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Chapter 10
Versus Venom: Final Showdown.
Peter glanced around. It looked as though it would storm later. He was impatiently pacing on the sidewalk. A sophisticated container was trailing from his arm. The alien egg was contained in it in stasis. Venom had called and said to wait here, but so far had not shone.
The nearby pay phone rang. He glanced at it and wondered if it was possibly Venom. Since, no one else was there to answer it, he strode over and removed the phone.
"Get to the Daily Bugle roof top in five minutes or your wife's dead," Venom's voice rang out.
"Is she okay? Let me talk to her," he tried to demand, but the symbiote had already hung up.
He quickly ducked into an alleyway and five seconds later Spider-man emerged from it and swung away. Five minutes was a rather narrow time limit to reach the Bugle, but it wouldn't stop him, besides Venom was probably watching him to make sure that no one was following him, maybe he could beat him to the Bugle.
After what seemed an eternity to him, he reached the Bugle and was on the roof looking around and calling Mary Jane's name, but neither her nor Venom were in sight. Spider-man cursed under his breath wondering if Venom had just been playing with him and that maybe he would never see his wife again.
The ringing of a phone attracted his attention to the floor where a cell phone was lying. He dived for it like his life depended on it and pressed the talk button.
"Where is she?" Peter growled.
Venom didn't offer an answer. Instead, he simply gave him another rooftop to get to. This would continue for hours. Venom was probably enjoying this.
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"That's a pretty dedicated husband you've got," Venom commented as he fastened a glob of webbing over Mary Jane's mouth. "Why I bet he'd even die for you. Let's find out shall we?"
Mary Jane's eyes were wide with fear and apprehension. Venom had always inspired fear in her. Being glued to the wall by a tremendous amount of webbing and at the creature's mercy was terrifying for her.
The alien became transparent and then faded out entirely. She felt his claws settle against her throat. A few seconds later, Spider-man arrived on the rooftop. He immediately saw her and started to approach, but then stopped and glanced around looking for Venom and weary of being ambushed.
"Remove your mask, Parker," Venom growled. Venom dropped his camouflage and became visible. Peter found it very hard not to try and jump at the alien. He reached up and pulled his mask off.
"Now open that container," Venom growled. Spider-man twisted the lid and pulled it away revealing the egg. "Hold it up to your face."
He did, but the facehugger was slow in hatching. It had been in stasis for so long after all. During this time, Spidey took in his surroundings. Venom's positively eager expression, the frightened look in Mary Jane's eyes.
These things might be able to wipe out the whole planet, Peter thought finally look at the egg. I would gladly die for MJ, but I can't let the whole planet.
His hand shot forward and a stream of webbing hit Venom in the chest, then with a sharp yank, he was pulled away from his hostage. Spider-man ducked the punch Venom tried to hit him with and then jumped away from the snarling alien.
"You want this egg?" Peter yelled at him. He threw the container and its contents over the edge of the roof. "Go get it!"
Roaring in rage, Venom leapt off the side of the building. Peter pulled his mask back on and ran over to his webbed up wife.
"Hold still," he commanded and the stinger housed in his right arm extended. He quickly began to hack away the webbing. It reminded him of when he first encountered Venom and had ended up webbed to a bell. The symbiote was probably running low on webbing. He had finally hacked away enough of it, that he could pull her loose. Last he removed the gag.
"Watch out!" she cried.
He grabbed her and jumped away as Venom's tail slashed through the space he had just occupied. Spider-man noticed unfortunately that he had the egg under one arm. He jumped again and dropped off the building as he neared the ground he used a web-line to slow the fall.
"Mary Jane, get out of here, call a cab, and get back to the tower," he said. "I'll hold off Smiley."
"All right," she nodded numbly.
Peter jumped onto the building's wall and started climbing up it. He glanced back down and saw Mary Jane running down the street, then continued. He swung himself over the edge and back onto the roof. Venom was nowhere in sight.
"Can't let him get away," he muttered under his breath and looked around. The crack of thunder split the air overhead and rain poured out of the sky. The rain outlined the shape of the alien approaching him from the front. He kicked the unsuspecting alien in the head. Venom reeled back and became visible again.
"Where's the egg?" Peter asked.
"In a safe place," Venom growled. "While I kill you! It ends tonight! I've suffered at your hands too long."
Venom lunged forward, but Peter managed to leap over him. He jumped to the buildings edge and looked around. His spider-sense was buzzing slightly, he was sure it would lead him to the egg. He jumped toward the danger signal on the next building. Avoiding Venom's fists as they slammed down on him and instead hit the concrete. He ran to the opposite edge of the building and looked down. The egg was wrapped in a bundle of webbing and stuck to the building's side. He crawled down the side and missed getting impaled by Venom's tail. He grabbed the egg and yanked it away off the building, making sure to cover the opening in webbing.
The alien came crawling down the wall, punching his fingers into the concrete. He raised his hand and the alien's claws lengthened ridiculously. He swiped his claws across Peter's arm, leaving deep cuts. Peter tried to step back, but Venom raked his other set of claws across his chest. He let go of the building and dropped a few feet, before reaching out and reattaching to it. The sharp tip of Venom's tail shot toward him. Peter raised the egg in his hands and used it to block the strike, which pierced right through it spilling acid onto the streets below.
Spider-man dropped the useless egg as Venom roared in rage. The costume shot tentacles tipped with spearheads toward him. He jumped away before they could reach him and swung toward a lower roof. Venom landed with a soft thud after him.
"You may have crushed one of my ambitions, but you will not crush the other!" Venom roared, advancing on him. His mouth opened and his tongue grew a mouth that made it look like a mockery of the aliens' tongues. Peter jumped back as it shot out twice the length of the original tongue. He fired a strand of webbing to try and disable the weapon, but Venom easily dodged. He stepped in and punched Spider-man, the action knocking him into the air and almost off the building. He was left clinging to the edge. A stream of webbing slammed into him and he was pulled back onto the roof roughly. He rolled away and Venom's hand, which had morphed into an axe, slammed down. He leapt back to his feet and slashed his stinger across Venom's chest. A thin strand of symbiote flesh was peeled off, but he didn't draw any blood. He ducked as Venom swung his axe arm around. He slashed more of the symbiote away. He jumped back as Venom took another swing at him. The mechanical spider-legs expanded from his back and slashed down, removing the blade that covered Venom's hand.
Three imitations of the arms rose out of Venom's back and stabbed forward. Spider-man back flipped away and retracted his own arms. Venom advanced the arms still extended. Spider-man ducked under one and slashed it off with his stingers.
"Aw!" Peter cried out as Venom extended a spike into his side. Spider-man stumbled back and looked down in shock at the wound in his side.
Venom exhaled calmly. The alien now seemed to have inexhaustible stores of energy, but the symbiotic costume didn't cover several parts of the alien now. He jumped forward and slammed into Spider-man, sending the two of them flying over the edge of the roof and into empty space.
The two combatants kicked, punched, and slashed each other in the air. Half way through the fall both of them had taken almost as much damage as they had during the whole fight. Spider-man managed to wrestle the advantage away from Venom. He drove both his feet into his face. Slashed and tore loose some of the symbiote's flesh. But Venom had managed to spin him around so that he would take the force of their impact with the ground. His tongue was snapping and trying to drive itself into Peter's head. He jabbed his stinger forward and the symbiote's tongue was again severed. Venom screeched in pain and Spider-man pushed away from him and used a web-line to break away from the fall, while Venom ploughed into the ground.
Venom shakily got to his feet. He was rubbing his large head, when he looked up a red clad fist ploughed into his face, then his gut, and a foot sent him flying back to the ground.
Spider-man looked down at his fallen enemy. The symbiote was reduced to a few pathetic tatters and green blood leaked from his mouth and was melting through the pavement. The mechanical arms emerged from Spider-man's back again and two of them pressed themselves against the alien's neck and the other against his head.
"Going to kill me, Parker? Go ahead," Venom growled. "You won."
He was desperately trying to convince himself to drive the arm's blades into the alien's neck, but he couldn't kill a sentient creature, much less any creature for that matter. Sighing, he withdrew the arms.
"It's not my place to judge your fate, Venom," He turned away from the alien toward the nearest payphone to call the police and then Mary Jane to make sure she was okay.
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Peter walked into his room. Tony had told him that Mary Jane had gone in there to look over the damages. The window was still broken, but the glass was cleaned up, at least.
Mary Jane was curled up on the bed. He couldn't blame her for falling asleep after the night's events. Peter smiled at her and then climbed in and curled up next to her.