Hey everyone, happy Friday and time for the most epic and action packed chapter of a lifetime! Haha I sound like Jay even for that, but I've been waiting for this chapter to come and it's finally being posted. Enjoy! ENJOY!
Chapter 30: It Ends Here
Anger boiled his blood as he swung or climbed his way through the tangled mess of black webs. Deep within was the evil verison of both him and Spiderman. But what angered him was that the android would do anything to harm his friends and the girl of his dreams. He wasn't going to allow it. Enough was enough to him. If he had put an end to Electro, he can do the same to Venom; Jay 2.
The lightning ninja tucked himself into a tight ball as he reached his maximum velocity to swing and launched himself to land on a metal floor of a circular level of the power station. His eyes scanned around cautiously for the pitch black Spiderman while using his senses to guide him. But his senses were buzzing crazily to keep him on his toes for his counterpart. Sometimes he would sense him from behind, but when he looked, he wasn't there. Where was he? "Jay 2, I know you're here!" he called out to him. And in response he heard him hiss to his name. "We don't have to settle our differences now. With you hurting my family and Nya, I will not stand. If you want a fight, come out and fight me! We'll see who's the better Jay!"
A dark chuckle sounded around the station's control room to have Jay become tense. "With pleasure." Venom laughed. "Watch out though, I bite." That didn't sound good now. The blue ninja felt his senses growing stronger to his presence to keep turning on his heels for him. Where was that android?
Suddenly he felt something grip his head to cause him to jump and was thrown up to the ceiling and his back making contact to a metal beam. His back was tender with pain as with that strength may have cause him to bend the beam a little. But as he fell, he saw Jay 2 had his feet planted under a beam that Jay was previously under, but with disoriented vision from his head hitting the beam he couldn't respond as he fell. His counterpart took this as a chance to fire his wrists to catch onto his chest and spun on his heels with his limp body and released the threads. But Jay was too late to respond more as he flew and broke through a large, thick glass cylinder in the center of the room, sending shards everywhere to land in a heap.
His entire body now felt tender than just his back to groan and lift his head tiredly. He could notice small tears on his suit with thin grazes on his skin from the broken glass to grit his teeth as he quickly pulled a large shard out from his side to have it coated wet with his blood. His counterpart was more crafty and stronger for him to notice or anticipated. He couldn't give up now though if he was getting battered. If Electro back then had a weakness, then he had to find one for him too. He just had to wait and see what could lead the two through. Pain raked his body now to the large gash on his side and quickly fired a few strands of his webs to seal the wound and felt the pain ease to take a shaky breath. But the auburn haired teen heard Venom screeching loudly to have him alerted as he had launched himself for the hero. In response, he fired his wrists to catch onto his chest and pulled to jerk him over like he was fishing and throw a powerful punch to have him break through the metal wall to fall out in the open. But in Venom's response as well, he fired his wrists as well to catch onto Jay and pull him along and now both fell.
The two struggled against each other as they were face to face until Jay threw the first punch at the creature's face and planted his feet on his chest to kick him away. But not quick enough to sense his foe's attack, he winced as thick claws grazed his back. He quickly shook it off to flip over and fired balls of webs. But the android thought ahead of him to fire his threads to create a small shield to defend against the shots. Jay grunted as his clone kept thinking like him, way similar and difficult like with the doppelganger at Darkly's. Venom hissed to bring him back his attention and felt his chest being caught and pulled back to him as they fell. "There can be a better way to settle this, Jay 2." he growled and struggled to break free from his vice grip. "Or else we both end up a splatter mess on the ground."
A wicked smile formed on the android's covered face and threw his forehead at his to leave him in a daze. "On the contrary, it is you who will be that splatter." he laughed and fired the threads to bound his arms to his chest. Jay gasped and struggled to try and break free from the sticky threads. "Have a great time in the after life. I'm sure Uncle Ben will love to meet you." He laughed to kick Jay away and fired a thread to swing away as the blue ninja fell.
Jay gritted his teeth tightly as he pulled and strained to break free from the black threads that bounded his arms to his chest. His counterpart was stronger than he had thought on, he couldn't even break free from his own webs. And his doom was near if he doesn't break out of his sticky restraints. His senses were buzzing madly as he knew the ground was near to feel adrenaline pumping in his veins as he felt stronger to the rush and finally snapped the threads to free his arms and flipped over to see how close he was to death. Too close to his comfort than he thought, he fired his wrists onto the station to swing away and soon up. In addition to gain more altitude, his thread caught onto a pole to which he swung over and around and launched himself higher.
The adrenaline he used to break free from his restraints soon swam through his body as he heard Venom screeching in hatred and watched him swing away and toward him. This time, he was prepared against him. With the two Jay's close, the Ninja of Lightning brought himself into a tight ball and soon extended himself outward while twisting his body over the doppelganger and planted both feet to his back to kick him away and both recovered to swing more. In an attempt to get closer to him, the auburn haired teen swung himself into the constructed station and glanced over his shoulder to smirk as Venom was following behind. If I could get him trapped or weakened him, he could try to get the symbiote off of him and disable his power source. he debated to himself. "But let's hope he can cooperate." he said back and started to accelerate on his swings and started climbing up.
In quick motions, he would leap himself from beam to beam there was and his clone would swing around. When was close, Jay would either dodge or duck from his claws and retaliate a strike to have him crash into an unoccupied beam. And when the creature would recover from each counter attack, he would screech more angrily at the blue ninja to leap himself from his spot. The Ninja of Lightning saw a chance to bound off from his spot to grab onto a strong thread that was connected vertically and swung his body around to dodge the creature and used his legs to send a powerful blow to his side and the android flew back to break through a brick wall to lay in a heap.
Jay quickly swung over to where his body broke through to stop as the android was now gone. His senses became full alert now as it surprised him that the android had recovered quickly to keep himself turning on his heels. And when he had sense for the clone, he was late to respond for the kick in his abdomen to gasp a breath as his large bruise from before hadn't healed fast enough to have fall to his knees. He then felt his neck being grabbed rather tightly and soon felt the force of a strong punch to his face to feel the stinging burn and was then thrown across the large floor. A groan escaped from his mouth as he slowly pulled himself together, but then felt his wrists being caught by two threads and soon lifted to be hoisted up to stand on his knees. Venom hissed to have Jay alerted and watched a metal pole being swung at his face and soon swung at again. His vision was boggled as he groggily lifted his head at his doppelganger.
Ja-Venom smirked as he glared at the blue ninja kneeling before him to then take an end of the pole as a weapon and used his strength to rip a piece off into a sharp end like a spear. He chuckled as he had him. "Never wound," he said while the symbiote crawled off from his face. "What you can never kill." He used the blunt side to whack him across the face and used the sharp end to tear his mask off. He smirked more as he saw the pain masking his face.
Heavy breathing escaped from the blue ninja as he tiredly lifted his head to give his clone a small glare. Why go through all of this trouble? "Jay 2, why?" he groaned to spit out the blood filling his mouth to leave the metallic taste in his mouth. "Why go through all of this trouble to kill me? You must stop it."
The smirk disappeared as he glared at the auburn to growl. He should've known it by now. "Because my eyes have been closed ever since you revived me and been nothing but a mere toy for you." he growled. "Always played with and then thrown back into that basement until your next pathetic play time. Not anymore!" He lifted his head to place the sharpened edge on the jugular vein of his neck. "But you would really like it if I stopped right now. So you can destroy me quicker."
The lightning ninja winced a little as he felt the sharpened end dig deeper and closer to his neck. But didn't want to show him any more pain or weakness. He had to reason with him. Now or never. He had to stop this. "I understand what I did to you is wrong, but I needed help and you were dying." he said to see him loosen a bit. "I did everything I can to make you live and here you are right now. Alive. Functioning. Human. But what you're doing is wrong. Uncle Ben wouldn't want us, his nephew, using our powers for evil and harming people of Ninjago."
The soft glint in the android's eyes soon harden to snort. Whatever he was getting in him wasn't working. "You're right." he snorted sarcastically. "But Uncle Ben isn't here nor he's my uncle. And with my powers, I feel new. Powerful. Indestructible. Venomous." He chuckled on the last part. "And don't worry about Nya, I'll take good care of her." At the mention of the samurai, Jay growled and started pulling against his restraints that acted as shackles. "I can always use a symbiote wife and maybe even call her Spiderwoman or Screech. How does that sound, Tiger?" Jay growled and struggled more with all of his strength he can muster, but stopped as his counterpart raised his weapon high and aimed for his heart. He became tense as the symbiote clawed back over his face to have the monstrous face to screech. "Nya and I are going to have a hell of a time together!" and screeched louder.
Ting! Ting!
Jay quickly pried his eyes open after the sound of metal clashing with metal to watch Venom drop the weapon near him and watch him trot back. His eyes became wide as the symbiote underneath his forearms were slashed to create a large gash on the android's arms to reveal his sterling silver endoskeleton. But the symbiote took response to close over his wounds to suture them and snapped his head to the direction of the projectiles being thrown. He hissed loudly.
The sound of thrusters alerted Jay as they sounded familiar to him to see a flash of red flying. No. he gasped. Don't get involved. He knew who it was, but with a different form of transportation. "Nya, don't!" The samurai, adorned in her armor, leaned forward on the hoverboard that Jay had no idea where it came from to soon break through the tangled mess of webs to fly towards the android. "What are you doing!?" he cried out.
"Helping you!" Nya replied and tapped the tip of the board to produce two metal blades. "I got a bone with this robot too."
The lightning ninja watched the girl fly for the android to reach closer for him. But he gasped as Venom had jumped into a flip. "Foolish girl!" he shouted and fired his wrist to catch onto her board and pulled it from her feet and into his hands as he landed on a floor above Jay. The girl felt her body jerked to the absence of the board to grunt as she made contact to a beam and fell with metal pipes falling onto her after falling onto them to create reverberating chimes; like crude bells. Jay was panicking as Nya wasn't moving.
A cry of pain perked Jay's ears to snap his head to watch his doppelganger cowering in pain with trendils of his suit splitting to screech as the metal pipes were clanging around the raven haired girl. It amazed him how he reacts to loud echoed noises, but the more he watched it, the more it dawned onto him. Lucky for us, we happen to know its weakness. his uncle's voice relapsed in his mind. The memory of a high pitched sound rang in his ears and soon shifting of Zane screaming in pain while clamping his hands tightly over his ears to slowly smile as he finally found it. Venom's weakness. "That's it." he smiled.
A blood thirsty screech filled Jay's ears as the pipes no longer fell and his counterpart had recovered. His heart stopped and could feel time slowing down as the creature leaped in the air with the hoverboard over his head with the blades aimed for his chest. This was it, wasn't it. Nya, however, lifted her head to shake the nauseous feeling away, but gasped as she watched Jay 2 leaping for Jay to pierce his body for a kill. Adrenaline rushed into her veins to quickly jump to her feet and ran. Back with the blue ninja, he could see images flashing in his mind of his past and raised his head and chest high as he no longer had hope. He was ready for Death's embrace. And all her could hear was the sound of feet rushing for him.
Wait what?
A light startled gasp broke the silence which then turned a gurgling choke. Jay's hazel eyes met with light chocolate eyes of the samurai and they trailed down to her chest to see two steel blades protruding out. He gasped as Nya took the blades for him to feel the blood draining from his face. It scared him more since the blades pierced through her armor. "I'm sorry..." she cried in barely a whisper. She winced as she felt herself lifted to grab the blades to prevent further damage to her body.
"NYA!" Jay cried at the top of his lungs. His anger of a past raging thunderstorm grew and blossomed as he watched Venom spin on his heels to throw the girl off the blades and her body flew across the room. The blue ninja's anger grew more as he watched Nya's body break through a boxed crate and soon fell down of what may be an elevator shaft.
Multiple footsteps echoed and metal groaned to the sudden weight of eight people on the metal staircase as they descended down to an exit. Gwen Stacy, taking the lead for knowing the station more, ran down the steps by two to keep a mild jog without tripping with the Ninja and an elder behind her. But it couldn't help her if some were being a bit impatient. The group suddenly stopped after hearing Jay yelling and soon heard wood breaking to watch a body fall past them to gasp after it made contact to the floor in a hard thud. "Nya!" Kai shouted to leap over the railing to fall, but used Spinjitzu to land softly. The remaining seven then quickened their pace to race for the samurai.
Anger. Rage. Hatred! Any formed word that would be categorized in the word of anger stormed through Jay's body after what Jay 2 had done. He had harmed Nya for worse than he could imagine. His heart was pounding furiously with his blood boiling with adrenaline coursing in his veins to feel his strength regained. This android was now dead to him.
The auburn grunted as he pulled on his restraints with his renewed strength and snapped the threads to free his left wrist. His ears perked as he heard Venom screaming as he tried reaching for the sharpened pole his counterpart tossed next to him. From the corner of his eyes, he watched the android throw the board aside to then crouch like a predatory animal ready to pounce and leaped; his claws scraping on the concrete to sharpen them with a screech. Jay saw the pounce to kill him to try and pull and strain harder for the metal stick. With hope not working, he quickly fired his wrist to catch onto the stick to pull into his hand and tugged his right hand free. He smirked as he watched Venom's face slowly turned panic as he gripped the weapon with both hands. "Batter up!" he joked and swung the pole with all of his strength to whack the android over to the pile of metal pipes Nya fell over.
The android rolled on the concrete floor after he was struck with the pole, but quickly jumped to his feet to roar and prepared to lunge for the blue ninja. And in Jay's reaction, he grabbed two of the metal poles to clang together to create a sonic whine. The symbiote form retreated back while holding his ears to wince. To show him more of his anger, the auburn haired teen cried out in anger and drove the pipes into the concrete a higher pitch. He then grabbed another pair to jump over the android to post them from behind; the symbiote on his body vibrated to the sound waves around him. The blue ninja saw his clone escaping from an open side to fire his wrists to grab two new pipes and stood in front of him to drive them into the floor to have him slouch back in pain. In another attempt, Venom jumped, but Jay was smarter and jumped higher and whacked him with two more pipes in his hands to push him back into the circle and drove them into the concrete yet again. The whining grew louder and Jay ran around in a circle with a pipe in his hand to run it across the circle like a stick on a metal fence and stopped to smack it for good measure.
Jay 2's body thrashed and twisted to the agonizing pain of the sound waves with droplets of the symbiote scattering off his body to pool around his feet. The android was screaming out of pain as the symbiote was slowly removing itself from his body. The real Jay saw this as a chance to remove him away from the parasite to fire his wrist to catch onto his back to grunt as he slowly and struggled to pull him away. The symbiote had a strong grip on the doppelganger with its trendils, but he was stronger at its weaken state and pulled the android free. But before he could do anything to him, he heard a straggling cry to turn slowly to feel frozen. The symbiote was taking shape to have appendages extending and its body being supported by a stalk-like support and slowly grew with its monstrous face and screeching softly. Jay felt stuck as the symbiote was alive without a host while Jay 2 laughed evilly to it. The parasite eyed on the Ninja of Lightning to screech and leaned for him, but Jay quickly responded to hit the pipes to create a sonic whine to make it retreat and slowly stepped back to think of a plan.
Something clicked and soon met in Jay's right hand to quickly glance at the spherical orange device in his hand. He looked past it to see it had come from the hoverboard Nya was on, but what was it? He studied the copper colored metal shell with a light blinking in the center being surrounded by miniscule green lights, but the more he saw it, the more he realized it now. He had seen this before from a journal in his uncle's study when helping him move boxes around and the book happen to fall on his foot. This thing originally came from a different glider, but knew it perfectly well. A small combustible bomb. He now had a way to destroy the symbiote now. And even Jay 2.
Yes...
Without hesitation, the auburn haired teen tossed the pipe aside he had to grab Jay 2 by his torn shirt to glare at him. This ends now. he growled. He watched the android struggle from his grip, but snorted to futile attempt and threw his knee to his kidney to open his hatch. And the android growled at him. "You know what, Venom." he huffed sarcastically. "You were right. Maybe Sensei Wu and maybe my uncle even was right. Never would what you can never kill. But with my powers, I have a great responsibility to hold. Such as this." He pressed the center of the small bomb to light it up and beep while slowly vibrating in his hand; armed and primed. He threw his right hand into the android's exposed chest cavity and removed his hand to throw a round house kick to his chest to have him stumble back into the grappling claws of the parasite.
The android stumbled back, but felt cold and a slimy texture claw on his back and to growl. The lightning ninja glared at him to growl as he thrashed against the symbiote that kept a strong hold on him. He panicked as he could feel and hear the bomb he planted in his stomach area to try and clawed for it, but the symbiote had covered itself over the lower half of his body and over his exposed chest. He glared at the auburn as he struggled more against the symbiote to shout at him in anger. "NO!" he shouted and disappeared in a white light. And Jay turned his body to shield himself from the blast.
After the warm blast washed past him with ringing ears, the Ninja of Lightning slowly turned to see there was nothing left of Jay 2 or the symbiote. Except for a small fire burning in the center of the ruined pipes with a small speck of the parasite burning as it clawed on the floor as it burned, but it stopped as it died off to evaporate in the air. He couldn't find his words in the utter silence to what he had done but breathed in deeply as it was over. Venom and Electro were both defeated and Spiderman was a hero to Ninjago City. But at what cost if he killed a person and android?
Unbeknownst to the lightning ninja stood a man with dark skin and dark brown eyes staring at him and looked at the large crowbar he had in his hands to have no use to kill the teen with now and just tossed it aside as he didn't have the heart for it.
Yes! Jay is a hero now! He stopped both Electro and Venom! But at what cost though? Nya taking the blades for him, making him enraged and even Kai nervous. Is she alive, some may wonder, or not? But who is this man that almost wanted to kill Jay? We'll have to find out next week. Thank you for reading the action packed update, leave a review if you'd like, have a great weekend and also enjoy the newest episode of Ninjago tonight! :D
