Spider Man: Petter Venom

Chapter 24: CH-24



It explained a lot though, if Flash was willing to act like this in public Peter hated to think how he treated her in private and he added that to the things he despised Flash for. Once MJ had moved in he would see if he could talk to her, alone, with Gwen as support and if Flash was being abusive, Peter would try his best to split them up.

Knowing he'd only add fuel to an already lit fire, he handed his drink to Gwen, "I'll be in the toilet, text me when those two calm down, oh, order me the double cheese stacker burger with chilli dusted fries on the side," he spoke over his shoulder as he walked towards the toilets.

Gwen had been sitting with the pair for five minutes now while that asshole she used to call her boyfriend disappeared into the toilets. MJ looked like she was ready to cry and Flash looked like he was ready to hit someone, and I,Gwen thought to herself, am going to kill him. She had taken out her phone and was tapping a message to Peter to get his ass back here when the doors to the diner swung open and a weird cosplay boiler suit guy came in. Behind him a huge muscle freak with a grey bodysuit onmotioned for her to drop her phone and he clenched his fists menacingly when she glared at him.

It wasn't how he expected the night to go, "Come out for a drink, we'll get together, have a few laughs…," he thought to himself, mimicking the famous movie he'd liked as a kid but sitting on the toilet was boring, it wasn't till he heard the screams that he realised he'd missed the noise of the bar disappearing.

Opening the door of the toilet a crack hecouldn't see past the wall, but he could hear just fine. "Ms Nakatani if you would be so kind as to hand over your card and the passcode we can leave you and these fine people to their meals. No fuss," and adding an edge to the voice, "and no violence." It was a modulatedsynthetic voice, someone punk robber wearing a kid's Halloween mask.

Sliding the door back gently, Peter felt the grin on his face widen. While he couldn't see who it was, he knew that Gwen and MJ were out there and he needed to do something.

Maybe if he was lucky they might rob Flash blind and after stopping them Venom couldtake his prize from the bodies. Looking around he noticed that the bathroom window was narrow and locked but letting the Venom symbskin swarm over him he pushed and the whole thing came away from the wall. Sliding himself out, it was time for Venom to have some fun.

Venom surveyed the scene before him. Two guys, one in a full suit, covered head to toe in a thick, almost army issue containment suit with a huge backpack, his voice crackling as it came out from the helmet. The other was wearingthick body armour, all grey and boy was he a big guy. He towered over the chemsuit guy and the terrified woman, clenching and unclenchinghis fists as they spoke. His face was covered in a thick helmet with a stylised horn on the front.

"Look, just give us the key, the code and we'll get out of your hair," he repeated, "Or otherwise I'm gonna let Rhino here make your life short and very painful." He thumbed at the big guy who rammed fit into his open palm, "oh and he'd like that." Venom could imagine the grin on the lugs face, big dumb and violent, just the type he wanted to beat up to get rid of some stress.

Looking around the diner he saw an empty booth and whipping a line out he angled himself. Leaping into the air he glided down, gaining momentum as he swung and through the diner window, showering the occupants with shattered safety glass but ramming both feet into the midsection of the Rhino. With an 'Ooff' Rhino folded and went flying into the empty booth as Venom hoped, the tablecrumpling and splintering under his considerable weight. One down.

The chemsuit guy stood stunned, "Damn. You know Marko said a big black man. What he failed to mention was a big spider sign on your chest. You're Venom aren't you?" A whinestarted and two massive steel arms extended from his backpack, the four-fingered clawed pincers at each end clacking menacingly. razor edges glinting in the diner's light, "you're a distraction, nothing more." He backhanded the woman in front of him and she crumpled like a house of cards.

"Ock here, we got resistance at the Diner, Switch to plan B. No, stay there and finish your job." Ock, as he named himself talking to a headset radio. The two mechanical arms darted forwards and Venom ducked to one side, zipping webs over them, trying to gum up the pincers.

Shit, Venom thought, I need to get them out of the diner, no space to fight here. Venom shot two lines at Ock and as they wrapped his arms he sprung out through the diner door and into the street, pulling Ock out with him. He then spun Ock around and crouching he leaned back and then with a leap, punched after him.

Ock had already freed himself and as the Venom barreled into him, the pair barrel rolling along the street. "That hurt," Ock shouted and the two arms arrowed straight towards him, Venom ducked under both and was caught on the side by an extra two pairs, one grasping his arm and the other his leg.

Venom was thrown into a parked car, its steel and plastic frame crushed by his weight. He coughed and felt bile and cider rise in his throat, being thrown for a few meters had hurt, and now he was mad. He stood roaring at Ock, who was now standing on the four arms, lifting himself off the ground. Venom punched a hole in the side of the car and ripping off the door he hurled it Ock.

Ock laughed, "Pathetic," as the car door flew past him, there was no way he could hit him with the car door and then pain exploded in him as Venom webbed the car and pulled it back towards him, stupid, he thought to himself as he fought to gain control again, stupid stupid, Venom was eyeing up another car when a huge grey armoured muscle freak ploughed into him

"Forgot about Rhino huh? Don't worry freak, I gotcha." Ock watched as Rhino straddled the stunned Venom and began to pummel his fists into his sides.

Ock's comms clicked, "Doc, we have the code and the password, beginning the vault run now." Ock clicked his comms twice, sending an affirmative, he didn't want to remain distracted, this black monster was dangerous and a moment's hesitation could kill them both. As if Venom had heard him, Rhino was pushed off and the already bulky monster seemed to grow even larger, his arms and legs thickening and the black mask on his head stretching and splitting into a tooth filled maw.

"We are VENOM and we refuse to fall to lesser creatures." His clawed hands dug into the trunk of a car behind him and he lifted it off the ground slamming it into the Rhino.

"Lesser, I'll fuckin show you lesser," as the car came down Rhino let out his own punch and the car disintegrated into a pile of scrap, leaving Venom holding the car's trunk. Tilting his head to one side, "that all you got?" Rhino banged his fists together and advanced. Venom grinned with a razor maw and swung the car's truck door at Rhino, sending him flying back into another car. Rhino shook his head, shaking off the daze and grinned, "Two can play at that game," and reaching behind him he hoisted up the crushed car and tossed it at Venom.

Venom was strong though and he grabbed the car by its undercarriage and simply swung it back at Rhino in a perverse game of catch. Rhino, seeing the tactics failed, tossed the car to the side and instead lined up a charge, driving his heavy bulk into Venom, who beganto rain blows down on his back.

Ock wasn't stupid, watching these two fight it out was a show unto itself, but he could feel as each hit thrummed through the air. Hisreinforced suit could take a few hits but this was something else. Even as Rhino ducked and weaved under Venom's punches and struck back with an uppercut Venom shrugged off each blow and returned his own. Fist versus fist. There was no finesse, no tactics here. Just brute against brute and the victor would be the one that hit the hardest. Right now, as dents were left in Rhino's body armour, it seemed that Venom would emerge triumphant.


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