Spider-Man

When Worlds Collide

Chapter 4

"Spider-Man! Distract him!" Miguel shouted as he tried to think of a plan to subdue the Hobgoblin.

"What's the point?" Spider-Man replied. "He knows now and by the looks of it, he's after you."

Miguel understood what the fellow wall crawler meant and threw himself at the Hobgoblin, but Hobgoblin had other ideas as through a barrage of pumpkin bombs at the wall crawler. Miguel quickly improvised and switched to one of his visions. He chose "Accelerated Mode" which slowed everyone around him down. This allowed him to easily dodge or reflect incoming projectiles. Miguel dodged and jumped the bombs as they nearly impacted with him. Instead, the pumpkin bombs exploded on the support pillars that were holding up the roof structure.

Spider-Man knew he had to do something as he watched the pillars break apart and crumble to the floor. He darted towards the centre pillar and fired multiple strands of sheet webbing to stop it from collapsing.

"Careful Miguel!" he shouted. "The more you're dodging his attacks, the more you're bringing the station down!"

"What do you want me do?" Miguel screamed back a he continued to avoid the Hobgoblins attacks. "Stand here and get blasted? Because that sort of thing doesn't look good on my reputation list."

"No. I'm saying that I have a better idea." Spider-Man replied as he finished his work on the support pillar.

He leaped up into the air and quickly located the Hobgoblin's weak points. He then fired two web lines', which attached themselves onto the Hobgoblin's shoulders and zipped towards him, with his fists clenched. He hit him square in the jaw, causing him to fall off his glider.

"Now let's discuss this properly?" he said as he returned to the ground. "Spiders to barf on a glider?"

"You'll have to catch me first?" Hobgoblin replied as he back-flipped onto his glider, spun round and headed back into the tunnel.

His menacing laugh echoed down the tunnel, providing a bearing of distance and direction to the Spider-Men.

"We'll have to go after him?" Miguel said as he leaped onto the subway tracks and web swung into the tunnel. "Come on?"

"So much for being a so called visiting buddy from another dimension?" Spider-Man replied as he made his way into the tunnel.

The tunnel lights had began to get dimmer and dimmer as the two wall crawlers headed deeper into the darkness. They began to lose the Hobgoblin and before they both knew it, they were lost in a maze of tunnels. They had arrived at the connecting rail, where five different rails would go off in different direction. They were surrounded by four other tunnels. Each tunnel had a faint light in the distance and loose wires sparked from the over head cables providing little light as possible. The question was which tunnel did the Hobgoblin take?

"We're going to have to split up." Spider-Man said. "This place looks like my New York?"

"Agreed. I mean splitting up I mean." Miguel replied. "Whoever finds Hobgoblin first must have the answers to some of our questions."

"Ark at you?" Spider-Man quipped. "Look Mr detective, we're meant to be tracking Mysterio not this ugly guy. Now can we get back on track here?"

"Hasn't it occurred to you yet that Hobgoblin and Mysterio could be working together here? For all we know, if we find one, we'll find the other."

"Well I'm going to take this one of the left." Spider-Man continued. "It's now a guessing game down here."

"Ok then. I'll take the one up ahead." Miguel replied. "I just have a feeling that he's up there?"

With that, the two Spider-Men split up to do their separate searches unaware that their foes were watching their every move.

Mysterio stuck to the shadows, as he distanced himself from Spider-Man so he couldn't trigger his spider-sense. He continuously muttered to himself as he watched his enemy slowly walk deeper and deeper into the vast darkness.

"That's it bug boy. Keep walking. Soon I'll have you cornered, you'll see?"

Spider-Man suddenly stopped in his tracks. He had entered a dead end area. He looked up to see daylight glow high above him.

"Well it looks like the only way is up?" he said to himself as he began to scale, the cold and slimy brick wall.

Suddenly, his spider-sense began to act up again, only this time, it had was so powerful that it made his head burn, leaving the wall crawler in pain.

"Or maybe not." He continued as back-flipped off the wall.

The tunnel behind him began to fill up with a familiar, eerie, pinkish looking fog. Mysterio materialised from the fog, holding the tablet under his right arm.

"Now I've got you cornered!" he said before letting out a demented amplified laugh.

"Shouldn't I be saying that to you?" Spider-Man quipped predictably.

Mysterio darted towards the Spider-Man, hitting in the chest as went. Spider-Man smashed his back up against the brick wall before unleashing some of his web tricks. He threw everything he had at Mysterio which included web bombs, sprays, fists and hammers, but unfortunately, none of them had any affect. Mysterio was still standing, barely scarred.

"Now it's my turn?" Mysterio replied as produced three, sharp razor disks.

"Na –ah-ah!" Spider-Man continued to mock. "Miss a go my kidney bowl wearing friend. I have an extra go?"

Spider-Man threw all his finest punches at Mysterio's chest. His attack worked, sending Mysterio flying back onto the rails, but he was grasping the tablet.

"Aww look at you!" Spider-Man mocked as he leaped out onto the rails. "You look like a toddler who's holding a blankie? Oh and by the way, you're barred from the museum."

"With the tablet in my hands, you are powerless!" Mysterio boasted as he leaped to his feet.

Spider-Man shot a web ball at Mysterio's head peace, knocking him back slightly.

"Hmm. I don't seem to be powerless." He said. "Maybe you stole the wrong tablet?"

Mysterio growled and charged at Spider-Man again, but narrowly missed as the wall crawler was one step ahead of each of he's moves. He leaped over Mysterio and clinged onto a pillar behind them.

"Check and see if it had a "Made in China" logo engraved at the bottom?" he continued as he scaled upwards to get distance for another attack.

"Enough!" Mysterio yelled, as he sent another projectile up towards Spider-Man.

The wall crawler dived down to punch Mysterio in the head peace. He then leaped away from the illusionist, rolled across the gravelly ground, leaped onto another pillar and began to flex his wrist.

"Seriously." He said. "Ouch!"

He could see that he had punched Mysterio hard enough that his head peace had formed a crack.

"Listen, I'm not expecting to see any water to come out of that head peace of yours am I?" he continued to joke although he was in pain this time round.

"This will not stop me?" Mysterio replied.

He held out the tablet and began to chant in a mysterious, ancient language. The fragments in the tablet lit and with a huge thunderous roar, it shot out a bright greenish beam of light. It fired at Spider-Man, hitting him and sending him crashing to the ground.

Mysterio laughed as he watched the now weak and Energy less Spider-Man crawl across the ground.

"Now that's more like it?" he said. "Now I'm going to take you to a more suitable place where I'll watch you die."

"Wha - What did you do to me?" Spider-Man spluttered, as he began to taste blood in his mouth. "Son of a bitch…..What did you do?"

"I merely paralysed your powers, providing me with the upper hand." Mysterio explained. "I commanded the tablet to zap your powers and it did so."

Suddenly, the pink fog began to reappear as it filled up the tunnels. It surrounded Mysterio and the paralysed Spider-Man.

"Whe- where are you taking me?"

"Oh you'll see soon enough. Mysterio answered. "Ha ha ha ha ha!"