And with that James vanished back down the hallway in the direction of what Peter could only guess as was the kitchen. Looking around the room Peter spotted a dresser and moving over to it found it to be stocked full of clothes. All of which seemed to be his size. After a few minutes of digging around Peter found pajamas in the bottom drawer. And shortly after that he found himself in new pajamas. As he pulled back the sheets of his new bed a knock at the door caused him to turn around. James stood in the door way. A small glass clutched in his hand. Handing the glass to Peter James smiled at him and spoke. "Relax Paker. Things will be better, in the morning. Just go to sleep and tomorrow I will show you just how special that new costume of, you're." Smiling James turned and left, Peter alone closing the door behind him. With a saddened resignation Peter downed the glass and then climbed into his new bed. A short time later his eyes, closed and he fell asleep.

CHAPTER 5

Slowly Peter woke as the morning sunlight passed through the window and over his face, before settling on his sheets. As Peter opened his eyes for a few seconds he didn't know where he was. But then it all came flooding back to him Mary Jane, Logan, and James. The memories flooded his mind until he let out a low moan of anguish. He lay there for several minutes, until he could take no more. Flinging the sheet off of him Peter leapt out of bed and began to pace the floor. It was only a knock on the door that broke his memories. Looking up Peter met James's gaze, who smiled and moved so he was entirely in the room. "Well nice to see that you're awake. It's about 2 in the afternoon. So wake up, and come and eat."

So half an hour later, Peter found himself standing back on the building top, in his new suit. James stood across from him, and began to speak. "Ok Peter. So before we start. I'm going to ask you a few questions just so I can know a bit more about you, and how you work. Ok?" Peter nodded and James smiled. "Ok. First question, how do you feel right now? Are you sore anywhere?" Peter shook his head and James nodded to himself. "Ok. If you do become sore let me know. Second question, does the costume fit right?" Peter nodded and James nodded again. "Good. Third question, do you prefer hand to hand combat or do you use your webbing more?" "Webbing." "Fourth question……" and so on and so forth until James held up and hand and smiled. "Ok. Give me one moment, to calibrate your suit to your fighting style."

Pulling out a small palm pilot, James tapped a dozen or so commands into it. Peter felt his suit, tense for a moment and then return back to how it had felt before. "What did you do?" James shrugged and put the gadget back in his pocket. "Unlike most ancient societies, we rachni don't shun technology. We embrace it. Your suit is a mastered blend of tech and magic. The magic will protect your body and mind, while the tech will enhance your abilities, and give you added physical protection from modern weapons. For instance, your costume has micro Kevlar woven into it. That will deflect light gun fire. Just one example of the dozens of small improvements. But for now let us begin your training. Come at me as hard and fast as you can."

Inside his mask Peter raised his eyebrow. "What?" James grinned. "You heard me come at me. Don't hold back, I want you to fight me as though I was a villain." Peter shook his head. "I don't want to hurt you, James." James grinned again. "Don't worry you can't touch me. Not yet anyways." Pushing himself up Peter circles James and then lunged at him using all of his strength and speed. Just before his fist was about to connect with James's smiling face, he was James shake his head, and then vanish in the blink of an eye. As Peter stopped he felt someone tap him on the shoulder. Wheeling around Peter only had time to register James's fist before it plowed into his face sending him flying backwards and to the edge of the rooftop.

As he pushed himself off the ground Peter heard James speak. "Don't just try to muscle Me. you have to have a plan. You've got new resources at your disposal, use them." Peter rolled his eyes, and then lunged at James again who once again vanished but this time reappeared, grabbing Peter's own fist and slamming it into his face. As Peter stumbled backwards he lashed out with a foot, but that too was easily countered by James. Stumbling back Peter crouched low to the ground and began to circle James who stood still and simply smiled. Peter's mind raced. He had faced fast targets before but none of them had been this fast. James seemed to be untouchable. Still circling Peter tried webbing but James simply countered it with his own. It was beginning to look as though James was going to win. "Remember spider, you have a 6th sense use it. It can be used for more than just alerting you to danger. Stretch out with your mind. Feel everything around you. The concrete walls, and floor, around you, the noise of the city, your own breathing. All are connected to the weaver."

Rolling his eyes Peter spoke. "No offense James but loose the whole, 'there is a giant spider controlling everything'. It's creepy and it makes you sound crazy." James shrugged. "That remains to be seen. But for now I'll stop. But you still need to hit me. Now stop trying to hit me and hit me!" Peter blurred forward using every ounce of strength he could muster. His fist sailed forward, in an attempt to wipe the smile off of James face. But James ducked. Another attack this one aimed at James's stomach but James simply moved backwards and dodged that too. Using his momentum Peter spun like s top for a moment before launching to web lines at Peter who caught them in mid flight and pulled. Peter lurched forward and fell face first onto the cold concrete, of the roof top. Somewhere above him James spoke. "You know just cause the electronics are on doesn't mean you can touch me. But once I turn on this last part, there won't be a thing in the world you can't beat."

As peter pushed himself up he noted that James was tapping his palm pilot again. A moment later the world flashed dark black, then bright blue, then dazzling red, before finally fading back to how it had been before. Shaking his head peter spoke. "What did you do?" James smiled. "I turn on your motion trackers. These are the most advanced system in your suit. They telepathically link up with your spider-sense and will track anything moving. Anything from enemies, civilians, animals, and even allies will have a different color. But enough talk, now that you can hit me, SO HIT ME!!" as the words left his mouth James. Felt a blast of wind blast by him as peter threw himself up off the ground and launched at him.

James knew that his old tricks wouldn't work; his rachni speed was no match for the suits trackers. Dodging to the left as Paker attacked him James smiled when he felt peter's fist connect with his hip sending him hurtling into the brick wall next to him. Pushing himself off the wall James smiled and even clapped a little. "Not bad, but we're not done. Catch me." James lept backwards, over the edge of the roof and plummeted 5 stories before, pushing off from the wall and soaring through the air high above Manhattan. Peter watched as James soared off the roof and after making sure his mask was hiding his face, followed him. Peter had to marvel at the motion trackers in his new suit. He could see James in front highlighted by a faint green outline of light. Below cars and civilians glowed a faint white.

Swinging behind James peter had to marvel at how he moved. It moved seamlessly from swinging on webs, to running along the walls, and then changing back to webs. Not far behind him, peter swung trying to mimic the moved James was pulling off. And surprisingly enough, he found that he was swinging and moving in a much more graceful manner, rather than his normal slightly jerky fashion. Swinging high above the streets James and peter wound their way through the Manhattan buildings. But try as he might, peter found that he could not catch James. That was until, James stopped on one of the rooftops. Stopping next to him peter, saw why he had stopped. A massive robot was marching down the streets, blasting parked cars, as it made it's way up the street, moving away from them.

James spoke over his shoulder to peter. "Well I was going to wait for a while before we went into real combat but I guess now is as good as ever. Shall us?' it was more of a statement than a question. Taking to webs again, peter launched down towards the robot and caught it with a swing kick to the 'head' region. The robot stumbled but did not fall instead turning to respond with a volley of machine gun fire which Peter easily dodged. As he sailed back through the air towards a wall peter felt his suit get hit once or twice by bullets. But thanks to his new armor they just deflected off. As his fingers touched the surface of the wall and his adhesive qualities took place peter saw James swinging down towards the robot's legs. Changing his angle just before impact peter watched as James attached a small sphere to the robot's leg with some webbing. Swinging away James barely got away before the devise exploded sending a shock wave through the street cracking it in several places. But the devise had done its job. The devise had completely blown away one of the robots legs and even now it was tottering ready to fall over. But as it did so a large electronic bill board turned on above them. On it the horrible face of the hobgoblin appeared roaring with laughter. And soon began to sing to the tune of the ittsy bitsy spider.

"The itsy bitsy spider defeated my robot, the itsy bitsy spider makes me want to thrown up. But now comes the fun and all the games, so the itsy bitsy better be ready to play." As the goblin stopped singing the background behind him changed to that of the Manhattan skyline, showing that the goblin was on his glider, flying around. "So spider you think you defeated me so easily? You should know by now every defeat makes the hobgoblin more powerful. I've learned from our last encounter, and I built this robot to prove it. it's programmed to counter your fighting style and will even learn as you fight it. every moment you battle it will only increase it's knowledge of how to kill you. Of course if you do beat it I have another little surprise for you." Hobgoblin shifted to the side an allowed everyone to see what was behind him. A bound and struggling marry Jane, tethered to the end of a rope dangling 56 stories above the ground.

"In case you don't know who this is it's Mary Jane the wife of your favorite photographer peter Paker. Wonder what he would do if his hero let her fall to his death? By the way a little note for you spider. It would see she's cheating on Paker. I almost got sliced in 2 by a wild man staying with her. But a simple sleeping pumpkin put him out like a light. Anyways you have 20 minutes to get here and free the girl before I drop her and she becomes New York's newest sidewalk attraction. Oh by the way you might want to watch out for the car headed towards your face. HAHAHAHAHAH!" peter's head whipped back to the robot only to have to leap from his spot on the wall to avoid a midsized sedan that was flying towards him. Even as he sailed through the air, he noticed that James had not left the wall. As the sedan was about to collide with him James reached out and grabbed either side of the sedan's front axle.

The horrible sound of twisting metal ripped through the streets as the car bend around James who never moved an inch. Dropping the car with a loud metal 'clank' James shrugged at as peter gave him a 'WTF' look. "I'm really strong. Just goes to show what happens if you embrace the Weaver's power. But that's for latter. I'll take care of the robot, you find the girl. Even if you are mad at her I doubt you want her to die." Peter nodded and took off over the city. He had a general idea of where hobgoblin might have been keeping her.

JAMES'S POV

James cracked his knuckles as he dropped down from, his spot on the wall. James rolled his eyes as the robot he had defeated once before began to repair itself. Wires, computer chips, and several sheets of metal bend and twisted forming a new leg. As the leg finished 'healing' the robot took a step forward and let out what had to be an electronic 'roar.' The roar itself was more annoying than anything else. James sighed as the sounds of compressing metal washed over him. That roar was REALLY annoying. Gripping the sedan that had been thrown at him James hurled it towards the robot with a shout of "oh shut up!" as the car flew towards the robot James followed behind it, using the car's slipstream to gain speed and force. So as the robot cut through the car James met it will a full force kick, with the force of both his rachni strength and his accelerated speed. As his feet touched the robot's shiny metal surface James pushed off will all his might.

Sparks flew from under the robot's feet as it skidded backwards and crashed into the brick wall of a building. Raising the robot, began randomly firing at James who was forced to leap and swing around to avoid the bullets. Rachni or not if he got shot it would be trouble. As James, spiraled through the air, he took aim and fired webbing, catching the robot's leg. And with a powerful yank, jerked the leg out from under the robot who fell against the brick wall again with a fantastic crash and grinding metal. As James landed on the roof of a car however, he noticed something. Black tar like goo was oozing around the robot. Even as he watched several large tendrils, reached up from the ooze and wrapped themselves around the robot. A voice boomed out over the street. "YOU DARE TO TRY AND HURT MY SPIDER!!!!! I'LL DESTROY YOU!"

James watched as the tendrils began to compress, bending and warping the metal. Sparks flew and alarms blared as slowly the robot was reduced to something resembling a pile of junk one would find at the junk yard. With a final heave the black ooze, threw the now crushed robot through the air and into a large dumpster next to a building on the other side of the street. James felt his heart begin to race as the black ooze began to take shape in front of him. Large muscly build, huge muscular arms, strong enough to rip a car in half, strong legs that could leap from building to building, and a large white spider emblem across the chest. James watched as the form of Venom slowly rose up from the ground. In his multivoice Venom spoke. (sounds like more than one person is talking at the same time) "You….. You are not the spider. Yet you have him powers." James shook his head.

"Actually he has my powers. Or at least the power's of my race. My names James and I already know who you are Venom. What I don't know is what you want." Venom sneered showing, rows of fanged white teeth. "I want what I've always wanted. To rebond with my first host. To rebond with the spider." James raised an eyebrow. "I? Not we? I thought Symbiotes needed a host to survive?" Venom hopped up and down a sign of joy. "We do, we should. But I've evolved. I don't need a host now. Now I can be with my spider." James sighed and shook his head. "No you can't." Venom stopped hopping. The black goo of his skin began to form small tendrils that plucked at the air angrily. "Why not!?" as James answered he noted the force of anger in Venom's voice. "Venom do you think he would take you back? You've tried to kill him how many times? You've threatened him, the girl he loved, hell I think you even attacked his family a few times. Do you really think he'd let you touch him?"

Venoms shook his head, his skin becoming angrier and angrier. "That was not me. That was Brock. He wanted to destroy the spider. I want to rejoin with him. I treid……… so many times to get back to him. To warn him of Brock's…….evilness. But each time I was…… punished. I want to be with the spider again. I don't want to have anyone else's thoughts corrupting my mind. I only want HIM!!!!!" James had only second to move as 3 large tendrils launched themselves at the car he was standing on. As James's feet touched the ground behind the car he watched as the car itself was lifted off the ground and deposited on a nearby rooftop. Venom was talking again and now his voice shook with anger.

"Why does everyone try to keep me from him?! Do I not deserve to be happy too?! Why can't I just be with the spider like I was before?! WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO TELL ME 'NO'!!!!!" James casually leaned to the left avoiding several small sym-darts that buried themselves in the wall behind him. Without taking his attention away from Venom James felt the darts, liquefy and rejoin with Venom who was still talking. "I'm tired of being alone or with an abusive host. I was forced from my home because I wanted to keep my hosts alive. I wandered the galaxy looking for a host who wouldn't use me for the powers I gave them but one who thought of me as a friend or equal. And when I bonded with the spider…… I found that and so much more. But then others tried to hurt my host and I got…………angry. And my anger transferred to him. When he tore me from himself I felt lost, alone, abandoned by the one person I thought would care for me."

Venoms seemed to take a large shuddering breath. As he did so James noted that his skin began to calm down. "I joined Brock because he wanted to get back at the spider. I thought once I had shown him how weak he was he would want me back. I was wrong, and when I tried to leave Brock, punished me. I want to be with the spider again. I want to be……………………… loved again." If James had not been standing there he would never have believed what happened next. Venom threw his head into the air and let out a loud wail, of despair. As the echoes died around then Venom buried his head in his hands and it was with a shock that James saw he was crying. Thick large jet black tears slipped between Venoms fingers, hit the ground and rejoined with his body. James raised an eyebrow as he looked on the sight of the crying Symbiote. After several moments Venom stopped crying and looked up at him. "Why? Why don't I get to be happy?" James sighed and moved until he was standing next to Venom. Hesitantly and fully aware that Venom could still be dangerous James reached down and patted Venom on the back.

"There……..there, Venom. I'll make you a deal. If you promise to not attack him, me or anyone we know I'll put you in the same room with Peter. But…… it's up to him if he'll let you join back with him or not. Deal?" Venom let out the equivalent of a sniff and nodded. "deal."

PETER'S POV

(During James, and Venom's encounter.)

Peter swung through the air as fast as he could. Despite his anger at Mary Jane he did not want her to get hurt. Speeding up Peter swung through the air in the direction of the old Oz-corp. landing on the roof Peter had only a fraction of a second to leap out of the way as a pumpkin bomb exploded next to him. As the roof began to collapse Peter rotated in the air and found the goblin near the top of one of the lab's smoke stacks. As Peter swung up to his level the goblin laughed and threw more bombs which Peter dodged with ease. Passing mere inches by goblin Peter, reached out and grabbed the back of the goblin's hood. Using his momentum Peter swung in a circle and slammed the goblin's still laughing face into the side of the concrete smoke stack. As the goblin's face met the concrete sparks flew and a large section of what looked like flesh fell away, revealing wires and circuitry.

Peter let out a yell of fury and smashed his fist into the robot goblin's face crushing it against the wall. As the robot fell down to the ground, Peter began a slow crawl up the wall to the very real Mary Jane. As Peter began undoing the ropes that held her there she began to speak. "Peter…… about last night." Rolling his eyes behind his mask, Peter flicked his wrist and sent a small bit of webbing over her mouth. "Save it. Nothing you could say would make up for this. As soon as things got back on track I'm filing for divorce. Carry Mary Jane to a nearby roof Peter left her there and began to make his way back to where he had left James. As he swung through the air a ringing sound met his ears and a small electronic message scrolled across Peter's vision. The message read, 'incoming call, James. Accept?' "I accept." A moment later James voice met his ears. "Hey spider. How was giggling goblin? Did you break any of his teeth?"

Peter sighed. "No. it was a robot, but I did crush its face against a smoke stack. Mary Jane is fine. I left her on a rooftop. She can take a bus home. What's up?" "Well, first you have a visitor here at my house. He really wants to talk to you. But I need you to keep an open mind. Ok? See you at home. Bye." and as abruptly as the call started it ended. Shaking his head in a surprised manner, Peter changed direction mid swing and made his way back to his and James home. Landing on the roof, Peter quickly changed back into his normal clothing before making his way down the stairs and finally pushed the door open to his and James apartment. As he walked in Peter's spider sense began to tingle slightly as he walked in.

Shaking his head trying in vain to turn off his spider sense, Peter looked up and froze. The sight in front of him was just too impossible, to farfetched to be right. James lay length wise on the couch, a book in hand and midway through taking a drink of what looked to be coffee from an I NY cup. Across from him a still very much alive Venom sat. The white sections that represented eyes were closed and Peter could only assume that he was asleep. But a moment later Venom's eyes opened, and he smiled. Or at least that is what Peter assumed he was doing. It was hard to tell, to him it looked like Venom was about to eat him. But then again that wasn't hard to picture since Venom's smile consisted of showing row upon seemingly endless row of razor sharp teeth. Venom didn't move or, speak. He just sat there smiling at Peter who began to get slightly creped out by Venom's unblinking smile.

The silence between them stretched on until James spoke from his spot on the couch. "Hey Venom, remember when we talked about creepy smiles. Well yours is REALLY creepy. So stop. Besides I think he noticed you by now, seeing as how he hasn't moved in the last 2 minutes." Venom nodded and the rows of teeth vanished with a mutter of "sorry." James closed his book and set his cup of coffee on the table. "We Peter if it's ok with you I'm just going to get straight to the point. Venom here wants to rejoin you." That shocked Peter back into reality. Shaking his head Peter took a step forward. "ARE YOU CRAZY?!?!?!?! HE…" Peter pointed to Venom. "HAS TRIED TO KILL ME SO MANY TIMES, IT'S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE! I ACTUALY HAVE TO TRY TO STAY ALIVE WHEN I FIGHT HIM!" James nodded, and stood up. "And as valid as that may be you have to take a few things into consideration before you answer. Think about it. He could have just attacked you and forcibly joined with you before you had even come in the room. But he didn't he came here and he asked to see you. That must be worth something."

Peter nodded to himself. That was indeed worth something but it was not enough to convince him of Venom's innocents. As Peter began to pace the floor he spoke. "Look, even if I trusted Venom. which I don't. I wouldn't just let him rebond with me. Not after everything that has happened between us. However I'm willing to give him a second chance on 1 condition." Venom began shaking with excitement. "Name it anything. I'll do it. What is it? Destroy all your enemies? Kill the kingpin? Name it it's yours." Peter shook his head. "No! No killing! Well I would make the exception for the kingpin but that's not my condition. You have to prove to me that you've changed. You've built a reputation of being evil. You have to show me that you're not evil anymore. You have to be a hero and fight the same crime you used to help commit. And I'll decide when you're truly good. I'll only let you join to me after I feel that you can be trusted. Ok?"

Venom nodded. "Yes I understand. I have to prove I'm worthy to bond with you. And to do that you want me to do what you do." Peter slowly nodded his head. "Sure. I guess that's right." Venom continued to node. "Yes…. Ok. I'm going to fight crime. I'M OFF TO FIGHT CRIME!!!" and with that Venom, leapt up and leapt at the wall. As he impacted the wall Venom became goo and oozed through the bricks of the wall and vanished outside. As he moved away from the apartment Peter could hear him singing, "gunna fight crime, gunna join with spider, gunna fight crime, gunna join with spider!"

As Venom's voice began to fade Peter looked to James who had gone back to reading his book. Peter rolled his eyes. "You don't think it was stupid to bring Venom here? Now he knows where we live. He could go and get an army of villains and kills us both." Without looking up from his book James pointed to 3 ornate spears hanging on the wall. "Adimantum laced spear tips, controlled by motion sensors. Anyone forces the door open and those tips point towards the door and get shot at it by small rockets, goes through anything." James pointed to a statue of some vaguely ancient battle warrior. "Concealed combat robot. After the spears fire, it will activate and break through the stone shell around it. It will then proceed to destroy, anyone who gets in this home. Plus the entire apartment is rigged with claymores, or directional explosives. At the push a concealed button, a series of 34 daisy chained claymores will blow up destroying the entire apartment and reducing everything and everyone inside it to a charred crispy burnt husk. This is not my first time dealing with supervillians. Don't worry if anyone can get passed my security measures they deserve to catch us."

Shrugging Peter sat down in front of the TV. As the screen came to life Peter's eyes were greeted with the view of demolished buildings, over turned or completely blown out cars, and what Peter hoped were not the charred remains of people. As the camera continued to train on the destruction a voice began to speak. "Stamford Colorado. This once bustling town woke up today to find itself the host of the ever popular heroes and villains reality show. However, unlike previous episodes the ending would not be happy and inspire feelings of justice. Nitro a well known mutant and villain was confronted by Namorita, in the last 10 minutes of the show. 30 seconds later nitro exploded taking 3 city blocks with him. Death toll is estimated at 600 with over 300 people still unaccounted for." Behind him Peter heard James drop his book. But again the new anchor was speaking. "This tragic act has sent ripples through the country. Many are now questioning, where or not heroes should be held accountable for their actions. In Washington there are serious talks of enacting the superhero registration act, which would require by federal law, the registration of a superhero's civilian identity, powers, and any weaknesses. And while it is just talks for now, the president has issued a statement say that all heroes and villains should think about their actions and their consequences before they act on them."

As the voice began to rattle off more facts the phone rang and a moment later James answered his voice frantic. "Hello? I know I just heard. What's wrong? The entire council? Are you sure? Ok I'll be there soon." James hung up and turned to Peter who was looking worried. After a moment James spoke. "I have to go. The Ranchi council has ordered an emergency meeting to discuss the registration act. I have to. Watch the apartment, and call me if anything else happens. Here is a number that I can always be reached by." James began writing on a small slip of paper. A moment later James vanished down the hallway and a short while later reemerged with a suitcase in hand.

AN) greetings true believers. I'M BACK!!! so hey i'm back. dont worry i'm going to explain the cheating and some other things in the next chapter. dont worry. thanks for reading and all your reviews.