Issue #5
by Cory Wiegel
Spider-Man
In the depths of the Oscorp Factory on the outskirts of town, Rose Goblin leapt back in fear of the creature that stood before her.* It was light blue with bits of dark blue down its body. It appeared to be a symbiote. And by the shape of the body, appeared to be female. It leapt from the computer towards the new Goblin, slashing its sharp symbiotic claws at her chest fiercely.
[*What's Rose Goblin doing in Oscorp, you ask? Or, who IS the Rose Goblin? Check out Amazing Spider-Man #1-4, if you missed 'em--Dino]
Pulling her upper-body away from the oncoming creature, she then kicked the being in the stomach, sending it back first into the computer. The creature began to sprawl back up to her feet, crawling on her tips and hands towards her.
"What are you? W-What do you want?!"
"We are Chaos, and you're dinner!"
Chaos leapt towards her quickly, wrapping their hands around her body in a tight squeeze. She continued kicking upwards into his stomach, but their tremendous strength and her short distance away from him did little.
The being squeezed tightly, she began to take out short breathes. Chaos slithery tongue creeped from their mouth, licking their lips. A bit of saliva spat out onto the female Goblin's face.
"It's been days since we've feasted, you will be savored!"
"B-But... I can get you out of here! I can get you more food!" she pleaded.
"Hmm... you intrest us. Tell us more."
Their grip loosened on her as she stood up, Chaos backed away from her.
"We have not been able to escape this... place... for some time. How will you be of help to us?" Chaos inquired.
"If you help me, I'll help you. There's a man... Spider-Man. If you help me destroy him, I'll bring you as many humans you want to feast on!"
Chaos grinned as they heard her proposal.
"Tell us more."
Peter unlocked the door to his motel room for the night, walking in with a duffle bag over his shoulder. He tossed it down on the table and flipped on the lights. Scanning the room with his eyes, Peter spotted a telephone.
He walked over to it and dialed a number, putting the phone to his ear.
"Joe Robertson."
"Robbie? It's me, Peter."
"Peter! I heard what happen! Are you okay?"
"Yeah, barely made it out alive, but I'm okay..." Peter waited a moment before asking. "Has there been any news on MJ's plane?"
"........."
"Robbie?"
"No Peter, I'm sorry." Peter let out a sigh.
"Okay, thanks Robbie. Can you keep me informed?"
"Sure thing Peter. What's your number there?"
Peter looked down to the phone's header.
"555-7567"
"Got it."
"Okay, thanks again Robbie."
Without waiting for a response, Peter set down the phone and laid down on his bed, looking up to the ceiling.
How could this happen to me? he thought. It all seems too subtle. First, this new Goblin appearing, then MJ disappearing, our apartment being blown up, and Ben coming back from the dead.... or was he really dead in the first place?
Peter continued laying there on his bed, looking up to the ceiling.
The Scarlet Spider flew into a backflip, landing on the edge of an apartment building. His eyes gazed around the city lights under his mask. Taking a deep sigh, he stood up and held his hands to his waist.
There was a slither heard. He turned around to see a dark creature, standing there in a spider ready stance.
"... Carnage?!" the Scarlet Spider exclaimed, his eyes growing.
His spider sense went off as he turned around to see Rose Goblin hover up on her glider from behind him, snickering evilly.
"Wait... you're not Spider-Man..." she blinked as she noticed her mistake. "You're.... yes. I know you."
"What're you talkin' about?!" the Scarlet Spider turned from her to the creature who appeared to be very similar to Carnage, but is actually Chaos, then back to her. "Who are you?!"
The Scarlet Spider was about to do something when he was speared from behind by Chaos, who grinned evilly as it pinned him down. "Let us introduce ourselves. We are Chaos. And you're dead --"
Before Chaos could make a sweep at the Scarlet Spider's neck, Scarlet quickly threw his lower-body back into Chaos' stomach, throwing him into the ground in front of Rose Goblin. The Scarlet Spider leaped up into a backflip, spinning around in midair to throw a double kick into Rose Goblin's chest.
She doubled back and fell off of her glider, but quickly grabbed onto a flagpole sticking out of the building. The glider took a nose dive into the building's roof, where the Scarlet Spider quickly went into a squat as he landed. Chaos dove towards him once more, but was struck in the face by the heel of Scarlet's spin crescent kick, falling backwards to the edge of the building.
"A female Goblin and now a female symbiote-host?! Women's rights convention I'm guessing?" The Scarlet Spider asked, smirking. He then began chanting with his arms up. "We can be villains too! We can be villains too!"
Rose Goblin quickly leaped up from the flagpole by swinging upwards. She landed on the edge of the building, only to have Chaos thrown into her by the Scarlet Spider, knocking both off of the edge of the building. The Scarlet Spider leapt towards the edge of the building in concern, looking to see if any of them slammed into the ground.
Before they were about to slam into the ground, The Scarlet Spider struck a pose and fired a webline down towards the two with both wrists, catching onto them. He then pumped his wrist, firing two balls of impact webbing into them.
The Scarlet Spider leaped down from the edge of the building with the two weblines in hand, falling on one side of the flagpole with the weblines on the other. He used it for leverage and pulled the two up, leaving them hanging by the flag poll.
Someone from the apartment building called the police, sirens were heard from the Scarlet Spider, who quickly looked down the street then turned to the two.
"I'd love to stay and chat, ladies, but I coulda swore I left the oven on! Catch ya later!"
He sprung off the edge of the building, going into a backflip. He swung on another webline, slinging down the street via the buildings.
As the cops pulled up and the Scarlet Spider was out of visual range, the two busted out. They hung on a webline on the flagpole as Rose Goblin typed in a command on her wrist remote. Her glider flown down under her and caught her. The cops didn't even bother to look up and walked into the building.
NEXT ISSUE: Be here in two weeks as our Spider-Duo go up against the newest Female Villain Duo on top of the DAILY BUGLE?!? And find out more on what happened Mary Jane's plane! Is she still alive or what?!