Part Four
Peter stared into Venom's blank white eyes. Every instinct urged him to run, begged him to make for home. There was something else though. Something more primal more potent that let him keep his ground. He wanted to hurt Venom.
He leapt across the terrace bearing gown on his opponent with every ounce of speed he could muster. Venom dodged the attack and managed to grab Peter's ankle. It snarled and slammed him against the stone railing on the edge of the terrace.
Spider-Man tumbled off the roof, he's head ringing from the blow dealt to him. Venom had taken him by surprise twice now. He couldn't sense his actions for the first time in months he was fighting blind. He spotted a ledge nearby and prepared to swing over to it. Before he could even extend his arm, Venom rammed himself into Peter's gut sending them both through the side of a building across the street.
They crashed through the window and both rolled across the floor of some sort of health club. There was an array of work equipment the center of the room. Venom slowly rose to his feet, a sadistic glee in his eyes. "Peter…We've missed you."
"I wish the feeling were mutual." He said grabbing his gut in pain as he lay against the side of the wall trying to regain his balance.
"Don't lie to us." Venom said cruelly, "We know you; you're lost without us. Deep down whether you'd like to admit we completed you."
Peter closed his fist, "Stop talking!" He lunged towards his doppelganger. Peter himself had been taken back by the ferocity of their struggle. Venom smacked Spider-Man aside with his powerful arms.
Smashing against the side of the wall, Peter shook his head shrugging the blow off. "Let's try that again." He flipped through the air and landed a dropkick on Venom's skull.
The monster stumbled back from the blow with a smile on its face. "Come on, Parker, we know you're better than this." It fired a burst of webbing, "Show us what you got!"
Peter dodged the web-line from Venom realizing the strand was razor-sharp as it sliced through the wall of the building. "Jeez, you've been working out?"
"We've been thinking of this for a long-time, Parker! With a certain amount of anticipation we might add." Venom lunged for the wall-crawler.
Peter hurtled himself through the air but was caught by the immensely powerful creature. Venom giggled and slammed Peter straight through the glass that overlooked the city streets.
"Whoa!" The simple reply was all he could muster as he was flung like a rag-doll. Peter instinctively fired a web-line soaring away from the building. "I can't let this creep get in close."
Venom peered out the window and witnessed his foe retreating, "No." It fired a web-line of its own and went off in pursuit.
Peter could hear the sound of another web-line connecting with the buildings behind him. "I can't detect him, I wonder if it works the other way around." He spotted a bridge between two buildings just ahead. "There's no time better than now."
From several blocks behind, Venom swung through the streets than even Spider-Man had ever managed. He turned a corner, expecting to see the hero just ahead but was quickly disappointed when his opponent turned out to be nowhere in sight.
"That coward, he can't run forever." Venom hissed furiously. He fired a line on a connecting bridge casually. Suddenly, Peter emerged from the bottom of the bridge, hidden in shadows, and tackled Venom. "Get off us!"
"Sure, right after I do some reconstructive surgery on your face!" Peter exclaimed slamming his fist into Venom's head with everything he was worth.
The black abomination reeled from the blows while he and Peter tumbled to the ground helplessly. It wrapped its massive hand around Spider-Man's neck, "Sorry, no passengers allowed!" Venom threw Peter off him into the side of a building. The creature did what he could to fire another web-line and escape certain doom but failed. He crashed onto the street with incredible force, shaking the entire street on the moment of impact.
Peter emerged from the hole he had created in the side of an apartment building and looked at Venom's lifeless body on the street, "Got him." He leaped out of the building and down on the street where a crowd already collected to see what had happened. Peter approached the monster.
"It's Spider-Man." Someone called from the crowd.
"Call the Police on that freak!"
"He killed my brother!"
"We'd better get going before that psycho comes after us."
Peter stopped as he listened to the accusations. His heart ached with everyone. Things hadn't changed so much since the bite; he was still the same and so where they. He bent over and placed his hand on Venom's shoulder, "I wish you'd go back to wherever you came from."
Venom suddenly came to life, flipped back up to his feet and wrapped his arms around Peter. "We would love to, but we were expelled by that which we gave the most to!" He began to squeeze the life out of Peter. "Now we will take the most from him!"
In agony, Peter screamed, struggling against Venom's hold. Had it been anyone else, had it been Captain America, had it been DareDevil, or Iron-Man, the crowd would have came to help. With him, they merely watched.
"Die." Venom cried sadistically, "Die forever!"
Peter wriggled his hand from Venom's arm and fired a spray of webbing into his attacker's eyes. "Why?" He landed back on his feet as the creature moved away from him, ripping the webbing off his face. "Why did you come back?"
Venom snarled angrily at him, "You left us to die!" It said accusingly. "You played God with our lives like we were some tool to be discarded when you felt like it; we would have died for you."
"Oh yeah, that's why you're trying to kill me." Peter replied sarcastically while he tensed his muscles.
"You left us for her." Venom stated bitterly, "We offered you so much."
"You took me over, what was I supposed to do!" Peter responded.
Venom grimaced, "Us? No, you let us in; with your condoning we did what was necessary. Maybe you've forgotten but there was a part of you that directed us, it's still in you, the part that you hide."
"No, you're wrong." Peter replied strongly, his voice shook weakly.
"Are we? When pushed you're no better than us, you have the same hate but the difference is you can't use it properly, we did that for you. After this the redhead dies, it will be our ultimate victory."
"No!" Peter roared and somersaulted towards Venom. He came down hard bringing both his fist on the monster's skull.
Venom merely flinched from the blow and retaliated with an uppercut that threw Spider-Man against a car, smashing the exterior.
Peter groaned and touched his back carefully. He winced from the gashes that showed themselves behind the torn back of his costume. Peter grabbed the car and raised it above his head. Taking in a deep breath he threw it towards Venom with all his might.
The car soared through the air, getting screams from the crowd. Venom roared and punched the car an instance before it hit him, sending the car back.
Peter was stunned and failed to react in time. The car slammed him throwing him against the side of a building while the car crashed into him, pinning him against the wall.
Venom closed in sending pedestrians fleeing in all directions. Peter did his best to move the car but he was still weak from that last blow.
Venom stood over Peter menacingly and clasped both his hands around his head. "Ironic that our true consciousness began when our neck was snapped and yours will end the same way."