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Chapter 4: The Nest of Symbiotes
Previously on Chaos Unlimited
"Interesting definition of 'safe'."
"So sue me." The green vigilante responded, "Now why are you so interested in this girl what is she to you."
Spidey had to be careful on how he worded this, "Let's just say that I know this woman for a while and something happened that made her become in the state that she is in now, I'm trying to set things right."
"Hmm…well is she a lover of yours?"
"Say what! No it's not like that!" He stammered
"I see so she's your girlfriend and your trying to win back, say no more compadre I will go down to the sewer to rescue her myself."
"Oh no not alone your not, I trust you as far as I can throw you one handed Goblin!"
Moments later they arrived at the mouth of the sewer that had been open for quite a while.
"After me amigo."
"Whatever greeny, whatever."
Down they descended into the sewer to search for the missing Ex-Avenger, little did they know that they were walking into a symbiote infested lair nor were they aware of the dangers that was lurking in the shadows of the sewer.
Now
The journey into the sewer was a quiet one well save the sound of walking in rat infested and poo contaminated water, the mere feeling of stepping in sewer water made Peter skin crawl.
They past one opening of many sewer holes unknowing that in this particular sewer opening was filled another green thing. Both vigilantes walked for a few more feet until Spidey stopped abruptly.
"Spider-sense tingling!"
Goblin scratched his head, "Your what is doing what?"
"Trust me there is danger around this place." Spider-Man replied
Behind the goggles Goblin raised a brow placed his hands on his hips sniffed the air then said, "The only danger here is breathing ourselves to death."
Spidey was about to retaliate with snarky reply until he saw a green tentacle behind him, "Goblin behind you!"
Goblin looked up and saw the tentacles, "Booger at 12 o'clock!"
Spider-Man fired a web ball then answered, "Don't you mean boogey!"
"I don't think so." Goblin said his wings deployed he grabbed Spidey, "New plan time for free boarding buckle your seatbelt!"
Off they flew as the green tentacle chased after them.
"Umm…would you say that these tentacles are green?"
"Yes, I would say that these tentacles are green and not brown color." Goblin flew upward into an opening, "Maybe this is wait your witness saw."
"Okay so maybe I misjudged you. Any idea in what we are fighting?"
Goblin took a glance back, "Never seen anything like that before then again I don't hang around in the sewers much."
One of the tentacles grabbed the Goblins feet; in quick response he threw Peter into another opening. Soon the tentacle claimed another victim as goblin struggled to get free, the pair tried to get Spider-Man but he was out of reach of the tentacles and soon he disappeared in the pitch black hole.
Deep Beneath the City
"Let me go!" That came from the voice of Wanda Maximoff, as the miniature venom pushed her into walking towards what looked like a throne room, she saw also a hive like home for whatever it was housing along thousands of venom and carnage like creatures.
Still with her arms bound to her body she was in a quite a tight situation, her mental state is still in depression mode any chances of using her Hex abilities could ultimately backfire or severely injure her or worse.
She came up to the thrones instantly she knew the two sitting figures, "It can't be…Venom and Carnage!"
"Well, well a celebrity amongst tonight's volunteers." Venom greeted her mockingly, after he stood up, "And what do we have here, an Avenger? Welcome Wanda Maximoff or should we call you the Scarlet Witch?"
"…" Wanda struggled against her restraints "What are you doing with these people and bestials? Why are you doing this?"
"Straight to the point we like that in a woman." Venom came up to her, his tongue licking her face, Wanda wanted to vomit from the stench of bad breath, "Carnage be a good son and tell the nice mutant what we are planning to do."
"Hehehehehe with pleasure…" Carnage stood from his throne, "You see mutant ever since that accursed wall crawling insect stopped our plans from taking over the other world in the other dimension we began to plot our revenge to once again try to rule the world unfortunately with you super goodie two shoes running a muck we couldn't bring our plans to fruition."
"But Spider-Man said you sacrificed yourselves to destroy the remaining symbiotes!" Wanda confusion did not go unnoticed
"That's what we wanted him to think! You see we lost control of ourselves the first time but this time we will have total success, you see mutant our species was the dominate life force on the face of the planet millions of years ago, it was the perfect harmony all living in the unity of the group mind." Carnage explained, then he got full of fury, "But our peace was shattered by the cataclysm and our kind was driven out from the surface where the individual joined the all. Then the all laid dormant for countless millennia waiting patiently for us to arrive."
"That's when opportunity struck when John Jameson III planned to go to Counter Earth we waited months for this to happen, the insect tried to stop us and he is here now even as we speak." Venom snarled
Wanda froze, she stopped struggling her color was now ghostly white, 'Sp-spider-M-m-man is here? Oh no…he'll…he'll…never forgive…'
"What's the matter mutant scared about what's going to happen? Once we get the symbiotes ready for invasion this counter earth will turn into…Hehe…our kind of place."
"You-you won't get away with it!"
"Sure we can, watch how easy it is." Venom signaled the mini-venom to let go as he began to allow tendrils to slowly consume Wanda into himself to make her one of the symbiote-controlled victims.
"Like it or not mutant you are going to become part of the family." Carnage then began to cackle that would put Norman Osborn to shame
In another location
A hand touched Spider-Man shoulders, he groaned as he began to awaken. As he began to rise his blurry vision cleared to see another Spider-Man in front of him.
"WHOA!" Unlimited scrambled backwards, "Who are you! What are you! Why do you almost look like me?!"
"Well that's a question I want to ask you friend." The other Spider-Man replied, the other rose to full height extending his had towards the other awkwardly Unlimited took his hand, one thing he noticed that this particular wall crawling hero was well shorter than your average friendly neighborhood spider themed hero he was about chest height meaning this Spider-Man was a teenager.
Another thing Unlimited notice that the costume was red and black with faint webbing for the design the spider emblem was shining a gold color as if it was almost alive and the gloves with the eyes were glowing.
"Would you stop staring it's freaking me out, ever heard of self-consciousness before?"
Unlimited rubbed his chin, "Let me guess you're a Peter Parker of counter earth."
Taking off his mask he revealed a teenage Peter Parker as well Unlimited mask spread to only show the face, "Well this is…"
"Awkward?" Finished adult Peter
"Yes." Teenage Peter replied, "Last thing I remember is fighting a guy named Karn confessing that I had a crush on Firestar giving her a piece of the symbiote suit since she got herself in the line of fire and then fought Karn some more…"
"Wait a minute…hold on…time out!" Adult Peter made a T with his palm, "Firestar? The Firestar as in Angelica Jones Firestar?"
"Yup…"
"We have to much in common I dated her awhile ago back when Bobby, myself and her made the Spider-Friends team."
"Who and what?"
"Never mind listen so who is this Karn character? What doe he grow corn or something making you eat it?" Joked Adult Peter
"I don't who he is." Teen Peter said bitterly, "All I remember confessing to the whole world that I am Spider-Man as well he is stronger than anyone I ever faced before in my life and getting stabbed in the stomach."
"Well those…hold the phone! You revealed your secret identity on National Television?"
"Aunt May called."
"Well that explains it." Accepting the reply, "Look I'm a bit in a hurry so if you don't me younger me have you seen a girl about this tall and wears a green jacket on top of her blouse?"
"No but I can feel everything all the life force on this planet." He replied showing his back to the other Peter, "I can feel the monstrosity coming in that direction."
The teenager pointed behind him, what really surprised him was this Peter had the Phoenix emblem on the back instead of the traditional Spider; it made him suspicious yet he kept his mouth shut as he followed the teen spider.
Meanwhile being dragged
"Guess there is only one thing to do at a time like this." Goblin said to no one, "It maybe dangerous but the of the world depends on it! I will do what no other super hero will ever consider to do on the face of the planet…."
He unbuckled his pants freeing himself from the grip of the symbiote while in the process revealing a pair of Halloween underwear.
"Man is it drafty in here." He heard a scream
"Stay away from me!"
"Well I better hop to it before Spider-Man beat me to it."
Back to the throne
Wanda was almost transformed into one of the symbiote-controlled victims; the black goo had covered most of her body and was now reaching for her neck.
"Wanda!"
She stopped struggling and looked to where her name was called and there in all his spider-ness the wall crawling vigilante was here. Instead of being relieved she was frighten thus making her mistake fatal.
"Thanks web-head for the distraction." Venom consumed the rest of Wanda.
"NO!" Peter was to late to stop her from being transformed he watched in horror as the body was dropped to the floor and Wanda Maximoff was no more instead it was mixture of She-Venom face, Scream's crazy hair and Scorn design of the costume.
"Welcome our most powerful ally yet wall-crawler."
"Oh this can't be good."
"No not for you at least."
Teen Spider-Man was looking around; he sensed the evil in the place and started to hyperventilate, "So many innocent under the coat of evil!"
An urge suddenly overtook him to destroy this place but he was fighting it, "No I won't give in…" He began to glow
Unlimited carefully circled this hybrid, "Wanda I know you're in there!"
The hybrid said, "Wanda Maximoff issss no more now it'sssss Ramage now insect."
Ramage leap upon Spidey he leapt away from the spot he was at to avoid being symbiote food, he was in cat stance looking at the greenish black symbiote possessed Wanda.
"Wanda you have to fight this, don't let that thing control you!"
"Ssssssorry web-head assss we sssssaid before Wanda isssss in our control now, she belongs to the synoptic now!"
Spider-Man lunges at her grabbing the symbiote by the shoulders then follows up by doing a somersault throw to the other side of the carven. The hybrid creature destroys a few pillars during the free fall.
Ramage hisses then proceeds to throw darts at the wall crawler, Spider-Man responds with his own and the two are locked in a dart hitting showdown only this fight will be one-sided as Unlimited is on limited ammo.
When the click is heard he looks at his two hands, "Not good." He looks up seeing Ramage stretching towards his location, "Oh boy…"
Ramage knocks him to the ground before straddling his waist and then she begins to punch his face swinging left and right repeatedly, Unlimited defends himself by blocking her punches.
Meanwhile the other Spider-Man struggles to keep his urges down, whatever it was that trying to be set free is definitely putting up a fight to be released. HE managed to punch and web trip the symbiote possessed bestials but this didn't go unnoticed by Venom nor Carnage.
"Another Spider-Man?" Venom snarled, "Well we better take care of this one if we are going to be taking over Counter Earth. You take care of that one!"
"Hoohohohaaa…I love fresh spider-kabob how do you want your piece shredded or shredded?" Carnage hands transformed into an axe and sharpen claws. He made his way over to the duo fighting on the ground
Venom leaps into the air to where the teenage Spider-Man was, "You will make an excellent solider for the synoptic!"
The teenager was still glowing but he recognized the massive creature, "Sym? What happened to you?"
"Sym? We are not Sym we are Venom! You insect are going to be our slave." Venom unleashed a tendril to smash down upon the arachnid hero only to be blasted away with a Concussive Force Blast.
"You stay away from me you here you psychotic symbiote! For the record spiders are arachnids and to think we were friends, consider our relationship over!" Teen Spider-Man said his hands were still smoking from the blast
Venom shook his head to clear the cobwebs as he looked to the lad, "This is a whole new breed of Spider-Man we're not ready to deal with him yet. WE will eat your brains you will not interfere with our plans!"
Venom was about to pounce when an eerie sound made me grasp his head in pain, "Stop the noise!"
The urge to strike at full force was back, teen Spider-Man glowed again he began to fight it not noticing two pumpkins headed in his direction. His Spider-sense screamed he was about to move only it wasn't aimed at him but at Venom.
"The Calvary has whoa…" Goblin looked at this Spider-Man in addition; too the Spider-Man fighting Ramage, "Okay one Spider-Man I can deal with yet two that is a bit ridiculous."
Goblin looked as the green symbiote gave up it host, Unlimited quickly grabbed Wanda next he made a dash for it to the place where teen Spidey and Green Goblin were.
"Say whose your friend?" He asked
"Not now by the way nice fashion Goblin." He looked at the unconscious mutant in his arms, the sonic knocked her out while the symbiote called Ramage tried to reclaim her it didn't end so well for the creature so it gave up in the end.
He looked up now there was the green tentacle symbiote trying to get them, "We should be safe as long as the sonic sound hold up."
'This better end quickly though the sound is drawing too much power!'
"Well I hope your right because that is one mean booger coming to get us." Goblin said, unfortunately for the heroes the suit short-circuit
"That can't be good."
"Not for you it isn't but silence is music too our ears." Carnage laughed as the slime charged them
Teen Spider-man heard a voice in his head 'Don't be afraid Peter unleash the power within you.'
'Who said that?'
'Trust me I am your ally…'
'Why should I?'
'You dear boy have the power inside of you to destroy an entire world, these Klyntar are nothing but nuisances but since I sense a hesitation from you for fear of hurting the innocent I will give you use of my power for the moment to free the ones under the control of the Klyntar, now tell them to go before this power is unleashed.'
The connection was served, young Peter looked at the other two, and then he said, "Look I know this is going to sound crazy but you guys got to leave."
"Not without you we're not!" Unlimited said
"Look a voice in my head said that I have the power to take care of these symbiotes you have to trust me!"
"Now I know that you are crazy! Yet there is no way kid we're not going to leave you down here with who know what's their face names!"
Unlimited knew something was up and by the way he was glowing and pulsing that means something big was about to happen, "Goblin get everyone to safety, I have a plan."
"Oh so now you have a plan? Pray do tell…"
"We trust Spider-Man over here." They dodged the oncoming green slime as it came crashing down
"You're crazy but fine since I'm outvoted but don't come complaining to me when sugar honey ice tea hits the fan!" Goblin flew over the cages where bestials and humans were kept. Throwing the pumpkin bombs he released all the ones who were not possessed by the symbiotes.
They made a dash towards the sewer exit, while the ones who were controlled stayed behind to deal with the two wall crawling nuisances.
"You meddled with our affairs for the last time web head prepare to be shish kabob." Carnage and Venom came upon a squad of underlings behind them. Goblin grabbed Unlimited while the dormant Wanda hadn't a clue what was going on.
"Go! I'll hold them back!" Cried out Teen Spider-Man
Goblin flew high above the cavern and the next thing he saw was a brilliance of light consuming everything as he exited with his package from the sewer.
Later back in the surface
Ambulances, paramedics, and robot police assisted the wounded or victims. Some of the guards questioned the bestial that were in the cavern to get a better picture of what had happened.
Goblin and Spider-Man went their separate ways after the cavern collapsed though not without saying thanks to each other. Before Peter could take Wanda home he needs to find out why she was here before that he took some pictures of himself for the newspaper ad.
Finding a private location, he laid Wanda down for her to awaken; she let out a soft moan. Then when her eyes focused she saw the man in front of her that made her blood run cold.
"NO! STAY BACK!" She tried to stagger back but couldn't since the wall was blocking her
"Easy, easy Scarlet, I'm not here to hurt you." Spidey grasped her hands; she squeezed her eyes shut, "Hey look at me."
She refused tears ran down her cheek, she shook her head no, "I won't! How could I? After everything that I have done to you, you should hate me like every one else!"
"Well I don't. I want to help you, I want to be your friend Wanda nobody deserves to be treated liked the way you've been."
Wanda tear filled eyes popped opened; she looked at the wall crawler, and replied "Y-you wish to be my friend? Why?"
"I mean sure we hardly get to talk to each other…no scratch that we never talked at all but point is; I want to know you a little bit more than I did, if no one else is going to be there for you well it might as well be me." Spider-Man said still grabbing on to her hands, "Also I hate seeing women depressed and crying."
Wanda for the first time in her life found something she long for; hope, she lunged herself at Peter wrapping him in a tight hug burying her head in his chest saying, "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!"
Awkwardly Peter returned her embrace while he hugged her little did he know that in time he would be something more to her than he originally thought. His thoughts went back to the other Spider-Man who had the symbol of the Phoenix on his back. Whoever had the Phoenix force was a force to be reckoned with and he had to find the other Peter Parker. Now his world just got more hectic than he originally thought.
LXD: Chapter four for you and man what a wait so apologies for the delay but right now I have a lot on my plate in my personal life between finding a college and finding a job so if you think updates are slow now just wait until I find a job it's going to be ridiculous. In other news votes are in for the Spider-Assassin storyline love interest and let me tell you it was a close race but in the end it was Jessica Drew the Spider-Woman who won the race coming in with 8 votes out of 32 votes.
1. Spider-Woman 8 votes 21%
2. Black Widow 6 votes 16%
3. She-Hulk 6 votes 16%
4. Silver Sable 6 votes 16%
5. Tigra 5 votes 13%
6. Invisible Woman 4 votes 10%
7. Electra 2 votes 5%
8. American Dream 0 votes
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