I'm sorry. I truly could not update due to my hectic week. It was exams week. Anyway, I actually WILL finish it this weekend or sometime next week because I have nothing going on. I'll actually keep that this time. Just before next weekend. Thank you all who reviewed. Onwards!

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Chapter 23

Final Battle

Part II

(Spidey POV)

Like that first time I saw Phantom when he had gone inside Venom, Danny dove straight into Dan's chest.

"Hey! What are you-" yelled Dan before he started screaming. His eyes were completely red with no iris, or pupil, or anything. Just red.

I had been one of the lucky few to escape the symbiote. At the last minute I had jumped into a tree and was currently trying desperately to quiet my breathing. I knew that my little safe haven wouldn't last very long. I had trouble dealing with one person taken over by Venom, but hundreds? There was no way that was going to happen anytime soon. It occurred to me then what exactly Dan planned to do. He wanted to control everyone in the world through Venom with himself sitting on top of a throne of destruction with a scepter of blood.

The horrifying screaming continued to fill the atmosphere for what seemed like all eternity. Time had stopped for me. I hoped and prayed that Danny wouldn't be very long should something else happen. Due to his…altered appearance, I knew that he was on the precipice of becoming Dan.

Suddenly the screaming stopped and all was dead silent.

Silence was never a good thing in the life of a hero.

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(Danny POV)

I knew already that Dan had made my medallion permanently intangible, presumably manipulating the medallion somehow so that it was a parasite to my intangibility powers. I desperately reached for it, only to have my hand go right through it. But I expected that.

"If I could manipulate the energy of the medallion somehow…" I murmured to myself as I tried to think of something.

Then I had a thought. The Ghost Gauntlets were capable of splitting up the two halves of a halfa. However, no ghost invention ever made didn't use ectoplasm as the main working force. That meant that there was a possibility that I could recreate the Ghost Gauntlets with my own powers, right then and there.

"First step. Coat hands in ectoplasm," I started saying. "Second step. Harden ectoplasm to the point of being a component of Ectoranium (as Ectoranium is simply ectoplasm that is hardened and contains so much power no ghost can handle it). Third step. Test and repeat."

With enough ectoplasm as the "glove's" fuel, it could very well be equal to the Ghost Gauntlets.

I repeated that process so many times I became barely aware of what I was doing. I only knew that my power level was falling and it was falling fast.

I knew instantly once my power ran out, aside from the power keeping me intangible of course. Everything seemed like a dream, but I looked at my hand to see a metallic-looking coat of ectoplasm on my hand.

This one has to work, I thought, though not without doubt.

I could hear screaming but it sounded like it was underwater. I faintly wondered whose it was, but I suppose it could have been my own.

Please, just this one time let things go my way, I thought as I thrust my hand forward to get the time medallion. The "glove" practically was Ectoranium by now but I tried to ignore the pain. I had gotten more than my fair share of that.

I touched the time medallion. It heated up to the point of being white. It then shook for a few seconds before exploding, throwing me out of Dan. Dan plummeted towards the ground and so did I. He wasn't disappearing like he should have.

He and I hit the ground at the same time. He didn't get up and neither did I. We were in the same situation it seemed.

I had somehow continued being conscious, so I very slowly sat up. Everything was silent. I never liked silence.

I looked over at Dan just in time to see him sink into the ground. He still didn't wake up. That was the last time I ever saw Dan.

I lay back down and let my consciousness slip away.

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(Spidey POV)

After the screaming stopped, I looked up to see both Dan and Danny falling dangerously fast towards the ground. I leapt out of my tree and ran over there. All of the symbiote victims were lying limply on the ground.

Dan up and sunk into the ground. I never saw him again.

Danny was lying unconscious next to Dan, his arm covered in something green with a metallic sheen. The top of it where his hand was was peeled back. His actual hand was visible and it was covered in severe burns.

Is it over? I thought. No, there's still that to take care of.

I looked over at all the unconscious figures, still under the influence of the symbiote. I yelped as all of them, yes every single one of them sunk into the ground just like Dan. I never saw them again either.

"Danny?" I said, going to Danny's side and shaking him slightly. "Wake up please."

I hoisted him up onto my back and started the trek to Aunt May's house.

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Again, sorry about the lack of updates. I'll update again either tomorrow or Wednesday. I will actually stick by that, really.