The hectic life of a true superhero…
Few people comprehend the stress and troubles that come along with having such great responsibilities. The constant crime fighting, the unending aches, the absolute "nothing" of a social life…
Indeed, just like the physical gifts one must have to be a hero or heroine, obviously this wasn't work for the weak minded. But surely even then, the strongest minded superheroes deserve a break!
"Oh yeah," Black Cat sighed lazily in her big comfy chair, sipping on a sweet strawberry smoothie. Those pout lips scrunched together cutely around that straw as she stretched her arms, closing her eyes in complete bliss.
"Now why the hell didn't I get a sidekick any sooner?"
Seated in an outdoor table to a local "Jamba Juice", Black Cat honestly seemed as if she didn't have a care in the world. Highly unusual for this cat-masked wearing vigilante obviously, but less work was one of the perks of having a sidekick. Well… if you could call this certain sidekick a "perk".
"Looks like this side of New York City is in great hands," an almost robotic voice sounded. Black Cat's eyes immediately peered up as she shielded her vision from the sun, seeing two shadowy figures hovering via the power of high tech rocket boot boosters.
"Hey! If it isn't my favorite iron wearing man and his sidekick," Black Cat smiled sweetly.
"Ugh seriously," the blackened armored of the two grumbled. "Why do I have to be known as your sidekick again? It totally hurts the ego."
"Well let's see," the orange one scratched his metal chin. "Get rid of that suit that I created and you can be whatever you want."
"Oh right…" the black armored man sighed and saluted. "Sidekick reporting for duty sir!" he turned to Black Cat. "Sorry but this suit is just way too damn sweet."
"I'm sure." Black Cat winked.
The two armored heroes descended with an ease of outlet power to their rocket boots, landing beside Black Cat, who was of course looking a bit too relaxed for their own tastes. Obviously, Iron Man and War Machine weren't big on lazy superheroes.
"So I hear the crime rate around these parts is sky high lately." Iron Man muttered staring at Black Cat's snug grin. "Now I can totally see why."
"Ugh, lighten up metal man, everything is under control." she pouted, noticing that War Machine was eying the other cups.
"Aw don't be shy big guy." Black Cat smirked towards War Machine. "Take as many as you want. My treat!"
"Really?" War Machine instantly grabbed two cups with his own hands and another pair with his "extra" hands that erupted out of the back of his suit. "Thanks!"
Black Cat giggled, "Sure better than motor oil yellow over here feeds you huh?"
"Oh yeah," War Machine indulged himself in fruity goodness. Iron Man groaned at his partner as he drank away shamelessly.
"I know you want some too Iron Boy." Black Cat playfully shoved a cup in his direction. "Come on, take it."
"No thanks," Iron Man replied sternly. "But you can tell me something Cat," his finger pointed. "Why in the world are you so relaxed? Don't you have crime to fight?"
"Sure I do," Black Cat nodded, "but my new partner's got it all covered for me right now. Ain't he a doll?"
"Your new partner?" Iron Man and War Machine immediately skewed, those metal faces almost seeming to make emotes of confusion.
"Yup," she sipped away and smiled, suddenly picking up some ruckus with her enhanced hearing. "And I think you both are about to meet him right… now."
"YAAAAH!" a scream rang loudly as the sound of windows shattering echoed throughout the block. Black Cat grinned brightly while Iron Man and War Machine stared stupidly.
"AAAH! Ms. Cat! Please help!" Larry scrambled with his cape flapping around while four metallic tentacles were on his tail crushing whatever was in sight. "Larry cannot run much longer!"
"Don't worry Larry! You're doing great." Black Cat cheered. "Just keep him busy and he'll tire out!"
"I dunno if I can-AAAH!" A swiping metal tentacle stopped Larry's plea as he ran by our three heroes sweating bullets. Iron Man and War Machine only scratched their confused little metallic heads, watching this 'heroic' tike being chased by the infamous Doctor Octopus.
"So this is the little Spider's replacement?" Doc Ock smirked behind those signature sunglasses, glancing over towards our trio of relaxing heroes, taking a break from his vintage 'robo tentacle' chase after Larry.
"He's only temporary." Black Cat scowled, "And I'll be joining in a minute Doc so you better watch out."
"Oh I'll be waiting in anticipation my dear." The eight limbed fiend chuckled. "I always love to mingle with the finer women I meet." Cat just twitched as Otto clanked his way after Larry who understandably was running like a mad man.
"This is just cruel." Iron Man commented.
"Yea well that kid deserves it." Black Cat pouted as she crossed her arms. "He sent my Spider to another dimension."
"Uh Spider-Man's in another dimension huh?" War Machine smirked. "Pretty trippy."
"I… agree." Iron Man added blankly with most of his attention on Doc Ock, who had just hurled a truck to get to our cowering Larry. "Uh look Cat, you may have a vendetta against this kid but I can't just sit and watch this."
"Ugh, don't worry he's doing fine." Black Cat lied to herself.
"Sorry old friend but we're stopping this." Iron Man was determined as he gently brushed Black Cat away and prepared to take off only to be stopped by War Machine's hand.
"Wait a sec," WM scowled. "Aren't you going to say one of your lame signature super hero sayings before we do this?"
Iron Man scratched his chin quickly perking up as he found his words. He lifted his hand in the air and shook it with purpose. "SUPERIOR TACTICS!"
"Now there we go." And with that the two metallic one man militias took off to save Larry from being torn limb from limb. Black Cat just rolled her eyes as she sat back angrily in her seat, her mind drifting off.
"Damn you Spider." she growled to herself. "You're probably having the time of your life not being around these parts… wherever you are…"
Huh… um do you want to break the bad news to her? Or should I?
( - Jump City - )
Spider-Man had a bunch of opinions on how things were going right now but 'having the time of his life' definitely wasn't one of them. 'This totally sucks' would be a much more accurate verbal painting of the situation. How would you feel if you've been hurled about a hundred feet and slammed into a brick wall?
"Ow…" Spidey's mope came late his body splattered against the bricks. With a groan he slowly peeled himself off the wall, doing a good impression of a Looney Toon gag as he fell gently on his rear.
"Heads up Parker!" Spidey opened his eyes, those white mask beads instantly doubling in size as apparently his vision was capable enough to see a lashing tendril with had just purchased a one way ticket towards his head.
"Whoa!" Spider-Man desperately rolled away, fumbling to his feet, watching the tendril drive through the wall like a spear. The black tentacle wriggled around a bit and quickly recoiled, pulling away chunks of the building as it did.
"Now that's better," Venom clapped pleasingly at the damaged wall. "We definitely think this "Jump" City needs some redecorating."
"Ugh, what the heck is this to you Brock?" Spidey flared. "Symbiote Eye for the Sane Guy?"
"Oh lighten up," Venom sighed. "What'd you think? Just because you got some new friends in another dimension things were going to be different?"
"Well actually things are different!" Spidey pointed to bring an abrupt pause to Venom's laughing. "My spider tights in this dimension are way way cooler."
Cue another abrupt pause. "Uh not that we care, but come again?"
Spidey smiled, "It's got tons of features! And check this Venom! It doesn't even ride up in the crot-"
"Okay! We get the picture!" Venom interrupted only to turn away for a bit. "But you know… we'd think you'd be a bit more worried… our offspring must be having a great time with your girlfriend."
"Oh I think Carnage should be the worried one." Spider-Man replied with a false-sense of confidence as even he knew Carnage was big trouble, even for a powerful mystic like Raven.
"Believe what you wanna believe but our time is done." Venom's teeth were as gruesome as ever. "We've got other people to meet ya know, namely your other Titan pals."
"No way Brock, your fight's with me." Spider-Man stood angrily ready to take down his arch nemesis.
"Meh, stop being so selfish." Venom said. "Besides we're not leaving you high and dry. We've actually made some new friends too and they're just dying to meet you!"
"Uh riiiiight," Spider-Man smiled mockingly. "Come on Brock-o, you know and I know that you don't have any friends."
"Heh, oh we know that." Venom paused only to point. "But we guess someone forgot to give them that memo."
It was then Spider-Man's senses tingled. A thrust out of instinct sent him upwards, adhering to a nearby building. Instantly an explosion rocked the street below him as he shielded his face, staring into the smoke from what seemed only as an electric discharge. The remaining startled crowd dispersed into a frantic frenzy.
"What the heck?" Spidey gagged at the smoke. His eyes fought to see and three dark silhouettes were his spoils of victory.
"Nice costume bug boy." a babyish voice mocked. "Did you ask your mommy to make it all colorful for you?"
"Yea… red, white, and blue." a raspier voice chuckled. "Hey let's make him like a flag and hang him."
"Oh yea," the feminine voice now giggled. "Now there's an idea."
"Yea," Spider-Man gulped. "A bad idea."
"Meh, sounds good to us… oh by the way… meet Gizmo, Mammoth, and Jinx." Venom celebrated, "They're really good people once you get to know them."
"Oh?" Spider-Man muttered, "I can totally see it."
Venom turned as if he had sensed a new presence closing in nearby. "Darn, sorry to leave ya like this Pete but it looks like you're going to be a bit busy anyway." He spun to his three teammates with a snug and ugly grin. "Don't be too harsh on him… that's our job."
"Got it," The three replied simultaneously and with a snicker Venom leapt out into the darkness.
"I really and I mean really hate that guy." Spider-Man grumbled as he watched Venom web sling off, now keeping his eyes on our favorite trio of teenage baddies. The masked crusader leapt down from the wall, standing silent in wait for his enemies to make a move.
"Hah," Gizmo scoffed. "And those two sharp toothed cludge bumpers said you had a big mouth."
"Yea, what's the matter? Jinx's look was so suggestive. "Cat's got your tongue?"
Mammoth egged on. "Heh, maybe he's just too scared to even say a word. Chicken!"
"I have a big mouth?" Spider-Man shrugged. "Now what would make them say something like that?"
Like a flash of lightning from the sky Spider-Man quickly leapt into action, as usual catching his foes completely off guard. "What the-" A webline mid flip quickly tied up Mammoth a bit as he rolled and landed behind Gizmo.
"I got one word baldy," he patted the little guy on the head as he turned. "Rogaine!"
"HEY!" A sharp blade erupted out of Gizmo's backpack as attempted to impale Spider-Man for attacking something oh so personal as his "receded" hair line. The steel blade glared but Spidey swiftly dodged, spinning and kicking the weapon away sending Gizmo sprawling with that signature "Waaaah!". A baseball slide later and Mammoth was now the clueless one.
"Two words for you big guy," he jumped on Mammoth's shoulders flapping his hands in front of his nose as if 'rancid' was a nice way to describe the stench. "Ugh, Right Guard…"
"Why you little-" Mammoth growled, flailing his hands to grab Spider-Man in a crush but was countered swiftly by a forward flip, smashing his boot into the metahuman's face as he landed. Mammoth grabbed at his noggin mumbling swears, Spidey now being in front of Jinx.
"Whoa looks like someone got in a fight with a hair dryer." Spider-Man scratched his head. "Let me guess… the hair dryer won?"
Jinx scowled as she touched her precious 'do', "Oh now that's crossing the line."
Spider-Man suddenly felt his spider sense go off again and back flipped. When nothing happened of course he grew curious. He slowly glanced up to see two pink glowing eyes that if anything looked more 'Whoa that's neat' than 'Holy crap I better do something'.
Spider-Man admired. "Wait a sec... pink hair? Hey! You're that girl Carnage told me about! I hear Venom has a… er… crush on you?"
"He sure does." Jinx smiled like the cute girl she was.
"Well aren't you just a lucky girl." Spider-Man smirked with no envy at all.
"Yeah," she sighed dreamily with heart eyes making Spidey roll his eyes. "But speaking of luck, I really should be wishing you luck on your fall."
"Wait… my fall?" Spider-Man raised a brow only to notice the ground around him creaking around him. Our arachnoid sighed as had just been officially 'jinxed'.
"Darn," And with that the street below him collapsed, forming a canyon leading into a dim plummet into the Jump City sewers. Not your ideal dip in the pool folks…
--
What is this thing? Raven's eyes thinned in concentration as she used her telekinetic shield to bat away a barrage of soaring pseudopodia blades. There were basically two types of villains the Titans were familiar with: ones that were either totally silly like that crazed British tyrant Mad Mod or ones that were totally uber frightening to face such as the now deceased cerebral genius Slade.
This "Carnage" seemed to be both. And we all know he can be both.
"Come on sing it with me folks! Carnage in the morning! Carnage in the evening! Carnage at supper time! When your mind is freakin' unstable? You can have Carnage anytime!"
That burst of melodic music cued another batch of those spinning blades sending civilians running away like a bunch of crazed baboons.
"Leave these people alone." Raven commanded as she shielded a group of innocents with a manifested magic dome. Carnage frowned at the sight of her protective blanket of black energy.
"Oh come on sunshine, being decapitated isn't all that bad." Carnage grinned evilly. "In fact I haven't had one complaint from anyone I've done it to."
"Right," Raven scowled. "But I wasn't talking about your little blades. I was talking about your singing." She rolled her eyes. "This isn't an American Idol blooper reel."
"American Idol bloopers? Ouch," Carnage frowned teasingly as he clutched his chest. "That hurt. That really did."
"Not as much as this." Raven didn't give Carnage time to answer as she followed with a telekinetic blast that Carnage barely evaded by spinning away. The energy shattered some windows behind, Carnage curiously taking a peak back.
"Cool." He slowly turned eyeing Raven so harshly, those alien eyes piercing sharp like the daggers his tendrils were forming. "No wonder Parker wanted to go boom boom with you. You're hot and you can blow up shit! Score!"
Raven only stood silent as her eyes were as white as the insides of an Oreo cookie.
Carnage's eyes stared. "You know," his claw pointed. "There's something about you that our little alien pal can't resist. It can't be that gothic get up, which by the way I think you need to reconsider your options."
She stared at the black and red goop Carnage called a costume. "You're giving me fashion advice?"
"Yep you definitely need to loose that cloak." Carnage shuttered, his memories of 'cloaked' beings full of contempt. "It covers the goods babe and may I say that leotard does fit quite nice. Rawr."
"Ugh, you're disgusting." Raven covered herself a bit with that blue cape.
"I know! Ain't being a teenager awesome?"
Raven growled as she stood her ground also feeling 'something' about Carnage that she couldn't exactly put her finger on. Being empathic let her see the energies flowing from this bit of ugly and the aura surrounding Carnage confused her. Not only was his vibe totally disturbing bordering between lunacy and psychosis but it almost felt like there was two "persons". As if she was reading two different emotional states.
"Oh well," Carnage shrugged as he began to rub his claws together. "I think I'll get over it when we 'really' start to play and besides, I'll find out sooner or later. Your brain is going to be so tasty and intellectually stimulating!"
"Shut up." Raven replied behind the confines of her hood. "I'm not afraid of you."
"Afraid?" Carnage mocked. "I'm not here to scare people babe. I'm here to make sure they don't ever feel fear again. It's kinda hard to be scared when you're dead!"
Suddenly a hoard of symbiote tendrils came lashing out at Raven, soaring with a thirst for some blood. Acting out of natural instinct, she phased into the ground and reappeared adjacent to Carnage from behind.
"Azarath, Metrion-" a spinning swipe of a blade stopped the chant as Raven began to weave and backpedal, Carnage already going into 'swing at anything as fast as you can' mode. Raven blinked as she levitated away from the relentless swiping a bit startled how quickly this red killer reacted.
"Well aren't we the cutest magician ever to grace the planet," Carnage chuckled as he recoiled his tendril that twirled like a sword. "Sorry but that magic trick BS isn't going to work on me. I'm a magician myself ya know."
"Oh really?" Raven smirked. "Then I guess the trick's on me."
"Hah! It sure is you little-"
BOOOM!
Carnage couldn't even finish his remark as an obsidian glowing bus came smashing into him, driving him way across the street and into an abandoned building. The vehicle was obliterated on impact creating an explosion of glass and metal with Carnage taking the worst of it.
"How's that for a trick?" Raven smirked to herself as she made her way to the pile of rubble. A few bystanders cheered on as she slowly floated over to the mass of shattered glass and concrete, tossing away the rummage to wrap up this maniac and call it a night. But as we all know, Carnage wasn't some pencil necked geek. No way. This guy could take as much as he dished out.
A loud explosion of broken concrete was followed by coiling tendrils that quickly sent Raven stumbling back on her rear end.
"Whoa," Carnage cracked his neck and other dislocated parts, the noises of bones being pushed back into their sockets just sickening. He eyed Raven who was now a bit more worried than before. "I think that fixed the kink in my neck."
"No way." Raven couldn't believe it as Carnage didn't even have scratch on him.
"Anything's possible when your mind is crazy enough to think it. Imagination is fun!" He laughed. "Oh by the way survey says? You gotta big problem goth girl."
Carnage's psychopathic cackles which would send chills up most people's spines hit a bit more home with Raven. She now truly began to realize what she was up against.
"Dammit," she slowly backed off looking to her brooch which was still shining from her distress call to Titans Tower. "Where are you guys?"
--
"Cyborg," Robin's voice distorted into Cyborg's ears from the T-Car's onboard radio system. "We're closing in on Raven and Spider-Man's position. See anything yet?"
Cy looked around carefully – well as carefully as a madman shredding down the streets at ludicrous speeds could anyway. "Nah man, nothing yet." He answered. "But we should be seeing something soon though."
"Yea, just keep your eyes open, I'm right behind you."
"I hear ya loud and clear." Cyborg nodded as he made a quick left turn, burning rubber as he skidded a bit. "Don't worry I got everything-"
CRAAAAAAAAAASH!
"Covered" would have been the word said if Cyborg didn't just get totally derailed from a collision that immediately sent panic throughout the entire block. The T-car's right side windows shattered instantly and the metal alloy that made up the body was ripped up on contact.
The T-Car continued to skid as its collision partner with eighteen wheels shoved it down the street sending sparks spraying everywhere, finally stopping with another loud crash. Yep, you can chalk up another building with a gigantic hole in it folks because the T-Car was now officially a wrecking ball.
With a rev of the truck engine all commotion stopped as the building wall was breeched, bricks and concrete falling upon a now totally demolished T-Car. Those hi tech automatic opening doors were no more and countless holes with circuitry spraying out sparks was all that was left. This was Cyborg's worst nightmare… yes… worse than those "egg people" ones.
"Oops, looks like we've just gimped your ride."
The one responsible exited his stolen semi truck turned battering ram. Two pseudo white eyes were covered by "cool" shades as Venom lashed his tongue to the air, inspecting the once most pimpin' ride Jump City had ever seen – which was now about as useful as busted scrap metal.
"Aw, did we do that?" Venom teased to himself as he tossed his Trucker shades off. Suddenly that black symbiote masked pulled away and turned to Eddie. "Oh yes we did."
"We are one mad mother trucker." The two bonded partners had their laugh as they saw a bionic arm shoot out of the rubble, following a loud groan. That black ooze wrapped up Eddie's face as, Venom slowly walked over with that hideous smile stretching to its limits. Cyborg stared up weakly with his red eye flashing a bit to see a face that would be one of the worst last images one could have.
"Oh look, something we can toss in the recycling bin." A few tendrils appeared from Venom's back as he moved in for a finishing blow.
"CYBORG!" Robin yelled.
Venom grumbled as he turned to see the R-Cycle driving right towards him. He quickly leapt up to a nearby wall and shattered a window, slipping inside just before a few bird-a-rangs were sent his way.
"Friends!" Starfire yelled concerned as she and BB (An eagle) quickly soared downward to meet Robin who was now helping Cyborg out of his wrecked car.
"Are you alright?" Starfire frowned.
"Yea Cy," BB quickly put three fingers up. "How many fingers am I holding up?"
"Uh six?"
BB sighed. "He's not alright."
"He'll be fine." Robin retorted.
"Oh man," Cyborg groaned as he clutched his metal head. "Was I run over by a truck?"
"Yeah," Robin scowled as he glanced at the black semi behind them. "You were."
"Dudes, did you see what was driving that thing?" Beast Boy took note of the shattered glass. "What the heck was that?"
"Yeah, I caught a glimpse of it." Robin nodded. "It's inside the building… whatever it is."
"Oh no," Cyborg slowly glared down at his car realizing the true horror of what just happened. He quickly disregarded his pains and aches as his blue led panels suddenly turned red, steam shooting from that nose.
"Uh Cy calm down." Robin pleaded.
"HELL NO!" that red LED eye glowed. "NO ONE MESSES WITH MY BABY! WHERE IS THIS PUNK!"
"We didn't know household appliances could be so loud." The warped voice hissed from the dark hole the T-car created. "Oh and about your car? We think you'd better get it rebuffed… it looks horrible."
Cyborg fumed. "Oh you're going to be sorry! You hear me!"
"Oh we're soooo scared, we're being threatened by a walking trash can."
With a growl, Cyborg didn't even listen to Robin's plea to not rush in as he just ran into the building, flipping on his shoulder flashlight. The rest of the Titans followed swiftly, Starfire using her green energy to help illuminate. The four heroes walked into the dark room with a bit of paranoia every little 'bump' and 'clank' making them a bit more uneasy.
"All that talk and you won't even show your face?" Cyborg scowled.
"Oh trust us," Venom's voice echoed throughout the dark warehouse. "You'll be seeing our face way more than you'd ever want to at first glance."
"Cyborg, scan the room." Robin commanded as he took out his own flashlight and looked around. BB finally followed his teammates and morphed into a firefly, their little area being illuminated in the darkness.
"This can't be right." Cy skewed. "I'm not picking up anything on my radar."
"What?" Robin looked at him strangely knowing very well of Cyborg's abilities to detect anything, using sonic readings, thermal readings, and everything in between to do so.
"Aw, are all your cruddy parts malfunctioning?" Venom teased. "We'll gladly take you to the scrap heap."
Suddenly Robin flinched as his flashlight was pulled away from him. A crack later and the tool came tumbling back at the Boy Wonder in scrapped pieces. BB quickly yelped as he turned back into his normal form not wanting to suffer the same fate the flashlight did.
"Uh, should we be worried?" Beast Boy turned to his teammates with a bite of his lip.
"Aaaaiiiieeee!" Starfire screamed as she backpedaled into something, turning to stare into two white eyes. Suddenly a web bolt muffled Starfire, making her reel back, attempting to rip it off.
"You have one annoying scream little girl." Venom moped as Starfire attempted to fire a starbolt towards him only to find nothing there. She angrily ripped the webbing off and meeped as the pain was like a band-aid being pulled off a bit too quickly.
She stared at the webbing in her hands the other Titans looking on confused. "This cannot be… Spider-Man is the one responsible for this? Our friend?"
"Sorry pretty eyes but don't even insult us with that comparison." Suddenly BB felt a tap on his shoulder quickly turning to meet that face as well.
"Oh my God!" BB yelped as his throat was grasped.
"No..." Venom smirked. "But you're getting closer!"
"AAH!" BB yelled as he was sent soaring across the building, being driven into some crates. The green changeling hit the floor harshly as Cyborg attempted to fire his sonic cannon only to see Venom slip away again.
"BB!" Cy scowled. "Damn, what is this thing?" the half-droid pulled his weapon back going to take off after his green friend.
"Cyborg stand down," Robin held his shoulder. "Stick together."
The remaining trio reluctantly formed a circle, worryingly looking around.
"So all of you chumps are the "oh so famous" Teen Titans." Venom sighed. "This is really disappointing. Consider us officially bummed out."
"Show yourself." Robin stated as he withdrew his bo-staff only to be laughed at.
"Oh calm down, we just want to introduce ourselves… we were pretty infamous back in our area as well… the name's Venom."
"Venom?" Cyborg laughed. "Tough name for a guy that hides from a real fight."
"We… us…"Starfire went a little tweaked in the face, "Friends did we not only see one being that has done the mean things? Or was there two?"
"Yea…" Cyborg squinted. "What the heck is up with the "we" and "us" stuff?"
"Well, you ever heard of the saying 'two heads are better than one?'"
"Yea." Cyborg said with a gulp.
Suddenly screeches could be heard from everywhere as a dozen of symbiotic snakes erupted from the darkness surrounding our Titans, hissing with green saliva dripping from their serrated jaws. "As you can see… we've got way more than two."
"This is quite… disturbing." Starfire muttered as Robin and Cy tightened the circle.
Robin spun his staff around as he scowled. "This thing moves just like Spider-Man."
"Yea only a lot uglier." Cy added as his sonic cannon formed.
"I assume friend Spider-Man wasn't the only one who made the dimensional leap." Starfire's eyes lit up green.
"Well let's give him a warm welcome then… TITANS GO!"
"Yay! Dinner time!"
--
"Whoa!" A big fist with the size and solidity of an anvil barely missed Spidey's noggin as he leaned back, doing one of those amazing balancing acts one could only see from him. The first strike was dodged yes only to see another one of Mammoth's fist soaring towards him soon after, the fist slamming into a hot dog stand.
Spidey sighed as he landed upon a car in a seated position. "Look can we stop with the vandalizing and just get you to hit me?"
A double ax handle was his reply and after Spidey bailed the force instantly shattered the car, making it as flat as a flap jack.
Spidey sighed again. "Guess not." He quickly webbed onto a light post and pulled himself away from Mammoth's reach. He perched against the post to gather up a plan but instantly his safe haven began to shake loose from the ground itself.
"Ah, lemme guess." he turned. "Pinky strikes again?"
"Wow, your good," Jinx mocked as she cartwheeled her way over to the light post she hexed. Spidey wasn't going to be outclassed this time and he took to the air again quickly slipping between Jinx and Mammoth.
"HEY!" the two H.I.V.E. agents yelped as they received a glob full of webbing, enwrapping them both together tightly.
"Aw now ain't this a Kodac moment?" Spider-Man laughed at their struggles, Jinx yelping at Mammoth's harsh attempts to free the two. He quickly whipped out a camera from his back pocket.
"Say cheese!"
FLASH!
And cue those swirly eyes.
"Hah! You call that a Kodac moment?"
Oh yeah… there were three…
"Your pit sniffin' butt being kicked sounds like a way better picture to me!" A rocket with a boxing glove attached to it quickly homed in on our arachnoid, only to be batted away with a kick.
"Sorry baldy, but that's only one opinion." Spidey smirked, Gizmo only shrugging.
"Only one huh?" a button press later and it was going to be a potty mouth party as at least a couple dozen of Gizmo's surrounded Spider-Man via his hologram gadget.
"Okay, you made your point." Spidey sweat dropped.
"You can't hit me! You can't hit me!" all of those Gizmo's mocked repeatedly as they flew around in circles makin' Spidey a bit dizzy.
"I can't hit you?" Spidey clutched his head a bit and closed his eyes. His spider sense never lied and he quickly shot a webline towards the one true Gizmo making the little kid gasp as his backpack was now fish lined.
"Gotcha!"
"Ah slag it!" Gizmo grumbled as he attempted to fly away only to be slowly reeled in inch by inch. Suddenly a mischievous grin manifested in his face, a lever quickly shot out of Gizmo's backpack and his finger prepared to press it.
"Oh no," Spidey widened his glare.
"Oh yeah," with a press his rocket jets suddenly went "Fast and the Furious" style, sending Gizmo and Spidey soaring off like a speeding bullet.
Look to the sky! It's a bird!
No! It's a plane!
No! It's a Mecha Midget!
"WHOOOOOA!" Spidey's eyes went back in his sockets as he held on for dear life, Gizmo taking him on a wild ride across the Jump City skyline. The boy genius twirled and spun as he juked his way around, sending Spidey scraping across the walls, billboards... yea you know that Pepsi sign? Well now it was just Pep! And who the hell wants Pep!
"Hope you had a nice ride cause your stop's here."
"Huh?" Spider-Man turned to see yet another brick wall he was about to become close friends with. "This is so going to hurt…"
SPLAT!
--
A grunt later and Raven came barreling from out of an alleyway, tumbling to a stop. She coughed a bit as she rubbed her head from the wicked backhand she just received.
"I'm having such a great time and you're already down? Tsk tsk tsk," Carnage sighed as one of his hands morphed into a tendril, elongating until it was about the size of a jump rope. "You're no fun."
He began to jump rope in a mocking fashion. "Look what you've made me resort to. This is just inhumane!"
Raven only scowled as she found the strength to pull herself back up, her bruises and cuts being blocked out of her mind like she did to Beast Boy's jokes. She had just been thrashed around for the past few minutes, Carnage not seeming to be hurt at all.
"I'm not done yet." She spat as she sprayed her own blades of dark magic towards Carnage. The symbiote swirled as he easily dodged it with that super human agility and launched a few of his own blades back, Raven narrowly escaping that with a leap to the side, a part of her cloak being shredded by one of those knives.
"Dang, remind me to pay for that." Carnage chuckled as his jump rope disappeared. "That looked expensive!"
"Shut up!" she suddenly soared towards Carnage with eyes blazed, tackling the symbiote to the ground, using a tendril of black energy to choke him.
"Whoa, rough." Carnage muffled as he gleed under Raven's grip. "Come on tell me that you aren't enjoying this."
"I don't know what or who you are but this fight is over." Raven's eyes glowed as her other free hand reeled back to blast Carnage straight to hell.
"Agh, if you say so." A flurry of tendrils suddenly enwrapped Raven around her neck to return the favor, her arms and legs soon following suit. The choking had now swung over to Cassidy's favor, Raven gagging for air as those tendrils tightened.
"Now aren't we a cute little super hero?" Carnage teased as he pulled Raven closer, that ugly face looking so snug. "You've been so fun to play with! I is so sad to see it end!"
"This isn't over." Raven growled as she fought for air.
"Oh come on, not this valiant super hero talk." Carnage moped. "Can I have some orange juice with this BS?"
"Are all of Spider-Man's enemies as irritating as you are?" Raven coughed as she squirmed in the tendrils.
"No, but are all of you heroes in this little world as bitchy as you are?" Carnage mocked back with that laugh that could shatter glass. "I just wanted to play dammit!"
"Y-you… just wanted to play?" Raven's purple eyes began to glow red.
"Duh! That's what I've been…" Carnage tightened his grip, but suddenly skewed as his symbiote was shivering a bit. "… saying?"
"Well then," two new eyes sprouted and her teeth became sharp, that voice becoming demonic. "Let's play…"
"Um, can I withdraw my offer?" Carnage chuckled nervously as a blanket of darkness engulfed him. "Ah crap!"
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"I got him!"
"I do too!"
"I have him as well!"
"Dudes, let's take him out!"
All four Titans were now totally in sync, beating down upon their enemy with that signature Titan way. Yes kids, Venom was going to be screaming for mercy by the time all of these kids were done. The smoke was stirring, that anime cloud was growing, and the sounds of struggling rang loudly.
With the ferocity of werewolves the Titans were giving Venom what he deserved!
… Now if only they could actually get him inside the scuffle.
"Uh… right," the obsidian symbiote sweatdropped as he stared at the Titans wail away on another in the darkness, that cloud of struggling staying strong.
"OW!"
"HEY WATCH IT!"
"BOOYAH I THINK I GOT HIM!"
"FRIENDS I THINK I HAVE HIS HEAD!"
"DUDE! STARFIRE THAT'S ME!"
Venom just rolled his eyes in disbelief. "Ahem."
Slowly the cloud deformed and a frozen picture of the Titans at each other's throats made Venom chuckle. "Uh do you Titans always act this stupid or are you just trying to entertain us?"
The four Titans deflated as they quickly shot back into Teen Titan ass kicking position with Robin at the head.
"I don't care who you think you are but-"
"You're a dead man got that?" Cyborg finished for Robin as he fumed over his debunked T-Car.
"Yea dude, no one messes with the T-Car." Beast Boy crossed his arms. "And my hair-do while we're at it."
Venom chuckled at BB. "Sorry Shrek Jr. but can the adults talk here?"
"Shrek Jr.?"
"Yep, besides, we don't want anything to do with you." Venom crossed his arms. "We're in this for dinner and word on the street is? You don't even have a brain."
"Hey! I do too have a brain!" Beast Boy scowled. "Right Cy?"
"Y-yea…" Cyborg shrugged to make BB quickly sigh.
"We have heard enough of your mean speaking!" Starfire scowled. "I will not let you hurt my friends any longer!"
"Aw no way!" Venom batted his pseudo eyes. "You Titans have your very own Power Puff Girl? We're jealous!"
"Okay enough of your talkin' ugly!" Cyborg growled as his cannon formed quickly. "My cannon gots some noise to make to."
BLAST! The beam came quickly Venom ducking, the beam skimming his head.
"GAH!" Venom screamed in pain as his black suit recoiled instantly, the sonic wave stinging his symbiote. "Dammit… that's a sonic beam…" he growled, realizing the potential danger.
"Booyah!" Cyborg celebrated.
"Time to kick bad guy butt dudes!"
"Right," Robin nodded. "Titans… go!"
"No… Titans blow!" Venom smirked mockingly as he leapt into the air and hung against the wall. A few bird-a-rangs quickly made him scurry off a bit in a crawl, landing him on a scaffold only to be met with an emerald raptor.
"Whoa Jurassic Park! Cool!" Venom chuckled. "Ya know dinosaurs are extinct for a reason right green?"
Beast Boy growled in that prehistoric way, leaping forward with talons extended attempting to take out Venom in one swoop. His momentum like his sometimes quirky sense of humor suddenly became his downfall as he was monkey flipped across the building like a rag doll.
"YAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Have a nice flight!" Venom waved at the flying green imp as suddenly Cyborg was now his new tango partner.
"Man you are so toast." Cy cocked his cannon back to fire. Venom gulped a bit attempting to think his way out of this… that grin spread from ear to ear again.
"Come on bro, you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses now would you?" a pair of bifocals magically formed upon his ugly face.
"Hey wait a sec… how did you-BLAH!" Cy suddenly was entangled in tendrils, his canon being webbed up a bit. He turned to see those glasses dangling in front of his eyes.
"Now you see them?" Venom tossed the glasses up and rammed his fist into Cyborg's face, driving the glasses into him simultaneously in a crack. "Now ya don't."
Cy fell to the ground from up high and landed harshly on the floor. "Booyah that bitch!"
Venom's celebration was short lived as Starfire grabbed Robin and sent them both soaring to the ceiling.
"Stop hurting my friends!" Starfire yelled as she sent Robin spinning towards Venom like a discus. The symbiote was taken by surprise as in no time Robin was kicking and swinging his staff as nimble as can be. A block and a parry took care of his that boot, but that metal staff was another story and it ended unhappily right across Venom's face.
"Ow!" the symbiote backed away a bit. "Dude that hurt!"
"That's the idea," Robin didn't stop as he used that kung-fu powah to start battering away at Venom's defenses driving the symbiote back. The Boy Wonder got a good kick to the face and attempted to follow by ramming his staff into Venom's gut but a few tendrils put that plan to rest.
A clawed hand to the throat suddenly lifted Robin off his feet.
"You think you're so damn cool with that Tae Boe crap don't you?" Venom hissed. "Well we're not impressed." a whiplash of tendril suddenly sent Robin spinning towards a wall.
"Robin!" Starfire attempted to fly over to him but was stopped via a webline, the alien wrapped around like a spider's meal. Venom slowly yanked her over to him, Starfire squirming to free herself.
"Hey there cutie," Venom smirked in her face. "Did we just kick your boy friend's ass? We're sorry."
"You… you are a bad man!" Starfire scowled as she stuck her long tongue out to mock him. Venom snickered.
"Oh tell us something we don't know, and wow! Nice tongue!" Venom opened those fanged teeth as his tongue quickly snaked out and playfully poked at Starfire's head making her go white. "Check ours out!"
"Meep." She whispered under her breath as she watched the slime drip from that muscle.
"Ain't it sweet?" Venom teased. "Your brains are going to be tasty!"
Starfire suddenly growled as her eyes turned green, quickly shredding that webbing around her into nothing as she reared back and walloped Venom to the next century, his body hitting the ground in a violent skid. She didn't let up as she began to rain down starbolts and burying Venom into the ground.
Starfire stared harshly at the crater she created as she was met with some claps.
"Wait to go Starfire! You go girl!" Cyborg yelled from below as the other Titans slowly got up rubbing their aches with a bit of victory.
"Dude you showed him how it's done Star." BB gave a thumbs up. "You dropped him like a bad habit."
"Yea, good work Starfire." Robin smiled as she lowered herself down to her teammates and giggled, clapping her hands. The Titans slowly strolled over to the rubble and began to pull the rocks away to retrieve Venom.
Starfire got a tap on her shoulder. "Need a hand?"
"Yes I-" she turned to see those white crevassed filled eyes and teeth. Suddenly all the Titans found themselves being entangled by black pseudopodia, dangling like strangled puppets.
"Did you really think we'd end the party like that?" Venom hissed as his teeth drooled emerald saliva. "A party with Venom is an all nighter baby… OW!"
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And now we join in on a butt kicking that all shall remember! Well the exception would be Carnage of course. This type of head trauma would usually lead to a bit of memory loss.
Oh yeah, Raven was getting hers. She was definitely getting hers.
"OW!" Carnage's noggin was driven through a building, his head mounted upon the wall like a stuffed animal. Some kids just stared at that symbiote face, turning white and scattering off in wild screams. Before Cassidy could even react he was violently yanked out and spiked into the ground like a nail, his body protruding out of the asphalt.
The black coiling tendril that had been thrashing Carange came back to its owner, those four red eyes glistening in the darkness. "Heh heh heh now you are a fun one."
Carnage slowly yanked his head out of that street and spat out chunks of tar. "People smoke this stuff?" He made a disgusted face as he turned to Raven, officially having the snot beat out of him. He stared at those demonic red slits for eyes and gulped a bit.
"Okay, so is this the part where your head is supposed to spin around?" Carnage cracked as he rubbed his poor little melon.
"Heh heh heh, you're cute." Raven suddenly phased behind him and a tendril coiled out and constricted with ease. "I can totally feel that thirst for blood you have… I'm impressed."
"Y-you are?" Carnage smiled gleefully as he felt a hand petting his head.
"Yes, finally I meet a man who'd enjoy a few decapitations to go with a romantic evening." Raven hissed as she stroked Carnage's head.
"Uh… same here." Carnage skewed a bit as his eyes turned to hearts, purring at this stroking only to gag as the tendrils suddenly tightened to where he couldn't breathe.
"Too bad I'm not one for romance." Raven laughed evilly into his ear. "Playtime's over and I think someone needs to have some quality time with Daddy."
"Daddy?" Carnage's eyes opened to see a gray palm pressed against his nose. A black swirling ball formed and suddenly the energy exploded straight into his face, sending Carnage barreling across the ground like a bowling ball.
Crashing into numerous things such as cars, mailboxes, and even mailmen he landed in a lifeless heap on the floor, his body as motionless as a broken statue. Raven slowly floated over with that demonic grin on her face as a tendril swiftly wrapped around Carnage and pulled him up.
"No pulse." Raven sighed as she stared at Carnage's limp body. "I kind of like it when you're quiet. You should be this way more often."
She prepared to lay the body to rest only to hear a laugh.
"Well sorry to disappoint you." Raven's four eyes grew as suddenly Carnage's hand had a good grip on her face. "But I'm a motor mouth!"
Apparently the ability to shield a heart beat was an effective way of playing possum.
"Now let's see what your nightmares are like shall we?" Instantly Carnage's suit began to wrap around Raven's face until she was completely muffled. The pseudopodia seeped into her skin and began to unleash and absorb images that would make people scream like a baby.
Raven was yelling and squirming inside the grip, she too seeing the nightmarish images that the symbiote was burning into her mind. Carnage's laughing was out of control as suddenly a glowing "S" appeared on his head for a few moments.
"Back off!" Carnage's playtime was over as a red boot knocked him back on his rear end. The tendrils quickly recoiled and Raven gasped as she fell to the floor in a faint, with her face reverting back to the norm.
Spider-Man quickly ran over and picked Raven up, shaking her a bit. "Raven, you okay?"
"Oooh…"
"No freaking way." Carnage mumbled getting Spider-Man's attention as Raven slowly peered over weakly in her half-conscious state. "Somebody has a secret…"
"Cassidy, have you completely lost it?" Spider-Man quickly shook his head. "Ugh, never mind."
"Sorry Parker, I'm just a little star struck right now." Carnage got up and eyed Raven so dreamily. "I mean I knew all those kills would give me a ticket to Hell but this? Wow, now this is sweet!"
Suddenly a loud yelp could be heard closing in as it literally began to rain Titans. BB fell first, followed by Cyborg, Robin, and Starfire respectively as they tumbled across towards Spider-Man unconscious.
"You guys," Spidey looked on concerned as suddenly a black figure leapt across the building landing adjacent to his red counterpart.
"Now that was kickass!" Venom laughed as he was followed by Gizmo, Mammoth, and Jinx.
"Not as kickass of a time then I had." Carnage snickered as he quickly pulled Venom into a whispering conversation.
"N-no way, her?" Venom looked over towards Raven and lashed his tongue out. "Hahahaha!"
"Yea, a real she-devil of a girlfriend ya got there Parker." Carnage teased as Spidey just went quirky eyed.
"Hah," Venom pointed. "Now that is one fine piece of Beelzebutt!"
The two symbiotes began to crack up insanely as they almost fell over each other.
"Raven, what are they talking about?" Spider-Man looked down to see a girl that was as dim as she had ever been, almost as if someone had literally taken her spirit away.
Venom rubbed his head from the pain of laughter. "Don't worry Raven, we won't tell anyone. That's some news that we think you could bring out way better than we can. Your dad is going to be real proud."
Raven only shook her head.
"Damn," Carnage scowled. "I'm jealous now! I could never get a kinda body count like you're going to have! And to top it off? I can't even kill you now!"
"They know…" Raven whimpered a bit as she closed her eyes in disappointment.
"They know what?" Spider-Man asked only to be ignored.
"Heh, look at those pit sniffin' Titans." Gizmo chuckled as he was fiddling with something in his hands.
Mammoth nodded. "Fell like flies."
"My how the mighty have fallen, right Venny poo?" Jinx smiled she hugged on Venom, who of course sighed.
Gizmo suddenly tossed the small box of a contraption in his hands towards the Titans and an energy shield encased them, making an escape impossible.
"You Titans aren't "the" super group in town anymore." Venom strolled over to the shield and knocked on it mockingly. "This is the Fearsome Five's crib now."
"Damn you Venom." Spider-Man angrily flared. "Leave these guys out of this!"
"Blah blah blah blah." Venom turned to Gizmo with a wink. "Hey you Titans look tired… you should all take a little nap."
Gizmo grinned. "Nighty night losers!"
Suddenly the same gadget that created the shield began to emit a green smoke that quickly filled the shield, slowly bringing every Titan to a slumber. Spider-Man laid Raven down and fell on his knees trying to stay awake only to see his two newest teenage enemies glaring down on him with disappointing "tsks".
"Score one for the bad guys baby!" Carnage chuckled as he watched Spidey slowly drift off to sleep. The Fearsome Five looked at the six defeated Titans and then looked back at one another with victorious smirks.
"Who won! We won! Oh yeah!" Carnage celebrated as he suddenly took Jinx in a dancing motion he turned towards Venom. "You mind if I dance with your girl?"
"Whatever."
The two began to dance the Carnage waltz, Jinx laughing through out as she was being tossed, dipped, and spun around. Venom, Gizmo, and Mammoth only stared on stupidly.
"Good work my students." The five turned to see Brother Blood strolling towards them with an army of cloaked followers.
"Yo brotha!" Carnage prepared for a high five only to be stopped dead in his tracks with a furious scowl.
"Enough games," Blood looked at this self assembled group who quickly lined up with Venom and Carnage saluting mockingly. "I believe it's time we make an example of these Titans."
They all stared at the Titans who were now in dream land, Beast Boy sucking his thumb. Brother Blood chuckled to himself.
"Jump City is ours…"