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Leak

I sigh as I feel the sun on my skin, letting the sound of the waves lapping at the shore lull me into a sort of half-sleep, the sound only broken by the occasional seagull. I'm glad I was able to take this vacation. It's been a hard few months recently. I've been trying to write more in what little free time I have, juggling school and my job at the same time. Except, it's been busy at work because for some ungodly reason the teachers all decided to double down on homework and tests in the months leading up to finals, as thought that wasn't stressful enough. on the work side, supervillains seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Scorpion, a new Prowler, Vulture, Doctor Octavius, Kingpin, Rhino, Mr. Negative, and a long list of others, both old and new. Needless to say, Miles, Lexi, and I have been extremely busy. However, there is good news. Firstly, my second book, a continuation of my first book, which I've decided to make a trilogy, was a huge success, even more so than my first, so I won't have to worry about buying anything for a while. Second is that it's Summer Break, so there's no school, opening up plenty of free time for me to finish the third part.

"So what are your books about?" Lexi asks, rolling on top of me and blocking my sun, not that I will ever complain about having her on top of me.

"Zombies," I say. "The first one's about the main character finding out that he's actually not the last man on earth, although there's only about ten total survivors in the story. The second one is about the main character looking for his girlfriend who died in the end of the first one, but who I decided to have actually survive, and he ends up finding her at the end. The third one is going to be about them trying to cure the entire planet's zombie virus."

"How?" Lexi asks.

"You'll have to read it," I say.

"Nnoo!" Lexi groans. "I don't wanna read it! I want you to tell me!"

"Well I'm not going to," I say. "No spoilers."

"But you just spoiled like two thirds of it for me," she points out.

"No, I told you what you've already read online," I say. "I didn't tell you any of the bullshit the main character has to go through in any of the books."

"Is it dirty?" she asks, grinning seductively.

"Maybe," I grin, hands sliding slowly up her legs. "What if it is?"

She grins and leans down, capturing my lips. I sigh, kissing her back, only to pull back as someone off to the side clears their throat. We both look over at Miles and Gwen, Gwen currently wearing a white bikini and having Miles massage sun screen to her back for her.

"Seriously, are you two able to go more than twenty minutes without shoving your tongues down each other's throat?" Miles asks.

"You're just jealous because Gwen won't kiss you in public," I shrug.

"That's not true!" Miles argues.

"Miles, calm down," Gwen says. "He's joking. He's just grumpy because he hasn't gotten laid in too long."

"That's about the furthest thing from true I've heard since the last time someone said Cletus Kasady was a good person," I snort.

"I seriously don't want to hear about you two's sex life," Miles says.

"I think it's Miles who's grumpy from not getting any," Lexi smirks, rolling over to lay beside me again. "How long have you been away Gwen? Three...four months? Must be torture."

"Well not all of us can live with our girlfriends," Miles says. "Some of us aren't that lucky."

"And some of us..." I trail off, my brow furrowing as a high-pitched whine reaches my ears.

Gwen and Lexi both sit up, all of us looking around.

"What is that?" Gwen asks. "Some kind of jet?"

"No," I say. "It's too small."

"How do you know?" Miles asks.

"It's too low of a sound," I say. "Bigger engines sound higher."

We all look up just as something comes into view from the city's skyline. It's shaped weird, though. It's got wings on the bottom, then something sticking up from them, almost like someone's riding on a large drone.

"What is that?" I ask as we stare at it.

"It's...a person," Lexi says, squinting. "He's got this...bat glider thing. And he's green. with a purple...one of those one-piece things dancers wear."

"A leotard?" I blink. "Who the fuck is it?"

Just then, the shape twisted, hurling something.

"Is that...it's a...pumpkin?" Lexi blinks, cocking her head to the side.

I stare at the object as it falls toward us. Sure enough, it's a pumpkin. It a metal one about the size of a softball, but it's definitely shaped into a jack o lantern. Suddenly, the eyes and mouth flash a bright green and I drop, slamming my hands into the ground, a dome of ice forming over us just in time to block the pumpkin. Then, an explosion shakes the ground, cracks spiderwebbing across my ice dome from the impact point.

"Lexi, let's go," I say.

Lexi envelops me instantly forming a white spider suit before we hold out hands out, palms out to either side and hands inverted, then spread them, the ice dome splitting down the middle and opening, crumbling once it's no longer in danger of crushing us. Above us, our newest enemy is cackling in an insane glee, clutching his stomach. He's just as Lexi described. Green skin, purple leotard, grey glider with what looks like a bat's face on the front. He also has a long, cone-like purple cloth hat, a pair of pointed ears, an elongated green face, pointed teeth, purple gloves and boots, and a satchel on his hip that's bulging with what I assume are more pumpkin bombs.

"Who the hell are you?" we ask.

"A spider!" the person cackles. "I found a spider! And one with ice powers too! But you're not the same spider I usually deal with." He stopped laughing, grinning wickedly and bowing, one hand in front of himself, the other in the air above him. "You may call me the Green Goblin."

"Another one?" Miles asks.

"A real another one, or a copycat?" I ask.

"I don't know," Miles says. "What's your real name?"

"Real name?" he asks before cackling. "Oh you're much more fun than my spider! Are you a spider too?"

Miles narrows his eyes, but before he can do anything, Lexi and I shoot out a strand of ice webbing, attaching it to the back of the man's glider and yank it down. The glider flips instantly, slamming into the man's gut and flying backward a ways before he slips, the glider slamming into his chin before flipping and crashing to the ground, thruster shutting off and smoke curling out as the man lies on the ground, groaning.

"You think he's from away?" we ask.

"I guess we'll have to find out," Miles says. "Tie him up."

We bind him with ice webbing, also taking care to steal his satchel and freeze it into a massive dome of ice five feet thick with a small hole toward the water to vent the explosion safely if there is one. Then, we look around. Police cars are starting to arrive, so Miles and Gwen turn and head for the changing room before anyone can see what's going on. While they do, Lexi and I pick up the new Green Goblin and his glider before swinging away, eluding the cops before heading to May's. Once we arrive, she separates from me inside the elevator, Green Goblin cackling.

"Naughty, naughty, working with a symbiote, such a naughty spider," Green Goblin says before cackling again. "Can't trust them!"

"Right," I say, rolling my eyes. "It's nap time now." I form an ice mallet and club him over the head, knocking him back out, Lexi giving me a skeptical look. "What? He's annoying."

She sighs, shaking her head as we reach the cave and restrain him in a chair. Then, I walk over to the computer, using a communicator device Peni created to call between linked universes, such as hers for example. I dial her first, since hers is the only universe number I remember. After a few seconds, her face appears, smiling.

"Hey Ben!" she smiles. "What's up?"

"We have a new Green Goblin that we're pretty sure is from a different dimension," I say. "Did you leave anything here to check?"

"Okay, see the big green stick to your left?" she asks.

I look left and see a large green-handled lever. "Yeah."

"Pull it," She says.

I do so. A panel pops open below it, revealing a device that looks like a price scanner.

"Scan his face with it and it'll light up green if he's from your universe," she says. "The scan of the face should take about three seconds."

I nod, taking the device over and lift his head up, scanning him. As I scanned, a screen on the top of it formed an image of his face, which then flashed red several times.

"Nope," I say. "He's from away. Which means someone's got a way to travel between them. Can you warn the others? I don't remember their numbers."

"Sure, I'll pass the message along," Peni smiles. "Hold him there. I'll be over to run some tests and see if I can figure out where he's from later."

I nod and she ends the call. I sigh, sitting in a chair and spinning. After a moment, without slowing me at all, Lexi drops into my lap, wrapping her arms around my neck.

"You sure you want to do that with you-know-who right there?" I ask.

"He's unconscious," she whispers, smiling and leaning in to brush her lips against mine as she speaks. "He won't interrupt."

"Ooo, don't mind me," Green Goblin's voice says.

I form a ball of ice and hurl it, bouncing it off of his forehead and once again knocking him unconscious. "You were saying?"

"Well he's unconscious now," Lexi smiles.

"But we're not," Gwen says as the lift reaches the bottom, Lexi sighing and sitting up straight as he continue to spin slowly. "Is he from away?"

"Definitely," I say. "There's a leak somewhere. Peni's warning the others and will be over soon to see if she can figure out where to send this guy."

Gwen nods. "Alright. Well, I suppose that just means we have to wait. We're sure he's not a symbiote, right?"

"He's not," Lexi says. "Even from other universes, I can sense them."

"Well, if you're sure that's good enough for me," Miles says. "Not that we couldn't handle him if he was. Still, I'd rather not be surprised by another Carnage."

"Oh Christ, I hope I never see another Carnage as long as I live," I groan. "Anyway, me and Lexi'll watch him. You guys go ahead and make up for lost time."

"You're hilarious," Miles says, as he and Gwen head for the lift. "We're going to order pizza."

"I don't want to know what roleplay you do," I call up after them just as the lift leaves the room, cutting off his response. "It's just too easy."

"Hey, I've been meaning to ask," Lexi says. "What did you use for a penname?"

"Richard Downey Lexus," I grin.

Lexi cocks her head to the side, mouthing the name a couple of times before realization dawns on her face. Instantly she sighs dramatically, rolling her eyes. "You're worse than I am sometimes, you know that?"

I laugh. "You know you love the name. I made it with you in mind."

"Hah hah," she says. "You're lucky I love you or you'd never get a girlfriend."

"You're lucky I love you or you'd still be being made fun of about your room's decorations," I counter.

She rolls her eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Keep laughing. We'll see if I don't repeat our first time."

I reach up, capturing her lips with my own and she sighs, settling into the kiss, her red hair falling around us like a curtain. However, after a few minutes, I hear the door at the top of the lift hiss open and Lexi pulls back, sighing. Then, the lifts drops to the floor, Peni and her robot walking over to Green Goblin and taking a DNA sample, her robot's screens lighting up the inside of the dome as information flashes across them. Finally, they still and Peni hums thoughtfully.

"What?" I ask.

"This is weird," Peni says. "It says it can't find his universe."

"Well, there's probably a lot of them, right?" I ask. "Just because we typically only deal with a few doesn't mean it's not out there."

"Actually, it might not be," Peni says. "I know there's a lot, and I checked them all. It's not there."

"What, like it was erased?" I ask. "Destroyed?"

"It's possible," Lexi says. "The celestials of that universe, or another, might have destroyed it."

"So what do we do with him?" I ask. "He'll die if we leave him here. Plus he knows all of our faces."

"I can wipe his memory of the last few hours, then we can drop him off at the usual place," Peni says.

"Oh, you mean the prison where all the supervillains keep escaping from?" I ask. "Great idea. That'll solve our problems. Oh, and if I ever find out you wiped my memory, I'll feed you to sharks."

"Why sharks?" Peni asks as her robot's right hand opens and a sort of bowl-looking thing extends from it.

"I dunno, it was the first thing that came to my head," I shrug.

Peni laughs as her robot places the bowl over Green Goblin's head and a bolt of electricity arcs in one ear, then out the other. Her robot retracted the bowl and Peni nodded. "All done."

"That was fast," I say.

"I'll drop him off at the prison, then when I get back we can talk about how to find the leak," Peni says. "Oh, and the others should be on the way."

Me and Lexi nod and we all head up to the back yard, then head into the house as Peni leaves with her robot and Green Goblin.

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