Spider-Man Web Of Shadows: Endless Darkness

Chapter 1: Peace

-New York, USA

-July 21st, 2023

"Well darling, I promised you this city and now it's ours." Black Cat smirks as she announces their victory to her lover whom she has her arms wrapped around from behind. "What do you desire, my love? We await your command." Black Cat's lover stands nearly motionless as the white veins stretching across his symbiote-infused body pulse every few seconds or so. His mask resembles the iconic mask he wore as a hero but, aside from the new black and white color, it bears a more sinister look, the eyes appear almost fixed in a rage filled gaze with two pairs of smaller eye-like white spots freckled just where his nose and mouth would be; all of the details in the mask coming together to form a twisted version of a spider's face and fangs. The man, named Peter Parker, once known to the now rotting city as Spider-Man but now...he is something else. He opens his mouth, with an ominous pitch in his voice "You know Felicia...someone once told me that with great power comes great responsibility."

Black Cat glances towards her partner's eyes before responding "And now?"

Peter raises his hands and stares into his bare palms for a few seconds before finishing his thought as he closes his fist "I never knew what power was." Peter stretches out his arms away from him as millions of screeches come from the crowds and crowds of symbiote-infused people that were once the citizens of New York. Peter feels nothing as these creatures that were once men, women and children all bow toward him, now ripped from their lives and forever meant to be a part of his hive.

"What's next, my love? We can do anything we want now." Felicia says with a grim smile as she lets go of Peter and paces around him to the edge of the building they stand on.

"Not yet Cat. After my choices, I'll be sure to have enemies. We need to gather a force, enforcers for our hive...and I have just the right people in mind. Peter turns around and gets into a slight crouch as a pair of wings shoot out from his back after which he stands back up and faces Felicia again. "There's something I have to do first...someone I have to check on. Stay here Cat, I don't know when S.H.I.E.L.D will try to strike and we have to be ready for anything."

With that, Peter takes off flying into the sky, his wings releasing a gushing gust of wind as he leaves the ground. Felicia gazes at her lover flying away before smiling and turning around and looking out towards the millions of symbiotes who prostrate themselves into a kneeling position to their Queen. "Heheh, I'll find you MJ, once you're dead, nothing will take him away from me again."

-S.H.I.E.L.D HQ, Washington D.C, USA

"Welcome, Director Nicholas Fury" a computer generated voice greets Fury as the door opens and he enters the meeting room reserved for only those in the top brass of S.H.I.E.L.D and those whom they let in. "Sorry I'm late, Agent Coulson, Agent Hill. It's chaos in the entire Northeast. Millions of people are displaced and those monsters just keep spreading their territory."

"Actually, Director, we're getting new reports from our field scouting parties. Apparently the advance of the symbio-ots has been halted. Fury makes up his face as he looks at Coulson "Symbio-ots?" Hill rolls her eyes in response to Coulson's new nickname for the creatures "I said the same thing, Director."

Coulson approaches the table with a keycard and inserts it into its designated slot "Okay well I thought it sounded good."

Coulson then looks at the holotable's map of New York and points to the red circle encompassing nearly all of New York City. Fury looks at the circle as he begins "Looks like all of the five major boroughs have been taken over by these creatures." Hill gives her report as Fury examines the invaded territory "Our combined casualties were well over 10,000 ever since the appearance of the creatures. We had to pull our troops out of the red zone."