What If Black Cat Succeeded in Stealing the Symbiote?

Submitted by: SpideyFan914

I sneak undetected, as I always do. Just like my father, I'm a master of stealth, and whatever this thing is, it's going to make him proud.

Suddenly, something sticky snags my hand. "Hey! First time I rescued the icky alien from the beautiful damsel!"

"Well, if it isn't Spider-Man!"

He's kind of cute, the way he fights. Extremely acrobatic. I never thought he'd be quite like that. I like it. But it's not the issue at hand - the ooze is. I bat him around a bit, waiting for a distraction, but he doesn't let up. The alarm is ringing now and someone's coming.

Dr. Connors has arrived - a distraction!

"Dr. Connors!" he cries, and turns for one second - all I need. The alien seems to have escaped it's cage, and the tube in which she was to trap it is shattered. But it's a lab - there are vials and beakers everywhere. I pick one up and scoop up the ooze, fleeing through the window before Spider-Man can turn back....

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"Did you get it?"

"Sure did, Moneybags! The ooze is yours!" I hand the beaker with the alien over to him. "Trust me - it wasn't easy keeping that thing in the beaker on the way here. It kept trying to stick to me...."

"Interesting...." He puts the beaker on his desk upside-down. "What happened to the tube I gave you?"

"It broke." He raises an eyebrow, waiting for more. "Spider-Man got in the way."

"Spider-Man.... He's been trouble for me before.... He saw you steal the alien, you say....?"

It's hot in his office. "You said there'd be money."

"Of course, Kitty-Cat...." He takes out a suitcase, and shows me the contents - piles upon piles of cash. It makes me smile. I check it, and it is indeed real.

I wonder where I'll keep my medals.

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A few days have passed now. I'm kind of just chillin' for the moment. Nothing interesting's going on. My employers usually contact me, so I'll just wait, I guess.

In the meantime, it's fun to just wander around - maybe run into a certain spider.

And sure enough, there he is....

"Hey Spider!" he turns and sees me.

"Black Cat! You! It was you! You stole the ooze!"

"Oh, you're not still dwelling on that, are you? Maybe I can take it off your mind...."

"You have to tell me what you did with it, Cat!"

"Well, if I did that, it would hurt my reputation as a cat burglar...." I grapple a hold on the ceiling and hang upside-down.

"If you don't, it's gonna hurt my reputation as a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!" He does the same.

I shrug. "Well then, I guess it's my word against yours."

I wonder if I get him to follow me.... I grapple onto another building and swing across the block. He follows!

"Cat, where do you think you're going!"

"Just thinking about whether or not you would go after me if you could...."

"Uh...."

Suddenly, the building shakes. I lose my grip and start to fall. As I reach for my grappling hook, those webs of his grab onto me. "See? You do care."

"I don't want to see squashed!"

"i dO!!"

I look down. Something's in the streets - a black monster, with a squarish head, sharp teeth, and slit eyes. Random slithers of blue move across it's body - like moving skin. It looks like a creature from the grave....

It bangs into the building again, and this time, Spider-Man dives past me, punching the monster in the jaw. It's hard to hear from up here, but he grabs his fist in pain - he's in trouble!

I slash the webbing and land on the ground. "Whose this creature from the grave? One of yours?"

"I was thinking he might be an ex of yours."

"Please - you're my first, Spider!"

The creature charges at me now. Thinking fast, I grab ahold of him and, following through, flip the heavy monster over my head and into the building. He crashes, and the building begins to fall....

"Split!" Spider shouts, and we run in opposite directions, allowing the building to fall between us. Luckily, the street was quite empty at the time. The building was not.

"Oh my God...." Spider gasps. "What is thing....?"

Suddenly, a fist arises through the rubble, and the monster gets up. "It lives!!!!!!"

"This isn't funny, Cat! There were people in that building, and.... Oh, my God...." He seems.... upset.... I wonder why. After all, he's still alive....

"iT woULd seEm AS tHouGh tHiS ThiNg iNCreASEs mY naTUrAl pRoWesS.... HoW fItTiNg...."

The monster dashes over to the Spider, and in a few punches, he's down. I cry out, but to no avail. But the monster doesn't finish the job - it simply comes to me.

"YoU arE The rEaSOn i'Ve cOMe, KitTY-cAt...."

My eyes widen. The monster is a he. Or at least, it once was.... I say it's former name.

"Not aNYmORe.... nOW, i'M gRAvEYarD...."

Of course.... The next level up....

The punch comes sooner than I can prepare. As do all the rest....