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⋆ thirteen ⋆
When they finally reach the co-ordinates Ned sent, Xara lands first, bending her knees on the landing carefully. It looks weird, the actual Spider-Woman standing beside a black-covered Spider-Man. Although in the darkness, Peter's suit was probably better at blending in.
"You probably won't even need my help," she tells him after a moment, the pair searching the trees warily. "You didn't with Octopus."
"Yeah, I thought it would be a bit harder than that, actually. Haven't had a big villain in ages."
Xara can't help but tease, "Only hero in the world to complain about that. Actually, knowing Mr Stark, you're probably second on that list."
It's only when Peter doesn't reply that she realises something is up. Peter tingle, she remembers after a moment, watching warily as he slowly raises his arm with the teleportation cuff.
It's then that she sees the lights reflecting on the ground around them, something going on right behind. She doesn't wait like Peter, slowly turning round, only to catch sight of some blue guy... sucking the electricity out from the pylons?
"That's not the green elf," she tells him warily when he turns around, too. "But that's also electricity. How do we fight an electricity guy?"
At a loss, Peter shouts, "Uh, you wouldn't happen to be from another universe, would you?!"
"Peter! We're going to lose the element of surpr–"
He shoots a beam out from the cuff Strange gave him, only for the burst of orange light to travel right through the electric man, hitting a tree (which instantly disappears – something they'll have to explain to MJ and Ned when they get back, who'll no doubt be confused).
Then the man's eyes glow bright white, hands shooting electricity at the two instead.
Peter yelps in surprise, the two flipping backwards to avoid the sparks. It becomes a game of dodgeball, the pair swinging between the trees to avoid him. Automatically, Peter starts heading slightly away, playing bait while Xara attempts to sneak up behind the man.
She lands on one of the pylons, shooting a web, only for that to go straight through, too. But how do you capture someone that can't be touched?
Then the man disappears, shooting a bolt of electricity dangerously close to Xara as he pops up between different trees. She jumps back, alarmed at the disappearance of Peter, only for Karen to spot him camouflaging between trees in his black suit.
Just as another bolt of lightning is about to shoot at her, sand seems to appear out of nowhere, a large wall of it building up and blocking the electricity from touching her. "What the...?"
And just to add, a face seems to form on Xara's side, a man calling to her, "Peter, it's me! Flint Marko. You remember?"
"There's a giant face..." Xara can't help but feel a little faint, disbelieving of everything that's happened in the last day. She should be used to it, with all the superheroes and aliens they've encountered, but gravity-defying sand?
