Chapter Thirteen: Total Carnage

The following events happen before, during and after the events of the episode Carnage...

"You better not be keeping Dova as your superhero name."

Morgan glared at me from the table. We were at some cheap pizza place and had been talking about what had happened at the docks and afterwards.

Apparently, some idiot agent (*cough* Morgan *cough*) had been infiltrating The Three Stars, a group of HYDRA mercenary agents who specializes in heists. They had been stealing artifacts that had something else inside them. Alien in fact. They had already removed three of the seven successfully. There was a bracelet that extended into a shield, a toxic compound that Morgan was wondering why the hell it was important, and a phase shifter which I wanted to take. Fury did have a fit about not bringing in a team but we told him we had in under control. Yeah, but now I don't think we get our allowance. Morgan had also explained that she didn't want to be an agent anymore but wanted to see if she could use her knowledge of the criminal circuit to a superhero playing field. Fury, surprisingly, allowed her to go for it but said she had a spot if she wanted to go back to agent.

"Hey, it was my stage name when I was ten. Besides, I don't know what to call myself." She took a sip of her lemonade.

"Hotshot."

"No."

"How about Dove?"

"No."

I frowned. "Jeez, why don't you just call yourself Bubbles?"

She snorted as the waiter cams over with the check. I snatched it before Morgan could move. "I pay."

She rolled her eyes. "Whatever billion dollar baby."

I snapped my fingers and her drink dissipated. She frowned and glared. "I really hate your powers."

I snickered and stood up, placing a fifty-dollar bill and opened the door for Morgan. "You owe me a glorified backstage pass to Avengers Tower for saving your ass and being my sidekick."

She rolled her eyes but nodded. We were only a few streets away but I knew we couldn't just walk in. Paparazzi, aka Sharks according to Morgan, were swarming the place and there were four entrances that were unable to be breached by non-Avengers. There was the helipad, the door on the roof, a basement/train system, and through the third floor's largest window that when not closed, it was projected as it was closed. And we could only access the last way at the current moment.

Morgan lead me up to a building that was the closest to Avengers Tower. "This is how I sneak out. I'm surprised Sharks haven't found it yet." We ran up the fire escape and ran across the roof. Morgan jumped first and went through the window projection. I followed up and landed onto of Morgan. "Geez, you're heavy."

I jumped off of her and smiled. "Totally gonna geek out now."

Morgan grabbed my arm and ran to an elevator. As soon as we were inside she looked at me. "Iron Man is working on something and wants to be left alone, Captain America and Black Widow are probably training, Thor is in Asgard, Hulk and Hawkeye are playing video games, and Falcon, Iron Man, and I are the only humans who know you're here."

"Humans?"

"Hello Ms. Dusk." I froze and the computer sounding thing and looked around. "I am JARVIS and I am Tony Stark's personal AI system that runs his suit and this tower."

I nodded. "Hello JARVIS."

"Miss Barton, I suggest you stay away from the living room and kitchen. The Hulk and Thor are having wresting contest of some sorts and your uncle is devouring Falcon's mother's cookies."

"Thanks J." We exited the elevator and she lead me to a room down the hall. She opened the door and I was in awe.

The large room had half cobalt blue and half white walls, all but one of them covered in movie posters, TV posters, and drawings. There was two parts of the room. Part one, that was on the right had a futon that sat in front of a flat screen TV and piles of movies and video games. There was also a black desk with metal pieces scattered around and a small wardrobe with clothes spilling out. The second half on the left was a total training room. The shag carpet turned into hard wood floors and looked like a room in Japanese movies. It had Japanese symbols written on the walls which were not covered by the posters. Targets, a bow and arrows, swords, Bo staffs, and small plants were lined neatly on the wall.

Morgan pointed to the couch. "Sit down."

I giggled and went to sit when my phone went off. I looked at it and saw Sam's icon pop up. Ugh. Jk, but I was still ticked. "Hello?"

"Hey, Web Head got in a fight with Gobbie today."

"Oh my god, is he okay?" Morgan closed the door and looked over. She mouthed 'who?' and mouthed back 'Spidey'.

"Well, we don't know. We're rushing over to go find out. I'll text you where to meet up at."

I groaned. "But I'm somewhere cool!"

"Sorry." He paused as if he was thinking. "Um, how about I make it up to you with a little us time?"

A smile quirks my lips despite myself. "Are you asking me on a date?" Morgan stood mouth wide at my comment.

He started nervously chuckling. "Uh, yes. I mean, if you want-"

"I think that sounds lovely Sam. I'll be over at the place as fast as I can." Morgan started to clap silently and I almost burst out laughing.

"Okay, um, bye."

"Bye Sam." I hung up and Morgan smiled. "First I got to save a Spider, then I talk about the date."

I reached the address Sam gave just as they pulled Spidey out of the rubble.

"I almost had him."

"You survived two whole minutes with Goblin. That's a win." White Tiger helped Spidey down. I raised an eyebrow at her and she glared at me.

"Maybe. But it won't count for squat if we don't move now. Gobbie said it was a family matter. It can only mean he's after Harry."

"Or Peter Parker." They all looked at me. "C'mon, it's no secret that Osborn prefered you over Harry, by what you guys tell me. Plus if Osborn knew about the spider that bit you, I think he could also classify you as family. Family doesn't have to be by blood and it rarely is."

Nova nodded. "Goblin is crazy in the cabeza, Webs. Can't trust anything he says."

PM looked at Spidey. "Do you have a plan?"

Spidey looked unsure. "I'm just gonna wing it." Then he looked like he had just realized something. "Wing it. Where was that quip when I was fighting robo-bats." We all just stared at him. "Kidding. I have a plan. Hang in the shadows while I get up close and personal."

We all knew what that meant. White Tiger stepped forward. "Are you sure about seeing Harry again? You two haven't been on great terms lately. Not to mention that he hates Spiderman."

Spidey shrugged. "You kiddin'. We're the bestest of friends."

I rolled my eyes. "That's extending it too far."

Following the limo was dull, getting the crap beating out of us was not fun, and having Fury rescue us and Peter getting captured was horrible.

"He must have gone after Goblin." White Tiger said with her back turned towards me. I had a feeling she was frantic and just trying to assure herself everything was fine.

Nova and I stood up. I had a terrible headache and my powers were starting to fade. I think Ionia was restricting them or something. Masterizzare stopped appearing when I wanted him to and always appeared small when he did.

Iron Fist held out Pete's backpack. "Not unless he did so without this."

Nova crossed his arms. "Maybe Gobbie knows about Parker's icky stick side."

"It was an Oscorp spider that gave Pete his powers. Osborn could consider him as a 'son'." White Tiger reasoned.

"Like I said earlier." I sat back down, arms crossed. "But what would Goblin want with Peter Parker? I do doubt knowledge of the icky sticky side."

Something happened over by Harry and Fury's discussion. They went towards the window. Iron Fist held up his hands. "Hold up. Look. Problem solved."

We walked towards the window and I noticed how something was off. "How many costumes does he have?"

Harry backed up. "That's not Spider-man."

Power Man looked confused. "Who else travel by web?" He paused. "Uh oh, the symbiote."

"Venom?" Both Harry and I asked.

The thing shrieked and broke through the window. I caught a quick glance of red and black before it took down a pillar and about all of the SHIELD agents. We all got in front of Harry and dodged a thrown Director Fury. Shit.

"That is not Venom." Power Man voiced what we all thought.

"It is the symbiote, but... No... Pete!" Harry shouted. I heard Ava gasp and I looked over. She looked fine but we both knew this thing needed to be taken down. Pete or no Pete.

The thing shrieked and extended tentacle appendages. I created a small ball of light that blew it back. It popped right back up and the tentacles aimed towards me. I dodged a lot of them and threw another ball at it.

"This Venom indeed seems... different."

"No dur Iron Fist!" I threw another ball of light as it jumped and PM tackled it. It started to create spikes.

"Ugh. It's definitely pointer." It popped up and knock PM around a bit.

Nova then shot an energy blast which it dodged with ease. "And peppier." The symbiote kicked him and he fell into the couch. "I'm guessing too much caffeine."

"Or the Goblin improved on the original formula." White Tiger said, stopping me from yelling at Nova. I glared at him instead as we all went in for an attack.

I pushed Harry aside and put up a small shield up around him. "Stay put."

PM, Iron Fist, and White Tiger were knocked unconscious as soon as they attacked. I bit back any feelings I had and imagined a katana. It appeared in my hands surprisingly and I nodded at Nova. I ran in and flipped over Pete/Symbiote and cut the tentacles. It shrieked and swiped at me. My sword disappeared and I rolled beneath him. Pete/Symbiote turned and attacked again and I dodged each attack but his tentacles got my ankle and chucked me into the bookcase. I tried to get up and failed, blackness poisoning my vision. I decided to just stay on the ground.

I heard Nova blasting then him yelling. Shit. I pushed myself up just abit against my groaning joints. Had I really just traded a day of being at Avengers Tower for this?!

"NO!" I heard Harry shout. I looked over to see my shield had failed. I put my arm up yo cast another but I had to avoid being smashed by Nova.

"You okay?"

"Somewhat."

"Stop!" Harry was standing only two feet away from Pete/Symbiote and inches away from being Harry Shish-Kabob. "I said stop. You know who I am. We were Venom. We have a bond." The symbiote crawled towards Harry's arm. "That's right. We're friends. We're family." Pete suddenly dropped out of the symbiote and I surrounded Harry, growing bigger. "We are Venom." Shit. "And we're going to end this once and for all."

"End it?" Peter sat up and looked at Venom. "Harry, no wait. Stop!" Venom was gone and he turned to us. "You guys take care of Fury. I've got a family feud to stop."

"Anyone notice how Goblin looks like Stich when he laughs?" I rubbed my arm as we sat. Pete and Fury were having a conversation about what had happened afterwards.

Well, we got our butts handed to us and he escaped. Summed it up in ten words. Done.

"He got away?! After the trouncing we gave him, he was trashed."

"I think that's a fake word." I mumbled.

"Yeah, so were we Aric-nerd." Nova snapped. I elbowed him.

"Watch it or we are doing that extracurricular activity you asked to to do." He looked away and I heard Iron Fist and PM high-five. I glared at them then continued listening to Fury.

"It was far from a loss Spider-man. SHIELD recovered the Venom symbiote. It finally won't be causing anymore trouble."

I nodded and leaned back on the steps. "Anyone care if I just fell asleep here?" Nova shook his head. "Good."

"You have something of mine?" Iron Fist threw Pete his Spidey uniform. "Hard to let go, isn't it? Go on, tell 'em what it was like to play everyone's favorite web-slinger."

I rolled my eyes. Pete was so full of himself. "The suit was binding in the armpits and the mask smelled of stale milkshakes."

I laughed at Danny's answer. "'Cause he doesn't clean it, I bet."

Peter glared at me. "Well, excuse me for not having a magic uniform that repairs and cleans itself." He pointed to my clean outfit with not even I smudge of dirt on it. "If you excuse me, I gotta go be non-super." He walked away towards Harry's limo.

Fury tuned to us. "The Tricarrier is almost done. We're just testing a few more things before we go up into the air." The four others high-fived like this was important somehow. "Be ready to come back aboard in three days." And end of celebration. Fury walked off as I turned to the other four.

"Does that mean you're going to go live on the Tricarrier?"

Nova nodded. "Guess we better tell Webs."

I had a wicked idea. "Or we could throw a 'Going Away-ish' party in secret and tell him then."

Third POV

"Wait, are you sure?" He asked with a mix of fear and excitement in his voice.

"I told you, her face and name are up on every communicational source in almost every sector of the galaxy." A female voice replied back over the radio with the same mix in her voice. "Could be fake, but I doubt it. There was another name with it and they both were in the picture."

He took a deep breath and ran hid fingers through his hair. "Okay, so how long till we can get to Earth?"

"I, I honestly don't know. A couple of days to get a good ship, no offense to Ship, and a week to get there if we are able to get that ship." The voice paused. "I can scramble the sequence until we get a ship but someone will be able to crack it."

"Okay so there's still time. So, maybe I can just-"

"Quill." The female's voice interrupted. "She can take care of herself until we get there. She's not completely a damsel." The voice paused. "Chitauri are also heading there too. And with Korvac. It gives us an excuse to go anyways." Quill looked down at his hands with a worried expression. "You have to stay calm." The voice said, motherly protection slipping in. "But we do need to get to her and Earth. Before its too late and they're both dead."

AND DONE!

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