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A Symbiotic Bond: A Venomous Titan Reborn
Chapter Six

[Champion City – Downtown
Garfield Mark Logan]

'Man, will this thing ever stop?!' Garfield thought to himself as he ran on the side of a building before he bounced off of it then swung to the right to avoid a bus crushing him, which was thrown by Oblivion.

The battle between Garfield and Oblivion had been going on for what seemed like an eternity to the hero. Oblivion was just too durable and the more they battled, the more drained Garfield was becoming.

He had to end this battle before he or anyone else was killed.

But where could he go?

Garfield twisted his body and saw an empty car flying towards him and he immediately swung to the left to avoid it but he then twisted his body and attached a web to the back of it before he pulled it back sharply with a yell.

The car went soaring downwards and collided with Oblivion, who had leaped into the air moments before to try to chase after him. Garfield swung upwards and kicked himself higher into the air before he released his web and noticed that nearby, there was a steel mill nearby.

Garfield narrowed his eyes in thought before he thought 'Any luck on discovering a weakness yet?'

"Yes. I just found it. He has what is called "Nano-Assemblers." They grant him superhuman strength and durability. With these assemblers, his stamina is also near superhuman so he could stay at peak conditioning for long periods of time as well as shoot out high-energy plasma beams and can shapeshift. His weakness is simple, however. We have to overload his assemblers so they can't regenerate him. If we do this, it will kill him," The Symbiote explained.

Garfield landed on top of a police station and thought, 'Shit...I wasn't expecting to have to kill the guy...'

"I know...Seeing your past told me that you value all life...But look at him," The voice replied softly. "He has killed so many. Thanks to that little piece of his Nano-Assembler, I have seen parts of his past. He murders only because of his extreme nihilism. Over three hundred and fifty lives were lost to this monster."

Garfield's eyes widened in horror.

'There is no way he killed that many people...' Garfield thought but he could feel the anger radiating from the symbiote. Seconds later, Garfield was assaulted by images. Images of the cruel deaths that Oblivion had done to those across the galaxy.

But there was one that sickened him to the core. There was a woman. A Tamaranean that looked eerily like Starfire that Oblivion had encountered. He was wounded and near death after his escape and the Tamaranean had taken him in and healed him.

She had a family that she adored more than anything and they treated Oblivion like one of their own. And in turn, he killed them...He killed all of them without a shred of remorse or guilt. He even had the sick pleasure of killing the husband and children first before he finally finished his savior off.

Garfield could easily see Starfire in that woman and it angered him to a level had had never been before, not even as the Beast Within.

The symbiote was right...He would only continue to kill and take a sick joy in it as well...

'He will die...' Garfield thought darkly as he lowered his head, shaking slightly in rage but then he looked up as he heard a large explosion coming from ahead. Garfield could see Oblivion walking through the flames with a crazed smirk on his face.

The Symbiote was right. He had already killed so many with no care in the world due to his own twisted views. He would not allow this criminal to kill anyone else. Robin and the others would be pissed that he had to do this but if he had to take a life to save many, then so be it.

But how?

According to the Symbiote, he could survive many things due to his Nano-Assemblers and he didn't know exactly what he needed to do to override them. It was then he remembered something.

The Steel Mill he saw during his swing.

If he could lead him there, perhaps he could use the intense heat to override his suit. It would have to work...It had to. He could see Oblivion start to run towards the station with a car in his hands and with a yell, the villain tossed the car towards Garfield.

Garfield stood up and caught the car with both hands but the force of the throw caused both Garfield and the car to fly back through the air.

Garfield could hear the laughter of Oblivion getting closer with each second and with a shout, the former titan gripped the car and spun his body around before he released his hold, causing the car to slam into Oblivion's stomach and send him crashing down to the earth below.

Garfield quickly shot out a web strand to a radio tower before he tugged himself to it sharply and landed on it. He knew that wouldn't be enough to stop Oblivion and he was proven right when the car exploded to reveal Oblivion, who had a scowl on his face.

"Oblivion! Catch me if you can!" Garfield shouted before he swung away to head towards the steel mill. He could hear Oblivion roar behind him in anger and Garfield couldn't help but smirk at the sound. 'That's right you bastard. Get pissed because this day is only going to get worst for you.'

Feeling his spider-sense tingling, Garfield released his webbing and fell down onto the roof of an apartment building mere seconds before another car, thankfully empty, had flown in the sky. Garfield landed on the roof and turned his body to see Oblivion land on the roof and lunged his arm forward to strike Garfield but the teen jumped over his arm and kicked it to the ground.

Oblivion lunged his other arm towards Garfield as the teen landed on the ground and caught Garfield in the face, sending the teen flying backward through the edge of the roof and into the air.

Garfield twisted his body and shot out a strand of web from both wrists and pulled his arms back to shoot him farther away from Oblivion's reach and once he did, Garfield landed on a steel tower and glanced down.

He was at the Steel Mill.

[Champion City – Champion City Steel Mill
Garfield Mark Logan]

"Perfect. Now to get ins-" Garfield was interrupted by his spider-sense tingling, which caused him to jump from the steel tower just as Oblivion's hand smashed through it, causing the tower to break apart from point of impact where it then crumbled to the ground.

Garfield landed on another steel tower and backflipped off of it onto the roof of the mill but the second he landed, Oblivion was seen in the air above him with his right arm cocked back, a large grin on his face.

Oblivion lunged his right arm forward and made it extend at a quick rate, only allowing Garfield to shield himself before the fist slammed into his forward, causing him to crash through the roof and into the large building.

The minute Garfield's body entered the mill, the heat hit him like a sledgehammer. Why in the world was it so hot in this place?

Garfield punched the wrist of the arm that was pressing against him as hard as possible to separate himself from the arm and quickly grabbed a rail and pulled himself onto a set of steel stairs.

Garfield then looked over the railing of the stairs and found himself staring into a large cesspool of molten steel that was pooled in a large suspended cauldron. "That would have been bad," Garfield noted as he wiped away imaginary sweat from his forehead.

"I agree..." The voice said but Garfield could hear the slight tremble within the voice when it spoke.

"What's wrong?" Garfield asked instantly.

"There is one thing I neglected to mention when we bonded...One of my weaknesses-" Seconds later, his spider-sense tingled and he quickly jumped off of the stairs and swung across the cauldron and landed against the wall, and seconds later, a beam of energy smashed through the stairs that he had just been on.

Garfield then saw Oblivion land on the steel landing above the now destroyed stairs with a scowl on his face. "You are really pissing me off!" Oblivion shouted as he held out both hands and fired another beam of energy to him.

Garfield performed several backflips to avoid the beams of energy that tried to strike him before he launched himself into the air, shot out a strand of web, and swung forward to deliver a flying kick to Oblivion's face, which sent the villain slamming against the wall.

Garfield landed on the ground in front of Oblivion and threw a solid right jab to Oblivion's face before he ducked a swing from the villain and returned the missed blow with an uppercut that caused the villain's head to whip back hard enough to smash through the wall.

Oblivion's head whipped forward and smashed into Garfield's head, causing Garfield to become slightly dizzy before the teen caught the right hook that was going to smash into his right cheek, twisted his body, and threw Oblivion to the other side of the landing.

Oblivion rose to his feet and launched his right arm towards Garfield, who saw this and quickly bounced onto the side railing to avoid the strike where the teen then ran on to and delivered a running knee strike to the villain's face, sending him crashing to the ground.

Garfield quickly webbed Oblivion's body down to the landing before he launched himself high into the air, only to force his weight down to fall quickly, and connected both feet against Oblivion's chest, sending them both through the steel railing and against a concrete one.

Garfield rolled away from Oblivion just as a beam of energy shot through the thick webbing, freeing the villain before he rose to his feet with a laugh. "Heh, looks like you aren't holding back...I actually felt those," Oblivion hissed out.

"I am a hero after all and considering the heinous acts you've committed for the sake of your nihilism, I don't have the option of holding back," Garfield retorted with venom in his voice, anger coursing through his veins.

"I was only granting them the release that they need. Life is so boring and if you lived as long as I did, you would do the same," Oblivion replied angrily. "Day in and day out, living in paradise with no chance of death. That is what my race is. Do you get how boring paradise can be?!"

Oblivion placed a hand on his chest and said "My race, the Cooperative, had such advanced technology at their disposal that perma-death didn't exist! Not only that but sickness and disease were non-existent as well. It was nothing short of tedious and pointless. Life should be filled with tragedy, not perfection! Otherwise, it's just not liv-"

Oblivion was brutally interrupted when Garfield's fist slammed right into the middle of his face, causing the maniac to crash through the wall behind him, causing him to crash through what was a break room.

"Then allow me to show you how they felt!" Garfield shouted out furiously. Garfield webbed up both of Oblivion's feet and gripped the strand of web tightly as he twisted his body around at a full one-hundred and eighty degrees, causing Oblivion's body to tear through the wall beside him before the teen released the hold of the webbing, which caused Oblivion's body to crash against a large steel cauldron.

Oblivion fell forward and landed on a small circular platform below it while the molten steel within the cauldron spilled to the platform below and splashed against Oblivion's hand, causing him to reel it back as a pain-filled scream left his lips.

Garfield narrowed his eyes and shot two webs up and tugged on the cauldron hard, causing the full contents within it to fall on top of Oblivion, causing him to scream in agony as the molten steel poured over his body.

"That won't be enough!" The voice exclaimed and the symbiote was correct when Oblivion rose through the molten steel.

"I know!" Garfield saw two more cauldrons floating above him and quickly zipped over to the cauldron and quickly launched himself off of it when Oblivion hand rammed into it, causing a large burst of molten steel to pour over the hand, causing him to scream again.

Garfield swung to the other side to the season cauldron and quickly jumped off and Oblivion launched his other hand towards him, which once again caused molten steel to pouring out of the hole and onto his arms.

Garfield swung to the ceiling across from the screaming Oblivion and watched as the molten steel swallowed the villain up, his screams becoming muffled until only the sound of the molten bubbling up was heard.

"He's gone..." The voice told him softly.

Garfield silently turned away and crawled out of the window as he thought 'Oh my god...' Garfield placed his feet on the concrete ledge below him before he slide down into a crouch. 'I just...'

"It had to be done," The voice said softly. "He was going to kill again..."

'I know but I just...I feel so...' Garfield stated with a stammer, unable to put into words what he had just committed. He felt so...Dirty at the fact that he had just killed someone. An unrepentant killer Oblivion may have been but no one deserved that fate.

"I know," The voice whispered softly. "I shouldn't have pushed you into killing him...I should have thought of another way instead of forcing you to do it."

Garfield could feel the remorse coming from the symbiote and let out a sad chuckle.

"You didn't force me...I went along with it..." Garfield opened his eyes and noticed that a slight amount of rain had begun to fall on him. "I did what I had to do...He would have killed again. There is no doubt...I just hope I never have to kill anyone again..."

"And I will make sure to find another way so you won't have to do it..." The voice responded gently.

Garfield stood up and took a peek into the window to see that the molten steel was now filling up the entire steel mill and turned away sharply before he shot out a strand of web and swung off.

Captain Blues: Until the next chapter!