Chapter 11
*Disclaimer note – characters are not mine*
*Author's note – I've taken the liberty of changing some of the facts about the symbiot*
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Over the next few days Peter and Mary Jane didn't end up meeting each other at all. Mary Jane avoided turning into Venom over the time span, while Peter scanned the city each night for a sign of Venom, as Spiderman with no luck. Finally after not seeing each other for few days they met each other in front of the Empire State building.
"Mary Jane," Peter said, "I haven't seen you in while."
"I've been pretty busy," Mary Jane replied, "I've been working more hours then I usually do, and I've had a few auditions."
"What about that action movie you mentioned?" Peter asked.
"The director liked my audition," she said, "I think I'll get the part."
"That's great," Peter complimented.
"What about you?" M.J. asked, "What have you been up to?"
"Uh," Peter stammered, "Nothing really, Spiderman hasn't had much to do recently."
"Isn't Jameson getting mad at you?" M.J. inquired.
What does that matter to you, Peter thought angrily, "Yes he is."
"Well good," M.J. said, "I haven't seen a picture of Spiderman in the paper for quite a while."
Why is she getting me all angry? Peter thought, "You're acting really weird Mary Jane."
Mary Jane snorted at him, "Hmpf, maybe I've just grown up Peter."
With that she turned and walked away. Peter frowned after her, "What's that supposed to mean?" he asked quietly to no one in particular.
Just then a beautiful looking blond woman ran over to Peter, "Oh Peter have you and Mary Jane finally broken up?" she asked.
Peter stared at Gwen Stacy as though she had an ugly mole growing on her forehead, "What? No we just…" he tried to think of a reply.
"Don't lie to me Peter Parker," Gwen said, "I saw you two fighting just now."
"We were just having a little argument," Peter said, "We haven't broken up."
Yet, Peter added to himself.
Gwen turned around and ran away from Peter nearly in tears. Normally Peter would have felt really bad about it and would have tried to comfort her but Mary Jane was really worrying him. It's almost like she found the symbiot, Peter thought to himself, What if she did?
Peter went over in his mind what he would have to do. If he failed to get the symbiot away from her in time.
"I'm thinking crazy," Peter muttered to himself, "M.J. must just be in a bad mood today. Maybe it's just one of those women things. Yeah that must be it. To bad I didn't get the super powers to understand women."
Peter Parker is becoming a hindrance, the symbiot said inside Mary Jane's head.
Well I'm not killing him, Mary Jane retorted, I can get rid of him without resorting to violence.
The symbiot made no reply giving M.J. a feeling of victory once again. When she got back to her apartment.
Peter was about to go out on his nightly patrol as Spiderman when he heard a loud explosion. He finished pulling on his costume and went to investigate the cause. The Shocker had gotten away in their last encounter and now he was causing trouble again. This time it appeared that he was simply robbing an armored car.
Spiderman swung in high over the shocker and came soaring down towards him. Shocker looked up only just in time to raise his blasters and hit Spiderman with a blast that sent him back up in the air and then crashing down onto the roof of a now abandoned car.
"Well, well, well," Shocker taunted, "Looks like you've gone back to your old loser costume Webhead."
"Old maybe," Spiderman said, "But you're the loser."
He jumped off the car and leapt towards Shocker who unleashed another blast at him. At the last second he flipped up and the blast and fired his web shooters at shockers arms. With some care to make sure Shocker couldn't use his blasters to get free Spiderman tied him up.
"That was easy," he said to himself.
Just then he got hit from behind with a hammer blow. He rolled with the force and came up in quite a lot of pain but still conscious. He spun around to face Venom.
"I thought you'd show up," Spiderman said.
"We will finish this Spiderman," Venom replied.
She charged at him but he leapt aside and fired his web shooters to get away. Venom fired her own webbing from her wrists and chased after him, "You won't escape us that easily," Venom said.
"I don't intend to escape," Spiderman muttered to himself.
He led Venom to St. Patrick's Cathedral and led her up to the bell towers.
"Have you come here to pray before you die Spiderman?" Venom taunted.
"No," Spiderman replied, "But you might end up on your hands and knees."
He immediately fired his webbing at the bells and pulled. They swung back and forth making an awful racket. Venom started clutching her head and screaming in agony. The symbiot started to force its way off of her body.
Get us out of here! The symbiot screamed in Mary Jane's head.
Venom crawled towards the window of the bell tower and broke it open. Spiderman saw what she was doing and fired a web at her; it hit her in the left shoulder. She grabbed the web and pulled hard sending Spiderman flying into the bell. She used the opportunity to crawl out the window and then fire a web and swing away to safety.
"I was so close," Peter muttered as he took off his mask, "Now I wonder if I'll get a second chance."
