"This is a special news report…I am Sue Vincent reporting live from down town Manhattan where it seems the notorious Dr. Octopus is wrecking havok searching for something…It seems he has a hostage…"
"Oh my God!" Katerina Ryan said, "He has Mary Jane."
"What!?!" Spidey said staring at the television.
He ran to the window leaping out into the bitter winter air. Spiderman let loose a webline that caught on a building near him. He swung up releasing the line he was at the top of the swing. He swung up to one of the tall buildings near him. He tried to find Doc Oc in the stone and steel canyon. Spiderman spotted him heading away from him, it seemed the doctor was on a search and destroy mission. He wasn't hard to follow considering he was leaving chaos in his wake. Spiderman was nearly on top of him when Doc Oc turned. Spiderman was caught unaware as one of the four adamantium tentacles grabbed him around the middle. Mary Jane woke up to see that she was outside. She looked down to see that she was in one of Octavious' tentacles. He held her loosely, his attention now fixed on Peter in his other tentacle. She lifted herself out of the tentacles grip. She hung for a moment while she grabbed the scarf from around her neck. She wrapped it around the wriggling tentacle. Mary Jane began sliding down it heading straight for Doc Oc's body. She put her feet out in front of her and felt a sickening crack as she connected with Octavious' body. Mary Jane felt a surge of pain travel up her leg. Suddenly the tentacles went limp. She fell letting out a scream. Mary Jane saw the red and blue clad figure reach out to her as she fell. He caught her and swung down town to Xavier's hotel. Doc Oc was momentarily rendered unconscious, two of his tentacles firmly attached to the side of the building. Peter Parker's side was inflamed from Octavious' abuse. He was lucky that Mary Jane had enough sense to ward off Octavious long enough for them to escape.
"Spiderman, I am sorry," she said.
"Don't worry about it. It wasn't your fault," he told her.
They arrived once again at Xavier's hotel room. Mary Jane was shivering uncontrollably from the cold and shock when they got inside. Spiderman set her down on the couch before sitting down painfully himself. Storm, Xavier, and Katerina rushed over to them worried.
"I think we can easily say the Doc Oc is going to be mad when he regains consciousness," Spidey said though the pain in his side.
"Mary Jane are you okay?" Kit asked.
"I think my ankle is broken," she said through her chattering teeth.
"Let me check," Xavier said.
He looked at it nodding his head in agreement, "We need to get you to a hospital."
"How are we going to accomplish that?" Katerina asked, "I mean with Doc Oc out there obviously searching for me."
"I will take her in the mini jet," Storm said.
A thought dawned on Kit, "Professor, I need you to take me back to my house in Forest Hills. I have to pick up something."
"Okay. Storm you take care of Mary Jane, Spiderman try to stop Octavious, and I will take Katering to her home. Hopefully we can prevent as many casualties as possible," Xavier told everyone.
Every one shook their heads in agreement before heading out of the room. Storm helped Mary Jane to the service elevator to the roof. Once they were gone Spiderman got up heading to the window.
Kit grabbed his arm, "Be careful and good luck."
"Thanks," Spidey said before leaping out the window.
Katerina followed Professor Xavier down to his vehicle. They got in and began their drive to the Forest Hills area.
Spiderman web swung back to the area he left Doc Oc hanging. He saw the two holes that his tentacle left, but no Oc. His spider sense went off warning him of an attack coming from two different sides. He turned just in time to see the glinting metal coming at him. Spidey managed to leap over the first tentacle, but he didn't have time to counter the second one. It hit him in the chest, hard enough to pull the breath from his lungs. A wave of blackness threatened to overtake him. He shot a stream of fluid at Doc Oc's face, hoping to momentarily blind him. The Doctor anticipated the move and spun two of the writhing tentacles tearing the webbing to shreds.
"Is that all you've got, insect," Doctor Octopus shouted at the web crawler.
"You know you'd think you would finally figure out that I am an arachnid," Spiderman said.
He landed on the wall of one of the buildings. Doc Oc launched one of his tentacles at the middle of Spiderman's chest again. Spiderman launched off the building just under the tentacle. He let loose a strand of webbing catching the building just opposite of the one Doc's tentacle was imbedded in. The red and blue clad hero was nearly at the top of the swing when Oc hit him up side his head knocking him into the wall of an apartment building. Spiderman attempted to get up from the rubble, but Octavious knocked the rest of the wall down on top of him. Spiderman didn't move, only his arm exposed from under the ton of bricks and wood.
"Sorry web-slinger, I don not have the time to play. Enjoy oblivion. I have pressing business to attend to else where," Dr. Octavious said walking away from the broken figure of Spiderman.
Dr. Octopus was nearly knocked flat as he received a blow from another being. He recovered and stopped to find out who had the audacity to strike the menacing Dr. Octopus. He was a red haired being perched on top of a roof a few yards away from him. She smiled revealing a mouth full of fangs. He saw that she was not human, but a tiger like-humanoid. She was dressed in black leather. She had two odd looking bracelets upon her wrists. Octavious soon found out why. She leapt off the building firing one of the mechanisms on her wrists at the wall of a building. She swung at Octavious. He hit her, throwing her body into the building. Expecting her to fall he backed away. She clung to the building, her talons gripping the stone eddiface. With a snarl he directed two tentacles after her. She leapt over the first, but caught the second in her claws. She fired some sort of canister at his tentacles. It exploded, throwing a sticky substance all over them.
"Please, child, my tentacles have been treated to counter any attempt to stop them with adhesive," he said laughing maniacally.
He continued to laugh as he sat himself down on the roof top. The woman just smiled as she landed once again on the eddiface of the building. Doc Oc sent all four of his tentacles after her catching her. He beat her as she attempted to escape to the roof top where she had the advantage. She barily made it, but just laid down on the roof top. The material she shot at him began moving towards the Doctor's pinchers on the two that were covered. It entered through a small crack in between the pinchers causing them to freeze up as the nano bugs invaded their mechanisms. Soon Doc Oc's arms only numbered two. He used the two remaining working arms to lift him up.
He looked at the woman in disbelief, "It was you all along!"
Katerina Ryan smiled, "My unique body structure enables me to control the psionic link they all contain."
"Give it to me," he demanded, "Give me the power and world domination will be mine."
"Come any closer and I will release the rest of them onto your two remaining tentacles," Katering said taking her human form once again.
"You wouldn't…" Doc Oc began, but soon saw the hatred burning in her eyes.
He turned his back to her and hurried away from the carnage and death he had caused, "I will return to take care of you and that meddle-some red head, Mary Jane."