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When a Spider comes calling	By : Revenaught Category: Marvel Verse Comics > Spiderman Views: 13336 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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When a Spider comes calling.
Ch. 8 Carnage
            Carnage had remained hidden for a time following Norman Osborn’s orders. The pleasure of the deaths of Mary Jane and May Parker kept Cletus Kassidy sated for a bit but it couldn’t last for long. After a while he desired more blood and death and believed that no one had the right to tell him not to. His trip out for some slaughter and mayhem was cut brutally short however. He had almost collided with the Fantasticar carrying the Fantastic Four while swinging between buildings. Instead of minding their own business they had attacked him on sight. The Human Torch had started things off by hurling flame attacks at him which he barely managed to avoid. Then he felt bands of iron clamp around his torso and hold him suspended in midair. Looking down he could see nothing holding him so he knew it was the Invisible Woman using her force fields on him. But she hadn’t encased him in her field, just grabbed him so he quickly fired off several bladed weapons, made from the stuff of his symbiotic other, at her. She was good and managed to block most of them but one got through and clipped her on the head opening a nasty scalp wound and dazing her enough to lose control of the field holding Carnage in place. Carnage had barely avoided the blast of flame let loose from the Human Torch in retaliation for his sister’s injury when Mr. Fantastic entered the fray. Stretching out wide he was trying to capture Carnage by engulfing him. For a smart man he was fighting very stupidly Carnage thought as he hurled several scissor like weapons at him. Normally his hurled weapons were released from his control as soon as they were fired, but these he kept control of. When they hit Mr. Fantastic and he stretched his body to absorb their impact Carnage closed the scissors on the flesh bunched in between the blades causing several severe cuts in his torso. So with two of the three members left in the car temporarily out of action Carnage was confident he could focus on the most dangerous member of the Fantastic Four. The flames the Human Torch was flinging about were deadly to his ‘Other’ and made it nervous but Cletus remained confident and in control. He was managing to avoid the flames and close in to attack range when the Fantasticar barreled out of nowhere and rammed him! The blow stunned him but he managed to flip under the car and hold on while the Thing piloted the car erratically trying to throw him off. Laughing, because the dangerous Human Torch couldn’t attack him this close to his team mates, Carnage crawled back and punched a short hardened spike into the engine compartment and was gratified when the vehicle started to stall. Crawling forward to the general area of the seat he had seen the Invisible Woman collapse in after he had struck her earlier he punched a longer spike through the car and was rewarded with a piercing cry of shocked pain. Carnage shuddered with pleasure at the thought of having possibly dealt a mortal blow to the pretty blond woman. As he leapt away from the vehicle he knew it must have been a serious wound because Mr. Fantastic ordered the Human Torch to break off his attack and fly her to get medical attention. Since the Fantasticar was out of commission Carnage easily avoided the remaining land bound members of the Fantastic Four. As he casually made his way back to his lair, echoes of the Invisible Woman’s screams replaying in his head, he never noticed when a black clad figure started trailing along behind him.
            Carnage was holed up these days in the abandoned basement of an old building that had been demolished and a new structure built on top of its remains. It had a sewer entrance that was almost impossible to find unless you knew exactly where it was. Believing he was alone Carnage was lost in thought replaying the delicious scream he had forced from the Invisible Woman earlier and wondering if he had managed to kill her. He never even knew that someone had emerged from the sewer entrance behind him until an incredibly powerful blow caught him in the back and flung him across the room where he crashed face first into the wall. His ‘Other’ managed to absorb most of both impacts but enough got through that it was more his symbiote that was holding him up than himself.
            “You’re making this too easy Carnage”, a cold voice said, “I could have killed you already.”
            “Your mistake was not having done so when you had the chance Parker.” Carnage said as he recovered and straightened, slowly turning around. When he had turned far enough around to see his attacker the shock and surprise was evident even on his masked face. “Father? What are you? Wait, why can’t I sense you?” The uncertainty of the situation had Carnage hesitating, unsure of what was going on. Since his parent symbiote had bonded with the pathetic Mac Gargan it had seemed indifferent to the Carnage Symbiote. Why was it back with Parker? “And why have you rejoined with that pathetic Parker creature?”
            “Your ‘Father’ and I have reconciled our differences. Our joining together is why you can’t sense me any longer, but I can sense you now.” Spider said this last with an easily detectible sense of satisfaction.
            “Really? Then sense this!” Carnage snarled as he flung his trademarked edged weapons out at the being before him. But even as he started to act Spider pulled a strange bulky looking sword from his back and easily blocked the incoming missiles. “Very nice. You might be a minor challenge for me now Parker. Although probably not.   You couldn’t take me when you and my Parent teamed up to attack me.” Carnage flung a strand of sticky symbiote substance at the sword and tried to yank it from Spiders hands. Shock again showed on his masked face when it didn’t even budge. Then Spider pushed a button on the swords pommel and it quickly blazed white hot! “Ow! That hurt!” Carnage cried out as he quickly pulled back the singed strand of his symbiote. “You have a nasty toy there I see.”
            “You like it? I made a little shopping trip at the local A.I.M. base and picked up a couple of things. You’ll also appreciate this!” Spider pulled out a pistol like item, aimed it at Carnage and let loose a devastating sonic blast. The sonic waves caught Carnage in mid crouch as he was about to leap away. It affected his symbiote so much that his leap turned into a fall flat on his face. After a few moments the sonic waves stopped but the Carnage symbiote was completely disoriented so Cletus tried to stall hoping to give it time to recover.
            “Well that wasn’t very nice. I suppose you’re here to arrest me and take me in again, huh Parker?”
            “Parker is dead thanks in part to you.”
            “What? I don’t think so. My progenitor has many flaws but he would never animate a corpse! The very idea is perverted! You are Parker and you are alive!”
            “I used to be Parker. You may now call me Spider. I am not here to arrest you.”
            “What, just looking for a random fight then? Ok you found it. You won! Now go away and leave us alone.”
            “I’ll leave but only after I make sure that Mary Jane and May Parker are the last people you ever kill.”
            “Ha! You’ve already failed then. I caught the Invisible Woman with a good shot today. I’m betting she won’t make it. Besides you can’t stop me from killing. You ‘Heroes’ never have the guts to do what it takes to really stop me.”
            “If Sue Richards does die she will be your last. Peter Parker may not have wanted to kill you but I’m not him anymore.” This announcement in such a distinctly cold voice sent a shiver down Cletus’s spine. He found he didn’t like being on the receiving end of such fear nearly as much as causing it. Deciding to run away to slay another day and since his symbiote had mostly recovered he bunched himself and leapt over Spider and fled toward the sewer exit and found it totally plugged with a substance he could not get past. Just then another sonic blast caught him from behind, stunning his symbiote and messing with Cletus’s own inner ear. He lay still hoping to lure his attacker in and sure enough Spider approached close. Carnage lashed out with an extended blade but he didn’t catch Spider by surprise. The white hot blade he carried was turned so that the flat of it caught Carnage’s attack and started immediately searing the symbiote so that it retracted in pain. Then Spider kicked Carnage so hard he flew across the room into the far corner where he crashed in a heap. Carnage was dazed and bewildered. He couldn’t fathom where this being who now called itself Spider had gotten such power. Neither his parent nor Parker had ever been this strong when he had fought them before. With his newfound strength and the devastating weapons he carried Cletus suddenly realized someone else had the power to do whatever they wanted to him, like he had always felt he could do to others. That realization almost drove him sane! Then Spider was in close and slashing at his leg with the white hot sword.   To Cletus’s horror his symbiote melted away from the blade leaving his leg vulnerable to a very nasty slash. He screamed from the burning pain of it. Spider then slashed his arms as he reached down to grasp the injury to his leg. Again the symbiote left him vulnerable. Cletus rolled away from the attack trying to protect his inured arms by turning towards the wall. Unfortunately this left his back vulnerable. Spider swung the flat of the blade at Cletus’s back and burned both Cletus and the symbiote which didn’t flow away fast enough. Writhing in pain, each time he tried to protect one area the terrible blade was there to burn both man and symbiote. Every time he tried to attack or escape the devastating waves of sonic energy would crash over him rendering him helpless again. Finally the symbiote could take no more. It totally separated itself from Cletus and tried to escape and abandon the host that had failed it so miserably. It only got a couple of feet away before another sonic blast stunned it temporarily. Spider stashed the sonic weapon and quickly pulled another item out and tossed it near the quivering red symbiote. A force field sprang from the item and enclosed the symbiote. Realizing it was trapped it tried to break free but couldn’t. Spider then turned off the sword and it swiftly cooled turning from white hot to orange to dull red and finally back to its original metal color. Whatever mechanism that was inside it cooled it off as quickly as it had heated it. Spider turned back to Cletus and saw that despite the agony from his many burns he was on hands and knees trying to crawl towards his symbiote. Spider quickly webbed his hands and feet to the floor snaring him completely.
            “No!” screamed Cletus. “You can’t separate us! You have to let me go to it!” Spider, who had turned away and started gathering scrap wood scattered around the area, looked back at him.
            “It wouldn’t do you any good if I did. It’s already rejected you totally and completely.”
            “No! It only left to try and defend itself. It loves me and we are complete together!”
            “It was only using you. It feeds off your emotions and adrenaline. It would have used you up eventually and left you for someone else.”
            “Then if that’s true why have you taken that one back?”
            “Initially I took it back to get it away from Gargan. Of its entire species it is the only one that doesn’t believe in draining a host until it is useless and moving on. It looks for a more lasting pairing with a compatible personality. Its race banished it for this and it was alone. Of all the heroes and villains that were pulled by the Beyonder for his little Secret War this symbiote picked me for a partnership not as a forced host. I won’t bore you with why as you could never understand. Once I understood this myself we have gone a step farther. We are no longer a host and symbiote. We are now something more… one unique being. One that is about to end you and your symbiote for all the people you have slaughtered. But mostly for what you did to Mary Jane and Aunt May.” By this time Spider, who had resumed working as he talked had two substantial piles of wood built up.
            “You’re going to burn us to death? You have fallen far.”
“Maybe I have. At one point in time before you helped torture to death the two most important people in my life I would have agreed with you. Now I wonder if I’m not an ever bigger hero for doing whatever it takes to prevent you from slaughtering even more innocent people.” As he was speaking Spider had moved the force field projector so that the enclosed bubble of red symbiote hung in the air about two feet above one of the piles of wood.
            “Are you really so eager to become a killer just like me? I thought you opposed all that I stood for?”
            “I am a killer now, but I am nothing like you. You believe in slaughter for the sheer pleasure of doing so. I believe that with Great Power comes Great Responsibility. I have accepted that I have the power to prevent you from ever killing innocents again therefore I have a responsibility to act to do so. That I will enjoy doing so, well that’s just a fringe benefit this time around.” Spider heated up the sword again and moved toward the pile of wood under the symbiote.
            “Wait! Don’t kill it? Please take me instead!”
            “Really? You would really offer yourself in its place?”
            “Yes! I would. It has enabled me to truly live my dreams. I can’t bear the thought of having to watch it die and being alone.”
            “How fitting then that you are forced to watch it die helpless to prevent it just as I was. Enjoy.” Spider touched the heated blade to the pile of wood and watched the flames start to rise.
            “Nooooooooooo!” Cletus screamed until he ran out of breath, then he inhaled and continued screaming as Spider adjusted the force field controls to allow heat energy to enter the bubble but not to let that heat escape. Thus the relatively low temperature of the wood fire, which shouldn’t have been able to do more than irritate the symbiote, kept building and building until the symbiote’s psychic screams pierced the astral realm. Psychics and sensitive mystics across the planet too weak to shield themselves received blinding migraines and even the strongest of them couldn’t completely block the cries of agony from the dying symbiote. Eventually the cries faded away and after a bit longer only ashes remained in the force field bubble. Spider shut down the projector and the ashes sifted down into the coals of the fire that had ended it. Spider then turned to Cletus.
            “Times up. Now it’s your turn.” Spider started tying Cletus to a long spit with bands of metal and placing it on stands about six feet above his pile of wood facing down so he could watch the blaze that would be his last experience in life. Spider again ignited the pyre with his sword and the flames started their task. Cletus whose cries had died down to whimpers at the death of his symbiote was soon screaming in pain of his own and cursing Spider. It wasn’t a quick end and it certainly wasn’t pretty but eventually it did end. After Spider had made sure that only inert ashes remained of Cletus Kassidy and the symbiote he had bonded with Spider made sure the fires were completely out. Then he turned and walked away.

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PSYCHICS REPORT BURNING DEATH OF CARNAGE
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To be continued. Next Chapter The Shocker
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