Incidents
Chapter 11
Mary Jane Watson moved gracefully through D.C. as the pseudo podia from her symbiote extended and contracted allowing her to move quickly. It was similar to how Spider-man would websling across buildings but she wouldn't do as high as her boyfriend would.
She felt a combination of emotions as she went looking for Graydon Creed. The question was which of the emotions were hers and which were that of the symbiote. Unfortunately this wasn't time to determine such things.
The path of destruction was clear as Creed left a trail of smashed cars, destroyed buildings, broken windows and other debris caused by his rampage. She looked around seeing if anyone needed her help.
As she headed for the National Mall, Mary Jane head cries of help. She dropped down to where the sound was coming.
The cries of help were coming from a small child who was clutching a small toy bear. He didn't appear to be crying and seemed intrigued by Mary Jane's presence or her symbiote.
"Who's under there?" Mary Jane asked
"My friend?"
"What's your friend's name?"
"Roy"
"Well is Roy okay?"
"I don't know I went outside and then this monster came and knocked down the building."
"Is this your home?"
The boy shook his head.
"Where are your parents?"
"My mom is at work. She's a nurse."
Mary Jane figured that the boy's mother must be busy with the injured coming in.
"Where is Roy?"
The boy pointed to a pull of rubble.
"You, sure he's there?"
The boy nodded. "Are you going to help?"
"I'll do the best I can. Now stand back I don't want to you get hurt by anything loose." Mary Jane said calmly. She did her best to be warm and friendly. But the fact her voice sounded alien made it a little difficult. However it didn't bother the boy he was just intrigued by it.
Mary Jane extended the psudo podia on her arms and did her best to push the debris carefully. She then moved the debris allowing a clear space to look for Roy.
"Excuse me," The boy asked
"Yes?" Mary Jane said as she worked
"Are you Spider-man?"
Mary Jane found the question interesting btu she knew that she couldn't that he Spider-man on a personal level. She tried to think of another way of putting it.
"I'm one of Spider-man's helpers."
"Really, what's your name?"
Mary Jane could only give the boy the one name that she had for the symbiote. It wasn't great but it could have been a lot worse.
"Carnage" She told him
"Car-n-age?" The boy asked
"Yes"
"Why's that?"
"Well it's difficult to explain but believe me I'm here to help you and your friend Roy."
Mary Jane continued to work and the boy stood by her side waiting for his friend.
"We got a robbery/shootout on DuPont Circle." Metropolitan Police Officer Harvey Rollins said into his radio. "Requesting back up"
Rollins was trapped behind his patrol car as he and the robbers traded gun fire. He was the only one on seen and he was beginning to be out gunned.
The dispatcher relayed that other units were occupied and that they sent as soon as possible. The other cops were busy with the rest of the chaos in D.C.
As Rollins continued to fire and receive bullets. He noticed an unmarked car pull up to his patrol cruiser. A man wearing a suit and sunglasses rolled out of the vehicle and joined Rollins in the fire fight.
"Who are you?" Rollins asked
"Special Agent Grimes" He then fired a couple of shots from his Glock 9mm
"What agency?"
"IRS"
Rollins couldn't believe it. In a city with more law enforcement agencies than one could count on both hands. He got a guy who nailed tax cheats. But any who was in law enforcement was a valuable commodity at this moment.
As the robbers continued to fire, they didn't notice someone entering from behind the store. They also weren't aware until it was too late that a gold skinned figure had taken them down. It was Vengeance and he left the way he came in, through the back of the store.
When Rollins and Grimes realized the shooting had stopped they found the robbers knocked out on the floor. Rollins noticed that one of the crooks was babbling about a gold alien with hockey stick hands.
"Think Creed was here?" Grimes asked
"Nah. If he was, the place wouldn't be standing." Rollins remarked
For Spider-man it was a bit getting used to the D.C terrain. For one thing the buildings were much shorter than they were in New York. Many of the buildings were required not to be taller than the Washington Monument to prevent obstruction. As he web-slinged by it, Spidey figured he had to climb up that thing. At least before the Park Rangers would try and shoot him down.
He continued looking for Creed and came up with nothing. Despite all of the destruction there was no sign of Creed. Spidey wondered if he was hiding or the symbiote allowed him to blend in. Either way he had to be somewhere he couldn't have disappeared.
Spider-man continued to swing around the monuments when he noticed several police cars with their lights and sirens screaming. Spidey followed the cars and sure enough he found Creed. In of places. The Lincoln Memorial.
"Well I hope this goes better than that ending of Planet of the Apes." Spidey remarked to himself. He swung closer to the famous monument and finally sighted Creed.
Creed was still in symbiote form. The symbiote had it's large tongue slithering through it's mouth full of crowded teeth. It made strange noises that could not have been made of this earth. The police were ready to shoot but bullets had no effect on the symbiote. The military wasn't sure what to do as they looked at their options. They surely weren't going destroy a national monument not unless there is nothing else left to do.
Spider-man jumped down and faced Creed. Creed looked at him with hungry eyes as if he was ready to make some kind of primal strike. Whatever it was Spider-man knew he was in the toughest fight he was ever in.
To Be Continued