Spider Luck

Cigarettes are bad for your health

After that statement, Black Cat and I begin to fight with those criminals with such perfect harmony that even when I fought with Johnny and the other members of the Fantastic 4 I didn't feel the same way as I do now, like Black Cat and I have been fighting together for a long time.

Neither of us is ever out of place and, as if we were telepathic, we can coordinate during the fight without saying a single word to each other.

I deal mainly with Oliver and Liam while Black Cat takes care of the others, however sometimes we both intervene in the clash that the other is having, to help or defend from some danger.

At one point I immobilize Oliver with my webs, and, seeing this, Black Cat decides to throw two black balls in his direction, the same ones she had used to try to immobilize me that night in the alley where we first met.

While she makes sure those balls hit the man, I move behind her to defend her from an attack by the criminals she was fighting, then, after she kicked Liam to the ground, she makes me lower so that she can use me as a support to jump and throw a punch in the face to Oliver, who seems to be trying to shoot another energy blast.

Fortunately, Oliver takes more and more time to prepare one of those attacks after he previously shot them without any kind of caution, so it is now easier to prevent him from using that power.

Since we are managing to stand up to that group, all the other criminals that are scattered around the building start coming here, trying to help their colleagues, however I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

While it is very good that everyone is gathering where we are, instead of wandering around and risking them finding the painting or the hostages, this still implies an increase in the number of people we have to fight with.

For a while I have been noticing the first signs of Black Cat fatigue, which she is not used to fighting for so long and with so many people at once and I am certainly not in my best condition at the moment. 

As I begin to assess how to proceed, we all hear a scream that, if we did not see the source that produced it, anyone would have thought it was not of human origin.

When I turn to Liam, the architect of that monstrous scream, we see him wriggling on the ground with all his strength and I see that his whole body, especially his torso, is gradually enlarging, so much so that he manages to free himself from the obstructions that Cat and I applied to him.

As he gets up, his head is close to the ceiling and his size now looks similar to that of the Hulk, however his legs have remained as before. On the contrary, they seem even more fragile since the weight they have to bear has increased even more.

The skin of his body is now full of red spots that seems to be acne conglobata, and his eyes are completely white, in them there are neither their pupils, nor their irirs.

After yelling again, the man points his eyes at me and, like an angry bull that saw his target, he starts running in my direction, wiping out anyone who was in his way even if they are his companions.

'He clearly went berserk. Did he enter this state because of the serum?'

Without wasting time, I wrap an arm around Black Cat's hip to make sure she is near me, and with the other hand I shoot a web to the ceiling and then, while I hold Black Cat close to me, I swing to the corridor from where Black Cat came out, to escape from the clutches of Liam who is running in our direction.

Once we get our feet on the ground, I shoot several webs so that we can momentarily block the passage from where we passed, thus interrupting Liam's pursuit of us.