Later that night peter arrived in a park, he landed with a dull thud, the carnage symbiote unraveling from around him revealing only the stoic and unamused face of peter parker. His symbiote morphed into his clothing set, a red T-Shirt with a real leather jacket, dark fitted ripped jeans. All complemented with a pair of black chuck taylors, these clothes tightly adorned his muscular frame as he sauntered into the proverbial tigers den. He didn't have to wait long though for not minutes later, he was graced with the presence of ava. The fact that she hadn't came as tigress eased him slightly. It made him feel as if she hadn't come to fight, the silver tongued queen of shield hover base, as she was more commonly known in the break room by her co-worker's. She quickly approached him, determined as ever to get the man she loved back on track. she got close expecting to take the lead and get the sense back in him. But as usual peter was ten steps ahead of her, he quickly snatched her arms in his hands holding them down as to restrain her. She offered only one meek attempt at an escape, it didn't work needless to say. She glared into his eyes, hers speaking volume's, revealing a pain unknown to him. But his eye's offered her nothing, no story, no emotion whatsoever. Just a cold husk...
"Whoa tiger, settle down now love, no need to get irate." Peter said without hesitation, he was barely holding her hands down using his spider strength. Feeling the symbiote inside him, as it had been slowly bonding with his organs and muscles kick in. The pressure on ava's arms intensifies ten fold. She lets a truly tiger like whimper, it send's a shrill through the symbiotes sick sense of humor and in turn peter's.
"This is your last chance pete, come quietly or else." Ava snarl's through clenched teeth, peter pay's her no heed though, he knows exactly how he'll play this situation. He'll bait and switch her, literally. He'll bait her in, knowing that if she thinks she can save him, she will. But as he explains to her his way of thinking, she'll be flipped to his side through her incessant need to please him. He'll play her like a sap... He'd had venom hide in just the perfect location, as close as possible. Plus he'd had oscorp employee's waiting around the perimeter with camera's, waiting to record the encounter. Once her team saw it, they'd be done with her, and she would run to him having nowhere else to go. He was ready...
"What do you want from me." peter muttered in a low voice, oozing with irritation, but razored with a hidden sadness
"I want you, the real you." Ava retorted, her face clearly stung with tears, they were already starting to well up.
"I've never felt more real." Peter muttered again, same voice, accept this time his head hung dangerously low. Tears had begun to fall from his eyes, he could feel her fighting him less in there arm struggle. Peter fought the smirk attempting to grace his lip's as plan went perfectly, he made sure to stay in character as he raised his head with a face of pain and tears streaming. Loosening his grip on her wrist, he opened his mouth to speak before turning around feeling his spider sense... There was nothing there.
"Where are you looking." It's all she said, but peter registered it perfectly, she'd known perfectly we'll what she'd just done. She had tricked his spider sense, but how? He hadn't had the time to figure it out as Ava ripped her arm clean away and through her hardest punch. Right before her tightly clenched fist could impact, an arm shot up from parker's shadow. It was none other than venom of course, he stepped up to his full height and holds her up by her arm.
Smiling smugly venom open's his large maw to laugh at ava, cutting his chuckles short however he spoke. "Did you really think we'd trust one of you after what happened earlier, i hope you like taken a beating, cause that's exactly what you're gonna ge-AAAAAHHHHHHH"... Venom's word's are cut off as him and peter shriek in pain, the sound of a church bell going off drives there symbiotes wild.
"Why do you think i chose this location." she said before leaping back to get a running start, inhaling sharply, she slowly exhales and begins bounding toward the both of them. Leaping into the air she extends one leg and keeps her second one tucked close, the first kick finds its mark at the side of harry's head. Exhaling the last bit of air even slower than the first, she kicks off his head and twist her hip's performing a complete 360 and delivers her other foot to peter's face. sending both him and harry launching back a few feet. But before they can hit the dirt, danny reveals himself from the bushes, wearing a camo hoodie, he runs and slide's under both target's. Danny adjust both his hands so that he can spring off the floor, once there right above him, he puts both his feet to the sky and simultaneously kick's them both with all his energy to the point that they both rocket up immediately and danny fall's over too tired to even complete the landing of the technique. Before they can even try to right themselves the bell rings again frenzying the symbiotes, sam takes the opportunity to blast both of them with everything he's got, sending them hurtling to the ground at terminal velocity. Before hitting the concrete outside the park, they both slam into the unbreakable hero Luke Cage. Charging like a rampaging bull he slams them both into a building so hard they go through a few wall's and into the vault, the door bending as there dense bodies slam into it, barely protected. As Luke back's up from the bank exterior wall Sam float's down and gives it one last all for one by sending in a flurry of blast causing a massive explosion in the first floor of the building. Sending a fire launching up and out the windows of every floor.
"Well at least we know the team attack works." Sam gasps out, clearly severely weakened by the blasts. He was shoved aside by tigress, who like danny, had just arrived by the bank.
"What the hell was that sam, you were supposed to knock them into luke, not that beam crap and that blast at the end could have hurt them." She tore into sam, her face was red hot, clearly taught with rage. But he ignored her, he peered harder into the building attempting to see through the shroud of black smoke and the sea of fire.
Inside the building...
Peter's eye's shoot open immediately, he begins to cough up blood as the smoke fills his airway. he looks around, realizing he's right side up yet not standing, this causes peter to take in his surroundings. Realizing he's being pinned to the wall by a deformed and bent vault door, that at least explained the blood, he was sure it had crushed a few ribs. "Harry... Harry... HARRY! ... VENOM!" peter howled out, the pain evident in his voice, he longed for his brother and needed him to be ok. Without him, this would all be pointless. Hearing his name like that harry rose from the rubble shakily. A piece of rebar protruded from his stomach, it was slowly leaking blood.
Peter summoned all his remaining strength and moved the door off him, dropping to the floor in time to see venom dislodge the misplaced bar, he cringed slightly. They would heal, he knew this to be a fact, but the symbiotes needed time to adjust. Leaning harry on his shoulder, they began there trek to the back of the bank the sea of fire flickering at their skin. Just barely making it to the back wall, peter swings his leg forward and reduces a chunk of it to rubble. Sliding venom through first, then crawling through after, he came the building adjacent to the bank. Looking around he realized they were in a museum. "Perfect."
Hauling harry up, he began to move quickly into the museum, knowing it had plenty of hiding spot's to keep the two boy's shrouded. The moment they had moved from the impromptu escape route peter had made, the flames came shooting through grazing there back's. peter immediately got to work, he laid harry in the mouth of a t rex, he was slightly curled up against a fang. Peter himself summoned the damage symbiote to give him a boost he took one massive leap onto the back of a hanging pterodactyl. thankful the exhibit was supporting his weight he stretched out across the wings just in time as he heard the door's fly open.
With tigress and the other's...
Throwing open the doors to the museum, ava stroll's in, she observes the whole in the wall first. her theory was right, they had made it out. Breathing a sigh of relief, she knew she'd need to acct fast, they'd never have this chance again. Ava knew exactly what peter would angle for, he needed to seperate them, and of courses she knew he wouldn't hesitate to play up there relationship. Natalia taught her well, she could still hear those lesson's ring true even now as she stepped into the museum.
Flashback
Somewhere in an undisclosed location, two women trade blow's viciously on a beach, on the side line's, stand two men. One is clad in purple, his sharp glasses and bow and arrow's are a dead give away to who he is. The other in red and blue, his trademark spider adorning his chest and his sharp tongue always ready with a quip. As they watch, blow after blow is deflected only mere centimeters from hitting their mark. Each one, less than mere inches from inflicting devastating pain, you can audibly hear the wind slice when tigress swings. you can hear every grunt when tigress is pushed back inch by inch, suddenly Nat shifts the whole battle. Stepping on tigresses right foot causing her to lift it, Nat then pivot's on her own right foot getting to tigress left flank. She jab's her twice in the abdomen, so quick you can barely see, but so hard you definitely hurd it.
` Both hawkeye and spider-man cringe, seeing tigress take two steps back into the water and hold her rib's. Nat ease's outta her stance, she stand's normally. "You gotta remember to play your enemies, i won this fight before it even began. I knew you would try to put me down quickly, the boy's are watching and you don't want them thinking you can't hack it." Nat said strolling over to her, her walk had said victory, her eye's said danger.
"Same way i know you like to preach to much." Nat raised one eyebrow, half in shock half confused. tigress eye's, they were behind looking... behind her. Without a second thought, she whirled around ready to face... Nothing. Behind her, tigress widened her stance, she step's forward with her left and pivot's on it, swinging her body clockwise she jump's off her left foot while lifting her right leg for more air. She extend's her left leg and completes her 540 degree kick, widow turn's around at the exact moment of impact. the sound was deafening, definitely not what anyone was expecting judging from the shocked look hanging from spectating faces.
Hitting the floor with a slam that sounded out of this world, both combatant's breathe heavily, each trying to regain themselves. Widow, who was barely awake, reached out to tigress. Gaining the attention of her trainee, she finally spoke. "How..." She heaves searching for more air to speak. "How did you..."
"I knew if i played along with your plan, it would lure you into a state of false security, then all i needed was a distraction and acute spy senses like your's are designed to notice every detail. Once i had you distracted, i just needed to hit you har." she said standing up, her costume more than a little damaged with synge's from the tazers and bruises and tears from the grappling and punching. Just before widow blacked out, she heard ava say one last thing as she pulled off her mask."I don't have to prove anything to anyone, im not ashamed to admit i learned that move from danny, same way he isn't scared to admit he taught it to me cause he lost at video games." she murmured before falling forward, spider catching her at the ready. Nat smiled and closed her eyes, the smile never moving as hawkeye carried her to the shade to rest off the injuries.
End of flashback.
Squaring her shoulders she washes the memory away and continues to walk, the sound of her shoes clicking away at the floor was a dead giveaway to her position, she knew this of course. It was what she was hoping for, she knew that this was going to scare peter more than anything, and that same anxiety would screw him and harry right into a successful capture. She could hear the rest of her team pile in, minus sam who to her dismay took off flying into the next room. She was shaken from her thoughts though as she took another step with a resounding click, she heard a thunderous crack in the next room. As if an entire exhibit same came crashing down, she hadn't wasted a second dashing after the noise.
Back with the osborne's
Peter was thankful she took the bait, he knew she would, after all she'd been waiting for him to make a mistake. Breaking away from his perch on the dino bird, he flipped along the ceiling crawling right behind nova. He could feel his body and his symbiote healing, two webs past nova who spun around after seeing them. Unfortunately before he could get a scream out, peter slingshotted himself directly into nova leading with both feet right into nova's face crashing him into the wall so hard it shattered creating a body sized crater.
Quickly hopping out of the door's line of sight and away from sams mangled body, he quickly took cover behind a set of cavemen. As ava and the other's flushed in, he quickly held his breath and stilled himself as much as he could, going so far as to have the symbiote slow his heart, he doubted she'd fall for the same trick twice. As well as now knowing without a shadow of a doubt he was here, he'd heard her dishing out order's. Barking command's as any good leader in a high pressure situation should. But this was his team, he was the pro, they were the rookies, he was top dog, fury made him leader. He would just have to remind them why, not strong enough to adorn his full symbiote, he covered his hands, legs, and face in the alien material….. It was time to play.
Leaping from behind the cavemen was a blur of red and black, danny had no time to save himself, as he pushed ava aside and took a heel drop to the temple. Forcing his entire face into a glass exhibit the martial arts hero went down with no remorse. Now, while he pressed her physically, he needed to also press her mentally. He knew that attacking on two fronts, was going to be key to this victory. "Typical Ava." He stated mockingly. "Having someone else do the hard and painful work while you stand idly by." He uttered strolling toward her, his demeanor was that of pure power, She began picking herself up, the glass from danny's incident falling out of her hair. " Her face almost instantly contorted into rage, she rose to her feet she wouldn't back down or be rattled that easily.
"Luke, delta maneuver i'll provide support." She quickly began running towards the spider side by side with luke, noticing carnage not move she smirked. 'He thinks he knows this maneuver, but we adjusted it just for you pete.' As she leapt into the air, ready for Luke to catch her by the waist and throw her, but she slammed face first into the floor, her head reeling, her hearing temporarily disturbed. She looked up to see a monstrous looking half transformed harry/Venom holding Luke's left hand keeping him up, while venom continued to punch his limp body into the linoleum. She turned back to carnage only to get a face full of sharp jagged teeth with peter' face barely visible in the mouth. Staring into his eyes until the symbiote closed up, peter made sure to lean down to her face.
"Give up this foolish pursuit, you're either with us, or you're against us. Choose your place after you've healed." She didn't care to ask what he meant as he shot a web behind her, she expected him to swing off with venom, but after he tethered the web to what she believed was the mammoth behind her and the wall at the far end in front of her. They began to walk off, and that upset her, she was sick of losing to him, she was sick of being second. Her eyes narrowed dangerously, clearly her inner tiger had taken full control. Her claws came out as she dug them into the ground, pulling herself to her knees.
Slamming one foot down, she began to rise to her feet, venom and carnage however seemed oblivious to her movement's. This just upset her more, did they think she as weak, did they think she wasn't a threat, like she COULDN'T HOLD HER OWN. She got on all fours and broke out into a sprint. Without looking at each other, or even behind them, carnage and venom conversed amongst themselves.
"She's coming you know." venom whispered
"No shit she's coming, i can literally taste that anger." carnage muttered back
"What are we gonna do then brother." venom said, this time slightly more aggravated
"It'll go the way i planned now shut up and play your part." He said abruptly, slight malice and annoyance sat in his tone.
As tigress got close venom whirled on her, attempting to take her by surprise and put her down. It hadn't gone as he thought though as tigress ripped the massive symbiote in half, harry only surviving by jumping and detaching the symbiotes lower half. She threw harry by his leg, ripping him clean from his suit. She heard a snap and turned to carnage who was still walking away. 'This coward can't even run away properly, i'll kill him.' She leapt at him poised for the kill
"I WONT LET YOU G….." She never got to finish her sentence, poised for the kill and ready to attack. She had been impaled mid-pounce, she noticed only now as blood dripped from her mouth. The snap she heard earlier wasn't him walking, it was the tusk of the mammoth giving way to the web pulling it. He knew she would rage out, he knew she wouldn't stop, he'd bested her again. But this time, it was permanent, she had lost for the last time. As she slammed into the floor, tusk lodged in her back but poking out her abdomen. He stalked closer to her, placing his hand over her face. She was fading out of consciousness, as everything dimmed around her she could hear two voices.
"Are you even sure this will work?" Venom said repairing himself
"Nope but either way, this had to happen." we'll see what happens in a few hours.
To Be Continued…...