Spider-Boy swung across the rooftops of New York City, he was wearing his red and blue suit with his domino mask over his eyes. HIs web shooters shout out long white strings to the concrete jungle swinging across them like vines and he a spider monkey. He swung around the corner of the Rockefeller Plaza before letting go to land on the side of a building to run across it. He shot out another web to yank him to the top of a building where he ran across the gravel-covered floor. Finally, he reached the edge of the building a jumped, he shot out a web but nothing but air came out.
"Crap." Spider-Boy said grabbing onto the nearest building, it had no ledges and just glass windows, the second his spider hair tipped fingers touched the wall sticking to it "That was close…" he whispered to himself when his palms lost their grip.
He grabbed on again but his fingers wouldn't stick, "No-no-no-no!" he said as he fell, he looked down at the pavement and cars to see nothing but pure blackness, it was pitch black until two burning red eyes followed by dark teeth opening wide to swallow him whole.
Adrian shot up off the floor looking around to see he was still in the guest chambers of the Royal Palace of Wakanda inside the Golden City. The curtains were slightly cracked letting in some orange sunlight. He had on a white shirt and grey sleeping pants He saw he was on the floor finally seeing he had fallen out of the bed, looking at the sheets he was still clutching them tightly still his fist shaking, his body covered in sweat.
Just a dream… just a dream
Standing up, the eleven-year-old walked toward the bathroom and turned on the shower sitting on the toilet letting it steam up before getting in. The bathroom was vibranium metal work with marble countertops and silk towels. Waiting another minute till the shower was good and hot he only showered for a bit just enough to wash and rence. Getting a towel around his waist he walked over to the sink and now fogged up the mirror and noticed a dark black shape in the mirror hiding in the fog like a beast in mist. The boys now warm and clean skin went white in the face as he reached up to it to wipe away the fog and see two red eyes looking back at him, Ruin, looking back at him "Did we sleep well?" it asked using without moving its mouth.
Adrian looked at the symbiote right in its eyes.
It's not real, just in my head
"Oh we are very real." it said to him as Adrian felt the symbiote in his head both figuratively "And we are more than inside our head." and very literally Adrian felt his whole right arm tense up and start to move on its own his veins started to turn black as the Symbiote raised its own right arm reflecting his movement. The boy gritted his teeth as the nanobot in his neck shocked him and the symbiote too making them both fall forward on the sink. Adrian gripped the vibranium so tight he could hear the metal groan looking right at Symbiote, Ruin's face while featureless except for the red eyes he could see the symbiote in pain like him before it vanished and all he saw was himself.
That thing in your neck can only protect you from us for so long… we will be your Ruin
He gasped as the Symbiote was in his head, turning on some water splashing it in his face when he jumped at the sound of a loud banging dropping his towel before grabbing it. Walking out of the bathroom the banging continued "Alright, alright." Adrian said grabbing a pair of shorts he slid them on and grabbed one of the flowing red dashikis with blue patterns on the side. The door banged again and Adrian headed right to the door and opened it to see Zeinalla Bomvana.
I hate not having spider-sense
She starred right back at him "The King requests your presence at Breakfast."
"Not hungry." Adrian said shutting the vibranium door when Zeinalla stuck her foot in the way "It was not a request." she said opening the door forcefully.
Elsewhere in the palace, the Royal Family of Wakanda consisting of T'Challa and his wife Ororo sat at the head with Princess Shuri on his left and the Queen mother N'Yami and an open chair on the left. The walls were stainless vibranium with large windows and many Wakandan works of great art beautiful and old. "Who did you send to invite the boy?" Ororo asked T'Challa, she was wearing long white morning robes with golden trim that had the patterns of zebras, lions and of course a Black Panther tiara, "Your handmaid the Bomvana girl?"
Ororo looked at him with wide blue eyes "Ummm."
The door to the royal dining chamber opened up to show Zeinalla dragging Adrian in tied up in his own bed sheets like a wrangled calf. All the royal family looked to see the door to the royal garden, opened with Zeinalla holding Adrian up against the door holding his left arm back twisted and the other bent up against him "Told you it wasn't a request." she said smiling some of her hair out of place and her dress a bit torn.
Pathetic, beaten by a girl, you are weak without us
Shut up
However she got Adrian there, he didn't appear to go without a fight, sporting a few bruises, "Oh that's right, they went to school together." T'Challa said scratching his brow "Release him." the king ordered her, her smug grin vanishing the second the king spoke before she let go of him, Adrian was untied from Zeinalla's head wrap which she quickly and neatly wrapped back up around her thick black hair. Adrian got up glaring at her "Do that again and I swear I'll-" "Adrian!" T'Challa snapped before "What?!" Adrian snapped back at the King making all of the Dora Milaja glare at him at speaking so rudely to the king.
Hmmm the bodyguards don't like you, but who would like you
"Join us," T'Challa said not taking any offense as he gestured to an open seat next to Shuri, Adrian felt his stomach growl before walking over to the table. Zeinalla walked toward it to but on the other side behind Ororo's chair. "Did you sleep well, Adrian?" Ororo asked "Sort of, not use to sleeping on Vibranium sheets." he answered as he started to put food on his plate "I'm sure it's better than the never-ending noise of New York, I couldn't sleep at all last time we visited." Shuri said chewing on a piece of fruit.
Adrian didn't say anything after that, either because he was chewing at the moment or he didn't have anything else to say. Ororo and T'challa exchanged a glance, "We're expecting an important guest today Adrian, it is best that you stay in your room until they leave." T'Challa said earning him a glare from Adrian this time, "Who is it?"
"No one you need concern yourself with as of yet, I will tell you later today for now…" T'Challa suddenly got a smile "I believe I have found you a better training partner."
AFTER BREAKFAST
Adrian was given a straight kick to the head hitting the training room floor hard, he was wearing loose-fitting black pants and white shirt while Zeinalla wore a sleeveless orange, green and red Dashiki Gi. T'Challa stood in front of the glass window arms crossed smiling at Zeinalla standing over Adrian "Zeinalla has been training in the ways of Wakanda's warriors since she could walk." T'Challa said as she walked away from him, while Adrian's lip started to bleed as he got up "Yeah?" Adrian asked wiping away the blood "I was fighting in the streets for food before I could walk." he rushed her and started to punch at her wildly, she blocked each of his attacks holding up her arms to deflect and parry them.
Zeinalla's good, better than I ever thought she'd be, in school she was kind of a snob now I see why.
He swung up his knee which she blocked with her own leg before smiling at him "Guess this means you stink at dodgeball too without your so-called powers." she taunted as she crossed her arms holding back another punch inches from her face, pushing him off she slashed and swung her open palms keeping her fingers curled like a panther. Adrian dodged left and right feeling her nails slice through the air near his face.
But she grew up fighting here, in a training room with rules, me?
Adrian kept backing up lowering his arms to move around away from her attacks, she drew back her right arm two bring down a hard blow. The boy stopped his moving and watched her hand, T'Challa noticed this too and almost stopped the fight but let Adrian take the blow across the side of his face.
I grew up on the streets of LA and the NYC, it taught me one thing if you fight to win, you fight dirty.
Swinging his arm up as he caught her strike on his face he locked his arm around her and threw her over his shoulder before slamming her into the training room matt hard. Zeinalla coughed out all the air in her lungs as it was pushed out of her from the floor, he let go of her arm and she rolled over starting to get up gritting her teeth "Enough." T'Challa said before she could attack him again "Your Highness that was a dirty move."
No don't stop, you've won, you always win when you listen to us
"And yet he's standing and you are on your knees, but was taking the blow worth it?" the Black Panther asked Adrian whose cheek was already starting to swell from Zeinalla's attack his fist shaking as he ignored the Symbiote "I'd say so." Adrian said smiling at the king "Perhaps, but the harder you fight the stronger the enemy's resolve, Zeinalla." T'Challa said to the girl who got to her and rolled her neck popping a few joints. She rushed up at him and through an overhead punch, he dodged before she delivered a kick with her opposite side leg, that he blocked that knocked him off balance. Zeinalla took that off balance before tackling him to the ground and starting to wail on him.
As the King watched his earpiece beeped, "Your Highness, your next appointment has arrived, he is landing outside now." the voice of one of the king's guards said, "Thank you, Zeinalla, Adrian continues I will return." T'Challa said heading to the door as Zeinalla held the former spider boy in a full nelson.
T'Challa exited the training room walking across the hallways of his palace passing African headdresses on the wall and vibranium statues till he came to the upper-level exit to the palaces landing pad. As he walked out to see a circular car with big black four on the front.
Back in the training room, Zeinalla had Adrian's arm bent around his back "Say it, say, uncle." Adrian heard her say into his ear, he reached up with his other arm but she pinned it down with her foot like T'Challa had done.
I know this move, T'Challa used it one me a when we first started.
"Say it, Puny Parker." She snickered as he reached up and grabbed her headband "Uncle this!" He barked rolling around and throwing her around the ring. Zeinalla hit the floor hard but was on her feet fists ready "I'll get you for that." She snarled like a black panther suddenly there was a loud crash outside the door making both kids freeze.
Adrian and Zeinalla stopped fighting when the doors to the training room burst open and Adrian was tackled to the ground by a large white ball of fur. "A monster!" Zeinalla yelled when T'Challa came into the room with both his Dora Mirja as Adrian felt a thick wet tongue on his face licking him.
Wait I know that tongue?
"FANG!" Adrian said the second he recognized the white-haired, yellow-eyed and eight-eyed and limbed mutated hybrid of wolf and spider continued to lick him to death pressing his wet nose into the boys face. "… a dog." T'challa sighed as Adrian kept trying to get up but Fang continued to be a good boy by pressing its full weight on the boy. Fang while looking similar to a north American gray wolf it was as large as a lion and weighed just the same weight. "Oh, who's a good boy, who's a good boy?" Adrian said as he scratched its belly making its two back left legs to kick repeatedly at how much the wolf spider enjoyed it.
Disgusting animal, we should eat it.
"How'd it even get here?" Adrian asked as he was reunited with his dog as Zeinalla looked at Adrian smiling from ear to ear with bright blue eyes "I can answer that?" someone called from the entrance Adrian's smile turned from a just that to a snarl like he was the wolf now when he saw standing next to the Black Panther was Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic, he was wearing his classical blue Fantastic Four suit with black gloves and boots.
"Reed Richards!" Adrian nearly yelled getting tense as if to run away the second he did, Fang noticed this and stood up seeing something was wrong he looked over at Mr. Fantastic "Good to see you again Adrian, how are you feeling?" Mr. Fantastic asked with a smile from grey sideburns to grey sideburns.
Tony Stark sent him, he sent him to hurt you
"What's he doing here!" Adrian snapped making Fang go on the alert getting behind him and staying low as the voice of Ruin echoed in his mind "Dr. Richards is here to assist me in a private matter, I hadn't planned on you two ever meeting nor did I expect him to bring extra guests." T'Challa said as out from behind Mr. Fantastic popped the heads of a blonde hair and blue eyed Franklin Richards "Hey Adrian what's up."
Adrian instantly dropped his arms the second he saw Franklin "Frank, what are you doing here?"
"Dad asked me to come." Franklin said as he walked around, he was wearing his Fantastic Four in a half shirt with a pair of blue jeans and white shoes, which greatly contrasted to the African garb Adrian had on "Took me a while but I convinced Tony to let me take this magnificent creature off Shields' hands." Mr. Fantastic said reaching out an elongating his arm to scratch the dogs head, Adrian looked at Franklin then at Mr. Fantastic "What do you want?" Adrian asked.
Stark probably sent him here for something, I may not have Spider-sense but I'm not an idiot.
No your not, trust your instincts he wants to hurt you like all the rest.
Mr. Fantastic stopped his scratching much to Fangs disappointment before retracting his arm "His Highness asked for my help so I came, it's no secret to the world your here Adrian or the fact this is your dog." Mr. Fantastic said not convincing Adrian as he looked at Fang.
"Come Dr. Richards, that's enough training for today Adrian," T'Challa said putting his hand on Richards' shoulder and leading him out of the training room with Adrian glaring into his back with daggers before the door shut.
What's he working on, what's he up to, probably something to hurt us to kill us...
Reed pushed T'Challa's hand away "You're training him in combat, T'Challa the intel we have on the symbiotes show aggression is amplified by it, your basically feeding the symbiote." Reed said knowing the children couldn't hear them "I'm not training him in aggression, I'm training him to control it, he needs the discipline to focus and concentrate." T'Challa said while back in the room an awkward silence had filled the training hall.
The scientist and King walked into a small study with high tech machines and tables that looked like touch screens made of vibranium overlooking the Golden City through the windows.
Adrian was glaring at Franklin with Zeinalla looking at both of them "I best return to my duties" Zeinalla said heading for the exit leaving the two boys alone "What's he want?" Adrian asked Franklin as he rubbed Fangs ears.
"I don't know, he said he was going to visit you and we haven't seen each other in a long time Adrian." Franklin said scratching his arm as Adrian felt Fang nuzzle his head up around him "Dad says that your very confused, I think he wants to help you."
What?
Adrian's eyes went from a glare to filled with rage "Confused? CONFUSED!" Adrian screamed at Franklin "I've been hunted across the US, I was attacked by Shield and by assassins, and to top it all off I've got an alien parasite trying to take over my body and the only thing stopping it is a nanobug that took away my powers I'm not confused I'm screwed." Adrian snapped at Franklin who just stared at him "Why are you yelling at me." Franklin said shrinking back.
"I…" Adrian started to speak but he froze
Why am I yelling at him, this is Franklin my friend and I…
You don't have any friends, not anymore Tony Stark, Reed Richards they're using Franklin to get to you
He heard the voice of Ruin in his mind speaking to him, whispering in his ear "I… I'm sorry Franklin?" Adrian said rubbing his forehead "I've had a lot on my mind." The boy walked over to the window of the training room and took a seat up against it with Franklin walking over next to him.
"Is it the symbiote?" Franklin asked making Adrian's green eyes get wide.
Clever boy
"How do you know-" "I overheard my dad and Mr. Stark talking about it on the way here, its that black suit thing your dad use to wear right?" Franklin answered and asked him "Something like that it's… it's in my head."
We're beyond in your head, in your soul
Adrian felt the symbiote breath down his neck, while Franklin listened unbeknownst of how far the Symbiote had spread "Is it what made you do all that stuff?"
"I don't know, I don't think so but I've been getting angrier, getting stronger before this." He said pointing to the nanobot in his neck "So the nanobug stops it right and your powers right?"
Adrian nodded "I can't take it out or else the symbiote will take control of me and… I don't what that means?"
"It means you will become us" the image of Ruin appeared behind Adrian in the reflection of the glass window making a chill run down Adrian's spine while Franklin said something but he couldn't hear it over Ruins voice "Adrian?" Franklin asked putting his hand on his shoulder making Adrian flinch and swat his hand away "W-what did you say?" Adrian asked shaken from the influence of the symbiote on him "I said maybe you should consider letting my dad and Iron Man help you, what could it hurt?"
Maybe, maybe I should just listen.
Adrian sighed "If you tell your dad… I'll listen." Adrian said as Fang rested his white head on his lap, meanwhile up on the ceiling Bob the spider had crawled out of a ceiling vent and had been watching them the whole time.
NEW YORK CITY
STARK TOWERS
Spider-Man perched on one of the towers of St. Patrick's Cathedral early in the morning, he was wearing his dark black and white venom suit a great mist had covered the city. He was standing on the roof between the two bell towers when the rumbling sound of engines from iron feet. Spider-Man looked up to see Iron Man flying up above before landing on the roof across from him. "So you come here often?" Iron Man asked Spider-man who glared at him from across the cathedral, "There are at least sixteen ways I can take you down, all of them involve hurting you violently." Peter said through his mask.
"Okay I see you're in a mood, but we need to talk." Iron Man said landing down in front of his arms open wide "I'm calling a truce." Tony said opening his helmet "A truce?" Spider-Man asked walking toward him and Iron Man instantly ignited his thrusters to fly up and away from him "I don't want to fight you, I want to help, that's all I've ever wanted to do Peter, help you."
"... and your son." Iron Man said lowering himself back down "How do we get the symbiote out of him." Iron man opened up a small compartment in his armor and took out some folded up paper offering it to Spider-Man. He took it seeing x-rays and scans of Adrian's body and the symbiote as it progressed from around his heart, then up and down his spine and very close to his brain.
I remember when the symbiote first attached to me, at first I thought it was a suit, then I found out the hard way it was a monster. It turned me into someone I wasn't made me almost turn into the very thing I fight against...
"The symbiote came from space, fire and sound are the only things that can hurt it." Spider-Man said as he curled his fist around the papers crumpling it up "But this isn't like symbiote that I had or the one that infected Eddie Brock, this is like Carnage a mutated evolved species fire and sound don't work." Spider-Man said looking up at Iron Man "Out of anybody alive you know these things, what they can do and what it do to people, come with me to Wakanda, Reed is there now with T'Challa, between the four of us I'm sure we can come up with something and you can see your son."
But what if h doesn't want to see me when I tell him what I know, what happened to… her...
WAKANDA
After I agreed to listen to what Franklin had to say he told me about how things were still different at home, Stark and SHIELD had started to assign Superheroes to cities as official heroes, New York had some guy called Blue Shield. He was being homeschooled again since the Carnage incident. I didn't ask about Aunt May or if he knew anything about Mary Jane or the Powers, I didn't want to know. So I told him I needed to take a shower and he said he'd speak with Mr. Fantastic for me, I hope I was doing the right thing.
The young spider-boy walked into his room with Fang at his side, he sat down on the bed rubbing his hands knowing what was coming.
"So who are the other humans?" Adrian looked up to see Bob sinking down on a web from the ceiling and landing on Adrian's shoulder. Fang noticed and sat up looking at Bob sniffing the spider "Oh big furry spider?" Bob said leaping off Adrian and onto Fangs nose crawling up to its head making the wolf whine "There old friends of mine." Adrian said looking at the Spider on top of the spider wolfs head.
Bob scurried onto the top of Fangs head turning around "You don't seem happy to see them?" Bob asked.
"It's complicated." Adrian replied before Bob jumped off Fang and crawled onto the kids hand "Why?" he held it up looking at Bob "Cause I've done things, things that I'm not sure I should have anymore?"
Bob clicked his mandibles a few times before saying "Hey wait a sec you said you'd explain stuff to me last night, where were you?"
"You seemed like you had a lot on your mind so I thought it best to let you sleep?" Bob asked holding up one of its legs to scratch his tiny red and blue head "Wish I hadn't, I had a nightmare where I-" "You fell." Bob said cutting him off.
"How did you know that?" Adrian asked the spider "Because I've been watching you Adrian Parker, I brought you here." Bob said opening up its mandibles and sinking them into Adrians palm "Ow!" Adrian snapped throwing the spider away. Bob landed on the wall and Adrian immediately started to feel something happen to him his body felt heavy and his muscles refused to listen to his body to stand. Falling back on the bed Fang got up and started to bark and looked at the spider who bit him "Down boy." Bob said to the dog the spiders eyes lit up with pale greenish eyes that reflected into Fangs own making the dog sit "Good dog, now pick up the other one, it's time to go."
WAKANDA BORDER REGION
A quinjet flew over the border of Wakanda with only Ironman and Spider-Man inside, Iron Man was piloting it with Peter in the copilot seat sitting in silence. "How's your Aunt?" Tony asked Peter "Still in the hospital." he said being short with the Billionaire Playboy Philanthropist. When they crossed the border two Wakandan airships flew up next to them "Attention unregistered Quinjet, identify yourself you have now entered the Wakandan airspace." the ships transmitter said "This is Tony Stark, Director of Shield I'm here at the behest of your King, please inform his highness I've arrived."
"Behest?" Spider-Man asked noticing a word he had never heard Tony say before "Can't be the playboy anymore Peter, as much as I miss it." Iron Man said as they waited to hear back from the Wakandans.
"Understood Director Stark, adjust your flight path and follow us." the pilots in the wakandan airships said before Tony complied, with the silence resuming between them "... I'm sorry." Tony said out of the blue.
"What?" Spider-Man asked.
Turning his iron helmeted head Tony opened his face mask putting the ship on autopilot "I am sorry."
"Sorry for what happened to your son, sorry for not handling it all better for putting a hand on him, I don't want to be your enemy Peter, I want things to go back to the way they use to, when we worked together when I thought you…" Tony started to trail off "When you thought what?"
"When I thought you could be the person to take my place." Iron Man blurted out making Peters eyes get wide under his mask "I was going to ask Steve before he went rogue, but I couldn't be the Director forever, or the leader of the Avengers even, you've been doing this since you were fifteen, everyone in the world knows about the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, every kid has a poster of you on their wall, compared to my past Peter Parker is a man everyone should try to be." Tony started to say "You were smarter than me at your age, you have a successful career as a photographer, a professor, a scientist, and despite what everyone has said you are a great father who loves his son and his family, I just… I just wanted you to know that." Tony said shutting his helmet when the neared the Golden City.
Peter was quiet still, processing everything that had been said before they got a transmission from the city "Tony is Peter with you?" the voice of Mr. Fantastic asked out of the ships radio "Yes, where's Adrian?" Peter asked answering for him "About that?" Reed said his voice trailing off.
Later, Iron Man, the Black Panther, Mr. Fantastic and Spider-Man were in Adrians room with it completely empty "Where is my son."
Iron Man held up his arm bringing up a holographic map of Wakanda "Something's blocking my tracking signal on the nanobot."
"I had my scientists track his biological signature, he was in the palace and then he vanished." T'Challa said, "We'll find him Peter." Mr. Fantastic said putting his hand on the Spider-Mans shoulder when Spider-Man turned around looking like he was ready to kill the super scientist making Reed take a step back and remove his hand fearing that he could very well lose it. "T'challa did you have any cameras installed in here?" Iron Man asked
Far away on the other side of the city, Adrian was unconscious being dragged by the scruff of his shirt by Fang who was pulling him through catacombs and graves deep underground. The dogs eyes had been glossed over with a green light, Bob the spider on his head as they went deeper and deeper into the necropolis. Soon other spiders appeared coming off webs hanging from the ceiling, or out of tombs and skeletons of long dead wakandans. They started to scurry in the direction Fang was draggin Adrian all moving all of them spiders.
In the palace the four men continued to look around Adrians room for anything that would give them a clue "I don't understand he couldn't have just vanished, I have my own personnel guards outside his door, our vents are tapped and he couldn't have swung his way out since he doesn't have his powers." Mr. Fantastic said Iron Man looked out the window and noticed it hadn't been closed all the way "Reed, you've studied that wolf spider he has right?" Tony asked as he pointed to paw prints on the window, on the other side. Spider-Man looked to the floor where he saw a few clumps of white fur on the floor. "Tony." Peter said handing him the fur who handed the fur to Iron Man who scanned it quickly seeing a biological map of the Wolf Spiders DNA and a map of Wakanda, he's only a few miles away due west."
"The necropolis." The Black Panther said walking to the window "Why would he be at the necropolis?" Reed aske,d "Doesn't matter we go now." Spider-Man said opening the rooms window with Iron Man following him out and taking off as Spider-Man jumped off and shot a web out to grab onto Iron Mans suit heading straight for Wakandas city of the dead.
While the heroes were on their way, Adrian started to stir inside the necropolis. He was awake and he was upside down. He tried to move but he couldn't he was wrapped up in something he knew all to well, webs. The soft gooey like silk was as strong as steel around the small eleven year old. The interior of the room was hard to make out webs covered everything even the pillars and statues of the Panther Goddess Bast and a deep sarcophagus covered in webs.
"Hello!" He called out looking around the dark chamber his eyes quickly adjusting to the darkness to see he wasn't in his room anymore, but a tomb. There were hundreds of bones on the ground all covered in spider webs from ceiling to roof thats when he saw Fang on the floor sitting up right still as a statue. "Fang, here boy." Adrian whistled to the dog but the wolf spider didn't even move and inch, at first Adrian was puzzled then he saw the dogs glossed over eyes "Fang?"
"Don't worry about the dog, he's just doing what he's supposed to." Bob the spider had appeared on a string of spider silk lowering himself down in front of Adrian. "You!" Adrian yelled seeing the spider and thrashing in his bindings but couldn't break free. "What do you do to me, why am I here?" Adrian yelled.
The spider twirled on his string before replying "Like I said I'd explain everything." Bob clicked out "You want to know how you got all the way to Wakanda yes?" Bob asked "It was you." Adrian said as the spider was silent for a few seconds "Clever boy, I knew you'd be a good avatar."
"Avatar like the last airbender?" Adrian asked the spider who chuckled its small voice growing deeper than the sea "Who are you?" the boy asked upside down his head starting to throb.
"Who am I?" Bob said as the spider started to grow, the spider was small at first then the size of a baseball, then a basketball before dropping to the floor growing to the size of a pit bull its blue and red fur vanishing turning dark black "I have had many names over the years." Bob said his voice deep and malevolent "I am the the trickster, the wise one, the traveler and the great weaver." Bob said as it had grown from the size of a large dog to a lion then the size of an elephant crushing the bones making Fang crawl up the wall where Adrian could see hundreds of thousands of spiders "I am he who creeps arcross the branches and in the grass, who waits and watches till my prey falls into my web, I am the father of your kind, i am the first among spiders."
'Bob' the spider was twice the size of an elephant his mandibles were huge with fang behind them inside the mouth "I am Anansi God of Spiders."
"God of Spiders… what- what do you want with me?" Adrian asked Anansi whose mandibles echoed and clicked as his children moved around him "For years the other gods have mocked me, laughed at me, my temples are forgotten my worshipers extinct all until a few years ago when a man claiming to be a Spider appeared."
Anansi leaned in toward Spider-Man breathing the most grotesque breath Adrian had ever smelt "Here they worship the Black Panther, that arrogant cat Bast who pushed me aside will pay." Anansi growled making Adrian gag "Ugh your breath… it's like the Hulks jockstrap."
Instead of yelling or biting his head off right then and their Anasi laughed, the titanic spiders laughs bellowed across the cave through the entire necropolis "Even now you still try to be defiant, I new I made the right choice when I chose you to serve as my vessel."
"Vessel?" Adrian asked, "Ah yes, I owe you an explanation, Bast gives her power and favor to the King of Wakanda, and in return, they give her worship but you, you will do more for me." Anansi said holding up one of its front legs to brush Adrians cheek with a claw like the foot "I will take your flesh, your mind and through you, I will be a god among mortals."
Anasis claw brushed past Adrians mouth before Ruin appeared, it covered half of Adrians' face and snapped at Anasi before receiving an electroshock from the Nanobot making Adrian scream in pain "Ingenous how some mortals are, but this demon has proved enough of a nuisance." the god said when the boy began to feel the webs vibrating around him. He looked up to see the spiders in the cave crawling down the webs over his body and up to his webbed up neck "Haven't you noticed the voice of this creature is no longer there."
Bob or Anansi was right, I couldn't hear Ruins voice anymore but I could still feel him, he's there alright he wants me to escape, but I do.
The Spider God's eyes started to glow a ghostly pale green again with the same light in Fangs and all the other spiders eyes did the same "I have looked into the Madams eyes and your arrival has sent a ripple across the Web of Fate, and this ripple will soon become a great wave of change, I will be that change." Anansi said looking into Adrians eyes reflected the light his mind starting to go numb.
All thoughts left his mind as he looked into Anansi's eight eyes "I see you creature, an abomination." Anansi growled as Adrian started to struggle but it wasn't him his veins started to turn black and the symbiote began to seep out of him around his eyes but not coming to full power with the ever aware nanobot electrocuting it and Adrian. It started to seep out of Adrian like a sponge being crushed making the boy scream with a shared pain.
The screams reached out the deepest depths of the Necropolis and to the mouth of Wakandas burial ground where Iron Man and Spider-Man arrived followed by Mr. Fantastic and the Black Panther in the Fantasticar. The screams echoed through the city ruins of the Necropolis, statues of Bast the panther god was covered in spider webs as if Anansi was personally doing it. "This place is massive, we'll never be able to search it all." Iron Man said when they heard another scream "We need to find him." Spider-Man said looking around in all directions, all of them were but only the Black Panther notices collum of spiders heading into the cave "There." he pointed to a cave covered in a large spider web with the spiders going into it.
Back in Anansi's chamber, the Symbiote was falling out of Adiran by his mouth eyes and ears in a pool of black and red symbiote bubbling on the floor the symbiote tried to move but it could only from its red eyed fanged face like an evil bubble about to burst. Adrian gagged and puked out the symbiote till he upchucked a blob of the symbiote onto the tomb floor to see the nanobot blinking in the symbiotes puddle form"N-no we ca-can't survive without it." Ruin weakly cried out in a soft shriek "Disgusting." Anansi said through its mandibles eyes still glowing before it glanced down breaking his concentration on Adrian who at seeing the symbiote on the floor and the nanobot on the floor.
YES!
Adrian tore out of Anansi's webs and hit the floor in front of the symbiote that pounced at him baring its fangs and tentacles before Adrian backflipped away onto the tomb wall his feet sticking to it along with both hands. Before the symbiote could follow Anansi smashed its massive front leg into a pillar making it fall on the symbiote along with more rocks "Begone Demon!" Anansi hissed before turning its attention on Adrian. "Now where were we…" Anansi said his eyes glowing pale green again but this time Adrian looked away.
Maybe if I don't look him in the eye.
"You think eye contact allows me to control my brood, all Spiders obey my will even you." Anansi said on the floor climbing up the wall slowly. His green eyes did start to glow with omniscient pale green, not just his either all the spiders in the cave started to glow green and move toward Adrian. Over the sound of millions of eight legged creatures Adrian herd the growl of Fang who was under Anansi's control growling at him like when they first met. The boy leapt off the wall and started to run across the tomb chamber heading for the door but Anansi followed him despite the Spider Gods massive size it moved like a cannonball crashing into the part of the wall and ceiling Adrian was trying to get past, he swung his massive arm right into Adrian sending him into a series of webs where the spiders swarmed him.
He kicked and screamed as the Spiders bit and stung him with their fangs before webbing him up like a mummy "Enough of this, no more games you are mine now." Anansi said all eight of his eyes burning pale green right into Adrian.
NO- I can't fight I-I- is it getting hot in here?
The temperature of the tomb started to rise making Adrian and Anansi look at the entrance to the old tomb and see the orange glow of fire before the webbed entrance burst with Iron Man burning away the webs with built in flame throwers "Oh, are we interrupting?" Iron Man asked before he blasted a wave of fire at Anansi followed by a series of rockets and laser beams. Anansi scuttled out of the way but couldn't dodge the rockets. The other three men rushed in behind him "We all agree that's a giant spider right?" Iron Man asked.
"I am no mere spider, I am Anansi God of Spiders." Anansi growled Iron Mans rockets had signed his thick hide and only seemed to enrage God. "Then you know this is the Necropolis of Wakanda the sacred place of Basts people." Black Panther said before Anansi charged them "Puny kitten who are you to challenge a God." Anansi roared as he came down on them, Iron Man flew around him opening fire followed by the massive spider. With Anansi distracted Spider-Man appeared web zipping over to Adrian ripping the webs off him "Adrian!" Spider-Man yelled "Dad!" Adrian said seeing his dad after so long.
Spider-Man embraced his son in a quick hug before pulling him over his shoulder and swinging off "Stop them!" Anansi roared when he saw the father rescuing his son. Anansi's brood chased after Spider-Man leaping from their webs on the ceiling and covering the two. Fang tackled Spider-Man down onto the ground pushing them apart snapping his jaws at Spider-Man who held the monsters fangs back "Peter!" Reed cried extending his body to slither around the webs any spiders jumping onto him were bounced off his rubber like skin he wrapped a black gloved hand around Adrian pulling him away "Let me go I can help." Adrian begged as they tried to pull him away "NO!" Spider-Man said throwing Fang off him into one of the statues shattering it and knocking out the wolf while his black suit torn up and one of the lenses shattered showing Peters brown eyes.
"Reed take him and go." Spider-Man ordered before Anansi swatted Iron Man out of the cave air into the tomb wall through a statue, "None of you are leaving here alive." Anansi thundered coming for them when the Black Panther got in the spiders way leaping into the air just across the gods massive head and slashed his vibranium claws into Anansi's left upper eyes black gunk spewing out of them "False God, ever second you are here is an insult to Wakanda and to the Panther God, and for that you will pay."
Anansi shut both its left eyes shut before turning around to attack the King, it squirted out a thick series of webs on to the king making him stick to the nearest wall "Where is your god now kitten, there are no gods to pray to here but me." Anansi opened its jaws wide ready to rip of the Black Panthers cowled head. "Get him out of here now." Spider-Man yelled picking up the head of one of the statues before he hurled it right into Anasi's thorax getting its attention.
Reed rushed to the exit with Adrian in his arms "No, we can't just leave him!"
"I'm sorry Adrian but it's… for… the… best." Reed speech slurred before he collapsed a small black and brown spider its fangs buried deep in his neck "Reed!" Spider-Man snapped before his senses flared Anansi had pounced on Spider-Man both its front legs driving down like spears before Spider-Man caught them with both arms holding the full force of the god at bay, but not for long. Anansi forced Spider-Man backwards his feet digging deep into the earth. "Pathetic mortals, always you think you can defy the natural order, defy gods save your children from us." Anansi said mocking Spider-Man while Adrian scurried out of Mr. Fantastics grip the spiders covering Adrian once more webbing him up as best they could but he swiped them away kicking them off him tearing apart the webs "DAD!" Adrian screamed "Adrian, RUN!" Peter yelled his arms starting to shake.
"That's right boy, run, run like you always do." Anansi laughed "I will kill your father, and feast on his insides as you watch and then I will finish what I started the day I took you from the mortal in armor." Anansi said not even bothering to say Iron Mans name.
I can't get to him in time, I'm not strong enough not fast enough, Anansi's a monster how can I… stop it?
Adrian looked over at the fallen pillar that had the symbiotes black liquid form still leaking out of it, not even thinking Adrian reached for the symbiote clawing his way out of the web before it started to bubble.
Come on… come on I know you can hear me...
"Given mortal, you are a spider and I am your lord, submit." Anansi said making its remaining eyes starting to glow to hypnotize spider-man whose eyes flickered for a moment but he shook his head "You kidnap my son, you threaten to steal his soul and eat me in front of him." Spider-Man summoned all his strength and let go of one of Anansi leg the right one, dodging it and grabbing onto the left one before ripping Anansi's front leg right off and stabbing into the Gods underbelly piercing it making thick black blood gush out and the god screeched in pain.
"You must have not thought this through." Spider-Man said digging it in deeper like holding the severed leg like a lance. Despite inflicting such a wound Anansi still had seven more legs. It swatted at Spider-Man who flipped away from him using his spider sense to bounce off the walls and ceiling shooting webs at fallen rubble to be thrown into Anansi. The god of spider roared chasing after Spider-Man using its godly speed to ram Spider-Man into the stone walls like he was a rag doll breaking up the wall just enough for stones to fall directly on Spider-Man pinning him. Spider-Man pressed up on the rocks but he was to weak and injured.
Anansi limped over to Spider-Man and growled over him "Before you die your going to watch me take your son and rip his soul into nothing, then I'll kill you with his own to hands." Anansi gurgled out spitting up blood "We'd like to see you try." The god of spiders froze turning around to see the Ruin symbiote had appeared, it was standing up right in its humanoid form as big as it was in New York and at its center Adrian under the red spider on its chest. Adrian looked at the symbiote from within the Symbiote their voices overlapping when it said "You want me, come and get me."
Ruin/Adrian let out their own roar this time shaking the cave before kicking off the ground breaking apart the stone floor with the force put down from their foot it tackled Anansi away from Spider-Man and into the walls of the tomb. Forcing Anansi on its back it slashed its talon like claws across Anansi's underbelly before the spider roared back driving one of its lower legs into his side. The symbiote fanged mouth howled before it caught Anansi's front right leg and ripped it out of its socket and bit down on the joint between Anansi's head and its middle section. Ripping out the one that had stabbed him Ruin and Adrian brought back their fist and smashed it into Anansi's head popping three more of the gods eyes.
Thats it- THATS IT RIP HIM APART DON'T THINK DON'T HESITATE KILL KILL KILL!
Anansi and Ruin/Adrian started to wrestle across the floor and walls till Anansi was on top of them snapping its teeth at him. Ruin/Adrian kicked Anansi offa nd grabbed one of the fallen pillars off the floor and smashed it over Anansi's head it grabed onto the Spiders head and gouged another eye before rolling over on top of Anansi tearing into it with its claws.
The Spider god thrashed around trying to throw and stab the symbiote with its remaining six legs but the symbiote continued to rip them off and crush them. Anansi let out a furious low growl before looking up at Ruin/Adrian, they had drawn back their right arm and had its clawed fingers erect like a spearhead before driving it down into Anansi's face "No!" The second the symbiotes claws made contact Anansi's entire body started to fall apart into millions of tiny spiders that scurried away.
"What?" Ruin/Adrian said looking onward as the spiders scattered "This isn't over Adrian Parker, we will meet again the Web of Fate is never wrong." Anansi's voice echoed throughout the chambers of the Necropolis before every spider in the cavern was gone, except for Adrian and Spider-Man.
Ruin/Adrian saw that the threat was gone and looked toward Spider-Man still under the rubble and walked over to the rocks and started to lift them, the heroes started to recover as well. T'Challa freed himself with his claws and Iron Man awoke from under the rocks "Is everyone okay?" He asked, "Richards his down one of the spiders must have bitten him." The Black Panther said hurrying to Reeds side and kneeling down "I think we have other problems." Iron Man said seeing Ruin standing over Spider-Man he knelt down on both knees when Spider-Man woke up and sat up looking at the Symbiote. Iron Man held up his arm cannon and got ready to fire into the back the Symbiote but didn't pull the trigger after he noticed the symbiote started to shrink to the size of a boy and vanished within Adrian who looked up at Spider-Mans torn mask "Dad… can we go home?"
It's over.
Spider-Man fell forward wrapping one arm around Adrian hugging him "Yes, we're going home…" Spider-Man looked up at Iron Man without the boy noticing, Iron Man lowered his arm, with Spider-Man waiting to see what Tony would do "We're going home."
So what does this make us?
We are Ruin, and for now, we are alive and that is enough.
We aren't done yet are we symbi-... Ruin
No, we've just begun