Chapter 4: Hostile Take Over

Everything was ablaze, every high-rise, every shop and every home was consumed by the fire that the horde of demons brought forth. Screams of fighting, sounds of agony by civilians echoed through the patchwork world that is said to be in the center of the multiverse.

"What is this, who is attacking us!?" A tall man dressed in a well tailored Victorian suit growled, black hair swayed and his piercing eyes scanned his kingdom as he stepped on a demon that dared attack him.

Morlun one of the Inheritors is a being that fed off the Totemic powers that connect man and animals. Through feeding on this power, they have attained near immortality and tremendous strength.

The Inheritors had hunted and drained countless totemic avatars of their powers and life force and among all the totems the Spider is their favourite. Through the countless parallel universes they had hunted and killed Spider totems, whether they be a force of good or evil they all fell prey to the Inheritors appetite.

They were the apex predators in all of the multiverse and so baffled they are on whom was stupid enough to mount an attack on their kingdom.

Atop a spire with a medieval motif that sorely stuck out being surrounded by modern buildings, Spider Lord watched his former predator fight off wave after wave of foot soldiers.

"Man look at him go." Spider Lord commented a smile of amusement showed through his mask."He's just tearing through the little guys. Whoah, he just killed Kenny, the bastard." Peter shook his head and leaned back atop the spire as smoke covered the sky and the moonlight barely visible.

Through the web of life Peter had watched them, these so called apex predators of the multiverse. They fed off primordial energy, or anything that could be considered life energy. Totemic avatars, beings that had strong connection to creatures of primordial were a good source for this so called energy.

Peter had managed to catch a glimpse of them as he weaved through the web of life, searching for the embodiment of the web. His master has tasked him on finding the true web and also the subjugation of other worlds.

When Peter found one of the Inheritors he was intrigued as it drained the life out of a man similar in appearance to himself. When he found their home world and investigated it, they had someone who was able to see through the web that enabled them to travel through parallel worlds much like him and that they were targeting other versions of himself.

Realizing that these, Inheritors, will be a threat to him in the future, he surmised a pre-emptive strike would be wise. They were hardy beings, almost immortal with their cloning technology. They presented to be a challenge and Peter the Spider Lordwas all too eager to take on the task.

Turning his head to the sound of footsteps he waved at his second in command, the shapely succubus named Jenny.

"My lord, the enemy has retreated back to their home, they managed to deal with thirty percent of the horde we unleashed." Jenny reported her head bowed.

"Wow that much in such a short time, these guys are really strong. Have you managed to take over the cloning facility yet? No, point in fighting them if they're just going to respawn like an unwanted rpg field monster."Spider Lord stood and dusted himself off.

"We seized the facility my lord they are now unable to revive themselves." Jenny said and followed her master.

"Guess it's my turn. Let's get this show on the road." Peter jump off the spire and shot a web to one of the adjacent buildings and swung towards the direction of a massive mansion in the center of the city.

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"Jenix, what is happening!" A massive man over 10 feet tall bellowed, his white bearded face growled as he crushed a small demon under his massive foot. His well tailored grey stripped suit, torn on various places. Solus the father of the Inheritors and the being that stands among others growled, as he saw his kingdom overrun by such filthy beings.

"It would appear we are being attacked by demons father." Jenix, a lanky man with sunken cheeks and slanted eyes replied as he threw the body of a dead demon onto an incoming horde. The dead projectile effectively knocked down half a dozen attackers.

"I can see that boy, tell me who leads them so I might kill this presumptuous invader!" The giant of a man slammed his palms onto each other and massive shockwaves blasted incoming attackers away from him.

"I'm afraid I do not have an answer for that." Jenix said and picked up a sword to fend off another wave of attackers.

"Then how about I shed some light on that particular subject?" Spider lord spoke up from behind the demons and as he walked towards Solus, the demons made a path for the black and white clad man and jaunted towards the massive man.

"Hello names lord, Spider lord nice to meet'cha." Peter said and held his right hand out for a handshake. In response the larger man brought down one massive arm on him and the demon master evaded quickly enough.

"A spider dares to attack us, do you know who we are you pathetic creature. We are the rightful ruler of the multiverse. I will have you in a platter before the day ends!" Solus bellowed, rage clear on his face.

"I for a fact know you meant that literally, seriously I watched you guys suck the life out of several me's in the past." Lord Spider shrugged and Jenix raised a single brow. " You even used tongue real kinky."

"You have been watching us?" Jenix said and redied his sword to his side. Behind them the doors burst opened and two silver haired twins appeared wearing matching red coats.

"Father, are you alright!?" The female of the two new comers asked as she surveyed the surroundings. Her eyes settled on the spider themed man and hissed.

"So is this walking appetizer the one who dared to attack our world?" The male of the twins asked unravelling a whip from behind him prepared to attack. "Brix, be careful, I sense this spider is not the same as the others" The Patriarch of the inheritors said gauging Spider Lord.

"He is just supper, is what he is." A new voice came from behind and another large man came resembling Morlun, just bigger and meaner looking but also wearing the same stylish Victorian suit.

"Daemos, have you secured the master weaver." Solus asked his eldest son.

"The weaver is safe, more than I can say for this pest." Daemos said and crouched low ready for an attack."

"Great most of the family is here, but fair warning, I got the skinny guys facility already so, if one you stylish people gets the unfortunate condition of broken neck syndrome or stabby stabby you are not going to get better I'm afraid." Lord Spider made a stabbing motion as he looked at each of them. "Jessica, report." Jenix tapped a device in his right ear and a voice spoke. "Master Jenix the facility is overrun we can't..." The other line went dead and Jenix was visibly shaken." He gripped the sword in his hand tighter.

"Was that your girlfriend.." Peter shrugged. "So I suppose you don't have time to be standing here all day so how about we get to fighting already shall we?" Lord Spider took a stance and also the demon soldiers behind him had raised their weapons.

"This if for killing Kenny, I liked that slimey bastard, we were drinking buddies." Peter said and from atop him Morlun descended with a mighty fist and blew the marble ground he stood upon.

"You! How are you able to do this, you are but my prey!" Morlun bellowed venom dripping from his voice. He recognized his scent, it was the Spider totem that had eluded Morlun twice.

"Morlun buddy, being that we have history, with you trying to eat me twice and actually killed me once... I'm going to kill you as slowly as possible how about that." Peter said and rushed the long haired man.

"Arhggg!" Morlun took a swipe at the arachnid overlord at which was caught and he was flipped over then with a quick twist a sickening pop sounded and dislocated his shoulder.

"Oohhh, that sounded it hurt right?" Peter said and the other inheritors had rushed him but were tackled by a horde of demonic soldiers.

"Protect the Lord!" One large demon with large horns and wings shouted and rushed to protect Peter.

"Aw shucks you guys just make me feel all tingly inside and in my head." Peter quickly ducked out of the way of a sword that tried to behead him. More powerful spider-sense meant that he could see attacks coming at him faster, but seeing and reacting was not the same and he needed to focus to keep up with his senses.

"You will pay for what you have done, I will destroy everything you hold dear. I will destroy everyone you ever loved!" Jenix angrily swiped at Peter. Peter on the other hand easily dodges each strike and when an opening appeared he kicked Jenix off his feet and grabbed his sword from him. Twirling the blade in his hand with deft skill Spider lord stabbed the floored inheritors. In a low voice he replied "I have nothing to lose anymore." Spider Lord then proceeded to stab Jenix in the back several times, the sound of flesh being ripped by the blade and the anguished screams of the man roared above the clashing of demons and totem hunters.

Something then exploded at the center of the horde and a very angry looking Solus stalked towards Peter. He slowly but sure strode towards the lord of demons and towered over him.

"I will destroy you." Solus growled his eyes flaring with power and anger.

"If you can." Spider Lord replied looking up at the towering behemoth. "Jenny pull the minions back they'll just get in my way." Peter ordered talking into his mask and as soon as he said that the demons retreated leaving the inheritors and Peter alone in the massive mansion.

"You are a fool to call off your horde." Verna the wife of Solus dressed in a tight black dressed and hair tied into two buns to each side emerged from a room behind her children. Said children were mildly injured their clothes were torn from the demonic attack.

"We will savour your essence little spider." Verna said.

"If you manage to get me, I'll make sure to give you the worse indigestion you could possibly have." Peter replied and from the lone pouch on his leg drew a blade and threw it at the woman.

Verna effortlessly caught the weapon a smirk on her face but Peter also matched her smug look and it confused her.

"Nice catch." Peter commented and then a small beep sounded from the blade and exploded with black energy that made Verna scream in pain as the black energy devoured her hand and up to her shoulder. "Black hole bomb, nice right." Verna clutch her bloody stump of an arm and screamed in agony.

"You cretin!" Solus bellowed and swiped his two massive arms down towards Peter. The whole mansion shook and half the city felt the tremors. Dust scattered around the massive hallway they were fighting obscuring everyone's sight, and when it cleared everyone looked on in surprise as Spider Lord caught Solus's arms in his and stood his ground. They didn't notice the shaking of Peter's feet from the sheer strength of the attack. "That broke most of my bones, good thing this suits a lot sturdier than my old one" Peter thought to himself and continued to cow the giant of man.

"Come on grandpa you gotta do better than that!" Spider Lord said and pushed back the massive man, Solus growled and smirked as he opened his mouth and suddenly Peter felt his energy leave him.

The massive man had started to feed on him and Peter could feel it, as his life-force leave him. But in the middle of his feeding Solus stopped and coughed, he kicked Spider Lord away from him and clutched his chest in pain.

"W-what did you do." Solus breathed heavily and stood up shakily. Daemos moved to shield his father as did Morlun his arm already back in place.

"I didn't do anything, it's you who didn't know better than to eat something you didn't know where it's been." Spider Lord smirked behind his mask but truthfully he was already feeling the toll of Solus feeding on him.

"Mother!" Brix shouted at the back tending to the matriarch. His sister, Bora took their mothers free side and helped her up.

"You will pay dearly for this Spider." Morlun growled. He lunged at the spider overlord along with his older and bigger brother Daemos. The two inheritors attacked with savagery and precision. Everything in their path was destroyed and Peter was having a hard time keeping up with their speed. Their strength and speed clearly on his level even more.

Shooting his webs at Daemos, Spider Lord managed to stick the bigger man on the floor and caught Morlun's arm and spun the younger inheritor slamming him into a wall and then kicking him through it for good measures. After Spider Lord had finished with Morlun, Daemos was now free of his binding and rained down several massive blows on Peter. Even with his enhanced spider-sense. His body was not able to keep up.

"The old man drained more than I thought." He said and jumped away from the feral man and landed ontop of Jenix mutilated body.

"Time for a recharge." Peter said and with his arms outstretched red energy seeped from the dead body and into his arms. Slowly two bone spike grew from his wrist and he crossed said spikes in front of him. "Nothing beats chaos energy from a fresh kill."

"Arrgghh" Daemos attacked low and a now recovered Morlun came at him from the top, both inheritors looking to slice Peter in two. With a kick, Peter spun in the air avoiding the attack and plunged both his spikes onto both inheritors midair. Spider Lord followed up his attack with a spin-kick to Morlun and he collided with his brother.

Morlun clutched the wound on his right chest and his older brother did not move from the floor, Spider Lord having stabbed his heart. Shocked slowly spread on Morlun's face. Two of his brothers had been killed and without the cloning facility they will not be revived.

Inside his head he was confused, there was no mistaking that this spider infront of him was the spider that had managed to elude him twice. But the spider back then was not as strong

"Two down, five to go." Peter crouched, his spikes aimed outwards. Morlun attacked from behind the spider and the twins decided to join the fight. Brix masterfully used his whip and Bora weaved through the battle field attacking Peter from his blindside. Solus was still recovering from whatever happened to him from feeding of the spider. " You know, I get that you are twins and all but do you really need to wear matching outfits.?" Peter quipped as he evaded each attack from the twins and landing a kick on Morlun. Peter's spider-sense has been in overdrive since he started facing off the inheritors, the headache he was experiencing was nothing like he ever had before.

"Spider-sense been telling me that this fight was a bad idea from the start, but common sense didn't try to back it up so here I am." He thought to himself and weaved through another barrage of attacks, and he was getting tired.

"My husband, we must retreat." Verna clutched her stump of a shoulder as she begged her spouse to fall back.

"I am Solus, father of the Inheritors, I will not retreat from a mere spider!" Solus bellowed and joined his offsprings in attacking the spider.

"Alright, grand pa's back in the game!" Peter said but internally he was screaming, he had underestimated the enemy, Solus's punches rivalled that of the Hulk's and Thor's. He could have lasted longer if he did not let Solus devour his essence.

Pushed back into a corner the four inheritors surrounded Peter and were preparing to finish the hunt.

"I will kill you slowly spider, and I will enjoy every agonizing scream you make." Solus breathed and stomped forward. Bora rushed forwards but was only met with a spear to her chest and was sent flying back.

"Apologies my lord, I needed to clean up the remaining resistance outside." Jenny the red skinned succubus said as she confidently walked out from the shadows of the hallway. She brandished a large sword and it ignited into flames.

"Now what do we have here." A sultry voice echoed from nowhere and suddenly a blade erupted from Brix's chest the white haired inheritor did not even sense the woman behind him. He slumped down the floor and the newly arrived woman dressed in robes of green and leather, her head adorning a golden horned helmet smiled sweetly at the Lord of Spiders. She flicked her long ebony hair to the side and walked to Peter's side he traced his jaw and drew blood as she her fingernail sliced his skin.

"Loki, sweetie, how did you find me?" Peter gulped and eyed the female version of the Asgardian god of mischief and now god of stories. She may be a god of stories but habits die hard and she still pulls a prank or two.

"You were not home, but May the little darling had told me where you had gone off too. By the looks of it, you were fortunate I had come to your aid." She said eyes trailing towards the dead body of Brix and the impaled Bora who was still barely alive.

Morlun growled his anger boiling over as with Solus. "Asgardian, I may not like how your people taste but I will enjoy drinking your essence as you writhe in agony." Solus growled and poised to attack.

"Oh hush you." Loki said and without warning the ground beneath Solus erupted into an explosion, when the dust settled his right leg had been torn and bloody. His movement greatly impeded. Solus growled at how he was having trouble with a lowly spider, him the progenitor of the inheritors the rightful rulers of every existence.

Swallowing his pride Solus admitted that he was outmatched and decided that as worthless as he was, Morlun was still his son and half his family had already been killed. He was not going to let it all end.

"Morlun, get your sister and mother to the Master Weaver, escape and fight another day." Morlun looked towards his father in shock.

"Father, no we can still fight them we can still win!" Morlun protested but a sharp look from his father and he understood it was not a request but an order.

"Go you stupid child, I will hold them off to the last." The pressure in the hallway then changed and Solus focused his energy his eyes glowing white. Morlun without a word quickly took his sister and mother towards the room where the Master Weaver was.

"I am Solus of the Inheritors rightful ruler of the multiverse, I will kill you all!" Solus said and what seemed like power primordial focused into a ball before him and with his massive arms punched the ball of energy releasing a blast of the power of creation into the direction of the three conquerors.

"Both of you get behind me, quick!" Peter shouted and Jenny and Loki stood behind him as he conjured a weave of golden web to block the attack. The golden web sewed together slowly around them blocking the energy released from the patriarch's attack. When everything settled the web shielding them broke and disintegrated into golden dust and Peter dropped on his knees. Everything around them had been destroyed half the mansion was gone and they could see the smoky night sky and half a mile long of destruction from Solus's attack.

"The guy really packs quite a punch eh." Peter joked and Jenny helped him to his feet. Loki took his other side and helped him stand.

"Your jokes as others put it, sucks, Peter." Loki smirked and slowly grew into a smile. "But the power you displayed was marvellous."

"How, how are you alive." Solus breathed heavily kneeling on the ground, his large frame had shrunk to a bony husk his clothes dangling on his withered frame. He had released all the power his body had stored and this spider had managed to survive it. In his thoughts a very distant feeling had managed to worm its way into him, for never had Solus experienced such emotions, never had he feared someone.

"Who, are you?" Solus arms were on his side his sunken eyes stared into Peter's masked face.

"I am lord of the Web of life, I'm the Lord of Spiders." Spider Lord said and with swift movement of his arms stabbed Solus head, ending the Inheritor's life. He watched the man crumple to ground and looked towards the direction Morlun had ran.

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"Weaver, open a gate, we must flee!" Morlun shouted into the massive room where large webs covered every inch of it.

"There is a disturbance, the web weeps, the center has been corrupted." A masked man top naked and lower half affixed to a mechanized golden spider said as he picked and weaved through the webs in the room.

"The web cries in sadness, her champion fallen into darkness, guilt, sorrow." The man mumbled ignoring Morlun who clutched his bloody sibling and mother.

"Weaver, quit your nonsensical blabbering and open a portal, anywhere where they cannot follow, hurry!" Morlun commanded and it would have seemed enough to get the masked man's attention and do what was asked of him.

Running one of the golden spider's arms across the webs, a portal towards another universe opened and Morlun readies himself to enter when a spear with red energy suddenly stabs him from behind. Morlun looks back to see a man with an old deep-sea divers helmet and blue long coat ensemble that resembled an old English ship captain.

"Karn..." Morlun breathed out and stumbled into the portal before it closed. "Goodbye brother." Karn said as he watched the dimensional portal close.

Hearing footsteps Karn turned around and bowed. "My lord, my brother had managed to escape, but I manage to wound him. If you wish so I will pursue him." He said his head never looking up.

"That won't be necessary Karn, your family is beaten and a threat to me has been eliminated, all thanks to your help, my investigations would have taken longer if not for those valuable information you gave me and as promised Loomworld is yours." Peter said putting hand on Karns shoulder.

"Thank you may lord." Karn replied.

"The center, the champion, corrupted, twisted, Mephisto" The master weaver had started to mumble again. Spider Lord ignored him, he could become useful later on and with a flick of his hand, a portal on the massive webs opened and he gestured to it standing to the side.

"After you..." Loki smiled and confidently walked into the portal followed by Jenny.

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In a hidden laboratory somewhere in Loomworld, a giant tube of green liquid glowed and inside a featureless humanoid lay asleep. Various needles and wires connected to the humanoid form and then a powerful shock and various chemicals pumped into the body.

Soon the body took form and Jenix was ejected out in a wet mess on the floor. Jenix for all his self-confidence still prepared in the likeliness of his facility being destroyed by their enemies. He had hidden a cloning facility in a secure location even from his family, their memory banks constantly being updated.

"Kaff... kafff...Damn that spider..." Jenix gasped for air and tried to pull himself on a nearby panel. "We own the multiverse, we will not be beaten so easily." Jenix said weakly as he stared at the monitor recently activated where images of his dead kin flashed red.

"My family will have revenge."

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Whooo and done wathca think, and before people start flaming me that oh Peter would never do that he won't ever kill, well he was in hell and corrupted by the devil so yeah it's a miracle he still has a semblance of his former self. Now though he would do things his older self would never have considered just to get to his goal.