speak a little louder I didn't catch that."

"She…went to an adult store…"

"Okay and?"

Superman grunts, "Come on man, you an intelligent life form, you do the math! She goes buy adult-rated content at this store; she has a woman as a hostage! What do you think she's planning on doing with that?"

Spider-Man optic widen like saucers, "Oh s***! How fast can you get here!"

"I'm already here." Superman X states. The girls jump when they see a very tall muscular man behind him with his red cape blowing in the gentle breeze.

Spider-Man turns and the two shake hands as the former walks up to him, "Nice timing. With this transaction how fast do you think you can get where she's hiding?"

Superman turns his palm upward, "Gam-Vil estimate time to track Ms. Dvorak?"

"One moment sir…" The AI processors hold for a moment then a counter appears, "It will take about midnight sir, it's the fastest that I can do."

"C.O.D.E.C time?"

"Current time is 1:50 pm, you currently have 10 hours to kill so to speak."

Spinneret is lost on this, "Can someone explain to me who we are looking for?" Silk filled her in on the details, "What are we waiting for then? Let's go find this Lorina woman and be done with it."

"It's not that simple…" Superman says rubbing his chin, "We don't want to alert her that we know that she has this woman. Any sudden moves and we could lose the trail, while Gam-Vil is tracking her down, we must do other tasks."

"Speaking of task…Can you help me find a woman by the name of Silvia 'Silver' Sable, she has been missing for days now, and I haven't begun to search for this woman."

"What happened?"

"You see a very close relative was taken hostage by King Pin which led to a temporary team up with my nemesis to break out of the fat cookie monster tower. After the mission, the truce ended, and we found Sable at her embassy, Venom took her to get information about…"

As Spider-Man explains the situation the girls make their huddle and talk in hush tones, Spinneret scanning the man from head to toe, "So who's the new guy?"

"You know that blur running around New York?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, it turns out that blur was none other than Superman X." Silk responds, she looks at her hand, it isn't as bad with the shaking, "He has helped out for in a few instances."

"Really? How come we never heard of him until now?"

Silk looks at her companion, "He's from another dimension, I always read about superheroes like Superman X in the comics but to actually see him standing there is surreal…OH!"

"What?"

"I need to ask if he is willing to do an interview with me, guess I don't have to wait long then." Silk then goes up to him, "Hey Superman?"

The man of steel in training turns to the smaller woman, "Yes?"

"Can you do an interview with me since you are a new superhero here in New York?"

Corey folds his arms and thinks, he gives a small 'hmm'. It didn't take long to reach the conclusion that Silk wanted to hear, "I'll do it after this fiasco is over, just let me know when and where."

Silk's eye smiled, she nods her head rushes in with a hug, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Superman pats her on the head chuckling at her childish antics, Spidey shakes his head snorting, and proceeds to remove his girlfriend from the big guy, "Okay, down girl, down."

Spinneret comes close as Superman notices her, "I don't think we've met."

"No, I'm new at this, Spinneret."

"Superman X." The two shake hands, "Pleasure to meet your acquaintance."

"Likewise…" Being up close to the man she comments "You're tall…"

The young hero laughs, "I get that a lot." Then he refocuses on Spidey, "The offer still stands Spider-Man, about the X-Men and joining them…"

"The thing is I'm not a mutant besides my place is here in the city. No one else is going to take care of it plus I got my hands full with training my girlfriend and friend." He responds truthfully hugging Silk resting his chin on her shoulder

"I'm pretty sure you can work something out with Xavier we do have a Danger Room for training if that's what you are worried about."

"I'll think about it…" Spidey responds, he then gets an idea, "Hey can you do a quick scan of this?" He throws him a piece of glider tech. Catching it X pushes some buttons on his suit forearm making Peter more jealous. His high-tech hologram appeared around his wrist, Peter mutters "Show off…"

"Don't be jelly now."

"Grr…"

Silk elbows him causing him to grunt, he hugs her tighter much to MJ's jealously, he used to do that with her a lot. She does miss the days where Peter would hug her, and they would spend the night in Central Park on his web just star gazing. Maybe with this superhero business, they can start a new relationship? She shudders, she pats herself in the face, what is thinking? She promised that she would not chase after him no matter how much she wanted him back. Spinneret sighs, perhaps leaving Peter was the wrong decision to make…

"Done. I'll send you the information to where you can track this type of tech it has a unique energy signature."

Spidey frowned, "Why do I get the feeling when you say energy signature, these henchmen are rocking a secret base. You know they tend to do that."

Off the heroes went and soon they found themselves traveling to Hunts Point, Superman was already waiting for them when they arrived Spinneret couldn't believe her eyes when he zoomed off at super speed.

"I will wait for you here and be on the lookout for any trouble."

Spidey gives a thumbs up and motions for Silk to come with him while he tells Spinneret to stay with Superman. The redhead is not amused, "Spider-Man that's not fair! I want to help you know!"

Superman places a hand on her shoulder, "It's better if we split into two groups. I want to point out it's also not always about punching the bad guy and saving the day, some things need to be done in secret to get the drop on the villains or to learn more about what is truly going on."

Spinneret throws her hands up in the air, "Whatever!" She goes to the edge of the building hugging herself. X jerks his finger towards her and Spidey waves him off as if to tell him not to worry. Silk opens the latch and the duo enters the building.

They walk down the hallway and Spidey jokes, "Well this place has all the tale-tell signs of a secret base."

Silk spots someone in the distance, "Hey who's that?"

From behind Spider-Man recognizes his old foe facing a bench with green energy hitting something, "So is this your new line of work Goblin-r-us?"

The bald man turns unamused by his nemesis, "Leave now while you still can."

"Yeah, Vultchy I'm going to have to decline but I'm glad you found a new line of work in the criminal underworld."

The man spins around fury in his face, "I'm warning you web-slinger!" He raises his arms high and soon wing looking knives start to spin overhead as they form in his back creating metal wings, "I'm more powerful than ever!"

"Oh boy…"

Vulture lunges at Spider-Man and Silk grabbing both then bursting through the window it causes Spinneret and Superman to spin around to see their comrades being thrown off the building. They both spun webs landing on the side of the building before getting into fighting stances when they reached the rooftop.

"Who is that!"

"That's Vulture a flying intellectually brilliant rogue in the fields of electronics and mechanical engineering, with a great talent for invention as you can see from the wings. I hope you are ready for aerial combat and have been practicing with heights."

"H-heights?" Silk eyes widen in shock

Both spider-sense tingle and they dodge the charging Vulture, just then more men high-tech goons coming climbing up the side of the building. Spider-Man is not impressed, "Oh that does it! I'm going to sue you guys for stealing my wallcrawling!"

"Beat bad guys now joke later!" Spinneret yells out as she punches one of the goons in the face and webs another leg tripping them to the ground. She lets out another webbing trapping two foes together before she slammed them to the ground overhead.

Superman merely incapacitated his foes by pressure point and super speed, they had no chance to hit him. He glances at Spinneret she is surrounded but he charges in knocks out a few, he grabs her by the hand twirls her around while she did the walking kick against the high-tech goons in a circle.

He twirls while dipping her, "Olay…"

She smirks pushing him back, "Down boy." He laughs up righting her, they watch as more high-tech goons rush then, "They don't give up easily, do they?"

At the same time, Silk and Spider-Man are dodging more of those knife wings as Vulture keeps sending them out and reforming them. Spider-Man goes and spins a web towards Vulture doing a handspring on trying to send him to his partner Silk. He succeeds as she roundhouse kicks him in the face.

The older man grunts in pain as he flies away to get distance, but Spider-Man isn't going to let him go that easily, he sends another web line, and this time uses his feet to stomp on his face.

Vulture clutches his face, "ARGH! I'll tear you to pieces for that!"

He lands on the rooftop, just when the two lovers are reunited Silk's spider-sense went haywire affecting Spider-Man as well.

"GAH!"

This is when Vulture struck, he swoops in and grabs Silk making her go airborne along with him, Spider-Man swore under his breath, he is about to go after Silk, but Vulture stops him. "Not so fast Spider-Man and allies!" All three heroes glance up, Silk struggles under his grasp with a knife wing towards her neck. "One more step and I'll slice her neck."

Spidey saw red but Superman stops him but grabbing him on the shoulders, he turns to the man of steel aggressively. The taller man shakes his head from side to side, "Think before you leap, do you have the response time to get to your partner in time."

Peter growls, he looks at Vulture "This is between you and me Buzzard breath! Let her go!"

"And lose the only thing that is stopping you from attacking me? I think not! If you wish to see her go free then meet me at our first location!" Just then more flyers came by, "It's about time you fools came! Finish them off!"

He flies off with Silk in tow, Spider-Man optic narrow with his fist cracking, "I've got to figure out why Silk's Spider-sense is always going haywire whenever there is no danger."

"Spider-Man you go and save Silk; the big guy and I got the flyers." Spinneret hugs Spider-Man, he tucks a rogue strand of hair behind her ear.

"Be careful this is the first time you'll be doing aerial combat." He turns to Superman, "Watch out for her please."

Superman X nods as Spider-Man races off to fight Vulture. Now alone with a handful of flyers, the two heroes look at each other and nod.

'If only I had my flight ready to go this would be fine, but I don't, looks like I'm going to have to improvise.'

Spinneret then speaks, "How many do you think they are?"

"About 24 of them, think you can pull it off?"

"I can try…"

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Meanwhile, Vulture flies while Silk struggles against her restraints which have her arms pinned to her side, "What is this…ergh…thing made of!"

"That my dear is smart nanite bonds, I've designed it for the wall-crawling nuisance, but I think you'll do as a test run for it and the more you struggle the more it will constrict until popping you like a cherry."

Silk pants stop her struggle, she can feel her ribs being under pressure, she looks back and, in the distance, she can see Spider-Man racing towards her. Vulture looks back as well, "Pest!"

He flies faster prompting Spider-Man to swing faster with the aid of the symbiote, he was in hearing distance, "Hey Vulture didn't your mother ever teach you that kidnapping is wrong!"

"You're too persistent, web-slinger! You can never leave me alone to work in peace, I'll deal with you and your company in a moment!"

He chases him around until they reach a building with a billboard on it, Vulture has a devilish smirk, "What's is going to be Spider-Man?! The life of one or the life of many?!" He uses his wings and destroys the support beams for the billboard.

"You couldn't just settle for personal disagreement could you baldly!" Spidey lands on the building that held a coke advertisement, quickly he spins webbing to catch and stabilize the board.

While he did that Vulture is on the move again, Spider-Man grits his teeth as not far from their location the older man had the gall to target a water tank, "Those people down there look thirsty how about I serve them a drink?"

"I think the people of the city got enough rain last night thank you very much! And leave them out of this! This is between you and me Vulture!"

"Let's agree to disagree!"

Spider-Man uses his tendrils to catch the water tank and uses more to tie off the support beams, reinforcing them with webs, "I hardly think that this is fair!" He gets the idea and disappears.

Vulture is dumbfounded, this was new even to him, Spider-Man never showed the ability to camouflage. Then again, he didn't really get a good look at the web-slinger or the costume that he wore.

"Where are you?"

A sudden impact on his back caused Vulture to lose his grip on Silk as she plummeted down to the ground screaming at the top of her lungs.

"SILK!" Everything was moving in slow motion as flashbacks of Gwen falling to her death shook him to the core. Like a bullet, Spider-Man launches down from Vulture hurling himself towards the falling Silk to Peter, it was like he was watching her again with that same expression that said her life was flashing through her eyes.

He is gaining distance and getting closer and closer with his adrenaline kicking in as all his focus was on getting to her. He will not allow history to repeat itself, not here, not now, and never again!

Firing two strings of webbing he propels himself even faster catching up to his falling companion. He grabs Silk in a bear hug then fired another web line swinging through the busy streets with people dodging the fast-approaching Spider-Man.

Cindy is gasping for air as tears fell from her eyes trembling, "He…he…"

Spider-Man lands on a nearby building wrapping his arms around her restricted body as he hugs her, "Easy Cindy, easy, I got you…I won't let anything happen to you…not again…"

The moment is interrupted when Vulture calls him out, "Curse you Spider-Man, and your constant meddling!"

Spidey is seething with anger, Silk is sacred for her boyfriend, "P-Spider-Man no…don't…" She remembers the words he gave her, "Sometimes, that side of me pops up from time to time. You saw what happened to Teresa. If she is my last living relative then you can bet your head, I'm going to protect my own, including you. That doesn't mean; however, I will kill..."

With a feral cry, Spider-Man leaves the bound Silk on the rooftop. This surprises Vulture when he reaches his height. Silk is still trapped in her restraints and can't do anything to help her boyfriend out, just then a voice calls out to her.

"There you are!"

Silk turns to see Teresa climbing up the escape ladder, rushing towards her.

"Teresa…but how did you find us?"

"You can thank the cat-b**** for giving me the tip that something was going down when she got home. Even thank the citizen of New York when I asked some of them if they saw any outing of Spider-Man…it was tracking you guys down and what are you wearing?"

Teresa tugs at the binds but they constrict even more around Silk. "Stop! My ribs are about to crack…there smart nanites constrictors, every time I try to break free, they tighten more…"

Teresa pulls out an EMP grenade, "Hold still this may sting a lot…please endure it and try to break free."

Spider-Man does a mid-air mule kick following it up with a downward hammer fist, before striking the mechanic with one punch. Now they are in a downward freefall and the older man was not going to allow more attacks and punches Spider-Man face and grabs him then flips him downward to have him eat concrete.

The wall-crawler kicks him away into a building, he spins a web to twirl him, but Vulture sends out a horde of his wings to impale him. He burst the tight circle of knives open and begins to run on them to reach Vulture to once again kick him to the building.

The old mechanic summons his wings to try to grab Spider-Man, but the wall-crawler vaults over him and web sling him into the same building. Vulture grunts in pain, angered by his nemesis, he swoops at him again, but he dodges, he tries again but Spidey dodges again. They begin to tussle with the winged mechanic tries kicking him, but the hero proves too fast.

Spider-Man sees that they are about 4 stories from the ground. As he did with Taskmaster stomps Vulture all the way to the ground, effectively knocking him out. He spots a billboard grabbing the old man and proceeds to stick him there.

Vulture comes to spotting Spider-Man right below him as he tries to escape his web prison to no avail, Spider-Man then speaks, "Okay buzzard breath! Merry Christmas, cops will be here soon to put you back in the coop! Cross me or take my girlfriend hostage again and I'll do more than take your wings! So, you owe me one."

"Of course, I won't do it again, you won't regret this."

He swings away back to where Silk is, when he gets back, he notices Superman X there examining the nanite bonds with Spinneret helping the Asian to her feet she is smoking and getting up groggily from the EMP attack.

He is surprised to see Teresa there, he lands rushing towards Silk, he embraces her, "Are you okay?"

"A little out of breath but I'm fine, thank you for saving me." The two share a passionate hug and kiss.

The mood is interrupted when Teresa clears her throat, Spider-Man possessively holds Silk by her waist something that MJ notices which made her question how deep the relationship is between Peter and Cindy.

"How did you find me?"

"You be surprised how generous the New Yorkers gave away your location by spotting you so finding you was a snap, plus you leave a trail of webbing behind helped too." She says, "Also I wanted to talk about what you did to me in the hospital."

"Hmm…it'll have to wait…" Superman says standing up

Teresa noticed how tall the man is since he towers over everyone, "Who are you?"

"Superman…" He replies, "One of the goons had received a transmission from King Pin, he wants them to regroup at the Fisk Industries for those who survived. I also want to point out that there is something strange happening around New York with the bystanders."

"What do you mean?" Spinneret asks

"Gam-Vil has informed me that there is a high number of assault and mysterious medical emergencies, this could be serious."

Teresa keeps in the back of her mind that his Superman character is not from around here and will inform Fury of this uncertain variable.

Spider-Man growls, "One thing at a time we need to head over to Fisk place to shut down his operation, then we'll have to save Lorina and try to find Sable. I've not yet contacted the Embassy and I'm pretty sure they are expecting good news. Teresa, you're with me while Silk and Spinneret you girls need to work on your web-swinging capabilities…"

From a distance several lookouts with binoculars watch Spider-Man from afar radio in, "This is checkpoint one, Spider-Man has been found with a piece of the Venom suit."

"Do not engage your top priority is to find our missing guardians, Agony, Phage, Riot and Lasher and Eddie Brock. He will pay dearly for stealing She-Venom from us but if we can't have him then move on with plan B."

"Affirmative."

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It took another hour to reach Fisk Tower and the place was heavily guarded with flying tech gliders and heavy tech men surrounding the building walking up and down the building. Superman scans the entire facility since it wasn't covered in lead, he saw the entire building; he made a mental note to investigate this building later.

"I see ground infantry onto of the rooftop nothing you guys can handle, mostly high-tech henchmen, just give me a few seconds I'll clear them out for you. Can't help you with the gliders however but I'll do the best that I can since my flight has to be awakened."

"Do what you can."

"How can you see them from all the away over here we are like five buildings away from Fisk industries!"

"X-ray vision."

"X-RAY VISION!" Screamed Spinneret and Teresa as they covered their chest, Silk had the same reaction as well when they met him again when OSCORP sent their robots to find them.

"Pervert! You peeked didn't you."

Superman takes a deep breath before speeding off not wanting to hear about the complaints he is receiving about his power even though his vision doesn't work that way.

Spider-Man chuckles, "Oh man the heat he will be under when he gets a girlfriend."

30 seconds later Superman messages Spider-Man, "I cleared the all the walkers get moving!"

"Alright ladies that's our cue, let's go!" He grabs Teresa and swings on top of the rooftop.

"Spider-Man! Get him."

"Hi, guys am I late for the party?" He starts to bash in some low-tech goons while Spinneret and Silk battle some of the flyer gliders goons. Teresa pulls out a gun and starts shooting but to no effect.

"Bulletproof vest!" She gives a hard 'tsk' then suddenly she feels a buzzing in the back of her head telling her to move, reacting on instance she flips over the goon trying to bash her head with the butt of the barrel gun.

She kicks at them and faces off with the goon in hand-to-hand combat.

Spider-Man webs another goon to the ground and red and blue blur zipped by making sure the reinforcement was at bay. Superman came back pale in the face, this alarms Spider-Man.

"You, okay?"

"We got company…"

"Hmm?"

Just then citizens climbed up the building crawling on all fours with such a velocity that Spider-Man web pulls Teresa back to him in an embrace and stands on top of a metal flat pipe, Spinneret and Silk flip backward behind Superman watching this bizarre phenomenon.

A man in a hoodie jumps at one of the high-tech goons twisting his neck killing him, Silk and Spinneret gasp. Spider-Man optic widen as he couldn't believe that happen. More citizens began surrounding the other goons and killing others by ripping or snapping their heads off.

Flashback runs across Superman's mind of dead bodies littered across the ground, he takes a deep breath and blows a mighty wind forcing the deranged citizens off the goons, they slid to the edge of the building all of them snarling and growling like rabid animals.

"This one, this one!"

About two dozen deranged citizens are charging at Spider-Man, "Oh boy this is not good. Not good at all"

"We can't fight them, can we?" Silk asks worriedly

"They are not thinking straight it's as if they are possessed or something. By the look of it, they are after Spider-Man."

Just then Spinneret spots her sister amongst the crowd, "Gayle no! Spider-Man my sister!"

Spider-Man spots the brunette, "Damn this doesn't make any sense!"

Superman uses his x-ray on the citizen his eyes widen in shock, he closes his eyes, and everything is at a standstill…silent… his senses has accelerated to the point where he is moving faster than everyone around him.

He could see the foam coming off the mouths of these citizens, this is not normal indeed he quickly evacuated the remaining high-tech goons placing them inside of the building for their own safety then he goes back to help with whatever it was these people needed help with.

X goes up to Spinneret he follows the eye trail and finds a deranged brunette, he frowns. He didn't know what to do, he wished that Clark was here he'll know what to do, he whispers, "God, give me wisdom on what to do and how to deal with this…"

He closes his eyes again and everything is back to normal, Spider-Man dodges a deranged citizen, and the group disperses minus Teresa as she stays back-to-back with Superman. He looks up to see a helicopter flying overhead circling the building.

Silk dodges a deranged citizen then proceeds to Judo flip the person to the ground. She uses webbing to make sure they don't escape, "So what exactly is the plan here?"

"Detain and restrain!"

Spider-Man webs three more people to the wall and follows up with a tendril attack slamming down another deranged person before restraining them. He pauses a bit as Superman protects his sister by blowing citizens away with his super breathe.

"Lucky son of a gun." He dodges a punch then uses an uppercut to send a deranged woman flying, on her back, "This doesn't make any sense."

Two people cornered him, and he finds himself in a western-style show down. Meanwhile, Silk vaults over another person trip them webbing them to the floor of the rooftop, then dodges another attack from behind.

She looks around at least a half of two dozen left, "How many people are there?"

"Doesn't matter just restrain them, we don't want to hurt them!" Teresa says firing tranquilizers

"Says the woman who has a gun!" Silk retorts

"Its tranquilizers, get over it, you big baby!" Teresa rolls her eyes

At the same Spinneret dodges another punch from a deranged citizen, she pushes her back trying to reach her sister, "Gayle!" The deranged woman snarls as she jumps to MJ, the redhead woman grapples with her, "Snap out of it! What's wrong with you?"

The woman with a crazed look in her smiles wickedly, "Mary Jane…join usss…"

She punches her sister in the face knocking her out cold, "I'm sorry Gayle…" She looks around as more deranged citizens surround her. One attacks her, by trying to bite her but she flings him off the building as he falls to his impending doom.

"Spinneret! What have you done?" Spider-Man says in shock

MJ is stammering, "I-I-I-I…h-he was attacking me!"

Superman had seen enough, "Everyone get behind me! NOW!" Spinneret grabs her sister and runs back to where Superman said, "You might want to cover your ears and get down low." He turns back to the deranged citizens, "This…ends…now!"

Superman lunges his hands forward and clapped producing powerful shockwaves that sent every deranged citizen flying off the rooftop. He turns his head bowing it, he didn't want to do it, but there were no alternatives he could have found without using lethal force.

Silk's mouth was agape getting up seeing a clear rooftop, "Wow…that was powerful…"

Spider-Man flips over a man off the rooftop while the woman tries to grapple with him or punch him. Just then NYPD finest came up, "Freeze! No one makes any sudden movements! Spider-Man stand down!"

"Back away from those people now!"

"Officers wait you don't understand…"

"Don't move buddy!"

Superman frowns looking towards Spider-Man, he growls, "Imbeciles! These lunatics attacked us and they're obviously not normal human begins!" He throws the woman off the rooftop

"Fire!"

Before anyone could react a burst of wind zoomed past them, they were disarmed and suddenly they were all alone on the rooftop.

"Hey, where did they go?"

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Zooming quickly through the city Superman had his hands full with his passengers, Spider-Man quickly gave instructions to head over to the penthouse in the Finical District as he helped carry some of the load mainly his sister and girlfriend while riding superman back and tying a tendril to his waist so he wouldn't fall off. Superman carried Mary Jane and Gayle underneath his arms, with the GPS set, they managed to make it to the penthouse in record time.

Everyone raced to the kitchen or bathroom or just vomited on top of the balcony, "I never want to do that again."

Felicia came up to them, "How in the world did you guys get here so fast?" Superman cleared his throat, "Oh hello again."

He nods.

"Well, Spider-Man I have to say you really did it this time."

"Why is that?" Peter sighs, "This world gone nuts I tell you! We all got attacked and almost got shot how is that even fair?"

"The cops are after you."

"They are?! For what?" Silk cries out

"Well obviously throwing civilians off the rooftop, NYPD doesn't take that too lightly to a thing like that do they now?"

Teresa spoke up getting in Felicia's face, "You weren't there! Those civilians were acting strange and the way that they were moving wasn't normal!"

Superman palms his hand upward summoning his AI, "Gam-Vil tell me you have everything recorded."

"Everything is in video file sir, but you may want to come back to the Fortress, Xavier is not too pleased with recent developments."

'Figures…' Corey thinks bitterly, "Thanks for the heads up." All eyes are on him when he stares at them, "I need you all to come to the Fortress with me."

"Before we do, we need to pick up Felicity, her dog, your mother, and maid, to get them out of the city."

"What for?"

"Something, tell me this is the beginning of something horrible that going down." Spider-Man crosses his arms, "I don't want to take a chance."

"What about Lorina we can't leave her behind."

Superman responds, "We'll find her tonight for now tell me where this Felicity lives."

XXXX Hardy Penthouse 2:50 pm XXXX

Lydia is watching the news about what Spider-Man did with his companions. Felicity is coloring while her grandmother is watching with captions on. She couldn't believe it Peter Parker; was a killer.

"Felicia, what are you getting yourself into?" She sighs

Just as quickly as she picked up her tea, she is picked up and moved quickly to a different area she didn't even notice until she saw the different décor. She spits out her tea while Felicity giggles holding Cuddles, "Again, again!"

"What the?!"

"Lydia!" The woman sees her maid, "Where are we?"

"I don't know."

Superman X comes in through the door moments later, "Mrs. Hardy, please don't be alarmed I have relocated you to the Fortress of Solitude."

"Kidnapper!"

"Mrs. Hardy let me explain…"

"Take me back to my house!"

"No."

"What did you say to me?"

"I will not. Recent development involving deranged citizens as I'm sure that you are aware is the reason why you are at the request of your daughter Felicia Hardy."

Lydia narrows her eyes, "Where is she?"

"Follow me and please don't touch anything."

The three ladies follow they can hear commotions in a different room, Lydia has her guard up as she follows the red and blue hero in training. When they arrive in the main hallway, she is stunned to see children showing off their unique powers as well as a handful of adults with one of them being in a wheelchair.

The man in the wheelchair turns to face his young ward with Spider-Man at his side, the man was not in a happy mood, and neither were the other adults as they stare at the tall man, "Young man do you realize what you have done?! This is not what I teach at my institution! I teach you to control your powers so that we can live among the people who will hate us. I thought you knew better than this; so, Corey, explain to me what happened today?"

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LXD: Hello every one, here's a new chapter for you and I do hope you enjoyed Chapter 28. I don't have much to say only thank you for your continued support, I'll see you all next time so please leave a comment in the review section, rate the story, fav or subscribe and I'll see you.

Response to the reviewers

Nonormal: Please see PM for response: )

DemonKnight939: Thank you hope you stick around until the end

Soledge1: Thanks for the tip, I only wanted to make it clear just in case anyone was hoping for some action

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Guest: Thank you, hope you stick around until the end because there is more to come

ArashiNokitsune: Indeed, Corey is from a version of the Justice League Dark Apokolips war timeline, glad you picked up on that more on his backstory is come later. You're right about one thing there will be vengeance later besides things are about to worse before they can get better.