Miles and the rest of the Web Warriors were at their wit's end trying to find Judy and Jenny. They were nowhere to be seen.
"I'll bet those creepy little punks are up to something." Scarlet Spider said. He groaned as he was still carrying Jackson. This baby had been sleeping like a log, it's like nothing disturbs him.
"You don't know that for sure, Scarlet." Spider Man told his friend. "The twins must have wandered off. Kids always do that."
"Spidey, these aren't normal kids we're dealing with." Agent Venom reminded him.
"I know, but-"
Just then, screams came from downtown.
"I think we found them." Kid Arachnid said.
The Web Warriors followed the sound of screams into the city. When they arrived, they found several people lying on the streets.
"Whoa! This can't be good!" Spider Man went to check on the first citizen.
"Ill bet those twins scared everyone to death!" Agent Venom said.
"Venom, enough of-" Spider Man was cut off when his Spidey sense tingled. He skillfully grabbed whatever was shot at him.
"A tranquilizer dart." Spider Man said.
"Nothing gets by you, doesn't it, Spider Man?" a foreign voice said.
Frowning, Spider Man saw Kraven the Hunter appear before the Web Warriors.
"Really, Kraven?" said Spider Man. "Knocking people out and attacking us head on? You call that a plan?"
The ruthless hunter gave a cheeky grin. "Yes, I do." He pushed a button on his gauntlet.
A giant laser net opened up below the heroes' feet and snared them inside.
"The oldest trick in the book and you fell for it, Spider Man." Kraven gloated. "Now, nothing will stop my new hunting team from taking over the city."
"New hunting crew?" Kid Arachnid said.
On cue, a huge armored jet flew in, casting a dark shadow over the city. The ship landed. Crossbones and his army of HYDRA soldiers came marching out.
"Okay...this Christmas just got a lot scarier!" Agent Venom said.
Jackson woke up. He started to cry.
"Oh, now you start to wake up?" Scarlet Spider grumped. He used his stingers to cut the net.
The Web Warriors landed safely on the ground. Scarlet was especially careful with Jackson.
"Okay, Kraven." said Spider Man. "Time to-"
"Spider Man?"
The moment was ruined as Jack Skellington and his family arrived. "Oh! Merry Christmas, gentlemen!" He waved to the stunned villains. "Are they friends of yours?"
"Jack! They're not friends. And they're definitely not gentlemen!" Spider Man told his bony friend.
"What manner of creature are these?" Kraven said in awe of the Skellington family. "No matter, they will be mounded with the Spiders!" He unsheathed his laser daggers.
"Not gonna happen, Mustatchio!" Spider Man was just about to jump into the fray when he spotted baby Jackson crawling towards the villains!
Sally gasped. "JACKSON!"
Kraven laughed like an evil villain would. "Perfect, a hostage."
"NO!" Scarlet Spider yelled.
But when Kraven reached for the baby, Jackson's tummy opened to reveal a sharp fanged, dripping maw.
"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The mouth uncorked a hideous roar.
Several long black tongues whipped out of Jackson's mouth stomach, wrapped around Kraven and the hunter was sucked into Jackson's stomach.
The mouth let out a small burp.
Scarlet Spider felt his face turn white. Spider Man, the Web Warriors, even Crossbones and his cronies stared in complete horror.
The Skellingtons were hardly fazed.
Jack sighed. "Oh, Jackson. He always gets hungry when he wakes up from his nap."
Jackson just cooed and innocently sucked on his pacifier.
"GET THEM!" Crossbones ordered.
The HYDRA soldiers charged forward.
Jack ran right for them. The Web Warriors saw Jack's body become engulfed in flames.
An explosion of fire erupted in the street. Several soldiers were sent flying.
Standing in the middle was Jack, but he didn't look like a skeleton anymore. He looked like a scarecrow with a flaming pumpkin head!
Julie turned to Spider Man. "You guys don't mind if we take care of this, do you?" she asked politely.
"Uh, no! Not at all!" Spider Man said, waving his hands.
"Nope! Don't mind!" Agent Venom replied meekly.
"No problem! No problem at all!" Kid Arachnid added, rather feeble.
Julie grinned evilly and her body became enflamed as well. She became a flaming scarecrow too and began blasting HYDRA goons with her pumpkin fire.
"Let's see..." Sarah took out a book and skimmed through the pages.
Another squad of HYDRA soliders came at her.
"Ah! Here we are!" Sarah opened the book wide and several ghostsly forms began seeping through the pages.
The ghosts swooped around the soldiers. They rammed into their bodies, yanked their helmets off and pulled their hair as they howled and wailed.
Spider Man stared at Sarah, who simply shrugged. "Ghost stories."
Sam reached into his lab coat and pulled out a couple of beakers of glowing chemicals. He mixed them together and threw the most at more HYDRA soldiers.
A mushroom cloud of green smog polluted the soliders. When it cleared, they had legs for arm and eyeballs on their tongues!
The Web Warriors just stood there and gaped in shock and disturbance. The Skellingtons were handling these criminals like it was nothing. It filled them with amaze and yet uncertain horror.
"Kid Arachnid?"
"AAAAH!" Miles jumped and turned around to see Judy and Jenny.
"Do you guys have to keep doing that?!" Kid Arachnid said, his hand on his chest.
The twins smiled and held up a tray of beverages. "We brought you some hot chocolate."
"Hot chocolate?! That's where you two went?!" Spider Man said.
They nodded.
"We finished our blood boxes, but we were still thirsty." Judy said.
"So we went out to get some more at this little cafe, but they didn't sell any." Jenny said. "But they practically threw these yummy drinks at us." She took a sip. "It's not blood, but it sure is good!"
Spider Man's Spider sense kicked in and Crossbones charged at him with his fist ready to pound.
But the twins stepped in and morphed their innocent doll faces into terrifying, demonic images. Their pigtails became alive and whipped around them as their eyes flashed red like they were possessed.
Crossbones was so scared, he stumbled back in shock.
The twins giggled and shared a high-five.
"We can take this one from here, girls." Spider Man said, patting Jenny on the back. "Don't want anyone scared to death."
A few effortless minutes later, Crossbones and all the HYDRA soliders were rounded up and arrested by SHIELD.
All except one.
"Jackson, spit the man out." Jack reasoned with his youngest child. "I know you're hungry, but we do not eat people."
"I'll make you a nice bottle." Sally said. "How does that sound?"
Jackson obeyed without hesitation and spat out Kraven, half naked thanks to Jackson's stomach acid. All he was wearing was his boxer shorts. Even some of his hair and mustache had melted off.
Kid Arachnid shuddered. "Is he still alive?"
"He is." Jack implied. "If he was dead, I could tell."
Spider Man gulped as the criminals were taken in. "I gotta say, Jack, you and your family sure had things under control. We didn't have to lift a finger!"
"No kidding. It's like you became a different person." said Scarlet Spider.
Jack smiled his friendly smile. "We're just happy to help. It's the least we could do for you."
"You don't say?" Spider Man said.
"Of course." Jack said with a nod. "The children really look up to you boys, y'know."
"Really?" Spider Man pointed to himself. "Us?"
"Yes," said Sally. "Our children love spiders, and you use your powers to help people and think of others first. And what's not to love about that?"
Spider Man saw the happy looks on the undead childrens' faces. Their eye sockets filled with joy and awe of what they've done for their hero.
Scarlet Spider heard cooing. He looked down and saw Jackson wanting to be picked up.
Chuckling, the hero picked up the baby Skellington.
"Gee, thanks, guys." Spider Man bashfully rubbed the back of his head.
"Now, what do you say we celebrate Christmas the right way now?" said Jack.
Now Spider Man was feeling some Christmas spirit. "Sounds good to me!"
Everyone returned to Aunt May's house. They had a wonderful Christmas party with a hint of Halloween.
And the Web Warriors can finally relax as who they really are: Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Cho Amadeus, Flash Thompson, and Ben Reily.
"How's that gingerbread house, Aunt May? We're starving!" Peter said.
"It's ready!" May called from the kitchen.
Aunt May and Sally brought in the gingerbread house.
And it was massive! It wasn't a gingerbread house, it was a gingerbread mansion!
"Whoa! We're suppose to eat all that?!" Miles said, amazed. "We'll have leftovers until Easter!"
May chuckled. "Well, Sally was quite a help in the kitchen! Her recipe really made it something!"
"Dig in, everyone!" Sally said.
"Alright!" Peter took a piece of the chimney off, but when he did, the house screamed.
"AAAAH!" Peter jumped back with fright.
"Oh, Sally! A haunted gingerbread house!" Jack said gleefully. "How lovely!" He took off a piece of the roof and ate it.
The Skellingtons gathered around and began picking pieces off the wailing candy house. Even Aunt May was picking and eating!
Peter looked at his friends, then he looked at the piece of chimney. He shrugged. "When in Rome." He ate the chimney, and smiled in satisfaction.
The rest of the heroes participated.
After the gingerbread, Jack presented Aunt May with a gift wrapped in black and white striped paper. "May, we'd like you to have this for being such a great hostess!"
"Oh! Thank you, Jack!" May opened the present. Her face fell. "Oh, uh..." She took it out.
It was a shrunken head.
May forced a smile. "Wow. I...don't know what to say."
"I knew you'd like it!" Jack chirped.
Peter smiled and shook his head. "Well, it's the thought that counts."
"No kidding." said Ben.
"Oh, don't feel left out, boys. We have presents for you too!" Jack said. His children brought in more frightfully wrapped presents.
The boys felt a little nervous.
"Oh, joy..." Cho muttered under his breath.
Jenny and Judy handed Miles his present. "For you, Miles!"
Miles smiled politely and opened his gift. The girls smiled at the fearful look on his face.
"Go on! Take it out!"
Miles's hand quivered as he pulled it out.
"Uh, wow, my very own jar of tarantulas..." Miles said in the nicest way he could.
It was. Several large, hairy tarantulas scurrying around in the huge jar.
"We picked them out ourselves!" the twins said proudly.
"And this is for you, Ben." Sarah gave Ben his gift; a great, big axe adorned with a red bow.
"Uh, thanks." Ben awkwardly took the murderous present.
"Sweet!" Flash said, holding up his new flail. "Those bad guys better watch out when they see this!" He gave it a swing.
"Careful with that thing, Flash!" Cho chided. He was careful not to irritate the pet piranha in a fish bowl he received.
Julie did the honor of giving Peter his gift. "And this is for you, Peter."
Peter took a deep breath as he opened the present. When he unwrapped it, he was surprised at how not scary it was.
"What's this?" Peter took out a small jack-o-lantern with a button on the top of it.
"The Pumpkin Pager. Anytime you need help or need a favor, Peter, just push that button and I'll be there instantly." Jack said.
Peter smiled. He was quite pleased with his gift. "Thanks, Jack. Merry Christmas. This has been one heck of a Christmas!"
"No kidding." said Ben.
"I'll say!" Flash agreed.
"Absolutely." Miles said.
"It's definitely been interesting." Cho included.
"Merry Christmas, Peter. Thank you for having us." Jack said.
It truly was an unusual Christmas, but Peter Parker and Jack Skellington couldn't ask for a better one.