Karma Octopus's tentacles flashed towards the spider heroes forcing them to scatter and dodge quickly, even the less spider-sense enabled of the bunch managing to avoid their opponent hits as the road in front of parker industries got thorougly trashed by the the bony protursions.
"C'mon little insects! is that that truly the extent of what you can do ? " otto's distorted voice rang out as the spider-family regrouped on a nearby wall , seemingly out of the villain reach for the moment. "Great , he is more unhinged than usual " spider-man let out in a rush , "oh, yeah didn't notice that " was iron spider's response dripping with sarcasm , "I' m gonna need a minute to analyze him and find out how to take him out " spider-girl informed her companions , before all of them had to scatter around the area dodging a blast of both fire and ice shooting out of two tentacles .
" fantastic, he has even more range than usual , MJ stay-" "nuh uh" " What ?!I'm serious Red, I should be able to - " No , thanks I've seen my share of action across the years even without you around and since i can help you out for once i'm not staying put . " was the redhead's response among the dodging the two older spiders were partaking in, both covering each others back between webs and pulls , " besides you need my help at the moment , so let me help you !"
Peter was silenced for a moment , she was indeed right and helped him already multiple times during this fight alone since his spider sense was being spotty at best , since he had awoken .
As the two of them kept garnering the villain's attention , our spider-girl sneaked at a safe distance, placing herself at a point with a good view of the villain, hiding behind an upturned truck , she was used to not being noticed during her tv world excursions but she learned a measure of stealth when possible in order to not be an easy target for the shadows they faced even if she trusted her team to always cover for her .
"Ok , here we go . PERSONA !" she let out as she pulled her evoker's trigger , Kunzeon appearing as she used her visor to scan their opponent .
The seemingly relentless attack on the older heroes paused for barely an instant as one of the tentacles rapidly snaked towards the analyzer persona user, stretching past its limits , stopped at the last second by MJ holding it like a crazed alligator just a few centimeters from the unflinching teenager
"oH JusT a LitTle BIte , iT wOnt HuRt MuCh " otto's distorted voice pleaded from the squirmin appendix, Mary Jane let out a grunt of effort and said " we had enough stuff trying to eat us already, so cut it out!"
"got it ! Electricity will work " the girl called back her persona and just in time to dodge a blast of searing green wind with a leap that brought her near her parents again , who had temporarily regrouped.
"All right , do the honors Red " Peter said , But MJ's response was only an awkward "uhm..."
"... what ? " " I don't have anything electricity based " "...let me guess, your persona has only a couple of natures tops, right ? " "...yeah." " right we can workshop thi..."-DODGE!"
The spider-heroes narrowly dodged the elemental barrage unleashed by Octopus as Peter gave the orders to take down their opponent.
"Girls ! Use a Fire hoser to soak him , I'll bring the thunder " " Got it , Spider-man ".
As spiderman leaped away, web bulleting octopus , he focused on dodging his opponent attacks, using his enhanced reflexes when his spider sense left him dry at times, and keeping his attention, our spider women cleared the area around the nearest fire hose . " Rise " said MJ " get on the wall and use your webs to pull it out of the road . I'll use aracnhe's strenght to direct the water , give me a heads up when ready " The girl complied and soon the spider-women were in position . After some more subtle baiting from spider-man , they had a clear shot ... and took it.
"NOW!" MJ shouted and her daughter obliging , pulled on the hydrant with her considerable strenght, the wall she was standing on cracking under her feet , until it gave and in the same moment the bang of the evoker echoed out as arachne's etheral form pinned her spider-legs on the ground and used her slender but powerful humanoid arms to direct the water towards their opponent.
The unseen water jet soaked Octopus from head to tentacle as after the initial shock he raised them to try and defend itself in a scream of frustration . But before he could muster a counter move . Spider-man dashed to the area near the entrance of his company , digging using his arms and reaching the hefty electric cables powering the labs . And the instant the water subsided web throwing them towards octavius .
The spark of electricity lighted up the entire street, as octopus's inhuman roar of pain filled the air . The electric discharge finally did the demon in, he fell on the ground unconscious , his monstruos visage and appendices retracting and ultimately disappearing leaving otto's defeated overweight but human shape behind.
All of our heroes let out a quick sigh of relief as MJ the less powered member of the team, started regaining her breath after the multiple summons and the physical strain of keeping up with dodging.
After a mere minute though... "All in favour of hurrying up the building before something else attacks us ?" All of the web clad individuals agreed and entered the parker industries building in a rush , heading for the main elevator .
"Let's take the express " peter said while forcing open the doors and helping the other two climb on top of the elevator.
He shot a web to roof of the shaft and while holding mary Jane and after giving some instructions to Rise , shot upwards and got out on the last floor, everybody then heading for the roof access .
The sight before them stopped them in their tracks for a moment before slowly approaching the figure at the center.
The roof didn't much look like a roof anymore . A foul atmosphere emanating from the circle of light and dark symbols in the middle causing weird flesh like growth in the area all covered by a thick dose of webbing in weird patterns and shapes .
The figure , Shadow Peter, standing in the middle of the circle in a trance like state
, waiting.
After some hesitation on part of the spider heroes , peter steeled himself and finally approached his other self . The air around them flickering for a mere instant as he entered the eldritch circle .
"Hey, there" he tried saying, his doppelganger not reacting . Rise and MJ were on edge at this, the shadow was acting weird compared to what they knew , not even acknowledging the presence of peter.
" So ..." peter kept going, letting his motormouth run a bit " you ok there , because you look a little emo to me , I mean I had my phases honestly but they always tended to be short lived and you should know are Me after all."
Nothing, no reaction no attention , complete silence .
The whole situation just kept getting tense .
" Not really the first time i talk to a manifestation of myself actually, I just remembered about that one time I died and there was this spider-me th-"
SLAM!
Peter was cut off when his shadow finally reacted and not exactly in a taunting or mockin manner no, more violent than anything else .
Getting grabbed and thrown on his back on the ground wasn't exactly taunting , more like painful .
"NOW!?" The shadow snarled furiously in a distorted voice "NOW YOU REMEMBER ?! NOW?!".
AN: Hello ...
Yep, that was a long hiatus .
I cant say I have any excuses about it . With my source of fury towards one more day leaving the title , things have been a lot slower . And I'm sorry to say they are gonna keep being slow . Among the many spider-man things to currently come out, Peter/MJ feel a lot less in trouble and a lot less out of Character. I didn't pose myself to fix anything honestly , I lack the writing skills for that. This fic is mainly a way to , ultimately , vent for me and even if things havent really been amazing in my life , i fell a lot more comfortable in it nonetheless and as such, this fic has taken the hit. Now with that said the end of this story is in well in sight , it's just two chapters and an epilogue ahead and i pretty much know what is going to happen in them . They are potentially gonna fell rushed , I can tell you that much but they are coming. When is a whole other matter. But ... before the year ends this fic will also be over, rest assured .
Now as a final point
Excelsior
R.I.P. Stan Lee