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Invaders
I stretch my legs against the side of the building, grimacing. I didn't think I'd be quite as sore as I am after a few hours, but my body is killing me. Beside me, Lexi is smiling pleasantly.
"At least now I know why you didn't want your turn," I grumble.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Lexi smiles. "I had plenty of fun." Her smile slips off her face. "They're here."
Venom and Toxin both land on the side of the building below me and Lexi, both taking a knee and bowing.
"What did you find?" Lexi asks.
"Nothing, Highness," Toxin reports. "As of this moment, the colider remains unused."
"I see," Lexi sighs. "Alright. Be wary and watchful. You may be needed later."
"Of course highness," Toxin nods, then drops and swings away.
Venom remains. "Your highness, Toxin is not correct."
"What do you mean?" I ask. "He lied?"
"No," Venom says, shaking his head. "To his senses, the collider is indeed broken and unused, but I felt something else. There is something there, yet not there."
"Care to say that again in english?" I ask.
"There are traces of a presence there that sets my teeth on edge," Venom says. "Eddie feels it too. Something is wrong. There should be something there, yet there's nothing. No black hole, no symbiotes, no humans, nothing."
"But you can sense something?" I ask.
"I feel it too," Lexi says, then narrows her eyes as Venom twists around, staring down the skyscraper at the pit below, below which lies the collider.
Barring a few holes, such as the one below us, most of the collider has been covered up, though the ruined machine is still down there. Now, there's a light in the pit.
"Something's coming," Lexi says, extending her claws just as Toxin and the other Spiders land around us.
"You were supposed to wait for us," Miles says.
"Well, if we did, we wouldn't be here now," I say, forming ice knuckles. "Be ready."
Below us, the light grows steadily brighter. Then, just as it fills the hole, it's gone. We all remain silent and motionless, watching the pit and waiting for something, anything, to move. Suddenly, all of us spiders react to our senses. I tackle Lexi aside and Peter grabs Toxin and Venom as he dives straight downward. The others get clearb none of us making it movre than a few centimeters past minimum safe distance before the glass where we had been standing explodes outward, a mass of writhing, white snot tentacles flailing around but failing to catch any of us. Lexi and I land on the side of the building again as the tentacles retract, spiraling into a humanoid Symbiote beside the hole, one which looked like a pallete swap of Venom.
"Great, another Symbiote," I grumble. "Let's go!"
I send out ice webbing, using it to launch myself up at the Symbiote, but it ducks under my double-kickb then slams a fist into my back, sending me spinning oout into the open air. I flip, head spinning, and send out a strand of ice webbing, missing the building. Before I can try again, Lexi catches my webbing with her own, swinging me around and hurling me at the Symbiite again, just as it hurls Spiderman Noir away. This time, I hit hard, launching the symbiite, only for it to attach a strand of webbing to my body, yanking me after it, then hurling me at the ground.
I flip, catching the building and swing down, landing on the side of it just as Lexi screams. I look up and see the Symbiote holding her by the throat, her neck smoking where he's holding her. I roar in rage, jumping and sending ice webbing up at the building higher up as Toxin smashes his fists into the Symbiote's arm, breaking its grip before catching Lexi and fleeing. The Symbiote moves to follow, only for Miles and Peter to round the corner of the building, slamming a pair of kicks into his chest.
As I send out more webbing, Venom catches the webbing and twists, swinging me out away from the building and up at the Symbiote. I form ice boots and when my feet impact with the Symbiote, they all but explode, sending the Symbiote exploding through the window into the tower. I land just inside and the other non-symbiotes land around me. Before us, the Symbiote stands, snarling in rage.
"What are you?" I growl.
"Anti-Venom," the Symbiote says in a distorted, wavering voice. "I exist to kill all Symbiotes. And you will die as well. Any who would accept a Symbiote will die."
"You're a Symbiote," I counter.
"I was made from a combination of Venom, Lust, and healing magic," Anti-Venom says.
"Wait, isn't Lust-"
"Lexi," I nod, forming an ice mallet. "If you think I'm letting you lay a hand on Lexi, you've got a very painful lesson in your immediate future."
"We'll see," Anti-Venom snarls.
He shoots forward and we all move to meet him. However, he's faster this time. He catches Spider Ham by the face and uses him to bat Spiderman Noir Aside. Then, he catches Peni's robot by the arm and spins, hurling it back out the window. Miles and Peter both leap at Anti-Venom, but he catches their punches and whips them, breaking their arms before hurling them both away and charging at Gwen and I.
"So he's after us because we're compatible?" Gwen asks as she rolls under his initial swipe.
"I think so!" I growl, slamming my mallet i to him and hurling him at a window.
He smashes out through it and a massive steel I-beem crashes into him, sending him exploding into the ground. I leap out the window as Gwen goes to tend to the others, and Peni's robot catches my hand and hurls me up the tower to where Lexi is lying on a flat section just below the top. I land beside her, finding her in her true form, her neck burned black. She whimpers weakly and I rest a hand on her neck, using my powers to numb the burn. As I stand, Venom and Toxin both pass me, a solid collision sounding before both crash into the building.
My senses scream of danger and I focus, ice spikes erupting out of the building around me and Lexi, impaling Anti-Venom. I turn, glaring at him as the icicles begin to crack, Anti-Venom struggling to break them wkthout being able to move any part of his body freely.
"Get lost," I snarl, forming a spikes ice gauntlet and slamming it into Anti-Venom, sending him spinning away. However, he attaches a web to one of the icicles and swings around, driving his claws at Lexi, only for my fist to meet his face, launching him again. This time, he grabs my arm and brings me with him. As we fall, we both slam several punches into each other, then crash to the ground. I bounce off of a taxi, saved from death only by the layer of ice i formed at the last second. It shattered on contact with the taxi, pancaking it, but it kept the fall from doing more than shattering my ribcage and sending me bouncing across the ground. Anti-Venom smashes down through the ground and disappears.
I roll to a stop and slowly reach up, pulling my mask off and puking up blood, then begin to cough and hack, choking up more from my lungs.
"Ben!?" a voice shouts.
I look up between gagging fits and find Jake and Jess running toward me. I try to wave a hand to tell them to run, but both ignore me. They kneel beside me just as there's a roar behind me and Anti-Venom rises from the ground.
"PASSION! ! !" Anti-Venom roars.
He leaps across the large distance at Jess, Jess transforming into her true form in an instant, only for Venom to swing down, ramming a light pole into Anti-Venom like a joisting spear, impaling and launching Anti-Venom before landing beside Jess.
"Heal him, Highness!" Venom says. "We will stall it! Be careful. It burns our kind when it makes contact with us. It hurt Lust."
Jess envelops me without a word, my torso erupting into agony as the bones reset themselves and the damaged organs repair themselves.
"What the hell is going on!?" Jake demands.
"Later," we say, standing and cracking out knuckles. "Payback time first."
Anti-Venom slams the lightploe into the two Symbiotes attacking it and sends them exploding into a wall. However, as soon as he does, we slam our hands into the ground, sending a massive pillar of ice exploding out of the ground below Anti-Venom. However, as it's streaking upward, he rolls off of it, streaking down at us. We form ice armor and gauntlets and when it reaches us, we block one slash of its claws before drilling our other fist into its jaw.
It staggers away and we charge, slamming more and more strikes into it. It slashes at us, and we duck under the swipe, standing off to the side and drilling a punch into Anti-Venom's jaw. It staggers away, only for our foot to crash into its gut. It doubles over and we slam a double-hammer-fist into the vack of its head, bouncing it off the ground before placing our hands down and sending a massive spear of ice erupting out of the ground below it, dragging it high into the air. Then, just as it gets fifty feet into the air, a stream of fire erupts from a building beside it, engulfing Anti-Venom, who shrieks in pain as he begins to burn away. Gwen steps up to the hole with the anti-Symbiote weapon and we turn, using our ice webbing to launch ourselves up to Lexi. As soon as we land, Jess separates from me and kneels beside Lexi.
"I'm here Sis," Jess says, cradling her head. "It's alright.
"What do we do?" I ask.
"She needs a host to live in for a bit," Jess says.
"Use me," I say instantly.
Jess nods and holds her hand out. I rest mine in hers and she uses a claw to slit my wrist. Before I can even ask why, Lexi kisses me before shoving herself rapidly into the cut. I scream in agony, collapsing, only for Jess to hold my arm tightly, allowing Lexi to finish entering my body. Once zhe's in, the wound seals and I feel her move up my arm to my torso before the pain takes a sharp spike as she invades my ribcage before that also heals and the pain fades as she settles.
I begin to pick myself up, panting and sweating, and Jess holds out my mask. I accept it and sit against the building. "This will heal her?"
Jess nods. "It'll take a few days, and you won't get used to the discomfort."
I nod and sigh, leaning my head back against the building. "It's worth-"
Webbing attaches to my side, yanking me and Lexi both off the building just before something explodes into it, the windows for dozens of meters around exploding and massive chunks of the building around the impact site falling away. I flip, catching Jess and atfch some ice webbing to a building off to the side, swi ging to the side of it and landing on the side before looking up at the building. There, standing at the top, is a Spiderman. He's got a suit that's red on the shoulders, then transitions to blue around the middle of his torso, a pair silver vambraces with a red sphere in the center of them, and from his back are a set of four long, red, spider legs, each ending in a spike.
I swing back up onto the building, landing off to the new Spiderman's left and he turns to me just before the others all land around him, including the Symbiotes.
"Who are you?" I ask.
"Did you kill Anti-Venom?" he asks.
"Yes," I say. "Now tell us who-"
"Guess again," he interrupts just as Anti-Venom flips over the side of the buildi g, landing against the side of the building above us, behing Jess, Toxin, and Venom.
I form an Ice wall between them but the moment it forms, a fireball hits it from off to the side, obliterating it before another Spiderman lands behind me. I turn to him and swallow hard. He's got an all red suit, a spider made of smoke taking up his entire torso's front, and flames rolling off of his amrs below the elbow, and off the backs of his shoulders.
"A fire Spiderman," I growl. "Great."
"The name's Fire Spider," he corrects.
I open my mouth to tell him how little I care, but I'm cut off by yet another new-comer landing on the building, below us this time. It's different. It's mask is split open into a mouth of sharp teeth and a pair of upper and lower fangs, then it has four arms with each hand having two fingers and a thumb each, each digit ending in a claw formed from its suit, as though the suit is actually its skin. Just as I look at it, its mask's eyes blink before it roars, vibrating the steels beams we're standing on, the windows around the destroyed section rattling, a few of the closer ones shattering and falling to the ground below.
"What do you want?" I growl.
"First, we're going to kill the Symbiotes," the one with the spider legs said. "Including the Queen inside of you. Then we're going to kill you and the girl, because you're both compatible. Then, we're going to burn this world to the ground. It's not personal. At least, burning the world isn't. We just don't have another choice."
"Sure sounds personal," Miles snarls.
"Why don't you have a choice?" Peni asks.
"Because it's either this world burns, or all of ours will," Fire Spider says. "He was very specific about it. "Find the spider with ice powers, burn everything he loves to ash."
"Sounds extremely personal," Peter says.
"You're not going to destroy this world," Miles says.
"We're wasting time," the one with the spikes says. "Omega will be here soon. We need to do this now."
"Omega?" I ask. "Is he the one threatening your worlds?"
"Yes," Fire Spider nods.
"Then why don't we all fight him together?" I ask. "There's, what, ten Spider-beings here, plus four powerful Symbiotes? How strong could this Omega guy be?"
"He killed Miguel O'Hara," the one with the spider legs says. "All of them, except for 928 O'Hara."
"Who's Miguel O'Hara?" I ask.
"The most powerful Spiderman," Fire Spider says. "There used to be hundreds. Now there are two."
"We can still beat Omega," I say. "Just have faith. We'll win."
"No," the monster spider hisses. "You'll die. Then we'll eat you."
"No Man Spider," the one with spider legs says. "Maybe we should fight Omega. We have a large group here. We can beat him. We just have to work together."
"As long as I get fed, I'll help," Man Spider hisses. "Plan?"
"Kill him before he kills us," Fire Spider says.
"Can I kill the Symbiotes after?" Anti-Venom asks.
"Maybe," the one with spider legs says before turning, looking at the top of the tower we're on. "He's here."
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