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Issue 6

Confrontation

Spider-man let himself drop to the roof below. He ran to the edge of the building and looked around. Osborn's chemical factory was abandoned so no innocents would get hurt. "Except maybe me," he muttered to himself.

He didn't see Osborn anywhere as he circled the building. He finally decided to go inside and investigate it, when he was suddenly lifted from the ground and thrown off the roof. Spidey fell unto the sand. The fall might have seriously injured a normal human, but not him. What jumped off the building he been thrown from could.

Venom growled and charged toward his prey. He grabbed Spider-man and leaped through the air carrying him with him. He made another leap before Peter kicked him in a place that caused him to drop him.

"You'll pay for that," he yelled and ran forward punching Peter and sending him flying into a wall.

Peter got up and glanced around the area he was now in. He was at what must have been some sort of storage place. There were rows of buildings.

Venom came at him again, but this time he was prepared. He leaped into the air and landed on the building behind him. He waited for Osborn to appear, however an orange sphere was instead tossed onto the roof. Peter jumped to the next building just as the pumpkin bomb went off. He had escaped unharmed.

Venom now came up over the building on his goblin glider. He flew right past Spidey. Peter then felt webbing striking his back and he was yanked off the roof. Venom towed him into the air a few feet and dropped him toward the pavement below. He hit it feet first and immediately collapsed to his knees from the force of it.

"Agh!" Peter cried out in pain. He had had enough of this. Osborn had beaten him to a pulp only a couple days ago and now he was dropping from the sky by him. He wasn't even at his full strength it would be too easy for Venom to kill him, but Venom didn't want to kill him. He wanted to simply beat him to within an inch of his life and then let him heal and then do it again.

Venom hovered down towards him. He stopped directly in front of him. Peter drew back his fist to punch and then saw the expression on Venom's "mask" change into a look of surprise. Peter jumped to the side and clung to a nearby wall, as Iron-man plowed into Venom. He flew holding onto the alien's neck and then pinned him to a wall. Tony held him to the wall and then pointed a futuristic looking gun at Venom. He pulled the trigger and a loud noise filled the warehouse. Venom started to scream in pain. The symbiote began to separate from Osborn. Black tendrils were lifting away to reveal normal skin. Venom felt like they were being torn apart. The pain was so excruciating that he almost wasn't able to take out a small remote control device.

Peter looked in horror at the remote and jumped toward Venom just as he pressed the button.

"Noooo!" Peter yelled.

Author's note: Would somebody please review this story? I would like to know what you think of it.