Chapter 3

*Author's Disclaimer – Most of the characters are not mine *

*Author's Note – Sorry if anyone has been waiting for this chapter, I have a short attention span and I get side tracked and start other projects, but I've picked this up now so look for about a new chapter a week (subject to change) *

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            Peter swung through the city to Doc Conners' lab. He had to find out if Doc Conners still had the dead symbiot. When Peter arrived he was some what relieved.

            "I still have it," Conners told him, "But I've been looking into where this new symbiot may have come from."

            "And…" Spiderman prompted.

            "I've been coming up blank," Conners said glumly, "There's a chance that the black symbiot reproduced again but I don't know how or why the new offspring would go and seek out Gwen Stacy."

            "Neither do I," Spiderman said.

            "I'll see what I can come up with but until then I think you should go stop her."

            "Yes," Spiderman agreed, "I don't think talking about it will help stop her from killing innocent people."

            With that Spiderman was out the window and soaring through the New York City Skyline.

            As Peter passed through Times Square he saw Carnage on the big video screen. He stopped and latched onto a wall to watch.

            "Hey Spiderman," Carnage said, "Come to Central Park. Every minute you're not there, another innocent person dies."

            Peter could feel his rage building he was practically shaking with anger. He leapt off the building he had latched onto and swung towards Central Park. As he got closer one of his webs hit something that wasn't a building. It dragged him off course but towards Central Park. He looked up to see a stealth airplane at the end of his webbing. The plane silently dropped down just outside Central Park.

            What are the X-Men doing here? Peter thought to himself.

            The hatch on the plane opened and Wolverine, Cyclops, Beast and Storm filed out.

            "Hey bub," Wolverine said noticing Spiderman, "You need help?"

            "Wouldn't you believe it," Peter muttered shaking his head, "We've gotta hurry she's killing civilians every minute I don't show up."

            "I know," Beast said putting one big arm on Peter, "But you can't rush in and do anything rash. You're sort of like a bargaining chip here."

            "What?" Peter asked.

            "If we hand you over we can free the people," Cyclops said.

            "WHAT?" Peter repeated, "You're selling me out!?"

            "No," Cyclops said, "Look there's only four of us. You know that there are more X-men. We will turn you over and they will get you back."

            Peter glanced around but he couldn't see any other X-Men.

            "Sorry but this is my party," Peter said.

            He ran into the park with all four X-Men chasing him. Peter almost ran straight into Carnage's waiting arms. She was waiting for him under a bridge with a group of frightened people huddling together just outside.

            "So Spiderman you've decided to show up." Carnage said, "How noble of you."

            Peter didn't reply instead he just charged at her and then fired his webs. She slashed his webbing aside and drove a spike right at Spiderman, but he flipped over it and kicked her in the face. A red-black tendril suddenly wrapped around Peter's ankle and threw him away from the bridge. Carnage started stalking towards Peter as he groggily got to his feet. Behind her the four X-Men were leading the hostages away to safety.

            "Why are you doing this?" Peter pleaded.

            "You shunned us Peter Parker," Carnage said.

            "I'll admit that I was a bit harsh with you," Peter said, "But you were trying to intrude. I was seeing Mary Jane at the time."

            "But you're not now?" Carnage asked.

            "No," Peter replied, "She out in California acting."

            There was a long pause of silence between the two.

            "Where's your other girlfriend Venom?" Carnage asked.

            "She's not my other girlfriend," Peter answered.

            Carnage's mask seemed to frown, "Not your other… oh." A look of understanding seemed to cross her mask, "Venom is Mary Jane. What an interesting Love Triangle we have here."

            "Tell me about it," Peter said, "Both girls like Peter Parker and both want to kill Spiderman."

            The Carnage mask suddenly split open and Gwen's face appeared. It was much more gaunt and aged looking then Peter had remember, probably hardened by her stay in jail.

            "Since you're not going out with Mary Jane, then you can go out with me," Gwen said.

            Peter shook his head, "No I can't," he replied, "I can't let a mass murderer go free."

            "No exceptions?" Gwen asked pleadingly.

            Peter shook his head. The Carnage mask covered Gwen's face once again.

            "Then we'll have to go mass murderer your girlfriend," Carnage said.

            She shot a tendril at Peter and threw him back over her shoulder where crashed head long into Beast and Wolverine who were coming to his aid. When Peter looked in her direction she had vanished.

            "Old girlfriend?" Wolverine asked from the bottom of the pile.

            "You could say that," Peter admitted.

            "You should try dating services," Wolverine said, "They're usually not that violent or psychotic."

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Well that's chapter 3. I had a better one written down on paper but I left my bag on the bus and it's now long gone. I tried to do this one as similar as possible and I'll probably end up changing it but the end result is the same. Look for Chapter 4 sometime next week.