QUARTERFINALS: WASP VS. SCARLET SPIDER

On the beaches of San Jaw, Puerto Rico, a specially made large platform sits on the shore with large holoscreens floating above it. Anxious local spectators were in the area as well, and just like the battle stations before, were all behind large energy ropes. Moments later, both the still human-sized Wasp and the Scarlet Spider appeared in a large flash of light, causing the native fans to cheer.

As Wasp took a moment to glance at the cheering fans, she saw one male fan in particular. one that was a middle-aged man with a mustache holding up a sign which said 'please marry me, Wasp' in Puerto Rican. Thanks to being educated in many languages, Wasp read and understood the sign. While she was flattered by this man's feelings, as well as feeling a little creeped out, the prospect of marriage caused her a bit of heartbreak. For it reminded her of one Hank Pym, who she lost when a mental breakdown turned him into Yellowjacket and was now a prisoner by the mind-controlled S.H.I.E.L.D.

Meanwhile, inside the brig of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helcarrioer, Yellowjacket himself was still in his cell and completely immobilized as he watched Wasp and Scarlet Spider arrive on the battle platform via the small screen that the guards were watching at their station. And while there was not going on in Yellowjacket's cell...

...Plenty was going on inside his mind. For both the Henry Pym and Yellowjacket personalities were also watching the tournament through the 'eye windows.'

While Henry Pym looked generally worried for Wasp's safety, Yellowjacket just watched with a condescending sneer. "Well," said the unimpressed Yellowjacket as he looked through the eye window with crossed arms. "Let's see how she screws this up."

Hank glared at Yellowjacket, then turned his attention back to the Wasp, who by this time was tightening her gloves. "Good luck, Jan...and be careful."

Back in Puerto Rico, the Ref Bot was already in between the two combatants, with the announcer's face just finishing up in making sure that Wasp and Scarlet Spider understood the rules. Once he received clarification on both ends, he mentally commanded the Ref Bot to fly up into the air. "All righty then...BEGIN!"

The Scarlet Spider wasted no time in getting things underway as he held up his right and shot a symbiote based web-line at the Wasp.

Luckily for Wasp, though, she spotted this and shrunk to insect size, and as soon as her wings grew out of her back, she easily evaded the web-line. "Well, somebody's tenacious," she thought as she then zooms towards the Scarlet Spider at high speeds, and as she arrived, began to fly circles around her young opponent to confuse him. Afterward, she shrunk even small so as not to be seen, then pressed two buttons in her gloves to activate a setting that Tony install that would help her separate the symbiote from the young Harry Osborn. Even though she wasn't a keen fan of this tactic, feeling that it was somewhat cheating, she also knew that the young Osborn's well-being was at stake when wearing the parasitic suit, and thus knew it might be the only thing that can save him. "Well, here goes nothing." With that thought, Wasp pointed her hands at the Scarlet Spider body, turned her hands into fists, which caused two small compartments to open on the back of her gloves, which soon fired loud sonic waves as she flew all around the young Thunderbolt's body.

This tactic appeared to pay off. For it not only caused the Scarlet Spider to scream out in pain, but it also causes the suit to weaken and slowly fall off the young Harry Osborn, who wore a black bodysuit underneath and forcing him down to his knees in agony. In truth, the pain that Harry felt belonged to that of the symbiote, but since their bonding, it made whatever pain it experienced his, as one of many ways to show that 'it' was in charge and that it should be more careful when being it's host, or more accurately, it's vessel.

Meanwhile, back in the Garden, it gives somewhat of a lukewarm reception. Partly because Wasp was too small for them to see what she was doing to the young Harry Osborn to make his suit fall off, and thus wasn't particularly exciting. As for the Avengers, though, they all looked at the screen anxious and worried.

But none more than Spidey, for while he was happy to see that Wasp seemed to be succeeding in getting the suit off of Harry and perhaps save him from the suit's influence. But at the same time, his experience with the 'black suit' taught him that symbiotes are anything but predictable. "Stay Frosty, Jan."

Back in Puerto Rico, despite tiring rapidly, the Wasp saw that Harry's symbiote was barely even on his body and thus decided to fly over to his face to try and talk with him, while still firing her waves. "Harry, listen to me!" she called out. "You need to get that suit off! Whatever you're dad told you-!"

Suddenly, hearing the Wasp mention his father was enough to stir anger within the weakened Harry. "Shut up!" he bared, but still consumed in pain. "Don't...you dare try to play therapist and act...like you know my father or me! Especially since...you're the one causing me a crapload of pain!"

"I'm hurting the suit!" the concerned Wasp corrected. "And from what I've gathered, it's transferring it's pain to you as a way to try and control you! And as far as your Dad is concerned, what father would allow their own child to be bonded to some alien parasite?! Please, Harry, fight that thing off and above all, do it for the people who still care about you! Like Gwen and Peter!"

It was here that Harry's anger finally took over when his pixie of an opponent made mention of both his girlfriend and his former best friend. Two people who, in his mind, were planning to turn their backs on him before his father's 'death' as the Green Goblin. "I...said...SHUT UP!" Harry roared, and in his rage, he gains the strength to hold up his own two hands, then clapped them together with the Wasp in the middle, holding her tightly and with enough force to crush and destroy the sonic wave shooters on the back of her gloves. With the sonic waves now gone, he compels the symbiote to cover Harry's entire body once again, completing the Scarlet Spider guise once more and increasing his strength in squeezing the Wasp.

This, of course, led to the Wasp let out a pain-filled scream, but as she felt Harry's grip grow tighter and tighter, she soon began to feel light-headed and dizzy. Moments later, the tiny Avenger's eyes rolled to the back of her head, and with a moan, tilted her head back as she passed out from lack of oxygen.

Back in the Garden, this act was seen by all in attendance, and more notably, by the horrified Avengers, where Spidey, who was starting to grow attached to Wasp, and Ms. Marvel, the founding Avenger's best friend, all screamed this in unison. "NOOO!"

Over in Puerto Rico, the Scarlet Spider continued to squeeze the now unconscious Wasp, but as he did so, his muscle seemed to grow bigger, his red bug eyes seemed to grow more jagged and twisted. In his seething rage, the slightly changed Scarlet Spider was just about to snap the small Avenger like a twig, but suddenly, he stopped when he heard the void of his father via the com-link in his ear. "Harry!" said the Patriot in an agitated tone. "I'm watching the match, and I'm not like how you are starting to make the team, and me, look bad! Finish the match! Not the girl!"

Hearing the displeasure in his father's voice was enough to scare the Scarlet Spider out of his rage and calm down enough to make his muscle shrink down to normal size and his red eyes to return to their original shape. Then, just like in his match with Ant-Man, he placed the Wasp's limp, unconscious body in his right hand and with his left finger, pressed on her belt buckle to destroy and cause yellow energy to consume her motionless frame.

Something that was seen back in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helocarrior's holding brig, where the guards watching were cheering in the Scarlet Spider's victory. Also witnessing the match was that of Yellowjacket, and more importantly, inside his mind, the Hank Pym personality in complete distress in seeing the woman he loves lose and now about to be imprisoned. "JAN!"

Back in Puerto Rico, the Scarlet Spider stood in front of the stunned native crowd, with the frozen and defeated Wasp in his right hand. Moments later, the Ref Bot hovered over to the victorious young Thunderbolt, with the announcer's face present. "And the winner is...THE SCARLET SPIDER!"

Though he heard some cheering from some fans, but a large number of boos from the crowd because of how short the match was, the Scarlet Spider ignored them as he looked down at the petrified Wasp in disdain. "Well, that takes care of one annoying bug," he thought as he tossed the Wasp to the floor like a toy, then looked at the Ref Bot's screen, and besides the announcer, he saw Spidey, who is just as shocked as the rest of the Avengers. "That just leaves one more!"

WINNER: THE SCARLET SPIDER