Spider-man and the extra terrestrial predator faced one another off in the tunnel. There was nowhere to go and Spidey knew that this fight would be the fight of his life. The creature roared a challenge out to Spider-man and spread its great muscular arms apart. Blades came from his gauntlets and it slowly approached. Spider-man understood and extended his three metal arms. They were not much good for fighting but he would take anything he could use against his opponent. He dropped low and made his way towards the alien hunter. As soon as it came within range, the creature attacked with powerful strikes, driving Spider-man back with each though the suit he war allowed Spider-man to actually be able to block the blows. With a powerful kick, the creature sent him sprawling and stood over him triumphantly roaring. Using one of his extra arms, he grabbed the creatures leg and tripped it before it had the chance to cut him clean in two. Falling onto one knee, the creature was vulnerable to attack. With a powerful double-kick, Spidey sent it sailing through the passage and landing heavily in the mucky puddles. As one, they leapt up and charge one another, trading blows and locking fists, striving to gain mastery over one another. After nearly a half hour of this, they broke off and took a deep breath. Even in the iron spider-suit, Spidey realized that this creature had him outmatched. Firing two pellets of impact webbing, Spider-man attempted to gain the upper hand but only succeeded in tangling the great creature up momentarily as it cut through the webbing with its clawed hands and bladed gauntlets. Seeing this, Spider-man began to become truly afraid. No other opponent, not Venom nor Carnage, not Kraven the Hunter nor the Scorpion and not even the Black Tarantula had ever given him this much trouble. There was nowhere he could go. No grating that lead to the streets above nor any open passage ways. He was utterly alone with the creature. Steeling himself, he said to the predator, "Well lets finish this. Common! Come and get me you freak!" To his surprise and disconcertion, the Predator made a gargling noise that sounded like laughter and repeated what he said back to him. Again it came after him, attempting to cleave him with its gauntlet blades and attempting to destroy him with heavy blows with fists and with kicks. It was slow but stronger than anything Spidey had ever faced before and he found himself wishing Venom was there to aide in the fight against such a formidable opponent. Using all that was left of his dense webbing and new impact webbing, Spider-man was able to leave it writhing in a mess of sticky fluid. Doubting that it would hold long, he turned and looked around the tunnel. The only plausible way of escape was a collapsed tunnel entrance. Running to it, Spidey prayed that it was on the entrance and not the entire tunnel that collapsed. Loading up his more conventional web fluid into his web shooters, he began to move the rocks when he heard a roar behind him. The predator was still coming after him. Thinking Spider-man began to hurl the stones at it, causing it to raise its great hands to attempt to ward off the flying stones. Suddenly, the collapsed tunnel entrance exploded and Venom was their, his face in a snarl as he came through. Spider-man said, "Brock! Thank goodness you're here. This thing is too tough for one of us to face it alone."
Venom grinned and said, "Well then lets waste him together then, Parker. Me first!" and he attacked fiercely, driving the creature back and giving it many bloody gashes and even breaking a few bones. With a powerful sweep, the predator knocked him sprawling and Spider-man renewed his attack on the monster, punching, kicking and dodging as he delivered blow after blow to its head and abdomen. Faster than sight, its great hand shot out and grabbed him by the throat and lifted him off the ground. He dangled there by the throat, trying to pries its hand open as it mockingly played back something or another the Spidey had said. Venom hurtled out of the dark and tackled the creature from behind, driving it to the ground and causing it to let go of Spidey. The two powerful creatures rolled over and over, pounding and beating each other as Spider-man coughed and held his slightly damaged throat. As soon as he recovered, he stood up and was about to leap in when the vision in his mask shorted out. Quickly, he retracted the mask just in time to be bowled over by Venom who had been sent flying towards him. The creature stood facing them both when they stood, roaring defiantly. "How is this thing able to take us both? Is it really that strong?" said Parker in frustration. Venom was equally frustrated. "It's something neither of us are familiar with and it seems to be familiar with super-powered beings, including symbiotes. But we have to
beat it or else it will continue to kill throughout New York city." They both began to circle in opposite directions so that the creature had to divide his focus between them both. As they were both on either side of it, it charged Venom, leaving itself open to Spider-man who fired a thick stream of webbing which entangled its feet and sent it sprawling. Venom was in it before it was up and he pummeled at it. Green glowing blood sprayed as Venom continued to rain blows upon it. Again, it got the symbiote off and went after him just as Spider-man came at it from behind again. For what seemed like forever they battled on until it became clear that they would not win without some sort of help. They ran through the hole that Venom had made and went back into the great cavern. There, they leapt up and began to climb the walls. Into the cavern came the alien predator and it observed them, throwing or shooting no weapons, just staring and growling angrily at them, waiting for them to come down and finish the fight. "What now?" said both the super-heroes at the same time. They remained silent as they contemplated the issue. This thing was powerful and experienced in fighting their kind and seemed as though it could not tire anymore than they could with their enhanced suits. Looking up, Spider-man saw a large grate that lead to yet another water passage. He leapt up and ripped it from the wall. With a great heave, he hurled it at the Predator who tried to avoid it but took the grate in the side. More green blood sprayed out but the creature stood back up, its side gushing the glowing ooze. To their surprise, it fled and they followed it as fast as they could. Through the tunnels they went until they came to passage that lead to the subway. There they saw it leap on top of a passing car. Quickly they leapt and barely caught on to the last car of the subway. Again, they ran along the car towards the front where they saw the predator messing with his wrist gauntlet. Suddenly, he vanished. Anticipating this, Spider-man hit a switch on his belt and inferred vision switched on in his mask, outlining the predator's heat signature, though it did flicker in and out. It turned to face them and roared, unsheathing its wrist blades. "Parker, I can't see it? Can that hi tech suit of yours?" Spidey said, "Yes I can kinda. Just use your spider-sense, Brock. It won't let you down."
The massive creature charged with a roar and its feet made heavy thudding noises as he gained momentum. Venom slammed feet first into it's chest while Spider-man dodged behind it and grabbed its legs. With a loud crash, it thudded to the roof of the car. Venom leapt on top and pummeled it as hard as he could while Spider-man fought to keep its legs still. As they fought, they could tell it was getting weaker and weaker with every blow. Suddenly, it managed to wrestle Venom off and Spidey jumped on top of it, anchoring himself with his three mechanical legs and pounding the creature with his bare hands. It's hideous face was covered in green bleeding gashes where Venom had continuously punched him. One of its mandibles was at an odd angle compared to the others. After a few minutes, it gave up struggling and took every blow. Spider-man stopped paused, gasping for air. "Why are you here?" He gasped out in frustration. "What do you want from us?" The creature coughed and spat blood to the side before saying in a very deep and gravely voice that sounded nothing like Spider-man had every heard before. "I am the hunter. You are the pray. You have fought well, human." It continued to lay there, gasping for breath. "I can tell you are not even close to dying. What now?" asked Spidey warely. After a few minutes, the creature said, "You will kill me or let me recover so we may resume our battle, though I believe the result will be the same." Deep in his heart, Spider-man did not want to kill this creature. He didn't want to kill anyone or anything but he feared he had no choice. "You have to do it, Parker. You have to end the danger to our city." Spider-man sighed, knowing that it was very close to the truth. This creature was a merciless killer and treated humans as big game, nothing more. It was far too dangerous to be left alive. He reached down and grabbed the creatures throat, squeezing. It did not struggle or writhe. It just lay there as he felt his windpipe being crushed in a grip of iron. Spider-man felt everything inside him rebel against what he had to do and in the end, he just couldn't. He released his grip and stood saying, "I can't do it Brock." After a pause, Venom sighed and said in a surprising gentle and almost sympathetic voice. "You can go, Parker. I'll take care of it."
Parker nodded his head and turned around. The subway trains next stop was less than a mile ahead and he jumped off as soon as it stopped. He went straight to the Daily Bugle and waited there for what seemed like hours, brooding on the recent happenings in New York. His mind wandered in the past through all the weird things he had done and weird creatures he had fought to get to this point. This one was different though. The alien had fought with a sense of honor but made it clear that he would not stop until he was done hunting or dead. Coming out of his daze, Spidey noticed that Venom was sitting next to him with his chin in his hand, probably thinking along the same lines. "Did you do it, Brock?" asked Spider-man. Venom nodded, saying "Yeah I did." They were quiet again for awhile till Spider-man pulled a data stick out of the metal container that held his three back legs. "Here, all the pictures we had plus some others are in here. I downloaded them on the way out. They're all yours, Eddie." Venom's face peeled back and he took it saying, "Thanks, Parker. This means a lot to me." Again, they were silent. After nearly an hour of brooding, Spider-man said, "Well I'm going home to my wife. Take care Eddie. I'll see you around I guess. And thanks for helping Brock. I couldn't have done it without you." Venom smiled and said, "Thank you, Parker. I'll definitely see you around." They both leapt off and swung their separate ways as the sun sank below the skyline.