Chapter 7
*Disclaimer, as always characters don't belong to me, although I wish they did.*
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Meanwhile across town at the Daily Bugle Peter Parker had just finished developing his new photos.
"Jameson will like these ones," he muttered to himself.
When he reached Jameson's room he could hear his boss chewing somebody out. Peter couldn't really hear what was being said to well through the large wooden doors and figured it was just as well. When Jameson finally yelled, "Now get out of my sight!" he figured it was okay to knock on the door.
"What?" Jameson said, "Come in."
A bit carefully Peter opened the door and stepped inside, "Hello Mr. Jameson."
"Parker!" Jameson barked, "What took you so long?"
"I was just looking over my new photos," Peter replied setting them down on the desk, "Looks like Rhino broke free and there a new villain on the town."
Jameson snatched up the pictures and looked them through.
"I know that Rhino guy is a bad one," James grumbled as he flipped through the pictures, "But this other one is wearing a costume like that new one Spiderman wore for a few days. Looks like he's gone back to his old one."
"I didn't like that new costume myself," Peter said, "It makes it harder to get good pictures."
"Funny," Jameson said with a very small chuckle, "So who is this new villain, what's her name, I need facts."
"She calls herself Venom," Peter said, "Other then that I don't know she just appeared today."
"Well what did she do?" Jameson demanded.
"Well, nothing really," Peter replied, "She threatened to kill Spiderman but then he just turned and ran away."
"For all we know it could be some fan girl who liked his black costume and is really upset about his switching back," Jameson said, "I'll use the Rhino story but until this Venom person actually does something other then threaten Spiderman it doesn't deserve a space in the newspaper. People get threatened everyday Parker and you don't see us putting those in the paper. They want action, they want drama…"
"I know, something exciting," Peter said, "I just figured I'd let you know since I think Spiderman will have some real exciting adventure happen real soon with her."
"You'd better hope so," Jameson grumbled, "Good work Parker."
"Thank you Mr. Jameson," Peter replied and he turned and left his boss's office.
Peter looked at the one picture he had left of Venom, "Who is she?" he thought out loud, "Thinking is no use. It could be just about anyone."
Mary Jane showed up at the restaurant where she worked about 3 minutes late. It was one of those fancy restaurants where all sorts of famous people went. All of the waiting staff where up and coming actors however most ended up leaving when they got a career break after meeting one of the many famous movie directors or Broadway show producers who frequented the place. M.J. however had never had such a break and it wore on her. The manager Tony was a big grumpy man who didn't like M.J. and constantly told her she would never become an actress.
"You're late," Tony said as soon as M.J. came inside.
"It's only 3 minutes," M.J. muttered, "Gotta problem with that?"
"Yeah," Tony said, "As a matter of fact I do. We're very busy tonight just like every other night and I need people to show up on time."
"Well sorry if I have stopped some famous person from getting their meal for 3 whole minutes," M.J. replied sarcastically.
That's when Tony got into M.J.'s face, "Don't you talk to me like that!"
"Or what?" M.J. asked.
Tony's face went red with anger, "I'll fire you."
"Puh-leaze," M.J. groaned, "I can easily get another waiting job somewhere else."
By now Tony was shaking with fury, he grabbed M.J. by the wrist and dragged her out into the back alley, "I'll teach you a lesson, bitch," he muttered.
When he turned around to look at M.J. the first thing he saw was a huge mouth of long pointy teeth with a large tongue sticking out.
"What's the matter?" Venom asked, "We thought you were gonna teach us a lesson."
Tony released his grip on her arm, "What the, what the hell are you!?" he stammered.
"Fine," Venom said ignoring him, "We'll teach you a lesson."
Before Tony could do anything she grabbed his arms and pulled them up and then pushed them back. Tony screamed as his shoulders both dislocated. Venom then ran her knee into his stomach making him cough up large amounts of blood. Mary Jane let the mask disappear revealing her face.
"You know I have to keep my identity a secret," she said, "it's too bad you have a hard time keeping your big mouth shut."
"Fuck you," Tony said as coughed up blood, "Bitch."
The gruesome mask covered her face once again as she stuck her foot into Tony's stomach while she pulled on his arms. She gave one huge tug and ripped his arms right off. Tony fell backwards and kicked his legs at her. She stood over him still holding his arms. She raised her right foot over Tony's head, "NO!" Tony cried. She brought her foot down crushing his head and splattering brains and blood everywhere. She then raised one of the dismember arms up into the air so blood was dripping out of it. She opened her mouth and stuck out her huge tongue and let the blood trickle onto it. She then dropped both arms and looked down at Tony's corpse, "Fuck you," she said.
