The day was early, but yet the newly formed Thunderbolts were already having a meeting on how to squish the Spider.

"Okay…" Mysterio asked his team mates "How do we kill the Spider?"

Rhino raised his hand as exclaimed "OH! OH! ME ME! PICK ME!"

"Yes, Rhino?" Mysterio asked as he sighed.

"Okay, so…" Rhino began "When I was attackin' the spider when I was workin' for the Kingpin, he always said to hit hard!"

Mac Gargan facepalmed and looked at Rhino. "And where IS Kingpin now, Rhino?"

Rhino thought for a good minute or so. "Uhhhh…well I hear Doc Ock got him a new pair of cement shoes…but those must be heavy. How you Americans carry on cement shoes?"

Mysterio looked at the large hulk of a man and said "It's just an American expression, Aleksei."

Rhino nodded and replied "Well back in home town in Russia, we were having expressions too! Like when we say 'man was like old cottage!' we just meant that he was rickety and old! Is funny because we lived in old cottages."

Electro then asked "Well do you know what putting on a pair of cement shoes is an expression for?"

Rhino shook his head. "No…"

"It means Kingpin is dead, Rhino." Mysterio replied as he thought "Perhaps having a foreigner on the team was not the best of ideas."

Rhino's eyes became big and pouty as he frowned. "The Kingpin is dead?"

Gargan smacked Rhino upside the head. "He's been dead for months your Russian nincompoop!"

Rhino turned to Mac and asked "What is being a nincompoop?"

The entire group sighed and Mysterio proclaimed "OKAY, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS DRIVEL ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY IDEAS?"

Electro replied "I do, boss. I say we fry the Spider slowly. Make every second before death a living breathing hell as he suffers upon the might of a thousand bolts flowing through him! Each and every watt more painful than the last! And as he begs for mercy we shall all say 'No.'"

The entire group looked at Max with horror. Mac asked "What the fuck, man?"

Rhino added "Yeah seriously, you are having the brain problems."

Mysterio then pointed to Mac. "Okay, those ideas were stupid, but you got any bright ideas, Venom?"

Mac grinned and asked "DO I?"

Rhino turned to Mac and asked "Do you?"

Mac's grin grew wider and he asked "DO I?!"

Electro then turned to Mac as well and asked him "Do you?"

Mac's grin turned to a large open mouth smile and asked "DO I?!"

Mysterio groaned as he rested his head in his hands. "Enough with this, do you Mac?!"

"No." Mac replied as he looked into a book.

Mysterio clenched his hands and screamed to the ceiling. "You idiots can't do anything right, can you?! YOU'RE ALL A GROUP OF STUPID IDIOTS WHO DON'T DESERVE THE THUNDERBOLTS NAME SO GRACIOUSLY GIVEN TO US! YOU'RE ALL BUFFOONS OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER!" he then knocked over his chair and then a lamp "THIS IS LIKE ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NOT A GROUP OF DEADLY SUPERVILLAINS! YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF NINNIES! NINNIES I SAY!"

Rhino picked the chair and lamp back up as he replied "You don't have to be so dramatic."

Mysterio sighed angrily as he again kicked the chair over. "DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO I AM, MAN?"

"Chill out, bro." Electro said as he picked the chair. "We're all friends, here."

Rhino agreed "Why you have to be mad? It is no big deal."

Mysterio kicked the chair over for a third time and fell on the ground, banging his fists and kicking his feet. "IT ISN'T FAIR! IT ISN'T FAIR! WHY MUST EVERY TEAM BE SO USELESS?!"

Rhino walked over to Mysterio. "Are you needing hug?"

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Mysterio screeched as he ran around the room. Rhino began chasing him as he yelled "JUST ONE LITTLE HUG WOULD BE MAKING YOUR CALMER!" Electro began hovering in between them and added "IT'LL BE GOOD FOR YOU BECK! GROUP HUG C'MERE!"

Mac looked up from his book in a deadpan style and tossed it at the wall. "DON'T ENCOURAGE THEM YOU LIVING LIGHTNING DUNDERHEAD!" he screamed as he tackled Electro and…tried eating him.

Elsewhere, Kaine and the Superior Spider-Man sat on the roof of a large skyscraper. Otto turned to Kaine and asked "When do we strike?"

Kaine didn't look back at him. But he did reply "We need more than just us two, we need an entire team to combat Spider-Man."

Otto shook his head. "No. Are you aware of what a team is like to handle?"

"Don't care" Kaine replied as he looked at his dying hand "It could be the hardest thing to do…but I wouldn't care. Revenge is all I want. By any means possible!"

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind…" Otto retorted.

"Then let it go blind." Kaine added as he stood up. "I'm gettin' real damn sick of just waiting around, Superior."

Otto nodded in agreement. "As am I…"

Kaine picked Otto up and put him on his feet. "Then let's find the Spiders…and destroy them."

Now at City Hall, a crowd had gathered to find out who the mayor of the city would become. A man stepped up to the podium and announced "We are gathered here today to find out who here is going to become the mayor of our fair city. The people have spoken and then winner of the vote is…"

The man pulled out a letter and ripped it open. "NORMAN OSBORN! Please come up to the stands."

Norman stepped up to the podium and smiled. "I really must thank the people for this. I did a lot, but you all voted for me. And I thank you for that. You all deserve a mayor like me…a mayor who can strike hard at these supervillains, and I promise I will—"

Though, it was not long until he was interrupted by a loud and crazy sounding voice "BAHAHAHAHAHA! You say that, but you're corrupt, Osborn! This whole damn city is!"

Osborn slammed his fist on the podium and demanded "Who is this?! Who dare oppose me?!"

Out from the crowd the Hobgoblin flew on his wings. "I dare!"

The people in the crowd began running and screaming. He threw down his bombs in an insane fit of laughter.

Norman growled and stared at the attacker. "What do you want from me, Goblin?"

"Revenge" Hobby stated as he flew the air as he yanked out his flame sword. Hobby then flew right towards Norman, but Norman just grabbed Hobby and threw him as if he were nothing.

Oscorp guards ran up to Norman and escorted him to his limo. Hobgoblin tried chasing the limo, but he was too busy being assaulted by other Oscorp guards.

"I'll get you, Osborn!" he screamed as he yanked in the assaulting guards and tossed them "If it's the last thing I ever do!"

"It will be…" Norman said to himself as he sat back in his limo "Believe me, it will be. I hate shoddy knockoffs, you know, speaking of shoddy knock offs…"

Norman then pulled out his phone and called Alistair Smythe. "Hello Alistair, why yes of course it's me, Norman. I did win the election, thanks for asking. I am fully supporting the Spider-Slayer v.2! Go fully by your original designs rather than Kingsley's redone designs! I want this thing built sooner rather than later, so get on it!"

Norman then hung up and that's when he got another call. "Hello?" he asked. The other voice on the line said "Hello, . This is Mysterio."

Norman smiled and laughed. "Mysterio, how wonderful to receive a call, I take it everything is going well?"

Mysterio replied "Well no, . Mac Gargan is showing signs of…uhhhh…cannibalism and he's getting harder to control."

"What?" Norman asked as his smile turned to a scowl "What do you mean cannibalism?!"

"Well…he tried eating Electro." Mysterio timidly explained.

Norman held the bridge of his nose and sighed. "Then looks like we need a replacement Venom, and luckily I know the perfect shmuck for the job."

Mysterio then asked "Well…who is it?"

"Nobody too big, just someone who would jump at the chance to get a leg up on Spider-Man I assure you. Or perhaps a leg or two at all." Norman said with a sadistic grin.

"I shall send Mac Gargan to your lab to have his symbiote removed." Beck replied as he too smiled at the prospect of having Mac removed.

"Good, good…be sure to have him restrained, we're putting him back in the Scorpion armor right away." Norman said as he then hung up and began smoking his cigar…