Part Six
The suit grew back over Brock's face replacing whatever human features were left with that of the abomination that stood before Spider-Man. It roared and charged in towards its prey.
Peter landed a mighty strike against Venom's cheek moments before the two impacted. It did little to stop the onslaught. The creature grabbed his foe in a bear hug and slammed both of them recklessly against the walls of the tunnel. Shrugging off all pain it began to pound Peter savagely wasting not one breath that could be used in its assault.
In desperation, Peter retaliated with a brief spray of webbing that slammed against Venom's eyes. "Chew on that." He flipped back up to his feet and strung kicks and punches together in a dazzling array that forced Venom into retreat as he struggled with the patch of web-fluid on his eyes.
"Back off web-head!" Venom swiped Peter away with his massive arm and pulled the webbing from his face. "Look at yourself." He said contemptuously as Spider-Man stumbled back up, "This whole superhero thing doesn't suit you; we know how miserable you are."
Peter clenched his jaw. He fired a web-line that connected with the roof of the tunnel. He tugged on it and immediately the elastic fiber had him crashing into Venom. The creature slammed against the side of a wall, cracking the stone until it came down like rubble.
Acting on adrenaline, Peter lashed out at Venom with every bit of force. Keep hitting him! Can't stop for a second, just keep hitting him.
Venom reached out and clasped Peter's neck in his hands. His lips curled to reveal a deadly set of razor-sharp teeth, "Stupid move."
Gwen Stacy waited in her living room, dressed nicely, looking like an angel. Except for an annoyed expression on her face you wouldn't have realized something was amiss.
"Maybe he couldn't come." Her father said through the hallway on his way towards the kitchen for a snack while trying to lift her daughter's mood. "Parker will be here." He then mumbled below his breath, "For his sake if nothing else."
"How could he stand me up?" Gwen asked herself in a silent sort of shock. "What could be so important that he couldn't call me?" She said perplexed by his negligible absence. "Mary Jane that bit-."
The phone rang interrupting her exclamation. Captain Stacy moved out of the kitchen while finishing a slice of salami. "Hello?" He asked pressing the phone against his face. "Yeah, I'm here, what's up?"
He grimaced, "You've got to be kidding."
Gwen turned to her father, "What's going on?"
He looked at her oddly, his eyes full of trepidation and concern, "World War III."
"Everybody run!" One man yelled standing on the platform while already heeding his own advice.
The subway train flew across the station shredding apart anything and anyone unlucky enough to be in its path. Pedestrians scattered in every direction, some escaped while others found themselves caught like rats.
"Stop this, Venom!" Peter roared dodging attacks from his foe. "There's too many people here, I'll fight you, leave them out of this."
The monster was too far gone; he was trapped in a bloodlust he could hardly control. Their fight had moved from the abandoned tunnels into the more populated areas despite Peter's best efforts.
"Stop!" Peter pleaded, "Venom, control yourself!" He was caught by one of the latter's fists and thrown against the side of an overturned subway car.
Venom wasted no time closing in on Spider-Man. He wrapped his hand around Peter's skull and proceeded to ram it against the side of the car. He laughed sadistically, "Die!" He roared, "Die!"
Peter landed a mighty uppercut. The blow sent Venom through the roof of the subway and out onto the streets. Venom's exit left a hole in the roof that seemed as if a meteor had just landed, "Crap." He mumbled realizing his mistake. He fired a web-line quickly following.
The moment he emerged through the breach in the asphalt separating the street from the subway below he realized he had made another mistake. Venom hurtled the jeep towards Spider-Man. He cheered primitively when the two collided in an explosion of glass and steel.
Peter was thrown into the lobby of an office building, the jeep slammed against the wall while he managed to slip underneath and skid across the ground before coming to a stop.
That tingling sensation rippled through his body warning him of the gas leaking from the jeep. He moved feebly in an attempt to escape the oncoming carnage. The jeep exploded throwing Peter back out onto the street
Venom moved over his prey, his eyes staring at the mask and the face that he knew so well underneath it. Spider-Man's costume was nothing but patches of fabric held together by a few strands. The mask, still serving its purpose, looked as if it had been shot full of bullets, His hair poked through hole and cuts while his eyes could be seen through the shattered lenses.
"So much is being wasted. We're losing as much as you are." Venom stated sadly.
"I highly doubt that." Peter replied skeptically while blood poured out from his wounds.
Venom raised his fist menacingly, "This has gone on for long enough. We're going to end this. Part of us has feared this moment." He sighed, "Goodbye." Suddenly, a bolt of crimson energy enveloped Venom's hand forcing the monster to retract it , "Ahh!" Venom clasped his hand almost whimpering. "Who the hell did that?" He turned around and his face turned from that of total anger to utter astonishment.
Just a few yards down the street stood the Lizard while Iron-Man hovered above the ground by a couple of feet. "If it isssn't that ssssuit we've been missssing. Ssssurely you haven't forgotten me."
Venom grimaced, "This isn't your fight, Connors! Get the hell out of here! We've beaten S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Correction you beat Fury, we never finissshed what we ssstarted." The Lizard stated confidently. "Now you've had your fun, it'sss time to come home."
Iron-Man charged his sonic blasters, "Let's just end this!" He bathed Venom in a wave of sound bringing the creature to its knees in moments.
Lizard laughed, "How far the mighty have fallen, eh?" His eye suddenly spotted Spider-Man lying motionless on the street beside Venom. "Now isssn't thisss a pleasssent sssuprissse. Contact HQ and tell them to pick up their preciousss sssymbiote. I have sssome busssinesss to complete to with an old friend of mine."