Chapter 5

The next day started very much like the day before. May played sick, Peter bought it and left her for the day, she grabbed her SBP, put her clothes in it and climbed out the skylight in full Spidy wear.

Right now she was perched on the very top of Saint Patrick's cathedral. It was 10am; she had webbed up a bunch of thugs who tried to rob a local deli and stopped someone from escaping arrest. Apparently he stole a car. A police car. "How stupid do you get?" she chuckled and slotted a new web cartridge into her left web shooter. The right one was still fresh from that morning so she didn't change that one. May was about to swing off in search of crime, when something caught her eye. A man in his mid 30's wearing a blue business suit was shakily scaling up to the pinnacle of the cathedral, where she was. "Can I help you?" what is this guy doing up here?

"O Oh. I I didn't know this place was taken. Do you mind?"

"Erm, free country last time I checked." He smiled nervously and pulled himself up to stand, holding on to the spire with all his might.

"Thank you. It means a lot."

"Sure. I'm not exactly going to stop you." This isn't right. my spidersense might not be tingling, but my woman's intuition is.

"That's good to know." he chuckled weakly and looked over. "I love this place." She wasn't taking her eyes off this guy. He had matted brown hair, grey eyes, pale skin and was shaking terribly. "I needed to come up here." No, you need a hospital. That's what you need.

"Come up here often?" she edged towards him. May stood next to him and leaned against the spire.

"Never. You?"

"First time. What's your name?"

"Gorge."

"Hi, I'm Spidergirl."

"Oh, that's nice. How's your father?"

"Who?"

"Spiderman."

"He isn't my father." she growled slightly, but bottled it up. Now wasn't the time for frustrations on keeping her identity safe. And her father's. "Nice view."

"Yes, very nice." He looked out. "I used to come here, not up here you understand, but to the cathedral to pray all the time when I was younger. I used to be a choir boy at the Christmas Masses." He chuckled. "I used to hate that white dress they made me wear. But my mother always loved it. She said it made me look handsome."

"So you're a religious person."

"I was…my faith was everything to me…"

"Was?" she stood right next to him and cocked her head to one side.

"Yes, was." he was quite for a time, before he sighed. "I was christened here, my family new the whole priest union here. And I met my wife here."

"You're married? Have any kids?"

"Yes, one you're age from the sounds of things. And one younger, only an ankle bitter, 3. My eldest child is 18. His name is Cody and the youngest is Nancy." He sniffed as a silent tear fell down his cheek. The one May couldn't see. "Do you have any family?"

"Yeah."

"Your parents happily married?"

"Yes."

"But are they? Truly? How do you know?" Gorge still looked out to 5th street, in a sort of trance. "Do they even know…" May became on edge as he let go of the spire and took step forwards. "I thought I did…"

"Gorge, just come back over."

"Faith. What is faith? Is it the surety that God will reward those who live good lives? I thought so. But then why, after all these years of faithful worship and lawful living, has God abandoned me? I did everything I was taught, everything in the bible. I came here every Sunday without fail, without fail." He clenched a fist. "I have worked hard for over 20 years of my life, over 20 years, slaved away behind an office desk and phone for my family. We are all christened, we all had faith. And I was tricked…"

"Who tricked you Gorge?" May stepped after him.

"God tricked me…he screwed me out of life. The wife I treasured and loved, in the way in which God wanted, betrayed me. I came home and found that the kids were at a youth centre for all ages and she was fucking the postman." He spat and choked a sob. "So where was God when I found her huh? Where was God? Isn't he supposed to look after his followers?" he sobbed and tears fell. "It hurt so much…it hurts too much." He took another step forward and May gasped and tried to 'preach' to him desperately.

"Gorge, the world is full of temptations and bad people. I thought God sent the good people to heaven and punished the sinners. If you have lived a good life then.

"Then why am I being punished? You are so young…you think that only the bad people suffer. You will find, the good people suffer a lot more than the bad. And I have suffered too long. I have lost my faith, my wife, my children and my will to on." He put his arms up, making a crucifix with his body and went limp, falling off the pointed spire roof and to the ground.

"NOOOO!" May nose dived after him and hooked her arm around his waist. she then webbed up at the spire and swung them slowly and safely to the ground. "You worried me there for a minuet Gorge. Gorge?...Gorge!" she laid him flat on the ground and watched as his eyes were large, watery And glazed over. "But I saved you Gorge. I saved you…"

"You made my day Miss." He coughed heavily and tears began to swell in her eyes as blood trickled form his mouth and nose. "…it was nice…to now there are still…good people in the world…"

"Gorge. I saved you…don't die." She looked around at the large surrounding crowd. "CALL 911!"

"We already have." One woman said, afraid from the fierce way May had shouted. She turned back to the dying man and held him into her chest.

"No, no don't die. Don't die on me…I saved you…"

"I was too far gone to be saved." He coughed again and she felt his skin go cold on his cheek. "I am with the lord now…I wish…"

"Yes?" she whimpered.

"I wish…there were people like you…to stop the evils of the world. You are so pure…never forget your innocence…never lose it…innocence and kindness are one of the greatest gifts from God…you child…are truly blessed…"

"Gorge? Gorge!" she screamed and tried to shake him awake. "Gorge!" she sobbed as the ambulance pushed past the crowed and encircled her. It was a sorrowful scene. May had the cold, dead man in her arms, rocking him as she cried. "I saved him…why did he die? I saved him…"

The paramedics checked his vitals and new he was dead.

"Mam, did he fall?"

"No…I saved him…" she whimpered from the back of the ambulance. Another ambulance drove held the dead man and they were currently doing final blood checks and identifying the body before it would be taken away to the morgue. The paramedics had May rapped in a large blanket and one of the women sat next to her. it was obvious that she was young from the way she took the death. Poor dear. Too young for this. The woman thought.

"Spidergirl. Is that your name?"

"…yes…"

"Did you know him before today?"

"No…how could he die? I saved him…" she said to her trembling knees and sniffed.

"There was nothing you could do. The blood tests show he overdosed before climbing up the cathedral. No matter how quickly you could have gotten him down, he would have died anyway.

"People aren't supposed to die. I saved him so that he didn't die…but he did…"

"One thing I've learnt from this business…is that you just can't save them all." She placed her hand on May's shoulder, but she pulled away and didn't stop walking until she was out of the van. She panted heavily and clenched her fists. "We don't have the power to."

"I have the power." She looked over to the closed ambulance as it drove away, taking the dead man with it. "I have the power, and the responsibility to prevent that from happening. He died because I didn't save him in time. I knew he shouldn't have been up there, but I just listened to him. Too blind to see he needed help. He should be in hospital, alive right now. Not in a body bag on his way to the morgue." May seethed and stamped her foot, making cracks in the concrete road. "I have been given a gift, great power, kindness and innocence. And with these gifts I should help good people, good people like Gorge. I have been given a great gift, great power." She slowly raised an arm to the top of a near by building and shot a line towards the roof. "And with great power, comes great responsibility. One, that I will never overlook ever again." and she was gone.

But she didn't hide.

She didn't go home and call after daddy.

No

May went straight back into the kitchen and prepared to cook up some well needed justice. She landed in the middle of a street, and waited as a pair of store thieves ran her way. The first got a fierce punch to the gut, breaking his rib with a sickening crunch and the second received a powerful boot to the face, unhinging his jaw and making his nose bleed like a river. But her blood still boiled. She webbed them up and webbed off, soaring through the rooftops and landed on the bank roof. For over an hour she simply stared out at nothing, consumed within her own mind.

I killed him.

Onlookers, if there were any, could have thought she was a painted gargoyle from the way she didn't move. At all.

How…how did this happen? Father didn't let this sort of thing happen. Did he? Is this why he gave it up so easily? Because of this, this pain of loss? I didn't even know the guy, but I still feel that a part of me died with him today. I could have saved him, he even asked for permission to be up there with me. And I just let him. Free country I said. I might as well have pushed him off that roof…I let him die. I just sat back and let him. Overdosed? It didn't matter. Drugged up or not I should have saved him. I did save him…it just wasn't enough…being Spidergirl wasn't enough…having these powers just inst enough. I need to learn how to use them. Dad said once that his powers warned him of every situation, as well as danger. Why didn't mine warn me he was going to jump? How could I have been so naïve to think all I needed to do was put on a costume, get some powers and be Spidergirl. Being Spidergirl needs more than powers and a mask. So I can lift over 10 times my own weight and more. So I can web swing like I have been doing it all my life. So I can punch a couple of bad guys. So what. Punching bad guys didn't help Gorge…why couldn't I help him? Why did he have to die…?

You just can't save them all?

That can't be true.

That is what super heroes are for, to save those normal people can't. That's what makes them super…I'm not super. How could I just think I could take over from my dad just like that? She sniffled as fresh tears made her mask wet. He had years to get this right. I just ran head first and blind into the frying pan and got burned. No, I didn't get burned. Gorge did.

When I screw up, others die.

I can't screw up again. It's too important to be focused to screw up. The responsibility is too great for me to screw up. I guess, I thought it all as fun before. Now I see it is more than just fun.

It's a job.

A duty.

And a calling.

And I ignored that calling today.

And someone died. She rose to her feet, a new woman. Her head high and her mind clearer than it had ever been in her life. Well no more. Evil will take no more good people while I am here to protect them. I will not let anyone die on me again. I can't save them all? I can try. And if I do, I will save them all. I will save them all, or die trying. She clenched a fist and steeled her tears. You were right Gorge. But you were so wrong. Yes, I am blessed. Yes, sometimes good people suffer too. But no, I will not let anyone else fall to their deaths, to evils permanent tourniquet on innocents' throats. And there are people in the world like me, who will stop evil from hurting the weak and helpless, the good people. Me. I am one of those people and will never lose sight of that. Never again. I am sorry about your family and hope you are with your God now Gorge. I hope you found your faith. Because today, thanks to you Gorge. May looked up high into the sky and held her fist to her chest. I have found mine. She stood their in silence, in respect for the fallen man, whenher spidersense tingled madly. She jumped to an opposite roof top just in time as an explosion shattered the glass.

Earlier that day at Dillon Tech Enterprise.

The curtains opened with a jolt of light and made the 20 year old 'It girl' squirm from the sudden rush of light.

"Grrr, what time do you call this Sheryl? You better have my coffee!" Elisa snapped and rubbed her eyes.

"It is on your side table Mam. And it is exactly 9am."

"What? What the hell is wrong with you!" she scowled at her maid and rubbed her fingers under the quilt, wondering if her father would punish her if she frazzled the help.

"Your father instructed me to wake you up. Apparently, you have something to do for him today." Then she remembered and dispelled her charge through the bed.

"Oh, right. Now get out."

"Yes Mam." After the help left, Elisa took a long, luxurious shower in her Master Suite bathroom. She then tied her blonde hair into a perfect high ponytail in a green bobble and let it dry naturally. She then hurried in drinking her cold coffee and putting her underwear on, wrapping herself in a long robe and left her room. She then took another elevator to the opposite side of the building and banged like a banshee on her brother's room.

"Hey!Arsehole! Get out of bed and." The door opened suddenly and whacked her in the face. "OUCH!"

"Morning." Eric sniggered to himself and left her behind, also in a white robe. "Are you coming or not?"

"I hate you…" she scowled all the way to the Opps room and sat on the circular couch, pouting like the brat she is. "Where is father?"

"I am here my child." the original Electro stood in old uniform, pressed and primed to perfect for battle. Though both Eric and Elisa knew he wouldn't be leaving with them. No, he didn't do the dirty work anymore. But he was still a bastard in the battlefield. "Now, suit up and return for your target." They nodded and made for the back room, with the three walls of green and yellow. When they returned, Eric wore the same design outfit as the day before, but Elisa wore large white platform trainers with green laces and tongue, dark, deep green tracksuit trousers with one large thunderbolt on each outside leg from her hip to below the outside of her knee. She also wore a green spots shirt that had no sleeves and showed off all her stomach but none of her (non existent) cleavage. There was a large yellow thunderbolt on her chest and she had long gloves with no fingers in them that came over her elbows. While Eric inherited the name Electro, Elisa chose the name Electra or Aftershock. She liked both names and could be traced by both. But as for Eric, he simply called her.

"Small fry? Hurry up will you."

"don't call me that." she huffed and they both sat on the couch, all suited up. Their father didn't bother to look at them and simply went into military mode.

"Your target is a selected bank that was recently restocked with dollar bills. You will leave immediately and collect as much as you can before I call you back through your ear pieces. Now, leave."

"Yes sir!" they both chorused at once and powered up. For Electro this was simple, he could generate actual electricity instantaneously. But Aftershock only controlled static electricity. So she had to make a charge and she rubbed her hands together and finally hovered with a blue aura. With a crackle, a blur of brilliant yellow and flickering blue shot out of the open hidden door and jolted around the city to the marked bank on their maps.

"Are we there yet?"

"Soon…what is that?" they both stopped dead, hovering high in the air and watched as something black jumped over roof tops at a tremendous pace. "I say we take a look."

"No, if we are late to the bank then father will."

"Shut up small fry."

"I am older than you! You should."

"Shut, up. Now, follow me. We both know you aren't powerful enough to hold up a bank by yourself, so you will have to follow me. The sooner I check what ever that was out, the sooner we can become loaded and you can bugger off to that Stacy bitch of yours."

"Grrr!" They touched down on the same roof top they saw the black thing and looked around. They couldn't see it anywhere.

We know that human. Isn't he…yes. That is the mortal that dared to seek our protégé's attention. Venom had blended in with the shadows of the next building after he sensed he was being watched. But who is the female? She was shorter than the male, had the same eyes and a vicious pout. Even their masks were the same. Scrawny, ugly. Not at all like our little Spider angel. Speaking of May, we lost her after that human threw himself to his death. She is certainly learning to use her powers quickly. We had to really try to keep up with her. we wouldn't have lost her, if those fools hadn't followed us. They will pay…

"Look Er, Electro. Dad will kill us if we don't get to."

"I know I saw it down here…" he ignored his sister's whining and looked around. "It has to be here." A loud hissing roar made them jump, power up and spin around. But there was nothing there…

"I don't like this. I want to go!"

"Shut up."

"Look, I'm going to the target sight. And if you don't follow me, then I am telling father." Aftershock rubbed her hands together and bolted off into the sky, looking for the bank. Perfect. Now he is alone, we will teach him his place. Electro span round again and created balls of electricity in each hand.

"She can't take a bank by herself. I better…" a black tendril shot out from the shadows and snapped down on his back. He screamed in agony and fell to his knees. "Fuck!" his eyes glowed and now, he was mad. "Come out and get it freak!" he stood tall, powered to the max and ready to kill. That was good, as so was the hidden foe.

"As you wish." But Electro still couldn't see him or see where the voice came from.

"Where are you?" behind him his shadow bubbled and bulged silently and tendrils grew from the floor beneath his feet, growing taller than the vulnerable punk kind, in Venom's view. But as a low hissing started up right behind him, and a large shadow engulfed his body, Electro flared his protective energy field and shocked the attacking limbs. Venom hissed and stepped back, giving Electro time to turned around to face him. "Ok, now I know where you are. Now, what the hell are you?" but he didn't get an answer as he was smacked in the face by a wild tendril, sending his entire body into a spirally mass before he hit the ground. "Ok, now I am angry." He collected energy in his hands and launched towards the large Black creature. Venom cackled and side stepped him. After all, Venom was the youthful veteran. Electro was a second generation fresh kid. So every move Eric thought he could do, Venom would be able to not only do it better, but counter it with ease. "Lucky shot." He crouched down low and put his hands on the floor, not taking his eyes from the demonic white ones at all costs. They just gave him this foreboding felling in the pit of his stomach. "See how you like this!" he shocked the roof tiles and Venom hissed as volts of electricity coursed through him. His tongue coiled at one side and his tendrils were reabsorbed into his back. "That's more like it." Electro sighed, relieved that he only had two arms and legs to worry about, not those and several tendrils that whacked a nasty punch. He set off running and took his fist back, flaring with flickering volts.

"Damn boy! We will eat your brains!"

"Eat this buggy!" Eric punched him in the gut and flowed hundreds of volts through him. For a few moments they simply stood still, as if frozen in time. Only Eric's right fist smocked, still embedded into the black 8 pack.

"Heh heh heh…" Venom hissed in his face and threw his head back, laughing madly. Eric was speechless. It hadn't had any effect.

"O Oh."

"O Oh indeed."

Back at the bank

"Oops…" Elisa or Aftershock hadn't meant to use that much power getting in. one broken widow would have been fine, not all of them. "Ah well. Time to get to work." She walked in through a broken window as everyone started flooding out of the building. She grabbed one of the staff and held him by his collar up in the air. Though her hand hurt, she hid it pretty well. "Look, I am not playing around and I will fry you if you do one thing wrong. Ok?" he nodded frantically and she put him on his feet. "Good. now open the main safe, the one with all the dollar bills in it and hurry. I don't have all day." Not after how long Eric took with his damn paranoia…

"Y yes. J just don't hurt me!" the man scrambled deeper into the almost desolate bank lobby. He went behind the desk and she followed, pulling a large containment bag from her belt and charging it. that way, she could just pull it along with her powers and not have to carry it. she wasn't that strong after all. The main volt doors swung open and the man ran for it. She let him go after all, she didn't need him anymore.

"Can't do this by my self huh? I will show him. just because I'm a girl, doesn't mean I cant do this without him." she smirked.

"You go girl! Nice to see Girls are filling out all areas of modern life now. I was getting really fed up with only guys getting to the high crime status. I tell you, if I get one more bag guy staring at my ass, I am going to flip!" Aftershock span round and couldn't keep her mouth shut.

"What the hell are you supposed to be?" she sniggered to herself and folded her arms arrogantly. May just scowled (under her mask and folded her arms, mimicking her new foe.

"For your information, I am Spidergirl. I am surprised you haven't heard of me, the only female Super hero this side of the Apple. Never mind." May lowered into a fighting stance. "Now I will ask real nicely. Put the bag thingy down, put herself out of that volt and step away from the tacky 'Sporty Spice' costume. You really didn't think twice before you put that on did you? Now come on, tracksuit bottoms? Couldn't you be a little more original?"

"Ha! Like you look better than I do. You run around in lycra, with that figure? Who are you trying to kid? Lose a few spare tyres first before you try and pull that one off will you." Elisa wasn't a super bitch for no reason, she had plenty of practise at this.

"Ooo, the sports bitch has teeth. Well I got claws too you little hussy. Come and fight me if you dare. But I have one question."

"Oh?" she scowled.

"Why are you steeling this money? Don't you get plenty of paying customers at the slut's convention last week? Or was that too posh for you? I bet you prefer the street corners. Less light to put off buyers."

"You little bitch!" Aftershock launched at May, hands outreached and ready to throttle her. but Spidergirl chuckled, side stepped her and grabbed a fist full of her hair.

"Don't you just love me for it?" May dragged her by her hair out of the bank backwards. "And who are you to talk about having a few extra tyres? You could start your own garage!" May lowered to one knee, yanked on Aftershock's hair and snapped her back over her leg. The shrill that came from her lips was all that Elisa could say. Her back hurt that much. "I am an A list good guy, if you can't keep up, drop out and give up." She knelt up and smashed her head on the ground.

"AAAAA!" Elisa screamed and rubbed her hands together madly. With a jolt, May was propelled into a street lamp, and broke straight through it. "Cow!" Elisa held her back and pulled herself up. "You will pay for that!"

"Sorry, my wallet is at home. Take this a payback instead!" before she could respond, Aftershock had her mouth glued together with strong webbing and had a fist in her gut. She screamed and stumbled backwards. "How'd you like that, Bitch." There was no way she was going to win this, she could see that. She would need to get back to her brother. She hated him, and he vice versa, but he wouldn't let her get captured under pain of death. Enforced by their father. She rubbed her hands together and shot off into the sky, back to where she left her brother. "Oh no you don't!" Spidergirl quickly shot a ling of webbing onto her foot and tried to pull her back, but she was yanked off the ground and taken for a ride. "Oh boy!" May used her feet to push off from building sides and steadily climbed up the web line. "Slow down! Crazy super powered driver!" Elisa tried to shock her off, but thanks to the good old Spidersense, May avoided each blast. Then Elisa was relieved when she saw her brother's energy filed spike from a near by. At last! She sped up and didn't bother trying to throw May off anymore. All here efforts were focused on getting to her brother, and dealing with the accursed Spidergirl later. She was almost there, when Spidergirl's feet met with the wrong building roof. "Now let's get better acquainted!" May yanked on the web line and caught Aftershock off guard, pulling her down to the roof and slamming her face into the bricks. She turned onto her back, and froze. Spidergirl was crouched over her with her middle fingers in her palm, and her wrist just over her eyes. "Nighty night." And that was it. Webbing engulfed her squirming body into a cocoon and she was dangled from the roof top. "And that's the end of that chapter." She took a deep breath and collapsed onto the roof. She pulled her mask up to her nose and panted. It was hard work handing on to that line as she was hurtled at several miles per hour through the air, over hundreds of feet above the ground. When she finally pulled up, a flash of bright yellow light caught her attention and she had to check that the little cocoon was still there. It was so where did that come from? May looked out to the general direction of the flash, and heard a loud scream. "Ok, that isn't normal." She pulled her mask back down and webbed over to the surprisingly near by building top. "Alright kiddies, play time…is…over?"

stood on the roof, were two super beings. One she had met the day before, Electro. The other however, was just not human. He was over 7 feet tall, looked pumped with muscles, had thick chaos black skin covering his entire toned body, had clawed hands, large white, demonic flame like eyes, a huge jaw of sharp teeth that was snapped shut from her arrival. But what really got her attention, was the large white spider on his chest. Did he have spider powers too? Then she heard a loud gurgling and realised that she had crashed a fight. The big guy had one clawed hand throttling Electro off the ground. His legs were kicking, but suddenly went limp. Along with the rest of his now prone body.

Three words came to her as she clenched her fists and prepared for the worst. She was not looking forward to this. "Put, him, down." She waited a few seconds, but he didn't respond. She yelled loudly before charging at him, hand back in a fist and about to swing a boot out at him, when he simply dropped Electro to the floor. She stopped a few steps away from him and watched him. As he watched back. Maybe she had been hasty in thinking he was a major threat. After all, her spidersense hadn't gone off when she saw him. "Back away from him." she said with a stoic voice, and she was shocked. He actually backed off. Still cautious, she lowered her fists and made her way to the unconscious Electro. She dropped to her knees by him and shuck his shoulders. "Sparky? Can you hear me? Sparky!" no, this wasn't happening. She would lose another one. Not again. She slapped his face, and got no response. She was so enthralled in getting him conscious again; she didn't see the dark spectre leave into the shadows. May could feel a pulse, but it was weak and his breathing had stopped. "No! Breath damn it!" she pulled her mask up to her nose and pushed on his chest 5 times. Sealing her lips to his, she blew a deep breath into him, feeling his chest inflate beneath her. When he didn't respond, she pushed on his chest again for another 5 times. "Don't leave me Electro. Don't die please!" she whimpered and blew hard into his mouth. She had her eyes closed, so she didn't see Electro snap his brilliant blue eyes open and look at her. He playfully raised a brow, then closed his eyes and pretended to still be unconscious, careful to hold his breath. "No please, don't die please Electro…please…" she pushed her lips against his again, and was thrown onto her back. She gasped in his mouth as two large blue eyes looked into her eye lenses and pined her beneath him, holding her shoulders with his hands. He pulled his lips away from hers and licked them devilishly.

"Electro…"

"That's my name." they stared up at each other for a few moments, panting. He looked to her raising and falling breasts and smirked. "You have no idea how glad I am to see you…especially like this. Is it Christmas already?" He chuckled.

"You cheeky, arrogant son of a." but his lips silenced her. All the colour had returned to his dashing face and he let his hands roam over the contours of her body. She placed her hands on his shoulders, but didn't move away. As his tongue licked at her bottom lip, she gasped and let him sink deeper into her mouth. He groaned and ravished her mouth, thrusting his tongue in and out of her mouth like the sex act itself. And May wasn't just laying there, she snaked her arms around his neck and kissed him back with the same level of intensity as he was. One by one he pulled her legs open and looped them around his waist before lowering himself on her. May gasped as she felt his hard groin press roughly against her pelvis. The kiss was gowning more vigorous by the second, until Eric's ear buzzed from her com link. He tried to ignore it, but it just got louder until even May could hear that.

"Damn it." He pressed against it and listened. "What do you want?...she what! No I didn't…no I was a little busy with…I was attacked and…no she took off before it…yes I am all right now…but I." He growled and pulled off her. "Understood. Over and out." He offered May a hand and pulled her to her feet. "I. well I have to g." this time May cut him off and latched onto his mouth again, making him growl animalistically. He banged her against the wall and thrust his hips against hers. "You don't know how much I just want to." But his ear rang again. "Shoot that bastard!" May chuckled and pulled away.

"If you have to go, you have to go." She sashayed over to the rooftop edge. "See you round Sparky. I hope we meet again."

"Oh, you can count on it!" she pulled her mask down and blew him a kiss. He caught it, and rubbed it down his body.

"You wish." She chuckled and shot a web over to the roof. But a pair of hands felt round her front and cupped her breasts.

"I do, every night. And one thing." His hands traced the valley of her breasts. "Try putting a Spider here, nestled in the middle of the web on your chest. The old Spiderman had one, see if you can improve it. I'm sure you will." She grabbed her hands and pulled him off her, before turning around to face him.

"I will. See you soon. And I hope you are as happy to see me next time as you are now." She patted his bulging crotch and turned back to her web line. "Good bye. Until next time."

"I can hardly wait." She giggled and jumped off the roof, swinging off into the city. Eric still grinned. His day had been perfect. His dad pulled a heist at the bank while Aftershock distracted everyone with a vigilante, she got webbed up and beat pretty bad, had to have her dad save her ass and punish her for failure and he got to have his fast growing lust for his spider temptress quelled. For now. But he would have to report back on that, 'creature', when he got back. It almost killed him. But he had to wonder how Spidergirl got him away from it, when he woke up on the same roof. And it wouldn't have just left. And there was no way that she could have fought him off. Not if he couldn't.

"GRRRRR!" Venom threw another crate into the factory wall at the harbour, livid as hell. "Damn that punk!" she wasn't supposed to see us yet. Now she thinks we are a monster and she wouldn't have if we introduced ourselves as we planned. We will have to stay out of sight for a while. And yet, there is still hope. We just have to ensure she doesn't see us. But that electric pipsqueak will pay for his interference. When she started to breath life to his lips…it hurt. We couldn't even stay and watch if he lived or died…WE HOPE HE LIVED! Then we can rip his to pieces, piece of flesh by piece of flesh and feast on his brains! He will pay for this…we will make sure if it. He collapsed on the floor. He had tried to find her again a few hours later, but he couldn't track her like before. She is getting really good at this. She has proven to be just as slippery as her father. Maybe it will be time for us to come to her again. She will be addicted or close by now to her powers. Yes, soon. Soon we will make the next move. He looked out the old broken window as the moon light shone down on him. Surely she will be at home now. She doesn't want for her father to find out who she really is. So she must be…we could just see if she returned home alright. For tracking purposes only of course. We don't need to see her… Venom sprang off the ground onto the wall and climbed out the window and onto the roof. He had been staying in this abandoned warehouse for years now. And it was perfectly close to where the Parkers lived, and other necessary places in the city. It only took him 5 minuets to web swing to her house. He landed on the roof and looked down through the skylight. All the lights were off, not that that mattered. But it would mean they were all in bed. Good. He turned towards the veranda, to see Parker stood in his full suit on the roof, standing between Venom and the Veranda.

"Hello Venom." He walked towards him. "What are you doing here?"

"Why Parker, how rude of you." Venom stood to his full height and smirked wickedly. "Now hug for your old pal?"

"You are no friend of mine Venom. And I want you to leave, now."

"By now Parker, you should surely know that we can do as we please. With or without your permission." He hissed with mirth.

"I will make you leave if I have to."

"How cute. You don't even care why we are here." Venom stalked closer, and Peter stepped off.

"Why are you here Venom?"

"We just wanted to see if you had made the right choice. And from that outfit…you have." Venom chuckled. But on the inside he was not happy. He would have to leave to avoid suspicion in having a connection with May, and he wouldn't get to see her. Venom ensnared Peter with his webbing and stuck him to the roof under protest. "Make sure it stays that way Parker." And he was gone, just like that. Peter checked in on May several times that night, worried beyond reason for his family's wellbeing from the visit of an old adversary. The only reason Peter he seen him was because he had been watching over May on her veranda, and seen him land on his roof.

"I love you May. Be safe my child." Peter sighed as he pulled the last piece of webbing from his clothes. He would have to invent some sort of alarm for Venom in future. It wasn't rest assuring to know he could just pop by when ever he pleased without alarm. "Tomorrow I will fix it May. I promise you, I will jeep you safe. I promise…"