I DON'T OWN ANYTHING!
Chapter Seven: A Spider's Family
In a secret warehouse, a lone man watches several screens showing many of the activities of the Goblin Underground for the last month. Specifically a certain Phil Urich who now owes this man a considerable amount of money from his "franchise" and to say he was mad is an understatement.
"That little bastard thinks he can ditch orange to go green without giving me my cut?" The man growled as he got up from his chair as he walked past his crates of weaponry until he found a metal crate that said "Hobgoblin 3.0". He then opened it as it shows a very high tech version of the Hobgoblin suit Phil Urich had when he used the title.
"It's time I reposes my merchandise." Roderick Kingsley said coldly as he grabbed the armored Hobgoblin mask.
Back in daytine New York, specifically at NYPD's superhuman evidence vault, Carlie Copper was checking over the remains of the Goblin robots from the Goblin Underground's assault on Alchemax.
"Pretty nice tech, yet seems like a toy maker made this." Carlie commented on the robot.
"That's how Lantern makes his weapons." A voice said behind her.
Carlie jumped to Agent Venom and Mania behind her. Carlie sighed with relief as she said "Flash! Don't sneak up on me dammit!"
"Sorry Carlie, Peter sent me here to see how things on your end are." Agent Venom said as he rubbed behind his head in embarrassment.
"Don't worry, our suits won't eat you." Mania said with a sly smirk.
"Well, I was checking on these robot goblins and it seems like these things also resemble the spider bots Octavius used a few months back." Carlie said as she noticed some of the components resemble Octavius's technology.
"Well his tech has popped up on the black market here and there, hell even Smythe's corpse has been on sale according to SHIELD." Venom said as he faced a lot of black market dealers in Philadelphia.
"Also when you meet up with Peter, give him the some of my data, maybe he can find some date using Horizon's resources." Carlie asked Flash as she handed her a USB drive.
"You got it." Flash said as he grabbed the jump drive as he and Andia left.
Across town, at Horizon Labs, Peter was at a computer screen showing data on the Carnage symbiote from SHIELD and the defunct Hall Industries.
"I'm surprised the thing was willing to let Osborn take over." A voice said as he turned to see MJ of all people standing coming into the room along with Scarlet Spider and Aracely. At Peter's insistence, she has essentially "moved" into Horizon along with Peter while the Goblin Underground was still at large.
"For all we know Osborn lobotomized the Symbiote itself." Kaine said as he himself was confused on how Osborn of all people managed to pull of his resurrection scheme.
"I don't think so…" Aracely said as she starred at the computer screen "…when they escaped, I sensed the symbiote and it was full of rage and scheme."
"So it must be planning something itself? Oh boy…" Peter groaned as he knew how tenacious the Carnage symbiote was.
"Alos Peter, Aunt May and Mr. Jameson is here." MJ said as she walked out to meet her Aunt and Uncle in laws.
"Got it…" Peter said as he tried to put his concern behind him. The heroes then walked to the medical hallway until Aracely accidently bumped into a small figure.
"Oh lo siento!" Aracely apologized to who she bumped into.
"Oh you're okay, I understand." Anna Maria said as she got up.
"Oh high Anna, sorry about Aracely her perception is a little different from us." Peter joked as she helped the little woman get back on her feet. Ever since she realized the "man" she fell in love with was all a lie, Peter felt sorry for Anna and gave her a position in Horizon Lab's of their new medical ward.
"So where are you going anyways Anna?' MJ asked as she had befriended Anna since she joined Horizons.
"I got a conference to go in Greece and I'm just picking up the stuff I need here." Anna explained as she answered before making her way. However, Aracely powers sensed something off about Anna but decided to put it in the back of her mind.
They finally made it to meet with Aunt May and Mr. Jameson Sr. along with a familiar face Peter hired himself.
"Oh Peter I'm glad you're here! Doctor Wirtham here is a saint!" Aunt May said with joy as she gave Peter and MJ a hugged as she came for a check up on the recent surgery to heal her knee.
"Oh it's nothing Mrs. Parker; I'm just trying to help." Doctor Elias Wirtham, aka Cardiac, said modestly.
"Nonsense son, your heart must be made of gold!" Mr. Jameson said as he gave the doctor a handshake.
'Or vibranium.' Peter joked in his head as he also gave the doctor a handshake.
"So Peter, need me to give your an update on your Aunt's knee?' Elias asked.
"Nah I can see the results…" Peter watched as he saw his Aunt and Uncle-in-Law were talking to MJ about her pregnancy as well as May even talking to her "adopted nephew" Kaine.
"Oh you're here as well Peter." A voice was heard as Peter and Elias looked to see Sarah Stacy entering the room as she actually looked happy for once.
"Oh hello Sarah, I have the medication here for you already." Wirtham said as she handed Sarah a small box to her.
"Medication?" Peter said in confusion.
"Doctor Wirtham is the one who made the medicine to keep the damn Osborn chemicals in check." Sarah explained as Peter knew about how her genetics essentially doomed her and her brother a short life.
"Also now we're here…" Peter's mode shifted to a serious one as she turned to Elias and said "…Doctor, you were the one who monitored Shriek when she was a coma, think she's a threat?"
"Oh no, it turns out her mutation and powers actually manifested into a tumor-like growth and was actually damaged when Tanis' symbiote used its neural attack. And since then I removed a good portion of it and seems to help remove her mental instability and weakened her powers." Doctor Wirtham explained as he had hope of Frances could be healed of her Shriek persona.
"Well, I hope she won't get sucked back into the Carnage insanity and I also hope Doctor Nieves still has he grudge." Peter thought as he knew how cold Tanis became when she nearly killed Shriek.
Unknown to them, at JFK airport, Anna Maria was on her private airplane while on a laptop uploading not of her medical research, but the data Peter was investigating on Carnage's symbiote.
"Already, the data has been sent." Anna Maria said in a deadpan tone.
"Excellent my dear, you won't be on our sights anymore." A sinister voice said as the other end hung up.
"Sorry Peter…" Anna sighed as her plane took off "…but you're not the man I fell in love with."
In that moment the Goblin Underground seems to be in a frenzy as Osborn/Carnage was with Jackal walking in a makeshift medical laboratory with a good portion of the Goblin gang members were strapped down on gurneys with IVs in their veins.
"So is the formula ready for injection?" Osborn asked.
"Yes Mister Osborn…" Jackal looked at his notes with glee "…your modified Goblin serum is all done and given a hint of symbiote hehehe."
"Good…" Osborn then pressed his Bluetooth as he said "Report Urich and Jack."
"All the bombs have been placed." Green Goblin answered as him and other gang members place newly modified "nitro pumkin bombs" were place in several locations including under Avengers Towers, the Daily Bugle, Baxter Building, and Horizon Labs.
"And the bridges are rigged to blow hahaha!" Jack O Lantern chuckled as he placed explosives on all of Manhattan's brigdes.
"Well done my servants!" Osborn said happily as he turned to Jackal and ordered "Time to great a real Goblin Army doctor!"
"Oh this will be fun!" Jackal laughed as he pressed a button and a green fluid flowed in the IV tubes and into the gang members' veins.
They gang members then screamed in agony for minutes until all of a sudden their skin took on a pale green tint. In those moments their screams of agony morphed into insane laughter as their faces morphed to almost resemble the classic Green Goblin masked but with red eyes, razor sharp teeth, and symbiote like tongues flicked from their mouths.
To be continued.