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Sorry this chapter is so short.

Stalking

Spider-man swung through the city.

He had walked into the Daily Bugle half an hour ago. He asked Jonah if there was any photo-assignments available. Jonah had said no and told him to go away just as the phone rang. Jonah had answered as Peter walked out the door.

"Hey, Parker get back here," Jonah said. Peter turned around.

"Get out to Stark Tower the Green Goblin's been spotted near there," Jonah said.

And so here he was swing through the city. There was no sigh of the Green Goblin. He continued to search although he was pretty sure the Goblin was nowhere near. His spider-sense would have been buzzing if he was.

Suddenly the web-line that he was swinging from was cut. He plummeted to the ground. He shot another web-line breaking his fall. He turned around to face his attacker although he was pretty sure it was either Venom or Carnage, since his spider-sense hadn't warned him. He saw nothing. His attacker was gone.

He felt something hit his back. He realized it was webbing. He felt a yank on the webbing and he was swung into a building. He plowed through the window.

Spider-man got back up, ignoring the startled people. He jumped back out the broken window.

He scanned the sky for Venom. All he saw was a trail of smoke. He followed it. It looked like the smoke from a goblin glider. He swung around a building and his face connected with a black claw-like fist. He went flying into the closest building. This time he didn't go through a window, but slammed into the hard concrete.

He stuck to the wall and recovered his senses. As soon as his head stopped spinning he shot another web. He swung around the building. He spotted a figure on a goblin glider. It was Venom!

Venom threw a few pumpkin bombs from the bag he was carrying. This time Spidey's spider-sense warned him, but it was delayed. He managed to dodge it.

"What are you doing on a goblin glider, Gargan?" Spider-man said. "Your pal Norman renting it to you?"

"I'm not that idiot Gargan," Venom said with a voice that sounded like a combination of a normal human voice and a inhuman voice both speaking at once and saying the same words.

Venom charged forward on the glider catching Spider-man in mid-air. He grabbed him and threw him onto a nearby roof. Spider-man hoped to his feet just as Venom was landing a few feet away.

"If you're not Gargan, then who are you?" Spider-man asked.

Venom smiled and the symbiote mask flowed from his face revealing…

"Osborn!" Spider-man gasped.