The Helicarrier rang with more explosions once more as Doc Ock, Kraven the Hunter, and Electro moved down the corridor without a care in the world, with Electro being unable to contain his excitement. "Oooh I can't WAIT to get my hands on that Spider-Man, this time I'll finally get my revenge!" He spoke as Kraven couldn't help but look at him with disgust, rolling his eyes in the process.
"Patience, in due time my electrical friend. Also if we do see the Arachnid, please refrain from attacking him, my plan unfortunately requires him to be alive and in… functional condition, not that you'd defeat him anyway." Otto reprimanded while also insulting him at the end.
"What are you talking about?! I could totally squash that bug, he just gets lucky, that's all."
"As much as I hate the Spider, even I can see that your statement is, as Americans would say… bullshit." Kraven said, contributing to the conversation.
"I also share a burning hatred for the webhead, but I can also see that you are truly no match for him as him beating you is not what as you would call, "luck", because if it was, he wouldn't have beaten you multiple times over." Otto double downed on Kraven's point. "Besides, challenging him to a battle it's not why you're here Electro, you're here to break into Shield's mainframe and get a location on Norman Osborn."
Max looked away in disappointment for a moment before letting out a small "Fine." under his breath to signify his compliance with Otto's wishes. Before long, the trio were finally halfway to their destination, but as they turned the corner, looks of shock appeared on the villains' faces as Doc Ock was sent flying right back down the corridor with a look of frustration once he saw what sent him flying.
"Oh! It's you again, now don't tell me you came all the way up here just to have your ass kicked by little ol me again." Arachne quipped before trying to web up Ock but unfortunately missing as the villain dodged out of the way, and at the same time, before Kraven could react he was also said flying by an energy beam out of nowhere, landing on his feet as Doc Ock joined him at his side.
"Your friendly neighborhood Nova is here to save the day once again!" Sam said as he took his place beside Arachne, failing to notice her utter disappointment filled glare.
"Electro, go on and run ahead, we won't be long." Otto ordered arrogantly. Following his orders, Dillon flew ahead and tried to fly by the pair of Heroes and was nearly interrupted as Nova tried to shoot him out of the air, luckily for him, Kraven managed to launch a smoke bomb at Nova's helmet, making impact as the smoke bomb exploded.
"GAH! You'll pay for that, you jungle fevered weirdo!" Nova roared, jetting towards Kraven firing off energy blasts with Kraven only just being able to dodge them, the hunter will soon to realize that Nova's barrage of attacks where you have to be finished as Nova tried to hit him with a spinning kick just barely grazing him and Kraven couldn't help but notice.
"One of the Tigers teammates hmm? he seems to have the potential to hit harder and faster than her, maybe even the Spider, but he certainly lacks the discipline and training, and most definitely relies far too much on his abilities to carry him through a fight, not only that but he's also foolishly arrogant. Compared to her or the Spider, this boy will be child's play, but even so, he shouldn't be underestimated." he thought to himself, grabbing his knife slashing at Nova's calves, only to find out that the knife wasn't capable of penetrating the suit, let alone piercing the skin, he needed to find a way to get past the suit, taking the chance to examine the teenage superhero one more time, he noticed the only part of his body that was exposed was his mouth and chin, but even Kraven knew his limits, to attack those weak points Kraven would have to get in close, way closer than he would like as he assumed that while he was probably not the best at the closer range of combat, he likely wasn't a slouch either thanks to SHIELD training.
Finally getting impatient with the Romanian Hunter, Sam went in on the offensive, going in for a punch on Kraven only for him to dodge it, doing exactly what Sam expected him to do as the galactic enforcer opened his hand to release the energy of blast from his palm hitting the burly man directly in his chest sending him bouncing off a wall and down the corridor, but unfortunately didn't stay down as he grabbed another knife from his satchel, this time around Nova could sense that something was different about this one, not to mention that Kraven seemed far too confident in his ability to take him down, something was up with that knife.
Not far from them, Doc Ock and Arachne we're going at it once again, so this time it seemed that Otto was having a much easier time than the last time they fought. Before, he only had a hard time because of the fact that Arachne is much skinnier when in comparison to the Webhead, making her a lot harder to grab than her male counterpart as she bobbed and weaved his arms, but being the genius that he is, Octavius had studied and memorized her fighting patterns. "Those such as myself never make the same mistake twice." He thought to himself as you received a kick to the face from Arachne. "GAHH!"
"Yo Octopussy! I'm going to need you to do a lot less freezing yourself and your head and a lot more fighting, though now that I think about it, I would prefer you wouldn't fight either, but I can't have it all, I guess." She taunted, grabbing Otto by his face enlarging him into a nearby wall, not even giving him the chance to fight back as she ran up and began throwing a barrage of attacks, but then slowly but surely his arms began blocking and parrying them. The mad scientist had finally gained the upper hand in the fight as his arms had finally managed to grab a hold of her legs, she began powerless as Ock began slamming her from wall to wall without rest before chucking her down the corridor. "Okay… that's new… ow…."
"And there's a lot more where that came from Spider Girl…" He threatened as he began closing the distance between the two.
"Geez if you're going to call me that, at least be polite and put a hyphen, it's not Spiderman or Spider Man, it's Spider-Man! God, the nerve of some peo-AHHHH!" She yelped as she was pulled back in for more, reeling in pain as Ock kept hitting her blow after blow, never giving her a chance to recompose herself.
"Now THIS!" As he was talking, one of his arms wrapped around Arachne's throat and began constricting. " Is where the real fun begins." He finished as he smiled maliciously, his arm squeezing even tighter than before.
"This can't be the end, right? I still have… so much to do, I haven't formally met Mary Jane yet, I haven't met Harry yet, Johnny doesn't know how I feel about him here yet, I don't know how I feel about him yet, and most importantly, I haven't saved Kaine yet, AND I WON'T STOP UNTIL I DO!" she yelled to herself in her head as she stopped trying to get the arm to stop strangling her and shot a web line at a nearby wall and pulled towards it with all her strength, taking her, the arm around her neck, and Otto with her. Taking advantage of her opponent's temporary disorientation, Arachne pinned the arm to the wall and using Otto's shoulder as leverage, she managed to yank the bad doctor's Octo-arm right out of its socket, using her superhuman equilibrium to rebalance herself. Having masked concern towards Otto reacted to the arm being pulled out.
Right as he was about to get up to attack, a device on his wrist went off, causing his facial expressions to change drastically. At the same time, Kraven was blasted into the wall behind him. "Take that! Also you are a very very smelly man! I pray for whoever has to smell you." Nova yelled from down the corridor.
"Well luckily for you, Chrome dome. I'm afraid I'll have to cut this little squabble short, Kraven, get up, there's no need for us to stay here any longer." Octavius said as he began tapping away at the device on his wrist as Kraven got back on his feet.
"Indeed, it has been very enjoyable and educational to face you in battle, boy. If you honed your skills enough then perhaps one day you'll be almost as good of a catch as the Tiger." Kraven told Nova while he grabbed something from his satchel. "Or more importantly, maybe even the Spider, but don't get your hopes up, he will always reign supreme as my greatest challenge and foe." Not even waiting for Kraven to finish talking, Nova rocketed towards the Villainous Duo like a madman as Kraven threw down a smoke bomb mixed in with a flash grenade, Sam flew into the smoke finding that there was no one there as he crashed into the wall. "Dang it!" He said angrily as he smashed his fist into the ground. "I almost had them!"
"I'll admit that you have a lot of things, Alexander, but that was not one of them." She taunted while breathing heavily as she finally noticed the multiple cuts around Sam's body. "Woah, what happened?! I thought that suit of yours was supposed to be super durable?!"
"It is, but I guess that doesn't mean much when against a knife made from proto adamantium." He told her, quickly noticing her face of shock, he quickly moved to elaborate. "But don't worry though, while this suit may be durable I'm just as if not even more as it, I'd reckon it's even more considering he couldn't even cut through the skin, either that or he didn't get a chance to."
"I see, weirdly though I'm kind of glad to see that you're not hurt." She said, feeling disturbed after he started giving her a strange look.
"So you do care, and if you care, that means the webhead actually cares, thank you Miss Jessica for giving me something that I can lord over Parker's head forever."
"Y'know I could just tell everyone about how you were desperately trying to get a date with his female clone." She threatened.
"Yeah you know, right, I don't think lording it over Parker would be too necessary."
"I'm glad we're on the same page." She taunted. "Now what do we do now?"
"Now then Octavius, where do we go now?" Kraven asked as he continued walking on while Octavius was still coughing the smoke out of his lungs.
"Ahm, okay then, Venom has succeeded in his task of distracting Spider-Man, granted he's probably swimming somewhere in the river, but the mission succeeded nonetheless. While we were fighting his sidekicks'' Electro freed Kasady from his cell, the best case scenario: Carnage kills them all, worst case scenario: they defeat Carnage in battle, but either way, their attention is taken off of us and on to him." The villain explained to Kraven before continuing. "Which gives us enough time to make sure that this bird is blown out of the sky, hopefully, it takes some of those Heroes with it, I would hope it would take Spider-Man down with it too, but that's just wishful thinking of my part, him and felines share far too much in common for it to be a coincidence."
"Nevermind that! How do you plan on shooting this thing out of…" the hunter trailed off as the duo noticed the infirmary right next to them, filled the brim with Shield op and medical personnel."...the sky…" immediately after finishing his sentence the duo began getting shot at.
"Here, take these!" Otto said, removing multiple bombs from his jacket and handing them to Kraven. "Get to the engine room and place these everywhere, I have the detonate button, I'll make sure the bombs won't go off until we are clear of the explosion." Kraven nodded as Doc Ock finished talking, standing up to run off to the engine room, just before he left he quickly chucked a present for the personnel into the room.
Before they could realize what it was they all sentiment found themselves blinded and deafened as the flashbang temporarily took away those senses, giving Otto just enough time to slip into the room.
The first person to recover only regained his senses to see the doctor directly in front of them with all attempts at battle being thwarted as he used two of his remaining arms to remove and break the gun in the operator's hands and used the left arm to snap their neck. Noticing everyone else starting to recover, Octavius moved quickly, throwing the lifeless body of the Shield Op into the arms of their teammate and using their moment of confusion to impale them through their teammates body, using his arm as a spear to do it. Noticing the other operatives recovering from the flashbang Otto instinctively used the two dead bodies as bullet shields as he began pushing towards the gunfire. Once in range, he slid his third arm under the bodies and around the ankle of one of the firing men, yanking the foot right from under him, suspending him into the air and using his body to attack his squadmates like a rag doll.
Knocking their weapons out of their hands, Octavius made quick work to hastily grab them and throw them away, out of grabbing range, he smiled as they all looked at him in fear as he then began ripping them apart one by one with ease, a sickening smile appearing on his face as he grabbed another by their head and with a large SNAP! their body went limp as the contents of their skull flew everywhere as brain matter was splattered across the walls and floor.
All that was left was a singular doctor held up by her throat with Otto's arms. "So tell me doctor…" he paused to get a look at her name tag. "... Krieger, you want to explain to me why there was ("was" being the operative word) a collection of Shield doctors and personnel grouped up in an infirmary during an emergency?" He asked. "And I highly recommend you don't lie to me, I'm not above putting you into past tense like I did with your coworkers." He smirked as he finished talking, loosening the grip around her throat so she could speak.
She started sucking in air and she began forming small sentences. "Was… in.. the.. mid…dle.. of… surgery, he's c-critically injured." She finished as the formerly licensed doctor turned his head to take a look at the patient, throwing his captive aside, as he deemed her to no longer be of any use to him.
"Well I'll be a spider's uncle, someone actually survived that wreck, and now that I think about it, this man could make the perfect test subject." he said, grabbing a nearby clipboard and studying the injured man's file. "Let's see, Name: Philip Benjamin Urich, Age: 24 years old, Ethnicity: African-American, Closest Relatives: Arnold Urich, Mindy Urich, Ben Urich, and Ken Urich, X-gene possibility: Negative, Severe Injuries: Permanent damage done to patient's vocal cords; patient may never speak again."
"I see, I guess Venom really did a number on you boys. Hm, well congratulations Mr. Urich, with my genius at the helm, you just might get your voice back, though, always a price." Otto smiled to himself, grabbing the unconscious man with his arms, realizing that he should probably make sure there's no one left alive to dispute these people dying on the Helicarrier. He looked around the room to find that the female doctor that he interrogated was nowhere to be found. "Hm, I guess she figured out that I was going to kill her and ran off, but no matter, I'll be long gone before she gets the chance to run her mouth to anyone."
Octavius began laughing maniacally as he used his other two arms to leave the room and move down the hallway quickly. "Now how should I proceed with my experimentation on Philip? First things foremost, I need to restore his voice, which will prove to be difficult. I need to find a way not only to heal his body but also strengthen it if he's going to do my bidding. Wait a minute, what am I talking about? I already know exactly how to do such a thing." He thought as he continued to maniacally to himself as he kept confidently walking down the corridor. "How serendipitous."
Suddenly, the device in Otto's pocket went off once again, seeing why put an even bigger smile on his face as the power gauge for Electro began rising, if the explosions didn't bring the Helicarrier down, Max Dillion certainly was.
I know, it's been a while and I have no excuse
