Chapter 12

Reclamation







If there was a way to give evil and hate a physical description. Spider-man was looking directly at one interpretation of such an entity. It was a hulking mass of swirling symbiote that only could practically destroy every building in the area but also left large pools of what must've been droll in his wake. That was one thing Spidey figured that Hulk never left behind, at least drool anyway.

Spidey jumped and clung to one of the massive roman columns and tried to think of a way of fighting this thing. Not to mention how not to lay waste to a national monument. The first things he had to do, was to have someway of luring Creed away from this place.

He jumped down and coated Creed in webbing and while that held for about a second. Creed with the added strength of the symbiote ripped the webbing into pieces. Spidey fired a webline to the ceiling of the memorial and swung with all of his strength right at Creed. Surprisingly he caught Creed off guard and he went back several feet from the Memorial's steps and was now near the Reflection Pool.

Spidey followed and landed a couple of feet from Creed. He then went into a series of punches and kicks into him. It felt as if he was kicking a bag of wet cement. There was definite mass and solidness to the creature and Spider-man wondered if what he was doing had any effect. The gaping smile on Creed's face was not a good sign. He slammed a big clawed hand onto Spider-man's head and then threw him like a football into the reflecting pool.

Unfortunately the pool wasn't several feet deep and Spidey went crashing into the inches only deep water. He was knocked unconscious and dropped the bottom.

People on scene wondered if Spider-man was unable to stop Creed then who would? When they noticed another strange creature, come over to the spot in the Reflecting Pool where Spider-man fell into. With a simple extension of her pseudo podia Carnage was able to pull Spider-man out and leave in hopefully a safe place.

She hadn't had much experience in fights were supervillains but Carnage was relaying on pure instinct and that instinct of itself was an amazing thing.

Carnage came and landed a swift kick to Creed's head. The kick seem to have disoriented him and was unable to receive the next series of acrobatic blows from Carnage. She then decided to pull off something, she hoped would work. She threw her pseudo podia onto Creed's legs and then with all of her strength she picked him up and threw him toward the reflecting pool. While the throw was not as far she hoped it would knock Creed unconscious and perhaps cause the symbiote to leave it's host. Then it was a simple job of containment and the job was done.

Creed crashed into the water and the force caused a crater to form and caused the water to drop off. And then it seemed to be over. There was silence in the National Mall as everyone waited to see if it was truly over.

A minute passed and yet nothing happened. It appeared that Creed was beaten and Carnage was hearing the shouts of joys from the rescue personal. This was certainly a boost to a potential super-hero. She was taken so much by the praise that she even bowed and thanked the people. She figured why not, Spider-man couldn't always have the spotlight at least when that light is good.

Then the applause stopped. Carnage turned as realized why everyone had a look of horror on their faces. Creed had risen from his place and had a look of revenge upon his twisted face. No one could imagine what he was about to do next. Creed eyed Carnage and then gave a toothy smile he then started to run.

He ran faster and faster and was moving faster than a bull in full stampede. Carnage didn't know if she could get out of the way in time or do something that could hurt the people in the area.

Creed was charging down the path and aimed for Carnage. There had to be something to stop this madness and no one had an idea. The only thing on everyone's mind was what's the damage going to be when he hits Carnage and if he doesn't stop. What's going to happen to the Memorial?

Just as Creed got within 20 feet of Carnage something appeared and knocked Creed from his path. He crashed to the ground and skidding across the concrete leaving pieces of the symbiote in his wake. He kept skidding for at least a couple hundred feet to the last pieces of symbiote had been stripped from his skin. All that was left was the heavily injured man in destroyed business suit.

Carnage turned to where Creed had been stopped and standing there was Vengeance. He held up his clawed hands and smiled. As if to say that we had do it.

Everyone screamed for joy as the rampage in D.C. was over. Now the process of accessing the damage and planning to rebuilt was beginning.

. At the National Mall, several unmarked, but heavily equipt vehicles appeared. The personnel that came from the vehicle had jackets that stated they were members of SHIELD. They were here not for recapturing Carnage or even Vengeance. But to collect the pieces of symbiote that had been sheared off from Graydon Creed.

Carnage and Vengeance walked over to where Spider-man was located. He was still there but a couple of paramedics were also there checking to see if there was any damage.

"He's going to be fine." One paramedic told them. "Despite that blow whatever this thing is kept him protected. The only thing he's going to have is a hellacious headache the next day.

"Thank you" Vengeance

"No problem, you guys saved the city today."

Vengeance thought about what the paramedic said. Not only had be given a symbiote he was actually hero. He actually saved lives, not just one but a whole population. It was something he would see on tv. How the Avengers would save that city from a bad guy or save this city from natural disaster. While he didn't have a fancy mansion nor a scantily clad girlfriend. Vengeance was simply amazed what happened to his life.



Several days later Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson and Travis Carpenter were back in New York. After taking some time to concoct stories as to why they were absent. They were basking in the glow of their achievement. Peter even noticed that the Daily Bugle had published a positive story on them although Spider-man wasn't even mentioned in the headline. Well it couldn't hurt to have someone else new get some press about them.

They were currently inside of a pizza parlor enjoying their dinner on another warm New York Night.

"Think this could be some super-group thing?" Travis asked

"I dunno" Peter replied. "I mean we call ourselves Triumphant Trio."

Both Mary Jane and Travis shook their heads. "I think if we're going to that we'll need a better name than that." Mary Jane said

"Well I guess it's eventually, hey you think they would invite us into the Avenger's Mansion?" Travis asked

"I guess I mean anything is possible."

"I mean going to that place would the second mansion I would have to go to in my life."

"What's the first?" Mary Jane asked

"I think if you know Peter here you'd know the answer to that."

Peter laughed and although that was a fantasy for any teenage male. He was too busy trying to have a life both for himself and Spider-man.

Mary Jane was now used to the idea of a symbiote and while she wasn't crazy about the name Carnage. There were still unlimited possibilities for her and Peter.

As for Travis Carpenter, he didn't know what this new power was going to do to his life. He'd imagine it would have it's ups and downs and that hopefully the downs weren't too low. He was a new player in being a super-hero and while there was no guide to help him. He knew that he would have two other people by his side. They were in this together and that was for certain.





The End