Boats were smashed onto the sidewalks as people began to scream, the geyser that had formed beginning to take some sort of shape. Directly in front of them, a gondola that Betty and Ned had been riding on crashed onto the sidewalk and through it, destroying the door of the building they were in front of. Katya rushed to get Betty out of the boat, making sure she was okay, before pushing her towards the nearest alleyway, away from the water, where people seemed to be flocking. "Go!"
Ned and Peter were stuck in some sort of conversation. "What is that?!" Ned kept his hat in place with one hand. Peter looked as dumbfounded as they all did.
"I don't know!"
"What're you gonna do?!"
"I left my suit in the hotel room-" What? So he'd brought his suit after all? Part of Katya wanted to be angry, but she'd be being a hypocrite. Her mind snuck back to her own suitcase, in her own hotel room, where she'd strung the small arch reactor that connected to her nanosuit on a chain. She swore she brought it more out of comfort than anything, just a piece of Tony to have with her- but it would've been mighty useful right now.
"What? Why?!" Ned's voice pitched upwards with desperation.
"Because I'm on vacation Ned- Everyone's gonna see my face, just get them out of here-" and he pushed Ned into the direction of the rest of their fleeing classmates and piazza goers.
The geyser had finally settled upon a humanoid form, swinging it's massive fists into nearby buildings, decimating them and flooding what little pavement Venice actually had. What were they supposed to do now? Katya didn't exactly know any holds that could take down a water monster, and all her weapons, save her butterfly knife, were in her suit.
As the monster continued his destruction and people continued to clamor out of the way, Katya grabbed Peter's hand- the next fist was headed straight towards them- and brought him around the corner of the nearest building.
She dug out comms from her pocket- yes, she knew that technically that was breaking the no suit rule, but beside her Peter was activating his web shooters so he couldn't be one to judge. She shoved one in his ear and then hers. "What's the plan?"
"I have no idea." He briefly ducked out from their hiding spot and shot a web at the monster, which did absolutely nothing because there was nothing for it to cling to.
"Peter, it's water!" She reminded him unnecessarily. He grunted in frustration. Suddenly he sprinted away, and it took Katya a second to realize that he was headed towards the main archway over the water, where there were still plenty of people mobbing it in confusion. The creature had faced towards it- it must've been aiming for that next.
Peter used the pillars of nearby docks to leapfrog his way over to the archway, finally using a warrant gondolier's pole as a lever to get him to the edge, where he quickly scrambled over. Over comms, Katya could hear Peter saying "Go! Get out of here, now!"
Katya didn't know what she was doing but she wasn't going to just sit there- She sprang up from her spot around the building and sprinted down the sidewalk, telling people to "Go" and "Get Safe" in as many languages as seemed applicable.
And then a green…light? Almost like an energy beam, impaled the monster through the stomach, followed shortly after by a man- a flying man- in a cape, with a glass orb over his head. The green light seemed to be emanating from his hands themselves, and were actually doing some work in subduing the monster- but not enough, as the monster quickly smacked him aside, sending him crashing through an abandoned boat, but after a moment to recover- in which the Monster only grew in size- the man was back in action.
"Who the hell is that?!" Katya asked over comms.
"I've got no idea, but I have to help him."
Without her grappling hook she was useless in terms of scaling things as quickly as Peter could with his webs, but it didn't mean she was just going to stand by. The creature was clearly drawing power from the water…
"Sir?!" Katya could hear Peter yell over comms- he'd somehow made it to the rooftop of the archway "I can help, let me help- I'm really strong and I'm sticky!"
Katya snorted. That was one way to put it.
"I need to lead it away from the canals!" Katya could hear the man reply, before diving down to fly in a cloud of green smoke through the rest of the canals on the block.
Katya watched as Peter leapt from rooftop to rooftop, trying to mend the damage the creature was doing with his webbing, before aiming to wrap around a clocktower that was beginning to topple over. She sprinted in the same direction- they were leading the monster towards another large piazza- and she flew by classmates and pedestrians who were cowering under what rubble and awnings they could find. She vaguely heard Brad Davis's voice- "Katya, what are you doing?!"- but didn't stop her gait. The water monster was clearly weakening the further it got from the nearest water source, which was great for the fight but terrible for the bystanders who continued to flee. Shit, she really had nothing- all she could do was standby and watch.
The man with the orb over his head manifested a triangular looking mandala-type thing, sort of like what Doctor Strange did, that appeared simultaneously on the monster's other side. Meanwhile, Peter was clearly struggling- and he was losing- his battle to keep the belltower from falling over completely.
Whatever the green mandalas were, they emanated more green energy beams and smoke, which the orbed-headed man began to wave somewhat theatrically, finally managed to dissipate the monster entirely in an enormous splash, just as Peter finally lost his fight with the bell tower and it came crashing down. Katya sprinted towards it, not caring that she knew classmates were close by.
"Pauchok, come in, pauchok." she panted as she ran, "You better be in one piece-"
"Or what?" His voice came back teasingly, "You'll break me in two?"
She'd reached the rubble of the belltower by then and began to climb over it, finding him in the middle trying to do the same. She wrapped her arms around him, both of them out of breath. "No- I'll break you in four." she snickered into his ear. When they pulled away, Peter was smiling, though he had a small slice on the side of his forehead. Katya reached forward to touch it gingerly. "You may want to web that up." She muttered to him when it came away scarlet. He did so, just a patch, unnoticeable underneath his soaking wet hair.