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Omega
"He's here."
I spin, looking up the tower to where there's a spiraling vortex of black and red light beside the tower's antenna. Then, someone came flying through, catching the antenna and spinning around once, the vortex vanishing before they reached it again, before placing their feet against the side of the antenna, stopping themselves on a dime. I stare at the man. He's wearing a black body suit with a massive red skull on the chest that turned into four spider legs shaped like trails of blood below his ribs, red blade-like spikes extending from his arms from mid-forearm to just below his shoulders, two clawed toes on the front of his feet and one on the back, a long pointed tail behind himself, spikes running the length of it on top, and the lower half of his black mask ripped off, leaving only the eyes while exposing his mouth-full of jagged teeth and the huge pincers in front of his mouth, both of which were blade-like and jagged like the teeth of a saw on the inside, made to shred their prey to get the blood, not drain them. I swallow hard as the thing above us looks around slowly before lowering his gaze to us.
"It's...a Spiderman?" I ask.
"Yes," Fire Spider nods. "Omega Spiderman. A monster who enjoys killing, and for whatever reason has his sights set on you."
"And he's using you all to try and kill me by holding your universes hostage," I say. "How's he doing that, anyway?"
"He's in charge of all of his universe's gods," the one with the spider legs says. "He's going to send them to war with ours if we don't kill you."
"Not if he's dead he isn't," I growl. "Any arguments?"
"None," Miles says. "Let's take him down."
"Okay," Fire Spider nods. "Me and my counterpart will keep him busy. Superior, you need to come up with a plan."
"Right," the one with the spider legs nodded. "Go."
Fire Spider nods to me and I return the gesture before we both use our webbing, his being the normal kind of webbing, to hurl ourselves up the tower at Omega. Omega smirks behind his mandibles and leaps forward, falling toward us. Fire Spider launches flames out of his feet, swinging up around in a blurred streak, and throws a punch at Omega, only for Omega to flip, slipping around Fire Spider and slamming a kick into his back, sending him exploding into the tower. Then, as I swing a massive ice mallet at him, Omega punches it, shattering the entire thing before planting his foot in my face. Except, he doesn't throw me. His three toes clamp around my head before he flips, landing on the side of the tower and slamming my head into the window, cratering it but not fully shattering it.
"So nice to meet you, Ben, Lexi," Omega grins, his mouth stretching upward to level with his eyes, betraying just how large his mouth actually is, and how much of me he can bite off if he feels so inclined. "I figured I'd have to come and kill you personally, but I thought it would be because you killed the ones I sent at you. Oh well."
I flip, throwing a kick at him but his free hand snaps up and catches it. Then, Fire Spider's feet both explode into his head, sending him streaking down toward the ground. He flips, catching a window with his feet and shattering it, keeping a massive, jagged piece, before flipping, twin strands of webbing catching him and sending him streaking back upward before he flipped, hurling the glass up at us. I form a ball of my ice power and hurled it into the tower and the ice spike that forms shatters the glass. Then, the ice snaps off, Omega holding it above himself and turning it so the point is toward us.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me!" I groan.
"Unfortunately no," Fire Spider says, hurling a lance made of flames down into the ice spike that Omega has sent hurtling up at us, shattering it. "This is the power of Omega when he's toying with someone."
"I figured as much," I groan, forming a pair of ice knuckles with spikes over each knuckle. "This is going to be a painful fight."
"Yup," Fire Spider nods.
Omega jumps at us as he gets close enough and we both leap downward at him, gravity giving us a boost as we punch at him, only for him to sweep both of our fists aside, then drill his own fist into Fire Spider's head, slamming his head into mine. I fly sideways, my head spinning, and Fire Spider went spinning through the air, completely unconscious. I flip, catching myself with ice webbing before also catching Fire Spider, sending him crashing through a window so I don't have to hold him. However, as soon as I let go of his webbing, Omega explodes into my chest, using my torso to crater the cement wall I'm standing on.
"Alone at last!" Omega grins wickedly. "I'll give you credit for effort at least. I at least got to work up a little bit of an appetite."
His mandibles stretched open as his mouth opened wide enough to bite my head off completely, exposing his mixture of shark-like blade-type teeth, needle-like fangs for sucking blood, and molars in the back. Then, he shot upward away from me, allowing me to see a massive chunk of debris formed from an entire corner of a building flying toward me like a boulder fired from a catapult. However, before I can even think to panic, a strand of white snot-like goo attaches itself to my chest and yanks me to my left, out of the way, then releases me.
I flip, landing on the side of the building as Fire Spider flips out of a broken window beside me and lands a few feet to my right, both of us looking up at Omega, who roars angrily. He streaks down the building at us, actually standing up and running, hurtling along and quickly becoming a blur. Then, four metal spider legs burst out of the wall below him, ripping chunk of wall the size of the average pro linebacker free before Superior flipped, smashing the chunk into the wall, Omega barely escaping being crushed. Omega spun to attack Superior, only for Superior to yank two strands of webbing around, Peter streaking past him and slamming both feet into Omega's face at a hundred twelve miles an hour. Omega shot up the tower before Miles caught him in a bear hug, shouting in effort as electricity screamed across Omega's body, Omega roaring in agony. As he did, Superior grabbed Fire Spider and hurled him up at them. Omega broke free of Miles' grip and twisted around, pulling back a hand and flexing his fingers, long, jagged claws sprouting from its suit's fingers. However, before Omega could kill Miles, Fire Spider flipped, slamming a fireball into Omega's face.
The fireball shot downward a dozen feet before exploding, sending Omega streaking downward at us. Superior nods at me and I sprint up the tower. I form an ice gauntlet over my right arm as I stop, then, as Omega's passing, ice spikes erupt from the back of it as I jump and throw the punch. The spikes hit the side of the tower and launch my fist into the center of Omega's back, his spine snapping loudly before he sails out into open air, roaring in pain. I begin to fall, only for Jess's arms to stretch up and catch me, quickly pulling me down to the ground beside her as Toxin and Venom reach Omega, both of them slamming a double-hammer-fist into Omega's face, Toxin shattering both of Omega's mandibles and knocking multiple teeth loose, and Venom flattening his nose. Omega spins down at me and Jess and I kneel, resting a hand on the ground. Then, ice erupts upward below us in a pillar, hurling us both up at Omega. He manages to turn and punchers as me, but I catch it just as Jess slams her knee into his face as she passes, having jumped off of the pillar while I let it throw me. Omega flips backward and I spin, slamming a kick into Omega's side, and send him bouncing along the ground.
He rolls to a stop beside Spider Ham, who pulls a golf club out of his pocket and shouts, "FOUR!" before slamming the club into Omega's head, sending Omega flying at the wall of a building where there's a black circle about the size of a garage door. Omega passes into the circle and I look up at the tower where Omega's reappeared out of a second black circle at the very top of the tower. Just as he does, Peni's robot, with Peni inside of it, and Spiderman Noir both slam their fists into Omega's face, sending him once again hurtling at the ground. Omega raises an arm to catch himself with webbing, but Superior and Fire Spider jump off the tower, both slamming a kick into Omega's face, speeding him up and disorienting him. He streaks down toward Gwen, who's holding a steel beam about as thick as my torso and about as long as I am tall, though it's folded over on itself into a shorter, larger club, a testament to Gwen's strength. She shouts in effort, beginning to swing the club around at Omega, only for a series of snaps and pops to ring out and blood red goo to suddenly erupt from Omega's body. Gwen gasps harshly, releasing her makeshift club and moving to leap away, only for Carnage to drive his claws through her abdomen, landing heavily on the ground and cratering it, lifting Gwen over his head and grinning wickedly as his claws shift, showering him in her blood.
He turns his head, grinning as he spots me and Jess, and throws Gwen aside. She lands in a heap, and Carnage begins toward Jess and I.
"Ben Dover," Carnage sneers, then pauses as Omega's mandibles regrow. "And the sister of the cunt that managed to find someone stupid enough to fight me for her. This is perfect. I can take revenge on you, kill your cunt girlfriend, and gain the powers of a queen all at once."
"Jess, leave," I say seriously, forming ice gauntlets. "Now."
Jess shakes her head just as Man Spider lands behind Carnage, then bows.
"Great One," Man Spider hisses.
"The girl is yours," Carnage says. "I only need these two."
Man Spider grins wickedly and spins, leaping at Gwen with his arms out to the sides, claws extended and mouth opened wide, only for Miles to swing down, electricity screaming across the bottoms of his feet as he drills them both into his side, sending him crashing into the side of a building. Miles doesn't stop there, and charges Man Spider without a moment's hesitation. At the same time, a handful of the others all attack Carnage from above. Peter. Spiderman Noir. Spider Ham, holding a giant flaming hammer. Peni and her spider suit. Superior. Carnage doesn't even slow as spikes sprout from his back, impaling all of them in several places, several tentacles of goo ripping Peni's suit apart before the spikes become tentacles and throw them all away.
"Just you and me now," Carnage grins, but it drops off his face as Toxin and Venom land between him and us, then Antivenom and Fire Spider land on either side of those two.
"Symbiote!" Antivenom snarls. "Symbiote King! I was created specifically with you in mind!"
"Then you were a failure," Carnage says.
Antivenom streaks forward, throwing a punch at Carnage, only for Carnage to catch his wrist and armpit, then flip and hurl him, sending him bouncing down the road. Carnage stared at his burned hands and hummed thoughtfully before it began to heal.
"You're all foolishly mistaken if you believe you can defeat me," Carnage smirked. "I'm not the same Carnage you knew. I am now Omega Carnage."
"What an original name," I snort, stepping up beside the others. "Fire Spider, don't worry about me. Just make sure you roast this fucker."
Fire Spider nods and Toxin, Venom, and I all charge. Carnage laughs, then streaks forward, slashing Venom instantly and sending him flying. Then, he ducks and spins around my punch and drills a punch into Toxin instead, launching Toxin backward. I turn, punching downward at Carnage, but he steps backward out of the way. Instantly, a wall of ice erupts out of the ground between us just before Fire Spider sends a massive torrent of flame into Carnage's back. Carnage roars in pain and drops, ripping a chunk out of the ground and hurling it at Fire Spider. Fire Spider dodges out of the way, and as he's still ducked down, Carnage appears beside him, punting him in the head and sending him bouncing away. Jess reaches Carnage and throws a punch, but he catches her hand, grinning wickedly before his mouth stretches open widely. Then, I flip over him, my ice mallet flashing around and slamming into him, sending him exploding through my ice wall and into Antivenom's double-hammer-fist. Carnage craters the ground as he lands, only for his arm to transform into a mallet of his own, which he slams into Antivenom and sends him crashing into Venom as Venom moves to help. Venom roars in agony, but Antivenom is off of him before either hit the ground, leaving only mild burns. Carnage stands and Toxin grabs him from behind, only for red spikes to sprout from his back then retract. Toxin staggers backward and Carnage turns, grabbing him by the face and ripping the symbiote off of the host, a man with ratty clothes and a sunken face, now also riddled with holes. The host collapses, and Carnage opens his mouth to eat Toxin, only for Fire Spider to knock his arm away and move to shove a fire spear down Carnage's throat. Carnage roars in a mixture of surprise and fear, hurling himself to the side. Fire Spider transitions perfectly and spins once for momentum before hurling the spear, which becomes an elongated fireball. The flames hit Carnage and explode, engulfing him instantly as I step up beside Fire Spider, giving him a low five.
"I love our borderline magic powers sometimes," I say.
"They do have their uses," Fire Spider agrees.
"What the fuck!?" a voice shouts.
We all spin, seeing a police officer standing there, looking around. We're standing before a bonfire where there's a slime monster roaring in agony and flailing around, Antivenom is taking over Gwen's body to heal her, Venom is picking up Toxin, and off to the side, Man Spider is repeatedly slamming Miles's head into the ground, though two of his arms are hanging limply at his side, so clearly he has been put through his paces.
"What's going on over there?" a voice asks from his radio.
"Davis, it's…" he trails off, unsure what exactly to call the scene.
I glance at Miles and Man Spider again in time to see Gwen and Antivenom have Man Spider pinned to the ground now, looking just in time to see Gwen slam one solid punch into Man Spider's face and knock him out before Antivenom leaves Gwen to start tending to the others. Just then, a stole slams into the back of my head just as Carnage roars, the fire on his body suddenly dying out before Carnage sank back into Omega. Omega doubled over, panting and gasping for breath for a moment before beginning to laugh. His laugh grew more and more hysterical, and maniacal, until he bent backward, holding his stomach. Finally he gasped for breath before hissing, grinning at us.
"That took a bit longer than I expected," Omega grinned. "But now it's over. I've absorbed Carnage. All of his powers, and none of his weaknesses. I have become completely unstoppable."
Suddenly, a massive red goo blade sprouted from his right arm in a crescent, both inside and out sharpened, and he slashed at me and Fire Spider from my left. Fire Spider leaps over the blade and I duck under, it, however, as Fire Spider hurls a fireball at Omega, Omega's left arm turned into red goo and shot outward, punching through the fireball into Fire Spider's face, Omega completely unfazed by the explosion that engulfed his arm briefly. I leap at Omega, throwing a punch, but his left hand retracts before slamming a punch into my right side, sending me bouncing across the ground. I roll to a stop beside the officer, who instantly kneels, helping me stand.
"What's going on?" he asks.
"That monster is called Omega," I say. "He wants to destroy everything, and I'm starting to think he has the power to do it."
"How can I help?" he asks.
"You can't," I say. "Unless you have super powers."
The cop looks around as Venom and Antivenom struggle to land a hit on Omega, along with Miles and Gwen. Fire Spider joins them just as Venom is sent crashing along the ground, and Jess steps up beside me, now holding Toxin.
"What about that thing?" the cop asks, pointing at Toxin. "It's one of those snot monsters, right? It needs a host to fight, but it's on your side?"
I look between the two before turning to the cop, forcing myself to ignore the sounds of my friends being beaten bloody by Omega. "If you do this, you will probably die. And we have no guarantee that we can even beat Omega."
"I know," the cop nods. "I want to help."
"What's your name?" I ask, just as Spiderman Noir, Spider Ham, and Superior all pass us to join the fight, most of them bandaged with ripped pieces of their suits.
"Pat Mulligan," the cop said.
"Well then Pat, welcome to the worst day of your life," I said. "He's all yours Toxin."
Then, I spin, leaping at Omega just as he's busy slamming Miles into Gwen. I drill an ice gauntlet into the side of his jaw, shattering the gauntlet, and Omega flips away, crashing into the tower before roaring and charging again. I look around. Besides me, Jess, and Toxin, who's in the process of bonding still, everyone else is down for the count. I hold out my arm. "Jess!"
Jess streaks forward and begins to cover me instantly. Omega leaps at us, but Toxin reaches him first, his fist exploding into Omega's face and hurling him away.
"Pat Mulligan is Compatible," Toxin says. "We'll help you."
We nod and we all charge. Toxin leaps over Omega's first strike, slamming a kick into Omega's face before landing and grabbing him by the front of his suit, turning and hurling him at us. We form an ice gauntlet on our right arm that's more thick and solid than I can make along, and which has spikes bristling from the front of the gauntlet's fingers. We slam the gauntlet down into Omega's head, smashing his head into the ground and cratering the ground, shattering the gauntlet, before forming an equally solid boot and shattering it against Omega's face. Omega streaks backward at Toxin, who leaps off of the tower to slam a lariat into Omega, flipping him end for end before he crashed to the ground. Then, as Toxin turns to strike at Omega again, Omega's red goo hand drives itself through Toxin's abdomen, hurling him aside and leaving him to try and heal Pat. We charge, ducking under a slash of Omega's claws, and slam a punch into his gut, then jump, slamming a knee into his face. We flip, sending out a strand of ice webbing to the ground, then twist and yank, a massive spear of ice exploding out of the ground at Omega, only for Omega to catch himself on the head of the spear, just shy of being impaled.
The ice webbing attached to the spear yanks us up with Omega, and he leaps off the spear at us, only for us to yank the ice webbing and send ourselves streaking up at him. We form a gauntlet and send out arm shooting outward at Omega, extending the arm using our goo, and out gauntlet explodes against Omega's face just as Omega slams a red goo fist of his own into our face, hurling us back at the ground. We flip, catching ourselves on the spear, which has stopped about half the height of the tower. Omega has landed on the side of the tower and roars at us. We attach two strands of goo to the ice spear and hurl ourselves backward before the goo snaps back to its original length, sending us flashing through the air to Omega, exploding into him and sending us both exploding through the wall of the tower. We crash to the ground, rolling to a stop on top of Omega, pummeling him for several seconds before he opens his mouth and spits a glob of red goo onto our face. We freeze it and rip it off instantly, but just as we do, Omega slams his feet into our chest, sending us exploding into the side of the spear, breaking the top off.
Omega leaps after us and we crash through the relatively small bit of ice that's still behind us, beginning to fall as we trad punches with Omega. Finally, he grabs our head, yanking forward, nearly biting our head off as his mandibles snap closed, but we duck out of the way. He struggles to pull us into his jaw again and we fight to stay out of the way, glancing out of the corner of our eye as the buildings below us speed toward us. One of them has an antenna. We slam a punch into Omega's head, then shove him off of us just as we reach the antenna, which impales Omega through the head. We catch the building with ice webbing, shoulder dislocating as we jerk to a stop, then swing up and back around. We land on the roof below Omega and our shoulder resets itself and heals. We stand, watching Omega in silence for a moment before forming an ice sword and removing Omega's head for good measure. The body falls to the edge of the roof, the antenna having been in the corner, and we turn, swinging down to the others before separating. Jess moves to begin healing the others, Venom and Toxin both already halfway done.
"We did it," Miles sighs.
"I can't believe it," Superior breathes, seeming in awe as he watches the headless body before turning to me. "You won. That was...amazing!"
"Thanks," I say, holding a hand to my chest and closing my eyes, trying to see if I can sense Lexi as anything beyond an agonizingly uncomfortable pressure in my chest.
After a moment, she shifts, barely, as though to let me know she's still alive, and I sigh in relief.
"We should get the hell out of here before the cops show up," Peter says just as Venom leaves him. "Well, any more cops."
"Yeah," Pat says. "I'll stall if I can."
We nod and return our focus to our still-injured friends.
Jake watched the spiders in silence, mouth hanging open. He couldn't believe what he had just seen. His little cousin, Ben, was a spider. And not only that, he could create ice from nothing. And Jess! Jess was some kind of disgusting slime monster! Like that one that had attacked Ben on the news so long ago. He felt his stomach roll at the thought and turned, leaning against a building beside himself, vomiting. He had kissed a snot monster. He had fucked a snot monster. He vomited again. He was going to need so much therapy.
Just then, something hit the ground behind him and he turned, eyes widening as he stared at the monster Ben had just killed. It was standing before him, headless, and he could only stare. He couldn't move. He couldn't scream. He was too afraid. His pulse pounded in his ears as the corpse raised a hand, grabbing him by the face, covering his mouth and dragging him forward until his face was mere inches from its severed neck. Now he creamed, but the hand muffled him. He pulled back, pushed against the corpse, beat on it, but it didn't budge and neither did he. His eyes flicked over to where all of the spiders were facing away from him, including Jess. If he could just scream loud enough. He inhaled, then froze as something warm and wet splattered over his face.
His eyes turned back to the front as a spider the size of a Huntsman Spider, but made out of red goo, forced its body halfway out of the corpse's neck, just in front of the spinal cord. It raised its front two legs as its jagged, blade-like pincers opening, and released a high, piercing, yet quiet, shriek. Jake screamed again, fighting even more desperately to escape, but again went nowhere. Then, the spider was free and jumped, landing on to corpse's hand and in seconds had burrowed through it. Jake's scream went silent as he began to gag, body trying to reject the thing crawling down his throat. He turned as the corpse collapsed, vomiting repeatedly, but was not greeted by the sight of a spider being ejected from his body. Then, the spider bit into the wall of his throat and agony flooded him before his fear and pain swallowed him and he collapsed.
I groan as I sit down on the couch, one hand pressing against my chest. Waking up with Lexi inside of my chest cavity isn't nearly as fun as being on an extended adrenaline high from a fight to the death with her there. The pain feels fresh and exaggerated, compared to having barely noticed it while I fought. I sigh, tilting my head back and stare up at the ceiling. I wish there were a way to heal her faster. Both for me to stop feeling the pain, and also for her to be healed. My phone begins to ring and I frown. No one ever calls me, except Miles, or one of the others, if they happen to be in our universe and want to meet up. However, I know it's not them, because after the fight, everyone who's not a symbiote decided to crash at me and Lexi's house for the night before leaving for their various homes and universes.
I pull the phone out and see it's Jess, answering instantly. "Hey, what's up?"
"Is Jake there?" Jess asks.
"No," I say sitting up. "Why?"
"He never came home last night," Jess says. "I waited up for him, but he hasn't come home. I'm worried. What if...What if he never speaks to me again? I mean, after what he saw..."
"I'm sure he's fine," I say. "Why don't you come over, and I'll give him a call."
"But...what if he comes home?" Jess asks.
I sigh quietly. "As much as I hate to say it, if he's not there yet, he's probably not going to be, for a while, at least. The police might have picked him up on their way to the fight, and they could have him at the station."
Jess is silent for a long while. "Alright. I'll come over. It'll give me the chance to check on Lexi, too."
"You can do that?" I ask.
"Yes," Jess says. "When I bond with you, I can check on her. If you don't mind."
"I don't mind," I say. "I'll see you in a bit, then."
Jess hangs up without saying goodbye and I sigh, dialing Jake. However, it goes to voicemail instantly. I frown. That's weird. Jake never lets his phone die. He's as careful about it as I am. I set my phone down and clasp my hands, pressing my lips against them as I consider possibilities of what might have happened to Jake. There's always the police picking him up, but aside from that, there's a chance Omega had some kind of power we're not aware of, allowing him to miraculously survive being impaled through the head and decapitated. Or maybe Carnage wasn't fully absorbed after all. That thought scares me. If Carnage wasn't fully absorbed, if he got Jake, it's only a matter of time before Carnage comes after us, and probably only a slightly longer amount of time before Jake dies.
"What do you think, Lexi?" I ask quietly, receiving no response, not that he actually expected one. "I suppose we'll have to go check the area again."
I sigh, settling in to wait for Jess, deciding she should be there to help me search.
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