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Double Teamed
I sigh, leaning on the railing of our hotel room's balcony. Lexi's arms wrap around me from behind and I feel her bare breasts pressing into my back.
"Come on, please?" she begs.
"No," I say.
"It'll be fun," she says.
"I don't doubt it," I snort.
"But it's been soooo long!" she complains.
"It has literally been two days," I say. "You need to learn to go more than two days without sex." I turn around and kiss her on the forehead. "Which is why you're also not allowed to have sex with Jess."
"But Beeeeen," Lexi complains, turning around as I walk past her. "That's so cruel!"
"You'll live," I say. "You made it weeks without before we were together, and then through multiple dates when we were trying to get together, you'll be fine."
Lexi groans miserably, forming herself a loose shirt and shorts, then collapsing onto the bed, sulking. I chuckle, laying on the other bed beside the infinitely more well-behaved Jess, who simply smiles knowingly, quietly flipping through channels. She settles on a channel called Syfy, which is playing some super cheesy, B-rate horror movie about a tornado that picks up sharks. At least, if I'm guessing correctly by the name, "Sharknado." I smirk, folding my hands on my chest as all three of us settle in to watch. And it...is...glorious. About twenty or thirty minutes into the movie, a tornado over the water off the coast of Los Angeles picks up thousands of sharks. Then, it causes flooding so bad in the city, that the sharks are swimming from house to house and killing everyone. The main character finds his family and exwife and takes them and his borderline girlfriend to some airport where the son, who conveniently has been taking helicopter classes, takes a chopper with a bunch of bombs to blow up the now multiple tornados, all while dodging the sharks, and takes the main characters sort-of girlfriend with him. She gets eaten by a shark, the son stops the tornado with a bomb, and the main character uses a chainsaw he found at one point or another to split one shark in half as its flying over him by swinging the chainsaw like a sword, then jumps down another shark's throat. After a moment, he cuts himself free with the chainsaw, then pulls his sort-of girlfriend out, both of them covered in blood and guts, then gives her mouth to mouth to resuscitate her. As the credits begin to scroll, the three of us cheer loudly.
"That was fucking terrible!" Jess laughs.
"Mentally scarring!" I laugh. "What's on next?"
She opens the guide and we all cheer again, seeing "Sharknado 2: The Second One" listed as up next. She scrolls over. More cheering. "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" Then number four, five, and the sixth one, listed as "The Last Sharknado: It's About Time!" I laugh hard, pulling my mask over to me with my webbing.
"Karen, can you do me a favor?" I ask.
"Of course Ben," Karen says. "What do you need?"
"While you're learning about this universe, can you download a movie series called Sharknado?" I ask.
"Absolutely," Karen says, and I can practically envision a girl with light brown hair pulled back into a bun smiling.
I pull the mask back off just as the opening credits of the movie, which are a joke in and of themselves, are interrupted by a news report. A giant black web has appeared over a construction zone and there's a taxi in it with an attractive redhead stuck inside. The news identifies her as Mary Jane Watson, and we're all up and on our way out of the window in seconds, me wearing my full suit.
"Karen, I'm going to need you to hide the hub for now," I say. "I'm not used to it and I need it to not distract me during the fight."
"Okay," Karen says, the hub winking out. "Who are we fighting?"
"Not sure," I say. "Let me handle it. I know my own abilities well enough to win. I'll learn to use the suit's new tricks later."
"Good point," Karen agrees. "Do you want me to give you advice during the fight?"
"Only if I start to lose," I say.
"Alright," Karen says, then goes silent.
We all swing through the city quickly, flipping onto the web to roaring cheers, as well as confused shouts, from below. Spiderman's not here yet, unless the symbiote, a black one, has taken over, since one that looks like Spiderman but with large, fingernail-like claws and sharp teeth is crawling toward us on the web, snarling.
"You're those three from before," the symbiote snarls.
"That you Peter?" I ask.
"Wrong," the symbiote grins, face opening to reveal one I don't recognize before closing again. "I'm Eddie Brock. But you can call me Venom!"
"I see," I nod. "Well, I'm the Ice Spider. This is Lust, and Passion. They're the queens of your race."
"Not to me," Venom snarls.
"Alright then," I nod. "We'll just have to put you down then."
This venom is more of a lean build than the line-backer version we have in our dimension. However, he proves to be much faster than ours, because he launches himself up at me before I have time to react. He slashes at me with his claws and I barely manage to block it with ice, then form ice around my right fist and drill it into his face, sending him sailing out into the open air, where he begins to plummet quickly.
"What, is that it?" I ask. "What a disappoint-"
A strand of black webbing on my back suddenly yanks me backward as Venom flips to a stop on a second strand, sending me whipping down into the sand at the bottom of the construction sight. The sand then begins to shift, rising rapidly and beginning to form a gigantic sand humanoid, who bellows in rage, swinging his arm and sending me streaking up at the web where Venom is successfully holding his own against both Lexi and Jess. Venom flips and kicks me, sending me crashing down on one of the cement floors, Lexi and Jess joining me a moment later, then Venom as he follows us.
"You guys okay?" I ask.
"Yeah," Lexi nods. "He's as fast as Carnage, though."
"Yeah," I agree. "But he packs less of a punch."
"Right," Lexi nods. "So then this should be much easier than fighting Carnage."
Jess nods and the three of us sprint forward, only for a massive sand fist to streak at us from the left, blasting into us all. Lexi and Jess both slam into support beams, but I spin out of the building. Then, a strand of webbing catches me and Peter swings me up to Venom's web, now wearing a blue and red suit.
"You were right," Peter says. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be," I say. "Listen, my ice will be more effective against that sand thing than your webs or strength. So I need you to help Lexi and Jess. Don't let them be hurt."
"Alright," Spiderman nods. "Kick Sandman's ass for me."
I nod and Peter drops, swinging toward where Lexi and Venom are having a martial arts fight with their claws, neither scoring a hit. While he goes to help them, I swing down past Sandman and hurl an ice spear into him. He roars in pain as it stabs him, but the spear shatters and he swings his massive hand at me, missing by a mile.
"Slow," I note. "Slow I can handle. Packs a hell of a punch, though."
I form a sphere of frozen air and swing down toward him again, this time flipping over his hand and slamming the ball into his arm. The frozen air explodes outward, freezing his entire arm, which falls away and breaks apart, but remains frozen. He roars, hurling a massive chunk of frozen arm at me with his free hand and I avoid it, flipping backward and watching it slam into Venom, sending him shooting out of the building. I send out another strand of ice webbing and swing around, hurling a sphere of frozen air at Sandman again, only for him to roar and sand to shoot up from below him, blocking it. Then, the wall of frozen sand explodes, and I'm hit with a massive chunk of ice, sailing backward to Lexi, who catches me and sets me on my feet.
"Behind you!" Karen warns just as my Spider Sense goes off and all four of us flip backward.
Venom begins to pass under us before catching Peter by the face and hurling him at Sandman, who smashes his fist down on Peter, sending him crashing to the ground. Venom turns to fight us and my left fist drills into his jaw, then the other into his gut. He staggers backward as I bend forward and Lexi rolls across my back, her right foot kicking downward and bouncing Venom's face off the ground before me and Jess both punt him in the face, sending him crashing into a support strut, bending it and cracking the cement above and below Venom. He roars, charging, and I form a pair of gauntlets, using one to block his slash and drilling the other into his face, following him and beginning to rain punches at him. He blocks and dodges some, but he can't score a hit on me now that his speed isn't surprising me. Finally, he drops, sweeping at my feet and I jump, Lexi passing under me and drilling a punch into his face, sending him bouncing backward before I slam my hands into the ground, ice erupting from below him and encasing everything but his head.
"Watch him," I say as I turn to go help Peter. "I'll be back soon."
They both nod and I jump out of the building. Sandman's got his frozen arm back, somehow, and is using it to hold Peter down as the other hand repeatedly slams down on him. I flip up past his face, slashing him with an ice sword, and the blade shatters, but it frees Peter. A moment later, a small orange sphere embeds itself in Sandman's face and a guy on a long, thin glider wearing green armor streaks past, grabbing me by the arm and getting me away from the softball-sized sphere just before it explodes, blasting half of Sandman's face into shards of glass. The newcomer tosses me up to the web where Peter's retreated, then hovers in front of us. Half his face is burned, but he smiles knowingly at Peter.
"You came," Peter says, smiling in relief.
"Sorry I'm late," the guy says. "Though, I didn't realize you found help."
"I'm Ben," I say.
"Harry Osborn," the guy says, just as Venom roars and breaks free of my ice, going after Lexi and Jess again, the two of them once again fighting on level ground with him.
"I'll handle Venom," I say. "Peter, Harry, I leave Sandman to you. I suggest water and fire. Lots of it."
They nod and I drop off of the web, swinging down at Venom just as he gets throws Jess away, pinning Lexi to the ground with his foot on her chest. However, she slashes his achilies tendon and he roared, lifting his foot just before I plant both of mine in his back, sending him flying. I flip, landing beside Jess as she stand and sighs, Lexi stepping up beside me a moment later.
"Alright," I say. "So, let's see how long it takes us to beat Venom to death."
They both nod and Venom roars, charging at us. He grabs a jagged piece of broken metal on the way and swipes at us as he reaches us. Lexi leaps into the air over the strike while me and Jess duck. As soon as my hands hit the ground, a fist made out of ice erupts out of it on a growing pillar, shattering against his jaw and launching him into the air. Jess steps off of my back, flipping and using her webbing to whip Lexi into Venom's face, feet first. Venom explodes through a cement pillar and then through several standing steel pipes, which crash to the ground, all three symbiotes screaming and roaring in pain, clutching at their heads and collapsing to the ground. I freeze the pipes in place instantly, then charge, streaking forward and shattering an ice shin-guard against Venom's face just as he manages to get to his hands and feet. He flies away from me and I glance outside to where Peter and Harry are still fighting Sandman. Lexi and Jess push themselves up, both swaying and back in their true forms, Jess's clothes lying on the ground.
"Are you alright?" I ask.
Both nod, steadying themselves and moving to stand beside me again. Venom roars, charging again, and I catch his first punch, realizing he's a lot slower and weaker after the noise hurt him. Unfortunately, so aren't Jess and Lexi, probably more so due to not having hosts. Venom catches Lexi's first punch and swings her at me, forcing me to catch her, releasing Venom and allowing him to catch Jess's arm, yanking her into a knee, then jumping and kicking her in the jaw as she's staggering away.
"Get out of here," I say. "Both of you. I can beat him with those metal pipes, but not if you two are here."
"Right," Lexi nods. "Be careful."
I nod and she and Jess both turn to flee. Venom moves to intercept them, but I attach webbing to a pair of supports behind him and slingshot myself into him, launching him into a cement pillar, Venom smashing through it. Then, I glance back, seeing Lexi and Jess, once again disguised as Spiders, swinging away. I thaw the ice around the pipes and grab two. Venom charges and I step forward, beginning to beat him with them, the sound and impacts together rapidly weakening Venom. Finally, I slam one into the underside of his jaw, flipping him backward onto the ground before driving the pipes into the ground. I flip into the air as he scrambles to his feet to flee from them and use my ice webbing to grab two more and smash them down on him, then kick him backward and drive these two into the ground as well. He cuts to his left and I again get in front of him, slamming one into his face before spinning, the other swiping around and blasting into his side, launching him away before I drive them into the ground and attach webbing to his back, yanking him back. As he nears me, I flip, grabbing two more and flip over the others, and Venom as he crashes into the last to and drops to the ground. He lunges at me but I slam the last two into the ground and grab the last one on the ground, slamming it against the poles, making them all ring and vibrate in a resonating effect, which amplifies the sound inside of the ring of poles, battering Venom with one of his two weaknesses.
I hit the poles again and again, running a complete circle around them once just for effect and Venom begins to pull back from Brock. I attach webbing to him and yank Brock out of the ring of poles before slamming mine into one of the others again. Venom, who had been growing into a massive silhouette of himself with a wicked face roaring at me, shrieks, dropping down into a smaller form, cowering and shrieking in pain. I hit the pipes again just as a luck punch from Sandman sends Harry bouncing past me.
"Perfect timing," I say, taking a bomb and arming it by pressing the large green button before hurling it into Venom, hitting the pipes one last time.
"No!" Brock shouts from where I've stuck him to a pillar with my ice webbing. "Please! I need him! I need his power to kill Spiderman!"
Then, the bomb explodes, obliterating Venom, blasting the pipes all outward. I sigh dusting myself off and stepping out from behind the column Harry and I had taken cover behind just as Peter lands beside us, Sandman forming in front of us, this time in a human form.
"I never wanted this," Sandman says. "Not originally. I just...I need money. My daughter's sick, but we can't afford to treat her."
"I'm sorry," Peter says.
"Karen," I say, run a background check on this guy. "Get his daughter admitted to a hospital, free of charge."
"On it," she says. "Done. The doctor should be giving them a call in the next few minutes."
"Thanks Karen," I say. "A friend of mine took care of it. No money needed."
"You...You're being serious?" Sandman asks.
"Yeah," I nod. "She's about the best hacker to ever live, so it was easy. So, Peter?"
"If you promise not to cause trouble anymore, we have no reason to keep fighting," Peter says.
"I promise," Sandman nods. "But...your uncle..."
"That was a long time ago," Peter says. "And I think everyone has paid for our past mistakes enough. I forgive you,"
Sandman was silent for a long while before closing his eyes and transforming into a cloud of sand, which took off, blowing away between the buildings and disappearing.
"You're a bit scary," Peter says, just as Lexi and Jess land off to the side and walk over. "Who's Karen?"
"A friend," I say. "Don't screw up again. I'm probably not coming back again."
"Alright," Peter nods. "Thank you for the help."
I nod just as my watch beeps. "Perfect timing." I stare at it for a moment before sighing. "Damn. Not here either. Alright. Next stop."
Jess and Lexi nod and I open a black hole, all of us saying our goodbyes before stepping through.
"That was a lot faster than usual," Jess says. "It was almost too easy."
"Compared to fighting Omega, or Carnage, that was a walk in the park," I agree
"Well I'd prefer it if everything was that easy," Lexi says. "I didn't have to worry as much."
"I agree," I nod. "I wonder what the next universe is going to be like."
"Hopefully somewhere peaceful," Lexi says. "Somewhere we can rest without interruption. And play."
"I swear, between the both of us, it's a wonder we get anything done," I laugh.
Lexi smiles. "I like it that way. It's never boring."
I nod in agreement and look to Jess, who's staring silently ahead, lost in thought. All around us, strands of light flash past, connections between universes, looking like the most beautifully intricate spiderweb I've ever seen. We're traveling along one such strand of light, one which will take us to our next destination, but despite the view around us, Jess's eyes are seeing something a million miles, and probably a few days, away. I reach out, slipping my hand into hers.
"We'll find him," I vow. "I won't stop until you can hold him again."
Jess smiles gratefully, eyes watering slightly, and gives my hand an affectionate squeeze. "I know. I have no doubt we'll find him. Nothing can stop you once you have your heart set on something. It's one of your most attractive qualities. But..."
I cock my head slightly and Jess hesitates another moment before smiling and shaking her head.
"It's nothing," she smiles. "We can deal with it when we get to it."
I nod, smiling, and reach up, using my free hand's thumb to brush her tears away. Jess smiles, closing her hand around mine, then holds out the other, Lexi taking it as Jess pulls her over, my newly freed hand taking Lexi's free one. I don't know what's bothering Jess, but she obviously needs comfort, so Lexi and I both pull her into a hug, holding her tightly in our arms until a wormhole opens in front of us and deposits us in a back alley in our next destination. We don't move, continuing to hold Jess comfortingly as she clings to us, struggling not to cry. Finally, we pull back and Jess smiles, wiping her eyes.
"Thank you," Jess smiles. "I'm sorry for getting emotional."
"You have every right to be as emotional as you want," I say. "Now, let's go see about finding a hotel to rest in while Karen learns about this place, shall we?"
Both girls nod and we walk out of the back alley, turning down the road and looking for a hotel.
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