I DON'T OWN ANYTHING.
Chapter Two: Spiders, Scorpions, and Hummingbirds.
The Goblin Underground, things have been much darker since Osborn retook command and took in Menace against her will. Currently Green Goblin and Grey Goblin have been trying to train the thugs on goblin weaponry, Jack O Lantern have been upgrading his arsenal while singing "This is Halloween", Menace sampling staying by herself with her only 'companion' Doppelganger spying on her in by Osborn's orders, which leaves Osborn, Carrion, and Jackal in the "King's champers".
"So do you know what to do doctor?" Osborn/Carnage asked Jackal as he lay on a medical chair.
"Yes Norman, I can do the procedure, my assistant here has kept your face nicely preserved." Jackal said in sadistic smile as Carrion was adding his power of decay on Norman's original body, specially the head.
"Good, begin the surgery doctor." Carnage ordered.
Jackal's grin widened further as he said "I always wanted to do plastic surgery…" as he grabbed a scaple.
Houston, Texas, specifally at the local bank. A very unusual robbery was taking place.
"Give me your money or you'll have your head crushed by my claws!" Mac Gargan, The Scorpion, demanded as he threatened the clerk. After the incident with Octavius's downfall, most of Peter's rouge gallery left New York after his return in order to take advantage of the chaos. Today Scorpion decided to take on Houston.
"Well that was easy!" Scorpion thought as he carried tow duffle bags full of money.
"You pick the wrong city to rob…" A familiar voice growled.
Gargan growled as her tried to find the voice's source "You followed me out here Spider-Man…"
*SMASH*
"I'm not Spider-Man sh*t for brains!" Kaine Parker, The Scarlet Spider, insulted as he materialized in thin air and laid a right cross at Gargan's armored face.
Recovering from the blow, Scorpion starred as Scarlet Spider as he knew about the clone, but forgot he was in Houston due to his arrogance. He starred down Kaine as he growled "Scarlet Spider eh?! I will enjoy shoving this tail up your ass!"
"The idiots Peter has to deal with…" Scarlet Spider thought as he and Gargan lunged at each. Gargan tried to use his usual tactics that he uses on Spider-Man by overwhelming him with brute force. Unfortunately for Scorpion this had no effect on Kaine as he faced foes with similar tactics and easily dodges Gargan's attacks.
"Stay still you bastard!" Scorpion yelled with rage.
"How the hell were you ever Venom?" Kaine insulted as he shot some webbing in Scorpion's face.
"Dammit!" Gargan cursed as his tail fwhipped around frantically, so much so it smacks Kaine in the gut and launched him against a wall, incapacitating him as Gargan removed the webbing on his face.
"Got you now!" Gargan said in sadistic glee was he aimed his tail at the downed Scarlet Spider, and Gargan was ready for the kill, a young voice was said in the background.
"You don't like Kaine do you? I sense you're angry and humiliated." A young female voice behind Scorpion.
Gargan turned to see a young girl with green make up, a light green outfit, and a dark green hood. Though Gargan doesn't know who the girl was, Kaine automatically knew who it was as worry and anger filled his mind.
"ARACELY?! GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Kaine said in anger and fear for his "sidekick's" welfare.
"So she's a friend of yours? Mind if I kill her?" Gargan grinned under his armored faceplate.
"You seem confident, but you seem to always have fear of failure. Also I'm called Hummingbird when I wear this Kaine." Aracely, Hummingbird, innocently said as she stood her ground at the enormous armored villain.
"The hell with failure, but yes I am confident at seeing your head fall off with a good swipe!" Gargan threatened.
"Like how Octavius made your jaw fall off?" Aracely said casually, yet menacingly as her eyes turned to a blue hue.
"Why you little…THE HELL YOU DOING TO ME?!" Scorpion starting to panic as Aracely was actually using her psychic abilities to bring Gargan to a state of fear.
"Now's my change…" Kaine muttered as he got up and shot out his wrist claws and lunged at Scorpion "…Heads up Gargan!"
Gargan then used his claws to slice off Scorpion's tail and the used his webbing to subdue his arms and legs, essentially hog tying him. It was then Hummingbird ran into the nearest alleyway to avoid any more conflict.
Gargan then freed himself and then tried to find Kaine who disappeard again "You little bastard you-OH NOT THE FACE NOT THE FACE NOT THE…"
*BOOM*
Scarlet Spider the appeared under Gargan and uppercutted Scorpion in the face, knocking him out instantly, even shattering his faceplate and exposing his scarred face. After that Kaine webbed Scorpion completely as several police cars arrived, including one that was driven by Officer Wally Laton as he came and gave Scarlet Spider a handshake.
"Nice job Kaine, but isn't this guy from New York?" Wally asked Kaine as he looked at Gargan's unconscious form.
"Ever since I helped bring my brother back, his band of idiot villains decided to hightail it out of New York and I heard from Venom that he dealt with Vulture in Philadelphia." Kaine explained to Wally.
"But Kaine and I beat the bug man!" Aracely popped out of nowhere as she said victoriously while Scarlet Spider sighed while Wally chuckled at Hummingbird's antics.
An hour later Kaine and Aracely went back to their "home" The Four Seasons Hotle with Annabelle Adams waiting for him with a small package in her hand.
"Is that my mail?" Aracely said with curiosity.
"No Aracely, it's actually Kaine's surprisingly." Annabelle said sarcastically.
Kaine rolled his eyes as he too was confused on getting a package as he asked "Who's it from?"
"Not sure, says from a friend." Annabelle answered as she analyzed the package.
Now raising an eyebrow, Kaine grabbed the package from Annabelle and once he opened it, he began to sweat bullets.
"Kaine?" Annabelle asked.
"I sense sadness…and rage." Aracely said in worry.
Kaine ignored them as he held a jar that contained ashes that had "Ben Reilly" written in it as there was also a letter that said "The King will Com" with a red Goblin face on the bottom.
Meanwhile in Paris, France, specifically in a lone condo, a blonde woman in her late 30s walked in was she placed her coat down as turned the TV on. She then grabbed a syringe and injected it in her neck, as she felt her "illness" was always slowly taking hold. It was then a CNN newscast came on as it mentions Ravencroft's destruction and the escape of Jack O Lantern and Gabriel Stacy, catching the woman's attention instantly.
"Osborn…" The woman growled as she instantly went into her coat's pocket and pulled out a pistol and grabbed her phone and looked through her contacts until she found "Peter Parker" and said "…I need your help Peter."
Back in the Goblin Underground, everyone was silent as Osborn/Carnage was ready to reveal his plan as Grey Goblin and Green Goblin were besides him.
"It has come to my attention that one of my sons and grandchildren has made himself disappear. So after careful planning, our first move is to attack his old flame while taking another of my grandchildren into our kingdom. And lucky for us or message has been spread and the Spiders will have fear in their bones. And at sunrise…" Carnage prlocaimed as he commanded his symbiote to flow off his face, revealing the face of Norman Osborn instead of Kasady as a stitch around his neck shows obvious surgery "…WE ATTACK ALCHEMAX! SO SAYS THE KING!"
His audience then roars in zealot applause as the thugs chant "HAIL TO THE KING!" with obvious loyalty as Osborn smiles in glee.
To be continued.